>> plus baseball hall of famer andre dahson now in a different field. >> this is my calling. >> and later, in these times whop doesn't need a friend. >> this is the cbs weekend news. >> good evening, i'm jeff gene ola reporting from koin tv from portland. teed president trump lashed out at his predecessor over leadership in the pandemic fight. so far 36 million americans have filed for unemployment in the last two months. the virus is now claimed the lives of nearly 90,000 americans. by far the world's highest death toll. cbs's nikole killion begins our coverage. >> the war of words is escalating between president trump and former president obama over the coronavirus response as new internal decisions are also exposed about how some agencies have hand the crisis. >> he was an incompetent president, that's all can i sairks grossly incompetent. >> president trump lashed out at his predecessor after former president obama ripped the administration's handling ofhe coronavirus crisis in a pair of virtual graduation speech this weekend. >> this pandemic is fully finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they are doing. a lot of them aren't even pretending to be in charge. >> both leaders have recently stepped up their attacks. in a call last week with former staffers mr. obama called the administration's covid response anemic and spotty while mr. trump blamed the obama administration for leaving an insufficient playbook, depleting federal stock piles and even going so far as to accuse his predecessor of undefined and unspecified crimes. >> obamagate, it's been going on for a long time. >> but the finger pointing is also coming from within. white house advisor peter navarro faulted the centers for disease control for boched testing at the outset of the pandemic. >> the cdc which really had the most trusted brand around the world in this space, really let the country down where the testing. >> on "face the nation" health secretary alex azar came to the eak's defense. >> i don't believe the cdc let this country dowrntion i believe the cdc serves an pornlts public health role. >> did the cdc let the american people down. >> the cdc was grossly cut in the president's budget. >> speaker nancy pelosi told margaret brennan she is more concerned about getting aid to states and hard hit americans after the house passed its largest relief package to date. >> we cannot take a pause. >> in a a new interview president trump says he's hopeful we will get our economy back. monday he will hold a round table with restaurant executives and other individual leaders, jeff? >> nikole, thank you. some parts of the previrus lifestyle we're seeing coming back to life this weekend. including sports as states race to reopen. >> hejamie yuccas. >> green flag, nascar is back. >> tonight nascar sparks a return to major sports with a race in south carolina without fans. on monday yellowstone and grand teton national park partially reopened. social distancing will be tested at popular attractions like old faithful. by monday 48 states will have relaxed stay at home orders. over the weekend at least five saw an uptick in coronavirus. but in texas it was a surge, the state reporting more than 1800 new cases saturday. the biggest single day jump since the pandemic began. more than 700 cases were reported at a meat packing facilities in amarillo. behavior is the wildcard, like this scuffle in san antonio. >> store employees confronted a customer who refused to wear a mask. >> governors are carefully watching infection rates. the crowds and more testing. new york's andrew cuomo showed how it's done at a press conference today. >> now testing is really going to be very helpful in monitoring the virus. >> as people around the country want to see more of the economy open up, california governor gavin newsom says wean strict rules he's optimistic about how his state's performing. >> about 75% of our economy is already open. we see dozens of counties that have moved quickly where restaurants are reopening, office, manufacturing, logistics, operations and the like. but it's with modifications. >> they were seen in places like roseville, california, where restaurants reopened. >> they wiped off all of the tables. they had menus that were dispoisable so people aren't reusing them. i feel like they are doing a really good job which makes us feel a lot more safe. >> for the first time governor newsom says some school districts here in california could return to class by the fall. colorado's governor said today he wants the majority of his kids to return to in-person class after summer break. jeff? >> jamie, thank you. today the british government pledged more money toward a coronavirus varks even trial. already being tested on humans. meanwhile in wuhan, china, the epicenter of the virus, cbs's elizabeth palmer reports test sungdz way again. >> health workers in wuhan have begun testing its 11 million inhabitants after a limited new outbreak last week. the goal is to find and isolate asymptomatic carriers before they can start a new wave. this massive testing program should also give the authorities in wuhan some idea of what proportion of their inhabitants have been exposed to the virus and therefore have some immunity, a figure that is a complete mystery in most parts of the world. what is not a mystery is the number of dead. it is still going up in brazil where medical staff and gravediggers know this is going to get a lot worse before it gets better. >> that goes for russia too where in spite of dramatic disinfection and a strict lockdown, the infection is growing faster than anywhere else except the united states. >> by contrast much of europe is opening is up. spain's death rate was under under a hundred for the first time today. and europeans seem willing to take the calculated risk that life can return to normal or something very much like it. even the biggest church in the world st. peters in the vatican had an extra deep clean before it reopened to the faithful tomorrow. elizabeth palmer, cbs news, london. >> governments and drug makers are racing to respond to the pandemic, the drug remdesivir has been shown to modestly shorten recovery time. but now in a new trial researchers are adding even more firepower to the battle against covid-19. tonight cbs's chief medical correspondent dr. jon lapook shows us how. >> 57 year old phil clark looked forward to his followup visit at emory university hospital. >> st always a great day to feel healthy after what i went through. >> just three weeks ago he was discharged after a battle against covid-19. >> i started wondering how bad is this going to be. am i close to dying? >> clark took part in a grounds-breaking global trial with early result thabs showed remdesivir reduced average hospitalizations from 15 to 11 day days. dr. aneesh mehta was the lead investigator at emory