thanks so much. thanks for watching kpix 5 news this morning. don't forget the news continues all day on cbsn bay area. . "cbs this morning" is up next. have a great iday and a # # #. good morning to our viewers in the west and welcome to cbs this morning. it's friday, january 29th, 2021. i'm gayle king with anthony mason and tony dokoupil. a troubling new strain of the coronavirus is now in the u.s., making vaccination efforts even more urgent. we'll talk to the new director of the cdc about the challenges. we're learning new details about a deadly liquid nitrogen leak at a georgia poultry plant that killed six workers. we're outside the plant where there's a claim the company's leadership knew about a leak. outrage grows in the david versus goliath showdown over gamestop's stock. why some argue wall street is being protected at the expense

of main street investors. and we honor the brilliance of actress cicely tyson after her death at the age of 96. what she told us in one of her last interviews about how she wanted to be remembered. this is a tough one. first, here's today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> non-u.s. citizens from south africa traveling here, that ban goes into effect saturday. >> i meep, it takes a little bit of time to put these restrictions in place. >> reporter: the south african variant of the coronavirus has been found in the united states. >> reporter: do we know about how effective the vaccines we currently have on line are? >> there is some evidence that there is a drop-off in the effectiveness of the vaccine. >> reporter: house speaker nancy pelosi says more money is needed to protect lawmakers from violent threats coming from within congress. >> we have members of congress who want to bring guns on the floor. >> reporter: a liquid nitrogen leak at a food processing plant in georgia killed six people and injured several others. >> fire trucks and ambulances

and everybody got evacuated. >> reporter: backlash growing against robinhood, the trading app restricted the purchase of gamestop sending the share price plunging. all that -- >> a meteorologist experienced the joys of working from home. >> her son decided to join in. she did not miss a beat. >> he walks now, guys, so i've lost all control. and all that matters -- >> reporter: trouble for subway. a lawsuit claims its tuna isn't tuna at all. that it's not even fish. >> you get an entire footlong sub for $5 you take what you get. that's the way i see it. >> on cbs this morning. >> weaver remembering a hollywood icon. black pioneering actress and civil rights advocate cicely tyson. >> being true to yourself is the key. knowing your roots and where you come from. keep that with you always. keep your chin up high and your standards higher. and remember, you are a queen. this morning's "eye opener"

is presented by progressive. making it easy to bundle insurance. >> yes, cicely tyson, you are a queen. when i got the call yesterday, guys, i was stunned but yet so happy and so grateful that we got to spend the time with her that we did so close to her death. it was a week ago, it was a week ago that we were sitting with her in church. >> that was the final significant interview she did. >> yes. none of us saw that -- that that would be that way. she was so elegant and so engaged. i'm so, so, so grateful -- >> glad we got to hear her. >> me, too. me, too. i'm choosing to remember her life. let's think about that. cicely tyson, as you know, she's being remembered this morning for her genius as an actor, and yet her heart and humanity in blazing a trail for other black performers is what many are talking about. the oscar, emmy, and tony winner died yesterday, ending a hugely influential career that lasted through seven decades. she was 96 years old. we spoke with her a week ago before the release of her memoir, "just as i am."

it came out on tuesday. she told us about the obstacles that she had overcome to make her dreams come true. >> whenever i'm offered a script, the first thing i do, i read a script 100 times or more. i just keep reading it and reading until i feel it. when i get to the point where i feel like her skin has fitted my arm or my mind, my skin will tingle -- god, it's nathan. nathan! >> from m her oscar r nominated perfrformance inin "sounder"r" emmy-winning performance in the autobiography of "miss jane pittman" to her tony in "bountiful" -- >> why is it some days everything works out -- and some days nothing works out? >> cicely tyson put her heart into every role she played.

>> that was part of her gift was her acaccess to heher humanityt. > lavar bururton starrered w tyson in t the tv mininiseries "rootsts." ♪ >> she w was that dedeep well o strength and resilience and elegance and grace a and beauty and d her talentnt was her abil to effortlessly access all of that humumanity. >> t tyson pursusued her drerea acting despite her mother's objections. she didn't speak to you. >> oh, she told me i couldn't live there and do that because she thought that i was going to live in the den of iniquity. >> she succeeded at a time when black women were at the bottom rung of the ladder, but she never gave up. you said when you started acting you dreamed of seeing yourself in the front row of the oscars. >> i said one day -- this was

long before i got to be. i said one day i'm going to sit in the front row of the oscar awards. and i did. >> i know you did. [ applause ] >> tyson was among the kennedy center honorees in 2015 and was awarded the presidential medal of freedom the following year. [ applause ] >> what my life became is not what i expected. i had no idea that i would touch anybody. >> when the time comes, what do you want us to remember about you? >> i've done my best. that's all. >> wow. >> her best was pretty good. >> pretty good. >> we'll have more about cicely tyson because i adored this woman. >> yeah. >> when i asked that question about how do you want us to be remembered, it's. -- it's not that the end was near, but she was 96. that's the only reason. she had so many plans she was

working on, and we'll talk about that. i just can't express my feelings today about seeing her and looking at that interview. i looked at it myself three times yesterday. it takes on a totally different meaning. i'm now just analyzing everything she said. >> every detail. >> every expression. >> it's amazing she told you she got into acting because she was shy to speak through others. as she grew she became more comfortable and powerful speaking in her own voice. by the end, fearless. i hope they have great cable in heaven because people are saying wonderful things about her. i hope she's hearing this. >> i loved that lavar burton said talking about her. it was something you always saw in her which was grace, courage, and resilience. >> cicely tyson was essential. she was essential. turning to the pandemic. a new strain of the coronavirus in the u.s. could be partially resistant to existing vaccines. two people in south carolina tested positive for the variant which was first discovered in south africa.

