nicole and jeff spery. we are just look at those pictures of your daughter, theresa. i love the picture with her hands on her hip. she clearly looked like a spunky little girl. nicole, tell me about her. >> she was a very caring person. i always said that she was my mini me. when she was born, she came out looking exactly like me. none of my boys look like me. she has my same personality, my same smile. she made a point to make sure to make friends to anybody. she would wave and say hi to random people, compliment them on their hair or their shirt. she just always thought of others. >> i want to point out, jeff, you have covid right now, you were in the hospital last night. how are you? >> i have a breakthrough case of covid-19. i'm fully vaccinated but i was in the hospital last night. i'm here. it's too important for me to be here so i want to make sure this doesn't happen to other families. >> and i understand that because you all as i have been told followed all of the protocols, you drove your kids to school so they wouldn't have to be on the bus, you wore masks.

the legendary lucille ball. >> reporter: it's your first look at nicole kidman as lucille ball. >> i get paid a fortune to do exactly what i love doing. >> reporter: the film is written and directed by andrew sorkin. and javier bardem plays her husband desi arnez. based on the trailer, it appears one of the show's most iconic scenes made the cut. yes, we're talking about lucy stomping some grapes. the film premiers in theaters and streaming platforms this december. >> is that lucille ball or nicole kidman. . >> it looks so much like the original scene stomping the grapes. the preview is really interesting because you hear her voice as lucille ball, and she sounds exactly like her. >> i know. i think it's amazing. she's had some roles where you just get lost in the role. you forget it's her. and i love javier bardem. >>> democrats seem to be nearing a deal on the spending bill. we have details about the concessions, and they are significant. president biden proposed during meetings with progressives and moderates yesterday. >>> an emotional school board meeting in texas where a school

did you feel that way, nicole? >> yes, especially after when i could actually look at what was being talked about in public eye and such. >> was it character assassination? lisa? >> i believe so. >> why? >> i've heard comments that george floyd may have been led a life less than stellar, so why are we -- why are we putting him up and honoring him because of his past choices in life, which have absolutely nothing to do with it -- with the situation. and it makes me upset. it angers me that people can judge him based on his decisions he's made and his struggles in life, which has nothing to do with this. everybody has a right to live and have dignity and -- >> did that play a role into did his life and what he did -- did that play a role? >> not for me. >> in the decision? that didn't even come up in our deliberations. >> the defense brought it up a lot. >> the overdosing, i mean that was something we did discuss. it was there a potential this was an overdose. it looked -- i mean i think when the girlfriend testified

joining me now is her mother, nicole. nicole, thank you for being with us. i am so sorry for your loss. it has been just a little over two weeks since theresa passed away. where do you find the strength to speak out like you are? >> it's -- it's mostly from her. you know, she -- we did everything we could to protect people, and she's not here anymore. and i feel like i have to fight for her to make sure people know that this is still going on. >> the day that she left you, there was a school board meeting to remove the mask mandate in your area, where people were saying covid is over. what was it like for you to hear that? >> i was enraged. i'm sitting next to her, you know, and wishing she was going to just wake up and i was, like, if this was over, then i wouldn't be sitting in the icu room looking at her and just -- i was lost at that moment. and i was enraged because people were still saying this. and it was -- i was -- i was enraged when i heard it. and that's when i knew i wanted to speak at the school board meeting. >> we have been putting pictures of

. >> nicole, i'm so sorry. we're so sorry to both of you. jeff, i know that, like you were in the hospital last night and you thought it important enough to be here with us. what do you want to say? >> i want to say my baby was happy. she was healthy and strong. and it took her in less than five days. if it can take her, it can take anybody. i don't, the only way this makes sense is for her to save people. i don't want other people to have to do what we're going right now. because it hurts. >> it's not fair. >> it's hard. >> oh, my god, that is so tragic. joining us now to discuss is dr. biset, emergency medicine physician. also the medical director of the baylor college of medicine. no, it is not over and that family's experience helps exemplify that. when you hear this number, 700,000 lives lost and that this country is now leading in deaths, you know, around the world, i talked to a doctor who said it's a horrible number, but making it worse is about 100,000 of the deaths came after the vaccine had been made available. so those were possi

nicole sperry lost her 10-year-old daughter to covid. less than 24 hours later, she was stand anything a podium to fight back against misinformation at a virginia school board meeting. just last month, parents denied the existence of the virus and called for the removal of the district's mask mandate. >> covid is not over. no matter what who have been standing up here have said. i was sitting next to my healthy daughter's death bed. she died five days after showing symptoms. >> the courage and the strength it took for her to go one day after the funeral to give that message to other students and parents in that school district. i just hope that they listen. >> yeah. ive just think of the pain. i think there are a lot of people, and that mother, god bless her soul, feels like she might be shouting into the wind, this chasm. she knows what it can do. >> you have to think someone will hear that and take it to heart. >>> ahead, the brooklyn nets benching one of their star players because of his refusal to get vaccinated. what kyrie irving is

