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system coming our way tuesday through thursday with heavy rain, strong winds, and a lot of snow in the sierra. thank you for watching kpix 5 news this morning ♪ good morning to you our viewers in the west. welcome to "cbs this morning." it's monday, january 25th, 2021. i'm gayle king with anthony mason and tony dokoupil. dr. deborah birx gives cbs news a stunning inside look at the trump white house's response to handling this pandemic. how she says her message was being undermined and why she says she did not quit. we'll talk to dr. anthony fauci this morning about that interview and the biden administration's latest efforts to control the virus. plus, why the nearly $2 trillion covid relief plan faces new pushback. lawmakers today will move closer to an impeachment trial of former president trump. but will republicans now oppose
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the idea of convicting him? and the match-up is set for super bowl lv on cbs. it's youth versus experience as patrick mahomes and tom brady face off in a game that's already making history. >> great games yesterday. but first here's today's "eye opener," it's your world in 90 seconds. >> the plane is in a nose-dive, and we've got to pull it up. you're not going to do that overnight. we're going to pull it up. we have to. pull it up. failure's not an option. >> reporter: president biden is preparing to sign new restrictions on international travelers. >> this includes a new ban on south africa where a dangerous new strain of covid is spreading fast. >> i feel fairly confident that it is here, and we're not detecting it yet. >> reporter: you knew at that point that the election was a factor in communication about the virus? >> yes. yes. >> reporter: did you ever withhold information yourself? >> no.
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>> reporter: a growing number of republican senators say they oppose holding an impeachment trial from incitement to insurrection, an impeachable offense. if not, what is? >> reporter: legendary talk show host larry king died less than a month after being hospitalized with covid-19. all that -- >> the flaming lips performing a physically distanced concert -- >> the first concert of its kind they say. and all that matters -- >> usc 257 ended with fireworks. justin porie knocking out connor mcgregor. >> whoa! >> again -- [ cheers ] on "cbs this morning." >> the stage is set for super bowl lv. the greatest young quarterback in the game will face off against the greatest quarterback ever to play the game. >> no one seemed more excited than gronk. here he is here in the locker room after the game. >> look out -- hey, hey, hey. >> now you know if you turnpike
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on the next season of "the masked dancer" and see a 6'6" bumblebee going hey, hey, hey, you know who it is. this morning's "eye opener" is presented by progressive, making it easy to bundle insurance. >> i think james corden is on to something. wouldn't surprise me at all if we saw gronk on "the masked dancer." those games yesterday were so good. they're already calling it the g.o.a.t. versus the kid. >> condolences to bills fans who really wanted this. >> they deserve it. the two. i'm sorry for them. >> right now the chiefs and the buccaneers. >> big game. >> it's going to be a good super bowl. guess what, it's on cbs. we're doing the hula about that. welcome to "cbs this morning." we're going to begin with the explosive revelations that came from dr. deborah birx about the pandemic response in the trump administration.
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the former coronavirus task force member told "face the nation's" margaret brennan yesterday there was never a full-time team at the white house to deal with the crisis. she pointed a picture of disorganization, disinformation, and censorship. >> more than 25 million americans have been infected by the virus, but amid the terrible numbers, there are signs that the rate of increase in cases is slowing. that is good news. ed o'keefe now is following this from the white house. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. >> that wide ranging interview dr. deborah birx claiming she was leading the former president's response to covid-19 all by herself. >> there was only one full-time person in the white house working on the coronavirus response. >> how is that possible? >> well, that's what i was given so what i did is i went to my people that i've known all through the last years in government, all 41. can you come and help me? >> reporter: on sunday dr. deborah birx who helped lead the covid task force told "face the nation" moderator margaret brennan that the former
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president often received and touted conflicting information about slowing the spread of the virus. >> i mean, until the day i left, i am convinced there were parallel data streams because i -- >> reporter: disinformation? >> i saw the president presenting graphs that i never made. so i know that someone or someone out there or someone inside was creating a parallel set of data and graphics that were shown to the president. >> reporter: birx also said she grew frustrated with covid deniers in the white house. in the white house -- who contributed to disinformation campaigns. >> when you have a pandemic or you're relying on every american to change their behavior, communication is absolutely key. so every time a statement was made by a political leader that wasn't consistent with public health needs, that derailed our response. it is also why i went out on the road because i wasn't censored on the road. [ cheers ]
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>> thank you! >> reporter: president biden is focused on his goal of injecting 100 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine over the first 100 days of his presidency but some administration officials are tempering expectationings. >> i can't tell you how much we have, and i can't tell it to was governor and the state health officials. >> reporter: meanwhile top white house aides met virtually with a bipartisan group of senators to discuss the $1.9 trillion rescue plan. senators described a productive call but said the top priority is distributing the vaccine quickly. and some are pushing to get a deal in place before president trump's impeachment trial begins the week of february 8th. majority leader chuck schumer is warning the democrats might go at it alone if republicans don't quickly help cut a deal. >> i am hopeful that republicans will see the need, but if they don't, there are tools we can use to move forward on our own, and we will. >> reporter: here at the white
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house today, president biden is signing an executive order forcing federal agencies to buy goods ask services from american companies, designed to boost the manufacturing sector. cbs news learned the president is set to sign a new executive order reversing a ban on transgender people serving in the military. the executive order would reverse a decision made by president trump. ed, thank you. hospitals across america are desperate for more doses of the coronavirus vaccine to meet the huge demand for shots. more than 41 million doses have been distributed, but just over half of them have actually been administered so far. omar villafranca reports from dallas. >> reporter: the nation's rocky vaccine rollout continues as demand dramatically outstrips supply. in some cases the first shipments are just starting to arrive like at emergency hospital systems in rural texas.
