Room of russias main Opposition LeaderAlexei Navalny just after he fell ill. And country celebration. The highlights from last Nights Academy of Country Music awards. And something thats never happened before. It was different. But first, heres todays eye opener, its your world in 90 seconds. If you are asking me, when is it going to be generally available to the American Public, late second quarter, Third Quarter 2021. President trump and the head of the cdc are disagreeing about when a Coronavirus Vaccine will be available. I think he got the message maybe confused. Maybe it was stated incorrectly. No, were ready to go immediately as the vaccine is announced. Started coming off and siding ripping. Major flooding and damage left behind in the wake of hurricane sally. This has been a lot worse than we ever thought it would be. Dramatic new video recorded on a firefighters helmet capturing just how fast the creek fire overwhelmed crews in california. The big ten conference has reversed field and will play after all this fall with pandemic precautions. I dont give a damn about the optics. If theyre going to flipflop, fine. Get it right. A starstudded night at the 55th academy of Country Music awards. Only 17 dont know anything but i know i miss you all that. Hes happily napping. Bear gives him a little tap and then hes like, hello. And all that matters. One very big, very fast 6yearold showing off his skills. Look at him. I couldnt tackle that kid. On cbs this morning. Joe biden was in florida to honor hispanic heritage month where he was introduced by louis fonzy, a singer. Que bueno. I thought i liked the bieber remix but this original. Still a believer. Youve got that yummy yum, justin. This mornings eye opener is presented by toyota. Welcome to cbs this morning. You have to start with an apology. Oh, my god. Did he like the song . I think he liked it. I dont think i would have looked any cooler. Its a tough spot to be in. Hes trying. I know. And i appreciate trying but sometimes its good just to be there and just be in the moment and not have to try like that. But it is a great song. It say really good song. Okay. But were going to start with this. Tropical depression now known as sally which is drenching parts of georgia and alabama after making landfall as a category 2 hurricane. Some areas have been inundated with nearly three feet of floodwater and many rivers continue to rise. Hundreds of thousands of people are still without power at this hour. And at least one person has died there. Another is missing. Our lead National CorrespondentDavid Begnaud is in pensacola beach, florida. David, seems a big difference from today from what you were doing yesterday. So what are you seeing there now . Good morning. Look, where im standing, the water was chest deep yesterday. Now were looking at concrete. Its incredible how fast the water receded. But sally dropped four months of rain in four hours. Thats how powerful this storm was. Heres a look at what it caused. This is what it looked like along parts of the gulf coast after sally made landfall. It was a category 2 hurricane when it rolled in wednesday. Some communities were inundated with nearly feet of rain. During the storm, roads and cities along the Florida Panhandle look more like rivers. Some buildings were torn apart. Boats forced ashore in marinas. Debris scattered really everywhere. This has been a lot worse than we ever thought it would be. You cant see where the sound starts or ends. Its crazy. Reporter in Escambia County where pensacola is, more than 370 people needed to be rescued from the flooding. The Florida National guard deployed highwater vehicles to help, returning some people to their homes as the water receded very quickly. The winds from sally were powerful as the storm made landfall in alabama. Winds were 105 miles per hour. We started hearing all of our Windows Start to pop. Part of the roof started coming off and siding was ripping. Reporter the hurricane ripped through billboards, shredded the walls off buildings and snapped power lines. More than a half million homes and businesses were without power in alabama and florida. We just heard a big boom. Reporter back in pensacola, we talked to caleb mendlenhall who manages the paradise inn where sally took the roof straight off. Did you see where it landed . It landed on top of one of the villas. And then another section out in the bay. Reporter while most say theyll pick up the pieces and move forward, others like dave carden say sally may be the reason he moves away. Im thinking about going further north so i dont have to experience this anymore. Its kind of like a deja vu. Reporter whats left of sally has now moved toward the northeast. Atlanta seeing some flooding and heavy rainfall. If you live in the carolinas youll see it, too, and it should break apart around norfolk, virginia. I just found out there could be another tropical system developing in the gulf of mexico in the next 24 to 48 hours. Wow. What a difference a day makes, david. Thank you. We want to show you new video that gives us a dramatic look at what firefighters are up against in the american west. This is the harrowing scene as a california neighborhood was overrun by flames from the creek fire earlier this month. Thats near the Sierra National forest. Its one of dozens of fires which have burned nearly 5 million acres in california, oregon and washington state. Destroying thousands of homes and killing at least 35 people. The count goes up daily at this Scientists Say smoke from the wildfires has traveled almost 5,000 miles all the way over to europe. Quite a journey. As the historic wildfires rage across the west, cbsn is exploring the climate crisis. You can watch a climate in crisis tonight at 8 00 eastern on cbsn, cbs 24 7 streaming service. Wed apprecite it if you download the free cbs app on your phone or connected tv. President trump is bluntly contradicting cdc director dr. Robert redfield in an extraordinary public disagreement. Redfield told congress that wearing a mask may protect more people from covid than a vaccine will. And that a vaccine is still months away. A few hours later the president said redfield was confused and insisted a vaccine could be ready for the general public as early as next month. Weijia jiang is at the white house. These were pretty remarkable statements by the president. Good