morning of spilling all of my coffee in the elevator. it just brightens up my day. >> it is a nday. ♪ good morning to you our viewers in the west. welcome to "cbs this morning." it's monday, february 22nd, 2021. i'm gayle king with anthony mason and tony dokoupil. today we mark a milestone of grief. the coronavirus has claimed nearly half a million lives in this country. dr. anthony fauci will share his thoughts on what this moment means for him and what's next. dramatic video captures a terrifying engine fire aboard a flight above colorado. why boeing now says all 777s with this type of engine should be grounded. many texans till struggle for the bare necessities with lines for food and water. how the crisis could mean years of financial hardship, too. and honoring a war hero

decades later as we celebrate black history month. we speak to a pioneering vietnam vet who may finally get his due. >> sure sounds long overdue. first, today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> the one thing we don't want to do is to get complacent that it's coming down so sharply that now we're out of the woods. >> reporter: the u.s. stands at the brink of 500,000 deaths from the coronavirus. >> this has taken a tragic toll on the united states, but we should be optimistic. i think we're going to see infection rates decline into the spring and the summer. right now they're falling quite dramatically. >> reporter: united airlines is removing some of its boeing 777 planes following an engine fire that left pieces scattered throughout a neighborhood. >> my first thought was that the whole plane was coming down. >> reporter: the senate judiciary committee will start the confirmation hearing for judge merrick garland's nomination as attorney general. >> reporter: a new poll has found almost half of all republicans would leave the party to join one created by former president trump.

>> we can't let him define us for the future because that would just further divide our country. >> reporter: people in myanmar are marching in masses across the country despite a chilling warning from the military that more lives could be lost. all that -- >> patrick mahomes and his fiancee brittany matthews welcomed their first child. >> mathews shared a picture. and all that matters -- >> novak djokovic the ultimate match down under. >> his third straight australian open title. novak djokovic has won nine times in melbourne, an all-time men's record. [ cheers ] on "cbs this morning." >> 500,000 deaths from this virus. what's your reaction? >> it's nothing like we've ever been through in the last 102 years. people decades from now are going to be talking about this as a terribly historic milestone in the history of this country. it really is a terrible situation that we've been through and that we're still going through.

that's the reason why we keep insisting to continue with the public health measures because we don't want this to get much worse than it already is. this morning's "eye opener" is presented by progressive -- making it easy to bundle insurance. >> welcome to "cbs this morning." dr. fauci's right. the number really is staggering. it's hard to think that it could get worse, but it could. >> it could. >> it's not over. >> as bad as this is. >> we are living through a very dark chapter in american history. that's where we're going to begin. that staggering milestone in the coronavirus pandemic, a toll unthinkable a year ago. the number of lives lost from covid-19 will soon reach half a million today with the real number likely higher than that. we're talking about roughly one in every 670 americans. think about this -- 300,000 people died in the u.s. in the first ten months of the pandemic, and nearly 200,000 more have died just since mid-december. every one of those deaths is a person who was alive a year ago, and the grief felt by their families cannot be adequately measured by any number.

but there is also reason for hope this morning as we fight this pandemic together. with new cases and new hospitalizations continuing to drop. let's go to our lead national correspondent david begnaud in los angeles county which has had more cases than any other county in america but where compassion has helped ease the suffering. david, good morning to you. >> reporter: good way to put it. good morning to you. we're at the coroner's office because we were surprised to confirm yesterday they're still holding 1,100 bodies here. for hospitals around l.a. county that have run out of morgue space because the pandemic has stretched resources. they're still dealing with that today. i want you to hear from a man who runs a funeral home in l.a. county. he is often the final phone call a lot of families in this pandemic have to make. >> grown to the point that we actually have to give a reservation code to a family just so that they can be seen. >> reporter: meet ken mckenzie. >> the four churches --

>> reporter: when people call him they usually want to interview him to decide if they want to use his services. but now -- >> the first question is are you taking cases. the panic in their voice is so sad. >> reporter: mckenzie runs his own funeral home in long beach, california. he says even with cases declining, he is busier now than at any other point in the pandemic. >> a year ago people were complaining about not finding toilet paper and hand sanitizers. this time of year, we're concerned because we're running out of granite for headstones. >> she gave covid to her sister, and the sister died -- and we're making the same funeral -- i've been doing this since i was 19 years old. those words that come so easily i struggle with lately. >> reporter: among the nearly 500,000 people who have died with covid-19, these are just some of the faces of the people mckenzie and his team have cared for in death.

including three members of the rangel family who mckenzie cremated. >> in a span of 16 days, all three passed due to covid. >> reporter: luis, gerry, and alma. >> my sister was alone. we had to watch her on an ipad take her last breath. i had to ask a doctor that i didn't know to hold her hand for me because i couldn't be there for her. >> reporter: it was the rangel family walking into his funeral home with back-to-back deaths that just broke him. >> i have never broke down. i'm supposed to be the professional, and it was yet another death with the same family, and i sat there and cried with them. >> reporter: what was it that made you break down? >> it's just hopeless. it's like -- unreal. >> reporter: listening to you is such a reality check. but i'm just waiting for the trolls who will watch this and say it's nothing but fear mongering. >> when you say trolls, i like that you said that because that's to me someone that just

