>> i hope so. thanks for watching everybody. good morning. it's monday, september 6th, 2021. i'm vlad duthiers with dana jacobson and jericka duncan. gayle king and tony dokoupil are off. welcome to "cbs this morning." let's get straight to today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> we need gasoline and electricity, and we need housing. and then we need to pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill for the long term. >> reporter: ida's aftermath lingers in louisiana where hundreds of thousands still don't have power. we speak to a nurse talking about horrific conditions. >> the whole place is reeking of urne and feces. it was horrific. unemployment benefits expire today for more than seven million americans.

on this labor day, we talk to u.s. labor secretary marty walsh. with the taliban in control, a new set of challenges. >> this isis really turning inta hostage situation where they're not going to allow american citizens to leave until they get full recognition from the united states of america. >> reporter: at least three residential buildings collapsed in southwest china over the weekend due to a landslide. all that -- >> reporter: a small village in spain held its first running of the bulls since the start of the covid-19 pandemic. and all that matters -- >> plus, rapping for justice. at an early age the kids of the alphabet rockers have a message to share. >> i hope that families can have conversations about what's going on in the world. racism, agism, sexism, all the isms. zone -- >> notre dame looked to be

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is under way into conditions at a warehouse where hundreds of nursing home residents rode out the storm. officials say conditions were unsafe and ordered seven senior living facilities that sent patients there to close. jessi mitchell is outside of that warehouse. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, dana. the nursing home patients forced to endure hurricane ida in the building behind me have since been transferred to other housing. the state department of health shut down those seven nursing homes that brought them here. we spoke with one nurse who saw firsthand the desperate conditions inside. >> they were hungry. they were thirsty. they was crying for -- out. they was in pain. it was just very sad. >> reporter: nurse natalie henderson rode out the hurricane inside a warehouse here in independence, louisiana, where hundreds of nursing home residents were packed in just before ida hit.

these images show patients on mattresses on the floor with no social distancing. health officials were told the residents were not being fed or changed. five of the seven deaths here were storm related. >> the whole place is reeking of urine and feces, on top of them trying to eat. they're begging for water. >> reporter: the owner of the seven nursing homes behind the move tried to downplay the tragedy last week. >> we only had five deaths within the six days which normally with 850 people you'll have a couple a day. so we did really good on taking care of people. >> there shouldn't be no deaths at all, at all. it's heartbreaking. >> reporter: some residents in some of the hardest hit louisiana towns have given up, facing sweltering heat, gas and food shortages.

they're leaving the state until the power returns. >> any place the lord blesses us to go out of this heat, where we're able to get some food, get a hot bath, and, you know, just some comfort. >> reporter: meanwhile, henderson says after speaking out she's been told she'll never be hired back if the nursing homes reopen, but she hopes doing so will ensure nothing like what she witnessed will ever happen again. >> these are people's lives. they are not animals or dogs. they are human beings, and they deserve good treatment. >> reporter: the louisiana department of health reports trying to inspect this facility after hurricane ida. they were not allowed access. meanwhile, cbs news has reached out to bob dean jr., the nursing home owner for comment, he has not responded to our request. jericka? >> jessi mitchell, thank you. millions of americans are traveling far from home over the holiday weekend. the labor day weekend. others have celebrating the new college football season. all of us have dealing with the threat from the delta variant of covid. the u.s. is averaging more than

150,000 new cases a day according to the cdc. in august alone, we recorded more than four million infections. that's the highest monthly total since january. erroll barnett is at reagan national airport outside washington. good morning to you. >> reporter: hey, good morning. on your celebration note, you're right, some of us watched ucla beat lsu over the weekend. but the travel industry in general is struggling to get back on to its feet. let's look at some of the newest data, some of the fresh numbers we have for you this morning. the tsa is reporting that more than 3.5 million travelers passed through airports on friday and saturday alone. that is more than twice as many than last year. it is, though, still fewer holiday weekend flights than before the pandemic. let's zoom in to what united and delta are reporting. each expected to fly about two million people over the long weekend. that is 20% lower than in 2019. this is partly because hundreds of flights were canceled in the wake of hurricane ida's devastating flooding.

also as we've been reporting for weeks, the delta variant may have kept more travelers home with cases spiking across the country. now, as the weekend winds down, lots of folks ththis morning ar wondering when is the best time to hit the road and get home. first of all, you want to finish watching this program. but one travel data company says the best time to travel today on monday is before 11:00 a.m., and the worst time is between 1:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. this evening. if you're heading back tuesday, try and avoid traveling between 2:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. the advice is it's better to wait until late evening after 9:00 p.m. and one other note for drivers, those of you in california already know gas prices are ticking up again. folks out west paying $4.39 per gallon. that is the highest average for a labor day holiday weekend ever according to aaa's weekend gas watch. >> i saw over $5 in california just a few weeks ago.