morning. This is not the first time President Trump has been at war with scientists, but this time he unequivocally threw his own cdc director under the bus. The president considers a covid19 vaccine a crown jewel of his response and with 46 days left to go before the election, its no surprise he rejects any assessment that it could take longer than he wants. It was an incorrect statement. Reporter President Trump insisted cdc director dr. Robert redfield was wrong when he testified under oath that the general public may not have access to a covid19 vaccine until later this year. I called him. I said, what did you mean by that . And i think he just made a mistake. He just made a mistake. I think he misunderstood the question. Reporter redfield did not look or sound confused at all. If youre asking me when is it going to be generally available to the American Public so we can begin to take advantage of vaccine to get back to our regular life, i think were probably looking at third late second quarter, Third Quarter 2021. Reporter the president offered a much earlier date. It could be announced in october. Could be announced a little bit after october. But once we go, were ready. Reporter mr. Trump also disputed redfields testimony about the benefits of Wearing Masks. Face masks, these face masks are the most important powerful Public Health tool we have. And they are our best defense. I might even go so far as to say that this face mask is more guaranteed to protect me against covid than when i take a Covid Vaccine. As far as the mask is concerned, he made a mistake. Reporter redfield issued a statement that did not say he misspoke about vaccines or masks. Which he continued to call part of the best defense. The president who has admitted to intentionally downplaying the virus, which has killed almost 200,000 americans, was asked why people should believe him instead of redfield. Because of the great job weve done. Reporter earlier in the day, former Vice President joe biden blasted President Trumps refusal to fully embrace face coverings and science. Let me be clear. I trust vaccines. I trust the scientists. But i dont trust donald trump. At this moment, the American People cant either. Reporter yesterdays drama overshadowed the cdc rolling out a new playbook that outlines how to start distributing a free vaccine 24 hours after the government approves one. President trump also confirmed another white house staffer tested positive for the virus, though he did not come in contact with that person. But the president still refuses to follow his own administrations guidelines about big crowds. And tonight he plans to hold another Campaign Event in the battleground state of wisconsin. Gayle . Weijia, thank you very much. Attorney general william bar says elected officials should decide the response to the pandemic, not the scientists. It was one of a series of eyeopening statements barr made at a forum last night. He also lashed out at some of the justice departments own career officials. As Catherine Herridge reports, barr also brought up slavery in the context of the coronavirus. Putting a national lockdown, stayathome orders is like house arrest. Reporter and a conservative Constitution Day event in virginia last night, attorney general bill barr said this of quarantining nationwide. Its, other than slavery, which was a different kind of restraint, this is the greatest intrusion on Civil Liberties in american history. Reporter barr suggested that politicians not medical professionals should guide the public during the pandemic. A person in the white coat is not the grand seer who can come up with the right decision for society. A free people makes its decision through its elected representatives. Reporter in the wideranging discussion, barr also criticized the black lives matter movement. Proposition, who can quarrel with the proposition black lives matter but theyre not interested in black lives. Theyre interested in props. A small number of blacks who are killed by blacks during conflict with police usually less than a dozen a year, who they can use as props to achieve a much broader political agenda. Reporter but the data shows that 250 black people were killed by police last year alone. Black people are more than three times more likely to be killed during a Police Encounter than white people. The attorney general also seemed to take aim at some of his own people. Our prosecutors have all too often inserted themselves into the political process based on the flimsiest of legal theories. Reporter barr criticized his prosecutors for political headhunting and defended criticism that he ever interfered in cases involving Close Associates of the president like roger stone and michael flynn. Letting the most junior members set the agenda might be a good philosophy for a montessori preschool, but its no way to run a federal agency. Reporter and then denied hes ever interfered on mr. Trumps behalf. What do you mean by interfere . Under the law, all prosecutorial power is vested in the attorney general. And these people are agents of the attorney general. And as i said, fbi agents whose agent do you think you are . I dont say this in a pompous way, but that is the chain of authority and legitimacy in the department of justice. Reporter these remarks come as cbs news has confirmed that barr encouraged u. S. Attorneys on a call last week to seek federal charges for violent demonstrators, including the rarely used sedition law which can lead to laws and imprisonment for anyone found guilty of threatening the u. S. Government. Quite some statements, catherine, thank you. One of the Los Angeles County sheriffs deputies who were ambushed and shot has been released from a hospital. The man was hit in the arm, forehead and hand. The Sheriffs Department says he has a long road to recovery. His female partner who helped save his life is still hospitalized with gunshot wounds in the jaw and arms. The deputies were in their patrol car on saturday when a gunman walked up and shot them and then ran away. A reward for the suspects capture is now up to 300,000. Breaking overnight, there are new details about the apparent poisoning of russian Opposition LeaderAlexei Navalny, including video from his hotel room just hours after the attack. His colleagues say tests revealed traces of a nerve agent on a water bottle from that