♪ good morning to you, our viewers in the west, and welcome to "cbs this morning." it's tuesday, january 5th, 2021. i'm gayle king with anthony mason and tony dokoupil. georgia could make history today with two runoff elections. how trump's baseless claims of a rigged election could impact the race. >> the battle against the pandemic intensifies with one hospital even treating patients in a gift shop. we'll show you how millions who get sick with the virus still haven't fully recovered. >> we have part two of our exclusive cbs news investigation into doctors who keep practicing after they have harmed patients. we try to get answers from a medical board considering the case of one surgeon in particular. >> and the book of life. henry lewis gates jr. helps

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covid-19 grips the nation. >> it's been frustrating and alarming to see the speed with which the new variant is spreading. >> larry king has been moved out of the icu as he continues to battle covid-19 at a los angeles area hospital. >> all that -- >> playful dolphin wasn't about t allow one man to steal his spotlight. the dolphin started doing flips of its own. >> our daughter jane asked us last night, she said, can we throw an "i hate the virus" party when this is over. not only can you throw the party. you can drive us home from it afterward. >> president trump under criticism after the release of a phone call in which he pressured georgia's secretary of state to overturn the election results there. >> i think it's pretty clear that we won. we won very substantially georgia. you even see it by rally size, frankly. >> one problem. rally size does not decide who wins the election. that's why on the 20th of

january we won't be swearing in president bts. >> this morning's "eye opener" is presented by progressive. making it easy to bundle insurance. >> bts does draw a crowd, though. welcome to cbs this morning. let's begin with the big news, what's happening in georgia today. it's runoff day in georgia with control of the u.s. senate hanging in the ambulance. there you can see people lined up this morning to cast their ballots after millions voted early. and the races are still very close to call with republicans trying to keep their seats. senator david perdue is facing jon ossoff. senator kelly loeffler is up against reverend raphael warnock. >> today's historic vote comes after rallies yesterday from president trump and president-elect biden. the two men gave speeches that delivered very different messages. mark strassmann is in atlanta. mark, good morning. >> good morning, anthony. big day here today, of course, especially for republicans.

democrats seem to get more of the 3 million early votes cast in this runoff. so republicans need their folks to show up today if they'll hang on to the two u.s. senate seats. and republican leaders have to hope that president trump's last-minute rally last night helped more than it hurt. >> our country is depending on you. the whole world is watching the people of georgia tomorrow. >> so today, tomorrow, vote. make sure your voice is heard. >> in dueling rallies, president trump and president-elect biden did seem to agree on one thing. the importance of georgia's elections. >> show up and vote them out! >> reverend raphael warnock and jon ossoff are the democrats hoping to unseat gop incumbents kelly loeffler and david perdue. both races will determine which party controls the senate and the candidates are spending record money to get voters' attention. each democratic candidate raised

more than $100 million in two months. compared to more than $16 million each for the republicans. >> vote! vote! vote! >> reporter: mr. biden campaigned for the democrats yesterday using the rally to slam president trump's response to the covid pandemic. >> i don't know why he still wants the job. he doesn't want to do the work. >> reporter: while president trump spent most of his nearly 90 minutes on stage repeating his false claims about election fraud here. >> there's no way we lost georgia. there's no way. rigged -- that was a rigged election. >> hefighting. >> if the liberal democrats take the senate and the white house -- and they're not taking this white house. we're going to fight like hell. i'll tell you right now. >> the president's georgia trip came a day after the release of a stunning audiotape, a phone call in which he's heard pressuring georgia's republican secretary of state brad raffensberger to reverse the results of the state's presidential election. >> i only need 11,000 votes.

fellas, i need 11,000 votes. give me a break. >> on the call, raffensberger refused the president's demands and told cbs evening news anchor and managing eddor norah o'donnell, there's no reason to doubt today's election results either. >> the machines are safe, secure and we're going to have an accurate election count. we'll know who won this race. >> both races are considered close and democrats need to win both to seize control of the senate. gayle? >> mark, thank you. georgia's lieutenant governor jeff duncan joins us to talk about the election today. good to see you again, lieutenant governor. let's start picking up on mark's piece about turnout today. there's some concern the president's rhetoric could hurt the turnout today. what are you thinking? >> well, i certainly have been disappointed about the rhetoric as you just mentioned. it has not been helpful to talk about election fraud and fan the flames on the misinformation, but i've got to give kelly loeffler and david perdue credit.

they've worked hard. they've been consistently out there every single day. even in quarantine, david perdue has been trying to work hard to get voter turnout. we just got to remind georgia voters to show up and continue to elect conservatives. that's all we can do right now. >> what should voters be aware of as they go to the polls? the president held a rally, again more baseless claims, claiming fraud, that it was rigged. he seems to be threatening and bullying people to really do his bidding for him. what do you want voters to know, georgia voters to know as they go to the polls today about their election? >> yeah, you know, look, here in georgia, all eight statewide constitutional officers are republicans. we've got republican majorities in the state house and state senate and voters have been with us a long time. i want to remind them conservative leadership is where we're at here in georgia and it's our future. and david and kelly have been great to work with and they've certainly represented our conservative values. that's what i want to remind them of. all this other side show stuff, misinformation is not helpful.

