all day on cbsn bay area. >> cbs this morning is coming up next. have a great day everyone. ♪ good morning to our viewers in the west. and welcome to "cbs this morning." it's january 28th, 2021. i'm anthony mason with tony dokoupil and "cbs this morning saturday" co-host michelle miller. gayle king is off. a new government warning of tough weeks ahead in the pandemic could complicate plans to reopen schools. also, we're in wuhan where investigators are starting their long-delayed search for the origins of the virus. homeland security issues are rare, domestic terror alerts citing the threat of more violence after the capitol riot. prosecutors say a possible pipe bomb plot by an

alleged trump supporter was stopped just in time. it's main street versus wall street in the battle over the stock of the retail chain gamestop. how home traders are challenging financial titans and threatening to up-end the market. and sir richard branson will tell us about the future of travel including his dazzling new concept for a hyperloop. >> it's exciting. first, here's today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. january has officially been the deadliest month of the entire covid-19 pandemic. >> reporter: variants are starting to show up across the country. >> the uk strain which is already in 25 or more states might in fact, be more deadly. >> reporter: a long-awaited world health organization investigation into where the coronavirus came from begins in wuhan, china. >> reporter: the department of homeland security warning of potential violence. >> officials warn the recent change in the administration could lead to domestic terrorism. >> reporter: the events on january 6th are really ringing in the ears of these extremists. >> reporter: a major winter

storm has triggered devastating landslides, slamming through a neighborhood south of san francisco. >> it was ground shaking. you could feel it most definitely. >> reporter: president biden rolling out more executive orders to cut oil, gas, and coal emissions. >> we've already waited too long to deal with this climate crisis. we can't wait any longer. >> reporter: actress cloris leacachman has d died. her r career spapanned sevenen s and many memorable performances including "the mary tyler moore show." >> all that -- >> at 52 years of age skateboarding legend is still catching air, landing a 720 for charity. and all that matters -- >> scientists say data has shown traces of the coronavirus last longer in the digestive tract. so china is using anal swabs to test for covid-19. >> this is what they meant when they said the pandemic was finally starting to turn around. on "cbs this morning." >> gamestop shares have skyrocketed in the past few days. it's thanks to a group of amateur investors who banded together and took wall street by surprise.

>> now wall street leaders are calling for an investigation. >> i think it's funny to see how wall street doesn't it like when someone wall streets them. when they make moves that cost poem their homes people in wall street are like, may, man, those are the rules. when it comes to them it's like, those aren't the rules. is someone going to regulate this? >> this morning's eye opener is presented by progressive. >> he's got a point. he's got a point. >> yes he does. >> look who's back. gayle is off, miller michelle with us again. welcome back. >> welcome. i feel like the third wheel on the old "satmo" show. >> we'll treat you well. don't worry. we start this morning with the pandemic and a warning of dire months ahead as the biden administration pushes to reopen schools. 83,000 people have died just in january. the deadliest month of the pandemic so far. the cdc projects another 85,000 could die in the next three weeks. >> officials say new covid variants have been detected in

more than half the country, but it is believed that the vaccines work on these mutations, as well. meg oliver is in montclair, new jersey, one of the many places where school safety concerns are putting in-person learning on hold. good morning to you. >> reporter: tony, good morning. the biden administration is making the reopening of schools like this one of the central goals of its national coronavirus response plans. it's an ambitious plan with a host of other goals like accelerating the distribution and administration of coronavirus vaccines. yesterday the new team met, and they offered a blunt assessment of the long road ahead. the problems persist at vaccination sites nationwide. long lines, cancelations, and supply shortages. while president biden has pledged to speed up the process, his administration's covid response team is tempering expectations. >> it will be months before everyone who wants a vaccine will be able to get one. >> reporter: fema has requested up to 10,000 service members

from the defense department to help staff as many as 100 vaccination sites nationwide. part of the biden administration's covid response plan is focused on reopening schools, with the goal of getting a majority of k through 8 schools safely opened in his first 100 days. >> 100 days to get kids back in school is not quick enough. schools closed is a national emergency -- >> reporter: joseph allen is director of the healthy buildings program at the harvard school of public health. what's the biggest obstacle schools are facing implementing these guidelines? >> well, i think there's a lot of distrust and confusion from the scientific perspective. it's quite clear. it speaks a lot to how our country has deprioritized schools. >> reporter: in a recent cdc study, there's little evidence for transmission in schools where precautions are met like mandatory masks, physical distancing, and improved ventilation.

