cbsn. cbs this morning is coming up next. have a great day. we will leave you again with the -- this is out in livermore as the good morning to you. it's wednesday, august 25th, 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 2021. let's go straight to today's eye-opener. it's your world in 90 seconds. >> we are currently on a pace to finish by august 31st. each day of operations brings added risk to our troops. >> president biden sticking with his deadline to pull u.s. troops out of afghanistan in just six days. >> the supreme court has reinstated former president trump's policy of having asylum applicants remain in mexico.

>> the house approved a $3.5 trillion budget framework that would pave the way for president biden's domestic agenda. >> new york's first female governor is making changes with new measures to fight the coronavirus. we'll ask how she plans to be different from andrew cuomo. >> accountability and no tolerance for individuals who cross the line. >> president biden approved a major disaster declaration for california wildfires. >> the calder fire forced more people to evacuate. >> all that. >> a black bear was caught on camera. >> stealing an amazon package inside the box with toilet paper. >> and all that matters. >> the music world says good-bye to rolling stones drummer charlie watts. we'll honor his genius behind the kiss. >> on "cbs this morning." >> help for kids who are stressed about school from their sesame street friends.

grover is in the building. >> why did the cute little chicken cross the playground? wait a minute, why did the cute little chicken cross the playground? [ laughter ] >> allow me to translate. to get to the other slide. [ laughter ] >> this morning's eye-opener is presented by progressive, making it easy to bundle insurance. >> i'm so excited grover is going to be here. >> i am, too. the muppets make everything better. you get in a conversation with them and it really is a conversation. >> we should have one here every day. >> yeah. >> welcome to "cbs this morning," we begin with the crisis in afghanistan, where there are now just six days left to withdraw americans and afghan allies of the u.s. thousands are leaving the country's main airport every day, but many more are still waiting. president biden reaffirmed his intention to pull out by august

31st, but is asking the military for plans to deal with any disruptions. meanwhile, a surprise visit to the afghan capital by two members of congress has angered u.s. officials. they call it selfish and a danger for american forces. ed o'keefe is at the white house. good morning. >> good morning, anthony. the white house tells us that u.s. and allied forces have evacuated more than 19,000 people from afghanistan in just the past 24 hours, but even president biden now admits that the longer the u.s. stays, the greater the risk of a terrorist attack on american forces. >> the sooner we can finish, the better. each day of operations brings added risk. >> president biden intends to stick to his august 31st deadline to pull troops out of afghanistan, but admits that could change. >> i've asked the pentagon and the state department for contingency plans to adjust the timetable, should that become necessary. >> reporter: risks include tenuous cooperation from the taliban and possible terrorist

attacks. >> every day we're on the ground is another day we know that isis-k is seeking to target the airport and attack both u.s. and allied forces and innocent civilians. >> reporter: just hours earlier, the president met with g7 leaders, some of whom urged him to keep american forces at the kabul airport longer. >> don't pick the date. solve the problem. >> reporter: and as evacuations continue, two members of congress made an unauthorized trip to kabul tuesday, unleashing a flurry of criticism that they simply created a distraction and took up seats for evacuating u.s. citizens and allies. representative seth moulton and peter meijer, said in a statement, we came into this visit wanting, like most veterans, to push the president to extend the august 31st deadline. after talking with commanders on the ground and seeing the situation here, it's obvious that because we started the evacuation so late, that no matter what we do, we won't get everyone out on time. >> we remain committed to

getting any and all americans that want to leave, to get them out. >> reporter: pentagon officials insist time will be needed to actually withdraw u.s. forces. >> you need at least several days to get the amount of forces and equipment that we have at the airport, to get that safely and effectively retrograded. >> reporter: as for the controversial congressional trip to kabul, it was unauthorized because they didn't go through the usual process to get approval for a congressional fact-finding mission. representative moulton is a democratic from massachusetts, representative meijer, republican from michigan. they say they kept it secret not to draw attention to themselves and they they rode on crew seats so as not to take seats from americans. but the white house and administration officials swinging back this morning. jan psaki tells cbs news, we advise against any americans, weather elected or not, attempting to travel to kabul

right now. the focus must continue to be evacuating american citizens and our afghan partners. the president is getting another security update on the situation in afghanistan this morning and we're expected to hear from the secretary of state a little later about the details of the ongoing evacuation. >> the president can't be happy about that visit from two members of congress. thank you very much. the taliban are now blocking afghans from getting to kabul's airport and they say it is due to security concerns and because the country needs those people to stay and help rebuild. the first stop for thousands of afghan refugees is ramstein air base near frankfurt, germany. holly williams is there and she joins us now. good morning. >> reporter: the afghan evacuees arrive here with just one small bag of possessions, and inside they carry the anxiety of an uncertain future and the heartbreak of losing their country to islamic extremists. in central germany, an afghan

village has sprung up almost overnight. at this giant u.s. military air base, service members are doing their best to calm and entertain thousands of evacuees. adina ghafoori told us she worked for an american organization in kabul and feared the taliban would kill her, but she had to leave her parents behind. >> i don't know, am i to see them again or not. am i able to talk with them or not. am i able to go in a safe place or not. we don't know anything. >> reporter: this is just a wait station for the afghan evacuees, they'll stay here a few days before flying elsewhere, very libel the u.s., to start a new life. there's one thing they all have in common. they may never see their homeland again. lieutenant kernel simon ritchie is an air force doctor from minneapolis who is helping the

