the fall semester with college football. this time of the year, i'm fully staffing up on football, but right now, i'm just trying to get open. >> reporter: texas a&m plays in the southeastern conference. as of now, the conference is on track to start its season at the end of september. >> football is the engine that drives the train. >> reporter: the school's athletic director ross bjork says the safety of students is the priority. he says the school is doing everything it can to get players safely on the field. partly by asking them not to gather in large groups. >> we believe that they are safe within the structure that we've put in place. we believe that we've educated them, but we also know that socialize. we have to just be mindful and remind and educate and make sure that our student athletes hear those messages. >> reporter: but some major conferences, including the big ten and pac-12, have already postponed their seasons. now many local businesses in

those towns are stranded without much guidance. like this bar in madison, wisconsin. >> if there's times we need to cut hours or where we can kind of tweak menu items to make sure we aren't losing money there. >> reporter: jason is the president of downtown madison. he says each wisconsin home game pumps roughly $16 million into the local economy and adds about 3,000 jobs. >> it's going to take our whole community coming together and saying we need to not only rebuild and restart our city, but we need to reimagine what it looks like. >> reporter: the financial impact on the schools themselves would also be devastating. a recent study estimates that if the power five conferences all cancelled football outright it would amount to at least $4 billion in lost revenue. but for those arguably the most reliant on a season, the only thing to do is wait and hope. >> did you business model this in any way when you were coming

up with this place? >> it's been a lot of reacting. the rules keep changing. everything's just out the window and you just got to react and figure out how to survive. we'll get through this time and, you know, i graduated a&m. i love a&m. there's no place i'd rather be. >> reporter: ivans says state rules could also affect his business. bars which are parked on college game days are only allowed to be at 50% capacity. open-air stadiums in texas like this one are allowed to be at 50%, and here at the university of north texas, when the mean green take the field for home games, they will be at 25% capacity, which is just over 7,000 fans. >> omar villafranca reporting from the end zone. legendary sportscaster vin scully stepped away from the mic a couple of years back after calling dodgers games for 67 years. over the decades scully collected a treasure trove of

baseball memorabilia dating back to babe ruth. some of it is up for auction. lee cowan has his story. >> it's time for dodgers baseball. >> reporter: the last time we met up with hall of fame broadcaster vin scully, it was a warm summer night at dodger stadium in los angeles. >> here's my office. >> not a bad view. >> no. >> reporter: it was eight years ago. but the privilege of going to a ballpark in person feels like a century ago, doesn't it? baseball in 2020 is the season of cardboard cutouts and piped in fan noise. scully thought he'd seen everything. balls out of the park, yes, but fans out of the park, too? thanks, covid. >> i've spent my life in sports, and it's just about shut it down. >> -- has pitched a no-hitter. if you have a sombrero, throw it to the side.

>> reporter: he wasn't just the voice of the dodgers. >> high fly ball into right field. she is gone! >> reporter: scully was, in his heart, baseball's storyteller. >> in a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened. >> reporter: after 67 seasons, the redhead who started with the brooklyn dodgers at 23 retired in 2016, just shy of his 89th birthday. >> i've needed you far more than you needed me. true. true. true. >> in my heart, in my mind, it was enough, and i've never had one misgiving about the fact, you know, i should have waited one more year. >> no regrets? >> not even one. >> is it strange watching as a fan? >> i don't watch it critically. i'm not listening, really, to what the announcers say.

are they trying to steal my stuff or -- i have none of that. >> reporter: nobody cut steal scully's stuff, but they can now collect some of it. over the years, he's accumulated some of the game's crown jewels. world series trophies, world series rings, presidential autographs and more awards than places to put them. >> the awards are gratefully received, but they're only for the moment. >> reporter: so he's decided to sell some of those monumental moments through hunt auctions in philadelphia. he wants the proceeds, which could be pretty substantial, to go to his five kids, 16 grandkids, and to charity. >> is there anything hard to give up? >> you know? i must be very cold-hearted because there isn't one thing that i really felt i hated to give up, not one. >> reporter: not even this, a scrap of paper scully got as a

