booster seats. the report calls for a consumer protection investigation. >> parents are lee lrelying on companies to sell safely products and relying on the federal government to regulate the products. unfortunately neither of those things happened and that is disgraceful. >> when the manufacturers guidance is in fact a bunch of falsehoods and lies, kids lives are being put at risk. >> this doctor is a lead author of car seat recommendations for the cad -- >> we asked hoffman to review the videos. would you have given any of the booster seats in those videos a passing grade? >> i can't imagine that i would give those a passing grade. the videos where the impact was on the far side, those were especially terrifying, because there's so much movement of the head and neck of the dummy outside of the shell of the booster seat. >> since at least 2002, the

american academy of pediatrics has recommended kids be at least 40 pounds before transitioning on a booster seat. canada has required it since 1987, but u.s. regulations still allow for kids weighing as little as 30 pounds to be in a booster. >> do it again. >> jillian brown was a 37 pound 5-year-old when the car she was riding in was hit from the side on way to school. >> first thing i did was look back to see, to check on the girls. >> brown, was strapped in to her ev evenflo booster seat. the crash left her paralyzing her from the neck down. >> i would never have bought it, i would have left them in the five point harness, rear facing for years. you read it and you believe it. >> had they said that the injuries were due to the severity of the crash and on or driver error and that the seat

passed the internal crash at the times. the lawsuit was settled this summer. but four years before the crash that left jillian paralyzed, e-mails from the company showed they decided to pay 30,000 in labeling costs to market it to 30 pounds up instead of the 40 pounds and up required in canada, for the same seat. i have looked for the 40 pounds numerous times and will not approve it. evenflo and graco have adopted a 40 pound limit. but others market theirs for at little at 30 pounds. we were able to buy in booster tuesday that said, 30 pounds and up. >> as a parent, i am begging people to please not put children under 40 pounds in a booster seat. what we have seen from this investigation is terrifying, and

heartbreaking. the companies all declined to go on camera, so did the trade association that said in a statement, a correctly used car seat is a child's best defense in a car crash reducing the risk of injury by 45% compared with vehicle seat belts alone. adding the industry supports stringent federal standards t the report is critical of the national highway traffic safety that set the standards. despite being directed by congress 20 years ago, to create a standard for car seats the agency has not done it. they say, the process is highly complex and the standards are coming soon. so, parents what do you do, experts for the kids in the 30 pound range, they are safe staying in a car seat like this, that has the five point harness until they grow out of it. that will be at least 40 pounds and some go up to 65 pounds. this one says, 40-100 pounds to the booster and four years old. then make the transition to a booster seat. now the oversight committee

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vaccinations under way in britain, the question is will everyone take the shot. one bio engineer is fighting the falsehoods with facts and she is doing it on tiktok. elizabeth palmer has the story from london. >> reporter: it's week one of the vaccination roll-out in britain. soon this will be an option for everyone. so, we headed out to ask london commuters if they are on board. >> oh, yeah, absolutely. >> definitely going for it. >> yes, i will, yes. >> yeah, i will have the vaccine. >> reporter: you will have it? >> yes, there's nothing really wrong with it. >> reporter: by farks most said is they will have the shot. research shows that too many, hal of the population remains skeptical or would down right refuse. enter social media. health agencies say a big part of getting people on side is making accurate information easy to find. like, here on tiktok. >> how does a vaccine induce an

imimmune response. >> reporter: meet anna, an american bio engineer, working in london, who has taken to tiktok to prove that hard facts about the covid vaccine don't have to be boring. ♪ vaccines 9-5 >> we caught up with her on zoom. so i have been looking at your tiktok posts. they are hilarious and you are a great dancer. >> thank you. >> reporter: how often do you do a new one? >> i try to do four to five per week. ♪ >> reporter: anna is a tiktok sensation, one of her videos got 50 million hits. >> my personal strategy is that people come for the entertainment but then stay for the science. >> reporter: you package the rna in to little particles these are made of different fats or lipids. >> reporter: then there's

vaccine misinformation that ranges from plain inaccurate to pure conspiracy. >> reporter: the social media is removing it but it is doing its round. heidi larson runs the vaccine confidence project. what are the main factors that lead people to not want to take the vaccine? >> one of the dominant ones is the anxiety of how quickly these vaccines were made and approved with the knowledge that previous ones have taken so long. >> reporter: anna has reassurance on that point. >> no matter what vaccine it is, it has to pass the same regulatory check points. >> we do not consent. we do not consent. >> reporter: others maintain woud a shred of evidence that it's a gateway to surveillance that big government or pharma

