of us of course on the anniversary of the day the world health organization declared a pandemic. it has been quite a year. but we appreciate you trusting us as your local news source. cbs this morning is next. . good morning to you our viewers in the west. welcome to "cbs this morning." it's thursday, march 11th, 2021. i'm gayle king. that's anthony mason. that's tony dokoupil. president biden's nearly $2 trillion covid relief package will be signed into law tomorrow. how it could help families now and possibly set a new course to fight poverty for decades. one year since everything changed in the global fight against the coronavirus. we're back at one of the first hospitals in america to be overrun. see the vast progress we've made since the crisis was officially declared a pandemic. breaking news -- after harry and meghan's explosive interview with oprah, prince william says

the royal family is very much not racist. what else prince harry's brother is saying this morning. >> can't wait for that. first, today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> the motion is adopted. >> this bill represents a historic victory for the american people. i look forward to signing it later this week. one of the largest and most sweeping economic stimulus bills in u.s. history has been approved by congress. >> i think this is actually one of the worst pieces of legislation i've seen pass here in the time i've been in the senate. >> reporter: president trump has ordered 100 million more doses of johnson & johnson's single-shot vaccine. >> we are really looking for maximum flexibility here. >> reporter: the owners of a former girls reform school in southwest missouri face more than 100 counts of abuse, including statutory rape -- >> these allegations of abuse are horrific.

part of hawaii is under a state of emergency after days of heavy rain touched off flooding and put dams at risk. all that -- >> this was the moment an entire set wall fell down on top of a broadcaster. he was not hurt. and all that matters -- >> alaska became the first state to offer the vaccine to every resident over the age of 16. >> everyone over the age of 16. that's all for us. we'll see you tomorrow night live in anchorage. on "cbs this morning." >> a big day in washington. big day all across america because the house of representatives passed biden's $1.9 trillion covid relief plan. with this passage, the government is about to send $1,400 stimulus checks to millions of americans. there you go, baby. you're rich. buy yourself something nice like rent or medicine. this morning's "eye opener" is presented by progressive -- making it easy to bundle insurance. >> stephen colbert always

manages to find a funny take on things. but people really do need that money. >> they need the money. >> that's why he said buy yourself something nice, like rent. >> we get it. we'll have more in a second. we've got to start with breaking news coming from london. prince william is freaking for -- is peeking -- speaking -- for the first time in response to prince harry and meghan's interview with oprah. this is his first public appearance since the interview aired. >> sir, have you -- have you spoken to your brother since the interview? >> no, but i will do. >> can you let me know, is the royal family a racist family, sir? >> very much not a racist family. >> well, this follows meghan's claim that one unnamed member of the royal family was very concerned about the color of their baby's skin before the baby was born. let's go to london where our holly williams joins us now. with more on the story. holly, good morning, good to see you. the other day when they stopped prince charles he just kept

walking. at least william has responded. >> reporter: good morning. well i should first of all point out how unusual it is for a member of the royal family to take questions from journalists while carrying out royal duties. it's normally just not done. the fact that we heard william answering questions is an indication, i think, of the crisis that's gripping the british monarchy. you heard that he said his family is very much not a racist family. how stunned they are, and how damaging for the family. we still don't know who in the royal family is alleged to have made comments about the skin color of harry and meghan's son. finally, i think it's a further indication of the rift that's opened up between william and harry. it's been more than three days since the interview aired in the u.s. and they still haven't spoken. >> holly williams from london, thank you very much.

we're on the verge of what could be a major economic boost in this country as president biden prepares to sign the $1.9 trillion bill he's calling the american rescue plan. in a cbs news poll, 75% of americans say they support the measure, including almost half of republicans. even though no republicans voted for it in congress. more than two-thirds of americans, 67%, approve of how president biden is handling the pandemic. the president's overall approval rating stands at 60%, his -- ed o'keefe is at the white house where the president will deliver his first primetime address tonight, one year after the coronavirus crisis was declared a pandemic. ed, what's the president going to say? . >> reporter: good morning, anthony, in his roughly 20-minute address he's expected to pay tribute to the lives lost and the sacrifices made by americans over the course of the pandemic. the president's expected to talk about what he believes is the greatest operational challenge the country has ever faced, and the work his administration is doing to quickly distribute

vaccine across the country. but the white house says he'll also strike an optimistic note about what could happen in the coming months if americans come together. >> we say to america, help is on the way. >> this bill represents a historic, historic victory for the american people. >> reporter: president biden and democrats are celebrating the passage of the latest covid relief bill. one sign the legislation will pump nearly $2 trillion into the economy in the coming year. $1,400 stimulus payments for tens of millions of eligible americans. hundreds of billions of dollars in direct aid to states and cities for vaccination programs in schools. and $300 weekly unemployment benefits will continue through early september. congressional republicans uniformly opposed the bill. >> it's a laundry list of left-wing priorities that predate the pandemic. >> i'm in an incredible amount of debt -- >> reporter: people like stephanie freed, a theater electrician out of work for a year, are relieved to know unemployment benefits will continue for six more months.

