in the west. welcome to cbs on this wednesday, hump day, june 30th, last day of june. i'm gayle king, that's anthony mason. new developments into the devastating building collapse in surfside, florida. why officials say the search is still a rescue mission nearly a week after the disaster. >> new covid cases are surging in states like arkansas. we have the incredible story of a newborn whose mom didn't believe in getting the shot. >> on the border law enforcement is seeing an increase in apprehension, along with a

pastor who is responding with compassion. >> and on cbs this morning, the inside story of a new crackdown on robo calls. how the fcc is teaming up with your wireless carrier. >> we hate them. >> we do. here's today's eye opener. it's your world in 90 seconds. >> nobody is stopping. the work goes on full force. we're dedicated to get everyone out of that pile of rubble. >> the death toll in the condo collapse in surfside, florida, continues to rise. >> this as officials say they're launching a grand jury investigation into the tragedy. >> it's difficult to put into words the devastation that this community is experiencing. >> debbie wasserman schultz and the florida congressional delegation led the house in a moment of silence for the victims. >> the agony these families are going through is beyond comprehension. >> dangerous and historic heat waves smothering the pacific northwest.

in the ornortheast, people are broiling. >> 116 degrees. don't worry, there's no global warming. >> hot and dry conditions also fueling wildfires in the west, including the lava fire in northern california, forcing e evacuations. >> all that -- >> the europeans have demonstrated a flying sports car. >> it completed a 50-mile flight in slovakia. >> nba eastern conference finals, a major turning point. >> someone is down. >> milwaukee superstar giannis hyper extends his knee. >> they took full advantage of that. >> they evened the series at two apiece. >> president biden hitting the road, trying to gain support for his infrastructure package. >> the president promoted his infrastructure deal in wisconsin. he told themow t lla willre jobs, p our try r the future, and if don wo have the bill batter fried with a side of melted cheese.

>> this morning's eye opener is presented by progressive. making it easy to bundle insurance. >> a side of melted cheese sounds okay. >> bipartisan is better with cheese, bipartisan support with cheese. >> what's good to see, stephen colbert standing up. i forgot how much i miss that, him standing up in an audience laughing. very nice. we welcome you to cbs this morning, and unfortunately the news is not something we can laugh about because we're beginning in florida where officials have promised to convene a grand jury to investigate the devastating building collapse. search and rescue efforts are in their seventh day and it's agonizing work and agonizing is the word here. another body was recovered last t 12. 14ople atissg. >>her sfsideuitor w said t towe been put on leave from his current job.

we're joined from surfside. good morning. where is the rescue operation now? >> reporter: good morning. the work is nonstop, despite all the dangers, including this. rescue crews believe a part of the debris pile may actually be supporting that part of the building right there, which remains standing, but in danger of collapse. still, they say, they are focused on job number one, and that is trying to reach any possible survivors. >> reporter: the search and rescue continues amid the shattered remains of the champlain south tower, with leaders insisting this is not yet a recovery operation. >> nobody is giving up hope here. nobody is stopping. the work goes on full force. >> reporter: rescue crews have moved around 3 million pounds of concrete, while they clear debris, the investigation into the collapse is still in its early stages. >> i know what the video shows, but it's what was going on in the structure before it fell down that you don't see in that

video. >> reporter: allyn kilsheimer is a structural engineer hired by the town of surfside to figure out what went wrong. he has decades of experience investigating disasters, like the 9/11 terrorist attack. he's looking at everything from witness interviews to reports of cracked concrete under the building. >> how much weight should be put on those findings? >> i wouldn't put any weight on them at this point in time. it could have been a number of things that alone wouldn't have caused the problem, but together with the trigger caused the problem. >> reporter: one witness account in particular caught his attention, the testimony of a lobby attendant who heard something the night of the collapse. >> he heard a muffled boom and then a few seconds later another boom, and then a much bigger boom. there were three booms. i think i understand the second one and the third one. i don't understand the first one. this is a puzzle and we have to figure out how to put all the pieces together.

>> reporter: in the meantime, miami-dade county conducted an audit of similar buildings, and according to "the new york times," they found 41 structures that were past due on the required 40-year inspections. 24 of those buildings were labeled to be technically unsafe structures because they were past due. but officials did say they also did not find any major structural concerns. >> it's an important review. manny, thank you very much. moving to the weather, millions on facing scorching temperatures from two heat waves on the east and west coast. roads have buckled from the heat in the pacific northwest and officials say the extreme weather may be tied to at least 12 deaths in washington and oregon. we have more now from seattle. >> reporter: tanker trucks are hosing down draw bridges to keep the metal from expanding and potentially locking the opening and clongn place. days of triple-digit

