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think they will get a bit of money. >> yeah. >> thank you for watching kpix5 news this morning. the news continues all day on cbsn bay area. >> s good morning to you. it's tuesday, august 24, 2021. i'm gayle king. that's anthony mason, that's tony dokoupil. we welcome you to "cbs this morning." let's go. straight to today's "eye opener." it's your world in 90 seconds. >> i'm calming on more companies in the private sector to step up the vaccine requirements that will reach millions more people. >> the pfizer vaccine receives full fda approval and we'll ask dr. fauci how this changes the covid fight. a decision could come today on whether president biden wants
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to keep the military in afghanistan longer. >> they're not stranded. governor andrew cuomo steps down. >> my instinct is to fight this because it's unfair and unjust in my mind. a desperate search through debris after record rainfall and catastrophic flooding in tennessee. we hear from the survivors. >> my dad got rushed into the rapids and my sister and mom got separated. the u.s. capitol police officer who shot and killed a woman during the riot has been cleared of wrongdoing. >> all that -- >> good morning. >> only on "cbs this morning." oprah winfrey reveals her latest book club pick. >> all that matters. >> the fan gets a head start, but a long way to the finish line. >> this guy looks like he has -- here he comes down the stretch. >> gives the race away. freezer burn. >> ten feet from immortality. >> on "cbs this morning." >> the fda granted full approval to the pfizer vaccine. the first coronavirus vaccine to
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be fully approved, which sounds like a big deal until you remember that so is mountain dew baja blast. >> this morning's "eye opener" is brought to you by progressive. >> james got jokes, still a big deal. >> but a lot we're putting in our bodies but we shouldn't. >> yeah. >> it's where we begin this morning, with the major shift in the pandemic fight after the fda gave full approval to the pfizer vaccine for americans 16 and up. afterward many employers and universities started to issue ultimatums telling students to get the vaccine or they can't return in person. yesterday, president biden encouraged americans to get their shots immediately calling the fda announcement the gold standard. our lead national correspondent david begnaud has more. >> get this, pfizer submitted
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the application that was 360,000 pages. ed fda never received so much data and safety content to ensure the safety of a shot. it was the fda's full approval of the pfizer vaccine that convinced 19-year-old kayla mcgee to line up at the university of louisiana lafayette yesterday and get vaccinated. what did you think when you heard about the fda approval? >> i was just being ignorant at that point. like it was my own fault, so i just had to go do it. like there was no running away from it anymore. >> reporter: 19-year-old callie rozelle has been on the fence for months but that finally changed yesterday. full approval is what did it for you? >> yes, it is. that's what did it for me and also it's going to be required on campus.
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>> reporter: it was swiftly met by new mandates stand pentagon is moving ahead with a vaccination requirement for all active duty service members. new york city public schools mandated at least one shot for all teachers and staff by september 27th and united airlines says that its staff must be fully vaccinated by that same date. scott kirby is united's ceo. >> it sounded liable a no-brainer and a requirement from the safety perspective that we require vaccines, but i believe it's going to be more common to require vaccines than to not require vaccines within the next few weeks. >> no mandate! >> reporter: while some may challenge the mandates don't expect the judge to overturn them, says rikki klieman. >> historically mandates work according to the law. that is, a government, a business, a university can
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demand that people get vaccinated. there were many people who felt that it did not have full approval and therefore it was risky to get it. that argument goes right out the door because with full approval, it is, therefore, looked at as a safe vaccine. >> reporter: so the full approval applies to those 16 and older and full approval for the younger kids probably won't come until the fall. at the end of the day, when you look at all of the clinical data and clinical trial data, the covid-19 vaccine from pfizer is 91% effective at preventing covid-19 disease. gayle? >> david, thank you. president biden's chief medical adviser dr. anthony fauci is joining us now. good to see you. we just heard in david's piece
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how students say that they will now get the vaccine because it is now fda approved. how much of a game changer do you believe this will be? >> well, i think it's going to be very important three from three standpoints, gayle. when you have a vaccine that's fully approved by the fda, there are a certain percentage of unvaccinated but eligible to be vaccinated people who have in a survey said, about 30% of them who were reluctant to get vaccinated will go ahead and get vaccinated. so that's a pretty good chunk. >> how far away do you think we are away from full approval for moderna and johnson & johnson? >> i don't think it's too far away because both of those products were a bit behind in
