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captioning sponsored by cbs >> duncan: tonight, america's race to vaccinate hits a speed bump-- millions of people are not getting their second shot of covid-19 vaccine and those numbers are growing. >> there are people who have clearly vaccine hesitant. >> duncan: we'll check in with dr. david agus of the challenges still ahead. also tonight india's covid surge. oxygen runs short as its health. plus president biden's first 100 days. we have new polling on what americans think as mr. biden gets set to address congress. the academy awards return. we speak to the creators of the oscar nominated short film inspired by the death of george floyd. >> it was a way for me to communicate not only what i had felt but what i had been experiencing throughout my life.
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>> duncan: eye on earth, why these western dams are coming down so the salmon can run again. >> we're looking at restoration of salmon and restoration of our culture. >> duncan: and later meet a superhero protecting his community one vaccination at a time. >> that's it. you are fully vaccinated. >> yay. this is the "cbs weekend news" from new york. here's jericka duncan. >> duncan: good evening, this is our western edition. we begin tonight with new concerns about america's vaccine supply. there is enough to go around but vaccinations are slowing as cases remain high. this week president biden will mark 100 days in office and most americans including democrats, republicans and independents approve of the way he's handled the distribution of vaccine. as of today, more than 53 percent of american adults have gotten at least one shot. more than 36 percent are vaccinated.
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cbs' lilia luciano leads us from los angeles where it is becoming easier to access those shots. >> reporter: jericka, here at l.a. forum they're offering vaccinations without appointment to anyone 16 or older. just drive up and get your shot. officials are trying to make it easier so angelenos won't skip on getting a dose. shorter lines at an l.a.supersite as one-third of californians are now fully vaccinated. but the u.s. may soon find that vaccine supply is greater than the demand for shots. >> there are people who clearly are vaccine hesitant, people who are skeptical of vaccines, worry about the safety of vaccines. i think some portion of those people we can reach with better education. >> reporter: tonight a cbs news poll finds just more than half of the people surveyed who are hesitant to get a shot feel more testing is needed. 40% of those reluctant worry about side effects.% 36% about blood clots, and 35% don't trust the government.
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also concerning, more than five million americans have skipped getting their second dose, according to "the new york times." dr. tom kenyon former cdc director of global health. >> the fact that 8 percent of americans have missed their second shot is, of course, concerning. but it's not unexpected. >> reporter: is it too late for people who just missed their second shot? how long after can you stills io just mi take it. >> the answer is get it as soon as you can. we say up till six weeks. >> reporter: and tonight after e the pandemic put hollywood on hold, the academy awards returns. the show taking place at l.a.'s historic union station with stars in covid conscience seating. and there will be no zooming with producers relying on satellite to unite nominees. there will be just 170 people instead of the usual 3,000 inside for the oscars. back here at l.a. forum and other l.a. county sites, vaccinations without an appointment will continue
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through monday, depending on vaccine supply. jericka? >> duncan: lilia luciano, reporting for us in los angeles tonight. thank you. for more on america's covid fight, let's check in with cbs news medical contributor dr.ck s news med david agus, dr. agus, good evening to you, we know that confidence in vaccines is down after the pause on johnson & johnson. how difficult do you think it will be to gain that trust and competent tense back now that the fda lifted the pause on thed competent tense back now tha j & j vaccine. >> we have no choice, we have to do it. experts will have to explain the vaccines, explain what happened with this very, very small number of what happened with the j & j vaccine and every other vaccine, and develop a path forward because we have to vaccinate the country to come out of this pandemic. >> duncan: j & j only represented a small percentage of vaccines, but right now we're seeing a drop in week over week in that inch daily dose, why is
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that, and is that significant? >> that is concerning. its really the first drop since february where winter forms caused a drop then. and so the j & j vaccine say critically important vaccine for our country, a one and done vaccine. and it can go to people rather than people coming to the vaccine, so for many of the underserved, for college students where st really hard to get them to do two appointments we've to get this vaccine out to change the hesitancy, the pause that happened these last ten days and get back on the band wagon and start to vaccinate more people. >> duncan: and we've heard about herd immunity when it comes to getting to that 70 or 08%. getting to that 70 or 80%. but what happens if a large segment of the population still chooses not to get vaccinated? >> yeah, i'm worried. i mean i think we're going to do it i think we as a country will come together and get over the politics of the vaccine and go with the data. that these are remarkably safe and these prevent the devastation of the virus. but if we all don't do it, we wll be in trouble.
