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onity, laying south of the 40th parallel. it's disconnected completely to the us. to get to a dentist, s has to cross thborder e yoy? >> i'i'm just a marriage concern in neighboring british columb columbia, point roberts has only had one case in a year. but they are locked out of essential needs. there's no doctor, veterinarian, on or a pharmacy, you can see why these people who call it home, worry that it could be a covid ghost town. >> i had six customers on sunday. >> how does it compare to a normal sunday. >> i would have upwards of 30,
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40, 60. >> reporter: she owns the salt staurant around. 95% of herrer business is f fdnd gas. after a year of no customers she is going to apply for another ppe loan to stay aflowed in the border reopens. even though the cafe is underwater every day its doors are open. >> do you worry about having to close the business and walk away? >> i do, i was just working up to some of my best years here. so, i do wore. >> reporter: virtually all point roberts residents are expected to be vaccinated by the end of the month but the officials are not budgeting on the border issue. a spokes person for alaska's minior hardships faced by the
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people of point roberts. but the woman who represents them said it's not enough. in any other city in the u.s. people would lose their minds. >> and folks should be. there's things that can be do to make sure that we are protecting public health and safety and aplow them to move. >> reporter: so why is it hard to get it done? >> i don't know, i wish could tell you. i'm going to keep fighting. >> reporter: pamela robertson finally got over the border, but only agreeing to quarantine after returning. worth it to her. the "cbs overnight news," will be right back.
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the biden administration is package. critics say it's discouraging people from returning to work. what about people who never stopped working from home. how do you get them back to the office. susan spencer has a look. ♪ ♪ ask a marketing manager for ford motor company jovina young has her own take on zooming for work. you are a real car person? >> yeah. >> reporter: but when the pandemic hit, working from home meant really shifting gears. >> i had a 5-year-old in kindergarten and a 1-year-old wkering fulti tre was lot of p
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us that the time. >> reporter: after a few months, though, the pressure seemed to lift. >> i found a rhythm at home i really, really enjoy that i never thought i would do this. i do find that i prefer working at home. what do you have today for school, do you know? >> reporter: gone are the hairy mornings and the once expected rituals of make-up, hair and work clothes. >> 8:30, we have morning meeting. pretty much it's like yoga, pants a t-shirt and hoodie. >> reporter: one thing you gained you do not have to commute. >> it's been a great blessing in all of this. i love not having to commute. >> reporter: conveniences like that may help explain why 60% of working americans say ideally they want to work from home or remotely at least part of the time. once the cat is out of the bag and people discover that they
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can work at home lch y ve t her at dohit'she wav of the future? >> yeah, i do think we are evolving in setting new boundaries of what the nature of work is. >> reporter: kirstin robinson is the chief people officer at ford motor company where she works. and yes, chief people officer is her actual title. >> the chief people officer is responsible for all of the people in an organization. >> reporter: many of them are in for a gs to a hybrid model for 30,000 workers. manager-s will have input and none of the employees will work 9-5 at the office every day unless they feel like it. are you leaving it to the employees to decide what the ratio is between working at home
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and working in the office? >> yeah, we have surveyed them, and the numbers of days they anticipate being in the office will vary depending on the nature of the project or the wothey ardog. >> rter: what do you see your schedule say, in a year? >> i will be working from home, probably like 70% of the time. >> reporter: this may seem a frivolous question, you are working with 10s of thousands of people that have been in their pajamas for over a year. do you expect there will be changes in what people wear to work? >> reporter: well, i'm not sure if we will see pajamas, but i certainly do expect a much more relaxed dress code. absolutely. >> reporter: no matter with a we wear said is harvard business about school professor arthur brooks we need to go back. >> it's pretty amazing how much more productive people are when they meet in person. when you are meeting with someone on zoom.
