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♪ good morning to you our viewers in the west on this friday, january 15th. martin luther king jr.'s birthday, i'm gayle king with anthony mason and tony dokoupil. a massive show of force in the nation's capital amid an unprecedented threat of violence before the inauguration. plus, new details about the rioters including how some used military-style tactics. prpresident-elelect biden n proposes nearly $2 trillion in new covid crisis relief. who will be covered, and why there may be a fight to get it through congress. the u.s. suffers the deadliest week of the pandemic so far. many americans who should have a vaccine can't get one.
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we ride along with overwhelmed emts in one of america's hardest hit areas. and outrage grows over the police killing of an unarmed man in texas. his family says he was having a mental health crisis. new questions about why the officer stayed even though the family asked him to go. >> a lot of questions in that case. first, here's today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> we are committed to an orderly transition and to a safe inauguration. the american people deserve nothing less. >> reporter: crews are setting the stage for president and vice president-elect joe biden and kamala harris. >> stepped up security in our nation's capital as officials prepare for inauguration day. >> we're concerned about the potential for violence at multiple protests and rallies. >> reporter: after the bipartisan impeachment vote in the house, attention now shifts to the senate. >> the law is king, and we have a president that incited an insurrection. >> reporter: president-elect joe biden unveiled a coronavirus and
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economic relief plan valued at about $1.9 trillion. >> together we can get this done. >> reporter: cases are spiking in cities across the countryry. in the past seven days, they've been the deadliest of the entire pandemic. >> i worry that i won't get to a patient in time, and sometimes i haven't. >> reporter: firefighters are battling flames seriously close to homes in southern california. all that -- >> without fans in hockey arenas at intermission, one announcer got pretty creative and played solitaire on the ice. >> and all that matters -- >> here's some good news for those of us here in los angeles. dodgers stadium will be converted into a covid-19 vaccination site. >> yes. >> yeah, yeah. lot of people will be going, and if you need help using the needle, most baseball players from the '90s should be able to assist you. on "cbs this morning." >> the fascist threat is growing. according to the fbi, online chatter about more violent demonstrations is off the charts right now.
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that's right. the threats are chart topping. you can experience all the hits at home with now that's what i call the foul harvest of america's racist past, volume 244. this morning's "eye opener" is presented by progressive. making it easy to bundle insurance. >> too bad that we all know what that means. >> yeah. >> that's unfortunate. stephen colbert always on his game. welcome to "cbs this morning." we're going to begin with this because i know you're counting, too. five days before the inauguration. law enforcement officials say we face an unprecedented threat of violent extremism from other americans. police from across the country are joining more than 20,000 national guard troops to protect our nation's capital while the fbi tracks suspects from last week's deadly assault on congress. jeff pegues is watching this massive security operation in washington. jeff, good morning to you. massive is the word. >> reporter: massive is a really good way of describing the security apparatus around d.c.
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this is a major intersection, and you can see, it's shut down now. we have national guard members here, they're armed and it is that image of armed national guard that really sticks with you, and then these massive trucks, this is called a five ton truck. it's blocking this road. and you can see scenes like this all across d.c. as security ramps up. >> i just encourage you to be vigilant. >> reporter: last night, vice president pence thanked some of the national guard members protecting the capitol and vowed a peaceful transfer of power. >> we're going to deliver to the american people a safe inauguration. we're going to swear in a new president, a new vice president, we're going to move our nation forward, okay. >> reporter: just over half an hour earlier, pence participated in a briefing with leaders involved in securing a safe inauguration where fbi director christopher wray warned of ongoing threats. >> so anybody who plots or attempts violence in the coming week should count on a visit. >> reporter: the fbi has so far arrested more than 100 rioters
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from last week's deadly assault and identified over 200 suspects. >> that entire building is filled with treasonous traitors. >> yes, sir. >> death is the only remedy for what's in that building. >> reporter: including peter stager, charged with civil disorder for beating a capitol police officer with a flag pole as he was dragged down the capitol steps. that d.c. police officer, mike fanone, self-deployed to the scene. he spoke with our affiliate in washington, wusa. >> i remember thinking like at the moment that i got outside like, holy [ bleep ] there's a lot of people here. >> reporter: a photo shows him face down on the ground, a rioter holding a police baton over his neck. >> guys were like grabbing gear off my vest. i remember guys chanting like "kill him with his own gun." >> reporter: in another area of the riot, investigators say robert sanford, a retired pennsylvania firefighter, threw what appeared to be a fire extinguisher that hit three officers in the head. he was also arrested on
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thursday. so was kevin sefried, carrying a confederate flag through the capitol. cbs news has learned of an fbi memo warning the violent breach on january 6th very likely will serve as a significant driver of violence in the coming days. lawmakers like michigan's peter meijer are even purchasing body armor to protect themselves. >> it's sad that we have to get to that point, but our expectation is that someone may try to kill us. >> this is not an issue that's going away today, after the inauguration, or next week. >> reporter: nypd's deputy commissioner for intelligence and counterterrorism, john miller, says the threats are far from over. >> those groups will return to the various places they came from and try to figure out how to pick up this fight, if not in the nation's capital, on the steps of their state capitols. >> reporter: tight security on the ground but also in the skies as airlines limit the number of seats for passengers coming to
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and from d.c. and also some airlines banning firearms packed in checked baggage. jeff, thank you. cbs news has confirmed that due to security concerns joe biden has cancelled plans to ride an amtrak train to washington for his inauguration. last night the president-elect unveiled a plan to spend nearly $2 trillion on new programs to roll back the economic damage from the pandemic. weijia jiang is covering the biden transition. >> reporter: good morning, president-elect biden is urging lawmakers to pass this package quickly calling it a moral obligation but speed may be a challenge, not only does he have to convince many republicans to get on board with that huge price tag, but senators will likely be in the middle of president trump's second impeachment trial, and confirmation hearings for mr. biden's cabinet nominees. the president-elect says they should split up their workdays
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to get it all done. >> we must act now and act decisively. >> reporter: president-elect joe biden's plan to rescue a ravaged economy would offer direct relief by sending $1,400 stimulus checks, extending and increasing unemployment insurance from $300 to $400 a week, and providing a higher child tax credit. >> the crisis of deep human suffering is in plain sight. there's no time to waste. >> reporter: the thursday night speech also served as mr. biden's first formal sales pitch to lawmakers, especially republicans who will likely balk at the nearly $2 trillion price tag. >> i know what i just described does not come cheaply, but failure to do so will cost us dearly. >> reporter: the proposal also includes $440 billion for helping communities and small businesses and aims to bump up the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
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mr. biden unveiled details on the same day the labor department announced nearly one million people filed for unemployment the first week of this month, up by around 23% from the week before. >> we're in the middle of the once in several generations economic crisis. >> reporter: he said the economic spiral is linked to the pandemic, calling for $400 billion to deal with covid-19, including more money for testing, assisting schools, and vaccinations. >> the vaccine rollout in the united states has been a dismal failure thus far. >> reporter: today mr. biden plans to unveil how his administration will roll out the vaccine, promising they will deliver 100 million shots in the first 100 days of his presidency. back in washington movers are preparing the white house for a new first family. they spent thursday clearing it out, hauling out several boxes.