it isn't on message for certain, but, you know, it's the hand we've been dealt with. >> you called it a side show. and misinformation. but it's landing for a lot of people who are believing what the president is saying. the president has called you out. he's called your governor out. he has made it clear he's going to campaign against your governor. last time you were here, you mentioned your three sons. what do you tell your children because the children are watching. when the president of the united states is bullying you, bullying your governor, calling you -- making disparaging comments and questioning your integrity, what do you say to your own children at this point? >> it's been a great opportunity in our own household. i've got two teenagers and a 10-year-old and they get to watch dad come home, who every day tells them, hey, always do the right thing. it's never the wrong thing. and they get to watch dad come home and put that on display for them. even if the president disagrees with me, the president of the united states disagrees with where i'm at and what i'm doing

that doesn't mean i'm not going to do the right thing. >> it's more than disagreeing. it's more than disagreeing. the president of the united states is not being truthful. there's a big difference between disagreeing and not being truthful. >> yeah, i think any republican that is using this election fraud and all this misinformation, and this includes the president, it's simply just an excuse. and it doesn't help us get to the next level. and to me, the next lefshlgs veo figure out how to win whack backe the white house in 2024. >> did the president's phone call across the line in your opinion? >> i'm not an attorney. i don't have the opportunity to parse the differences there, but what i will tell you is i was extremely disappointed. i was disappointed with the purpose of the call, the tone of the call. i can't imagine anybody on the president's staff was giving him advice before, during and after that that was a good idea. i was proud of brad raffensberger's consistent response and continue to just look for every opportunity to follow the letter of the law and certainly that's what he was

hired to do by georgians. >> is democracy at stake? some people say it is. >> it's certainly not our best foot forward at this point. but this is america, and i remind folks everywhere i go. january twen20th, the constitut will still be alive and well. we'll still have the opportunity to disagree and work against bad ideas. we'll have the opportunity to continue to figure out ways to get more majorities in other places, and we'll have an opportunity to 2024 to go back up to the plate and take a swing and see if we can win the white house back. >> lieutenant governor jeff duncan, thank you. we'll all be watching today. >> thanks, gayle. in washington, president trump's attempts to hold on to power are driving a wedge into and possibly through the republican party. there is a widening riff between lawmakers over a plan to challenge the electoral college vote tomorrow. normally a day of pomp and ceremony. nancy cordes has been covering all of it on capitol hill for us. nancy, good morning to you. >> good morning. tensions are definitely rising

ahead of this certification clash tomorrow. one of the leaders of the challenge effort, missouri's josh hawley says that protesters showed up at his virginia home and threatened his family. protest organizers deny that that happened. and so, clearly, there's a lot of drama surrounding a process that's normally a formality. >> this is about the integrity of our elections. >> missouri senator josh hawley cheered on a growing movement last night. republicans who plan to contest the results tomorrow without evidence of fraud. >> i believe there are serious questions with respect to the presidential election. >> reporter: despite attempts by senator leader mitch mcconnell to talk them out of it, at least 13 gop senators have joined the cause. including georgia's kelly loeffler who spoke last night at a rally with the president on the eve of her special election. >> i will object to the electoral college vote. >> reporter: the effort has dismayed some republicans like

ohio's rob portman who noted that not a single state found evidence of fraud or irregularities widespread enough to change the result of the election. another republican, west virginia's shelly moore capito warned that refusing to count a state's electoral votes in the absence of such evidence would disenfranchise millions of american voters. kevin kramer of north dakota agreed. >> i come from a red, small state. i don't want to have our votes overturned by other members of congress in other places. i don't see in the constitution where we have that authority, quite honestly. >> reporter: but president trump slammed republicans like him yesterday dubbing them the surrender caucus. >> people will remember the people that don't support us. >> reporter: he even upped the pressure on his own vice president who will preside over tomorrow's joint session of congress. >> i hope that our great vice president, our great vice president comes through for us. he's a great guy. of course, if he doesn't come

through, i won't like him quite as much. >> reporter: mr. pence made it clear he won't disappoint. >> we'll have our day in congress. we'll hear the objections. we'll hear the evidence. >> reporter: but vice president-elect kamala harris argued none of it will change the outcome. >> let me just tell you something. we are going to be inaugurated, period. >> reporter: here in washington, more than 300 national guard members have now been activated ahead of expected pro-trump rallies tomorrow. and all d.c. police officers will be on duty as well because they are anticipating tens of thousands of people in the streets. anthony? >> nancy, thank you. the leader of the right wing group "the proud boys" was arrested yesterday shortly after arriving in washington, d.c. henry enrique tarrio is facing destruction of property and weapons charges. he's accused of burning a black

lives matter banner at an historic black church last month. the fbi has described the proud boys as a far right extremist group with ties to white nationalism. they are expected to turn out tomorrow as part of a washington demonstration in support of president trump as congress plans to certify his election loss. the coronavirus is pushing many hospitals to their breaking point, and the vaccination effort is under pressure as well. people who wanted to get the vaccine lined up in texas yesterday. and many counties there are out of the vaccine. one hospital in northern california had to move very fast to give out hundreds of doses that started thawing out after a power failure there. our lead national correspondent david begnaud is in los angeles where the ambulances have been told not to transport the patients with virtually no chance of survival. boy, david, i heard that and thought, you'd hate to be the patient that needs to get to the hospital and tell them, nope,

