everybody. ♪ good morning to you. and welcome to "cbs this morning." it's tuesday, march 2nd, 2021. i'm gayle king. that's anthony mason, that's tony dokoupil. a mass vaccination push. shows promising results as a third new vaccine gets to hospitals today. we're following the shipments that could help fast track recovery in rural america. a third woman comes forward accusingovernor andrew cuomo for sexual harassment. a water crisis grips jackson, mississippi, two weeks after a devastating ice storm. the desperate measures from locals who fear they've been forgotten. >> it's not what most were expecting.

i asked why the baby boom during the pandemic is turning into a baby bust. >> not at your house. but first here's today's "eye opener" it's your world in 90 seconds. >> all three vaccines are safe and highly effective. >> despite the three vaccines now in play, the cdc says the crisis is far from over. >> cdc is warning states not to lift coronavirus restrictions. >> please hear me clearly, at this level of cases with variants spreading we stand to completely lose the hard-earned we have gained. a third woman has accused new york governor andrew cuomo of unwanted advances. >> if these charges are proven there's just no way he can govern. >> jackson, mississippi residents are still without water, more than two weeks after the storm. >> we are doing everything we can. we did not expect this to happen. >> former president donald trump and former first lady melania were both vaccinated at the white house in january.

>> all that -- >> a man proposed to his girlfriend while skydiving with the ring in between his teeth. >> she said yes! >> all that matters -- >> former president sarkozy was found guilty. sentenced to one year in prison. >> it sounds harsh, you got to remember french prison is done entirely with mime. >> on "cbs this morning" -- >> my cbs colleague oprah winfrey has released a teaser of next week's block buster interview with prince harry and meghan markle. >> were you silent or silenced? i want to make it clear to everybody there is no subject that's off limits. you've said some pretty shocking things here. >> you heard her, no subject was off-limits which i hope the first hour is hot gosp on the cast of "suits." >> this morning's eye opener is presented by progressive. making it easy to bundle

insurance. >> i love how stephen goes no subject is off topic. something tells me it's not hot gosp. >> i do want to hear her say, wait a minute. >> it's a very good tease. oprah's good at that. welcome to "cbs this morning." this morning we'll begin with this, there are new signs that america is moving in the right direction against the coronavirus. the first shipments of the new single dose johnson & johnson vaccine could arrive in hospitals today. more than 50 million americans have already received at least one dose of the moderna and pfizer vaccines. >> johnson & johnson is getting help from one of its competitors. errol barnett is louisville for us, a site of a massive effort to ship johnson & johnson's current supply. we're in a race here, how long could it take?

>> reporter: that's right, tony, morning. those doses should be arriving in the next few hours. ups telling cbs news they've shipped 140,000 of the johnson & johnson vaccines overnight. of course they expect those numbers to creep up all week as these deliveries continue, the aircraft, the cargo jet you see behind me just one of the many planes that's part of this gargantuan effort, ups and fedex trying to get 4 million vaccines out to those who desperately need it. signed, sealed and out for delivery. a third coronavirus vaccine beginning its long journey monday. here at the ups health care command center in louisville, tracking vaccines across the u.s. and europe. >> people should realize of as you take possession of this vaccine you're still distributing the two previous vaccines? >> absolutely. so while we're excited to have the new volume come on board and that represents another provider, we

absolutely can't lose track and sight of all of the other responsibilities we have for the existing two providers. >> reporter: of the nearly 4 million doses going out this week, 2.8 million will go to states. 800,000 for retail pharmacies and another 160,000 for community vaccine and federally qualified health centers. some of those vaccines will end up here in midland, michigan. in the care of dr. richard bates. cbs news spoke with him in january about his weekly trips north. loading his truck with a cooler of vaccines. driving them roughly three hours to one of michigan's most geographically isolated hospitals in rural alpena. >> good evening! >> reporter: he's excited about the potential impact of johnson we're not talking about freeways. we're talking about two lane roads. dirt roads.

sometimes it's hard to get people for the first dose and to ask them to come back can be a challenge. >> reporter: and because this new reerortes said kept in standard eventually it could be shipped directly to rural health care providers. >> i think that's going to make me more accessible and i won't have to be in the transport business. >> reporter: now bates also tells cbs news he believes mid-michigan health expects to receive its first johnson & johnson doses later this week. they're aiming to vaccinate home bound individuals for whom a visit to the clinic is really tough. as well as recently discharged patients, also migrant workers. anthony. >> dr. richard bates playing a key transport role there along with u.p.s. and fedex. thanks. a third woman now accuses new york governor andrew cuomo of harassment. adding to the claims of the inappropriate behavior by the three-term democrat. former staff members as national

correspondent jericka duncan reports the new accuser said it happened at a wedding. >> reporter: anna ruch told "the new york times" she never met governor andrew cuomo before this night. at a september 2019 wedding ruch said she was discussing the governor's toast when instantly he put his hand on her bare lower back. she removed his hand with her own. the next moment is captured here when the governor placed his hands on her cheeks, he asked if he could kiss her loudly enough for friends standing by to hear. the now 33-year-old said she was confused and shocked and embarrassed. this is the third allegation of sexual harassment against cuomo. as notespoo new allegation but in a previous statement the three-term governor said that he never inappropriately propositioned anyone but rather his comments were attempts at being playful and apologized to anyone who misinterpreted his actions.

