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may be time to reopen some schools. >> and close encounter with a cougar. a utah hiker learns what it feels like to be prey after getting too close to a cub. the six minutes of terror caught on tape. >> don't mess with a mama cougar. first, here's today's "eye opener." it's your world in 90 seconds. >> if confirmed, it would be the honor of a lifetime to serve alongside the chief justice and seven associate justices. >> the political battle has broken out on capitol hill as confirmation hearings for amy coney barrett begins. >> i think this hearing is a sham. >> when you tell them they'll be a catholic judge not an american judge, that's bigotry. >> the president returned to the campaign trail. >> i feel so powerful. i'll walk into there. i'll kiss everyone in that audience. >> dr. anthony fauci wants the trump campaign ad featuring him to be taken down. >> i think it's unfortunate and

really disappointing that they did that. it's so clear i'm not a political person. >> voters head to the polls but are forced to wait hours to cast their ballots. >> i wanted to go back in my car and change my mind and go back home because the line was so long. >> johnson & johnson is pausing all dosing in a coronavirus vaccine study due to an unexplained illness in a participant. >> manuel margo makes this unbelievable catch. >> over the wall and he's got the ball. >> and all that matters. >> nope. get the [ bleep ] away. >> crazy cell phone video out of northern utah. this guy was stalked by that mountain lion for over six minutes while on a hike. >> go away! hope! >> on "cbs this morning." >> reaching up and over for the touchdown! >> drew brees rallied new orleans from a deficit. >> for a los angeles victory. on the way.

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a success story. ben tracy is at the white house. ben, dr. anthony fauci says events like these are asking for trouble. is the trump campaign take anything new precautions? >> no, they basically did what they've been doing. they handed out masks. suggest people use them. very few people did. and take a look at this. this is florida governor ron desantis walking around high-fiving people in the crowd. he's later seen rubbing his nose. now president trump is pressuring his campaign to set up a lot more of these rallies between now and election day. >> i went through it. now they say i'm immune. i feel so powerful. >> after 11 days off the campaign trail to recover from the virus, president trump was very much back in his element monday night. >> i'll walk in there. i'll kiss everyone in that audience. i'll kiss the guys and the beautiful women and the -- everybody. i'll just give you a big, fat kiss. >> reporter: just hours before

he spoke, his doctor said he's now tested negative. but dr. david agus says the ant antigen test are less sensitive than a pcr test. still, mr. trump appeared to have plenty of energy talking for just over an hour. >> i'm in such great shape. >> reporter: the crowd was packed in shoulder to shoulder. most of them not wearing masks. the president himself did not wear one at the rally or in washington as he boarded air force one. dr. anthony fauci says with covid cases quickly rising across the country, these rallies just make no sense. >> we know that that is asking for trouble when you do that. >> reporter: in an interview with the daily beefrkts he also accused the trump campaign of harassment by using him in a campaign ad without permission. >> i can't imagine that anybody could be doing more. >> reporter: and making it appear like he was praising president trump's handling of the virus which he was not. fauci is warning them to not do it again. >> that would be terrible. that would be outrageous if they

do that. in fact, that might actually come back to backfire on them. >> that's donald trump's presidency. 215,000 dead because of covid. >> reporter: former vice president joe biden campaigned in ohio talking to union workers who remained socially distanced in their car. he said president trump was irresponsible in how he handled his own coronavirus infection. >> his reckless personal conduct since his diagnosis has been unconscionable. the longer donald trump is president, the more reckless he seems to get. >> reporter: that new polls show joe biden leading president trump in several crucial swing states. cbs news learned the triumph campaign is launching a multimillion-dollar ad campaign to try to win back senior because polls earlier this month showed they now favor joe biden by a wide margin. tony? >> he's got some work to do. the senate judiciary committee is questioning supreme court nominee amy coney barrett right now at her confirmation hearing. the appeals court judge told the committee this morning that her

religion will not affect her decisions on the bench. so far democrats have not mentioned her faith, lubut instd claim that her nomination is designed to bring down the affordable care act. nancy cordes is covering it on capitol hill. >> today is round one of questioning. and each of the 22 senators on the committee will get a half an hour to grill judge barrett. she could be on the hot seat for more than 11 hours today before a follow-up round tomorrow fielding tough questions about abortion, the election and obamacare. >> i can't express views on cases or precommit to approaching a case, any particular way. >> that makes it difficult for me. >> reporter: today's endurance test will pit judge barrett against ten senate democrats who regard her nomination as an illegitimate power grab by the president and his party. with remarkable unity, democrats

made it clear yesterday they plan to focus on the roughly 20 million americans who could lose coverage if a 6-3 supreme court overturns obamacare. >> for years, merit put off going to the doctor because he was afraid he could not afford it. when the affordable care act passed he got the coverage he could afford. >> reporter: the committee's 12 republicans will be far friendlier. >> i think you are a great choice by the president. >> reporter: yesterday they praised barrett's resume, her temperament and her conservative judicial philosophy. >> you are a brilliant jurist, and a constitutional law expert. >> reporter: barrett does have some experience with this. she fielded questions from the same committee during her federal appeals court confirmation in 2017. >> when you read your speeches, the conclusion one draws is that the dogma lives loudly within you. >> there would be no opportunity

