that way to sweep it under the you go are. >> reporter: amy found evidence commanders were investigating some cases themselves. which violates the military's own code of justice. >> i discovered written documentation of illegal investigations and victims languishing and i asked for help over and over to no avail. >> reporter: the military said there's zero tolerance when it comes to sex aassault. is that true? >> i feel the commanders are ill equipped to make the decisions. that's why we are here, we advise them and they do not listen. each day they allow it to occur, there's no zero tolerance. there's tolerance. >> reporter: of sexual assault and rape. >> absolutely. we see an increases in reports and decrease in convictions and more and more people saying they are being retaliated against. >> reporter: in the most recent anonymous survey, 64% of women who reported a sexual assault

said they experienced retaliation. >> people are aparafraidafraid,e rape is bad, and i don't want to go through this, it's worse than rape. >> reporter: what is worse than rape? >> the retaliation. and the judgment. >> reporter: the day after she -- >> i think the breadth and the depth of the problem is so large they don't want the general public to understand they don't have it under control. >> reporter: maryann was fired in june after the air force commander that she was complaining to about the sexually offensive coweulture o base, changed her credentials. >> they said you will be gone and they were right. >> reporter: that's how powerful it is. >> men are deciding whether

women are assaulted or harassed, it's a difficult fight. >> reporter: and lyndsay believes reporting her concerns about the army's elite fighters to a commanding general led to her firing in july. >> so it all came to a head when i reported that delta force was covering up rape. >> reporter: what do you believe they were trying to cover up? >> they don't want people to know that their elite fighting force is capable of doing these kinds of things. >> reporter: you believe you were retaliated against for advocating for a rape victim? >> absolutely. >> reporter: how can it be fixed? >> don't put me under a commander that if you are violating a law, and i say something, and i'm fired. of. >> one thing we fail to mention here is that the things that we are talking about are crimes. for anyone to overlook that, not handle it appropriately, that's

a crime in and of itself. >> reporter: you are talking about onesretaliated against and covered it up. >> absolutely. >> report it to the special council, flood thempt flood them. you matter. your voice needs to be heard and it needs to be heard now. >> reporter: the military declined our request for an interview. last night the secretary of the army ryan mccarthy responded to our investigation. >> this topic has captivated the attention of america and our army leaders and it is clear we must do better. >> the army promised a new action plan next month. norah o'donnell. cbs news. do you have a life insurance policy you no longer need? now you can sell your policy, even a term policy, for an immediate cash payment. call coventry

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later. ray tested positive for coronavirus. watson could only say goodbye over facetime the night before she passed away. what is your favorite memory of your mom? >> she was a character, my favorite memory of her was her personality. she was always good and up for anything. and she was a lot of fun and i miss that. >> reporter: while most facilities banned outside visitors. residents are still at risk of being exposed to the virus through unknowing care takers. >> frustrated for us, because we could not see her. but there's people from the outside more exposed than we are going in every day. >> we cannot create a bubble around the elderly folks living in nursing homes. >> reporter: in a newly published paper, she looked at six states currently experiences surges, including utah, as cases in the community rose, she found weekly cases among nursing home

staff more than triple and resident cases more unanimous quadruple from june to october. >> we find that community spread is the largest predictor of which nursing homes experience cases and then, which nursing homes experience a severe outbreak with a lot of death. part of the solution is rapid testing of staff on site. 80% of nursing homes have access to rapid testing machines. but the concerns about accuracy and a shortage of testing supplies have prompted many facilities to continue to send samples to laboratories. experts believe had that eliminating test delays and reducing community spread is critical to reducing nursing home infections. >> we have to do everything that we can. it seems common sense to protect the most vulnerable among us. >> now, the avalon valley rehabilitation center said it cannot comment on individual patients but it uses outside

contractors like nurses and therapy staff, and their screening process, they say, does meet federal standards. and they say, they are thankful for increased testing capabilities, including that new rapid test machine. >> carter evans in salt lake city. while schools across the nation have moved to remote learning a boarding school in washington, d.c. is working to stay open. the monument academy provides education and a place to live for at risk youngsters. jeff pegues reports. >> this is a school that reopened last month after being shut down because of the pandemic and the 10% of the student body that came back to classes were the ones who were having the hardest time with remote learning. now they have a place to learn and live. after nearly seven months. monument academy opened its doors again. parents brought their children back to a school -- >> welcome, kumai. >> that kumari said is a refuge.