>> these extensions for these unemployment programs were completely necessary and needed to happen right now because once an unemployment program expires, there's a lapse of weeks or months before people get back on benefits. >> reporter: the white house is going to take time explaining the new law to americans. next week vice president harris heads to las vegas and the president to suburban philadelphia. >> we'll be having a conversation directly with people about how they can benefit, addressing questions they have, even taking feedback on implementation. >> reporter: think of it as lessons learned from the obama administration put into action. after passing president obama's 2009 stimulus plan and the affordable care act of 2010, democrats now agree they didn't spend enough time selling the accomplishments to the public, and the party lost the midterm elections. a misstep mr. biden seemed to place on his old boss last week. >> i kept saying tell people

what we did. he said we don't have time. not going to take a victory lap. we paid a price ironically. >> reporter: fair to say that now that mr. biden is the boss, he's going to make sure americans don't forget that it's he and democrats who passed what for now is a very popular bill. as for those stimulus payments, they're expected to head out in the coming weeks providing much-needed relief to tens of millions of eligible americans. tony, in a sign of how quickly the white house witness to gets this money out the door they said they will not be putting the president's names on the checks. you may remember the last guy slowed down the process a little bit to make sure his name was on them. >> yeah. they want to move this money. thank you so much. if you have children under the age of 18, there is one particular part of the american rescue plan you're going to want to know about because it amounts to guaranteed money for struggling parents. a big change to the child tax credit which will increase by more than $1,000, giving parents $3,600 for each child under the age of 6 and up to $3,000 for all children between the ages of 6 and 17. if that's not enough, it's not just money, there are also

changes to the qualifications. you don't need a job to qualify anymore, and there is no minimum income requirement to get the full check. who's eligible? single parents who earn up to $75,000 or less per year are eligible, or married couples who earn up to $150,000 per household qualify for the full tax credit. experts are saying that it could lift 4 million children out of poverty. the provision is temporary at this point, but democrats home -- hope to make it permanent. we want to bring in sentence news business analyst jill schlesinger joins us. good morning to you. it's called a change to the child tax credit, but many people will experience this as a monthly payment, a kind of support to their income. how come? >> well, it's just the way that this money is going to be advanced to people. again, this is just for 2021. as you said, this credit is going to be expanded, more families will get it, and they

will see $300 a month perhaps in their checking accounts. that's a pretty big deal. it can also be misleading in some respects because some people like to get that one big check. i think the democratic strategy is to make sure that people get this throughout the year. then when this comes up for renewal, we then see it tried to be made permanent, as you said. now look, tony, the reality is the child tax credit, the expansion of the earned income tax credit, the expansion of the affordable care act, these are ways that democrats see to bolster the united states' social safety net and they aim to do that permanently. >> another big part of the american rescue plan is the $1,400 checks for most americans, or at least most households. # in addition, an extension of unemployment benefits. people are filing taxes right about now for last year. what do they need to know about these benefits? >> if you have already filed, the limits of your income will be based on this filing season, for 2020.

if you have not, don't freak out. it will be based on 2019. now, that said, i tell you i've spoken to a number of accountants who really would like to see the irs push the filing deadline back a couple of months. they haven't done so yet. other aspects of this bill that are incredibly important -- if you don't think you got what you deserve in the previous stimulus payments, you've got to file your taxes and find threcoe ry rebate credit, line 30 on form 1040. and also a huge aspect of this plan that has just been passed that's been overlooked by many, we have been talking about how unemployment benefits are taxable. well, not for 2020. the first $10,200 of unemployment benefits for huseholds who make less than $150,000, no federal tax. that's a big change in this bill. >> jill, quickly, are there any things in this bill their concerned about, including the over overall size of it? >> listen, we've seen $5

trillion of spending over the course of 12 months. even before this latest round of stimulus was passed, the congressional budget office said that we were going to see the total amount of u.s. debt actually equal the u.s. economy. that could lead to inflation, could lead to higher interest rates. economists say there are tools to deal with it. janet yellen says we shouldn't worry, that we've got a federal reserve. this is a test indeed. >> a lot of help for households. we'll have to keep an eye on the broader economy. jill, thank you very much. as we mark a year of the pandemic, we're focusing on stories of progress from those dark early days. this time last year new york city was the epicenter of the virus in the u.s. since then, close to one in 11 new yorkers has been diagnosed with the virus. around one in 300 has died from it. hospitals were overrun a year ago due to a virus we did not understand then. our lead national correspondent, david begnaud, was on the front lines.

david, good morning. you went back to one of those hospitals, david, just this week. >> reporter: we did. when we first visited the brooklyn hospital center last april, the outbreak in new york city was nearly at its peak. of the 900 covid patients it treated in the past year, 700 of them came through the doors between march and may of 2020. so they got hit early on. during that time ppe was very scarce. i'll never forget when we went inside the hospital, i was head to toe in protective gear. one of the nurses looked right at me and said, i want what you have. i just remember turning around and looking at you and thinking to myself, is she really wearing a garbage bag? >> early in the pandemic, i think our institution as well as every other institution in the world was blind sided. >> reporter: that is nurse kimberly ellis. when we met her a year ago at the start of the pandemic, she was treating covid patients dressed like this. >> i was wearing a garbage bag over my uniform.

and you came in with a beautiful moon suit and a mask, dressed like you were going to space. >> reporter: i remember how direct you were. when you looked at me and said, what are you wearing? >> initially it was very painful because you guys looked dressed safer than we were at the time. can we have helmets like all of the staff? i said i wanted what you had because you looked better prepared for the pandemic. in all fairness, i don't think anybody was prepared properly in the early part of the pandemic. >> reporter: we're past those early days, and things have changed dramatically for nurse ellis. >> we'd like you to be here at 5:30 a.m. -- tomorrow morning. >> reporter: she's back in her original role in the pre-operative department after six weeks in the icu last spring. across the hospital, the number of covid patients is down substantially. >> it let us get back to the things we normally do which is taking taking care of all the other medical problems that people of brooklyn have.