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the initiation of their euas and then in the submission, obviously, of a lot of material that is required for a bla. so i think it's a temporal issue. i don't think there's anything different necessarily about the process. it's just that they submitted or are submitting their material a bit later after pfizer did. >> are we talking about weeks, months still? >> you know, it's difficult to predict because issues may come up with the fda. i would imagine knowing the differences in time of the submission of their eua it will be a month or so. >> how close would this approval and the two other approvals that are likely to be forthcoming soon, how close are we to getting back to some sense of normalcy there are fewer guidelines and we don't think of the coronavirus on a daily basis? >> you know, that's going to be up to us and when i say up to us, i mean it's how many people get vaccinated. how many people step up and say, you know, we have had enough of this. we've got to put an end to this terrible outbreak that's completely disrupted our lives. >> what is that threshold? >> so we have the vaccines available. you know, the threshold is
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something that we don't know, and the reason i say we don't know it is because you have to get to a situation like with measles where you were like way 90 plus percent were vaccinated and got the kind of what we call herd immunity. you know what that number is because when it gets below that number, you start to see outbreaks like we saw some time ago in the new york city area with the city jewish people who were not getting vaccinated. you don't know if it's 80, 85, 90%, you know and when you don't know the thing to do is to just whatever you can to get as many people vaccinated as you can and when you reach that point, you'll know it because you won't have any infections. you can't accurately predict what that number is. >> let's go back, dr. fauci, to the stepping up part because if more people got the vaccine, we would be out of this much sooner. you know, the science has shown that. and i heard you say that if
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people get it, we could maybe get back to normal in spring of 2022. so what do you say to people that think this fda process was rushed? you know, how do we know this is safe? can you hit this on a second an how did you come up with spring of 2022? >> well, let me answer your first question. first of all, gayle, it wasn't rushed. they did -- they meticulously went over every bit of data. spring of 2022 is just an estimate, gayle. it means that if we can get a large majority -- overwhelming majority of the people vaccinated, and we get through the winter okay, because remember, we'll have the complication of influenza and other respiratory illnesses and we get the 80 million or so not vaccinated, i estimate -- this is purely an estimate, by the time we get to the spring and
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people come outdoors again as opposed to being inside, i believe that we can get to some degree of normality that approximates what we'd like. >> step up, people. we hear you. thank you. >> thank you for having me. this morning, president biden hears arguments from his closest european allies arguments to possibly extend a deadline to pull troops out of afghanistan. something the taliban says they will not accept. all of that comes as "the washington post" reports cia director william burns met with the taliban's de facto leader in kabul yesterday.
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meanwhile, u.s. troops are controlling the city's airport and they expect a decision on that deadline today with thousands of westerners and many more afghans still waiting to get out. a white house official says about 21,600 people were flown out in the last 24 hours. pretty big number. roxana se barry reports. >> reporter: with one week to go before the deadline, evacuations from the kabul airport are picking up pace. 37 u.s. military planes airlifted out more than 10,000 people in 24 hours. the highest one-day figure so far. it also confirmed that u.s. troops made a second rescue off airport grounds yesterday, extracting several stranded americans. but it's unclear how many american citizens and at-risk afghans remain and if the u.s. will need more time to get them out. pentagon spokesman john kirby. >> i'm not going to speculate about post august 31st. we are head down focused on keeping these numbers up as best we can, getting as many people out as we can by the end of the month. >> reporter: the u.s. says for now, the taliban are cooperating with the american troops at the airport. though spokesman says this -- >> it's a violation of the commitment that president biden has made. >> reporter: in the capital,
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signs of everyday life are returning, though banks and schools are still closed. thousands who have made it out passed these crowds at kabul's airport and are flowing into u.s. bases in places like germany and washington's dulles airport. where yesterday these refugees landed carrying their kids and hopes for a brighter future. the pentagon says evacuees who traveled to the u.s. will be temporarily housed at four military bases across the country with facilities that can ultimately hold up to 25,000 people. the u.s. capitol police investigation has cleared the officer who killed a rioter
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during the insurrection on january 6th. police say the officer's conduct was lawful and within park department policy, and would not result in any internal discipline. the officer shot air force veteran ashli babbitt as she was trying to climb over a barricaded door into the house chamber. many conservatives including former president trump insist there was no reason to kill her. in a statement babbitt's attorney said that the investigation by the officer's own police department conducted in secret proves nothing and is certainly not an exoneration. the justice department already had decided not to pursue criminal charges in the shooting. capitol police say they won't identify the officer because he and his family have received death threats. this morning, new york has its first female governor, kathy hochul is her name. she was sworn in at midnight after andrew cuomo officially left the office in disgrace. the former lieutenant governor will speak to new yorkers later this afternoon following a larger inauguration ceremony.