temperatures have caused roads to crack and pavement to pop loose across the pacific northwest. crews had to close multiple lanes of traffic to repair parts of this highway. >> why is this area so susceptible to that as opposed to somewhere like, say, arizona, where the temperature drops at night and then rises during the day? >> every part of the country that experiences high heat like this ends up having some sort of issue that they have to deal with. it doesn't happen as frequently here as it does there because we don't often experience high temperatures like this. this is rare. >> reporter: the number of people trying to stay cool is straining the power grid. in spokane, washington, where the temperature reached 109 degrees tuesday, a utility company warned of rolling blackouts due to the increased demand. during a speech in wisconsin, president biden noted the historic heat wave as he called out climate change skeptics. >> 116 degrees, but don't worry, there's no global warming. this is a figment of our

imagination. >> reporter: to deal with the rising temperatures, states from california to oregon, to here in washington, are exploring what's called climate resilient infrastructure. this means building roads with materials that won't deform in the heat or even higher bridges to account for rising sea level. of course it could cost billions, but experts say the investment will pay off in the long run. >> we like ending with that. this heat is unforgiving. thank you very much. while there is a heat wave, wildfires are burning in california. this motel and surroundings buildings yesterday, it has burned about 6,000 acres there. about 25 miles away, another fire, called the lava fire, exploded to more than 13,000 acres. it's only about 19% contained. both fires have forced people from their homes. the cdc says the highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus is now in all 50

states, raising new concern for people who are unprotected. in the five states with the lowest vaccination rates, alabama, arkansas, louisiana, mississippi, and wyoming, less than 32% of the population is fully vaccinated. that compares with more than 46% of the total u.s. population. our lead national correspondent david begnad has who is at risk. >> reporter: we're inside the nicu and she's starting to move around this morning. she was born ten weeks premature. her mother didn't quite believe covid was real and she was against getting the vaccine. she nearly died and that's why her baby was born premature and she blames herself. now that she survived, she has a lesson for everyone. >> it's a blessing that i'm still here. if it wasn't, you know, for these people, i wouldn't be.

>> do you think about that a lot? >> we do. we talk about it almost every night. >> it's just a miracle that she's home and they're both alive. >> reporter: we met ashton reed and her husband chase inside the hospital where she almost died here at little rock. >> just felt like there was something sitting on my chest. >> reporter: but it got worse, quickly. she started to lose oxygen and so did her unborn baby. doctors did an emergency c-section to remove the child ten weeks premature. ultimately they both survived, but now she and her husband are on a mission to educate both the covid deniers and the anti-vaxxers. >> they're welcome to come talk to me and i will show them what covid can really look like. >> reporter: speaking of look, you literally have the scars. >> i have the scars to prove it. >> reporter: of what covid looks like. ashton wrote on facebook that doctors told her husband she had

a 40% to 50% chance of surviving. she wrote i'm a healthy wife, mother and daughter, and this virus almost killed me. >> was there a time you were against it? >> yeah, at the time i was against it. that's definitely changed. >> reporter: the arkansas governor says 91% of the active covid cases in this state involve people who are not fully vaccinated. >> if your concern is that the vaccine will cause problems for you, compare 300 covid-19 positive patients in our hospitals versus zero patients who are in our patients because of complications from the vaccine. >> you know what chase reed did as his wife lay unconscious in this hospital? he went and he got vaccinated. >> do you in any way feel a sense of guilt? >> i do feel a sense of guilt, because instead of not taking it seriously, i should have been promoting getting the vaccination because my wife was pregnant. >> reporter: by the way, baby

celia is doing really well. i want to read you two stats from the governor's office. of the covid patients hospitalized in the state, 98% are not vaccinated for covid. and 99.6% of the covid related deaths here in arkansas involve people who were not vaccinated. think about that. >> boy, how many more times can we say it? david, thank you very much. what a story. i want to point out to people, you are vaccinated because you were standing very close to that baby and it was making me very nervous. >> fully vaccinated. >> i know you are. thank you, david. former president trump visits the texas-mexico border to highlight a recent jump in immigration. more than 180,000 migrants were stopped along the southwest border in may, more than any other month in the past three years. cbs news took an early ride along the border yesterday and in just a few hours we saw more than 200 people cross into the state of texas.

we met with a gun-carrying pastor who does what he can to bring immigrants food and water. >> right now it's about 10:30. we are driving down to the edge of the river. >> reporter: pastor luis silva drives the banks of the rio grande river several times a week looking to help migrant families, despite his political views. >> i'm a guy that is trying to show the love of christ, but at the same time i respect our laws. >> reporter: moments after we arrive at the river bank, a raft with five people pulls up. the first of several families to come ashore. they jump out and less than a minute later their guide turns the raft around, ready to pick up another group in mexico. >> is there a concern that this could continue to get worse? >> yes, because, like i say, the narrative that is used, it has repercussions.

consequences. >> by the narrative, you mean empathy that is coming from the administration? >> yes. >> reporter: among the dozens of parents and children we saw was teresita elena. she traveled with her family for more than a month to get here. >> she got her by car. [ speaking foreign language ] >> a very big trailer, she also came. pastor silva gives the group water and food where she walk to a processing site set up by border patrol. there is more than 200 people here, men, women and children. they will be processed by border patrol and then they will be separated and taken to certain facilities, depending on their age and if they came with a family, or if they're an unaccompanied minor. to fight the rising immigration numbers, texas governor greg abbott is asking for donations to help the state building a border wall.