thank you very much. starting today, at least 7.5 million americans will lose unemployment benefits as two emergency federal programs expire. meanwhile, many businesses nationwide are grappling with a shortage of staff. labor secretary marty walsh joins us now on this labor day. mr. secretary, good morning, thank you for being with us. >> thank you, happy labor day to you and everyone in america. >> let me start with those benefits expiring for people who are relying on them for rent, for paying bills. what needs to be done to help them? >> well, we need to continue to help people get connected to jobs. since president biden has taken office, we've added 4.5 million jobs to our economy. we're working through the department of labor, through our american job centers, to connect people at jobs. and in those states that are still having a difficult time with the variant, if we see numbers go up where schools

aren't going to reopen or if they're concerned about unemployment running out, myself and secretary yellen sent a letter to the states letting them know that they have the ability to use the american rescue plan money to extend the benefits if they'd like in each state. and as you know, states are different, the unemployment numbers are different state to state. >> some states, 26, have already gotten rid of those benefits. about 20 were contacted in a recent report and said they weren't interested in extending those benefits. people are going to have to face this whether they have that help or not. you talk about connecting them with jobs. is that enough right now? there are ten million jobs that are vacant right now. and over eight million people looking for jobs. is this a shifting that we're seeing in the types of jobs that people want post pandemic? >> i think there's some of that going on, shifting. in the department of labor since the beginning of the year has invested over $2 billion in job training, work force development money. we're getting money out into the communities to make sure we start to make those investments in the american rescue plan. the president invested $39 billion in the cares economy that's for childcare.

so i think we have a couple things going on here. i think number one is childcare, lack of childcare. and also the fear of the delta variant and the fear of coronavirus. and as school starts this week, one of the things we have to monitor is that if some schools don't reopen over the next weeks, that's when we potentially have some issues where parents have no place to put their kids, they'll be learning back on zoom, parents will have to be home. we have to monitor that closely. and quite honestly, that's why we need to get people vaccinated in this country. get more and more americans vaccinated. >> you have said that the people are going out -- talking with people, people, some are just afraid because of some of those conditions, about getting back to work or not having something like childcare. you were raised in a family who would be dealing with this right now in dorchester. what do you say to that family that is facing all of this? >> well, what i'm going to say to people around that family is we need to get vaccinated. somehow vaccines have turned into a political issue.

they're not a political issue. where we're seeing these large cases of coronavirus, the supermajority, i think 98% of the people getting the delta variant aren't vaccinated. and so i would ask you to rethink your position on that because it's about keeping you safe and alive, keeping your family safe and alive, and the people around you. in this country, i think in a lot of cases we did a great job at the beginning of this pandemic. not knowing, not understanding what was going to happen. people were wearing masks, taking care of themselves. when president biden got elected and pushed the vaccines, 200 million shots in the arms of people in the first 100 days, we need to get more people vaccinated. we need to continue to move our economy forward. but more importantly, we're going to need to make sure we take care of each other. >> secretary walsh, we appreciate the time. thank you. >> thank you. this morning the taliban say they finally control all of afghanistan. their forces claim to have seized the last major province not under taliban control north of kabul. the apparent victory comes on

top of growing concerns over the fate of americans and afghans who are unable to leave the country. charlie d'agata is in doha, qatar, where hundreds of evacuees are waiting to leave. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. yes, we're having competing claims here in doha today. what exactly is unfolding in the valley, the taliban, as you said, claiming total victory. the resistance say they're still fighting. the pictures on the ground suggest it's all over. they've been holding out against the taliban for weeks, a group of resistance fighters defending the rugged mountain value of panjshir. after surrounding the region, the taliban intensified fighting over the weekend and have now raised their flag in an apparent sign of victory. the resistance group's leader made a plea to the taliban that he was open to peace talks if the taliban stopped the offensive. he said he and his force would fight to the death. >> if the investigation goes

toward a war, we will be ready. i fight for it. and i'm ready to give me life for it. >> reporter: amid the taliban solidifying their control, senior republican foreign affairs committee member michael mccall accused the group of holding americans hostage. >> six airplanes with american citizens on them as i speak also with these interpreters and the taliban is holding them hostage for demands right now. they -- the state has cleared these flights, and the taliban will not let them leave the airport. >> reporter: satellite photos of the airport north of kabul show six passenger planes on the runway. among 1,000 or so people trying to leave on those planes are dozens of american citizens. all the taliban would tell us is they're looking into it. with no u.s. presence on the ground in afghanistan, it's now all in taliban hands.

