vulnerable to covid-19, older, travelers, are the absolute prime demographic for the cruise industry. >> reporter: the industry is trying to build confidence, aboard one of the first british cruises this week calder had to have a covid test and everyone on board had to be fully vaccinated. and that's going to be the new normal everywhere. >> so we have listened to our guests and they told us they wanted to travel with physical oh, vaccinated travelers. >> reporter: the pandemic has cost the cruise industries $77 billion globally and more than 160,000 jobs in just the united states. a relaunch is under way. but it's going to be slow. with all the horror stories of covid on the high seas at the start of the pandemic still fresh in public imagination, you think that the appetite for cruising would be down. well, think again.

>> waiting to go home. >> reporter: elaine spencer was one of the passengers trapped in quarantine on the diamond princess. in fact, she has written a book about it. >> so when i wrote the book, i, we both said that we are not sure if we are going to go on a cruise. >> reporter: ever again. >> ever again. >> reporter: but a year is a long time on n dry land and ove the past few months, elaine and her husband have changed their minds. their next cruise is already booked. there's people that would say you are nuts. >> yeah, yeah, and i think my kids think we are n nuts ass we. >> repeporter: loyoyalty likike will keep the indusustry afloat. their research shows that 2 out of 3 past customers are ready for their next trip. i'm elizabeth palmer in south hampton, england. ly also, in europe, the conflict between israel and gaza has touched off a did disturbing surge in anti-semitic attacks, holly williams reports from

paris. >> reporter: as israelis and palestinians descended in to deadly violence, there's been a spate of anti-semitism in europe. incitements to rape jewish womenser were blared from cars. racist chants in germany. and a far right wing crowd giving the facist salute. he was are criticizing israeli government actions and saying ths is in their nature, they are only satisfied by sucking blood. >> we feel like -- >> reporter: this is the president of the jewish union of students in france and told us legitimate criticism of israel whether or not you agree with it is sometimes used as a cover for anti-semitism. >> when there's something happening in israel, it's arrive

in france and jews are the first victim of that. >> reporter: france is home to the biggest jewish population in europe. in recent years they have seen several deadly attacks and the desicration of cemeteries. they make up 1% of the population but they are the victims of 40% of racist acts in the country. >> we call it the book of life. >> reporter: tom cohen has lived in paris for more than 20 years. he said that many synagogues in france have special security measures. >> one of the things we have to think about is having a bullet proof windows placed in. having man trap doors for the entrance and so forth. you have to think about am i becoming the target or not is this. >> reporter: a deadly dispute in

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i have felt very luck ary to live here. >> did it settle in that you were living in a castle? >> not at first. if i have to be honest. >> reporter: my home is my castle is not just a figure of speech for this woman. when did it feel special? >> when i started to take my friends here, they were like, on do you know where you live? are you realizing this? >> reporter: her family has owned this spot for a good 28 generations. covid forced, if we can say that, this 19-year-old back to her italian castle after her performing arts school in los angeles shifted classes on online. now, she is facing troubles sort of like the rest of us. >> the wifi, sometimes it works perfectly. and sometimes it just doesn't. so -- >> reporter: if you put the wifi in the one side of the cast he, it may not reach the other side. >> exactly. that's the problem. >> reporter: perched outside the

castle, above family dogs in the mote, it's clear she does appreciate the absurdity of it all. so that led her a few months ago to seize on the natural fascination with this place. and use her free time. she started to chronicle life on tiktok. her account, the castle diary, amassed hundreds of thousands of followers and millions views. with the family church, and dungeon. >> there was a secret passage. >> reporter: there's a variety of backdrops. but her most popular clips including this one with more than 8 million views have a theme. revealing the not so glamorous side of life. ♪ ♪ reminding us that behind every royal fantasy lies reality. and imagine adding clean the ballroom to your list of chore

