People discover their family roots and revealed a hidden part of my own family history. I think im anthony and tonys cousin. First, its todays eye opener. Its your world in 90 seconds. By electing jon and the reverend you could make an immediate difference in your own lives. The lives of the people all across this country. President trump and president elect joe biden were both in georgia stumping ahead of the senate runoffs. This is some crowd. Biden was here today also. They had 14 people in three cars. The fallout continues from President Trumps call asking the georgia secretary of state to find him enough votes to swing the president ial election. Were going to be inaugurated. Period. The new year is bringing new fears about the coronavirus. Hospitalizations are at an alltime high p. Were losing on average a person every 15 minutes near l. A. County. Entering into another lockdown as the new strain of covid19 grips the nation. Its been frustrating and alarming to see the speed with which the new variant is spreading. Larry king has been moved out of the icu as he continues to battle covid19 at a Los Angeles Area hospital. All that playful dolphin wasnt about t allow one man to steal his spotlight. The dolphin started doing flips of its own. Our daughter jane asked us last night, she said, can we throw an i hate the virus party when this is over. Not only can you throw the party. You can drive us home from it afterward. President trump under criticism after the release of a phone call in which he pressured georgias secretary of state to overturn the Election Results there. I think its pretty clear that we won. We won very substantially georgia. You even see it by rally size, frankly. One problem. Rally size does not decide who wins the election. Thats why on the 20th of january we wont be swearing in president bts. This mornings eye opener is presented by progressive. Making it easy to bundle insurance. Bts does draw a crowd, though. Welcome to cbs this morning. Lets begin with the big news, whats happening in georgia today. Its runoff day in georgia with control of the u. S. Senate hanging in the ambulance. There you can see people lined up this morning to cast their ballots after millions voted early. And the races are still very close to call with republicans trying to keep their seats. Senator david perdue is facing jon ossoff. Senator Kelly Loeffler is up against reverend Raphael Warnock. Todays historic vote comes after rallies yesterday from President Trump and president elect biden. The two men gave speeches that delivered very different messages. Mark strassmann is in atlanta. Mark, good morning. Good morning, anthony. Big day here today, of course, especially for republicans. Democrats seem to get more of the 3 million early votes cast in this runoff. So republicans need their folks to show up today if theyll hang on to the two u. S. Senate seats. And Republican Leaders have to hope that President Trumps lastminute rally last night helped more than it hurt. Our country is depending on you. The whole world is watching the people of georgia tomorrow. So today, tomorrow, vote. Make sure your voice is heard. In dueling rallies, President Trump and president elect biden did seem to agree on one thing. The importance of georgias elections. Show up and vote them out reverend Raphael Warnock and jon ossoff are the democrats hoping to unseat gop incumbents Kelly Loeffler and david perdue. Both races will determine which Party Controls the senate and the candidates are spending record money to get voters attention. Each democratic candidate raised more than 100 million in two months. Compared to more than 16 million each for the republicans. Vote vote vote reporter mr. Biden campaigned for the democrats yesterday using the rally to slam President Trumps response to the covid pandemic. I dont know why he still wants the job. He doesnt want to do the work. Reporter while President Trump spent most of his nearly 90 minutes on stage repeating his false claims about Election Fraud here. Theres no way we lost georgia. Theres no way. Rigged that was a rigged election. Hefighting. If the liberal democrats take the senate and the white house and theyre not taking this white house. Were going to fight like hell. Ill tell you right now. The president s georgia trip came a day after the release of a stunning audiotape, a phone call in which hes heard pressuring georgias republican secretary of state Brad Raffensberger to reverse the results of the states president ial election. I only need 11,000 votes. Fellas, i need 11,000 votes. Give me a break. On the call, raffensberger refused the president s demands and told cbs evening news anchor and managing eddor norah odonnell, theres no reason to doubt todays Election Results either. The machines are safe, secure and were going to have an accurate election count. Well know who won this race. Both races are considered close and democrats need to win both to seize control of the senate. Gayle . Mark, thank you. Georgias Lieutenant Governor jeff duncan joins us to talk about the election today. Good to see you again, Lieutenant Governor. Lets start picking up on marks piece about turnout today. Theres some concern the president s rhetoric could hurt the turnout today. What are you thinking . Well, i certainly have been disappointed about the rhetoric as you just mentioned. It has not been helpful to talk about Election Fraud and fan the flames on the misinformation, but ive got to give Kelly Loeffler and david perdue credit. Theyve worked hard. Theyve been consistently out there every single day. Even in quarantine, david perdue has been trying to work hard to get voter turnout. We just got to remind georgia voters to show up and continue to elect conservatives. Thats all we can do right now. What should voters be aware of as they go to the polls . The president held a rally, again more baseless claims, claiming fraud, that it was rigged. He seems to be threatening and bullying people to really do his bidding for him. What do you want voters to know, georgia voters to know as they go to the polls today about their election . Yeah, you know, look, here in georgia, all eight statewide constitutional officers are republicans. Weve got republican majorities in the state house and state senate and voters have been with us a long time. I want to remind them conservative leadership is where were at here in georgia and its our future. And david and kelly have been great to work with and theyve certainly represented our conservative values. Thats what i want to remind them of. All this other side show stuff, misinformation is not helpful. It isnt on message for certain, but, you