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>> garrett: tonight america's coronavirus pain deepens. infections surge and unemployment benefits near an end. patients in some states flood emergency rooms. intensive care admissions also on the rise. new curfews in florida and california braces for additional shutdowns. and no canada. baseball's blue jays are forbidden to play at home or anywhere in the country. also the president says most new covid cases are inconsequential. >> many of those cases are young people that would heal in a day. they have the sniffles and we put it down as a test. >> garrett: plus congress reconvenes. the goal? another round of pandemic stimulus. tributes, bipartisan and plentiful, for civil rights
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leader and congressman john lewis. >> he was powerful. he was larger-than-life. >> he was a great man and he was tough as nails. >> garrett: outrage in portland over protests and federal arrests. and later, ford hopes for a stampede. the bronco rides again. >> this is the cbs weekend news. >> garrett: good evening, everyone, i'm major garrett in washington. coronavirus continues to ravage the states where it has run rampant for weeks. california, texas, arizona and worst of all, florida. with more than 12,500 new infections there. slightly lower than its july 12th record of 15,300. not every infection, of course, leads to hospitalization or death. many people do recover. but each positive test is disruptive to families, friends and businesses.
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and absent a significant reversal in trend, the nation appears to be headed for 100,000 new cases per day. this weekend we hit roughly 70,000 per day just as experts warned of rising infection rates in georgia, tennessee, missouri and kentucky. we begin tonight with lilia luciano in los angeles. >> california is bracing for yet another shutdown as deaths and hospitalizations continue to spike. down south in florida folks are also expecting the worst. >> south beach tonight under curfew. >> by closing earlier it actually tones down the party. >> miami dade where one in five covid tests are positive, leads the state in new infections. just today adding more than 3,000 cases. it seems like this that worries officials as the governor warns young people are driving the surge. and tonight texas reporting more
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than 10,000 cases for the sixth. this as fans streamed into the motor speedway in fort worth. and in arizona a grim milestone, the state hitting its highest daily debt toll saturday. there the federal government stepping in to increase testing in hot zones. >> we are doing tests to minimize the risk. >> california also struggling to reach its testing targets, seeing deaths nearly triple since the state's economy we open reopened in may. >> it was a discouraging week because we just went backwards. >> a second statewide shutdown looming. >> i think we're on the brink of that. >> los angeles had its worst week in new cases and hospitalizations but mayor garcetti hopes to keep the economy alive. >> we have to be surgical rather than a cleaver that would just shut everything down. >> canada doesn't like what it is seeing south of the border barring the toronto blue jays from playing at home. and in new york city the mets faced the yankees at an empty citi field, except for the best seats in the house. those taken by quiet cardboard fans.
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professional sports will resume in new york city without fans as part of the city's entering into phase 4 of reopenings tomorrow. that still mean there is no indoor dining and there is a stark contrast here in los angeles where we may have to wait three weeks to know whether the closures are working is. major? >> lilia luciano, thank you. we can add jack nicklaus to americans, more than 1.1 million so far who have recovered from coronavirus. the golf legend now 80 told cbs sports today that he and his wife barbara contracted the virus earlier this year. >> our hearts go out to the people that did lose their lives and the families. we were just a couple of the lucky ones. >> garrett: nicklaus says they are both doing fine now. president trump says this in a new interview, quote, i've been right probably more than anybody else, unquote. the topic, coronavirus.
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nikole killion is at the white house. >> i take responsibility always for everything because it's ultimately my job. >> president trump told fox news sunday things were under control as two new polls showed a majority disapproving of his handling of the pandemic. >> it is burning embers. it's a forest fire. >> no, i say flames, we'll put out the flames. >> mr. trump emphasized death rates, not cases or hospitalizations. >> we have one of the lowest mortality rate. >> that's not true, sir. >> well, we have. >> we have 900 deaths in a single day. >> you have the numbers, please. because i heard we had the best mortality rate. >> number one low mortality rate. >> and the president's dismissed some of the advice from his own experts like dr. anthony fauci. >> one of your right hand men, daniel scavino put out this, have you seen this? dr. fought et, shows him as a
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leaker and an alarmist. >> i don't mow that he is a leaker. >> he is a little bit of an alarmist. >> this week negotiations resume on the fourth phase of a coronavirus relief package, two months after the house passed its own plan. >> the president says he wants liabilities protections for businesses and a payroll tax cut. >> i would consider not signing it if we don't have a payroll tax cut. >> the president is also facing a tough fight for re-election. the same poll show him trailing former vice president biden by 15 points and eight respectively. >> i'm not losing. because those are fake polls. >> taking a wait and see approach come election day. >> you can give a direct answer, will you accept the election. >> i have to see, look, i have to see, i'm not going to just say yes. and i didn't last time either. >> the bieden campaign slammed the president interview saying the american people will decide the election and calling his covid response catastrophic. the president's chief of staff say mrs. trump plans to roll out some initiatives this week to address the pandemic. major. >> garrett: nikole killion, thank you.
