when you see reopening early. we're conveying that clearly to governors but we're also conveying that to businesses, to local leaders. even in states where governors have rolled back these requirements, there are businesses, there are mayors, local leaders who are keeping them in place because they know it will save lives it will help return the communities to normal p. . >> let's talk about your big announcement today on infrastructure. this is part one and what we believe is in it. you can correct this if it's wrong. it's $650 billion for physical infrastructure. $300 billion housing infrastructure. $300 billion manufacturing. $300 billion to work on the electrical grid. $400 billion for home care takers, care for the elderly, disabled. and the cost of part one is $2.25 trillion. so just quickly, what's the price tag for part two? >> we're not quite there yet. in a couple of weeks, the president will roll out that proposal. but the second proposal will focus on more on child care, more on care giving, more on addressing the cost and accessibility of health care. he knows those are key components of addressing what many families are going through and frankly what we see as a crise is which is the number of women who have left the workforce because of child care needs, elder care needs. it will hopefully help address that. the proposal will be focused on investing in infrastructure. historic investment in infrastructure. as you noted in your rundown of the numbers, it's more than roads, railways and bridges. it's also broadband. one-third of the country doesn't have access to broadband. also access to clean water. something that should be a recommehuman right in this country. there are several components that will be a job creator. it's an historic investment we're excited about. >> the price tag is the sticking point. that's the nonstarter for certainly many republicans, such as senator mitch mcconnell. let me just play for you what he said about that. >> they want to do another massive spending bill which will include additional debt and, by the way, big tax increases on t companies like this one. i think this new democratic government is heading in the wrong direction. the economy is getting better on its own. people are moving around. you're seeing it. >> very quickly, before i get to his reluctance on this, is he right, that the economy is already getting better on its own, therefore, you might not need something this big? >> look, i think the 10 million people who are still out of work would disagree. and certainly we're seeing some positive signs. we're seeing some positive signs in the data. but there's no question that more needs to be done. and this is about creating jobs now. it's also about investing in industries of the future. so that the next generation, and workers of the future, can have industries that they can have long careers in. >> so do you think you have a realistic chance of getting any republicans on board with this price tag? >> let's start on the areas where we agree. i think on infrastructure, one-third of our bridges around the country need to be rebuilt. need repairs. i think people can agree. republicans, democrats, independents. people who aren't even political, we need to do something about that. one-third of people in this country don't have access to br broadbrand. there's agreement we need do something about that. so let's talk about that investment and then figure out how to pay for it. some think we don't need to pay for it. some may have alternative ideas. what the president proposed is changes to make the corporate tax code more fair. pr bring the rate from 21% to 28%, what it was before former president trump took office and disincentivize sending jobs overseas. something most americans don't think we should be doing anyway. if people have alternative proposals, we're happy to hear them. this is the beginning of a process. >> not only do you have intransigent republicans about this. some democrats, some swing-state democrats don't like the idea of taxes being raised. and some blue state democrats say that they have something they want in return. and what they want are those state and local tax deductions restored. here's what tom suozzi says of new york. no salt, no deal. i'm not going to support any change in the tax code unless there's a restoration of the salt deductions. he means your idea of raising taxes to pay for this infrastructure is a no-go with him unless he gets that. what's your response? >> let's hear his ideas. we're open to hearing them. the reducing the s.a.l.t. deduction, eliminating it is not a revenue raiser, but my question is he or anyone who has concerns already, do they not think that we should invest in infrastructure, that we should do an historic investment in infrastructure? do they think the number of people who are out of work is acceptable? do they think it's okay that one-third of the country doesn't have broadband? if they agree, we need to address these issues, let's work together on it and figure out how to pay for it. that's how you get legislation done. that's how democracy should work. we're open to having that conversation. we expect this to be a bit of a journey. >> how about the debt and deficit. i know that republicans always find religion on this whenever it's a democratic president. i get that. but what about democrats. are you telling americans that for the next decade, they'll have to get comfortable with ballooning deficits and debt? >> well, actually, the president's proposing e ing pay his historic vs. making the tax code more fair. he believes the number of companies that didn't pay taxes in the last couple of years is just insane. and most americans would agree. we need to change that. we shouldn't incentivize companies sending jobs overseas. we can make changes in the tax code. all of those things will help pay for historic infrastructure investment. he thinks it's possible