>> reporter: dr. joshua rosenberg is the hospital's infection control director. and he's an icu physician. last year he took us through one of their three covid icus. >> so this is the one-year check-up. >> yeah. >> reporter: what's the evaluation? >> i'm grateful how well we've survived. we had no clue what we were getting into then. what's interesting is that as the data has come out through the various research studies, a lot of stuff we were doing back then, they're recommending now. and i'm still looking at this saying it's not completely done yet. >> reporter: nurse ellis feels the same way about the virus -- that it's not over yet. she says she will never forget the fear of those first days. >> patients died much more rapidly and often than i had seen in my life. >> reporter: what was your worst day? >> i think every day was a challenging day. we were afraid. it was business as usual professionally, but it wasn't business as usual mentally and emotionally. >> reporter: what didn't we see

that went on behind the scenes? >> the sadness. i think the tears. maybe even aggravation and frustration. >> reporter: with what? >> the unknown. covid-19 has been the virus of the unknown. >> theers nurse said last april want what you have, i sent her my face shield. my team agreed it's the right thing to do. she wore it everyday at work for six weeks in the icu. she never forgot that moment of seeing somebody walk in as a guest of the hospital better dressed than she was. she never got covid, by the way, and she's fully vaccinated. >> you must feel good to know that. i remember that story very well. when i saw you in that getup, i thought, god, that does seem a lot. but it was very alarming because nobody knew what we were dealing with, including the medical community. >> exactly. >> it's hard to look at those pictures and realize even then in real time we didn't we come

is happening here. >> just remember the key is they made a lot of progress over the last year. >> yeah. such a scary time. >> let's owned that note. made a lost good progress. thank you. as more americans get the vaccine, the biden administration is reversing its guidelines for visits to nursing homes starting right now. it now says that indoor visits should be allowed regardless of the guest or the resident's vaccination status. a few exceptions are suggested, and they are these -- guests should not be allowed for covid-positive residents or residents in quarantine. the updated guidelines also recommend so-called compassionate care visits though when a patient's health has severely declined, as long as proper protocols are followed, you can visit. hawaii is bracing for more rain after severe flooding destroyed homes and bridges around the state. video from the island of maui shows fast-moving floodwaters streaming through neighborhoods. there was so much rain, it filled up an empty reservoir,

creating fears a dam could fail. the downpours moving from island to island left many roads impassable. a flash flood watch has been extended through tomorrow across the state. many experts say the extreme weather in hawaii is a symptom of client change. a new report of alleged sexual abuse by new york governor andrew cuomo may be the most serious so far. the "times union" newspaper reports that an unnamed female aide said cuomo aggressively groped her late last year. six women have accused him of muth. the newest accuser told someone else that she was alone with cuomo in his private residence where she had been called in to work. he allegedly reached under her blouse and began to fondle her. cuomo told the paper, "i have never done anything like this," and said the details are gut wrenching. the governor has so far rejected calls from other top democrats

to resign. he want people to be patient while the state attorney general oversees an investigation of all these charges. ahead, how british lawmakers are looking at claims of racism and other mistreatment by tabloid

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parliament, the center of power in this country. holly lynch is one of the female members of parliament who wants a public debate into how meghan has been treated by britain's powerful tabloid newspapers. >> there's a real sense that she was an outsider, that she wasn't good enough for our royal family. just a constant, constant attack of her characterment. >> reporter: in her interview, the duchess also accused royal aides of failing to stand up for her when the papers got it wrong. >> everyone in the institution knew it wasn't true. >> why didn't somebody say that? >> that's a good question. >> reporter: harry made the extraordinary claim that his family, the royal family, was fearful of the tabloid media. >> with that relationship and that control and the fear by the uk tabloids, it's a really -- it's a toxic environment. >> reporter: there's no doubt

that meghan has been vilified by britain's tabloid papers. their coverage sometimes bla blatantly racist. but harry singled out one group of people in this country that has stood up for the couple. >> over 70 members of parliament, female members of parliament, called out the articles and headlines written about meghan. yet no one from my family ever said anything over those three years. that hurts. >> reporter: there is the letter written to meghan by female members of parliament in 2019. taking aim at the outdated, colonial undertones of some reporting, and saying they share an understanding of the abuse and intimidation. holly lynch wrote the letter. >> a greater responsibility to them. it's not only about stepping in to try and protect the duchess of sussex but to all those young women feely utterly let --

backlash from journalists. anthony? >> holly williams in london. yeah, there something we've talked about here. we don't see it in this country obviously. it's the press over there. but she -- she endured some really vicious attacks. >> i also think meghan has plenty of receipts, meaning she's been keeping track of things. all you need to do is look at the headlines. one after the other. i can remember one that said straight out of compton, that her mother was from the wrong side of the tracks with dreadlocks. >> remember the avocado incident? >> yes. >> when kate has avocados, she's doing it for the baby. when meghan does, it's ruining the rain forest and global desecration. >> and saying that she's from gangster royalty. that's just -- >> there's definitely a difference in the coverage of the at least you have to acknowledge that. i not that's part of the problem with them -- no one ever acknowledges that this is