>> there's a lot of people getting shot that are little kids. >> he is one of seven kids his mother raises alone while working multiple jobs. is school an escape for you? >> yes. >> in what ways? >> like taking a little bit off my mom's plate, she doesn't have to deal with another child and spend more money than she has to. >> reporter: the struggles are common for the students. majority of the student body at the starter school is at risk. on medication, or they have special needs. >> we got them. seven for seven. >> reporter: the school's ceo, jeffrey grant said that the academy serves students that need more than just an education. >> we are able to support the parents by showing that their most appreciates assets are fed, are housed, are clothed and nurtured and provided the opportunity to become successful

community members. >> reporter: all of it was put on hold, on the earth, standing up sidedown, right now. >> we visited the school before the pandemic began. >> right. >> reporter: at the time, the students lived here under supervision, in apartment like homes. how is your life changed since you have been in the school? >> they feed us, and get a good education here. >> good morning, good morning. >> reporter: the pandemic could be the school's greatest challenge to date. >> we require additional funding so that we can give them the wrap around services and the emotional support, the additional services. we have a great fundraiser in the springtime to close the gap that we have to close each and every year. the pandemic shut that down. >> it's too early to tell how successful bringing these students back in to the building will be.

>> they are still virtual learning with their laptops and teachers are not yet allowed to teach in classrooms here. >> but the up side, this is a safe space for students like crystal. >> you just realize when it's gone, like, when you are not in school how much you miss school and how much it helped you throughout the year. >> for grant, the mission is to keep the doors open. to protect the students who need it most. >> we bring them in to an environment, seven days a week. for seven weeks. so that they can have that stability. they are not going outside and being exposed to crime, abuse. that's what we are here to do. and that's what we are going to do. >> i'm checking in, all right, we be back. >> all right, so, school gets out here this afternoon. and then, the students will be allowed to go home for thanksgiving break. the goal of the program is to expand the number of students who are going to the school in

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the coronavirus pandemic is causing a mental health crisis among front line health care workers. they have been working relentlessly for months and now they are dealing with new challenges and fears as the number of hospitalizations are hitting a record high. we have the story. >> things are tough right now for us. our med-surg beds are pretty much at capacity and then we have about 10% of our staff out quarantined so we are facing staff shortages. >> it's an exercise in stress tolerance. how much can we take until the wheels fall off. >> with you seeing your hospital being overwhelmed? j we are seeing an influx, we are looking at a situation where icus, will be full, even if we

can create physical beds. >> what is it like emotionally? >> health care workers are carrying an emotional burden and toll for the last several months. just the level of fatigue and accumulated trauma our health care providers have faced already. we are in a point where people should be looking to replenish themselves and instead, they are climbing the highest part of the mountain. >> i think exhaustiom n is the biggest the nurses are working four 12 hour shifts and then having the schools be out. you are working and then going to home school your children at home. you are doing it day after day after day. >> i think a lot on us now, are in kind of, for the lack of a better word, siege mentality, where emotional considerations just kind of get pushed aside for a while. it's fatigue beyond fatigue. >> at the point where we are most worn down we have to do something that is probably going

to be more work than what we have done and dealt with before. >> and we cannot stay home and work from home. we show up every day and we do the best we can. but you have to deal with the meantal toll that it takes. >> the horrible fear at the back of your mind, at some point, people are just going to die because there's no place for them. that gives me pause. >> i do believe that there's a reckoning with how vulnerable we are to the virus to the possibility of being overwhelmed by it and death. i think it's something hthat i grapple with as a doctor but it t was not tangible until now. >> what do you want people to know about how health care workers are feeling going in to another surge? >> no matter what, we are here. and in the same way that we will always be here for you. we want people to do all the things we need to do. >> we are showing up every morning and it is 99% of the

battle. >> and that's the "cbs overnight news" for this friday. reporting from the it's friday, november 20th, 2020. this is the "cbs morning news." holiday warning. the cdc sends an urgent message to americans as covid cases hit an all time high ahead of thanksgiving. resisting the results. president trump tries a new legal move to flip the election while suffering a new defeat in georgia. reporting to prison. the husband of actress lori loughlin begins his sentence in a college admissions scandal. well, good morning. really good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. we are going to begin with a record-breaking number of coronavirus cases just days before the thanksgiving holiday.