is it waddell? >> waddell, don >> i got it. i thought louisiana it has to be waddell. for joining us. i appreciate what you do. thank you for your service. the louisiana guard has been out all day doing search and rescue. how large is the rescue mission that is under way right now? >> first off thank you for having me on the show this evening. i appreciate the opportunity to tell louisiana national guard's story. as far as the situation we're in with search and rescue, we spent the bulk of the day working search and rescue. it kicked off this morning on the ground side about 4:00, 4:15 this morning. on the air side about 6:15. we worked it really hard across southeast louisiana. we ended up with search and rescue, we rescued 348 people, 48 pets, and were able to get those folks to safety. we have currently, you know, a little over 5100 guardsmen that are deployed across louisiana in 29 parishes and we're getting more help from 13 states here from other national guards and i would like to thank the governors, adjutant governors from the other states as well as the natio

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. >> reporter: justin waddell is mckayla's father. the 13-year-old felt sick on a wednesday and died of covid three days later. >> it was a shock to the whole falyr: atbreak has closed mckayla's entire school district for two weeks. too few families have reliable internet to hold virtual classes. covid has overwhelmed mississippi's hospitals. st. dominic's in jackson set up this screening tent in its parking lot. in the next day or two, they'll start using it to screen and test emergency patients for the virus. mark strassmann, cbs news, jackson, mississippi. >>> meanwhile, firefighters are racing to contain a new wildfire near los angeles that's threatening hundreds of homes. the south fire broke out yesterday in san bernardino county. it began as a vegetation fire. it has burned at least 500 acres. so far it has damaged or destroyed a dozen homes and buildings. a thousand people are under mandatory evacuation orders. meantime, crews are struggling to contain the caldor fire. the flames are advancing toward lake tahoe. the popular va

. >> reporter: justin waddell is makayla's father.-old fell sick on a wednesday, and died of covid three days later. >> it was a shock to everybody, the whole family. >> reporter: an outbreak has now closed makayla's entire school district for two weeks. too few families have reliable internet to hold virtual classes. covid has overwhelmed mississippi's hospitals. st. dominics here in jackson set up this screening tent and in the next couple of days, they are going to use it to screen and potentially test patients for the virus. norah? >> o'donnell: mark strassmann, thank you so much. let's turn now to our special back-to-school series. the u.s. department of education says enrollment in public schools during the pandemic has dropped by more than 1.5 million students. some have switched to private schools or at-home learning. others have just vanished from the system. cbs's carter evans now on america's lost students. >> reporter: at tate elementary in las vegas, counselors are working the phones. >> we were just concerned because the

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