back to be with you. >> he is lying. good morning to our viewers in the west and welcome to "cbs this morning" on this monday, march 22, 2021. i'm gayle king. that's anthony mason. that's tony dokoupil. breaking news for you on piem a potential new vaccine to fight the coronavirus in the u.s. and the latest on the situation at miami beach where spring breakers clashed with police. and the biden administration says the border is closed as the number of unaccompanied minors increases. we'll ask senator chris murphy why he said he fought back tears visiting a border facility for children. and it was a weekend of upsets in march madness. we'll talk to a legend of the women's game about inequality and what the ncaa can do about it.

but first here's today's "eye opener." it's your world in 90 seconds. >> we have a huge number of people who are coming here i think because they probably want to let loose or worse and we are seeing it. >> miami beach declared a state of emergency. >> the city taking extreme measures to crackdown on out-of-control spring breakers. >> my understanding is people came here and did outlandish things but they did that everywhere. they're from detroit. >> a surge of migrants are looking to enter the united states. >> now is not the time to come. do not come. >> defense secretary lloyd austin made an unannounced visit to afghanistan. >> what we want to see is a responsible end to this conflict. >> a long, dormant volume takenio continues to erupt in iceland. >> it's the first time in 6,000 years a volcano erupted. and multiple charges after a man walked into an elephant

habitat with a 2-year-old. and all that matters -- >> the upset makers are history makers! >> this ncaa tournament is really living up to that name march madness. we've got upsets left and right. >> oral roberts knocked off 7 seed florida. >> oral roberts is in the sweet 16! >> on "cbs this morning." >> look at this! >> the fist number one seed came down. illinois dethroned by number 8 loyola. >> another fairy tale ride is under way for loyola-chicago. >> and 101-year-old team captain sister jean is rooting them on in person. >> they're dancing, still dancing! this morning's "eye opener" is presented by progressive. making it easy to bundle insurance. >> part of the fun of march madness, the upsets and iter r sister jean. >> yes, indeed. >> want her in your corner.

we will begin with breaking news overnight that could pave the way for a fourth covid vaccine in this country. astrazeneca says a new study in the u.s. and two other countries show the vaccine is 79% effective of preventing covid symptoms. the company said it's 100% effective at stopping severe illness and hospitalization. that's important. u.s. has preordered 300 million doses of the vaccine. for more on that, let's bring in our dr. david agus. david, thank you for getting up early, this is really big news but is there a but to the news and i ask that because there was a concern in your country about bloot clots and the vaccine. how does it stack up against the other? >> i think it's great. 32,000 people randomized and what it showed was it worked. there was no blood clot seen in the study over placebo and no neurological symptoms. remember a couple months ago we thought there may be a neurologic uptick and it turned

out to be incorrect. so a lot of talk about this vaccine but finally it's here in the united states. it's already out in dozens of countries around the globe. >> we've got three very strong vaccines in this country. if astrazeneca is approved, how will this drug impact the timeline to vaccine every american? >> it can only help. we have tens of millions of doses of this ready to go. it will still take another six to seven weeks to get the data to the fda to review it and get the vaccine out. but these dose as are critical. i think most critical this is a vaccine where there are 3 billion doses ordered for the world. remember for this virus, if there's an infection somewhere else in the world, it can spawn a new variant and affect us. so it matters there are vaccines available for other couples and this is going to be the dominant one and this is a big shot in the arm for them and boosts up confidence for the globe. i'm very excited we have another weapon in our arsenal. >> i like what you said, it can only help.

thank you, doctor, it's good to see you. we turn to a showdown in miami beach between spring break tourists ignoring the dangers of covid and local leaders trying to prevent another surge. over the weekend partyers clashed with police trying to enforce an 8:00 p.m. curfew. our lead national correspondent david begnaud is in miami beach, where officials have declared a state of emergency. >> reporter: with people, many tourists and most maskless, defied an 8:00 p.m. curfew in miami beach over the weekend, s.w.a.t. teams were brought in to clear the streets. balls. [ alarm ] on sunday, the streets remained crowded, but it was more subdued. tour visits been packing this destination since february back when florida's governor declared the state a, quote, oasis of freedom from coronavirus restrictions. >> the governor said no masks we can have fun -- >> they got a s.w.a.t. team out.