university. >> i think remdesivir is one important tool. but we also need to look for other ways to help our patients. >> in the next phase of the trial dr. mehta and colleaguings are combining remdesivir to stop the virus from multiplying with a powerful anti-inflammatory drug, baricitinib, a so called immune modulator that aims to prevent organ damage by calming down an inflamed immune system. >> the remdesivir stops the virus from replicating inside the cell, and the immune modulator puts out the fire. >> at, what the remdesivir does is stop the spark. and the immune modulator will hopefully be putting dirt on the fire. >> a one two punch. >> a one two punch. >> dr. mehta's team slooking at whether this powerful combination could make recovery even faster. and possibly reduce the mortality rate in a way remdesivir alone has not yet been shown to do. >> a drug can block this virus. >> when dr. anthony fauci the government's top infectious disease expert announced remdesivir was the first drug found to be fek nif treating covid-19, it was reminiscent of a time three decades ago when the first hiv treatment emerged. >> we were strilging for drugs for hiv. and we had nothing. >> it took nearly ten years to show a combination of drugs was needed to treat aids. so now they are applying that lesson learned to covid-19 are. dr. jon lapook, c brrks s news, new york. >> the coronavirus crisis has exposed the disparities between the country's wealthy and poor communities. cbs's mireya villarreal shows us how a school in texas has stepped up to bridge that divide. >> time to pack up your things and i'm so sad. >> today particularly was emotional being in the classroom. >> cindy reyes teaches second grate at the como leadership academy in fort worth, texas. >> what is the hardest part about in. >> internet connection, availability. these are only eight, i have 122. >>-- 22, we vitd como elementary in the fall last year. 91% of the school's population is african-american or latino and 94% of these students are economicically disadvantaged. >> everybody is priority right now smaiking sure to keep a roof over their head, feeding their children and still trying to navigate the world of teachk a . >> victor martinez stays with his mother while his dad continues to work his construction job. >> kind of dangerous being outside. but we still have to pay bills. >> to keep kids engaged, teachers make regular home visits like. send pictures and video ofts to- themselves doing school work. principal valencia rhines also pushed to get 150 chrome books and 11 internet hot spots to families in need. >> more than 50% of the students are at-risk students. >> yeah. >> was in a worry that not just for their education but their well-being, are they okay? >> yes, we are worried about our families and our students. especially those families with students we haven't had a chance to hear from. it brings me great concern making stheur that everybody is okay. >> we're going to read a book. >> we have teachers videotaping themselves actually teachk lessons and posting that. >> that is not required, is it? >> absolutely not. to just be able to see my staff and all of us step up to meet the needs, where we are, it has been what keeps me going. >> everybody say bye. >> mireya villarreal, cbs news, fort worth, texas. >> now to a television pioneer, phyllis george was a texas beauty queen who broke barriers in sportscasting here at cbs. here's meg oliver. >> miss america. >> 1971, there she was, phyllis george, crowned the 50th miss america, something she called the springboard for her life. fst man to the cbs coanchor the nfl today. >> the women-- the super bowl was just held. >> colleagues said she gave depth to athlete interviews here with joe nammality. >> what is wrong with the new york jets that male reports never could. ten years later, george took on morning television on the cbs morning news. over the years she covered many of the biggest stories in sports and news. >> i hope i broke that glass ceiling for a lot of women. i did for myself. i hope that more women will benefit from what i did. >> and still another role she became first lady of kentucky following her marriage to former governor john y brown, phyllis george died in lexington, kentucky, from a noncoindividual related-- covid related illness. she was 70 years old, meg oliver, cbs news. >> straight ahead on the cbs weekend news, a baseball superstar's other field, as a funeral director in the age of covid. also the new threat at mount st. helen's, 40 years after its mass i've ruption. and later pandemic partners, why more animal shelters say they're now empty. ... but we are rising to meet it. and how far we've come isn't even close to how far we can go. we just have to remember how patient we were... how strong we can be. 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returns the favor with long tice. where he shows off his >> she adopted marmaduke from the humane rescue alliance in washington where the crate force dogs and cats are empty as they are in many shelters across the nation. lisa lafontaine the alliance's c.e.o. says this is a turning point. >> because i think more and more animals will be sheltered in people's homes. and that will allow us to turn our resources to more programs that keep animals from becoming homeless in the first place. >> st really warm and comforting to have that contact that i feel like so many of us are missing now. >> the warmth and comfort of pets, helping us get through sth together. >> chip reid, c imrrks s news, washington. >> we could all use a friend in times like these. that's the c brrks s weekend news for this sunday. 60 minutes coming up next. i'm jeff gianola from koin television in portland, captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org trying to keep together, but yeah, it is kind of hard. >> it's going to be really missed. >> now at 6:00, covid-19 claims another bay area business. specialty's is about to serve up its last lunches. i'm john ramos in marin coty sierra snow, we're tracking the next rou of a storm. good evening, the weather. with the exception of showers, it's been a mostly dry day armed the bay. a live look outside shows some large clouds gathering. >> the mountains are on track to pick up a lot of much needed snow. by the time it's all said and done, speaking of it all said and done here's the guy that's going to talk about it. >> let's get to the rain, because we're not done with this storm yet. case in point, there's good rain right now moving through is sonoma county, and just about to come into the city. heelsberg, that's for you. then it works its way over towards jim town. that's a good band of rain working its way over land's end, and just about to go into the golden gate bridge. there's the rain, just about to move over 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