As tracy smith will report in our cover story. Reporter therria vows say te and to hold. But they never said anything about doing it 24 7. I think the biggest thing i realize is she choose too loudly. [laughter] thats true. And jason sleeps too loudly. I think i probably get a lit perturbed quicker than he does. Reporter the highs and lows of lockdown ahead on sunday morning. Pauley our sunday morning cover story, Reese Witherspoon. Shell be talking with our rita braver. We got married in a Fever Reporter she is not only a huge story did you think you were just going to waltz into my house . Reporter but also a respected producer and devoted mother of three. Those dikeest s,cant one m oh,y gosh, i lay on the floor and cry. Reporter later on sunday morning, what keeps Reese Witherspoon going. Pauley he led the nation through another time of crisis, years of war and economic turmoil. Franklin d. Roosevelt was a leader who inspired with both words and deeds. As well hear in a special lookback from john f. D. R was thr when the medium faced war. Different president s, different media, from the days when television was king. You said you needed some abuse, but not to any dominates the media with his thumbs. Ahead o on this sunday morning. Pauley Allison Aubrey examines the healing promise of plasma transfusions. Erin moriarty considers the challenge to students, learning to do without schools. Well visit the zoo with connor knighton. Chef bobby flay serves up mothers day breakfast. Plus steve hartman, jim gaffigan, and more on this sunday morning, the 10th of may, 2020. l momt. Were here for you and were open. Wow. Im an original. One of a kind. You feel me . Love ya. Oop you look cute better than you . Pop my 100 allwhitemeat classic or spicy popcorn chicken combo for just 5. 99. My new bitesized, crispy popcorn chicken is so irresistible youll want them whenever, so dont resist pop em while you game, hang, or do your thing. Pop my 100 allwhitemeat classic pauley mothers day in quarantine, a first wed all prefer to do without. For better or for worse, members of every family and every couple are feeling the strain. And learning new things about each other. Our cover story is reported by tracy smith. Right over there. Reporter samantha bee and jason jones are both known for their comedy, but it turns out theyre especially good at improvising. There weekly show usually tapes in new york city. But when coronavirus shut it down. We are going to really try to bring you a brand new episode of full frontal this week. Reporter . They headed up state, taking their three kids and their show with them. Hold it up higher. I should really be teaching them math. Reporter and now, after 19 years of marriage. Reporter . It is togetherness like never before. Act four, take one. Reporter you guys are full pros of being in each others business. Youve worked together for a long time now. Is it different, now that you are locked down . I think the biggest thing i realized is she choose too loudly. [laughter] thats true. And jason sleeps too loudly. I do. Im a loud sleeper. I dont snore, im just a loud sleeper. [laughter] i make sounds. Reporter kidding aside, for smath tha samantha ad jason and the other 60 million couples in america, the past two weeks have been a real eyeopener. The vows may say until death do us part, but they dont say anything about being together every day, all day. This is a time when people are losing their lives, risking their lives, going to work every day, is it a little indulgent for us to be talking about romance . Not at all. Pain is pain, and suffering is suffering. For some people, theyre suffering loss of life. Other people are losing out on things like theyre not going to go to their childs graduation. And those are real losses. I think it is important this isnt the grief olympics. We deed to measure it. Reporter psychotherapist laur got Lori Gottlieb is the author of maybe you should talk to someone. What kind of things are you hearing from couples . We talk about isolation, and im hearing from couples about not having enough space. George w. Bush used to go down to the ranch and clear brush, i totally get it now. Im in the back, im digging a hole. Reporter there are no holes out here, but a thousand miles away, in memphis, tennessee, devonte and Alyssa Peyton have some of the same issues. And with three kids, and another due in august, privacy is nearly impossible. Its my sanctuary. Reporter your bathtub . Yes, and sometimes the toilet. I just lock the door and just sit. Its quiet, and its the only door that locks in our room. Reporter and having a door that locks might be important for other reasons. Touch is so important. What were experiencing right now is skin hunger. Reporter skin hunger . Skin hunger. It is a phenomenon where i nervous systems get activated when we dont have physical touch. And since were not getting that out in the world, with the hugs and handshakes and the ways we would normally get that, it is really important were getting that from the people were social distancing with. Reporter there is actually something called skin hunger, and we as humans need touch. This expert i love how youre going like this, devonte. Physical touch is my love language. And