room. Charlie dagata has the latest developments. Reporter the video posted on navalnys Instagram Account shows members of his team combing through his hotel room just one hour after learning he had fallen gravely ill. Carefully collecting anything that could provide clues and at great risk. They claim a german Lab Confirmed that traces of the highly doxic novichok nerve agent were detected on the bottle found in the room. Navalny fell violently ill on a flight and was airlifted to berlin. It was thought he had been slipped into his tea at the airport before the flight. Never a likely scenario, says the chemical weapons expert hammish de bretton gordon. Putting it on a water bottle would ensure he would poison himself. Because it is that dangerous . Absolutely. Novichok should be enough to kill somebody. Reporter the kremlin has denied any involvement in the poisoning of president Vladimir Putins fiercest opponent. Navalny posted the first picture sitting up in bed with his wife and children since emerging from a medically induced coma. Expressing happiness at being able to breathe on his own all day. Visiting the uk, secretary of state mike pompeo said the United States stands united in the poise ong of navalny saying any use of chemical weapons is unacceptable r ablable under an circumstances. Navalnys team says he has every intention of returning to russia. Gayle . Charlie dagata reporting for us, thank you. Im so fascinated by this story. One, so glad hes okay. When you hear that he wants to go back to russia, that scares me. Hes been fearless inside russia for quite some time. Hes taken enormous risks. 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Jericka duncan shows us how thats putting legitimate claims in jeopardy. Its going on four months straight that they havent did nothing about my case. Reporter philadelphia mother of four Taylor Pressley tried to apply for pandemic unemployment assistance over pua back in may, but the 29yearold is still waiting. Ive been trying to contact pua for weeks. Its always been a busy line. Reporter after numerous calls and emails to her state work force agency, the parttime hairstylist says she learned someone had tried to apply in her name, holding up the benefits she desperately needs. Are you behind on your rent . Oh, yes. We are 2,600 something in rent. Reporter pressley isnt alone. Representative Sheryl Delozier says frustrated constituents call her office daily. Six months later, they have not received a dime and they filed in march. And they are on the phone in tears with me, many, many times. They cant pay their rent. They cant pay their mortgage because they have yet to receive an unemployment check. And thats just wrong. Reporter she herself almost became part of the scam. She received two checks totaling over 7,000 in unemployment money she never applied for. Did you happen to ask the Labor Department or the Treasury Department how many other people have this happened to . Oh, its hundreds of thousands of people that this unfortunately it just is honestly a huge scam. Reporter the Common Thread here is the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Program or pua. It expands jobless benefits to workers, freelancers, and others who are not typically eligible for unemployment. So far, the program has doled out more than 49 billion nationwide. While its provided a life line for millions of americans, its also become an attractive target for fraud. Really its open season for these fraudsters. Reporter last month, pennsylvanias attorney general josh shapiro announced charges against 33 Prison Inmates and accomplices for scamming the pua program. In all, he says 10,000 inmates across the state have applied. Ive made very clear that this is a massive fraud investigation. Its an investigation that has taken us behind the walls of state jails and prisons. And its also an investigation that has us out in the public. There will be more arrests to come both inside and outside of prisons. Reporter back in may, the Labor Department office of Inspector General warned the pua program was highly vulnerable to improper payments and fraud. They recommended changes be made, but their suggestions went nowhere. Why do you think people are targeting that pua benefit . Well, the pua benefit as appropriated by congress is a relatively new benefit where various departments of labor and industry all across the country who have to administer this program are overtaxed because of the pandemic. And so i think its a perfect storm. Reporter meanwhile, legitimate claimants like Taylor Pressley continue to fall behind. Im due for an evision. Im supposed to be going to court because im backed up on my rent. Reporter pennsylvania has disbursed some of the most pua money only coming behind california and new york. In a statement to cbs news, the Pennsylvania Department of labor and industry said in part it takes combating fraud seriously and has implemented methods to identify potentially ineligible individuals including those who are incarcerated. Thank you. You know, this happens every time theres a major Government Program that fraud occurs. It makes your blood boil. For people like this who cant cant get money they desperately need. And people just taking advantage of it. And are legitimately owed. Shows how it brings out the best in people and the worst brings out the worst that somebody would take advantage. Absolutely. 