ramie inocencio reports from shanghai. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: something nearly unthinkable has happened inna, a return to normal. from morning tai chi at beijing's temple of the sun, to the lunch crush in the central business district. and the rush home at sunset across the avenue of eternal peace. chairman mao tse-tung keeps watch over tiananmen square and a country post new normal. it's hard to believe cities across china with millions of people looked like ghost towns earlier this year. in january, cbs news was the first u.s. network in wuhan where the pandemic started. the government struck back hard and fast, forcing up to 50 million people into lock down for two months. building new hospitals in less than two weeks. welding some families inside their homes. testing and contact tracing descending on new outbreaks with speed. adopting a qr health code system on smartphones. banning nearly all foreigners from entering the country, and putting everyone who was allowed to return, including yours truly, into a 14-day quarantine at a government designated hotel. all thanks to a mix of autho

ramy inocencio, cbs news, beijing. >> yuccas: still to come on the cbs weekend news, boeing 737 max could soon carry passengers again. why some officials are still not on board. >> yuccas: these are turbulent times for boeing. the pandemic has collapsed the demand for travel, grounding planes and workers worldwide. but this week a glimmer of hope for the pacific northwest's largest employer. regulators took a key step toward returning the 737 max to flight following two deadly crashes. here's kris van cleave. >> faa administrator steve dixon pledged the grounded 737 max would not carry passengers again until he had flown it himself. last wednesday with the former airline pilot at the controls, the max took off from boeing's field in seattle. >> i luke what i saw on the flight this morning. >> the two hour flight aimed to give dixon a sense for how the design changes perform in a real world setting. >> it's been a constructive week. that doesn't mean that i don't have some de brief items for the boeing team and the fa team. >> the max has been grounded since march of 2019 after two deadly

cbs' ramy inocencio has more. >> reporter: defiance against thailand's military leaders this weekend.-fingered salute from the "hunger games" movies and books the symbol of the opposition. this surge of anger coming after prime minister prayat chan-o-cha said he would not give in to protester demands to resign. in the past three months, mostly peaceful crowds, reportedly in the tens of thousands, have taken to the streets. demonstrators facing down police in riot gear, others against the hard knock of water cannons. 16-year-old an ang is one of those passionate protesters. how are you feeling with the air of protests surrounding you and your friends? >> there is definitely an evident fear, but as long as there is hope, the fight will keep on going. >> reporter: the new king, masha vajiralongkorn, has been called corrupt. >> he reside in germany, where he is the king of thailand, but he lives in germany. i think that itself proves that he's an incompetent ruler. >> reporter: insults like that to thailand's royals are criminal, with a belief the king is a living god. until this generati

ramy inocencio has the sunday journal from china, on that nation's success in fighting covid-19.ompson looks into conspiracy theories on the internet and the campaign trail. jim axelrod shows us presidents finding common ground on the golf course. plus commentary from john dickerson and more, all on this "sunday morning," the 11th of october 2020. we'll be back in a moment. ♪ i'm voting 'yes' on prop 19. nineteen limits taxes on seniors. it limits property tax on people like me. nineteen limits taxes on wildfire victims. it says so right here. 9 pa, niors can move closer to family or medical care. i looked at moving but i can't afford the taxes. will you help california's most vulnerable? vote 'yes' on prop 19. after the pandemic. that's why we support measure rr to keep caltrain running. which is at risk of shutdown because of the crisis. to keep millions of cars off our roads, to reduce air pollution and fight climate change. and measure rr helps essential workers like me get to work and keep our communities healthy. relieve traffic. reduce pollution. rescue caltrain. [all] yes

ramy inocencio has more. >> reporter: mass throat swabs have returned in china.n just the past five days, the government tested all 9 million residents of the east coast city of chingdao. the cause this time, 12 new cases made public by the government less than a week ago. linked to chingdao hospital now closed. until then, life in china had returned to a kind of post-covid new normal. for 56 days in a row, the government claimed no cases of symptomatic community spread. while china's many critics say beijing can't be trusted with telling the truth, many of its citizens appeared to believe them. 637 million chinese citizens criss-crossed the country during a recent national holiday. only possible after draconian lockdowns that saw some people welded into their homes and dragged to hospitals. despite the fierce measures, a sophomore at the shanghai campus of new york university believes china did the right thing. >> people were so willing to just quarantine, wear masks and follow the guidelines. and i think that's really something that china has done very well. ot