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and the virus will continue to spread. and many people who are immune- suppressed and can't respond to the vaccines, we'll be in trouble. so we are going to come together and the nation will as one get vaccinated and move on. >> duncan: and hopefully move forward, thank you very much, dr. david agus. the biden administration today said it will send vaccine materials and other hard to get supplies to india, had t has a dire short angst of o again and its health-care system son the verge of collapse. senior foreign correspondent elizabeth palmer has more. >> reporter: the family hospital in delhi wasn't designed for a crisis like. crisis like this. these critically ill covid patients fade away while they wait. sometimes dying before they even reach the door. >> balajee! balajee! >> reporter: the sister of balajee kurapa tried to keep him conscious... but in vain. a father of two, he didn't make it. ambulances arrive at the emergency doors... only to be turned away...
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unless it's already too late. inside, doctors and nurses triage patients, treating the very sick-- and the even sicker. currently india accounts for nearly half the new cases of covid on earth every day. but dr. sunit ray warns staff that as bad as things are, they could get much worse. >> we are running out of oxygene the whole contry is running out of oxygen, okay. >> reporter: oxygen, essential covid treatment is so scares that the indian air force has begun airlifting emergency donations in from abroad. the waiting room at the guru teg bahadur public hospital is a sea of desperation. crammed with people defying delhi's strict lockdown to seek help. the exploding infection rate here is bound to send the death rate soaring well beyond the current two and a half thousand a day.
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crematoria in delhi are working overtime. and grieving families forced to say good-bye in full protective gear. elizabeth palmer, cbs news, london. >> duncan: president biden marks 100 days in office this week with an address on wednesday to a joint session of congress. our new cbs news poll shows most americans like the way the president is handling the country's top priorities. christina ruffini is at the white house tonight with more on what to expect on wednesday. good evening. >> reporter: good evening. for the first time in history two women were sit behind the president when he make this speech. usuaha w be sparse and socially distant but the covid protocol its won't stop president biden from trying to unveil his investigation for america's future. >> when it comes to president biden's handling of the coronavirus. >> 200 million shots in a hundred days. in under a hundred days,
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actually, it is an incredible achievement for the nation. >> reporter: a new cbs news poll finds 65% of americans say they approve of the job he's done. with 66% saying the covid relief bill was helpful to the economy. there is also broad approval for improving the nation's infrastructure. but congressional republicans have voiced strong opposition to the cost and scope of the president's two trillion dollar bill. they say he hasn't done enough to reach across the aisle. >> if i look at the hundred day, if is more like a bait and switch, the bait was he was going to govern as bipartisan. but the switch is he is governed as a socialist. >> then there is what even president biden now calls a crisis. the influx of migrants at the southern border. >> it is not going to be solved overnight. it is a complex issue. if it were easy, it would have been handled years ago. >> reporter: the president als democrats to do more to address the issues of gun violence and problematic policing. >> if he is thinking about what his joint session speech looks like, he has every intention of using that as an opportunity to
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elevate this issue and talkthat about the importance of putting police reform measures in place. >> reporter: now, the day after his speech the president will travel to georgia where he willh the preside have a car rally to celebrate his official 100th day in office. georgia was a key state for him in the 2020 race and gave democrats the senate, which he will need to make that vision a reality. >> duncan: christina rucchini in washington, thank you. the family of an unarmed black man shot by sheriff's deputies in elizabeth city, north carolina will view bodycam video of the deadly incident tomorrow. andrew brown, jr. was killed while deputies were carrying out a search and arrest warrant on seven sheriff's deputies tied to the incident have been placed on wednesday. seven sheriff's deputies tied to the in administrative leave. the police killing of george floyd in minneapolis is part of the inspiration for a film nominated for an academy award tonight.
