Ask god to help you past that and use your higher wisdom to opener. Its you world in 90 ses. Feel like since we dont know i do say this. For sure what it is or how bad universal mailin voting is it is, we need to be smart. Going to be catastrophic. We need to be safe and not take its going to make our country a laughing stock all over the any unnecessary chances. World. Democrats are demanding the and so i just think weha w is newly installed postmaster right. Yeah. The world d anif in everything. I know. Undermined by the postmaster dolly, w s general, a political hack upside down. Anden roiceub o people were appointee of donald thinkavon apeciative when yid well, im sure youre g y base to get backlash. Data, not based on conventional when i did that article, it was for the billboard magazine which thinking. Thena on i was the cover. When i did the article, it was in the midst of all that. They asked me that, i said absolutely black lives matter. All lives matter, were all franklin roosevelt. In san antonio, police are gods children. Investigating multiple crime were all in this together. Scenes after five people were yep. Shot and injured at a flea whether we like it or not, market. Mult pell guns recovered. Were in it together. We need to try to be supportive multiple rounds fired. And caring for one another. Um and a im not coming from across the west, several fires are burning under control. Lightning strikes have sparked new flames. Christianity place in my case. Dogs teaming up to steal so i just think that people need delicious leftovers. To know that we are all im and all that matters. In maryland, a family was an another. Dolly why cant we be more joined by a black bear for a tn god . He loves us all. Why cant we love one another . Video have consumed a of the i aydo. You are always so joyous and optimistic even in the worst and hardest painful of times. I want to kn howliouty, ytoo. Beers. Its a threerun shot. We saw not one, not two, not three but four straight home i try to stay anchored within runs by the Chicago White sox. Myself. All right. Try to lean on my spiritual ramirez becomes the first pitcher to allow four straight self and my creative self. Home runs in his debut. Thank you, dolly. Ive got energy from that. Gone thank you. Thats a goo [upbeat music] today was the day that i put everything in perspective. I dont recall seeing that, four home runs in a row. I probably have, but i certainly have now. This mornings eye opener is presented by toyota. You dont see that ver often. Four home runs in a row. Welcome to cbs this morning. You know what else you dont see very often . The three ofthand isac together. I just have to say if i start to turn blue its because i havent worn spanx and high heels sce march. This is very scary. Tony dokoupil. You a back from israel. You got to see your kids. Im so glad were all three together. I did. It was beautiful to be away. Im wearing that tie again. I may turn blue myself. It was beautiful to be away but equally beautiful to be back. I guess i owe you an apology. I was going to send postcards, but i guess its complicated at. Well be talking about that. Really good to see you, tony. Good to see you, anthony in studio at the table. Ris ting u. S. Postal service. Efforts to ensure a fair and safe election during this pandemic. U. S. Postmaster generalis joe wataf protesrs over the him areunininhegrm trv callin s from awmakers back vacation to vote on a bill to stop any more a i fell asleep but when i woke up. boy hi, do you want to share my sandwich . Mega donor and ally of President Trumps. Has been for a long time. vo good feeds our connections. In a letter to postal workers he good feeds us all. Hormel Natural Choice lunch meats. Insisted the Postal Serviceain during this election season. That trust may be damaged. Paula reid is at the white house following all of this. Good morning. What action is Congress Looking to take with everyone coming back from vacation . Good morning, tony. Speaker pelosi insists these Agency Leaders must come before congress to answer questionsthe changes. Some republicans have defended this is a kpix 5 news these new policies saying morning update. Good morning. Theyre necessary to address an im len kiese grown inefficient agency that loses billions of dollars each year. But in addition to the potential impact on millions of voters, to 850 acres, forcing evacuations along creek road lawmakers say theyre also hearing about the deer valley complex fires were ignited by lightning and even medicine. Strikes. The area is in steep terrain on the northeast slope of mt. Democrats allege postmaster general louis dejoy, a trump donor, is trying to sow diablo. Dysfunction in the mail system ofbldse trigregering evacuat to help President Trump win outside of milpitas. Reelection. Im demanding thatead of the commission before them this week. Nment. An airquality advisory has reporter speaking to been issued for the greater bay reporters at his bedminster golf area by the air quality club this weekend, president management district due to trump defended dejoy with a numerous wild fires caused by lightning overnight. This will be in effect through familiar phrase. Heain. Today. I am still tracking thunderstorms and several lightning strikes across the ants roeporter in july the p bay area. Here is the doppler. It is service warned all s a washington, d. C. , that thousands really thee derstorm activity. of votes may not be counted because mailin ballots might zooming in, you casee thsantros not be processed fast enough for novembers election. A memo obtained by cbs news you are ly thunder and selightning with th reveals the Postal Service is in the process of removing 671 mail cells pushing through. Several lightning strikes well to our north. Sorting machines nationwide. Whithouse chief of staff mark meadows insists the removals a red flag warning in effect will stop until november. Until 11 00 a. M. Theres no sorting macshi for the entire bay area and extreme heat continues. Expect heat warnings and heat advisories in effect. Election. Reporter in a statement gianna . Sunday, t Postal Service said weve got an accident it would postpone moving mail blocking lanes along the 10 collection boxes for a period of 90 days while we evaluate our customers concerns. Approaching the 92. Ilvolumes. Said theirng two lanes are blocked for a crash involving three vehicles. Used 280 as an alternate. Traffic is slow on the n jersey, e registered voter will receive mailin ballots under an executive order southbound side of 101. Also, some major capital corridor delays. Signed by governor phil murphy. Multiple trains delayed after 25 minutes between martinez were giving the president is ramping up his Campaign Schedule with stops in minnesota, wisconsin, arizona and even joe bidens hometown of scranton, pennsylvania. The president will visit there on thursday, the same day the former Vice President formally accepts the democraprula, thank. The 2020 Democratic NationalConvention Begins tonight. Wiington, delaware, but the te speechil mosy be virtual. Our latest cbs news Battleground Tracker poll finds biden with a tenpoint National Lead over President Trump. 