>> reporter: recent video shows how unruly some visitors have gotten. in the past five weeks, police have arrested more than 5,000 people on miami beach. more than half from out of state. >> we're getting inappropriate conduct to full-out criminal activity which has become a reel policing challenge. >> reporter: one popular hotel, the clevelander, temporarily closed its food and beverage operations over safety concerns. the mayor, dan gelber, said he was left with no choice he feels but to set a curfew and restrict some streets and highways to residents and hotel guests only. >> i did not want to react in the wake of something unimaginable. i did not want to wait until there was a stampede or some kind of shooting or just something that felt that it could have been prevented had we just taken more action on the front end. >> it's a good thing. i'm going to be honest with. crowd control is good. it was rapid. it was very fast. >> reporter: there's that opinion when you talk to people on the street, and then there's

this -- >> everybody's running -- every time the police would come, they would run to the next street. y'al middle of the pandemic. >> there is still the pandemic going on. thank you very much. for the first time since president biden took office, we are getting an unofficial look inside a border patrol facility for unaccompanied children. take a look at these pictures from donna, texas. they show kids crowded together in makeshift rooms. democratic congressman henry quayar shared images with axios. at the time the number of unaccompanied children in the u.s. in american custody

good morning, manny. what is the latest where you are? >> we have noticed border patrol agents have been quickly apprehending those fleeing. and what they are fleeing from is a bigger factor than any change in u.s. immigration policy. arriving at this stretch of the border with el paso just on the other side, we saw a man with a child in his arms and a woman rushing across and into the united states. they appeared to be spotted soon after. we're told that many families are still trying to get to the other side to turn themselves in thinking they can claim asylum. the biden administration says most families will be sent right back. it's what hapened to glenda mendez of guatemala. you want people to see you as human beings trying the best for

your children. she and her 14-year-old son gustavo have been living at a migrant shelter in juarez for a month now. how's it been? very difficult, why? a lot of dangers here in mexico. they haven't considered sending him alone. though the biden administration's policy toward unaccompanied minors would mean he could stay in the u.s. while his case is processed. republicans have blamed the president for the crisis. >> the message is coming back that, hey, we've got a new president, come on in. >> reporter: on sunday, homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas repeatedly said that is not the message. >> the border is closed. >> reporter: current policies that migrants, whether they cross illegally or through port of entry, apply for asylum in

the united states. president biden said the administration is working to change that. >> including making sure that we re-establish what existed before which was they could stay in place and could face their home country. >> reporter: many say waiting is not possible. it was more the fear of the threats against you and your family that brought you here, not necessarily the policy. ng i. tony? >> all right. thank you very much. democratic senator chris murphy visited a >> manny, thank you very much. t back tears as a 13-year-old girl sobbed uncontrollably exp intere

visit come did not include the media. good morning to you. it occurs to me that you and your colleagues in colleagues are in effect our eyes and ears now, the eyes and ears of the american people. please tell us as you held that young girl's hand and she cried in front of you, what were you thinking, and what were the conditions like for the other children there? >> well, what i thought about was the decision her family made to send her to the united states and how desperate things are in her home country of guatemala. this is a humanitarian crisis in countries like el salvador, guatem guatemala, mexico, where the violence is so epidemic that these children have to take this harrowing journey to the united states. these families know these kids are going to likely end up in detention facilities, but for them that's better than facing certain death or recruitment into vicious drug gangs in their home countries. the conditions -- you know, listen, i wouldn't want my children to be in those

detention facilities. but this isn't 2019. these aren't cages. there are doctors and childcare workers there, and the biden administration is trying to deal with a mess they were left from the trump administration. the trump administration effectively dismantled the asylum system. and so biden is try to stand it up as quickly as he can, get these kids processed so they can have a chance to make the case to stay in the united states. >> senator murphy, you set up the choice there for families quite well. there's the danger in the country where they're coming from, then there's facilities in the u.s. the administration is saying the border is closed, but clearly the border is open for people under the age of 18 and for some families. can you see how that might encourage more people to come, and deepening of this crisis? >> well, there's no doubt that there are human smugglers that are lying to families in mexico and central america, telling them that they can come to the united states now. i think it's important for

secretary mayorkas and others to make clear that with the exception of unaccompanied minors everyone else gets turned around. but let's be clear -- the policy we're applying to kids right now is the policy we applied to everyone prior to covid, even under donald trump, before early 2020. if you were an adult, a family, or a minor and you presented yourself at the border and had a claim for asylum, you were allowed to stay and make that claim through the court system. so the policy right now that is in place for unaccompanied minors is the exact same policy that applied to every single migrant even under donald trump prior to 2020. nothing is new here. the border is not open, but for these select young children it's just not right to turn them around and send them back into dangerous northern mexico by themselves. as a compassionate, humane country, we need to take care of them and protect them. >> yeah.

senator, people can understand from a humanitarian point of view that argument, but your critics will point out and critics of the administration will point out that by letting in, as you put it, select young people but really all young people, that does encourage more to come. and when the smugglers say you can get in to a person under 18, they're not lying. >> well, but again, the point i'm making is this is the law, right. this is the law that donald trump was applying. the only change is that when covid hit, there is a provision of the immigration statute that for a temporary amount of time during a public health emergency, allows you to turn everybody back around. so the law says that absent that emergency the united states has to give people who were showing up at our border a chance to apply for asylum. listen, we are a compassionate, humane country. if the people are facing death if they go back home, we should give them a chance to stay. at least for now, these children. 50% of these children don't