know, its the hand weve been dealt with. You called it a side show. And misinformation. But its landing for a lot of people who are believing what the president is saying. The president has called you out. Hes called your governor out. He has made it clear hes going to campaign against your governor. Last time you were here, you mentioned your three sons. What do you tell your children because the children are watching. When the president of the United States is bullying you, bullying your governor, calling you making disparaging comments and questioning your integrity, what do you say to your own children at this point . Its been a great opportunity in our own household. Ive got two teenagers and a 10yearold and they get to watch dad come home, who every day tells them, hey, always do the right thing. Its never the wrong thing. And they get to watch dad come home and put that on display for them. Even if the president disagrees with me, the president of the United States disagrees with where im at and what im doing that doesnt mean im not going to do the right thing. Its more than disagreeing. Its more than disagreeing. The president of the United States is not being truthful. Theres a big difference between disagreeing and not being truthful. Yeah, i think any republican that is using this Election Fraud and all this misinformation, and this includes the president , its simply just an excuse. And it doesnt help us get to the next level. And to me, the next lefshlgs veo figure out how to win whack backe the white house in 2024. Did the president s phone call across the line in your opinion . Im not an attorney. I dont have the opportunity to parse the differences there, but what i will tell you is i was extremely disappointed. I was disappointed with the purpose of the call, the tone of the call. I cant imagine anybody on the president s staff was giving him advice before, during and after that that was a good idea. I was proud of Brad Raffensbergers consistent response and continue to just look for every opportunity to follow the letter of the law and certainly thats what he was hired to do by georgians. Is democracy at stake . Some people say it is. Its certainly not our best foot forward at this point. But this is america, and i remind folks everywhere i go. January twen20th, the constitut will still be alive and well. Well still have the opportunity to disagree and work against bad ideas. Well have the opportunity to continue to figure out ways to get more majorities in other places, and well have an opportunity to 2024 to go back up to the plate and take a swing and see if we can win the white house back. Lieutenant governor jeff duncan, thank you. Well all be watching today. Thanks, gayle. In washington, President Trumps attempts to hold on to power are driving a wedge into and possibly through the republican party. There is a widening riff between lawmakers over a plan to challenge the Electoral College vote tomorrow. Normally a day of pomp and ceremony. Nancy cordes has been covering all of it on capitol hill for us. Nancy, good morning to you. Good morning. Tensions are definitely rising ahead of this certification clash tomorrow. One of the leaders of the challenge effort, missouris josh hawley says that protesters showed up at his Virginia Home and threatened his family. Protest organizers deny that that happened. And so, clearly, theres a lot of drama surrounding a process thats normally a formality. This is about the integrity of our elections. Missouri senator josh hawley cheered on a growing Movement Last night. Republicans who plan to contest the results tomorrow without evidence of fraud. I believe there are serious questions with respect to the president ial election. Reporter despite attempts by senator leader Mitch Mcconnell to talk them out of it, at least 13 gop senators have joined the cause. Including georgias Kelly Loeffler who spoke last night at a rally with the president on the eve of her special election. I will object to the Electoral College vote. Reporter the effort has dismayed some republicans like ohios rob portman who noted that not a single state found evidence of fraud or irregularities widespread enough to change the result of the election. Another republican, west virginias Shelly Moore Capito warned that refusing to count a states electoral votes in the absence of such evidence would disenfranchise millions of american voters. Kevin kramer of north dakota agreed. I come from a red, small state. I dont want to have our votes overturned by other members of congress in other places. I dont see in the constitution where we have that authority, quite honestly. Reporter but President Trump slammed republicans like him yesterday dubbing them the surrender caucus. People will remember the people that dont support us. Reporter he even upped the pressure on his own Vice President who will preside over tomorrows joint session of congress. I hope that our great Vice President , our great Vice President comes through for us. Hes a great guy. Of course, if he doesnt come through, i wont like him quite as much. Reporter mr. Pence made it clear he wont disappoint. Well have our day in congress. Well hear the objections. Well hear the evidence. Reporter but Vice President elect Kamala Harris argued none of it will change the outcome. Let me just tell you something. We are going to be inaugurated, period. Reporter here in washington, more than 300 National Guard members have now been activated ahead of expected protrump rallies tomorrow. And all d. C. Police officers will be on duty as well because they are anticipating tens of thousands of people in the streets. Anthony . Nancy, thank you. The leader of the right wing group the proud boys was arrested yesterday shortly after arriving in washington, d. C. Henry Enrique Tarrio is facing destruction of property and weapons charges. Hes accused of burning a black lives matter banner at an Historic Black Church last month. The fbi has described the proud boys as a far right Extremist Group with ties to white nationalism. They are expected to turn out tomorrow as part of a washington demonstration in support of President Trump as Congress Plans to certify his election loss. The coronavirus is pushing many hospitals to their breaking point, and the vaccination effort is under pressure as well. People who wanted to get the vaccine lined up in texas yesterday. And many counties there are out of the vaccine. One hospital in Northern California had to move very fast to give out hundreds of doses that started thawing out after a power failure there. Our lead National Correspondent David Begnaud is in los angeles where the ambulances have been told not to transport the patients with virtually no chance of survival. Boy, david, i heard that and thought, youd hate to be the patient that needs to get to the hospital and tell them, nope, were not taking you. Think about that, gayle. Thats what its come to. Theyre now telling these ambulance drivers, dont even bring them. If they dont have a chance of survival, dont even transport them here. L. A. County is arguably the epicenter of the country when it comes to covid. And Martin Luther king jr. Community hospital in south l. A. Hit the epicenter. They have 134 licensed beds. Thats what they have aapproval for. You know how many Covid Patients they have . 