to find a bay to pay for his plan. that's going to be a part of his speech today. >> you've said that president biden is watching the derek chauvin trial closely. what has struck him so far from it? >> well, i think anyone who heard the testimony of the young girl yesterday, you know, that sticks with you. it gave me chills hearing her testimony. and i think the president was so struck when this horrific event happened last year. and he spoke about how it just exposed a hole in this country. how it reminded him and reiterated his own personal commitment to making equity a part of what we do in this government. addressing racial equity. it's not just about one horrific incident and one horrific death as we saw in this case. it's also about ensuring we as the federal government are making equity, addressing racial injustice a part of what we do every single day, putting policies in place, making sure there are people at the table, working with congress to get necessary police reforms done, and it's just a reminder of how much trust needs to be rebuilt in society and in communities. so he has been watching it as we all have been, thanks to you guys showing it all day and others. but he's been struck, i think, as we all have been by the heartfelt testimony. >> and i know in the days after george floyd's death, president biden at the time candidate and the vice president, visited the floyd family. >> yeah. >> does he have plans to reach out to them again? >> i don't have any -- he obviously knows this family is going through watching the trial of somebody who -- without this action, their loved one would be alive, right? so he knows that they're going through a difficult time right now. i don't have anything to predict in terms of a visit with them or outreach. he did speak with them at the time. he's thinking of them. he was struck by their courage, by their grace. and that's something that has stuck with him since last year. >> jen psaki, we appreciate all of your time. >> my pleasure. >> thanks, alisyn. matt gaetz is under investigation for allegedly having some sort of illegal, improper sexual relationship with a minor? his denial is raising a lot of questions this morning. we have the latest, next. it's an important time to save. with priceline, you can get up to 60% off amazing hotels. and when you get a big deal... you feel like a big deal. ♪ priceline. every trip is a big deal. you're strong. you power through chronic migraine - 15 or more headache days a month, ...each lasting 4 hours or more. botox® prevents headaches in adults with chronic migraine. so, if you haven't tried botox® for your chronic migraine, ...check with your doctor if botox® is right for you, and if samples are available. effects of botox® may spread hours to weeks after injection ...causing serious symptoms. alert your doctor right away, as difficulty swallowing, ...speaking, breathing, eye problems, or muscle weakness... ...can be signs of a life-threatening condition. side effects may include allergic reactions... ...neck and injection site pain... ...fatigue, and headache. don't receive botox® if there's a skin infection. tell your doctor your medical history, muscle or nerve conditions... ...and medications, including botulinum toxins, as these may increase the risk of serious side effects. 95% of patients may pay as little as zero dollars for botox®. so, text to see how you can save. botox® has been preventing headaches and migraines before they even start for 10 years. so, ask your doctor about botox® today. now, simparica trio simplifies protection. ticks and fleas? 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"the new york times" reporting that justice department opened an investigation last summer into whether gaetz violated federal sex trafficking laws. that's in the final months of the trump administration. joining me to discuss this, but a lot more, is house majority whip congressman jim clyburn. congressman clyburn, before we get to infrastructure, an investigation you're doing, issues of voting rights and the filibuster, i want to get your take on these troubling and bizarre allegations being denied by congressman gaetz that he's been under investigation by the justice department and whether you think specifically this is something that the office of congressional ethics should be looking into. >> first of all, thank you for having me. yes, i do think that congressional ethics office needs to look into this because it seems that no one was thinking about him. they were investigating another corrupt politician down there in florida and ran across information indicating that something was going on involving gaetz. so he was not the target here. someone else was. so i think that someone needs to get to the bottom of all of this because i think gaetz is speaking out pretty loudly recently. and since this started -- this investigation started with the trump administration, it may be explaining why he was deeply and so articulately involved with trump during all of these allegations last year. >> we shall see, as they say. but now let's move on to a committee that you are leading, a look into really the trump administration's record with regard to these critical supply shortages at the beginning of the pandemic. i want to read an excerpt from a letter you've sent and get an update on where this stands. it says these documents provide further evidence that the trump administration failed to implement a national strategy to alleviate critical supply shortages that were putting american lives at risk and pursued a haphazard and ineffective approach to procurement. what have you learned today? >> we have learned that the trump administration's failure to develop a national policy as they were urged to do resulted in a hodgepodge of activity going on. each state left to to its own innovations and it resulted in a failed policy. you may recall he famously said, we are not shipping