is not informed, that's under a bridge, that's hiding, that doesn't want to face the truth. i'm hoping these words today hit home to those people. >> reporter: tonight at sunset president biden is planning to make remarks at a vigil honoring the nearly 500,000 people killed. mr. biden will be joined by the first lady, the vice president, and the second gentleman. >> i'm glad they're doing that, david. you know, you've been covering this story from the very beginning, you've seen a lot of loss covering this story. you've shared those stories, some are heartbreaking, on the other hand, some have been uplifting, too. i can't stop thinking about this number. behind this number, these are people, these are families, these are people who were dearly loved. so what stands out to you as you look back on this really less than a year we're reaching this milestone. >> reporter: i have to be honest with you, the first thing that comes to mind is a story we haven't told it might be the one story we haven't told, and it is the disrespect that's been done by the trolls on social media

which have for the last year sowed doubt, mistrust and really poisoned the public health here. and politicians really are to blame in many respects, right. there are people who were looking for good guidance, but every time you post one of these stories, there's just this incredible amount of misinformation that is spread by people who are either looking to cause trouble or are afraid. it's not only done a disservice to try to keep people on the same page, it's been disrespectful to the memories of the nearly 500,000 people. >> such a good point. >> that's one of the things i reflect on. >> a good point. i love the man in your story who said a year ago we were fight about toilet paper and hand sanitizers, now we're talking about tombstones. that will stick with me. so where are we now? where are we going from here do you think? >> reporter: the light at the end of the tunnel, i keep hearing every day when i hear a doctor, is the vaccines. bottom line, president biden says by july everyone who wants

a vaccine should be able to get one. we talk a lot about those variants. here's the good news -- it appears as though pfizer and moderna's vaccine is effective against the uk variant. it's only about 50% effective against the south african variant. remember, the good news about the variants is even though they're more contagious, they're not believed to be more deadly. so there is a light at the end of the tunnel. but the bottom line -- masks, social distancing, i know it seems trite and cliche, it saves lives. trust us. >> i do trust you. and you can't say it enough. thank you so much, david begnaud. in our next hour, we will talk to dr. anthony fauci, the country's top infectious disease expert, about when he thinks we can get back to a more normal way of life in this country. dozens of boeing 777 jets are grounded after an engine on a united airlines plane broke apart and dropped debris on a denver neighborhood. passenger video on saturday shows flight 328's right engine on fire.

this is a really disturbing picture. the plane landed safely, and no one was hurt. boeing says 777 planes using the same type of engine should not fly until they are fully inspected. erroll barnett reports on the investigation of that frightening midair failure. >> reporter: in this passenger's unnerving video, you can clearly see the casing of flight 328's number two engine missing. debris falling away, and flames coming from inside. >> it's just dropping -- >> reporter: pieces of that engine fell across roads, fields, and even at this person's front door in the denver suburbs. >> there's the engine right there, part of it i guess. >> reporter: miraculously, there were no injuries on the ground, and the hawaii-bound flight returned safely to denver international. the ntsb which is investigating says after examining the plane and debris, they found two of the plane's pratt and whitney

engine's fan blades were fractured. one near the root and a neighboring blade about halfway through. it's not determined a cause for the failure. one source tells cbs news there are several incidents matching what happened over denver, so the first step will be examining these engines and their blades to make sure they're safe for flight. captain laura einsetler is a commercial airline pilot with more than three decades of experience. she says planes are built to be able to fly on a single engine if necessary. what do you say to people who see something like this, they're already nervous about flying, and they think this is an example of why i won't fly? >> i would say the opposite. if anything, people should see that these aircraft are built to withstand so much, and these pilots are highly experienced and well trained to handle situations. >> reporter: now we're specifically speaking about the pratt and whitney 4000 series engine. the company is working with the

ntsb. japan has grounded any aircraft using that model. now, united is the only u.s.-based airline using this engine type, and it says a small number of passengers can expect to have their travel plans disrupted this week as they remove those engines for service. tony? >> all right. thank you so much. a reminder how complicated the business of flying still is but heartening to see that even with an engine failure, you're still in the air. >> all the same. i would not want to look out the window and see that. >> no. >> it really is. it's a time for whoever god is or whatever god means to you, that was certainly a god-like moment that nobody was hurt in the air or -- >> or below -- >> and nobody hurt on the ground. >> the pictures of the houses with the roofs caved in -- >> that's what you call a miracle. in texas the power is back on for most of the state, but millions of lives are still in turmoil. broken water pipes and flooding mean huge insurance claims possibly on an unprecedented scale.

many families also face skyrocketing electric bills and potential financial disaster as a result. around nrg stadium in houston, food lines stretched for miles. these people hoped for a lifeline of basic necessities, we're talking groceries, drinking water, nearly 5,000 cars were served on sunday alone. janet shamlian reports from houston for us. a lot of these people never expected to be in a food line like that. good morning to you. >> reporter: homeowners are worried. many of them have been through this battle after hurricane harvey 3 1/2 years ago and some of them are still battling with insurance companies trying to get that settlement and this winter storm is going to be much more expensive. harvey primarily affected the coast and cities like houston the winter storm we saw last week did damage across wide swaths of texas. >> i thought, god, i can't do this again. >> reporter: tabitha charlton

was playing cards with her twin daughters last week when she heard a pipe burst. >> the ceiling caved in in their bedroom. i don't know what to do. there was water shooting out of the ceiling, just shooting down on everything. >> reporter: now the song and dance with her insurance company. a process she's all too familiar with. charlton's home also flooded during 2017's hurricane harvey. those claims settled just 12 days ago. >> when this happened, i walked out my front door, and i fell to my knees and sobbed. dealing with the insurance company is a nightmare. it is a nightmare. i can deal with the damage, that can be fixed. but another 3 1/2 year battle with the insurance company, i don't have it in me. >> reporter: the price tag for this storm could surpass harvey's $19 billion in insurance losses. the problem many are facing, getting estimates for their damage. and there's no standardization across insurance policies. the texas department of insurance suggests filing your claims as soon as possible, taking photos of damage, and waiting to make permanent repairs until speaking with the insurance company. otherwise, they may not pay.