but some teachers unions say school systems do not have these covid-19 precautions in place for a safe reopening. in chicago, educators are threatening to strike if the district does not meet their safety demands. >> my message to the teachers unions is we need you guys. if you go out on strike, our future is at stake. >> reporter: chicago mom tameika hinton is a single parent to 10-year-old destin. when in-person classes stopped, she cut her work hours to stay home and help her son with virtual learning. with her finances strained, the two of them moved in with her grandfather. >> i've been hit really, really hard. i had to downsize a lot of different things. >> reporter: how long can you maintain this? >> not long. not long. >> reporter: the white house plan focuses mostly on k through 8 students getting back in the classroom. they say younger wids are their priority, because remote learning has been particularly difficult and getting them back

in the classroom would alleviate child care issues. >> relief is noded. meg, thank you so much. in a new terror alert, the homeland security department warns about the persistent threat from anti-government extremists. it says the deadly assault on the capitol left those groups, quote, emboldened and capable of new violence. senior investigative correspondent catherine herridge is tracking the potential threat. good morning. >> reporter: michelle, good morning. while cbs has learned homeland security does not have specific credible intelligence about plotting, the bulletin warns more violence is possible against elected officials and government buildings. a rare bulletin from homeland security. the warning is stark, describing a heightened threat environment from domestic violent extremist groups that may be emboldened by the successful breach of the u.s. capitol. what is it about the breach january 6th that has emboldened these groups? >> those who are supporters of those insurrectionists saw the photos, saw the videos.

it was all over social media of them. the fact that they achieved that is an inspiration to those of their followers who aren't there. >> reporter: the warning says groups are motivated by the 2020 election results, perceived grievances fueled by misinformation, as well as anger over covid-19 restrictions. in california tuesday, ian benjamin rogers was charged with possession of five pipe bombs. investigators found 49 firearms and alleged he discussed attacking democrats and recovered this card which reads "white privilege" and "trump's everything." the alert comes as the federal riot investigation hits a new milestone with more than 400 open case files. dennis sidorski who wore an american supremacist hoodie is charged with violent entry and disorderly conduct on capitol grounds. expanded charges were filed against thomas caldwell, don

crowell and jessica watkins, three alleged members of the oath keepers for trying to plan an operation to interfere with the election trol college certification. the indictment says their coordination began as early as november. >> if you had asked me when this -- my journey started if we would ever have this sort of a bulletin, a threat from our own people inside our own country, i wouldn't have believed it. >> reporter: and cbs news has learned a bipartisan group of 32 house lawmakers is asking congressional leadership to use their office allowances for more personal security in their home districts where they don't have capitol police protection, citing the increased threat. >> catherine, thank you. this morning, putin critic and opposition leader alexei navalny lost from an appeal. he's been in custody since landing back in the country after recovering from an assassination attempt. charlie d'agata has more from

>> reporter: well, we're still waiting on a decision, but we can assume navalny's appeal is going to be rejected. an animated navalny came out swinging complaining he hasn't seen his lawyers and calling his arrest a joke. clearly this is not just to the court but to his followers and the international community. in the past couple of days police in moscow have raided the homes and detained his associates, including his brother, for organizing what they consider illegal protests. one of his supporters is even playing the piano as police raided her apartment. the call for mass protests last time, after his arrest last week, resulted in tens of thousands of demonstrators across the country demanding navalny's release and generally protesting against president putin, the government and corruption. more protests were already planned for this weekend as for navalny, he will remain in prison, at least until his hearing on february 2nd. >> charlie, thank you so much. president biden has launched a new government effort to fight global warming, signing a series

of executive orders, one of them blocks any new leases for oil and gas drilling on public lands. his critics say that's bad for business, and jobs. ed o'keefe is at the white house. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, remember when he took office, president biden said the country is facing multiple crises, the pandemic, economic downturn, racial and political divisions and climate change. his new plan to fight it is already facing criticism from some concerned the plans could upset the economy even more. >> in my view we've already waited too long to deal with to climate crisis. we can't wait any longerment. >> reporter: president biden is planning to make the fight against climate change a core part of u.s. foreign policy for the first time. he's also establishing a white house office of domestic climate policy and ordering the government to begin buying zero-emissions vehicles. >> this will mean one million new jobs in the american automobile industry. >> reporter: the biden approach is a big change from former president trump who pulled the united states out of the global

paris climate accord and rolled back more than 100 environmental regulations. arguing they slowed economic growth. >> i was elected to represent the citizens of pittsburgh, not paris. >> reporter: with an economy already hit hard by covid-19, the president said his plan will create jobs. >> when i think of climate change and the answers to it, i think of jobs. >> reporter: mr. biden is freezing permits to drill for oil in offshore waters and barring any new oil and gas leases on federal lands. critics like todd staples of the texas gas association say that decision will lead to big job losses. >> not producing it here means it makes us dependent on other countries for this energy source because there's a great deal of infrastructure that is necessary for renewable energies. >> reporter: but newly appointed u.s. climate envoy john kerry says the changes will lead to economic benefits. >> there are countless economic analyses now that show that it

is now cheaper to deal with the crisis of climate than it is to ignore it. >> reporter: important to note that the president's order only freezes new drieling on federal lands. also new at the white house the subject is health care, the president signing an executive order to reopen the government care website for three months to allow people who have lost their jobs due to the pandemic to apply for a government backed plan. now to northern california where extreme rain triggered massive mud slides devastated by last year's wildfires, thousands were told to evacuate before one of the state's strongest winter storms in years, carter evans has more now from monterey. >> reporter: mud flooded roads and inundated farms near monterey wednesday trapping livestock and sending at least two people to the hospital. rain-drenched hillsides already scorched bare by wildfires. this stuff is like quick sand. imagine it rushing down the hill

