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yuccas: tonight down to the wire, millions of americans wait anxiously for new federal help as the money runs out and coronavirus rages. >> this is an emergency. >> yuccas: infections and death surge to record levels, defiance in a divided country. >> the government is here to protect our constitution, not to tes red by: also tremather, hanna while hawaii braces for a side swipe from hurricane douglas. protests explode to cities across the country. gunshots leave at least one dead. the countdown is on, a hundred g ttleground stas. plus olivia de havilland, a legend of the silver screen dies at age 104.
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and later, john lewis, a lion in america's civil rights struggle makes his final journey across the edmund pettus bridge. this is the cbs weekend news. >> yuccas: good evening, i'm jamie yuccas in los angeles. with money running out fast, americans are looking for a new coronavirus lifeline from congress. the latest on those negotiations and the virus straight ahead but first to a developing story. tonight hawaii is bracing for a brush with hurricane douglas. you can see here, wind, flooding and surf are forecast to be dangero people have begun to seek shelter in honolulu. the category one hurricane will pass close to the island chain . and late today president trump approved a disaster declaration for texas after it was hit by hurricane hanna. janet shamlian is in corpus cristie.
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>> reporter: this is the power of a strong category one hurricane. 90 mile an hour winds flipping this 18 wheeler on its side. the driver shaken but not hurt. >> you okay? >> reporter: hanna slammed the southern texas gulf coast as the first hurricane of the atlantic season. landfall near padre mild, rising flood watches in corpus cristie, cars abandoned on flooded streets and part of the popular bob hall pier collapsing under dangerous storm surge. >> this is terrible, this pier has been here forever. it has been here even in harvey and has been okay. >> reporter: with power lines toppled, thousands were plunged into the dark. the hurricane ravaging wide swaths of beaches as the texas governor issued a disaster declaration for 32 counties. all of this amid the virus crisis. south texas, one of the nation's hot spots.
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>> we certainly didn't need this especially after you know going through a pandemic, what we're going through now. >> reporter: tonight hanna is a tropical storm. the concern now is for life threatening flooding as the storm moves inland. some areas could get as much as 18 inches and if shelters had to open, that would be problematic amid the pandemic. jamie? >> tough situation,tonit. tprident trs ed to waington aer spending the weekend at his new jersey golf club. for millions of americans these are desperate times. infections are spreading and deaths adding up. and for those looking for a new relief check from washington, it could be awhile. paula reid has the latest. >> reporter: president trump did not wear a mask today as he greeted supporters at an intersection near his bedminster new jersey golf club though he did maintain his distance. his top advisors were back on
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capitol hill today working on what to do about federal jobless benefits congress approved in april. 600 per person per week which are about to expire. white house chief of staff mark meadows said tomorrow the republicans will unveil a proposal to extend that benefit at a reduced amount. >> we are going to be prepared on monday to provide unemployment insurance extension that would be 70% of whatever the wages you were prior to being unemployed. >> reporter: house democrats passed a bill two months ago to extend the $600 payment through january. house speaker nancy pelosi told "face the nation" sunday the republicans new formula is too complicated. >> figuring out 70% of somebody's wages people don't all make a salary. maybe they do, they make wages. and sometimes they have it varied. so why don't we just keep it simple. >> reporter: but the administration says the full benefit discourages people from returning to work. >> the original unemployment benefit actually paid people to
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stay home and actually a lot of people got more money staying at home than they would going back to work. >> reporter: senator lindsey graham suggested many republicans won't agree to any deal. >> half the republicans are republican governor larry hogan called on congress to reach an agreement. >> we just have to get some bipartisan cooperation on both sides to sit down and hammer something out because an awful lot of people need this help. >> reporter: top white house advisors say congress may have to first pass a narrow piece of legislation and then deal with some of these other issues but house speaker nancy pelosi has rejected that approach and any negotiations on a potential deal could take weeks. jamie? >> yuccas: paula reid, thank you. today marks 100 days until election day 2020. and the race for the white house much like everything else has been upended by the pandemic. new cbs news battleground tracker polls out today show former vice president joe biden leading president trump by six
