president vladimir putin's fiercest opponent. a picture was put up on social media. he's breathed on his own all day. visiting the u.k., mike pompeo says any use of chemical weapons is unacceptable sunday dip in circumstances. navalny's team said they intend to return to russia. >> charlie d'agata reporting. thanks, chaemplt close thoerm, as the small semester gets into full swing college campuses have become the newist hot spots for the pan democrat ij. more than 88,000 positive test it is at american universities. some skroolgs swichd to on line classes. others have closed down completely. that's thrown a lot of people out of their dorms and off their meal plans with few alternatives. meg oliver has the story of one

dplej south carolina stepping up for its students. >> did you want men to put it under the homework drop boxes? >> reporter: mikalah is determined to graduate from columbia south carolina even after finding herself homeless during the pandemic. >> i was terrified, so i just prayed. i'd rather be homeless than be in a stocks oic sayings. hoipts mikalah says she was out of options. in an effort to avoid an abusive home life she slept in her car at night. >> i wanted to spend days crying and moping. it was challenge having to get up and find a place to brush your teeth. troipt 19-year-old who earned a full academic scholarship worked two jobs and hunted for internet access to complete her studies. >> it was challenging getting school work done and maneuvering

two jobs and everything, it was hard. >> reporter: the director of o specialized programming. >> she was in a dire place. she definitely had housing insecurity. she needed food. she need basic necessary. >> reporter: campus was close bud she arranged to take care of mikalah's needs, including a safe place to stay. >> benedikt college is a safe place and so to be asked to leave that space put a number of our students at risk. >> reporter: benedikt is at small historically black college. about 80% of their students are dependent on financial aid. about 40% like mikalah rt first generation students. when covid closed campus, the administration raised enough money within 36 hours to send everyone loam but they didn't realize home was not an option for many. >> we were shocked, quite frankly, at the knuckleball of students who manifested housing insecurity issues, food coin security issues.

so we spent a great deal of the summer fa sill tagt those requests, fundsing those requests and in some instances negotiating short term housing situations and in some instances shelter placement. >> reporter: one superior va found 15% of students at four-year institutions were homeless. benedikt estimates for them that at least 24% of their student body faces housing insecurity and depend on living with extended family or friends. >> students' willing tongs open up and their difficulties that they're experiencing. perhaps you're telling her story will encourage other students to step up and say i need help, too. >> reporter: did benedikt college save you? >> yes. oh, my goodness, yes. yes. if i did not send that e-mail, i don't know where i would have been right now. >> reporter: how does your future look today? >> i have a mission, which is to obtain a degree and getting a commissioning in the united states air force.

i feel like i have a bright

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away from the game working for social justice and promoting his new fashion line. he sat down for a kwhat our gayle king. >> we create the culture. how do we think about what's going to happen to us in the black community five years? from a creative standpoint, what does that look like? >> that's the question nba star carmelo anthony is trying to answer. with a new clothing collection he's calling a black future. it's part of the propel program, a new initiative anthony is launching to support the black creative community and he's calling on seven emerging designers to make that vision a reality. what was your mission? what was your goal? >> i didn't know what it was at and brown community affected fwha. so how do we give people dealing with this trauma neegd outlet or needing resources.

>> it doesn't sound like this is a one and done for you. >> no. one of the best things i've done. to sit there with theners the zoom calls. i want to thank everybody. what i'm trying to create here hasn't been done yet. it wasn't just about design ng. we had real conversations just about life. a lot of those zierns are actually still in those communities that's been affected. >> how do you feel sitting here? there was another incident in the news involving a black man and a police officer. also in the news, two police officers shot. allow you navigating all optical this processing this? >> it's hard. it's hard to wake up and hear about another tragedy, police killing or somebody killing the police, right. it's just -- that's just where we're at as a country right now. for the black community, we're tired of it. we're just fed up with it. so on the flip seidt that, to see the two cops who got shot, we don't want that, either.

welch don't need that. >> you wrote a very moving letter in july addressed to young men and women of color. and you said, it's hard for me to tell you not to be afraid when i'm afraid. what did you seen in. >> i'm afraid of the unknown. i don't know how to keep having these conversations with the younger generation, my son. i never thought i would have to have this conversation with him at 13. i'm fearful of like telling him the wrong thing or myotio co into -- beiut the fore front. he's going to take everything i say and how i say it and he's going to build off of that. >> conversation no black parent wants to have with their child but despite the fear, anthony is setting an example for his son kyan by using his voice to speak for change. >> you know what? enough is enough. >> you were recently guest editor in chief of slam magazine.