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they got the first batch last thursday. 975 doses. >> we had a patient that stated they called 198 times to our call center, and the one next to him said i called 173 times. so they are desperate. they're reaching out. >> reporter: chief nursing officer cassie kavanaugh says people are calling from all over texas as shots run out across the state. hospital coo patti foster says their own supply has been unpredictable. >> we were told by the state we would have our vaccine last monday and tuesday. we received a call from pfizer on wednesday that we would have it on thursday. >> reporter: emergency hospital systems isn't alone. unpredictable allocations are causing delays and confusion across the country. that's according to claire hanon, executive director for the association of immunization managers. >> that trickles down to us, we don't know when we're going to be able to schedule an appointment for our parents
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because they don't know how many they're going to get. >> reporter: as hospitals race to administer doses, they're still treating covid patients. the vaccine is the light at the end of a long, dark tunnel for nurses like kavanaugh. >> this may be the beginning of the end. >> sorry. this is a big deal to us. i've seen my nurses work seven days a week, hours they've never put in before. >> to think that we would never be there and we are there, there's no words to describe it. >> reporter: at this max vaccination site in dallas, people start lining up hours before they even open. at emergency hospital systems in liberty county they plan to use all of their vaccine, administering about 240 doses a day. their latest shipment of vaccines should arrive later on today, but they only found out about them yesterday. >> omar, thank you. dr. anthony fauci, chief medical adviser to president
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biden and the top infectious disease doctor at the national institutes of health joins us from washington. dr. fauci, good morning to you, we have a lot to talk about in terms of future response to the pandemic but because both you and dr. birx gave reflective interviews recently. i want to start with the recent past. dr. birx said it's a terminal event in her career working on president trump's coronavirus task force, she's going to retire. how do you think her work should be remembered? >> well, she was really put in an incredible amount of herself into this under very, very difficult circumstances. the difference between the situation i was in and she was in, she had to essentially live in the white house. that's where her office was. when she was trying with the team, myself, dr. redfield, and others to try and get the medical public health issues on the table and addressed, there were a lot of opposing forces there. and it was a very difficult experience for her. i thought she articulated it really well in the interview
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that she had where, you know, particularly when situations, when people like scott atlas came into the white house who essentially was the antithesis of what she was trying to do, and it made it very, very difficult for her. that's what i think she meant when she said it was a terminal event. >> she said that there were two streams of data moving to the desk of president trump. in addition she said there was no full-time team inside the white house working on the coronavirus, two alarming bits of information i hadn't heard before. # what was your reaction to that? >> well, you know, i lived through it with her. so it was -- shaking my head saying, yes, right. first of all, there wasn't a full-time team. i mean, she was getting up at 3:00 in the morning, collecting the data, presenting it to people. but i think the important point that she made that really is critical was the two opposing forces because she was trying to get information into the
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president on a regular basis, but the president was getting information from other sources. you know, friends on the outside who would call him up or people who would have input into it. and that gradually attenuated her influence to the point where she didn't really see him very much anymore. >> yeah. >> that's what she was trying to explain. >> you said the 1 million doses per day in the first 100 days was a floor, not a ceiling. just doing some simple arithmetic myself, to get to 70% to 85% vaccinated americans by the end of the summer, early fall, we would need to be about twice the rate we currently are at, 1 million a day, and the goal of the biden administration. >> right. >> when you talk about a ceiling, is 2 million a day plus, is that possible based on what you see so far? >> no. i think it is. if you listen to what the
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president said, he said we're going to get as many doses into people as quickly as we can. he set a goal a bit ago, and you know, hopefully we'll meet and surpass that goal. that's the point. >> but is it only -- >> just because -- >> hope is an odd thing to lean on at this point. can we do it -- do we have the manufacturing coming online, do the executive orders from last week, the defense production act -- >> yes -- >> does that help us reach that goal and how? >> yes. yes and yes. yes, we can reach it. he set an original goal of 100 million doses in the first 100 days. and as i've said and others have said, that's a floor, not a ceiling. it's a reasonable goal. you know, it's not easy to get doses from where you go in the vial all through the transportation into people's arms, particularly when you get out of the realm of giving it in a hospital, giving it in a nursing home, and you've got to go out into the communities, particularly underserved communities to get it to people.