actually pass the asylum bar, they actually do eventually get turned around and sent back home. >> senator, we're running out of time, but i want to ask what hope is there from where you're sitting for a bipartisan solution in congress to address this issue? >> my worry is that republicans see this right now as a political wedge to try to hurt the president and drive down his very high approval ratings. they don't really want to talk about the current real crisis in america which is covid. and the battered economy. president biden is doing some pretty amazing things to get us back on the right footing with respect to our economic troubles. republicans don't want to talk about that, so they want to talk about the border. i went there with a couple of republicans who are serious legislators, rob portman and shelly capatow, my hope is to have a conversation about fixing our broken laws. >> we'll have to leave it there. thank you very much. thousands across the u.s. gathered at vigils and rallies

over the weekend to honor the victims of the deadly atlanta area spa shootings. from new york to washington, d.c. to denver to pittsburgh, many speak out against hate crimes targeting asian americans. we're also hearing from the friends and family of the eight victims of the attack. mark strassmann has more on how they will be remembered. >> reporter: friends, family, and a community of supporters grieve for the loss of eight lives. shooting victim xiaojie tan was the orange of young's asian massage. >> she was a hard worker. i just don't know why this happened to her. i cannot -- i still cooperate accept it. >> reporter: tan's daughter visited a memorial for all those killed. >> i was just hoping that it was not my mom. not my mom. >> reporter: yong yue's son said in a statement they're devastated and words cannot adequately describe our grief. hyun jung grant's two sons wrote this a fundraising post that she

dedicated her whole life to providing for them. paul mike else was an army veteran who owned a business installing security systems in the atlanta area. his brother john says the family is still processing. >> we're just taking it one day at a time. i don't think we're going to to feel the full shock until we go down there to the funeral. >> reporter: sun cha kim worked multiple jobs according to a fundraiser set up by her family. the grandmother of three is remembered as pure hearted and the most selfless woman they ever knew. and 33-year-old delaina yaun was at the spa with her husband when she died. >> she had so much good stuff happen to her just in the last year. >> she just got married recently. she had my niece, mia, 8 months old. she had so many good things that just happened. >> reporter: her sister, dana toole, says her husband is devastated by the loss. >> i could look at his face, and i could tell he

mario said they put him in handcuffs and treated him like a suspect for two hours and only then had he learned his wife had also been killed. >> so sad. thank you very much. >> everybody is still healing there. a quick programming note before we focus on the big issues, we will speak exclusively with vice president kamala harris wednesday here on "cbs this morning." we sure have a lot to talk about with her. >> indeed we do. ahead the nfl is investigating sexual misconduct claims against star quarterback deshaun watson. we will hear from the attorney

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then there's the top-seeded illinois. a lot of people thought they could win it all. instead, they crumbled against loyola chicago. loyola, of course, has sister jean on their side. the 101-year-old team chaplain. >> reporter:ed the team with a -- provided the team with a prayer before the game come included a scouting report. march madness continues today starting with iowa versus oregon at 12:10 eastern right here on cbs. we should note that sister jean has her team, loyola, going to the elites erlite eight. she doesn't have them winning it all. she picked gonzaga. >> we think she has a pipeline to things. she said it was a from prayer. we'll see. >> that was a good read on sports. if you want to work nights and weekends, i think the ncaa might be -- >> always looking for other tune. we're going to stay with opportunities but a more troubling story. the nfl saying that it is investigating after at least 12 women accused nfl quarterback

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♪ used to love this song. new york city, the largest school district is sending high school students, kids, back to classrooms today. in some cases, the first time, in more than a year. that's great. medical oliver spoke to bill de blsio about the decision after months of criticism from both sides of the issue. meg, good morning.

this is a big milestone for a lot of e of the remainder of her high school career. how does that make you feel, that you're going to be able to basically salvage the rest of your high school? >> i feel like it's a gift of time and like returning back to normal. i do want to become a normal high schooler again. >> reporter: meril mousoom is going back to school for the first time in a year. the 17-year-old senior says while she's nervous, she's struggled with remote learning. have you been lonely? >> definitely. my parents are essential workers, i'm the one who has to be alone all the time. and it's felt extremely

isolating. >> reporter: if you could tell mayor bill de blasio one thing, what would it be? >> i would tell mayor de blasio to university in our children because we truly are the future. and this generation is struggling mentally, then the future will be at stake. >> reporter: the mayor agrees. >> this is affecting their future. we've got to reach them. >> reporter: is there any excuse for any school district across the country right now not to be offering some form of in-person learning by now? >> there's no excuse to not offer in-person learning at this point. we've proven that you can create health and safety standards that work in any classroom. >> reporter: de blasio says those standards allowed the city to restart in-person learning across the entire new york city public school system. it includes a rigorous testing program. each week a random collection of students and staff are tested at every new york city public school. 20% of every school's population

is tested monthly. how big of a role did testing play in your ability to reopen? >> testing became the guarantor. that gave confidence to everyone. our educators, our staff, our parents, everyone could see there was really quick, rigorous followup when there was a problem. >> reporter: that pandemic response lab runs 125,000 p cpc tests per month and could do so much more according to ceo johnathan brennan-badal. >> school students k through 12 in the metro area every week. >> reporter: every week you can test every student in a public school? >> absolutely. regime the technology is known as pool testing, placing up to 25 samples in single tubes and testing 25 people for the price of one. if a pool comes back positive, each individual sample is then tested again on its own to find the positive cases. but for it to be viable and effective, the positivity rate in the community needs to be below 5%.