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points in michigan while the president has a point edge over biden in nearby ohio. cbs news political correspondent ed o'keefe joins us now, thanks for being here, what patterns are you taking away from these numbers? >> jamie, they once again tell us that voters remain very concerned about the pandemic, especially parents who concerned about kids going back to school. who say the president doesn't care about their children. and the poll finds that most americans support the aims of ongoing protests and the black lives matter movement. but let there be no doubt, right now this is joe biden's contest to lose. and yet these polls out of michigan and ohio especially reinforce that his lead is tenuous. more people are voting this year against president trump, not necessarily for biden. and several polls out today from various organizations show that the president's supporters are more enthusiastic about supporting him than biden's supporters are. >> yuccas: interesting info there. well, ed, a hundred days to go but just a hundred days ago the president was doing much better and bernie sanders was just
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exiting the race. it seems much longer than that. what are the turning points moving forward? >> sure, the big one is biden's running mate. he is set to pick a woman. he says he is doing exhaustive reviews of the backgrounds of several picks and we anticipate an announcement in early august. both parties are scaling down their conventions as well. the president abruptly cancelled the republican meeting in jacksonville, after moving his acceptance speech in search of loser coronavirus restrictions. and biden still expects to accept the nomination in milwaukee. we expect the president and biden will debate each other three times this fall. any of those events could dramatically change the contest. >> yuccas: could, and absentee ballots in some states go out in just under 50 days. ed o'keefe, thank you. there is no end in sight to the the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.
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this is the "cbs overnight news." >> yuccas: there is no end in sight to the pandemic. for a fifth straight day more than a thousand people in this country died from the virus. and it could get worse. lilia luciano has more. >> reporter: a country divided along covid lines. people packed into van party buses in nashville as tennessee had its deadliest week and moves closer to 100,000 cases. >> you are wearing a swastika. >> reporter: in minnesota an angry confrontation after a couple shows up at a wal-mart wearing masks with swastikas. wal-mart banned them for a year. and in arkansas, where hospitalizations hit a new
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single day record and an antimask march. theeris he to protect our conso protect our health. >> reporter: the pandemic surging in florida, second in cases only to california with more than 400,000. >> i'm not going to wear a mask to make somebody else feel comfortable. >> reporter: in texas thousands fighting for their lives in hospitals. as bar owners struggle to keep their businesses alive. >> we can either fight this thing with everything that we have, or go out like pathetic losers. >> reporter: the west is getting worse. california leads the country in infections, and in arizona, icu beds are almost 90% full. traveling icu doctor luis rosario in phoenix. >> we've lost a lot of young people. >> no preexisting conditions. >> young people with no preexisting conditions. >> reporter: one of those
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healthy young people, a 40 year old nurse who worked right there in the icu. >> i had to put him on a breathing machine, screaming his wife's name and the last word he heard from me was telling him that we would take care of them. unfortunately, he died. >> reporter: nationwide many icu patients are latino essential workers. a group that california's governor is trying to protect with new measures that include temporary housing for people infected to quarantine safely.j? >> yuccas: thank you. violence exploded overnight beyond portland, oregon, to cities across the country from seattle, washington, to richmond, virginia, thousands turned out demanding the removal of the federal agents deployed to several cities. here's meg oliver. >> reporter: heavily armed local police and federal agents on seattle streets in one of the nation's most intense protests saturday, pepper spray, guns fire, screams. the violence exploded in several cities, here in austin, texas, one person was killed when gunfire broke out during a black lives matter protest.
