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battlelines drawn. republicans race to confirm supreme court nominee amy coney barrett. president trump predicting a quick victory. >> i ghiegts to be very hard to dispute her qualifications or anything about her. >> democrats fire back. >> we should not be barreling forward with this partisan nomination. >> first debate. trump versus biden one-on-one tuesday night in cleveland. will it shake up the race? battle ground georgia. is the peach state really in play? plus demands for zbluft the shooting can case of breonna taylor. olympians training under
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lockdown get creative as women make history today in the nfl. and later, the game that ate the world turns 40. >> it's addictive. you sit there and want to play it more and more and more. this is the show. good evening, i'm jamie yuccas in los angeles there is breaking news about the president's taxes. tonight "the new york times" reports it has tax return data for president trump extending over two decades. the paper reports it shows chronic losses and years of tax avoidance. today, the president denied it. >> fake news. actually i paid tachblgts you'll see that as soon as my tax returns -- it's under order. they've been under order for a
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long time. >> reporter: battle lines being drawn over president trump's new supreme court nominee. joe biden calls it an abuses power. today the president again praised his conservative pick as democrats make clear they want them to pay a price for it at the polls. nikole killion is at the white house. >> reporter: outsidest supreme court, demonstrators rallied for and against nominee amy coney barrett. as president trump expressed confidence in her eventual confirmation. >> she's one of our nation's most brilliant legal minds. i think she'll do very well. we're moving along very quickly. >> reporter: with the high court set to o take up the affordable care act act soon after the election, he says obama care
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will be replaced with a better and far cheaper alternative. joe biden accuses mr. trump of using barrett's nomination. >> i'm fouksd on making sure that the american people understand that they're being cut out of this process they're entitled to be part of and the cutout of design and order to take atway aca and your health care in the midst of a pandemic. >> they say they're going to move forward with hearings. >> we'll start on october 12th. more than half to have supreme court justices who have had hearings were done within 16 days or less. >> reporter: some democrats are threatening to boycott the process or not meet barrett at all. >> we will use every tool in the tool kit to slow things down. >> reporter: cbs news has
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learned meadows said they'll deliver information to senators monday and could be on political as early as tuesday. jamie. >> we know a lot of attention will be on the supreme court this week. all eyes will be on the first general election this tuchlgts how do the strategies differ? >> president trump says he's preparing every day and this weekend he said he's not sure if he'll go on the attack. joe biden began his formal preparations late last week. this will look a lot different. the candidates won't shake hands and the audience will be limited to a small number of guest. jamie. >> nicole, thank you. you can see the first presidential debate right here tuesday 9:00 eastern, 8:00 central. new polling out today shows a close races in north carolina
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which republicans have won the last two elections. in neighboring south carolina the president maintains a double digit lead. georgia has gone republican in the last seven election, but thos 2020. cbs's mark strassmann is in atlanta. >> reporter: make georgia vote trump again. that's the president's strug until a state rely bligh republican no more this trump stump focused on black voters. >> it begins with joe biden's retirement from public life. what have you got lose? >> nothing he says. >> zrems never ever done anything for us adds a black people. >> reporter: some republican strategists admit to win an election night the president needs georgia to wear a maga hat. not this student. >> biden appears to be make some efforts to unite people.
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>> reporter: georgia is a toss up. president trump just one point haeftd. the big issues in a state with an call even split with voters of both parties, covid, the supreme court, and a summer of unrest. >> we're not democrats burning down decision. >>. >> reporter: the late john lewis thundered about the importance of voting. turnout is critical for joe biden. >> jeend kamala uniquely understand -- >> reporter: in this atlanta neighborhood the motivation to get out to vote may be more about president trump. >> i have to vote for biden, just because we have to. >> why? >> go to get trump out. >> reporter: votes will be counted correctly, more so republicans than democrats. >> in person. i able to trusted the mail
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stuff. >> reporter: security issues with voting machines. the third party vendor is trying to fix it. in the georgia this is the most unset sld debate since sweet tea or unsweemt. mark strassmann, cbs news, atlanta. >> a new wildfire has erupted in california in what is the state's worst fire season ever. the glass fire has engulfed a thousand acres. the brush fire that started early sunday fueled by hot dry air and high winds is 0% contained. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.