can be trusted, confusing trial results like the recent ones from astrazeneca, under mine those that want the shot. >> trust is fundamental, i often say that we don't have a misinformation problem as much as we have a trust problem. >> we have a good biological understanding of vaccines as well as the body. >> reporter: an army of young scientists have taken to the internet. anna blackney is one of the most influential, determined to pucks that trust problem a tiktok at a time. ? having a connection with a single person who is there and personable and you can show them what you do in the lab, it helps to alleviate their fears. >> reporter: one up lifting thing to come out of the research from the london school of hygiene is that people were more inclined to say yes they would take the vaccine if it was presented as something that would protect their family and friends instead of something that would just protect them themselves. >> elizabeth palmer in london,

thank you. nasa is one step closer to sending astronauts back to the moon and beyond. 18 have been selected to prepare, and one will be the first female to walk on the lunar surface. >> jessica watkins. >> make way, apollo era, in 2020, this is what the right stuff looks like. >> the artemis generation. >> nasa's 18artemis astronauts range in age from 32-55. half of them have never been to space. half are women. and nasa intends for one of them to be in space first. >> i will either walk on the moon, or one of my friends will walk on the moon. and both of those scenarios are beyond my wildest dreams when i was a kid >> i want took my breath away. >> we spoke to nicoleman, she is currently training to fly the

starliner ship to the international space station next year and now the moon is on her horizon too. >> www.be important to do you to be the first woman to land on the moon? >> you know, i would love to be the first woman to walk on the moon. but, in reality, it's the bigger mission that's more important. it's important that we get there as americans and that we get there as a human race. >> to get there, nasa is developing a new megarocket and crew capsule called orion. but congress has yet to fully fund the trump administration's 2024 landing goal. and the incoming biden administration has to agree with these excited artemis astronauts that the moon mission matters. >> one of the important things for a huge program and huge endeavor like this is to have the continuity across administrations and i feel confident we have that. this is the future of human exploration. >> but if the goal here was to create moon excitement, mission accomplished. mark straussman, atlanta.

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here's one bore the holidays, santa is coming to rescue christmas, that is, if he can fix the audio. we found this yuletide tale on the road. >> twas three weeks before christmas, all through this house, not a creature was stirring except for this mouse. as santa struggled to connect on zoom. which is why the children heard him exclaim as he came in to sight. >> can you hear me? can you hear me, t.j.? >> your call cannot be completed as dialed. it's a constant struggle to be a 2020 santa claus and i make no secret that i don't know what i'm doing. >> reporter: coronavirus has made santa long for simpler

times. fortunately for santa and those around the narksz there's support groups. >> okay, am i unmuted? >> reporter: in theses challenges, they help navigate the new normal. >> click on the three dots and safe it to your computer. >> okay. >> for santa, bob jordan who summers outside massachusetts the transition from private parties to virtual visits have been a tough hill to climb. a look around his workshop and you see what a jolly old analog elf he is. and yet, he got a webcam. >> and a microphone, and a ring light. it's doable. it's going to happen. christmas is coming. because you know you will make somebody happy. >> and perhaps, because of that unconditional love, a christmas miracle happened. >> now, you get exciting for christmas? >> yes. >> you are? >> santa figured out zoom.

>> hey! >> as have elves reduce the country. >>s in so cool. >> this month, they will do thousands of virtual visits. >> the real santa. >> and although it's not the same as santa's lap. >> i miss you santa claus. >> in some ways it's better. >> i miss you too, so much, dallas. >> because, if it's really the thought and effort that count >> i want love you so. >> santa has already given us his best gift of the season. >> bye-bye now! >> bye! >> steve hartman, on the road. >> merrychristmas. >> at the north pole. >> buy, santa. >> sure hope we are all on the nice list this year. that's the overnight news for this friday. for some of you the news continues, for others check back later this morning. for cbs this morning and of course, follow us online any time at cbs news.com. report progress the nation's capitol.

it's friday, december 11th, 2020. this is the "cbs morning news." key vaccine endorsement. an fda panel gives the green light to pfizer's coronavirus vaccine, paving the way for emergency approval. how long it will take for the general public to get the shots as cases and deaths skyrocket. long shot lawsuit. as president trump continues to falsely insist he won the election, some of his allies are suing to invalidate results at key swing states. why the case is unlikely to ever reach the supreme court. and person of the year. president-elect joe biden and vice president-elect kamala harris are the winners of "time" magazine's coveted annual award. we'll tell you why they were