house patients. four familiarities are dead tated to covid only cases. >> i certainly understand the concern that any family member would have. but i'll equally committed to ensuring the safety of our residents in these facilities. >> mary may lieu leads florida's administration. they oversee all the isolation centers in the state. how much do these facilities receive money wide where the state to take in these patients? >> we are paying a rate for their vacant beds to make sure those beds are available, and then we are paying them for anybody who ais on medicaid. we're paying them a higher rate. otherwise, most of these individuals are medicare. >> according to state data the isolation centers receive around $3 the 25 a day per covid

patient. at this facility 21 currently reside there. she says it's committed to providing excellent care adds that the covid unit follows all cdc guidelines and has a separate entrance and air flow and a designated team. >> we all know what went down in new york just a few months before. why are we tempting fate? >> in new york, 6500 people are believed to have died in nursing holes and lock-term health care facilities. >> they have to admit positive residents but i'm if they have the ability to provide the adequate level of care. >> governor groem comeau and the department of health have been criticized after backlash they added a requirement that hospitals could not discharming patients unless they tested nell active. >> my anything is to get justice

for the seniors. >> she began temporarily living at our lady of consolation nursing and rehandle day active care center on long island. a former employee who asked to remain anonymous alleges that the facility took in covid patients in march and prild and in some cases they were put in rooms with covid positive patients. anna died april 1st, hours after being diagnosed with the virus. she believes she was infected by someone who brought the virus into the facility. she is suing the nursing home. what's the take-away? >> if you can care for your parents at home, do so. >> at least 39 residents have died since march 31st. the facility demd any improper treatment and said they can't

comment on litigation but said it is dedicated to delivering high quality compassion ait care. based on the anonymous claim we told you about a molt ago from the former employee, they will be launching an investigation into the facility. they say any facility that does not isolate covid patients from residents won in violation of public health law. the governor's task force told us the virus was already that the facility well before the march policy that required nursing holes to accept covid patients. what's your message to the people of florida? >> don't put covid positive people in nursing homes. it's a recipe for disaster. >> his grandfather is fighting along with other residents. he was diagnosed before the facility started accepting coronavirus patients. >> i feel like there are still rl thousands of floridians who

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running machlt he's already decided it will be a woman and there are nearly a dozen people on the short list. ed o'keefe has a list back at the will on the presidential ticket. >> in 1984 gerald even ferraro ran on a major party ticket for the first time for a woman. >> the issue is not what america can do for will but what women can do for america. >> in 2008, republican john mccain chose sarah palin. >> the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? lipstick. royalty neither woman became vice president but this year could be different. >> joe biden is running for president for the third time and for the third tile there's going to be a woman on the tick. in 1984 was too new.

in the other year it was too inexperienced. is third time a charm or is it going to be three strikes and out? >> in march joe biden made an unexpected pledge. >> i commit i will in fact pick a woman to be vice president. >> that set off a first of a kind scramble putting the focus on mayors, goirns, lawmakers and national security officials. back in 2008 former kansas government kathleen sa we'll yaz was the only one barack obama considered. >> i think the american public have had an opportunity to meet lots and lots of very talented women who have done incredibly big jobs and it just opens the door for lots of future possibilities. >> nancy fisher mn is executive director of women's in politics institute at american

university. she warns there are drawbacks to the way biden is running his campaign. >> i don't think it's healthy to elevate a dozen women to be considered and spend the next two months picking them apart jooflt how are these will being scrutinized differently than men? >> so far having to do with things like they're too ambitious. they're too engaged in national politics. they're too willing to attack and my personal favorite. they have a propensity for cursing. >> fisher martin and other observers called out former senator chris dodd for reportedly questioning the loyalty of one potential pick, california senator kamala harris. politico reports he told associates she had no remorse in attacking joe biden last year. >> the idea that ambition is a

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>> it is the end of an era in wyoming. the state's only daily newspaper is now scaling back and residents there aren't happy about it. major garrett has the story. >> reporter: for more than 100 years the casper star tribune has served the state of wyoming. doctor in casper has subscribed for decades. >> he's taking it for 55 or 60 years. it's a way, i this, to get local news which may be the most important new there is. >>rting this month thesber of pm sen to five. and the paper is receding from towns like lost springs, population 4. brad rees farls there.

>> out here in rural wooils, you still like traditionings. you like sitting down with your family to males. that tradition of a newspaper that you can sit down and open, i think that's something we're going to miss. it kind of hurts to lose that. >> the monday and tuesday editions will only be available on line and when that happens wyoming will be the only state in the nation without a daily printed knoop. >> i just want to live my life and sometimes that means sitting down with a drink and a newspaper to read. >> nick reynolds is the star tribune's state house reporter. >> when i heard the news, how many of our older readerers are going to go out and spend $400 on an ipad to read the paper? >> what it often doesn't take

into account is the dependence that people in have access digl alternes rankszeaonalntert axis meaning on days it does not print a paper, the star tribune local and news coverage will be invisible in one fifth of the state. >> what does a local community lose when this type of community journalism disappears? >> what you typically lose is coverage of the major issues in both the region and the state. >> in wyoming a six-hour commute is not uncommon. knitting the state together is a role the star tribune held every day. now some news there will fall through the cracks in the internet. >> that's major garrett reporting. and that is the "cbs overnight news" for this thursday. for some more you the news continues. for others check back later for

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