with enough force to knock this shed right off its foundation. a few hours north, water engulfed the streets of manteca. some parts of the drought-stricken area could get up to a foot of rain this week. >> we need the water in a bad way in our area because we are in a major deficit right now. we don't want it all at once. >> reporter: the drastic weather is caused by a system known as an atmospheric river. it's like a firehose of water vapor from the pacific. when it hits california, it squeezes moisture out like wringing a sponge. snow near donner pass could pile up almost ten feet high. it's already snarling traffic and causing backups on i-5. snow also blanketed arizona where video shows the national guard rescuing three stranded climbers. all from a storm system expected to keep battering the west into the weekend. for "cbs this morning," carter

evans. monterey, california. this morning an nfl lineman is accused of choking and beating a woman last friday. chad wheeler faces two charges. domestic violence assault. the woman survived with a broken arm. it's another example of an ongoing problem in pro football. as jamie yuccas reports, the woman told police she thought wheeler was killing her. killin. >> reporter: charging documents say it took three police officers to wrestle the 6'7", 310-pound chad wheeler into custody. they even used a taser which had little effect, according to records. police had broken down the door of the apartment wheeler shared with his girlfriend. they had been responding to a 911 call placed by the woman who reportedly said wheeler was trying to kill her. according to the report, wheeler strangled the victim unconscious twice. at one point even saying to her, "oh, you're still alive?" prosecutors charged the 27-year-old with two felonies

including first-degree domestic violence assault and unlawful impru imprisonment, as well as a misdemeanor for resisting arrest. his girlfriend said she believed he suffered from bipolar disease and has not been taking his medicine on. twitter wheeler said he was suffering from a manic episode. the seattle seahawks dropped wheeler shortly before charges were released on wednesday saying in a statement, "the offensive tackle is no longer with the team," and they strongly condemned the act of domestic violence. the nfl has been criticized in the past for how it's dealt with players committing domestic violence. in 2014, baltimore rivals player ray rice was indicted for assault after surveillance video showed him punching his fiancee and then dragging her unconscious body. he was suspended only two games by the nfl before being reinstated. the nfl has since changed its policy and investigates all allegations of abuse. should the league or a criminal investigation yield a violation or charges, players will receive

a minimum six-game suspension. >> what we've seen from the nfl in regards to domestic violence recently is a harder stance. but talk is so cheap. >> reporter: former nfl linebacker and author emmanuel acho tweeted yesterday, "if you're not outraged, you're part of the problem." >> women have done disenfranchised the most and if i can get more specific, black women have been dissent franchised than any other people group in this country. we've to do a better job protecting black women. >> in his statement, chad wheeler also said it's time for him to walk away from football and to get the help he needs so that he never again poses a threat to another person. >> we hope he gets that help. ahead, home investors are going wild over a thing called gamestop. an online community targets hedge funds that bet against that retail chain. you've seen it before. i recognize that sign. now it's starting to affect the rest of the stock market. uh-oh. 7:18 almost on the dot.

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business. that set the stage for a wall street showdown that's starting to affect the broader market. vlad duthiers has been following the story. so many people are talking about this. what exactly is going on? >> anthony, good morning. you sound like one of my old clients when i was a vp in investment management. so let me tell you what's going on. in less than a year the company's stock has jumped from less than $3 a share to almost $350. how and why that happened has caused rumbles on wall street as small investors apparently joined forces to beat the big traders at their own game. to main street, it's the world's largest video game retailer. [ bell ] on wall street, gamestop is the latest battleground between the financial elite and small investors. shares of the company have soared nearly 800% over the past week, driven by anonymous posts on the reddit forum wall strere bets.. stephahanie mehta i is editor-in-chief at bass compana.

>> they're sticking it to the big institutionalal investors, the hedge funds, by forcing the big guys to lose money because they've been shorting or betting against gamestop. >> reporter: here's what happened -- all last year, gamestop was struggling. its stock selling at less than $20 a share. big wall street investors saw an opportunity. they started shorting the stock, betting the price would drop. if it did, they would make money. but if it rose, they'd take a loss. that action angered small investors who used the reddit forum to encourage others to buy, driving up the stock price dramatically and creating massive losses for those big-time wall street investors. on wednesday, gamestop's stock closed a at almosost $350 a a s. >> it is a company that sells products that are widely avavailable onn line from other sources. it iss competingng agagainst companies like amazon. you can see why companies bet against it. >> reporter: some small investors said they made tens of

thousands of dollars. one said it would help pay for medical treatment. but one major hedge fund, citron capital, said it took a 100% loss in covering most of its stake in gamestop. what do you make of what's going on? >> i'm fascinated by it -- >> reporter: james rogozinski created the wall street bets reddit forum in 2012. he says small investors like being the masters of their own wall street destiny. >> there is something to be said about the fact that pretty much anybody can do it, too. and watching them do it collectively, certainly a show. >> reporter: but where there is reward, there is also risk. >> at the end of the day, the best way to invesest in the sto market is to either work with a financial adviser, work with a retirement portfolio manager, and if you do see a stock that you're interested in investing in, do the research. and buy essentially on the fundamentals. >> reporter: and it's not just gamestop. reddit investors appear to already be moving on to their next targets, movie theater chain amc saw stocks surge more