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Any player that tests positive will have to sit out for 21 days. And time is tight. The eightgame schedule that they play will be done in eight weeks. But that does make them eligible for the highly soughtafter College Football playoff. [ cheers ] the return of big10 football comes with a host of new testing and safety protocols. Changes that won over School President s and chancellors like dr. Robert jones at the university of illinois. Most of us were really impressed with the work that they had done to assuage two key concerns that we had. And that rigorous testing protocol was really a game changer in part for our decision. And the second part of it was clarity about how we would mitigate myocarditis. Reporter myocarditis is an inflammation of the heart muscle that has appeared in some covid patients, including college athletes. If not found, it can be fatal. The big ten mandates a cardiac evaluation for every player that tests positive for the virus. Those that are found to have myocarditis are out for the season. [ cheers ] after weeks of calling on the conference to restart play, on wednesday President Trump took credit for its return. I called the commissioner couple of weeks ago, and we started really putting a lot of pressure on frankly. Reporter what role did the president or political pressure play in this . From my perspective, there was no political pressure. I think its Common Knowledge that the president reached out to the commissioner. They had a very respectful conversation. And as far as i know, that was the end of it. Reporter politics aside, there are also questions about the financil motivations of bringing big10 football back. Wisconsin, iowa, other programs have estimated that they would lose up to 100 million without football in the fall. Reporter Brett Mcmurphy is a College Football reporter with the stadium network. Cynics are going to say theyre doing it for the money. Yeah, moneys important also. But basically the president s and chancellors had to get comfortable healthwise to move forward. Reporter even with the rigorous testing, the risk of infection remains. There have been at least 12,000 confirmed cases of covid19 at the 14 big10 universities over the last several weeks with students on some campuses being asked to go into lockdown. About a dozen games have already been postponed in other College Football conferences due to cases on some teams. Coach ed orgeron, coach of lsu, defending national champions, said most of his players have already been infected with the virus. He sat down for an interview airing sunday. I seen them get sick the last couple of days and come back to have their tenday quarantine. I say i had a little cough. I think that the Young Players when they do get sick get over it quick. Reporter even with testing and protocols, a doctor that we spoke with said its important to remember we still dont know the longterm impact of the coronavirus. On the heels of the big10 announcement, there is word about the pac 12 which gayle mentioned. They have Rapid Testing. Now appears they have cleared the final hurdle to get back to practice. Just yesterday that happened. If College Basketballs more your thing, tony, there is news for a start date for the new season november 25th, the day before thanksgiving. As it happens, it is more my thing. I think ill ask for the day off. Thank you. I appreciate it. Thats a great no, tony. No, no, no. You cant have the day off. No. But i have mixed feelings. You want it to be safe. It does seem like theres a lot of pressure to get the athletes on the field. So im a little nervous about it. I really hope it works. Im interested in what kind of tests theyre getting. The rapid tests. The results are quick, but if its a swab in the nose, that is a painful exam. I dont know how theyll feel about it. It takes courage to play College Football. The test is serious. 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That will be with me all day. All right. Good. Here are a few stories we think youll be talking about today hope they stay with you, too. The biggest Live Music Company is making sure people are ready to rock this election day. Live nation announced its using several of its venues including the fillmore, the buckhead in atlanta and hollywood palladium in los angeles as voting sites. Most have been empty since the pandemic broke out. The Company Wants to help fill the void in areas where traditional polling places may not be available. Check out what it looked like in atlanta during the president ial primary in june. Voters had to wait in long lines, some as long as five hours to cast their ballots. Live nation teamed up with lebron james group more than a vote which has signed up more than 20 sports arenas as voting locations. This is a great idea. Yeah. Its a terrific idea. As you point out, a lot of those venues, theyve been idle through this. Some are really suffering. Its a great way to put them to use. Anything that can get people to vote on election day in an easy, safe way, is a really great idea. Okay, vlad. Youve got something about dinosaurs. All little boys and girls like dinosaurs. And big boys. We do. We do. If youve ever wanted to own one, gayle, now is your chance. If you got the cash. This is stan. He is one of the most completely trex cancskeletons. Hell be in the window of christies in new york. The winning bid is expected to be get this between 6 million and 8 million. That puts him within reach of the more than 8 million paid for a trex named sue back in october of 1997. I like what john tower said, if we all pitch in, we can buy him and put him in the back of the studio i think it would go well right back here. That dead space with those two chairs that nobody sits in nobody ever sits there. I think if stans teeth were looming over us here it would be really we could get maybe 150 maybe. Yeah. Yeah. When you say all chip in. Really all, capital a. A lot of people. Corporate, corporate. I think thats a great idea for somebody. That will be very cool for somebody. Yeah. It will. Somebody. Thats a talking point. What else you got . The. I got one. A man in ohio doesnt want the coronavirus to interfere with halloween. Andrew beattie designed his own candy chute to give out treats to trickortreaters. He created the chute with shipping tube, duct tape, and orange paint. Theres even a ghost sign letting kids know where to place their bags so theres no handtohand exchange. He hopes the invention inspires others. If they can see people doing things like this, they can give them a little bit of grace that it might encourage more people to get out there and get us back to living the way we want to live. The chute is very cool. How about those creepy masks behind him. Yeah. As long as theyre not kids are not putting their hands in bowls, this is a great idea. What a nice guy to even come up with that. Hes right. 