we're not taking you. >> think about that, gayle. that's what it's come to. they're now telling these ambulance drivers, don't even bring them. if they don't have a chance of survival, don't even transport them here. l.a. county is arguably the epicenter of the country when it comes to covid. and martin luther king jr. community hospital in south l.a. hit the epicenter. they have 134 licensed beds. that's what they have aapproval for. you know how many covid patients they have? 164. we put a camera in the meditation room of the hospital this morning with their permission, of course. because they have no space left. they are using this to treat people who don't even have covid. they are out of room. they are using corners and the chapel and the gift shop and the meditation room because they are out of places to put patients. yet the ambulances keep showing up. look at the lines to get tested in california. and to get vaccinated in florida. these are pictures of the

pandemic spiraling out of control in most corners of the country. there are more than 4 million seniors living in florida, and they're overwhelming registration websites and hot lines in a rush to get immunized. >> we were here 2 1/2 hours early because we figured it was going to be a showdown. >> reporter: but the state of florida has administered less than 25% of the doses it already received. facing criticism for the slow pace, governor ron desantis issued this warning. >> hospitals that do not do a good job of getting the vaccine out will have their allocations transferred to hospitals that are doing a good job. >> concerns over the slow vaccination process have prompted some to suggest changes like giving half doses of the moderna vaccine to those between the ages of 18 and 55. but new this morning, fda commissioner stephen hahn cautioned against that writing in a statement, suggesting changes to the fda-authorized dosing is premature and not

rooted solidly in the available science. >> there's a fundamental concept here. take as directed. >> reporter: that's dr. tom frieden, the former director of the centers for disease control and prevention. the first way to speed up things is for the government to ship all available vaccines instead of holding half in a reserve for second dosing. >> let's get the vaccine out. get first doses into people as the second doses are coming along. that's not saying let's change the regimen. >> reporter: back in los angeles county where we are, one person dies from covid every 15 minutes. narissa black is a nurse where the number of patients jumped from 15 at the end of october to nearly 100 today. she's worried about the quality of carry as doctors and nurses are being forced to take on more patients. >> this patient needs pain medication. this patient's oxygen level is dropping and this other patient now is -- needs to go to the bathroom. if you cut our time short, what

will we need to cut short? >> let's talk about this new variant of the coronavirus. it's believed to be more contagious but not more deadly. one discovered as of yesterday in new york state and, anthony, the variant first popped up in the uk and they have now gone back into full lockdown. ahead, we take you to britain to see the impact of how they are coping with the growing covid threat. first, it's 7:18. time to check your local weather.

we have much more news ahead including more of our exclusive cbs news investigation. you'll recall yesterday we heard from two families who say a surgeon harmed their loved ones and was never seriously punished. this morning we confronted the head of the state medical board that reviewed the case. >> i'm jim axelrod with cbs news. i'd like to ask you questions. >> i hunfor two fatally i can't >> i'd like to ask you some

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immune responses with the current vaccines. until then we are very, very scared. >> reporter: is the south african variant already in the u.s. do you think? >> the true answer is we just don't know that it's here in the u.s. my gut is it probably is here in the united states. >> reporter: to make limited supplies go further, they've taken the controversial decision to give more people the first shot but then make them wait 12 weeks instead of 3 for the second shot. dr. agus told us it's a brilliant decision because it could give more people at least partial immunity. ho ahead, part two of the exclusive cbs investigation of why doctors are not being disciplined for medical malpractice. we're told why they're more interested in protecting the doctors and the patients. don't like the sound of that. you're watching "cbs this morning." we'll be right back.

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in part two of a cbs news investigation, we take a look at why doctors are often not disciplined for causing their patients harm. state medical boards that are responsible for disciplining doctors, they have one goal, to keep the patients safe but our year long investigation revealed that is not always happening. our investigative team talked to more than 100 malpractice attorneys in all 50 states and they heard the exact same thing. after doctors harm their patients, medical boards often look the other way. yikes. this morning jim axelrod shows

us why the public often has little idea who these doctors really are. >> she was paralyzed and had what they call drop foot which is basically where your left foot just hangs down and does nothing. >> reporter: when jeremy pain's mother had spinal surgery in 2008, her left leg was left paralyzed. she settled a medical malpractice suit with the surgeon, dr. steven svabek who has a long history of problems in indiana. >> it's pretty bad that people can get away with what they have in these situations. >> reporter: people? >> doctors. >> reporter: doctors are licensed and disciplined by state medical boards. panels made up almost entirely of fellow physicians. >> what folks have to realize is that the medical board is not a substantial barrier to them being injured by a physician. >> reporter: dr. john hall spent 25 years practicing pediatric anesthesia and critical care. later in his career he went to work as the executive director of the mississippi medical

board. >> most medical boards are constituted of physicians who are political appointees and that is an inherent conflict of interest. >> reporter: the people who are policing the doctors have an interest in protecting the doctors? >> absolutely. >> reporter: but after dr. hall pushed the mississippi medical board to be more aggressive in disciplining doctors, he found himself out of a job. >> i believed in the mission of the medical board and i thought this is a place where i can do this and do some good. >> reporter: you were pushing too hard? >> absolutely. >> reporter: do members of the general public understand everything they could understand about the doctors who are treating them? >> oh, absolutely not. >> reporter: robert osho spent 15 years at the department of health and human services in washington where he worked with the national practitioner databack, a federal database to keep track of bad outcomes by doctors. he says there's a problem. the national data bank doesn't share doctor's names with the

