customers will continue to cover their faces. she does not want to take chances. u>>p a fake card and be like i am vaccinated. i personally don't feel comfortable with it at all and it is a risk to me and my family and co-workers. >> reporter: in most states business owners will have final say and those asking customers to cover up are worried about confrontations. >> i think there are going to be problems. >> reporter: while she knows some people resisted mask rules, she hasn't encountered them at stew leonards and as long as new jersey's maskdate is i ple she hopes hato. shoul

i am not taking any risks with the coronavirus. >> reporter: leonard told us 90% of the staff are vaccinated but asking them to wear masks at least until memorial day. if you are ready to toss your mask and head to the great outdoors you might want to spend time in the 63rd national park and jeff glor paid a visit. ♪ ♪ almost heaven, west virginia ♪ >> reporter: did you really think we could start the piece any other way. as we entered america's newest national park, john denver's timeless song echoed in our

mind. ♪ country roads take me home to the place i belong ♪ ♪ west virginia ♪ >> reporter: this is lizzie watts third tour at new river george, and based on what just happened, it is hard to imagine it is not her favorite. are you like why hasn't it been named a national park until now? >> a little of both. >> reporter: it is very old, estimated to be the second oldest river in the world. terrain is long, skinny and wild. >> people have been floating in the river for thousands of years. left parts of their world. >> reporter: first explored by native americans, the george has become a recreation

it looked like vegas. >> reporter: it was a little vegas. >> people came from all around to come to thurman. >> reporter: jerry cook is the man responsible for sheparding the george's transformation from mining hub to an oasis. >> more coal came through here from richmond to chicago. >> reporter: essentially a ghost town? >> yes. th itrial revolution.he stiun te

ning does in ef the fting runs in the world. what is it about this river? >> it gets in your veins. >> reporter: you are getting a long season here? >> yeah. we will start in march and go through the end of october, november because it is really rainwater dependant. >> i was told they would not do the story unless i offered to be abused on the water. >> not abused, i facilitate experiences. >> reporter: that sounds better. we are headed where? we approached faya station. >> if i fall, head away from the rocks. >> reporter: the renowned rapid sitting below west virginia's

most famous landmark. nice. beautiful. yeah. there are 53 miles of undamed white water and base jumping. this park holds another unique distinction. >> reporter: it allows hunting, why? >> it is traditional. they are a very unique culture. people have been hunting here forever. when they tried to figure out what we should be when we grow

up, allowing people to keep the traditional uses and hunting is one of them. >> reporter: are you worried the increased attention will bring too many visitors and new issues to the park? >> am i worried? >> reporter: here is one good thing about the pandemic, people that would not normally be outside have come outside. last summer and now this spring. >> covid has nothing good to say but it taught a new generation to come play in the outdoors and to feel the water and go on a rafting trip and take a hike.>> dominate the river earlier?

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mark phillips has the latest in the fight for electric flight. >> reporter: this looks like a world war one tri plane had too good of a time at the party and this one like luke skywalker miht use it on the school run and this is a flash from the past that is not very fast. they are trying to look like the future of aviation. they are going to fly on electricity. how far are we away from having the holy grail of aviation, a electric airplane? >> a big way away. the big are problem is power density. >> when it comes to flying, there is nothing like aviation fuel. you couldn't put enough batteries in a plane like this

and have it get anywhere. you can trace the history of design back more than a century. whatever the advances from bi planes to supersonic, all of the plan planes used one basic fuel, oil. this is the starting point where we are right now. >> reporter: this 19-seater design that will be in the air within three years. a bio electric hybrid, it also has a jet engine running on plant-based and not fossil fuel to provide extra takeoff power and charge the batteries and is future-proof.

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>> dozens of businesses are signing up to take part in a friendly war of words. steve hartman found this story on the road. >> reporter: everyone was getting along just fine in christiansburg, virginia. peaceful-loving people? >> yeah. >> reporter: why did you want to start trouble? >> nothing better to do. >> jim manages the music store. he fired the first salvo in to what is rapidly devolving into world war, put up this sign. hey super shoes, want to start a sign war. the shoe store fired back. our shoestrings are stronger than your guitar string. p back

shoestrings never got anyone a date. >> with the exception of the pacifist hippies that protested make love, not sign war. just about every other business signed up to join the fight. throwing shade bombs at their fellow business owners. >> everybody and their grandma has gotten in on it. >> i wanted to be funny like everybody else. >> reporter: any rules of engagement? >> no. everybody is fair game. >> reporter: even businesses without signs are improvising. even those normally above the fray are posting passages. over the past few weeks the war has gone viral and skirmishes are flaring up in far flung places like listowel, ontario.

>> hey dq wanna have a sign war. >> reporter: since then conflict across the province. >> you drive through any town in ontario, they have a sign war going. >> reporter: it all stems back to the guitar store? >> absolutely. all on him. >> i thought where is it going to go? is it go to end? >> reporter: hopefully not, because no war has ever brought more people together. who'll be next to join the fun? no telling. steve hartman, cbs on the road. that's the overnight news for this thursday. for some of you the news continues and for others, check back later for cbs this morning, and foll oine all of the time at cbsnews.com. ♪ ♪

it's thursday, may 20th, 2021. this is the "cbs morning news." capitol riot commission. the house approves a bill to investigate the january 6th attack, but there's already strong pushback from senate republicans. i just want justice for my mom. former officers charged. new fallout after the violent arrest of a woman with dementia. why her family says the punishment doesn't go far enough. more mask confusion. dr. anthony fauci tries to set the record straight regarding the record straight regarding the latest cdc guidelines. captioning funded by cbs good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green.