one out of every three said they may not return b of coronavirus. the number even higher among freshman. 40% say they won't attend college this fall. >> it's heartbreaking, because i've been looking forward to going to college and having this experience for a really long time. >> reporter: 18-year-old was scheduled to start next week, but when classes moved on line, she deferred for a year. what affected your decision? >> i didn't think it was beneficial for my vocation to have to get up every morning and go to my desk and just listen through a zoom meeting. so i decided, like that was not for me. i just need to wait so i can ge. >> reporter: chris covers higher education for usa today. >> be the students come, it's not only television dollars,

it's dorm money, athletic fees. it's a huge combination of money that just isn't there. >> reporter: covid-19-related, at least $120 billion. boston university, the university of arizona and california state university are among the schools that have announced layoffs. others like duke, georgetown and northwestern, have cut salaries or their contributions to employee retirement accounts. opening in person does maximize revenue but potentially at too high a cost. >> you've got to maintain the fm health of your institution, but you also need protection to get everyone back to campus and a lot of people got sick, that's actu college. >> reporter: that's what happened at unc chapel hill this week when a covid outbreak in dorms sent them to on line learning. and keeping the campus safe will

be a challenge, experts tell us >> do anything like that and let students do whatever, i'll probably just have to go back home. >> reporter: and the schools work out how to conduct class. here at rice university in houston, it's going to be a combination of in-person and on-line learning. hundreds of students are back on campus here. some of them when classes start will be taking classes in temperatures like the one behind me. it's part of the strategy here for social distancing. >> janet shamlian reporting. overseas, vladimir putin is warning germany and france not to interfere in the growing anti-government protests in belar belarus. thousands have taken to the streets, saying the country's long time leader the presidential election. chris livesay is there. >> outrage over election

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social distancing measures continue to take a toll on the live music industry. that includes national historic ryman auditorium. pay a visit to the theater that made the grand old on ray famous. ok. tickets for the tour, go ahead

and put your masks on. >> covid is a crisis and in a crisis people need faith. >> thank you for being here. we're officially opened back up after three months. >> reporter: back in june, nashville's ryman auditorium began ministering again. he drove 10 hours from kansas. >> this is a mother church. everybody's welcome here. >> reporter: step in time. the stage is comcally small. the venue only holds roughly 2300 people. they sit in pews which are not comfortable, and yet -- >> i on the stage with johnny cash and keith richards. >> reporter: we talked to singer/songwriter sheryl crow back before anyone knew a pandemic was coming. >> i know the wood in this room holds every moment of history is endured. when you walk out on this stage

sh, it means old planks that have been tread by so many important people in our history, in our evolution. you feel it ♪ ♪ >> reporter: crow says she has played here more than a dozen times. ♪ ♪ i see enough to keep me nothing ♪ ♪ >> it's like a first date. it's scary. then it's oh, this is amazing. >> reporter: depending on -- >> yeah. exactly. >> reporter: the history bears witness. i've always felt the spiritual nature of this place. >> reporter: last september before social distancing, he gave us a world class ryman tour. he fronts the old crow medicine show, which has played here a bunch. >> this is my most treasured locale to play music. it's a represent chamber.

listen. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: it's like you're inside of a violin here at the ryman auditorium. like peer into the s holes. that's what the ryman looks like if you can crack the ceiling open and look down. >> reporter: and look back more than a century. >> the union tabernacle built by define decree by a steamboat captain who had fallen into sin. >> reporter: captain thomas ryan found the lord. he built a tabernacle which will came to be known as the ryman. performers including marian anderson, teddy roosevelt, helen keller and charlie chaplain all spoke here but 1943 was the game changer. ♪ the grand old opry moved here.

every week country legends performed live on wsm eenrying him to eat with a fork. >> reporter: minnie pearl, bilh entertainment value and they bought popcorn for a nickel and they sat here and they were mesmerized. >> the grand old opry transformed the ryman. >> they worked for each other. song can work for a song but a song can work for a singer ♪ i fell into a burning ring of fire". >> reporter: legends include patsy klein ♪ ♪ i'm crazy for trying ♪ ♪ >> charlie pride and loretta lynn. but by 1973 both nashville and

the ryman were in decline. the offering moved across the river. the cashes sang the closer. ♪ circle be unbroken >> reporter: for 20 years the ryman sat dark and crumbling. country stars emmy lou harris and matter stewart led the fight to save it. >> the ryman was the ultimate place if you had country music in your heart. it was an absolute threat to be torn down at one point. >> reporter: in 1994 the renovated ryman reopened, reborn. country music made it famous, t springsteen, too. last year with you tan clan because the ryman's first hip-hop performance. >> they stand and stomp their feet and they feel the physical part of music in this room. the part of music that changes

molecules. >> reporter: the energy goes both ways? >> yeah. the energy goes both ways. i think people coming know they're going to be apartment of something that's bigger than just them. >> reporter: they come to the ryman for a moment that feels this intimate. ♪ ♪ when we rise ♪ we will rise together >> reporter: on friday, the ryman live streamed a concert, a christian pop duo. one day when covid goes away, the live acts will return and fans will reexperience the connection, that physical, emotional, and yes, spiritual. >> it's like there's a fifth deal and the fifth deal is the fact that everyone is watching us and experiencing us coming together to unshoulder a little bit of a burden and feel a little bit freer when they walk out of this place. if the future could be that

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the nfl and nba continue their playoffs in so-called bubbles, playing in lieutenant reasons with piped-in crowd noise. baseball is also playing in empty stadiums. while that may be fine for fans watching on tv, thousands of workers find themselves sidelined without a job. adriana diaz reports. >> joe captain get used to being outside wrigley field during baseball season. >> i've never stood here withou. >> reporter: he's been selling beer here. >> who's thirsty now? >>reporter: it ended in march when the coronavirus sidelined sports and most workers who support the industry like joe.

>> you usually get more than a one--hour notice so for now it's gone. incredible. >> reporter: the average major league team supports 2300 game day employees. add the nba and the nfl and without fans, there's roughly 680 million dollars in lost game day wages due to coronavirus. patrick reese conducts the program at washin university in st. louis. >> these sporting events are huge spikes in business for restaurants, for retail. so sports suspensions, a huge loss in income and revenue for restaurants and themselves around the ballpark. >> reporter: people like this who lost their job as a housekeeper in philadelphia. >> i hope the government realizes we're hard working peep. we're tax bares and we bay their salaries. now we're out of work they should pay our salaries.

>> reporter: the sports industry workers were particularly targetsed. joe is especially worried. he has adult daughter who hasat? >> how unsure life i to working. i want to work. >> reporter: how are you feeling looking forward? >> i look at the glass as half full. i pray to the lord. my father is in heaven now with my mom, and he's saying, joey, you can do it. that's right. >> reporeporter: seeking streng from above to stay in the game adriana diaz, cbs news, chicago. >> that's the overnight news for this thursday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for cbs this morning and join us t eveng for our continuing coverage of the democratic national convention.

starting at 10:00 p.m. eastern. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm catherine herridge. ♪ ♪ captioning sponsored by cbs >> o'donnell: tonight, we're following two big developing stories as we come on the air. raging wildfires exploding in california, forcing thousands to evacuate. and a historic first: america will hear from kamala harris, who becomes the first woman of color to accept her party's nomination for vice president. over 10,000 lightning strikes fuel an inferno in the bay area, homes engulfed in flames, residents forced to flee in the middle of the night. the governor of california declaring a stofency america decides 2020. kamala harris makes history when she accepts the democratic nomination for vice president tonight. and former president barack obama argues this election is about the future of american democracy.