evacuation effort. >> their entire life possessions are in a plastic shopping bag and it certainly helps to put things in perspective and what it means to have good fortune of being born in a country like america. >> reporter: rahmat safari worked as an interpreter for u.s. special forces. >> they were going to kill me either way. >> reporter: he told us his family owe their lives to a green beret. >> he saved our lives and helped us a lot. >> reporter: from his home in seattle, he remotely guided him and other interpreters through the chaos at the airport using text messages. >> i know how many risks they've taken for us while serving overseas and i want to see through our personal obligation, t my personal and our country's obligation. >> reporter: adam risked his

life to fight the taliban and critical of america's withdraw fom afghanistan. >> i don't necessarily question the decision to leave. i think we could have done a lot better job of planning for this and getting people out. >> reporter: rahmat safari told us his ambitions are to find work and live peacefully, he hopes in sacramento. greg adams says he's working to evacuate 20 more afghans before august 31st. >> quite a story with major greg adams. thank you very much, holly williams, reporting from ramstein air base. the supreme court has ordered the biden administration to reinstate a trump era border policy forcing migrants to remain in mexico while they seek asylum in the united states. the court denied the request to continue the suspension of the program saying the administration did not provide an adequate reason to get rid of it. since the start of the summer,

they allowed 13,000 to stay in the country while they pursue cases. president biden's domestic agenda is getting a boost from congress. last night the house voted to advance several of the president's top priorities, including a more than $3.5 trillion budget framework, and a voting rights bill. lawmakers also set a date for a vote on rebuilding the nation's infrastructure. nikole killion is on capitol hill to unpack it all. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, anthony. and the deal fell apart after some resistance from moderate democrats, but for now the president's build back better agenda appears to be on track. the house approved a $3.5 trillion budget outline. that will be used to craft a broad package with many of the president's key initiatives from expanded child care to education, climate change, and other social programs. it also sets up a vote on a trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill by september 27th. that was a concession to moderates who wanted a vote now.

lawmakers also passed the john lwis voting rights advancement act, named after the late georgia congressman, the bill would restore provisions in the 1965 voting rights back that were struck down by the supreme court. it faces an uphill battle in the senate where many republican leaders have expressed opposition. as for the massive budget package, democrats hope to pass it next month alone, but some senators are bulking at the price tag and have threatened not to support it. tony? >> we'll keep tracking it. thank you very much. u.s. officials are investigating a health scare involving american diplomats in vietnam. vice president kamala harris's trip to the country was delayed by several hours after americans in hanoi came down with a mystery illness, possibly related to the so-called havana syndrome. cbs news has lernarned at least one had to be med vacced out. it was named after symptoms

first reported in cuba back in 2016. doctors do not fully understand it but believe it has made hundreds of officials sick all around the world. johnson & johnson says a booster shot of its single-dose vaccine sharply increases the aen antibody levels against the virus. in the meantime, cases in children have surged in the last month, from 38,000 near the end of july, 180,000 last woke. that's according to the american academy of pediatrics. in mississippi the governor has called in about 1,000 extra health care workers to reinforce 61 short-staffed hospitals. mark strassmann is in jackson with more on the story. good morning to you. this is very troubling. >> reporter: good morning. this is saint dominic's hospital in jackson, clobbered by covid the last five weeks. all 64 icu beds are full, more than half by covid patients. see the tent behind me? they've set it up this week. that's where they're going to screen and test overflow covid

patients, but the real covid worry throughout the state has been the delta variant's impact on kids. three weeks into mississippi's school year, covid's toll on kids is staggering. almost 12,000 students have tested positive, with nearly 29,000 now quarantined. sadder still, michaela robertson's story. >> justin wadell is his father. she started feeling sick on wednesday, august 11th. she died from covid that saturday. >> we've never seen anything like this happen in three days. it was a shock to everybody. >> reporter: in mississippi, barely one in every three people has been fully vaccinated, the country's second lowest state rate. >> i have no intention of issuing a vaccine mandate, period. >> reporter: governor tate reeves also opposes mask mandates, even in schools, despite a covid surge that has alarmed many parents and

doctors. pediatrician henderson works at the hattiesburg clinic and describes covid's impact on kids here as a freight train. >> what i mean by a freight train is our clinics are overrun. >> what would you say to people who say they're young, they'll be fine? >> we're seeing that in our pediatric population, kids who can't play the flute or participate in sports and that's heartbreaking. >> worrisome to henderson, more than half of the state's 82 counts have no pediatricians. little shelby got lucky. she spent nearly two weeks in the icu after developing multi-infection syndrome for children, a rare but dangerous condition that can appear after a covid-19 infection. >> the staff told us she's a miracle, that she was that sick, and that she was one of the worst she had seen. >> reporter: this hospital is among those getting the governor's reinforcements, 20 paramedics, they'll help screen and test new covid arrivals, but

what all hospitals in the state could really use is a break from this viral siege. >> yeah, as dr. henderson said, covid is a freight train. thank you, mark. the president has declared a disaster in northern california because of dozens of destructive wildfires. one of them threatens to reach lake tahoe, which hasn't had a wildfire in 14 years. the calder fire has burned more than 120,000 acres, destroyed more than 400 homes, and threatens 17,000 other structures. smoke from the fire has settled over nearby reno, nevada, forcing school cancellations, closing parks and disrupting air traffic at the local airport. the first full day of the paralympics began overnight in tokyo. more than 4,000 athletes are competing in the only city to host two paralympics games. there will be competitions in