52 to 42 . And 66 of democrats we talk to say theyre glad biden chose harris to run with him. Ed okeefe will cover the convention for us. What do voters want to hear from the democratic ticket . Well, anthony, good morning. Democrats especially tuning in want to see this remain positive and informational. They want to hear from joe biden and Kamala Harris what they would do if they take back the white house, not necessarily those wellworn attacks on President Trump and Vice President pence. After an historically large and diverse and competitive primarye united in their race to take back the white house. Welcome to the control room. Reporter democrats are putting the final touches on plans for t convention, but things will look far different this year from the mostly virtual event. Instead of speeches from a sports arena, Party Leaders are expected to speak for two hours each night from across all 57 states and authorities. Tonights focus is expected to be on the pandemic, the struggling economy and the National Reckoning on race and policing. Speakers are said to include Ohio Republican governor john kasich, who is part of bidens bid to win over gop voters not willing to vote for the president. Senator Bernie Sanders and Michelle Obama cap off the first night. Sanders says the party is united in its goal. We have to do everything we can to come together to defeat donald trump. Reporter more than 400 people are bringing the event in milwaukee,ewwilmington, ters delaware, joe bidens hometown. He and running mate Kamala Harris will speak from later this ek. Over the weekend, President Trump once again didnt dismiss false and racist claims that harris is ineligible to run for Vice President. Its not something im going to be pursuing. Is she eligible . I just told you. Ireat detail. If shes got a problem you would have thought she would have been vetted. Reporter on sunday, aides moved to move past the president s doubts. Do you accept the fact that Kamala Harris is eligible to be Vice President. Sure. And i think the president spoke to this yesterday. This is not something that were going to pursue. Reporter harris anticipates the attacks will continue. This is going to be a knockdown drag out. Biden doesnt give his big acceptance speech until thursday night but he is set to appear tonight in a video conversation with Racial Justice leaders. And one other thing democrats need to be wary of. Boosting enthusiasm. Wayne tada our new poll found republicans tiffany whoo nathan more deals . are more enthusiastic than wayne tiffany, whats behind curtain number one . Democrats to vote this November Jonathan its a new Mercedes Benz so thats something the party hopes they can work on over the give it to me, tiffany course of the next four days. Jonathan its a trip to fiji i am amazing gayle . Thats interesting. Thank you, ed okeefe. Wayne who wants some cash . I need that cory booker of new jersey wayne youve got the big deal will speak at the democratic jonathan its time for lets make a deal. National convention on thursday. Thats a big night. Now heres tvs big dealer, wayne brady its the same night that joe biden will accept the wayne hey, whats up, america . Welcome to lets make a deal. Nomination. Senator booker joins us from new jersey. Always good to see you, senator wayne brady here, thanlets make a deal. Tuning booker. You heard ed talk about the lack in. Who wants to make a deal . Of enthusiasm some people feel giraffe, come on, giraffe. For the democratic party. Youre known as an enthusiastic hey, sarah, nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Fellow. Are you concerned about that . Im not concerned at all from wayne sarah, what do you do . I just got out of the marine corps. The communities up and down the wayne just got out of the marine corps, give her a big round of applause. State of new jersey, frankly, thank you so much for serving thcountry, thank you. The conversations ive been having in the zoom calls all across the country. I just spoke last night to a number of heartland parts of our nation from missouri to nebraska. Its just i just feel the enthusiasm and the energy, not just about what were against as a party, and what weve seen this last four years, cattrophi this administration in the pandemic, but really about a vision for america thats inclusive. Thats about working people. Its about helping our nation continue to become a more Perfect Union and how joe biden and Kamala Harris can do that. Lets ft nd. Wellnown epic pick. The president called her a mean, mad, nwoman. Soery dif bring to this party . Well, i dont think bigotry is a point of view. Its vial in the way donald trump talks about women and women of color. Weve seen this consistently through his four years. And its a shame. I think that what kamala is, and somebody who has worked with her, first and foremost, the combination of kamala and joe are going to bring decency and kindness and honor back to the highest offic the land. Shes a goode friendn i because can see her over the years and how caring she truly is. You add that to incredibly competent, smart, grit and guts and how she serves people. I think shes going to bring a lot of enthusiasm and excitement to this ticket. And finally, i think a lot of americans, by picking her, feel seen. Theres a great movie, and youve watched waiting to exhale. A lot of folks finally feel like our party and our nation have offered real avenues to some of n and that is minority females. So this is an exciting pick. Its historic, and i believe ea because, for me, thats the floor, not the ceiling. It may get us out of the valley but i think this incredible dynamic duo help lead us to the mountaintop. Nancy pelosi has called the congress back. Has said come back from your vacation. We really need to address this Postal Service issue. Should the same thing happen to the senate . Should Mitch Mcconnell call you senators back work to do on this. Yes, unequivocally and absolute. Look, whatever your political perspective is, a fair Playing Field is so important. And this idea derats goi on,te knee cap the post office going into an election, where so many, for real health concerns, so many states are turning to vote by mail. And vote by mail, most americans may not realize this, but many states, four states specifically, do this already from red states like utah to blue states like oregon. And it works well. And fine. And so for this administration