that makes 29 states where new strains of the virus have been detected. the vaccines do appear to work on the variants initially found in the uk and brazil. mola lenghi joins us from a vaccine site in new york. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, anthony. sites like this one, vaccination sites have recently reopened after the federal government started increasing the number of doses it sends to states. but supply is still a concern. and the rollout is still going slower than many people had hoped. the need to vaccinate as many americans as possible is more urgent than ever as the variant of covid-19 first identified in south africa has now been found in the u.s. it was detected in two people from south carolina from separate parts of the state. >> there is no known travel history. and there's no known connection between the two cases. >> reporter: with highly contagious variants reported in at least 28 other states, officials should think carefully before relaxing covid

restrictions, warns dr. ashish jha. >> by mid to late march these variants could be quite common and dominant in the united states. we could see huge spikes in cases, large spikes in hospitalizations and deaths. >> reporter: and the slovaks vaccination process could make things worse. >> the longer we take, the more there are opportunities for variants that could become even more dangerous, more lethal, more contagious, or just escape our vaccines altogether. >> reporter: so far, the currently authorized slate of vaccines remain effective on all known strains, though preliminary findings suggest they may offer reduced protection against the variant originally detected in south africa. the work to understand these new strains and their interactions with existing treatments is well under way. earlier this month we visited dr. dan barouch, the director of the center for virology and vaccine research in boston. if the vaccine is not as effective on the new variant, what then? >> well, fortunately the first

two vaccines that we have here in the united states have proven to be highly, highly effective. in the worst case scenario, then vaccines might need to be updated. >> reporter: and companies are already working on those updates. both moderna and pfizer are developing booster shots for the south african variant of the virus. tony? >> mola, thank you very much. cdc director joins us now. good morning to you. iwant to walk slowly through the vaccine situation in this country. it seems that a big part of your success or failure this year will be whether we get the vaccines and get them distributed. this week you said you do not know how many vaccines we have in the country right now. is that still the case? >> good morning, tony. i told you last week i didn't know, and this week my job was to figure that out. we have done so. i'm really happy to say that this past week we've been able to tell the governors and the

state health officials not only how much vaccine they can expect in the week ahead, but in the three weeks ahead. and we are looking to make sure that we can help the governors in the states understand their vaccine supply. >> so dr. walensky, as the states make plands and the biden administration makes promises, could you tell us how you didn't know on sunday and then you magically do know now? what changed? >> you know, we've been in direct communication with the manufacturers, with the distribution centers, with understanding exactly where all the vaccine was and really wrapping our hands around all of that information. that was not information we had fully during our transition period and that was the early work of the early administration between last wednesday and over the last four or five days. and so now we've been able to do that. >> you know, i spoke to dr. fauci on monday. he said at the time that he used to be able to call the general in charge of distribution and the general knew exactly how

many doses there were. was it simply a matter of picking up the phone? >> no. i think that there's been a little bit more than that. you know, some of that vaccine had already been distributed, and we really needed to get a sense of where it was in the manufacturing process, how much they were really going to be able to make, how much more they might have had, where it was sitting in different states, and where it was in the distribution process. so this has been a complex process to be able to wrap our hands around exactly where all of the vaccine has been. and then, also, to understand where the bottlenecks are so we can get more out to the people. >> are all the vaccines being made at the pfizer facility in michigan in this country staying in this country? >> i know that -- i don't know the answer to that off the top of my head. i do -- you know, certainly the general would know that. i do -- my job is to make sure that we get the vaccine that we have dedicated to this country committed and bought by this government. i want to remind folks that we have an anticipated 600 million

doses that we will have by over the summer. enough to vaccinate all people over 16 here by the end of the summer. and so we have secured as much as we need as fast as these manufacturers are making it here. >> i was surprised to hear you say you don't know whether the michigan facility is pumping them out for the u.s. alone, if you spent time this week trying to sort this out and then make promises. it calls into doubt to some extent how reliable these projections are from the biden administration. what numbers have you seen that make you confident that by the end of the summer every adult in this country will be able to get a vaccine as promised? >> you know, my job is to understand where the vaccine is and to understand how much vaccine we can -- we have and how much we are getting out to the states. we have been told that by the end of march and largely toward the end of that quarter we will have 200 million doses for the people of the united states. we've been told by the end of the summer we will have an additional 400 million for a

total of 600 million doses. my understanding -- >> told by the companies, to clarify, told by the companies manufacturing it? >> told by the companies manufacturing it. and we've been working, as i think you know, with the defense production act to ensure that to the extent possible, and certainly we can't foresee any challenges that will be ahead of us, but to the extent possible we will do our best to ensure a steady pipeline of all the materials that are needed to secure that manufacturing. >> i do hear you, doctor. it's short on specifics at the moment. we'll have you back, and we can get more deeply into it in the future. critical time for this country. i think we all agree. dr. rochelle walensky, thank you very much. now to georgia where an investigation is under way into a deadly liquid nitrogen leak at a poultry plant. six people died and a dozen more were hurt, three critically. manuel bojorquez reports from gainesville, georgia, where there's a claim that employees had warned about this leak. we have a massive leak.