public. if doctors' names were listed in the data bank, would it save lives? >> sure. because there are physicians who have very bad records who are still practicing. >> reporter: he scoured the data bank and turned up an alarming fact. less than 2% of doctors are responsible for more than half of all malpractice settlements. >> very small proportion of physicians that have caused the bulk of the problem, and even worse, only one in seven have had any action taken against them by any state. >> reporter: meaning most of the bad doctors are still practicing? >> right. >> where you buy a car has a car fax. it's like a doctor should have a doctor fax. >> reporter: jeremy pain's mother was operated on by dr. steven svabek. google him and you won't find anything about his list of malpractice settlements in indiana or the three sanctions dr. svabek received recently from the florida medical board. >> i don't have any comments to make about any of these questions, no.

>> reporter: the indiana board was made aware of dr. svabek's problems. so we traveled there. >> if you had a chance to speak to the board, what would you say? >> how many more lives are you going to allow him to ruin? >> reporter: when his case came up we were surprised to see that not only was dr. svabek present, he didn't even have an attorney there to represent him. >> florida has dealt with it. >> reporter: the board fined dr. svabek $1,000 and moved on. we asked for an interview with the board president. they didn't make him available so when the board took a break, we tried to get some answers. >> i'm jim axelrod with cbs news. i'd like to ask you a couple of questions. >> unfortunately, i can't. >> we have a mike. >> you're the chairman of the board and i would like to ask you some questions about dr. svabek's case. >> you're the right person. you're in charge. are you telling me the buck doesn't stop are you? now the mission of the indiana

licensing board is to protect the public. is the sanction just given to him consistent with that? >> he didn't respond to a single question we asked. >> he had nowhere to go including the escalator. jim, i'm going to get nervous next time i see you approaching with a tv crew. after all of this reporting, what have you heard about why they seemed so reluctant to pull the doctor's licenses when they know they're not doing a good job? >> that's the question, gayle, that we kept asking throughout our reporting. why would a system in which 2% of the doctors account for 50% of the malpractice awards and settlements, why isn't there more vigilance on the part of everyone in the system, insurance companies, doctors, to target the bad actors and they told us the same thing, when you have doctors policing doctors, there's a certain amount of reluctance built into that system to suspend or revoke licenses and the degree to which there are physicians reserve for

non-doctors is the degree to which you will have some independence and autonomy on that board. >> jim, i have to say we were all talking about your piece here at the table. we were looking forward to it and it certainly delivered. tony, you touched on it yesterday. as a patient do we just have to rely on the doctors to tell us the truth? >> that's like what the man said in the piece. he said, there should be a car fax for doctors. >> if hospitals can track it, then people should be able to track it. if somebody in congress is watching this, this is something that should be taken up in public. >> i forgot to say thank you to you. thank you, jim axelrod. what do patients do? if we're supposed to have a surgery, just rely on the doctors to tell us the truth? >> reporter: i think you're getting at something very important here. national practitioners data bank, let's open that up so that you can check it out. >> thank you very much, jim axelrod. ahead, vladimir duthiers will be talking

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>> get up! your house is on fire. get out. >> that is carolyn halla. she ran to the salgado family's home in avondale. she kept banging on the door until the family of six woke up and helped all of them get out of the home safely. nicole said they would have been goners without her. >> she made sure that we got out of that house. >> firefighters told us that if it would have been five more minutes that roof would have came down with us in the house. she's going to be part of our lives forever. she saved our life. >> she's been a nurse for 40 years so she's an amazing hero even beyond the act of saving this family. >> and a very good neighbor. >> that's right. >> kudos to her. okay. during the opening moments of last night's "jeopardy" episode

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♪ ♪ 2021 welcome back to "cbs this morning." i'm gail king. >> it's election day in georgia. why the u.s. senate is on the line and how president trump could affect the outcome. covid long haulers, we talked to some of the millions of americans dealing with virus symptoms for a long time after first dig nosed. hidden in the past, henry lewis gates junior helped tour family histories and will reveal a secret from my past but first, here is today's eye opener at 8:00. run off day in georgia with control of the u.s. senate hanging in the balance. people are already lined up ready to cast ballots. >> democrats seem to get more of the 3 million early votes cast

in this run off so republicans need their votes to show up today. >> there is some concern that the president's rhetoric could hurt the turnout today. what are you thinking? >> well, i certainly have been disappointed about the rhetoric and fan the flames. >> there are six variant cases here in california. one discovered as of yesterday in new york states. >> tensions are rising ahead of the certification clash tomorrow and there is drama surrounding a process that's normally a formality. >> donald trump skipped out on the annual new year's eve bash but the party at mara l-a-lago t on with don junior and rudy giuliani that partied with songs like vanilla ice. imagine rapping along to ice, ice baby and say let me get out

my phone, people are going to want to see this. >> this is new information for me. i didn't know that happened. >> that's good. nicely done, mr. kimmel. we'll begin with this, the eyes of the political world are on georgia where two runoff elections will determine the senate. the polls opened earlier this morning in atlanta. republicans currently hold a 50-48 advantage in the u.s. senate with two georgia seats up in the air. two democratic wins would give them control of both houses of congress, and the white house. mark is in atlanta outside of a polling location. good morning to you. how is it looking there?%-p>> r doors of this precinct open this morning, 50 people were bawaiti in line. both parties need big turnouts today. the rupp ofn offs are considere close races.