to be deliberately doing things, strangling the post office, its not only undermining our election but the veterans who rely on the post office for critical medicines, families hurting by having checks delayed by de theference betweend wnour family is hungry. This i a national crisis. Congress role is to provide oversight and checks and balances to the executive. And, boy, this is one time that we need that. Senator booker, i know youre speaking on thursday night. Big night, thursday night. Have you start workingn r ssage is going to be. You know, gayle, i just im excited about this opportunity. Im just a real believer that you cant lead the people if you dont love the people. This is a time in america where we really need a revival of civic grace. I hope i can communicate a lot of that spirit and really that i hope that this is a time of healing in america. Theres too much division, too tiunonds, wend hope we can e era of meanness politics. Divisiveness, degrading kind of speech coming from high offices rise together as a nation. Heres to that phrase, civic grace on both sides. Thank you, senator cory book pm Convention Begins tonight at 10 00 p. M. Eastern, 9 00 central. Gayle, thank you. Lets jump to the coronavirus where the cdc is saying the rate of coronavirus cases in children is on the rise. It also says that the earlyid w school closures. Guess what. Many of those schools are now reopening. Our lead National CorrespondentDavid Begnaud haseow f administrators and experts who have been looking at the risks. Education is everything. If you dont give that to epte richardt just a years oran, an ny in charge of about 2. 8 Million Students from prek through college. Were going to have covid cases in schools. Thats invariably going to happen. Thats okay. Get those kids. Have them go home for 24, 48 hours. If they are asymptomatic, let them come back. Do you acknowledge theres a risk. No, not at all. Its 100 the right thing to do. The reality is this is very, very lowuting comparisons to flu. Reporter thats scott cottlieb, the former fda sith erise. S mmstill a lot we do no know about how the virus behaves in children. In part because there havent been as many cases. With flu, we see upwards of about 400 tragic deaths a year. Weve already seen 90 deaths, about, from covid in children. And it just hasnt probably hasnt been as prevalent in kids. Reporter at the university of North Carolina chapel hill, four campus. Since students began arriving two ago, several videos have appeared online showing w or gathering in crowds. Now exposed or infected students are being moved into isolation. This is the beautiful dorm bed that i still have to make to sleep in. This is what it looks like inside the isolation housing. We spoke to one student inside with covidlike symptoms. Ive been doing my best to social distance. Ive worn a masky preh mttuc i sleeping, i really have no idea where cices of a small impacted, you know, the large overall student body. Unc chapel hill is not the only university reporting cases. Clusters have been reported at notre dame, the university of oklahoma and the naval academy. Anthony . Thank you. Yeah, im taking a son back to college next weekend and were all anxious about it. Coming up next hour, our special School Matters will look at how schools plan to reopen. Well hear from medical experts about safety concerns and well explore the challenges of remote ah a faster and wa t check for. Hownba ayers in lockdown played a big part in creating a new announcer this National Weather report sponsored by toyota. We have much more ahead udn iowollowilasts powedere ten not have power at this hour. Yikes. Plus, tonights Democratic National convention will be unlike anything weve ever seen before. Ed okeefe shows us how conventions have evolved and whether this pandemic could end this political tradition for good. Youre watching cbs this morning. This selenite grey is so pretty isnt it . Wow. Jim could you pop the hood for us . There she is. Turbocharged, right . Yes it is. Jim, could you uh kick the tires . Oh yes. Can you change the color inside the car . Oh sure. How about blue . Thats more cyan but. Jump in the back seat, jim. Act like my kids. Oh yeahhhhh. Hoh yeahhhhh. R . Exactly how they sound. s . 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High winds in San Francisco uprooted trees, and in the fillmore district, a large limb fell and damaged the muni power line. All right, im still tracking thunderstorms on hi def doppler. You can see all the thunderstorm and several bay, d you can rosa, hillsburg, and up through angwin. The red flag warning a. M. Extreme heat advisories remaining in effect. Gianna . And take a look at roadways right now. The east bay, dealing with capital corridor delays this mornin scdule 1. 52 g. Behi want restaurants to open . And schools . Ak appe stay 6 feet apart. Wash your hands. Wear a mask every time you leave your home. Choose to join the fight against covid19. Welcome back to cbs this morning. The fda is authorizing the use of a faster and easier test for the coronavirus. No covid symptoms. Its thought to be about 90 as accurate as tsiests to u 200,000 samples a day could be processed. Dr. Tara narula shows us now how the nba helped bring this test to market. Reporter before checking into their isolated Orlando Bubble with its daily covid tests give and go throws it down reporter some nba players and staff volunteered to give saliva samples along with their standard nose and throat swabs. Show me a little about about how the process would work. Okay. Heres an example of a straw and tube combination. You spit a little bit in there, gets into the bottom. Reporter very easy. When the nba saliva samples were analyzed at nathan grubaughs lab, his team found the results stacked up to the Gold Standard swab tests. I think anybody would rather just spit into a tube than having the swab that goes deep down into your nasal passage. Reporter first used on Health Care Workers and hospitalized patients, saliva ents. T doesnt rely on supplie l resubelt wsil quickly. This is set up to be something that you would receive your results within 24 hours. If youre doing routine surveillance and screening and not getting results within a day, its help pointless to do. And dr. Laa na t j truoi sff here. Who else is expected to maybe use this saliva test beyond the sports leagues . Well, its not meant for patients in the hospital or those who are symptomatic. It is beneficial for really getting people back to work and back to school. Certainly schools and colleges, health car really screen or do surveillance on people by checking them either every day or a few times a week. Yeah. And we know that doingol and th suppress the est cld that dynamic . Well, the beauty of this test is its inexpensive. Its fast. Its definitely more comfortable. It saves ppe, and all you have to do is thibo yenk tuthe i adea is that it co increase the potentially to test by 100,000 or 200,000 tests a day. The estimated cost is probably going to be around 10. So really could be beneficial. 