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traditionally the bidens would move in on inauguration day but this year that won't happen until crews have a chance to do a deep covid-19 cleaning and disinfection. >> wthank you very much. the surge in coronavirus cases is overwhelming hospitals nationwide and the u.s. has just seen its deadliest with more than 23,000 reported deaths, few places have been harder hit than los angeles county, and that's where we find our lead national correspondent david begnaud, outside the martin luther king jr. community hospital, david, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, one in every three people here at l.a. county has been infected with the virus. somebody's dying once every six minutes with coronavirus. look, over the last ten months we've told you the stories of doctors and nurses, social workers and chaplains, this morning it's the frontline workers, the first line workers, the paramedics and emts taking the sick to the hospital.
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it's 6:00 p.m. in l.a. county and emt jorge cortez is responding to another 911 call. >> 6211 on scene. >> reporter: an older woman suspected covid, but that's no surprise, four out of every five patients he takes to the hospital now are covid positive. the emts take her out on a stretcher to the ambulance and give her oxygen before taking her to the hospital. they're going to have to be quick. she needs help. she is struggling to breathe. hospital beds are in short supply around here. >> sometimes we wait outside with the patient in our ambulance for six to ten hours maybe, just depends. >> reporter: it's not just the hospitals that are overwhelmed, so are the morgues. national guard troops have been called in to help the county coroner's office to load bodies into a fleet of refrigerated storage units. meanwhile, there is still overwhelming demand from people who want to get the vaccine. the state's rollout is still moving far too slow. california has used less than
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30% of its vaccine supply to give people their first dose. and with new variants, new mutations of the coronavirus spreading around the world, the need to vaccinate as many americans as possible has really never been greater. >> the more we vaccinate, the less virus in the country, the less chance of getting newer strains that could cause more problems. >> reporter: he means problems like potential resistance to some vaccines or strains becoming even more infectious just like those variants first detected in the uk and south africa. >> for someone who hears this and says, okay, it's more infectious, how do they fight a more contagious strain than one that's not? >> what it means more contagious is if, david, before it took 1,000 particles for you to spread the virus to me and it took about ten minutes for you to expel enough particles to reach me, now that will happen in five minutes with half the number of particles. that's what worries us.
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>> reporter: thank you, doctor, for helping us understand that. look, the vaccine demand is so high right now, check out this line in brooklyn, new york last night. at one point there was a rumor spreading online, a false one we might add, that there were extra doses of the vaccine available and people should head over to get them before they go bad. it wasn't true. in fact, in most places you need to make an appointment in order to get a vaccine, and in new york state alone they are booked through mid-april at this point. >> i've heard that. i've just got a notification in the mail that said you now qualify. don't call us, we'll let you know when you can come. i got that thing in brooklyn and almost went. >> i almost went too. >> i almost went. >> ready the horse, i was ready to go. >> i know. thank you, david, thank you very much, your story is very tough to watch but so important to tell. the government has executed another prison inmate, the 12 since the trump administration restarted excuses, 52-year-old corey johnson received a lethal
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infection, in 199 # he murdered seven people in virginia in a drug trafficking operation the the supreme court declined a request to delay his execution. another federal execution today, the last before joe biden takes office. mental health check calling for the officer's arrest, doorbell camera video shows what happened sunday before officer reynaldo cantrares, and now he's on administrative leave pending investigation. his family called for help because warren was having a mental health emergency. omar omar villafranca has more. >> reporter: the video released by a family attorney and appears to be edited does not show the final shots being fired and that's why the family wants the police body cam video released. the day before the incident the
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family called for a mental health professional and none showed up but on sunday when they called a police officer arrived instead. ring doorbell footage shows officer reynaldo contreras knocking on patrick warren sr.'s door. >> they never told us one wasn't available. they just sent out a police officer. jr. said officer contreras' demeanor toward his family was hostile, so the family asked him to leave. but moments later, he returned and knocked. warren sr. answered and stepped outside with his hands in the air. his son says he noticed a red dot shining on the door. >> the only reason we got up and walked to the door is because we saw an infrared beam from a taser on the door which concerned us. we heard a pop. >> hey -- >> we ran to the door. by the time we made it outside,
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he was -- my father was on the ground, and that's where everything kind of took place. >> reporter: the video cuts to cell phone footage. >> hey, dad, sit down. sit down. sit down. sit down. >> don't shoot him. don't -- [ gunshots ] >> reporter: the family stood and watched as officer contreras, a five-year vet at the department, shot the husband and father of three in the chest. warren was pronounced dead at the hospital. how quick was all that? >> maybe 20 seconds. >> reporter: lee merritt represents warren's family. >> if they didn't have a mental health professional readily available to go see mr. warren, should they have not sent that officer in your mind? >> no. they -- if they couldn't send someone with the training to deal with the crisis that was actually occurring, then it would have been better to send no one at all. >> reporter: and mr. warren may be alive. >> that's right. >> reporter: warrener j says his family is still processing their father's death, including his younger brother who has down syndrome.