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And Christian Cooper talks about his new comic book partially inspired by when he was racially profiled bird watching in the park. First, heres todays eye opener at 8 00. Tropical depression sally is drenching parts of georgia and alabama after making land fall as a category 2 hurricane. Were looking at concrete. Its incredible how fast the water receded. But sally dropped four months of rain in four hours. With 46 days before the election, its no surprise the president rejects any assessment it could take longer than he wants. A call last week, seeking federal charges for a violent demonstrators and for anyone found guilty of threatening the u. S. Government. Secretary of state mike pompeo said the United States stands united in the poisoning of navalny saying any use of chemical weapons is freezing Instagram Accounts to protest how hate speech has been handled. Maybe we can focus on important things like your friends butt pics. I was wondering if he was going to end with a joke or be serious. But hes making a point. Were going to begin with a story about President Trump promising a Coronavirus Vaccine this year no matter what his top medical advisers say. The president claims the cdc director misunderstood the question about a Covid Vaccine yesterday. Redfield was testifying on capitol hill at the time and was asked when a vaccine would be ready for mass distribution. If youre asking available to the American Public so we can begin to get back to our regular life, i think were probably looking at late second quarter, Third Quarter 2021. I think he made a mistake when he said that. Its incorrect information. And i called him. And he didnt tell me that. And i think he got the message maybe confused. Maybe it was stated incorrectly. Redfield also testified that Wearing Masks may offer better protection for people than a vaccine. Mr. Trump then said redfield was mistaken about the effectiveness of masks. Only on cbs this morning were joined by a former cdc director. Doctor, good morning to you. Exactly the person we want to talk to. The cdc has been at the forefront of every prior Public Health issue in this country. But now with the coronavirus weve seen it sidelined. There are reports of scientific guidance being revised by political appointees and now for the second time you have the president contradicting the head of the cdc. How concerned are you about this . Well, weve seen both the fda and the cdc unduly influenced by politics when it comes to emergency approvals, when it comes to recommendations, and thats a problem. Because we want to have a safe, effective, accessible and trusted vaccine. A vaccine is a really important tool. And Public Health, we love vaccines. But in order to get people to take it, weve got to be able to trust it. That means we need complete transparency on the information from the drug companies. That means it needs to go through the standard process of the fda and the cdc. That can be done quicker, but it has to go through the process. No cutting corners on safety. It comes to a vaccine, its one tool. Its not going to make this virus disappear. Theres no fairy tale ending here to the pandemic. If we have a safe and effective vaccine, we should get it out as soon as safely possible, and when we do that, along with masks and hand washing and being more careful and finding and stopping cases in clusters, we can get to a new normal. Its going to take all of us working together. There are questions about the credibility of the cdc at this moment in time. In 2018 when dr. Redfield took the job, he choked back tears as he vowed to maintain the integrity of the agency as a data driven, science organization. Do you think hes kept his promise . When i look at things on the website that arent scientifically justifiable and not written at the Head Quarters in atlanta but in washington by people with no experience in Public Health, i look at it as someone vandalizing a national monument. That kind of material on the cdc website should not be there. Its not acceptable. Its unprecedented. It has not happened before, and its unfortunate because there are thousands of really good documents on the website. Its at 1. 6 million clicks. We need to be able to trust it. We can hear you, were going to continue. What does dr. Redfield need to do to reassur the American Public that politics is not going to influence the information on the website and also the broader vaccine push . Well, when it comes to the vaccine, what we need to see is going through the fda advisory committee, the cdc advisor committee. And the cdc has to have standard guidance that is scientifically proven. I would really think it would be even better to not just hear from dr. Redfield but from the essential specialists in the respiratory diseases that this is one of. These are the worlds experts and how to control an Infectious Disease and a respiratory Infectious Disease. The more we hear from them, the more we understand whats happening and adjust so we can at bay. Theres only one enemy here. Its the virus. One of the things the president said redfield was confused about was masks. When he said masks offer more protection than a vaccine. Where do you stand on that . Its really kind of an apple versus a theoretical orange. On the one hand, masks are really important. And what weve learned clearly is that the more people wear them consistently, the more you can protect everyone. You protect others and you also probably protect yourself and maybe even from severe illness. Masks are really important. A vaccine, we dont know what the effectiveness is yet. We dont have the studies. No one knows. Well have to see what comes back in terms of the studies, but even very good vaccines dont take most diseases off the table. Youve still got to do control measures. We need a comprehensive response if were going to get through this together. But youre Standing Firm about the importance of masks . I think we have to keep emphasizing that. Thats why people are so coop fu fuse confused. They keep getting conflicting messages from people who are not scientists. Wear a mask, watch your distance and wash your hands. If we do that, we can get toward a new normal with fewer deaths. Already we have a failed u. S. Response. Were hitting 200,000 deaths. Tens of thousands of those deaths didnt have to happen, and millions of lost jobs didnt have to happen if we had had a sciencedriven response here. All right. Those are strong words. Thank you very much for your time this morning. 