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if people think that's easy, it's not. it gets hard. it will get harder. do we think we can do it? absolutely we think we can do it. >> let's touch on the travel ban. because the reporting we have is that today the biden administration, joe biden himself will announce restrictions on travelers coming into the u.s. from the uk and also crucially south africa where there is a mutation that scientists are concerned about. how effective do you think a travel ban will be given we recall president trump instituted a travel ban on china and it didn't work out too well. >> well, first of all, it clearly will be helpful. we have concern about the mutation that's in south africa. we're looking at it very actively. it is clearly a different and more ominous than the one in the uk. and i think it's very prudent to restrict travel of noncitizens. but there's also something else that we didn't have before, is that people coming into the
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country are going to be required to have a test before they get on the plane. when they got off the plane and land here they're going to have to have a quarantine, as well as a second test. >> if i can give you a touch of good news as you go, dr. fauci, and we appreciate you coming, spring training starts in three weeks. baseball season is on its way. thank you very much. way. thank you very much. >> yes. thank you. thanks a lot. good to be with you. >> he needed a laugh it seems, tony. nice to see dr. fauci laugh. the senate takes over the historic second impeachment. donald trump tonight. the house accuses him of inciting the mob that assaulted the u.s. capitol on january 6th. now the senate trial of the former president is scheduled to begin next month. nikole killion is on capitol hill with more on that story. good morning to you. the senate already seems divided on this. >> reporter: yeah, they do. you know, the article will be delivered to the senate this evening by the house impeachment managers. at least 17 republicans senators would have to join democrats in
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order to convict the former president. but some are now questioning the need for a trial. for the second time in just over a year, house impeachment managers will walk across the capitol to the senate to transmit an article of impeachment against former president donald trump and read aloud the charge -- incitement of insurrection. >> i think you will see that we will put together a case that is so compelling because the facts and the law reveal what this president did. >> raise their right hand -- >> reporter: while senators will be sworn in boycott it claiming it's unconstitutional because mr. trump is out of office. >> the first chance i get to vote to end this trial, i'll do it because i think it's really
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bad for america. >> sweeping it under the rug will not bring healing. the only way to bring healing is to actually have real accountability which this trial affords. >> reporter: the national guard will maintain a presence here through the upcoming impeachment trial and beyond. but they are drawing down from about 25,000 to 5,000 troops by mid-march. anthony? >> thank you. a new protest erupted overnight in tacoma, washington, where a police car hit and injured two people. demonstrators set a fire and damaged some buildings one night after the collision. social media videos show the cruisers speeding through a crowd and running over at least one person after responding to a report of street racing. tacoma police say the officer feared for his safety when a crowd started hitting his patrol car and its windows. the injuries are not considered life threatnlhreateningthreaten. the officer is on administrative leader and protesters called for
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him to be fired. more than 58 million americans are under winter weather alerts this morning. in detroit, slick roads iowa, missouri, and kansas. >> not in new york. yay. ahead, super bowl lv is all set. last year's champion gets ready to take on an nfl legend, you know that is, hello tom brady,
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there's much more ahead including dramatic images. a russian police crackdown on thousands of people protesting the arrest of opposition leader alexei navalny. plus, a tribute to broadcast legend larry king. we'll look at his career of around 50,000 interviews. that's ahead on "cbs this morning."
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welcome back to "cbs this morning." were you watching football at your house yesterday? if so, you already know super bowl lv will feature two of the nfl's greatest quarterbacks. wow. last night tom brady and the tampa bay buccaneers defeated the green bay packers in the nfc championship. great game. the bucs' first super bowl trip in 18 years. in the afc title game right here on cbs, patrick mahomes and the defending champion kansas city chiefs, they beat the buffalo bills, vesorry jeff glor, to return to the big game. mola lenghi is in tampa where super bowl lv will happen in less than two weeks. and i can't wait, mola lenghi.
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good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. no doubt this is the match-up most people here in tampa wanted to see. after all, it's a home game for the buccaneers. but the major storyline going into super bowl sunday is going to be the old guard versus the new guard. you said it earlier, the goat versus the kid. on one side you've got patrick mahomes, kansas city's 25-year-old superstar, the face and future of the nfl. on the other side the legend, 43-year-old tom brady, who many call the goat, the greatest of all time, looking to keep his magic going now for a new franchise. >> the tampa bay buccaneers and tom brady are going to super bowl lv. >> reporter: it will be familiar territory for both tom brady and patrick mahomes. brady is the game's oldest quarterback, heading to his tenth super bowl. versus mahomes, going to his second straight and looking to become the youngest starting quarterback to win back-to-back super bowls. >> he's got a touchdown! >> reporter: brady in his first season with the buccaneers after a 20-year career with the new england patriots narrowly beat
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the top-seeded green bay packers, 31-26, to win the nfc title. prior to brady's arrival, tampa bay had not won a postseason game in nearly two decades. >> whoever thought a home super bowl for us, but we did it. >> reporter: and history made again as the buccaneers will be the first team ever to play the super bowl in their home stadium. meanwhile, the chiefs and patrick mahomes, nursing an injured toe, convincingly beat the buffalo bills in the afc inwhich game. they fell -- championship game. they fell but then never looked back. >> he close for the touchdown! >> reporter: >> reporter: mahomes looking to be the first to win back-to-back super bowl since, that's right, tom brady in 2004 and 2005. >> the job's not finished. >> hard to overlook that storyline of the future versus the lelegend, mahomes versus brady. >> it's great because you're seeing the old guard, the classic guy that can read defenses, get you in the right
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bl play. patrick mahomes, let me extend the play, let me take us back into the street. >> reporter: nfl analyst bill cow histher says the match-up bn the quarterbacks could provide plenty of drama. >> they get the ball at the end of the game, you know, they got two quarterbacks that know how to finish games. >> reporter: and in a season like no other in which games were frequently rescheduled due to coronavirus outbreaks, cowher says the nfl and its teams deserve credit for getting through it. was the season going to be affected or tainted, or is there an asterisk? >> if there's an asterisk, it's going to be a job well done. >> reporter: the nfl's covid protocols will only allow 22,000 fans into the stadium to watch the game on super bowl sunday. 7,500 tickets were donated to vaccinated health care workers. but don't expect super bowl week to look anything like years past with only -- we should say the chiefs only expecting to show up here in tampa about a day or two before the game on sunday.
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gayle? >> that is different. but i don't think that's going to change the excitement that people are feel being this. they had such -- feeling about this. they had such a great moment where tom brady went to the railing and said, "i need talk to my son." i love those moments. the older one gave him a big hug. i couldn't watch the last minute. i had to run out of the room, run back in, run out -- i was so nervous. i was pulling for tom brady because it's a great storyline. >> he's the oldest player at any position. >> how about 43's old? how about 43 alleged old? >> for football. >> for football it's really old. it's incredible. it's incredible what he's done. >> it is. >> it is. a real brushoff to new england, too. if he can win it without that team, without belichick -- >> i can only imagine what they're thinking in new england now. >> they're happy for tom brady. mola, thank you again. another reminder, you can watch super bowl lv on sunday, february 7th. where? >> on cbs. >> there you go.
