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back in september, the mcintosh county commission changed sapelo's zoning laws. home sizes can double. potentially ahead, million dollar properties, raised property taxes, and current homeowners priced out and pushed out. >> they have an extreme uphill battle. >> reporter: commissioner roger lotson, one of only two no votes, and the only commissioner who agreed to talk to us. >> is this a battle of rich versus poor? >> in part, it is. >> black versus white? >> in part it is simply because there are not as many rich black folks as there are rich white folks. >> reporter: now at risk, one of the america's last intact gullah geechee communities. >> i can't see how you can't see how that hurts. and it's not just me. it's all of the descendants. >> reporter: a community born in blood and tears now sweating out its future. mark strassmann, cbs news,
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sapelo island, georgia. this week, we've been bringing you the story of christopher dunn. he spent more than three decades in prison for a murder he did not commit. he's finally a free man. erin moriarty has been following this case for years and sat down for an exclusive interview with dunn and his wife, kira. >> it's a world i haven't seen in 34 years. to see the trees move, to see other people walking, see automobile driving by, that's life. >> reporter: christopher dunn is, in a sense, a real-life rip van winkle, seeing the world with new eyes after three decades behind bars. >> i still can't believe this is actually true. >> reporter: dunn was convicted of the 1990 murder of 15-year-old rico rogers. the only evidence against him was the testimony of two children. one was 12, the other 14, who claimed they saw dunn shoot
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rogers. >> what was the worst part? >> waking up every day in prison and thinking to yourself, this is another day that your life don't matter, that you would have been better off if dead. >> reporter: even after both witnesses recanted, saying they were coerced by police, dunn remained behind bars. >> what did you miss the most while you were in prison? >> i guess the hardest thing to go without is the security of my family. i had some family members that were able to come to the prison and some that weren't. i have nephews i haven't seen since they were 1 years old. >> reporter: but dunn, who always maintained his innocence, believed he'd someday be released. [ cheering ] >> when the system choose to throw you away, you have to ask yourself if you're willing to jut settle for it, or you're going to fight for it.
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>> reporter: while his fight for freedom is finally over, he says he will be living with the scars for a long time. >> i'm 52, about to turn 53. the world has changed. it was not going to wait for me. >> reporter: still, dunn has something many inmates don't. >> so this is really the first time these last 24 hours that the two of you have been together as man and wife. >> yes, it is. >> reporter: kira dunn was once a journalist assigned to cover his story. she's now his wife. >> i don't think we really are believing it's real. we feel like we're dreaming. i know we said to each other, if we wake up the next morning and it's still happening, then we can start to believe it. but i think we're still struggling to believe it. >> reporter: they will get to know each other as dunn navigates an alien world. >> this world right here to me
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is so foreign that i need a passport to enter it. >> is that how you feel? >> sure, because you got to think i left the institution with only the paperwork that held me in prison. they didn't give me nothing. >> that's all you own in the world. >> that's all. >> i know you haven't been out very long, but is there anything that has really surprised you? >> yeah. when my wife gave me these things here, i looked at the price tag, and it scared me. there is no way in the world i'd have paid this much money on a shirt or pair of pants and shoes. >> because you're still living on the prices back from 1990. >> exactly. >> reporter: what dunn does have are a lot of dreams. first on the list, a baseball game in chicago. >> you're a st. louis man, and you love the chicago cubs? >> all day, every day. get mad if you want to. sorry, st. louis, but it is what it is. >> so do you want to go see a cubs game?
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>> i'm going to go see a cubs game. >> is that important? what else do you want to do? what are like those bucket list things that you now can do? >> i don't have a bucket list. i got a pail. i got a pail. >> reporter: and that pail includes skydiving, scuba diving, and driving across the country to california because that's where chris and his wife want to celebrate their tenth wedding anniversary. >> that was erin moriarty. you're watching "cbs news you're watching "cbs news roundup." “the darkness of bipolar depression made me feel like i was losing interest in the things i love. then i found a chance to let in the lyte.” discover caplyta. unlike some medicines that only treat bipolar i, caplyta is proven to deliver significant symptom relief from both bipolar i & ii depression. and in clinical trials, movement disorders and weight gain were not common. caplyta can cause serious side effects. call your doctor about sudden mood changes, behaviors, or suicidal thoughts right away.
