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>> the impression i got was that when she was dating jeffrey, was that he was a kind of a bit of a monster and that she would do literally anything to plea rorax in the past rubbed elbows with the world's most wealthy and powerful, including the clintons, president donald trump, and britain's prince andrew. those ties may have created opportunities like this 2002 photo op on the queen's throne in buckingham palace with actor kevin spacey. the uk's daily telegraph recently reported that prince andrew was in charge of the visit. >> prince andrew should be panicking. >> reporter: epstein accuser virginia giuffre says maxwell instructed her to have sex with epstein when she was 17 years old. the duke of york denies hand that and says he never met her. >> i really hope the duke of york comes forward and says a, b, c, d was involved. this is how it ran. help us victims get some
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accountability. >> there are various opinions about what ghislaine maxwell will do. >> reporter: cbs news legal analyst rickki klieman maxwell could face a maximum of 35 years in prison which means she may have an incentive to cooperate with prosecutors. >> people think that she will cooperate about everyone. that is the people who are below her as well as the people that are above her. now the question for all of us is who is above her? >> reporter: the department of justice says prince andrew has repeatedly declined to speak to federal authorities in the united states. cbs news has reached out to the prince's team for comment, and they say they are, quote, bewildered because they reached out to the doj twice, and they say as of late last week, they haven't heard back. >> mola lenghi reporting. for nearly 90 years, washington's beloved football team has been known as the redskins, but that may soon change. native american groups have long
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criticized the nickname as yd rd calls toam owner dan change it. now under pressure from some high-powered sponsor, snyder is starting to sing a different tune. >> reporter: since the 1930, the washington redskins have ruled over football in the nation's capital, but now the famous moniker looks to be on the outs. the team announcing it will undergo a thorough review of the team's name. redskins owner dan snyder has been slow to embrace a name change. in fact, in an interview seven years ago, he famously said "we'll never change the name. it's that simple, never. you can use caps." he also said this in an interview with espn in 2014. >> i understand where the name came from. i understand that it means and obviously where we sing hail to the redskins, braves on the warpath, it means honor. it means respect. it means pride.
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>> reporter: but pressure from sponsors, including nike, pepsi, and fedex may force snyder's hand. >> this is a great day in terms of progress. >> reporter: chuck huskin jr. is the principle chief of cherokee nation. >> it still hurts when depictions of native americans or slurs frankly are used to in a commercial sense or reduced to mascots or caricatures. >> reporter: the national american indians also weighed in writing this moment has been 87 years in the making. indian country deserves nothing less. the time to change is now. >> the tide is shifting so vigorously. >> reporter: bill rhoden is a columnist with espn's the undefeated. he says team names like the washington redskins have no place in sports. >> they get the history of this name. that doesn't nothing nice about it. it was never intended to be nice. it was a bloody nickname. it still is a bloody nickname.
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and i think most people say we've got to move on. >> reporte . >> in other nfl news, the nfl plans to play the black national anthem before the star spangled banner in every game of the season. the song is called "lift every voice and sing." and if you've never heard it, here is jane fapauley. ♪ lift every voice and sing >> reporter: lift every voice and sing was written as a poem by african american educator and activist james weldon johnson in the late 1800s. it was first recited by students at the segregated stant school in jacksonville, florida on abraham lincoln's birthday in 1900. ♪ let our rejoicing rise >> reporter: james johnson's brother, john rosamund set the
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song to music, and in 1919 the song was adopted by the naacp. its lyrics speak to the african american struggle for freedom and equality. ♪ ♪ till we stand at last where the white bleem of bright star is cast ♪ >> reporter: over the years church choirs and performers have lifted up their voices to sing its words of hope, including kim weston at the 1972 los angeles coliseum benefit concert memorialized in the film "wattstax." ♪ lift every voice and sing till up in heaven ring, ring
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>> reporter: for nearly 60 years, lincoln center for the performing arts has been the cultural capital of new york. ♪ >> reporter: but in march, the barricades went up, and this sign appeared saying "we'll be back after a short intermission." on its still silent plaza, the only music is made by the fountain. does it feel weird being here with it all quiet? >> yeah, it feels -- lincoln center is about people. >> reporter: henry timms is president and ceo of lincoln center. >> you can't imagine a new york without lincoln center. it stands for the city. >> reporter: when president 1959, lincoln center was conceived as a world class complex. >> are you eager to perform in the new building here? >> excited as i can be. i can't wait. >> reporter: lincoln center's campus now spreads across some 16 acres. it's like a small city for the
