milestone with more than 400 open case files. dennis sedorski who wore an american supremacist hoodie is charged with unlawfully being on capitol grounds. thomas caldwell, donovan and jessica. three alleged members of a paramilitary group the oath keepers for trying to plan an operation to interfere with the electoral 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 bull, teat from domestic -- from our own people, inside our own country, i wouldn't have believed it. >> and cbs news has learned that a bipartisan group of 32 house lawmakers is asking congressional leadership to use their office allowances to pay for additional personal security while they're in their home districts and not protected by

capitol police, citing the increased threats against them in recent weeks. turning now to the battle against covid-19. as the white house gears up for a mass vaccination of americans, the world health organization has a team in wuhan, china, investigating the origins of the virus. the team was released from quarantine just yesterday. our ramy inocencio was in wuhan during the initial outbreak last year and is back covering the investigation. >> reporter: finally free in wuhan to find covid's origin. 13 experts from the world health organization liberated after 14 days in quarantine. they tweeted photos of their departure. new york-based epidemiologisted release, focus. >> what contacts they had, what behaviors they had, and does that lead us into different geography or different behavior. so it's unclear if china is the real source, the original source of the virus.

>> reporter: that will probably frustrate the many people around the world who believe covid did come from china. the seafood market thought to be ground zero. the world health organization is expected to visit, but this place has been cleaned out and shutdown ever since the pandemic started. >> for the seafood market, how does waiting a year make it tougher for the w.h.o.? >> unless you do hours after incident, whether it's a day, a week or year makes no difference. >> reporter: sars expert in singapore is tracing covid's origin and says the market can still offer clues. >> if they can really trace back how the cage was arranged, what animals were sold, basically if the w.h.o. could not get admission to china to say they are toothless. if they get admission, it is -- >> reporter: polished propaganda is what the communist party knows well.

from a new patriotic documentation for the country to a massive -- in wuhan. critics say they can't expect china to be forthcoming with all the da the a that they have. >> let history be the judge ands let's be patient on those issues. >> reporter: and we may need a lot of patience. peter says it could be at least two years until we know the origin of covid, but fa says it could be more than 40 years based on ebola. bottom line, guys, it could be a long time until we know and don't expect any breakthroughs from the world health organization trip this time. organization trip this time. >> that's ramy inocencio (ringing) - hey kaleb, what's up? how you doing? - hey, i'm good, guess what, i just had my 13th surgery. - really? i just had my 17th surgery. - well, you beat me. - well, i am a little bit older than you. - yeah it's true. how are you doing? - i'm doing good. i'm encouraged by seeing how people are coming together

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has everything you need to help keep your immune system strong. immune support comes naturally with nature's bounty. the coronavirus pandemic has devastated the fashion industry, and nowhere has that been seen more than in italy. seth doane took a tour of the italian country side to see how some of the country's fashion houses are adapting. >> reporter: creativity emanates from every corner of italy. and this country's $67 billion fashion business taps the talent of these artisans who draw on generations of tradition. but the coronavirus is sending shockwaves through the industry, shuttering shops and cancelling fashion shows, with losses reaching a staggering $20 billion. era. italy in t see how

fromfaloory in eastern benito rn to the rolling hills ofe fhion milan. who are your clients? >> dole change and gabana. >> reporter: she inherited the business from her father and snapshots of past successes are posted on the walls. >> the technique that we use is overlapping sequence very well, and that makes the difference. and you see something you can do only by handep this elaborate dress worn by eva longoria at cannes film festival. it can involve years of apprenticeship. we met em broidiers who have

been with the company three and four decades. that's a lot of collective knowledge. >> yes. >> reporter: but this craft is in jeopardy. when we visited last summer, orders from fashion houses were down 70%. >> so we are working half and half. >> reporter: does that mean people are making half as much? >> yeah. >> reporter: since then they picked up some work, but are still down by 50%. they had already worried about another wave of infections which italy is seeing now. it's a fight to keep the business going. >> if we have to close part of our knowledge and all our experience will be lost forever. >> reporter: so thinking about having to close is not busine it's about losing more than that. >> more than that, yes. >> reporter: in central italy, the towns dotting the rolling hills of umbria may be appear remote. but the fashion businesses here are hardly insulate tokyo for