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♪ after covid, a lot of companies have moved to a hybrid system where employees work from home part of the time. some companies went further, giving employees a four-day workweek. brook silva-braga reports. >> reporter: advanced rv outside cleveland, ohio, is no hotbed of ivory tower theories on the future of work. no, it's the kind of place where when the boss forwarded an email about testing a four-day week, the workers mostly rolled their eyes. >> i read it and kind of chuckled a little bit like, oh, that's cool. yeah, that probably works great in europe. >> i was a little skeptical at first. >> when i first heard that, i thought it was a joke. >> no way is this going to work. not a chance in hades. >> reporter: advanced rv's 50 employees were already plenty busy making high-end, highly
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customized camper vans. but it was owner mike neundorfer who had read an article suggesting a radical change, working four days a week, just eight hours a day, but still paying everyone their full salary while aiming to maintain their old five-day productivity. >> it would be a huge challenge, but if it worked, it would be the most significant thing i've ever done. can you imagine giving 50 people a three-day weekend? that's pretty amazing, every week. >> did people think there was a catch at first? what was the reaction? >> yeah. >> reporter: but there wasn't a catch. in 2022, they joined 40 other north american companies in a six-month trial organized by four-day week global. now, the other companies in the trial were mostly places where everyone works on a laptop, small tech companies and nonprofits. so advanced rv became a special kind of test case. could a rust belt automotive company really implement a labor movement fantasy. >> at first it was, well, we're all going to take this day off
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or i'll take that day. it's like, okay, guys, wait a minute. it's not going to work like that. >> reporter: the way it would work, they learned, was with a series of compromises and adjustments. >> one guy will take monday. the other guy takes friday. >> we usually try to schedule any doctor's appointments, dentist's appointments on our day off. >> reporter: now, remember for the trial to be a success, they still had to maintain their old five-day output. >> do we have enough inefficiencies in our day that we can eliminate to get the same amount of work done. the first big one was what meetings are we having every week that really aren't very useful for us? >> we changed meeting protocols. we changes processes. we changed communication protocols. and all of it is little things. >> reporter: the biggest thing -- >> everybody's focused. >> reporter: -- we heard over and over -- >> it seems like we're getting more done in less time. >> reporter: -- is motivation to make the schedule permanent. >> if people really want it, they can make it work, i think. >> but people have to work to
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make it happen. >> yes. you ain't just going to get that extra day off and not have to do anything to accomplish that. i mean it really -- it's amazed me that it's happened. >> reporter: a survey after six months found 95% of workers in the 41 trial companies wanted to keep the new schedule, and none of those companies said they'd go back to five days, at least for now. so could this really be the future of the american monday? walking the dog, working in the garage. >> it's just great to have an extra day to be able to do that. >> i've heard about the movement for a four-day workweek for 10, 20 years now. but it's really gaining more momentum now. >> reporter: stephen greenhouse was the longtime labor reporter for "the new york times." >> part of it is americans seem more concerned about work-life balance than was the case 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago. they don't want work controlling their lives, dictating their lives. they want to have control. >> reporter: major changes to the way we work, greenhouse says, almost always follow
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decades of popular protest for change. but if the goal is a 32-hour workweek, there may be a lesson in how we settled on a 40-hour workweek just a hundred years ago. >> really the big, most important development was henry ford changed his factories from nine hours a day to eight hours a day. >> so ford makes this change, but that's just one company. other places then felt pressure to follow? >> ford, at the time, was arguably the nation's most prominent company. and i think a lot of other companies, a lot of other industries felt we'd better do what henry did because henry ford is making a gazillion dollars and is leading the way. >> reporter: the four-day movement is still waiting for its henry ford. many of the most prominent companies of this era are famous for pushing employees to work more, not less. even mike nuendorfer says this isn't for everyone. >> i'm not evangelical about it. the structures of businesses are so different. >> reporter: it worked here, he says, because only one shareholder had to agree, him. and the workers weren't just
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punching a clock but banding together to be more efficient. if they don't hit their goals, the five-day schedule could come back. but he doesn't expect that. too many people now are hooked on the pleasures of their endless long weekends. and nuendorfer thinks eventually they'll have much more company. >> changes are accepted over time. the number of people who experience the joy and the freedom and the creativity of having a three-day weekend is just huge, and it's going to be a driving force, i think.