we have people down inside -- >> reporter: panic set in at the foundation food group plant in gainesville just after 10:00 a.m. thursday. firefighters arrived to find several people with medical emergencies in and around the facility. five employees died at the scene, and a sixth at the hospital. sixth at the hospital. at least 130 employees were taken from the plant to a nearby church to be evaluated where people like brenda aguilar searched for missing loved ones. >> just praying he's okay. he's just one of ones that's injured and they haven't gotten his information to let us know he's okay. but we also know that -- that could not be the case. >> reporter: she later learned her uncle, who worked at the plant, had died. liquid nitrogen is used for refrigeration. when airborne, it's an odorless gas that's can displace oxygen and cause a loss of consciousness. cbs news has learned members of the company's leadership knew there was a nitrogen leak on wednesday but did not want to close the plant for a day to fix

the problem. >> our hope is that this tragedy did not happen in vain -- >> reporter: ceo of the league of united latin american citizens at the group. many of the plant workers are latino. >> every dame you have so many in our community to wake up to go to a poultry plant or meat packing plant or pork plant to be able to feed the entire nation. this was pro back. anthony? >> tragic for sure. thank you. there's new political fallout in congress from the assault on the capitol and a rift in the republican party is growing. the republican lawmakers like marjorie taylor greene are at

the center of it. she is openly feuding with her republican colleagues and now some democrats are taking aim at the controversial new lawmaker. as nikole killion reports, the republican leadership is trying to maintain gop unity. >> reporter: as infighting grows inside the gop, house minority leader kevin mccarthy went to former president trump's mar-a-lago resort hoping to win his support for republicans looking to take the house in 2022. the meeting comes as democratic lawmakers call to push out one newly elected republican. >> they're trying to expel me from congress. >> reporter: at a town hall in dallas, georgia, a defiant marjorie taylor greene. >> you know, it's a witch-hunt. >> reporter: the georgia congresswoman received a standing ovation as she rejected calls for expulsion after endorsing violence against democratic leaders on social media. >> why are you supporting gun laws that attack our second amendment rights? >> reporter: and video also surfaced from 2019 of greene confronting a survivor of the

parkland school shooting. >> you have nothing to say -- >> reporter: congresswoman jahana hayes reports the site of the sandy hook shooting. in allerg she urged gop leaders to remove greene from the house committee on education and labor for claiming that mass shooting was staged. >> the idea that we have a sitting member of congress trafficking in conspiracy theories, calling mass school shootings false, retraumatizing families, harassing victims of school-based shootings -- it's dangerous. >> reporter: with tensions and safety concerns running high, house speaker nancy pelosi says more funding may be needed for congressional members' security. e

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i've since had six negatives and all kind of tests you don't want to be about. i've been tested everywhere each way. >> there's interesting news out of china today. >> but i did feel bad that because i tested positive, it affected everybody. >> but -- >> you guys had to go -- >> we all knew this was going to happen at some point. somebody -- the way things are going. >> i didn't think it was going to be me. >> when you test every day, statistically you're going to get a false positive eventually. >> that's what the doctor said. i can assure you that i'm fine. i didn't have it. i've never had it. all is right with the world. but it's very jarring even when you don't believe it, it's still jarring to see it -- >> it was exciting for a couple of days. >> yes. >> glad you're back. >> it's all good. we turn to the showdown between wall street and home traders over gamestop that has taken a dramatic new turn. a trading frenzy intensified yesterday when the popular trading app robinhood blocked traders from buying the retailer's stock. that move led to cries that the company was improperly

protecting big traders from losing money to small-time investors. vlad duthiers is here with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. retail investors are allowed this morning to buy shares of those stocks in limited quantity, but many are still outraged over what they feel is unfair interference. they claim it caused them to miss their chance to buy in. miss their chance to buy in. [ bell ] what begegan as a socicial medi skirmish has exploded into a debate in washington and on wall street over who makes the rules and who they apply to. >> they call themselves robinhood which i mean -- take from the rich and give to the poor. they did the exact opposite today. >> reporter: thursday, discount online brokerage robinhood barred users without warning from buying new shares. of gamestop. driven by the reddit form have sent the stock price soaring by over 1,600%. critics including dave portnoy who himself owns gamestop stock

alleged the brokerage did it to protect hedge funds and other wall street institutions hoping to profit by betting against the company. >> what if they say, look, the valuations of the stock where the price was, it wasn't sustainable? >> nobody is going to debate that the price of gamestop or any of these others were fair market valuation. everyone has skin in the game, but now when the retail guy, t e everyday j jimmy and joe, when they're winning, suddenly the rules change. >> reporter: but robinhood's ceo vlad tenev denied any foul play. saying the move was aimed at the protecting the firm and its users. >> we absolutely did not do this at the direction of any market maker or hedge fund or anyone we route to or other market participants. >> reporter: lawmakers from democrat alexandria ocasio-cortez to republican ted cruz have blasted robinhood over its gamestop trading freeze. >> i think the forces that regulate the market, whether

congress, more importantly theh s.e.c. and the exchanges, need to understand these dynamics. >> reporter: jacob frenkel is a former s.e.c. lawyer, he doesn't think new regulations are required but believes the industry must adjust to its new reality. what does it mean for the future of trading? >> it means that the sec and the markets in some respects need to recalibrate. the markets are looking at something they've never experienced before. >> reporter: robinhood will continue to monitor the situation and make adjustments as needed. with the high volume of trades and cash, gamestop raised more than $1 billion from existing investors which it called a strong sign of confidence. gayle. >> quite a story. thank you. ahead, our exclusive interview with corvain cooper, the california man just granted clemency after being sentenced to life in a non-violent marijuana case. yikes. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪

