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responsibility baseline and mine alon >> theit the beach, recall, returned to normandy with cbs news man walter cronkite in 1964. >> i was responsible for the decision to go and all the fault fwlongs me and that's that. i was not -- >> the way he managed the war. >> reporter: renown architect frank gehry sa. >> i had to do it. i wanted to do it. i couldn't stop. >> gehry's winning design based on guidance from a commission appointed by congress bears little resemblance to the memorial now built. at its center was a statue of ike as a boy in kansas. looking out on a series of
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mettle skrims or tappest tris as gary calls them featuring key events in his life. >> i think we were perplexed by the design because -- >> the family was not pleased. >> the idea that a young boy would be looking at his future and wishing, what, to become commander of the most devastating war in human history? i don't think he was dreaming to do that. >> reporter: how did you respond to that? >> well, i had to agree with them. because you know they wliftd. they knew better than me. >> reporter: finally after years of wranging itook james baker to broker a deal. now there's just one large metal tappest tri representing the 1 hoot-foot cliff on the coast of normandy scaled by army rangers
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under german fire on d-day. >> the funny thing is how do you make a pap es tri. it's just a big chunk of land. anyway, i did the drawing and the family liked it. there we are. >> reporter: another person who like the new design is washington post art critic phillip kennikut which saw it at least at night. >> this big long metal woven welded kind of abstract reynoldsering of the beaches at normandy. and it was gorgeous. >> reporter: he also like the statue of iesk as a boy, now set off to the side. it is going to be a surprise to people to see a reynoldsering of a heroic figure as a child. that's just not something you see. >> it isn't. it's lincoln on his thrown in the lincoln memorial or it's this massive oblistic that
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represents washington. > reporter: do you think eisenhower is deserve of a memorial? >> his stock has risen very much in the last decades. civil rights elements. the role he played in integrating important institutions in american life. >> reporter: today there is special resonance to eisenhower ordersing troops to little rock, arkansas, in 1957 to protect nine black students and v entering central high school as jeering crowds tried to block their way. >> it cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts. >> reporter: many historians now rankr the top tier of american presidents. still, it he reminds us views can change. >> with time i think we're realizing the idea of an absolutely great man is just not
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there anymore. >> reporter: we're re-evaluating george washington, thomas jefferson, two of the pillars of the american revolution because they were slave owners. >> we're re-evaluating lincoln, too. politicians are never satisfied. >> general eisenhower -- >> >> reporter: just susan eisenhower has no doubt that her grandfather's legacy should be honored. >> he had such an extraordinary career, it went on for 50 years. o he's a man how about poor fred wilson? what a shame. so soon after retiring. i hear his wife needed help with the funeral expenses. that's ridiculous! -he had social security. -when my brother died, his wife received a check from social security, all right-- for $255! the funeral costs were well over $8,000. how on earth did she pay for it? fortunately, my brother bought additional life insurance
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with schools either limiting oar limb nating in person teaching due to the coronavirus a number of parents are tourng learning pods. the students seem to like to but the pods can be expensive, and that's touched off a growing deechblt meg oliver reports. >> ok. remember you can using, subtracting, multiplying -- >> reporter: under a canopy of trees, these four students have tackled math, english and social studies three days a week. >> what was the most awesome apartment of the summer? >> reporter: this pod in larch montana new york is one of many popping up across the country. this 10-year-old is going into fifth grade.
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>> it helps me because i have much more attention than i do in regular school. >> yeah? and do you like coming to your m p up with the stressful demands of remote learning with three children. >> i found it difficult. it was two different sets of skills. >> reporter: did you feel like you were treading water at times? >> that's how i felt the whole time. >> reporter: she giant service. >> we've hit our five-year business goals in about five months. >> reporter: the co-founder launched the company in january. with eight students in a pot the cost is about $13,000 per child per year. how is this different than home schooling? >> we reskrut teachers from all over the country.
