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developing to scale up like this usually takes years. they came up with this blueprint within eight weeks. in all of your years, you've never seen anything like this? >> no, there's no question that the speed with which we worked on this process is unprecedented. >> reporter: at small starter batch of the vaccine is multiplied in this reactor until it produces millions of infected cells. the vaccine is isolated and the rest of o the system is essentially fillers. >> this is a classic engineering problem. how do you take your mother's favorite cookie recipe and make it exactly the same way thousands and millions of times. >> reporter: this equipment gets shipped out to manufacturers throughout the world. there is no time to spare and zero margin for error. the oxford vaccine is one of several leading candidates, including moderna and
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pfizer-biotech. russia's vaccine has skipped large scale phase three testing offeringlation t anyon chooses to have er is t oxford vaccine and he's put more than his reputation on the line. he's taking part in the trial himself. >> what's been very grat tying is to be closely engaged as both the end use every and involved with the manufacturing. >> reporter: you don't get more permanently engaged than that. >> you don't get more personally engaged. >> reporter: he said it's possible they may have enough data to present to regulators later this year. astrazeneca told us they have not held any investigations about fast tracking the vaccine with anybody. charlie d'agata in london. closer to home, the new school year is bringing serious challenges for teachers, students, andes meg oliver has the story. >> reporter: remote learning has been a tremendous challenge for 6-year-old calvin latham.
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>> a lot of kids didn't soar in that environment. >> reporter: he has a brain malformation making him one of seven million children in the u.s. receiving special education services. >> he needs a hand over hand support for writing exercises and cutting and gluing and the basic things a first grader would do. >> reporter: many special education students is literally guaranteed services like an aide through individualized education plans or iap. in a may survey nearly 40% of parents say their kids didn't get any support last spring. you concerned that you're losing someing witha on-otection if yoo all remote? >> absolutely. >> reporter: angie adele teaches in new jersey. >> i know there's going to be a lack in what they need to progress. >> it's beyond chenning. >> reporter: johnizenberg runs
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the national association of special education. increase of lawsuits because schools, no matter what cost, probably cannot implement the irvegs eps in some cases because of the funding short ajts. >> reporter: without up creased funding he says it will be a daunting task to get kids like calvin back
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this month marks the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 1th amendment, guaranteeing women the right to volt. it was the culmination of a decades-long struggle that was still endowed as the final votes were being cast. here's margaret brennan. >> reporter: last tuesday, with banners, bells, streamers, and skydives, nashville celebrated the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 1th amendment. giving women the right to vote. ♪ we the women marched and song and spoke ♪ >> roseanne cash added her voice to the celebration. ♪ ♪ women earned the right to vote ♪
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around nashville and around tp, we all rang bells and i rang one here in new york. [ bells ringing ] >> but back in 1920, the city was stunned to silence. bells and whistles and all kinds of things were ripping across the country, but not in nashville. it was still too raw, controversial. >> reporter: nashville attorneys genie nelson and marring yet bam raised almost four millioned to create a votes for women room at the national library. >> we want to make sure that when people leave this room they understand what women weren't given the vote, that it was a bitter struggle. it was a battle, and it almost didn't happen. >> reporter: by august of 1920, 35 states had rattle fight tifi
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amendment. >> they realized there's only one state where it's all possible that they might be able to eke this out and that is tennessee. >> reporter: historian elaine weiss has written about that pivotal moment. >> they had opposition filings. they had to learn to take hold of the levers of power and had to learn the game. >> reporter: leading suffrage ets gathered at the herm taj hotel. >> she was the leader of the main suffrage organization. >> reporter: historian susan ware. >> she'd be involved in the movement since the 1880s. she's ready to bring this to a close. ♪ oh dear what can the matter be ♪ >> reporter: an army of anti-suffragists were there as well. what is their rational? >> for some, it is a religious and moral decision. some kneel women seeking
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equality will lead to a disruption of gender roles. for others, they are, especially in the south, they are racist and they don't want black women to vote. >> reporter: also weighing in on the anti-suffrage side -- >> there are corporate interests that don't want women to get the ballot. they fear if women can vote, they are going to want to abolish child labor. >> reporter: fearing that they would block an appeal, a liquor lobby was open, free drinks for legislators 24/7. >> they are liquoring up the legislators? >> yes. and is every legislator drunk? she said yes, yes, they are. >> reporter: the stakes were high for the 1920 presidential election just around the corner. >> they're ten weeks out. >> yes. >> when it's unclear when
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americans will be able to vote or not. >> the dreams of three generations of suffragists and 27 million women are riding on this one. ♪ >> reporter: it had been a long road since elizabeth katy stanton and lucretia mott held one of the first women's right conventions in 1848. women had marched. they had organized. they had lobbied congress. picketed the white house and gotten arrested. and now on the eve of the vote in tennessee -- >> the night before the suffragists realize they're not going to be able to pull it out. they're going to be a little bit short. their support has just dissolved. >> reporter: the next morning as crowds gather at the state house, 24-year-old harry t burn intends to vote no.
