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Devin cline practices social distancing on the job. >> its a fun job. >> reporter: hes a snow cat >> reporter: hes a snow cat driver who smoothes out the rough spots on ski slopes as the sun sets each night. but there arent as many skiers cutting tracks in the snow these days, and after-hours business isnt what it used to be. skiing is open, but restricted, at all 10 of utahs world-class resorts. but operators fear closures that have already hit california ski lodges and curtailed ski slope oper...

At 6:00. >> the cbs weekend news is next. news updates are captioning sponsored by cbs captioning sponsored by cbs >> diaz: tonight, breaking news, person of interest in the nashville christmas day bombing. the latest on the investigation, the devastation, and the hero officers. how their quick actions saved lives. >> and i said, "well, we have kids." and she said, "please get your kids out." >> diaz: also tonight, stimulus showdown. president trump tweets his grievances as benefits run out for ...

Shortly after utahs ski season abruptly shut down. back then, he was helping to collect goggles for doctors and nurses at a time when eye protections were in short supply. now hes helping to enforce strict measures to make sure the u.s. ski industry doesnt suffer a $2 billion loss like last year. >> theyre all operating here in utah today under stricter protocols than even our state government has mandated. >> reporter: but the slopes here any other year would be full. tom pollard says many of h...

There today. george blake was 98 years old. straight ahead on the "cbs weekend news," ski resorts adapt to new covid restrictions, trying to save their season and jobs. also, no shovel needed. a kentucky man uses a blow torch to take on the snow. and later, we catch up with teenage scientist gitanjali rao, who has received a timely honor. including the covid-19 virus, on more surfaces than lysol disinfectant spray. lysol. what it takes to protect. than rheumatoid arthritis. when considering anot...

>> reporter: gone, too, are a third of rustlers employees. nearby in park city, with the countys ski-centered economy, the unemployment rate is above 20%. yet, the adventurous are pushing back and doing what it takes for the love of skiing. >> i was split-boarding today, st b guess sticking to the back country more. >> reporter: to get there, he has to get past buffy sarubbi... >> cna you pull up your mask for me? >> reporter: ...a five-year chairlift foreman whose duties expanded this year to i...

And i like the idea of next year being that one, rather than going for lots of small trips and weekends, we look for the one big life changing experience because you dont know when this can happen again and we dont know when it can happen again and as someone who, travel has changed my life so much, yeah, i want to hold onto every second so i think, for me next year, it is all about that big life changing trip. bring on 2021 and the travel show will be bigger, stronger and better! lovely chattin...

Imparting all of that to me. he was also insistent that i learn how to ski. >> back down the slopes. >> daniel: we went out ski vacations all the time i was growing up, and he would have a hot chocolate at the bottom of the hill, but be watching him make sure i was learning all the right moves, knew how to hockey stop, and he wanted me to ski elegantly, not recklessly. >> like that. >> bret: for someone with your level of paralysis, you are able to do a lot. w y your car is not exactly an awful ...

Its roughly the size of britain, but the ice is vanishing fast. billions of tonnes of meltwater pouring into the sea every year. to assess the damage, the biggest science survey in antarctic history got under way. the glacier holds a colossal amount of water, and if it collapses, cities around the world could be swamped by the rising seas. this ice here is very accessible to change, and so if we are thinking about what the sea level is going to look like in ten years, this glacier is the place t...

For a bumper christmas season. but it, and all italian ski resorts, have been shut by the government to slow coronavirus. its in the province of bergamo, worst hit in italy by the pandemic. and now theres the financial shock. translation: at christmas, we make up half of our season. losing it causes irreparable damage that well never make up. and i imagine some businesses here wont survive. what we from bergamo lived through in march was very frightening, hearing the sound of ambulances. we must...

This is a real post office, but also i am helping santa claus with his letters. $0, children write to santa claus, they make wish lists, also they tell about their families. and the letters, they are a little bit different when they come from western countries, then they have a little story about themselves, about the childrens life and hobbies, but they have bigger lists. because of coronavirus, the post office was forced to close this year for seven months, for the first time in its history. p...