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in aurora, colorado, when this jeep bore down on a group of protestors, someone fired a po and pteorfaced off.ander. group rched a truc police responded with tear gas and rubber bullets. much of this sparked by anger at president trump's deployment of federal forces sent to portland over the objections of local officials. >> it's not right. and what they are doing up there, deploying federal troops, snatching people off the streets! >> reporter: president trump supporters say it is about law and order. >> and if the mayors in those towns are too politically timid to address people who are defacing and destroying their city, than the president of the united states has to deal with it. >> reporter: democrats see a as infringement of your personal liberties and freedom but sending in paramilitary groups uphold american values? >> reporter: almost two months after the killing of george floyd nightly protests are a
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fixture in many american cities and now with revived anger. jamie. >> yuccas: meg, thank you. today in selma, alabama, the body of congressman john lewis crossed the edmund pettus bridge for the final time. michelle miller is there. >> reporter: the bridge edmund pettus is quite unremarkable. four lanes, 1300 feet. but its historic symbolism is powerful. and powerful it was today, as the architect of that symbolism, john robert lewis made his final crossing. on a horse-drawn casson lewis was carried across the alabama river on his way to montgomery. the march's intended destination on that bloody sunday in 1965. brown chapel a.m.e. church served as the rallying point that day and it's where his friend and congresswoman teri sewell led today's final prayer service in selma. >> john was determined to fight for equality and justice.
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>> people of all stripes lined the street to say farewell and holler. >> good trouble! >> cheyenne webb has a tortured history with the bridge, as an 8 year old she was the youngest marcher that day. >> reporter: what does it mean for you to be here today. >> it's going to be a sad moment but he has laid the foundation for us to continue to work. one of the things that we must do is stand up, get up, and continue to fight. >> reporter: the alabama portion of lewis' remembrances will continue tonight at the state house in montgomery. then it's off to washington, the scene of his second act, where the conscience of the congress will lie in state at the capitol. michelle miller, cbs news, selma, alabama. >> yuccas: a touching tribute, thank you. today we also learned actress olivia de havilland has died, a
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two time oscar winner best known as melanie in gone with the wind and maid marion opposite errol flynn in robin hood. off screen she famously bucked hollywood's studio system. her successful lawsuit freed toconts. shdied at ho ipa straight ahead on the cbs weekend news, critical care, how the pandemic is impacting people waiting for transplants. plus pushing the envelope, tony dokoupil shows us what mail-in voting might look like in the covid era. and later from alabama to the capitol, the journey to honor john lewis.
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>> yuccas: a record number of americans are expected to mail in their votes this november because of the pandemic. but when you send in your ballot what are the odds it will actually count? "cbs this morning's" tony dokoupil put the postal service to the test. >> reporter: if you know how to mail a letter, you already know how to mail in your vote. >> how are you doing? >> reporter: but how long might it take for that vote to actually arrive and be counted? >> have a good afternoon. >> reporter: we decided to test it, sending a hundred mock ballots simulating a hundred voters from locations all across philadelphia to a p.o. box we set up to represent a local election office. in the following week we checked our p.o. box for the result. mail pickup notice, there is more. when we went to collect everything, though. >> i don't see anything for you. >> reporter: nothing? >> no. >> reporter: most of our votes seemed to be lost. >> that's all i have back there right now. >> reporter: you are sure.
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totally sure. i believe you. >> reporter: we ha a we're trying to do something about mail-in ballots. and explain ourselves before d em somewhere else.d our votes. >> reporter: thank you. 21% of our votes hadn't materialized after four days. so of our 100 ballots, 97 arrived which sounds pretty good unless you consider the fact that that means 3 people who tried to vote by mail in our mock election were, in fact, disenfranchised by mail. in a close election 3% could be pivotal, especially in what is expected to be a record year for mail-in voting. tammy patrick is a former arizona election official who says many states have policies that just don't take into account the postal system. >> you are setting up the voters with false expectations and you're setting them up to fail. >> reporter: tony dokoupil, cbs news, philadelphia.