mine, not so much. [laughter] how we made it to four children, i dont know. Reporter of course, not every marriage is quite as strong ag the peytons. The most recent government figures say the divorce rate actually dropped in the past 10 years, but now there is speculation that the quarantine could make those divorce numbers jump. Have you heard the phrase corona divorce . Yes, of course. Were getting a lot of calls from people at their wits end with their spouses or liveins, and we kind of try to talk them off the edge. Reporter laura wasser is a family law attorney in los angeles. Among her past clients angelina jolie, johnny depp, and maria shriver. The waiting is the hardest part. I represented his wife in their divorce. I got her half of that phone. Reporter with more, too, of the stars of marriage story. Laura dern and Scarlett Johansson both hired laura wasser for their reallife breakups. I have seen couples, how they behave, and i think, there is no amount of counselling that will help them. Reporter is that a point yeah, but i would have to use profanity. Reporter if you have to get away and cant afford her 950 an hour fee, she has a website that will take you through the divorce process for about 1500. But wasser said when the quarantine is lifted, she is not expecting a huge amount of divorces. I think if people use tools and get more intimate with each other, intellectually and physically during this time, they may come out of this quarantine stronger. Reporter you say that as a divorce lawyer . I do. Ive been doing this for a long time, and i see human nature and human relationships, and i think if people can make it through a situation like this, like they say, if it doesnt kill you, it makes you stronger. The same goes for a relationship. Reporter and she may be on to something. Im trying to think of a word that isnt corny. Are there gifts of this lockdown . There are gifts. Im enjoying i feel very close to you. I love you. It is fun working with you. Its why i married you, because i like you. I apologize for being real. Reporter psychotherapist Lori Gottlieb. Are you hopeful about relationships and how everybody is going to end up when were finally allowed outside again . I feel like people are looking at, what matters to me and who really matters to me. 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Reporter with her consent, her doctors administered an experimental treatment a transfusion of plasma donated by someone who had just recently recovered from coronavirus. Believe that thats what saved my life. Reporter so within a few days, you went from being intubated, on a ventilator, to breathing on your own and feeling better . Yes, i did. Reporter were you surprised . I was very surprised. I was til ad hopgain thas hav now received convalescent plasma. It is not clear yet how much it may help, but it is a technique that goes way back. There is a lot of science here. Reporter and dr. Arturo casadevall of Johns Hopkins university stepped up to rct for ea ithe re. Lized that virusfighting antibodies borrowed from recovered patients may help prevent or cure disease. I knew there was an enormous body of experience with the use of convalescent plasma. Reporter but much of this was lost to history. So on february 27th, he penned an oped in the wall street journal. He wrote about a doctor at a Boys Boarding School in pennsylvania, back in 1934, who treated a boy with a serious case of measles. What the doctor did was, he went from the kid who recovered, he took some of his blood, and they gave small amounts to the other children. And then they waited. And the epidemic that was supposed to happen didnt happen. Reporter his article was published just as the first coronavirus deaths in the u. S. Were reported. And at mount sinai hospital in new york, dr. Nicole bouvier would soon be on the front lines, treating lots of Covid Patients. It is incredibly frustrating. It is hard for the front line doctors and the nurses, people who are used to fixing things. Reporter but at the time, there was not a single approved treatment. So behind the scenes, the doctor scrambled to build a coalition of doctors. The first was Michael Joyner of mayo clinic, and then William Hartman of the university of wisconsin, and Nicole Bouvier of mount sinai, and Andreas Klein of tufts uner a crisis, so people get into action mode when there is a crisis. Reporter dr. Joyner led the charge. He worked with the f. D. A. To get more hospitals on board. We just got up every day and kept pushing. Pushing, pushing, pushing. Reporter within weeks, patients were being treated with convalescent plasma. Dr. Klein said what could have taken months or years happened quickly. It is unprecedented, and really inspiring. It is unbelievable. Ive never seen anything like this. Reporter dr. Mussers team was among the first to treat Covid Patients with plasma. I view this as an oldfashioned barn raising. Well get this done. Reporter it may be just a stopgap measure until more treatments and a vaccine come along. I think it will be part of a cocktail, and hopefully it paves the way for a vaccine. This is thein of reporter and this feels good to dr. Hartman, who treated patient lona towsley. What do you think youll