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CBS News poll: Majority of Americans say coronavirus fight going badly

As COVID-19 cases rise across the country, Americans offer some of their most dire views on the pandemic to date: record numbers say efforts against the outbreak are going badly. CBS News elections and surveys director Anthony Salvanto joins CBSN to discuss Americans’ views on the ongoing pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement. Source

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“Sunday Morning” Matinee: “Chasing Rainbows: The Road to Oz”

The cast of the Broadway-bound musical “Chasing Rainbows: The Road to Oz,” about the early life of Judy Garland, performs the “Wizard of Oz” star’s signature song, “Over the Rainbow,” presented by Garland’s daughter, actress Lorna Luft, and recorded especially for “Sunday Morning” viewers. Source

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All her sons

When the AIDS crisis hit in the 1980s, Ruth Coker Burks — who’d inherited 262 plots in a family cemetery in Hot Springs, Arkansas — became a mother of sorts to countless sons, many abandoned by families and churches because they were suffering from what was then called “the gay cancer” — and in many cases she gave them a final resting place. Seth Doane reports on the woman who has been called “The Cemetery Angel,” who gave – and received — so many precious gifts. (This report, originally broadcast December 1, 2019, received an Excellence in Journalism Award from NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists.) Source

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