carter evans, cbs news, los angeles. >>> comi earth series. drones are used to track hurricanes, and we'll talk with allyson felix and kevin costner. that's cbs morning news for this thursday, thanks for watching. i'm ann marie green. have a great day. >>> you may think they look like sai sailboats.

ads carter evans reports, others have vanished from the system. >> reporter: at tate elementary in lasthe phones. >> we were concerned because they haven't started the first day of school. >> reporter: they're looking for children still missing from class weeks after the school year began. like 7-year-old george gomez. >> go ahead and take a deep breath -- let it out. >> reporter: the nervous second grader has not been inside a classroom since kindergarten after more than a year of remote learning. >> nice to meet you. >> reporter: his mom finally decided to enroll him after a doctor convinced her. what kept you from putting the kids back in school? >> kind of like was scared, concerned because none of us had now?>> y.eel >> reporter: the school's principal -- >> we do have some students who are not back because their parents are concerned. this zip code in particular was hit very hard with covid. >> reporter: across town at orr middle school, empty desks are constant reminders of classmates who vanished. the campus normally holds up to 1,200 students. this year, only 871 were expected

there's a scenario where people will run out of water. >> reporter: carter evans, cbs news, mendocinor rather coming up on "cbs this morning," a warning about a spike in internet scams over the past year and how one small business lost hundreds of thousands of dollars. >>> plus, only on "cbs this morning," we will speak with top college football recruit ga'quincy mckinstry as he heads to the university of alabama this fall. >>> in "a more perfect union," we'll hear from a longtime barber shop owner about why he's giving someone else a chance too run the business. >>> that's the "cbs morning news" for this thursday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. ♪

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carter evans, cbs news, las vegas. >> o'donnell: and tonight, we've learned a shocking number from thepartment. nearly 90% of the almost $50 billion allocated by congress for rental assistance has not been distributed. now, that money is meant for landlords whose tenants have stopped paying rent and cannot be evicted during the pandemic. cbs's mola lenghi reports "in depth" on the consequences for landlords in america's eviction crisis. >> reporter: brandie lacasse has been waiting on rent for nearly a year. >> i have cried many nights. like, thinking, where's my money? >> reporter: lacasse owns three properties in upstate new york. but the single mother and air force veteran is functionally homeless after falling on some hard times. lacasse says after notifying tenants they had to move out so she could move in, they simply stopped paying and stayed put. she and her daughter have been living out of her car and staying with friends. despite more than $23,000 in unpaid rent, lacasse can't force her tenants out because of state and federal moratoriums on evictions. >> i don't understand h

cbs's carter evans now on america's lost students. >> reporter: at tate elementary in las vegas, counters are working the phones. >> we were just concerned because they haven't started the first day of school. >> reporter: they are looking for children still missing from class, weeks after the school year began. like seven-year-old george gomez. >> go ahead, take a deep breathe... and let it out. >> reporter: the nervous second grader has not been inside a classroom since kindergarten after more than a year of remote learning. >> nice to meet you. >> reporter: his mom finally decided to enroll him after a doctor convinced her. what kept you from putting the kids back in school? >> i kind of like was scared and concerned because none of us had our covid shot at all. so we all got our shot. >> reporter: do you feel safer now? >> yes. >> reporter: sarah popek is the school's principal. >> we do have some students who are not back because their parents are concerned. this zip code in particular was hit very hard with covid. >> reporter: across town, empty desks are constant reminders of class

the problem is how to handle so many people with so little water. >> garrett: carter evans, thank you year, more than 100,000 americans will be diagnosed with melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer. but there is encouraging news tonight in the fight against skin cancer. cbs' dr. jon lapook reports on a revolutionary way to screen for it. >> and you're going to stand here. >> reporter: the future of skin cancer screening has arrived with this odd-shaped machine. so, these are all cameras here? >> yes, so total of 92 cameras. they all shoot essentially simultaneously. >> reporter: then, within minutes, a software program builds a 3d image of the patient's body in precise detail. before the pandemic, dr. allan halpern of memorial sloan kettering showed us how. >> they can zoom in and zoom out. >> reporter: this is amy arsuaga. this is amy arsuaga rendered in three dimentions. for as long as she can remember, she has had hundreds of moles over her entire body, putting her at increased risk for melanoma. conventional screenings took hours. >> not wearing my clothes for four hours.