to be a no-vote on roe. and as i said to the xhrkcommit i would faithfully apply all supreme court precedent. >> when you tell somebody that they're too catholic to be on the bench. when you tell them they'll be a catholic judge, not an american judge, that's bigotry. >> thank you very much. >> reporter: the ongoing pandemic looms over this hearing. utah's mike lee who tested positive after barrett's rose garden ceremony last month appeared in person yesterday removing his mask to speak. senator ted cruz who was exposed to lee appeared remotely as did democratic vp nominee kamala harris who did so as a precaution. >> this committee has ignored common sense requests to keep people safe, including not requiring testing for all members. despite a coronavirus outbreak among senators of this very committee. >> reporter: democrats have made it clear they're going to steer clear of questioning judge

barrett about her religion this time around, plus they think that obamacare, health care more broadly is the best focus. it was the number one issue to voters back in 2018. they think it's going to be a big issue in 2020. as far as republicans are concerned, they are still hoping, anthony, that they can get this judge confirmed to the supreme court one week before election day. >> all right, nancy. it's going to be close. more than 10 million americans have already voted. take a look at these lines in georgia yesterday. the first early voting day there. it's one of 43 states where that's an option. many voters faced massive wait times but they were determined to cast their ballots anyway. mark strassmann is at georgia's largest polling place, state farm arena in atlanta. mark, what's expected there today? >> good morning, anthony. normally it's the atlanta hawks who play here inside state farm arena. as you mentioned, now it's the single largest early voting option in the entire state of

georgia. behind me, you can see some of the 300 voting machines scattered throughout the arena. it's all part of the push to accommodate georgia's record early turnout. with so much on the line, voters stood in line for hours. the first day georgians could. >> this line is long. >> reporter: so long, it took a chopper to see all those waiting in one metro atlanta county. at georgia's largest polling place, a three-hour line stretched through atlanta's nba arena. 80-year-old linda williams waited. >> they only have five machines to accommodate 1,000 people? >> reporter: after the same glitches that caused chaos at georgia's june primary briefly crashed computers, more machines came online. but so did more voters. >> i wasn't frustrated. i didn't get anxious, and i committed to the process. >> i didn't like it, but i didn't mind it. i made a lot of friends. >> reporter: and made history. 10 million americans have already voted. the most ever this early.

>> just to get it over with and out of the way. >> reporter: despite a deadly pandemic, some americans aren't willing just to mail it in. cbs news election law expert david becker. >> people are excited to vote. sometimes people get excited they want to go on the first day. they want to be part of history. >> reporter: today at least 19 states already offer in-person voting with eight more by week's end. and five more on monday. and on day one in georgia, it wasn't just voters rushing in. >> hello, atlanta! >> reporter: joe biden's wife jill. >> joe biden is that camouflage. >> reporter: and donald trump jr. came to lock down support here. one sign how seriously both president trump and former vice president biden take early voting here in this state where polls show them locked in a statistical tie. and every vote counts. >> for those voters who are concerned their vote be among the first counted and reported out on election night, early in-person voting is a great way to cast your ballot.

>> reporter: think about this. state farm arena seats about 21,000 people, but voters and poll workers will make up the single largest group inside this arena since covid became a crisis. every time a voting machine is used, it is wiped down and sanitized. masks are mandatory for voters, but there's a separate area to vote for people who refuse to wear a mask. gayle? >> shows how important the people are waiting in line. they really want to vote. this is important. thank you very much, mark. the early voters will help decide a series of very important senate races. in kentucky, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell faced his democratic challenger. that's amy mcgrath in a tv debate last night. ed o'keefe looks at some of the races heating up with just three weeks to go. >> you negotiate. senator, it's a national crisis. >> reporter: the response to the coronavirus pandemic and the supreme court nomination took center stage in kentucky last night. >> no one believes the supreme court is going to strike down

the affordable care act. >> reporter: mitch mcconnell is still hugely popular in the state where he's leading amy mcgrath by double digits. but mcgrath has outpaced mcconnell in fundraising. $47 million to his roughly $37 million. >> what can we do to improve the state. >> reporter: money is flooding into another southern race. democrat jaime harrison is neck and neck with lindsey graham in south carolina. harrison reported raising a record-breaking $57 million in the last quarter. prompting pleas like this one from the incumbent. >> there's not enough money to flip this state. i do need to fight back. >> reporter: and in arizona -- >> we're in this together. >> reporter: republican senator martha mcsally faces democrat mark kelly, a former astronaut and husband of gabrielle giffords. kelly heads mcsally by ten points. there are several other races. in north carolina, cal hung ham remains ahead of thom tillis.

in alabama, democratic senator doug jones is facing popular former college football coach and republican tommy tuberville. and in maine, republican senator susan collins is facing a tough challenge from democrat sarah gideon. collins is facing a barrage of attack ads tied to her support for brett kavanaugh in 2018. there are 35 senate seats up for grabs. republicans are defending 23 of them. they have a 53 to 53 major i43 . they need to net three seats if joe biden wins the white house and four seats if donald trump wind. >> there's going to be a quiz. >> and he will pass. anthony mason will pass, ed o'keefe. >> and how many days until the election? you don't have your sign behind you. >> three weeks to go. i checked it before i left.