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more photos have been released of a secret pick and roll wedding in an unannounced and intimate ceremony on friday. the queen was there, prince andrew, under scrutiny for his relationship with a convicted sex offender, a noticeably absent. an update to a story we saw last week. several big retailers including cvs, kroger and wal-mart are now asking shoppers for exact change only or to pay with credit. for those who can't, some stores are simply rounding up and donating the difference to charity. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.
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this is the "cbs overnight news." >> garrett: more tributes for john lewis. michelle miller is in atlanta. >> all across atlanta worshipers at church services remembered the late congressman, one of the legendary figures of the civil rights movement. >> john has been our congressman for 34 years. >> former u.n. ambassador andrew young marched with lewis and dr. king. >> john lewis is one of the quietest, most humble leaders
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that has ever lived. he seemingly doesn't have any ambition but to serve. >> there is a moral obligation to do something. torques say something. >> for many here and across america, lewis left a lasting impact. >> the quote of him saying let's get into some good trouble is activating a generation. activating a generation that wants to get involved and say hey, this is wrong. i'm going to stand up for it and i'm going to stand up for it loudly. i'm going to stand up for it proudly. >> former secretary of state colin powell. >> he spent his whole adult life fighting these issues. and going after racism. and so a man with that kind of bravery built into him is an incredible individual and he was. and i think we will always be remembering what he did for our nation. what he did for our people. >> major, there say candle light vigil set here at the john lewis memorial mural but already there are calls to rename the edmund
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pettus bridge after him as well. as you remember, it was on that bridge in march of 1965 that he lead protestors across from selma to montgomery as they were fighting for their voting rights. they were met with opposition from law enforcement. and it is that moment that became known as bloody sunday. >> garrett: michelle, with congressman lewis' passing, the question looms, what does it mean for the continuing fight for racial and social equality in america right now? >> lewis was an incredible ally to the next generation, whether it was with immigration or gun control or gay rights. he was the man who was always willing to reach across some other movements and bring people forward. whether it's in techniques or ability. he had this incredible sense of mentorship and the hopes is that
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there will be others who come along and fill his shoes. >> garrett: michelle miller, thank you so very much. today the mayor of portland, oregon, said he wants federal agents out of his city, accusing them of overstepping their powers and threatening protestors. as meg oliver reports, new violence is adding to tensions. >> more clashes erupted saturday night between federal officers and protesters in portland. this agent repeatedly strikes a man with his baton before they douse him with pepper spray. police declared a riot after they say demonstrators lit their association headquarters on fire. the mayor claims the increase in violence on the tactics of federal officers, many of them i.c.e. agents. >> they're not wanted here. we haven't asked them here. in fact, we want them to leave. >> the nightly demonstrations began 53 days ago in wake of the deaths of george floyd, breonna taylor, and ahmaud arbery. >> we will do anything that we
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can to get our point across so that people understand where we are coming from and what we believe in. >> but after a more than a month of active protests president trump sent in federal agents to protect buildings and personnels >> people are being scooped off the streets in unmarked van, rental cars, apparently. they are being denied probable cause and they are denied due process. they don't even know who is pulling them into the vans. the people aren't identifying themselves. and as far as i can see, this is completely unconstitutional. >> this the mayor is suing several agencies for illegally detaining protestors off the streets. president trump responded sunday, tweeting we are trying to help portland, not hurt it, we must protect federal property and our people. meg oliver, cbs news. >> garrett: overseas now japan says it is extremely concerned
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after more than 140 u.s. marines tested positive for the coronavirus. the marines are based on the island of okinawa. as amy inocencio reports, the it infections are testing an uneaio relationship. >> the ospreys still deploy out of okinawa japan. the u.s. military keystone in the pacific, even as the marine corps wages a public health battle against coronavirus. did a major change from this fourth of july party seen on social media. allegedly usa service members when restrictions were loosened. okinawa's governor criticized the u.s. military for spreading the virus and isolating new arrivals in this off-base hotel. >> is there truth to that? >> so as of right now we have not found any connection between the july 4th celebration and any positive case we have identified. >> the joint covid response cell is the military's nerve center to trace and treat the virus. up to 40,000 marines and their