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High cholesterol and weight gain may occur, can hbloogawhicbe fat lihtro pceboso if youre affected by schizophrenia, have a conversation with your doctor about caplyta today. This pandemic is certainly changing how we nominate president ial candidates. The Democratic National convention, have you heard, will get under way tonight to nominate joe biden. Hardly any speakers will be there in person. Now some are wondering if these Virtual Conventions will pop the ed okfe shows how previous conventions have defined history. Reporter 2020 vision couldnt have seen how unconventional this year would look. The convention is now history reporter dropped are the balloons, banners, buttons walter, were told that when this antenna starts turning, you go to the sealingment. Reporter headsets, hats, an got reportersker hands off of m reporter that was 1968. Abcs ted koppel is with him. Come in. Reporter ted koppel began covering conventions even earlier. It was exciting. There was stuff going on. Reporter like 1980 when the race for Ronald Reagans running mate went down to the wire. And one of the biggest in history belonged to our lesley stahl. Its not ford. I said, can plated. Theyre yelling bush around me. Everybodys yelling bush. I remember how excited i was to break that story. It was the only story at that convention. Reporter do you think they still serve a useful purpose . Repr t at cus 1996th publican convention. I realized it was going to be exactly as scripted, as predictable, as boring, and we agreed it was a waste of time. We hung up a sign that said gone fishing. Reporter we have thats tac. Thats exactly why i left. We didnt have to be there. Reporter has your view on them changed at all since then . Theyve gotten worse. Reporter still, one line sometimes sticks remember these read my lips [ cheers ] no new taxes. Poor george. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth. [ cheers ] you know, they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull lipstick. [ laughter ] reporter some speeches are remembered for the wrong reason like thengovernor bill clinton in 1988 who went on twice as long as scheduled. S biggest applause line n i [ cheers ] it is certainly o sechovetoid the nominee. I still believe in a place called hope. [ applause ] john kerry believes reporter in 2004, thenstate tor back obama also spoke of hope. The hope of a skinny kid with a funny name reporteou whahappext thank you reporter as joe biden joined hands with barack obama before 80,000 cheering fans and four years later Clint Eastwood unloaded on an empty chair what do you mean shut up . Reporter no one could have guessed that this time there would be an empty hall. At these conventions, dont expect anything quite like this. Or that [ appl ]heon be th so mfun. Me. Ihi craziness. And the audience enjoyed that. Reporter you know, they may not be as fun or as colorful, but they can, of course, still be informative because there are people watching who probably havent made up their mind, and this is their opportunity to hear from the two parties and possibly decide. He bngheresre tctchk. E one trad back to the first ones i went to is on the last night, i scooped down on the floor and grabbed some of the confetti. And this is time stamped. Thats john mccain there. Rublican20co ennnv then iti got another one here fm its star shaped. I cant figure when its from. Maybe somebody whos watching remembers when it was staff shaped. My wife asks youpthufhy did now i have a reason, i can fly my nerd flag with you degrees im not sure your wife will be satisfid with that answer. Ed, one day youll show it to your grandchildren, theyll go, yeah, thats interesting. It was fun to hear ted and leslies recollections, may be predictable and boring, but i think crazy is fun. 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While we are here working from home, its been over 100 st yoe ing aut today. A week after a deadly windstorm slammed ipa, people across the iowa, people across the state are still having trouble. Many buildings were reduced to rubble and crop feeds leveled. Nearly 76,000 utility customers still dont have any power. People say they are desperate for help. Naro matte you can do something. And cedar rapids and other small towns in iowa, they need your help. Were regular working people. We need help down here, and the only help were getting i ea this derecho has been deadly. Iowa governor kim reynolds called on the white house to declare a disaster there as soon as possible. She is asking the federal government for nearly 4 billion in aid, tony, nearly 14 million acres of farmland have been destroyed. This is a real important story. Yeah. It really is. What it reminds me, while we talk about the pandemic, a goeb global disaster, all disasters related to weather or fire, theyre still going on. Weve got to Pay Attention to those, as well. Ting up, are they . No, exactly right. Weve got some insane footage as wildfires are burning parts of california. Check out this rare tornado, its actually called a firenado by engineerses, not by me, by meteorologists. This happened north of lake tahoe. So far that fire has scorched around 30,000 acres and was just 5 contained as of early yesterday. In all, there are more than a dozen wildfires burning in the state. Extreme heat and dry conditions make it harder for firefighters to combat the flames. It is so hot that the temper a ridiculous 130 degrees yesterday. If confirmed, it could be the hottest temperature recorded in the u. S. Since 1913. And perhaps the highest ever confirmed in the world, sy bad. Even if you tre buck naked, are you still hot and theres nothing you can do about it. Im going l with that visual. Yeah. I might want to go for a workout to shed the quarantine 15 that ive been putting on and unable to get rid of. Im telling you, i was saying i put on spanx for the first time, thought i was going to pass out. Its no joke. Now youve got a machines mission to help during the pandemic. Whats he doing . I love this story. So an alaskan rvasge. Check 00 t y what . Yeah. Are you serious . Are you serious . Yeah. Thats yours. Part of a heres how it works people raise money to reward an unsuspecting server. Watch. I cant believe this. Sgrate. I know the sun is definitely shining today. Ill say that. So far, little has surprised three other servers and hopes to continue. He said its the least he can do to give back to people that have been hard hit by the pandemic. Tony, you and i have talked about this. Every little bit helps. You saw the expression when she got that tip, 500. It goes such a long way when so many millions of americans are in dire straits right now. You know, absolutely right there. And i saw how quickly she grabbed the 500 as it started to blow away innd. I was nervous. Yeah. Hes raised i think 4,000 on facebook, and every time he gives away 500. Its i was worried, too, about all that blowing away, and the waitress looked like she was going to have a heart attack, thats how meaningful it was. Thats great. Ahead in our special School Matters series, well take a deeper look at how school will return this fall and hear from Health Experts, students, parents, and dolly parton. Stay with us. vo weve got your back, road warriors. Because we know you want to get b. Steering life at 10 and 2. Youre prepared for this. And so are we. Soon youll get back to skipping the counter without missing a beat. Back to choosing any car in the aisle. Back to being the boss of you. National. Go like a pro. 