than 300% just on wednesday after the hash tag #saveamc began trending on twitter. >> thank you. let's bring in business analyst jill schlesinger. good morning. so i got a text from my 20-year-old son in college yesterday saying his classmates are playing this stock game, and he wants in on it, too. what do you tell people like that trying to get on the market right now? >> you know, as vlad noted, the experts are saying, hey, sure, you want to learn about the stock market? that's fine. whatever your son or anyone else is thinking about investing, just pretend this is money that is essentially entertainment and education. you've got to be able to lose it. and i think that people are jumping on to the bandwagon without understanding the risks. so if you go into it saying, hey, i would like to learn more about this thing called investing and i'm going to do it by buying shares, that it's really important that you know you could lose everything you invest. so no emergency reserve fund, no

borrowing to make this happen. and no making this a be all end all or replacement to your long-term financial planning. >> how big a hit, jill, are the wall street firms who were shorting these stocks taking, and what's this doing to the market? >> well, you know, it's interesting. these firms, these big institutional hedge funds, they are piling into these bets and saying, hey, we don't believe in the viability of this company. there is nothing inherently wrong with short selling. in fact, short selling has been at the root of getting big information out to all investors. if you remember enron, that was a fraudulent company that was exposed by short selling. we shouldn't be anti-short selli selling, but these companies are taking rich people's money, they bet against the stock, and they lost. it doesn't have any wider implication. in fact, if you look at gamestop stock and it's up hundreds of a

percent over the last five days, the s&p 500's actually down by a couple of percent. it's one company amid a huge market. >> is gamestop worth $350, jill, and how does this all end? >> by the way, tony -- tony does not believe that. i heard as we went into the break. i'll tell you the advice i gave to somebody i know who made a bunch of money in it, and i'm a former trader myself, and i said, you know what, you just made a ton of money, i would get out, pay your taxes, and move on. i think that the reality is for most people this is not something you necessarily want to replicate. please, if you're doing it, be very careful. how it ends, we don't know. in 1996,a land greenspan talked -- alan greenspan talked about irrational exuberance. he was right, but he was five years early. just be careful. >> good advice, thanks, jill. vlad duthiers ahead will be back to bring you "what to watch," the s

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least through this afternoon. as we take you hour by hour, looking at rounds of rain with brief heavy downpours, orange and red colors indicating heavy rain as we look to the rest of today into tonight. it is looking wet as we start for tomorrow morning and trending drier by tomorrow in the afternoon as atmospheric river slowly pushing out. north of the golden gate, a better chance for rain. let's head to the san mateo bridge and show you a live look. we are dealing with a lot of wet weather as mary mentioned. that will affect your drive across the san mateo bridge. there are still soggy conditions out there this morning. 880 a little bit on the northside as you work through oakland. brake lights south 880 out of hayward, west bound 580 slow as well as

♪ ♪ it's thursday, january 28th, 2021, welcome back to "cbs this morning." i'm anthony mason with tony dokoupil and cbs this morning saturday co-host michelle miller. the cdc warns the pandemic will get much worse before we turn a corner. the latest projection, plus how a teenager is helping save his mother's life from covid-19. >> sir richard branson on a fast track to the future, we'll talk to him about travel and the coronavirus era and his revolutionary hyperloop transportation system. >> john.

jon batiste will share his latest moves. first, here is today's eye opener at 8:00. >> a warning of dire months ahead as the biden administration pushes to reopen schools. >> it is an ambitious plan with a host of other goals like accelerating the administration of vaccines. yesterday, the new team offered a blunt assessment of the long road ahead. >> cbs news learned homeland security does not have specific credible intelligence about plotting. the bulletin warns more violence is possible against elected officials and government buildings. >> an animated navalny came out swinging, complaining hasn't seen his lawyers and calling his arrest a joke. >> president biden said the country's facing multiple crises, the pandemic and economic downturn, racial and political divisions, and climate change. his new plan to fight is also face something criticism for those concerned that the plan hurts the economy. >> dr. anthony fauci is the

highest paid out of 4 million federal employees. >> some people are angry, they're criticizing, which is crazy. first of all, he's a doctor. that's what doctors make. you want a discount doctor in there. secondly, he's try iing to stop a pandemic. he's not out playing golf with his beeper off i. i'm okay with dr. fauci earning what he does. >> you don't want a discount doctor. welcome back to "cbs this morning." welcome back to you. welcome back michelle miller. >> good to be here. thank you for asking me to come back. >> i wore gayle's least favorite tie to spare her. >> i love that tie. >> gayle's not a fan of this tie. >> she's coming back tomorrow. >> the tie will be gone tomorrow. >> all right, we begin with tough times ahead during the pandemic as the cdc projects 85,000 more americans could die in the next three weeks. this comes as january already marks the deadliest month on record, we're also getting a troubling new visualization of