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this morning, tributes are pouring in for talk show host larry king. the lomgtime tv and radio host died in los angeles saturday after being hospitalized with the coronavirus. he was 87. in a joint statement, his son said the world knew larry king as a great broadcaster and interviewer, to us he was a dad.
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here's a look back at king's incredible 63-year career. >> you would admit yourself an unusual personality? >> depends. >> larry king conducted some 50,000 interviews, from politicians -- >> when did you know you were different? >> that's a strange question to ask. >> to pop stars -- >> would you rather have been -- >> a dancer? >> yeah. >> no, i'm quite happy with the way things have turned out. >> his line of questioning simple and disarming. >> is it hard to drive by the watergate? >> i never been in the watergate. so it's not hard -- >> never -- >> other people were in there, though, unfortunately. >> king got his start in radio. >> this is the "larry king show" coast to coast -- >> it was cable where he and his iconic suspenders made their mark. whether it was a duet with actor marlon brando -- ♪ or a sit-down with the elusive frank sinatra --
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>> i tremble every time i would take a step and walk out of the i think on to the stage -- >> the tv host, always driven by curiosity, once told "60 minutes" his greatest worry in life was not being able to experience it. >> this universe has been around a long time. and it's going to be around a long time. i'm here for a blip of it. >> right. >> and i want to see it all. >> mo rocca worked with larry king for his show as an on-the-floor correspondent during the 2004 political conventions. mo, i did not know this about you. good morning. >> yeah. >> how did you end up working. >> good morning, anthony -- >> how did you end up working for larry king? >> i was on a couple of times. larry, who always had the personal touch, called my parents on the phone and asked if they would encourage me to be his on -- his man on the floor. and i didn't need to have my arm twisted. it was -- it was very, very fun
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spending those weeks with him. >> did he know your parents? >> no, he didn't. no, he didn't. my mother thought it was a prank call. my mother said, jack, jack, there's a man on the phone who says he's larry king. that's my colombian accent there. it was -- >> so what was it like working for him, mo? >> well, i mean, it was really fun, as you can imagine. he was the same off camera as he was on camera. and on a couple of nights, he just started singing. and there was an album of johnny mercer/bobby darin duets, stay with me here, of 1920s novelty songs that i happened to know a little bit. i tested him. and he knew the lyric to every one of these songs. like who takes care of the careday care caretaker's daughter, things like that, "ace in the hole." it was very larry king to burst into song. >> how would you -- >> very fun -- >> how would you describe his
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interviewing style? >> you know, like the taped piece said, very disarming. as we all know, it's very hard to ask the question that the person at home is asking. and gileless, very natural. i remember when same-sex marriage became an issue and he'd have both sides on the show -- you never knew what his politics were. an opponent would go into, you know, the reasons why this was a bad thing, and larry would just very simply respond, "but how would it hurt you?" i mean, just simple questions like that that just cut right to the core. and i loved the show also. "the "larry king live." "we have a great light bright set. one night would be a tribute to standup buddy hackett with phyllis diller and don rickles. i loved the old-timey hollywood side of him. and can i say the 2001 hour long
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with elizabeth taylor is one of the best hours of tv ever. >> yeah. >> check it out on youtube. >> when larry got into the -- it was special. mo rocca, thank you so much for joining us this morning. >> thanks, guys. ahead, vlad duthiers has the stories you'll be
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demanding opposition leader alexei navalny be released from jail. crowds braved temperatures as low as minus 58 degrees. some of the officers were season beating the protesters. some demonstrators fought back, including these people who bombarded a group of riot police with snowballs in moscow. as the chaos unfolded, demonstrators were dragged away in handcuffs by groups of officers. police even barrelled through a crowd of reporters and arrested one of navalny's allies. human rights watch says 3,700 people were detained in all including his wife. >> she was released. >> she was released. >> we were talking last week about navalny poking the bear. it seems when you have this much protest, you lived in moscow, the government cannot ignore that. >> 1 00 cities and they're calling for protests against next weekend. >> he knew he would provoke this. >> a lot of people see light in
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the that. the fact that he was willing to come back and knew he would be jailed. that gives people hope on the streets -- >> i kind of get it now. i get it. we're following this -- tributes continue to pour in for baseball hall of famer hank aaron. judge. >> there's the pitch by downing -- swinging. the drive into left center field -- that ball is going to be out of here! it's gone! it's -- >> that, of course, is hammerin hank on april 8th, 1974. that is the night he hit his 715th career home run, breaking babe ruth's record. the legendary slugger played 23 years with the braves and the milwaukee brewers. he retired in 1976. aaron died in his sleep on friday at the age of 86. in his honor, some fans are calling for the braves to change their name to the atlanta hammers. we were talking about hank aaron, how. with he was as a baseball player, but i specifically on my twitter feed talked about his role as a simple ricivil rights.
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this is a kpix 5 news morning update. good morning. it is 7:56. i'm michelle griego. an article of impeachment against former former president donald trump will be delivered to the senate. the house impeached him for incitement of insurrection linked to the capitol hill right. a senate trial begins in just about two weeks. talks are underway on president joe biden's post coronavirus relief package. more than a dozen lawmakers met with white house aides over the weekend. so far, there is bipartisan agreement that vaccine distribution needs more funding. i'm meteorologist mary lee.