for the second time, a late-stage coronavirus vaccine trial has been halted after a participant got sick. johnson & johnson says it paused its phase three trial after someone developed an unexplained illness. the company says it's investigating whether the illness is related to the vaccine. in a statement, johnson & johnson says these issues are, quote, an expected part of any clinical study, especially large studies. and astrazeneca, oxford university trial in the u.s. is also on hold for similar reasons. meanwhile, we're learning about the first confirmed case of someone in the u.s. getting the coronavirus for a second time. doctors say a 25-year-old man from nevada first tested positive back in april. he then tested positive again in june despite negative tests in between those two dates. scientists say there were differences in the virus strains in both cases meaning he was, in fact, infected two separate times. this could have major implications for how we talk

about and think about immunity. we have an exclusive broadcast interview with breonna taylor's boyfriend kenneth walker. he spoke about the early morning raid that killed taylor back in march. walker and taylor were sleeping when louisville police raided her apartment looking for a drug suspect very early in the morning. he insists he asked, he and breonna both asked, who is at the door. but police never identified themselves. the police say that they did. walker says he fired one shot at the officers with a legally licensed gun because he thought they were intruders. >> who did you think was at the door? if you are saying, who is it, who is it because they're not answering. it doesn't sound like a friendly knock. >> i didn't have a clue. that's why i grabbed the gun. if it was the police at the door and they just said we're the police, me or breonna didn't have a reason not to open the door and see what they wanted. >> did it ever cross your mind, a heavy knock like that, maybe

it's the police? >> why would the police be coming here? >> that's a very good question. he said to me if you heard a heavy knock at the door, would you think, must be the police? i never thought of it that way. i would think it was somebody coming to give me harm, do me harm. no, it never occurred to either of us it was the police because, in their minds, they weren't doing anything that would warrant police coming there. neither one of them had any kind of criminal records involving drugs, violent history. no drugs, no money were found in the apartment. >> and you expect the police to say open up, it's the police. and many witnesses say they did not say that. there is one witness who says they did. >> there is one witness who changed his story and now says they did. it's a very confusing -- it's not so confusing to kenneth walker who, by the way, his story has never changed from day one about what happened that night. you can see more of our exclusive broadcast interview with kenneth walker tomorrow on "cbs this morning." ahead, a story of what happens when man meets nature

and things do not go well. you'll see a hiker's close encounter with a mountain lion protecting its cubs and how it all unfolded. and we'll be bleeping

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welcome back to "cbs this morning." there is promising new data this morning on how schools can stay relatively safe from the coronavirus if they follow guidelines. a survey of roughly 1200 schools found just a tiny percentage of all students and staff had tested positive since going back to the classroom. our adriana diaz joins us from chicago. sounds like good news. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, tony. now chicago public school officials say they are considering starting a hybrid learning model early next month but for now the city's public school students are all learning from home. while experts say reopenings can be done safely, there are of course still risks to consider.

as 37 states see rises in new covid cases, the virus appears to be absent in most classrooms. >> you really can reopen the schools and get going with the schools, you've just got to be careful. >> reporter: dr. anthony fauci said schools with robust testing, tracing, and mask rules appear to be reopening safely, but he also noted areas with high viral activity remain at higher risk. infectious disease expert says while older students can contribute to spread, the risk of reopening schools depends on students' ages. >> look at kids under age 10, we've seen very limited transmission so i think we can continue to move forward with younger children doing some relative sense of safety about that. >> reporter: then there are stories of 49-year-old julie davis, a third grade teacher in north carolina. she died on october 4th, just ten days after developing her first symptoms. her daughter, leanne na

richardson. >> do you have any sense of where she may have gotten this? i know she's a teacher. are you concerned that maybe she got it at school? >> due to the uncertainty surrounding covid-19, it is nearly impossible to navigate specifics. i just want my mom to forever be remembered as the hero she was. and if anything else, let her death be a reminder that covid-19 doesn't care. covid-19 is serious. this is a pandemic. this is not a joke. >> reporter: officials at the district where davis taught say they do not believe she got the virus at school. those in close contact with her, staff, students all have not tested positive but they are still moving all classes online for the next two weeks because of increased spread in the community. >> you certainly felt her name. we all know this is no joke. we are joined by the dean of

brown university of public health. always good to see you. i want to focus on what appeared to be good news about the schools. it doesn't appear they are the super spreaders people thought they could be. do you feel that too? are you more optimistic that schools can reopen safely? >> good morning, gayle. thanks for having me on. i am more optimistic. i think we are learning as schools are opening, younger grades k through 5 look pretty safe in most communities. older high school, you have to be a bit more careful, mask wearing, some level of testing would be helpful everywhere. i'm becoming more optimistic we have to get kids back in school. >> i heard you say there's a high cost of keeping kids learning remotely. what is that cost? >> the costs of keeping kids learning remotely is really quite substantial. we know it widens achievement gaps. we know it's causing a lot of mental health issues for kids. kids are not born to be zooming into class all day every day. it's one thing to do it for a

few days, but to do it for an extended period of time is harmful. >> we keep hearing covid cases on the rise again in 37 states. what can we do? what should we be doing to stop the spread? dr. fauci says if we're not careful we're going to have a rough winter and a rough outbreak. what to do, dr. jha? >> he's right. everybody has to be wearing masks outside of their homes. >> how many times can we say that. how many friggen times can we say, wear your mask? i'm serious. >> i know. a lot of folks are still not doing it. >> exactly. >> say, please, do it so we can get kids back in. >> yes. >> i think bars and a lot of indoor dining is risky. people having house parties and gatherings. your home doesn't make you immune to the virus. being careful. being thought full is how we get through the pandemic. >> we talk about wearing masks. the president is back on the road. he is

he's in florida. they passed out masks and they're not wearing it. he says he is immune and he feels powerful. is this the message to send at this particular time? let's talk about immunity, what that really means. >> gayle, i think unfortunately it is not the right message. we don't know if the president is immune. we are seeing some number of reinfections. thankfully not very many. second, he's the president of the united states. he should be sending a very clear symbol and signal to the aerican people about the importance of wearing masks. he's not doing that and that is really unfortunate. >> also as the president of the united states, he's getting a different type of treatment, too, as it should be. as president of the united states, he should get the best possible treatment that is avail will be in the world, so no one is faulting that, but he is getting a different kind of treatment than most people get, true? >> absolutely. i mean, the regeneron therapy, the antibody therapy he got is not accessible to most people.

