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Demonstrations and black lives matter, a powerful new international rallying cry. Closer to home, the skounl in minneapolis is promising to dismantle the Police Department and create a new system for keeping the peace. Some residents say they have heard such promises on reform before. Jaime yuccas has the story. Reporter in the hawthorne neighborhood of north minneapolis, the summer blossoms and quaint porches hide the layers of inequality. Pastor Edwin Williams Sanctuary Church has been on a mission of unity for 12 years. Do you think racism is deeply rooted in minnesota . Of course, of course. Its deeply rooted in america. When you run into somebody in the community and theyre angry, its because every single thing that has been set into place to help us is working against us. Reporter here, 35 of the community lives below the federal poverty level. 40 are unemployed. The neighborhood has seen unrest before. In 2015, protesters demanded justice for the death of 24yearold jamar clark who was shot and killed by police. This cant be another band aid put on this thing. Like, this is a real opportunity to actually change the system and if the system cant be changed we need to tear thes system down. I get it. Reporter Sammy Mcdowell owns sammys avenue eatery. How do you feel . I feel exhausted for our community. Reporter the cafe and other stores have signs in their windows that say blackowned business, reminisce entitle nt Business Owners in detroit doing the same in the 1967 riots. As fire ripped through, mcdowell feared he could lose everything. Still, he sided with protesters. A lot of people dont feel like theyre destroying their community. People are angry. People get angry when they hit a wall. This stuff can be replaced. Reporter but human life cant. It cant. Thats why to he am, theres not theres know justice for george. Reporter pastor williams sees hope in the protest. Im grateful for people to be not just a good person, but be about equity and justice and equality because it takes more than you simply being nice to he my gums are irritated. I dont have to worry about that, do i . Harmful bacteria lurk just below the gum line. Crest gum detoxify, voted product of the year. It works below the gum line to neutralize harmful plaque bacteria and help reverse early gum damage. This august marks the 75th anniversary of the Nuclear Bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki. The devastation shocked the world and essentially ended world war ii. A new book by fox news anchor chris wall as takes an inside look at the final months before the attack. Heres david martin. Reporter a nati a nation on edge pushed to the brink reporter anchor at fox news Chris Wallace has been at the center of the cultural wars around president trump. His new book came out of nowhere. One of the things i loved about researching this book and writing this book is it has nothing to do with donald trump. Vice president harry s. Truman takes the oath of office as 32nd president. Reporter count down 1945, published by simon and schuster, a viacom cbs company, tells the dramatic story of the 116 days from Harry Trumans sudden and unexpected swearing in as president to the dropping of the atomic bomb on hiroshima. It was the biggest decision, maybe any president has ever made. Reporter Vice President true man had been presiding over a Dreary Senate debate when he was called to the white house. Eleanor roosevelt is dressed in black and she says, harry, the president is dead. Mrs. Roosevelt, is there anything we can do for you . Eleanor roosevelt says, harry, is there anything we can do for you . Because youre the one in trouble now. Reporr trman looked ks the ro. Stunned at his swearing in. I felt like the moon and stars fell on me, he said. Hen Henry Stenson pulled him aside. Mr. President , i need to tell you about a topsecret project of immense importance that has created the most powerful bomb ever put together. Reporter truman had been Vice President three months and knew nothing about the Manhattan Project and race to build the atomic bomb. This was a weapon of mass destruction. Absolutely. The world had never seen anything like this. Reporter they were planning the invasion of japan. It would require 700,000 troops, take a year, and cost tens of thousands of american casualties. The bomb had not even been tested. Truman had no idea whether it was going to work and he basically said its a science project until you can convince me this is actually a weapon, which doesnt happen until july 16. Reporter on that morning in new mexico, the scientists who had designed and built what they called the gadget were ready. At ts pulse goes to the bomb, which is up on 100foot tower, and something happens that has never happened in the history of the world before. Reporter this is what it loked like. This enormous Mushroom Cloud billows 40,000 feet into the air. The 100foot steel power is vaporized, and every living thing, from antelope to blades of grass were vaporized. Reporter truman was in potsdam germany for his meeting with Winston Churchill and stalin. He realized this isnt a science project any more. Hes got the most powerful weapon ever imagined by man. Reporter the president has at his disposal a weapon that can destroy a city. Now you have to choose the city. Right. Reporter how was that done . They wanted a major city that had largely been untouched, that had a military impact and