carter evans has more from the popular northern tourist town. >> walk through this 170-year-old town is like taking a step back in time and the same can be said for its water supply here. you see, most homes and businesses, they use appear old well somewhere on the property for their water which the drought has caused many of the wells to run dry. this is what it's come to. the they hotel is truck engine . >> he conserves as much as he can, using dirty dish water for the flowers and buying new light weight sheets for guest beds. >> you can get more of them in one load of wash and you can cut the water use significantly. >> most people across the united states cannot imagine a situation where they turn on the tap and no water comes out. >> it's frightening. right now, there's no water. >> three nights a week, the kitchen is dark and the dining rooms are empty. he pays $3600 a month to fill up the water tank. >> it looks about half. i would say. that will get us through 2.5 days of business. >> why don't you get more water trucked in. >> the problem is, the the town on the coast are sh

carter evans, abs news. >> i do not want to test that theory. >> i saw jaws one and josh two. >> thati needed find the button that says "cable," grandma. (woman speaking indistinctly over phone) should be on the top of the remote. yeah, the... okay, now, now... push the "power" button. do you see a blue light on the... on the cable box? (woman continues speaking indistinctly over phone) i-i don't know, grandma. that's just the way it works. no, you can't have your old remote back. whoo! what a rush! because it's in the trash, that's why. i threw it out. more loofahs? come on, people.

here's cbs's carter evans. >> you've got spunk. >> well. >> i hate spunk! >> that line from the first episode of the mary tyler moore show cemented ed asner's place in tv history. audiences loved lou grant, the fictional cranky, no nonsense tv news director. >> and a cermount of fear. >> he played grant for a dozen years on mary tyler moore and its spinoff lou grand, a one hour drama instead of a 30 minute sitcom. >> how many people on board. >> 348. >> his seven prime time emmys are a record for a male actor and he is also the only ak tore win emmys for playing the same character in comedy and drama categories. born in 1929 in kansas city, missouri, the chicago stage called him in the early '50s as a founding member of the playwrights theater club. his turn on tv came in the 19 '60s with guest appearances look this one on, the untouchables. >> asner was elected president of the screen actor's guild in 1981 and he used that platform to frequently criticize the reagan administration. in 1982 despite being a top ten rated show, lou grand was cancelled. asner

kpix 5 anchor alan martin spoke with cbs correspondent carter evans about the big changes some mendocino businesses are making just to get by. >> it's gotten pretty bad, but you wouldn't know it by looking at it here. everything looks normal. in fact, there are a lot of tourists here right now, and that is actually making the situation a lot worse. this town operates entirely on a well system, private wells. they're wells in people's backyards. businesses have wells and many of them were dug more than 100 years ago. and because of that, they're pretty shallow wells. but the problem is the drought has dried up the aquifer underground and many of those wells have run dry, too. so that means it's not providing enough water for homeowners. it's not providing enough water for businesses, and they're having to get it by other means. and in many cases that means just driving it in by truck, and that's very expensive. >> i was going to ask you about those business owners and how desperate they've become, because when you truck water in, it has to come from somewhere, and the situation in califor

carter evans got on a paddle board to check it out for himself. >> reporter: getting into the water with white sharks seems hike a terrible idea i don't dare stand up on this board. we're just off the coast of santa barbara, and within minutes -- this shark is so close, i could almost grab its dorsal fin. it is right underneath me. scientists say that shark is not interested in me or other people. watch this huge shark swim right up to these unsuspecting children and simply turn away. the population of these great whites off socal beaches is exploding. i can only see it now because i'm getting up high. if i were a surfer, i'd be lying down, and i'd have no idea it was underneath me. >> oh my god. >> reporter: wedding photographer carlos gouna started capturing these stunning images off the coast when the pandemic dried up business. >> almost every time i see an interaction with a human and a shark, my heart does pound. we've all been conditioned ever since "jaws" came out to fear that interaction. >> reporter: but this is far from "jaws." watch as a large shark calmly cruises along with

here is cbs' carter evans. >> reporter: picturesque views of mendocino make signs of the drought heretle hard tore see, but many of the wells this town depends on are crying up. the algeria inn now pays to truck in water so guests can take a shower. >> right now, it costs $600 for 3500 gallons. >> reporter: and that lasts about a week you're saying? >> that's lasting about a week. >> reporter: they douse flowers with dirty dish water and bought light-weight sheets for guest beds.er >> you can get more in one lode of wash. >> up the street in cafe beaujolais, the dining room empty three nights a week to save water. >> looks like about a half. >> reporter: owner julian lopez pays about $3,600 a month for water delivery. why don't you just get more water trucked in? >> so the problem with that is these towns on the coast are starting to shut off the sale of water. it's dire and it's only getting worse. >> reporter: town groundwater manager ryan rhoades is considering bringing water by train. for now, the local high school is offering some of its reserves. how much can they provide? >> no

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carter evans traveled to the popular northern california tourist town of . carter, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. walking through the 170-year-old town is like taking a step back in time. the same can be said for its water supply here. you see most homes and businesses, well, they use an old well somewhere on the property for their water and the drought has caused many of those wells to run dry. this is what it's come to. businesses like the allegria inn trucking in water so guests can take a shower. >> right now about $600 for 3500 gallons. >> that lasts you about a week you're saying? >> that's lasting about a week. >> inn owner conserves as much as he can using dirty dish water for the flowers and buying new lightweight sheets for guest beds. >> you can get more of them into one load of wash and you can cut your water use significantly by going to these sheets. >> reporter: most people across the united states cannot imagine a situation where they turn on the tap and no water comes out. >> that's what happens to julian wells. >> right now there's