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deescalation training now used by 175 police departments in the u.s. and canada. >> a lot of state and local jurisdictions have realized they need to step and lead change. we have to train officers to be guardians not warriors and prevent other officers from committing harm. >> for the chief that training is key. >> they're going to practice and take it slow, try to deescalate and use the least amount of force we have to use. >> drop that knife, okay. >> the department started using this virtual reality system to help deal with their own implicit bias, when to use force, when to back away. >> we have time and space let's use it and end this thing at a non-lethal level that's a
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win-win for everybody involved. >> we tried the system. >> i'd like to see your hands. >> my hands are right here. >> it becomes very real very fast. >> sir, stay in the car. stay in the car. >> my response was to draw my gun when the driver unexpected got out of the car. the trainer said it was too early and could have provoke what did happened moments later when the driver pulled out the gun. >> whoa, sir, pickup truck the gun down. >> it becomes real. and it's good to watch officer go through that to see how they react. >> just drop knife. >> you get a sense how quickly you have to decide what to do. >> we spent the night riding with an officer who is driving one of the departments 16ll squad cars, stands for less ledgeal, and instead of using sidearms they could shoot foam balls and hard projectiles.
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>> what's the benefit. >> more option and decisions to prevent death. >> 95% of americans support more training for police and departments nationwide are making thangs, in june nypd nation's largest police department announced all 35,000 officers get new training and berkeley, california, decided to shift minor traffic violations to unarmed transportation workers and in san francisco changing training and policies led to almost 70% fewer insura instances by officers. >> you don't have to go hands on you can use your voice. >> tracy is an officer who sees george floyd's death as a game changer. >> it's changed the face of policing. either you're going to get on board with that or this isn't
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the profession for you. >> nationally departments retirement jump 45% and resignation by 18% while officers staying on the beat are being asked to keep the peace while keeping pace with change. from aura, illinois. >> president biden laid out his ambition goal in the battle against covid-19 he wanted 70% of the world's population by next summer. for many nations that is a huge challenge. we went to lesotho to see the challenges firsthand. >> reporter: as dawn breaks, he gets ready for a busy day ahead and makes the final checks before flying health workers on the pandemic front line to the most remote parts of the city. >> places like this are really hard to reach and often the weather is volatile hamper the
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efforts to get those vaccines into arms. >> this doctor is supervising the covid-19 roll out from the skies and said achieving 70% global vaccination rate in one year. >> the suggestion by president biden to vaccinate 70% population in the african continent will be a big challenge. >> he believes they'll get enough vaccines to inoculate late 1.6 million adult population but acquiring them is half the battle. >> sometimes the challenge is how do we reach them. >> in the village only five people have turned up for a shot. one of them is 69-year-old man. >> so it took you two hours to walk here, two hours! >> people have to cross mountains and rivers to get to clinics. donkeys are the most common form of transport if you are lucky
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enough to own one. next stop, sometimes the wind is so bad flying impossible but today there's a different obstruction preventing us from touching down. >> that was a little bit of an interesting landing. we had to aboard the first one because there were too many sheep on the runway, just one of the hazards flying here. >> but a hazardous land something only the start of the obstacles facing these health care workers. >> we have to move out into the village to find people in their home. >> so they're taking the vaccines to them. but like so many far-flung african regions the pace of vaccination is excruciatingly slow and while wealthy nations roll out third covid booster shots they remain dangerously exposed to a ♪ hey, hey, hey ♪ ♪ hey, how you doing baby? ♪ ♪ you look mighty fine, ♪ ♪ i figured i might come your way and ♪
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for two years now we're looking the role that race plays in the distribution of wealth in the united states, the typical black family has only a fraction of the wealth the average white family does and many experts say real estate is the root cause of the problem. toe went to new jersey count where his grandfather bought a house in 1953 that investment skyrocketed in value. now a story of a black family's
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attempt to make a similar purchase and how it turned out. >> that's the end of a fairly busy day on the new york stock exchange. >> 1964 was a record-breaking boom year for the u.s. economy and cbs followed along as one young couple tried to buy their piece of it. >> since last july he and his wife sally visited many real estate offices like this one. >> they knew exactly what they wanted, four-bedroom home in one of new york city's most desirable suburbs as it happens the same place my grandfather found a home decade earlier. as they visited real estate offices and asked to see properties they ran into a problem my grandfather did not. >> as cbs documented in rare
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hidden camera footage they were recently turned away. >> what do you have? >> nothing at all. >> in case there was any doubt about the exact nature of this problem, cbs cameras documented what happened when white homeowners were sent in asking about the very same properties, the practice is a way of steering black buyers away from white neighborhoods, prior to the fair housing in fact 1968 it wasn't only common but legal and life-changing. to find out what happened to that family and how it compared to families like my own we checked on their only child alicia only 11 at the time to ask her to rewatch that original report. it wasn't always easy. >> i wondered often as i have gone from one real estate agency
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to another if people realize the many embarrassing situations and questions that you have to go through as a negro, sometimes even humiliating. >> do you recognize that expression on your father's face? >> yeah. it's disgust. yeah. >> did he ever find the house? >> no. >> what that means is the family missed out on one of the biggest real estate booms in the country. home price here's in this county jumped as much as six fold even after correcting for inflation. for families like mine who made the investment that money paid for everything from my grandparents vacation to florida and my college. for alicia and her three kids that cushion wasn't available. >> there wasn't a lot planned
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for them. they had no insurance. it was, yeah. >> did you say your parents died with no money. >> no money. >> no money? >> no. and it's really sad but you know, it is what it is. >> what do you do with the fact that this house that they could not buy in bergin county is almost definitely worth three quarters of a million or even a million dollars today and your family doesn't have it because of nothing more than racism. >> yeah. there's a lot of things we haven't had because of racism. the house is just a very small part of it. >> that's a lot of money though. >> it may be, but, you know, money's not everything. >> when you think of this whole story, and you think of your folks here who had all of the money they needed to buy a home in one of the hottest housing markets in the country and were denied only because o the color
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of their skin, what kind of story is this? >> i don't know. it's the story of your country. >>
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you we have a story now about a job training program right here in washington, d.c. that's helping women in need bake the world a better place. here's cbs's jan crawford >> hey guys. >> cd circumstanceland was broken after 20 years of battling alcoholism and decade of unemployment hit rock bottom. >> both my kidneys shut down and for nine days it was a touch and go situation. >> that was her wake up call which she's answering here, at together we bake. a virginia non-profit that uses baking to teach women in need about business, ownership and being part of a team. >> in my lowest moments i always
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felt alone but here th i have sisters there for me. >> the sweet treats are stored at local stores and online. 90% of graduates earn a certification opening the door to industry in the routes they choose. >> are you accepted for that. you are never thought less of for something you've done or been through. >> you're back on your feet, what's that mean to you? >> it means to me that you can always overcome an obstacle. >> overcoming any obstacle together. jan crawford, cbs news alex andrea virginia. >> that's the overnight news for this friday. for some of the news continues, others check back on "cbs mornings" and report online all the time. reporting from the capitol.
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it's friday, september 24th, 2021. this is the "cbs morning news." breaking overnight, final approval. the cdc gives the green light for a vaccine booster shot. who's eligible for a third dose of protection against covid-19. grocery store mass shooting. a gunman opens fire killing at least one and wounding 12 others. the new details about the shooter. subpoenas issued. the four trump allies now at the center of a house committee investigation into the january 6th capitol riot. good morning, i'm diane king hall in for anne-marie green. we begin with breaking developments on the covid-19
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