on twitter two other accusers posted their support. lindsey boylan says she feels nauseous thinking about anna's experience and charlotte bennett saying his behavior cannot be justified or normalized. earlier bennett rejected the governor's attempt to apologize, accusing him of refusing to acknowledge or take responsibility for his predatory behavior. this comes as the state attorney general letitia james said she's officially moving forward with an independent investigation into cuomo's alleged actions after receiving the correct paperwork from the governor's office. now several democrats and advocacy groups have called for the governor to resign amid the allegations. and that investigation will be the second one looking into cuomo's office. the justice department is also probing as to whether or not the states inaccurately reported some nursing home deaths in the state. we also learn that the governor

has hired a criminal defense attorney to represent him and others in his office, into those federal inquiries. gayle. a water crisis in mississippi's largest city, the huge winter storm has left jackson, mississippi without drinkable water for the past two weeks. the national guard was called to jackson to distribute water to its 160,000 people and our janet shamlian is there. >> reporter: eddie mitchell has been coming to this distribution site for two weeks to get the jugs filled with water he can't even drink. >> just for flushing. we don't wash dishes with it or nothing. te ahoan ijackabto e theirld third week without access to water. how hard is it on people here? >> some people don't have a wer to be here at 5:30, 6:00, the line stretches around the corner.

>> reporter: there's such desperation, some drivers seeing the spouting pipe pulled off a busy road to fill buckets. the entire city whose residents are 82% black is under a boil water notice. the unprecedented mid-february freeze strained jackson's aging system. dozens of pipes burst. charles williams is the public works director. what is the status of getting water back to the people in the city? >> well, we feel like a majority of the city has received water pressure back so that is a good thing. but we are concerned about our residents who live farthest away from the plant. >> reporter: city leaders say it could cost more than $2 billion to fix the infrastructure in a city with a $300 million budget. communities nearby dealt with similar outages after the storm, but jackson is the only mississippi city still struggling with water, weeks later. >> the city wasn't prepared.

and there was no warning about there not being water. it just stopped working unexpectedly. >> reporter: summer williams, eight months' pregnant wants more definitive answers for her growing family. >> because i'm due soon, the only thing that's on my mind is how i'm going to handle it when the baby gets here. >> reporter: as the city works to repair broken water mains, jackson's mayor says they need help from the state and federal government to update the system. but the people we talked to here say they need a different kind of help. the mass distribution of bottled water that they've seen happen in other cities. >> two weeks without drinking water, janet, thank you very much. this morning a senate committee questions the fbi director about domestic extremists and the assault on the capitol. senators are expected to ask christopher wrayha hew abt the potential f 6th. more than 300 people have been charged in the riot, and at

least 280 arrested. kris van cleave is on capitol hill at the site of this morning's hearing, good morning. >> reporter: this is where director wray will be facing public questions for the first time since the january 6th attack. now this hearing follows one last week where former capitol officials testified blaming intelligence failures for the lack of preparedness at the capitol. senators have been clear they want to know more about the resources dedicated to combatting domestic extremists and white supremacists. jeremy groseclose is among those recently charged. he was seen wearing a gas mask in the building, those arrested hail from 42 states. a new report from the george a washington university's project on extremism said the ages range from 18 to 70. 33 suspects with military background, a current member of the national guard and a member of the army reserve.

36% were linked to extremist groups including proud boys, oath keepers and the three percenters. the report calls for the federal government to conduct a review of its intelligence gathering as well as a look at how it distributes domestic terror alerts with an emphasis on improving that dmun cation and that is certainly something that fbi director wray is going to be asked about today. gayle? >> kris, thank you very much. the biden administration is expanding efforts to reunite families separated under the trump administration's immigration policies. despite progress hundreds of migrant children still remain separated from their parents. the biden administration now says it will allow those families to get back together in this country and then look for legal ways for them to stay. mireya villarreal spoke to a man and his daughter. they got back after a harrowing ordeal. >> reporter: daniel paz and his daughter angie have been living in ohio nearly three years after crossing the border. is this what you expected when

you decided to come to america? >> no, because, you know, like i thought once they hear my problem and they see it was a real problem and i was coming with my daughter, they're going to help me. >> reporter: did you know there was a possibility you would be separated from your family, from your children? >> no. >> reporter: in 2018, they fled honduras fearing for their lives, but as soon as they arrived in texas they were detained and heard rumors of being separated. >> i took a pen to try to prepare my daughter if that happened. and i start to write the phone number of my father in all of her body, and the phone number of my wife in all her body, so if somebody take her -- >> reporter: and your daughter is 7 years old. how are you explaining this to her?