if john ossoff and rafael warnck win it will break the 50/50 tie. republicans need wins for david purdue for kelly loeffer. that is more than the 2.1 million total votes in georgia's last run off in 2008. if you need more proof of how important these elections are, yesterday's rallies tell the story president elect joe biden appeared with candidates in atlanta and president trump held an evening rally in north georgia for purdue and loeffler and mr. trump pressured him to find the votes to overturn his defeat in the state. polls here close at 7:00 p.m. as long as someone is in line by 7:00 p.m., that vote is good, but counting all these votes

could take a couple days. anthony? >> thank you, all eyes on georgia. still, tahank you. as coronavirus cases continue to surge, a new more contagious strain detected in britain has been found in another part of the u.s. a man in northern knock cnew yo contracted that variant. it's the fourth case to detect a case of the strain that does not seem to make people sicker. long lines for testing like this one in california are still common across the country. more than 128,000 people are hospitalized with the virus. a new record. and the pace of vaccinations is still slower than intended. the cdc says 4.5 million americans have gotten at least one dose of the vaccine but that's far short of the white house's initial goal of 20 million by the end of december. around 2 million covid-19

survivors still have debilitating symptoms long after they were infected and right now, there is no treatment for the symptoms, none at all. we'll take you inside new clinics designed to help long

we have much more ahead. henry gates junior will join us to talk about the new season of his hit show finding your roots and the secret he unearthed from

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at least 10% of the people who have had covid in the who had covid in the u.s., 2 million of our americans are wrong haulers, meaning they still have symptoms of the virus long after getting the virus itself. researchers are starting a clinical trial for experimental drugs to help the people but so

far, none have been approved and there are not any treatments. we go inside some of the rehab clinics for long howl aulers pog up across the country and show us how critical the situation is. >> reporter: when we met kevin back in april, he had just woken up from a medically induced coma because of covid complications. today, he's back home but hasn't fully recovered. >> been a lot of memory loss. being out of breath. a lot of fatigue and joint pain, things like that. you wonder if you're going to get everything back but we don't know yet. >> reporter: he falls in the estimated 10% of covid patients who are long haulers, survivors who months after being infected with the virus are still experiencing debilitating and often kricrippling symptoms. >> there are days you want to get up and your body won't cooperate. your limbs won't move. your brain is too dizzy to stand

up or get up. >> reporter: she went from a fit and healthy athlete to chronic muscle pain and fatigue, brain fog. >> i couldn't live by myself anymore the symptoms were so debilitating. i couldn't get up and shower. >> reporter: she's a patient at uc davis post covid-19 clinic, one of several specialty care clinics emerging across the country specifically dedicated to treating long hauler patients. >> what happens at the post covid clinic that you attend? >> yeah, so initially, you get seen by whoever is the most appropriate person to see you for your prominent issues. so for me, that was breathing. because covid is so unknown, it's affecting people in so many different ways, it is a multi step, multi disciplinary process. >> reporter: epidemiologist, professor and mom of two has a team of specialists working with her on her various issues. >> i have skin rashes. i have vision issues. i have ringing in my years.

i'm on an inhaler and have a sort of asthma even though i'm not an asthmatic person. >> reporter: she also describes headaches stronger than migraines and says on bad days is bedridden. what are the doctors saying to you about your condition? >> they are ready admitting i have post covid symptoms. we have our own mode of treatment and plan we carry out so it's very 1-1 type of treatment mo damodality. >> reporter: dr. virginia works at a post covid facility in new jersey and says the need for these clinics is dire. >> we have patients who have obviously lung damage, scarring, they're short of tolerances. some of them need lung transplants, dialysis, heart problems. >> no matter how good or better i get, i will never be the same person that i was.

>> reporter: rodriguez is one of dr. witt's patients being treated for damage to his lungs, which has impacted his ability to work. >> before i used to work, you know, 14, 16 hours a day and it didn't bother me but now i can't. >> reporter: one of the biggest issues seen at the clinics is chronic fatigue and brain fog. alexandria says her life radically changed seemingly overnight from breathlessness to cognitive issues. >> i started to recognize that i take a lot of concentration to get through my day. it's an itch you can't scratch mentally. >> reporter: once a week she sees a neuro therapist at mcgee rehabilitation in philadelphia. you went from somebody totally e healthy to someone with a cord o cardiologist, pulmool' gist, doing rehab. your whole life changed. >> that's why i want to share my story because i know there are people out there, long haulers

suffering with symptoms who are far more debilitating. >> you don't want to have your future reduced to nothing because of an illness. >> a lot of people do survive. a lot of people do, but there are also a host of people who survive but are no longer the sam same. >> wow, great to hear the stories but what are the big themes with the so-called long haulers? >> one of the big things is trust ration of not being believed is presenting to your doctor with complaints and being told it's in your head, go see a psychiatri psychiatrist. another is not knowing are these symptoms going to get better and when and how long will it go on? and suddenly becoming going from somebody who is a caregiver to somebody who had to be cared for and what burden that may be placing on their family members. many spoke about support from the online social media type

groups so that's really great for them. >> doctor, i would be remiss if i let you go without pointing out you're among the vaccinated americans, at least one dose. we got a picture of it there. how are you feeling? >> i feel good. i had some arm pain, a little fever and chills that night. i was so surprised at how emotional i got. i started really tearing up at it. it just all of the months of being a doctor and caring for patients myself and being worried i would bring it to my family, hearing stories of my friends and colleagues and being a journalist and covering this is a very emotional moment, one where i felt a release of fear, hope and just tremendous gratitude for science. >> it's emotional for us, too. i was hopeful when the authorizations came through and frustrated as we see the slow pace of rollout. glad you got it. happy to see more americans get it, as well. ahead, the battle to help small businesses struggling to survive during this pandemic.