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it is a dry but windy start to our day. here is a live look at our salesforce tower camera with the camera shaking in the wind. we will see plenty of sunshine throughout the day but breezy to windy conditions making it feel even cooler outside. highs in the low to mid 50s. tracking an atmospheric river as we head tuesday through thursday. the strongest storm so far this year brings heavy rain and strong winds and also a lot of snow up in the sierra. the rain arrives tuesday afternoon with the most intense rainfall, strongest being tuesday night into wednesday morning. looking wet wednesday and thursday with rain chances by the end of the week as well. let's start off with a look at conditions at the bay bridge. we have a couple of brake lights across the upper deck. this is due to a crash blocking one lane past treasure island. expect delays there. metering lights remain on at the toll plaza as well as traffic slightly slow through there . trav
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♪ it's true. it's monday, january 25th, 2021. welcome back to "cbs this morning." i'm gayle king with tony dokoupil and anthony mason. new measures to fight the coronavirus are being rolled out as we learn more from dr. deborah birx about the trump administration's chaotic response to this pandemic. we'll talk to "face the nation's" margaret brennan about the interswru. an unusual law, they share their emotional story. >> super model maye musk talks about her remarkable six decade career and being a mom to a
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billionaire. >> first, here's today's "eye opener" at 8:00. dr. deborah birx claims she was leading president trump's response to covid-19 by herself. >> only one person in the white house working on the coronavirus response. >> how is that possible? >> that's what i was given. >> hospitals across america are desperate for more doses of the coronavirus vaccine to meet the huge demand for shots. >> at this mass vaccination site in dallas, people start lining up hours before they even open. >> is 2 million a day plus, is that possible based on what you see so far? >> no, i think it is. if you listen to what the president said, he said we're going to try to get as many doses into people as we possibly can as quickly as we can. >> at least 17 republican senators would have to join democrats in order to convict the former president, but some are now questioning the need for a trial. >> a professional golfer is taking home quite the prize this weekend.
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just for one shot. >> he made a hole in one. >> his gift none other than a bmw-m-8 sports car that costs $130,000. >> watch the celebration. it's fantastic. >> that's louder than any crowd. >> wow. >> i like when that moment, those kind of moments happen. >> he has wheels now. >> that's what you call bliss. very nice. welcome back to "cbs this morning." the biden administration is all set to take new action today on the coronavirus as we pass another difficult milestone. the u.s. has now surpassed more than 25 million cases since the start of this pandemic. more than 73,000 people have died just since the start of 2021. >> there's a new bipartisan effort to speed vaccine distribution amid massive lines at vaccination sites. yesterday 16 senators from both parties participated in a call on the issue with the biden administration. less than 22 million doses of the vaccine have been
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administered out of more than 41 million sent out. >> today president biden is expected to reimpose a travel ban for all non-u.s. citizens coming from brazil, the uk, ireland and 26 other european nations. former president trump tried to rescind that ban just before leaving office. biden will extend the ban to include south africa home to a contagious covid variant. on "face the nation" dr. deborah birx said there were covid deniers inside the trump white house and told margaret brennan said she knew accepting the role as coordinator would probably lead to the end of her career in the federal government. >> were there covid deniers in the white house? >> there are people in the white house, and i think people around this country because i've had the privilege to meet them, and listen to them, and hear them, because i wanted to hear what people were saying, there were people who definitely believed
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that this was a hoax. >> why? >> i think because the information was confusing at the beginning. i think because we didn't talk about the spectrum of disease. because everyone interpreted on what they knew and so they saw people get covid and be fine. >> you don't blame the president's own language of calling some of this politically motivated, a hoax, it was a phrase he used at one point? >> when you have a pandemic or you're relying on everyone american to change their behavior, 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. >> this will be the end of your federal career? >> yeah. i will need to retire probably within the next four to six weeks from cdc. >> and how have you made peace with that, that this pandemic,
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that you're leaving in the midst of this, that you will be associated with it? >> what was reassuring to me all along is, i knew this would be studied. i knew that the e-mails, the reports that i wrote, the requests to expand testing, the how to improve therapeutics, all of that, all of that would eventually come to light. >> yeah. it sounds like dr. deborah birx was keeping receipts as they say. "face the nation" moderator margaret brennan joins us with more on the story. i sat at my kitchen table and my jaw and heart dropped as i watched that interview with dr. birx. kudos to you for engaging her in that way. many thought she was in between a rock and a hard place and the more she talked, the more you could see that was true but she clearly wanted to set the record straight on her behalf. did she not? >> she did.
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i think all of us are going through this national trauma and trying to process this pandemic, and for those on the frontlines who were in the middle of this and the chaotic response, they're still trying to process what they went through too. dr. birx certainly is. we talked to her about that at length, and i think one of the more troubling things was to hear from someone who had dedicated her entire professional career to dealing with pandemics around the world, aids in subis har ran africa, was brought to her knees here in the u.s. by a health care system that leads the way in medical innovation and wealth, but couldn't get out of its own way in dealing with this pandemic. that she really was crippled, she felt, by the chaos inside the white house. but also, as she emphasized time and again, this wasn't just a leadership and personality failure and she lays blame at the white house for a lot of that, but also systemic failures
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within our health care infrastructure. and those are the things i think, particularly for the medical professionals, that they are raising red flags about. she certainly was here, that there was a lot of accounting to do at the cdc and other agencies, so that we don't get hit the next time by the next pandemic the way we are still struggling now. >> you know what struck me when she talked about the parallel streams of information that were coming, she would often have to do an end run to go directly to the governors almost saying, forget what you're hearing up here, please listen to what i'm telling you down here. with someone that had the sterling reputation she did, how frustrating that had to be for her. >> absolutely. and it confirmed so much of the reporting to this point that we had had that we know. also, i mean this was something for the president and those around him, this was a pattern of behavior to use almost wishful thinking to drive policymaking, to turn not to the
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best institutional experts from inside the government but pick and choose data from those who might be more consistent with your point of view and sometimes the facts aren't always in your favor or favorable, and so for someone who is driven by science and data, that's inconceivable to her. and that's what she was expressing. i think hearing each week that she and a team were crunching these numbers, sending it out to governors warning them about what was happening in their states and she doesn't even know if the reports were read by the president. she doesn't know even if the vice president read them, but knows they were sent to her boss, mike pence, who ran that covid response, and his staff says they -- the staff read them, but they can't confirm that the vice president read each and every one. >> margaret, dr. birx said she constantly considered quitting. why didn't she? >> this is the question that i keep hearing certainly in my
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social media feed. there's so much anger at people like dr. birx and others who sat on that covid team who -- for i don't know be what people want exactly perhaps to storm out and say i quit, but this is something that we hear constantly from the civil servants, the people who aren't necessarily at the stature of a dr. fauci who ran his own institution, who couldn't be fired, who has spoken openly about it being conflicted himself. but that they felt, well, if i leave, what happens next? and that's why i did ask her, did you make a difference? did staying make a difference? she believes she did. but this is something that i think so many of the people on the inside are going to struggle with themselves, but for the public, i understands the anger. i think for us as journalists, it's very much worth hearing from people who were on the
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frontlines so we can better understand exactly what was happening. >> that's why the interview was so good, because you really took us on the inside. jerome adams tweeted this, the former surgeon general, people so freely suggest they would have left but hold the one woman in the room to a different standard. do you think that's true she was held to a different standard because she was a woman? i thought that was an interesting observation. >> i thought that was too, from the former surgeon general. he pointed out he felt he was being held to a different standard as well, for him and those tweets, he was the only person of color on that covid response, she was the only woman. i don't know, but i do know that it is worth asking that question of, you know, why do we give forgiveness for some and condemn the others. that broader point of not associating civil servants with politics is important because we need the experts to help us in moments of crisis. >> well, for those who didn't see it, i highly recommend it.