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arts with the new york city ballet over there, the metropolitan opera over here, and across the plaza there, the new york philharmonic. but that's just the beginning. you have how many different stages here? >> there is 30 different stages. there is 11 different organizations. there is thousands of different people, and there is millions of audience members. >> reporter: you're completely shut down? >> well, the buildings are closed. but kind of the hearts of lincoln center are very much open. >> reporter: in solidarity with protesters on the city streets, lincoln center has devoted all of its signage on an entire block to black lives matter. and in weekly concerts on social media called "memorial for us all," it has honored lives lost to the coronavirus. wynton marsalis has performed. and tony winner kelly o'hara. ♪ take me to the world
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>> reporter: and tony nominee norm guide you ♪ >> when they reached out and said they wanted to do something for our nation, or community, new york, i said yes. i was honored by that. >> reporter: lewis was the first african american to play the phantom on broadway in andrew lloyd weber's "phantom of the opera sl opera." and he sang on many of the lincoln center's stages. it's been difficult singing because i just haven't found the joy in singing. >> reporter: why is it hard to find the joy in singing right now? >> it's just with all the gloom and doom that's been around, people who i have personally known who have passed away. i guess the losing of my voice, i just didn'tant t sg f noreason. >> reporter: are you worried about when you'll be back on staged? >> i'm concerned. >> reporter: financially, how do you get through this? >> well, with a lot of tough choices, a lot of generous
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supporters, and a lot of resilience. at a time like this, the arts reminds of their true service which is they help us find ourselves, and they help us find each other. >> reporter: for a moment, at least, on the plaza, we ended the intermission by asking norm lewis to perform for us. ♪ high as the listening skies >> reporter: he chose "lift every voice and sing" and suddenly lincoln center was alive again. ♪ sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us ♪ at has brought ull of the hope us ♪ ♪ facing the rising sun of our new day begun ♪ ♪ let us march on till
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over the weekend, covid-19 claimed one of the brightest stars on broadway, nick cordero. he was just 41 years old. cordero passed away sunday at a hospital in los angeles after a three-month battle with the virus. gayle king looks back at his life and career. ♪ i can't keep running the 41-year-old made his broadway debut back in 2012 and later went on to originate the role of mob boson any in "a bronx tale."
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in 2014 he was nominated for a tony award for playing the menacing gangster cheech in "bullets over broadway." he and his wife amanda kloots first met as castmates in that musical. they later had a son elvis. >> nick's body is extremely weak. muscles have atrophied. >> reporter: i spoke to amanda kloots last monday about her husband's condition. what have you been told, amanda, about the effect on the body of a long intubation? >> oh, gosh, gayle, it's hard. the longer you're in icu, the longer on a ventilator, your body is more susceptible to infection, and that is what we're seeing with nick. he is in and out of infects in ilungis blood. >> reporter: the 41-year-old broadway actor was placed in a medically induced coma three months ago. >> we really need nick to wake up and start healing. >> reporter: as the public rallied around him and his
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recovery. cordero woke up from that coma, but suffered setback after setback. in april, doctors amputated his right leg d to coronavirus complications. to fully recover, kloots told us he'd need an even more significant surgery. >> our ultimate, ultimate goal would be to get him to be a candidate for a double lung transplant. >> reporter: nick ultimately lost his battle with the coronavirus after 95 long days in the hospital. >> i was wondering, amanda, if you have ever gone there. have doctors told you, amanda, it's time to let him go? have they ever said that to you? >> i believe, gayle, that god is the only person that's going to decide when and if my husband goes. so i will never try to play that role. >> reporter: but to his fans, his friends, and his family, he will always be a bright light that can never be put out. >> and he will be missed. that's the "overnight news" for this tuesday. reporting from the nation's
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capital, i'm chip reid. captioning sponsored by cbs ♪ >> o'donnell: tonight the new warnings about the age group getting and spreading the virus, the stunning images of party ignoring social distancing. the reason tonight dr. anthony fauci says the average age of those infected is 15 years younger. and why harvard says all of its classes will be online. plus the broadway star who lost his battle with the coronavirus at age 41. his wife's message tonight. breaking news, the mayor of atlanta says she has coronavirus but hasn't experienced any symptoms. virus in the air, more than 200 scientists from around the world say the evidence is clear, coronavirus could spread at distances greater than s f

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