>> there's no calluses on your hands. >> i work on computer. >> reporter: not even covid-19 could change that. we had just finished filming this story when covid hit. at the time we made the decision not to air it thinking housing prices are going to come down. that's not the case. the coronavirus has inspired many buyers to look for larger, more comfortable homes, but that new demand has run into an old problem, since 1960, home prices across the country have risen more than four times faster than income and many experts say the cause is frustratingly simple. america has a housing shortage. some 400,000 fewer homes came up for sale this summer compared to last. more than a decade after the crash of 2008, developers are still cautious about new construction. when they do try to build, they can sometimes be blocked by people who already live nearby.

>> there will be buildings all along here, buildings all along there. >> reporter: people like judy who told us the plan to redevelop this lot near her home would hurt the neighborhood. if this were built as planned, what would happen? >> for one thing, the schools would be terribly overroute. >> reporter: she lives in newton, massachusetts. >> a desirable place to live. >> reporter: we met her a day before voters would decide whether to add 800 new apartments, a plan thousands of people like her oppose. >> thank you so much. >> what would happen is we would have absolute gridlock, that we would have concerns -- parking concerns for all of the neighbors that are currently here. >> reporter: in this big national fight over affordable housing, there are people that say you are the problem, people like you who are saying not in my backyard. >> we're not saying that. we're saying definitely in our backyard. just don't make it as big as you

want to make it. >> reporter: when there aren't enough affordable homes, prices explode. to make matters worse here in philadelphia and many cities across the u.s., families look to buy their first homes are compete not only with other families but with investors. in fact, a record number of them. in 2015 nearly a quarter of all the homes sold here in the philadelphia area sold not to people looking for a place to live but a place to profit. why are investors apparently so interested in places like philadelphia? >> for one reason, the rent is high. >> reporter: this is a realtor. >> a lot of homes were here didn't look like this. they've been renovated. >> reporter: investors have snatched up properties becoming landlords in some of the gentrifying neighborhoods. zbliefs fishtown. cash investor snapped it up for an air b & b.

nobody really had a shot at it. it was in the mid 400s, so it would have been attractive to a first time home buyer. >> instead, a b & b. >> uh-huh. >> you're not saying not in my backyard. you're just saying not so much. >> not so much. >> a little fwhit my back yard line. not so much.y. >> reporter: there won't enough housing to go around for the growing country that we live in. >> well, that's an issue that we're going to need to work on. >> tone tone report iy dokoupil. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

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the entire year was dedicated to honoring hall of famer jackie robinson. we're all familiar with his story, the first african-american to play in the major leagues, but robinson also made his mark in h the minors. susan spencer has that part of his story. >> reporter: jackie robinson's first home run for the brooklyn dodgers montreal minor league team was a game changer. what happened next was astonishing. this has been called the handled shake of the century. yeah. sounds a little dramatic. do you think that's overstating it? >> well, we've had other important hand shakes, internationally and here at home. but this was as harbinger of the civil rights movement to come. >> reporter: robinson, of course, would go on to be a civil rights advocate. after finishing his remarkable hall of fame baseball career.

but first came that handled shake. it was april 18th, 1946. his debut as the only black man to play in an allwhite league. >> they wanted him to fail. they wanted him to fail. >> reporter: so no surprise says baseball fan mark melon that the other players didn't even acknowledge robinson's first homer. all save the next batter up. george "shot gun "shula. >> if you look at the photographs, you can see the pure joy of the moment he didn't think black, white. as george was known to say in later life, i would have shaken his hand if he was in technicolor. >> reporter: a world renown sculptor has studied every minute detail of the photos as

he works on a seven-foot statue. you have captured both the athleticism and the joy. >> when you see it outdoors with the sun shining, it's -- it could just make you smile. >> reporter: when it's finished, the bronze statue will stand in this park in youngstown, ohio, george's hometown. at the time for george, this would have been something of a risk, right? >> with his teammates, i would sthoi. he may have gotten some jaded looks in terms of what are you doing? >> reporter: why do you think he did it? he didn't have to do that. >> i think he did it because it was the right thing to do. >> reporter: herb washington is a co-chair of the statue committee. you've been involved in a lot of charitable things. what was its particularly about this one that made you want to support it? >> jackie robinson. >> reporter: period. >> period.

jackie robinson. >> reporter: washington himself played on the world series winning oakland as in 1974. for him, this is personal. >> someone had to be first, someone had to stand in the gap and take some unbelievable punishment and cruelty so that the next person may not have to endure as much. >> reporter: what would life have been like for jackie robinson at that time? >> i can't even begin to wrap my head around the weight that he muff must have had on his shoulders, not just himself personally, but all people of color. >> this had to be unbelievably painful. there were times when it was very painful. particularly when you're being attacked and you can't respond. >> reporter: it's a beautiful -- >> our wedding day. >> reporter: that's your wedding day?

>> yeah. >> reporter: she spoke with us in 2013. >> what we worried about, for instance, pitchers would throw at his head. i worried about him getting hurt. >> reporter: with good reason. he routinely received death threats. >> i felt like it was us against the world, you know. >> reporter: it was in that atmosphere that george suga just did what came naturally. >> people have to remember that george didn't ask to be the albert i were and he did not know if jack was going to hit a home run. he always taught me, if you're put on the spot, do the right thing and everything will work out fine. >> reporter: his son says the hand shake photo was such a treasured keepsake his dad displayed it in the family living room until the day he died. this was long before the civil rights movement, before rosa parks, in that context some people might think a very brave

thing to do. >> i agree with you, yes. other members of the team, some players didn't even want to bat after jackie. there are other players, too that refused to be teammates with jack. it's sad to see that but george and jack became friends and they showed america that america was maturing. >> reporter: what do you hope this statue says to say to the father with his kid walking into the park two years from now and sees it? >> i hope the father is able to explain to the kid what the statue represents and how in that child's lifetime hopefully racism and bigotry won't exist. >> everything about it is uplifting. there is the dark back story of why is this so significant, but it's america emerging from the

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she's searching for a particular scent and she knows what she finds it, she can scurry off for a treat. good girl. she and poncho are two of eight labrador retrievers working with the university of pennsylvania's school of veterinary medicine. researchers hope to show that dogs can sniff out covid-19. >> good girl! >> this is not a pie in the sky idea. zrogs sniffed out diseases before. >> absolutely. >> reporter: dr. jaint otto is the director of pen vets working dog center. >> they've done it with ovarian cancer. they do it with a lot of other diseases. we're pretty confident that they can do it. >> reporter: dogs have sniff out blood sugar levels before they become dangerous. their own special signature and dogs can can recognize a virus in culture. >> reporter: if the dogs can successfully detect the

coronavirus, the first dogs could be at hospitals, airports and train stations within about six months. what is so special about dogs' noses that they can do this? >> dogs' noses are so amazing. dogs smell in color, i say. we think about how we see the world through our eyes, dogs see the world through their noses. >> reporter: at the helsinki airport where the dogs are already deployed, they don't come up to you. travellers who volunteer for a dog check wait there next with a cotton gauze that's put into a container and brought to the dog in a separate room. if the canine identifies it, the traveller must undergo a swab test to confirm. all this could be soon be coming to an airport near you. that's the overnight news for this thursday. for some of you a the ns continues. for others, check back later for

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