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Which in many ways reflected this time of upheaval that were all living through. Everything was socially distanced, of course, but that didnt stop the nights big winners from reaching out to their fans with a big old message of hope. It goes like ooh what i wouldnt do for the first time in acm awards history the shows top prize was shared by two artists. No way. We have a tie. Country superstars thomas rhett and Carrie Underwood both took home entertainer of the year. Im gonna need some whisk glasses despite the pandemic, Country Musics biggest stars did not let social distancing stifle their song. Im running wide open with last nights acm awards coming from three iconic Country Music venues. The bluebird cafe keep the bluebird in my heart nashvilles historic Ryman Auditorium theres a hole in the bottle and the grand ole opry. Rain makes corn corn makes whiskey. The artists also touched on the state of the country. Shes underpaid with eric churchs stick that in your country song, speaking out about racial injustice. Every color if youre only seeing black and white and kane browns powerful message with his ballad worldwide beautiful. Worldwide beautiful [ applause ] remember when we had kane brown i think kane brown is so terrific. Yeah. And the message and all the songs, many of the songs last night was really hitting the note about whats happening now. In addition to the hits that they put out. I think the Country Music people as a group are really extraordinary in how they care and the music and their lyrics. Its amazing they pulled this off. They postponed this, what, like six months supposed to be in april with keith urban. They shot in three iconic locations, as we mentioned. Everybody talked about how it was great to just be performing again. Yes. Even if there was very few people in the audience. And the energy was high, guys, when they walked out to talk to an empty room. Felt like i was more t well be right back. Local news is next. Wee nearing a grim we are nearing a grim milestone in the pandemic. 200,000 deaths in the u. S. Its already claimed more than 196,000 lives across this country, including parents, siblings, friends, and essential workers. We are continuing to share the stories of the remarkable people weve lost. Here are just some of the many lives to remember. Trini lopez scored a global smash in 1963. If i had a hammer wento number one in 36 countries. The next year, in france, lopez was given top billing with a hot, young british band. I was in paris with the beatles at the olympia theater. What was it like . It was wild. Lopez was born in the little mexico neighborhood of dallas, but his first label wanted to hide his heritage and change his name. He said, well, he said, trinis okay, but lopez has to go. He refused and was signed by Frank Sinatra to his reprise label where he had his run of hits. Lemon tree very pretty he became a las vegas regular, starred in films like the dirty dozen, and also designed two guitars for gibson that became collectors classics. Trini lopez was 83. This is wbap, fort worth, dallas, texas. Bill mack was an overnight deejay who kept longhaul truckers company. The midnight cowboy with you mack also wrote songs. Blue leann rimes recording in 1996 won mack the grammy for best country song. And the acm award for song of the year. Thanks to leann rimes who took an old song, gave it new hope. Reporter another mack tune, drinking champagne, has become a country classic. Willie nelson performed it with him in 2009. Ill keep drinking champagne and feeling okay bill mack was 91. Milla handley was a pioneering woman in the world of wine. The founder of handley sellers in anderson valley, california, she was the first woman in the country to establish a vineyard in her own name. Handley produced her first vintage, 250 cases of chardonnay, in the basement of her home in 1982. She established her style and stuck to it, said lead winemaker randy shock. She didnt follow trends. She paved the way for other women including her daughter, lulu mclellan, now president , who said her shoes are impossibly big to fill. Handley was an avid equestrian and loved the 1959 mercedes she inherited from her mother. Her favorite times, shock said, were to pull the top down and drive it to the beach. Milla handley was 68. Adolfo alvarado jr. Was a chaplain in south texas. Fito, as he was known, worked for 30 years as a technician with southwestern bell. In his youth, he was a gambler who loved the horses. But after an encounter with god, fito became a pastor, devoted to his church and his family. In recent years, hed comforted the sick in hospice care until he got sick himself this summer. He was the kindest, easiest person to talk to, said his daughter, amanda. Its kind of hard to know the phones not going to ring because my dad literally called me every single day. Adolfo alvarado jr. Was 70. Erica mcadoo was a senior detention officer with the Los Angeles Police department who in her off hours also ran a Catering Service with her mom. She was always the peacemaker, donna royston, said of her daughter. I love it here. Like a family. Erica had just been promoted when she got sick. Her friends tried to rally her during her 97 days in intensive care. We love you. Love you. Sdwrupon her death, coworke held a celebration of life at the beach. We just wanted to do something she loved, said catalina alvarado. Shes so missed, said her mom, its just not the same without her. Erica mcadoo was 38. Erica mcadoo was an amazing young woman. This is the hard part every time we do this. There are so many remarkable people weve lost to this. These are literally a handful. A reminder, too of the age range. So important to tell these stories. Well b this is a kpix 5 morning update. Good morning, i am len keise. Two were shot and injured earlier this morning at the foodsco parking lot in pittsburgh. A man in the female your head. No word on their conditions or a suspect description. Grizzly peak is being described as a fire danger zone. People light fireworks and bonfires at night. There is a new rule. No stopping at the turnout from 9 00 until 6 00. They are on track to get a contract for a new stateofthe art wire system. Promises to give people a better estimate of when the next bus or train arrives. No word yet on when the changes will take place. We have a few brake lights along the east shore freeway around was found 880. If you are traveling from hercules over towards the bay bridge toll plaza, it will take 22 minutes to make that portion of the