>> how do you put a price tag on what i've spent in my time? >> reporter: as for charlton, she says she agreed to receive less than half of the more than $300,000 she spent in harvey repairs. and she still hasn't received a check. >> i was so close, and now it's all over again. so close, and n all over again. >> reporter: you won't leave -- >> i don't know what i'm going to do. i honestly don't. we just want our home to be our home and not have to walk through the house and every time we see something it's a reminder of bout tabitha charlton. that is a lot. thank you very much, janet.

after years of waiting, federal judge merrick garland will finally get, blocked his supreme court nomination during the obama ad face a number of questions on highly partisan issues. in his opening statement, garland makes clear that he wants to keep his role free from political pressure and outlines his priorities writing "the attorney general is to serve the rule of law and to ensure equal justice under the law." he will also address the insurrection and say, "i will

supervise the prosecution of white supremacists and others who stormed the capitol on january 6th." now some of the tougher questions he's expected to face include whether he would consider prosecuting former president trump for his role in those attacks. republicans are also expected to ask him about how he might handle the ongoing tax investigation into president biden's son hunter, and plan to push him into the federal probe of caandrew cuomo's administratn on nursing homes. we're learning that the nominee for office and management of budget could be in jeopardy. she does not appear to have enough support to get confirmed. susan collins said that she won't vote for her. with democrat joe manchino that makes her confirmation unlikely. anthony? >> this is not only a big week for sever of president biden's -- several of president biden's nominees but his covid relief package. how quickly does congres needed.

it includes stimulus checks for americans of up to $1,400, more unemployment benefits, as well as funding to help reopen schools. anthony? >> thank you. ahead, anna werner looks at whether a bank distributing california's unemployment funds blamed the wrong people when the money

we have much more news ahead. see how italians are on the move again one year after the first covid wave killed thousands and put much of the country on lockdown. plus, a new ri it.

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welcome back. as california struggles with a crush of pandemic-related debt, we're hearing from people who say they've been victimized by fraudsters and can't access money when they need it most. state legislators have demanded answers from bank of america which supplies the debit cards that hold unemployment funds for millions of californians. now many people question whether the bank is really investigating their fraud claims. our consumer investigative correspondent anna werner's been following the story. anna, what have you found? i know you've been investigating. >> reporter: thank you, gayle. yeah. you know, after our first story we asked viewers to email us about their cases, and we found a disturbing pattern. people who say they are fraud victims, who say the bank left

them in need without the money they're entitled to. creating beautiful, tasty dishes is something georgia moran usually is paid to do as a private chef. during the pandemic -- >> i lost three bar mitzvahs, two weddings. so that part of my business is gone. >> reporter: so in june, she applied for california unemployment benefits which the state pays through bank of america debit cards like this one. moran said when she reviewed her account, she saw someone had taken out over $300 two days in a row. she called the bank on december 17th. >> when i called to make the fraud claim, they froze my account that day. >> reporter: bank of america told her it would investigate, but then she got this letter saying her claim had been rejected. the date on the letter -- december 17th. they closed your investigation on the same day that you called in. so what does that say? >> it says to me that they didn't investigate it. they just denied it, you know.

and we're not going to refund the money. >> reporter: not only was the $600-plus not refunded, her account is still frozen with the bank now holding over $8,000 still in her account. >> i have the feeling like it's not going to come back to me. >> reporter: john and julie luna say they, too, lost m southern california atms and drained john's account stealing over $5,000. >> five days in a row of $1,000 transactions. >> i was out driving somewhere and she called me hysterical. i couldn't understand her. she was screaming. she was crying. and the only wonders i could understand were bank and money. >> reporter: john says bank of america told him, too, that it would investigate. then sent him a form later dated two days later rejecting his claim. >> they're basically saying that we believe you committed the fraud. >> yes. that is exactly how we felt that we were being treated. >> reporter: we asked people to contact us and found a pattern.

the bank sending the same letters to people who say they were the victims of fraud, telling them their investigations were closed which meant if they didn't call the bank back to reopen their case, they would never see the money they say was taken from them. >> i think clearly they're not investigating. >> reporter: david chu is a california state assembly member. >> that they get a letter 24 hours later when clearly no investigation has been made where the bank tells them, you know, nothing's happening here or this is your fault. it would not surprise me if there was a violation of the law here. >> reporter: but bank of america told us in a statement it follows all federal requirements and reviewing every claim and covering losses. it said the ongoing fraud is unprecedented, and that criminals who applied for state benefits frequently withdraw funds off their cards and then falsely claim these transactions were unauthorized. in a hearing last month, bank officials assured california legislators when it comes to legitimate card decreasehold r

card holders -- >> we investigate and recredit the funds to the account. >> reporter: this former bank regulator questions that. >> it does not sound like bank of america is making a good faith effort to investigate these claims. >> reporter: salisbury university accounting professor david p. webber used to work as special counsel enforcement for the federal office of the controller of the currency, the agency that enforces banking regulations. in your view, is bank of america breaking the rules here when it comes to these regulations? >> yes. it's not reasonable, and i don't think it's good faith. >> reporter: for example, he told us what he thinks bank of america should do when there's alleged fraud at atms. >> they could pull that camera footage, and they could see whether the consumer that you spoke to is the person who swiped the card. there is no way in a span of less than 24 hours that they are able to look at that camera footage. >> reporter: both chiu and weber believe regulators should look at bank of america's practices.

