she and her daughter had to wait in mexico for a year and a half but are hopeful her case will finally get heard through the remain in mexico policy, le wer await asylum hearings creating a bottleneck in the trump administration, while those are waiting, the others are crossing the border and taking their chances with the new administration. in brownsville, texas, talked to a mother who crossed the river on a raft, paying a smuggler $800. that process begins with a covid test and a negative result means they are released in to the united states to await a hearing. this is team brobrownsville, a organization helping them grant asylum. >> they are choosing to not go through the process? >> that is right, the word has gotten out that families with

young children are getting across. and getting released to go on to the families. i mean, it's catch and release, all over again. >> yes, it is. >> we are trying to not use the words but yes it is. >> while mexican officials are saying they don't have the resources to care for families like this, people like rudnick and the organizations are left trying to fill the gaps. >> for us, it's been meeting the needs one family at a time. and that's really all i can think about. i cannot think about 10,000 people, 100,000 people, a million people. >> reporter: today, just 25 people will be allowed to cross this border and finish out the a sigh lumber cases in the u.s. and that number is expected to grow over the next few weeks, to point out, the trump administration did believe that catch and release did not work because the families would not show up to court. up to 96% of the people that request asylum do show up to the court hearings.

the fbi has charged more than 275 suspects in the january 6th assault on the capitol. some are self is avowed racists or white supremacists. for the past several years a pastor in california has been fighting racism by treating it as an addiction. he uses the same methods as aa, alcoholics anonymous. we have the story. sfwloo it's surprising to hear. >> i'm pam, i'm a racist sgloo. >> reporter: and harder to admit. >> nobody likes to be referred tos a racist. >> reporter: doug who asked us to use his first name, is a part of a 12 step program like aa. >> i'm doug, i'm a racist. >> reporter: he joi summer after the raid that killed breonna taylor in his hometown kentucky, he realized that he is part of the problem. what are the racist behaviors

that you see in yourself? >> i make judgments based on the color of their skin. >> reporter: is it just african-americans? >> anyone other than me, really. >> it's built in to our society to look down on certain people who are different. and we often seem to mistreat people based on those differences. >> reporter: pastor ron buford started racist anonymous six years ago, cbs news visited his sunnyvale church in october of 2016. >> there's a number of black people and some of them have these weird names and somehow i just can't remember those weird names and i feel very bad about it. >> you may want to use unique or different. i don't think the mother would like you to say her child has a weird name. >> what it's about, it's about getting more aware of the fact that it's not just some people

who do that. we all do that to some degree. >> reporter: would you say you are racist? >> yep, absolutely. you i say it every week in the meeting. so let's begin. >> reporter: moving the conversation online during the pandemic, opened up the meetings to people beyond this northern california town. and inspired dozens of similar groups around the world. here at home, amid one of the most racially turbulent times since the 60s, racist anonymous is more relevant than ever. >> i have come to admit that i'm powerless over my addiction to racism. >> reporter: she joined to over come racism that she learned from her parents. do you think you have the racist tendencies? >> i the do. to this day, if i see someone with a head scarf, my heart

clenches sgl clenches. >> reporter: how do you feel when you react this way now? >> terrible, but then better, it helped to identify all the feelings that i had bottled up. >> reporter: they are challenging racial turmoil by first confronting themselves. >> i have made a calculation in my head that's worth it, outing myself here, so others are inspired to do something about themselves and potentially transform society, it's worth owning what i feel. >> reporter: what do you get out of declaring in front of other people that you are a racist? >> well, it desensitizes it, it brings the fear level down of admitting that you are wrong. >> i hope it becomes common for people to think of themselves as being racist. and wanting to get it out of them. it takes a discipline. it takes work. it takes thinking. >> reporter: and just starting the conversation.

>> virginia, welcome. >> reporter: carter evans. sunnyvale, california.

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>> >> teresa price is the pioneering powerhouse that first launched the expo two decades ago, she has helped more than a half million people get in to college. >> i just love see their eyes brighten up when they know they can do it. that's my warm and fuzzy, my vice, my everything. >> reporter: this is her second act after a successful career in radio and marketing. >> i thought i was going to be a big record producer, i was doing deals with clyde davis, and god said no you iit's not what you hear for, but i love it. >> reporter: prop 209 banning affirmative action at california's public universities. >> i wanted to change the world. i don't care what i see. instead of talking about it, what am i going to do about it? we will figure it out. we will figure it out. >> reporter: fired up, she harnessed her professional connections to create the first black college expo in los

angeles. 35,000 people showed up. >> they were waiting in line and guess what happened? they sent out the riot gear police. >> reporter: so many people of color? >> i think so many black people standing in line, 2-1/2 hours and they thought there was going to be a riot and we were like, what the heck and everyone was just in line for education. $1,000 scholarship! whoa! >> reporter: due to the pandemic the expos are virtual, but the needs are greater than ever. i heard you take phone calls in the middle of the night, in the early morning. you will do anything for the kids. >> i will do anything. i know, it's bad, it's bad. it's good though. but it's bad. i want them to know there's great things on out there waiting for them and they can do anything. >> reporter: about 85% of the students come from single parent or fosterer homes. and some like 20-year-old devin williams is homeless.

he was 12 when he found his mother dead from alcohol poisoning. >> at, a dark place.go >> reporter: he met price at a black college expo. >> when i know have nowhere else to go, she has my back. sfwloo covid has created desperate situations. price answers every call for food, money, even laptops. so, students can continue learning and thriving. >> i cry a lot. but they are tears of joy too. because a lot of them see that they can the do it. i feel like that text the, that call, it's only a minute. to say, hey, i believe in you. if we all did that, we would have a better world. >> reporter: while the classroom shows students the light, she shows them the love, where they can create their own wonderful world. los angeles. ♪ ♪ > e pandemic has largely

silenced opera performances around the world, butwe found one coach helping to breathe new hope in to covid patients with long-term side affects. >> i could not go to the bed to the kitchen without having to sit down and catch my breath. >> reporter: she beat covid this winter but never got her breath back. >> i felt that i needed more air in my lungs. i felt as if i was drowning at times. >> reporter: covid patients, even those who do not end up on ventilators can be dealing with long covid, short of breath. enter the opera with a

prescription. >> a simple thing we do is around physicalizing air flow, if you think of breathing in and breathing out. >> reporter: the singing coach is helping long covid patients breathe again. and it starts with posture. >> because it difficult to breathe well if you are physically collapsed and people who have been ill are a bit crunched. >> reporter: susie uncrunches them in an online zoom course that uses musical exercises to teach relaxation and breath control. ♪ ♪ sheba was one of the first to sign up. >> i'm so glad i did, it's you willed me out of darkness. it was a literally a breath of fresh air for me. >> you can think of it as physio therapy for the lungs.

>> amazing, i'm loving the eyebrow action going with it. it's really good. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: here's the english national opera on stage prepandemic. the exercises that gave the singers their power were adapted by doctors for long covid patients. it's an unlikely fit, opera and covid. >> it's an odd situation in a time where we are unable to sing, that the very craft of singing is something that has been useful and beneficial and had value to people at this time. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: online, the class learns lullabyes, susie may be the only one unmuted but everyone benefits. i have to ask, how are you now? are you are better? >> i'm much better and i don't think it would have been possible if it did not have the fantastic tool to guide me through the dark time.

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