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families are now in a state of restricted movement. >> if you go out in town you go home and you come to works, and that's really the only interaction you have off the base. >> okinawa is home to more than half of the roughly 50,000 u.s. personnel stationed in japan. flight surgeon margarette moore. >> the spread is being exceptionally well-contained by the policies. we have in practice right now. >> it is a directive that everyone has to wear a mask. >> it is not a suggestion, it is an order from comanding officers and you could be stood to be punished for not doing what they say to do. >> and of note the u.s. marine corps says to expect even more service members to test positive but only because they will be doing increased testing. they also stress that military readiness will not be compromised to respond to any threat here in asia-pacific. major. >> garrett: ramy inocencio, thank you. there is a race for a covid-19 cure. will there be enough vie als to
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potential vaccine. here's imtiaz tyab. >> >> if warp speed is how fast the race for a successful coronavirus vaccine is moving, then this factory floor is a crucial finishing line. the certificateup institute of india is the world's largest manufacturer of vaccines and has been tapped by pharma giant astra-zeneca to produce over a billion doses of the vaccine being trialed by oxford university. ceo ada rrvegs poonwalla says of the over 100 coronavirus candidate vaccines he has the most faith in oxford. >> we have dedicated all of our manufacturing facilities at the moment for the astrazeneca product. as you heard it is a billion doses, it is no small amount even for us. >> if the oxford vaccine trials are successful there is still serious concerns about how to distribute it. glass vials like these produced by the germany schott ag are the safe and most effective way, while simple looking they require highly specialized machinery to make. agencies within the department
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of health and human services are already warning of a critical shortage. >> we are in a situation where lots of things have to come together. as you know such coordination efforts at that scale also depends to a great degree on political motivation. >> the trump administration has been trying to diseur supplies only for the u.s., the scientists are warning that america's first approach will only prolong the still very global pandemic even with an effective vaccine. imtiaz tyab, cbs news, london. >> garrett: still ahead, the a lot more
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because we get all sick and it's impossible to sthaen work because of that, then there's no food. what are people going to do. >> i want everyone to look back and know that her dad really put up a fight. and as he was fighting, he was taking care sometimes of the very people that wanted him out. just to prove to this country that he's worthy. >> as the virus continues to rip through the latino community, activists fall back on a familiar battle cry. >> this is for our community, this is for our country. so por favor. [ speaking foreign language ] >> here in texas more than 40% of the confirmed coronavirus cases come from the hispanic community, more than any other ethnicity in the state. and as its new school year creeps closer latino families worried the digital divide will continue to grow just like the covid cases. major? >> garrett: mireya villarreal, thank you.
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>> garrett: finally tonight a classic vehicle returned to ford's stable this week. its new look has dealers and potential buyers chomping at the bit, and because we can't run out of horse metaphor, kris van cleave mounted up for a ride. >> you need a bronco. >> the ford bronco is back. collector robert parker has been waiting 24 years to see the iconic suv ride again.
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>> when i think about bronco i think about, you know, my bucket list. things that i have always wanted to do, places i've always wanted to see. >> the bronco, a totally new concept in transportation. >> when ford introduced the 1966 bronco it was unlike anything on the road or off it. >> the bronco is a roadster. >> its original code name goat, go over any terrain. for its 31 year-production run ford's five generations of broncos sold 1.1 million vehicles as the truck drove right into pop culture. rolling through 1200 movies. >> it could be a very good bet that this is o.j. smpson's vehicle. >> but the bronco is perhaps best known for the 1994 o.j. simpson police chase in that white ford bronco. by 1996 americans were flocking to four-door suv's sending bronco to the stables for nearly a quarter century. c-net's tim stevens. >> is there demand for another suv.