tae kwon do and badminton but the competitors will not hear the cheers of a roaring crowd because the pandemic has entered a dangerous new phase. >> reporter: the paralympics opening ceremony was an artsy celebration, disabled performers headlining the event, a joyous tribute to empowerment. missing from the traditional parade of athletes were two competitors from afghanistan, unable to get to tokyo after the taliban took over their home country earlier this month. a japanese volunteer carried their flag, instead. as with the olympics, athletes in the 13-day paralympics will compete in mostly empty stadiums due to covid safety protocols. the event's message of positivity was hard to embrace as japan's medical system buckles under the weight of the coronavirus pandemic. more than 90% of icu beds here in tokyo are killed, with less than half of japanese vaccinated, the delta variant is sending case numbers to new

highs. nationwide, new cases have skyrocketed more than 400% since the start of the olympic games. >> i would say the internal frustration and anger, and most of all, worry and anxiety, is definitely reaching its peak. >> reporter: today the government expanded the state of emergency, placing most of the country under covid restrictions. but with many residents ignoring the government's urging to limit outings, it's unclear when the country will be able to get some relief from the pandemic. for "cbs this morning," lucy craft, tokyo. >> ahead, an update on sturgeon, south dakota, where the giant motorcycle rally was followed by

still to come, as the u.s. prepares to end its mission in afghanistan, we're hearing from veterans and a former u.s. contractor who served there. they share their emotions at the end of america's longest war.

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welcome back to "cbs this morning." the u.s. plans to start withdrawing thousands of troops from kabul this week. many afghans are still, as you see, crowding the airport, they're trying to get out while the taliban leaders say they will prevent more from leaving. some veterans are trying to help those behind taliban roadblocks to escape the country. we spoke with three veterans who served in afghanistan and a u.s. contractor whose family fled the country back in the 1990s and eventually settled here in america. they told us what it's been like watching the taliban take control. >> i was a west point graduate, and in 2012 i served as a

cultural support team leader in afghanistan. >> i was in the air force for 20 years. i deployed to afghanistan four times. >> i am a retired marine. i served in afghanistan as part of task force leatherneck. >> i was a civilian contractor in afghanistan for four years. my family immigrated from afghanistan to a refugee camp in pakistan. i didn't fit into either side. i was kind of in the middle and looked at a lot of those people. they looked like me, a lot of them looked at me like i was there to hunt them. >> in 2000, 2001 i lost a couple of very close friends. and then to go there and see how we hadn't been able to improve the situation much. >> we were able to work with girls who went to school. we were able to work with midwives in a clinic. everybody made it home.

but you know, teams that we worked with, not everybody made it home. those are hard losses. >> the military mission in afghanistan will conclude on august 31st. >> i always knew that the united states was going to leave afghanistan. >> i think i was apprehensive about how it was all going to unfold. >> i was happy. i was happy that this was hopefully an end to an era. >> initially it was a depression, it was an anger, it was a frustration, it was a wondering why did we all sacrifice so many things to just watch it all go away again. >> a lot of anger. >> not sadness, but a lot of anger toward how hastily we left, but also a lot of the times toward the afghan government. they did not give their soldiers a fighting chance. >> shock, numb, sad, angry. and that's the place i land on

when i think about friends and family that should be here. when i think about one of my closest friends that would have retired around the same time as myself. >> i worry about the girls that went to school. would they still be able to go? i vacillate between feeling hopeless and feeling like there is something that i can do to try to advocate on behalf of these afghans and our allies. >> those interpreters that worked with us, that made sure the promise we made them, they're not left behind and we bring them -- they belong here. this is their home. >> we work with a lot of locals on base. you would think about what is it going home to, what's his life like. and now just for having served me breakfast, is he going to die? so i worry about that. i definitely do. >> we've already endured so much with post traumatic stress and combat stress. and this is just a trigger. >> i'm very concerned we could

see more suicides than we normally would. people that aren't able to see the other side are only going to see the negative and the loss of territory and the loss of the current goal. instead of being able to see the good that was done. >> i hope the little girls that i interacted with in afghanistan, you know, they remember the freedom. >> i hope that we have given them hope. >> we saw somebody who was born, he's 20 years old now. for two decades he has learned how to read, he's learned how to write and communicate with the rest of the world. so i don't think taliban can contain that for too long. >> our efforts there for 20 years gave the people a chance. it gave them hope. it gave them almost an entire generation of people a life that they could have never had before. we did not waste our time. we did not sacrifice for