cleerks. implying that he was not there to coordinate things and get things out to the states, but simply to leave the states on their own. >> in fact, we have that clip from president trump just to refresh folks' memories. >> sure. >> the federal government is not supposed to be out there buying vast amounts of items and then shipping. we're not a shipping clerk. >> so that dismissive approach, obviously, ended up having really large effects on our ability to respond. my question is, you've engaged in this fact-finding. are you encouraging the biden administration to develop a national strategy and specifically, what about domestic manufacturing of critical supplies? >> absolutely. made in america has been the theme of the biden administration, the theme of mine for a long time. we believe, especially in a field like medicine, and we need to develop things here in this country. we need to manufacture things in this country. when you start talking about life-saving machinery, i'd much rather see that close to home than just relying on china for respirators when we know we are kind of leary about what role china played in this in the first place. so we want these things to be here at home. we want people who have each other's interest at heart to be involved in the process and we need to have an administration coordinating this in such a way that the american people will have confidence, not just in what their dreams and aspirations are, but in whether or not their government is doing everything it can to protect them. >> for sure. >> that's why we're asking the biden administration to do what we could not get the trump administration to do, and that is to be transparent in these issues. >> i want to hit two other things. you just heard jen psaki talk about the president's big announcement, the rollout of the infrastructure plan. have you spoken to the president about the infrastructure plan? i know one of your big focuses is rural broadband. do you know if that's the kind of thing that's going to be included? what kind of input you've had? >> absolutely. absolutely. what we call the accessible, affordable broadband for all, that program passed the house last year. it's going to pass the house again, and i think the senate sent amy klobuchar has presented that bill on the senate side, and it is going to be a part of this effort. as jen said this morning, we cannot expect rural communities to get the health care that they need. their children to get the education that they need. if we do not have broadband. i think broadband to the 21st century is what electricity was to the 20th century. >> no question. >> so i have been pushing that now for almost ten years, and i am pleased to see that the biden administration has decided that it is going to treat the information highway the same way it streets the interstate highway. >> that's the -- the more expansive and forward-looking view of infrastructure for sure. finally, i want to discuss voting rights, an issue near and dear to your heart and to the country's conscience. you have raised the issue of creating an exception to the filibuster. filibuster reform that would put issues of civil rights and voting rights outside the 60-vote threshold. you've also been an advocate for the john lewis voting rights act. if hr-1 doesn't pass, let's move that forward. have you discussed that filibuster reform, the specific exception of civil rights and voting rights with president biden? if so, what was his response? >> well, i have not discussed it with president biden personally. i discussed it with several members of his staff because i feel very strongly that when it comes to voting rights, constitutional issues like civil rights, it ought not be sacrificed at the altar of filibusters. i know the history of filibuster. we all know the history of filibusters. strom thurmond was a south carolinian who set the filibuster record. 24 hours and 18 minutes, i believe. that record was set over a civil rights act of 1957. not '64, not '65. 1957. nothing but a basic philosophy that he filibusters against. he left the democratic party because his filibuster was not successful. i keep telling people, it's the democrats did this. no. strom thurmond left the democratic party because the democratic party refused to adhere to his foolishness and the democratic party still will not adhere to this kind of foolishness. it's the republican party that seems to want to suppress voting rights and we will not have any of that in the democratic party. >> well, we will see if that legislation moves forward, but certainly the urgency could not be clearer. congressman jim clyburn, thank you for joining us on "new day," sir. >> thank you for having me. pfizer releasing the results of coronavirus vaccine trials on teens. so, how soon could they start getting shots? 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is that -- john and i haven't heard numbers like that. is that unusual to find that efficacy rate? >> that's even higher than what we were reporting when we had 95% efficacy in adults. look, we know these mrna vaccines are a game changer. the technology is different and very promising. then again, these results haven't been peer reviewed. the fda will comb through the data and will be able to verify if it's 100% effective. but those are remarkable results. >> i mean, it's 100%. i mean, you know, it does not get any better. this one goes to 11. so my question is, what does that mean for opening schools in particular? that's been one of the real stumbling blocks for families. even amid this new variant. it's been a real frustration for the biden administration, despite their vaccine numbers. so how do you see that playing out, given the age group? >> so we'll still need to focus on distribution and administration of doses when and if those vaccines also get approved under emergency use authorization. what we know and what we've learned from the