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this is the "cbs overnight news." employee tefrs demanding jauchbtd shouting breonna taylor's name remain on streets across america after a grand jury in louisville, kentucky decided not to charge the officers in her death. aid aid is there. >> reporter: never before seen body cam footage appears to show officer bret hanginson walking
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into taylor's apartment. >> they there's? >> no. it's ours, it looks like. i'd back out. >> that would be a violation of local police policy which states that officers involved in police shootings are to be isolated from all nonessential for the remainder of the investigation. the fact that body camera video at all surprises angelo pinto. >> i think it's clear in some instances that a lot of departmental policies were being violented. tlooicht long said no video exited but daniel cameron said there is footage. >> it begins at the point that the area patrol officers arrive at the location. >> stay back.
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i'll sthet dog on you. >> reporter: this dog showing taylor's boyfriend's apprehension appears to be a k-9. >> louisville police would not comment on whether this video came from james or if more video exists because an internl review is on going. one of the attorneys said new body camera videos don't substantially change anything. he said the officer still acted in legal self-defense. as for former officer bret hangerson he's set to be arraigned tomorrow. jamie. >> thank you. over the past week the united states averaged about 4 3,000 case as day up 24% from the average two weeks ago. so far more than seven million americans are known to have been ineffected. cbs's lilia luciano has more.
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>> tailgating in full swing in south carolina this weekend with little social distancing. >> the fun going on in new york city where police are cracking down on karaoke clubs, bars, and crowd parties. >> this is america. we should be able to do what we wants. >> authorities breaking up a wedding reception in queens. >> every day, every day. >> tonight new york and new jersey faced growing clusters of the virus. new restrictions could follow. the number of daily bases is spiking in almost every midwestern state. the cdc warns that 90% of americans are susceptible to the virus. scott gottlieb said the u.s. has seen an up surge. >> heightened risk of the coronavirus as we head into the fall and winter. yao we're there. >> reporter: one bit of good news. the spread of the virus slowing
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down in los angeles and norge county. >> i wish the corona would be over and i would go back to school. >> reporter: are you feeling safe? >> yes, i am. >> it's good to kneel because i feel like we were so isolated everything from before. >> reporter: orange county is moving closer to more reopenings and could be in california's less restrictive orange tier as early as tuesday. that doesn't apply to theme parks or to stadiums. jamie. >> kwlal, thank you. nearly one million lives have been lost to the coronavirus around the world as hot spots keep emerging. elizabeth palmer has the latest. >> in rio de janeiro, the body of 78-year-old selma pedrito is laid to rest in a concrete crypt for covid victims. brazil has the highest coronavirus death rate in h the world.
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galloping across south and central america and mexico which has killed oerd 11,000 people. in europe we appear to be at the beginning of a def stagt second wave. at an on line only u.n. assemy general, boris johnson. >> i simply believe as a former covid patient that we all have a right to know. so that we can collectively do our fwoels spraent recurrence. >> reporter: first he's got a serious recurrence in the uk to deal with, including outbreaks among students and university now under lockdown. >> we've only got enough bread to last until monday. >> reporter: protests against covid control measures have become regular events. you have to the look to wuhan china where the pandemic started to see life nearly back to
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normal. thanks only to a lockdown so heavy handed it would have been politically unthinkable in the west. elizabeth palmer, cbs news, london. >> there's a lot more news ahead on the "cbs overnight news." olympic dheets overcoming hurd it is to train in a pandemic. and later, you know that sound. pac-man celebrating a big birthday. (ringing) - hey kaleb, what's up? how you doing? - hey, i'm good, guess what, i just had my 13th surgery. - really? i just had my 17th surgery. - well, you beat me. - well, i am a little bit older than you. - yeah it's true. how are you doing? - i'm doing good. i'm encouraged by seeing how people are coming together to help each other during times like these. - kind of like how shriners hospitals for children
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the pandemic has slammed the breaks on normal the world over. that includes the olympic games, now set for tokyo next summer. the delay has tested the limits of athletes vying for a spot on team usa in every way. as cbs's nancy chen reports working from home presents special challenges. >> reporter: they're among the best athletes in the world. as the pandemic hit, olympians like laurie hernandez had to find a way to work from home. >> my lichg room doesn't have the best beam. >> reporter: the coffee dabl can be the alabama. >> yeah. >> reporter: those who felt like climbing did walls did. they lifted weights at a park.