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small businesses and their employees have paid a heavy price during the pandemic. there are nearly 32 million small businesses in the u.s. employing more than 47% of workers. the pandemic has forced more than 400,000 to close. wall street firm goldman sachs is installing 10,000 help still wanted signs on capitol hill. they represent businesses that graduated from their 10,000 small business program over the past ten years and showed that government assistance is still needed. goldman sachs chairman and ceo david solomon is in washington to lobby lawmakers on behalf of small businesses. good morning, mr. solomon.

thank you very much for being here. we really appreciate it. >> thank you very much for having me. i'm thrilled to be with you this morning. >> i want to get to small business in a second. i want to ask you about a letter you signed yesterday. you were one of 200 business leaders who signed it calling on congress to accept the electoral college results. in that letter you wrote that attempts to thwart or delay this process run counter to the essential tenants of our democracy. there should be no further delay in the orderly transfer of power. what made you sign on to that? >> well, i think right now the discussions around moving forward are very, very important. i congratulated the vice president-elect and now the president-elect back in november after the election, and with all the issues we have as we're trying to move past the pandemic and move forward to help people who need help around the country, i think it's time to move forward and get focused on the issues at hand.

>> there is another round of stimulus money coming to small businesses but many of them, 90%, have already used up the money they got from the first round. they're in dire straits. how are small businesses surviving and what more needs to be done at this point? >> it's really amazing to see how me r so many small businesses are being nimble, trying to pivot, trying to find ways to move forward. one of the reasons we're here today and so committed to the 10,000 small business program is these businesses continue to need help and if you look at the placards that are across the capital lawn this morning, they talk about a number of issues that small businesses still need support and help on. obviously the additional round of ppp funding is very helpful. obviously making sure that the ppp loans don't have a negative tax impact is helpful, but i'll highlight three other things that the small businesses that we've helped over the last decade are asking for. first, better access to capital and something like the restart act i think can be very helpful with that. they need better access for their workers to health care

because health care can be such a crippling cost and in addition, they also need support with child care because they need to be working, they need to be focused on their businesses so they can keep their businesses moving forward. those are a handful of things that small businesses are telling us they need continued support on given the pressure they've felt during this pandemic? >> mr. solomon, i want to talk to you about your desire to help, specifically black business owners. your own survey has shown they have a harder time getting the business loans. what needs to be done to fix that? i understand you want to do something about that specifically. >> we've tried to find ways to get capital into the hands of business of color. it's been much more difficult for small entrepreneurial businesses of color to access capital, gayle. in the context of that we through ppp deployed $700 million of capital. with this new ppp round through cdfis and mission driven lenders we're prepared to commit at least another $500 million of capital to get that capital

access to these small businesses. these are small micro loans that can help small businesses bridge through over the course of the coming months until we get to the other side of the pandemic. >> you talk about the importance of getting to the other side. how critical is a vaccine to the economy, mr. sullivan, do you think? >> i think it's very critical that we get the vaccine into people so people feel safe and we can move forward with the economic vitality that's so important with this country. i'm watching very closely as you all are, as we all are, it's important for us to get to the other side of the pandemic and the vaccine is an important step in that process. >> your additional commitment amounts to how much? >> well, we committed -- back in december we committed another $250 million to the 10,000 small business programs so we could bring another 10,000 businesses through it in the coming years. in addition now that the new round of ppp is in place, we're prepared to continue through cdfis and mission driven lenders

to deploy another $500 million in capital in small loans. >> david solomon . good morning. it's 8:25. fire crews work to rescue a driver trapped in an overturned vehicle. this crash happened early this morning in san leandro. crews were able to free the driver. no word on the person's condition. the search continues for two missing children off the jenner coast. authorities believe they were swept out into the water sunday. the sheriff's office said dive teams will continue their search by the bluffs today. right now there is an avalanche warning for the tahoe area. chp warning a possible road closures as a result. and as we look at the roads we have fog advisories in effect for many of our bay area

bridges. that includes the benetia bridge and the golden gate bridge. extra careful if you are going across the area into san francisco. we have a crash just north of there, blocking the left lane, southbound 101. looks like traffic is backing up as a result through lucas valley and slow as well as the bay bridge. those are some areas where we are dealing with foggy spots this morning as well. so, use caution as you work through there. looking okay and clear on the san mateo bridge. tracking that dense fog until 9:00 a.m. you can see that blanket of fog on the sales force tower camera. it's a chilly start with those areas of fog. as we head through the afternoon partly cloudy, highs in the mid to upper 50's. a break from the rain. a weak cold front on we