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oh, my gosh -- >> that emotional video shows a california man hugging his daughters and sobbing as he was reunited with them after spending nearly eight years in prison. corvain cooper was sentenced to life in prison for a non-violent marijuana charge back in 2014. in his final hours in office, president trump granted him and 142 other people clemency. national correspondent jericka duncan spoke with cooper in his first interview since his release. servrving a lifefe sentence maririjuana, mononey laundererid

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eight years for cooper and his family. when he was arrested in 2013 cooper said he hadn't sold marijuana in at least four years. >> i had a store. it was like a boutique. it was named after my kids. had their faces in the wall -- >> reporter: he was convicted for his involvement in trafficking marijuana from california to north carolina and sentenced under the now widely criticized 1994 federal crime bill's three-strikes rule. because cooper had two previous nonviolent convictions, he received life without parole for his third conviction. those two previous convictions were later vacated. >> i'm watching rapists get out, and my brother was in prison facing life without the possibility of parole. things have changed. you know what i mean -- he's not there all because of marijuana? and then it's legal here, so it makes it even worse. >> reporter: change came to california when cannabis was

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are you crying for? ivanka trump said you're coming home." >> a homecoming for a father trying to make up for what he missed with his daughters. k cleer and scotlyn. >> to have my dad home, it's a relief. it's like when he was in jail, it was like i was missing a part of him. so like a piece of -- a piece of me is back. >> it was like memories lost. like i would see my friends have their dad there and they would pick them up, and i didn't have that memory with my dad. >> reporter: a dad determined to set an example by growing a message of hope. how do you save someone like yourself at that time? >> first thing i want to tell them is they get to see the results. they get to see what actually happened to me. i got a life sentence. i'm going to show them stuff that they're chasing is all fool's gold. >> reporter: cooper started a website selling clothing and also advocating for companies

that legally sell marijuana. he said that the b.e.t. documentary "smoke: marijuana in black america," was pivotal in raising awareness about his story and many others. we should note that b.e.t. is a division of viacom cbs. >> a powerful story. thank you very much. what i think people need to take away from this is that the issue is mandatory minimum sentences. it ties the judge's hands. in my own case, my own father, as i've talked about before, sold tons of marijuana but did so just before the mandatory minimum. when he got caught also by the feds, he got less than three years. not life. >> yeah. >> that's the difference. judges -- >> it shows the inequities. that's why that documentary is very powerful. it will have you scratching your head and screaming at the same time. like how is this -- especially when you hear stories like your dad. >> judges want to be able to look at a case and make a decision based on the facts before them. mandatory minimums tie judges' hands. that's what needs to e looked at. >> it's absurd. you're so happy for cleer and scotlyn.

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♪ it's friday, january 29th, 2021. welcome back to "cbs this morning." i'm gayle king with tony dokoupil, anthony mason. >> the race to vaccinate takes on new urgency after the discovery of a troubling new strain of the virus in the u.s. plus, breaking news, a new vaccine from johnson & johnson could help the fight. >> a hard hitting report alleges an undercount of covid deaths at nursing homes in new york. how governor cuomo's administration is pushing back against allegations of mismanagement. and honoring the legendary cicely tyson after an extraordinary life and career, she made her gift for performing a gift for all of us.

it's true. we thank you, miss cicely. first, here is today's eye opener at 8:00. cicely tyson being remembered for her genius as an act and blazing a trail for other black performers is what many people are talking about today. what do you want us to remember about you? >> i've done my best. >> sights like this one, vaccination sites, have reopened after the federal government started increasing the number of doses it sends to states. supply is still a concern. >> investigation is under way into a deadly liquid nitrogen leak at a poultry plant in georgia. >> the foundation food group called this a, quote, tragic accident. and cannot say with certainty what went wrong. >> security could get tighter here, the acting chief of capitol police wants permanent fencing around the complex. >> layering two cough masks increases efficiency and wearing a three-layer mask can block up to 90% of particles. >> i'll say it now, if this does

go up to four masks, i will be the next person to go viral with a grocery store meltdown. i will not wear four! where's the manager? >> i'm with him. i'm so with him. >> something, please, we beg of you, wear something, whatever it takes. >> welcome back to "cbs this morning." we start with good news this hour. minutes ago, johnson & johnson released results from its phase three trial of a covid-19 vaccine, which could be approved for emergency use as soon as next week. it showed 85% protection against severe cases of the disease, although the overall effective rate is lower. some advantages, it is a single dose and it can be stored in a regular refrigerator. in the new vaccine is effective against the strain of the virus first discovered in south africa and just detected in the u.s. let's bring in dr. tara narula.