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"two distant strangers," is in contention for best live action short. i recently sat down with it's creators in los angeles. what begins as a beautiful day.b >> oh, come on, man. [bleep]. >> duncan: quickly turned deadly. >> i can't breathe. >> duncan: over and over again. in ”two distant strangers," a young black man trapped in a time loop, continuously wakes up from an all too familiar nightmare. >> it was a way for me to communicate not only what i felt but what i experienced in my life, the number of times hi police officers point their gun at me and the number of times have i been pulled over for no reason >> reporter: 36 year old travon free wrote and directed the film. >> it was hard to see what happened to george floyd but to
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put on it top of that breonna taylor, ahmaud arbery, this feels like the worst version of groundhog day. >> duncan: the lead character, played by rapper and actor joey badass is carter, he only wants to get home to his dog, but keeps getting entangled with a police officer. martin desmond roe was the co- director. >> when i read it i realized he had elevated it to poetry. and i said that is when i knew we had something special. >> the most incredible response to the film that i have received so far is i showed the film to a friend of mine who is also a writing. she's white. and she watched it with her 78 year old father who lives in the south, never left. and she text me afterwards, my 78 year old father who up until this point has never been able to admit systemic racism exists, just told me that he thinks hery he has been feeling for my adult life that is the dream when you make a movie. >> duncan: the 29 minute film wasn't finished until october.
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netflix premiered "two distant strangers" earlier this month at a time when art is not imitating life, it is showing us the reality we continue to witness.n what do you all want the takeaway to be from this film? >> if it makes you think for a second, when i see another black person, can i think differently. i can undo what i have been taught, then i want people to feel that way. i want people to do that. >> duncan: and then you have won. >> and then we've won. >> duncan: even if you don't win? is that right? >> i will take the w. >> duncan: we'll see what happens. straight ahead on the weekend news it is the largest dam demolition project in u.s. history. we'll tell you why it is happening. also, rob gronkowski catches a record pass and it wasn't thrown by tom brady. and later, an unlikely superman comes to the rescue of neighbors in need. e of neighbors in need.
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>> duncan: for over a century one of the most important salmon runs in the united states has had to contend with historic dams in oregon and california. well now four of them could soon be gone. cbs' anna werner has more in our series "eye on earth, our planet in peril." >> reporter: it is the largest dam removal project in u.s. per. >> it is the l history. tearing down not one but four dams on the klamath river. the price tag? $450 million. but for mark fisher, retired and with savings in a lake view home, the cost is also great.ev, the cost i >> you have lakefront property, now you have no front. there will be a big dust bowl. >> reporter: some 300 homeowners on copko lake made by the largest of the four klamath dams are in his situation. the dam there to produce hydro electric are fine. no cracks, no failures. but the salmon in the klamath are not fine, and it is for them.