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across the country many young people are taking jobs to help their families make ends meet. since the pandemic started, an estimated three million students have not attended virtual or in-person classes. their stories are not unusual. several days a week, melody videl gets a ride to the mills

at jersey gardens mall where she works at cinnabon. she took the job to help her mom financially. what was your biggest sneer. >> my biggest fear was being homeless. >> reporter: trying to balance remote learning and work is taking a toll on the 18-year-old. howif how overwhelming is this? >> it's so overwhelming. overwhelmingly stressful. i find it hard to -- to live sometimes. >> reporter: you find it hard to live sometimes? >> yes because of the stress. >> reporter: maria medina is mel melody's mother. she's a party entertainer and does face and body painting. how hard has this last year been financially for you? >> ooh, i watched a career that i have been working on for 12 years go completely dead. >> reporter: would you be able to make ends meet without her helping? >> yes and no. i mean, i can figure -- i can manage things. i've been doing it for years.

but her help has been a blessing. >> reporter: in the u.s. 17.5 million young people are employed and many to help their families get by. 17-year-old joanna lopez is one of them. why did you need this job? >> well, i wanted to help my mom because she's a single mom. >> reporter: the high school senior from los angeles juggles an exhausting load. all remote school during the day and several days a week she works at a fast food restaurant until midnight. her mother was laid off because of covid. >> that's when i was like, okay, now i acan step it up. i have a little brother. >> reporter: she brings in about $800 a month and gives $500 to her mom for rent and other bills. you're doing a great thing for your mom. are you worried about your mom? >> not really. i know that she's a strong woman. >> reporter: this has got to be overwhelming for you. you're only 17 years old. >> i try to keep a positive attitude for her.

>> reporter: why did you want to share your story? >> i want other people to see that they're not the only ones that struggle. >> reporter: are you seeing more high school students trying to bring home a paycheck? >> absolutely. young people are under incredible pressure to contribute to the finances in the home. >> reporter: elmer roldon is executive director of communities in schools of los angeles. his organization works with lopez and hundreds of other students and their families to help provide social, emotional, academic, and even financial support to keep kids in school. what do you think now will happen had some of these high schools will start to reopen after spring break, and you have students trying to juggle school and jobs? >> i think that it's going to put both the schools and the students in a very difficult place. i think it's going to force students to have to pick between their education and bringing home that income. >> reporter: he says his organization tries to encourage

young people to focus on a long-term vision for themselves like higher education. >> certainly the income that they're bringing in right now is a huge lifeline for their families. and you know, all jobs are respectable. but we also know that the potential is there for them to do a lot more. >> reporter: for melody, just the thought of doing more is keeping her afloat. she hopes to go to college next year. you have something to look forward to. >> yeah, i do. >> reporter: you're helping your family get by, pay the rent, make sure the electric gets paid. how does that make you feel? >> it makes me feel happy. makes me feel like maybeo go to. she wants to be a music therapist. tony? >> thank you very much. it's a reminder that the child

tax credit can help so maybe students don't have to choose between school and the job to support the family. >> you feel for them. >> i was going to say, in the meantime, to hear melody say sometimes i don't want to live gives me chills. hang in there . it does seem extremely overwhelming. joanna saying no she doesn't worry about her mother as tears are streaming down her face. i never thought of that aspect of the layers of covid and the damage that it causes. the teens feel that they have to -- >> it's reverberated. you're looking at your kids worrying about their parents and worry being being homeless. >> the kids are picking up what's going on in the house. they absorb it. thank you. powerful story. next, vlad duthiers has the

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are still missing. >> one man survived riding the roof of his house as it floated inland. >> it was an unbelievable -- i remember being in the control room as these images were coming in live. and you were seeing entire homes swept away. boats in neighborhoods, remember those images of boats in the neighborhood -- >> deep inland. >> that's right. that's right. so we are marking the remembrance of fukushima. meanwhile, a newspaper reporter in iowa has been found not guilty of interfering with police during a protest in the name. george floyd. andrea sahouri of the "des moines register" was cleared yesterday after a jury trial. the rare case was condemned by other journalists and organizations defending freedom of the press. police pepper sprayed her before arrested her last may. she said the jury's verdict is a huge victory for journalists. >> really, really grateful for them that they upheld freedom of the press and, of course, you know, a just democracy. >> in the video, you could see her and hear her saying to the police officers, "i'm a reporter

covering this for the "des moines register" before she was pepper sprayed. >> it's shocking it even got to a trial. >> amnesty international saying reporters need to be free to not fear retribution when they're covering from the scene of a protest. that's amnesty international talking about us here in the united states. >> we should all breathe a sigh of relief that she was found not guilty. a whole different conversation. >> that's right. here's a guy who took his quarantine home improvement project to the next level. look at this. he built this retro video store in his basement. in his basement. >> whoa. >> his wife showed it off on ittic tock. it has a -- on tiktok. it has a front door that you must push, not pull, tons of vhs tapes and dvds -- >> the man with the beaded curtain. >> that's right. for the back room. tony's asking about the -- >> what does is t say that tony knows about the back room? >> i was -- >> busted. >> never in my life.