good morning. >> good morning, anthony. the vaccine was tested in more than 44,000 people in the u.s., latin america, and south africa. if authorized, it would be a much needed third vaccine available in the u.s. to meet the demand that outpaces current supply. >> there is no question that this v vaccine is going to o be game changer. >> reporter: dr. mathaiai mammm for jojohnson & johnsonn is g g about t the results of the company'y's phase t three covid vaccine t trials. > the real l world effectiti of t this vacaccine iss apt to very high.h. > reporter:r: data fromom th trials w were baseded on 44,0,0 particicipants, ouout of whihic contntracted cocovid. the studydy l looked at prorote against both moderate and severe covid-19 cases. the vaccine candidate was 85% effective in preventing severe cases of the disease, in people of all ages and backgrounds, 28 days after vaccination.

>> what we mean by severe covid is feeling particularly sick at home, that's about 8080% of the severe cases, or in some cases being sick enough to go seek medical attention. >> results also revealed protection against multiple emerging virus variants, including the strain most recently discovered in south africa. dr. mammen says the numbers are encouraging. >> we hadad 85% efficacy agagai serious covid disesease. and that's meaningful because there is a variant in south africa that is particularly problematic. that makes me rest easier. >> reporter: unlike pfizer and moderna which use mrna to make the spike protein which allows the coronavirus to invade human cells, the johnson & johnson vaccine uses dna. the johnson & johnson vaccine uses a modified weakened cold virus to gain entry into human cells. this then triggers an immune response, teaching the body to

fight off the real coronavirus. how is it that with the johnson & johnson vaccine we may need one dose. >> we went through an experimental process and picked the very best one that optimized for neutralizing antibodies, binding antibodies and t cells. we're able to get a lot more immune response than a typical single shot. >> i would much prefer only to have to go in to get my one shot, rather than to have to go in a month or three weeks later to get my second shot. >> reporter: bali is a imm immunologist who says a single dose vaccine can only aid the biden administration's plan to increase availability. >> what sort of public health impact do you think having a single dose vaccine could have. >> enormous public health impact because it is so much easier to administer a single dose vaccine. >> the u.s. government has preordered about 100 million doses. but johnson & johnson only

expects to have fewer than 10 million doses available for february. we asked dr. mammen about reports of production delays. he said the company will meet the u.s. order by june and make a billion doses this year globally. of course, the fda still needs to review the data to see if this vaccine is effective enough for use. >> tara, i think so many people would prefero t take a vaccine that only requires a single dose. do you think people should wait for that johnson & johnson vaccine when it is authorized? >> it is such a great question. you know, anthony, at some point we may have enough supply that people can choose and wait. we may have data to suggest there is benefit in one population over another. right now, we are not in a position in this country to be thinking we're standing at a buffet and we can choose. every day that goes by, that somebody doesn't have a shot in their arm is a day they're vulnerable to dying, the day they're vulnerable to becoming a long hauler, a day our country is taking longer to reach herd immunity. right now, the best shot is the

one that you can get as soon as you can get it. >> i'll take the first one available. i'm with you on that one. it is very comforting that this is -- this vaccine is resistant to the south african strain. pfizer and moderna are working on booster shots to protect against variants of covid. do you think there might be some kind of booster needed down the line or a second shot ultimately for the johnson & johnson vaccine? >> it is possible, you know, johnson & johnson is currently conducting a study looking at a two-dose regimen. we don't have those results yet. the good news is that as soon as they're able to sequence these variants, dr. mammen and other immunologists have explained it is easy to alter the vaccine to make it effective against strains that may be more difficult for us to fight off. so it is an easy fix potentially if we find those other variants. >> how soon do you think this will be authorized? >> well, it is possible that within the next couple weeks, anthony. >> that would be good news.

>> dr. tara narula, thanks so much. new york attorney general letitia james alleges the state of new york has undercounted coronavirus-related fatalities at nursing homes by as much as 50%. she says governor andrew cuomo's administration has only counted those who died on site, not those who died in the hospitals of the virus. back in march 2020, long-term care facilities were directed to take in covid patients to relieve stress on hospitals, and the measure was reversed in may. the ag's report says by then the policy, quote, may have put residents at increased risk of harm in some facilities. we actually looked back into -- we looked into this in august and a former new york nursing home employee told us this at indictthe time, her fac took in patients in march and april. she alleged that in some cases healthy residents were put in rooms with those who had covid and staff treated both sick and healthy people at the same time. new york's health commissioner, howard zucker, is denying there

was an undercount of deaths. he also denies a nursing home policy costs lives. but he does say reforms are needed. he's now promising to implement those changes later this year. ahead, cicely tyson's 96 years of greatness, that's a good way to put it. just last week she told us how acting allowed her to speak. we'll take another look at that revealing interview including some thi

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this week's "48 hours" investigates hodetermines how a determined mother was able to find her daughter's body after 15 years without answers. in 2005, christie wilson disappeared from a northern

california casino, last seen with mar yeah garcia, a man later convicted of her murder. garcia never revealed where he left her. as erin moriarty reports, with the help of two investigators, wilson's mother finally got her answer. >> reporter: last summer, investigators nuno tavares and don murchison who worked for the district attorney in placer county, california, got a tip that led them to the former home of a convicted killer named mario garcia. >> the one thing mario is is consistent. he's a consistent narcissistic manipulator. >> reporter: and nuno says garcia has been trying to manipulate detectives since he was found guilty of killing christie wilson, a young woman he met in a casino back in 2005. the 27-year-old was last seen leaving that night with garcia. but he denied having anything to do with her disappearance. how could she simply disappear after she was with you? >> i don't have answers for that.