164. We put a camera in the meditation room of the hospital this morning with their permission, of course. Because they have no space left. They are using this to treat people who dont even have covid. They are out of room. They are using corners and the chapel and the gift shop and the meditation room because they are out of places to put patients. Yet the ambulances keep showing up. Look at the lines to get tested in california. And to get vaccinated in florida. These are pictures of the pandemic spiraling out of control in most corners of the country. There are more than 4 million seniors living in florida, and theyre overwhelming registration websites and hot lines in a rush to get immunized. We were here 2 1 2 hours early because we figured it was going to be a showdown. Reporter but the state of florida has administered less than 25 of the doses it already received. Facing criticism for the slow pace, Governor Ron Desantis issued this warning. Hospitals that do not do a good job of getting the vaccine out will have their allocations transferred to hospitals that are doing a good job. Concerns over the slow vaccination process have prompted some to suggest changes like giving half doses of the Moderna Vaccine to those between the ages of 18 and 55. But new this morning, fda commissioner stephen hahn cautioned against that writing in a statement, suggesting changes to the fdaauthorized dosing is premature and not rooted solidly in the available science. Theres a fundamental concept here. Take as directed. Reporter thats dr. Tom frieden, the former director of the centers for Disease Control and prevention. The first way to speed up things is for the government to ship all available vaccines instead of holding half in a reserve for second dosing. Lets get the vaccine out. Get first doses into people as the second doses are coming along. Thats not saying lets change the regimen. Reporter back in Los Angeles County where we are, one person dies from covid every 15 minutes. Narissa black is a nurse where the number of patients jumped from 15 at the end of october to nearly 100 today. Shes worried about the quality of carry as doctors and nurses are being forced to take on more patients. This patient needs pain medication. This patients oxygen level is dropping and this other patient now is needs to go to the bathroom. If you cut our time short, what will we need to cut short . Lets talk about this new variant of the coronavirus. Its believed to be more contagious but not more deadly. One discovered as of yesterday in new york state and, anthony, the variant first popped up in the uk and they have now gone back into full lockdown. Ahead, we take you to britain to see the impact of how they are coping with the growing covid threat. First, its 7 18. Time to check your local weather. 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Our Investigative Team talked to more than 100 malpractice attorneys in all 50 states and they heard the exact same thing. After doctors harm their patients, medical boards often look the other way. Yikes. This morning jim axelrod shows us why the public often has little idea who these doctors really are. She was paralyzed and had what they call drop foot which is basically where your left foot just hangs down and does nothing. Reporter when jeremy pains mother had spinal surgery in 2008, her left leg was left paralyzed. She settled a medical malpractice suit with the surgeon, dr. Steven svabek who has a long history of problems in indiana. Its pretty bad that people can get away with what they have in these situations. Reporter people . Doctors. Reporter doctors are licensed and disciplined by state medical boards. Panels made up almost entirely of fellow physicians. What folks have to realize is that the medical board is not a substantial barrier to them being injured by a physician. Reporter dr. John hall spent 25 years practicing pediatric anesthesia and critical care. Later in his career he went to work as the executive director of the mississippi medical board. Most medical boards are constituted of physicians who are political appointees and that is an inherent conflict of interest. Reporter the people who are policing the doctors have an interest in protecting the doctors . Absolutely. Reporter but after dr. Hall pushed the mississippi medical board to be more aggressive in disciplining doctors, he found himself out of a job. I believed in the mission of the medical board and i thought this is a place where i can do this and do some good. Reporter you were pushing too hard . Absolutely. Reporter do members of the general public understand everything they could understand about the doctors who are treating them . Oh, absolutely not. Reporter robert osho spent 15 years at the department of health and Human Services in washington where he worked with the National Practitioner databack, a federal database to keep track of bad outcomes by doctors. He says theres a problem. The National Data bank doesnt share doctors names with the public. If doctors names were listed in the data bank, would it save lives . Sure. Because there are physicians who have very bad records who are still practicing. Reporter he scoured the data bank and turned up an alarming fact. Less than 2 of doctors are responsible for more than half of all malpractice settlements. Very small proportion of physicians that have caused the bulk of the problem, and even worse, only one in seven have had any action taken against them by any state. Reporter meaning most of the bad doctors are still practicing . Right. Where you buy a car has a car fax. Its like a doctor should have a doctor fax. Reporter jeremy pains mother was operated on by dr. Steven svabek. Google him and you wont find anything about his list of malpractice settlements in indiana or the three sanctions dr. Svabek received recently from the Florida Medical board. I dont have any comments to make about any of these questions, no. Reporter the indiana board was made aware of dr. Svabeks problems. So