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>> he's constantly like, you know, my father's in heaven? and i have to answer that question a thousand times a day. and somet will be released. tony? >> thank you very much. >> that's what they keep talking about. the need for the proper training. you see what happened the day before when they sent a mental health professional, worked out all right. >> yeah. i admire patrick warren jr.'s calm demeanor in this. i would be just outraged. i'm sure he is, as well. but so important that they are putting all of this out there and sharing it. this should not have happened. >> yeah. >> mental health is health. if he were having a different medical emergency, they would have sent a specialist. they wouldn't say we don't have anybody, sorry, fix your own leg. because it's the mind, they treat it differently. >> and also can we point out he
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♪ morning." as investigators look over videos from last week's assault on the capitol, they are learning that some rioters used military-style tactics. those rioters appeared to use methods like hand signals to communicate suggesting they had military training. senior investigative correspondent catherine herridge has been looking into this and joins us from washington. catherine, what have we learned? >> reporter: well, good morning. a law enforcement official confirms to cbs news that the identification of rioters who used military-style tactics is a tier-one priority for the u.s. attorney's sedition task force here in washington.
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with federal investigators sifting through more than 130,000 digital media tips -- some videos stand out. >> i ran this by probably three or four senior s.w.a.t. guys. we all kind of agreed some kind of training. >> reporter: scott sweetow is a former fbi and atf explosives expert who investigated the 1995 oklahoma city and 1996 centennial olympic park bombings. >> you have all these people that are facing away from the capitol. they're singing. ♪ then you have this group that is moving quickly and with a purpose up the steps of the capitol. that's pretty scary when you look at what those people are doing. >> reporter: officials say former or current military and law enforcement have already been arrested for participating
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in last week's attack. the pentagon says jacob fracker, one of two off-duty virginia cops arrested for breaking into the capitol, is a corporal in the virginia national guard. and the army is still trying to determine the current status of thomas robertson who apparently served as different times both for the national guard and reserves. cbs news has learned videos like this drew immediate scrutiny because they mirror tactics used by law enforcement and the military to navigate hostile or unknown environments. what are small unit tactics? >> you know, small unit tactics are ways that military can blanket and -- and communicate and try to get to a primary target that they have. >> reporter: frank cilluffo is a former senior homeland security official. >> this isn't out of a basement. this isn't playing a whole lot of video games. this is something that there was some training here. there's no question. >> reporter: once the capitol was breached, cbs news has
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learned a d.c. police officer witnessed some rioters using military-style hand signals to communicate. >> it would not be unusual for people to come up with physical signals such as tapping them, pulling on them, something that would work in a crowd where you had a lot of noise and a lot of chaos. >> reporter: why is the identification of individuals like this so important to the investigation? >> at the end of the day, a small number of sophisticated actors can do a whole lot of harm. >> reporter: this is shaping up to be one of the biggest cases in u.s. history that relies so heavily on videotape evidence in addition to social media. cbs news has learned that federal investigators are poring through thousands of hours of security camera video from the supreme court, the library of congress, and the capitol itself, as well as police body cam video. tony? >> can't get through fast enough. thank you very much. ahead we'll look at allegations that some wealthy and well-connected people are
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as most americans wait to get the covid vaccine, we are learning about accusations that some wealthy and well-connected people are trying to cut the line. in florida, officials are investigating reports at a luxury assisted living facility offered and vaccinated its board members and
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wealthy donors out of turn. manuel bojorquez is at a vaccine distribution site in miami gardens with more on the story. good morning to you, manuel. we can see the cars lining up already. >> reporter: that's right. so you know the saying money talks. we should point out that states are trying to clamp down on improper distribution. but the reports of people skipping the line come as you note, people here waiting in long lines for the vaccine. there are people dealing with registration websites that keep failing or phone lines that are jammed or are essential workers who are not part of the first round of shots. >> for those teachers that are not virtual, they should have a priority to vaccinate. >> reporter: miami teacher karla hernandez-mats is the president of the largest teachers union in the southeastern united states. teachers currently under 65 are not eligible to get the vaccine in florida. it's unclear when they will be. >> just as essential workers like firefighters and police are being prioritized so should teachers. >> reporter: it's up to individual states to determine
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who gets the vaccine and when. the frustration comes amid reports some wealthy americans are trying to get vaccinated before they are eligible, and in some cases may have been successful. a state and federal investigation is under way after morris live health system in west palm beach, florida was accused of giving vaccines to its rich donors who do not live at its assisted living facility. it was reportedly organized by two new york real estate moguls on the board of directors. >> you have basically given the vaccine to hundreds and hundreds of different private providers, and you're trusting that they're going to do the right thing. >> reporter: state representative omari hardy oversees the district where morse life health is located. >> it goes to show that there's been one pandemic for the rich and there's another pandemic for rest of us who are not rich and well connected. >> i have an acquaintance who
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was able to just log on, on the new jersey site, who's not a high-risk person and get a vaccine. >> reporter: dr. edward goldberg is a concierge doctor in new york city. that means his patients pay him a fee of $20,000 a year which covers their personalized care. >> it's really more people who aren't my existing patients. i'm getting a lot of phone calls from people like you're a concierge doctor, i will join if you will come to my home and give me a covid vaccine. >> what do crow tell them? >> what i tell people is if they are part of my practice i will let them know immediately when they're eligible. i don't have the ability to adjust the waiting list. >> people are just used to being able to get their way when they have privilege and wealth. >> reporter: last month we spoke with beverly hills doctor ehsan ali who told us several dozen people offered to pay him to cut the vaccine line. he told them no. now he says he's been hearing of people getting the vaccine through their hospital or government connections. >> people are willing to do what it takes to get this vaccine. >> reporter: in california, the state medical board recently
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warned that providers who do not properly distribute and administer the vaccine could have their license revoked. earlier this month, new york governor andrew cuomo also said he planned to introduce legislation that would make it a crime to help someone skip the vaccine line. >> people of means are used to being able to get their hands on that resource by paying more money. >> reporter: holly fernandez-lynch is a professor at university of pennsylvania. she pointed out the wealthy often have more means to protect against covid. >> people who are most vulnerable to covid are racial and ethnic minorities, and it has nothing to do with, you know, biology or genetics or any of that. it has to do with how those features correlate with other types of inequity in our country in terms of what types of jobs people have, where people are living. >> reporter: is our health care system set up where clearly it's an advantage to have money when it comes to prioritizing yourself?