>> reporter: convinced garcia was lying, christie's mother debbie boyd went public. >> i want my daughter back, and i want her back now. >> reporter: years passed, and in 2018 garcia let debbie know he wanted to be released early from his 59-year prison sentence and she considered negotiating with him. >> i was sitting there thinking, what on earth are you doing, debbie? get a grip. this would be such a disgrace. he will not use my daughter's body as a bargaining chip. >> reporter: no one ever guessed that garcia's own family would play a role in finding christie's remains. in 2019, the investigators asked garcia's eldest son, chris, a teenager in 2005, about his father's movements in the days after christie went missing. >> he saw his dad working on a tractor, working kind of frantically and had kind of a crazed look in his eye as he was

working around the property. >> reporter: nuno said chris never put two and two together, but detectives did. and last summer, they returned to the killer's former property. >> we started pulling back about 25 feet, pulling just a couple of inches at a time, went about 18 feet wide. and we stopped everything. we froze everything. >> we found christie. this is a day that we had hoped for. my prayers have been answered. we can now move forward without the torment of the past 15 years. >> erin moriarty joins us now. erin, beyond closure which is a powerful motivator, why did christie's family work so hard? her mother in particular, to find her remains? >> well, debbie boyd told us that every single night for 15 years she would go to bed saying, "where did he put her, where did he put her?" he wanted to bury her. there was also a legal reason.

remember, this was a no-body prosecution. there wasn't a lot of evidence against mario garcia. he was filing appeal after appeal. if one of those appeals was heard and any of evidence thrown out, he could have walked, and then she never would have found out. there was real pressure to find out why christie wilson was. >> you met mario garcia, the convicted killer. what struck you most about him? >> reporter: well, tony, he was good. he had well-crafted answers for most everything. he was so credible that i have to be honest, i worried and so did my producer, again, a no-body prosecution, that they had the right guy. but now this morning as i sit here, i know that he was just an extremely good liar. >> wow. erin moriarty. thank you very much. looking forward to that report. you can watch the full report "the search for christie wilson" on "48 hours" tomorrow at 10:00, 9:00 central right here on cbs. ahead, somethng you'd never

expect in a snowstorm. how six people stuck on a highway went home with a dose of the coronavirus vaccine. >> huh? they got lucky.

picture this for a second -- a snow-covered highway in oregon turned into an impromptu covid vaccine clinic. what did she say? public health workers, they got stranded on a road tuesday in a snowstorm so they had six doses left from a vaccination event earlier in the day, and they did not want it to go to waste. what did they do? the health care workers went car to car asking people, hey, you want a shot before the doses expired. health director michael weber knew the vaccines had to be used very quickly. >> i don't know that it was so much quick thinking. it was the obvious solution. there really wasn't another option. it was either that or let them go to waste, and that wasn't going to happen. >> you go, michael weber. he says finding people who wanted the shot was not that easy, but he said the six who did say yes, we want it, were very excited to get the vaccine. that would be a little jarring. you're in the car and somebody knocks -- >> i might be suspicious. but you know, i've said it before, i'll take it wherever i -- wherever i can get it. >> yeah. we were doing the -- will you

take it in the rain, will you take it in spain? will you take it in the snow? yes, i will take it in the snow. >> stranded in the snow. i'd be happy to. >> i like how they were thinking to think, okay, we're on the road. they got a lot of nos before they got people to say yes. >> that's interesting. i wonder if the people who said no are now seeing this and wondering, oh, man, they were serious. i wish i got it. >> can i just say how glad i am to be back? i can't say it enough. >> we're glad you are back. >> listen, i wanted to come back yesterday, but cbs said no. they said no -- my favorite words used to be "i love you" now it's "abundance of caution." we have a covid control officer. they take this seriously. >> i spoke to him, too. >> i got three negatives, they said, no, you need more. >> we're glad to have you. it must have been nice to sleep in a little bit. >> no, i was watching going, i wish i was there. i'm glad to be back at the table. i'm glad we're all healthy. >> i'm glad it all turned out just fine. >> glad to have you, as well.

a family mariachi band needed help after their performances were canceled because of the pandemic. ♪ ahead, how a community came together to ensure the family could stay in their good morning. it is 8:25. the santa clara public health departments as the deadly covid- 19 count is down about 50 percent compared to earlier this month. yesterday, 828 new cases were reported compared to more than 1700 on january 9th. local health officials are slamming the state plan for handling the covid state distribution. they say it is not the best medical decision. they are now tasked with creating a faster and more equitable network to distribute

covid vaccines. today, they will be out on highway at 1 surveying the damage caused by the storm. yesterday a section of the road plunged into the pacific. take a look at the roadways. let's look at the conditions on the san mateo bridge. if you are commuting this morning over toward 101, right now will take you about 30 minutes to work your way across. so there are brake lights along 880 heading toward the bridge. the toll plaza looking a lot better. we aren't seeing any delay. things are easing up across the upper deck as well. just some slow and go conditions. there are still spots of flooding on 80 and 101. it's nice to catch some sunshine this morning. you can see that on the live traffic camera and here's a