we traveled there. If you had a chance to speak to the board, what would you say . How many more lives are you going to allow him to ruin . Reporter when his case came up we were surprised to see that not only was dr. Svabek present, he didnt even have an attorney there to represent him. Florida has dealt with it. Reporter the board fined dr. Svabek 1,000 and moved on. We asked for an interview with the board president. They didnt make him available so when the board took a break, we tried to get some answers. Im jim axelrod with cbs news. Id like to ask you a couple of questions. Unfortunately, i cant. We have a mike. Youre the chairman of the board and i would like to ask you some questions about dr. Svabeks case. Youre the right person. Youre in charge. Are you telling me the buck doesnt stop are you . Now the mission of the indiana licensing board is to protect the public. Is the sanction just given to him consistent with that . He didnt respond to a single question we asked. He had nowhere to go including the escalator. Jim, im going to get nervous next time i see you approaching with a tv crew. After all of this reporting, what have you heard about why they seemed so reluctant to pull the doctors licenses when they know theyre not doing a good job . Thats the question, gayle, that we kept asking throughout our reporting. Why would a system in which 2 of the doctors account for 50 of the malpractice awards and settlements, why isnt there more vigilance on the part of everyone in the system, insurance companies, doctors, to target the bad actors and they told us the same thing, when you have doctors policing doctors, theres a certain amount of reluctance built into that system to suspend or revoke licenses and the degree to which there are physicians reserve for nondoctors is the degree to which you will have some independence and autonomy on that board. Jim, i have to say we were all talking about your piece here at the table. We were looking forward to it and it certainly delivered. Tony, you touched on it yesterday. As a patient do we just have to rely on the doctors to tell us the truth . Thats like what the man said in the piece. He said, there should be a car fax for doctors. If hospitals can track it, then people should be able to track it. 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Here are a few stories well be talking about today. Heart pounding video shows a woman desperately trying to wake up her neighbors as flames tore through their home. Watch this. Get up your house is on fire. Get out. That is carolyn halla. She ran to the salgado familys home in avondale. She kept banging on the door until the family of six woke up and helped all of them get out of the home safely. Nicole said they would have been goners without her. She made sure that we got out of that house. Firefighters told us that if it would have been five more minutes that roof would have came down with us in the house. Shes going to be part of our lives forever. She saved our life. Shes been a nurse for 40 years so shes an amazing hero even beyond the act of saving this family. And a very good neighbor. Thats right. Kudos to her. Okay. During the opening moments of last nights jeopardy episode alex trebek had words of inspiration we can all use now. Id like you to open up your hands and open up your heart to those who are still suffering because of covid19. People who are suffering through no fault of their own. Were trying to build a gentler, kinder society. If we all pitch in just a little bit, were going to get there. Wow. Kinder, gentler society. I watched that last night when it happened, vlad. I got a lump in my throat knowing hes no longer with us. The final episodes on all this week. The last one will be on friday. His words had a powerful impact who used twitter to praise the host for his compassion. This is the last five episodes that trebek taped before he died. He knew he had cancer, he knew he was in trouble. I wonder if he knew these shows were going to be the ultimate end and if thats why he reached for such a grand message . He always had that. He was always that compassionate and shared with his viewers. Open your hands and your heart. Society. Were going to get there. 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Hidden in the past, henry lewis gates junior helped tour family histories and will reveal a secret from my past but first, here is todays eye opener at 8 00. Run off day in georgia with control of the u. S. Senate hanging in the balance. People are already lined up ready to cast ballots. Democrats seem to get more of the 3 million early votes cast in this run off so republicans need their votes to show up today. There is some concern that the president s rhetoric could hurt the turnout today. What are you thinking . Well, i certainly have been disappointed about the rhetoric and fan the flames. There are six variant cases here in california. One discovered as of yesterday in new york states. Tensions are rising ahead of the certification clash tomorrow and there is drama surrounding a process thats normally a formality. Donald trump skipped out on the annual new years eve bash but the party at mara lalago t on with don junior and Rudy Giuliani that partied with songs like vanilla ice. Imagine rapping along to ice, ice baby and say let me get out my phone, people are going to want to see this. This is new information for me. I didnt know that happened. Thats good. Nicely done, mr. Kimmel. Well begin with this, the eyes of the political world are on georgia where two runoff elections will determine the senate. The polls opened earlier this morning in atlanta. Republicans currently hold a 5048 advantage in the u. S. Senate with two georgia seats up in the air. Two democratic wins would give them control of both houses of congress, and the white house. Mark is in atlanta outside of a polling location. Good morning to you. How is it looking there . p r doors of this precinct open this morning, 50 people were bawaiti in line. Both parties need big turnouts today. The rupp ofn offs are considere close races. If john ossoff and rafael warnck win it will break the 50 50 tie. Republicans need wins for david purdue for kelly loeffer. That is more than the 2. 