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cuomo blamed the resignation on politics and quote, a media stampede after an investigation found he had sexually harassed at least 11 women. he said he did not touch anyone inappropriately. hochul becomes the ninth woman governor in the u.s. matching an all-time high. a frantic search operation under way in tennessee after a devastating flood. at least 22 people are dead and many more are missing. now we're learning more about the sudden and tragic losses involved there. jessie mitchell is in waverly where the water rose quickly saturday. they're still trying to clean up and dig out. jesse, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, tony. four days after this historic flood, the town of waverly, tennessee, still looks like this. just about every direction and we're hearing more about friends and family members swept away. rachel reeve's parents tried to escape after flood waters
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inundated their house. >> my dad got rushed into the rapids. >> my sister and my mom got separated. >> reporter: rachel's father did not survive and his body was found a mile from the home. >> he saved my mom and sister and i know he's resting peacefully because of that. >> reporter: mother's mom and sister were rescued by a volunteer flying a private helicopter. >> the debris that they floated on all the way down there. >> reporter: cheyennea bryant's sister is still missing. missing four days. last seen grabbing debris, trying to stay afloat. >> i'm hoping she is with somebody, just unconscious, not able to tell them a number or she's alive and just somewhere we can't get to her. >> reporter: more than 20 bodies have been recovered including that of wayne spear's a long-time ranch foreman for loretta lynn.
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taylor lynn is her granddaughter. >> being the ranch heartbeat, he was out there, trying to get the dad gum tractor out f harm's way and that water just like everything that happened here in town, it just came so fast. >> i had the twins in my arms like this. >> daniel hall and matthew rigney had their twins swept away from their father's arms after the sudden surge into the apartment. >> never imagine we would be burying two babies seven months old. >> reporter: the rigney family had moved in two weeks before the flood and so did rachel reeve's parents and tomorrow, the funerals are tomorrow for the ranch hand and the baby twins. >> listen, it's devastating when you lose somebody and your family and when you look at the twin girls -- >> it's very hard. >> and then the families
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together and then separated by the water. >> another reminder about the force of mother nature. never underestimate that. >> still a lot of missing people. >> holding out hope for the one girl still missing. still ahead, an update on the most dangerous wildfire in california and another wildfire threatening campers at summer get away.
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we have much more news ahead including a look at china's efforts to blame the u.s. for the pandemic first reported in their country. what happened when our cbs news crew travelled to wuhan. and imagine getting $700 to drive your own kid to school. how financial incentives could help with the nationwide shortage of school bus drivers. that's ahead on "cbs this morning."
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further support the wuhan lab leak theory and pushback is everywhere in china, even physically with our cbs news team on the ground. covid's origin is a sensitive topic in china. these men stopped our cbs camera crew from interviewing wuhan native hai last week. we first met him in january as he dared to sue the government. his father died from covid and he has been told to shut up if journalists came calling. later, via zoom, he told us he believes wuhan is where covid began. this kind of talk is like treason against beijing's official narrative, despite the world's first known cases being reported there. >> there's a conspiracy trying to pinpoint the origin to china. >> reporter: victor gau is a
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long-time commentator. >> this virus existed earlier than the outbreak of wuhan in other parts of the world. including most logically in the united states. >> reporter: few in the u.s. know about the closed bio weapons program in washington, d.c. and ft. detrick is famous. there's proof that the covid started outside china. >> it's impossible from europe, impossible from the united states. >> reporter: and the world health organization has been barred from returning over lack of access and transparency. >> do you think the world health organization should be allowed
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to go back in? >> if the second investigation doesn't provide the evidence about the lab, then you're required to serve even the fourth. >> reporter: in short, no. and the propaganda is working. the w.h.o. is bullying the chinese people, this person told cbs news in wuhan. the u.s. is trying to shift blame to china says another. a third told us the u.s. brought covid here. during cbs' time in wuhan, these same vehicles followed our crew all three days of filming. the same men sitting in the hotel lobby trying to take photos. knowing not everyone accepts the communist like, like hai, a frequent target of the surveillance campaign. i hope the u.s. investigation will lead to the chinese people getting punished and the families finding comfort. it's unclear when or where the public might see from the report. beijing will no doubt attack any
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criticisms and will likely push their anywhere but china narrative about where covid truly began. >> that was ramy inocencio reporting from china and keeping his cool as being followed around the country as he tries to report on the origins of the crisis. >> very creepy. >> people sitting in the lobby as you're walking. >> all the time. here's a nonrandom person, vlad duthiers, he'll be up next. you can get the latest news by is subscribing to the podcast. you u can get ththe day's stston less t than 20 mininutes. r times can get dadamaged. colglgate gum rerenewal. reverses e early gum d damae for r a beautifu ul, revitatalized smilile. for peopople who couould use e a lift new neutrorogena® rapid firmrming. a triple-lift serum with pure collagen. 92% saw vivisibly firmrmer sn in just 4 4 weeks.