obviously world class care at walter reed. the president got great care and i think that's right, but the point is, most americans can't get that. >> he says that he -- president trump's doctors said he he 's n longer infectious. he tested 234negative for sever days for testing negative with the antigen test? >> this is confusing. it's not good enough. not what it was designed for. dr. conley knows that. my sense, my guess, we don't know because they haven't been clear, because he is pcr positive. it's entirely positive we'd like to get more and the antigen test doesn't get us there. >> should i wear a mask, should i not wear a mask? i'm confused. >> gayle, please wear a mask. it's good for you and everybody else. >> message achieved. ahead, a hiker records his

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>> go away. please go away. holy [ bleep ]. >> reporter: the roughly 6 minute encounter began as burgess was about 2 miles from the trail head. >> it was when i got down -- coming down the canyon is where i ran into the kitty cat. >> reporter: that kitty cat was accompanied by an adult mountain lion seen running towards burgess. that's when he says he knew he was in trouble. >> get the [ bleep ] away. you see the two cubs and one runs off. then i didn't notice mom was right there and that's when i knew it was a -- not a good situation to be in. >> the mountain lion follows burgess who slowly backs away while attempting to intimidate the animal with loud noises. it then lungs, hiss, flashes its teeth several times. >> no! >> reporter: burgess said he had no idea what to do.

>> it was all improv. i'm not no outdoor expert at all. >> reporter: kate says while encounters like this are unbelievably rare, burgess actually did many of the right things. >> you want to make yourself look big. you want to be as loud as possible and then like he did, slowly begin to back away. >> reporter: she says the mountain lion wasn't stalking burgess but rather trying to push him away from her cubs. >> they are not going to actively attack a human being unless they need to defend themselves or they're scared. >> reporter: the encounter ends after burgess throws a rock and startless the animal who then runs away. after realizing he's safe at last, burgess could barely hold back his relief. >> it was like, it's over. like those six minutes were so long for me. >> reporter: for "cbs this morning," i'm carter evans. >> boy. >> it's only funny because he survived and the way that he did it, too. i think i would need the adult

diapers at that point. the fact that he could have the presence of mind to still keep filming. i don't know how he could do that. >> i'd be concentrating on getting rid of the mountain lion, not my video. >> this is a generational divide. i would not be filming. i would have thrown my rock. >> he got a nice souvenere of the moment. >> kyle burgess, you go. the thing is, he came into the cubs first so she was a mama protecting her babies. we get that. we're glad he lived to tell the tale. >> he's no outdoor expert. he was walking on a road. >> i think he needs to work on his roar a little bit. i like the grunts. the loud noises. we have vlad coming. >> he's loo

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this is a kpix5 morning news update. it's 7:56 and i'm michelle griego. covid-19 hospitalizations have dropped to the lowest level in six months in california. fewer are in the hospital today than they have been since april 2nd, just over 2000. if santa clara county moves into the orange, indoor dining could open with 35% capacity and churches in movie theaters could resume indoor service with no more than 100 people. in the north bay, sonoma

county is in the purple zone, the most restrictive of the tear in the state due to a growing number of new covid-19 cases. looking at the roadways, lights are on at the toll bridge plaza and it is backed up to the foot of the maze with approaches slow and go and the eastshore freeway sluggish. 880, the nimitz freeway, a crash southbound at thorton avenue. it is on the shoulder, but traffic is backed up from union city through fremont and other slowdowns on north shore 880. brake lights auto berkeley into emeryville. a pleasant day across the bay area with temperatures on the rise. check out the daytime highs, warmer than yesterday. low to mid-70s on the coast and upper 70

yep, it's tuesday, october 13th, 2020. welcome back to "cbs this morning." i'm gayle king with tony dokoupil and anthony mason. intense questioning, supreme court nominee amy coney barrett faces a barrage of questions today. what we've learned from day one of her confirmation hearings. fighting the coronavirus, new cases are rising across the country, including in new york. we'll ask governor andrew cuomo what he's prepared to do. mary j. blige tells us why she's turning her attention to black women's health. first here's today's "eye opener" at 8:00. president trump back on the

campaign trail, looking and sounding very much the same as he did before he was hospitalized with the coronavirus. is the trump campaign taking a new precautions? >> no, they basically handed out masks, suggested people use them, very few people did. today is round one of questioning. she could be on the hot seat for more than 11 hours today before a follow-up round tomorrow, fielding tough questions about abortion, the election, and obamacare. normally the hawks play here inside state farm arena. now it's the single largest early voting option in the entire state of georgia. behind me you can see some of the 302 voting machines scattered throughout the arena, part of the push to accommodate georgia's record early turnout. outpouring of support for dak prescott after an injury way to gruesome to see again. >> dak, i hope you're doing okay. >> eagles fans heartfelt video for the cowboys quarterback has

