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KPIX CBS Overnight News July 13, 2024

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At last count, 60,000 servicemen and women have been sent into action against this new invisible enemy, but there is another mission for military leaders when it comes to defending their own ranks against the threat of infection. And these days, that starts in basic training. David martin has the story for 60 minutes. Reporter everything in the army starts with basic training. And every day st but it never looked or sounded like this before. Everything your hands will touch, everything, its got to get wiped down. Your beds, everything. If it collects dust, youre going to wipe it down. Do you understand . Yes, sir, yes. Reporter its not dust drill sergeant is worried about, its coronavirus. Thats why he takes every recruits temperature first thing. If your organization is infected by Something Like this, you know, these people, these initial entry trainees are our combat power. So if they go down and if we cant do it safely, then we are rendering ourselves obsolete. Do you understand . Reporter last month 63 recruits in a class dupended basic training. Youre going to do everything that i tell you. You do not move unless i tell you to. Reporter thats not a recruit hes barking at. Its a fourstar general. Make sure youre standing on top of the red and white x. Is that clear . Reporter he took on the role of a recruit to witness the revamp training firsthand. After coronavirus had forced the army to stop taking in new soldiers. We took a twoweek pause. Reporter for two weeks youre not taking in any recruits . Thats correct. Reporter has that ever happened before . Im not aware of any time at least in my 39 years where we stopped taking recruits in. But these are different times. Reporter training is still going on at fort jackson for recruits who arrive before the twoweek pause. But now every soldier is wearing a face mask. Loading up on Hand Sanitizer before moving into firing position and trying to stay 6 feet apart. Please stop. Stop. Keep your distance. Reporter we call it social distancing. The army calls it tactical dispersion. We have been executing socially distance enabled training since week two. Reporter either way Lieutenant Colonel Patrick Collins says its a problem. Day to day our biggest problem is keeping them in that 6 feet because you tend to tell them, okay, separate, get your 6 feet, you know. Couple minutes later kind of natural human behavior, they start clustering again and you have to tell them again. Move back, move back. Reporter nothing at fort jackson is normal any more. The army says it has the bestdressed soldiers in the world. Tailors who alter uniforms for a better fit are now turning out face masks. These are brandnew, brandnew. Reporter and the singlemost important equipment he saw on his tour was a pair of highspeed covid19 test machines. That gives us the ability to test 750plus in one day with a oneday turn around. And then they go and we test that bubble also. We continue to expand the bubbles of testing to make sure we cut it off rather than watch it spread. Reporter the chief of staffs job is to get the army ready to fight. These days the general says he spends three quarters of his time trying to fight coronavirus to keep his soldiers healthy. Just six weeks ago he was sending heavy armour to europe for one of the largest exercises since the cold war. The toughest decision we had to make was to cancel defender 20. Reporter defender 20 meant sending an entire divisionsize force and its equipment to europe just as the virus was assaulting the continent. We just started war gaming. What would happen if we had 15 or 20,000 soldiers in a very close environment and, you know, the virus broke out, how would we take care of them . And did we want to put our soldiers at that much risk for c d we chose not to. Reporter you have to curtail training. You have to postpone major exercises. Thats got to take a toll on the readiness of the army. From where i sit, im looking at the long game. And the long game is that we have to protect the force to protect the nation. Reporter how big a price have you paid so far . I dont think we paid a huge price yet. Am i concerned long term . Absolutely. Ill be honest. Its been a little bit intimidating thinking about it. You train in your career to fight an enemy you can see. This is one that you cant. Reporter air force Brigadier General Fighter Pilot is about as far removed from basic training as it gets. Underneath 1500 feet of granite at this command post, inside Cheyenne Mountain, colorado. It is a secure location we intend to operate out o reporter Cheyenne Mountain was built to withstand a nuclear blast. But every time a watch team makes this half mile walk into the mountain, they risk bringing the virus with them. Which is why each team spends 14 days in quarantine before going on duty. When their watch starts first step you do, you start wiping down every surface. Your computers, telephone, desk surfaces, door handles, et cetera, to make sure all those are clean as well. Its