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we have some good news. mr. duthiers is back. >> feels good to be back. i missed you all. >> welcome back. >> what an assignment you had though. >> it was difficult. you know, i told sean our executive producer i was grateful we were able to have so much real estate to tell to story, even though there was a lot of news happening last week and hopefully people are more aware of what's happening in haiti. >> sean penn was here, he was talking about his movie and we talked to him about haiti. he was very appreciative of the coverage. he said that to me in the greenroom. >> did he really? >> yes, he did. >> that's really cool. yeah, he's been a strong supporter of haiti going back to the 2010 earthquake so good to see him on the ground. but while we are here, let me bring a little bit of light and levity with a couple of stories that you'll be talking about today. a court ruling in north carolina will allow thousands of people with a felony conviction to vote
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again. it applies to 56,000 people who have left prison and are being supervised, a group that's disproportionately black. the process can take years, and north carolina republicans say they intend to appeal the ruling. i was reminded, gayle, you did the interview with meek mill and he said how difficult it is to continue to live your life and this will make the folks in north carolina -- >> one of the most dangerous weapon you can have is a judge with a pen. how it can totally change your life. >> another dangerous weapon of course is the right to vote, and what happens with that. i never understood taking away the right to vote. >> me neither. >> when someone committed a crime, because you want to reintegrate someone into society, make them care and make them invested and voting does that. >> to your point about the
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disproportionate part, black people make up 42% of those on parole. >> 11 states, tony, if you go to jail and convicted of a crime, you cannot vote indefinitely. >> i think it's astounding. >> mind boggling and wrong. all right. members of the seattle storm got to celebrate their wnba title at the white house. they were invited by the president yesterday to celebrate in a season that was played during the pandemic. president biden congratulated the players for their performance on the court and for their work on social justice issues. listen. >> what makes this team remarkable is they don't just win games. they change lives. that's what winners do. they shine the light. they lift people up. they're a force for change. >> throughout the past year, the storm helped spotlight police brutality issues and encourage voter registration. remember when they wore these jerseys in support. >> i remember that. >> it's wonderful what it's
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calling the attention to. and important. i think the jersey was a little big for president biden. >> i'm sure it will look good in the frame in the white house. we have this update on the "jeopardy" host shakeup and mayim bialik will be the first host. after it was -- >> he decided? >> i was thinking the same thing. so the episodes will be taped this week and more guest hosts will be announced as the production of the new season moves forward. it's still available. >> so is vlad. >> for your consideration -- >> call me. >> richard stepped down after a backlash on the sexist comments he made over a decade over and he's staying on as the executive producer. >> i don't understand how they'll be able to do that because the person who comes in
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is going to have to work for the person who doesn't want you there. >> yeah. >> i wanted your job, i don't want you to have this job. he was very good when he host and i struggle with being held to something you said so many years ago. i think we need to have a conversation about that, but that aside, i don't know how he gets to stay. >> it's awkward, to say the least. >> but let's not miss our point. vlad duthiers -- >> hey, mike richards. i'm not a hater. >> you would be great. all right. so the first day of fall is about four weeks away, but the season is in full swing at starbucks. they announced the famous pumpkin spice latte is available starting today. the drink's earliest return date. they have sold 500 million so far. >> 500 million. >> dunkin' put out theirs last
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week. >> what is pumpkin spice? i never had. >> good news, there's a pumpkin scone too. >> people like it. coming up schools across the country are dealing with a massive shortage of bus drivers. see what's behind the problem and how districts are trying to get more drivers behind the wheel.
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gayle. the big boys behind me are not the problem. they're ready to go to get public school students to class here at prince georges county when classes resume. the issue is pay and the pandemic. many existing drivers re-evaluating the risks they take for what they make and with schools ramping up nationwide, this is clearly becoming a problem everywhere. >> i'll keep saying it until the cows come home, we need more driver. >> reporter: parents are being told to expect significant school bus delays for the foreseeable future and in chesterfield county, a request for parents. >> we're asking you to drive your child to school. >> i work two jobs, i can't get them to and from school. >> reporter: in pittsburgh, nearly 800 kids will have to walk. >> my 6-year-old is not walking
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even with a group of people. >> reporter: it's a patch work of policies stemming from a lack of new bus drivers. >> it has always been an issue. the difference is right now the numbers are probably double what they would be at this time of year or more in terms of need. >> reporter: rudolf sanders oversees the transportation for prince georges county, maryland, and said the network is under pressure. >> you might have to condense a route by adding two routes on the same bus or there's more kids on the bus. >> reporter: which is why four-figure cash incentives are emerging. in atlanta, $1,000 bonuses are on the table for new hires, while baltimore city is willing to give three times as much. the shortage is so dire in montana, helena public schools are offering a full grand bonus the president of the napt which represents the school bus drivers says that the pandemic
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is partly to blame. a health risk for the often older drivers. >> you don't typically find people that are 18 to 25 driving a school bus. it's people of age that are in their 40s or later and some of them may be afraid to get on the bus because of covid. and students that may or may not have been vaccinated. >> this is easier than driving your car. >> why is that? >> you can see everything. >> reporter: bus driving instructor johnny walker trains new drivers for prince georges county schools. >> that's the most important job in the system, because without getting those kids to school and getting those kids to school on time, you know, they're missing education. >> reporter: now napt estimates tens of thousands of school bus drivers are needed nationwide right now and it would take roughly six to eight weeks even if there was an influx of
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applicants to get them trained up and get their cdl and prince georges county, they resume next month. >> we heard about the teacher shortage and now a bus driver shortage. >> i like his take on it. one of the most important job you have. and what a bonus for the parents, $700 per child? >> some don't have the time. ahead, only on "cbs this morning," oprah will reveal her next book club pick. we'll talk with the author about why it's especially relevant riright now. ththe covid-1919 vacciness are safefe and effecective. and whilile walgreenens has sasafely admininistered over 2 25 million n free covi9 vavaccines, wewe can't stotop . because ththis is still our r shot. it's dry. there's no dry time. makes us wonder why we booked fifteen second ad slots.