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and family pets became training partners with the kids' playroom or a new york city balcony transformed into a gym. darryl homer is trying to make his third olympic team. >> it was probably two and a half months with very, very limited training. >> finding a new place to run drills was face-off from the only challenge for these athletes whose lives and routines are meticulously planned years in advanced. like other olympic hopefuls, hernandez has to wait to qualify for the upcoming games. >> all of a sudden we're having to come back down again. >> reporter: rescheduling the olympics means another year of testing limits financially, mentally, and physically. but when the 29-year-olds will be hoping to qualifier and his final attempt to make it to the
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games. >> everything that i do every single day is kind of positioned in such a way that i could run my best when it counts the most and then all of a sudden, that is stripped from you have. >> reporter: the added year also creates financial challenges. that's been really tough just trying to make end zone meechlt can i even hang in there? >> reporter: dr. leah lagos. >> especially for athletes that have been doing this for a long time meaning you have athletes that have been doing this since they were four and now they're 25. troipt athletes are now developing a new kind of resilience and purpose. >> smile. >> no longerly let the olympic rings determine whether or not i've had the success that i've hoped. it's just been day to day of enjoying what you're doing and the pursuit of it.
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we have some sad news to share here at krkz. earlier today we learned that retired air force general mark rosen kerr has died. he served as the chairman of the national safety transportation board. he was a valuable resource and a good friend of this network. he passed away after an 18-month battle with brain cancer. he was 74 years old. history was made today in the national football league. the cleveland browns hosted the washington football team and for the first time featured women coaching on the sidelines and the referees on the field. jennifer king of washington and cali brownson coached for their respective teams. a drive through food fair was on this weekend.
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cbs's ramy inocencio has more. you know this tune if you grew up in the 1980s and this little yellow ghost eating chomper. pac-man celebrates his 40th birthday this weenchtd and he's leveled up. in tokyo he was reborn into virtual reality with a head set, joy sticks and an area to run. it's easy to break a sweat. toru iwatani is the 65-year-old creator. what do you think of it being an old man? >> translator: think of him as a toy. >> pac-man was my first game when i was five or six. i was concerned about small kids being affected, he adds. that's why you don't dill ghost. when pac-man debuted in 1980,
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those kids fell in love. >> it's addict yichlt it is. want to plate more and moornd more. >> might mission is to change the image of pac-man. i want younger people to like pac-man. >> reporter: so they're integrating internet gaming into pookman's world. this year pac-man teamed up with amazon games for four people to play against each other. if there's one thing that you could change, what would that be? >> reporter: there's not a single thing i would change. spoken like a proud father of one of the world's most famous games. ramy inocencio, cbs news, tokyo. joonld that's the overnight news
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for this monday. for some of you the news continues. for others, check back later on cbs news this morning. tonight "the new york times" reports it has obtained tax return data for president trump extending over two o decades. the paurp report that shows chronic losses and years of tax avoidance. late today the president denied the report. >> total fake news. no. actually, i paid tax but -- and sthiel as soon as my tax returns are -- they're under order. they've been under order for a
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long time. >> battle lines being drawn over the supreme court nominee as well. republicans are pushing for a swiflt confirmation of judge amy coney barrett. joe biden calls it an abuse of poumplt today the president again praised his conservative pick as democrats make clear they want the president and republicans who back limb to pay the price for it at the polls. nikole killion is at the white house. >> reporter: outside the supreme court. >> we are the generation. >> reporter: demonstrators rallied for and against judge amy coney barrett. >> she's one of our nation's most brilliant legal minds.