>> she cry. she was afraid. she was shaking. but i explained to her, i told her, look, don't worry, i'm going to look for you. i'm going to find you and you're going to be good, don't worry. >> reporter: their separation took place during the trump administration's zero tolerance policy. administration's zero tolerance policy. overall, it's estimated that more than 5,000 children were separated from their parents. paz and his daughter were reunited after less than two months, that's because when a court order forced the government to bring families back together, paz was still detained in the u.s., so the government had a record of where he and his daughter were, unlike hundreds of others, he hadn't yet been deported. but the parents of 506 children still can't be found. and only about one-third of those parents are thought to be living right here in the u.s. paz says there is another factor complicated reunifications now.

he said many parents feel their children are better off in the u.s. without them. >> if i go back to my country, i lose my life. i lose my life with my kids. they are going to disappear. >> reporter: you're saying that these parents are so scared that they would much rather be separated? i'll stay in my home country and the kids stay in the u.s.? >> they keep running for their life, in that country. they keep running for their life, trying to be safe. >> reporter: paz believes he is one of the lucky ones, but he still worries about the long-term effects on his family. >> when they take my daughter from me, they give me another person back. they didn't give me back my daughter. n

those countries highlighting obviously how dire the situation is for them. gayle. >> mireya, thank you so much. dire is the word. they came to the country because of the majority of people looking for a better life. nobody in this room would be separated from the children. these young children separated. we, the united states, did that. every time i think about that makes my blood boil. >> a dangerous journey. >> there were bad actors in the crowd, probably, but certainly not the majority. >> what i'm struck by in

mireya's report, that father says the daughter he got was not the same. >> how could they be, anthony? >> that's heartbreaking. ahead, a very bitter battle in alabama, thousands of amazon workers vote on whether to form the company's first union in the

ahead, something just about everybody got wrong about the pandemic in those early lockdowns. many people expected a baby boom, but we're actually seeing a very significant baby bust. we'll look at how that decline in births looks into a larger conversation about the future of all of us. plus, an update from lady gaga's dog walker after he was shot by a robber who stole her pets. the message he has now for the pop star. you're watching "cbs this morning." order our new pepperoni and four cheese flatbread pizzas for delivery or pickup today. panera.

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♪ welcome back to "cbs this morning." as we approach one full year of covid restrictions, there's new data confirming that a baby boom that some doctors and for that matter comedians expected is actually turning out to be a major baby bust. health departments in 27 states provided records to cbsnews.com and they show a 7% drop in births in december, that would be nine months after the first lockdowns began and it could be just the beginning. researchers say it matches a much bigger plunge in fertility that is decades in the making. the number of babies the average woman is expected to deliver in her lifetime has dropped from

nearly four in the 1950s to less than two today. and that could present an entirely different threat to society as we know it than we were first warned about decades ago. >> the stakes in this battle are far greater than any other we have ever fought. >> reporter: in 1960s and '70, an apocalyptic fear gripped america. as it extended over 10 billion people, researchers predicted overpopulation would ruin us. >> in the next 15 years an end would come, by end, i mean an utter breakdown in the capacity to support humanity. >> reporter: in these days a very different known from researcher dowell myers who understands trends. >> we double-shot. >> reporter: predicting it will peak in 2064 and then ball by

nearly 1 billion people by the end of the century. the reason -- fewer babies. here in the u.s., in fact, we're already below the so-called replacement level by some measures. and that means fewer young people to support our otherwise ageing population. >> that's a crisis. we need to have enough working-age people to carry the load of these seniors who deserve their retirement. ir entitlements and they're going to live out another 30 years. nobody in the history of the globe has had so many older people deal with. >> reporter: and the pandemic is only making this problem worse, despite some early jokes that more families staying home together might mean more babies. >> and we thought, oh, we would see a baby boom, but we just haven't seen it. >> reporter: dr. david jasmine is chair of gynecology and obstetrics in philadelphia. saying patients are worried not only about their health but

finances. you hear more people talk to you about contraception and people saying we're trying. >> i get a report at 5:15 what has happened in the last 24 hours. the first report i see is the number of deliveries in the last 24 hours. it's less than it used to be. >> reporter: the question now is how low will it go? the brookings institution has predicted a large lasting baby bust, and at least 300,000 fewer children in 2021. >> we are on the precipice, at the very least, of not having enough children to replace our population? >> reporter: and so, what -- >> that's get, right? >> reporter: laura lindberg tracks reproductive data, and while she has seen the baby bust but views as a marker of freedom of choice. >> so it's a shift later until life. in that shift comes more education, more career, more employment. it's a re-ordering of how people

engage in adulthood. >> reporter: miers doesn't disagree, but in the bigger picture he worries our declining birth rate is also a barometer of despair. in 1978, when you were breakg into the field, does you ever think in your lifetime you'd be talking about a declining birth rate globally? >> no. >> reporter: so what changed? >> burdens of life. the cost of housing. cost of education, all of these things have become more and more difficult. i think the boomers themselves don't realize how much harder it is for millennials today. they think, oh, yeah, we were young, we had to live, you know, on very little money. we made do, you can do the same. that's the sorry, right? well, no, it really is a lot harder for the young people o y propaganda, right? >> i think it's true, though. >> it's a very important point. >> yeah. >> on one hand it's a story of

equality and choice, there are people out there who want to have kids but don't feel like they can because their finances are a mess. or they have huge college costs or can't find a home. >> and it seems complex, but do you find you're at home and getting on your nerves. >> everybody is having less sex, single people included, the people with least sex are those with children. >> every night, we clean the window and katie is advertising we're putting on an advertisement for safe sex. with the swifter all night long. the crayon markings on the fireplace. >> maybe putting in an advertisement for safe safe, but there is a baby coming. in the dokoupil family. it was an outlier. >> i'm surprised. i really am. >> a shoutout for laura lindberg