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♪ it is tuesday, august 24th, 2021. we welcome you back to "cbs this morning." more employers are requiring vaccinations now that pfizer vaccine has full approve. how president biden thinks it could help us win the fight against the virus. a kindergarten teacher tells us what an in-person class is like as more kids return. and only on cbs this morning, oprah reveals her next book club pick.
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she calls it epic. >> epic is the word. but first the eye opener at 8:00. the fda gave full approve for americans 16 and up. >> pfizer's application was 360,000 pages. they say they've never received so much data to judge the safety of a shot. >> how far are we from moderna and johnson & johnson? >> about a month so. weect pect to learn today if a deadline will be extended. >> the pentagon says people will be temporarily housed. the town of waverly looks like this in just about every direction.
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tide at four in the 11th. >> deep to right field and it is gone. >> the sox stealing victory from the jaws of defeat. >> he hit the day lights out of it. >> one strike away from loseing it, to a grand slam walk off. >> pressure there, tony. >> i think of the baseball body and the side shot. really destoingtive. we're beginning with a growing push after vaccine mandates. the ceo says he expects more. al 16 and older to get the shot as soon as possible. and a goal of boosting rates to end the pandemic more quickly. the penalty gone is imposing a
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mandate for the active duty service members. more than 92 million have received both doses of the pfizer vaccine, moderna and johnson & johnson. earlier we spoke about what this will take to end the pandemic? >> are you saying we just learn to live with it in some way? >> you know, i doubt that's going to be the case but i think it's the question of how much longer, how much are you going to prolong the situation? remember, when you said this virus being with us. we've got to look at this at a global level. remember, this is a global pandemic and if we don't get the rest of the world vaccinated, it's always going to be threatening to get a new variant
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and come back to us. >> maryland governor, hogan says they need to approve all vaccines then u.s. frormgs and hogan, a cancer survivor says he's resteve said a third vax eenl shot. good morning and thanks for being with us. the president is urjing local leaders, state leaders to impose stricter vaccination requirements. what's the plan for your state? >> well, we're one of the most vaccinated states in the country and nearly 95% of our vulnerable population because we took a lot of steps early on. but this is to the next step.
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it has been the number one issue people are lenexting. we also have been pushing to make sure we can reach the younger kids as we go back to school. it's critical they get to work. and approving one vaccine is great but be great to see if they can get final approve on the ucer two as well. >> you've already received a booster shot and the fda could authorize them for all adults in the fall. hoy are you going to insure the people who need the third shot get it? >> right now their trooper already authorized for immune cancer. i has cancer of the immune system. so, we're doing antibody studies
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in nursing homes and finding we're seeling loss. i know they're working on this at the federal level. we can't wait until later in the fall, we can't wait eight moungts and i'll meet with a number of other governors and on the boosters and approve for yucker kids. >> first, congratulations to you. i see your ear piece is giving you a problem. i know they can be extremely annoying. but you're rolling with it and we appreciate that. over the weekend, former president trump was booed when he recommended they get the vaccine. i'm curious if that surprised you when you say that? and why do you think there's so
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much skepticism about the vaccine that people are willing to ignore the science. did it surprise you he was booed? >> not really. there's a lot of misinformation about there. >> but thesis were his own supporters. >> well, there's been a lot of mish communication for at least paigt months with respect to the vaccine. a lot of people believe very strongly in things that aren't true. it's good the president said he got the vaccine but he didn't push the message as strong as i would have liked. >> i'm hoping to switch to afghanistan because we know there are 10s of thousands of refugees exiting the country. many coming to the united states.