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the fishing industry and frankie meyers yuron tribe that the dams will go. >> our existence is intertwined with the existence of salmon. >> reporter: meyers says he has watched as the number of fish declined the in the 257 mile river that runs from southern oregon through northern california. this one river was once the third largest producer of salmon on the pacific coast. the dams are blocking the migration for salmon. professor matt kondolf specializes in environmental >> profess river management at u.c. berkeley and points to what can also happen when water can't flow naturally. >> having this water sit stagnant in the sun, you develop cyanobacteria and than they gets released downstream. >> reporter: toxic algae. >> yeah, toxic algae. >> reporter: water quality in the river was implicated in a massive kill-off of klamath>> wd down. >> reporter: after that protests 2002. >> we need to have the dams grew cloud louder, even warren
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buffett became a target because his berkshire hathaway holdings include pacificorp, the dam's owner, and in 2020 facing a license renewal to operate the dams under increased regulation, pacificorp later agreed to pay $200 million to remove the dam. i take it for the power company, it is just not worth it. >> to try to mitigate for all these impacts, it would be so expensive. >> reporter: for the tribe, it was a victory more than a century in the making. >> we're looking at restoration of salmon. and restoration of our culture. >> reporter: professor kondolf points to other dam removal projects. this one in washington state where the fish came back within a few years. >> there has been a lot of research about the importance of the salmon coming up, bringing all the nutrients from the ocean and providing the base of the food chain in these small streams where they spawn. >> reporter: for klamath homeowners, part of the 250 million dollars the state of california is contributing will compensate them it is a price that california was willing to
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pay for what will be the largest river restoration project of its kind. anna werner, cbs news, berkeley, california. >> duncan: still ahead on the cbs weekend news, california's pacific coast highway reopens for cruising after a big washout. r cruising after a big t y for years. trying this. doing that. spending countless days right here. still came the belly pain, discomfort, and bloating. awful feelings she kept sugar-coating. finally, with the help of her doctor, it came to be. that her symptoms were all signs of ibs-c. and that's why she said yes to adding linzess. linzess is not a laxative. it helps you have more frequent and complete bowel movements. and is proven to help relieve overall abdominal symptoms-belly pain, discomfort, and bloating. do not give linzess to children less than six and it should not be given to children six to less than 18, it may harm them. do not take linzess if you have a bowel blockage.
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cbs' nancy chen has that story. >> reporter: dr. mak is responsible for these shots. he is known as dr. mak and his superman costume is a halloween leftover. but for the people at this popup vaccine clinic he is the real deal. community 45 minutes out of philadelphia. helping distribute 37,000 doses. >> covid-19 vaccines have been so tough to get. when that ups driver walks through that door and said here are your vaccines, we were almost dance taking. like getting ready to party. >> reporter: the center of his operation, this small independent pharmacy, until recently the only one in the town of skippack offering vaccines. >> we had one full time employee and myself, two people to administer 4,000 vaccines but having an army of volunteers behind you, they are doing it because they love every single person in this community. 1,200 people have signed up to man the phones and coordinate appointments.
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>> we have to call and or email a thousand people to let them know that the vaccines arrived. >> ready? >> i'm ready. >> reporter: tonya hall says she likely would have had to wait >> ready? >> i'm ready. >> tonya hall says she weeks to get a vacciec of her limited mobility. >> it's really great to have something like. this close to home. >> reporter: from large clinics, vaccinating hundreds by the hour, to visits at home, one at a time. joseph dildine and his wife marcia. >> you are fully vaccinated. >> yay! >> closer to seeing their grandchildren who worries with. >> how do you think the community will remember this. >> i think the community loves the fact that their local superheroes banded together to do something no one thought was possible. >> nancy chen, cbs news, skippack, pennsylvania.ib >> duncan: and we love it too. nice touch with the costume. well, that is the cbs weekend news for this sunday, "60 minutes" is coming up. i'm jericka duncan in new york. we thank you so much for joining us. have a great night. r
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captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.w live from the cbs they area studios, this is kpix 5 news . we are looking today at the lowest level our reservoirs have ever been since they were built. >> today's rain won't do anything to ease the looming drought crisis. the entire county poised to declare an emergency this week. the big east bay water district that could be days away from announcing restrictions. you almost kind of want to take a snapshot of this image of rain because what comes next is sunshine or the mid 80s in this forecast. after that story that is not the best news and the forecast coming up. the bay area doctor accused of injecting patients with
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bogus botox for years and making nearly $1 million doing it. new video of police breaking up a friend party at fort mason. good evening. we begin on a drought watch and outdoor watering restrictions start next weekend in marin and on tuesday, sonoma county is expected to proclaim a drought emergency after another dry winter. we are at lake sonoma to report what that means for county residents. >> reporter: this is the tram at the lake sonoma marina and there is no water and it is close. officials say lake sonoma has never been lower than this time of year. there messages don't wait, conserve now. the receding shorelines show how to dry winters have affected lake sonoma. >> it is really worrisome and depressing because we always come every weekend and to see this like where the water usually is and where it is now.
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