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the plans are still in the early stages but have the full support of the royal family. the source says members of the royal households haven't seen the progress they would like under current policies and are, quote, not afraid to look at new ways of addressing problems. the plan to address diversity issues was apparently in the works before harry and meghan sat down for the explosive interview with oprah earlier this month. >> wouldn't you like to be in the room for that job interview? >> right. >> the new diversity chief at buckingham palace. >> would be curious to see the type of person they choose. i kind of agree with you, tony, feels like fallout to me. >> yeah. >> i know you're saying development, but it does feel like fallout. >> knock-on effect. the issues raised in the interview were not only about buckingham palace. it was about the family. >> that's my question, tony. >> it's like you're hiring a diversity officer, but maybe should just talk to your family members. >> or your circle of friends. maybe you'll get input. i think there's a term for that. >> i can see the diversity

officer going, so, shall i have a talk with this person or that person? no, talk to everybody else. >> or just a therapist. >> yes. exactly. exactly. all right. we'll see how it happens. there's an interesting development with harry. he wrote a forward -- >> this was beautiful. i saw this. >> yes. the forward -- it's "hospital by the hill." a children's book. in the forward he mentions of death of his mother and says this, "i hope this book helps remind you of how special your parent or loved one was and how special you are, too." >> nice. what's the name of the book? >> the name is "hospital by the hill." >> nice. >> very moving. and hard to find the words to express what he expressed in that forward. i was impressed. very cool. all right. terrifying scene playing out at the san diego zoo. a dad illegally entered an elephant habitat while holding his 2-year-old daughter. there is what happened next. >> oh! [ sounds ] >> the dad's name is jose

navarette. he scrambled to get out of the animal's way as he was holding the toddler. at one point he actually drops -- >> drops the baby -- >> drops the baby. you can hear screaming from people looking on. navarette reportedly told police he wanted to get a selfie with the elephant. >> oh, my god. >> luckily no one was hurt including the elephant. elephant's okay. navarette was arrested and has been charged with child endangerment. >> a knucklehead. if you want to do a selfie, do it yourself. the fact that he would risk his child -- i can't imagine what the mother said. >> he's being held on $100,000 bail. the child went home with the mom. if it says "do not enter" -- >> you don't want to make an elephant mad. >> it reminds me of olivia mason's favorite term that i learned from her. he falls in the douche canoe territory. yes, he does. >> you said it out loud. >> thank you, olivia. i like that phrase. it applies.

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this is a kpix5 news morning update. good morning. it's 7:56 and i'm michelle griego. san francisco will relax restrictions and go orange as soon as wednesday. indoor dining would expand to 50% from 25% and indo retail would be limited to 50% capacity. in contra costa, the youngest mt. diablo students will return part-time thursday, with grades three through 12 following next monday. lawmakers will host an event in support of asian- american communities and are

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♪ it's monday, march 22nd, 2021. we welcome you back to "cbs this morning." i'm gayle king, that's tony dokoupil and anthony mason. we'll speak to women about inequality in sports and the music industry. legendary coach muffet mcgraw will tell us about fighting for respect as male athletes are given far more resources at colleges. we have more of demi lovato's candid conversation with addiction on "cbs sunday morning." why she says she's grateful to be the person she is today. and country star rissi palmer is back on the grand ole opry stage to make the music better reflect everyone in

america. first here is today's "eye opener" at 8:00. astrazeneca says a new study in the u.s. and two other countries shows its vaccine is 79% effective. how does it stack up against the others? >> i think it's great. 32,000 people randomized, and what it showed us, it worked. >> to be fair city officials say it's not just college kids causing this chaos. adults are, too, looking to let loose. many families are trying to get to the other side to turn themselves in thinking they can claim asylum. the biden administration says most families will be sent right back. let's be clear, the policy we're applying to kids right now is the policy we applied to everyone prior to covid. even under donald trump. and south carolina will move on. >> the women's ncaa tournament is under way. >> south carolina cruises over mercer 79-53. coach dawn staly career win 500. as for the uconn women they blew out high point.

