action lawsuit against the school district and the teachers' union which claims students are losing 17 to 19 1/2 hours of instructional time every week in a district where nearly 80% of the students qualify for free or reduced price meals. the lawsuit says the number of weekly hours of live instruction is less than half what it was before the pandemic. why is that? >> i don't agree with that. >> reporter: president of the l.a. teachers union. we spoke to her before the tentative agreement. >> things are not going to be perfect. but many of our educators are giving up themselves daily to this distance learning. >> state guidelines allow for elementary schools to open now. for nearly a month the teachers' union was fighting for stricter measures. >> standard in schools, lower covid in the community, vaccinations for school staff.

>> the l.a. superintendent showed us a school vaccination site where teachers and staff now can get a shot and says the district spent more than $1 billion since the pandemic started, part of that on upgrading campus air filtration systems, stocking schools with protective equipment and testing staff and students. would you say what is going on now as far as education in los angeles, would you call it a success? >> absolutely. absolutely. we are doing the best we can in the safest way we can. >> this is definitely not enough. so, a success for who? i am not sure. not my child. >> well, the lawsuit is still moving forward. the families involved want the school district todm say the caused when schools finally reopen, it will look different. classes will be smaller with students alternating between online and in-person instructions. >> that was carter evans

reporting. ten years ago today an offshore earthquake caused a monster saw na -- tsunami. a lot of communities along japan's northeast coast are still struggling to recover. lucy craft paid a visit. >> this vacant plot of land in the northeastern japanese town is where he grew up. his traditional home surrounded by the houses of a large extended family, their ancestors settled here four centuries ago. march 11, 2011, life as he knew it ended after a magnitude 9 earthquake triggered a massiveu. he turned to record the video. in minutes his community was washed away. >> we lost everything.

you do not. lost everything. waves as high as 60 feet swallowed the city. >> yes. came directly from there. we see it. like two hands welcoming it. >> today the physical cars have been all but erased. massive sea walls over 40 feet high have been erected. that is just the first line of defense in an elaborate effort to tsunami-proof the city. he literally moved mountains using conveyor belts to build the great pyramids of egypt.

to lift the downtown commercial district out of harm's way. here is the final result, a city once at sea level elevated itself by 30 feet, a controversial project that caused japanese taxpayers more than $1 billion. this once sleepy provential outpost has been transformed by an infrastructure bonanza, sleek new shops and a gleaming new baseball stadiums. all of these amenities haven't stemmed a steady exodus of residents. not to go back to the recent memories. it will be very, very long

lasting. >> reporter: she is as the enormous death toll haunts survivors, 1,800 residents, 8% of the population perished. >> it has notity of being the only city in the entire region when everyone in the city lost someone they knew. that means there is collective grief. that is one of the things you don't snap out of it or get over it. when everyone is tied together. it is intense. >> we tend in the west to celebrate the japanese for their resilience through the disaster. is that the right take on it? >> no it is not. >> while the rest of the country is moving on from the quake, the nuclear, residents continue to mourn and there is no relief in

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difficult decision to isolate from his family at the peak of new york's outbreak. do you remember wher mentally and emotionally recording those things? >> it is fuzzy. stressed. i felt lonely. >> reporter: we followed by on one of his shifts to see the impact fighting covid-19 had a year later. >> usually it has been taking hours, sometimes even days. >> even though we have seen numbers fall, we are still seeing hospital capacity? >> yeah. it is still high enough to keep all of the hospitals at 95% capacity. >> if i walk into a certain room where something devastating happened during the peak, i still get a flashnd i can feel my heart rate going up a little. >> i imagine it is like a trauma. >> yeah. yeah. >> reporter: a survey found increasing numbers of anxiety,

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cli mate change is making life difficult for some of the cutest animals in the north. baby seals.

we saw how the pups are coping with the warmer temperatures. >>se pups born here on the golf of st. lawrence in canada. the pups weigh about at birth. and their bo >> so cute. >> reporter: the pups spend their early days chewing on the ice, and getting used to the world. >> their white fur serves a purpose to absorb sunlight and stay warm. they lose their fur when they are three or four weeks old. the islands are the only place in the world you can go to see the newborns in their natural habitats but the ice is thinning, making it impossible for choppers to land. and threatening the survival of the sales. mike hamlin is a biologist.

why is this happening? >> we think overall it is linked to climate change. we are getting mild winters and ice. >> reporter: he says harp seals can't give birth on land, only ice. scientists say they will not have any options left in the gulf of st. lawrence. >> because it won't exist or because it is so poor any animal that has their pups on the ice, the ice would break up and the pups would drown. >> reporter: it is a long way and they will have to fight off predators including polar bears. >> and that is the overnight news for this thursday. for some the news continues and for others, check back later for cbs this morning. you can always follow us online any time at cbsnews.com.

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