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Three fires make up the marsh fire complex. Flames spa yesterday morning between 4 00 and 5 00. Police in napa county are looking for a suspect who fatally shot an 18yearold in a safeway parking lot. The body of nathan garza was found yesterday. Theres no description of the suspect or a motive. Students in San Francisco will log in to their online classrooms for the part of the first day of school today. Students will have no than 120 minutes of synchronized instruction daily. Its anactrac king thunders several lightning strikes, and especially for the north bay. Heres the highdefinition doppler. A few lightning strikes offshore, and we will show you all of the thunderstorm ke up through willows, and you can see the thunderstorm activity with the lightning strikes. Because of that, red flag warning remainin the entire region until 11 00 a. M. The lightning strikes could lead to new fire starts. 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My son has barely had any other conversations with kids since maufrch. What keeps me up at night is the health and wellness of our students and staff. Welcome back to cbs this morning in a special hour of School Matters. Our series on schools and the and anthony mason. Havent been able to say that in a while. Keepingnt looks like as many classrooms fill up again. Virtual challenges. Well hear about Remote Learning from a family adjusting to it right now. Well talk about the benefits and the concerns. A usnd d autol stepping up her efforts to help kids learn out. D during these tough but first here is todays eye opener at 8 00. Mr. Trump, how you could assure people that schools are safe to reopen. So you could you reassure anybody of anything. Their grand mom and grand pop, somebody ends up dying. If we are all going to bring the children back to school, paramount is safety for the children and the teachers. Any chance you would order a statewide all Remote Learning plan. You just cant take off the table that this thing is going efinitelorried aut his education. Im not a teacher. I feel like online could only teach so much. When we talk about teachers, too, we need to make sure that we are calling them front line workers and providing them with things like ppe. Why is that important to cover . If the nose is exposed, youre not wearing a mask. Mc hammer has some competition. An alabama principal rocked a modern rendition of the 90s hit cant touch this. So students know what to expect when they return to stop sanitize. It i worth finding it online. Tony, your mom was a teacher and we know and love teachers. They wan to go back to school and everybody just wants to be safe. Theyre all very anxious. So well be dedicating this hour to our special series School Matters. It is a comprehensive look at how the pandemic is affecting millions of students, parents and teacherswe e avoto interview with dolly parton, a long time education advocate. Today show is only the beginning of the conversation. Issue throughout the month. Joe biden goes into the Democratic National convention with a sizable advantage according to the latest cbs Battleground Tracker. The nominee leads President Trump nationally 52 to 42 among likely voters that we spoke to. However, 74 of republicans said they were very enthuse afien th veryine thuz aftic about voting this year. The convention will be held virtually this year, starting tonight. Due to the pandemic. Many top names will be speaking hoping to energize voters. Tonights lineup includes amy klobuchar, Governor Andrew Cuomo and Gretchen Whitmer and Bernie Sanders and former first lady Michelle Obama. Political contributors Terry Sullivan and joel payne join us from washington, d. C. Terry was on the marco rubio president ial campaign and joel is the former director of africanamerican advertising for Hillary Clintons president ial campaign. Good morning to you both. I think n i think none of us will miss the longwinded speeches but the electric moments that you get with a crowd at conventions will be absent. Joel, willet let me start with what do democrats need to acomplish in this convention. These are organizing moments and tubs. When youre in a state like wisconsin so critical to zks winning, not just having the pop and circumstance of the convention but the opportunity to be on the ground, to get activists excited and revved up for the election coming up. The republicans will have te same challenge next week with their convention. I think what will look different here is the key note. Normally the key note is the big elevated opportunity moment for young rising leader like a barack obama in 2004 or sarah palin for the republicans in 2008. It is going to be different this year. There is a collection of democratic voices on wednesday. So there is some things that look similar b a lot of things that look different. Terry, youve run a president ial campaign, how would you feel about having a Virtual Convention for your candidate . You know, in many ways there is a lot of obvious challenges but the biggest advantages is that as a Campaign Manager into a big event youre trying to limit risk and mitigate any of the unforeseeable things that could happen. Protestersse things. And this is a situation where weve had staff bribe a train conductor not to blow his whistle when he went past a live venue. So there is a lot going into a live venue and this is an extra challenge and this is when you have a candidate like joe biden who is and so this is an advantage for his campaign. Youll have tell to tell me how that conversation with the train conduct went. John kasich is going to speak in support of joe biden and supposedly another prominent republican who will come out for that. What is the significance of that, do you think, terry . Not