silva supports the border wall, but also believes the immigration system needs an overhaul. >> they need to come up with a solution and people will come as long as there's an opening. >> reporter: the former president will be meeting with texas governor greg abbott here in south texas. in addition, he will be meeting with about two dozen other republican lawmakers at a portion of the border wall that is not complete. the construction stopped here in south texas back in january when the biden administration took over. >> thank you very much. powerful reporting along the border. i think the pastor may be onto something. compassion is a policy everyone can get behind. the top u.s. general in afghanistan says the country could see a civil war after the u.s. military mission ends in the coming weeks. general austin miller is worried that the taliban is taking over more territory. in washington the house voted yesterday to make it easier to

evacuate thousands of afghan interpreters who worked side by side with u.s. troops. both of those interpreters talked about why that promise is life or death. >> reporter: he put his own life on the line to save the lives of american soldiers. >> they hugged me and kissed me and told me, from now you're not our interpreter, from now you're my brother. >> reporter: now his life is at risk again. >> left behind, we will get slaughtered by taliban. >> reporter: a u.s. army captain cited an incident where he identified an afghan soldier plotting to kill american troops and that his actions, without a doubt, prevented an attack. while evacuation plans to a third country may still be uncertain, the taliban death threats here on crystal clear. >> i receive a lot of phone calls from him. >> phone calls? >> yes, and they told me soon we will come to kabul and we will find you and we will kill you. >> reporter: with u.s. forces

pulling out, military interpreters top the target list, and he's not alone. this man was barely 19 years old when he found himself with u.s. marines immersed in the very worst of the fighting. >> they dropped me from helicopter into the desert. >> you came under fire the moment you touched down? >> the moment i touched down. i remember one day, one mission, we had 24 ambushes. >> reporter: even now, he seems shell-shocked from his experiences. >> i got shot in kabul city while i was on a mission. i've been to more than 15 suicide attacks. i'm not feeling well right now. >> reporter: the taliban have ieter are not be in danger, as long as they show remorse for their treason against religion and country. >> would anyone bel>> you're al. you wouldn't believe it? >> no, i will never believe t

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welcome back to "cbs this morning." today is the deadline for wireless companies to implement technology to stop those dreaded robo calls. they must tell the federal communications commission whether they are complying with requirements and if they don't they could face penalties. it's happening under a new acting fcc chairwoman, and our investigative correspondent anna werner sat down with her for an interview you will only see on "cbs this morning." good morning to you. who do we send our thank you notes to? >> good morning. right. start sending them now. the new acting fcc chairwoman is jessrosenwe's a lawyer who's no about this. she wants the wireless carriers to know she's serious about cracking down.

♪ the illegal robo calls keep coming in. >> thereis is an important mess -- >> your social has been found suspicious for committing fraudulent activities -- >> reporter: an estimated four billion of them ringing in on peep's cell phones in the month of may alone. 12 calls per person on average. >> of course the issue that everybody wants to talk about is robo calls. >> reporter: and acting fcc chairwoman jessica rosenworcel knows it. >> of course. my gosh, they're so annoying. we want to stop robo calls and make it easier for consumers to safely answer the phone. >> reporter: today is the fcc's deadline for most phone companies to put in place call authentication technology, a step crucial, she says, to stopping scammers. >> what that means is when a call is being made, a carrier can tell that it really is the person who they say they are on the line. >> reporter: basically the carriers have to verify, yes, when anna werner calls, that's actually anna werner and not a scammer. >> not a scammer. >> reporter: in april the fcc

added yet another rule requiring wireless companies to report whether they're complying under penalty of perjury. swear to it is basically what you're saying. >> swear to it because i want you on record saying that you are doing these things to stop robo calls, and if you lie to us, we're going to come after you. >> reporter: the fcc is gone playing. >> reporter: teresa murray is consumer watchdog at theu.s. public interest research group. >> we're seeing $10 billion worth of fraud a year against consumers, not to mention $3 billion a year in wasted time from you and me answering all these stupid phone calls. i think that the fcc has finally heard enough from enough aspects of our society that they're done. >> reporter: phone companies say they're well on their way. in a statement, industry group ctia says nationwide providers have already implemented call authentication protocols and call-blocking solutions. and the industry is unwavering in its commitment to protect american consumers from illegal and unwanted robo earlier and

doesn't halt from blaming ajit pai and the trump administration. >> the last four years we saw a huge rise in the number of rode -- robo calls. >> reporter: in the previous administration there was not enough enforcement and they didn't get the protocols in place fast enough. >> yes. >> reporter: in spans, pai told us in a statement that the previous scc took unprecedented steps to protect consumers from the scourge of unwanted robo calls, and he said he looks frward to seeing what the current fcc does given that robo calls and spam deckses have gone up dramatically since january, 2021. so are you promising to fix that now? >> i am promising that we are not going to stop until these calls stop. we are going to try to be as creative as possible with the laws we have, and if that fails us, we will go to congress and press for more laws b e t stop