>> it's unconscionable. the fraudster is getting to keep the money, and then bank of america is getting to keep its money, and the only person who's suffering are the american families that should have had the money to help protect their family in the middle of a pandemic. >> reporter: well the occ and consumer financial protection bureau, the regulators would not comment. bank of america says it has paid out millions of dollars in claims, and that people who get those letters can call back in to get their cases reopened. they also told us they're working on a list of people that we provided to them, the lunas, for example, say their money has been refunded. georgia moran is still waiting. tony, her account's still frozen. >> it shouldn't take cbs looking into it to get the money back to people, but it does help. thank you so much. a reminder, you can always get the news by subscribing to the "cbs this morning" podcast. hear the top stories in less than 20 minutes. coming up, we go back to

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italy was one of the first countries to suffer heavily from the pandemic one year ago. it has since come a long way. after an intense lockdown president, this is rome now with packed streets as life slowly returns to normal. but there is still trauma and grief. nearly 96,000 italians have lost their lives. chris livesay reports from the

hard hit northern part of the country country. >> reporter: little beatrice just turned 1-year-old, and what a year it's been. it used to be that when my kids coughed we didn't immediately freak out, says her mother marta zaninoni. but now in our family a cough is no longer just a cough. it's stressful. two weeks after beatrice was born, her mom noticed a fever. "it was covid, the first case in a newborn," she says, "they immediately put her in an incubator. i couldn't even say good-bye." beatrice became a symbol of hope for hard-hit bergamo as people followed her progress in the hospital. the entire country would soon join beatrice in isolation, then into what was for a free society unthinkable -- lockdown. the death toll soared, turning the military into morticians. the disease not just robbing people's lives but also their

dignity. as well as city streets of their people. but today from milan to rome, life is returning. across italy, old traditions are back, but a little different. you know, a year ago something as simple as ordering a cappuccino would have been unthinkable. it's hardly as if things have gone back to normal. you still have to wear a mask at all times, even when you're outdoors according to the law except of course when you'reas still in the hospital. "finally after 40 days, beatrice became covid free on easter day," says her mother. "it was a true resurrection for us despite all the death in ita italy, beatrice brought us life." a year later and italians are

eagerly awaiting the vaccine which is taking longer to roll out here in the european union than it is in the united states. in fact, there are many italians in their 80s who still have no idea when they're going to get it. this in a country with one of the oldest populations in the world. for "cbs this morning," chris livesay, milan. >> looks pretty good over there in italy. >> i want that cappuccino in an italian cafe. >> me, too. >> this could be somewhere with somebody sitting next to you looks good to me. and a cute baby. >> beatrice. beatrice. yes. >> very cute. >> great recovery for beatrice. >> we'll rent the "cbs this morning" villa at the commercial break. >> please. up next, vlad duthiers who knows his way around a villa i'm sure will have the stories you'll b

time for "what to watch" on a back-to-work monday. as we like to say, you're out of lke ingry tel you -- >> you can -- >> milk? no. >> anything you want. >> before you came we were talking about doing something from an italian villa. tom thomas, the new big cheese here, said it's not in the budget. >> just so you know, we're not going anywhere. >> anywhere but right here. what you got, vlad? >> i know. [ speaking foreign language ] >> i got that going for me. here are a few stories we think you'll be talking about -- woody allen and his wife soon yi are responding to the documentary "allen versus farrow." here's a bit of the program. >> every time he showed up at the apartment like a magnet he would come straight to me. intense affection all the time.

>> in time what it became was there was nobody but the two of them. >> the new four-part docuseries on hbo explores dylan farrow's sexual abuse allegations against allen, her adoptive father. allen has always denied the accusation that he molested farrow when she was 7 years old. the filmmaker and his wife described the docuseries as a harchet job riddled with falsehoods. in 2018, dylan farrow spoke candidly about the allegations. she's stood by her story for more than two decades. the next episode of "allen versus farrow" airs on sunday, so there's mother nature to come. >> yeah. she points out her story's never changed. you know, woody allen has two camps -- the vehemently deny and people say he's guilty. it's an interesting documentary and question. dylan's story has never changed. >> there's a lot of stuff we haven't seen before. >> exactly. we're bringing to you the top winners from this weekend's

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good morning it is 7:56 a.m. the search is on for a four- year-old boy and his mother. th a he6-ye- old. the suspect is in a cross county crime spree. several san francisco parents have launched a website to recall three members of the board of education. they say that they have been focusing too much on renaming schools instead of reopening. a new drive-through clinic opening up. it kicked off yesterday at the larkspur landing.