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forum vice president joe biden accused mr. trump of using barrett's nomination to throw out the land mark legislation. >> i'm focused on making sure the american people understand that they'r being cut out of this process they're entitled to be a part of and they're cut out of the design in order to take away the aca and your health care in the midst of a pandemic. >> republican leaders say they intend to move forward with hearings. >> we'll start october 12th. more than half the supreme court justices who have had hearings were done within 16 days or less. >> some democrats are threateninggate the procedures not meet with him at all. >> we will do everything in the tool kit to slow things down. >> they'll work in close coordination with mark meadows
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to oversee the nomination. they could be on capitol hill as early as tuesday jamie. >> we know a lot of attention will be on the supreme court this week. but all eyes will be on the general lex debate this tuesday how do the candidates' strategies differ? >> well, president trump says he's preparing every day this weekend he told reporters he's not sure if he'll go on the attack. we know former vice president joe biden began his preparations late last week. this debate will look a lot different because of the pandemic. the candidates won't shake hands and the audience will be limited to a small number of guests. jamie. >> nikole, thank you. you can see the first presidential debate right here tuesday 9:00 eastern, 8:00 snaerm. the deekt and fight over the u.s. district court are addsing to the already high stakes to have presidential election. polling out today shows a close
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rate in north carolina, which republicans have won the last two election. in neighboring south carolina, the president maintains a double digit lead. georgia has gone republican in the last seven elections, but this is 2020. cbs's mark strassmann is in atlanta. >> reporter: make gaethje vote trump again. that's the make georgia vote trump again. >> racial justice begins with jooebsd retirement from public life. what the dheel you have to lose? >> reporter: nothing, stephen says. >> democrats have never done anything nours as a black people. >> reporter: some republican strategist admit to win an election night the president needs georgia to wear a maga hat. not this georgia tech students. >> behind seems to be making an effort to unite people.
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>> reporter: georgia is a toss up. president trump just one point ahead. the big issues in a state with a roughly even split with voters in both parties, covid, and a summer of unrest. >> we're not burning down buildings. >> reporter: turnout is critical for joe biden. on the front lines of atlanta suburbs and among the 30% of georgia's zrerd voters who are black. >> jeenld kamala understand -- >> reporter: this targets black turnout. in this atlanta neighborhood the motivation to get out and vote may be more about president trump. >> i have to vote for bide erngs just because we have to. >> why? >> to get trump out. >> reporter: voters only somewhat confident their votes will be counted correctly. more so republicans than democrats. >> in person. i have anlts trusting the mail
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stuff. >> reporter: alleged security knishes with voting machines. a third party vent vendor is trying to fix it. they lex is the most unsettled debate since sweet tea versus unsweet. last won in 1992. mark strassmann, cbs news, atlanta. >> the united states averaged about 43,000 covid case a day. so far more than seven million americans are known town effected. the death toll tops 220,000. lilia luciano has more. >> reporter: taille gating in south carolina with little social distancing. the fun going on in new york city where police are cracking down on karaoke clubs, bars and crowd parties. >> this is america. we should be able to do what we
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wants. >> reporter: in queens nearly 300 people packed into a hall. >> every day, every day. >> reporter: new york and new jersey face growing clusters of the virus. new restrictions could follow. new trouble in the heartland. the number of daily bases is spiking in almost every midwestern state. the cdc warns that 90% of americans are still susceptible to the virus. former fda commissioner scott gottlieb said the u.s. has seen an up surge. >> we've always seen the risk. now we're in the fall and winter. >> reporter: in southern california one bit of good news. the spread of the virus slowing down in los angeles and orange counties. >> i wish the corona would be over and i would go back to school. >> are you safe? >> yeah. it goals. it's good to feel like that. i felt we were isolated everything from before. >> reporter: orangedown county
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this is the "cbs overnight news." i'm jamie yuccas in los angeles. thanks for staying with us. the race for the white house shifts into high gear tomorrow night with the first presidential debate. trump p president trump and form vice president joe biden will share the snaj a 90-month debate moderated by chris wallace. biden has been holding mock sessions to prepare. president trump said insists he flaz no reason to prepare. john dickerson has a preview.
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>> in 1916 walter cron died asked dwight eisenhower whether a sitting. should participate in campaign debates. >> any man that is income went -- is an come bent has to stick to the facts. he's a responsible man. debating with someone who if he chooses can be irresponsible. >> president trump does not share ike's concern about sticking to the facts. the opposite. he has so boosted the fact checking industry, its kuntsz government stimulus. eisenhower didn't only stick to the facts. in the 1960 when an american spy plane was shot down, ike denied that the u.s. was spyling. when the soviets produce add living u.s. pilot, the president has had to admit he had not told the truth but explained he was trying to help u.s. national security. the president has an obligation to honesty and to secrecy.