boy hanging around the upper right field deck at the polo grounds in new york. >> and lo and behold, there was babe ruth. and he reached into his pocket and took out it looked like 50, 100 business cards, and on each card was his signature, babe ruth. >> you were handed that card by babe ruth himself. >> babe ruth. isn't that amazing? it somehow showed up when we started digging. >> did you forget you had it? >> no, i didn't forget, but i wasn't quite sure where it was. >> reporter: some items he's had for most of his career, like this battered leather binder. >> so you took this to every game? >> every game. oh, i didn't live without this. >> reporter: still taped inside are now yellowed notes to himself like this shell silverstein people that he'd read whenever he saw a toddler in the stands. >> little tiny kid. and in here i had, oh, the thumb-sucker's thumb may look

wrinkled and wet and withered as white as snow. as only we thumb-suckers know. >> reporter: before we left we noticed his 1988 world series ring. it's pretty hard to miss. surely that he'll keep, we thought. but no. >> i've worn it every day, almost every hour of every day, but the -- it'll go. >> reporter: vin scully as much a part of baseball history as the players and the plays, and he's not out of the game. in fact, he just joined twitter. >> hi, everybody, and a very pleasant good afternoon to you. >> reporter: to continue talking about great moments of baseball. he's seen enough of them to know that baseball keeps going. time, however, stops for no one. >> i mean, i'm 92. even if i live to be 100, that's only a couple years from now. where i am is where i belong, quiet, peaceful, and at home. far from the madding crowd.

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vendor, so we've been having to do substitute pepperonis through different vendors. >> reporter: the coronavirus pandemic forced many meat producers to shut down or scale back operations, leading to shortages and higher prices. now many stores are shelling out extra dow for the popular topping, anywhere from 5% to 50% more. the owner of rocco's pizza near pittsburgh says pepperoni is not the only problem. >> cheese is a whole other ballpark. it's gone way up. >> reporter: americans have been buying more cheese during the pandemic, helping drive up prices. it's hitting the bottom line for this idaho pizza spot. >> regularly $30 and now we're paying $97 for just a box of cheese. >> reporter: l.a. area pizza places are also paying more for mozzarella. >> probably higher than i've ever seen it. >> reporter: it's not clear when supplies and prices for cheese and pepperoni will return to normal. restaurants we heard from don't plan to pass the higher cost on to customers, at least for now.

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the new school year is getting under way remotely for millions of american kids. but overseas children in japan are back in the classroom. schools there have been able to fully reopen because japan has been able to manage the coronavirus crisis. the nation has about 1/3 of the population of the united states, but only 1% of the covid cases. lucy kraf followed some of the students back to school to see what the new normal is like. >> reporter: just like always, pupils at tokyo's east kamamachi elementary arrive at 8:00 a.m., remove shoes and head to class. just like jejss before him, yuka's class bows in the day's

studies, but there is nothing usual about schools now. masks are mandatory. desks are barricaded in vinyl. handwashing has become a careful ritual. lunchtime which is usually a highlight of the day has now become a struggle to keep them as spaced and quiet as possible. >> translator: they're first graders so they think is normal. it's really hard to teach a regular class while keeping everyone safe. >> reporter: compounding the challenge for japanese schools is crowded classrooms. regulations here allow up to 40 children per class. that's double what experts say is optimal during a pandemic. yet simulations run on japan's new supercomputer show that cracking just one window and one door across from it provide enough air flow to prevent viral spread, even in packed classes. with physical fitness declining and kids putting on extra weight as families stay home more, teachers have had to get creative about gym class, said

the health instructor. >> translator: all games and close contact are out. we try to keep them all facing one direction and avoid shouting. >> reporter: stickers everywhere are a constant reminder to socially distance, stay far apart physilly but close spiritually, they read. but total compliance from 6-year-olds, the principal concedes, is futile. >> translator: instead of banning all conversation and keeping kids in a constant state of fear and vigilance, it's better to get the basic safeguards right. >> reporter: anxious parents and teachers are hoping that works. for "cbs this morning" saturday, lucy craft, tokyo. and that's the "over night new"w" for this tuesday," for others, the news continues. check back on "cbs this morning" and follow us any time on cbsnews.com. reporting from the nation's capital --

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