>> paige beckers had 24 points. >> paige beckers can provide buckets. cheers to the women this morning. i always like that. we've got new data out this morning that suggests the uz kouz soon have a fourth coronavirus vaccine available for use. astrazeneca's a name out with its results of the phase three trial in the u.s. and two other countries. it says its vaccine is 79% effective at preventing covid symptoms and it was 100% effective at preventing severe cases and hospitalizations. >> and this comes as nearly half the u.s. is reporting a rise in daily covid cases compared to the previous week according to johns hopkins. and scenes like this in miami beach are adding to concerns of a prolonged pandemic, more prolonged than it already is. police struggled over the weekend to clear the streets of mostly maskless spring breakers amid an 8:00 p.m. curfew. in some cases officers used pepper balls to break up the crowd. now this curfew is part of a

state of emergency which has been extended for up to three weeks. after major backlash the ncaa is addressing the discrepancy between men's and women's facilities for march madness teams. >> guess what, guys, we got a weight room! yeah! >> that's university of oregon forward sedona prince showing off a new and improved weight room for female athletes. prince went viral after putting a video on social media showing the differences between the weight rooms. this comparison shows the expansive men's room, while the women's room originally contained just a few dumb bells and yoga mats before making those upgrades. the ncaa apologized and said in a statement we want to be responsive to the needs of our participating teams, and we are actively working to enhance existing resources at practice courts including additional weight training equipment. they weren't so active there in the beginning.

>> i was going to say, thank you, sedona prince. legendary former notre dame women's basketball coach, muffet mcgraw, is taking a stand against the disparities between men and women's sports. she says this generation of female athletes expects more and, quote, we won't stop until we get it. mcgraw spent 33 years coaching notre dame leading them to two national championships and nine final four appearances. you go. muffet mcgraw joins us this morning to discuss. good to see you, coach mcgraw. the blatant disrespect shown to the women was jaw dropping to me and thank you to sedona prince to pointing it out to all of us. i've heard you say you weren't surprised. i looked at that video and i thought who is in the room making these decisions? why weren't you surprised? >> i think we've been fighting this battle for years and years, probably decades. i think similar to what most women across the country, whatever field you're in, has gone through, and that is we're treated with the kind of feeling

that we're just not enough, that we're somehow less than, and they think it's okay. and that is probably the biggest problem, that they think it's okay. >> in your statement, your statement is great, by the way, you said it's like women are treated like the jayvee team to the men's team, and that is not okay. >> that's exactly right. and if you look at the games, just turn on the games, you'll see the women's court -- we're all playing on college campuses, but the men have been provided with a brand-new ncaa court with march madness, the huge logo in the middle. where on the women's court you'll still see two lines for the men's line and women's line for three-point shots. there's a volleyball court on one of the courts. the conference logo or the college logo is still on the court. it doesn't look like an ncaa game. >> coach mcgraw, you said you've been fighting this fight for decades and we're still having these issues. what would you say needs to happen right now to make sure the next march madness gets off to a better start? >> well, we've never had a woman leading the ncaa.

maybe that's a good place to start. honestly, i think one of the things we can do right away is to call the tournaments the men's and women's basketball tournament. when you turn on the tv and you like at the guide it just says ncaa basketball tournament and, of course, that just means men's. the ncaa runs two social media accounts, one called march madness and one the final four. they're both men's. they don't state that. and i think that would be a start to say men's basketball and women's basketball. >> coach, i was struck by the statistic that among the power five -- 65 schools in the power five conferences of the athletic directors there are only four women. do we need more women in the room making decisions here? >> i'm glad that you were shocked by that. i think that is so important that we hire more women, and i think that's the trend nationally right now. i think people are looking, corporations are looking, to promote and hire more women so we have a more diverse workforce and that is something, i think, we need in athletics. it has been a male-dominated

institution for so long. i think it's time we evened out the score. we have many women playing. we went from 200,000 to 2 million women playing sports and now we need that to be reflected in the upper levels. >> coach, the number of women coaching women's basketball teams is actually declining and significantly. why is that happening? >> you know, i think there's a lot of reasons for that. work life balance, as in most professions is an issue especially now during the pandemic when women are taking the brunt of it, you're trying to coach. it's not something can you do personally. you're there in person. if you have a family at home you're torn between what can you do with trying to get them home schooled and work on what they have to do. i think it's important that we make rules and legislate rules in our game that allow women to do that. but i think right now it's mostly opportunity. i don't think the a.d.s are hiring enough women, and i think it's because most of the a.d.s are men, as you said, and they hire people who look like them. >> i wonder what you thought

when you saw that video? did you call anybody, and are you optimistic things will change? what did you think? >> i just thought, again, it's the same thing. i'm just so tired of it. that is my biggest issue. i've been fighting this for so long. i'm just so happy with this generation, because they look at this and say that is not going to happen with this group. and i love that. >> yeah, they really are like, enough, we will not accept that. and they're not. look how quickly it changed over the weekend. it changed. >> and perhaps ncaa president muffet mcgraw -- >> there you go, tony. muffet mcgraw, what's the name on your birth certificate? just curious. >> i don't recall. i'm at that age where i have a short-term memory. >> that's a good note to end on. very good answer. coach mcgraw, thank you very much. we'll look at changes needed to support athletes who are also mothers. only on "cbs this morning." olympic track star alysia montano who competed while eight