a bit like an obsessive compulsive disorder, but we have to be able to make sure that theres no exposure to that virus. Reporter because our 60 minutes team had not been quarantined, our cameras were not allowed inside the mountain. This footage was shot by the military. The interview was conducted from the pentagon. When occasionally we have to bring somebody from outside into our bubble for work on an i. T. System, for example, we scatter like cockroaches. Its as if this is the most dangerous thing weve ever done in our careers. Its not being shot at, its not flying combat. Its actually having somebody from outside the bubble arrive inside of her. Reporter this command center performs what they call a zerofail mission. A 24 7 watch against a missile or bomb era tack on the united states. Since the pandemic began, Cheyenne Mountain has scrambled as three times. Do you think they were testing you at all, to see if anybody was home at Cheyenne Mountain . I suspect the way they look at the authorities, probably is related to understanding our ability to operate in a covid environment. Reporter Cheyenne Mountain was ready for the russians, but not for coronavirus. This is something new. This is something that we had to invent on the fly. As our adversary was not exactly like the one we planned to fight. There are so many aspects of whats going on nowhat are not thte dng. Reporter general oshaughnessy is the man in charge of defending the home land. He had plans for dealing with all kinds of disasters, including a pandemic. But nothing on this scale. Often we practice what we call the complex disasters where we might have an earthquake maybe that hit multiple states and we consider those to be complex, and to have an actual disaster declared in the 50 states and the responses happening with them. That is unprecedented. Reporter so, you know the old saying about plans. No plan ever survives First Contact with the enemy. This plan did not survive contact with the enemy. Reporter despite all the top secret intelligence he sees, oshaughnessy did not have a good understanding of the virus. Having an enemy that you dont fully understand is always a little bit frustrating. And you can see the full 60 minutes report on our website, cbsnews. Com. The overnight news will be right back. Overseas, british war hero captain tom moore celebrated his 100th birthday yesterday. Captain moore raised tens of millions to help fight the coronavirus by holding a charity walk through his own garden. And as Charlie Dagata reports, a grateful nation showed its love. Reporter 125,000 birthday cards for captain tom who wants to be known asintom,trdrred thi morning. A lot of these birthday cards are written by children. This one reads, youre never too old to dream a new dream. What kind of guy gets a spit fire and hurricane fly by for his birthday . A birthday card from the queen. And a message from the prime minister. We wish you a very happy 100th birthday. Reporter a guy like captain tom moore. Can i be one of the first to wish you a happy 100th birthday . Thank you very much. Thats very kind of you. Reporter you got 125,000 birthday cards this year. How many did you get last year . Do you remember . [ laughter ] maybe five or six or so. Reporter a lots changed since captain tom unwittingly stepped onto the worlds stage a few weeks ago, raise a bit of money and support for overwhelmed Health Care Workers dealing with the horrors of coronavirus. Theyre all working so hard and if they continue to work hard and puttingelves intmortala hero. Cter h believes her father stepped upe and its the message that we are l united. And iis the message that it doesnt take one generation. Were all in it together. Reporter along the way, the now 100yearold world war ii veteran on a mission found new friends in high places. Hes a oneman fundraising machine. We dont know what the final total will be. Reporter he hoped to raise 1200. It has soared to more than 30 million. And even when hed finished his walk, it wasnt over. He took part in a charity single. Youll never walk alone, and became the oldest british number one artist in history. It would be great if i was the youngest. Reporter captain toms days of walking for charity have ended but we do have an update. Listen to this. Its now around 40 million that hes raised, 1 million today alone. And that is the overnight news f this friday. From the cbs news studios captioning sponsored by cbs a odonnell tonight, most of america begins to reopen as fears mount of a second wave. 35 states ease restrictions, which means millions more americans can go to shopping malls, movie theaters, and restaurants. But are people afraid to go . California closes many popular beaches because of big crowds. And tonight, this scene in michigan protesters, some of them armed, flood the state capitol, demanding the governor reopen. Economic despair 30 million file jobless claims in the past six weeks. Plus, a milelong line for food in dallas. Operation warp speed the ambitious plan to have 300 million doses of a covid19 vaccine ready by the end of the

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