gone viral. >> i heard you're going into surgery. i wish you luck and hope you goet that comeback story that you deserve. >> that's what you call from the mouths of babes. >> and he's wearing an eagles jersey as well. >> makes it more important. great, great job. good morning to you. this is day two of testimony in the confirmation hearings for supreme court nominee amy coney barrett. she's now answering questions from 22 members of the senate judiciary committee. during opening statements republican senators praised the judge's qualifications. >> democrats claim barrett was chose on it help overturn obamacare and slammed the gop for moving to confirm her just before the election. >> more than 9 million americans have already voted, and millions more will vote while this illegitimate committee process is under way. >> i'm proud of you. i'm proud of what you've accomplished and i think you're a great choice by the president. >> yesterday presidential candidate joe biden responded to

questions about court packing saying he's not a fan of it. republicans acues democrats of planning to add members to the supreme court if biden is elected president, and democrats take control of congress. coronavirus cases in the u.s. are on the rise, with 37 states seeing an uptick in daily cases over the past seven days. in new york, governor andrew cuomo unveiled lockdowns for hot spots. new york reported over a thousand new cases yesterday, a big decrease from the high of 11,000 in april when the state was the epicenter of the outbreak here in the u.s. nearly 900 people in new york are currently hospitalized with the virus. cuomo discusses what he has learned in his new book "american crisis: leadership lessons from the covid-19 pandemic" and governor cuomo joins us now. good morning, governor. i want to get right to it. we're at a delicate moment in this country. everyone seems to agree the fall

is going to be challenging. what are you doing to prepare? >> good morning. good to be with you. well, the experts all said that the fall was going to be challenging. the weather changes, people go indoors, schools start, et cetera. and we're anticipating that in new york. statewide we have one of the lowest infection rates in the united states of america and new yorkers are very proud about that. we had the highest rate of infection when this started because we were ambushed by the virus. now we have one of the lowest, but what we're doing is we are targeting what we call microclusters, so when we see a small group of cases, we are the firefighters who rush in to stamp it out before it takes off. so we have several areas in the state that are small. they're about two square miles, but wherever we see cases popping up, that's where we jump. >> governor, they are small, but people are concerned about the

fall, as you mentioned the markets are concerned, the rest of the country is concerned. the places restricted now, those hot spots, they have about 6% positivity rate and infection rate of 6%. can we assume that will be your benchmark for deciding if a statewide shutdown is required? >> well, our numbers are so low relative to other states. our worst areas are about 5%, 6%. many states are above 6% across the entire state, right. so what we do is our overall infection rate is about 1%, which is very low. >> so the overall -- governor, if the overall rate you mentioned other states are above 5%, the hot spots are above 6%, and they've got restrictions, would we see a second shutdown if the state level, the overall numbers get above 6%, same standard? >> oh, look, i never want to get that high, so what we're going

to do is do more restrictions on any clusters that start, and that's how you stop it from getting statewide, right? that's one of the points. let's learn the lessons from the past seven months. this is deja vu all over again. we're having the same conversations we had when this virus started. we've learned a lot. let's acknowledge what we've learned, you know? >> yes. >> otherwise, we're just going to repeat the whole situation in the fall. we're still talking about whether or not we should wear masks. how ridiculous? >> it is a remarkable thing but i want to talk about lessons learned and it would seem one of the bigger mistakes we can agree on is back in march, the state of new york sending sick covid positive seniors back to nursing homes thousands died in those nursing homes no matter how you counted a big portion of the overall death toll. knowing what you know now, looking back, i got to assume you would do things differently.

>> look, there's no doubt that we learned lessons. on the nursing homes, the first point is that's how we were introduced to this virus, right? it was a nursing home in the state of washington. the virus preyed on the week and preyed on people in nursing homes and most of the lives lost, the single greatest percentage is in nursing homes and that's true across the country and also no doubt we're in this hyper political environment so everybody wants to point fingers. new york actually we're number 46 out of 50 in terms of percentage of deaths in nursing homes, 46 out of 50. so yes, people died in nursing homes. yes, we've learned a lot of lessons, but 46 out of 50, it's not a predominantly new york program. if we had to do it all over again, tony, i'd do that differently. >> governor, you made that clear in your book. this is gayle speaking. you made it clear about lessons

learned and the mistakes you've made but what i found so fascinating about your book you took us through a tick tock, in real time what you were thinking and the decision-making process. there's no blueprint for any of this. you had to develop trust and trust leads to truth. so 19 days in, when you ordered that lockdown, how did you think or did you think people would pay attention to what you were saying? because none of us had been in this situation before. >> you know, gayle, you raise a very good point and it was unspoken at the time. this was not really about government action. this was, yes, i'm governor of the state of new york but i can sign a piece of paper that orders people to stay home and orders businesses closed and schools closed, but that doesn't mean they're going to follow. government, frankly, doesn't have the elephanticity to take

the actions or enforcement capacity so it was really about getting people to understand the problem so the people agreed to take these actions to protect themselves. that's why it was unlike anything i've done before. it was people understanding the facts and sharing information and informing themselves so they could do the right thing to protect their own family. and that was my posture all through this. >> i felt, many people felt you were the only one who was telling us anything. you gave us hard truths. you didn't try to sugar coat when we needed to hear the truth, and you also talked about your own vulnerabilities. you are a bona fide girl dad, three daughters they were saying dad, what's the deal? your brother, chris cuomo went through a nasty battle, a mom like many hadn't seen their mom and exposed a lot of your own vulnerables. as a governor of the state, i wonder how you were navigating that and your own personal