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showdown in alabama involving the largest retailer, now drawing the attention of the white house. thousands of workers at an amazon warehouse outside of birmingham are voting on fmhe first lani i the u.s. at a time when amazon is hires tens of thousands of people every month. amazon is pushing its employees to vote know, but in a video message, president biden is urging management to back off and let the workers decide for themselves. nancy cordes is largest companies. >> the choice to join a union is up to the workers full stop. >> reporter: in the two-minute video there was only one state

president biden mentioned by name. >> workers in alabama and all across america are voting whether to organize a union in their workplace. >> reporter: bessemer, alabama, is home to an amazon warehouse where about 6,000 employees are voting right now on whether to perform the internet giant's first union in the u.s. it's a bitter battle. >> amazon doesn't treat the employees like people. we're treated like robots. >> reporter: warehouse employees like jennifer bates constantly get texts from amazon, warning that union dues could leave them with less money than they already have. anti-union flyers are even posted inside warehouse bathroom stalls. >> there should be no ths, nanti-union prop b propag propaganda. >> reporter: amazon been respond to a request for a comment, but

in a previous statement to reuters said we don't believe the union represents the majority of our employees' views. we offer some of the best jobs available. but more than 2,000 was speaking to them. >> reporter: stuart applebaum is the president of the retail, wholesale and department store union. >> the importance of the video is that it's telling workers no matter how much the employer is trying to

may be the president of the united states has your back. >> reporter: the president takes pains not to weigh into disputes but mr. biden campaigned on a why he chose to come out and show solidarity with workers to remind them that he's on their side. anthony. >> very interesting battle in alabama, nancy, thank you. up next,

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time now for "what to watch." people know you for uplifting stories but you actually came to us as the nigerian correspondent. >> yeah, i was a foreign correspondent at cnn based in nigeria. covered a lot of serious news events that happened there, including the kidnapping of the school girls back in april of 2014, and that is where we're going to begin with "what to watch." here are a few stories. hundreds of school girls in nigeria are free after authorities reportedly negotiated for their release. 279 students abducted from a boarding school in the northern state of zamfara. boys were abducted from a boarding school and then released. these incidents happened at least every three weeks since december. and the government's willingness to pay ransoms only motivates

the kidnappers. >> every three weeks. >> doesn't start with chiba, but always happened and since about rerl ra accelerated. for the first time, we're hearing from lady gaga's dog walker who was shot. ryan fischer shared photos from his bed saying he was in recovery with a very close call to death. thanked everyone for healing support. the vehicle on tmz showed suspects pulling up and shooting fischer and taking two of lady gaga's french bulldogs. police say the dogs were dropped off at a police station who does not appear to be in the attack. fischer said he's glad the dogs were found and thanked lady gaga for her support unwavering. and the pop star isg for fischer's medical bills. >> we're not surprised to hear that. i'm sure she's very grateful. when you look at that video, he

almost did die trying to save the dogs. >> there's still a lot more we don't know. >> yes. >> the fact that police say the person who returned the dogs is not connected. you got to wonder. >> how did that person get the dogs? >> exactly. >> but she said she found them tied up. she found them tied up on the street. >> yeah. >> we still don't know were they targeted because they were lady gaga's dogs or french bulldogs go for like -- >> $10,000. >> good thing ryan fischer is already. >> and why did they shoot him? >> we hope it's not a regular thing with pets. two best friends got a surprise of a lifetime after taking a dna test. cassandra madison and julia tinetti bonded over meeting. they found out they were adopted.

madison shared it on tiktok. watch this. >> we hit it off right away. everybody started noting how we oked alike. we're probably sisters. anyway, i finally convinced her to take a 23andme test. we got the results, i am her family, i am her sister, same mom, same dad. >> it turns out the sisters are biological sisters only 17 months apart. >> i want to hear from mom and dad. >> me, too. soccer star abby wambach and her wife best-selling author glennon doyle. stay with us. whatever you want to do out there... (dog barks) we've got the truck to get it done. introducing the all-new 2021 ford f-150.

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♪ ♪ it's tuesday, march 2nd, 2021. welcome back to "cbs this morning." i'm gayle king. more than 50 million americans have had at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine but many have been left out. how churches are now hoping to overcome the gap for black americans. a family demands answers when a college freshman dies after a frat party. the alarming story of how it may have happened. a couple's goals to celebrate women's history month. we'll talk to abby wambach and her wife, author glennon doyle about their fight for women's equalities. first here's today's "eye

opener," 8:00. the first shipments of the new single dose johnson & johnson vaccine could arrive in hospitals later today. >> those doses should be arriving in the next few hours. u.p.s. telling cbs news they shipped 140,000 of those vaccines overnight. a third woman now accuses new york governor andrew cuomo of harassment adding to the claims of inappropriate behavior by him. >> that investigation will be the second one looking into cuomo's office. the justice department is also probing as to whether or not the state inaccurately reported some nursing home deaths. a plastic surgeon is being investigated after he attended a virtual traffic court hearing while, this is true, operating on a patient. the doctor said he could handle both the court hearing and performing plastic surgery and i'm not sure, here's the patient. you be the judge.