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>> certainly. the vaccine is one teeny, tiny example of that. this is just one tiny microcosm of the really, really disturbing inequity that we see in the american health care system. >> reporter: we reached out to morse life, the facility in west palm beach, as well as a representative of the two real estate moguls who are accused of helping their wealthy friends get the vaccine. so far we have not heard back from either. tony? >> all right. thank you very much. no additional comments. next, vlad duthiers -- >> no, no, no. i think it's very scary because everybody wants it. you know, they're trying to work out the system so that everybody can get it equitably. >> everybody should be part of a wealthy and well connected entity called the united states government. they should be taking care of us on this front. hospitals who want to take money to give things out early should resist that urge. >> nobody i know thinks that's a good idea. >> it's a bad idea. >> when you're not qualified. >> agreed. we have consensus. vlad duthiers is coming up.
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>> it's called song on take -- >> i go, what's suzanne doing? look at that. wow. >> that's us. >> fish -- >> yeah. >> all right. all right. >> heavy things. thank you so much for that. you're hired as our promoter. >> here are stories we think you'll be talking about -- starting with the triple digits to siegfried fischbacher from siegfried & roy. the iluglusionist died at 81. he and his partner took las vegas by storm with their acts which was famous for including exotic cats. they became a las vegas destination when their 14-year run at the mirage began in 1990. fischbacher was drawn to magic when he was just 8. he met horn while they were working on a cruise ship in 1957. they decided to join forces and, of course, went to to have a hugely successful career. we will miss them. focusing now on capitol police officer eugene goodman who could receive a
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congressional gold medal for protecting senators from a mob of rioters at the u.s. capitol last week. a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a bill saying goodman deserves congress' highest civilian honor for putting his life at risk to save them. watch this video. this is the video of officer goodman. it shows him on social media with a crowd that he's luring away from the main entrance to the senate floor after they chased him up the stairs. to the left of officer goodman, down that hallway, is exactly the halls of the senate. >> wow. >> the rioters followed him where they were met by a group of police officers. one of the lawmakers who introduced the bill said officer goodman's heroics remind us of what truly makes the united states great. officer goodman is an iraq war veteran. he served in the 101st airborne division, screaming eagles, and the 18th airborne corps tweeted he was a hero long before -- >> such a critical moment in that doorway. every time i get chills. >> a few steps away senators and the other way they're protected. >> you know what else is
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interesting -- the guy coming up the stairs. you can see him look like what's back there, oh, nothing, i'll go this way. spurred on by officer goodman who sort of pushed him -- >> pushed him to get him to follow him the other way. >> i can't get enough of that video and what he did in that moment. >> hope he gets that medal. >> yes, we do. okay. a chinese restaurant in montreal is getting attention for dishing out some brutal honesty on its menu. for the braced pork belly with sweet potato noodles, there is this pearl of wisdom -- you may not want to have it every time if you're watching your weight. >> good. >> to the sweet and spicy pork, the owner writes, since i have such high expectations on this dish, i am not a huge fan of our version to be honest. >> that's so great. >> he gives this advice about ordering the orange beef -- this one is not that good. anyway, i'm not a big fan of north american chinese food, and it's your call. >> makes me want to try it. i like there guy. >> the author of the restaurant says those comments are on the menu because he'd rather not
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good morning. it is 7:56. i am michelle griego. police in san jose are searching for a gunman who opened fire on officers shortly before 5:00 this morning. the shooting happened in the area of lynette way and duffey way if the city's may fair neighborhood. no one was injured. six vallejo police officers who shot a man 55 times in 2019 will not face criminal charges. officers opened fire on mccoy when he did not comply with attempts to arrest him. police claim they thought he
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was reaching for his gun. lori loughlin's husband asking to be released from jail and moved to house arrest to finish his sentence. his attorney claims covid-19 solitary confinement is taking a toll on his mental health. in the south bay we look at traffic. a surface street problem continues, not affecting 680 or 101 but we have an ongoing closure on surface streets due to police activity. you will see closures on lynette way near san antonio. our freeways are fairly quiet, friday light at golden gate. we will have another day where we warm up near 70. take a look at the numbers. once we get rid of the patchy fog, and we have seen some into concord, diablo valley, but it shouldn't last much longer than the next hour or so. we have a great looking seven- day fo cast with dayti
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♪ it is friday, january 15th, 2021. it has been quite a week. welcome back to "cbs this morning." i'm gayle king with tony dokoupil. that is anthony mason. we're learning new details about 21,000 national guard troops who will protect washington, d.c. fromom threats to the inauguration. high school students talk to award winning author jason reynolds abobout the pandemic, w it changeded their lives and thr hopes for r the futurere. > and actoror folakake o olou talks to us about a surprise plot twist in her comedy "bob hearts abishola". >> it is a good show too. first, here is today's eye
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opener at 8:00. law enforcement officials say we face an unprecedented threat of violent extremism from other americans. >> massive trucks, this is called a five ton truck, it is blocking this road and you can see scenes like this all across d.c. as security ramps up. >> president-elect biden is urging lawmakers to pass this package, but speed may be a challenge. the president-elect says they should split up their workdays to get it all done. >> look, over the last ten months we told you the stories of doctors and nurses, social workers and chaplains, this morning it is the frontline workers, first line workers. >> sometimes we wait outside with the patient in the ambulance for six to ten hours maybe, just depends. >> according to the washington post, trump has instructed aides not to pay rudy for his legal efforts to overturn the election. >> after pinching out his argumn court in a desperate effort to overturn the legal results of the election, which ended with