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>> right now the demand is still strong and with so many suv's on the market there is really high value for personality and character in suv's and that is something lacking, the bronco does not lack character. >> we got a ride in the new broncos. the 2021 models include a two door and a four door and smaller bronco sport. >> do you feel pressure not to screw this up? >> it is always in my mind about don't screw it up. ford's director of icon. >> every mill mighter has been folt over. people are using it and driving it. >> robert parker is holding down until the spring where he can spark it next to this classic he is restoring, kris van cleave, cbs news, washington. >> garrett: and that is the yoemptd news for this monday. for some of the news continues. for others, check back later for cbs this morning. also follow us on line anytime at cbs news.com. from the nation's capital i'm major garrett.
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captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs overnight news." >> good evening, everyone. i'm major garrett in washington. coronavirus continues to ravage the states where it has run rampant for weeks. california, texas, arizona and worst of all, florida. with more than 12,500 new infections there. slightly lower than its july 12th record of 15,300. not every infection, of course, leads to hospitalization or death. many people do recover. but each positive test is disruptive to families, friends and businesses.
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and absent a significant reversal in trend, the nation appears headed for 100,000 new cases per day. this weekend we hit roughly 70,000 per day just as experts warned of rising infection rates in georgia, tennessee, missouri and kentucky. we begin tonight with lilia luciano in los angeles. >> california is bracing for yet another shutdown as deaths and hospitalizations continue to spike. down south in florida folks are also expecting the worst. >> south beach tonight under curfew. >> by closing earlier it actually tones down the party. >> miami dade were one in five covid tests are positive, leads the state in new infections. just today adding more than 3,000 cases. it's scenes like this that worries firms, as the governor
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warns young people are driving the surge. and tonight texas reporting more than 10,000 cases for the sixth day in a row. this as fans streamed into the motor speedway in fort worth. and in arizona a grim milestone, the state hitting its highest daily death toll saturday. there the federal government stepping in to increase testing in hot zones. >> we are doing tests to minimize the risk. >> california also struggling to reach its testing targets, seeing deaths nearly triple since the state's economy reopened in may. >> it was a discouraging week because we just went backwards. >> a second statewide shutdown looming. >> i think we're on the brink of that. >> los angeles had its worst week in new cases and hospitalizations but mayor garcetti hopes to keep the economy alive. >> we have to be surgical rather than a cleaver that would just shut everything down. >> canada doesn't like what it is seeing south of the border barring the toronto blue jays from playing at home. and in new york city the mets faced the yankees at an empty citi field, except for the best seats in the house. those taken by quiet cardboard fans.
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professional sports will resume in new york city without fans as part of the city's entering into phase 4 of reopenings tomorrow. that still mean there is no indoor dining and there is a stark contrast here in los angeles where we may have to wait three weeks to know whether the closures are working is. major? >> lilia luciano, thank you. we can add jack nicklaus to the list of americans, more than 1.1 million so far who have recovered from coronavirus. the golf legend now 80 told cbs sports today that he and his wife barbara contracted the virus earlier this year. >> our hearts go out to the people that did lose their lives and the families. we were just a couple of the lucky ones. >> garrett: nicklaus says they are both doing fine now. president trump says this in a new interview, quote, i've been right probably more than anybody else, unquote. the topic, coronavirus. new polls however suggest otherwise. nikole killion is at the white
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house. >> i take responsibility always for everything because it's ultimately my job. >> president trump told fox news sunday things were under control as two new polls showed a majority disapproving of his handling of the pandemic. >> it sburngt embers, sir. it's a forest fire. >> no, i say flames, we'll put out the flames. >> mr. trump emphasized death rates, not cases or hospitalizations. >> we have one of the lowest mortality rate. >> that's not true, sir. >> well, we have. >> we have 900 deaths in a sngle day. >> you have the numbers, please. because i heard we had the best mortality rate. >> number one low mortality rate. >> and the president's dismissed some of the advice from his own experts like dr. anthony fauci. >> one of your right hand men, daniel scavino put out this, have you seen this? dr. faucet, it shoesz him as a leaker and an alarmist.
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>> i don't know that he's a leaker. >> he is a little bit of an alarmist. >> this week negotiations resume on the fourth phase of a coronavirus relief package, two months after the house passed its own plan. >> the president says he wants liabilities protections for businesses and a payroll tax cut. >> i would consider not signing it if we don't have a payroll tax cut. >> the president is also facing a tough fight for re-election. the same poll show him trailing former vice president biden by 15 points and eight respectively. >> i'm not losing. because those are fake polls. >> taking a wait and see approach come election day. >> you can give a direct answer, will you accept the election. >> i have to see, look, i have to see, i'm not going to just say yes. and i didn't last time either. >> the biden campaign slammed the president's interview, say ing the american people will decide the election and calling his covid response catastrophic. the president's chief of staff say mrs. trump plans to roll out some initiatives this week to address the pandemic. major. >> garrett: nikole killion, thank you.