much. I mean, look, john kasich is about john kasich since no other republican did more to help donald trump and staying in the race as long as he did. Hes just doing it to get to bu it is no significance eli whatsoever for joe biden. Joel, our cbs news Battleground Tracker poll found overwhelming majority of democrats are glad that biden picked Kamala Harris. What do you think that choice represents for the future of the party . Well, ive been saying that this choice is as much about 2024 and 2028 as it is about 2020. It shows where the party is going. And it also shows that there is a new generation of Democratic Leaders that joe biden is usher point for. He wants to demonstrate that it is not going to be politics as usual for democrats, there are new voices in the party that hell help elevate. What is interesting about Kamala Harris is she could be sold to all parts of the democratic coalition, progressive, women and College Educated women and africanamericans and immigrants and well see that on display this week. Terry, the president is digging in on his stance on mailin ting, but, y know, president listening to anyone on political advice. At the end of the day, republicans do very well with abseo vote republican. Especially in a state l overperform in president ial elections when it comes to mailin voting or absentee voting. So it is very, very counter productive to try to suppress absentee voting. It really is in fury ating. Coming up, our in coming up, our indepth look at how schools are returning this fall. Its in our School Matters series. We discussion the challenges that come with Remote Learning and we get advice from educator sal kahn about online lessons, how to make them really matter. Stay with us. Colgate optic white renewal removes ten years of yellow stains. 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Welcometh backtoschool sead School Matters looks at the National Picture around schools and the coronavirus. Heres the thing about that National Picture the policies vary at the state and local level. Sometimes dramatically. The u. S. Has more than 13,000 Public School districts, and ive got to tell you, almost as many different plans for reopening. At least eight states are pushing back their start dates codihat sochoolsfurther and fourertes ordered schools to provide some form of inperson instruction. But for the vast majority of the country, the plans vary not by state but by district, according to education week, which sampled hundreds of communities across the country including the 100 Largest School districts in the u. S. You can see them right here. Distri are planning parreeningsr 73 ,re planning remote learnonlythat i an easy solution for everyone. Theres a report out by Common Sense Media that estimates up to 16 million Public School students lack either adequate Internet Access or computers, ng byhe way, t study ao found its not justalhis y excs a matter of money. So it disproportionately affects children in poorer areas. For instance, look at scarsdale, new york. That is one of the wealthiest School Districts in all of america. 98 of households there have a computer and an Internet Service connection that is adequate for Remote Learning. By contrast, the one of the poorest districts, perlita in texas, half have a computer and only 67 have an Internet Connection adequate for Remote Learning. In other words, one out of three students in the community have an Internet Connection that allow themselves to learn remotely, at least not well. When we talk about thenae nath state level, the districle en s year through this. E thi from home to kids at home, every kid had a diffe had computers, e had to you suse their parents computers, some were on iphones. It was like individual instruction. Anthony, you have meantime, its sofely. Is ns good as ininclassroom learni learning. Lets see how students in dallas are returning to inschool learning. Wylie East High School has more than 2,100 students enrolled. As Mireya Villarreal shows, nearly 60 decided to return fof the districts in north texas that decided to start the year with in person and Virtual Learning at the same time. We also ak ie t high school. Tha you walk , you there are signs everywhere reminding students and staff to stay a distance and wear their music because it is a requirement in texas. There are also hand sanitizing stations everywhere. In the cafeteria, there are grn onea t mind stud to every night the bathroom is sanitized. Teachers were given Emergency Care bags where they have supplies like masks, gloves, and also sanitizing liquid. If they need something in an instant, inside their classroom. Parents and students say they feel safe and realize theres only so much the district can do. Many believe that the benefits of inperson learning far outweigh the risks. For cbs this morning, some sc their doors, cbs news senior medical correspondent dr. Tara narula spoke to the Health Experts. They say they are even still doing their homework on this to see if current Safety Measures will stop the coronavirus from spreading a at idea travis elementary in d ste bei one of the most infected in the nation. But localra t virus is much lower. There we go reporter new covid procedures here include temperature checks, mandatory p. We have lessons on maintaining six feet, how to properly wash your hands, how to sanitize our table. Reporter the pc Health Experts we spoke with say only some of the Science Behind covid prevention is clear. Dr. Dimitri christakis is a pediatrician and epidemiologist at seattle childrens hospital. I was on a National Academy of Science Task Force about school reopening, and we looked at the Science Behind a lot of the mitigation strategies being proposed. Some of them have strong evidence. Social distancing works, masks work. We dont know how important ventilation is. Does it have to be six feet . Can it be less than that . We dont know the answers to a lot of questions. First and foremost, kids have to be wearin experts like dr. Ashish jha of harvards Global Health institute says droplets can be spread through talking. This video show how particles can travel when someone sneezes both with a mask and without. For a place like miamidade county, its going to be a lot of work because they new york c it will still be some work, but not as much because theyve got it largely under control. Reporter whats your advice to persons about making the decision to parents about making the decision on whether to send kids back to school . They should rely on the Public Health recommendations for their local area. They should look to see what met gas station strategies their mitigation strategies their school is taking. Take stock of their personal situation. The decision to send your child to school or not is ay every pa. Good luck trying to get