1 million total votes in georgias last run off in 2008. If you need more proof of how important these elections are, yesterdays rallies tell the story president elect joe biden appeared with candidates in atlanta and President Trump held an evening rally in north georgia for purdue and loeffler and mr. Trump pressured him to find the votes to overturn his defeat in the state. Polls here close at 7 00 p. M. As long as someone is in line by 7 00 p. M. , that vote is good, but counting all these votes could take a couple days. Anthony . Thank you, all eyes on georgia. Still, tahank you. As coronavirus cases continue to surge, a new more contagious strain detected in britain has been found in another part of the u. S. A man in northern knock cnew yo contracted that variant. Its the fourth case to detect a case of the strain that does not seem to make people sicker. Long lines for testing like this one in california are still common across the country. More than 128,000 people are hospitalized with the virus. A new record. And the pace of vaccinations is still slower than intended. The cdc says 4. 5 million americans have gotten at least one dose of the vaccine but thats far short of the white houses initial goal of 20 million by the end of december. Around 2 million covid19 survivors still have debilitating symptoms long after they were infected and right now, there is no treatment for the symptoms, none at all. Well take you inside new clinics designed to help long we have much more ahead. Henry gates junior will join us to talk about the new season of his hit show finding your roots and the secret he unearthed from gayles family. Inspiring hope and lifting spirits among Front Line Health Care workers. Thats coming up here on cbs this morning. That struggles . You have a powerful partner. New aveeno® restorative skin therapy. A unique formula with a rich complex of aloe, vitamin b5 and our highest concentration of prebiotic oat. 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At least 10 of the people who have had covid in the who had covid in the u. S. , 2 million of our americans are wrong haulers, meaning they still have symptoms of the virus long after getting the virus itself. Researchers are starting a Clinical Trial for experimental drugs to help the people but so far, none have been approved and there are not any treatments. We go inside some of the rehab clinics for long howl aulers pog up across the country and show us how critical the situation is. Reporter when we met kevin back in april, he had just woken up from a medically induced coma because of covid complications. Today, hes back home but hasnt fully recovered. Been a lot of memory loss. Being out of breath. A lot of fatigue and joint pain, things like that. You wonder if youre going to get everything back but we dont know yet. Reporter he falls in the estimated 10 of Covid Patients who are long haulers, survivors who months after being infected with the virus are still experiencing debilitating and often kricrippling symptoms. There are days you want to get up and your body wont cooperate. Your limbs wont move. Your brain is too dizzy to stand up or get up. Reporter she went from a fit and healthy athlete to chronic muscle pain and fatigue, brain fog. I couldnt live by myself anymore the symptoms were so debilitating. I couldnt get up and shower. Reporter shes a patient at uc davis post covid19 clinic, one of several Specialty Care clinics emerging across the country specifically dedicated to treating long hauler patients. What happens at the post covid clinic that you attend . Yeah, so initially, you get seen by whoever is the most appropriate person to see you for your prominent issues. So for me, that was breathing. Because covid is so unknown, its affecting people in so many different ways, it is a multi step, multi disciplinary process. Reporter epidemiologist, professor and mom of two has a team of specialists working with her on her various issues. I have skin rashes. I have vision issues. I have ringing in my years. Im on an inhaler and have a sort of asthma even though im not an asthmatic person. Reporter she also describes headaches stronger than migraines and says on bad days is bedridden. What are the doctors saying to you about your condition . They are ready admitting i have post covid symptoms. We have our own mode of treatment and plan we carry out so its very 11 type of treatment mo damodality. Reporter dr. Virginia works at a post covid facility in new jersey and says the need for these clinics is dire. We have patients who have obviously lung damage, scarring, theyre short of tolerances. Some of them need lung transplants, dialysis, heart problems. No matter how good or better i get, i will never be the same person that i was. Reporter rodriguez is one of dr. Witts patients being treated for damage to his lungs, which has impacted his ability to work. Before i used to work, you know, 14, 16 hours a day and it didnt bother me but now i cant. Reporter one of the biggest issues seen at the clinics is Chronic Fatigue and brain fog. Alexandria says her life radically changed seemingly overnight from breathlessness to cognitive issues. I started to recognize that i take a lot of concentration to get through my day. Its an itch you cant scratch mentally. Reporter once a week she sees a neuro therapist at mcgee rehabilitation in philadelphia. You went from somebody totally e healthy to someone with a cord o cardiologist, pulmool gist, doing rehab. Your whole life changed. Thats why i want to share my story because i know there are people out there, long haulers suffering with symptoms who are far more debilitating. You dont want to have your future reduced to nothing because of an illness. A lot of people do survive. A lot of people do, but there are also a host of people who survive but are no longer the sam same. Wow, great to hear the stories but what are the big themes with the socalled long haulers . One of the big things is trust ration of not being believed is presenting to your doctor with complaints and being told its in your head, go see a psychiatri psychiatrist. Another is not knowing are these symptoms going to get better and when and how long will it go on . And suddenly becoming going from somebody who is a caregiver to somebody who had to be cared for and what burden that may be placing on their family members. Many spoke about support from the online social media type groups so thats really great for them. Doctor, i would be remiss if i let you go without pointing out youre among the vaccinated americans, at least one dose. We got a picture of it there. How are you feeling . I feel good. I had some arm pain, a little fever and chills that night. I was so surprised at how emotional i got. I started really tearing up at it. It just all of the months of being a doctor and caring for patients myself and being worried i would bring it to my family, hearing stories of my friends and colleagues and being a journalist and covering this is a very emotional moment, one where i felt a release of fear, hope and just tremendous gratitude for science. Its