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♪ it's monday, february 22nd, 2021. we welcome you back to "cbs this morning." as you can see by the faces behind us we want to start this hour by acknowledging a terrible milestone in the coronavirus pandemic. the u.s. is reaching 500,000 lives lost today. >> to honor these half a million people we hope you'll join us in a five-second moment of silence starting right now. these 500,000 people are mothers, fathers, sisters and thmusicians, teachers and community leaders from the emergency room nurse just starting her career to the neighborhood bus driver of the past 32 years. >> we'll talk with dr. anthony fauci about this sobering

milestone and the fight against the coronavirus ahead. first here's today's special "eye opener" at 8:00. a toll unthinkable a year ago, the number of lives lost from covid-19 will soon reach half a million today. >> the number really is staggering and it's hard to think that it could get worse but it could. >> we're living through a dark chapter in american history. >> where are we now and going from here, do you think? >> the light at the end of the tunnel i keep hearing every day when i interview a doctor t vaccines. bottom line, president biden said by july everyone who wants a vaccine should be able to get one. we talk a lot about those variants, the good news, even though they're more contagious they're not believed to be more deadly. millions are now eagerly awaiting the vaccine, which is taking longer to roll out here in the european union than it is in the united states. in fact, there are many italians in their 80s who still have no idea when they're going to get e are we in this, and should we be optimistic given

the infection decline? >> look, this has taken a tragic toll on the united states but we should be optimistic in my view. we will continue to see infection rates decline into the spring and summerrs right now they're falling dramatically. once you get to 40% of the population with some form of protective immunity, you don't have herd immunity but it will transfer at a slower rate and that's what we have right now around the country. >> nice to see some good news there. >> crave. >> that immunity. we could use it. >> hopefully more on the way amid the grief and loss, there is also a reason to feel hopeful about our efforts to beat this pandemic. the number of people hospitalized for the virus is decreasing in the u.s. new hospitalizations are down 62% nationwide from last month. we're joined now by dr. anthony fauci, president biden's chief medical adviser and the top expert on infectious diseases. thanks so much for being with

us. i want to start by talking about this heartbreaking milestone. i think way back less than a year ago actually when the pandemic began, the worse case projection was about 240,000 deaths. we're more than double that less than a year. has that number and the enormity of that number really struck you? >> well, you know it's horrible. when we said as you said correctly back in the late wynter and early spring of 2020 when we gave the modeling number of 240,000, people thought that we were being hyperbolic about that and swa alarmist, and clearly that was not the case. this is a horrible landmark that we've now reached and even though the numbers are coming down as you have shown on the deflection of cases and hospitalizations, we really can't declare victory quite yet

because we have vaccines that clearly are the light at the end of the tunnel, but we know that there are variants out there, one of the variants, the one from the uk, is taken care of quite well by the vaccine. the other one from south africa is a bit more problematic. the one from the uk we know transmits more efficiently, even though the vaccine can do well against it, so what does that tell us? that tells us instead of saying look at that curve, it's coming down so nicely, we're out of the woods, it tells us what we need to do for sure is continue the public health measures of mask wearing and all the things we talk about all the time as well as getting people vaccinated as quickly and efficiently as possible. >> there's some concerns that those variants could lead to another significant spike.

do you see that happening? >> that is certainly possible and that's the point i'm trying to make. if we just let our guard down and act like well, it's coming down so nicely with that deflection all the way down, that we can now relax our efforts, if we do that we're in continual danger of having another surge. i don't think it's inevitable that we will have a surge, but we need to be prepared and the way we can be prepared is doing the things i mentioned a moment ago. >> you recently said, dr. fauci, over the weekend we could be wearing masks until 2022 and people started groaning at that, but i think we need to get the news straight and i feel you do that for us. what do you mean by that? what does getting back to normal mean to you and do you think it is 2022? >> gayle, the point i was trying to make is that people ask you to make a projection when there are so many variables in there that are unpredictle.

when i said we might be -- i didn't say we absolutely are going to be, but it is quite conceivable if we actually go into the fall and winter and there is still a oirus in the community, despite the fact that many people have been vaccinated, we certainly will likely, very likely, be much better off then than we are now. it is conceivable there will be enough virus in the community in order to be extra safe we may have to be wearing masks under certain circumstances. that's the only point that i was making. i was not trying to scare people. i'm saying, we've got to be prepared that variables are there and we can get another surge, as i was just mentioning with anthony, we could have another surge right now. i don't think we will, i hope we won't, but we have to be prepared for it. that's what i meant by don't just give up on public health measures because we're going in the right direction.

>> well, you certainly have a front row seat to all of this, you more than anybody know how bad this is. you're always on top of it. but i'm wondering, what sort of gets you through -- i'm not looking for a woe is me story from dr. fauci, because i know that's not your nature -- but how do you get through this? have there been times you said this is a lot and i had no idea it was going to get this bad? >> you know, when you're dealing with pandemic outbreaks and infectious diseases like a respiratory borne illness that has such an extraordinary capacity to transmit from person to person, you should never ever underestimate it. i mean you can make projections like we do all the time based on the current knowledge, but things change and things shift. so the way i get through it is by just saying, focus like a laser beam on what the task is and how you get through it. you know, don't celebrate and don't just give up. just keep going. >> dr. fauci, is there ever a

moment where you even have the time to get emotional about this? >> no. anthony, i don't. that's the point. it isn't that i'm a very cold person, but you can't let emotions drive what you do. stew yeah. >> you have a task. this is a very -- this is historic in nature what we're facing. people decades and decades from now will be talking about what we all went through this past year. there's no time for emotion. you absolutely need to be empathetic. i mean the thing you showed there with all of those people, real people behind each of those deaths. >> yes. >> you can't let that go by. you can be empathetic, but you don't want to get crippled by an emotional response. you have to be just focusing on what's important to do. >> all those numbers are people and that's why you can't say enough, wear your mask. >> right. >> and we appreciate all that you do, dr. anthony fauci. thank you so much for being with us this morning.

>> thank you for having me. ahead we'll talk with the united states district judge esther salas who was targeted by a gun beman with a grudge. how she's fighting to to support local restaurants we've been to every city including -- >> boise. >> even bakersfield. >> we're exhausted. >> oh. >> so tonight, i'll be eating the -- >> hero quay sa dill la. >> al's quick stop.