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one win and 64 losses. one and 64. the record known as the knicks. >> aw. >> that really hurts for niknic fans. >> the loyalty does team to go one way. one way. >> 1-64. welcome back to "cbs this morning." with just five days to go before president-elect biden is sworn in, we're learning more about the mission to prevent new violence in our nation's capitol. about 21,000 national guard troops will be there for the inauguration. customs and border protection will use boats and aircraft to patrol the water and sky around washington. >> the fbi says it has arrested more than 100 people in connection with last week's assault on the capitol. and identified more than 200 suspects. the bureau received about 140,000 tips from the public. >> president-elect joe biden has unveiled a $1.9 trillion covid relief package, that includes
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another $1400 payment to tens of millions of americans and proposes $160 billion for a national vaccination program. mr. biden wants to shift the political focus as the senate prepares to take up the second impeachment of president trump. joining us now are cbs news political contributors robby mook and terry sullivan. robby was hillary clinton's 2016 campaign manager, and terry managed marco rubio's 2016 campaign. good morning to both of you gentlemen. i'm hoping you will quip me with something smart to say to neighbors, friends, family, who say what is going on with politics in our country? robby, i'll start with you, you have practical information for people. the senate -- joe biden wants to pass this massive relief package but the senate also has to consider an impeachment trial. how are they going to do both? >> yeah, well, from what i'm hearing, they're going to try to get this impeachment done as quickly as they responsibly can. there is tremendous urgency to
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get to work on the covid relief packages. the president-elect said last night, time is of the essence here. i don't think democrats are interested in dalaiing around. this is not partisan in their minds, by the way, this is really about creating a consequence and accountability for the president inciting this riot. >> and can they do both? >> they can. you know, democrats set the rules around this, they're going to have that majority. and i do think it is realistic for them to do a speedy trial. and get right on to doing the other business. i'm also hearing alternatives where they may actually pass covid relief first, and then go to the trial. they have a lot of different options here. >> all right. now, i was going to go to terry on president trump. that's the big question here. he will no longer be president, but if the senate rules it can be done, under the constitution, he may still face impeachment or conviction in the senate with this hearing. it would take 17 republicans, terry, one reading of the situation is that republicans would love to see donald trump
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go away forever. they just don't want to be seen doing that in public. do you think 17 republicans will come along and vote to convict on impeachment? >> you know, it is tough to determine what the jurors are going to do before the case had even started. so i don't know. i do think that the republican party is ready to move on in most ways. i think both parties -- in the last four years, both parties have become a one issue party. and that issue has ben donald trump. i think that what we're seeing now is both parties want to quickly move on and start talking about other issues. >> i think the republicans need to keep looking at those interviews with the police officers who were beaten with the american flag and we're hearing rioters say kill him with his own gun. i'm curious, terry, about mitch mcconnell in particular, who says he hasn't made up his mind about whether he's going to vote for conviction. a, do you believe that, or, b, do you think he's engaging in strategiry and if so, what is his game plan here? >> yes, gayle.
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i mean, it is -- >> yes, what, terry? >> yes to all of the above. i think he means it. i think it is -- everything mitch mcconnell does is engaging in strategiry. it is who he is as a person. and he's very good at it. he's keeping the president on a short leash for the remaining days of his presidency and putting him on notice, no more screwing around, and -- or i'm going to vote to impeach. so it seems to be somewhat working. we haven't seen any irrational, overly irrational things in the last 72 hours since he said t that's a pretty big deal for donald trump. >> i'm curious, you've got -- the leadership of the party may be ready to move on from donald trump. are republican voters ready to move on? i'm looking at polls that say they don't blame donald trump for what happened at the capitol. >> yeah, i don't know it is -- again, it is not even both parties. it is america has become a one
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issue country. it is just fixated on donald trump and a lot of what you see, look, the guy who is wearing a native american head dress -- or bull costume, and is in jail in arizona is a shaman. he's not the demographic of a conservative republican. i think what you saw is a lot of crazy people following the lead of one crazy person, the president of the united states. and so i don't know this is an ideological issue or even a partisan issue, it is that he has -- he has made this a fever-pitched nation and it turned everything about him and i think america hopefully is ready to move on and that's what it is really about. >> robby if you go back to 2008, the democrats took the white house and both houses of congress and the republican position wasn't to retool and change their message, it was to fight to dig in deeper and to try to make obama at that time a one-term president. do you expect a similar approach here, where they just obstruct,
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obstruct, obstruct? >> well, i'm concerned that's going to be the case, but the big difference now is back in 2008 we had an economic crisis. now we have an economic crisis and a pandemic that is making the economic crisis worse. and so i think for all lawmakers, they should take president-elect biden at his word last night when he said everybody has got to work together, he's genuinely trying to reach across the aisle, i agree with terry that donald trump has made everything about donald trump for the last few years. we have got to move on from that. biden gave a completely different speech last night. he was honest. he was candid. he said he wasn't going to get everything right. this was a total departure from the defensiveness, the lies, the quack medical theories we have been hearing the last few years. and the stakes here are really high. this economy is getting worse, and so i hope that we'll see some republicans at least try to work -- work together, both
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chambers, both parties, to get some work done. because we're falling behind. >> yeah, the stakes couldn't be any higher. robby mook, terry
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ahead, we'll hear from high school students whose lives have been changed forever by this pandemic. see the very powerful moment when author jason reynolds revealed how he can relate to their struggles. jason is quite a personal story. you're watching "cbs this morning." we thank you for that. we'll be right back.