the toll of the pandemic. >> disaster relief surgeon dr. arghavan salles has spent the last two months working in a phoenix icu. she tweeted this photo writing, quote, here are the folks i've cared for with covid who have died. big stack and survived, little stack, in the last two months. you can see the stack of papers from patients she's lost to the virus is nearly double the one for those who survived. we spoke with dr. salles about why she shared that picture. >> each card represents a person and i think that when we see statistics like 3,000 people have died or 4,000 people have died, i think at this point people are pretty numb to that and i thought it might be helpful for people to see what happens when patients are in the icu and the vast majority of them at least the ones who make it on to a ventilator don't end up surviving. >> dr. salles says she hopes the photo helps convince americans to get vaccinated against the

coronavirus. >> the governor of texas agreed to help a young teen who made a desperate plea after his mother fell seriously ill from the coronavirus. in the letter to the governor, that's greg abbott. he explained his mother is the only immediate family he has left and she's hanging on for dear life. the 14-year-old then asked for help to get her ecmo therapy which is often seen as a treatment of last resort for a seriously and severely ill covid patients. maria villerreal spoke to him yesterday, how is he doing? >> reporter: he's a fighter and he's doing everything he can right now. this kid is amazing. his birthday is next week. he said all he wants as a gift is to get access to treatment for his mother. every day he plays a violin concert for her, on a video chat, while she is lying in bed in a hospital, fighting for her life. ♪

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much as possible, so that's why i -- >> reporter: determined to fight for his mom, he set up a fund-raising effort to try and pay for a helicopter to transport her. he also wrote a letter too texa governor greg abbott asking for help. elizabeth guerrero is his high school counselor. >> you hear emilian saying i'm writing the governor, i got to figure this out, this is a 14-year-old boy. did any part of you say, it may not go the way you want it to? >> yes. bebecause, you know, we live in world where horririble thingss happen, we have seen it time and time again, where people don't make it -- people don't respond. >> reporter: within 24 hours, sosa raised more than $30,000, his plea for help making its way to the lone star state capital. governor abbott tweeting he spoke with emilian and the equipment his mother needs was located adding she should be in good medical care.

proof that sometimes even the smallest voices get heard. >> regardless of the outcome, it has been proven that he's not alone in this world. >> reporter: a team of medical professionals evaluated miss calderon last night and they believe she's strong enough to be transported as of right now. we understand that will happen later today. she will be taken to houston to herman memorial where she'll get that specialized treatment. >> extraordinary story, thank you. what an extraordinary 14-year-old emilian is, thank you. ahead, we'll talk with sir richard branson about the future of travel, his company released this video of the virgin hyperloop which can go three times faster than a high speed train. we'll ask him how the pandemic is changing the travel i

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out there, which has led to tougher travel restrictions. what do you see this doing to the travel business in the near term? >> well, look, it has been very, very tough, you know, being in things like airline businesses or cruise businesses. and our wonderful teams had to be very inventive. first of all, they turned most of the planes into freighters, moving double the amount of freight they normally travel. things like, you know, vaccinations and other goods that are urgently needed to get from country to country. i think that what the travel industry is waiting for and delighted to see, you know, like moving really fast now and vaccinations is the population to get vaccinated and britain in about three months time, the vast majority of people will be vaccinated.

and, you know, once the whole population is vaccinated, everything can get back to normal. america, which is our principle customer, as far as virgin atlantic is concerned, again, hopefully 150 million people will be vaccinated over the next three or four months. so we're hopeful that we'll come out of this. >> you're friends with president biden, have you been able to talk to him at all about what could be done here? >> i haven't spoken to him since he had been elected, but he's got a good team of people. and i'm sure that they will ready one message, roll out the vaccine as quickly as possible, 24 hours a day, you know, just make sure that everybody is persuaded to take it so that little -- everybody can get back to their normal day to day life. >> yeah. >> sorry to interrupt there, tony dokoupil here.

once upon a time we met in paris, i was one of an array of journalists who interviewed you ahead of the paris accords back in 2016. the biden administration as announced that america will re-enter the accords to combat climate change and reduce greenhouse gases. your industry travel is the single greatest emitter of greenhouse gases. some people are ashamed to fly because they think it is such a problem. you make money that way. so what do you want the biden administration to do to address the problem, what are you willing to do to address the problem? >> well, the paris talks was a great breakthrough and every country signed up to it, and we never, ever expected america to walk away from it. i think that all of us, need to play our part. and, you know, virgin set up organizations like the carbon war room, the mountain

institute to help companies around the world to take as much carbon out of their businesses as possible. and, you know, a list of other things, whether it is the -- that we set up to try to address -- help address the problem. and i think that with this administration, you know, they set goals at getting to carbon neutral by -- by 2050, and i think what -- with this leaves us and government working together, we can get there. airlines, they're become more and more fuel efficient, virgin atlantic is much, much more fuel efficient and less carbon emitting and that needs to continue step by step. >> sir richard, michelle miller here. we met in jeddah, saudi arabia, on a sustainable conference tour. >> have you ever met him before? >> i wish.