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if your dream vacation includes a visit to venice or paris or the greek islands, you may want to consider going off-season. turns out these prime destinations are jam-packed in the summer, and a lot of the locals aren't happy about it. leah mishkin reports. >> reporter: it's our instagram feeds come to life. the blue seas and picturesque homes. >> this has been my dream since high school. >> reporter: but locals fear all the charm is disappearing because of what we often don't see in the photos. crowds of tourists. >> i know for a fact that our standards of living has gone down. >> reporter: the greek island of santorini has about 20,000 permanent residents. last year the mayor says about 3.4 million people came to visit. and while that may seem good for business,the island's umbrella trade association vice president
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says, "you cannot have your peace and quiet and make money too." everyone agrees, though, the island's infrastructure just can't handle this many people, and some don't see a solution to welcoming the mass crowds. >> if you increase the number of visitors 20 times, we are on a small island. what kind of infrastructure do you need to impose without creating a monster. >> reporter: so locals here and in a growing number of holiday hot spots in spain are protesting mass tourism. from palma de majorca to barcelona. residents argue tourists are also pushing up housing costs, pricing them out. one saying there are no apartments because they're dedicated to tourist rentals. >> we are not against tourists as such, but we are against the touristing model. >> reporter: some officials are looking at tightening rules around short-term rentals while others are hoping to cap the number of cruise ship passengers allowed in. it's the juggling act so many places are trying to balance, welcoming newcomers to discover them and preserving what they came to see.
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leah mishkin, cbs news, london. and that's today's "cbs news roundup." for some of you, the news continues. for others, tune in later for "cbs mornings" and follow us 24/7 at cbsnews.com. reporting from the cbs news broadcast center in new york city, i'm courtney kealy. ♪ hello and thanks for staying up with us. i'm courtney kealy in new york,
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and hear are some of the top stories on "cbs news roundup." americans wrongfully jailed in russia are finally home after a multinational prisoner swap. iranian-backed militant group hezbollah says its war with israel has entered a new and more deadly phase. plus, we take a look at the most likely choices for kamala harris's running mate. two american journalists and a u.s. marine are now free and back on u.s. soil after leaving russia as part of a major prisoner swap involving multiple countries. [ cheers and applause ] just a short time ago, they landed at joint base andrews, where they were greeted by president biden and vice president harris. among the freed prisoners, evan gershkovich, "the wall street journal" reporter. it was one of the largest prisoner swaps between the u.s. and russia since the end of the cold war. cbs's natalie brand reporting from the white house has the details of the exchange and how it was put together.
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>> reporter: pictures from the u.s. government show the americans freed. "wall street journal" reporter evan gershkovich, who was arrested in russia last year. marine veteran paul whelan held since 2018. and russian american journalist al shoe kur ma shiva. their families were invited to the oval office to celebrate the news. u.s. permanent ready vladimir ca ramouseh waslet released in the deal. president biden described the negotiations as a feat of diplomacy. he also thanked u.s. allies for helping to make it happen. >> today is a powerful expect of why it's vital to have friends in this world. friends you can trust, work with, and depend upon, especially on matters of great consequence and sensitivity like this. our alliances make our people safer. >> reporter: gershkovich's family issued a statement saying in part, quote, we have waited 491 days for evan's release, and it's hard to describe what today feels like.