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you know, i can help, as well. this is the way we could help. airbnb provides housing. why not provide housing for people in need? the end of the day, everyone deserves a home, everyone deserves to be welcomed into communities. and obviously this was our moment to step up. >> this is so cool. >> like that brian chesky. >> yes. >> like that. >> it really is cool. and it's not just airbnb, but it's also the homeowners. he's encouraging homeowners that normally would rent their homes to tourists to make their homes available to refugees -- >> they've placed 165 refugees already over the weekend. >> that's right. >> i like when brian said doing good is contagious. i think he's right about that. >> he says that corporations should use their superpower. their superpower is homes. corporations should step up. >> it's cross country. california, new jersey, ohio, texas, virginia, washington state all have placed refugees at airbnbs. >> cool. we've got breaking news. we've just learned serena williams is withdrawing from next week's u.s. open due to a torn -- i know -- a torn

hamstring. show posted the news saying she's taking the advice of her doctors and medical team to allow her body to heal completely from the injury. the 23-time grand slam champion picked up the injury at wimbledon, you'll recall, back when she was forced out of her first-round match because of that injury. >> i remember that. i was sorry to hear that about serena. >> serena, no rafael nadal, no roger federer, apparently the first time since 1997 that one of those three is not playing in the u.s. open. >> wow. >> amazing. >> that is amazing. yeah. >> venus is still playing and naomi osaka. great tennis -- >> i'll be watching. >> i'll be watching, too. >> yeah, kind of a bummer because, you know -- >> always like seeing serena. >> i know. but heal, that's the number-one thing. don't worry about us. we'll be okay. take care of yourself. >> that's right. >> we'll be fine. >> so true. all right. a woman's amazon package of swiped in connecticut, and look at who took it.

yes, that is a bear. the animal grabbed the box off kristin levine's front porch. the bear was seen by a home security camera with no shame in his game. check him out. yeah, i'm going to go -- no word if he's off to the wootds -- >> that's where big bears go. >> you know why -- the package turned up in a neighbor's yard. if you're wondering what was inside -- >> what is it? >> a six pack of fresh lavender scented toilet paper. check it out, gayle -- >> why are you asking me to check it out? >> you like the smell. >> going to the woods. that was my -- right? >> come on. >> you guys get it. >> vlad, do i need lavender-scented toilet paper? i didn't even know such a thing existed. and i got the woods joke. i thought it was -- i got it. i didn't even know they had lavender scent -- >> me, either. >> thank you, vlad. ahead, we pay tribute to charlie watts of the rolling stones

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♪ >> and from what i understand, even though he was ill and -- and had been replaced for the upcoming tour, this came as a surprise to the rolling stones, too. >> we still don't know exactly how he died. >> we don't know what happened. >> he seemed to have such a low key kind of cool. i like when he said i don't like solo-type things. one of the biggest bands in the world. >> he said, "i wasn't interested in being a pop idol, and i still think it's silly." >> he went on tour with the rolling stones for every tour. you think how much fun would that be? n the '90s he said every night he went back to his hotel alone and drew his bed. he has a sketch of every bed he ever slept on for the entire run. >> i love that. >> that's a different kind of rock star cool. >> a different kind of rock star. dignified and dapper. >> keith richards said watts has always been the bed i lie in musically. he was the backbone of the band.

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♪ it's wednesday, hump day, it's wednesday, hump day, august 25th, 2021. we welcome you back to cbs this morning. the race to get americans out of afghanistan takes on a new urgency. why the president wants to end the mission by the end of this month. new york has a governor and the first woman to hold the job. we'll ask hochul what she plans to do difrently. and groever will tell us ho to hem kids feeling stressed about going back to school.

but first here's today's eye opener at 8:00. the crisis in afghanistan. president biden reaffirmed his intention to pull out by august 31st. >> u.s. and allied forces have evacuated more than 19,000 people from afghanistan in the past 24 hours. >> this is just a weigh station for the afghan evacuees. they'll stay here before flying elsewhere, very likely the u.s. >> the president's build back better agenda appears to be on track. the house approved a budget outline. this is the hospital in jackson, clobbered by covid in the last five weeks. all icu beds are full, more than half by covid patients. >> the first full day began overnight in tokyo. more than 4,000 athletes were competing in the first city to ever host two paralimpic games. ask dwayne the rock johnson give

a thrill outside his hollywood home. >> you guys know where i can find the rock? >> oh, my god. >> he posted a video saying one of the coolest parts of his job is making a few folks happy. >> love you too. >> love you're. you know where i can find the rock? he makes people smile all the time. people are always glad to see him. the pull out from afghanistan is expected to end in a week. the president has not movaled the deadline. the u.s. military's moving faster to get that done. the white house says about 19,000 people left the country's main airport yesterday. that brings the total to more than 82,000 evacuees since august 14ing and that's only a fraction who hold u.s.

passports. >> americans are urging the president to push the deadline back. the president says they're on pace but wants contingency plans if necessary. >> the completion by august 31st continues on the taliban to allow access to the airport for those transporting out and no disruptions to our operation. >> taliban leaders, for their part, insist the u.s. must be out by the end of the month. here at home, the first female governor of new york is calling for a dramatic culture shift in politics after her predecessor, andrew cuomo left office in disgrace. cathy hochul was sworn in yesterday, following cuomo's resignation, amid allegations of sexual harassment, which he denies. hochul had been the state's lieutenant governor.

yesterday she said her top priorityinizeclude fighting the delta variant and requiring masks in school. she joins us now. governor, good morning. welcome. >> good morning. thanks for having me on the show. >> when you say you're committed to changing the culture in albany, new york state capitol? how do you intend to do that? >> well, first of all, i've ordered every single state employee has to do an in-person sexual harassment and ethics training. everyone is familiar with the dynamic where there's a dynamic to have a training and they click through on their computer that they've done it. i want to make the sure there are no excuses. that they understand what our policies are. i'm going to personally make sure every young woman, woman of all ages who work in this environment, as well as members of the lgbtq community, who feel prayed upon, i want them to know my administration is going to

beepen, transparent and an environment where people can do their jobs without fear of harassment. and anyone who crosses the line, they're going to have to deal with me. there's no tolerance for anyone who abuses their position and that's the message i'm sending. i'm going to make sure we walk the walk. so, at the end of my terms, they understand there's been a huge change in culture and it's starting day one. >> you've said you're making covid a top priority and new yorkers can expect new vaccine requirements. >> first of all, parents are very stressed out about school around the corner. i'm a mom. i can understand stress levels are off the charts. we have to have mandsatory masks, which is not universally popular but i think it's an important first step in safety a schools and a testing program available for teachers and students. $585 million dedicated to that.