emotional for us, too. I was hopeful when the authorizations came through and frustrated as we see the slow pace of rollout. Glad you got it. Happy to see more americans get it, as well. Ahead, the battle to help Small Businesses struggling to survive during this pandemic. First, the chairman and ceo of Goldman Sachs will join us with a major announcement designed to help folks out. Well be right back. California phones offers free specialized phones. Like cordless phones, phone ringing big button, and volumeenhanced phones. Get details on this state program. Call or visit Small Businesses and their employees have paid a heavy price during the pandemic. There are nearly 32 million Small Businesses in the u. S. Employing more than 47 of workers. The pandemic has forced more than 400,000 to close. Wall street firm Goldman Sachs is installing 10,000 help still wanted signs on capitol hill. They represent businesses that graduated from their 10,000 Small Business program over the past ten years and showed that government assistance is still needed. Goldman sachs chairman and ceo David Solomon is in washington to lobby lawmakers on behalf of Small Businesses. Good morning, mr. Solomon. Thank you very much for being here. We really appreciate it. Thank you very much for having me. Im thrilled to be with you this morning. I want to get to Small Business in a second. I want to ask you about a letter you signed yesterday. You were one of 200 Business Leaders who signed it calling on congress to accept the Electoral College results. In that letter you wrote that attempts to thwart or delay this process run counter to the essential tenants of our democracy. There should be no further delay in the orderly transfer of power. What made you sign on to that . Well, i think right now the discussions around moving forward are very, very important. I congratulated the Vice President elect and now the president elect back in november after the election, and with all the issues we have as were trying to move past the pandemic and move forward to help people who need help around the country, i think its time to move forward and get focused on the issues at hand. There is another round of stimulus money coming to Small Businesses but many of them, 90 , have already used up the money they got from the first round. Theyre in dire straits. How are Small Businesses surviving and what more needs to be done at this point . Its really amazing to see how me r so many Small Businesses are being nimble, trying to pivot, trying to find ways to move forward. One of the reasons were here today and so committed to the 10,000 Small Business program is these businesses continue to need help and if you look at the placards that are across the capital lawn this morning, they talk about a number of issues that Small Businesses still need support and help on. Obviously the additional round of ppp funding is very helpful. Obviously making sure that the ppp loans dont have a negative tax impact is helpful, but ill highlight three other things that the Small Businesses that weve helped over the last decade are asking for. First, better access to capital and Something Like the restart act i think can be very helpful with that. They need better access for their workers to health care because health care can be such a crippling cost and in addition, they also need support with child care because they need to be working, they need to be focused on their businesses so they can keep their businesses moving forward. Those are a handful of things that Small Businesses are telling us they need continued support on given the pressure theyve felt during this pandemic . Mr. Solomon, i want to talk to you about your desire to help, specifically black business owners. Your own survey has shown they have a harder time getting the business loans. What needs to be done to fix that . I understand you want to do something about that specifically. Weve tried to find ways to get capital into the hands of business of color. Its been much more difficult for small entrepreneurial businesses of color to access capital, gayle. In the context of that we through ppp deployed 700 million of capital. With this new ppp round through cdfis and Mission Driven lenders were prepared to commit at least another 500 million of capital to get that Capital Access to these Small Businesses. These are small micro loans that can help Small Businesses bridge through over the course of the coming months until we get to the other side of the pandemic. You talk about the importance of getting to the other side. How critical is a vaccine to the economy, mr. Sullivan, do you think . I think its very critical that we get the vaccine into people so people feel safe and we can move forward with the Economic Vitality thats so important with this country. Im watching very closely as you all are, as we all are, its important for us to get to the other side of the pandemic and the vaccine is an important step in that process. Your additional commitment amounts to how much . Well, we committed back in december we committed another 250 million to the 10,000 Small Business programs so we could bring another 10,000 businesses through it in the coming years. In addition now that the new round of ppp is in place, were prepared to continue through cdfis and Mission Driven lenders to deploy another 500 million in capital in small loans. David solomon. Good morning. Its 8 25. Fire crews work to rescue a driver trapped in an overturned vehicle. This crash happened early this morning in san leandro. Crews were able to free the driver. No word on the persons condition. The search continues for two missing children off the jenner coast. Authorities believe they were swept out into the water sunday. The Sheriffs Office said dive teams will continue their search by the bluffs today. Right now there is an avalanche warning for the tahoe area. Chp warning a possible road closures as a result. And as we look at the roads we have fog advisories in effect for many of our bay area bridges. That includes the benetia bridge and the golden gate bridge. Extra careful if you are going across the area into san francisco. We have a crash just north of there, blocking the left lane, southbound 101. Looks like traffic is backing up as a result through lucas valley and slow as well as the bay bridge. Those are some areas where we are dealing with foggy spots this morning as well. So, use caution as you work through there. Looking okay and clear on the san mateo bridge. Tracking that dense fog until 9 00 a. M. You can see that blanket of fog on the Sales Force Tower camera. Its a chilly start with those areas of fog. As we head through the