es. >> reporter: this is the ballroom? >> no, it's not, this is the room before the ballroom. and she said there's a fair amount of time looking for each other. >> after you spend two hours trying to find people, you spend two hours trying to find your phone. >> reporter: there are bigger problems and that is how the idea started. years ago the family turned the castle in to a bed and breakfast. which was great until covid when bookings stopped. >> this year has been a big poblem. >> reporter: a hit to the business. >> yep, yeah. >> reporter: count gui sesseppe her dad. >> this is a 1292 document. >> reporter: you can touch it with your hands? >> i am not supposed to. but i don't know where are i left my gloves. >> reporter: he took off from the finance job to bring this castle and story back to life. >> the first thing that people say is, awe, you are the castle

owner, how lucky you are. you sure? you want to change? come one month here and then you will change your opinion about living in a castle. >> reporter: there are cracks here and there. and steep heating bill. and the tiktok success they say has been a much needed boost to bookings and it revealed another side of the count. >> i must say, there's a little bit of theater in me too. >> reporter: along with making cameos, he suggests historical story lines and the main costar is her friend. who convinced her to start this account. today's art and implements are a sharp contrast in this place. but as through the centuries, audiences can be just as hard to satisfy. so, they spend hours editing and tweaking. and notably there's no script yet for act two. what happens when she moves back

to the u.s. for school? maybe your dad can take over? >> no. he is already in too many videos. every day, he is like, oh, my god, we are going to shoot something todayed? what do i have to wear? i have so many ideas and i'm like, don't worry, let me wake up now, i just got out of bed. >> reporter: conversations, it seems like some of life 's challenges may not be so different just because home really is a castle. >> here's a game plan for success. crack the books and tackle the high cost of college with the help of a mysterious donor. cbs's mark straussman reports. new graduates at centennial high, include barbes and evan walker. football players and sc . olar athletes with a jackpot for college to prove it.

>> i was like, for real? >> would you have been an a student without it? come on? >> no. >> money talks. >> exactly, money talks. >> money can really change the way you view life. >> a scholarship to motivate the school's black football players in class. created three years ago. by andonor. >> his goal was a million dollars in year one. he said if the kids were it, he wants to give it. >> it's a game changer. >> it's a life changer. >> you can be the worst player on the team. if you are a stud off the field, in the classroom. every semester of high school with a straight a average is worth $25,000. >> ask these centennial alums now in college. >> how much did you get? >> 200,000? >> $150,000. >> players get reminders to hit the books hard. from coaches and parents. >> so were they riding you? you have to get the scholarship. >> every day. every day. >> evan had three straight a

semesters. that is $75,000. jordan had two. $50,000. and a mystery man signing the checks. >> about the kids earning it and not him giving the money. you know, celebrate

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it may come at no surprise that america's astronauts have been men and the one a astronau that is looooking forwaward to getting back in to orbit is peggy witson. >> in her dreams she floats and her dream is about space and it's about to come true again. >> of course, i dreamed of wanting to go and you never know how long the processes will take. luckily i'm not dead and i'm going back. welcome on back on board the international space station. >> reporter: she has spent more time in space than any american

in history. 665 days, almost two years. she game the space station's first female commander and has made ten space walks. no other american has more. some time late next year, she will head back up, but for the frst time, flying private. for a company called axium space, what is left for you to do up there. maybe there's just the desire to see the earth again, to have that perspective the. >> reporter: have you missed that view from 250 miles up? >> oh, absolutely. >> reporter: axiom's business is space mission management. the first flight to the iss called ax-1. will fly f four civivilians on spacex crerew dragogon n next j. now, 6161, witson will command ax-2, her pilot, john shoffner, an entrepreneur, and veteran civilian pilot, who other crew

members have yet to be named. how much different is the commander when the crew is amateur astronauts? >> you can teach people what they need to know to be safe. >> if there were an emergency, would the crew be comfortable in responding? >> i will make sure that they get enough training to be that way. trust me. >> lift off. >> we are in a knew frontier of commercial spaceflight with players like spacex, blue origin, and virgin galactic and axiom, more civilians will head to space. like she did, after retiring from nasa in 2018. will this be your las time? >> i hope not. >> realizing a dream often means reaching for the stars. peggy witson is proof of that. mark straussman. atlanta. >> and that's the overnight news for this friday, reporting from th nation's capitol. i'm chip reid.

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