>> we hope it didn't really turn have questions. w happened. >> number one, yesterday, i didn't know it was a plastic surg surgeon. so bad. >> all right. we begin talking about coronavirus vaccines. doses of america's newest coronavirus vaccine are beginning to arrive at distribution locations all across the country. about 4 million johnson & johnson single dose vaccines will be sent out, 2.8 million are going to states, 800,000 to pharmacies and 160,000 to community vaccine and federally qualified health centers. >> despite optimism across the country the head of the cdc is warning us not to relax, especially with more contagious covid variants out there threatening us. >> at this level of cases with variants spreading, we stand to completely lose the hard earned ground we have gained. now is not the time to relax the critical safeguards that we know

can stop the spread of covid-19 in our communities. >> the u.s. now averages about 66,000 new covid cases per day. that's the lowest since october. but the numbers are still much higher than we saw in previous dips during 2020. >> new jersey is now using churches to bring covid vaccines torsoc have overlooked and underserved. 15% of new jersey's people are black but just 4% of the residents who have been vaccinated are black. big difference in the numbers there. our national correspondent jericka duncan visited one in somer sell, new jersey, where it was launched. this is a good idea. black communities, churches in black communities really big deal. >> reporter: yeah, they go hand in hand. there is a history there, gayle. good morning. new jersey officials are working with large churches to distribute the vaccine. the church that we visited has an estimated membership of about 5,000 people and is known for

giving back in that community. so far the church has vaccinated roughly 3200 people since valentine's day weekend. >> all right. congratulations. >> reporter: it was a shot of confidence for 76-year-old dennis hobson. >> i've been praying that it would be sooner rather than later. that first shot is like coming into a new year. the weight has been lifted off my back. >> reporter: his wife tanya who also received her shot admits she was skeptical at first but church town hall meetings put her at ease. >> you just have to have the right information because it's so much information that's going on that is, you know, causing people to have hesitate. >> reporter: last month knowledge partnered with select churches in underserved communities to help distribute the vaccine. the state plans to expand the effort beyond first baptist to churches and community sites in four other cities hoping to vaccinate 15,000 people by the end of march.

>> there's no governor. there's no elect official who wouldn't have wanted to know more earlier. >> reporter: governor phil murphy toured the site last week. when you look at the face, though, right now of the people behind you, why is it so critical as you stand here? >> well, in this case there's a lot of folks of color and that's the reason the principal reason why we're in the church. the virus didn't create the inconnecties but it laid them bare. >> reporter: according to the cdc black people are roughly two times more likely than white people to die from the virus and three times more likely to be hospitalized. pastor deforest says he's glad the state chose to partner with his state but wishes it had happened sooner. >> we knew the vaccine was coming and it's just curious to me we would work so hard to get it developed. we had a year to put together the infrastructure for distributing vaccine whenever it came. >> reporter: when we asked the

governor's office about the delay, they told us there was significant coordination between federal, state and community partners involved in getting the program off the ground. >> there are over 1.75 million shots that have been distributed in a state made up of nearly 9 million people. >> yep. >> but you still have a long way to go. >> we need more supplies. the needle is moving in the right direction. gradual as opposed to overnight but i'm confident they'll get there. >> where would communities of color be without churches like yours in this pandemic? >> without the black church, there would be have no underground railroad. without the black church we would not have had social protests at the level of organization we did to break down the jim crow laws and without the black church we will not get past this pandemic, churches are where people come to for help. >> it's hugely important. >> it's central to the life of black people both historically and futuristically.

>> how much do you think this will now alter your life, you and your husband travel a lot. >> you know, we have to get the schedule shot so scheduled for a month from today. once we get that second shot i said let's hit the road. >> reporter: as for the pastor, the pain is personal for him as it is with many people. he said he lost his sister-in-law and his nephew to covid and the pastor told us he was supposed to retire in november of 2020 but has decided to stay on to help his community. more good news there. yesterday the state opened new sites in patterson and trenton. >> that is good news. let's hit the road. let's get the shot in the arm. thank you. always good to see you. ahead only on "cbs this morning" -- team usa's soccer star, you know her, abby wambach and her wife glennon doyle talk to us about inspiring millions of other women to take

we have much more ahead. 25 years ago "rent" launched a group of aspiring actors like idina menzel into the spotlight. >> i've always been able to hold on to this experience as something that changed me forever. >> coming up, vlad duthiers talks to the star performer's about "rent's" lastest legacy.

