it ♪ ♪ ♪ captioning sponsored by cbs >> diaz: tonight, vaccines interrupted, hospitals and pharmacies in some states running out, appointments canceled, even as some doses go unused. the deepening distribution crisis, as the virus mutates. also tonight, president biden uses the power of his pen to fight covid. can he deliver with congress divided? and dr. deborah birx, now on the outside looking back. people ini >> there are people in the white house-- and i think people around this country-- who definitely believed that this was a hoax. >> diaz: wuhan's mystery virus, one year later. cbs news is there. plus, those signature suspenders, that unmistakable voice...

>> this is the premiere edition of "larry king live." >> diaz: we remember the titan of talk. and later, the surprise pledge that was spoken and signed. >> i pledge allegiance, to the flag. >> this is the "cbs weekend news" from chicago. here's adriana diaz. >> diaz: good evening. we begin with a staggering tally. tonight, the united states is hitting a total of 25 million coronavirus cases. that's about one in every 14 americans. deaths linked to the virus now top 416,000, the world's worst. adding to the crisis, vaccine distribution issues and a mutating virus. cbs' danya bacchus is in los angeles starting us off. danya, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, adriana. southern california is opening more sites to administer a vaccine that's already hard to come by. here in l.a. county, health

officials warn, at this rate, the county will not be fully vaccinated until next year.ç tonight, closures and cancellations at vaccination sites nationwide, the frustration mounting over supply problems. >> today, we've just run out, just completely. >> reporter: from hospitals to pharmacies, the vaccine crisis comes at a time when a more-infectious u.k. strain could become dominant. this week, jeff wilson's pittsburgh drug store administered its last dose,ç not knowing when the state will deliver more. >> i asked for 1,000 doses, and, you know, they couldn't give me any kind of answer. >> reporter: in texas, receiving doses is like playing the lottery. >> unfortunately, we don't have enough to give to every provider in the state every week, and so we do have to pick and choose. >> reporter: new york's stockpile has run dry. then there's florida, where there are no rules to keep temporary snowbirds from gettinl shots, the governor now telling non-residents to go elsewhere. >> we're not getting enough vaccine. we have places that can do more,

and we want them to do more. >> reporter: super-sites like the one at charlotte motor speedway, helping drive efforts to distribute the vaccine, the need increasing as other highly-contagious strains have now been detected. this as healthcare workers worry about receiving their second dose. >> i'm feeling so much frustration and so much anxiety. i trusted the officials. i was like, okay, i am a healthcare worker. i have been going to work every. day. covid is going crazy. but applying for the second vaccine has been a nightmare. >> reporter: this will be a critical week for california. the c.d.c. says the state is nearly last in percentage of shots administered. adriana.iana. you know,. >> dia >> diaz: danya bacchus in los angeles, thanks. today, president biden assured the nation's mayors that his administration would be active and accessible partners in helping them respond to the coronavirus crisis. cbs' skyler henry is at the white house with more. good evening, skyler.

>> reporter: adriana, good evening to you. president biden says he's treating the fight against the coronavirus like a war-time effort and that he needs help from congress and americans to beat it back. >> things are going to get worse the next several months before they get better. >> reporter: in a video message to the country's mayors today, president biden vowed to tackle the pandemic head on with a near-$2 trillion relief plan, and calling on americans to do their part. >> we also have to act now, now, with urgency and unity, as the united states of america. >> reporter: the administration is adamant mr. getting 100 million coronavirus vaccines into americans' arms, but says that is not enough. >> in the next few months, masks, not vaccinations, are the single best defense that we have against covid-19. >> reporter: this week, the president signed nearly 30 executive actions, some

reversing significant trump-era policies, but most address covid-19 and the economic fallout. the white house acknowledges the orders are only a first step and will take some buy-in from republicans. vice president kamala harris' chief spokeswoman, symone sanders. >> she will be actively involved in selling this plan and gathering support. >> reporter: also a priority for the biden team: transparency. dr. deborah birx, the former coordinator of president trump's coronavirus task force tells "face the nation," the trump administration's rhetoric was a problem. >> communication is absolutely key. and so, every time a statement was made by a political leader that wasn't consistent with public health needs, that derailed our response. >> reporter: dr. anthony fauci today agreed. >> it was having to always be wondering whether or not it would please the president or not, or please certain senior staff members. and that's not the right thing to do. >> reporter: with the

impeachment trial for former president trump set for the week of february 8, there's concern a lot of these initiatives could get curbed with congress as divided as ever. adriana. >> diaz: skyler henry at the white house, thank you. you can see more of margaret brennan's interview with dr. deborah birx tomorrow on "face the nation." margaret also speaks with dr. anthony fauci, now president biden's chief medical advisor. covid cases have been dropping across the country, but there is growing concern that the mutating virus could cause a new surge of cases faster than the country can distribute vaccines. cbs news chief medical correspondent dr. jon lapook joins us now. dr. lapook, the c.d.c. says about 40 million doses have been distributed, but as you know, roughly 20 million have actually gotten into people's arms. that is a huge discrepancy. why is that gap so big? >> reporter: you know, part of the problem may be inefficiency, getting the vaccines into people's arms.t part of it may be the