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it was extraordinary. she talked about -- the toll on her personal life. great job. thank you. ahead -- >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >> we'll talk with super model maye musk, the mother of elon musk, her son, the driving force behind tesla and spacex was already taking steps towards his successful career at
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in a bizarre legal case, a michigan couple is being forced to adopt their own biological children after they were born through a surrogate. jordan and tammy myers' twins were born two weeks ago today, but two judges denied them the legal rights to the infants citing a decades' old anti-surrogacy law. nicka batiste has been looking t
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strange adopt them. >> initially i, i thought i'm too young, and there's no way it could be breast cancer. >> reporter: nearly six years ago, tammy myers learned she was in a battle for her life. >> my first questions were how long do i have, and my second question was, can i have more children? can i still have another baby? >> reporter: now tammy and her husband jordan are facing a new fight -- this time for the rights to their newborn twins. tammy froze her eggs after her breast cancer diagnosis. she is doing better, and in 2019
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she and her husband decided to grow their family. they turned to gestational surrogacy. did you ever think you would be in the situation you are having to adopt your own two children? >> we really truly didn't believe that someone could -- could hear the history and not give us rights. >> reporter: tammy and jordan found their surrogate, lauren vermilye, after posting on facebook. lauren, who is married with two children of her own, lived nearby and volunteered to carry the myers' child for free. >> dad had pancreatic cancer 11 years ago. i know what cancer can take away from you. and just to be able to help bring that hope back to somebody, just really, really appealed to me and my husband. >> reporter: soon after, two of the myers' embryos were transferred to lauren. they learned they were having twins. the process was going well until the couple tried to get legal parental rights. you were denied the prebirth
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rights, and then also, jordan, you were denied -- >> my web sites rights as a fat well. >> reporter: two judges in michigan dismissed the myers' efforts to be named the legal parents. they cited the surrogate parenting act of 1988 come states surrogacy contracts are void and unenforceable. one judge wrote there are genuine concerns about the 1988 act, but those concerns are better left to the legislative and political arena. >> i just sobbed. that's all i could do. i -- i don't understand it. it doesn't make any sense. >> reporter: eames and ellison myers were born january 11th, a few weeks premature. their birth certificate names the surrogate, lauren, and her husband as the parents. >> michigan law states that i am a married woman, and so of course my husband would be the father of my children. which they're not my children either. >> reporter: melissa neckers is the myers' attorney.
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since 2005 there have been at least 72 cases in michigan where judges have granted parents in similar situations prebirth legal rights to their biological children. did they understand the risk they faced based not only on michigan's law but also that they had a stranger as a gestational carrier? >> they knew that there was risk, but they really believed that no judgege would actually hear their story which had so many additional layers of heartache and trauma, that a judge wouldn't just want to do the right thing. >> reporter: only two other states have similar strict surrogacy laws -- nebraska and louisiana. >> michigan would be the riskiest state to try and do a surrogacy contract. >> reporter: michigan law attorbarbra homier said they might avoid it in they went to another state. >> it's expensive to go to another state and hire lawyers and everyt yeah, i do. >> some say legalize gay
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marriage, too. this is a much bigger issue. a lot of couples want to use surrogates. >> reporter: to adopt their children, the myers will have to go through months of home inspections, paperwork, and even an fbi background check. they're speaking out to help others. >> just want the law to be updated. >> our hope is that we will be the last family in michigan in this situation where we are being denied our own biological children. >> reporter: the myers currently cannot get the twins on their health insurance. the babies are still in the newborn icu, but they are doing well and will hopefully go home to their parents and big sister soon. we reached out to a clerk for both judges, but we have not heard back. tony? >> very strange. one thing after another. we'll see if the political arena picks it up. thank you very much. ahead, some of the more creative mega vaccination sites all around the world. stay with us.
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coming up, supermodel maye musk made history at 69 years old when she became the face of cover girl. you go, mrs. musk. she'll talk about her long career and raising three very successful children, including this is a kpix 5 news morning update. good morning. i'm len kiese. sources have confirmed the state has plans to end the stay- at-home order sometime this morning. this would give restaurants the all clear to resume outdoor dining. new travel restrictions going into effect tomorrow. all international players going into the u.s. will be required to provide a negative covid test. the president is also considering a travel ban for non-u.s. citizens traveling from south africa. i'm meteorologist mary lee. the rain is gone but still tracking windy conditions.