when it comes to vaccinations, what i mention before i have authority to do as governor, i don't have the executive power to mandate vaccinations in schools but i'll be working closely to come to that conclusion by teaming up with our partner thins edge indications community and school superintendents and schoolboards. this has gone on too long. our children need to be back in school, they need to be back in a normal learning environment because we've lost too much time, particularly for children in plaque and brown communities, they've already started with strikes against them and we need them back in school. >> you certainly are setting a new tone and congratulations to you in the governor's office. there seemed to have been a tsunami of reports about the toxicity in the governor's office. you worked with andrew cuomo for several years. were you not aware of what was happening in his office? >> i have the title of

lieutenant governor. i determined early on that the governor had his own way and i have my own way. ritsz it's no secret we are not close. we ran separately. what i've done is take the messages and learning from what other people are doing around the state. i've been to all 62 counties every year. i spend very little time in the rooms where this whole culture was festering. i know there's a lot of good people who want to stay in government and create a different environment and let them know it's a whole new day in albany. >> and you dropped a microphone, i thought, in your conference. you said i have the confidence, the courage, the ability to lead new york, direct, straight-talking and decisive. you making a lot of personnel changes in your office right now? >> yes, i am. no tolerance for anyone who crosses the line and people named in the report by the

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>> we thank you. congratulations. you woke up this morning the first woman governor in the state of new york. we hope to have you back when our audio problems are worked out on your end or our end. somebody's -- it's a mistake. and up next, the iraq war

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"school matters," we are looking at how our friends at "sesame street" are helping kids handle the stress of going back to school. sesame workshop teamed up with the meditation app headspace to create a series of monster meditation videos and books, also a new podcast called "good night world." they teach meditation and mindfulness tricks to help little ones relax and fall asleep. we can all root for that. in this monster meditation clip, grover struggles to do many things at once -- too many things you might say. so andy from headspace teaches grover to slow down, find a special rhythm, and focus on one task at a time. >> when you have so much to do, breathe in, breathe out. ah. count one, two, then do. now i shall have breakfast. mm. >> nice job, grover. you're really moving through all the things you wanted to do.

>> i am. >> and i'm pleased to say that grover joins us now. grover, good morning. we also have rosemarie truglio. she's the senior vice president of curriculum and content at sesame workshop. good morning to both of you. grover, when i heard a furry celebrity was going to be here this morning, i was very excited. and i'm even more excited to see that it's you. >> yes, it is me. live and in the fur. can we watch some more cartoons? >> that cartoon was a good one because it was teaching kids how to relax. and you learned one of the first big lessons in that monster meditation -- how's it been going? >> i love to meditate. yeah, yeah. mindfulness exercises, they help me to slow down and feel calmer. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> what are some of the things you get flenervous about, grove? >> me? get nervous? you mean like being in front of millions of people on live television and stuff like that? >> stuff like that.

yeah. >> stuff like that. >> i get really nervous. oh, my goodness, i get nervous. but that is okay. it is okay. yeah. because you know, there are all sorts of things you can do like you can take deep belly breaths, right? >> how does that work? >> how does that work, grover? >> you know, you breathe in through your nose and go -- and then you let it all out. ah. >> and how does that make you feel better? i agree with you. how does it make you feel better? >> well, yeah. well, it calms me down. >> uh-huh. >> you know, it does not make all those millions of people go away, but -- >> rosemary marie -- rosemarie, kids are experiencing heightened anxiety especially going back to school. talk about that a little bit. >> children and we all have big feelings, and children have a range of feelings. like you could be nervous, worried, you could be excited, sometimes you get frustrated and disappointed. but with children, they have these feelings, but they don't have the words. they don't know what -- how to

describe what they're feeling. so the first part is to provide the word and say, are you feeling nervous? give it a label. >> yeah. >> then to validate how they're feeling, and don't say, oh, you're going to be fine. that doesn't help children. so once they have the label, once they feel that their emotion is validated, then they need these strategies, these tools. we all need these tools. and we need a whole toolbox of strategies. >> i love -- >> your voice is so soothing. >> it is soothing. >> it calms me down just listening to you. >> that's good. that's one of the skills, right? >> that's how i felt listening to andy and headspace collaboration. i find his voice oh soothing, too. you said that it's important for adults to help children identify what we all call -- what we all have big feelings, you said. >> that's right. and big feelings are okay to have. >> yeah. >> you don't want to suppress them. you want children to understand that i'm having a big feeling, and i'm going to call it

frustration or disappointment or worry or nervousness. and then help them figure out, well, how can we make this big feeling feel better? like it's not a light switch it doesn't go off in a second. what can i do to calm that big feeling down so we can talk about what's going on, and then more importantly, how we're going to move on to the next activity. >> right. >> grover -- >> can you record your voice so i can listen to it later? >> grover -- >> okay, we could work something out. >> grover, you learned a breathing exercise, right, to help you fall asleep? can you share it with us? >> sure. you know, the belly breaths. but i also -- you know, i like to wind down by imagining a cute little soap bubble. yeah. that is what i do. >> it works well? >> yeah. let's all watch a cute little soap bubble. let's imagine it floating up, up, into the air. that works, grover. >> surprisingly effective. >> hey. we're all calm now, right?

