Their platforms to help fight for social and racial equality. Well catch up with members of the Players Coalition who have spent years successfully lobbying lawmakers to enact reforms, ranging from voting rihts to juvenile detention. And inside jobs. On this unofficial last weekend of summer, well explore how many are falling back into a bit of normalcy. From states opening Indoor Dining to schools overseas and the workplace of the future. See how designers and scientists are helping figure out our return to work. First, we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Lets just try and get through this one weekend and social distance, wash your hands, and were rounding the turn. Reporter a key model is forecasting there will be 410,000 coronavirus deaths in the u. S. By january. I keep saying over and over again weve got to be very careful, particularly as we enter this Holiday Weekend. Reporter the president is suggesting that former chief of staff jo
Good morning, everyone. It is september 2nd, 2020. This is the cbs morning news. Very good to seega so whave some breaking news to teou about trning. Senator ed markey is the winner of a fierce Democratic Senate primary in massachusetts. By a doubledigit margin, markey defeated joe kennedy, dealing an historic political blow to the kennedy legacy. This is the First Time Ever that a member of the Kennedy Family lost an election in the state. Laura podesta is in new york with more on this win. Hows the congressman reacting to this, congressman kennedy that is . Reporter good morning. Well, in his concession speech last night, joe kennedy pledged his support to the man who had just beat him and said that senator ed markey is a good man. And perhaps leaving the door open to another potential future run, kennedy tweeted out to his supporters, quote, id do it with you all again in a heartbeat. For the first time in history, a kennedy has lost an election in massachusetts. Obviously these res
She was able to get out, walked to the side and i had a broken ankle but didnt know it, for a few days. Another car came up, a man got out of the car and went to the person lying on the ground, my friend judy said that is the persons father on the ground, no, i said it couldnt be, that is mister bassett. When we got taken to the hospital we were in a room with a cloth draped separating us, judy and i were, we had very minor injuries, no one was there with us. I could hear mrs. Douglas crying on the other side of the curtain. And then when i got home that was just a huge tragedy and a life lesson that is a very hard lesson to learn that i learned early, things that happened to you, you cause things to happen if you could take it back you would but there is never anything you can ever do about it and it is just a fact and you have to accept it with whatever grace you can accept it with. Host you hadnt talked about it. Guest i had. In the 2000 race when it came out in the newspapers i was
Books focusing on Mental Health care now from 2010 Rosalynn Carter ending the Mental Health crisis. [applause] im on book tour this week i get the same questions every time so i thought i would tell you what they were. The first is how did you get involved in Mental Health . Why did you write the books i will tell you how i got involved. I was campaigning for jimmy when he ran the first time and lost the first time we got in late the candidate dropped out in this was 1966 and we didnt have long to campaign so i drove from one town to the next very disorganized campaign. But this was 66 and they are beginning to move people out of the Central State Hospital and into the community but there was no Mental Health service yet. I had so many people say what way your husband do if elected governor . Standing at a gay at 430 in the morning for the shift change a whole bunch of people coming in and going out and passing out brochures. A lady was small and elderly you could tell how tired she wa
National book festival Live Saturday september 26 on booktv. And welcome to another summer evening with booktv is binge watch series. Tonight were focusing on books written by former first ladies. The first first lady to venture into publishing was nellie tapp who recalled her time in the white house in her 1914 memoir, recollections in four years. Since then another for slaves have published memoirs. We will focus tonight on five women with serve in a position in the last few years. First up, Rosalynn Carter, she served as first lady from 19771981 and shes the author of five books. In 1984 for bestselling memoir, first lady from planes, was released. Her subsequent books have focused on caregiving and Mental Health care. A subject chess champion throughout her life. From 2010, here is Rosalynn Carter talking about her book within our reach. [applause] thank you very much. Thank you. Im really pleased to be a tonight and really pleased to see so many people in interested in my book. Iv