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today the mayor of portland, oregon, says he wants federal agents out of his city, accusing them of overstepping their powers and threatening protesters, as meg oliver reports, violence is adding to tensions. >> more clashes erupted saturday night between federal officers and protesters in portland. this agent repeatedly strikes a man with his baton before they douse him with pepper spray. police declared a riot after they say demonstrators lit their association headquarters on fire. mayor ted wheeler claims the increase in violence on the tactics of federal officers, many of them i.c.e. agents. >> they're not wanted here. we haven't asked them here. in fact, we want them to leave. >> the nightly demonstrations began 53 days ago in wake of the deaths of george floyd, breonna taylor, and ahmaud arbery. >> we will do anything that we can to get our point across so that people understand where we are coming from and what we believe in. >> but after a more than a month of active protests president
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trump sent in federal agents to protect buildings and personnels >> people are being scooped off the streets in unmarked van, rental cars, apparently. they are being denied probable cause and they are denied due process. they don't even know who is pulling them into the vans. the people aren't identifying themselves. and as far as i can see, this is completely unconstitutional. >> the city is is now suing several federal agency for illegally detaining protesters off the streets. president trump responded sunday, tweeting we are trying to help portland, not hurt it, we must protect federal property and our people. meg oliver, cbs news. >> garrett: the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. did you know the source of odor in your home...
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this is the "cbs overnight news." >> garrett: i'm major garrett in washington. thanks so very much for staying with us. the governor of the japanese island okinawa is calling for the shutdown of two american bases that have seen an outbreak of the coronavirus. japan bars travellers from more than a hundred countries, including the united states. but the american military is
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exempt. ray ciccarelli is there. >> >> the ospreys still deploy out of okinawa japan. the u.s. military keystone in the pacific, even as the marine corps wages a public health battle against coronavirus. a major change from this fourth of july party seen on social media. allegedly direct service members when restrictions were loose are. no off base liberty authorized. >> to stop the spread up to 40,000 marines and their families have been placed on restrictive movement orders. >> you go home and come to work. that's the only interaction you have off the base.
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upset locals including the goirn are blaming the marine corps. is there any truth to that? >> we have not found any connection between the july 4th celebration and any positive case that we've identified. >> the presence of u.s. troops in okinawa remain a matter of frustration for local residents. protests flared after a u.s. marine was accused of raping and murdering a japanese woman. he was sentenced to life in prison. she was born and raised here. over the years, she says, allegation against service men have included drunk driving and sexual assault. >> what are you are demanding of the u.s. military? >> to evacuate every u.s. military from okinawa, because we have be suffering 75 years already. >> and the u.s. marine core said
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two other thepgs, one, all the members that got court reporters are only experiencing weak symptoms. funeral plans are still being drawn up for long-time congressman and icon john lewis. he died friday at the age of 80. his seat in congress will likely remain empty for the remainder of the term. lee cowhan looks bake on lewis's life and enduring legacy. >> we need patience. we want our freedom and we want it now. >> i just feel like saying come and walk in my shoes. i will show you. >> but the death of george floyd was a deadly reminder that the work that he dedicated his life to wasn't over. >> i kept saying to myself, how many more, how many more young
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black men will be murdered? >> just last month georgia kmap john lewis appeared at the black lives mural. in an interview with gayle king, he remained ever hope. >> this is another step down a very, very long road to which justice for all hul kind. >> throughout his life there was a gentleness about him, peppered with tenacity. he was arrested numbers of times for civil disobese yens. >> i was 17. 1958 i met dr. martin luther king. this inspired me to get into trouble and i've been getting in trouble ever since. drama tiesed our nation and to the world our determination to
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win first class citizenship. >> in march of 1965, he led the match from selma to montgomery, alabama, across the edmund pettus bridge. >> this march will not continue. >> he almost paid for his convictions that day. on what history will forever call bloody sunday. >> i was the first person to be hit and i still have a scar on my forehead. i thought it was going down this road. >> unlike dr. king or malcolm kpnks, john lewis wasn't frozen in history. he was living, forever reminding us that we could and should do better and in his mind, will do better. >> if we get it right in america, maybe it can serve as a moold for the rest of the world. >> we'll have more
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in your lifetime you will be arrested 2450i78s in your mission to have redeemed the soul of america. in 1956, when you were only 16 years old, you and some of your brothers and sisters a first cousin, went to the public library, trying to get library cards, trying to check out some books. you were told by the librarian that the library was for whites only, not for coloreds. i said to you, when you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to continue to speak out, to speak out. >> i could no longer be
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satisfied with an evil system. you became so inspired by drfrlt king and rosa parks. and the civil rights movement. something touched you and suggested that you write another. you didn't tell your teachers. didn't tell your mother and your father. dr. king wrote you back. in the meantime, you've been admitted to school in nashville, tennessee. ♪ it's a sign of the amgs >> and it was there that you got involved in a city sit back in a normal peaceful nonvice president fashion and somebody would come up on you and put something behind your back, power hot water or hot chocolate on you.