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you've said you're ready and willing to accept those refugees. what are you hearing about when they'll arrive and the screening involved? >> they've already started to arrive. these are our allies that work side by side with us, in some case, years. i know they're working orn it. i think they landed just over the line from us yesterday. they're being processed and we'll get information about when they get relocated to various states. i think i was the first governor saying we're really -- willing to take more. we're the fourth most in the country and number one segment
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is folks from afghan starnl. i meerngs what kind of message does that send to our allies around the world if our word is not good? >> you called the call an unmitigated disaster. what should we have done differently? >> i think just about everything. i think it was a mistake from the decision making, from intelligence, to the execution, and from the communication standpoint. the white house seems to be trying to grapple with it but it's been done about opposite of how we should have. we haven't have given up the air force base, shouldn't have made an agreement with them that allowed for a lot of this to happen and we should have got our people out of there before we pull our troops. i'm not a military strategy
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expert but it seems that was the advice from the military leaders. we bungalled it from the start. >> you're one of the gvovernors that appears to have a handle on this. let's go to florida, wheres there rrp fighting over mask mandates. what do you say to people in your own party against mask mandates? >> not only are they against it, but they're saying they're all about freedom and yet they're taking away the freedom of local school systems and, in some cases, businesses to make the decision themselves. we left it up to the dually elected schoolboards in our state. about two-thirds of our school systems decided to wear masks, others decided not to.
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but to mandate they have to or cannot doesn't make sense to me. it's a basic republican principal to let local decision makers make decisio
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one, two, three. the pandemic itself was extremely challenging on teachers. we had to make huge adjustments to the curriculum and now that we're in person, it's teaching at the grade level and finding ways to creatively incorporate things that they might have not learned last year. i could say, all right, everyone, count with me and we can find out which students know how to count and others who don't know how to count their numbers. this year has been different than years prior. these students haven't had preschool. ifthere is a topic they don't understand or know, it's really great to address it in the moment, have them repeat it and then they learn it. you try. very good. i think the topic of holding students back has to be a decision that's not made by just one person. but as a unit. it's math time, it's math time.
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teaching kindergarten brings so much joy and i want them to leave me knowing how to read, falling in love with their favorite storybook. how to count to 100. you'll hear the phrase, you never forget your kindergarten teacher. i think kindergarten is such a huge pivotal year for students. we're setting them up for the rest of their time in their educational journey. ♪ i am incredible ♪ >> mr. k. >> i like him. >> when we do -- well, we do like him and we're joined by another mr. k, sal khan, the founder and ceo of khan academy, a nonprofit that offers free educational lessons online and it's excellent. i use it all the time even for grown-up things. nice to see you again. we know things are not good out there in the land of learning and parents are trying to help their youngsters pick up some ground before the school year. hw can they do that best? >> yeah, the reality is even
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before the pandemic in a class of 29 or 30 students like we just saw, some kids are ready to move ahead and others need more help filling the foundations. a lot of students will need significant help and some others are ready to continue at grade level or beyond. my recommendation for parents, wherever your child is on that spectrum, try to supplement with other things and that's why khan academy exists. everything i talk about is free, funded by philanthropy. work on khan academy, 20 minutes a day, especially in math. khan academy kids is is an early learning app where students -- we have had a umass study where the students spent 20 minutes a day, this is 2 to 8 years old and they close the bottom quartile. we have another not for profit called schoolhouse.org and it's
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free tutoring, that's for 13 and over. that's in math and science and s.a.t. prep right now. if you supplement it on top of what you're doing in school, 20 minutes a day doesn't have to be some huge intervention that will give you the security that if your kid is ready to move ahead and the class has to slow down to meet the other kid's needs your student will be fine for the class needs to continue at grade level and your student needs to finish some unfinished learning you'll be okay as well. >> in the kid is not ready to move ahead and having trouble despite the interventions, should a child be held back if they're still struggling? >> you know, i have written a lot about this. the hard question here is that in the traditional school model, we have academics and social progression happen at the same time. and if it was just about academics, i'm a big believer in mastery learning. you should have the opportunity and incentive to fill any gaps that you might have but the
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other is it has other social consequences. so as a parent or an educator, i would try my best to do whatever gap filling, remediation, use schoolhouse for tutoring. use the khan academy, get whatever help you can. most schools have intervention training, and i think a lot of the students are in this boat this year. >> thank you sal khan, a lot of good advice there. tomorrow, grover from "sesame street" will be in studio 57 with tips to help kids transition back to the classroom. you're watching "cbs this morning." we'll be right back.