but part of it may be the database data is not correct right now.çoke to marcus plha, e chief medical officer for the national organization that represents state health officials, and he said a lot of the i.t. systems are from the 1980s, so there may be a huge lag between when the shot is given and when it gets into a national database. he told me in some cases, local health departments, people are faxing information from one place to another.ç >> diaz: faxing information from local health departments. no wonder there are concerns the numbers could be outdated. what are you hearing from doctors in the trenches. >> the main problem is supply. they said they don't need fema. they need more vaccine. and i spoke to andrew rubin, a senior administrator at n.y.u. langone health, and he said right now they're giving about 1,000 shots a day but they could ramp up to 7,000 shots a day. they just don't have enough

supply. >> diaz: what could the biden administration do to ensure the supply is there? >> reporter: andrew rubin and others have told me one of the top things the biden administration could do is increase transparency. right now, there are questions about where the vaccine is. how much of the vaccine is with the manufacturers? how much is with the government? and with the government, how much are they giving to the department of defense or the v.a.? how much are they giving to the governors, and how much have the governors given to the various counties within the state? to do that, we need to have more transparency. we need to have a national database, kind of a dashboard, where people see where the vaccine is and where it isn't. and, you know, when you see where it isn't, you get from where it is to where it isn't. one of the things that andrew rubin told me that is just e nogoing to find out until tomorrow how much vaccine they'll have on monday. that will only give a few hours. to advise people, hey, you should come in the next day in order to get a vaccine. it has to be done a lot better.

much more transparency. >> diaz: dr. jon lapook, thank you. the world's first lockdown in wuhan, china, was one year ago today. our cbs news team was there then, and they're back now, with the calls of a cover-up, as the city celebrates its recovery. here's ramy inocencio. >> reporter: what's the probability that covid originated here in china? >> it's unclear if china, the country, is the real source, the original source of the virus. the evidence right now suggests a high probability that the region of southeast asia is where this started, you know, in bats. that's where it originated. >> reporter: peter daszak's answer may frustrate the many who believe covid came from china. the world health organization expert and 13 peers arrived here in wuhan last week after months of negotiations with beijing. their goal: to find covid's origins. chinese officials say that the coronavirus might have come from someplace else. >> you can't rule it out.

>> reporter: the w.h.o.'s arrival coincides with the sensitive anniversary when wuhan fell silent, its 11 million residents locked down after the world's first covid cases appeared here. cbs news was there, reporting from the first designated hospital for covid, and chased away from a live animal market, once thought to be ground zero. one year later, the huanan seafood market is still closed, its signs taken down, its future uncertain. the world health organization, now under quarantine, is expected to visit here once they're asked. "what can they find?" asks wuhan native zhang hai. many things have been destroyed? are they here for show?" his 76-year-old father and army veteran died a year ago. zhang is suing wuhan, accusing officials of not warning the city sooner. "it's not just a cover-up. it's an act of murder," he says. that's a different narrative

from wuhan's new exhibition that boasts china won the war on covid and made no mistakes. president xi jinping is praised, with few mentions of the dead. "i want an apology, compensation, andunty."tn't t ah murder." ramy from china. thousands took to the streets in cities across russia today protesting the jailing of opposition leader alexey navalny. in the city of tomsk, protesters chanted "freedom," and "putin is a thief." thousands were arrested across the country, including navalny's wife in moscow. we learned today that broadcast legend larry king has died in a los angeles hospital after being treated for covid. he was 87. as "cbs sunday morning's" lee cowan reports, king spent a lifetime talking to everyone from heads of state to regular joes. >> we're back with morley safer of "60 minutes."

hello. >> reporter: with those signature suspenders and that unmistakable voice, larry king was a trailblazing talker, first on the radio... >> thank you very much, and good evening everybody. >> reporter: ...then, of course, on television. >> we'll be right back with frank sinatra after this. >> reporter: he began his career in florida, emerging as a household name in 1978 with a national call-in radio show... >> all of our lines are going, unbelievable. >> reporter:...that kept listeners company at night. he got the attention of cnn's ted turner in 1985, who convinced king to bring his talents to cable... >> my name is larry king, and this is the premiere edition of >> reporter: hosting what would becomtime slot in cnn's ne lineup. the pursuit of publicity, and in many cases, the path to redemption. he had that seat behind home plate, where the brooklyn-born king loved watching his beloved

dodgers. >> i don't know what to say, except to you, my audience:ç thank you. >> reporter: when king finally signed off from cnn in 2010, he didn't stop asking questions. he just took the conversation online with his digital venture, oratv. >> "larry king now"! >> that's the intro. >> reporter: what set larry king apart wasn't so much his ability to talk, but his willingness to listen. >> good-bye. >> good-bye. g >> reporter: a proud father of five, larry king was 87. lee cowan, cbs news, los angeles. >> diaz: straight ahead on the "cbs weekend news," when covid closed the u.s.-canadian border, its unintended consequences on american small businesses. and later, proof that a dog's love knows no bound.