>> in. >> hyde park. >> tonight i'll be eating the -- >> chicken pot pie. >> from. >> founding farmers in foggy bottom. >> i had so many. >> venues. >> i thought i was going to. >> hurl. >> do you think they bought it? >> oh, yeah. ahead, . ahead, best-selling author michael eric dyson will give us a look on america's history of racism and the path to redemption. you're watching "cbs this morning." the path to redemption. you're watching "cbs this

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the number of threats against federal judges has surged in recent years, jumping 380% from 2015 to 2019. think about that for just one second. that's according to the u.s. marshal service which protects judges and judicial facilities. last summer, u.s. district court judge esther salas, is her name, was targeted by a lawyer with a grudge against her. he showed up at her home, shot and killed her 20-year-old son. on last night's "60 minutes," judge salas discussed ed chilli discovery after the attack. >> he knew obviously where i

lived. he knew my routes to work. he knew the church we attended. he had daniel's school -- he knew baseball games. just complete workup on me and my family. >> reporter: the information that he got, all from legal sources? >> all open sources they call it. >> "60 minutes" revealed that the gunman also targeted supreme court justice sonia sotomayor. since her son's death, judge salas has opinion pushing for legislation that would make it harder to get private information about judges. she joins us now this morning. good morning to you, judge salas. i don't know where to begin. we all watched the "60 minutes" piece, we're marveling at your strength and courage. listen, you're in a conversation with your son, the doorbell rings, he goes to answer it, and your life is forever changed. >> forever. forever. good morning to you, ms. king. thank you for having me this morning. >> yeah. all of our hearts go out to. >> yeah. it's forever -- thank you.

thank you so much. my husband is recovering at home. he had major surgery on february 11th. and i am -- we are both just trying to pick back the pieces of our shattered lives. and we're doing all that we can to make sure this never happens to anyone else. >> yes. yes. bless you for that. we know that your husband was also injured. i was going to ask how he was doing. before this july attack, this happened in july, 2020, your son's birthday that day. >> right. >> i love how you all were talking and the doorbell rings, he goes, "mom, i love talking to you," answers the door. before that day, did you ever think that your but i don't -- i think covid and the pandemic, we sort of let our guards down a bit because of all

the packages that were being delivered and things that were coming to the house. so you know, you do know, but i don't think i understood how much open-source information is available and how that information can be used to target us and to literally gun us down. >> yeah. and you don't think, judge, that they're going to come to your home. you certainly don't think that. you know, it was revealed on the attack at the capitol that when they found some of the documentation that some of the rioters had that they had the name of a judge that they were targeting. we said in the lead to this piece the threats have gone up close to 400%. why do you think that is happening now? >> you know, i think there are a myriad of reasons why it's happening, but i always like to say it's happening. we know it's happening. the attack on my family, the attack on all the judges na really

jeopardizing the integrity of law. and what this country was founded on. and i think that we need to do something, and we need to do something now. >> judge, it's anthony mason. you are now under constant protection by the u.s. marshals service. what is your life like now? >> you know, my life since july 19th, it's been a whirlwind. my husband and i are forever changed, sadly. daniel was our own son. we tried desperately to have him. in total we lost four pregnancies, and i had four miscarriages, better said. and he was our miracle baby. >> yeah. >> and you know, not having him in our lives anymore is -- is

probably the worst thing that could happen to any parent. and that's why i am on this mission. i am on this mission to ensure that something is done by the leaders of this country. and i am again begging them to do something and to do something now to change, to enforce our laws, to better protect the members of the bench. my brothers and sisters, as i like to call them. we need to do something. we need to act now, not tomorrow, today is now. now is the time. i think every day that we allow it to go by without taking action is a day that we are in essence failing the judiciary and failing the members that serve on the bench. i do hope that something is done to increase security for judges. and there is a common sense approach in this bill.

it will take immediate, concrete actions to protect judges. it will do something to protect us. and i quite frankly believe that it is something that must be done now. >> you know, we have less than a minute left, but i want to know about your son. honestly, i can't stop thinking about him. what was your last conversation? i saw a piece where his friends were saying what a great young man he was. what do you want us to know about him? >> i want everyone to know that daniel is -- was love. daniel loved his friends. he loved his family. he loved life. and i know that daniel's looking down and saying, you know, mom, keep it going, keep the fight up. and i hope that i make him proud, and i hope that his legacy will live on with the daniel judicial security and privacy act. >> yes. you're making him proud. you're making us all proud, judge salas. >> judge salas, thank you so

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welcome back to "cbs this morning." it is time to bring some of the stories that are "talk of the table" this morning. and mr. mason is up first. >> i am? okay. i want to remember arturo dimodica who treated one of new york city's most famous sculptures -- wall street's "charging bull." he has died at the age of 80. he died in his hometown in sicily. the artist had lived in new york for more than 40 years. he spent two years working on "charging bull." he intended it as a get well statue. he spent weeks scouting a location. he had no permits for this. this was all his idea. early in the morning, december 15th, 1989, high le loaded it o

truck, met 40 friends in front of the stock exchange, and placed it there. >> with no permits? >> no permits. the stock exchange did not appreciate the gesture and carted it off to queens. there was a deal struck, and it ended up in a park at the foot of broadway where it has remained ever since. if you've been down there, you know people show up to take pictures with it. >> yes. >> in lines every day. it has become a city landmark. it's been there ever since. >> a cool picture. >> it is. >> i always love back stories of stuff. i didn't know that man. >> i'd forgotten most of that. i wasn't living here when it happened. that's probably why i missed it. >> that's why people stop me and say, i always learn something new every day when i watch your show. i offer exhibit a. >> there you are. >> gayle, you're up next. >> we're hearing from people benefiting from alex trebek's old wardrobe. a great story. when the longtime "jeopardy!" host died he left behind suits, shirts, and other clothing that he wore on the show. so trlong with pay!"producer, mike richards, decided to donate the clothes to the doe fund.