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and actually taking off kind of that weight and that barrier that i was putting on myself when i would think of am i being a good mom right now. absolutely i still deal with questions. i still deal with companies literally saying, prove yourself first, and then we will consider working with you. don't tell me what i can and cannot do. you don't know me and you don't know my body. and i know what it took to get on the podium before, and i know what it takes now. having my daughter on the track with me has been a true balance. you are the reason why mommy realized she doesn't have to decide. >> dawn harper-nelson was able to find support through the nonprofit and mother, a great name. it offers grants to female athletes that help with training, travel, and family support. and mother was found by olympic runner and seventime u.s. champion alysia montano. she made history in 2014 when she competed while eight month pregnant in the u.s. track and

fold championships. and alysia montano joins us now only on "cbs this morning." good morning to you. thank you for being here. i think a lot of people would be surprised and saddened to hear that there is no support, no backing right now for women who are on the track and also mothers. and that's where you're nonprofit comes in. talk about the situation as it stands and how you're trying to change it, if you could.

my career and motherhood because i have not seen that example. >> the motherhood penalty is an amaze phrase. i think -- you know, we all have a stake in eliminating that penalty. and as you've tried to set up this nonprofit to eliminate the penalty yourself, what kind of challenges have you faced? >> you know, first of all, i want people to remember, this started with a movement, culture maternity. we made this movement to our nonprofit organization and mother. this is where the impact is. the challenges that we faced is having women understand that their stories do matter, that they are validated in their decisions of their career and motherhood, they don't have to choose either or. what we've seen is people, women are still very much afraid of sharing their stories because they do not want to be blacklisted from their industry in sharing that this is not something that's allowed them to do their very best this their career and also do their best in

motherhood. with sharing our stories, having a platform that with and mother, sharing the visibility of mother motherhood, we hope that more women will hone in on their voice and know this is what they deserve. >> the motherhood penalty resonated with me, too. nobody wants that. but i was struck by dawn's comments where she said the sponsor said, look, you've got to prove yourself first before we work with you. does that make sense to you? do they have a point? >> no. it absolutely doesn't. here's the thing -- you know, over and over again, one, women are always told to prove themselves. i mean, we just saw sedona -- they're there at the -- at march madness at the pinnacle of their event, and they were still being thrown pennies. what more do i have to do to prove myself? i'm here. we made it here. mothers, you know, this is thing that to us that you're not experts in any field, you know, you have to continue to prove yourself, especially talking

about dawn. dawn is the gold and silver medalist. she showed up to her first olympic games without her own personal pair of shoes. what more does she have to do to prove herself? this is the theme also when it comes to motherhood. women are constantly told and fed that we have to earn an opportunity to pursue motherhood if that is something we also choose. we want to eliminate, break down the barrier and say this is a path you also can have. >> it's anthony. what does your organization do to help mothers in this situation? >> well, we are doing something very, very exciting right now. we are supporting three court athletes. it's going to go across the board. we have grants for smaller -- smaller grants for travel needs, resources, but our three court athletes are three athletes who are pursuing the bid at the olympic games. this is going to be what we want companies to do -- listen, to

learn, to hear women athletes, mother athletes in specific and say i need this resource to help me be at my best. i need resource to help me be at my best. this is going to basically own the door for women to know i'm able to ask and for companies to know that they need to listen and ultimately help provide so that we don't -- we don't have the mothers missing. >> we'll have to leave it there, alysia montano. good to see you. can't wait to see you in person. >> nice to see you, too. >> you're watching "cbs this morning." (announcer) you can quit. for free help, call 1-800-quit now. ♪ ghirardelli caramel squares. makes life a bite better.

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welcome back to "cbs this morning." it is time to bring some of the stories that are "talk of the table" this morning. who's up first? >> i'm up first. i'm encouraged because we are starting to see live music come back. over the weekend, opera superstar renee fleming gave her first live outdoor festival performance since going into pandemic lockdown last year. look. ♪ >> i'm getting chills right here. the legendary soprano performed with the all-student frost school symphony orchestra in florida on saturday. the school is part of the university of miami. strict covid rules were in

place. and there was a limited audience for the music festival. it was a festival, with students performing, as well. the event was live streamed, but as you can see, a little bit of live music coming back. and it was great to see. and great to see renee fleming. >> i like just seeing it on tv. that's great. >> i know. tony? >> tony dokoupil? >> my "talk of the table" is about a mother of three in london who wanted to get her husband to clean more, and so she decided to go on a cleaning strike. >> uh-oh. >> she goes on line by the name of lily potkin. here's how it went -- after two days, there is what her kitchen looked like. her husband had not stepped up. she's mentions a rotting sausage on the stove, the sausage of death she calls it. after three days, look at the laundry picture. piles everywhere. she called it post oapocoliptic and stopped replacing the toilet paper. >> the pile is pushed to the side.

it's not being done. by day four, i can report that this experiment had not only gone completely viral in two countries, it actually worked. her husband got to cleaning. and miss potkin said it worked so well she woke up with the house smelling like bleach and so many things put away that she could not find them. >> that is the dilemma. >> i love there wessista-- i lo can't see the husband's face. >> she says we're not getting divorced. he realizes the error of his ways. mine is about crikrispy kre. i could eat four hot ones like that. they're offering a sweet vaccine. starting today, krispy kreme will give you a free original glazed don't utah -- they're the best -- if you show proof of your shot on the vaccination card. you get the card when you get the shots. the offer is available every day for the rest of the year. krispy kreme is also giving workers up to four hours of paid time off to enable them to get their vaccinations, too.