adult satisfaction plan is logistical planning has to start now. logistical planning has to think through those equity issues to ensure that black and brown children are getting vaccinated at comparable rates as others. and we have to ensure that parents accept this data. that parents believe that this science is valid and they're eager to see their children be vaccinated. bottom line, we want to return to as much as normal as we can and we're hopeful we can do that. >> is there any way to predict this morning when my 14-year-old son would be able to be vaccinated? >> you know, i can't give you 100% accurate prediction, but i'm really impressed if i can say by how much science is accumulating real-world evidence. and so it will be really encouraging if we're able to get adolescents vaccinated by late summer, early fall. and if that's the case, then we'll see even younger age groups, perhaps those in the 5 to 11-year-old age range vaccinated by the end of this year or the first quarter of the following year. so let's just keep faith. let's stay vigilant and keep exercising hope. >> that's right. vigilance is key. that's an important part of the reason we've seen an uptick. people letting their foot off the gas a little bit. but this news is extraordinary. it's 12 to 15, but if it can apply to kids even younger and certainly older, that is a game changer. when you say late summer, that indicates that schools and universities logistically should be able to open. and that means that, is there any barrier you can see to that full implementation? either bureaucratic from the fda or the issue that these are minors and you could have some parents resisting compliance. how do you deal with that as a public health professional? >> you think about the real world scenarios, right, john? so we were just talking about how pfizer is promoting that the vaccine is 100% effective. that's under the clinical trials. real-world scenarios have to consider logistics. real world scenarios have to consider acceptance. real world scenarios have to consider confidence. so we in public health have to continue to message, message in plainspoken terms, continue to communicate the efficacy and communicate the urgency and the need to stay ahead of variants. we see b.1.1.7. exploding across the nation and a rise in over 26 states, so helping parents to understand that their children are a part of that community immunity will be very important. but, likewise, states, regions, municipalities, institutions, schools, will need to be poised and ready to execute on a distribution plan when that vaccine is available. and another thing that i'm looking to hear, especially as this data gets combed through is, are we going to have the same transport in the same mobility issues that we have had with the pfizer vaccine for adults. ultra cold storage. the refrigerator shelf life is not that long. so i'll be really curious to know, are those issues the same when this permentation of the vaccine for children or has pfizer begun to solve some of those. >> dr. chris pernell, great to see you, but especially on one of those rare days when we have good news in the fight against covid. thank you very much. >> yes, yes. >> be well. french president emmanuel macron will address his nation tonight as his country faces a major surge in coronavirus cases. cnn reporters are covering the pandemic around the globe. >> i'm melissa bell in paris. the french president will address the nation tonight after meet with his ministers this morning to discuss whether fresh restrictions are needed to bring down france's surging covid-19 figures. the number of covid-19 patients in french icus now exceeds 5,000 for the first time since the month of april. meanwhile, germany has become the latest european country to limit the use of the astrazeneca vaccine to older populations after several patients and, in particular, younger women were found to have developed blood clots after being inoculated. i'm selma abdulazeez in london. the french president, german chancellor and more than 20 other leaders signed an open letter calling for an international treaty for pandemic preparedness. they say krofrs has posed the biggest threat to the world since world war ii and they want to see an all of society, all of government approach to deal with future health crises. they describe immunizations as a global public good and they say no country is safe until all countries are safe. i'm in beijing where the government has said the w.h.o. report on covid origins demonstrated china's openness and transparency while again calling for investigations to be conducted in other countries with officials here oftena pointing fingers at the u.s. this came as the head of the w.h.o. considered pro-beijing by critics surprised saying more data and studies are need forward the wuhan lab leak theory while also saying the agency's experts encountered difficulties in accessing raw cheese data during their investigation in the country. the biggest cabinet shake-up since brazilian president jair bolsonaro took office. on tuesday, his government announced the leaders of all three branches of the armed forces were being replaced. the reshuffling an indication of how much pressure bolsonaro is under as covid-19 continues to ravage the country. on tuesday, brazil registered a new record number of deaths from covid-19. more than 3,700. the total death toll is over 300,000 people, and the vaccine rollout has been slow and plagued by political infighting. >> our thanks to all of our correspondents. so witnesses describing the emotional final moments of george floyd's life as prosecutors make their case against former officer derek chauvin. what is the defense strategy? 