>> i want to talk about this hyperloop. you turned out a concept video. i've got to know how close are we seeing this happen? >> well, we had a very exciting year in technology, generally, at virgin, whether it is virgin galactic, taking people to space, putting satellites in space. now virgin hyperloop having had its first people on virgin hyperloop. but these things do take time. you know, by over the next six or seven years, i would hope that our first hyperloop -- fully fledged hyperloop system will be up and running quite likely and what you mentioned -- you mentioned at least that's quite likely. india is very likely. obviously we would love to see one of the first in america as well where hyperloop is -- virgin hyperloop has been developed. it is exciting.

it will take people as your program already said three times the speed of the -- the fastest train in the world. which means that if you -- on a journey, you'll be able to get there in half an hour. and it is going to make it enormous difference. at one airport we can connect another airport and effectively make the two airports into one airport. and go straight to the gate and unload people at their gates and get on the plane and fly internationally. >> you yourself went on a test ride a couple of months ago. what was it like? >> i didn't, i would loved to have, but sarah was the person who really can see the idea of virgin hyperloop, they took the first -- they loved it.

i want to jump on the next test flight, but hopefully i'll be able to go on the next one. >> sir richard branson, thank you. >> we should say before we go, ten out of ten on room raider, that's a gorgeous -- a lot of zoom interviews, absolutely the best. >> yes. >> it is a welcome reprieve from us here in winter in new york. >> yes. >> it is one of the advantages of getting older. you're able to have some privilege. >> thank you very much for being with us this morning. we appreciate it. >> ahead, amanda gorman who captivated the nation at the inauguration is adding another big accomplishment to her resume. you're watching "cbs this morning." gorman is adding anot big accomplishment to her res say. you're watching "cbs this morning."

a military husband serving far from home pulled off a surprise visit just in time to meet his new son.

[ cheers ] >> thank you. >> that's private tyrell hicks receiving an ovation from the maryland hospital workers as he arrived. he had raced across the country from his base in missouri after being granted leave for the birth of their first child together. his wife alanna tells "cbs this morning" having her husband there for the delivery made her day. i bet. and the staff made them feel extra special. [ cheers ] >> they had all these signs up that i was saying thank you for serving, they had flags all around the room and everything. and every time someone came in the room, they basically honored him, thanking him for the service and they heard the story and everything that was going on. it was really nice. >> alanna says baby cannon is doing well. private hicks is already back on base but will return to his family in less than two months. >> welcome to the world, baby cannon. great to see you. ahead, award-winning musician jon batiste will join us. he'll tell us how he helped create the music for the disney pixar animamation film "soul" a

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that closely for you. through the day, you see rounds of rain with isolated thunderstormsbrief heavy downpours, orange and red colors indicating more intense rain to come. here we are as we look to the rest of our day. even tonight, still looking at the wet weather. showers for the morning tomorrow and then drier ahead friday afternoon. it is tough to the roads still this morning. the san mateo bridge, mary mentioned it is really coming down in spots near hayward. this is the hayward side. flashing lights ahead not far from the toll plaza. pretty sluggish as you head through. on 880, we do have pretty significant brake lights south bound especially as you head out of hayward into union city. south bay, a couple accidents. south 280 before mclaughlin, three left lanes blocked with traffic slow as you approach. they're clearing a crash north bound 280 at 7th street, lanes

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welcome back to "cbs this morning." it is now time to bring you some of the stories that are "talk of the table" this morning. who's up first? >> i think i'm up first. i've got some really good news for our friend, the inauguration poet amanda gorman who, of course, has been on this show many times. she's set to become a bestselling author. publisher penguin books announced this morning that three of gorman's upcoming books will have a first printing of one million copies each. >> wow. >> due to overwhelming demand. "the hill we climb," an inaugural poem for the country, will be published march 16th. the hard cover edition will include a forward by oprah

winfrey. the picture book "change sings" will be released in september, along with her debut poetry collection, "the hill we climb" and other poems. at 22, gorman was the youngest inaugural poet in u.s. history when she recited "the hill we climb" for president biden's swearing-in ceremony last week. she also signed a modilling contract with img. like the headband she wore at the inauguration, apparently sold out in minutes -- >> that's amazing. i feel like you guys really took her and like -- >> i did not. i did not. the show -- >> the show, that's what i mean -- >> commissioned poems from her. we discovered -- like the country did on tinauguration -- she's brilliant. all of her success is so well deserved. >> three books with initial prints of more than a million each -- >> that's amazing. people like her. >> all right. michelle, what have you got? >> i have a good story because this happens to me all the time. some folks are just so tired of their glasses fogging up. i have my glasses here -- always

fogging up. well, they're turning to eye surgery. >> what? >> what? >> smile laser eye surgery is an alternative to lasik. and apparently it uses a smaller incision, the recovery time is shorter. so one eye surgery center in maryland says that the smile procedure has become increasingly popular during the pandemic, one folks have a lot more discretionary income, right, and they also have the downtime to really, you know, look into it -- >> when you said they were turning to surgery to fix the fogging up problem. my mind immediately went to like an extra nostril here for air venting. i didn't think about like getting rid of the glasses. i thought if you're going to keep the glasses, what's the option? >> like 75% of us americans use some form of eye correction, like glasses -- >> is that right? >> i didn't know that. >> i didn't either. that's high. >> that is high. >> the fogging drives me insane. >> it drives me -- >> it's not enough to make me get surgery. >> rather than use my glasses, i pretend like i don't need them and run into things and misread stuff on the prompter. i'm going to keep that up.