commute but the good news is, highway 4 is clear. It is low through bay point with a 32 minute drive time. Antiike towards 80 is getting better. The toll plaza is dealing with some fog in it is a little slow as you work your way westbound. I am tracking the onshore flow and bringing fog and patchy drizzle and also better air quality. This is great to see. We saw the cloud of smoke and my heart fell. I knew wed lose our home. And we did. Over 24,000 homes have been destroyed by wildfires in the past few years. Wildfire victims need help so im voting yes on 19. It limits property taxes on wildfire victims so families can move to a replacement home without a tax penalty. You never know what youll be faced with. Please, vote yes on 19. Welcome back to cbs this morning. Its time to bring some of the stories that we call talk of the table this morning. Anthony, youre up first. Yeah. Sadly, i want to mark the loss of author Stanley Crouch who was a fierce social critic and an authority on jazz who died yesterday here in new york. Crouch was a columnist for the Village Voice and the new york daily news. He was not afraid to attack other black artists including spike lee, tony morrison, and alex haley. He was a jazz drummer and founder of what became jazz at lincoln center. He was a mentor to wynton marsalis. And crouch himself received a mcarthurer foundation genius award. His books include a highly praised biography of jazz legend charlie parker. He wrote the liner notes for dozens of iconic jazz albums including releases by fimiles davis, chick korea. He was 74. This is a real loss. He didnt always agree with them. He was a very aggressive critic. But he was one of the most eloquent and insightful writers and thinkers ive ever head. He was such a good person, too, to call the ideas i still have his number. Its eerie to see that. I hadnt heard that. So sad to hear that news. Sorry to hear. Great writer and person. Tony . All right, ive got a talker out of florida. A school in orange counti ora counties is in a fight over a students face mask. An 11yearold named ian has a mask this has the hooters logo on it or says hooters in hooters orange. His teacher said it was not appropriate for school, and asked him to remove it. The principal backed up the teacher on that. Ians father went on tv to disagree. Take a look. Principal told me it was deemed offensive to women and inappropriate. And i mean, i showed you the mask. I mean, theres nothing inappropriate about this mask. So heres why i think this is a good talk of the table. We all know what hooters is. We dont need to define it. I think you have a gut reaction here. Whos right . The school or the family for taking a stand on this particular issue . I got to say i dont really think thats something a kid should be wearing. I was going to say that, too. Listen, i get it. I get it. The mask is fine. Its the words on the mask. Hes a little boy, and hes at school with little girls. I i have to side with the school. Is there a punishment involved . I dont think its a great i understand the decision. I ee easked my wife over tex she wrote, come on. A reaction over text. I can see her face from my history of come on like they shouldnt like come on, its not appropriate in her view. Yes. But the the father says, look, the family goes there all the time. It is a family restaurants. They have good chicken wings. But thats not what theyre known for. Right. Basketball star maya moore revealed that she and jonathan irons, a former inmate whose Wrongful Conviction that she helped overturn, recently they got married. Moore posted a photo of their wedding day on instagram and wrote, grateful to announce this new chapter of life. Irons was released in july. He served more than two decades for a burglary and assault conviction before it was overturned. Moore, you may recall, we told the story when it happened. She put her wnba career on hold to help him. They are working together to educate the public about voting, and they continue to campaign for criminal justice reform. I just think this is great. That number one, when she put her career on hold it brought a lot of attention to this case. Yeah. And then she said, our hearts just kind of knew. Didnt start out that way. She started out committed to this cause. Our hearts kind of knew. Is she going back to basketball . She says she doesnt know. Always amazing when athletes put something above sports. She doesnt know. Congratulations. Admirable. To mr. And mrs. Irons. Bird watcher Christian Cooper penned a book partly inspired by incidents ofacial bias including one involving him. Sir, im asking you to stop recording me. Please dont come close to me. Please dnt come close to me. Please call the cops. Please call the cops. Im going to tell them theres an africanamerican Man Threatening my life. Please tell them whatever you like. Still gives me chills. This is from memorial day when Christian Cooper recorded Christian Cooper recorded his widely shared confrontation with a woman. Her name is amy cooper in new yorks center park. No relations. He said he asked her to follow the rules and put her dog on a leash. She did not, as you see, want to do that. Since then, she has apologized. On the same day in minneapolis, george floyd died after a Police Officer put his knee on floyds neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds. Christian coopers new comic book is called its a bird. It follows a black teen bird watcher named jules who is given binoculars with special powers. For the story, cooper says he was influenced by many black americans experiences with racial bias and injustice. Hes here this morning for an interview that youll see only on cbs this morning. Christian cooper, its very good to see you. I want to know a bit of the back story. Dc comics reached out. You have training in comic books. So it wasnt out of the blue. They reached out to you. What was their pitch to you, and did you like it right away . Well, they asked me if i wanted to share some of my experiences, and i thought, well, gosh, in the context of superhero comics, im not sure how you do that. They had one thing which was the title, its a bird. It took me a second. I had to think about it, yeah, of course, superman. Its look up in the sky, its a bird, its a plane. Once i heard that, the story kind of poured out of me. It just kind of fell into place in my