now the taliban say they're getting ready to announce their new government soon, but they've been saying that for days now. as far as elections, in their words that's not in sight for now. the secretary of state antony blinken is going to arrive in doha. there are tens of thousands hoping to be rescued from afghanistan. >> thank you. it's been a violent holiday weekend in chicago where shootings have killed at least four people and wounded more than 40 others. police blame some of the violence on illegal guns bought in other states, and they're starting to crack down on it. as charlie demar of our chicago station wbbm-tv reports, victims of gun violence say it's about time. >> reporter: there have been more than 2,300 shootings in chicago so far this year. michelle chambers' 28-year-old son was one of the victims. >> so tired of this. i really am. i am. the killing needs to stop.

>> reporter: five guns found at the scene were traced back to this kentucky army base. prosecutors say three ft. campbell soldiers bought the guns legally but were charged with selling them illegally in chicago. they're called shop purchase, an -- straw purchase, an illegal practice in which a purchaser is buying the gun on behalf of someone else. and they fuel violence across the country. last month, nine people were charged in an illegal gun pipeline that stretched from new york to atlanta. in minneapolis, investigators say three people bought nearly 50 guns in an elaborate shop straw purchasing scheme. and a licensed store owner in california was arrested for using the names of police officers to sell guns off the books. last month prosecutors say a gun from a straw purchase was used to kill 29-year-old ella french, the first female chicago police officer murdered in the line of duty in more than three decades. john lausch is the u.s. attorney here.

>> it's a illegal product. the firearm ends up illegally in someone's hands that's where we come in. >> reporter: merrick garland announced the justice department was creating strike forces in five cities to target gun trafficking. kristen de tineo runs the chicago atf office. >> it is a major cornerstone of our trafficking strategy to identify those straw purchasers. >> reporter: crime data analyst jeff asher studies why gun crime is spiking and where the weapons are coming from, but he says it's hard to get a clear picture because of a federal law that prevents gun trace data from being released to the public. >> you rely on anecdote rather than actual data. that makes it difficult to solve. >> reporter: he says in the end it's the people who pull the trigger who are most responsible. >> our offenders are completely emboldened. they're not afraid of getting caught or the consequences. regime crackdowns on gun crimes aren't new. they date back to at least the reagan administration. but with the body count soaring, the hope here is this time there

will be a real impact. charlie demar, cbs news. >> one would hope so. ahead, a scary encounter at an elementary school. a father accused of threatening to lock up the principal for making his child wear a mask.

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>> reporter: good morning, elk e jericka. people need these machines to breathe. they face the choice of continuing to use a machine that the company says could actually hurt their health or going without which means they won't be getting a good night's sleep. >> there were times where i would literally fall asleep mid sentence talking to someone because i was so exhausted from not getting sleep the night before. >> reporter: james colbert says that was his life 13 years ago before he started using a cpap machine including for the last two years the phillips dream station. >> i actually woke up refreshed and could go throughout the course of my day with, you know, ton of energy that i needed for work or, you know, time with my family. >> reporter: for people like colbert who have sleep apnea, breathing repeatedly stops and starts throughout the night. a continuous positive airway pressure or cpap machine pushes a steady stream of air into a

user's nose and mouth keeping airways open. but in june, manufacturer phillips voluntarily recalled thousands of machines saying sound dampening foam may degrade and put out chemicals. breathing those in could result in serious injury which can be life threatening or cause permanent impairment ranging from ination to asthma, even toxic or carcinogenic effects. >> it's caused a lot of anxiety -- >> reporter: dr. david claman directs the center at ucsf and says many of his patients have recalled machines. what are you telling your patients to do? >> i'm advising the more severe patients to stay onhis is safe. >> reporter: jozefa kozyra of leighton, pennsylvania, relied

on her station to sleep so she could provide round-the-clock care for her son who has muscular dystrophy. >> she needs to bathe me, dress me, feed me. and i have exercises to do during the days. >> reporter: but since the recall, she says her doctor advised her not to use the machine, and she's struggling without it. >> i'm very tired. i -- very slow. >> reporter: how much sleep do you get without the machine? >> when i don't have machine now, two hours, three hours. >> reporter: her son says medicare turned her down for a replacement machine, and she can't afford to spend hundreds of dollars to buy a new one. >> we need this -- >> she called several times to her insurance, medicare, and they're saying because it hasn't been five years, even though it's not her fault at all, the a