afternoon partly cloudy, highs in the mid to upper 50s. A break from the rain. A weak cold front on we we welcome back to cbs this morning. Talk of the table this morning. You recognize that song, one direction, story of my life. Theres a reason for that that were playing that. Thats coming up. Thats coming up. Thats a little tease. Im starting this off and i think we all did a little Binge Watching over the holidays. One we watched is bridgerton. It turns out we werent alone. Viewers are in love with it which debuts on christmas day. You appear displeased. Do i . We find ourselves seated beside ourselves ms. Bridgerton and i think youre happy. It would be better if you retrained from thinking about me. Projected to reach 63 million households in its first four weeks according to netflix. That would make it the fifth largest Netflix Original series launch of all time. It was the number one show in 76 countries including the u. S. The first series for netflix under a megadeal for the producer. Thats the reason im going to watch it because its a shondra project. Steamy romance. Did you say streamy or steamy . Both. Ive heard its very steamy. So steamy that in fact we watched it as a family. My wife and i and our kids, olivia and nick. Olivia at one point said, im leaving the room for this episode because i know whats coming and im not watching it for you guys. We had to cover eddysyes. It is uncomfortable to watch sex with your parents. If you like bridgerton, on a Different Network starz has outlander. Somebody told me she wants to marry a duke . Is that what i should be striving for . Thats what its all about. I like the sound of that. Tony, youre up next. I have a little talk of the table about one of the dumbest but most wonderful traditions in america. That is the tradition of lottery. If you are feeling lucky you said one of the dumbest . Its dumb call me dumb because im its dumb because im buying me a ticket. Exactly. Thats why im talking about it. 845 million. Its wonderful because you might win. Then you look smart. Then you look very smart. Thats the whole talk of the table. Letting people know theres a real big jackpot out there. Dont feel bad buying a ticket. It goes to education. A tax no ones raising taxes. I always buy a ticket and then i get like im lucky to get one number right. That would be lucky. 1 in 300 million chance of getting all of them right and then winning the jackpot. If you do get that jackpot and it were in hundred dollar bills it would be as tall as the world trade center. You cant win if you dont play. There you go. Thats a problem id like to have. My talk of the table is harry styles. Hes gone in a new direction with his latest music video and its a huge hit. Take a look at treat people with kindness. Feeling good in my skin i just keep on dancing now it debuted on friday. It has 12 million views. We have to see the dance partner. There she is. The dance partner, does she look familiar to you . Yeah, she does. Shes the emmy award actress Phoebe Waller bridge. Which she also wrote, by the way. I love the choreography. Never knew she was a dancer. Yes. But i love that harry did this. I think he is not like the other kids in the class. No. Hes a really great guy. The lyrics say find a place to feel good and we can treat people with kindness. Find another place to treat people good, its just another day. Its just another day. And from the chute, people are saying not only did harry do the song, he helped people move the piano because he wanted to do something good. He delivered somebodys mail and feeb bow brought foccacoi bread. Moving on. The Popular Series finding your roots put my family in the spotlight when it returns to pbs. Henry louis gates jr. Guides people through their family trees often unveiling surprises along the way. Tonights episode looks into the identity of my greatgrandfather, a white man who was never spoken about in the family. My mother used to say, dont ask her about her father because she doesnt like to talk about it so i knew her father was white and that her mother was black but we were not to talk about it and she never wanted to talk about it. What kind of white man was he . What was his ethnicity. White man. Just white man . White man. Germany, england, ireland. White man and do not ask her about her father. The question totally threw me. I should say, hello. First i want to say thank you. Alexis, the book of life i brought down my book of life, henry, that you gave me because it is such a treasure that i will always have it. Number one, thank you so much. Here it is, the book of life. Gayle king. Amazing. It is a treasure. Its something i never, ever, ever would have done on my own. Im so appreciative you included me with isa ray and jordan peal. Its a knockout show. This is what you said. You said that i had a european dna because when you look at me i dont see any white blood whatsoever but i actually had a pretty significant chunk. So what does this say . What was i, 32 1 3. 1 3 of me is white . Do you see the whiteness, anthony . Im looking closely. Anybody see it . Sure. I didnt see it. What does this tell us about our country with race . Go ahead. Go ahead, professor. Well, you first of all, good morning, happy new year. Yes. By the way, i took the name book of life from an old africanamerican spiritual, write my name, write my name, write my name in the book of life, isnt that beautiful . Yes. I took it as a metaphor, gayle, because i believed that our ancestors are in a genealogical purgatory and theyre waiting for researchers to find them. When they find them we open the vault and they tell us stories. And those stories almost like osmosis have seeped down. Youve inherited those stories and theyve shaped you in invisible ways that you had no idea of. And i saw that in two cases in your family. One, was what we call the mystery of emma browns father and emma brown is your maternal grandmother. The whisper was that you were told never to talk to her about her father. Yeah. Because he was white. A lot of africanamerican families had this kind of story. And there was no way to ascertain that before today because we could only do it through dna and through dna not only did we find out you were about 1 3 european, but we found the identity of your greatgrandfather and his name was Robert Elliott copes from South Carolina and he lived in the same town where maem was born almost 30 years later. We narrowed it down to two sons. One was a judge and one was a worker. Gayle, which one do you think is your greatgrandfather . You go, the judge. The judge. Im going to pick the judge. Nothing wrong with a worker. Im a big worker bee myself. Jordan peal. His great, greatgrandmother was 12 and she was sold on new years eve and he was talking about the effect na it had. So when people say why does slavery matter . Why are we still talking about it . I thought jordans reaction and your explanation about why this matters, because we do, we carry this with us. Its so important to talk about it. She was sold. Her name was alvina. She was sold away, are you ready for this, on new years day. 12 years old. 1860. For 1250. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it was just horrible. And he was overwhelmed and i was so deeply moved. You know another story on your family tree that moved me was the story of your paternal grandfather. Beauregard george king jr. Gayle, ive always thought that you had a special quiet dignity. I never told you that, but i do and i think that your colleagues on the set would say that thats true. Well, where did that come from . Well, as you know, your grandfather was quite a genial minister who never talked about his service in world war i and he was with the all black 92nd division in france during the muzar gome offensive which is a horrible offensive in which all of these people died. His task was to work in a Field Hospital attending to the dead and the wounded. This is the thing. Professor, well have to let people watch the episode. Thats the thing. Its such a good tease. This is what struck me about it. You said most of us do not know our history, most of us. 99 of us are genetically the same. 99 of us, we have the same genetics. I think thats important for people to know. We are more alike than we are different. I think that there are two repeating motifs in finding your roots which leads to its popularity. One is no matter how different we look phenotypically, no matter your color, skin tone, texture of your hair, facial features, at the level of the genome we are 99. 99 the same. Yeah. Gayle, the other thing is that were all immigrants. Even our african ancestors came from some other place. They werent willing immigrants like our friends from ireland or descended from italy who came through ellis island. They came in chains, but they came from someplace else. And even our native american sisters and brothers migrated here across the bearing straits 15,000 years ago. We are a nation of immigrants and genetically we are all the same. We need to hear those lessons every day in this fraught political time of ours. Im holding up the book because we have to go Henry Louis Gates jr. I cant thank you enough. I was blown away. As tony said, its a gift. Norah odonnell, youre doing her in an upcoming episode. Thank you. So bay area homeowners, learn how you can eliminate monthly mortgage payments and improve your cashflow. 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The latest coronavirus surge is filling many hospitals to or near capacity and pushing some Health Care Workers to a breaking point. This morning we have the stories of two nurses who are coping by pouring their personal experiences into poetry and song. Reporter at low ma Linda University health in Southern California its another day grappling with the virus. Every shift i walk into the hospital, youre going to be confronted by something that youre not fully prepared for. Youre never fully prepared for somebody that will lose their life in front of you on your next shift. And they impact you. Ive seen hope from the depth of despair ive seen peace coming out from nowhere reporter to cope with the emotional toll he picks up his guitar. I can see through the stain, love remains reporter almost 2,000 miles away near minneapolis hospice nurse Erin Pomeranz juggles as many as 19 patients holding their hands as they die because covid prevents families from visiting. Whats it like being the person who holds the iphone for that final zoom . Im there with my mask and my shield on and im holding up the phone to see their grandma and their mom one last time. This is not how we say good buy to our loved ones. Reporter she processes her experiences through poetry. Over the phone, through the camera lens one last time you see her brown, loving eyes that once filled the room with sparkle and joy. Reporter the hospital where she works recently give it a wall. The poddy is ready. You are not. Its not fair you say through tears. I agree. My tears and breath clouding the goggles. Reporter back in california. Love is always searching reporter warcou began performing for the hospital staff for workers struggling with the pandemic. His music struck a chord with coworkers. I dont understand why the world is acting the way it is. When you hear tad and his music, it makes you feel like its going to be okay. Tomorrow is going to be okay. Tell me that it will be all right. I think as Health Care Workers we all are coming together and we really understand what each others going through. Calm and comfortable. The words i use to carefully describe her to you. You let out a sigh of relief. Reporter during hospice pomeranz often picks up her camera and photographs loved ones. One of the great parts of my job is finding moments together and capturing those moments. Its been really meaningful for me to provide that to families, even if it is just a cell phone photo. This is how your moms doing. I saw her today. Reporter amber midnight lost her husband brian. We felt like she really captured our essence and she went out of our way to do it and i treasure them. Met an old man and i saw him smile he looked my way and said he walked this mile he said, keep coming, dont you turn astray it never, ever change your love away reporter like pomeranz, he incorporates actual conversations into his lyrics. It takes the effort to walk into that environment, but to find the hope in these really difficult times, its hard. I think its the most difficult thing to do is to find that hope but its the most difficult, its the most important. Ill fight with every fiber to find the hope knowing it exists in there because if it doesnt, we have a much bigger problem. Reporter finding hope in healing reminding patients, families, colleagues theyre not alone. For cbs this morning, carter evans, los angeles. Some beauty there borne out of the tragedy. Gayle kings a big fan but shes not allowed to talk because we have to go to break. Shes mad. Tony award winner, positive life lessons we can take into 2021 and beyond. Outraged. But shes quiet. Start your new year right with the xfinity hello 2021 sales event. Get powerful internet you can count on. And 250 back when you. Add Xfinity Mobile with nationwide 5g on the most reliable network. Keep in touch with family and friends. 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