head. So what flowed out of you . Number one, we should say the illustrations in this comic book, weve all read it, are spectacular. Yes. Theyre really they just conjure up such emotion. When jules looks in the binoculars, what does he see . What was your concede here . The concede is that he gets a pair of binoculars inherited from his grandfather who was a civil rights activist, korean war vet. He thinks theyre a crappy old pair of binoculars and doesnt want to deal with it. But when he starts looking through them, he sees not only the birds but started seeing these africanamericans who have been unjustly killed at the hands of police. And he doesnt understand what hes seeing at first. And its in the course of the story how he goes from being this flippant teenager to a very sober young man who starts to appreciate whats been going on. And so thats the conceit of the story. The idea is to weave experiences, experiences ive had, experiences that others have had, the experiences weve all seen over the summer and before of africanamericans who have lost their lives. And by transcending the specifics of any of those individual moments, getting to the heart of the matter. You know, whats going on here, which is the systemic bias that pervades all these incidents. Christian, youve made a theres a quote that i read of yours which i find powerful which is that people have to stop othering each other. What do you mean . Well, to recognize when were looking at somebody else that were looking at somebodys brother, somebodys sister, somebodys father, somebodys mother, you know, somebodys uncle, cousin, whatever. Were not looking at a thug. Were not we shouldnt presume that someone is a criminal. And i think thats very important. I think thats thats what has the potential to save us as a society at this moment when were so divided. Christian, Tony Dokoupil here. You dont have to convince me about the power of a comic book and why its a great vehicle for a story like this. For people who might be surprised that its in comic book form, i would love to hear you talk about why a comic book works. We lost him for a moment. He dropped his ifb. So he has to put it back in his ear. The ear piece dropped out. We saw. You can hear us now, christian. Here we go. I was asking about the power of a comic book in particular. That forum to tell a story like this. Could you talk about why you like it as a genre. Sure. The power of comics and mark morales, the anchor on the story, and i want to shout out to aletha martinez, who did the beautiful illustrations yes. Mark morales said it best, he said comic books combine both the pictures, the images, and words. So you get the power of both in one place. And i think that visual storytelling and sequential storytelling with words and pictures just has a power that no other medium really has. In it, jules has an encounter with a woman named beth cooper in central park with her dog. You know, jules asks her names not beth cooper youre right. Youre right. Sorry, sorry, sorry, chris, sorry. An encounter with a woman named beth. You want to be clear its not amy cooper. Who does she represent . I know, my bad. Who does she represent . Well, i mean, obviously its inspired by that experience. But also other experiences. She represents she doesnt represent any one person or any one thing. You know, thats like a lot of characters ive had and others have had. Soyon that she represents a she doesnt represent a particular person, but she represents sort of someone whos mired in that bias and doesnt recognize it. Have you and amy cooper spoken since that day . Spoken or talked no. No. No . No. Any desire to do so . I dont see the point. Im not looking for a Jerry Springer moment where, you know, hairpulling fight or, you know, a feelgood hug it out moment which has no, you know, substance or meaning behind it. So you know, what im really about is sort of moving the conversation forward. Yeah. And if there was a way that the two of us getting together would do that, sure. Id be all for that. But youd have a hard time convincing me that it wouldnt turn into a side show, a spectacle just for, you know, people to pat themselves on the back. That doesnt serve anybody. What im focused on go ahead i was going to say what im focused on is, you know, lets not get distracted. There are a lot of people who have a vested interest right now in distracting us from tackling the systemic bias. You know, whether its a couple of wild individuals who want to throw bricks through windows or a couple of rightwing individuals who want to dress up like leftwing individuals and throw bricks through the windows to stir up trouble, that they can use their guns to shoot at, you know, or whether its some charlton in a high place who wants to distract us from his many, many failures, a lot of people have a vested interest in distracting us right now. One thing and the point is dont be distracted. Focus on this issue just as jules does when he turns away from the person whos trying to make it all about her. He focuses on those people. And thats the point. Focus on those we have lost and how we keep from losing anymore. So well said. The thing that struck me about the comic book is jules wears glasses. Why was that important to do your demonstration, what you said did glasses. I never thought of it until you pointed it out one day. Yeah. You mentioned this before. Its true. I mean, theres a reason why i wear little round glasses besides the fact that i need them to see. But ive never gone to contact lenses because people act differently to a black man wearing these and a black man like this. And thats one of the sad comments on our society. You know, how do we start to fix that . Thats what we need to get at. We all thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyed its a bird. A scale of one to ten, we give it a tenplus. Terrific. Thank you, chris cooper. Really good to see you. Job well done. Its a bird is available for free on readdc. Com and it was just a get together with friends. No big deal. Everybody felt fine. But now im super sick. Everyone is sick. I just wish we had been more careful. It would have been easier than this. So wear a mask. Do what you can outside. Stay six feet apart. Because some things you just cant take back. Do your part to lower the risk. 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