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ucorrow hn lewis bo wbelown to washingtonc.ci tf congressional correspondent nancy cordes explains is forever changed because of him. >> reporter: john robert lewis served in congress for 33 years and on monday he will lie in state here, an honor afforded to just a few dozen people in u.s. history.
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>> he was the most christ-like individual i ever met. >> reporter: house majority leader steny hoyer was one of lewis' best friends. >> we'resee. it mean for >> reporter: lewis' impact on the nation's capitol can be traced in the stops the hearse carrying the casket will make on the way to the capitol. first the martin luther king, jr. memorial on the national mall. it was king who answered a letter from the teenage lewis, brought him into the movement and eventually made him the youngest speaker at the march on washington in 1963. >> we want to be free now. >> reporter: the casket will also pause at the african-american museum of history and culture which only becauseongressman lewis spent 15 years reintroducing the bill to establish it. >> it is my hope that each and
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every person who visits this beautiful museum will walk away deeply inspired. filledand rt every human being. >> reporter: the casket then proceeds to black lives matter plaza near the white house which lewis made sure to visit one month before he died. a movement inspired in so many ways by his own bravery half a century ago, nancy cordes, cbs news, capitol hill. >> yuccas: think of john lewis's words, you must be bold, courageous and find a way to get in the way. follow us on line any time. reporting from los angeles, i'm jamie yuccas.
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this is the "cbs overnight news." >> yuccas: good evening. money running out fast, the latest on negotiations and the virus straight ahead. first to a developing story. tonight hawaii is bracing for a brush with hurricane douglas. the category i hurricane will pass close to the island chain. >> yuccas: also extreme weather, texas gets battered by hurricane hanna while hawaii braces for a side swipe from hurricane douglas. the dryer shaken but not hurt.
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it's the first hurricane of the atlantic season. landfall near padre island. rising floodwaters bashing asophomore in corpus christi. cars abandoned on the street. part of the pe ir collapsing. >> this is terrible, this pier has been here forever. it has been here even in harvey and has been okay. >> reporter: with power lines toppled, thousands were plunged into the dark. the hurricane ravaging wide swaths of beaches as the texas governor issued a disaster declaration for 32 counties. all of this amid the virus crisis. south texas, one of the nation's hot spots. >> we certainly didn't need this especially after you know going through a pandemic, what we're going through now. >> reporter: tonight hanna is a tropical storm. the concern now is for life threatening flooding as the storm moves inland. some areas could get as much as 18 inches and if shelters had to open, that would be problematic
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amid the pandemic. jamie? >> yuccas: very troubling. janet, thank you. tonight president trump has returned to washington after spending the weekend at his new jersey golf club. for millions of americans these are desperate times. infections are spreading and deaths adding up. and for those looking for a new relief check from washington, it could be awhile. paula reid has the latest. >> reporter: president trump did not wear a mask today as he greeted supporters at an intersection near his bedminster new jersey golf club though he did maintain his distance. his top advisors were back on capitol hill today working on what to do about federal jobless benefits congress approved in april. 600 per person per week which are about to expire. white house chief of staff mark meadows said tomorrow the republicans will unveil a proposal to extend that benefit at a reduced amount. >> we are going to be prepared on monday to provide
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unemployment insurance extension that would be 70% of whatever the wages you were prior to being unemployed. >> reporter: house democrats passed a bill two months ago to extend the $600 payment through january. house speaker nancy pelosi told "face the nation" sunday the republicans new formula is too complicated. >> figuring out 70% of somebody's wages people don't all make a salary. maybe they do, they make wages. and sometimes they have it varied. so why don't we just keep it simple. >> reporter: but the administration says the full benefit discourages people from returning to work. >> the original unemployment benefit actually paid people to stay home and actually a lot of people got more money staying at home than they would going back to work. >> reporter: senator lindsey graham suggested many republicans won't agree to any deal. >> half the republicans are going to vote no to any phase four package. >> reporter: maryland's republican governor larry hogan called on congress to reach an agreement.