>> what have you got, tony? >> for generations, americans in the south in particular have made a difficult choice every morning -- do you have coffee or do you have soda? yes, people do drink soda in the morning. now you can have both. i'm pleased to announce. coca-cola with coffee launched this week in the u.s. it's described as a refreshment coffee. i got to look at the picture myself. gorgeous. coke says it sips like a coke and finishes like a coffee. it comes in 12-ounce cans. i think eight would be enough. i'm sure it will be 16 soon enough. three flavors to begin -- vanilla, carmel, and a dark blend. >> i want it to sip like a coffee and finish like a soda. that's how i want it. >> i want to sit in on the marketing meetings. >> i can't believe they haven't done this sooner. >> yeah. >> i'm sure there are places now that are already like giving you a splash of coffee and then a splash of coke. >> i never heard of it. >> you've seen -- you can confirm that in the south you get soda for breakfast. >> i do -- sweet tea i've heard. but not soda -- well --

>> can someone in atlanta please watch and tell me this is true? this is happening in america. we have a very exciting guest. very exciting. award-winning musician jon batiste is shaking things up in the music video for his new song, "i need you." ♪ in this world with a lot of problems all we need is a little love ♪ ♪ thank you thank you oh you make it ♪ ♪ thank you thank you for your love ♪ >> that is his second single for his highly anticipated album "we are." batiste created the blueprint for the album in just six days in his dressing room at the "late show with stephen colbert." he is the band leader and musical director of the show, performing with his band, sy human, every weeknight. jon batiste joins us now. good morning, jon, i see you. you had some moves, man.

i didn't know. >> you got to get it in. i used to dance when i was a kid. i was 9 years old. my grandmother, she would say, due the james brown. and i'm just giving it to the public. >> you are giving it up, and you are like uncovering all whole new style here. tell us where it's coming from and why it's so needed. >> well, you know, the world has been crying out after 2020. and we've been crying out to be human, to be heard, and fun is a part of that. fun is catharsis. fun is release. in the video, i'm tapping into so much of our history. you got the lindsey hop dance -- >> yes -- >> the music that you would hear little richard or somebody playing in the chitlin circuit all put into a pop song. that's what i wanted to do. just have some fun. >> you call it like a warm hug. and you know, the song, the video, the music -- the dancing

is so incredible. you say it took six days just to write it? >> that's right. you know, sometimes when the spirit hits you, you got to just go with it. and in six days, we wrote the entire blueprint for the upcoming album, "we are." then over nine months, i meticulously crafted the album, and it really was a great process for me because i got to bring in so many of my friends. you know, my mentors, mavis staples is on the record, quincy jones constructed to the record. zedy smith, the incredible author, who sings on the record. it was a real labor of love, and the art just was flowing in those six days. it was really unstoppable. >> jon, it's anthony. mavis staples is a goddess. that's a great lineup you got there. >> anthony! >> how you doing? you've been band leader for stephen now for a while. but you've said that you didn't really feel like a band leader

until you organized some moscusl marches for black lives matter. what happened there for you? >> there's always a time in an artist's life and a person's life when you come into your own and your vision of yourself becomes much more clarified. and everything that i've been doing from the time that i was a kid at juilliard at 17 playing in the subways doing processionals, i felt it was made for the moment that was last summer which is a time where we needed to bring people together and a time where we needed to have the art pointing the doorway to humanity. the truth who've we are which is that we're all more alike than we are different. so if i was going to be about it, that was the time to get out there and do it. and i'm going to keep doing it. you'll see me out there again. >> it's tony dokoupil. the anchor at this table who knows nothing about music and cannot play a lick. i have a question on that subject. when you play, when you perform,

you take such evident joy in the act itself. it's on your face, it's in your body. can you put into words in a pg fashion for a morning show what exactly it feels like for you to play music? >> to me music is a spiritual practice. it's something that has been passed down from the ancestors of all of humanity as something we use to come together. whether it's for rituals, whether it's for celebration, whether it's for some form of worship, whatever it is, social gatherings, music is always that fabric that ties us together. and i feel when i'm playing i'm a conduit for the whole of humanity. and that's what makes me so happy. i feel that i'm never alone. >> we can't let this end right now without talking about "soul." that's the disney movie that has gotten rave reviews. and you are like the essence -- it's almost like your life's

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that is a gorgeous way to describe it. you knocked that out of the park. >> yes. stay human. it's all about that. jon batiste, thank you so much -- >> hey! yes, indeed. >> thank you, jon. >> his album "we are out" comes out in march. and did i say that right? "we are -- "we are," there we go. you can watch him on the "late show with stephen colbert" weeknights right here on cbs. >> cool. >> the book -- i got a tease. i need my glasses, they're fogging up. a new book tries to make it easier for families to understand the complexities of paying for college. here's what's so complex about it. you don't have the money. it's a lot. we're going to talk with the author of a book who will give us the true cost of schools and how

alex thinks we can afford tuition, and we can't. we need t to tell her the truth. >> we always tell the truth. that's what we always say. >> i think we should do it. >> not going to do it. >> me neither. >> we've got to lie about evererything. that's what parents do. >> will ferrell and amy poehler'r's characters got desperate trying to pay for college in their 2017 movie "the ho