new machine. >> reporter: phillips now says it will replace or repair devices within approximately 12 months once the fda approves a solution. it's unclear how many patients have suffered health effects. the company says it received complaints on 0.03 machines in 2020 including some the fda sent about the presence of black debris or particles in some machines. phillips said its own testing revealed possible risks which raises questions for dr. claman. >> is this the tip of the iceberg or all there is? >> reporter: as for james colbert, he says the risks of not wearing the machine are greater than possible unknown health effects, so he's continuing to use his. >> i cannot afford to not use it because i would get so little sleep. and if i slept without it, i would stop breathing so many times during the course of the night. >> reporter: he has a message for phillips -- >> to tell me that it could take

up to a year. that's a year that i could be putting myself in jeopardy. you know, people just cannot afford to wait 12 months for a resolution. >> reporter: colbert has joined a lawsuit mainly to try to push them to act faster on this problem. phillips did not respond to our request for comment on this lawsuit. there is another issue going on here, too, which is that many people who have the machines use an ozone cleaning system to clean them. and that may be degrading the sound abatement foam even faster. and just to add another wrinkle to this whole thing, in april the company came out with the dream station 2 which it says is not affected by this recall. so we've heard from a lot of people on this who are very, very upset and frustrated dealing with this. >> such important reporting. didn't realize it affected so many people. thank you. coming up, why some airline passengers are becoming more

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interested. that's how much i think they're seriously taking the class. >> reporter: stephanie metzer manages the air marshals new york field office and says this st-9/11 program had been on hiatus during the pandemic. in july it returned with a renewed sense of urgency. >> had great demand since we reintroduced the classes. >> reporter: the faa announced recently that with more than half a million dollars in new fines to dozens of unruly passengers, it has exceeded $1 million in financial punishments for the year. the largest, a $45,000 fine for a jetblue passenger who allegedly threw his luggage, got on the floor, and put his head up a flight attendant's skirt. the president of the flight attendants union continues to push for jail time. >> what we need to do is we need to have the doj also criminally prosecuting and using the penalties that are there under the law already, up to 20 years in prison for any one of these incidents. >> the palm strike is certainly

something that we're taught during basic training. we're also taught the elbow one. >> reporter: in almost a decade on the flight deck, judith, who declined to provide her last name, said she's never had to get physical with a passenger but says if she has to now she's ready. >> i don't know what that's called, but you grab their hand and can roll them on to the ground. i thought that was useful. it was really surprisingly fun. >> reporter: now the fact of the matter is most of these fights are over the mask mandate. and as you might imagine, inebriated passengers are frequently involved. more than just technique, these trainings are about building flight attendants' confidence that they can handle just about anything. for example, back in 2019, there were only 146 unruly passenger violations. this year we have tallied more than 4,000 so far. dana? >> that number is insane. thank you. i mean, they are there, flight attendants are there for your safety. for your safety.

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preface that -- that it's about protecting the other children, about protecting the staff, about protecting immunocompromised -- >> i think it's just common sense. and again, she's doing what was told by the health department. >> right. it's not her that is responsible for making these mandates. all right. let's talk about something fun. "shang-chi" scored the top spot at the domestic box office. >> just a criminal who murders people. >> be careful how you speak to me, boy. >> so get this, it racked up $71.4 million in its debut weekend. >> nice. >> yes. it is the first marvel film led by an asian superhero. this movie is on pace to beat expectations and earn more than $83 million over the holiday weekend. the film's three-day figure is the second best of the pandemic era behind "black widow." this is such a -- before this, bruce lee was really the last

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there are 3.5 million people traveling but the flights are still less than before the pandemic. >> it's just a shifting we are seeing in the types of jobs that people want post pandemic. >> i think we have a couple things going on here. number one is child care, lack of childcare, and the fear of the delta variant and coronavirus. competing claims in doha today, and the taliban claiming total victory and the resistance say they are still fighting. deep right, are you kidding me? a walk-off grand slam! >> my, oh, my! how about that?

>> oh, baby! >> the brewers celebrate a big win thanks to one of the biggest hits you'll ever see >> it is jubilation in that brewers dugout right now. >> wow. >> unbelievable. >> i am trying to figure out what is going on -- i am like the least sporty guy. >> walk-off, game's over. you hit that grand slam, you guys win, you walk off. no big deal. we'll have baseball school later. this labor day weekend, tens of millions of americans are celebrating the end of summer. crowds in philadelphia jammed into the two-day made in america music festival. >> oh, yeah. >> college football kicked off with screaming fans and in some places very few masks or empty seats. the u.s. open tennis championships, like many events, require spectators to have at