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>> we just have to get some bipartisan cooperation on both sides to sit down and hammer something out because an awful lot of people need this help. >> reporter: top white house advisors say congress may have to first pass a narrow piece of legislation and then deal with some of these other issues but house speaker nancy pelosi has rejected that approach and any negotiations on a potential deal could take weeks. jamie? >> yuccas: paula reid, thank you. today marks 100 days until election day 2020. and the race for the white house much like everything else has been upended by the pandemic. new cbs news battleground tracker polls out today show former vice president joe biden leading president trump by six points in michigan while the president has a point edge over biden in nearby ohio. cbs news political correspondent ed o'keefe joins us now, thanks for being here, what patterns are you taking away from these numbers? >> jamie, they once again tell us that voters remain very concerned about the pandemic, especially parents who concerned about kids going back to school.
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they say the president doesn't care about their children. and the poll finds that most americans support the aims of ongoing protests and the black lives matter movement. but let there be no doubt, right now this is joe biden's contest to lose. and yet these polls out of michigan and ohio especially reinforce that his lead is tenuous. more people are voting this year against president trump, not necessarily for biden. and several polls out today from various organizations show that the president's supporters are ppn bides s: interesting info e. well, ed, a hundred days to go but just a hundred days ago the president was doing much better and bernie sanders was just exiting the race. it seems much longer than that. what are the turning points moving forward? >> sure, the big one is biden's running mate. he is set to pick a woman. he says he is doing exhaustive reviews of the backgrounds of several picks and we anticipate an announcement in early august. both parties are scaling down their conventions as well. the president abruptly cancelled the republican meeting in jacksonville, after moving his acceptance speech in search of
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loser coronavirus restrictions. and biden still expects to accept the nomination in milwaukee. we expect the president and biden will debate each other three times this fall. any of those events could dramatically change the contest. >> yuccas: could, and absentee ballots in some states go out in just under 50 days. ed o'keefe, thank you. the body of congressman and civil rights icon john lewis crossed the edmund pettus bridge for the last time. >> reporter: the bridge edmund pettus is quite unremarkable. four lanes, 1300 feet. but its historic symbolism is powerful. and powerful it was today, as arhat mbolism, john robert lewis made his final crossing. on a horse-drawn casson lewis was carried across the alabama river on his way to montgomery. the march's intended destination on that bloody sunday in 1965. brown chapel a.m.e. church served as the rallying point
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that day and it's where his friend and congresswoman teri sewell led today's final prayer service in selma. >> john was determined to fight for equality and justice. >> people of all stripes lined the street to say farewell and holler. >> good trouble! >> cheyenne webb has a tortured history with the bridge, as an 8 year old she was the youngest marcher that day. >> reporter: what does it mean for you to be here today. >> it's going to be a sad moment but he has laid the foundation . one of the things that we must do is stand up, get up, and continue to fight. >> reporter: the alabama portion of lewis' remembrances will continue tonight at the state house in montgomery. then it's off to washington, the scene of his second act, where the conscience of the congress will lie in state at the capitol. michelle miller, cbs new
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this is the "cbs overnight news." >> i'm jail jim in los angeles. thanks for staying with us. with the november election 99 days away there are concerns about mail-in ballots. some voters didn't sign in the right places. other ballots had suggests its that didn't match the one on file and many ballots arrived too late to be counted. take a look at this. in green you can see states that require ballots to be postmarked by elects day. the yellow states require that they be received by election
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day. key disstichblgts for details everybody should check with their state election office. one thing that is very clear. you need to give it more time than your state might recommend to get your ballot through the mail system. this is crucial. in 2015 more that 73,000 ballots arrived too late to be counted. they were not counted. so we set up an experiment to see how long you should give yourself to make surely how long your vote actually counts. voting rights advocates said it's as simple as determining how much time it takes first class mail from point a to point b.