>> yes. yes, yes. >> grover, what about reading? a lot of kids like books. some may like the monster meditation book. do you have a favorite book at bedtime? >> well, my mommy -- i like for my mommy to read to me at night a bedtime story because her voice is also very soothing. it is very soothing. but nobody here knows the end of the "three little pigs," do you? i never can get to the end of that. i always fall asleep before the end. >> speaking of parents, rosemarie, how can parents help in this situation? >> first of all, children are watching us. >> always. >> they're always watching -- >> they're watching even when you don't think they're watching. >> absolutely. >> yeah. >> so it's really important for all of us because these meditation skills are not just for children, they're for all of us to learn and to have in our toolbox. we're going to have reactions, and we're going to have big feelings and emotions. so the whole idea is to know what these practices are, belly

breathing, imagining, counting to four. and to use them yourself -- to practice these skills and to use them yourself so that when we have a big feeling, your child is seeing how we're handling it, managing it, and then to help them practice, right. there's no such thing as one tool is going to be the magic bullet. and we want them to have a range of skills. >> a couple of -- we used to have to count to ten. now you're saying count to four? >> four. >> like following the soap bubble. grover, thank you for that tip. i feel much better. thank you for being here. rosemarie, thank you, as well. >> thank you. >> been a pleasure. "good night world" from sesame workslop and headspace is available wherever you get your podcasts. and tomorrow, our dr. tara narula and psychologist lisa damour will join us to answer your medical and mental health questions about the start of the school year. we'll be right back.

i'm erin moriarty, "48 hours." it's a story of small town intrigue, a flood of threatening anonymous letters, a booby-trap, and attempted murder. but did they catch the in is a kpix5 news morning update. good morning. it's 8:25. california will soon receive federal aid to help neighborhoods and businesses devastated by the massive dixix river fires. this after the governor declared a state of emergency for california. benetia has voted to break away from the rest of solano and impose it's own mask mandate without the city and county being on the same page. violations will have to be handled by the city. johnson and johnson said a second dose of its vaccine was found in a study to generate a strong immune response.

antibody levels were nine fold higher than levels after a single shot. and as we look at the roadways i want to get you updated on caltrain delays. we have been dealing delays all morning long. a handful of trains are running behind scheduled delayed to about an hour and seven minutes. this was due to earlier police activity in san francisco. plan for alternates this morning. if are you going northbound 85, there is a crash there over to the shoulder but it's causing a back up out of the south bay. that ride is a long 101 northbound through san jose. not bad though on 280 and bay bridge metering lights are on. grab that jacket as you go out the door. temperatures in the 50's. gray skies and a bit of patchy drizzle along the coast. it's because of that ocean breeze kicking in for us. daytime highs for us, below average for us this time of year. mid-70s to mid-80s's. we are talking mid to upper 60's to low 70's around the bay for san francisco and for oakland. mid-70s for the peninsula and cool, cloudy and breezy along the coast in the low 60's. we will heat it up as we look

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welcome back to "cbs this morning." it's that time again, time to bring you some of the stories that are the "talk of the table" this morning. and sgogayle is going first. >> i normally like to pick a story that makes you laugh or smile, pick a story that just irritates me. and i think people should know about. my "talk of the table" is the latest weapon against unruly airplane passengers. that's what i'm talking about, people who irritate me. unruly airplane passengers. met a couple of them recently. it's a new public service announcement where we hear the pilots talking with air traffic control. take a look. >> we've got a disruptive customer in the back. >> a struggle going on --

>> he's restrained now. >> the unruly passenger we need get off the airplane. >> authorities on the ground. >> yeah. >> now the faa created this video to tell us that this unruly behavior does not fly. this year alone, it has received nearly -- listen to this number -- 4,000 reports of unruly passengers. nearly 3,000 of those reports involved people just refusing to wear a mask. come on. like this passenger, january, on american airlines flight who went on a tirade about wearing a mask before she was escorted off the plane in washington, d.c.,ment we can't forget this guy -- what a doozy. on the frontier airlines flight who was taped to his seat after he allegedly punched a flight attendant and groped two others. and in may, we all remember this -- a woman on a southwest plane punches at the flight attendant, knocking out two of her teeth. the faa reminds everybody that interfering with the duties of a crew member is a violation of federal law. the agency can propose a fine of

up to $37,000 per violation. and it so bothers me. the flight attendant says are there for your safety. it's so much more than just serving you your peanuts and your -- your drinks. >> exactly. >> you know, they're there to help us. so the fact that we're in this small space together, we've got to figure out a way to get along bettermen better. i'm glad they're doing the psa and imposing fines. in 2004, the height of unruly passengers -- do you know how many that was? less than 300. and now up to close to 4,000. not good. >> man. they should play that in the seat back screen. >> yes. >> before takeoff. >> yes, yes. >> remind everyone to chill out. speaking of chilling out, my "talk of the table" is i cankea often not a chill place for couples. the store is testing ideas for ways to make the stores more welcoming overall to avoid some of the stress that we might feel like in this episode of "30 rock." >> have you ever been to an

