dfre sort these days of here is lee cowan. >> here we are, the ball is up. >> and the nba is back.. >> oh, lebron james. >> reporter: while the games are as exciting as ever, the weirdness that is the 2020 season is especially weird off the court. not just the daily covid testing, a reality that for this l.a. laker's star was uncomfortable enough. >> home sweet home. >> reporter: but as nba players have shown, through a blur of social media postings, the realchnge be ative of being in the bubble. >> reporter: more than 300 of the nbaanaff,ave been sealed inside the gates of walt disney world in florida since early july. >> reddick turns the corner -- >> reporter: and those who make it to the championship will still be living in this basketball bubble come mid-october. do you feel safe there? >> i feel completely safe here. they have thought of everything. >> reporter: j.j. redick has been gold for them this year. >> reporter: j.j. redick is a veteran of the nba. but he is a rookie when it comes to practicing b-ball in a ballroom. so is everybody here. >> you're sitting in isolation

i'm lee cowan, and this is "sunday morning."s past week has been filled with still more racial unrest. this time in kenosha, wisconsin, where jacob blake was shot in the back multiple times by police. in the days since, the streets have filled with demonstrators, and police once again have used less lethal weapons against them. we've heard a lot about so-called rubber bullets lately, but for all of the wrong reasons. >> people are going to be injured. it is inevitable. >> increasingly, those getting injured aren't just violent agitators. >> i don't see a way to use these weapons in a safe way that protects human life and rights. >> ahead on sunday. our sunday profile this morning, singer and actress olivia newton-john, who has much to share with our gayle king. ♪ and my heart is set on you ♪ >> she lit up the screen in "grease," and had hits -- ♪ >> -- after hits as a singer. but for olivia newton-john, this isn't about her trip down memory lane. it is about her battle with cancer. how do you not let this worry you? >> denial is

i'm lee cowan, and this is "sunday morning."mmer is winding down, the school year is winding up, and with it, lots of vid-19 is throwing many school reopenings into confusion, leaving parents wrestling with school matters large and small. david pogue will report our cover story. >> reporter: some students with masks and some without.s en some teaching over the internet. as the new school year begins, that's the scattered state of education in the covid era. >> we can't live our lives in fear. i don't want to hear that students are sick or they have gotten their parents sick. >> reporter: the desperate search for a workable lesson plan. ahead on "sunday morning." >> cowan: our sunday profile this morning is of "wheel of fortune" veteran a. reporte for 37you mi years, she has been revealing letters at this famous board. now vanna white is revealing more. >> i remember before i became famous, i saw a couple of famous people who were not very nice to people, and i thought, if i ever become famous, i'm not going to treat people that

yes, says lee cowan.>> reporter: one destruction of bubble wrap, it is hardly considered a crime, unless, of course, you're artist bradley hart, who's canvas is bubble wrap. really? >> what do you use bubble wrap for? to protect things that are important to us. to me, it is memories. >> reporter: the man who paints in a bubble, ahead on sunday morning. >> pauley: and jill schlesinger gives us the lowdown on higher education in this era of covid. and jim axelrod returns to another challenging time at the white house, the times of president gerald ford and the man who documented them. shabbos kestenbaum takes us for a spin in an r.v., suddenly the way to go. we'll have the latest on that horrific explosion in beirut. and some thoughts from jim gaffigan. it's sunday morning, august 9th, 2020. and we'll be back after this. ♪ >> pauley: like almost every other aspect of our lives these days, back to school has special meaning in the midst of a pandemic. as returning students in many of our universities are now

i'm lee cowan, and this is "sunday morning." still more racial unrest. this time in kenosha, wisconsin, where jacob blake was shot in the back multiple times by police. in the days

my pal lee cowan is filling in. i'm jamie yuccas in los angeles.night. >>> now at 6, damage, destruction and new evacuations in the north bay. >> and as much as i don't want to have to talk about this, there is the possibility of another round of lightning and gusty winds coming in sunday night. we will talk about that in a lot of detail coming up.>> we still don't know if we have a home or not. it can go either way right now. >> hotel rooms along the coast are filling up with evacuees who can do nothing but wait and hope. >> firefighters are attacking a officials say there is no need for anyone to evacuate that they are asking people to stay away in the area of portland drive while they do their work.>> crews and aircraft from 10 states are now on the front lines here in california.>> the race is on to make as much progress as possible before tomorrow brings about more lightning strikes and erratic winds. >> the three major fire complexes burning are covering a combined area of just over 1000 square miles, more than double the size of the city of

i'm lee cowan, and this is "sunday morning."own, the school year is winding up, and with it, lots of vid-19 is throwing many school reopenings into confusion, leaving parents wrestling with school matters large and small. david pogue will report

. >> that was lee cowan reporting.-up comes as louisiana marks 15 years since an even more deadly storm came ashore, hurricane ka treen aip. the recovery from katrina took years but taught some valuable lessons to the volunteers who are working to rebuild after this latest storms. michelle miller has the story. >> we just started three year until dollar campaign to rebuild houses. >> reporter: when we first met zach rosenberg and his wife, the st. bernard project had rebuild homes in the new orleans area. >> it was like the field of dreams. you build it and it would come. volunteers start it is killing out of the woodwork. >> one, two, three, welcome home! >> svp, as it's now known, has helped rebuild more than 2500 homes and the mission has expanded. >> we just built the first netzero apartment building, solar panels powering batteries and 50% of the units are for veterans. >> reporter: rosenberg said everything changed after meeting world war ii vet edward lee. five years ago we met the 94-year-old who built his own

with lee cowan, we pay him a visit. >> cbs presents this program in color. >> reporter: not everythingthat was on a barn in pennsylvania, the all-seeing eye which would protect them because it would be all-seeing. >> reporter: if you're wondering if there is a keeper of such memoribilia around here, well, there isn't, not officially, anyway. >> i'm making toast. >> reporter: which is where george schweitzer comes in. >> it is better to be cbs toast than to be toast. [laughter] >> reporter: if that sounds like a marketing slogan, that's because how george schweitzer made this living. until this past spring, he was cbs' chairman of marketing. >> we collaborated with the nfl on so many things. >> reporter: for nearly three decades, his job, a big one, has been to get your eye on ours. ♪ >> reporter: and along the way, he turned his office into a mammoth scrapbook of his efforts. >> before i knew it -- >> reporter: it happened? >> -- it happened. and it kind of grew and grew and grew, and the next thing i know, i was a hoarder. >> reporter: broadcasting cast its spell early on the schweitz