>> comfort is important to people, and that changes as a result of the coronavirus, and so less interaction can be valued more by certain members of our guests. >> 79% of business tliers and nearly three quarters of pleasure travellers. >> if they can check outing of a store or super market using touchless technology, they want that at the airport and on the airplane. >> reporter: at washington's reagan national the tsa began testing similar technology at a check point this week. the passenger puts their i.d. in the scanner. the tsa officer monitoring the process stays behind plexiglas. lax is the first in the u.s. to try check-in key of course so you can use your smartphone as a mouse so you never have to touch

the screen. passengers can use this to check in. kris van cleave, chicago. >> the long-awaited remake of the animated mooe "mulan" has finally come out and it's already sparking controversy. the release was delayed by the pandemic. activists claim disney worked too closely with chinese authorities to make the film. elizabeth parm p palmer has more. >> "mulan's" story line is based on a folk tale about a woman warrior. it's where some of the scenes were shot that's kicked off outrage on social media. shinjiang has surveillance cameras everywhere. this is where the communist party runs so-called reeducation camps. they forced the uighurs to

renounce their religion. critics say there's no way disney should have been filming there and especially cooperating with local communist authorities. isaac stone fish is senior fellow with the asia society. >> so did disney actually torture any uighurs? no. did dizzy provide cover for the communist chinese party to have more sucker for committing reesings, yes. >> reporter: sharp eyes even spotted a special thank you to communist officials in the credits. it's not the first time mulan has been at the center of online fury. last summer during mass protests in hong kong where security forces beats, mulan's star, american actress liu.

fe went stoeshl media. disney tried to insils it was apolitical but it's now calling for a boycott of "mulan." what is the consequence? >> disney will get raked over the coals by this. fans are angry that they are in bed with a part of the chinese communist party that's committed horrific human rights abuses and by the u.s. senate. >> reporter: we did ask disney about the decision to shoot there, but so far, the company has

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brain and eight mini-brains, one in each arm. >> octopuses are so brilliant. >> a naturalists sy montgomery believes their intelligence is off the charts. >> we give them the same toys we give our children and they play. that's a characteristic of higher minds. >> as if on cue. >> there she is. >> oh, rudy. >> rudy, a giant pacific octopus and one of the start of the aquarium in boston seemed to want to play with us. some people go ooh, that's creepy. you go -- >> i say this is one of the most beautiful reaches on this planet. one of the smartest, one of the most interesting and one of the most alien. >> reporter: in fact they're portrayed in movies aliens. >> there's. and monster. >> reporter: yes, holiday octopuses have torn down the

golden gate bridge. they've destroyed ships and feasted on movie stars montgomery says it's unfair to demonize them. >> you would really have to go to out every space to come up with someone more different than us. their mouths from in their armpits. and the grace. who has grace like this? >> reporter: montgomery spent countless hours here studying these other worldly beings, while writing her book "the soul of an octopus." do you believe an octopus has a soul? >> i believe if i've got a soul, this octopus has a soul. >> reporter: and that, she claims, is not the only thing they have in common with humans. >> when i met an octopus for the first time, i was so struck by the fact that she was just as curious about me as i was about her. >> she knows me.

>> reporter: wow. look at that. may i? >> yeah. absolutely. >> reporter: hello there. we went behind the scenes so see for ourselves with the help of senior aquarium biologist bill murphy. it turns out that calling an octopus curious is an understatement. >> she's more interested in you than the food. that's scary. >> it felt like she wanted me to join her in her octopus's garden. >> she is powerful. >> feel the pull of the muscle? >> reporter: a big part of murphy's job is keeping rudy from getting bored. >> we try to keep her mentally stimulated. they're figuring us out and who we are and what we're doing. >> reporter: there are about 300 species of octopus but the giant pacific octopus is the largest, averaging 110 popped up and 16

feet in length. i'd the longest lived octopus. even so, the life span the only three to five years. >> they have such permits. you work with them this closely, you have -- you build a relationship with them. >> it's got to be difficult that they live such short lives. >> it is, it is. you enjoy the time you have. >> reporter: to learn more we headed to cape cod where we met bret grousy of the marine biology laboratory in woods hole, massachusetts. this is beautiful. >> yeah. pretty good day in the office, he. he's responsible for the care and feeding of the lab's octopuses and comes here to stock up on their favorite food, tiny grass shrimp. kind of poke and move looping? >> yeah, exactly. >> reporter: next stop, the beach, for another octopus delicacy, crabs. whoa! look at them all.

>> there you go. just grab and scoop. >> back at the lab the day was about to get better for pa small california two-spot octopus and a lot worse for one of those crabs. this is going to be quick. bon appetit. don't blink. of all of the octopus's oddities, perhaps the most extraordinary is its talent for disguise. watch that again in reverse slow motion. the octopus changes its shape, colors, patterns, even the texture of its skin to look like sea weed and does it in the blink of an eye. it's called dynamic camouflage. >> i would argue that dynamic camouflage is a form of intelligence. >> reporter: that video was shot by roger hamlin, senior scientist and top octopus researchers at the laboratory who recently gave a ted talk on

octopus intelligence that went viral. >> it doesn't just happen instinctively. they actually think and decide how the camouflage looks? >> correct. that is not a reflex. it's a decision making activity. it's an approachind ey c about what they're going do next. >> reporter: for example, the moving rock trick. the hide and seek trick. and the suit of armor, made of shells. as a scientist, hamlin is skeptical about comparing their level of intelligence to ours. >> see him go all dark. >> reporter: but he said they are stunningly creative. >> this is a complex animal. it's making decisions all the time. that takes a big brain. >> reporter: a big brain in a unique and curious freech that

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injury. john knew a sea gull couldn't live long like that. how hard was it for him? >> oh, very difficult. >> his wife, debbie. >> to see how sad he was, i could tear up right now. >> i don't know why i was so emotionally crushed but there was a piece missing. i was beginning to wonder how much longer i felt hike doing this. >> reporter: so in an ape temperature to save his passion for the sea, he tried to save that sea gull. duffelly caught her and brought her to maine. the staff nursed red eye while john spoiled her with her would you believe just a few weeks later red eye was goods m leased the bird back into the wild. >> perfect. >> reporter: of course, the wild was nevada really red eye's thing, which is why still today, no matter where john is in this

great ocean. >> that's her. >> reporter: red eye somehow finds him. >> that a girl. >> reporter: for centuries boat captains have believed sea gulls carry the souls of lost sailors and for this fourth generation lobsterman, that is a comforting thought, that maybe red eye is an ancestor looking out for him. but john says it's about something far left mystical. i'd about the love that's found when two living freechs truly need each other. steve hartman on the road in the gulf of maine. >> and he's the overnight news for this thursday. for some of you the news continues. for others, check back later for "cbs this morning" and follow us on line anytime at cbs news,.com. report prg the nation's capital, i'm catherine herridge.news,.co.

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