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lovato has always been good, maybe too good, at hiding her problems. it was all the more shocking when in july, 2018, she overdosed on hair wayne laced with -- heroin laced with fentanyl and nearly died. what did the od do to you physically? >> physically i woke up and i was legally blind. so i literally couldn't see. the od strokes caused brain damage. and so -- also hearing loss. so i still deal with hearing loss, tinnitus, and blind spots in my vision. it's only going to going better from here -- >> reporter: she talks about her ordeal and what led up to it in a tell-all docuseries starring this week on youtube originals. lovato who long suffered from an eating disorder said her former team made her miserable as they tried to keep it and her substance abuse under control. >> you know, it's -- checking my bank statements to see what i ordered at starbucks. >> reporter: that's crazy. even starbucks. just to make sure you didn't

get, what, a full-fat latte? >> i think it was more people were concerned about binging. so if i ordered like cookies or something, like with my coffee. >> reporter: what do you think in retrospect that did to you? >> it made me so self-conscious about everything that i decided to eat. >> reporter: it's quite a con traficant from the demi -- contrast from the demi we met in 2016. in the documentary friends and family talk about how -- >> be careful -- >> reporter: you were good at fooling everybody. >> uh-huh. >> and i feel like looking back, i'm like, oh, well, maybe she was fooling me, too. >> i think -- at the point that we did our interview together, i was fooling myself more than anybody because i was very active in my eating disorder. like we had half of the interview at a gym. in retrospect, like anybody

who's in recovery from an eating disorder maybe shouldn't put so much emphasis on the gym and so much emphasis on fitness. ♪ >> reporter: now demi says she really is in control, and while the road ahead may be bumpy, she's thankful for the storms she's made it through. >> it was really bad. it was a very eye-opening, dramatic experience, but it ultimately changed my life. i'm grateful for the person that i've become today. >> reporter: it almost sounds like you're grateful for the od. >> you could say that. obviously i wish i made better choices. but i can't regret anything today because sometimes you have to go through things for you to wake up. and i'm grateful that i was given a second chance. ♪ not many people are. and i'm grateful that i'm sitting here today, yeah. >> we're all grateful. tracy smith, really good to see you.

i thought your piece was so powerful. i became object setsed with your coat and then -- obsessed with your coat and then the interview and thought, wow. why is demi lovato speaking up now? i know she has a documentary. why is she choosing now a docum has astonishingly frank interviews with everybody who was close to her, her friends, her family, her assistant who found her clinging to life. she was turning blue. it's -- it's truly astonishing to watch it. and by the way, she did tell us that after the documentary, she talks to us and a few other people, she's not talking about it anymore. >> i not that's smart, too -- i think that's smart, too. glad you got the interview. certainly seems like you have a history with her. you talked to her in 2016. what's the biggest change that you saw? >> she does seem -- that's a -- she does seem genuinely happy. she didn't have a ton of handlers sitting right next to

her watching her. you know, as we said, she's very good at fooling people. they stressed that in the documentary, that no one knew what she was doing behind closed doors. from what i could tell, she seems fully herself. >> and she seems to be saying she can drink in moderation. i've seen people on line saying i don't know if that's so good. does she address that in the doc? >> she does. she calls it california sober. she drinks and smokes weed. and also in the doc, she has elton john saying frankly moderation does not work. >> yeah. >> she put that in there. so she -- she addresses it head on and knows it doesn't work for everybody. she just knows that she thinks that abstinence did not work for her. >> she thinks this is the way to go. all right. tracy smith, thank you so much for getting up early. really, really very well done yesterday. thanks a lot. if you or someone you know is seeki iing mental health resources, call the national alliance on mental illness. the help line is --