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sometimes the obligations clash. when they do, a. has a lonely choice about which is more important. that is just one of the many burdens of the presidency for which debates are a part of the job interview. who do americans trust to make decisions with imperfect information day after day, often in secret. we should ask cl candidate has the character, temperament and vicks to make the rights call. if you learn only from the moments that make president al debate history, i wouldn't know what kinds of job it was. >> typically against such a approach. >> there you go again. >> he didn't pay any federal income tax so -- >> that makes me smart. >> having the skills to manage surprises that may never come up. in 2000, al gore and george w.
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bush debated. the word "terrorism "was only mentioned once. >> twichl. terrorism. but we should remember the real white of the office which resembles the debate snaj one important way. a president must stand alone and do the right thing when the whole world is watching. >> that was john dickerson. you can watch the presidential debate right here on cbs tomorrow night starting at 9:00 p.m. eastern. one point of contention is likely to center on o mail-in ballots. christian wray told congress last week there is no evidence. a bigger issue could be mail in ballots that are ruled invalid. here's major garrett. >> reporter: election officials started mailing more that were two million absentee ballots to
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voters. voting rules differ from state to state and amid a pandemic that is more true than ever. in wisconsin, a judge said ballots will count if they're received up to six days after election day and postmarked by november 3rd. >> we're going to win pennsylvania. >> reporter: some counties in pennsylvania have been early voegts for more than a week. democratic officials like lisa dwriel fear first time an seen tee voters won't use the process properly. >> their vote will not count if they don't use the secrecy envelope. that is really a form of voter suppression. >> reporter: voters must place their ballot inside this secrecy envelope which goes in an outer enveloped before being signed and mailed. >> this vote does not count because you neglected to use this envelope. >> reporter: ballots missing the
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boulevard are called naked ballots. diehly warned that as many as 100,000 voegts states wide could be inval dated because of missing privacy envelopes. >> that would be catastrophic. their vote wouldn't count. >> reporter: the state has produced this video to educate voters. >> seal did battle in the plain white enveloped. >> reporter: pennsylvania's among 16 states that send ballots to voters with privacy envelopes. >> it's ridiculous when it's clear how the voter intended to vote. >> reporter: pennsylvania republicans who control the legislature stay state supreme court has weighed in and the law is the law. it is unlikely they tell us any changes will be made before november. >> major garrett reporting. the overnight news will be right back. (woman) my son and his wife
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but not too close for comfort. i mean, it's just right. the major league baseball playoffs begin a week from today. go twins. they're going to have an expand format including 16 teams instead of the usual ten. that's one change brought about by the growing pandemic. the games are played in front of empty stands, but die-hard fans can be resourceful and a lot of them found ways to watch live without passing through the turnstile. >> it can be hard at first to understand another person's passion. >> lot of ladders. >> sure is. >> when veeg baseball announced
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they'd play without fans, brets and oskar had other ideas. >> we were like, what's keeping us from coming to see our guys behind this fence. >> did you know you'd be able to see them? >> not in the beginning. >> the secret, they learned was in their barrage. >> can you get a little higher? >> there's some flag poles. >> in the way. >> four feet up the ladder way behind the citizen field park, they found baseball. you got the pitcher. you can see both dugouts. to the right it looks like. >> the little group grew over the summer and took the name. their goal was not only to see but to be heard. that worked out, too. >> they've been loud, energetic. they have a drum line.