kids torvous, rigy so. Whats your parents . Every single parent i know is asking me the same question. It boils down to whaeayou shoul. Are you in a zone where its safe to reopen the schools . All you want to k empowered to talk to their school and find out what kind of mitigation strategies theyre putting in place. Is your child a vulnerable child . Talk to your pediatrician and see if they have concerns about your child going back to school. For parents, pack extra masks, hand sanitizer. Hie ofheng to t ongur t kids. Theyre going back to something that isnt what theyre used to. They may have their own anxieties and fears. Ou want to have an honest you walk them through what to expect. Yeah. They take their cues from you. You got to be reassuring during these times. Thank you so,e love her, shes won nine grammy awards. She says one of her greatest achievements is helping kids learn to read. Ahead, she tells us about her fight for Early Childhood education as our School Matters series continues. Youre watching cbs this morning. We thank you for that. Well be right back. Ahead, School Matters continues. Well lookany families. Plus advice from the man who started khan academy on line more than a decade ago. Your local news is next. This is a kpix 5 news morning update. Good morning. Im len kiese. A vegetation fire has grown to 850 acres forcing evacuations along marsh creek road. The deer valley complex fires were ignited by lightning strikes. The area is in steep terrain on the northeast slope of blaze triggering evacuations outside of milpitas. The marsh fire is burning at three locations. At last check, there is no containment. For a suspect who fatally shot an 18yearold and a safeway parking lot. The body of Nathan Gabriel garza was yesterday. There is nodescptioof suspect or a motive. I am tracking wild weather that continues for us. Thunderstorms and several lightning strikes to our north the coast. Lets show you and zoom in here. You can see the lightning strikes about to move in to inverness this morning with the thunderstorm and several lightning strikes to our north in yuba city and chico. Enough instability in our atmosphere to fire up the thunder storms. Because of that, a red flag warning remains in effect until 11 00 a. M. Lightning strikes could lead to new fire also, the extreme heat. Excessive at warngs that he ad visories remain star. In eff to the dangerous heat. Check it out. Triple digit heat for fairfield, concorde, mid nineties and san jose. 80s around the bay. There we go, saying hot tuesday and wednesday, cooler by the end of the week. Lily everyone in the house is online and i cant get enough bandwidth to video chat with my book club. Try 1 gig internet with at t fiber. You get more bandwidth and hbo max included. So, everyone stays entertained. . Year. You kn, if you turn on ysubtget girnet w tfir a no annualcontract. And now get hbo max included. Limited availability in select areas. Call 1. 877. Only. Att im jamie yuccas in alhambra, california, near los angeles. School is back in session, but the more than 500 students wfrae of at least ten million kids taking classes on line this fall. While her School Provided things like wifi hotpo computers, its proving to be a challenging time for families. Like rileys grandmother, josie, her legal guar. Whats been the hardest part . Im not Technology Savvy at all. The cr . T wasnt forin you thinw thenet goes o an and off and on, we cant control it. Shes also up because of that. This is going to work out . There is our only option that we have now. I think this year will be a lot better going into the second phase. Reporter i see riley eager to learn and to listen tteache epter tres s no table as tohen kids wi return to the classroom. For cbs this morning, jamie yuccas, alhambra, california. Thank you, jumlia jamie. Families are facing new chol challenges as many students are beginning the year remotely. Hopefully theyre not using desks thatk like theyre from the last century. We met a stayathome mom, kiran walia, and her two sons. They are starting high school and fifth grade from porter ranc they shared their triumphs with us as they try to navigate the new normal of Remote Learning. Are you ready to wake up . Yeah. No. This is what a typical morning looks like. These unprecedented times have created a new norm. Eshan is in the middle of a zoom meeting in preparation for his freshman year in high school. Im just nervous not about going into a new school but hue the teachers a how the teachers adapted. Wor o his math acivni, fss co tmments about meha. T the worst part of Online Learning is that i cant see my teacher, i cant play with my lunch. Hows your lunch . I can sense that the kids feel the isolation. Your turn. I am definitely concerned that the kids are not learning enough in virtual school. I am scared. Its a very difficult time. We have to keep the kids positive. We have to keep them motivated. We have to teach them not to be afraid. Thats a portrait of one familys attempt to learn remotely. Were going to talk to sal khan, founder and ceo of khan academy, thats a Nonprofit Educational Organization that provides free online lessons for children of all ages and also resources for parents and teachers. Ive used them. Theyre wonderful. Check it out. He joins us now. Sal, good morning. I want to give parents some concrete tips for kids of all ages, but lets begin by just setting expectations. We know that Online Learning is not as good as inperson learning. But can we do it better than weve been doing it . Yeah. I think we have to do it better becausehis looks like its going to be protracted school closures. And so the key is is not to set expectations too high because that will just set everyone up for stress and disappointment. This is a time when we have enough to stress about, especially for parents, if parents are stressed out, kids are going to stressed out and will have a harder time learning. The key thing is focus on the basics. Obviously, everyones school is supporting them to different degrees. Especially if youre kids can get their math, reading, worldwiding, depending on the age, 20 minutes a day, two or three sessions of 20 or 30 minutes a day. If you get that under your belt and get your legs under you, you can think about layering on more subjects. Okay. Lets talk about the studen thr parental strategy be for making sure they dont fall behind . Yeah, this a lot of times when we had talk about distance school, we imagine school is first and foremost about learning the academic standards. It is, thats what we associate school for. As you saw in the school is about the sections, the social emotional learning, connection with the teacher. Everything you do for yhi or i you aeacher tor f optimizee connections. So i would say for a very young student, we have