ikea? do you know what we're walking into? >> you know what, i like myself, i have good taste in drapes. >> i wished i died in iwo jima and never met you. >> does that really happen? i mean, couples get into arguments at ikea? >> ikea's set up with all these little rooms. and you have to go through every one to get out. there's only one path. each room triggers something new, the bedroom, the kids' room, the kitchen -- >> awesome. >> then you get home and argue about how to put the thing together. it's like do you think i have no skills, do you think i'm stupid, do you want your old boyfriend to do this? ikea gets it. they've taken -- >> like we're hearing a conversation in the dokoupil household -- >> some of our biggest fights, i'm not even kidding. there's good news -- ikea has an idea of replacing that typical sprawling ikea store, which can feel overwhelming to some customers, with a store in vienna, austria, that opens tomorrow that is only five stories tall and very compact. and shoppers, the key thing, they can take any route they want they don't have to go

through the kitchen section if that -- >> al. hopefully that will lead to more domestic harmony. >> tranquility. >> get a swedish meatball. makes everything better. for my "talk of the table," i'm following up on a birthday story i shared exactly one year ago. josephine amenta is 100 years old today. her family including joanne demarco who had a hair salon at the cbs broadcast center for years, threw a big bash for josephine last weekend. in the bronx she worked as a seamstress. she and her husband who is 97 have two daughters, nine grandkids, 11 great grandchildren. josephine and veito have been married for 61 years, and joann tells me they always hold hands. not done yet. >> sorry. >> another big birthday today. my big brother, alex mason. my one and only sibling is 70. we also had a little birthday party for uncle al last weekend my brother, by the way, his oldest son and grandson all

share the same name, alexander taylor mason. little alex has been coached to call his grandpa big al which somehow has become bagel. so a huge happy birthday to bagel and josephine. >> congratulations. >> very nice. very nice. >> very nice. >> nicely done. all right. turning now to the paralympics, we got to are getting in. they've just started in tokyo. we're introducing you to an army officer-turned paralympian in 2004. melissa stockwell became the first female american soldier to lose a limb in the iraq war. just four years later, she was the first veteran of that conflict to qualify for the paralympics. "cbs this morning saturday" co-host dana jacobson recently met stockwell at the u.s. olympic and paralympic music in colorado springs. they discussed her journey to tokyo and what it means to be part of team usa. >> i get asked a lot how did you

end up in the army. short and sweet, i love our country. >> reporter: melissa stockwell was a second lieutenant in the u.s. army's transportation corps when she deployed to iraq in march of 2004. three weeks later, within seconds the entire trajectory of her life changed. >> we were going into central baghdad, and we left the gate that morning. and i was in a vehicle, a humvee that had five of us soldiers in it. about ten minutes into that convoy, we went under this bridge, and there was just this deafening -- i mean -- black smoke and smell of metal, and the windshield's crashed in. and our vehicle is swerving to the left, we ricochet off a guardrail. to make long story pretty short, that roadside bomb that hit did take my left leg above the knee. it was gone. it was severed immediately. and thankfully there was a combat medic a few vehicles back who knew i was hurt, pulled me out of the vehicle, put a tourniquet on and really saved my life. >> reporter: stockwell was 24 years old and soon found herself

at walter reed army medical center among a sea of wounded veterans. >> and i remember getting there, and i looked around and saw soldiers who were missing both legs, they had a leg and an arm missing, they had lost their sight. i thought, holy cow, am i lucky. all i lost was one leg. i was a lucky one. i had three good limbs, my sight, i had my life. accepting the loss of my leg early on. that put it in perspective. >> reporter: once an athletic kid who dreamt of going to the olympics as a gymnast, stockwell was now an injured soldier who sought refuge in the pool at walter reed. >> i jumped in the pool for the first time after missing my leg, and i didn't have to wear a prosthetic leg. i got in, and it was just like this freeing feeling. almost like i forgot that i was missing my leg. i love the smell of chlorine. i think i got in the pool days after i heard about the paralympics. kind of this like natural fit and decided that i was going to give it a shot in the sport of swimming. it was 2004. >> reporter: four years later, you end up in the paralympics

swimming. >> i know. it was great. i was told a long shot to make the team. so i'd always been an athlete. but thinking about how amazing it would be to, you know, represent the country i defended in iraq, wear the team usa uniform on the world's biggest athletic stage, showing the world that i wasn't sitting in a dark room with the lights off, but i was out there living it and seeing what i could do. >> reporter: she competed in three swimming events in beijing in 2008 and served as team usa's flag bearer at the closing ceremony. >> this flag that i am so passionate about sold out stadium, i mean looking back it was what was meant to be. >> reporter: you wanted to serve the country. and you were. >> i was. yeah. >> reporter: a different way than what you thought. you still were. >> very much. i think the military and the paralympics, it's a very different uniform. >> reporter: of course. >> but they represent such similar things. defending, representing, it's all for the same country. >> reporter: stockwell's dreams didn't end there. apparently for you it wasn't enough to just go to a paralympics as a swimmer.

let's completely switch up sports and try to be a triathlete at the next games. >> i used to think triathletes were crazy. you swim, you bike, and you run, all in the same day. who wants to do that? but i knew how to swim. i had gotten a running leg. i had a bike. i'm like, you know, let's give it a shot. >> reporter: before the rio games, she decided to, as she put it, have a kid real quick. >> reporter: add another challenge into the mix. >> coming back from having a baby and your entire body changed. my son was born in 2014. the games were in 2016. ly to qualify in 2015. coming back was -- i like to say it was harder than losing my leg. it was so difficult because your body changes. everything changes. >> reporter: it's not just your body climate change th body change -- >> it's everything. it gave me a sense of purpose, too. i was at the end of the 2016 paralympic team for rio, it was great. >> yes? >> yes!