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>> the coach complained it was distractsing the batters. >> nexttime the opposing albert comes up, let's let them do their thing. >> more quietly other fans have pounds a way to watch. >> that's a strike, bottom outside corner strike. jean holiday's building boast an amenity, a sight line on to washington nationals park. how. >> how big a building was it? >> i saw that field and i was like where do i sign? >> the famous wrigley roof tops reopened. even from there, mike mitchell managed to get the players attention. >> i'm getting wrigley field. it's the best place in the wormed, the cathedral of chicago. roimts in this strange season few people were more motivated than rhinehart. >> do whatever it took to get
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there. >> reporter: when his covid brother got called up to make his major league pitching debut, ryan security a table at the bleacher bar. this was kyle warming up. liz proud brother a mesh fence and garage door away. >> would you have been able to say that's him? >> i've got really good eyesight. i don't know if you'd be able to discern. you might be able to recognize the number 81. >> reporter: there's always been something romantic about sneaking a peek at baseball. >> my father took me up through the ladder in the skylight. he said here's something you can remember all your life. >> jack rooney's rooftop offered a one of a kind view. it overlooked sheiv park home of the philadelphia athletics during their heyday in the late
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1920s. >> lou geric hit one. >> the window above the door. >> to the team's dismay, those roots offered a better view than some seats in the stadium. >> i said you want to see the game for a quarter? i pointed at the roof tops. a couple of men said yeah, let's go. >> reporter: rooney is 97 now. the park is long gone his memoir "bleachers in the bedroom" recalls a time when the stadium across the street didn't always lock its doors. >> the door was open, some of the kids came in and saw the yankees uniforms. they were the visiting team then and so they brought them out, went to -- >> brought them out of the stadium. >> to the streets. >> to a nearby park and put on the suits and start -- you know start to play baseball pretending they were the new york yankees. >> wearing babe ruth's real jersey? >> that's right.
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>> but the romance on 20th zreet ended bitterly. in 1935, the athletics got tired of the competition and built a fence to block the view. in 2004, the cubs owners threatened something similar at wrigley but instead bought up the rof tops themselves and charged $400 a ticket. >> they want to see sports. >> the only cost to watch the phillies was a riermtd to wear a mask and keep your distance. though in the end, the only explanation for their passion was a desire to be together. >> we're season ticket hoerlsd here and we do miss sitting next to the people that watched so many games with for years and watched their kids grow up. we're missing all of that right now. >> just being next to our friends and family, that's what we miss. >> brook silva braga on a ladder in philadelphia. this isn't our first flip.
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it's a win-win. now that's shopping like a pro. explore floor and decor, now open for safe in-store shopping and curbside pickup. the ongoing pandemic has hit the cruise ship industry hard. it's costing the industry about a billion a month but off the coast of england, some ships have spawned a new industry. holly williams had the story. >> the cruise industry has ground to a halt. it's floating fun palaces lie empty and eerily quiet. many of the giants are now moored off england's south coast where it's free for them to drop anchor with just a skeleton crew on board. >> you're one of the first to book. well done. floipt one enterprising britishman has devised an injean
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in us plan to make money. >> welcome aboard who wants to see some ships? >> reporter: running cruises to show empty cruise ships. paul durham leads daily tours charging $25 a head to see the hulking ocean liner on his own tiny ferry boat. >> we advertised it on facebook, two cruises. within four hours we'd filled up four crews. >> reporter: anthem of the assist has room for nearly 5,000 passengers. and is decked out with a wave machine, skydiving simulator, its own theater, 18 restaurants, and a 30-foot-high giraffe named gigi. gigi now stands forlorn on deck.
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as lonely as the crew members still on board the anthem. >> they don't get much excitement up here. next v. >> reporter: allure of the assist has a maximum capacity of nearly 7,000 passengers. she's roughly five times the size of the titanic and at this time of the year she should be cruising in the mediterranean sea. some of the passengers admit they're here because there's not much efls to do with vacations off limits. like josie and david bingly who enjoy traveling the world but not on a cruise ship. >> we like adventure. >> n dean share a tin box with 5,000 ot5,000 other people. >> but a train driver and transport enthusiast says itself doesn't get more exciting. >> being up close to these massive shipgs, it's amazing seeing them up close.
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>> life hasn't been the same for anyone the last few months but one man in a boat has found a a way to capitalize on it. holly williams, in ngland. it's monday, september 28th, 2020. this is the "cbs morning news." tax bombshell. just one day before the president's debate, a scathing investigation reveals how much money president trump allegedly paid in income taxes. conflicting reports. new questions in the breonna taylor case after police findings dispute claims made by the kentucky attorney general. in these waters, you don't necessarily want to stop every time you see somebody on a boat. we could tell it was people that needed help. >> to the rescue. how an overnight fishing trip turned into a lifesaving turned into a lifesaving mission.
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