>> yeah. >> what was your message? >> the overall message was the time is now my son is on his cover. these are the new voices, the most important voices. this is the future. our time is now to make a change. >> i'm sure it was a deliberate choice. you both were in hoodies. >> yes. nichols a hoody. being in a hoody don't make me a gangster, don't make me a bad guy, don't make necessity or that. my son is not intimidatining anybody and i'm not intimidating anybody. >> earlier this year, he spoke candidly about the challenges he faced after parr bmp eventually joining the portland trail blazers. on the uninterrupted podcast you talked very frankl where you said you hit rock bottom and that gout through with the help of kobe and la bron. what did you mean? >> i thought this could never sthap to me.

i was so naive able to. >> yeah. >> so kobe was there for me when i was talking to him. lebron was there at times. it was certain people that was just giving me little nuggets here and there. >> and it came from people you respected, too. >> it came from people i respected. >> that makes a difference. >> also it came from people i don't know, either. >> you're in portland. >> uh-huh. >> when you went to portland, did you think that portland would be the place for you? because you're kicking butt in portland. >> i didn't think that -- i didn't know what to think. by the time up got to portnd. i could just tell you i had worked so hard mentally, emotionally, spiritually to get to the point where i was able to accept it. ong had dinectelf in the game because i just felt like the game doesn't love me the way i love the game anymore. so maybe it's time for me to walk away. and that's where i was at.

when i have got the call from portland, it was like i already knew what i wanted. itches at peace with it. you know. are we going to be able to work snogt are we going to be able to do this together? do you need me or do you want me? >> was that an important distinction? >> do you want me or need me? what's more important? >> want. >> want. >> if up want men you would do whatever you have to do to make it work. right. if you need me, you can -- up need you but we can look over here, too, right. >> yael. >> so i was very big on them saying look, weapon want you here, you know, we believe in you. >> are you happy there?>>ppy. >> i get the impression that black excellence are not just words to you. >> no. black excellence is a movement. it's who we are, it's what we have inside of us. we've always had black excellence bullpen now we have our voice. we have a platform, and i'm going to continue bringing people along with me.

♪ i'm only 17. i don't know anything but i know i miss you. that's taylor swift performing at the academy of country music awards, something country music fans thought they may never seen. the event was postponed for six months. all the socially distanced fash. gayle king had some of the highlights. ♪ and it goes like ooh what i wouldn't do ♪

for the first time in acm awards history -- ♪ >> the show's top prize was shared by two artist it is. le. >> oh, no way. we have a tie. >> country stars thomas rhett and carrie underwood took home entertainer of the year. and despite the pandemic, country music's biggest stars did not let social differencing stifle their song. ♪ ♪ running wide open with awards coming from three iconic veew bircafe. ♪ keep a oird in my heart. nashville's historic rye man auditorium. ♪ ♪ there's a hole making this wine ♪ >> and the grand old opry. ♪ ♪ home makes whiskey the artists also touched on state of the country.

>> she's sundays paid, over word. a full throated mem to his fellow country artists to speak out about issues like racial injustice. ♪ mission every color if you're only seeing black and white ♪ and cane brown's powerful message with his balance ad "w5r8d wide beautiful." ♪ worldwide beautiful >> and that's the "cbs overnight news" for this friday. for some of you the news continues. for others, checkheck back for this morning" and follow us online anytime at cbs news doichlt reporting from the nation's capital, i'm kris van cleave.

it's friday, september 18th, 2020. this is the "cbs morning news." building momentum in minnesota. president trump and joe biden are set to campaign in the battleground state today where early voting kicks off. this is the worst we've ever had it here in rain and flooding. >> sally's aftermath. the storm tears apart homes and businesses as the national guard takes on a lifesaving mission -- rescuing hundreds of people stranded by floods. football during a pandemic. a fan tests positive after attending the first nfl game of the year. the year. so what happens now? captioning funded by cbs