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at 8:00. >> can you just let me know is the royal family a racist family, sir? >> very much not a racist family. >> the fact that we heard william answering questions is an indication i think of the crisis that is gripping the british monarchy. >> president is expected to talk about what he believes is the greatest operational challenge the country has ever faced and the work his administration is doing to quickly distribute vaccine across the country. >> it is called a change for the child tax credit, but many people will experience this as a monthly payment. >> they will see $300 a month perhaps in their checking accounts. that's a pretty big deal. >> knenurse ellis said i want w you have. after i sent her my face shield. it is the right thing to do. >> president biden announced plans to secure 100 million additional doses of the johnson & johnson vaccine, as it is better known,

johnson & johnson and john johnson & johnson and johnson & johnson and johnson & johnson and johnson & johnson and johnson & johnson and johnson & johnson. >> that's obviously a joke about the moderna vaccine. it is kind of catchy. >> it is. turned it into a song. >> humor helps in this time. money helps too. that's on the way for tens of millions of americans, now that congress has passed a $1.9 trillion covid relief bill, the house voted mostly along party lines, 220-211, to send the bill to the president's desk. a new cbs news poll shows that 75% of americans approve of the bill, including nearly half of republicans, even though not a single republican in the senate or the house voted for it. president biden has announced the u.s. will buy 100 million more doses of

johnson & johnson single shot covid vaccine. >> i'm doing this because this war time effort, we need maximum flexibility. there is always a chance that we'll encounter unexpected challenges. or there will be a new need for a vaccine effort, vaccination effort. tonight in his first primetime address, the president will mark one year since public health restrictions were broadly put in place. a senior aide tells cbs news the speech will be a, quote, optimistic look at the next few months in our fight against the pandemic. the world health organization declared the coronavirus a global pandemic exactly one year ago today. can you believe it? one year ago. now, look at this photo, taken that afternoon, in our broadcast center, shortly before we evacuated the -- look at all the people. shortly before we evacuated the building. one year later, many of us still have not returned to the building. look at this. you can see personal items are still there, just as people left them as they had to left building.

>> right. still kind of spooky. >> it is. yeah. it is sad to me. >> i'll turn off one of the tvs, though. i think it is time after one year of airing. >> it is sad. >> in the rest of the country, the gravity of the situation set in. we checked in with dr. helen chu, an infectious disease researcher who found a way to test for covid early on. admiral brett giroir, was put in charge of covid testing and david lat, one of the patients hospitalized in new york city. this does contain disturbing images. >> two known cases of coronavirus, so we have closed our new york broadcast center. >> we knew at the end of february and certainly at the beginning of march that we had to prepare for an unprecedented onslaught on the hospital system, the the medical care system with a previously unknown virus with unknown transmission patterns. >> we were hoping it would not

become like 1918. but it was becoming more and more evident that there was very rapid person to person transmission. and that the death rates were very high. >> it was really scary being an early patient. i think i was one of the first 1,000 in new york state. we didn't know what we know now about how to treat covid. the doctors were just trying to figure it out as they were treating me. i was on a ventilator for almost a week. and there were points where it wasn't clear i was going to make it. >> to unleash the full power of the federal government in this effort today i'm officially declaring a national emergency. >> when the president declared a national emergency, it certainly put an exclamation point that people understood the seriousness. never has there been a virus that one person could not even get sick with and have no symptoms, and the person right next to them could be dead within a few days. and i just kept thinking, i

don't want to go. i'm married. i have a husband. we have a 3-year-old son, i wasn't ready to go. >> probably the worst moment was when i took over testing on march 12th and on march 13th understood that there were nothing in the stockpile, there was no infrastructure and we needed to build that from scratch in a very rapid fashion. >> we're hearing from emergency room staff who say they will soon run out of supplies. >> during those early months when we had shortage of ppe, it was a very difficult time. we didn't do what needed to be done to increase manufacturing of those products. and then also the shortage of the swabs, the tubes, all the things that we use in the lab to be able to diagnose coronavirus. >> it was like a gut punch, if we would run those 41 sites at full speed for testing, we would exhaust 80% of the entire ppe

stockpile within the first three weeks. >> ford motor company just announced it will produce ventilators to help overcome critical supply shortages. >> they were saying things are looking good, maybe we'll take david off the ventilator and zach, my husband, just wanted to make sure that if for some reason i needed to go back on, would there be a ventilator or would they have given it away to somebody else? >> we were prepared for small outbreaks, but we were not prepared for an unprecedented global outbreak of a respiratory contagious virus. >> 100,000 deaths, our coronavirus toll reaches a terrible mark. >> when we passed the 100,000 mark, i think we really had lost hope at that point that we were going to come out of that. i think knowing what i know now, the number of deaths that could have been prevented is substantial. >> we were really trying to look over the horizon, where we're going to go, how do we prevent the next 100,000 deaths, what did we need to do? >> we cannot test our way out of