duties, too. >> yes, you know, gayle, you're right. i had a sense -- once i knew what we were looking at, and the consequences, i knew it was unlike anything we had ever done before and i think the rule book went out the window. people in this partisan atmosphere are not going to listen to a politician, not going to listen to a governor. nobody trusts anyone. i said to the people basically this is andrew. my mother is matilda, these are my daughters, this is my situation. my situation is like your situation. i'm in the same place that you are in. this is not just about information. it's about emotion and i'm feeling the emotion that you are feeling, and i'm afraid for my family. so let's work this through together, and i will tell you the truth, so help me god, good, bad, indifferent, i'm not going to filter facts. facts are facts. let's share and work together and get through this. >> yes, that puts you --

>> that's still where we are. yes? >> a lot of us are still afraid that puts you at odds with the president of the united states. you write "the difference between trump and a great leader is asking him not to act in his self-interest is like asking a skunk not to smell." kind of like poking the bear, governor. are you getting ready for the incoming that's coming your way shortly? >> look, i've been taking incoming from day one, gayle, right? >> all right, yes, you have. >> i have no problem taking the incoming, but i think at this point, i want people to have the information to protect themselves. >> got it. >> everyone is worried about their family. get the facts, inform yourself. >> all right, governor. >> that's what i'm trying to get done. >> thank you, governor. thank you very much. the name of the book is "american crisis" on sale today, wherever you like to buy your

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this morning we continue our eye on innovation series on the increasing role science and technology play in our lives. we're learning how horseshoe crabs could play a key role in the development of a vaccine for the coronavirus. scientists are increasingly concerned about their survival.

tom hansen shows us the fight to save these extraordinary animals. >> reporter: each year from maine to mexico guided by the moon, countless horseshoe crabs complete an annual journey older than the dinosaurs, one that is crucial in developing a covid-19 vaccine. >> these animals have been on the planet for over 445 million years give or take a week or two in there. >> reporter: this is a living fossil? >> yes, it is. that's the male. >> reporter: scientist has dedicated his life to studying these so-called living fossils. >> pretty active. healthy, that's good. >> reporter: he runs the center for environmental research and coastal oceans monitoring program. the largest horseshoe crab breeding ground. they say the horseshoe crab population is in dire straits.

how much time are we looking at before we lose them? >> the next ten years. the next decade is a critical concern. >> reporter: critical concern not just for the ecosystem but for modern medicine. modern medicine has relied on these for decades to the dismay of conservationists. it's because of how their blue blood keeps themself. scientists quickly detect deadly toxins. >> we recognize and most people recognize this is a valuable resource. >> reporter: executive director at charles river laboratories -- >> it really represents lots of evolution and the horseshoe crab blood is exquisitely sensitive to the endotoxins. >> reporter: you've likely never heard of these but it started with dr. frederick bang. in 1946 he saw a horseshoe crab

become infected and witnessed it clotting around that bacteria. >> when they're in a shallow water. >> they're awash in bacteria. if they get injured, they recognize the bacteria as an opportunity for infection so they clot. >> reporter: that reaction became the basis for this test which checks for bacterial infection in any medical product that goes into the body before the manufacturer ships them out including iv drugs, heart valves, yes, vaccines. >> we have a 450 million-year-old creature that for the last 45 years has improved the safety of medicines for humans and animals. >> reporter: in the u.s. limits have been put on how many horseshoe crabs can be harvested each year. while the horseshoe crab cells can be removed with no apparent harm to the creature, biomedical harvesting, over fishing and coastal development are causing

a drop in the population raising major questions about their survival. >> there's a public concern, a real concern about these animals that we lose their habitat or lose them coming to shore, once you lose them, they're gone. extinction is forever. >> reporter: but with a global push for a covid-19 vaccine underway, horseshoe crabs are once again in the spotlight which he hopes will help conservation efforts. >> if enough people could hear about it and talk to it, that helps. getting the attention -- this has been going on long before a pandemic as issues and concerns for these animals and our health. so i'm optimistic. you have to be. >> reporter: for "cbs this morning," tom hansen, new york. >> encountering horseshoe crabs on beaches for years. i have a new found respect for them. one economist's late night nobel

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welcome back to "cbs this morning." it's that time again. time to bring you some of the stories that are the talk of the table. tony is up first. >> i am talking about another baseball legend that we have lost. joe morgan. one of the best second basemen in history. i would say the best second baseman in history died on sunday at 77. he won back-to-back world series in '75 and '76. he was the national league mvp in both years. 22 seasons in the big leagues. for people like me, a younger generation, they remember him for his post playing career as a broadcaster. "sunday night baseball" with john miller, famous for explaining the bleeding obvious

on the baseball field. but it was great. he was accessible. he brought the game to younger viewers. if you were 10, you watched him and you learned things. it was a beautiful experience. >> he was a real gentleman broadcaster i always thought and, i mean, just a superb player. >> yeah. >> part of the big red machine. really great. my story is this. one of this year's nobel prize winners found out in a most unexpected way. his neighbor and fellow winner went to his house in the middle of the night to let him know. >> hello. >> it's bob wilson. >> yeah? >> you won the nobel -- >> hi. >> you've won the nobel prize. >> that's robert wilson with his wife mary over his shoulder outside paul milgrim's house early yesterday. they could not reach him because he had switched his phone to silent. wilson answered his nobel call, then walked over to deliver the