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♪ ♪ i lived i loved ♪ from sounder to the trip to bountiful to the autobiography of miss jane pittman, cicely's convictions and grace have helped for us to see the dignity of every single beautiful member of the american family, and she's just gorgeous. that's former president barack obama giving the presidential medal of freedom to groundbreaking actress cicely tyson in 2016. she told us in the interview last week, she writes about it in the book, she got a big kick when the president said that about her. she said he said i was gorgeous.

i said a lot of people think that about you, miss tyson. news of her death prompted an outpouring of tributes last night. viola kadavis and regina king called her a trailblazer for black women in show business. she won a tony award at 88. we spoke with tyson last thursday, at her church home. she talked about the obstacles she's overcome he, her dedicati to acting and her calling. >> you still enjoy acting after all of these years? >> i have something to say, that i want to express, that allows me to speak. >> as a little girl, this was painful to me, to read, you didn't feel beautiful as a little girl? >> i know i wasn't. i was skinny. that's number one. and i was black, that was number

two. and i was not -- >> as life turns out, life has other plans for you. >> i was walking down fifth avenue, and someone tapped me on the shoulder and said who is your agent? and i said, agent for what? and said you're a model, aren't you? >> had you thought about modelling? were you interested in modeling? >> i didn't know what modeling was. >> inspired by that encounter on fifth avenue, tyson enrolled in modeling school. and it wasn't long before her beauty and poise landed her in catalogs and magazine covers like ebony. the journey to stardom was not an easy one for tyson who became pregnant when she was 17. and had a short marriage that lasted jusust over two years. tyson began her acting career as a single mother, a choice that brought conflict at home.

>> my mother, i don't know what she wanted me to be, she thought that i was going to live in the den of inequity because she grew up in the slums, okay. lots of prostitutes walking up and down the street, and that's all she knew about movies. >> but she changed her mind, didn't she? >> yes. well, you know, the first thing i did was i invited her. i wanted to makeup and hair and my mother is standing at the door with all these people around her, congratulating her and she said, yes, ever since she was a little girl, you know, she liked to sing and dance. are you serious? tytyson madade her on s screen at 3131, in the 1956 film "caref gold". shortly after that, she enrolled in an acting school run by paul mann, a well known acting coach.

she found herself alone with him after her first class. >> he said excuse me, miss tyson. i want to talk to you. so i turned around and came back. and before i know, he pulled me down -- >> he was touching you and groping you in. >> yes. what he wanted me to do was something worse than that. i thought about the whole incident when i got home. and, you know, i never shed a tear about that until this moment. >> all these years later, it still affects you that way. >> that you could go out, innocently, to achieve something and it turns out to be something so vulgar and coarse and demeaning to you as a young black woman. but i made up my mind then that

i went there for a reason. and that reason had not changed. >> it sounds like a many toe to incident before we were calling it me too. people would say why did you go back and to that you would say -- >> i went back to get what i was told i needed in order to achieve what i wanted. and i think many young black women who go through that, and are devastated by it. and it kills their dream. i was not going to let that happen to me. >> through her sheer determination, her talent blossomed and landed tyson the headlining role of rebeck whcca "soun "sounder" about a black sharecropper family. and a conversation with a white journalist about the movie pushed tyson to find new purpose

in her calling. so you're promoting "sounder", a reporter said to you -- >> he felt a bit of bigotry in himself while he was watching the movie. and when i asked him why so, he said, i was uncomfortable about your older son referring to his father as daddy. i said, do you have children? what do they call you? he said they call me daddy. and i thought, my god, this man is thinking that we're not human beings. and i made up my mind that i could not afford the luxury of just being an actress and that i would use my career as my platform. >> namely you want black people

to be seen as human beings. >> that's right. >> what gives you hope as you sit here today when thinking about -- >> hope today, one of the things in my day was that, you know, black women never really talked to each other about helping each other out, you know. if we got a call for a job, we would run and hide. we were afraid it would be taken away from us. i see we're opening up to each other and we're working together, you know. and that's what we need in unity, and only unity there is strength. >> tyson came up among a generation of black artists, who exemplified black excellence, but beyond their impact on american culture, they were held together by the deep bonds of friendship. and she reflected on their loss over the years. >> all of those friends i was so close with, they were all gone

in -- what am i doing whoer? >> does it scare why ? do you think about death? >> i think about it, of course i think about it. i -- of course i think about it. my mother, who was full of sayings, would say, you come here to go there. okay. and so i know it's inevitable. i think about what i've done since i've been here, why am i here so long? >> i'll ask you this, what does it feel like to be 96 and a legend, miss legend? >> i don't belittle it at all. i'm amazed every single day i live. >> we're so better for it. i have to say, this was not a old 96-year-old woman that came in there, she was so full of life, she was talking about her desire to direct, hoping to do that. she is sitting there weari iiin

minola blahnik pumps. as she said in her book, i want to get out and do something. she seemed to allude -- she said i have something more coming up my sleeve. i can't share it at the time. in her book, she says, people see me as a christmas tree with lights and around am ornaments g beautiful, but they don't know the roots. they don't know the roots. in this book, i want to tell the unvarnished truth and that's what she did. tyler perry said it best, he said my heart breaks in one beat while celebrating her life in the next. he is speaking to her directly, i think it is safe to say you have done all you were put here to do and we're all better for it. >> i'm so glad we have that to remember h