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welcome back to "cbs this morning." talk of the table this morning. you recognize that song, one direction, "story of my life." there's a reason for that that we're playing that. >> that's coming up. >> that's coming up. that's a little tease. i'm starting this off and i think we all did a little binge watching over the holidays. one we watched is bridgerton. it turns out we weren't alone. viewers are in love with it which debuts on christmas day. >> you appear displeased. >> do i? >> we find ourselves seated beside ourselves ms. bridgerton and i think you're happy. >> it would be better if you retrained from thinking about

me. >> projected to reach 63 million households in its first four weeks according to netflix. that would make it the fifth largest netflix original series launch of all time. it was the number one show in 76 countries including the u.s. the first series for netflix under a megadeal for the producer. >> that's the reason i'm going to watch it because it's a shondra project. >> steamy romance. >> did you say streamy or steamy? >> both. >> i've heard it's very steamy. >> so steamy that in fact we watched it as a family. my wife and i and our kids, olivia and nick. olivia at one point said, i'm leaving the room for this episode because i know what's coming and i'm not watching it for you guys. >> we had to cover eddy'syes. >> it is uncomfortable to watch sex with your parents. >> if you like bridgerton, on a different network starz has

"outlander." >> somebody told me she wants to marry a duke? is that what i should be striving for? >> that's what it's all about. >> i like the sound of that. tony, you're up next. >> i have a little talk of the table about one of the dumbest but most wonderful traditions in america. that is the tradition of lottery. if you are feeling lucky -- >> you said one of the dumbest? >> it's dumb -- >> call me dumb because i'm -- >> it's dumb because -- >> i'm buying me a ticket. >> exactly. that's why i'm talking about it. >> $845 million. >> it's wonderful because you might win. >> then you look smart. >> then you look very smart. that's the whole talk of the table. letting people know there's a real big jackpot out there. don't feel bad buying a ticket. it goes to education. a tax no one's raising taxes. >> i always buy a ticket and then i get like -- i'm lucky to get one number right. >> that would be lucky. 1 in 300 million chance of getting all of them right and then winning the jackpot. if you do get that jackpot and

it were in hundred dollar bills it would be as tall as the world trade center. >> you can't win if you don't play. there you go. >> that's a problem i'd like to have. my talk of the table is harry styles. he's gone in a new direction with his latest music video and it's a huge hit. take a look at "treat people with kindness." ♪ feeling good in my skin ♪ ♪ i just keep on dancing >> now it debuted on friday. it has 12 million views. we have to see the dance partner. there she is. the dance partner, does she look familiar to you? yeah, she does. she's the emmy award actress phoebe waller bridge. >> which she also wrote, by the way. >> i love the choreography. >> never knew she was a dancer. >> yes. but i love that harry did this.

i think he is not like the other kids in the class. >> no. >> he's a really great guy. the lyrics say find a place to feel good and we can treat people with kindness. find another place to treat people good, it's just another day. it's just another day. >> and from the chute, people are saying not only did harry do the song, he helped people move the piano because he wanted to do something good. he delivered somebody's mail and feeb bow brought foccacoi bread. moving on. the popular series finding your roots put my family in the spotlight when it returns to pbs. henry louis gates jr. guides people through their family trees often unveiling surprises along the way. tonight's episode looks into the identity of my great-grandfather, a white man who was never spoken about in the family. >> my mother used to say, don't ask her about her father because she doesn't like to talk about

it so i knew her father was white and that her mother was black but we were not to talk about it and she never wanted to talk about it. >> what kind of white man was he? what was his ethnicity. >> white man. >> just white man? >> white man. >> germany, england, ireland. >> white man and do not ask her about her father. >> the question totally threw me. i should say, hello. first i want to say thank you. alexis, the book of life -- i brought down my book of life, henry, that you gave me because it is such a treasure that i will always have it. number one, thank you so much. here it is, the book of life. gayle king. >> amazing. >> it is a treasure. it's something i never, ever, ever would have done on my own. i'm so appreciative you included me with isa ray and jordan peal. it's a knockout show. this is what you said. you said that i had a european

dna because when you look at me i don't see any white blood whatsoever but i actually had a pretty significant chunk. so what does this say? what was i, 32 -- >> 1/3. >> 1/3 of me is white? do you see the whiteness, anthony? >> i'm looking closely. >> anybody see it? >> sure. >> i didn't see it. >> what does this tell us about our country with race? go ahead. go ahead, professor. >> well, you -- first of all, good morning, happy new year. >> yes. >> by the way, i took the name book of life from an old african-american spiritual, write my name, write my name, write my name in the book of life, isn't that beautiful? >> yes. >> i took it as a metaphor, gayle, because i believed that our ancestors are in a genealogical purgatory and they're waiting for researchers to find them. when they find them we open the vault and they tell us stories. and those stories almost like

osmosis have seeped down. you've inherited those stories and they've shaped you in invisible ways that you had no idea of. and i saw that in two cases in your family. one, was what we call the mystery of emma brown's father and emma brown is your maternal grandmother. the whisper was that you were told never to talk to her about her father. >> yeah. >> because he was white. a lot of african-american families had this kind of story. and there was no way to ascertain that before today because we could only do it through dna and through dna not only did we find out you were about 1/3 european, but we found the identity of your great-grandfather and his name was robert elliott copes from south carolina and he lived in the same town where maem was

born almost 30 years later. we narrowed it down to two sons. one was a judge and one was a worker. gayle, which one do you think is your great-grandfather? you go, the judge. >> the judge. i'm going to pick the judge. nothing wrong with a worker. i'm a big worker bee myself. jordan peal. his great, great-grandmother was 12 and she was sold on new year's eve and he was talking about the effect na it had. so when people say why does slavery matter? why are we still talking about it? i thought jordan's reaction and your explanation about why this matters, because we do, we carry this with us. it's so important to talk about it. >> she was sold. her name was alvina. she was sold away, are you ready for this, on new year's day. >> 12 years old. >> 1860. >> for $1250. yeah. >> yeah. i mean, it was just horrible.