this or any other pandemic. >> i think there were many times where it was hard for americans. one of the main things was the clear inequity in healthcare delivery and the disproportionate numbers of deaths in black and brown communities. i think it revealed a lot of the things that were already there, and magnified them. >> health disparities have always existed for the african-american community. but here again with the crisis, it is shining a bright light on how unacceptable that is. >> we really have a sick care system, we don't have a healthcare system. and we need to fix it now. and i think we did make strides towards moving towards a public health system. >> one thing i think we did learn to be optimistic is we did come together in many ways, all of the support for healthcare workers, i remember being in new

york, and hearing the cheers. >> one of the clear positive things about this pandemic was how quickly scientists came together to develop a vaccine. i think that to me was a clear sign of people being very open and collaborative and being willing to all work together to do something that was important for the nation and the world as a whole. >> brought back a lot of painful memories. i never thought we would still be sitting here talking about this a year later. you felt summer, fall, certainly by christmas we would all be out of it. here we are. >> as far as we have come here in new york, because those first three months were so bad, in the city, just seeing thm a iing th comes back so fast. it is scary. >> we're not out of it yet. we haven't been back in that news room. most people haven't been back to their normal -- >> it is tough to lock at that. you see us every day, but we're

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year of covid. the now year-long pandemic has taken a major toll on the mental health of the medical workers, too. it a review of 65 studies from around the world finds that one in five health care workers have experienced depression, anxiety, ptsd, or a combination of all of those conditions. the new streaming program "60 manipulates-plus" shows us one doctor's struggle in doctor. wesley lowery has her story. >> reporter: ernie raybon-rojas at northeast medical center says her workload is still more than double what it was pre-pandemic with no relief in sight. have there been moments that have felt like you're reachation breaking point or been difficult or were you -- you were overwhelmed? >> every day. it's not uncommon to take a minute to go cry. i cry in my officers all the time. -- my office all the time. everything you do is about getting people better. and a lot of times it just doesn't happen. the lack of being able to help

someone in their most vulnerable moments is the injury. the fact that it happens over and over and over again is what i think really causes the damage. >> reporter: and you've said that you think about walking away from it sometimes. >> yeah. >> reporter: how seriously do you consider that? >> depends on the day. as i'm preparing for my shift the night before, i start to get a physical reaction to even thinking about going to work. i start to get palpitations, then i start to think about why am i doing this. i don't have to do this. there's been days where i've had to take a personal day just because the thought of coming back in and doing the same thing again was too much. i don't think it substitutes what will be needed as far as debriefing and therapy after this. >> you definitely plan to go to therapy. >> oh, absolutely.

yeah. >> wow. even the helpers need help. "60 minutes plus" correspondent wesley lowery now with more. it's good to see you. we just heard that one doctor say, "i've often thought about walking away." i know you've talked to many health care workers. was that a common thing with them? they just -- thinking about heah care workers across the country. we heard time and time again, you know, we've asked just a monumental task of our medical workers this last year. the amount of death they've seen, the pain they've seen, the surges. and virtually every health care worker we talked to said there are times when they have thought about walking away because it's so difficult. >> but they don't. so who is helping them? how are they getting through it? >> reporter: well, that's one of the big questions. and it's one of the big tasks and challenges ahead of us as we

emerge from this pandemic is how do we make sure to take care of these health care workers. many of whom are traumatized. you know, like many professions, medical work does have a stigma around it as it relates to mental health. folks who are scared to say "i need help." there are organizations, national association who are asking for a kind of sweeping attempt to chronicle the mental health of health care workers, asking for money to be devoted. there was some money in the covid relief bill. but asking the biden administration essentially to create a tracking program like we did for the 9/11 first responders. making sure that everyone who was on the front lines of the pndemic, wolverine e know wheree and come provide help. >> in the last piece, we had a health official say we don't have a health care system, weaver a sick care system. and what you're learning or what you're hearing is that now it's actually threatening the stability of what we still call the health care system.

how so? >> reporter: well, we have to remember that even before the pandemic, we were facing a relative crisis in nursing. that we didn't have an overflow of health care workers. and now we've asked them to do this herculean job to respond to a pandemic and a virus that we didn't really know how to deal with initially. and to do so without resources, without time, without ppe. so we've taken what was already a depleted work force and then handed them this unthinkable task. and it's going to be unsurprising if in the months to come we see any number of health care workers walking away, further depleting the system, making it harder for us to get care. >> we have to go but i want what the workers told you about the vaccine. >> reporter: all the workers we talked to, most of them have been vaccinated. they really, really want folks to get vaccinated because what they worry about is as the

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♪ i used to love this song. you know the song -- sorry. >> i didn't realize i was the one bringing us in -- i looked up -- >> i used to love this song. remember this -- todd rung reen. >> very good. ♪ i was feeling something wasn't right ♪ is it ringing a bell? tony's like no, not with you singing it. >> another one from the oldies station in mom's car. welcome back. >> ouch. >> to "cbs this morning." >> ouch, anthony. >> we'll get to the stories that are "talk of the table" this morning. >> i'm going to attempt to change gears here. as some of you who may have watched "cbs this morning

saturday" and "the dish" know i have a fondness for whiskey. i have a followup story about a brand of whiskey named for a former slave who taught the famous jack daniel how to make whiskey. uncle nearest premium whiskey has become the biggest selling black-owned brand of spirits in history. according to the company. it's on track to sell 250,000 cases this year. michelle miller has reported on the company's story last year. she spoke with uncle nearest ceo fawn weaver who founded the brand in 2017. >> reporter: the first time we got together i said, listen, i want to make sure that nearest green's name is known around the world while i'm still here. i'm making up lost ground. >> what i love about this story is fawn weaver actually started out just trying to do research on uncle nearest. she loved the story and wanted to tell it. but then she ended up -- as she said, whiskey wasn't part of this. but it turned out to be, and now uncle nearest premium whiskey is sold nearly 1.5 million bottles,