good news at 2 a.m. they won the nobel for economics for discovering a way to make auctions run more efficiently. there are a couple other things i love about this story. wilson who is 83 was once milgrim's who's 72 ph.d. advisor. the other thing is milgrim's wife was over seas. she received it from the doorbell security camera back home so she actually got to watch wilson give the news to her husband. >> i love everything about that. >> i love how they're peering through that eye hole. what's he doing at 2 in the morning? nobody will knock at 2 in the morning is not good news. >> good news. my talk of the table is mary j. blige. yes, indeed. >> say no more. >> say no more is right, anthony. she's considered the queen of hip-hop soul. her chart topping hits include hits like "family affair." nobody sounds like miss mary. she has sold tens of millions of

albums worldwide and now she's using that powerful voice to bring attention to barriers that black women face when it comes to breast cancer screening. blige is partnering with the black women's health imperative that's called power of sure. power is an acronym that stands for prevention own your health journey wellness, protection, early detection and results. >> i lost my aunt and that has crossed my mind when i have gone in. however, i haven't let that stop me from being sure about my health and i don't think anyone else should either. black women are often very private. business, but the more we open up, the more it allows us to share information that can be life saving. >> that's why she's doing this, she wants to save lives. hello, mary j. blige. this is so important you're doing this. >> hello, gayle. >> really good to see you. >> good to see you. >> you talk in the psa that you had your first mammogram in your

40s and you didn't know what to expect. i know that moment. you walk in that room and you look at that machine and you say, you're going to squeeze what with what? how flat is it going to be? how is it going to work? it is very daunting. >> right. >> do you recall that first experience and what it was really like for you? >> yeah. my first experience i was a little nervous because not just the fact that, you know, is it going to hurt but just getting diagnosed with breast cancer, like, you know, who wants to walk away with that news? but once i did it, you know, it was all about wanting more information about my body. now i want to know everything about me because now if i can see it, you know, when it's really the 3d mammography or the x-rays, i can change it. it's about knowledge. you know, knowledge about your body. knowledge about how a mammogram can save your life, it's power. >> that's right. >> that's why i'm here. >> you say your health is your wealth.

mary, that moment when you're sitting there waiting for the results and the doctor walks in, you're trying to look at their face. i say, could you smile when you walk in the room. they walk in the room to give you the news, yes, you're okay, no, we need to do more tests. you say if your aunt had had this information, possibly her life could have been saved because according to the cdc breast cancer death rates are 40% higher among black women than white women. >> right. exactly. like i believe if my aunt had this information, she would be alive. i mean, a lot of us when we're growing up, in our households our mothers don't mention mammograms or the importance of it or even breast cancer. family member just ups and dies and you find out they had breast cancer. with me going and having information that i have, there's a bunch of women that love and respect, you know, just everything that i do and i just always want to share with them, you know, not preach to them, just me being an example of, you

know, healthy living. just trying to live healthy and this is a part of it. >> mary, it's anthony mason. we're talking about some very important health issues here. i wanted to talk about mental health in this coronavirus. i read that mary j. blige was going back and listening to a lot of mary j. blige music, something maybe you don't often do. >> right. >> what you heard in that and what you took from it. >> man, i took a lot of learning how to be patient, especially from my life. there is this line where it says, take your time, one day at a time. it's all on you, what you gonna do. in the middle of a pandemic, what else can we do? except for take our time. one day at a time. we can't go anywhere. we can't see our family members. we have to pray. we have to be patient and pray for patience and, yeah, you know, it was definitely -- it was definitely my life.

my lyrics ministering back to me and giving me inspiration. >> are you feeling more creative at this point in time or more sort of -- a lot of people feel very shut down. >> you know, i was in the pandemic feeling more creative because there's so much to say. there's so much to -- there's so much to do and there's so much love to give at a point like this because you can't really hate because it can just -- it can kill you at a time like this. but so much love to give. so many things to write about. and i'm always inspired by real life in my songs so this was real life. i mean, not that life wasn't real, but this was like, whoa. >> whoa is right. >> yeah. you can speak negative about it or you can speak optimistically about it, and i try to speak optimistically but practical, too, about it when i'm writing my lyrics. you can't be like it's all good because it's not. but you can say we will get to

the other side. >> that's why it's good to put on a good old mary j. blige song. she will get you through many things, mary j. blige. this happened before you came on. meagan stallion wrote a powerful op ed. she said i was recently the victim of an act of violence by a man. i was shot twice. i walked away from him. i was not in a relationship. the way people have publicly questioned and debated whether i played a role in my own violent assault proves that my fears of discussing what happened was warranted. the issue is more intense for black women who struggle against stereotypes and are seen as angry and threatening when we try to stand up for ourselves and our sisters. there is not much room for passionate advocacy. bravo, megan, for writing it. i'm reading it, too, for the first time. >> this is my first time hearing

it. i love megan. she's a beautiful person. i respect her. strong woman. >> i do, too. >> she's ahead of the game already. she understands what this game is. you have to be private. as public as you are, people see your life publicly. you have to be private. you can't give everyone everything. as much as people think they know a lot about me. a lot of people know a lot of things about me. they don't know a lot about me. i've been open and transparent. >> she's talking about the minimalization of black women that is important to address. does that resonate with you at all? >> well, i mean, it does and bravo to her for understanding that. >> for understanding and speaking it. >> yes. >> in "the new york times" today. i highly, highly, highly recommend people read it. mary j. blige, thank you. bravo to you. >> you're welcome. >> you're going to get people to get a mammogram who had never thought about it before and that's a lot. >> thank you.