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♪ a family is demanding answers after the death of a fraternity pledge at virginia commonwealth university. police found 19-year-old adam oakes unresponsive saturday morning at an off-campus house in richmond. chip reid spoke to relatives who

say he was just asked to join the delta chi fraternity. chip, what else have they told? >> adam oakes' dad and cousin said oakes was told to drink an entire bottle of whiskey before he died. others are asked to speak up if they know anything surrounding the circumstances around the tragic death. >> he was our only child, he was a blessing from god. >> reporter: aaron oakes said his son last texted him i love you friday night before he went to a party. >> if you knew adam, all he wanted to do is be one of the guys. >> reporter: another opportunity told them adam passed out on the coach after being told to drink an entire bottle of jack daniels why. anotmember of the fraity checked on adam in the evening and he was breathing.

>> they rolled him over, that's when they said when they rolled him over, his face was like purple and a blue collar. >> one side. >> one side of his face. >> reporter: in a statement, the university says it is assisting the richmond police department in the investigation and called adam's death a tragic loss for members of adam's family and our community. the university suspended the delta chi fraternity which forbids hazing. yet white wanted more action. she wants her cousin to be remembered as a big hearted sports fanatic who loved family. >> what's the hardest part for and you his parents? >> i think it's just, i've been strong through the whole thing and i'm trying, but looking at the couch across from me. and just knowing he's never going to sit there again. >> y might have noticed that oakes dad was wearing a boston

red sox hat. well, he told us that was in honor of his son. it was his son's favorite team. according to the university, the delta chi fraternity also issued a cease and desist order suspending the vcu chapter while the investigation is ongoing. anthony. >> boy, you feel for the oakes family, chip, that was such an unnecessary death. thank you very much. we'll be right back.

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♪ perfect song for this. all month long we are celebrating women's history month by talking with female leaders in sports, college, business and entertainment how about publishing, too. this morning, we're joined by two women who inspired millions to unleash their power and know their worth. retired usa soccer star abby wambach is a two-time olympic gold medallist and world champion, thank you very much. her wife glennon doyle is a "the

new york times" best-selling author, thank you. her memoir "untamed" sold 2 million copies. and a nonprofit run by women, good morning to you both. >> hi, gayle. >> hi! >> hi, girls, so good to see you. i know you both have thoughts on this, millions of women have left the workforce, they've got to stay home, they're leaving the workforce. abby, i want you to start off with this. what do you think needs to change because we're aware of our responsibilities at work, our responsibilities at home? but we're choosing home because we have no choice. what needs to change here?

away. it's logic, whoever is making more money is going to stay in the workforce. the one who is making less goes home. women need to get paid more. we deserve it. >> yes, i second that meetings. glennon, your book "untamed" supplying off the shelves. i love what adele said about your book it will shake and make your brain scream. and you said we're trying to be good partners, citizens and instead we feel unfulfilled. what do you say to women who are struggling right now? those words resonate with a lot of people. >> yeah, well, the first thing i would say is you're not alone. i know from running together rising which is a nonprofit that supports women and children in need that many, many, many people are struggling right now. what i'm saying right now, let's

lower our expectations. let's get through this time to survive. not try to be amazing. just get through. and then in the after, let's not forget -- let's not forget what this time has revealed about what has always been true which is that women are holding up much more than half the sky. and let's go into the after, creating families, homes, conversations, that have us at the table to build that, so we're included. >> hey, glennon, it's anthony. i want to ask you, we see your book cover behind you. it's being made into a tv series. what can you tell us about that? >> i can tell you that it's really, really exciting. and all about the tv world that is much different than books. we have an actor, but i'm not allowed to tell you who it is but it's so exciting. >> give us initials. >> gayle -- gayle, you're going to get -- no. you know i can't keep secrets. don't pressure me. >> okay. all right. all right. we'll move on.

ladies, you know we love a love story here on "cbs this morning" "untamed" is a love story. we have the meet cute from glennon's perspective here. you say when i saw abby, my whole being says there she is. abby, i'm curious, what was it like from your side of things? >> well, so she stood up, okay, and stretched her arms out this wide, and we were in a room full of other people who were eating at a table, so i fete like i needed to -- she made it pretty awkward. oh, i need to go and greet her because she made it so. so, i got around to her. you know, at first, i thought, who is this person? what is she doing? and then when he embraced there was electricity from the get-go. i've never experienced anything like that. r i know she writes about it as

love at first sight. >> glennon said, listen, you'd been married to a man, you had children. abby walked in the room and it was a wrap. i'm curious what you said. abby, i want to know about the wolfpack. you say love what you love, women don't wait anymore. you can elaborate on that in the short time that we have with the two of you? >> yeah, the whole concept that i learned from playing on a national team for so long, is that we women, because we've been marginalized forever, we need to work in packs. that's why i named it wolfpack. and leadership on a national team. and glennon's "untamed" is exactly the methodolomethodolog. you have to understand your own self, individual. >> yes, you got to be a cheetah and a wolf.