that matter, there is an affect here. [ speaking foreign language ] >> reporter: you feel it? [ speaking foreign language ] >> reporter: they make sweaters, scarves and shirts for top fashion houses including ralph lauren and cuchinelli. [ speaking foreign language ] >> reporter: when we met last year they were filling orders that had been placed last spring before italy's nine-week nationwide lockdown. but retail sales in their own shop were down close to 50%. the work itself is the same, she told us. but in past years we had more this is a business active in the future because we need to think, to plan what will go in the shops next years. >> reporter: lorenzo runs his family company beneto fabricsic

alexander wang, theory and hundreds of other clients. how did covid affect business orders? >> the beginning was a big hit. >> reporter: but they've made up for those losses. since they supply to companies in various countries, they've seen orders returning from places where lockdowns have been. you've seen the orders go up and down in different parts of the world as the lockdowns have gone. >> the world came globally, more or less, we were able to compensate what was missing, missing europe or from asia. what now is missing from united states is arriving from europe now. >> reporter: this flexibility, s inspiration from the contemporary works they have on the walls. his dad started collecting decades ago and today they have more than 17,000 pieces.

you don't expect to look around a factory, a warehouse and see forklifts driving past big pieces of art. >> yeah, yeah, you're right, reporter: the thriven creativity. it's central to imagining new fabrics and designs. >> only because we have the art around us helps us to be creative. creative is the first vaccine to covid. >> reporter: the first vaccine. >> the main vaccine. >> reporter: finding opportunity is usually challenging in this environment. but these artisans who built businesses based on their talents are now drawing on that same creativity to survive. >> now closer to home. with millions of students learning from home, you'd think a lot of school buses would be sitting idle. but o they're needed now more than ever. here's nikki batiste. >> reporter: this school year, danielle mackie is doubling as a

bus driver and a tech guru. >> my bus is a rolling internet. >> reporter: delivering wi-fi on wheels to thousands of students in michigan's wayne west land scho . >> we have a lot of motor home complexes that don't have the connectivity. >> reporter: the superintendent says at least 40% of the families in his district lack the internet needed for remote learning. these 21 mobile hot spot buses are the district's innovative solution to the digital divide that so many schoolchildren face across the country. including danielle's. >> my kids actually started falling behind as well. now that we have heconnect, stay connected. >> i'm not failing any more because there's the internet and it won't -- and it's loading now. >> reporter: with each bus parked where wi-fi is needed most, students can access it from their bedrooms. what does the mobile hot

spot bus symbolize in your community? >> i think itti. works like a school bus, but it gives hope. that's the mos

we all know the pandemic has been especially hard on kids going to school online and not being able to see their friends. frankly, it's taken away a lot of the magic from childhood. that is, unless you have a real-life fairyot steve hartman found that story on the road. >> reporter: kelly canny was walking in her los angeles neighborhood one day when she came across a fairy garden. and while staring at these tree trunk trinkets, she felt an alter ego emerging. >> on my walk back, i was brainstorming ideas what my name was going to be and - gngo be? t kind of took over and i started thinking, well, maybe if i left a note like as a fairy, that would be fun to do. >> reporter:nd sohe next ght did just that.

left a note for whoever built the garden. my name is sapphire, she wrote. i'm one of the fairies who lives in this tree. the next day, a 4-year-old girl named eleana wrote back. the first exchange in what has evolved into a remarkable friendship. nine months of letters and presents. >> a letter! >> reporter: glitter galore. they traded photos with one another and turned a year of disappointment into a season of wonder. eleana's mom emily couldn't be more that shet f as? oh, we were oo eleana felt like personal and the luckiest girl in the world. what she wanted more than any present was to meet her new friend. that's what sapphire remembered that fairies can on very rare occasion turn human size, which

is how earlier this month sapphire appeared. >> she turned around and saw me and the way that she looked at me just -- i'll never forget that. it was justma so -- >> reporter: kelly says that the start of this pandemic she was in a dark place. but with a little imagination and a whole lot of kindness, she found her light. and says, you can, too. >> people believe they don't have to be a fairy to give a little bit of magic to somebody else. it doesn't have to be a child o steve hartman, cbs news, on the road. >> and that's the overnight news for this friday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for "cbs this morning" and follow us online all the time at cbsnews.com. reporting from the nation's

capitol, i'm catherine herridge. it's friday, jry this is the "cbs morning news." dangerous mutation. a new and more contagious covid strain is in the u.s. where the first two cases were reported and the vaccine that may not be as effective against it. game on. robin hood is letting investors buy shares of gamestop again. why the change of heart might be too little too late. remembering an icon. we page tribute to actress cicely tyson who broke barriers cicely tyson who broke barriers during her decades' long career. captioning funded by cbs good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green.

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