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we can't wait to give him the biggest hug and see his sweet and brave smile up close. staffers applauded in "the journal news" room as news of his release broke. in exchange, russia is getting back eight of its own, including two convicted spies released. >> it's a question we grapple with every time we look at the hard decisions involved in one of these exchanges. >> reporter: some foreign policy experts say prisoner swaps could give russian president vladimir putin incentive to take more americans as bargaining chips. natalie brand, cbs news, the white house. israel says it has killed a key architect of the october 7th attacks almost 10 months after hamas murdered nearly 1,200 people in israel and took hundreds more hostage. fears of an all-out conflict in the region are high with iran and its proxy groups vowing revenge on israel for the recent killings of senior leaders of hamas and hezbollah. cbs's debora patta reports from east jerusalem. >> reporter: amid calls for
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revenge, thousands turned out to mourn the assassination of hamas political leader ismail haniyeh in tehran. leading the prayers, supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei, who has vowed a harsh punishment in response. hamas says an israeli strike is to blame, but "the new york times" reports a bomb was smuggled into this house two months before the assassination. israel has not claimed responsibility even though just a few hours before haniyeh was killed, it freely admitted to taking out a hezbollah commander few aud shakur, who was buried in beirut, speaking by a video link because he's in hiding, hassan nasdaq rul la promises to avenge shukr's death saying israel should expect range and revenge on all fronts. instead, israel claimed another win. the military announced it had killed senior hamas leader
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mohammed deif over two weeks ago in gaza. he's one of the october 7 masterminds who has been on israel's most wanted list for decades and reportedly had survived seven other assassination attempts. hamas claims he survived this one too. israel says it was a precision strike. more than 90 people were also killed in that blast. among them, children. just last week, there was renewed hope for a hostage deal. but after these twin assassinations, that's given way to fears of a wider regional war. debora patta, cbs news, east jerusalem. in the race for the white house, vice president kamala harris has a deadline fast approaching to pick a running mate to join her campaign. cbs's ed o'keefe reports several key names remain in the mix. >> reporter: speaking at the funeral for the late texas
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congresswoman sheila jackson lee, vice president harris seemed to get ahead of herself. >> which as a united states senator, i was proud to co-sponsor and then as president -- as vice president, it was my honor, with the president -- with the prespresident, it was my honor. >> reporter: harris is facing the biggest decision yet of her campaign, who to pick as a running mate. cbs has learned at least six men have had calls with her team about the job. four governors, a senator, and a cabinet secretary. as they continue sharing information with her team, pete buttigieg dodged questions about his chances. >> what i will say is i think so highly of her as a leader, and i'm really proud to serve with her in this administration. >> where the values of hard work -- >> reporter: illinois governor j.b. pritzker released this video touting his record. >> there's no better place to see the change possible under democratic leadership than here in illinois. >> reporter: and minnesota governor tim walz, a former high school teacher, marveled he's in
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the mix at all. >> i don't know if every high school geography teacher expects to be in this position at some point. >> reporter: as harris faces scrutiny for her past work on immigration, in a new ad, she's highlighting her time as california attorney general. >> kamala harris prosecuted national gang members and got them sentenced to prison. trump is trying to avoid being sentenced to prison. >> reporter: but former president donald trump and his running met, senator j.d. vance -- >> i think the root causes of illegal immigration are that kamala harris refuses to do her job. that's what we have to focus on. >>ation of how well campaigns are doing is how much money they can raise. the trump campaign raised nearly $139 million in july. we don't yet know how much harris raised, but remember she raised about $200 million in just her first six days as a candidate. ed o'keefe, cbs news, washington. the united states is recognizing venezuela's opposition candidate as the rightful winner of presidential
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border are down for a fifth straight month. now at their lowest level in four years. adam yamaguchi has the story from the arizona desert. >> reporter: on this desolate stretch of the arizona-mexico border, we rode along with border patrol agents searching for migrants. months ago, the tucson sector saw record levels of illegal crossings. today it's much quieter. >> how many illegal apprehensions are you conducting these days? >> so right now we are averaging anywhere from 200 to 400. >> what was that number like seven, eight months ago? >> you're talking about 1,800, 2,000 a day. >> seven months ago when the u.s. was seeing record numbers of migrants illegally crossing into the u.s., a number of camps like this were set up all along the border to provide refuge for migrants as they were awaiting border patrol processing. but since that time, most of these camps have been dismantled or sit abandoned like this. since president biden's executive order in june restricted asylum access, migrant apprehensions have
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dropped to their lowest level in years. department of homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas defended the administration's actions. >> the asylum system is open. the border is not. people need to take the lawful, safe, and orderly pathways. >> reporter: at this crowded migrant shelter just across the border in nogales, mexico, we saw the policy's impact. with few resources, volunteers help feed migrants and teach them about the immigration processment for miguel flores, it's a chance for a new life away from cartel violence in central mexico. he's been here with his family for three months. >> why are you trying to get to the u.s. [ speaking in a global language ] >> reporter: "not a decision i wanted to make, he says, but for the safety of me and my family, i couldn't stay. every morning he tries to get an appointment through a u.s. government app for asylum seekers. less than 1,500 are available each day. >> how long can you continue to do this here?