more than 160 awards. a movie about nearest green is in development. it's just -- she's had nine consecutive quarters of triple-digit growth. >> i remember when michelle did that story. that's great. >> amazing. >> that's great they're doing so well. mine is we're hearing from a tv sports analyst who nearly got flattened by a falling wall live on the air. you've probably seen it on the internet. we've got to be clear, he's fine. >> he doesn't look fine. >> no, he didn't look fine. >> in the video -- >> in the picture he looks great. >> take a look. watch as this heavy wall on the left suddenly slams down. he co-hosts on espn colombia. they were so stunned, his co-hosts who were there, that they barely reacted -- >> it looks bad. >> it does. he tweeted that he's fine. he only suffered a bruise to his nose and nothing was broken. he thanked all the people who reached out. he said thank god the examina examinations, any issue was ruled out. i looked at the co-hosts who were stunned.

i'm thinking if that happened to one of you guys, i would think reflexively you would act. except the oldies joke with your mom's car, i might leave you there. anthony would help -- i'm kidding. when i walked in and looked at the studio, i did look around. i thought if only we could get hurt with ---y y if he goes ro- >> hit him square across the back. >> he was laying there. >> he hit his head on the table. >> reflexively i would say, are you okay -- >> i would try and lift the thing. >> he's okay. he's okay. everybody's fine. all right. >> what's your, tony? >> a generational explainer. it's about an upcoming movie, and the project has the working events in kentucky in 1985. events in kentucky in 1985. back then, a 175-pound black bear died a cocaine overdose after discovering a batch of the drug.

that batch was dropped from a plane flown by a drug smuggler who died while parachuting it. it's not clear exactly how much cocaine the bear ate, but when the drug-filled duffel bag was discovered, all 75 pounds of the drug were gone. the official who examined the better's body said its stuck was packed to the brim with cocaine. this is a perplexing story because it's playing as a joke on the internet. but clearly the -- and here's why -- the bear had an additional life in the after life. someone found it and stuffed it and put it outside of a -- yeah, a roadside attraction now in kentucky. it's been renamed pablo esco-bear. >> that is kind of funny. >> people whose youth coincided with that moment where cocaine is not known to be as dangerous as it is now think it's the funniest thing ever. the stuffed bear has gone around the country. waylon jennings owned it at one time. it's a boomer nostalgia story. some are like, it's a dead bear

and dead convict. what's the thing about that -- >> i bet the bear's family doesn't appreciate that. went to get food for the family and never came back. >> cocaine did that to a lot of families. >> true. >> that is true. >> very true. all right. time for one of our favorite traditions here at "cbs this morning." we are revealing the grammy music educator of the year. it's part of our "road to the grammys" series where we count down to music's biggest night. the recording academy's 63rd annual grammy awards. this year's music educator award goes to, drum roll, please -- jeffrey murdoch, associate professor of music education at the university of arkansas. murdoch's an educator, a conductor, and leader of two of the university's chore us. jamie -- choruses. jamie wax visited him in fayetteville and found a man dedicated to paying forward all that he has received. ♪ >> reporter: the university of

arkansas's inspirational corale knows the value of a mentor. >> he's honestly like a dad to a lot of people. like a big brother. he's anything that you need him to be in that moment. >> nice work, man. this is good. >> reporter: because their mentor knows that value, too. >> so i started out playing piano when i was 5 years old. and there was a family friend who paid for my piano lessons. having someone to kind of get that seed planted for me was really meaningful to who i am now. >> reporter: do you ever think about what your life would be like if this family friend had not done that for you at that age? >> i do think about it quite a bit. it would be a very bleak existence, i think, for me. >> reporter: jeffrey murdock grew up in a rough neighborhood in biloxi, mississippi. >> i grew up in a part of town where it was not uncommon seeing people getting shot and killed in front of my house.

so i appreciate the village that was around me, that helped me overcome those odds. ♪ >> reporter: that village included music teachers who fed his passion and guided him. ♪ including the first black teachers he ever had. this is such an example of what we hear about a lot and speak about, that representation is so incredibly crucial to creating a possibility in a child's mind. >> indeed. indeed. absolutely. and i think if it not been for those musical experiences with african-american teachers, i'm not sure that i would have had the same trajectory. i always say that i wanted to be a meteormeteorologist. >> weather's loss is music's gain. and murdock makes paying it forward a priority. >> to have a black professional mentor in the position that he's in, to really take me under his

wing, it is just -- i'm blessed. >> what makes dr. murdock incredible is that, yes, he's an incredible musician, an incredible director, but educates us in life things. educates us on how to be good citizens, good peers, good friends, good mentors. and that never stops for him. that's a 24/7 thing. >> teach the students that are in front of you, not the students that you wish you had. >> reporter: it's why he not only leads the choirs but also the music educators.eration of >> as many music teachers as we can keep out there and as many folks as we can get to continue to plant seeds and giving students meaningful experiences, i think we're making the world a better place one kid at a time. ♪ the basses drop out -- osteopor osteopor >> reporter: even a college professor he engages with student of all ages, first grade through high school. >> i've been passionate about

