. >> lapook: dr.n is doing a clinical trial backed by cke national institutes of he's trying to see if it can prevent diarrhea in children taking antibiotics, a remedy he's on the board of a non-profit industry finance group that promotes science. other researchers have tried with mixed results. >> merenstein: i think the data is there. i recommend probiotics mainly for people who are on antibiotics, and for people with irritable bowel disease. >> lapook: i wonder what our viewers are thinking right now, right? they're hearing you saying, it definitely helps, probiotics, and others are saying, there's no good evidence that it helps. are they throwing a brick through the television screen just about now? >> merenstein: they are, but they have been throwing a brick, you know, for the last 20 years, when we tell them everyone needs vitamin d, and everyone needs, you know, echinacea for colds, or zinc for colds. i think it's difficult to be a consumer, because things change so quickly. but i think we need

jon lapook. >> the fact that they're saying there was a statistically significant decrease in mortalityith dexamethasone is very encouraging. >> reporter: news about the treatment comes as one of the prediction models used by the white house now projects 200,000 covid-related deaths in the u.s. by october. 19 states are reporting increases in average daily new cases, compared to two weeks ago. today, texas saw a record jump 15,000dayss reportedrl but today, in a "wall street journal" op-ed, vice president mike pence called reports of a possible second wave overblown. despite record new cases, florida governor ron desantis t. >>o >> reporter: still, miami's mayor put the next phase of reopening on hold due to recent spikes. austin's mayor extended a stay- at-home order. and nevada's governor said the state was not ready to enter phase three. there was encouraging news today about the economy. retail sales jumped nearly 18% last morning a record, as more business and restaurants reopened. the question is whether that comes at the expense of social distancing. norah. >> o'donnell: manny bo

jon lapook. there s a statistically significant decrea significant decrease in mortality with dexamethasone is very encouraging. >> reporter: news t white house now projects 200,000 covid-related deaths in the u.s. by october. 19 states are reporting reporting increases in average increases in average daily new cases, compared to two weeks ago. today, texas saw a record jump of more than 2,600. florida has reported nearly 15,000 new cases over the last ten days. but today, in a "wall street journal" op-ed, vice president possib second wave overblown rts says he will not close the state. >> to suppress a lot of working- age people at this point i don't think would likely be very effective. >> reporter: still, miami's mayor put the next phase of reopening on hold due to recent spikes. austin's mayor extemded a stay- at-home order. and nevada's governor said the state was not ready to enter phase three. retail sales jumped nearly 18% there was encouraging news today about the economy. retail sales j

jon lapook thank you.ensions are high after north korea demolished a building used to host talks with south korea, and tonight the regime is threatening military action. cbs' margaret brennan reports. >> reporter: the statement from north korea was not subtle: blowing up the office for diplomacy in kaesong that it had opened in 2018 with south korea and making a good on a threat by kim yo-jong, kim jong-un's increasingly powerful sister. she also said troops are preparing to surge into the d.m.z. that's where president trump took a symbolic step into north korea last year to shake hands with kim jong-un. >> thank you, everybody. >> reporter: but diplomacy has stalled. the regime continues to test short-range missiles and has produced enough nuclear material for dozens of weapons. north korea said today's action was provoked by south korean activists who had sent anti-kim esident trump'so. signature foreign policy initiative. north korea often ratchets up tension in election years in the hope of extracting

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jon lapook joins us now. those pictures remind us what congregating looks like. not being able to getting to in person as a church? >> it's been huge. and good morning, tony. you know pastor said he wants to be able to hug people again. ate time for fellowship. something he said struck home for me. he said the the elderly people in his congregation. sunday may be the only time when they come to church, when they actually leave their homes. they get dressed up in their church best and congregate with each other and talk to each other. we know isolation is very bad for you health. in fact, it increases the risk of dementia. there's only a certain amount you can get from a doom congregation. >> i know. i know. jon i look forward to seeing you in person some day soon too. thank you very much. we'll be right back, everyone. >>> dressed up at the table. >> i had a conversation with the dalai lama. he spent more tha >>> good morning. it's 8:25. i'm len kiese. a bay area attorney has filed a lawsuit against facebook after his account was blocked for hate speech. the atto

jon lapook joins us from vermont to sort this out.dow is closing to get a grip on this. it sounds so ominous. what exactly does he mean? >> well, in order to get things under control, you have to do two main things and one is to find people who are infected and their context, and to isolate them, and the other thing is to have everybody in america doing everything possible to stop from spreading it. in terms of finding people, we still are not doing enough testing in enough places so we're not doing a good enough job there and you see people walking around not doing social distancing, not wearing face masks, so we're not doing enough and it's still popping up all over the place. >> people still are having a hard time getting the message about the testing. why is the testing so crucial? >> you have to know where the enemy is. this is a war, and in a war, what do you do? you do reconnaissance. unfortunately here a lot of the people who are infected don't have any symptoms and they're spreading it. so you are relying on the spreading say