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duriring an emerergency. welcome back to "cbs this morning." it is time to bring you the stories the talk of the table this morning. mr. mason? >> it's the return of a very popular ceremony and tourist attraction in london -- the changing of the guard at buckingham palace. it was performed yesterday for the first time in 18 months. the tradition was stopped last march, of course, to discourage crowds during the pandemic. it was the longest pause in the ceremony since world war ii. queen elizabeth was not at the palace, she was at balmoral, her home in scotland though. but of course folks turn out as they always do. sometimes thousands to watch the
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changing of the guard at buckingham palace. great to have it back. >> but it's a cool thing to see. yeah, i have waited to see it. >> yeah, never gets old. >> and how they never break face either. my talk of the table is trying to help us eat healthier. the researchers looked at how more than 5,000 foods affect longevity and bad news for the lovers of the american classic. doesn't it always go this way? eating a beef hot dog on a bun can take 36 minutes off of a healthy life. mostly because of the negative effects of processed meat. on the other hand, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich can add 33 minutes. how they came up with this, i don't know. >> come on. >> i like that too. >> this is -- >> but back to the peanut butter and jelly is a good food, nuts can add minutes to your life. and tony, bad foods for your
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life, chicken wings will cast you 3.3 minutes of your life. burgers, mac and cheese, all of the stuff i like. >> are they making this up? >> i'm sure it's in a fancy journal and a big university published this, but however, this is detailed to the point of absurdity and so if i have a hot dog at a baseball game with my family -- >> with mustard and onions. >> am i helping myself or hurting myself? >> think of the pleasure you get from being with your family and hot dogs. >> if you eat a hamburger at a family reunion, aren't you living longer because you're in a community with people you love? >> i don't think that was part of the calculation. >> don't eat the junk food alone. >> i'm not going to stop eating a cheeseburger. this is called wahoo seafood grill and they showed a photo of
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the credit card receipt, a $10,000 tip. a thousand dollars for every member of the staff and apparently the man wrote this tip down and then called everyone into the dining room to thank them personally for showing up and for working hard. the restaurant shared it on social media and wrote be the reason that someone believes in the goodness of people. i believe in the goodness of restaurants. >> must have been a good meal. >> a regular, casual place. that's what i like about it. >> restaurants are trying to provide value and good food and the margins so small, they work so hard for such a small amount. if you can tip, do it. >> he doesn't want us to know the name. i think that's pretty nice. we are very excited that oprah is about to reveal her next highly anticipated book club selection right here, only on "cbs this morning." >> good morning! hey, cbs team, i'm so excited to be with you here to share the
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next book club selection. "the love songs of w.e.b. dubois" by poet fanonne jeffers and this is her first one and i was enraptured with the modern american family, garfields, who are living in the north, but deeply rooted in the south. it's a combination of historical and modern story. i have never read anything quite like it. it just consumed me. all 790 pages. so i am thrilled for you that ms. honoree is sharing more about the epic book and it's wherever books are sold. wow, "the love songs of w.e.b. dubois." get your copy and join me as we
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read and discuss this beautiful novel at oprah's book club. thank you, "cbs this morning." >> thank you, oprah. poet honoree fanonne jeffers received the naacp award this year and she has published five poetry books and she is joining us this morning. so great to meet you in person. i have heard great things. >> good morning, gayle. >> let me hold up this book because the first thing i said to oprah when i got it, you know it's close to 800 pages. don't you think that's a lot to ask readers to do and she said, just read it. i said, why is it so long and she said that's the wrong question to ask and i started to read it and i called her back and i said, i totally get it. i want to talk about the main character ali. she is described as messy and a
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fire cracker. >> well, she's the child of bale and jeff garfield, she is messy. you know, she's chubby. she's -- she'll cuss people out. she'll get them told. she really tells people what's on her mind, but she's also very brilliant. >> yes. >> and very engaged in reading and thinking and critical analysis, and so i just wanted to present someone that wasn't purposed but was really fascinating for readers. >> yeah. oprah said to me when she read it, it felt like coming home because it focuses on trauma. unprocessed trauma in your life, and how it affects your life later on.