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>> he receives a letter from his mother that morning. she said it doesn't say that you're supporting ratification in the newspapers. be a good boy and support, mrs. cat and get ratification through. >> reporter: be a good boy. >> be a good boy and he votes aye and pandemonium ensues. >> i always favored votes for women. >> reporter: in 1963 he told cbs's walter cronkite about that day. >> when i was confronted with the fact that i was going to go on record for time in eternity on the merits of the question, i voted in favor of ratification. >> on august 26th, 1920, the susan b. anthony amendment becomes the law of the land. an 80-year-old struggle is won. >> reporter: as kerry chapman camp put it, young suffragists who helped forge the last links of that chain were not born when it began. old suffragists who formed the first links were dead when it
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ended. but for black rim, the fight was far from over. >> black women anticipate that even after the 19th amendment is ratified that they will face poll taxes. they will face literacy tests. they will face intimidation and violence. >> reporter: martha s. jones has written about black women's role in the continuing fight for equality. >> black suffragists are the universal suffragissuffragists. from the beginning of the 19th century to the 19th amendment and the voting rights act of 19 6 5, it is african-american women who will sound the call, no racism, no sexism in american politics. >> reporter: testimony to the strength, wenho fought for equals and continue ttoy. >> when you're asking what is the role of women, who gets to vote, and those in power, what
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they do sometimes to keep people from voting, all
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there's a project in japan that aims too make public restrooms into works of art and the most popular one by far is a toilet with glass walls t youn lucy cft spoke te degner. >> reporter: tokyo's hottest new destination isn't a swanky restaurant, nightclub or museum. set in local parks, the jewel like tubes are tinted pink, tangerine and purple and shades of blue-green. they're public bathrooms with a feature not standard in most
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toilet stalls, see-through walls. these are no ordinary plate glass windows but so-called smart glass used for prycy in hoefls and offices. when the door is unknocked, an electric current blocks the windows. when it's unblocked, the windows return to their frosted state. it was dreamed up by this a tekt. visibility he said is one pick for toilets which have a reputation for felt and criminal activity. >> you need privacy inside. but when you outside, you like to find out this is clean and is it safe, right. so this should be transparent. >> three times a day, clean erps in designer uniforms ensure the dazzling cubes pass the white . toilet project is unveiling over a dozenlicbaoms but none has raised eyebrows like these. his reaction to the see-through
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restroom? >> ok. itches super surprised to be honest. i never seen a transparent toilet. >> reporter: users say after a few weeks, seeing is believing. you can tell right away where the stall the occupied or not. i really like that said this neighborhood mom. the student says going in, i was nervous, scared, even. but it was fine. i recommended it. the ak tekt decided not to copy wright the design. he's hoping to spark a transparent toilet wave around the world. lucy craft, toky and that's the overnight news for this wednesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for cbs this morning. and join us this evening for cbs news continuing coverage of the republican national convention. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm nikole killion. iong spoed by
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>> o'donnell: tonight, the two major stories as we come on the air-- the hurricane that has over hi million people in its path and could hit wednesday as a category 3. plus, the second night of protests in wisconsin, following jacob blake's shooting. his family saying tonight jacob may never walk again. hurricane laura, predicted to be a beast of a storm with life- threatening storm surge and dangerous winds. law enforcement going door to door as more than half a million are ordered to evacuate. a family's anguish. >> they shot my son... seven times! s o'donnell: jacob blake's parents ask for justice as his mother denounces violence. and basketball superstar lebron james condemns the police shooting.

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