and he was overwhelmed and i was so deeply moved. you know another story on your family tree that moved me was the story of your paternal grandfather. beauregard george king jr. gayle, i've always thought that you had a special quiet dignity. i never told you that, but i do and i think that your colleagues on the set would say that that's true. well, where did that come from? well, as you know, your grandfather was quite a genial minister who never talked about his service in world war i and he was with the all black 92nd division in france during the muzar gome offensive which is a horrible offensive in which all of these people died. his task was to work in a field hospital attending to the dead and the wounded. >> this is the thing. professor, we'll have to let people watch the episode. that's the thing. it's such a good tease. this is what struck me about it. you said most of us do not know our history, most of us.

99% of us are genetically the same. 99% of us, we have the same genetics. i think that's important for people to know. we are more alike than we are different. >> i think that there are two repeating motifs in finding your roots which leads to its popularity. one is no matter how different we look phenotypically, no matter your color, skin tone, texture of your hair, facial features, at the level of the genome we are 99.99% the same. >> yeah. >> gayle, the other thing is that we're all immigrants. even our african ancestors came from some other place. they weren't willing immigrants like our friends from ireland or descended from italy who came through ellis island. they came in chains, but they came from someplace else. and even our native american sisters and brothers migrated here across the bearing straits

15,000 years ago. we are a nation of immigrants and genetically we are all the same. we need to hear those lessons every day in this fraught political time of ours. >> i'm holding up the book because we have to go henry louis gates jr. i can't thank you enough. i was blown away. as tony said, it's a gift. norah o'donnell, you're doing her in an upcoming episode. thank you. so bay area homeowners,

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the latest coronavirus surge is filling many hospitals to or near capacity and pushing some health care workers to a breaking point. this morning we have the stories of two nurses who are coping by pouring their personal experiences into poetry and song. >> reporter: at low ma linda university health in southern california it's another day grappling with the virus. >> every shift i walk into the hospital, you're going to be confronted by something that you're not fully prepared for. you're never fully prepared for somebody that will lose their life in front of you on your next shift. and they impact you. ♪ i've seen hope from the depth of despair ♪ ♪ i've seen peace coming out from nowhere ♪ >> reporter: to cope with the

emotional toll he picks up his guitar. ♪ i can see through the stain, love remains ♪ >> reporter: almost 2,000 miles away near minneapolis hospice nurse erin pomeranz juggles as many as 19 patients holding their hands as they die because covid prevents families from visiting. >> what's it like being the person who holds the iphone for that final zoom? >> i'm there with my mask and my shield on and i'm holding up the phone to see their grandma and their mom one last time. this is not how we say good buy to our loved ones. >> reporter: she processes her experiences through poetry. >> over the phone, through the camera lens one last time you see her brown, loving eyes that once filled the room with sparkle and joy. >> reporter: the hospital where she works recently give it a

wall. >> the poddy is ready. you are not. it's not fair you say through tears. i agree. my tears and breath clouding the goggles. >> reporter: back in california. ♪ love is always searching ♪ >> reporter: warcou began performing for the hospital staff for workers struggling with the pandemic. his music struck a chord with co-workers. >> i don't understand why the world is acting the way it is. when you hear tad and his music, it makes you feel like it's going to be okay. tomorrow is going to be okay. >> tell me that it will be all right. >> i think as health care workers we all are coming together and we really understand what each other's going through. calm and comfortable. the words i use to carefully describe her to you. you let out a sigh of relief. >> reporter: during hospice pomeranz often picks up her camera and photographs loved

ones. >> one of the great parts of my job is finding moments together and capturing those moments. it's been really meaningful for me to provide that to families, even if it is just a cell phone photo. this is how your mom's doing. i saw her today. >> reporter: amber midnight lost her husband brian. >> we felt like she really captured our essence and she went out of our way to do it and i treasure them. ♪ met an old man and i saw him smile ♪ ♪ he looked my way and said he walked this mile ♪ he said, keep coming, don't you turn astray ♪ ♪ it never, ever change your love away ♪ >> reporter: like pomeranz, he incorporates actual conversations into his lyrics. >> it takes the effort to walk into that environment, but to find the hope in these really difficult times, it's hard. >> i think it's the most

difficult thing to do is to find that hope but it's the most difficult, it's the most important. i'll fight with every fiber to find the hope knowing it exists in there because if it doesn't, we have a much bigger problem. >> reporter: finding hope in healing reminding patients, families, colleagues they're not alone. for "cbs this morning," carter evans, los angeles. >> some beauty there borne out of the tragedy. gayle king's a big fan but she's not allowed to talk because we have to go to break. >> she's mad. >> tony award winner, positive life lessons we can take into 2021 and beyond. >> outraged. >> but she's quiet. start your new year right

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