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there's trouble down on the farm. turns out the average age of the american farmer is 58, and 40% are over 65. meg oliver reports on a program to cultivate the next generation. >> reporter: on an acre of land in cream ridge, new jersey, christina couch is a one-woman force. >> what are you growing here? >> these are sugar snap peas. >> and how tall will they get? >> about six-plus feet. >> reporter: months of prepping, planting, and nurturing seven days a week have turned her brown field into tidy rows of lush vegetables and herbs. >> last time you were here, they were all the way down to the ground. now they're up to our shoulders. >> reporter: couch, a former cook, is now a newly minted farmer. >> we're growing a lot of specialty varieties. so when you go to a restaurant and you see a fancy, colorful beet or a beautiful garnish or a delicate herb. >> reporter: at 26 years old, she's more than three decades
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younger than the average ■farmer in the u.s. nearly half of the nation's farms are owned by farmers 65 or older, making them the oldest workforce in the country. >> why is it so hard to break into farming? >> well, many people are not raised on a farm. >> reporter: professor and third-generation farmer bill lube is couch's mentor and actively recruiting the next generation at the beginner farmer training program at rutgers university in new jersey. >> we absolutely have to have a next generation of farmers to produce food for us. >> reporter: the three-phase program begins with online classes covering farming basics followed by hands-on training. select students develop a farm business plan and put it into action. they can rent land from the program with access to equipment and agricultural experts. >> the radiation from the sun will break that down. we are attracting a very diverse group of people into our
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program. 60% are women. almost that many percentage are minorities. >> you just pluck it right off. >> reporter: novices like couch, many without a farm background, are seeking customers in a non-traditional route. >> what does your generation bring to farming? >> we're just going about farming a bit differently. a little bit against the grain in leveraging things like social media, like fund-raising. >> just let the ground get nice and moist. >> and just building communities that people are attracted to want to support young farmers. >> reporter: on this day, greens that were picked by couch just hours earlier were delivered to jasper stone restaurant. >> this is little gem lettuce krr this is where she used to work as a line cook and realized her dream of farming. >> i just had this light bulb moment that i could grow this and help fill the gap so that we don't have to get produce from so far away to put on the tables at restaurants. >> reporter: now she's proud to have her locally grown produce
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to the new york city ballet. ♪ >> reporter: turning 75 is a milestone, especially for a ballet company. ♪ at three-quarters of a century new york city ballet is not just considered one of the best dance companies in the world but the foundation of ballet in america. ♪ >> for all of us that are here, i think we all really would agree this is the top of the top. >> reporter: megan fairchild is one of the principal ballerinas in the company, made up of 90 dancers and an unparalleled repertoire of more than 500 ballets. >> what's different about the way dancers dance here versus the rest of the world? >> we like to, you know, play with the music ality as we danc.
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there's not square about it. it's playful, and it's alive and spontaneous. ♪ >> reporter: that excitement has been part of the company's ethos since the curtain first went up in 1948. new york city ballet was founded by art connoisseur lincoln kerrstein and choreographer george balanchine, who wanted to modernize the 15th century art form. >> ballet in america was very young then. he felt that part of his mission was to educate an audience because they didn't know that much about ballet. ♪ >> reporter: suzanne farrell was one of balanchine's muses and masters of his signature fast-paced, athletic ballets. focused less on plot and more on music and movement. >> how did audiences respond? >> it depended on the audience,
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but usually they were shocked in a good way. >> reporter: those ballets are now performed internationally by nearly every ballet company and largely considered the barometer for a dancer or company's strength. ♪ >> you cannot see a balanchine ballet and go out and not have a major change. it might not be anything you can identify, but you are better for having seen that ballet. >> reporter: after george balanchine's death in 1983, dancer peter martins ran the company for more than three decades. before stepping down amid misconduct allegations, which he denied. ♪ >> that's perfect timing for your hand. >> reporter: wendy whalen and jonathan stafford -- >> so it's like fall and --
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>> reporter: -- have run the company together since 2019. >> how hard is it to survive as a dance company out there in the world? >> it's really hard. as a non-prauft performing arts organization, you feel like you start at zero every single year. you know, you have to bring that audience back. you have to sell the tickets. you have to raise the money. >> build the excitement every year. >> we know we have to constantly keep pushing working to enhance the company. >> reporter: that involves training the next generation at its affiliated school, the school of american ballet in new york. >> sometimes it's this, but it can also be a -- >> reporter: it also means continuing the company's tradition. ♪ of new works by contemporary choreographers. with noteworthy collaborations with artists ranging from sir paul mccartney to solange
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knowles to valentino. >> tell me a little bit about attendance these days. >> young people. >> yeah. >> young people? >> yeah, a lot of young people. try to make it fun too. always a fresh recipe, and it's unexpected. and we just want to keep that evolving. >> reporter: it's that evolution, they say, that will keep the art form front and center. and new ork city bal
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