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relations with canada, but his canceling the keystone xl pipeline may have dealt that hope an early blow. there are also new plans to toughen travel restrictions between the two countries, but what's already in place has proven painful. here's cbs' anna werner.>> >> we're looking into canada. >> reporter: when lars jacobson spots a truck crossing the canadian border into the united states... >> you might actually see a border crossing. here comes a truck. >> reporter: ...he sees unfairness. covid has stopped people from coming in, but not trucks facilitating commerce. >> the truckers can go back and forth because covid can't get them, but an individual it can? what? that doesn't make sense. >> reporter: his package store jakes landing, idaho, is within spitting distance of canada and now may go out of business. >> we're open. our customers are totally stuck on the other side of the border. our clients are canadians. we love canadians. >> reporter: in normal times,ç

canadian customers save time and money by shipping their packages to jake's small mart on the u.s. side. >> now the shelves are jam-packed. we're just trying to get them to the rightful owners. but we can't do it until they come down and get them. >> reporter: the loads are still coming in but... >> close to 2,000 packages waiting here for people to pick up now. >> reporter: those people also normahother business in this three-building village by buying gas, shopping, and eating in the restaurant. the hardships span the border from washington state, where covid-canceled ferry service on the peninsula, cost a $60 million loss and took 110 jobs; to montana, where retailers saw a 94% decrease in credit card spending by canadian shoppers, to fort fairfield, maine, where a golf club that spans bothmbs. in between, there are 100 border

checkpoints and countless small towns and businesses. over in eureka, montana, dave clark's "first and last chance" bar" sits 200 yards from the border. >> first place to get a drink on the way down, the last place to get a drink on the way home. that's why it's called the "first and last chance bar." >> reporter: it's also on its last leg, in a state where canadians typically spend more than $200 million a year. >> my income is down 60%. if i hadn't had the p.p.p. loan and the two grants that montana gave us, i would be completely out of reserves. >> reporter: back in idaho, the packages keep piling up. >> you guys have a good day. >> thank you. >> reporter: and lars jacobson passes the time counting the customers he does have each day... >> reporter: ...wishing therefi. were more. anna werner, cbs news. >> diaz: still ahead on the "cbs weekend news," an extraordinary story of love and loyalty--

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flag, the other to a community close to home. >> well, i really just wanted to pay homage to the deaf and heard-of-hearing community. the words of the pledge are significant, not just for us but for them as well. >> diaz: for the first-ever african american female fire captain in fulton county, georgia, it's personal. her late father was deaf. how does it feel for you when you speak vocally and with sign language? does it kind of have a different flavor? >> it does. it's just like if i spoke whenou have a native lanage y's like comft food you knite ma andravy >> diaz:n that you would sign along with the pledge? >> very early on. because this is the thing-- you know, you're between lady gaga and j-lo. i mean, come on. and i have my little 15 seconds of something. that's-- those are two hard acts to be sandwiched between, so i need to put some meat between

there, you know? >> diaz: and you did. you really did! you-- you stood up there and you started signing, and i said, "oh, my goodness!" and i know a lot of people did as well. >> i'm glad that was the reaction. >> diaz: at a time of such division, especially at a place like the capitol, perhaps the words of the pledge say it all. >> it was written for little children who were immigrants. and in some way, we're all immigrants, you know. we're a mish-mash of people from all over, and i think that's the significance of it. it's a way to unify all of us by speaking those 31 words. with liberty and justice for all. >> diaz: a huge thank you to captain hall. she taught me that. that is the "cbs weekend news" for this saturday. i'm adriana diaz in chicago. good night. >> diaz: finally tonight, when

live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news . >> now at 6:00, the new number that may have started to the reopening countdown clock for a lot of bay area businesses. a conservative event marches on in one of the most progressive cities in the country. march for life participants do not say it is more important now than ever. san francisco is a one party city. i think they need to be woken up with a seed of the opposing view. i am john ramos in sonoma county where lawmakers say no environmental rules may put small wineries out of business. we will have that story coming up. if you look at the map this week for how much rain we could see over the next seven days,

it is easily the most impressive amount of this whole winter yet. we will break this down in detail coming right up. i am brian hackney. >> i am julia. we start with a figure on the coronavirus front. public health dashboard, the bay areas icu capacity is suddenly sitting at more than 23%. that is nearly quadruple the beds available regionwide just yesterday. as you know, anything below 15% is what triggers the strictest restrictions like business closures and curfews. if we stay above that threshold for the next four weeks, outdoor dining and personal care services will be allowed to start reopening. another number we are watching closely, the vaccine count. according to the l.a. times, nearly 1.8 million doses have been administered so far. plenty of people have been sharing their thoughts about good and bad about how this distribution is going.