Early Learning funded by philanthropy. Kids can work on that for 20 minutes a day. Ideally theyre doing that next to a parent. Theyre able to still stay connected while theyre doing distance learning. Hopefully their teachers are able to do a couple of 20minute zoom sessions or Video Conference sessions every day. And then those sho the screen as much as possible. Getting them to do interactive things, especially for the younger age group, getting them to move around even. Yeah. Inthem onliits getting ff the video games and talkingn school. Ow brackets. Trategy for those e youre right. I think the key there is a lot of teachers who are doing this well are doing exactly that. Theyre setting goals for the day, for the week. Theyre doing regular checkins. When they get ine hangout or google meet or get on zoom or whatever Video Conference theyre using, instead of it being a oneway n breakouts, do some goal setting. Do small group sessions. And not just between the student and the teacher. Its super important that students can interact with each other. If youre not seeing that from your childs school, try to get some of that outside of whatevers being provided. You could do socially distanced play dates in the park, whatever. All ages, social interaction even for us adults is super important. Yeah. All right. Sal, thank you very much. I want to say that its great to hear your voice live. I heard it remotely on one of your lessons just last week. You were giving me a tutorial to help my fifth grader on order of operations. Always tricky if you didnt Pay Attention in class. Thank you so much. Anthony, back to you. Happy to help. Thank you both. Ahead as our coverage continues, well talk with Country Music icon and education advocate dolly parton. Shell tell us about her work to get books in the hands of millions of look, this isnt my first rodeo. And let me tell you mething, i wouldnt be here if i thought reverse mortgages took advantage of any american senior, or worse, that it was some way to take your home. Its just a loan designed for older homeowners, and, its helped over a million americans. A reverse Mortgage Loan isnt some kind of trick to take your home. Its a loan, like any other. Big difference is how you pay it back. Find out how revor worwith aag, noobligation reverse mortgage guide. Eliminate monthly mortgage payments, pay bills, medical costs, and more. 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Shes talking today about why its so important for parents to help their kids establish routines this school year, routine and structure very important. Well be right back. Day live, he at bill and julies house. A fanfavorite venue, ever since they got gigspeed internet. Hey, amy . Wanna grab a seat . Were live. Its game on, with gigspeed internet from xfinity. Start him. Sit him. Trade him. Xfinity delivers fast, reliable internet with speeds up to a gig. Learn more, or get started with xfinity internet for 24. 99 a month for 12 months. Plus, switch to Xfinity Mobile and for a limited time get 400 off an eligible Samsung Galaxy 5g phone. Click, call or visit a store today. As challenging as Virtual Learning has been for students and teachers, its also virtual virtual tv has bee having dental proble having l problems with dolly. Do we have her on the phone . The phones work. The phones working. Stand by, dolly. All right. Dolly. Were see bummed. I hear theres computer problems at your house. Thats ayok. Parton. We want to talk about your imaginary library. Listen, the numbers are impressi impressive. Youve been doing this since 1995. Youve passed out yes 142 million books to kids from the age of when theyre first born to 5. I was thinking, is it because you like there is gayle i know you, gayle. I know who you are. I know that voice anywhere. I knows yours, too, dolly parton. Is it because as a kid did you like reading yourself . Well, i did always love books. And i started the Imagination Library because of my own dad who wasnt able to read andwrit d actuay got my dad involdin pr. And lived long eno itll c eo thatom. T and i felt gbeood that i could bring him into that. Why did you decide to do it for kids so young . Where did you get the idea from . Well, i believe that its they say your most impressionable years are between 1 and 3 and 1 and 5 in this not afraid of it. Like my dad he felt like it sin since he was an oldlder p perso thatat he e couldnt learn itt. I felt l likee it w was best to books in t the h handsds of kidn earlyy agege where peoeople hav take the timime to w workk with just like i in my dads casese can selfeducacate yourseself. My dadad didntt get an oppppory to go t to school. A lot of peoplee children learning to read early, loving to read, and being able to take it on from there. Inth all do pas weve been looking at video, were watching you on tape. Youre sitting in bed, and youre reading a book. Weve watched those segments. You read it, dolly, with u. S. Gusto and such enthusiasm. You look like youre having a great time just as we are listening to you do it. Well, i love the kids, and i love the Imagination Library. The whole program is special to me. Erybody was kinf confined to their homes, i thought, well, what a wonderful way to read to the kids. And it might relieve their parents a little bit, give them something to of coffee while im reading a book to the kids. One of the things thats so powerful about this program is that it these books arrive with the kids nam on them, in the mail. Its incredibly personal. You make in effect, you make a personal connection with kids by sending them these books on a regular basis. And i know how meaningful it is because parents have told me. And sometimes you get called the book lady. How do you feel about being called the book lady . Well, i love that. That is one of the Sweetest Things ever in my whole career. Im so proud of the whole program. But when the kids get their little books, they ruhey t the a they always say its from thel i take pride in that. So whatever it takes to get them to love the books and to learn to read, im all about that. I know. Remember when you were a kid and you got mail with your name on y son good again. I so long for that, the song is great, but part of the lyrics of id be a better friend, a bigger person, ill open up my heart, ill let the world in, ill try to make amends when life is good again. Take us behinds your thinking. We all want that. Yes, we all want that. That. S behind your thinking. Well, we have to believe that. As they say, hope springs eternal. And when all this hit, we were all holed up in our houses. I thought, im not going to sit here and just be afraid. Its not a panicdemic, its a pandemic. We cant just panic and have ohat for everything. To do. So i felt inspired to write what other people were good time to s