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i swear i'll slap the [ bleep ] out of both of you? >> yeah, i did. >> so again, sir, it's fair to say that you grew angrier and angrier? >> no, i grew professional, professional. i stayed in my body. you can't pin me out to be angry. >> joining us now, mark o'mara. he helped the legal defense in the killing of trayvon martin. gentlemen, great to see you. mark o'meara, i want to start with you. how do you think the defense team is doing with these witnesses and trying to depict them as a distracting, at best, and, at worst, angry mob. >> i think they need to be careful with their philosophy of the case. don't forget the only people that count here, even though there's a lot going on, outside the courtroom, the only people who count are those 12 people that they're talking to. if those 12 people are listening to an emt, listening to the girl who did the videotaping, if they see the defense attacking them for not good reasons, then they're going to turn against them. and the credibility that the defense team has, which will drip over onto the defendant, is so important, particularly in the early stages. don't forget, lawyers are sort of seen to be arrogant and all that to begin with, so we can't feed into that. these people are not necessarily hurting the defense right now. it is what it is. arguing that there is an angry mob, particularly with a racial undertones of that, i think is very dangerous. >> bakari, that's what i want to get into. way beyond blaming the crowd for being an angry mob and saying that somehow would excuse derek chauvin's actions, we saw the recitation of an uglier, older trope. i want to play a clip from the questioning of mr. williams. >> oh, that's what we just heard. >> do you recall saying, i dare you to touch me like that? i swear i'll slap the [ bleep ] out of both of you? >> yeah, i did. >> again, sir, it's fair to say, you grew angrier and angrier? >> no, i grew professional and professional. i stayed in my body. you can't paint me out to be angry. >> i wanted to play that again, bakari, because it goes directly to the heart of trying to paint this witness as an angry black man. how does that not create blowback in the courtroom? >> well, we'll see. we'll see. this was only day two. today is day three of the trial. and we'll have to piece that all together. but the witness did a great job. i mean, what the defense was trying to do is put the witness in this corner to help piece together's defense's theme, which i agree with mark is not the best theme in the world. that somehow there was this angry mob out there that distracted the cops and, therefore, he wasn't able to do his job appropriately or felt threatened by them. what he's attempting to do is push the buttons of these witnesses so that they'll react and lash out and the jury can see them react and lash out. but that's not what's happening. and when you attempt a strategy that doesn't work, sometimes you need to shut up and move on. that is usually what criminal defense lawyers will do. so i don't expect the questioning this morning of the emt witness to go much further than it went yesterday. you attempted to impeach her. you got some reaction out of her. you got her scolded by the judge. so today i expect them to move on. i'm not sure this strategy is one that's going to work. but again, convicting cops in the united states of america is extremely difficult. >> mark it was interesting yesterday how many of the witnesses couldn't be on camera because i guess there was a rule that if you were a minor at the -- during the time of the crime, they don't show your face. and so we heard these voices, really, i think, compelling voices of people who we couldn't see, which was just, you know, an interesting framework in the courtroom. is that unusual, number one, and, two, is it risky to put such young 9-year-old witnesses on the stand? >> well, one it is unusual, but we do protect our children. so we make sure that the trauma that just exists in a courtroom is not going to be visited upon them. so with children, we do it that way sometimes by videotape. sometimes this way. so, yes, it's not unusual. but it is, i think, almost more impactful than a live witness because, of course, the jury, those 12 people who only count, are listening to almost this disembodied voice of a 9-year-old. and it's just utterly compelling and very emotional. and for any mom on that jury or dad for that matter to have to sit back and listen to what a 9-year-old saw, that has an emotional impact. we as lawyers get to be rational and unemotional. but a mom or dad sitting on that panel, even though they said they'll listen to the law and apply the facts, they'll listen to a 9-year-old or emt who we know is a first responder we all love or a guy who was sitting there pleading for a life. these are some of the best days of the prosecution's case because they are dealing with raw human emotions. it's going to get worse for the prosecution when we start getting into experts and cause of death and what they're going to have to do as a defense team, but these first few days you cannot deny the emotional impact of human beings watching another one die. >> i want to play a clip of one of the children who witnessed the death of george floyd and get your reaction. >> i saw the officer put a knee on george floyd. i was sad and kind of mad. >> just heartbreaking. what's the kind of impact from that testimony and that witness on the individual? >> well, you know, you just have to pray for the individual. that's when you think about individuals who say that they are a product of the -- it takes a community or village to raise a child. and the village is going to have to be there for that child because these images will be seared into her brain for a very long period of time. and so we lift her up in prayer. these children do play a role because under minnesota law, you know, in the presence that these actions are committed in the presence of children, these are considered to be aggravating circumstances. and these aggravating circumstances can lead to enhanced penalties, which is