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♪ ♪ growing where they can't say weeds ♪ ♪ roots run deep because we are seeds ♪ that's country music singer rissi palmer, and the video for "seeds" off her 2019 album "revival." palmer performed at the grand ole opry friday night for the first time in 13 years. she's also featured in the new exhibit at the country music hall of fame and museum in nashville. we'll talk with her in a moment, but first, let's look at her groundbreaking career. ♪ at 19, rissi palmer was offered a chance to make her name in r&b

music but turned it down to pursue her passion -- country. ♪ and with 2007's "country girl," palmer saw her dream come true, becoming the first black woman to make the country music charts in 20 years. ♪ >> the whole idea of that song was you don't have to fit into this box to be a country girl. ♪ >> palmer, who grew up listening to country legends like patsy cline, has for over a decade fought for a seat at the country music table. >> welcome to color me country. >> her apple music radio show "color my country" continues that fight by celebrating the accomplishments of people of color in country music. the title comes from an album by linda martel, the first black woman to play the grand ole opry. palmer first played that famous

stage in 2007. >> my friend, rissi palmer, is back. [ applause ] >> and returned for the first time in 13 years this past friday night. ♪ i left too soon to take 20 years ♪ ♪ a few left turns to get me back to where you were ♪ >> boy, does she sound good. rissi palmer joins us now only on "cbs this morning." rissi, good morning! it's so great to have you here. it's so great that you were back at the grand ole opry. how did it feel to be back? >> well, first of all, thank you so much for having a full circ. and it felt like kind of a ribbon-tying on one part of my story and the beginning of another part. >> you said it felt healing.

how so? >> i think for a long time i personalized a lot of what happened because i ended up leaving the record company in 2010, and i have been independent ever since then. and in the very beginning, it always felt like -- i don't know, like was pushed away, like i was rejected. i took a lot of that personally even though that's a lot of what the music business is. and having that moment and being able to stand on that stage again after so long and everything that i've been three and everything that i've learned, it was just like -- i don't know, it was healing. it made me feel like, okay, you got this. you're doing -- keep pushing, just keep swimming. >> and your daughter was there. your 2-year-old daughter was there? >> my 2-year-old and my 9-year-old. they were both there. >> wow. >> and yeah -- that's us in the dressing room. and they had -- you know, they're road kids. >> yeah. >> they're used to being at

shows and things like that. and i don't know that they knew the gravity of it. but they had a good time. >> had your 2-year-old seen you perform before? >> she's seen me do small things, but she's never seen me do big things yet. you know, she was born at the beginning of all this. so my husband said when i came out on stage and she saw may on the screen she started going, "mama. mama." >> that's always so nice. i first heard about you from gospel great b.b. winans who sent me your music years ago and said "listen to her." i've been on the rissi palmer train for a long time. i'm thrilled to meet you in person. it's really good to see you in person. you said that with the hall of fame and the grand ole opry, if you had to do it over, that you're doing it again and this time doing it smarter. what does that mean, doing it smarter? >> i think a lot of times when you're a new artist you come into things and you're just like, if i keep my head down, i just do this, i just think about myself, like everything will

work out. and with every great movement, there's cohesion. and there's a group effort. and i wish that i had been thinking more globally as opposed to locally, meaning just myself. and so all the years of kind of rebuilding myself and rebuilding my career, i've realized there's power in helping others, and there's power in us coming in as a group. and so i come into my career at this point with the radio show and with the fund that we've started and everything else, like thinking globally. let's think outside of rissi. you know what i mean? yeah. >> i do know what you mean. the country music numbers are not so good. less than 4%. what needs to be done do you thnk right now make it more inclusive? >> i mean, that's a great question. i think that it's a matter of -- >> black people like country music, too, rissi. yes, we do. >> we love country music. >> yes, we do. >> it's not even a question.

and not only do we like it, we're also a part of it. >> yes. >> we help make it and to create it. and so i think the biggest thing is not a matter of let me run out and get as many black people as i can and sign them, it's a matter of supporting the people that are working on music and doing this and making -- making things accessible. so like you can get demos made, you can sign a publishing deal, you can learn how to do these calls. make management accessible. like just all of it, and not just artists, it's also like -- like i spoke before on the show, it's a matter of who you hire and all that. >> rissi, we've got to go. thank you. congratulations again on playing the opry stage again. it's exciting. thanks for being with us. george bush: our fellow americans... if you smell gas, you're too close. leave the structure, call 911, keep people away,

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this is a kpix5 news morning update. good morning. it's 8:55 and i'm len kiese pick to oakland teachers union has approved a reopening plan for pre-k through second grade and priority students could opt for in-person learning starting april 30. upper elementary grades would follow and the agreement still needs approval from the school board. there is a public hearing over the environmental impact of the new stadium for the a's. they hope to build a ballpark with 45,000 seats at the howard terminal near jack london square. san francisco will relax restrictions and go orange as

soon as wednesday. that means indoor dining would expand from 50% to 25% and indoor retail loop would be limited at 50% capacity. traffic is slow on san jose area roads with the sensors showing traffic sluggish working through with speeds dipping to about 10 miles an hour away from the connector. in the north bay, highway 12, sonoma highway between harley and lomita avenue still closed for a pretty active scene for a major crash and westbound 80, 19 minutes from highway 4 to the maze. we are looking at mostly sunny skies with high clouds and looking at coit tower, temperatures are in the 30s and 40s and 250 in concord. daytime highs around where we should be this time of year and the start of a warming trend for us an

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> there are eight spots left in the sweet 16 and they will be felt over the next 12 hours or so as we continue to travel the road to the final four. bernie johnson along with charles barkley, kenny smith,