had the topography that would augment and magnify the explosiveness of the bomb so it would have as dramatic a military and psychological impact as possible. And at the top of the list was hiroshima. Reporter was hiroshima a legitimate military target . Absolutely. It was about 250,000 people, but there were about 50,000 troops garrisoned there. It was a legitimate target. Reporter surely they realized women and children would not be spared. He basically made the calculation, if we go and invade, were going to kill a lot of japanese, civilians. And were also going to kill a lot of americans. Or we can drop the bomb and just kill the japanese. It sounds cold blooded, but that was the calculation. Reporter the bomb weighed 9,000 pounds and was hoisted into the belly of a b29 flown by colonel paul tibbets who named the plane for his mother enola gay. It took off in the Early Morning of august 6 from the island of tinean. The bomb fell from 30,000 feet to 1800 feet before detonating. The copilot robert lewis jotted down perhaps the most succinct and apt description of the moment. He writes down, my god, what have we done . A short time ago an american airplane reporter truman was aboard ship returning from the potsdam conference when he announced the destruction of hiroshima. We are now prepared to destroy more rapidly and completely every productive enterprise the japanese have in any city. He was jubilant about it because he thought now finally maybe we can end the war and we can save hundreds of thousands of american lives. Reporter all that was left standing were structures built of concrete, and they had been gutted by fire. Wallace found out from a 10yearold girl in hiroshima. She sees people incinerated. She sees people who the thermal wind has sucked their eyes out. She sees bodies all over the place. She sees people who have been vaporized and all thats left is the shadow of where they were against a wall. Reporter japan did not surrender until three days later after a second more powerful bomb named fat man was dropped on nagasaki. Truman at one point writes, i think that the flower of American Youth is worth a couple of japanese cities. Its official. Its all over. Its total victory. Reporter world war ii, the most terrible in history, was over. 75 years later, a stark truth remains. A Nuclear Weapon has been used in warfare only twice, three days apart. And the only one tri thatcountrr used it was the united states. That was david martin pog. Ugthe of lock d new ycity, charity never shut its doors. Delivering free meals to people too sick or too afraid to leave their homes. Anthony mason has the story of gods love, we deliver. Reporter logistically, this is a massive job. Te furl is the c. E. O. Of gods love we deliver. The new york charity that for nearly 35 years has been cooking and home delivering free meals to people too sick to shop or cook for themselves. Here you go. No one should be sick and hungry. Reporter how many meals come out of here every day . Every day, 7200 meals. Reporter last year she gave me a tour of the kitchen where they prepare and package all their meals. At that time an army of some 14,000 volunteers put the meals together and got them out to the people in need. Hi, david. Its got to be delivered. Reporter but then the pandemic hit. How are you getting through this . Gods love we deliver has basically changed everything we do. Reporter first, thousands of the volunteers they relied on could no longer come. At the same time, they had a surge in new clients. How quickly did you see the demand rise . Overnight, literally overnight. Reporter but they have figured it out. By simplifying the menu so meals can be made and pacge they restructured o volunteers. Everything is social distanced. Everything we have done in every part of our business has had to switch. Reporter especially deliveries. Volunteers now call in advance. Hi, barbara, this is julia with gods love we deliver. How e you . Reporter and leave meals at the door. All right, thank you. Were doing far more than we used to do, but at the same time were doing it with fewer people. Reporter remember before the pandemic, gods love was making 7,200 meals a day . And now . Almost 10,000 meals a day. Were really knocking it out. Reporter but gods love we deliver literally was born for this. Born during the aids crisis in 1986. Our very founding was in another pandemic. It was the hiv pandemic, and i think it is that call that everybody is rising to and doing the very best they can to meet the increased demand, and the more restricted ways of working. Reporter right. This is essentially your mission. This is our mission. This is our moment. Reporter and gods love is delivering yet again. Anthony mason, n captioning sponsored by cbs odonnell tonight, were here in houston where thousands gathered to remember george floyd in his hometown. Praise god odonnell mourners stood in line for hours to pay their respects to a man whose death has galvanized the nation and the world. Tonight we speak exclusively with democratic nominee joe biden after he met with the family of george floyd, including his sixyearold daughter. I think her dad is going to change the world. Odonnell more than 1 million bail. The former officer charged in floyds death appears in court for the first time. Democrats take a knee. A stunning picture today as Congressional Democrats unveil a Sweeping Police Reform bill. Y

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