what the prosecution is trying to do by having these children there. that's first. but even more importantly, as mark said, before you start getting into the weeds and the nuance of this case, which is going to boil down to, i think, two things. one is intent and the other is cause of death. these are really the days because of the emotion that goes along with them. and you have no more emotional clarity than the words of children. and i think that that is going to be something that is remembered. i can honestly say that if i was prosecuting this case, i'd use those words again in my closing argument and maybe even her voice again so that's one of the last things the jury hears when they walk back into the jury room. >> yeah, on a human level, i, again, was so struck by the lasting trauma that everybody who saw this carries with them from a 9-year-old to a teenager through an emt. mark, in terms of the strategy here, the defense strategy, when would they decide to put derek chauvin on the stand, and would that be a smart idea? >> extraordinarily dangerous in any criminal case. a defendant has the absolute right not to help the prosecution convict him or her. always very dangerous. it's always a last-minute decision where it's a weighing between how well is our case going without him or her? how strong is the state's case? and how necessary it is for chauvin to explain his behavior. in self-defense cases, where you almost have to put the defendant on to say, here is why i did it, you almost have that case here with chauvin because he's got to explain why, not just the first three minutes, six minutes, but minutes seven, eight, nine and a half why he wants that jury to believe that it was an appropriate training situation for him. and that can really only come from his words, but, my god, it's extraordinarily dangerous decision to make in any criminal case. >> bakari, mark, thank you both very much. >> thank you. so many school districts are seeing a drop in attendance and, of course, remote learning makes finding those lost students hard. so we're going to hear from educators trying to track down these students falling through the cracks, next. we started with computers. we didn't stop at computers. we didn't stop at storage or cloud. we kept going. working with our customers to enable the kind of technology that can guide an astronaut back to safety. and help make a hospital come to you, instead of you going to it. so when it comes to your business, you know we'll stop at nothing. tired of daily insulin injections? 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>> you just don't know what's going on in the home because we normally spend more time with the students than their parents do. >> reporter: henry county public schools has nearly 43,000 students from pre-k through 12th grade. out of the 1400 students that would normally be roaming the halls of this high school, watson says only 200 per day attend classes in person. while the school is still majority virtual. their cares team is making phone calls, doing home visits and checking students' social media. >> sometimes we go on their facebook, their instagram. >> reporter: school officials are concerned about the learning loss made worse by the pandemic. >> you know kids are losing out on this precious amount of time for education that might change their lives. and you are an educator. so how does that hit you when you realize that this is really going on? >> that's the one that pulls on all of our hearts as educators. we educate. we love on our children and we like them to be in front of us. but we do everything that we can to wrap our arms around those babies from a distance. >> reporter: a survey by the research center showed that student absences nationally have doubled during the pandemic. daily absentee rates among high schoolers were the highest at 13% with middle school absentee rates at 11%. and elementary school rates at the lowest of 9%. and it's not necessarily long-term absences that are most worrying. according to the georgia department of education. missing more than five days of school each year begins to impact student academic performance. and the school districts are deploying more resources to make sure their students have what they need to log on from class. >> we've had partnerships to provide hot spots to students but then also providing them with that real live support on walking them through, how do you log on. >> reporter: at marietta city schools, the pandemic accelerated the rollout of a program to get google chromebooks to all 8900 students. >> it's making sure we're out there providing the necessities for these families. we've been able to change the narrative of what school looks like and what we do. >> reporter: but even with the resources to log on, the team is still actively tracking students working with police in extreme cases. keeping kids in school is a part of the job. but these missing children are something that's personal to these educators. >> when you can't find a kid, it's almost like you lost one of your own. you don't give up. you never stop. >> we were talking to an educator. covid-19 has hit kids in such a different way. a lot of them may not be getting sick but a lot of their parents are. that's the impact. these teachers are really turning out to be a lifeline, sometimes centering the kids to give them something else to think about. something that we've been able to see. the school behind susopen. seeing kids high-five their teachers as they go in. but that's not happening all across the country just yet. you understand why there's such a big push to get kids back in school. >> ryan, you're so right. one of the silver linings, kids wanting to be back in their classrooms. who would have thought, but that's what's happening around the country. thanks so much for all of that reporting. i'll see you tomorrow? 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