a new york city nonprofit group that provides services, housing, and job opportunities to men who have been in prison or homeless. george tucker who said he's turning his life around after 20 years in prison received one of lawyers, trebek's suits. he spoke with adriana diaz on zoom. >> i feel proud that i got a celebrity suit, you know. and that makes me step up. keep on giving. you know, that's what he did. i'm going to do the same thing. >> you go, mr. tucker. she also spoke to matt trebek, alex's son. he's a restauranteur right here in new york city. >> reporter: what would your dad think about what you're doing? >> i think he would be happy. i think just really falls in line with everything that he believed. and i think it would mean a lot to him. >> it would mean a lot. the family said they just wanted to continue his legacy of kindness and helping others. there's a lot -- dress shirts, 300 ties, sports coats, shoes -- >> makes such a big difference in an interview, you have the

right look, you can feel like yourself. they're not judging you -- >> if you've dealt with an estate -- and i'm dealing with my stepfather's estate -- it's hard what to do with those things. this is a wonderful thing to do. >> if i was a guy, i would stand up taller, feel a little better about nobel peace prize -- >> celebrity suit. >> if i was wearing alex trebek's suit. i would. >> probably make you a little smarter, too. >> i'd like that. >> can i get one of those sutit? my "talk of the table" is about a book florida examines racism in america by speaking directly to black americans whose deaths have fueled calls for change. in a long time coming "reckoning with race in america," michael eric dyson writes letters to emmett till, aaron garner, breonna taylor, sandra bland, and others. in them dyson explores the need for police reform, what it means to be a black american, and cancel culture. here are some excerpts from the book. >> dear sandra bland, i don't know quite how to say this --

dear breonna taylor, i am outraged -- dear aaron garner, i must say, my friend, i can barely begin to understand how we are back here again. back to a black man begging to breathe as the cops kill him, as if your death wasn't tragic enough, as if your death hadn't sent so many of us into the streets, as if your death hadn't already made us feel utterly endangered and defenseless in the face of cops who will never respect us or treat us like their kin. [ chants ] my fellow americans, i beg of you first consider this -- do you realize how much faith it takes for me and those like me to write my fellow americans? do you realize how much energy it takes to summon the will to say those words? do you know that so many black

folk are still full of love for the nation that so often treats us so poorly? we are used to hearing presidents say -- >> my fellow americans -- >> my fellow americans -- >> my fellow americans -- >> has the sentiment ever really been true for black folk? do we really live in the same country as white folk? do we see the same things? is our nation's model fully realized? e pluribus unum, out of many, one. >> and michael eric dyson joins us now. professor dyson, thank you for being with us. we can hear from that reading that it's a powerful book. i want to get into the contents, but i want to start with its distinctive style. it's written as a series of letters to the dead. victims of the struggle, you call them. why did you decide to do it that way? >> thanks for having me. first, i didn't want to write merely about them. i didn't want to further objectify them. i wanted to speak to them. you know how you visit your loved one at the grave site, you

know they're not there, but they provide you the opportunity, the space to think, the spirit to engage in issue, to reflect calmly, to go away from the mall strom and say this is what we must do in order to move forward. i wanted to write to them, to restore their humanity. to make them feel that in our collective imagination that they were present, and to give them the dignity they were denied in life. that's why i chose the form to make it more intimate. >> it works. let's talk about moving forward. dee reckoning with race in america is reckoning with police violence against black people in america. repeatedly on this show, however, and other shows, police officials have denied that there is something like systemic racism or racism at all in the system. so how do you create change when you don't first have that acknowledgment? >> yeah. it's very difficult to do so. the longer we live in the 51st state, the state of denial, as the late joseph lori said, we won't be able to engage fully. once we reckon with the history

of denial, the action indonesia that we have will -- am endangered s-- amnesia, look, black people call the police more than any other group. that means they are not -- they don't have an antithesis toward the police, they simply want to be treated fairly and justly and decently when the police arrive. the police work for us, we don't work for them. they are public servants to protect and serve. so when we get that on the table, when they begin to treat black citizens as fully equipped human beings deserving of their rights, then we can begin to move forward in a collective bargaining so to speak about what the future of policing should look like. >> i want to get your take on cancel culture. one, i did not know that you were an ordained minister. i was very surprised to read that. i had no idea. >> yes, ma'am. >> you said your roots stem from compassion. when you talk about cancel culture, fortunately or unfortunately, in the book, page

163, i'm not sure, i -- i do appreciate your take on that. we're not going to go into that here. but people can read that for themselves. but you talk about cancel culture, and you talk about the virginia governor northup. what was your take on that? i thought it was interesting because we live in a cancel culture society big time today. >> absolutely. look, i think the quest for justice is right. i understand the kind of disaappointment with the criminal justice system, but i don't think the result and the answer is for us to go around willy-nilly, arbitrarily canceling other people. ralph north yum is the governor of virginia. when he was a medical student 20 some odd years ago he dressed in black face. was it wrong? of course. was it ridiculous? yes. was it nefarious in instances? yes. don't cancel him out. nothing better than a white public official who is conscious of thet t hwes black people his future because they stand with him regardless of his mistake. i'm a baptist preacher, 41ol

people to account? absolutely. should they -- when they mess up, should they fess up? yes. we should dress it, we should address the issue and moving forward. what has he done since then? so many programs including the 10,000 ex-felons who have been restored in terms of their rights, a number who are african-american. when i think of morgan whalen in tennessee, did he do something wrong by using the "n" word, absolutely. was he speaking to black people, no. he knows he was wrong. he has taken responsibility for his actions. however, let's not let him lose his contract, let's not cancel him altogether. allow him to be restored. rest restorative justice means we hold them to account and put them back into society to allow them to flourish. i don't think canceling somebody is absolutely the way -- it's white supremacy as i argue in the book on the sly. that's the impulse to cancel somebody absolutely intolerance.