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welcome back to "cbs this morning." it is time to bring you some of the stories talk of the table this morning. actually breaking news. >> breaking news and sad news. i don't like to do sad news at the talk of the table. we just learned minutes ago that vernon jordan has died. he was a civil rights leader who became a powerful force behind the scenes in our nation's capitol and a former adviser to former president bill clinton. jordan was in the league in 1970s and nearly after his assassination attempt. after his recovery, he moved to the corporate world and working with democrats in washington. in a statement, jordan's daughter vicki called on michelle miller and said this,

my father passed away last night around 10:00, surrounded by loved ones, his wife and his daughter by his side. vernon jordan was 85 years old. he has quite a history, quite a legacy, we don't know the cause of death but very sad. >> his work in civil rights goes back to 1971. he personally walked sharlane hunter through a hostile white crowd. >> he opened up many paths on wall street. >> my thoughts to vicki and her family. my story is this one, hundreds of people evacuated in western england are still being kept from their homes three days after the controlled explosion of a warorld war ii bomb. watch. >> about 2600 households were evacuated before saturday's

blast. it caused structural damage to nearby buildings. it's estimated that europe still has thousands of tons of unexploded bombs from the war. this one was found on private land near a university. a lot are found in germany. it's estimated 1.3 million bobs were dropped on germany and 10% did not explode. so it's actually kind of a regular thing there. this explosion in england left a crater about the size of a london bus, they say. >> that kind of war, when they dropped bombs on civilians is a terrifying thing. my grandfather was dropping bombs on germany and he came back changed. >> 75 years later we're still dealing with it. >> how are you not changed, tony? >> when job well done means you dropped a bomb. that's a tiff thing. have vivic n'expe proct him

from critics during the senate confirmation hearing last week. >> will you be able to effectively community the safety andest efficacies of vaccines? >> murthy has been questioned about potential conflicts-interest from consulting work related to the pandemic. in that senate hearing, he was pressed over his political views and support for stricter gun control. >> do you think guns present a public health emergency? >> i think that gun violence, like any other form of violence say concern to me as a doctor. but i'll tell you my focus, senator, is not on this issue. and if i'm confirmed, it will be on covid, on mental health and substance abuse disorders. >> a good point of his.

senior medical correspondent tara narula spokes exclusively with murthy on that. >> good morning. he said if confirmed murthy would focus on the growing impacts of covid-19. the number of americans reporting symptoms of anxiety or depression has quadrupled during the pandemic to 4 in 10 adults. and president biden has asked murthy to take on addition al mission. >> the reason, doc, when you speak people listen. i mean it sincerely. it's an important thing to communicate it now. >> reporter: dr. vivic murthy knows gaining americans' trust will be more concerning this time around. >> one thing that concerns me how public interest has been so depleted this past year. people have become more cynical, more concerned, pour suspicious that the people looking out for them are actually looking out

for them. >> where have we gone wrong in the past? >> you always will have challenges during a pandemic. when people think you're hiding things from them that doesn't go well. but who delivers the message matters, too. we need to have experts and scientists in front of the cameras. going directly to the communities, speaking directly to them, as opposed to having their knowledge or points of view filtered through the lens of politics. >> are you prepared to disagree with president biden if necessary? >> he always says, challenge me, tell me the truth even if i don't like it. >> why should americans trust you to do this job for us? >> so, i think my job is, number one, to be open, honest with people, to bring them the right information. to show up, first of all and to listen. >> reporter: it's a lesson murthy learned from his parents after they immigrated from india, his fr practic ne i his .

>> what they taught me one of the most powerful tools for healing is the ability to show up, to be fully present and listen to what someone has to say. >> reporter: to say connected during the pandemic, murthy and his wife moved their family in with his parents back in miami where boyhood had a profound impact. >> i struggled a lot during my childhood. i sometimes faked having a stomach akche, i didn't tell my parents, i know what it feels like to be lonely. after i left the position as surgeon general, i went through a long period feeling unmoored, dict connected from community. >> reporter: as surgeon general under president obama, murthy worked to distinguish public health by talking about it. last year, he published a book. >> the rise in depression and anxiety and suicide that we've

seen during this pandemic have been staggering. and deeply concerning because even before the pandemic, we were struggling with a very, very high rate of mental illness, including among our children. >> reporter: what are your biggest concerns for this generation that's growing up under the cloud of covid? >> i think that we will be learning over the years ahead just how deeply this pandemic has affected our children. we've got to study what's happening with our kids so we can build the right strategies, hoping to address the fallout that the pandemic has created for our children. >> reporter: if confirmed, murthy says he will push for reimbursed health insurance for care and integrate it with primary care. >> we know what to do, we just aren't doing it. we have, for example, programs that we could be investing in schools to help provide mental health for kids.