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this morning as we continue our look at how children are coping with the pandemic, we're hearing from high school students in the washington, d.c., area. joaquin hinojosa is a junior at northeast high school. leryc jay is a junior. lily freeman is a junior at walt whitman high school. jericka duncan recently met up with author jason reynolds at banneker high.
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reynolds is the ambassador for young people's literature fr the library of congress and has been connecting with students virtually throughout the pandemic. they spoke with the four students about how covid has transformed their lives. >> by a show of hands, how many of you all have been personally impacted by the pandemic? leleryc, you've lost a loved on because of the pandemic? >> yes, i lost my aunt. >> i'm sorry for your loss. how are you doing -- if you could talk about that experience? >> it was really hard for me because i was very close to my aunt. >> first i want to say i'm sorry, leryc, for your loss. it's jusust before a very tough and enduring time, not even to mention the social aspect. like i'm a senior this year, and the year itself has just been hard. >> i think for teenagers especially having our worlds close the austin is not something we can take for granted. it's taken everything away that
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used to make life special. >> and joaquin? >> i haven't seen anyone since march because my mom doesn't let me go out of the house at all hardly. i lost that part. and so like my mental health which i struggled with prior to that has been magnified a lot in quarantine. >> reporter: you've been talking to people in this age group. is what they're saying more of the same of what you've been hearing for the last several months? >> absolutely. i think it's an interesting time to be a young person in america because so many of them are in spaces where they normally and naturally would be having experiences that foster a certain kind of growth. and the things that are necessary for you to transition are the experiences that happen outside of your home. and a lot of those experiences have been cut short. >> reporter: i want to turn now to mental health. joaquin, you touched on it a little bit early on when you talked about sort of the
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challenges with the pandemic. how would you rate your mental state throughout all of ththis? >> i would say on a scale of one to ten it's usually every day -- onon a good day a six or seven. and then just normal days i'd say it's around a threree, two three. it's not like i'm having anything directly happen to me. like i'm not having just, you know, normal struggles or issues, it's just like a thing that i've sort of learned to live with at this point. and thankfully my parents, they know of my struggles. they've tried to get me help. >> i can completely relate. i struggle with clinical anxiety, and it's been a tough time, you know. and i think it's important that young people know that we're all different in the way that our brains are working, that it doesn't make any of us small it doesn't make any of us weak. if you are having a tough time right now. >> as a fellow person that struggled with mental health, how do you overcome the
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adversity? >> it's rough. it can be rough. i've had some terrible moments, panic attacks, things of that nature. and the one thing that's been helpful for me first and foremost is the acceptance of it. that i'm going to live the rest of my life with this. it's literally chemicals in my brain that are different than the next person's. and so i've learned over the years how to manage it before an episode actually happens. i just wanted to normalize it. it's okay -- >> reporter: to not be okay. >> it's okay to not be okay. listen, i've bedone all those things with anxiety. so there's nothing that can get in your way. >> reporter: i want to turn a little bit here to something that recently happened in the news. what did each of you all make of what you saw happen at the capitol, the rioting that took place on january 6th? >> it was crazy to see. just the initial thought was what if that had been black people, you know. >> i i was shocked,d, but then
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wasn't because i knew if it was african-americans doing it, it would have never went down like that. >> it was just unacceptable, and it infuriated me on the inside. >> it's sad. it's exhausting, and i worry for our generation. but i definitely have hope because i think that collectively we all felt -- most of us felt the sense of outrage that is necessary for us to be able to enact the change that ensures that the forces that instigated the mob don't return in the future. >> the new year is not slowing down the unprecedented spread of coronavirus -- >> reporter: you have to acknowledge that hundreds of thousands have died. have there been any beauty that's's come out of this sort horrific moment? >> i got to g get reaeal close y family. i got more time with my family. >> yeah. i agree. >> for me, having that time with my mother and sister, especially
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being my last year, i'll be going off to college, this is an important time. i appreciate having the time with both of them. >> i definitely have gained a few hobbies. i began cooking for my family. i like to prepare meals. >> yeah. noting about able to go out and go to restaurants and shops and theaters has forced me to really appreciate that every day -- the everyday beauty in life. i think that might be one of the number-one things i take from the pandemic, whether that's spending time with my family, which is just the most important thing, or looking out the window and seeing the sun shining because those are really the only things we have. i think the pandemic has really helped me be grateful for them. >> reporter: listen, all of these students said it has been a difficult time and expressed that they have problems with remote learning be it wi-fi connections or technical issues. the assignment if you that will jason reynolds gave to the students is to continue to talk
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about these things and let people know when they need help. and the assignment for parents and teachers, he said, listen. and for both groups, give ourselves grace in this moment. gayle? >> yeah. that's such a beautiful way to say that, jericka. i'm also going to stick with your "it's okay not to be okay." we all need a reminder of that now and again. thanks. always good to see you. have a good weekend. ahead, the star of "bob hearts abishola," have you seen itit? folake olowofoyeku -- folake olowofoyeku, i'm going to get it. she's a very funny actress, talented, too. her first love, did you know, is music. i'll get it, i promise. she'll tell us about her new single and the sitcom.
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ing up on "cbs this morning." good morning. after a kpix5 investigation uncovered a class action suit against bank of america over what it calls botched handling of the program. it alleges it breached contract with edd among other violations. police in san jose searching for a gunman who opened fire on officers before 5:00 this morning. this happened in the area of lynette way and duffey way in the city's may fair neighborhood. no one was injured.