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>> have a good afternoon. >> reporter: we decided to test it, sending a hundred mock ballots simulating a hundred voters from locations all across philadelphia to a p.o. box we set up to represent a local election office. in the following week we checked our p.o. box for the result. mail pickup notice, there is more. when we went to collect everything, though. >> i don't see anything for you. >> reporter: nothing? >> no. >> reporter: most of our votes seemed to be lost. >> that's all i have back there right now. >> reporter: you are sure. totally sure. i believe you. >> reporter: we had to ask for a manager. we're trying to do something about mail-in ballots. and explain ourselves before someone finally found our votes. >> we had them somewhere else. >> reporter: thank you. can we discovered another problem.
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unsorted e-mail, we got two pieces of mail. when it ended, we found a bigger issue. 21% of our votes hasn't materialized after four days. so of our 100 ballots, 97 arrived which sounds pretty good unless you consider the fact that that means 3 people who tried to vote by mail in our mock election were, in fact, disenfranchised by mail. in a close election 3% could be pivotal, especially in what is expected to be a record year for mail-in voting. >> we're going to see somewhere between probably 80 and a hundred million voters receiving their ballot that way. . >> this is a official who says some don't take into account the portfolio system. >> request it up till noon for
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tuesday'son that is the worst possible thing. you are setting up the voters with false expectations and you're setting them up to fail. >> the portfolio service says voters should mail their return ballots at least one week prior to the due date. all but half of states allow them to collect votes. you can forgive the public for being a tad confused. how long do you think the payoffs recommends? >> about two or three days. >> they're saying at least a week. >> a week? >> at least a week for your vote. >> others are hesitant to rely on the mail. >> do you trust the portfolio service with your vote? >> i never have honestly. i don't know if i would. >> have you ever had anything lost in the mail? >> absolutely have, yeah. >> are you waiting on things in the mail right now? >> i am. i just don't trust the mail. >> you don't trust in it. >> i would like to give them ample tile to deliver it.
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>> why not. >> i'm scared it might get lost. i just want to make sure that my vote was submitted. >> in the warehouse where philadelphia stores its voting machines we shared our results with the commissioner who helps oversee elections here. >> better than you expected? >> it was better than i >> she says voters are right to be wary. >> if i'm hearing you correctly, what you're saying is even if a voter follows all the rules in the state of pennsylvania, you still can't guarantee as an election commissioner that that vote arrives on time. >> no. i can guarantee my end of it. if i get the ballot back in time, it's going to be counted but i have no way of guaranteeing what happens in the portfolio service. >> think about that for a
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minute. official election mail has a logo that we couldn't include. that logo is supposed to expedite things. our expectations are in line with the payoffs's open audit. the post master general declined our request but says it's committed to delivering election mail in a timely manner. it is working with ection officials to help with that effort and educate the public.
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>> yuccas: six days of tributes to the late congressman and civil rights activist john lewis. sean miller spoke with the director. >> thank you, thank you. >> whenever you have a subject who's lived a life of public service, there's so much that can be said about his legacy. really interested in bringing john lewis into the presents. >> a present. the film director don porter wanted to document.
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>> i cried. >> a time to solve the first black president of the united states. >> it has the most racially and thick any diverse congress in history. 2 work of the now late congressman john lewis. >> first came here by ran across. older and wiser. >> two yrs ago porter sta foll there were obvious reasons why you would do a documentary on john lewis. i mean, how do i say this delicately? the timing of this is almost other worldly. for so many respects a number are leading us. >> the boy from troy, alabama, would grow into the man who
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served in washington for 34 years. >> we'll call on the leadership of the house -- we came here to do our job. >> it's the work he put in. >> we intend to march to montgomery -- >> measured in the steps -- >> freedom riders -- >> -- peaceful protests. >> wake up america, wake up! >> and finding confidence in his own unique voice. >> from sunday until about an hour ago. >> the way you set up part of the interview was in front of a screen showcasing video he'd never seen before. >> yeah. you know, one of the things you do as a director is you figure out what is the environment my subject needs in order to really be able to think deeply and calmly so we constructed three large screens, giant screens and killed the the lights and put him in the center of it. i asked him to react to those.