[ cheers ] >> reporter: you didn't just make the team -- >> right. >> reporter: stockwell competed in the inaugural paralympic triathlon in rio in 2016. her race was on 9/11. >> usa! usa! [ cheers ] >> any day that could have been it was september 11th. putting that usa uniform on, that race was about so much more than me. it was about -- those who make the ultimate sacrifice, every bike pedal, run stop, was for them. crossing the finish line, i got a bronze medal. my teammates got gold and silver. usa, september 11th, on the poetd yum, three american flags, our national anthem. i mean, it is a moment that will go down as one of the greatest moments in our life. >> reporter: a great moment in a storied life that revolves around service and patriotism. >> there's all these metaphoric roadside bombs that i think happen in all of our lives. it's kind of how you perceive them. we have the choice of how we get through them, and we can choose

to accept them, to surround ourselves with a team of people that love us, that care about us, to believe in ourselves, and little by little take those small successes every day. and it's amazing what it can end up doing. >> reporter: it's not perfect. >> life is not perfect. never, never. >> wow. >> if that's not enough perseverance, stockwell was in a bike crash last month, broke her back. her -- her vertebrae, i should say. sorry. still, she considers herself lucky. she says she could have been paralyzed, instead she has an opportunity to, in her words, make it to the other side. we've seen her do that before. competing on friday. >> what a spirit. what a spirit she has. >> unbelievable woman. mother of two. great example -- >> irrepressable. >> competing on friday? >> she'll be competing on friday. >> i love the "have a baby right quick." wow. >> and it was more difficult than losing her leg. >> i'm in

for nearly two decades an anonymous writer terrorized a small ohio town by sending threatening and obscene letters to people there. those letters exposed alleged secrets about the neighbors and friends circleville. she investigates for tonight's edition of the show. >> reporter: what kind of person would send malicious anonymous

letters to people throughout circleville, ohio? it's a question that inspired marie mayhew's latest podcast. >> this anonymous author was hellbent to expose every little ugly secret in circleville. >> reporter: the writer at first seemed fixated on a married school district superintendent and his rumored relationship with a school bus driver. >> mary gillespie was a wife and a mother. they were accusing her of adultery. there was nobody that was off limit to this letter writer. >> there were obscenities and threats to do harm to mrs. gillespie's daughter. >> robin yocum was a crime reporter for the "columbus dispatch." >> it's your daughter's turn to pay for what you've done. >> reporter: one afternoon, mary gillespie saw an obscene sign about her daughter on a fence. when she goes over there to try to pull the sign off the fence, she realizes that it's rigged to

twine and a box. inside, an alarming surprise. >> it was a gun, and it was ready to go off. >> reporter: a booby-trap. the gun was traced to mary's brother-in-law, paul freshour. when investigators interviewed his estranged wife, she said he was also the circleville letter writer. although freshour insists that he had nothing to do with the booby-trap or the letters, he was arrested and tried for attempted murder. >> as the trial progressed, i'm thinking a lot of this stuff doesn't add up. >> reporter: still, a jury convicted freshour of attempted murder, and everyone hoped the menacing letter campaign was finally over. >> everything will kind of go back to normal except it didn't because the letters never stopped. >> reporter: four decades later, the debate over the writer's identity continues. could this forensic document expert beverly east have the

answer? do you think you know who wrote those anonymous letters? >> yes, i do. >> what a tease there. >> what a tease. >> cliffhanger. >> it's a small town. chances are that people know who wrote the letters. >> that's what's so astounding, that they didn't. imagine that we're talking about 13,000 people, it's about 30 miles away from columbus, where i grew up. and you would go to the grocery store, and the person who was sending these awful letters right behind you or something. >> yeah. >> and how you remained anonymous -- we think we needed the internet to be able to bully people anonymously. but this person managed to bully everyone in town with the u.s. mail and still remain -- >> why? >> well, that's what's interesting. although beverly says she thinks she knows, and we are going to have that in the hour. the person who wrote those letters is vicious, enjoyed hurting people, and that doesn't fit that person. so why? you're right, gayle.

>> so haunting that a guy went to prison for attempted murder, presumed to be the letter writer, and they continued. >> oh, and he was in solitary. and it was like a challenge to the warden to be able to prove that he couldn't have been sending it, and hundreds of letters still kept going out. >> and 30 miles from your hometown. did you know about it growing up? >> no, no. i know why it unsettled me. that's -- i was the letter writer -- you know, in ohio, you grow up and you keep things to yourself. so the idea that your neighbor is putting out all your secrets publicly, that is violating social norms. >> it is. that was a great cliffhanger. do you know who wrote it? yes. erin, thank you. you can see "the circleville letter" on "48 hours" tonight at 10:00, 9:00 central on cbs. on today's podcast, we'll talk with the creative force behind showtime's "the l word: generation q" and executive

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