tell your children or grandchildren about this extraordinary moment . Ill te tell them the story of a huge movement, that in six weeks time, 2,000 hospitals have come together with the unifying purpose of trying to make people better. And in the end, it is the community that stays in the community. Reporter meanwhile, lona towsley says she will donate her blood as soon as she is completely recovered. If i can save just one person from bog through whagoing throughwhat i went thrd do it in a minute. Reporter if you could meet the person who donated their plasma that was transfused into your body, what would you say to them . Thank you so much forgiving me another chance at life. Nexium 24hr stops acid before it starts for allday allnight protection. Can you imagine 24hours without heartburn . Fifty years ago, humpback whales were nearly extinct. 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Pauley by tradition, mothers day is the special day when children treat mom to a wakeup meal. To honor that tradition, brunch is served by ourn may mog in new york city, when i was 12, my friends had tickets to see a yankees game. Yes, it was so long ago, kids could still do that sort of thing on their own. I went to my mothers bedroom, where she was sipping the first of many cups of coffee. I wished her a happy mothers day and i said im going to go to the bronx. I knew i was going to have to explain to my friends i wasnt making the game. I was staying home to make my mom a very sketchy breakfast. Dorothy flay had a verve for life that was unbounded. She spent most of her adult years as a single mother. And ill just say this i wasnt the easiest kid to raise, culminating with dropping out of high school after ninth grade. Still, when i found some focus and got a job, my mother wound up being my greatest cheerleader. I knew from my experience as a 12yearold, that mothers day had to be planned, no matter what. First of all, it had to be brunch. A classic eggs benedict and a mimosa. It is a champagne, or any sparkling wine that you, and some oranges. Thats it. Classy eggs benedict is a toasted english muffin, with a thin slice of canadian bacon on top of it, and eggs on top of that, and finished off with a classic hollandaise sauce. Here is the secret ingredient to make sure that your poached eggs coagulate or come together. Vinegar. As soon as im ready to go, i gently drop the egg into the water. It makes you look like a pro, poaching eggs. While that took care of the meal there are some hollandaise sauce on top my mothers day planning wasnt done. There was also a dress code. I had to wear a suit, or at the very least, a spots jacket. And then there was the mandatory carnation, a tradition that signified if youre mother was living, a pink one, or a white, which meant she had passed. My mother died almost exactly two years ago, and living through this pandemic has me thinking about her even more. In some ways, im relieved she didnt have to navigate her way through the danger of it. Im pretty sure i would have been pulling dorothy out of her favourite jersey hangout nursing her favorite martini. And today is mothers day, and not even a crisis is going to keep me from celebrating, to me, the greatest mother in the world. She wouldnt allow it. 43 years ago the yankees had to play a game with an today whrson in the coronavirus, youinto sit tne out. Happy mothers day is pauley it is that time of the morning that we remind you, should our sunday morning be interrupted, you can finish the show online as our website. Or check out cbs all access. Challenges abound for stayathome students trying to learn online. And for all too many of them, there are no clear answers. Erin moriarty of 48 hours, a crash course. Reporter 17yearold joshua lynn thought he had his life all mapped out. A junior in a baltimore public high school. He was on the road to a top college and a career as a lawyer. Im going to go to law school and pass the bar, be like you, ms. Erin. Reporter and then in march, without much warning. All Public Schools in maryland will be closed. State of southd thecl o all schn carolina. 98. 8 of our schools have closed down. No one truly had a plan in place for students to, you know, continue that learning at all. Reporter lynn and students throughout the country, including those in college, were suddenly forced to go home and learn remotely, either through online classes, paper packets, or lessons on tv. How big a deal it is. Reporter doug harris, a professor at Tulane University in new orleans, is studying the impact of coronavirus on schools. 25 Million Students are not in school, which hasnt happened. Reporter the pandemic has broadened in inequities that already exist between students. With so many at home without computers or internet service, educators fear that as many as a quarter of them are not engaged in school at all. And how well is it going for those who are . Every student going into every grade level has instruction, but no matter how hard were trying, it is not the same. Reporter Jessica Rutherford is a teacher in vero beach, florida, who works mainly with third through fifth graders who struggle with reading in a school where most students live below the poverty line. You have 30