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as we head through the afternoon, sunshine and breezy to windy conditions with highs in the low to mid 50s. a break from the rain today but tracking our first atmospheric river event of the year. we are looking at the rain moving in tuesday afternoon. the most intense rainfall with heaviest rain tuesday night into wednesday morning. we are looking at tuesday through thursday. this atmospheric river bringing heavy rain and stronger winds. we are looking at another weather system friday and into the weekend. checking the roadways right now. we have a crash along the nimitz freeway, northbound 880 as you work your way into oakland. one vehicle hit the center divide and is now blocking lanes. traffic c is slow and go. 580 looking a lot better if you want to use that instead as an alternate. keep that in mind if you are headed toward the bay bridge. we have the metering lights on
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8:30. "talk of the table" time. welcome back to "cbs this morning." anthony mason, you're up first. >> we know that music venues have had a tough time getting through covid. that includes new york city's legendary birdland jazz club which is struggling to stay open. some big names, though, appeared lakefront night for a virtual concert to help raise money. norm lewis performed. take a listen -- ♪ walk my way and a thousand violins begin to play ♪ broadway star, film star, we love him. others joined including leslie
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odom jr., jeff daniels, wynton marsalis. we also heard from former president bill clinton, elvis costello, and sting. birdland opened back in 1949. it closed in '65 but reopened in 1986 and has been open ever since. some of the legends there, miles davis, billie holiday, and online fundraiser has raised more than $382,000 to save birdland. that's the good news. it's really an extraordinary room. we used it when i interviewed iggy pop lakefront year for the sh -- last year for the show. there's an incredible vibe. the room we were at. you know, it's so many clubs are going through there right now. it's great to see the people turn up. sting said, you know, jazz music is one of the things that made america great. you can't lose birdland. i know a lot of new yorkers feel the same way. >> we know how great leslie odom sings. he was here the other day. but lewis -- >> he sang for us at -- >> i remember that.
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i love his voice. nice guy. someone became an instant billionaire over the weekend. was it you? do you live in michigan? do you live in nobe, michigan? there was one grand prize winner in the mega millions jackpot worth more than $1 billion. the ticket -- close to $1 approxima approximately. it was sold at kroger near detroit. o one-time payment is $878 million in payments or in one lump sum you get $500 -- where is the figure -- $557 million. >> a whole lot -- >> after taxes. here's a question on the table -- would you go with the 30-year option? then you get more -- >> this is a problem i'd like to have. >> then you get more. or you go with the lump u.s. -- i would go with the lump sum. i don't know if i'm going to be here -- i'm not going to be here in 30 years. >> i would hire a very good investment manager and put that money to work. >> the thing in michigan, you have to come forward and identify yourself. but you have a year to do so.
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so you got time to change your numbers, move, get a new lawyer, get a new finance person. >> i'd change my name, too. >> yeah. really. can you wear a costume? you have to show your face and name, really? >> you have to give your identity. yep. >> wow. all right. >> you have a year to do it. if you needed plastic surgery in the meantime, you could do it -- >> you don't have to tell us, and you think about it -- >> i think you get the plastic surgery and then the name change. i've got canine news. this morning, the first dogs are waking up inside the white house for the first time. champ and major are their names. they're german shepherds. they arrived yesterday. the first lady's office tells us that champ is, quote, enjoying his new dog bed by the fireplace. major, meanwhile, there's major, loves running around on the south lawn. very sweet. no word on who picks up the south lawn after he runs around out there. that's another story. maybe someone could do these chores. he's the first shelter dog to move into the white house. some history about dogs in the
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white house -- the white house still was not finished, it was still under construction when the first dogs came in in 1800. oor another fun fact -- president trump was the first president in more than 100 years not to have a dog in the white house. >> wow. >> said he likes dogs. said he likes dogs, but didn't have time. >> there is staff at the white house to take care of some of those -- >> that's what i was thinking about with the south lawn problem. >> joe biden and jill biden are not on pooty-duty. >> not picking up the present? >> no. i'm sure. i'm sure. the dogs are good looking. the biden dogs -- good-looking dogs. i like that. >> great to see dogs back in the white house. love to see that. yes. maye musk is a supermodel, registered dietician, nutritionist, and public speaker. she's also the mom of three. is children including elon musk. you know the name. billionaire founder of spacex and co-founder of tesla. her modeling career spans nearly six decades. maye musk first appeared in catalogs as a teenager. she then landed magazine covers
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and walked in designer runway shows at age 69. she made history when she became the oldest spokesmodel in cover girl history. her memoir, "a woman makes a plan: advice for a lifetime of adventure, beauty, and success," is out now in paperback. maye musk joins us. good morning, welcome, thanks for being with us. >> good morning. >> i was struck -- >> lovely to be with you. >> it's great to be with you. your family has a history of adventure. your father loved adventure, but he also had a motto which was "live dangerously carefully." can you explain? >> i know. yes. we were the only family to go across the kalahari desert for three weeks seeing no one except lots of animals, and with thr three-week supply of water, gas, and food. and i think that is quite dangerous. we did come across some graves of people who had died in the
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desert. and i think -- he was always very careful and planned ahead. and so did my mom. and that was his motto. >> but you also caution in the book that you shouldn't plan too far ahead. >> well, the thing is i always plan, and it never comes right. so then you make another plan. and you always have to have more plans. of when i say a woman makes a plan, you can plan your life, and if it's not going the way you want it to go, then you need to change your plan. you need to be in a good situation, and i hope people will learn from my mistakes so that they get out of a bad situation quicker than i did. >> yeah. you got to be eliminnimble. you got to be ready for what life throws at you. you say in writing the book and looking back at your life and your children growing up, you realized all of your children,