least one dose of a covid vaccine. but there are concerns that people at some public gatherings are not taking precautions against covid. dr. peter hotez is a professor of pediatrics and molecular biology at baylor college of medicine, and he joins us now to discuss. good morning. good to see you. >> good morning. nice to see you. >> dr. hotez, when you see these large crowds and packed stadiums, what goes through your mind? >> what goes through my mind, vlad, is we're having this surge of covid-19. although it's unevenly districted in the united states, right now in the south, the south is on fire in terms of the raging epidemic, in terms of new cases especially among young people. now we have 100,000 americans in hospitals as we speak, and the deaths are climbing to over 1,500 deaths a day, almost all of them among the unvaccinated. so it troubles me that we somehow decided this is over and the delta variant is surging across america. >> along those lines, there is a

lot of talk about boosters. according to the "new york times," federal health officials have told the white house it's time to scale back that booster plan for a third shot. what is your take on some of the mixed messages that we're getting right now around it. >> i think it's really important, dana, to break it down by individual vaccines. the pfizer biontech vaccine, the data coming out of israel is showing the effectiveness is going down 50% over a six-month time period. that's expected when the vaccines were initially rolled out when those two doses were spaced so closely together. so many of us thought this would be a three-dose vaccine and now we're seeing that decline. the good news is we're not seeing a lot of breakthrough hospitalizations or deaths, but we are seeing breakthrough cases and breakthrough long covid. i think that will be the basis for the immunization and the

impact meeting is scheduled to meet september 17th, so a week and a half to kind of weigh in on this and hopefully with the pfizer biontech vaccine, we'll now move forward on that third immunization. for the other two, we still have not seen a lot of evidence of breakthrough infections or hospitalizations, but my guess is that will probably happen as well over time, and we'll see third immunizations for the moderna vaccine and a second immunization of the pfizer vaccine, and the second dose for the j&j vaccine. >> doctor, we're hearing about the third wave and fourth wave, and now we're hearing about this new variant coming out of columbia. what more can you tell us and how will that impact us getting to herd immunity? >> we have enough to worry about right now with the delta variant. let's get our way through that. i'm looking at that new variant. that could be troubling, but right now it's around, it's not really gaining ascendancy. i think the key is to vaccinate

our way out of delta, but the problem is the bar is really high. we're looking at the need to vaccinate up to 90% of the u.s. population, and it may require three doses of the nrna vaccines in order to make that happen. you might say, well, gee, that's not possible. the answer is, of course it is. we do it every year for measles, we should be able to reach that bar. >> dr. hotez, we're seeing an increase in cases among children right now, many of whom can't get vaccinated. what needs to be done to keep kids safe as they prepare to go back to school? >> really important question. and the answer is get anyone who is eligible to be vaccinated, get vaccinated. because what we're learning now is that the little kids who were under the age of 12 not old enough to be vaccinated were often getting it from unvaccinated adults. we have now reports of an unvaccinated teacher, so it's key anybody eligible to get vaccinated, get that vaccine.

in the school setting, in my opinion, anyone over the age of 12 who goes into that school has to be vaccinated and that will make a big impact. we're already seeing it. if you look at what is going on in the new england states where they have done such a good job at vaccinating all the adults, they're not seeing children get the virus. adolescent kids have been defiant of getting vaccinated, so we have to fix that. >> dr. peter hotez, we thank you very much for joining us this morning. ahead, how to turn anxiety into a superpower. we'll look at a new book that says nerves can be a force for good.

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♪ all right, if you've been feeling more anxious since the pandemic hit, you are not alone. according to the kaiser family foundation, about four in ten adult americans have reported symptoms of anxiety or depressive disorder during the pandemic. that's compared to 1 in 10 in between january and june of 2019. wendy suzuki is the author of the new book "good anxiety: harnessing the power of goodie motion." it is published by simon and shuster. wendy suzuki is the professor of neuro science and psychology at new york university. good morning to you. i know you wrote this book, you said, before the pandemic hit because of the number of people that have identified with having anxiety. talk to us about what that is, the different levels, and how it can be a good thing. >> right. so before the pandemic, 90% of americans raised their hands and

said, i suffer from anxiety. that was stunning. this is what made me want to and i realize we all needed a new way to approach anxiety, and i approached it from an evolutionary perspective. evolutionarily, anxiety and the underlying stress response evolved to protect us, protect us from external dangers which is why it increases our heart rate, increases our respiration so we can either run away or fight those dangers. >> and you wrote in your book, we really do appreciate when things do work. >> yes. >> i think about vlad who has this quote, thank you for the pain. you have to work through it and in the book you talk about how to control that anxiety. >> right, right. you've hit upon a really important element that i think

people don't appreciate. that is that we are human beings with a huge array of emotions. not just the happy ones but all the uncomfortable ones, too. so part of the message of this book is can you appreciate the value, the knowledge and the wisdom that comes from looking in on what those uncomfortable emotions tell you about yourself? what is going well in your life, what you value in your life. >> i was going to say, when you have all of this, you say it can be good, it can be bad. how do you go about managing some of this anxiety? >> that's a great -- that's a great question. you manage it first by first realizing, my anxiety doesn't feel protective for me right now. how can it be protective? it's not protective because too much of anything, even a good thing, is bad. so we all collectively have too high level of anxiety. we want to first learn to dial it down. you can do that very simply, by breathing deeply, which, physiologically activates our relaxation reflex. i see you doing it right now.