september when any carriers who didn't report to the fcc could theoretically have their calls blocked. jessica rosenworcel will be making asummits along the way -- assessments along the way. even if the vast majority stop, the scammers are likely to find other ways to reach you, everybody, through social media, of course, and the new thing is text messages. >> yeah. that's really annoying. >> that's the next wave if they can't get you on the robocalls. >> thank you to jessica rosenworcel -- >> jessica rosenworcel -- >> yeah. an unusual name. i like it. >> i don't mind the text messages, the texts are like, you're -- you're not getting out of the shower to get the phone if you get a text. >> that is what the experts say, tony, is that text messages don't seem to bother people the way that the calls do. >> sadly they bother me more. to me, text messages feel more personal. usually the robo calls -- they're usually -- i get the same phone call from different numbers almost every day. >> i pick it up and don't say

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this morning the u.s. intelligence community is nearly halfway through a 90-day review of the origins of covid-19. investigators are looking at

whether splierit emerged natura from an infected animal or if it was accidentally escaped from a lab in wuhan, china. the so-called lab-leak theory was initially dismissed by some high-profile scientists, but now it's getting closer scrutiny. catherine herridge joins us with more on the story. everybody wants to know the answer to this question. good morning to you. what do you know about this investigation? >> reporter: good morning. former state department officials tell cbs news there was significant information about the wuhan lab buried in government data bases that did not research their desks for nearly a year as there's a new push to know where the virus came from. in southwest china, the nearest known relatives of the covid-19 virus were discovered in caves nearly a decade ago. more than 900 miles from wuhan where the pandemic began. >> it's impossible to tell whether that last bit of evolution took place in a laboratory or whether it took

place in nature. >> reporter: stanford professor and microbiologist david relman is no stranger to complexs. s the mail in 2001, relman reviewed the science advising t on the science behind the pandemic's origins. >> the lab leak hypotheses are absolutely legitimate. they are plausible. >> reporter: he told cbs news the wuhan lab housed a vast library of bad coronaviruses including specimens from the caves. >> they weren't just studying these viruses, they were actually collecting samples from nature in the largest number with tes diversity of almost anyplace on the planet. >> reporter: 17 months ago as covid-19 went global and even less was known about the virus, a group of scientists labeled the lab leak theory a conspiracy. >> the letters that made very defi defiant or statements about the

strong likelihood of a natural origin i think did some real harm. they forced a lot of people into one way of thinking. >> reporter: dr. anthony fauci, who supports the infected animal-to-human pathway, recently told cbs news an accidental lab leak is worth investigating. >> we said keep an open mind and continue to look. so i think it's a bit of a distortion to say that we deliberately suppressed that. >> reporter: the lab leak theory gained traction in january after the state department released this fact sheet accusing the chinese communist party of deceit and disinformation. david feith, a former deputy assistant secretary of state, helped draft the facts sheet. >> certainly there's new information over the last year. >> reporter: among the findings that researchers at the wuhan institute of virology became sick with covid-19-like symptoms in the fall of 2019, before the chinese communist party went public with the virus.

feith said the information was solid and credible. >> the u.s. government's information on this fact on the lab workers being ill was completely high confidence. >> reporter: state department investigators also found the whan lab had military ties and did high-risk research on coronaviruses. >> they're hiding lab records, they're hiding medical records. >> reporter: cbs news has also learned that one of the u.s. government's top labs lawrence livermore issued a classified report last year that found the lab leak theory was plausible. >> we read it, and we were instantly both alarmed and impressed by its quality, alarmed by its conclusions. >> reporter: until five months ago, david asher headed a coronavirus task force at the stte department. >> what i can say is that it was important and persuasive. we needed to do deeper due diligence including the potential that it came out of a lab. >> reporter: when a group of

scientists gathered by the world health organization went to the wuhan lab earlier this year, their access was limited. are those findings enough? >> no, those findings were completely inadequate. they were not scientific at all. they were not forensic. >> reporter: this lack of transparency rings true to condoleezza rice who was the white house national security adviser at the outset of the sars outbreak in 2003. >> we couldn't get answers from the chinese, and so if we're not going to keep repeating this problem, we're going to have to be a little bit more aggressive with the chinese about the need to cooperate. >> reporter: with nearly four million dead including over ovid-19 will comt professor pandemics. >> beerthe better we understand origins we can anticipate the origins of the next one. >> reporter: china's foreign ministry said criticism from state department investigators is unfounded adding that beijing has repeatedly emphasized the