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could you talk about that, because originally, you were thinking this was going to be a beach read but it's certainly far from that. >> well, yes. the first thing i wanted was just a commercial book, a beach read, something that my agent could sell because she wanted me to write a novel, but i wasn't interested in writing a novel. i only wanted to write short stories. but then what happened is i began to have these dreams where people would come to me in the dreams, african-american people, and particularly women, dark brown skinned as the kids say, richly melanated women and they would talk to me and sometimes i couldn't understand what they're saying. their accents were so thick. and then it took me -- i would wake up from the dreams, i would write down what had been said, and then it took me about probably about 18 months to two
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years to realize, these were ali's ancestors and that's when the whole book changed. >> it's an incredible story. i love hearing about the process of it and on that subject, how did you -- i mean, you did an immense amount of historical research to write a story about america that begins before america was called america, way before. how did you keep that lyrical poet's voice in the book when bringing in all of this history? >> and you call it love songs. >> well, one of the things is because i'm a poet, my natural voice is very much poetic. there were moments where i was scared that it was too poetic and i tried to, you know, strip the poetry out and my agent she was just really upset. she was like, what did you do? and so -- but in terms of
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calling it love songs, it's -- it's a love letter to black women. >> yeah. >> and, again, black women, deep brown black women, coily haired, kinky haired, the kind of women i view as beautiful, you know? women that look like oprah, women that look like michelle obama. women that look like viola davis, you know, i wanted again to have a different story. a story that would celebrate us in all our beauty and complexity. >> honoree, i'm fascinated by the process and i'm fascinated by how the voices came to you in your dreams. what did you -- what did you make of them when you first started hearing them? >> i dream poems a lot. poetry is like prayer for me.
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>> oh. >> and so i'm used to waking up with language, you know, in my spirit, in my head and writing them down. the hardest part was taking what at first i thought were just long prose poems and then making them into a story. that's what took a lot longer. if i was just going to write a series of poems, like i would have been done with that and, you know, 18 months, two years. but trying to make sure that these characters were fully developed and then connecting them so that everything comes together at the end of the book. that's what took a long time. >> yes. professor jeffers, let me just say this. the atlantic says jeffers has created an opus and an indelible entry into the foundational
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fictional tests of black literature worthy of sitting alongside toni morrison, bluest eye, and jasmine ward's sing beautiful sing and when oprah called you you thought you were being pranked. that happens to her all the time. >> i did. until she got that oprah sound in her voice and she said, this is oprah winfrey. and then i said oh, my gosh and i started crying. then i cried. i cried and cried. >> no, i never heard her use the word enraptured on her book and there's a 19 week wait at the library for your book. 19 weeks' wait. so congratulations, bravo, bravo. i'm so, so happy for you. i can't wait for people to read it. people of all colors should read this book. thank you, professor jeffers.
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>> thank you, miss king. i appreciate you. >> you're welcome. "the love songs of w.e.b. dubois" is on sale right now. three italians meet an old soldier -- sounds l
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veteran is in italy this morning celebrating his greatest triumph of world war ii. martin adler, he was a 20-year-old private first class when he changed the lives of three young italians when he didn't do something. chris livesay is in northern italy with a remarkable story of fate and salvation. >> reporter: good morning from monterenzio and an american gi came within a sliver of killing three children by mistake. now, nearly eight decades later, a photograph and a daughter's love have brought them back together. a reunion 77 years in the making. and three lifetimes nearly cut short. in 1944, private first class martin adler was 20 years old, stationed in italy and hunting for nazis.
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>> and i had my good old thompson submachine gun. >> reporter: one day in this village and in this house, he noticed movement behind a pile of blankets. his finger was on the trigger. the safety was off. but fate intervened. >> mama came out screaming, bambinis, bambinis, bambinis! >> reporter: children. >> children. and she stood in front of my gun preventing me from -- >> reporter: in his relief, adler had his picture taken with the siblings, bruno, giuliana and mafalda and gave them chocolate like on the return. a miracle says the 97-year-old now living in florida thanks to his daughter rochelle, who was trying to cheer up her dad during covid lockdown when she and an italian historian tracked down the children online. >> matteo said are you sitting down, and they were found in three days. it was just amazing.
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we landed here. when are we getting off? when are we getting off? and then he just lit up to see the kids. >> reporter: kids now grandparents, even great-grandparents. just like private adler. and thanks to private adler who didn't pull the trigger. me, my children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren we wouldn't be here if he hadn't hesitated says bruno naldi, now 83. what do you think it was that made you stop? >> god looked down on me and god looked down on italia. >> reporter: even more remarkable when you consider he never hesitated to pull the trigger. if you did, you were dead. now today he says he still has nightmares from the war, but when he does he looks at the photograph and they go away. anthony? >> chris livesay in italy, what a story. >> you can see the desperation
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coming out there. babies, babies. >> congratulations to the daughter who found the three kids. >> all alive. >> all alive. >> only took three days. >> i know. >> one of them is a great-grandparent now. on today's "cbs this morning" podcast we discuss the roots of the crisis in afghanistan with author craig whitlock. it's called "the afghanistan papers" published by simon & schuster, a division of viacom. we'll be right back. vo: when times get dark, we can't see the help that's all around us. let 2-1-1 be your guiding light. ray loves vacations. but t his diabetetes never r seemed to o take on. everytything felt t like a 'n' everytything. but ththen ray wenent from n no to know.w. withth freestylele libre 14 4, now w he knows h his glucose levelsls when he n needs to..
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