>> yoga breath. >> i didn't realize how in life, just breathing. >> just breathing. that is the most powerful immediate way we can decrease our anxiety. there is a whole list of tools that i provide in the book. but the second step, once you get that anxiety down, is to do what i was just saying. turn inward. start to examine what those uncomfortable emotions associated with anxiety are telling you about how you're living your life, what you value. but then the third element is that once you get that managed and start to learn more about your anxiety, you start to be able to develop when i call gifts or superpowers from anxiety. so that is the secret sauce of the book. >> what is the superpower that one can develop if we are confronted with anxiety. >> yeah. so give me my top three. number one, turning to a superpower of productivity. and this is using that what-if

list that comes with your anxiety. it hits me right before i'm going to go to sleep at night. what if this, what if that. you turn that into a to-do list you bring an action component to it which helps resolve that anxiety and turns it into productivity. number two is the gift of flow. typically anxiety cuts off that flow. you have to possibility of flow. but i've come up with the concept of microflow. and i came up with this in a yoga class. when i was flowing in shavasana, i do it so well and it's about appreciating the small moments in your day where you do have flow that can contrast with those difficult moments. >> really quickly, when should people seek help? when the breathing and exercising and writing things down isn't enough?

>> that's a good question. it's when you get to the level of overwhelm, it prevents you from doing any productive in your life. that's when you should seek professional help. but this book is really for the rest of us suffering from everyday anxiety, which is close to 90% of us. >> wow. >> it definitely affects a lot of people. wendy suzuki, thank you very much. >> such a great book. >> thank you. >> "good anxiety" goes on sale tomorrow. make sure you pick one up. ahead, former u.s. champion was racially abused online after winning a tournament. we'll show you how she responded, after this. she responded, after this.

it's been almost 20 years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. that morning fbi agents were forced to evacuate their new york city headquarters and transform this parking garage into a command center. with no resources they launched one of the most important and complex investigations in u.s. history. tom selleck narrates a new

documentary called "26th street garage: the fbi's untold story studios. here's an early look. >> 26th street garage is the fbi's greatest untold story of 9/11. >> debris is falling from the sky. all of the buildings in the immediate areas were being evacuated. i was given the assignment to find a suitable forward command post. >> we're not going to go anyplace which is identifiable as being law enforcement or the fbi. i want it secured, and i want it fairly close to ground zero. the agents reluctantly said, well, we could go to the 26th street garage. >> at first i was actually thinking how the hell is this going to work? >> as agents arrived in droves, fbi logistics teams tow out 500 cars to make room. >> it was a grease monkey

location. ugly's okay. no one's looking for the waldorf astoria in the middle of a crisis. >> they set up computers. they ran the lines. >> banks of telephones, miles of wire. >> incredibly, within just a few hours, the garage begins to function as an fbi command post. >> the purpose of the garage is not only just to act as communications channel but to digest all the information coming in. >> martha stewart's studio and test kitchens are on the ninth floor. >> one day, martha stewart is coming up the ramp, and she said, i want you guys to have something. >> we would take down food and see the smiles and the weariness of the workers there on that floor. >> clues are coming in -- >> they're all going into a funnel, and the funnel's narrow end is coming into the 26th street garage. >> on 9/11, one of the passports of one of the hijacker was found a block or so from the towers and was brought to the command

center. fairly early on you were identifying who the hijackers were. >> two people who were on the planes, we're looking for them in yemen. our government knew that they were in san diego. >> names are going up, white boards are being drawn, lines are being connected. >> who is a sleeper cell somewhere waiting for the instructions to attack? >> what was accomplished out of that garage was nothing short of amazing. >> and jericka, you said before the show it's amazing that in 20 years since we keep hearing stories we haven't heard before. >> exactly. untold stories. and there's so many of them. we talk, too, about stories we've seen this past week as we're getting ready for it. you're like, oh, my goodness. people have grown up. and some people don't even really remember because they were infants, they were babies. and now they're sort of being reintroduced to it, as they should. >> important to teach them about what has happened. and you can watch the documentary "26th street garage: the fbi's untold story of 9/11," thursday on the viacomcbs