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and confederate president jefferson davis. a bust of former chief justice roger taney who wrote a notorious pro-slavery decision d be removed. a similar bill failed in the senate last year before joe biden became president and democrats took control of the senate. now we have a story this a glimpse into the future. if you want to skip over traffic, and who doesn't, this car may be for you. a prototype of this flying car logged its first 35-minute flight between two airports in slovakia this week. the inventor says it hit a cruising speed of about 106 miles per hour. it can reach heights of about 8,200 feet. think that's cool? check this out. it can transform from an aircraft into a car in two minutes and 15 seconds. the prototype took two years to build. the pricing to --usun >>wow.in. skipng over trfic, a

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use by 20%. landscape irrigation will only be allowed between 8:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., restrictions go into effect tomorrow. brake lights as you commute out of the south bay. lanes blocked in both directions. if you are going southbound 101 you will see delays. the crash is northbound 101 at that exit to tenant avenue. the on-ramp is blocked as well as the number 3 lane. northbound 101 you will have a closure. that's closed due to debris and the crash. it's a clear day looking at sunny skies over san jose right now. it's a slightly different story when you get back in to the immediate bay where we are looking at plenty of clouds. that's the way it'll probably stay. if you look at the rest of today we will see temperatures that climb to just a few

it's it's wednesday, june 30th, 2021. happy hump day to you! welcome back to "cbs this morning." that's tony dokoupil. that's anthony mason. i'm gayle king. a possible breakthrough for patients with diabetes as america's biggest retailer offers a way to get insulin for much less. we'll tell you who could benefit. > a sn violerime hi amerin durg the paemic, especially crimes involving guns. washington, d.c. mayor muriel bowser will join us to talk about how to stop it. and serena williams is forced to bow out of wimbledon after an injury. see her emotional response and e support. >> love me some serena. but first, here's today's eye opener at 8:00.

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so i guess there's no hiding what all of us were doing when we were "working from home." >> some people some answers they may need to deliver to their office. >> that's exactly right. we'll begin this hour with day seven of the excruciating search and rescue operation at site of that collapsed building in south florida. 12 people are now confirmed dead and rescue teams are search 24 hours a day through debris at the champlain towers south building in surfside. 149 people are still missing. meanwhile, "the miami herald" is reporting the former top building official for surfside is on leave from his current job. the paper says rosendo told the condo board it was in very good shape after a report on the structure in 2018. crews have removed about 3 million pounds of since thursday alone. tomorrow, president biden is traveling to surfside to meet with families and first

responders. >> in a move to reign in the rising cost of insulin, walmart is unveiling its own private label brand. the retail giant says its products will save diabetes patients up to 75% of what they're paying now, which could cost hundreds of dollars a month. a vial of walmart's insulin will now cost about $73, a box of injectable pens, about $86. about 8.4 million people rely on those daily insulin injections. joining us now are lisa gills, consumer investigative reporter for health and medicine and our dr. david agus. i would imagine everybody benefits when the prices are lower. i don't know anybody that doesn't want lower prices on anything. but do some people benefit more than others in this case? >> absolutely. we know from multiple nationally represented surveys that over a decade when people cannot afford medications, they don't fill

precipita prediction prescriptions or skip doses. f thee knone of e last year tha ties andor medications. so this sort of move today with walmart is extremely helpful. also helpful for people who have insurance, but who may have not yet met the deductible. so that means they may be paying 1,000, 2,000, $5,000 out of pocket before their insurance even kicks in. it may be helpful for people who have insurance, but whose insulin simply isn't covered, but it gives them another option, which is a very, very good thing. >> some people may be worried about the quality of this insulin, because it's so much cheaper. will the walmart insulin be the same quality as brand name insulin productproducts? >> oh, yeah, it's made by a company called novo nordisk and it's going to be quality. the regulations are on generic

drugs are very good. walmart sells several hundred drugs for $4 with no insurance costs a month. these are quality drugs and they can find most diseases that we all face. >> so lisa, what impact could walmart's move have on this industry? >> oh, it really could be huge. and you know, they've been a longtime leader in offering low-cost supplies as well as the $4, $10 drugs to americans for a really long time. hopefully, here, it will put sort of continued pressure on pharmaceutical companies to keep those really great sort of out-of-pocket discount programs, coupon programs and patient assistance programs low and affordable. so i would say the more attention that is brought to this issu more that people realizhat the don needo p moran a hundred bucks or sometimes even $35 out of pocket for their insulin. it's a very, very good thing. >> hey, dr. agus, insulin in america costs up to ten times more than it does in other countries.