we it train more mental health providers but more importantly, tara, we have to have a different conversation about mental health in our country. people feel embarrassed to talk about the fact that they're struggling. i want to say clearly from the outset if you are struggling with your mental health that does not mean that you are broken. what it means you're a human being having a human experience, one that many of us have been going through during the pandemic and many more experience long after the pandemic is over. >> reporter: dr. murthy lost seven family members to covid-19. he said it's important to make meaningful connections and recommends taking 15 minutes a day to talk to a loved one also being fully present and putting away devices and doing access service. both because it helps others and reminds us of our own self-worth. >> tara, w were nodding along when he made the points about mental health. you knew him in medical school. he has a point in the

confirmation hearing about healing the nation and healing one another. you can tell us about the plan? >> actually, we know each other from residency. i was his intern. i think from dr. murthy, you heard him talk about public campaigns and the vaccine and how we're going to heal. but really, it comes down to philosophy. and micro measure. and he said to me how often do we ask someone how are you? how often do we see someone in distress and walk away because we don't want to get sucked into a conversation. when he was a surgeon general, last time in office, he had a policy that at the weekly staff meeting, each staff member would stand up and talk about themselves for five minutes. it's a concept of being more vulnerable and being there for others with compassion, empathy and kindness. it's a change in office he wants to bring to office and to america. >> going to be standing up at

the next staff meeting to talk about ourselves. >> she's going to love that. >> gayle king first. >> dr. tara narula, thank you very much. it's been 25 years since en and transformed musical theater. ahead some of the show's

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♪ ♪ 521,000 minutes ♪ love that song. "seasons of rent." tonight, where "rent" premiered will celebrate the 25-year anniversary of the production. "rent" changed the sound and face with the rock cast and edgy subject. the show won four tonys including pulitzer prize for drama. and launched the careers of anthony rapp, idina menzel, taye diggs. vlad duthiers asked how the show

resonates. ♪ how do you document real life ♪ >> reporter: set in new york city's gritty east village at the height of the aids crisis, the rock musical "rent" tells a group of friends struggling to get by. on stage, the diverse cast and characters reflected life outside the theater's doors in a way that had never been done before. ♪ >> reporter: dominican american wilson jermaine heredia, the drag role. >> we had all of these interesting, beautiful, colorful, different shapes and sizes. but when we all sang "seasons of love" -- ♪ >> -- immediately, it was evident that they knew what they were doing when they put us all together. ♪ love love ♪ shared a dressing

with everybody. >> reporter: there were no big stars in the cast but plenty of raw talent. many of its actors had become household names. ♪ >> reporter: including idina menzel. >> i came from doing weddings and bar mitzvahs on the weekends. >> reporter: in 1996, she told erin moriarty she took the role of irene to tide herself over. >> i was like, i had no wedding, this would be a perfect segway. ♪ >> i was 25 years old. it was my very first professional job. i went into it, just so excited to be making something with a group of people that i was falling in love with. i've always been able to hold on to this experience. as something that changed me forever.

>> reporter: the day "rent" was seopen for off-broadway previews its creator jonathan larson collapsed and died from an aneurysm. >> when we lost jonathan, we didn't want to let him down. >> reporter: they didn't. >> we dedicated this opening night to our friend. >> reporter: the show debuted before its popularity sent production for broadway. it left a lasting legacy on its originally home. the new york theater workshop. >> rent over time paid off her mortgage here. we were able to triple over the money available to produce work. ♪ >> reporter: the musical won four tony awards including one for heredia's performance. but more important to him, the show's impact on the stage. >> winning the tony was amazing and it was life-changing. but when you have a father come

up to you and say i have a daughter that is lgbtq, i did not understand her life. i did not accept it. becaus oyou, have a relationship with my daughter. it's okay. ♪ >> reporter: 25 years after the debut of "rent," why are people so excited about it? >> i think at its core it's about love and community. and i just think integrity. and i think that the idea of no day but today, embracing every moment in our lives is relevant at anytime. ♪ ♪ no day but today ♪ >> everybody at the table is

singing along with that. the original cast still remains incredibly close. they're actually all on the same text chain. heredia tells me the dynamics have not changed. they still banter like they did 25 years ago. >> it's so great to hear that. >> i think of "seasons of love". ♪ cups of coffee ♪ my favorite song. what wilson was saying, the effect, it's so different now. >> a lot of shows that are timely don't necessarily age well. >> that's right. >> this one is timely and ageless, which is extraordinary. >> i wish we could see it. >> i was there to see the original cast. >> yeah, i saw it, too. every it was amazing. >> thank you very much. we'll be right back. we've got some pictures of vlad as a high school

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. ♪ ♪

we leave you today with a peek at the broadway life, our vlad duthiers might have had. >> was he robin hood?

. the state is now offering more than two billion dollars to districts if schools return to in person learning by march. in san francisco a hazard pay proposal will go up for vote. it would require large grocery stores to provide workers with another $5 an hour. and state records show the death roll from coronavirus was down 25% from january. that's an average of 403 deaths daily in february down from 482 per day in january. just over 11,200 died from the virus in february, in january

the death toll neared 15,000. as we look at the roadways, metering lights are on but it's getting better. most of the delay on the upper deck. the rest of the bay area bridges looking okay. here is a live look at an mateo. 101 between that area near shoreline. there's police activity and a traffic alert in place there. also another traffic alert south of 101 on allen rock avenue in an jose. a busy ride through the south bay also and the golden gate bridge looking good with no delays. and happy tuesday. we are looking at mild temperatures three to si clouds. e age with high a mix of sun and clouds e day. mid-60s's through the day. upper 50's and low 70's inland this afternoon. we will stay dry and quiet for

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