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49ers defensive coordinator robert saleh will be the head coach of the jets. he came to san francisco with kyle shanahan in 2017. we have some trouble on the roadways. east bound 80 at powell street, lanes are blocked as they clear a crash. they're trying to get the activity to the right shoulder. we've got delays as you head through. the toll plaza area is okay for the most part. you see west bound which is the commute direction, things have been friday light for most of the morning. 880 south bound at alameda, a crash and street closures continue due to police activity in san jose. pretty views all around. the camera above the east bay looking down 880, some high clouds. a nicer view as we look at the scene from our camera that looks towards the tri valley. however look at the visibility
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♪ welcome back to "cbs this morning." time to bring you some of the stories we call talk of the table. tony is in pole position. >> we told you yesterday about the washington, d.c. police officer daniel hodges who got a heart felt get well card from a girl in montana of all places after he defended the capitol last week. hodges was crushed in a doorway by a mob as he was doing his job. now, for the first time he is describing his ordeal. take a listen. >> it was chaotic. by the time we got there, we got to west side, and the capitol had already been surrounded on the west side. so we actually had to fight our
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way through the crowd in order to join the defense proper on the dais where officers were already holding the line. they were all shouting at us, calling us traitors. and eventually they attacked us. at that point, they surrounded me and started beating me. seeing some of the video, who rips my mask off my gas mask, he's also able to rip away my baton, beat me with it, that's one of the three times that day i thought this might be it, this might be the end for me. i had conspiracy theorists and just everyone you could think of yelling on me saying, why are you doing this, you're the traitor, we're not the traitors, we're the ones who saved congress that day. some of them definitely thought they would just walk right up and say, we're here to arrest congress. and then the police would say, all right, let's go and that wasn't the case and it will never be the case. it is hard to go through someone
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like that and say it doesn't affect you. i'm obviously -- it is something i'll be thinking about for the rest of my life. it was an honor and privilege to be there and shut down those people that day. >> and that's how the majority of the capitol police feel. he breaks my heart when he says no, we're the ones that saved congress that day. this is so unnecessary. >> and the three times he felt like this might be it. >> forever changed. so glad he's all right. >> he's going to be okay. they expect him to be back at work in a few days. >> he wants to go back to work. how about that? wants to go back to work. >> grateful for everything you did. >> yes. i have a debut song by a 17-year-old olivia rodrigo, it is being called first smash hit of the new year. it has taken over social media and streaming platforms. take a look. ♪ i just can't imagine how you could be so okay ♪ >> it is called driver's license, debuted a week ago
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today. spotify confirms on monday the song set the platform's record for the most streams in a day for a nonholiday song. more than 15.1 million global streams, driver's license broke its own record, the next day, with more than 17 million streams. olivia rodrigo stars in high school musical, the musical the series. she's got a fan base. this is getting a lot of extra fuel because her co-star in the show, joshua bassett, who is rumored to be the subject of the song, is also releasing a song. >> is it a happy song? >> it is a broken hearted song. let's put it that way. you can hear her, she says she's a big taylor swift and lourde fan. >> i hear lourde there, i hear billy eilish there. she has a beautiful voice. >> the song is blowing up. >> i want to get it. >> has blown up. >> feels right for the winter of 2021. >> yes, it does. yes. my pick is the hit cbs sitcom
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bob hearts abishola in a dramatic two-part episode, i can't wait for you to see it. my pick is folake olowofoyeku. i'm nuts about her. she plays abishola, nigerian nurse, who falls in love with her former patient, that would be bob, at the beginning of the season abishola proposes to bob, but it is not happily ever after just yet. why? she is still married to a man named te'o in nigeria. in this pray pre v eview, t te' surpririse visit to o the u.s. >> youou know what renental car want to geget, a a jeep. that dayay in mexicoco, it was most raiain i had ever seen in life. >> it wowould have b been fine e had d a car witith a roof onn i. yoyou persuadeded me too w wear whwhite dress s that day. . >> y you were the most b beauti wowoman in acapulco. >> so beautiful the hotel
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doorman thought i was homeless. >> so good. hello, folake. it is so good it see you again. when i looked at that episode, i kept thinking about that dress, whose is it, i want to get that. we're here to talk about you. i so love the show. i so love you in the show. i told you that many times before. this season began with abishola proposing to bob. so how is that going to go? why do you think these two are such a good match? i love the blending of the cultures in the show. >> good morning, gayle. thanks for having me. good to see you again. why do i think this couple, this match works is because it is rooted in love. the most important thing in the world. you see two strong people come together, they have been -- abishola has been the caregiver for her family and so has bob. and in each other they find like a balance. and an appreciation for life, new appreciation for life. >> yeah, but then her husband
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shows up, i think it is interesting we didn't know she had -- i didn't know she had a husband. and he shows up and it is very clclear he's coming back to tak hiss womaman. anand so i i thihink this adds e otherr l layer off h humor to t show. >> well, it remains to be seen if he is in facact heree to tak hihis womanan or not oror if h gogoing to bebe sucuccessful a so. yeah, thahat is the brilliance chuck lorie and our writers, there is a twist here. the show takes a dramatic turn, which is unusual for a sitcom, which makes our show a little bit of a hybrid. it gets -- >> go ahead. >> it gets real in the next two episodes. it gets pretty emotional and pretty intense. >> okay. i've already seen the first two episodes, but this is the thing that i like about the show, because it is so layered, you've got black americans, black women, you have nigerian women, you have the two cultures that combine, and there is humor there, you have bob's wac adoodle family, rich in a lot of
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humor there, but i like for instance, there is a great line you talk about you're riding in your car with your friend, and bob, and you say, bob doesn't want you in the car anymore, he finds you annoying. and then the black friend says, you know, you could have said that a different way, that's really not nice. you say, nigerians to you it is rude, but to us it is honesty. and it had me laughing out loud. do you think that's true? >> that's very -- that's extremely accurate. people have -- when i first came to america, i had people who are offended by some of the things i say until they realize i was nigerian because they had experience with other nigerians. okay, cool, she's normal. but i had to -- i had to actually adjust. there is a language barrier that exists. nigerians can be straight to the point, it is like a fast-paced community and you don't have time to waste for things to be done. you need to communicate as effectively as possible. and move on. and that doesn't translate as
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quite polite here. and also i find that in america, you need to have -- you need a smile in your face and be perky and speak in higher tones. >> it is exhausting. >> your parents -- they wanted you to be a lawyer, right? >> yes. my father was one of the top legal minds in the country, he named me -- >> how did the conversation go when you said, no, i'm staying in the states to pursue art? >> i lied. i told them i was -- i was in the college of new york studying economics and i was going to go on to law school. but i had changed to a theater major, and i started teaching myself guitar, but they didn't know that until i graduated. >> yeah. >> and you have a whole other side that people are discovering, you have a new song out right now. >> you sing. i didn't know you sing. whoa. >> yeah. i love music.