why is that? >> it's a great question. certainly, we have a runaway train. it's a predatory practice. it costs ten times more, because they will be paid ten times more. and that's not right. you know, when banting identified insulin in 1923, he declined to put his name on the patent, because he didn't think it right to make a profit on something like insulin that would save peoples lives. we have to go back towards value-based pricing in our country, because otherwise, it's not sustainable. >> lisa, do you think this is likely to have an impact on the price of insulin overall? >> you know, we would hope so. we've already -- some of my investigations have shown that surprisingly, after the three big drugmakers that make insulin were called before congress about two years ago, those companies started to really try to offer direct-to-consumer, lower-cost pricing, either through chi upon programs or patient assistance programs, as a way to sort of mitigate this problem and really cut out

middle men who often just because of the nature of that system, can unfortunately, artificially increase prices that are felt by the consumer. it took pressure on them to lower prices. i think this move by walmart will continue to do that and really shed a light on just how low those prices can go when you go direct to consumer or direct through a retailer like walmart. >> we're going to go, david, but before you go, a random question here. we were told right before we came on the air not to use the term "diabetics," that we should now say, "people with diabetes," because "diabetics" is considered offensive. is that true? >> it is the standard now to say it's "people with diabetes." there's type i that requires insulin and type ii that may or may not require insulin. >> thank you both. ahead, we'll talk to muriel bowser about the rise in some violent crimes in her city and op it. the country and how to plus, in our "school

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earlier years. and 47% said a wider gap between struggling and high-performing students is the biggest obstacle to a return to normal. meg oliver is here with us, and she spoke to a mom from new jersey about how she hopes to get her kids back on track. meg, good morning. >> families are trying to figure out what's best to supplement their learning loss this summer. rachel wyman had a problem. after a year of remote learning, two of her kids brought home a bevy of failing grades. >> straight f's. >> wyman said she had trouble helping her kids through school. >> i'm not a high earner, so i don't have resources to pay for private teachers or pods or private school like a lot of people in my community do. >> reporter: so after a

frustrating year, her 11-year-old son keegan trudged off to his first day of summer school on monday. >> i definitely need it, so i don't have that much of a bad opinion about it, but i prefer not going but i know that i need to. >> reporter: he and his 13-year-old sister josie had tried to keep up with virtual school while workin at their mom's shop. >> are you ready to go on to eighth grade? >> i don't know. i think mentally yes, but, like, academically, maybe not. >> reporter: and while their mother is glad they have a summer school option, she doesn't know how effective it will be. >> reporter: is summer school enough to make up for this learning loss? >> i don't know how it could possibly. they're going four days a week for three hours a day for four weeks. and that's supposed to replace an entire school year. >> reporter: students across the country failed classes at an alarming rate. in the bay area, failing grades

increased by 50%. in houston, about half of high school students got at least one f last fall. and in new mexico, one school reported that 79% of students failed at least one class. increases in federal funding to schools have allowed many to offer expanded summer programs. >> so they offered swimming, they offered cooking. besides the school, they can do other things that are fun. >> reporter: muriel watson kids are attending summer school in st. louis. many are offering enriched summer programs. how did you feel about summer school? >> i actually like summer school because it gives me extra time to practice for high school. >> the states have been doled out to schools and it's been

really significant. >> reporter: james helps college enrollment in underresourced communities. be doing who may be scrambling looking at these report cards with failing grades, with students that otherwise were doing well before the pandemic? >> i think the most important thing is not to blame students. we need to give them grace. you know, offering students a second chance, offering third chances i think is going to be really, really important this summer and into the fall. >> reporter: rachel wyman hopes that moving learning off of screens and into the classroom will be the second chance her kids need. >> when i found out that summer school was going to be in person instruction and not remote instruction, i got behind it. i think it will be good to provide them some consistency and, you know, be able to interact in an academic environment again. >> reporter: hoping for the best. >> yeah. they love learning. these kids love learning. it's just been taken away from em. for sntsn elementary and middle school, the most

important thing is getting kids interested in school again through extracurricular activities. now for high school students, one college admissions officer told me they would highly recommend summer school if students failed courses. if you have a rising senior, they also suggest reaching out to the college of choice now to start a dialogue on the admissions process. >> i think it's so important, too, as the teacher said, to sort of basically give kids a grace period here to kind of come back. not blame anybody. so many people were affected in so many ways in the last year. >> when i was a kid i would have hate summer school. this seems like a good idea under the circumstances. you don't think so, tony? >> i don't know. you've been cooped up indoors in your house. and now things are opening up, but you got to go to another building and be indo i think extra, extra -- extra characteristic lars and outdoor activities. >> i love josie in your piece when you asked her, she goes i don't know. i liked her. >> that's coming from a kid who -- >> i don't know. yeah. >> she needs a break.

>> all right. thank you. ahead, we'll show you the moving salute by wimbledon fans. this was so great after tennis icon serena williams was forced out of the competition by an injury. we all felt for her yesterday. you're watching "cbs this morning." we thank you for that. we'll be right back.

tennis legend serena williams says she's heartbroken after withdrawing from wimbledon with a leg injury. >> oh! no, no, no, no. oh, my goodness. >> no, no, no is right. we fel that. williams' quest for an eighth championship was cut short when she got hurt during her first-round match yesterday. the 39-year-old serena asked for a trainer and took a medical time-out. after returning, she slipped and fell and was