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>> i never seep this footage before. >> porter is a georgetown trained lawyer, who switched gears after a ford foundation grant helped finance her first film. it was during the time porter worked on a four part series about bobby kennedy that she realized the wealth of firsthand experiences john lewis knew. >> he told us about volunteering for bobby kennedy on the nice martin martin was murder. >> martin luther king encouraged bobby kaemd to speak to an all black crowd that evening. >> he continued with his service volunteering for the kennedy campaign. he was in california on that. he was up in bobby kennedy's suite watching the speech. of course it was a terrible tragedy that night.
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that was the one time he really lost his hope. dr. king had been killed, then bobby kennedy was killed. on the way home, he just was despondent, but out of the ashes came his inspiration to run for. >> what makes him special, being successful in making that transition from activist to elected official. >> how you doing today? >> his accomplishments as a legislator are significant. even more important and moving to me when you think about his humble beginnings. he really did as a very young person decide that he didn't want to live under segregation and he decided he -- if he -- if that was going to be his last breath, he would take his last breath fighting for justice. >> throughout his life carolinas captured the policy pushing congressman hard at work. ♪ ♪
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>> capturing the lighter side of a man who faced the darkest of days. >> chick chick chick! come on. >> i'm always interested in the person, you know, behind the story. because i think it's important for all of us to see that even a person who is brave and bold as john lewis is still a person. you know, there's a little bit of bravery many all of us, you know, so i love kind of showing the humanity behind, you know, the legendary person. ♪ i'm going to let it shine let it shine ♪ >> an optimist who never gave up on creating a more perfect union. >> we will create a beloved community. we will redeem the soul of america. there play be some setbacks, some delays, but as a nation and as a
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>> yuccas: millions of fans are nourng passing of legendary tv permit ridge is philbin. he was awarded a lifetime achievement apart in 2008 and was part of the national association of broadcaster's hall of famer. james holly along back on his life and career. >>ing. >> our charles osgood visited reemg is on the staff of abc's live with regis and kelly. back in 2005. and saw and heard him in action firsthand. i've got a good one that i enjoy and you don't but i don't care! >> regis played the morning show host for 28 years. >> hi, everybody! >> first opposite kathie lee
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gifford fold by kelly ripa. regis always put his best foot forward. his mad cap style paid off in a big way. >> i'll getting a cramp. >> ratings. >> what does that say? >> 6.6. >> with a 21 share. >> unheard of, unheard of in our business. in the morning, john. >> in his spare time he hosted "who wants to be a. >> how do you follow is that. >> he was a frequent guest on the late show with david letterman. >> how about i make an appearance on your last show? because you need help. so thank you very much for these great years together. >> he left his morning show in 2011. >> thanks, everybody. >> proud owner of the guinness world record for the most hours on tv. gis philbin was just one month
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shy of his 89th birthday. >> he will be missed. the overnight news will be right back. and that's the yoechtd news for this monday. for some of you the news continues. for others, check back for cbs this morning. follow us on line anytime at cbs.com. reporting from los angeles, i'm jamie yuccas. ♪
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captioning sponsored by cbs >> yuccas: tonight down to the wire, millions of americans wait anxiously for new federal help as the money runs out and coronavirus rages. >> this ancy. surge to record levels, defiance in a divided country. >> the government is here to protect our constitution, not to protect our health. >> yuccas: also extreme weather, texas gets battered by hurricane hanna while hawaii braces for a side swipe from hurricane douglas. protests explode to cities across the country. gunshots leave at least one dead. the countdown is on, a hundred days until america decides, new cbs news polling from battleground states. plus olivia de havilland, a legend of the silver screen dies at age 104.

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