as the pandemic has raged on, their mental health has continued to suffer. the cdc said between april and october, the emergency departments saw a 30% spike in visits for children 12-17 years old for mental health reasons. across the country, millions kids are still attending school remotely. do you feel the kids that are learning virtually their mental health is declining? >> 100%. >> reporter: this is a school psychologist in rocko's district where there's a hybrid prampt some students in person and others are virtual. >> our virtual students are dealing with a lot of isolation, a lot of screen burn-out. >> reporter: glassman credits rocko's improvement with early intervention, pro active parents and returning to school in person. how many calls a day do you receive a day worried about the sdmirn. >> 5-10 a day, and it's all

about mental health issues. >> reporter: she gets calls from ages kindergarten through college. what do you look for if you think they are struggling? >> not wanting to be involved in activities. staying in their room and sleeping. >> reporter:er more than half of children, 11-17 reported they have had thoughts of suicide or self harm, nearly half or every day in the previous two weeks. they were also more likely than any other age group to have moderate to severe symptoms of anxiety and depression. what do you do if you think your child is going to harm themselves? >> straight to the hospital. >> reporter: what do you do if ? >> get help, get help for them and the family. >> reporter: rocko said speaking publically to us about his mental health helped. >> it made me feel happy and a lot better that i was making an impact on other people. >> reporter: why is it so important to keep this conversation going?

>> because it definitely normalizes these feelings and it ends the stigma of mental health issues. there will should be no stigma around it. people need to talk about the things and know other people are going through the same things they are. >> reporter: one area said they are overwhelmed by the number of calls of parents with struggling kids. as we pace this mental health crisis, rocko's counselor said is she hopes that bringing the kids back in person is prioritized. >> a year ago, new york city was the epi-center of the virus in the u.s. hospitals were overrun and there was a shortage of everything from masks to gloves and testing materials. we were on the front lines back then and we have returned to the brooklyn hospital to see how it has changed. >> reporter: during that time, ppe was scarce, i will never forget, i was head to toe in protective gear when he went in, and one of the nurses looked at

me and said, i want what you have. i 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 and every other institution in the world was blind sided. >> reporter: that is nurse kimberly ellis. when we met her a year ago at the saturday of the pandemic. >> look what he has on and i have on. >> reporter: she was treating patients like this. >> i was wearing a garbage bag over the 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 meand said, what are you wearing? >> initially it was very paf painful, you looked dressed safer than me at the time. >> i would like a helmet like yours, i wanted what you had, because you looked better prepared for the pandemic. in all fairness, i don't think

that anybody was prepared properly in the early part of the pandemic sgloompt but we are past those early days for nurse ellis. >> we would like you to be here 5:30 a.m. tomorrow morning. >> reporter: she is in the original role in the pre-ope are -- pre-operative department. >> we are back to things we normally do. which is taking care of other medical problems had that people in brooklyn have. >> reporter: this is the hospital's infection control director and he is an icu physician. he took us through one of the three covid icus. this is the one year checkup. >> yeah. >> reporter: what is the evaluation? >> i'm grateful how well we surv survived. as all the data has come out through the various research studies, a lot of things we were doing then had they are recommending now. and i'm still looking at it

saying it's not completely done yet. >> reporter: nurse ellis feels the same way about the virus. it's not over yet and she said sh she will never forget the fear of those first days. >> patients died much more rapidly and often than i had ever 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 was not 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 frustration. >> reporter: with what? >> the unknown. covid-19 has been the virus of the unknown. >> reporter: hm-mm, the day after nurse ellis said i want what you have. i sent her our face shield and after we left are, we awgreed that it was the right thing to do. she wore it all six weeks that

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out before the big night. including the musk educator of the year. this year's winner is jeffrey mourdock. we paid him a visit. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: university of arkansas's inspirational coral, knows the value of a mentor. >> he is honestly like a dad to a lot of people. like a big brother to a lot of people. he is 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 meaningful to who i am now. >> reporter: do you think of what your life would be like, if

this this family friend had not done that for you at that age? >> i do think about it quite a bit. it would be a bleak existence for me. i think. >> reporter: jeffrey mourdock grew up in a rough neighborhood in biloxi, mississippi. >> i grew up in a part of town where it was not uncommon to see people shot and killed in front of my house. i appreciate the village that was around me that helped me over come the odds. >> reporter: that village included music teachers who fed his passion and guided him. >> reporter: including the first black teachers he ever had. reputation is so incredibly crucial to creating a possibility in a child's mind. >> indeed, indeed. absolutely. and i think if it had not been for those musical experiences with african-american teachers, i'm not sure that i would have had the same trajectory. i say that i wanted to be a

meteorologist. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: weather's loss is music's gain. >> to have a black professional mentor to take me under his wing is, just, i'm blessed. >> what makes dr. mourdock incredible. he is an incredible director and musician, and he goes the extra step in educating us in life things. educating us to be good friends, peers and mentors and that never stops for him. it's a 24/7 thing. >> teach the students that are in front of you, not the students you wish you had. >> reporter: it's why he not only leads the choirs but teaches the next generation of music educators. >> i think we are making the world a better place. one kid at a time. ♪ ♪

>> drop out, go. >> reporter: and it's why even though the he is a college professor, he still makes sure to engage with students of all ages. from first grade through high school. >> i have been so passionate about young kids and just, stud o all d life longt in't myh school classroom. the elementary classroom. it's just 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 mourdock loved students. that jeff mourdock loved students unconditionally. and gave them his all. >> for cbs this morning. fayetteville, arkansas. and of course, you can watc

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prince harry and wife meghan's controversial interview now has the attention of the british parliament, we have the story from london. >> reporter: a group of female members of parliament is expected to call for a debate in to how the media has covered meghan, the duchess of s isusse holly lynch is one of the members of wants a public debate about how meghan has been treated by the powerful newspapers. >> there was a sense that she was an outsider. that she was not good enough for our royal family. a constant, constant tearing down of her character. >> reporter: in her tell-all

interview, the duchess accused royal aids of failing to stand up for her when the papers got it wrong. >> everyone in the institution knew it was not true. >> why didn't somebody say that? >> it's a good question. >> harry made the 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 villafied tabloid papers and one blatantly racist. harry did point out who stood up for the couple. >> female henes wr abo meg and had nobody from the family said anything about that over the three years. that hurts.

>> reporter: this the letter written to meghan by female members of parliament in 2019. >> it's a responsibility to them, it's not just about protecting the duchess of sussex, it's defending the women that feel powerless in the same situation. >> the executive director of the society of editors a group that defends media freedom said on monday that the press here is quote, not bigoted and it was not acceptable for the duke duchesss to make claims without providing evidence. he has now resigned following a backlash from yurnljournalists. that is the new for us, you can follow us online any time at cbs news.com. reporting from the nation's

capitol. i'm jeff pegues is. it's friday, march 12th, 2021. this is the "cbs morning news." >> we not only mark our independence as a nation, but we begin to mark our independence from this virus. >> hope after the pandemic. president biden's message to america. the biggest takeaways from his first primetime address. royal reckoning. what british lawmakers are demanding in the wake of oprah's bombshell interview with prince harry and meghan markle. music's biggest night. a preview of the grammy awards. but one thing a singer says he's but one thing a singer says he's boycotting the ceremony. captioning funded by cbs