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you got arrested the first time and you felt so free. you felt liberated. you felt like you would cross over. >> free at last, free at last, thank got all nighty, free at last. >> from troy, as drflt king used to call you, the embodiment of knapp violence in america. ♪ ♪ they say everything can be replaced ♪ >> we must tell america wake or up oh cannot top and we will not. you will see the face of death going across the edmund pettus brimming in selma. >> matching from selma to
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montgomery. matching to the capital that drama tiesed to our nation and the world our determination to win first class citizenship. president here advance towards the group. >> they were meeting on the bridge. thought you were going to die. but you would make it. you would live to see your mother and father cast their first votes. >> change doesn't come from washington. change comes to washington. the nation you live in. an african-american president and his family and guess what?
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guess what young john. that man would be nominated on the 45th anniversary of the march on washington. all of those signs that you saw the little child out there, white men, colored men, white men, colored women. those signs are old and only places you will see those signs today would be in a book. in a museum. or a video. jo john, thank you for going to the library your brothers, your sisters. you were denied a library card.
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you were sad. but one day you were i electricitied to the congress, you were walking with the wind, in the same library invited you to come back for a book signing, for blacks and white citizens showed up and after the book signing, they gave him a library card. and to leave as dr. king and a. fellers randolph and others, one equal and it doesn't matter whether they're black or white, la teppo, asian american or native american, that maybe our fore mothers and our fore fathers all came here in
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>> garrett: as we know, there may be never a way to repay the medical workers toiling on the front lines. an artist in upstate new york is doing his best. steve hart mapp found his story on the road. >> when steve defer ek of clifftop park new york paints a portrait there's no such thing as a touchup. he includes every bruise, bag,
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and blood vessel. you're not capturing them at their best moment. >> i think i am. >> interesting. >> that's when they're strongest, not with rainbows and butterflies behind him. >> indeed. the own thing these people have behind them is a 12-hour shift. you see the masks, the fight in their eyes and the admiration the artist has for all of them. steve wanted to do something to say thank you. so the artist spent hours in his basements painting trikts to these warriors. he's done about a hundred, many nurses here in albany medical center. he refuses payment of any kind. he says he's fotden very rich in another way. >> right here. that's the payment. that's the reason i do it. >> well, beyond words. steve says he has been
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overwhelmed by the impact his paintings have had on his subjects. like albany med e.r. nurse michelle hannah. >> it makes me look like who i >> michelle recentl stopped by to meet steve and check out an exhibit of his work at the center gallery. >> these are amazing. >> she was moved by the art. >> one of the most beautiful thing you've ever done for me. sorry. >> by the artist and his large scale generosity. steve will now be giving away every portrait to the person in it, a forever mirror reflecting that time in their lives when they were at their most beautiful. steve hart mapp, on the road in albany new york. >> and that is the overnight news for this monday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, w check back later
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for cbs this morning. follow us anytime on cbsnews.com. from the nation's capital, i'm major garrett. captioning sponsored by cbs >> garrett: tonight america's coronavirus pain deepens. infections surge and unemployment benefits near an end. patients in some states flood emergency rooms. intensive care admissions also on the rise. new curfews in florida and california braces for additional shutdowns. and no canada. baseball's blue jays are forbidden to play at home or anywhere in the country. also the president says most new covid cases are inconsequential. >> many of those cases are young people that would heal in a day. they have the sniffles and we put it down as a test. >> garrett: plus congress reconvenes. the goal? another
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