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supported her. she also wrote, "you never know how long your words will stay in someone's mind, even long after you've forgotten you spoke them." in this case wrote them. facebook, who owns instagram, called the abuse abhorrent and is working to remove comments and accounts that violate the platform's rules. look, they're athletes out there. she is not the only one. we've seen things like this from other professional athletes. just because somebody plays pro sports, because you root for them or cheer them on, to think that it gives you the right to post messages like this -- it is beyond me. i've worked in sports for so long, and i cannot believe that people put messages out there like this. >> it speaks sadly to where we are culturally, though. i'm sure you all have also received things in your inboxes from people that have some, you know, not-so-kind things to say. i think people are able to sort of hide behind that. and you have to ignore it. i'm glad that she put it out there. but it gives people a better sense of what she's dealing with. >> that's right.

people wondered with naomi osaka how is she having depression and anxiety. what is it -- there are a lot of things, especially some of these young women are facing, that you're unaware of. >> it's absolutely depressing to know that people feel they can do that because they use the anonymity to attack people. you wouldn't say that to her face. although there are some that might do that, as well. we saw that in the uk. >> you're right. >> boris johnson had to show his support. it's not indicative of all the fans, but it's just -- >> too many. way too many. please make us feel better, vlad. >> all right. i'm going to try that. i'm going to try that. my "talk of the table" is, of course, got to talk about "star wars." >> yeah. >> once every show. actor mark hamill is proving his social media force is strong. here's what happened -- a woman tweeted, "you could just tweet mark hamill, and you'd still get thousands of likes." that's the tweet. so mark hamill decided to test it out. he quoted that tweet with just his name, look at those numbers.

>> wow. >> within two minutes -- >> two minutes? >> i know it. two minutes he got more than 2,000 likes. this morning the tweet has more than half a million likes and counting. so i decided to try and test this myself. >> yes! >> i only get like a couple of dozen, you know, tweet -- >> what happened? >> i don't know. i just did it. that's my tweet, though. y'all haven't mic'd it yet. still waiting. >> we can find out -- breaking news, we will like it. we will like it, and we will find out what the number climbs to. >> i want to see you do a story on mark hamill. >> john tower, our senior broadcast producer said, vlad, you have 94 likes. i will take that. i will take that. thank you to all the likers. >> 96 when we get back. >> hopefully markh hamill himsef will like it. i've been a -- you know. >> huge. you need to do a story on him. >> i believe in you. the force is with you. >> the force is with me. i'm willing to be a padawan. my "talk of the table" is a viral tiktok video. first grade teacher in camilla,

georgia, created a rap song to encourage students to wash their hands. it's inspired by the hit song "walk 'em down" by nl choppa. check it out. ♪ ♪ turn on the tap and apply the soap ♪ ♪ >> got 20 seconds. get the germs get out -- >> that's right. the video with nearly two million views. the former teacher of the year, she says being an educator brings her life. she also is the author of a children's book "smart and beautiful." i think this is great because we are talking about still covid and wanting children to wash their hands, wear their masks. she did it in a fun way. i think that's what it's all about. when you think back to those teachers you remember, the ones that make learning fun. fun. we were all over "happy

birthday" for watching our hands, as well. >> that's right. weir going to turn to a village in africa where only women can live and no men are allowed. it's in northern kenya, in a part of the country where culturally women are often regarded as second-class citizens. de helping each other heal from tragedy. >> reporter: it's hard enough to be a woman in samburu, but without a child here you are regarded as nothing. diana lekanta proved her worth by having three children, including 6-month-old baby tau. like so many women in african countries, where there is poverty, childrn are your riches. it can come at a cost, though. her husband beats her constantly. no longer age to er able to st fled here to umoja, the fillage

where men are banned. is it better to be a mother without a man? >> translator: fantastic -- >> reporter: i understood that. yes, it is. stress free is a word you hear often in umoja. what it means is that these women no longer have to fear the men who hurt them. in samburu, a woman has a 95% chance of being beaten by her husband. judy lelumbe was 12 when she was forced to marry a 50-year-old man. >> 24 now -- he was beating me. that's why i came again here. and i decided now i cannot go back again. >> reporter: now three months pregnant, judy already has two daughters. her dream is that they will get the education she was denied as a child bride. umoja has its own school. curiously for an all-women