>> it looks like that's it. she's given it everything. [ cheers ] >> what a shame. >> williams was a third pro to have fallen on the court, the same court this week. she's chasing a record-tying 24th grand slam singles title. the wimbledon crowd gave her another standing ovation and roared as she wiped away the tears and walked off the court. williams later said the support from the crowd meant the world to her. it was so tough to see. and you saw her husband standing there and her coach. her mom and sisters all looking very concerned. i just -- i mean, you felt that when she slipped that way. >> you hope it's not her last trip to wimbledon. you don't know now. >> i know. just watching the clip, i found myself wanting to clap and give another standing ovation. >> i have faith in serena. we want to see her at the u.s.

open. we'll keep you posted. >> the quest for 24 continues. to happy news from japan. on friday we told you about a canadian olympic basketball player who complained she was forced to choose between her team and nursing her daughter after officials at the tokyo games told athletes to leave their families at home. well, when we told you about it, we thought there's an obvious solution. there should be an exception for nursing mothers. well, lo and behold, the organizers said they will make an exception to allow nursing mothers to bring their babies to the games. in this case, there's no mothers plural, one person on one team. >> that's right. >> and now they're saying go ahead and bring her along. >> you shouldn't have to make that choice either, by the way. >> i think it was an oversight. they had a big policy that said don't bring your brothers and ey did t out, oh, and there's a mom with a baby. >> yeah. >> different situation. >> all's well that ends well. >> and last i checked only mothers can do the nursing. >> we've been working on it. >> as i recall. that's how it works. >> working on an alternative but

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♪ ain't too proud to beg. welcome back to "cbs this morning." begging's never good, though. it's time to bring you some of the stories that we call "talk of the table." >> you are too proud to beg -- >> that's good. anthony, you're in pole position. >> all right. i'm going to kick this off with a rare painting by david bowie. someone found it at a donation center. it's been sold for a huge profit. the portrait called "d head 46" was listed in an online auction this month in canada. it was discovered last summer at a donation center at a landfill in ontario. the finder said the work caught their eye, then they turned it around and saw a label on the back with bowie's signature. the person paid less than $5 for

it. last week, the painting sold for $88,000 at auction. >> wow. >> we produced a number of what were called -- the deadhead series of portraits. portraits of friends, band mates, family members, he did about 50 of these in the late '90s. the previous record set in 2016 for one of these same series paintings was $32,000 in edinborough. obviously since david bowie's death everything with -- even a lock of hair sold i think for over $20,000 -- about $20,000. everything related to david bowie suddenly is worth a lot of money. >> a man of many skills. >> it was in the landfill because someone put it there? >> this is the mystery. how did it end up in a donation center in a landfill in canada? i can't answer that. the back story of the painting is what inteague trigue the peo. >> interesting. speaking of art, mr. mason, ms. gayle king, nine years ago in the biggest state gallery in greece, two paintings were

stolen. it was a brazen heist and a clever one. one of those paintings was a picasso given to the country of greece after world war ii and inscribed on the back -- there it is on the left -- for greece's resistance to the nazis. so this was a prized possession stolen. nine years later it has turned up in a very unusual location. take a look at this video shot by the greek authorities. that is a crypt in a grassy area in some sort of ravine outside of athens. and if you follow it along, they found both paintings wrapped in plastic and apparently in pretty good shape. >> yeah. >> a construction worker has confessed to the crime, police say. >> is he an art lover? >> apparently so. put aside whatever your thoughts are about who loves art. >> yeah. >> he apparently pulled off the theft himself and hid them there. may have tried to sell the paintings on the black market but was unable to. >> the other, as well.

you got two big names there. apparently he cased the museum for months, and the museum also had apparently very low security. it was the middle of the greek debt crisis. and i don't know if they laid off guards or whatever. >> on that point, they plan to take better care of the paintings from now on. look at what happened at the press conference with the picasso. >> oops. >> there it goes. okay. it's okay. just a little dust. don't worry about it. let me put my -- put it back with my ungloved hands. >> my ungloved hands. my story is about maggie munwiler. remember that name. she is from st. louis, and she has become a tiktok sensation over a job interview. what did she do? she brought along her 1-year-old son, milo. maggie says she could not find childcare for the time to time her interview, and she said that to the company. the company said, that's okay, we're child friendly. they sent back an emoji with the heart eyes. so maggie dresses up milo, she get him a little seersucker

suit. she brought him to the interview, even created a resume. his skills include can take off his own diaper, can throw a ll, cpot aoi mile ehe t one. can destroy a clean space in 30 seconds. >> i like that one, too. i like that one, too. can say about five words. i love -- i love this woman. maggie says that she hopes her video will now start a discussion about the struggle to find childcare. it's for real. >> hopefully employers all over will start listening to this conversation and read the comments. it's just such an important thing to continue this momentum to talk about it and hopefully do better as a country. >> you go, maggie. she says her video has been times. almost eight million she wasn't expecting that. she just did it as a lark. you're probably wondering did maggie get the job offer -- you know she did. >> of the position she was potion in