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all depends on the jury. pick the right jury and you walk. da picks the jury and you get the gas. >> they look young, doesn't they? >> that was matthew mcconaughey playing in "a time to kill." it was adapted from john grisham's very first novel. now the best selling author is returning to jake's story in his new story "a time for mercy." his third novel. this time jake finds himself defending a 16-year-old accused of killing a local deputy. john grisham joins us first on "cbs this morning." welcome. what took you back to jake again? >> good morning, anthony. good to see you guys again. wish i could be in the studio in new york. >> absolutely. >> we do, too. >> on my farm in virginia. it's beautiful here. you know, "a time to kill" is my favorite book, favorite

characters, very autobiographical. that's what i enjoy writing. >> i'm shocked to hear you say that. you've written 35 books. you've sold a gazillion books. that's legitimate, it's been certified. the first one is still your favorite? >> yeah, for a lot of sentimental reasons. it was autobiographical and it was written at a time when i didn't know if it was going to get published. i was living that life as a small town lawyer in mississippi, struggling, dreaming of the big case. a lot of nostalgia when it comes to "a time to kill," jake, and those characters and i love to go back there and write the stories. >> in this book jake is given a case he doesn't want to take. a local deputy has been shot. you were assigned cases you didn't really want when you were a lawyer. >> yeah, and a lot of small counties, small jurisdictions in the country there's no public

defender's office. when there's a crime, especially a serious crime, the local judges have to assign the defense to the local bar and i experienced it. there was a terrible crime, the lawyers don't want the cases because they're very difficult. this is a story about a -- you know, a dead cop in a small town and no lawyer wants to step in for the defense. jake sure didn't want to, but he was kind of forced to. he gradually realized it was him or no one so he came to the defense of this kid and the kid's family and we go to trial. >> john, obviously this is a very contentious time in terms of the police and the justice system. did that play into your thinking in writing this book? has your own attitude towards the justice system changed in the years that you've been writing these books? >> certainly has changed. it goes back to about 15 years ago when i wrote a book called "the innocent man," a nonfiction account of a wrongful

conviction. at that point i became aware of all of the problems we have with the criminal justice system. i've written a lot of them and will continue to do so. that's where my interests lie. when i start the book, i was not thinking about the police or those issues. it just kind of happened. there's no real mystery here. in the first chapter you know who killed who. so the question becomes how do you handle a 16-year-old kid charged with capital murder. the story takes place in 1990. it was common in the death belt to put teenagers on trial for capital murder. it explores issues of how do you handle kids. youngsters who commit terrible crimes and how do you protect the victims? i don't really answer the question in the book because i don't know the answer. >> john, i wanted to ask you quickly. you posted a video of matthew mcconaughey, of how he got that part in that movie, which you had approval on. from what i understand, your wife played a critical role in that casting? >> they sent us the old vhf

tape. we plugged it in the vcr and there was matthew. she said, that's him. he's got the looks, the charisma, the southern accent. we had not seen him act but we said, this is our guy. he did a wonderful job. >> john grisham, no matter where you are. >> she said you look like an ad for how to survive covid. >> you look like an ad for the good life, john grisham. >> quarantine. on the farm in quarantine. >> quarantine never looked so good. >> thanks for being with us. "a time for mercy" is on sale today. we'll be right back. the unfair money bail system. he, accused of rape. while he, accused of stealing $5. the stanford rapist could afford bail; got out the same day. the senior citizen could not;

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to our cbs news president susan zirinsky. she received an award yesterday. this was the 50th year for the award ceremony. i did because susan zirinsky was getting an award. our country works to fight systemic racism. she discussed her efforts to make the news division and coverage more racially inclusive. >> at this point in my career, i need not tell you how long, i see my heaffesaviest responsibis to uphold journalistic standards and evolve into the next generation of a balanced, more powerful journalistic workplace. >> she first joined cbs news in 1972. she's been a dynamic part of our team ever since. well deserved. >> longer than i have. >> well deserved.

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this is a kpix5 news morning update. good morning. five minutes before 9:00 and i'm anne makovec. right now, tens of thousands and the bay area are bracing for more fire danger as pg&e warns that nearly 50,000 customers could have power shut off starting tomorrow. the potential impact areas are parts of the north bay mountains, pockets of the santa cruz mountains and the biggest potential impact is in napa county. covid-19 hospitalizations in california have dropped to the lowest level in six months. fewer patients are in the hospital that there has been

since april 2nd, with over 2000. california will update the tear map today. if santa clara county moves into the orange, indoor dining could open with 25% capacity and churches and movie theaters could resume indoor service with no more than 100 people. i'm gianna franco in the traffic center and if you are going to the bay bridge, we have brake lights, but it is improving. just behind the 880 crossing, things are easing up with slow and go conditions. mostly off the sky way around that fremont exit heading into san francisco. busy along the nimitz freeway with a crash in union city and the trouble center in thorton is clearing with a bit of a snag at the toll plaza on the dumbarton bridge. a sunny and warm afternoon with daytime highs warmer than yesterday. low to mid-70s along the coast and upper 70s to low to mid-80s around the bay and heating up our home was burned to the ground

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