community, there are a lot of children around. >> four, five -- >> it's a good life because we believe if you don't have a child you are not a woman. it's allowed young ladies like me to go outside, but you cannot -- the village. >> reporter: the boyfriend stays there -- >> yes. >> reporter: and you can -- >> if i want to get a baby, i can work to get. >> reporter: so it is the women who make all the decisions here. they build their own homes with woven twigs for walls, dried cow manure for the roof, and sell beautiful handmade beadwork. the money earned shared equally. what's left is put away for emergencies. when lucy's 2-year-old son fell ill with malaria, that emergency fund meant she could take him to a clinic and buy lifesaving medicine. ♪ b but it provides much more than

financial stability. the village elders provide a sense of community and even fun. they're also there to help turn these young women into young mothers. >> here it's okay because one mother can come and show you how to better feel. they come and show you what you have to eat. everything. >> reporter: lucy grew up in umoja. her mother was a founding member. she got pregnant with a man outside the village but chose to live here. she wants her son jeremy to break the cycle of bad samburu men. >> i would encourage him to be a good man. don't beat your wife. don't give her some stress. >> reporter: the women of umoja don't have a lot, but they have each other. and that's enough to make sure no child goes hungry, and

growing up they never experience the torment their mothers went through. for "cbs this morning," debora patta, umoja, kenya. >> her reporting from the can't continent always educates us and teaches us something new. i love this notion of highlighting matriarchal societies. there are many in central africa, even china and european countries. what a beautiful piece. >> an amazing way to break the cycle of violence. >> absolutely. ahead, we'll check in with some young rockers in california who are raising their voices to make our world

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is no illusion, the alphabet rockers rap about inclusion. ♪ we're here to represent our school and our people if you don't know now you know ♪ >> reporter: the preteens began contributing to the lyrics hoping to inspire kids to wake up and stand up for others. ♪ i'm gonna stand up for you ♪ >> you think you can change the world? >> yes. >> yeah. most definitely. >> reporter: you do? >> yeah. it's a new generation. things change. >> yeah. ♪ >> reporter: the group was founded by kaitlin mcgaw and tommy soulati shepherd who teamed up to tackle discrimination. >> there's no words to describe what our country will turn into if we don't turn it around. >> the music is a chance to be on that journey together and say, yes, your voice matters. ♪ >> reporter: we first met the kids in a recording studio after their album earned them a second grammy nomination. covid forced them to take their message on line. >> people get judged for who

they are -- >> most adults think that we're supposed to just sit back and be cute. but we have powerful ideas, and we can use those to create a better world. ♪ >> reporter: they created an anti-racism course for families in the hope of sparking conversations about equity, empathy, and race. >> for folks who haven't been engaging in this conversation, might be a little harder. it's definitely necessary. ♪ >> racism is the reason why i've gotten teased about my skin tomorrow and gotten told things such as you're too dark to play with us. >> reporter: as protesters filled the streets demanding social justice, the young rockers joined in and marched, too. >> we just want to be treated like human beings and not get killed. is that too much to ask? like i feel like it's really not. >> reporter: what do you think about if people were watching this and say to themselves, wow,

this is just too much to put on a 12-year-old? >> i think it's good for kids to stand up for social justice because we're going to be the next adults. ♪ >> reporter: another layer for the alphabet rockers -- making the world safer for lgbtq youth. studies show suicidal thoughts in transgender youth decrease by 34% when the preferred name and pronoun are used. ♪ >> reporter: 11-year-old airess who performed with the group is gender fluid. what pronouns do you use? >> they/them pronouns. >> reporter: do people ask a lot of questions? >> sometimes they want me to explain a lot. my gender is always changing. >> reporter: this whole thing allowed you to feel more like yourself. >> i think so. yeah. ♪ ♪ we got power ♪ >> reporter: the rockers are working on a new album to be released next year. they hope the new songs will be both a link to the past --

♪ -- and a bridge to the future. ♪ >> i hope that families can have conversations about what's going on in the world. racism, agism, sexism, all the isms. we're going to be leading everybody soon, and it's important that we know we have that power from a young age to say what we believe is right. ♪ >> i also want you to remember to be who you are because you shine and you're a rock star. >> reporter: it's music with a message making the world better one beat at a time. ♪ for "cbs this morning," jamie yuccas, los angeles. ♪ >> love it. >> yeah. >> just the fact that kids a more in touch with torld around them and their emotions -- we talked to dr. suzuki about

good anxiety. this is how you learn to deal with that. you address the concerns that they have from an early age and do it with music, can't go wrong. >> we're going to get that album. >> we've got little ones at home. get it for jack -- >> can't wait. >> why not listen? >> i'll buy that. i'll buy that. all right. on our podcast we talk with comedian taylor tomlinson about her netflix special "quarter life crisis" and her upcoming deal with it. we'll be right back.

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