young kids and just -- students of all ages. and lifelong learners, that i can't get myself out of the high school classroom, out of the elementary classrooms. it's just -- it's my happy place. ♪ >> reporter: what do you hope your legacy is? >> i hope that if people remember me for one thing only, that they remember that jeff murdock loved students. that jeff murdock loved students unconditionally and gave them his all. >> reporter: for "cbs this morning," jamie wax, fayetteville, arkansas. ♪ >> say it every time, one great teacher can change your life. >> yeah. >> someone like jeffrey murdock. >> i love that he said you teach the students you have not the students you wish you had -- >> good advice for a lot of things. i like when he said jeff murdock loves students unconditionally

and gave it his all. message received. message received. it's good that he found his happy place. i like that. >> yeah. >> and tomorrow on "cbs this morning," "entertainment tonight's" kevin phrfrazier loo at the biggest night. you can watch the grammy awards this morning at 8:00 eastern, 5:00 pacific on cbs. ahead, vlad will be back with another great story. our "a more perfect union" series hits the ice, so do i, to find out how figure skating is helping girls being confidence and

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visit right now or call during business hours. our series "a more perfect union" aims to show that what unites us as americans is far greater than what that divides us. for more that two decades, an organization in new york's harlem neighborhood has used figure skating to help girls from underserved communities grow physically, emotionally, and academically. we are meeting the group and two young skaters overcoming barriers on and off the ice. ♪ >> when i figure skate, i just feel free. anything that happened before, it just -- my mind just clears. >> reporter: 9-year-old jade has been skating for almost half her life. her mother says the sport has shaped her daughter in countless

ways. >> she never was shy, but you know, just a little timid. after the first week, she just kind of changed into a different girl. she's so confident now. >> i did a project on harriet tub tubman -- >> reporter: jade is one of thousands of girls whose lives have been transformed by figure skating in harlem. an organization founded in 1997. ♪ >> the organization is more than just skating. you're realizing, wow, that was hard, and i learned how to do it, and i actually did it. and i didn't think i could. that carries on to anything else outside of life. persistence, not giving up. that's really the message that we send here. >> i had never known black girls to do skating. that was something that i was impossible to me. i had never heard of it. the program delivers to you more than just like skating. >> reporter: girls like high school sophomore vitoire balance school along with skating practice at least twice a week. families apply and pay tuition on a sliding scale, but no girl

is turned away because of money. skates and lessons are included, in addition to specialized courses and academic tutors. >> they're teaching you self-worth, teaching you confidence, teaching you financial literacy. they're teaching you to value your education, get the most you can out of it. >> reporter: are there figure skaters that you admire, that you look up to? >> first one who waved the way for young black figure skaters is maybel fairbanks. ♪ >> reporter: forbidden to practice or compete because of her race, maybel fairbanks taught herself on frozen ponds and flooded tennis courts. >> she gave you courage, strength, validity. >> reporter: fairbaks coached atoy wilson. he was the first black figure skater to compete. he went on to win a national title in 1966. ♪ is there something poetic about the fact that maybel fairbanks fell in love with figure skating in harlem and there's now this

organization in harlem teaching young black and brown girls? >> to see this link paying homage to the trailblazing people such as maybel fairbanks on ice, she was alone by herself out there but had the distinction and tenacity and the enthusiasm as it is in a relationship of seeing the girls with figure skating in harlem. >> going to competitions and seeing that we were the only majority black team, our coaches always reinforcing in us you worked hard to get here. yeah, i work hard to be in these spaces. i deserve to just -- to feel just as beautiful and just as elegant. >> reporter: over the past five years, 100% of the students in the program went on to college. alumni have become successful lawyers, teachers, photographers, and entrepreneurs. what are some of the lessons that you learned here that

you'll pick up long after you've left this program, and you turn up in a boardroom and you're the only black executive there. >> my family has made me strong. my community has made me strong. i have made myself strong, and i choose to be strong in the spaces that i choose to be in. any room i walk into i know i have something special to give. >> back in 2018, beyonce's sports wear line honored figure skating in harlem because, quote, they embody us. they have a smaller program in detroit. >> they've helped a lot of people learn to skate. >> does d y-- did you know abou mabel fairbanks? harlem's -- mentored stars like christine yamaguchi. >> i'm concerned vlad's trying to filibuster me here. he knows that i am in position of video of you trying to skate.

and i want to show that now. and ask you if you were at all nervous -- >> wow. >> they are very good teachers -- >> that was my first time ever on the ice. >> you go, vlad. >> yes. and jade was there. vitoire was there holding my hand the entire time. >> i was expecting when we saw the chorus line of girls on the ice, i was expecting a slow pan across the girls and vlad -- >> i kept thinking you were going to come up, but you didn't. >> hard -- >> our producer behind me, she's an amazing figure skater -- >> serious skater. >> that's right. >> you looked a little like -- looked like -- >> a great piece and a great program. thank you so much. ahead on today podcast, wikipedia celebrates his anniversary. we speak to the ceo of the foundation, katherine maher. how the free online encyclopedia has worked to prevent the spread of metro st of misinformation.

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