industry. she says she's considering the offer. she just wants to make sure it's the right fit for her. something tells me that maggie mu-u-n-d-w-e-l-l-e-r will have a lot of job offers. >> a lot of people sympathize. >> exactly right. to a big issue on many minds, the rising rate of violent crime nationwide. more than 9,000 americans have been killed in shootings so far this year, excluding deaths by suicide. in washington, d.c., 89 people have been killed in homicides, up from 13% from this time last year. president biden says the nation's capital is one of five cities his administration will focus on in its new push to curb illegal gun trafficking. >> breaking the law for profit, they're selling guns that are killing innocent people. it's wrong. it's unacceptable. as the attorney general said, we're going to crack down on those gun dealers and the violent criminals they knowingly arm. my message to you is this --

we'll find you. we will seek your license to sell guns. we'll make sure you can't sell death and mayhem on our streets. it's an outrage. it has to end, and we'll end it. period. >> and washington, d.c., mayor muriel bowser is with us now. mayor, so great to see you. thank you so much for being here and being in new york city. >> it's great to be in new york city. >> great to see you in person. are you vaccinated -- >> i'm completely vaccinated since february. >> yes. >> bravo. >> us, too. >> let's talk about these statistics in big cities, the homicide statistics which are so alarming. up 13% in d.c. from last -- this time last year. what is happening in your view? >> well, first and foremost we want to -- all of our residents and all of your viewers to know that our city is very focused on keeping our neighborhoods safe. and working not only with law enforcement but working a full spectrum strategy including crime prevention strategies.

>> why do you think the numbers are up so much, though? >> it's hard to -- any time you see upticks in crime, it's hard to point to one thing. we know certainly that we're coming out of a 100-year pandemic where people are out of work, kids were out of school, joblessness is up and all of those things certainly contribute to -- to crime on streets. but we're focused on it. we have strategies that we're putting in place and funding them. i think that you're going to see historic investments in cities across america because of the american rescue plan. >> you getting enough from the federal government? do you want more? >> well, we certainly try to maximize all partnerships with the federal government. d.c. is unique in that we have federal partners in our criminal justice system, including the united states attorney's office which prosecutes all of our crimes. we want them very focused on

d.c. efforts. the courts, federal courts, we want them fully open and in person and making sure that our criminal justice system is working. all the support services. and that includes supervising individuals, but we're trying some new things. my council has a budget proposal in front of them where we are going to have housing supports to support our public safety efforts. we're going to have a pilot to support our citizens who are returning home for incarceration to ramp up their transition back to productive life in d.c. so we're staying focused. there are law enforcement strategies, prevention strategies, and opportunity strategies. >> on the opportunity front, i want piggyback on the crime question. we talk about murder being up 13%, but we should point out crime overall is actually down 5%. >> yeah. >> what's working? >> well, i think that the

president's words that of illeg our streets. and the federal government has a unique opportunity when it comes to the interstate travel of guns, the prosecution of those gun crimes to be partners with us in cities. >> i want to talk about you were telling us earlier that this is your first trip, your first business trip outside of washington. you want people to know washington, d.c., is open, come one, come all. >> absolutely. >> want people to come back. what's it like traveling? i'm a little nervous about moving in the public. what's it been like for you? >> we took the amtrak up. >> you did. >> we met with the president of amtrak about the beautiful moynihan train hall here in new york city. we have a great opportunity with washington union station that will represent a huge infrastructure investment in

northeast travel. people wore their masks. i think people were extra patient. >> i know you're encouraging vaccines in your city. you have all sorts of incentives for that. >> we do. >> i heard jeep wranglers are on the table. >> yes. we're 70% of our adults are vaccinated in d.c. but also the d.c. metro region. so maryland and virginia. so people are moving around d.c. very safely. and traveling safely. we still have 30% of the people we need to get vaccinated. >> are the incentives working? metro cards another one. >> we do see where we've offered incentives at three sites that the activity has doubled since the -- and we offer a $51 gift card. you may ask why - >> 51st state -- >> i got it. >> would you like it to be a state? >> absolutely. >> i know. i saw you -- yeah. >> so that's -- that's working for us. and over eligible to get vaccinated. so we can go into a great start

of school. >> it's a great city. hopefully a great state one of these ways if you get your way. great to see you. >> my daughter went down last weeken

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their lives. none of them should have to sacrifice their integrity, as well. [ applause ] >> reporter: in 2010, president barack obama repealed don't ask, don't tell. [ cheers ] >> i remember just, you know, texting friends and being on the phone and sending emails and just -- you know, tears running down your face just out of relief and happiness. >> reporter: it meant that much. >> yes, absolutely. >> reporter: less than four years later, lindsay johnson and chante barber met during training at the air force academy and soon began dating. >> we felt we wanted to keep our personal lives close to our chest. and every time we would tell a friend or a family member or a co-worker that we felt comfortable enough with, i think it was a slow, you know, okay, here's another five pounds off our chests. >> reporter: both women were ultimately outed at work by co-workers butai tued out to be unwarranted. >> even though initially it

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