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music -- i studied audio engineering in new york at the institute of -- at the institute of audio research, and i love music. and i taught myself guitar. i released my single. >> we were listening to it. folake, when oprah was breaking into this business, they wanted her to change her name to susan and she refused. did anybody ever say to you, you ought to change your name. it is on us to get the name right, not on you. did anybody ever say you should change your name? >> oh, yeah, i got that a few times. but our names are very powerful. there was no way i was going to approach that. >> good on you. we'll get it. thank you, folake. you can watch "bob
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>> reporter: when jackie vandagriff's body was discovered in september of 2016, police soon uncovered video of a man she was last seen with at some college bars in denton, texas. police didn't know his identity right away, but this woman knew him very well. >> he would always give me flowers, always, especially if he had something to be sorry about. >> reporter: caitlin mathis dated charles bryant that past summer and had recently broken things off. >> he was trying to win me back and i was, like, nothing is going to work. >> reporter: but bryant was not taking no for an answer. in the weeks leading up to jackie's death, he kept showing up on caitlin's campus in denton, and was arrested three times. she had also filed a restraining order against him. this history made bryant a good suspect in jackie vandagriff's case. but police didn't have enough evidence to arrest him right away. but shortly after jackie's body was found, he tried to contact
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caitlin again, which was a violation of that restraining order. he was brought in for questioning. >> yeah, it is crazy. >> reporter: at first, bryant denied knowing who jackie was, but texas ranger jim holland, who specializes in interviewing serial killers, thought he might be able to get bryant to confess. >> a lot of these people actually want to tell you, they want to tell someone. >> reporter: in the course of a long interrogation, holland got bryant to admit he had been with jackie that night, but bryant wouldn't admit to murder, claiming she had died accidentally after a consensual sexual encounter. >> she's not responsive. i shake her. >> reporter: are you thinking this is a complete and total lie? >> yeah, it is total fabrication. >> reporter: holland believes bryant did kill jackie intentionally and it was all triggered by his feelings for caitlin. >> in his mind, he was seeking
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revenge on his ex-girlfriend, who had called the police on him. >> i think he really wanted to kill me. i think that he wanted me dead. >> you can see jim axelrod's report, the murder of jackie vandagriff on "48 hours" tomorrow at 10:00, 9:00 central here on cbs. we'll look back at all that mattered this week, a consequential week in our country. we'll be right back. n our country. we'll be right back. >> yeah. califofornia phonenes os free spepecialized p phon. like corordless phon, - (phone r ringing) - bibig button,, and vovolume-enhananced phones. get t details on thihis state prprogram. call or visit
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this week. have a great, quiet weekend. >> tak care, guys. >> the executive branch is a deranged, unhinged, dangerous president of the united states. >> president trump has earned the distinction of being the only president who has been impeached twice. >> where do we go from here? >> it would take a two-thirds majority in the senate to convict president trump and prevent him from running again. >> what's his calculation here? >> his calculation simply, tony, is to try to preserve what remains of his legacy as president so it's not incinerated before the public's eyes by a second round of violence. >> what would you say to your colleagues who weren't wearing masks? >> that i'm angry with you, that there ought to be consequences for you not wearing your mask. >> there was an issue by the congresswoman from georgia. she does not believe healthy americans should be forced to muzzle themselves with a mask. i don't know how a mask is a muzzle. >> you're 22 years old, but you are old enough to know better. >> the hotel -- >> you're 22.
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i get it. >> maybe it wasn't him. >> you must have stunned when you stepped off the elevator with your son. >> i'm still in shock, gayle. i'm still in shock. >> when people hear the term "white privilege" they don't like that term. >> maybe it's a bad term, but there is real estate privilege. you don't need a sign that says no blacks allowed, you make the houses $3 million. that will keep the blacks out. ♪ >> vlad, with your instagram picture with your blue steel look -- there it is. look at that male model. >> don't mess with him. >> a new sneaker from jimmy choo. >> there they are. the diamond -- i wear leather sneakers here on set. some people love them. >> i do love them. >> there are viewers who find them unbecoming for an anchor person. >> do they say that? >> yeah. i get some notes. i get some notes. here for those of you --
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>> you amazed they're looking at your shoes. >> there they are right there. ♪ >> the champs-elysees is being redesigned to attract more visitors. what's the name of the street? >> champs eral champ aliechamps. >> it felt like a message i wanted to say and felt like needed to be heard. not only by the fans but by myself i think. >> i said to anthony, i can't wait to see your piece. he goes, oh, it's okay. ♪ sunny days ♪ >> welcome to "elmo's world." he says, "welcome to elmo's wor world." meg oliver teamed up with elmo. good morning to you, bo's, mom. i have to say i totally screwed up. your kids, maria, tony, and cormack are going, what is she talking about, mom? you do not have another child. nikki battiste just had bo. that's what i was thinking of. i'm so sorry. >> no problem because i love the
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