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essential by the age of 12, had locked into where they were going in life. which made me curious, what -- what was a young elon musk at 12 already doing that suggested what he might do in the rest of his life? >> well, at 12 he actually made a computer program. a game. and i showed it to the university students and engineering students, they said, wow, he knows all the shortcuts. i said to him, you should submit this to a magazine. and he did, and then he got 500 -- like $500. and i don't think they knew he was 12. this was a good start. and then kimble was cooking for us already because he didn't like my food. i'm not a great cook. that's why he has restaurants. and then he does vegetable gardens in underserved schools because he feels children should always have vegetables and fruit. and then of course, taska was in the movies. he loved every movie, remembered
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every one. and she wanted to get into the movie business, which i discouraged a lot, of course. who wants to be in the movie business? now she has her own platform, passion flicks. they are all doing the work that they love doing. >> maye musk, listen, i'm not a good cook either. my children will have no fond memories of the anything i ever made. your kids seem to have turned out okay. when did you know that elon was a genius child? as he sit here as an adult, all of your children are well accomplished. the name we know most is elon musk. when did you know he was going do great things? >> well, at 3 i knew genius. many geniuses end up in a basement being a genius but not applying it. >> that's true. that's true. >> and right. so i was so excited when he started, too, because it made life easier with door-to-door directions, and newspapers could
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have a link that took you to a restaurant. i mean, i know that's common now, but that was highly unusual. and people didn't believe that that's possible. so that's why i invested in that at the very beginning, although i didn't have much money which we managed to survive. and then of course, then he thought the banking system needed some help. then he did paypal. and then after that, he said, well, should he do space research or solar energy or electric cars? i said, just choose one. and of course he didn't listen to me. he was always thinking -- >> always thinking outside the box. doo do you have a tesla, mrs. musk? >> of course. gets me the best. >> i get you've got the nice one. the other thing that's impressive, you are a model, you're 72. and your hash tag on social media is #itsgreattobe72. a great strong and empowering message to send to women. have you always embraced your
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age? what is it about you that you embraced your age? >> well, my mother never had a problem with age. nobody could tell as she was getting hold. she did retire ad -- old. she did retire at 96. she never spoke about wrinkles or getting old. she was always positive and always learning, educating herself. i guess that's a good example. >> yep. >> and then as i say, as i got into my 60s, people were talking about aging and being scared of aging. i'm saying, why are you scared of aging? i mean, for example, when you turn 50, women are scared of losing their jobs. but then men become ceos and presidents. so what's about? we need to change that around. >> you're right. >> if somebody's making you feel bad about your age, just say good-bye. good-bye. you don't need that person in your life. >> i like that. >> you're so right. >> maye musk, thank you so much for being with us. we appreciate it. >> good to see you. ahead, massive covid-19 vaccine sites are popping up in unique places around the world including an 800-year-old
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cathedral in england. and an ice rink in berlin. how countries are getting creative to vaccinate as
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gayle? >> thank you. there would be something comforting to go into a cathedral and get it. >> i was going, that's -- i want to go to get my vaccination. >> that's good juju if you get it there. >> gorgeous and live music. >> serenaded with organ music. >> love it. >> the lady said she could see her daughter again. i feel that. >> that was nice. >> i like that. on today's podcast, outgoing operational warp speed scientific adviser, that's moncef slaoui, discusses
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successes and lessons learned from developing covid vaccines and medicines. lots of lessons here. why he's still not satisfid with the vaccine rollout. not alone on that. we'll be right back.
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i'm psyched about this the super bowl. the whole question about youth versus experience. >> yeah. one's 43, one's 25. >> 25. what's the answer -- >> we'll find out. >> i think old age and treachery beats youth and skill. >> treachery? >> yes. that's the phrase. >> is it? >> yeah. >> didn't know that was -- >> it's old age in quotes. 43 is not that old. also, he doesn't eat tomatoes or any inflammatory -- wild diet. >> he's been to the super bowl ten times. you know, that's amazing. so he knows it. >> yeah. you can't underrate old age and treachery. >> old age and treachery versus youth and skill.
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that was always in my household. did my mom make that up? >> i hadn't heard the treachery part. but i like it. i like it. >> all right. >> makes me feel better. >> let us know if it was in your household, as well. >> i'm going to go with the old age and treachery. that will do it for us.
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this is a kpix 5 news morning update. good morning. i'm len kiese. breaking news. it is official. the california department of health is lifting all regional stay-at-home orders. health officials say four week icu capacity projections are above 15% for the regions still under the order. counties statewide can now return to the color-coded tiered reopening system. residents of sonoma county bracing for possible mudslides. the lnu burn scar on some hillsides go right down to the neighborhoods below. a check of your forecast with mary. >> we are looking at a chilly
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and windy start to our day. you can see the flag whipping in the wind this morning. we have a wind advisory in effect until 10:00 a.m. for san francisco and the coast. plenty of sunshine as we head through the afternoon with breezy to windy conditions. highs in the low to mid 50s. the winds will make it feel even cooler outside. you can see the sunshine on futurecast. as we look to tomorrow morning, a dry start but watch as that rain pushes in tomorrow in the afternoon with the heaviest rain arriving tuesday night into wednesday morning. really watching this an atmospheric river tuesday through thursday. shower chance is still by the end of the week. we are tracking brake lights on that 880 ride northbound, the nimitz freeway. chp just cleared a crash out of lanes. everything now over to the shoulder. we are still dealing with some slow and go conditions through
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oakland. use 580 instead. 580
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