>> reporter: seen a dramatic rise of covid cases, with the average cases doubling in's than a month. with the vaccination rate hovering just above 40%. the public schools are requiring all students and staff wear masks when schools are starting up again in three weeks. katie towns is the director of green county headlilth department. >> this time around, the disease is affecting those unvaccinated which has made the disease translate in to a younger demographic. >> reporter: like in immuno compromised freshman, he was the first of his high school classmates to be diagnosed in july. and one of the first to get vaccinated in early february. >> ohio saw it was, i-- how i s is if i get it, i can go back to

normal things. >> not everyone in jack's family feels that way. his mom, has been fighting vaccine hesitancy in her home for months. >> it split our family. i have a son that will not get it seems that there's no inbetween. you are absolutely or absolutely not. and i have yet to figure out what the absolutely not is about. >> a we are seeing that kind of split all over the country right now. here in missouri. if health officials are doing what they can to flood social media and really get the information out. they are beefing up incentives and one of the incentives is a state funded raffle. we are up to 900 people that can win 10,000 dollars in cash. what eth hbeen doing

here, it's working. last night, we got a text message and she said her last hold out son is preparing to get vaccinated and promised to do it today. >> some communities in california are run are outalifow considered to be an exceptional drought. which is the highest level. that is up from just over 5% three months ago. many residents areally feeling the impact as water wells start to run dry. carter evans has more from the popular northern tourist town. >> walk through this 170-year-old town is like taking a step back in time and the same can be said for its water supply here. you see, most homes and businesses, they use appear old well somewhere on the property for their water which the drought has caused many of the wells to run dry. this is what it's come to.

the they hotel is truck engine . >> he conserves as much as he can, using dirty dish water for the flowers and buying new light weight sheets for guest beds. >> you can get more of them in one load of wash and you can cut the water use significantly. >> most people across the united states cannot imagine a situation where they turn on the tap and no water comes out. >> it's frightening. right now, there's no water. >> three nights a week, the kitchen is dark and the dining rooms are empty. he pays $3600 a month to fill up the water tank. >> it looks about half. i would say. that will get us through 2.5

days of business. >> why don't you get more water trucked in. >> the problem is, the the town on the coast are shutting off the sale of water. >> so the trucks cannot get wat tore bring to you. is it an emergency? >> absolutely. >> ryan rhodes is in charge of water management. >> without rainfall, the aqua fe aquafers are being decompleted. >> everything is on the table. even bringing water by train. can neighboring communities swear it. >> the people are scared and are not sure what the future will begin, and they don't want to give up the back up water they have. >> they could be the next town in problem. >> they could be. >> and what happens if they shut it down? >> we are out of luck, we have to shut down. >> what's the solution? >> i don't know.

>> how do you run a business and live like this? >> it's not sustainable. let's say that. >> a big thing is getting the tourists to come and understand how critical the crisis is. people are warned all over town to conserve water and some businesses are closing bathrooms and putting porto-potis outside instead. imagine trucking in the water and flushing it down the toilet. >> the cbs overnight news, will be right back. new klondike cones. experience the chocolate tip. examine the full sauce core. bask in a downpour of peanuts. ♪

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and it helped to inspire the earliest acts of civil disobediance. >> they used the graphic novel format to reach a new awed yeps struggling to fulfill the promise of the law. ♪ ♪ artists worked to bring this chapter of american history to life. >> we tried to directly draw from the images of the movement and of the events. these were real people. they showed up and they put their lives in danger. >> real people, like jennifer lawson and courtlin cox. cox and lawson were young students when they joined the movement with lewis. their experience organizing in

alabama amid terror and violence was depicted in "run". >> at this time, there was no black registered voters at all. >> zero. >> because people had been so intimidated through terror. >> and reason was the maintenance of white supremacy. many of them not only could not vote, but they couldot of the state of alabama to give people no education or little education. >> they needed a simple, powerful way to explain the political system. >> we began to develop comic books so we could inform and also get them to believe in themselves. to believe that they were the ones who should be in charge. >> now, we had no artistic supplies. and i brought my little stick figures and they started out really as stick figures. and gradually i got a little

better. >> they were up against the all white democratic party. >> the official symbol of the democratic party this rooster. it said white supremacy for the right. white supremacy was the political motto. >> the people in the county said, what we need is a black cat to run that old rooster out of this county and so, they began to think black panther was their symbol. >> the first image appeared in your comic. >> the county symbol that jennifer drew did not just remain in our county. >> the symbol went national, adopted by others throughout the movement as black power became a rallying cry. >> don't be afraid. don't be ashamed we want black power. we want black power. >> that's right! >> black power! >> some said that this county had black power in action with

people being able to vote for themselves and have the authority in the county. the courage of the people was very remarkable saying and we want our freedom and we want the vote and we are willing to take the risk. >> that's what active its like lewis hoped to evoke, citizens willing to take risks to create change. >> we are searching for a framework to understand what is happening in front of us and john lewis gives it to us through his life. it's why we had to keep stelling the story after march and make the book. >> those who marched with lewis, the story continues. >> we did many, many things that the were necessary. but they were not sufficient. even though we got the voting rights bill. we got civil rights bill. that we are not such and i tell the young people today, it's the most humbling thing they have to do what is necessary. but it may not be sufficient.

this is a long distance race. >> as john lewis said, encouraging people to keep up the fight is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month or a

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people. never mind that he is a middle school teacher, he thought he could raise the chedder, by selling cheesesteaks. there's no way you were going to make enough money selling them out of the your house. >> yeah, correct, correct. >> given that what was pushing you forward? >> just my mom. you know, just love for my mom. >> and so. with his love, and her recipe. dustin started making and switches. sandwiched so big, no container could contain. he pedalled them to friends and family. >> thank you. >> thank you. appreciate your support. >> they must have told their friends and family too. immediately cars started to double park outside of his house. next, word spread on social media. >> oh, my god. >> and before he knew it. >> that's so good. >> folks were lined up down the block. a foot truck operator offered the services and in just six

weeks dustin raised all the money he needed and then some. >> $18,000. >> the trip was in may. >> oh, my. >> the egyptian government has seen our story and gave her the eopatra treatmen >> she repeated over and over that it was the best thing she has done in her life. >> and she died not long after you came back? >> yeah, came back and did hospic can e. >> we created so many new me memories that will last forever. he knows the name of hiss restaurant he wanted to hope. glorias. >> on the road. and that's the "the cbs overnight news" for this wednesday. for some of you the news continues and for or others che

back. from washington, d.c., i'm jan crawford. it's wednesda it's wednesday, august 4th, 2021. this is the "cbs morning news." singled out. president biden calls out two republican governors in the fight against covid. his blunt message as new cases go up. the independent investigation found that governor cuomo sexually harassed multiple women. >> cuomo investigation. a scathing report finds the new york governor sexually harassed nearly a dozen women. what happens next amid growing calls for him to resign. unruly passenger. why one airline crew duct taped why one airline crew duct taped a man two his own seat.

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