>> we having to to go, but you said millennials see race the same as baby-boomers. what do you mean? >> pugh studies did a report that said aside from international racial relationships, millennials see race the same way that boomeries did which means it's not an automatic progress. there king said there's -- we don't roll in on the wheels of inevitablity, you have to make a conscious decision to make a difference. i was heartened by the fact that after george floyd's death hundreds of thousands of white brothers and sisters joined black and brown and red and yellow people to make a difference. that's what we have to do. a conscious decision to make a difference. >> yeah. when they get involved, then they start to see things differently. i thought that was a very important point you made. >> absolutely. >> professor, pastor dyson, learn something in the book today, thank you very much for joining us. the book is "long time

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as we celebrate black history month, we're highlighting one of the first black officers in the army's special forces. the famous green berets. the courage and valor of retired colonel paris davis earned him the respect of his fellow soldiers in vietnam and a nomination for the nation's highest military combat award. he never received the medal of honor. his file vanished at the height

of the civil rights movement. now nearly 56 years later, senior investigative correspondent catherine herridge shows how his heroism may finally be recognized. >> reporter: 1965 -- ♪ in washington, antiwar protests raged. bloody sunday in selma, alabama, galvanized the civil rights movement. in vietnam, then army captain paris davis broke barriers on the battlefield. were one of the first black officers in the green berets? >> yes, i was. >> reporter: how did that work? >> it worked well. i said, look, you can call me captain davis, but you can't call me a [ bleep ], and it did happen. >> northeast of saigon near bong son -- >> reporter: june, 1965, davis led a nearly 19-hour raid. >> we were stocking bodies the way you do canned goods in a grocery store.leavbehind t amerh

gravely injured. >> brown had been shot, i could actually see his was that big. and he said, am i going to die? and i -- i said, not before me. >> reporter: were you ever told to leave? >> well, twice. >> reporter: as davis first revealed in 1969 to an up and coming local tv host, phil donahue. >> i told him, sir, i'm not going to leave. i still have an american out there. >> what did he say? >> he told me to -- to move out. and i just disobeyed the order. >> reporter: there by davis' side, ron dyce, the team's youngest survivor. >> captain davis refused and said, no, i'm not leaving while

-- i'm not leaving while i have men out on the field. >> reporter: general westmoreland who led u.s. forces in vietnam, visited davis' outpost. and his commander, billy cole, recommended davis for the medal of honor. and then somehow the paperwork vanished in vietnam. a 1969 military review did not reveal any file on davis. what makes the paris davis case stand out? >> that it was lost. everybody i've talked to that served under him says that he's the best officer they've ever served under. >> what really stands out to me -- >> reporter: neil thorn volunteers his time to recover medals for overlooked veterans. how common is it for medal of honor paperwork to be lost or destroyed? >> very uncommon. there would have been multiple copies. >> reporter: in 1969, the army was ordered to submit new paperwork for davis and for a second time, there is no evidence a medal of honor file was created. in a 1981 statement, billy

waugh, whom davis carried on his shoulders to safety, wrote, "i only have to close my eyes to vividly recall the gallantry of this individual." over the years, davis' teammates also lobbied congress, but each time the process stalled. do you think race was a factor? >> i don't think -- i know race was a factor. >> reporter: a factor davis says he experienced during his 23 years in the army. he recalls an encounter with another pilot he rescued while on a different mission. >> i saw him at ft. bragg with his wife and his kids. they saw me. he went on the other side of the street so he wouldn't have to speak. if that had been a white guy, you know, he would have gone over and hugged him -- that's racism. >> reporter: 8% of medal of honor recipients for vietnam were black. now as he approache 82nd birthday, there is new momentum to recognize davis. >> we're all trying to right a wrong. >> reporter: the army isn't

commenting. an expedited review of davis' lost nomination is due next week. the final call rests with the defense secretary and president biden. what would it mean to you? >> it would mean all the things that i haven't been able to dream about. >> reporter: for "cbs this morning," catherine herridge, virginia. >> catherine herridge, i'm speechless. thank you so much for bringing us that story. talk about righting a wrong. >> wow. >> talk about righting a wrong. where you have people in his own command that said "i wouldn't be here if it's not for him." >> yes. and actually brought to tears recalling the episode. >> better make that right. you're watching "cbs this morning." we'll be right back. if you smell gas, you're too close. leave the structure, call 911, keep people away, and call pg&e right after so we can both respond out

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like, seeing my mom. it's unthinkable to me that i can't see her and i can't hug her. not being able to hug is just like somebody has to tie me down. touching someone to say i love you, to hug you... those are the things that i miss. ♪ ♪ if you see wires down, treat them all as if they're hot and energized. stay away from any downed wire, call 911, and call pg&e right after so we can both respond out and keep the public safe. still thinking about captain davis, guys. i can't wait to see how that story turns out.

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