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my idea is 95% chance they are actually not paying attention to you. they are playing solitaire on the computer. >> and he said, don't under estimate the benefit of normal human contact. urihood saying you are a lonely person goes up 60-70% points. it's good, commuting is bad, and loanliness is worse. >> reporter: the concerns are that just sort of practical things. you know, like what is the etiquette in the office when you return to work? how do you greet somebody? >> yeah. i know, and we will find that out so there's basics that we know. wear pants. for example. that's a good one. you know, i can probably live without shaking hands. but i can't live without direct eye contact. >> we are all feeling rusty and wobbly as we enter whatever this new normall be. >> reporter: so it's not just
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me? >> no absolutely not. in fact a good number of us said this psychologist are anxious and dread going back to the office. >> the social anxiety is driven by avoidance. and we have all been avoiding our normal social lives. >> reporter: you could argue that given what was at stake, what is at stake still, that being socially anxus >> absolutely. so, the 1% of people who just, cannot identify with social anxiety at all, are actually psychopaths. >> reporter: so the best way to have come through the pandemic would have been to be as a psycho path. >> right. >> reporter: if you rule the world, you would have everyone be back at work monday morning. >> i can't imagine anybody who wants a harvard professor to rule the world. so, that's just so far away from
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my conception of reality sfw. >> reporter: you may have a point or not. everyone we spoke with agrees work will never look the same again. >> i think a hybrid model with the flexibility of working from home saving people that commute, while retaining that ability to interact face to face and to just have that community is going to be really important. >> it would not surprise me at all if we start experimenting with a norm within companies of work from home fridays. for example, work from home wednesdays and fridays or thursday and fridays and something along the lines. we will adapt to the new model that is more independent than it was in the past. >> reporter: and for jovina young, that's the road to take. so you are not going to be putting on the uniform and make up, and getting in the car for that commute any more than you absolutely have to. >> yeah, yeah, if i'm able to be
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as productive and work from home, i'm going to do it and then in the times i need to be there, and i want to connect with others, we will
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when a pastorer in virginia had his bicycle stolen, it got him thinking, maybe the thief needed the bike to get to work and it transformed his ministry. >> reporter: what is your favorite part of bike riding some. >> the freedom, it feels like flying. >> reporter: last fall when someone swiped his bike. he loft his wings. most people are mad when their bike is stolen. >> yeah. >> reporter: was that your reaction. >> you can get bitter or better. >> reporter: with it prevent himmhing him from going church, he switched to a ministry in the backyard. >> it gs you out of your home
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and on the trail. and we are all on the trail of life. >> reporter: did you think that you were going to lead s lead here? >> it was not on my list to do. >> reporter: he has saved some from the dumpster and then they are given away on facebook after being fixed up. free, to anybody who needs a ride. >> i was wanting to choose all of thempt. >> reporter: when this sixth grader outly grew his bike, he and his mom decided to pay it forward. >> his old buy was amazing, it was just too small. we dropped it off in and in return, we have so much more. >> reporter: now, he is riding high on the feeling of doing good and a bigger set of wheels. >> when i saw so many he that had, there's so many great kids to match up with their bike. >> enabled me to get to know the kids we don't just fix them.
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we ride them. >> reporter: you have a bike gang. >> yeah, a bike gang. >> reporter: that includes his old three children. members of his church youth group and any neighborhood kid in search of a skill or learning outside. greasing gears are a great hands on alternative. >> fixing bikes is fun. especially when you have the right teacher. >> and it's not just fixing bikes he talks with us. >> and lately, there's a lot to talk about. ready, guys? >> but pruitt sees it all as part of his mission. yo you are the guy that fixes bikes and in the other you fix people. did one lead to the other. >> to lead the divine heeler that can fix all things. >> we are all a work in progress. >> it's the joy of this.
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and that's the overnight news for this friday. reporting from t nation's it's friday, may 14th, 2021. this is the "cbs morning news." pandemic milestone. the cdc says fully vaccinated americans can take off their masks in most settings. why some states are waiting to adopt the guidelines. civil unrest. how israel could be taking its most aggressive approach yet against palestinian militants. multimillion dollar payment. cbs news learns a ransom was paid after hackers forced the shutdown of a major u.s. shutdown of a major u.s. pipeline. captioning funded by cbs

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