the biggest financial decision your family will ever make." we have more now. i'm glad you're here. i want to get into the cost of college. i want to start with a threshold question that people will ask themselves -- is college worth it if you're on the fence about whether you or your child should apply? what do you tell them? >> well, you tell them that the lifetime income benefit that comes from going to college is worth roughly $1 million on average over your life. so if it is money and, you know, rising through the social class ranks that matters to you or staying where you are, you probably do want to go to college because it's much harder to earn a decent living if you don't. >> good answer. an extra $1 million sound pretty nice. now the cost of college on average has doubled in the past 20 years. are we getting twice as much

education? >> no. look, here's the issue -- the undergraduate education as it's delivered hasn't really changed all that much. but it's become more expensive for the schools. the state schools get less subsidies from the state legislatures, so they have to raise tuition. the private schools have expensive people, professors, administrators, the very people we want on campus to help our kids get to and through. so there's a reason for the prices going up, but i'm not sure that we're getting double the value that we did a generation ago. >> that's troubling. there's the cost on the website of any university or college, and then there's the so-called true cost. what's the difference, and is it negotiable? can you get it down to a number you can afford? >> sure. the list prices, the so-called cost of attendance that you find on a college's website, is one thing. that might be up to $80,000 for some private universities. that's per year now. but the net price is something different, right. you may get need-based financial

aid, or there may be these unpublished merit discounts that have nothing do with how much money you have but may have everything to do with who you are, how your kids did in school, and how much that school may want to and may want to in effect buy your kid with a $10,000, $20,000, $30,000 annual coupon. >> one of the interesting moments in the book is when you have conversations with your kids at eighth grade where you point out that good grades are not only good because you're going to learn more, to prepare for your future, but you're literally going to get dollars if you do better potentially when colleges look at your transcript. walk us through that conversation. how do you make that clear to kids? when you're in eighth grade, you're like, look, i mow the lawn, i make $15. you don't know what $30,000 feels like. >> this is the challenge here, right. there are no good choices in this aspect of parenting because the system of paying for college is so complicated. if we don't tell our kids about these unpublished discounts, they're probably going to find out about them anyway, whether

through the internet or through older siblings. so i feel like it's our job to let them know gently how exactly the system works. we should let them know that we trust them, that we believe in them, and that they can handle the truth. >> you dedicate the book to your daughter, violet, who you write is worth every penny, as every parent feels about their children. isn't that why these colleges and universities kind of have us in a bad negotiating position? they know we'll do anything we can within reason or even beyond reason to support our kids' future? and therefore, they can charge anything they want? how do you take emotion out of this, or can you? >> it's almost impossible. part of what i'm trying to do with my readers is make them more emotionally honest with themselves. the schools know very well that this is a head trip for us, right. we have fear that they're going to go tumbling down the social class lad for we make the wrong choice, we have guilt that we haven't saved enough or earned enough to pay for this out of pocket. and there's some snobbery and

elitist over which schools are best and how people will look at us and our kids when we graduate. the schools know this good and well. we have to be honest with ourselves about confronting these feelings and making sure those feelings do not lead us to make decisions and take on debt that we may regret later on. >> you caught our attention at the top, an extra $1 million people should hear on average lifetime earning difference if you go to college. your book is an important way to help people understand how they can pay that up-front cost to bet that benefit down the line. ron lieber, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> we'll be right back. i'm morgrgan, and ththere's me to me ththan hiv. more love,e,... momore adventuture,... more c community.. but wiwith my hiv v treatment,. therere's not momore medicins in m my pill. i talked t to my doctotor... anand switcheded to...

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i want to see that video again. that video -- there it is. >> he's got it. that is -- >> he enjoys his work, i can say. he loves it. >> it's so good to see him from out behind the piano. >> that is a classic new orleans move. >> is it? >> yes. >> can we -- we never know --

>> we've got to get the "soul" video. >> you missed it. >> i'm cueing up that song for my walk home. >> yeah. strut music. >> i'm so proud of him. new orleans -- >> thank you all for being with us.

i am meteorologist mary lee. i am tracking heavy rain pushing across bay area on high def doppler. you see that intense rainfall. those orange and yellow colors indicating that heavier rain from los gatos around 101, morgan hill through san jose. you can see heavy rain across peninsula and coast, over half moon bay, san mateo, south san francisco, up into san francisco. golden gate, you see the east bay, heavy rain. then more rain to our north

through petaluma. a flash flood watch for bay area burn scars through this afternoon. we are looking at more wet weather ahead, rounds of rain coming our way, could even see isolated thunderstorms with brief heavy downpours or small hail. that continues today and into tonight. >> thanks. we've got a lot of trouble spots because of that wet weather, still mostly concentrated in south bay where our slow spot is as you work along 280. sluggish conditions continue. before 87, a crash stuck on the right side of the road way. it's been busy along the peninsula. that's not far from the san bruno daly city commute and again seeing wet weather in and around that area as well. slick surfaces this morning when you hit the roads. things are improving slightly on the east bound side of 580. west bound is slow through castro valley. keep that in mind if u are

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