♪ >> a community in chicago is stepping up to help a family of mariachi performers after they faced eviction from their home when the pandemic hit. the family's performances were canceled and they fell behind on rent. adriana diaz shows us how neighbors came together when the family needed help the most. ♪ >> reporter: for the family from chicago, music isn't just their livelihood. it is their way of life.

parents juan and susie lead this family of seven kids. >> beautiful heaven. >> that's right. you got it. >> reporter: the band is their sole source of income and their mariachi style goes from soul to funk, like this rendition of cardi b. ♪ i like it like that ♪ >> reporter: before the pandemic, they performed multiple times a week. at birthday parties, events, and every monday at this restaurant old pueblo can tina, but with covid, the music all but stopped. >> we started adapting our services, but paying half the bills or half the rent doesn't work. you got an eviction notice, we got it around christmas time. >> reporter: $18,000 behind on rent, juan and susie read that congress approved a rental assistance package, but couldn't find many details.

en jan on january 11th, juan a his facebook friends if they knew where to apply. >> we said we can't let them be evicted from their home. there is no way. >> reporter: the government didn't step in, but his neighbor bob forster did, creating a go fund me that raised more than $56,000. >> you can't see i'm smiling behind my mask. the kids are nice and polite and talented and susie and juan are just always the first ones to help. it is like a miracle. >> we didn't expect that, feels like a big warm hug from many people. >> reporter: everyone feels a little lighter? yeah? >> i'm still mind blown that these people, they really don't have to do that, they can just say something nice and it will just lighten up our day. >> i feel very much loved and accepted as mexican-american family with roots in

guadalajara, we come together to share that combination of culture which really is what america is all about. a big melting pot. >> reporter: as a thank you, they put on this virtual concert, reminding us all to always check on our neighbors. for "cbs this morning," adriana diaz, chicago. >> so great. >> mind blown, right? >> yeah. >> cardi b. and mariachi, never thought of it, but it works. next, a look at all that mattered this week. we'll be right back.

it's been quite a week. that will do it for us on this friday, january 29th. oprah's birthday, by the way. >> happy birthday, oprah. >> she's at home. she ain't leaving. see you monday on "cbs this morning." before we go, let's take a look back at all that mattered this

week. >> she's having a party, i know it. >> nope, she's not. we have a national strategy to beat covid-19. it's based on science, not politics. >> governors have been telling the new biden administration that they're having vaccine supply issues. >> to get to 70% to 85% vaccinated americans by early fall, we would need to be about twice the rate we currently at are. is that possible? >> it gets hard, and it will get harder. do we think we can do it? absolutely we think we can do it. >> the latest impeachment trial of former president donald trump has officially been set in motion. >> the house accuses him of inciting the mob that assaulted the u.s. capitol on january 6th. >> people in alabama who survived a deadly tornado say they are amazed that the death toll was not higher. >> super bowl lv will feature two of the nfl's greatest quarterbacks. i can't wait. >> on one side you've got patrick mahomes, kansas city's 25-year-old superstar. the other side, the legend, 43-year-old tom brady. >> the job's not finished. we're going to tampa and trying

to run it back. >> three, two, one -- ♪ >> move over, picasso. the painter -- >> they're painting by licking. >> how do they get them to lick the plastic? >> peanut butter. that will do it. >> that will do it. ♪ >> media mogul tyler perry, that's what he is, is raising awareness about the coronavirus vaccine. >> i was skeptical because if you look at our history in this country, it raises flags for us as african-american people. >> if there ever was a time for madea to weigh in on this subject, seems like she would have something to say. >> i'm getting that damn vaccine. i am living for the lord. hallelujah. >> reporter: because this cathedral is so spacious, 12 people can be vaccinated at the same time. >> didn't fear a thing. it's cold when you're waiting. that's all the only thing i can say. >> we're good to go?

♪ >> adriana diaz is out in the snow -- sorry. >> that's like two anthony masons standing on top. ea -- on top of each other. >> that's a scary prospect. >> reporter: back to you in the warm studio. ♪ >> that's a great lineup you got there. you -- >> anthony! >> how you doing? >> i see you. you have some moves, man. >> i was 9 years old, my grandmother would say, do the james brown. and i'm just giving it to the public. ♪ >> there are pickle chips in my household, also toffee flavored chocolate snacks. my wife has been craving those because she is pregnant with number two. >> yay! >> it turns out you can mate in captivity. look at those pictures.

i mean, come on. >> only so many puzzles you can do, right? ♪ ♪

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crews came to the rescue of drivers who took a gamble on those back roads and lost the fight. we have brake lights as you are and 680 southbound. crews are working on a trouble spot there. lanes will be blocked until further's notice, at least for 30 minutes or more. some slight delays as you approach. speaking of 880, northbound from west tennyson road we have a trouble spot they are blocking that ramp. still a little slow as you go through hayward. it was great to have that sunshine. you can see that on the live traffic camera. some colder weather today. the atmospheric river out of our area. we are looking at partly sunny skies and the mid-50s this

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