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generally our teachers can make anywhere from o 10 to 20% more than what the local salary is. >> reporter: it's an attractive model for parents but one that could lead one and less funding for the children left behind. >> our schools are diverse but they're still segregated. our pods have a possibility of becoming more segregated. >> reporter: a new york university socialologist worries about vulnerable communities including the estimated 17 million kids without high speed internet access at home. >> the families that have more money are actually creating boutique, almost private school environments for their children. the danger in that a s as these childre ahead of peoplill later be comparing them thifeoodifferent. >> reporter: it's something on
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the tra practice neurokate has on her mind. >> we've reached out to a number of schools. >> hahn and doug shakter teamed up for a company called learning pods. >> over the summer we decided we need to have a way to bring zwroi kids. the idea of having summer pods where you have a small group of kids meeting with camp counsellor who brings curriculum with them and they meet in a family's backyard and that was successful. >> reporter: you can example to pay around $15,000 for the academic year. how are you looking to make this afoshld for everybody? >> so a part of every television goes towards financial aid. in addition we're working with foundation and personal donationings to feet tam financial aid fund. >> a good start but not enough to go around for the many children in need says lewis mccoy. >> the magnitude of this
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advantage that public schools deal with cannot be compensated for with private partnership. families have to do things sometimes like reach across socioeconomic lines. you may have to cross the neighborhood and talk to a family i haven't spoken to before, but if do you that work, we begin the process of inclusion. >> reporter: do you feel like this could be the wave of the future? >> absolutely. we really think that this is not just the solution for the present. we that i this is the best way for teachers to teach and students to learn. we're also working with some philanthropic groups and we're working with state governments on offering these pods through government programs. >> reporter: a complex problem that many parents are thinking about, including julia. >> i think it's a horrible situation. i wish it weren't the case. i think at the end of the day i need to do whatever i can for my children and frankly, if i can
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(overlapping voices): we need your help (female voice): to keep the music playing. (male voice): support those impacted today at: musicares.org. a hundred years ago today, the people of new york were waking up to the aftermath of the first mass casualty terrorist bombing in the city's history. it struck in the heart of wall street right outside the office itf jpmorgan. jeff glor has this history lesson. >> 100 years ago, it was carried out. at 12:301 p.m. on september 16th, 1920, a bomb delivered via dine mites and horse drawn carriage at wall and martin street killed and injured 143 more. it tding on
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york stock exchange was suspended. the carnage was unlike anything america's largest city had ever seen and was flashed across headlines for day. the investigation began. with immediate focus on several radical leftist politicl groups. >> even before the wall street explosion, there had been nationwide rage on communist headquarters, a result of the general theme that bolsheviks were plofting to overthrow the government. >> reporter: it had been growing for decades. the anarchists from italy in particular became the primary suspects. in part it was believed over their frustration about the conviction of an armed robbery in boston the year before. at first investigators were puzzled and considered it not an act of terrorism since n eared.
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instead, street workers, vendors and clerks, many on their way to lunch. >> it was note thatd the statue thetreet 1k5i7dunscathed. across so did jp morgan who was vacationing in scotland at the time. >> reporter: attention shifted back to anarchists with focus on mario buddha, a associate of saco and venzetti. in the end, no one was formally convicted this heinous crime. today any evidence that remains are from these shrapnel marks on the facade of j.p. morgan's old building. >> jeff glor reporting. and 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 follow us on line anytime at cbsnews.com. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm kris van cleave.
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it's thursday, september 17th, 2020. this is the "cbs morning news." sally's wrath. the deadly storm lashed at the gulf coast leaving behind flooded homes, major power outages, and extensive damage. and the danger is not over yet. mixed messages. president trump and the cdc director contradict each other. how they clashed over masks and a possible vaccine. controlling the crowd. more than three months after law enforcement violently cleared out protesters from lafayette square, we're learning about some controversial devices federal officials reportedly sought to disperse sought to disperse demonstrators. captioning funded by cbs
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