but we do know that gabby's mom, nicole schmidt, told "the daily mail" that she texted both brian and his mom roberta laundrie on september 10, saying she was trying to get in touch with gabby. she says neither of them responded to her. the next day, on september 11th, gabby's mom filed a missing persons report in new york. she told the "dr. phil" show that at first she was worried about both of them until police told her that brian was back home in florida with the van. >> i felt it the night i found out the van was in florida, on the 11th. i felt in my heart that she was gone. >> you knew then? >> when did the north port police first make contact with the laundrie family and were they cooperative? >> the first time that we had interaction with that family was on september 11th, very late at night, blending over into the 12th after midnight. and i would say that they were not cooperative as far as sharing any details. you know, any time you come and you're potentially trying to figure out if -- is someone missing, are they just not wanting to talk to their family, like what's going o

. >> nicole? >> now they will. >> anything you guys would like to -- anybody would like to say to the floyd family? >> we feel for you. we're sorry. we hope as a group we did the right thing. >> absolutely. >> is there anything that any one of you would like to say to derek chauvin? anybody? >> why? >> what were you thinking? >> why? >> why did you do this? why didn't you get up? that's been the question on everybody's mind. why did you stay there so long? why? >> why? thank you so much. a lot of people still asking that question, why? why did george floyd have to die? why did derek chauvin do what he did? as i said, right after that verdict was rendered, the jury has spoken. they spoke when they rendered the verdict. now they have spoken out publicly for the first time, and most of them -- many of them, if not all, want it to be their only time to speak out. they don't want the media at their door. in this moment, it is tough for them because they are concerned about their safety. they're concern

." >> my name is nicole. i spent 21 years in the united states air force as an officer and fighter pilot. i was selected to be the first woman to pilot in 2005. i got bit by a tick, overnight i went from a healthy firefighter to someone completely broken. i was bedridden 22 to 23 hours a day. for nine months struggled to walk, talk, read, write. they diagnosed me with late stage neurological tick born illness. i was medically retired from the military and i remember thinking to myself what am i going to do. i had an opportunity as an outgoing colonel to make things better for airmen dealing with chronic illness. >> guess who took the stage, this gal. >> reporter: i could read people as a professional speaker and give voice as a patient add video account. i serve on the research panel for tick research. we don't understand what the scientific mechanism is why we stay sick. 20% that get lyme disease never fully recover. i am one of those people. i need to represent them with honor, dignity, respect they deserve

on sunday nicole said good-bye to her 10-year-old daughter killed by covid. less than 24 hours later, she was combatting misinformation at a virginia school board meeting. >> covid is not over. no matter what people who have been standing up here have said. >> i was sitting next to my healthy daughter's death bed. she died five days after showing symptoms. >> thankfully, the members are starting to trend down, but there are 1500 children in hospitals with covid across the u.s. kids now represent 25% of weekly reported cases. these are children who are not old enough to get an authorized vaccine. it's the grown ups who are old enough. it's the grown ups who are responsible for protecting the children. the people who are not vaccinated are basically incubators. >> they're playing a dangerous game. >> and these lower case numbers, though, they're prompting coachella and the stage coach music festivals in southern california to ease policies on covid vaccinations. they will not be required to present full vaccination. concert goers will be allowed to show proof o

here's gabby's mother nicole schmidt. >> i told her to be careful, be safe. make sure to be aware of your surroundings. don't trust everybody. i knew -- but i felt safe because she was with brian and i felt like she would be okay. i think -- i thought he would take care of her. just want to get him in a cell for the rest of his life. >> so nichole schmidt telling the interviewer she thought her daughter would be safe traveling with her fiance. gabby had lived with brian and his parents in that home together in north port florida for more than a year. so it's very clear this family is still very much struggling and they still want answers, of course, from the laundry family, from chris and roberta laundrie. they want to know why they aren't saying more to help them get the answers they need to solve this case. >> is there any update on the whereabouts of brian laundrie? >> no updates. no confirmed sightings. it's not at all clear that law enforcement is any closer to finding him. we know that they've spent weeks searching that nature reserve near the laundrie

someone like nicole price who has been fired in schools throughout mississippi and kansas. she generally gets a phone call after something racist happens and white school leaders are often in a state of shock. >> am i surprised? that's the question i get the most. >> reporter: what do you say? >> well, i'm not surprised. i'm disappointed but never surprised because here is the thing. when people are not educated in the head and heart, they will do things that will surprise some people but because i spend my life trying to make sure that education is at the forefront because that's how we can help fix this, i know that we had to have some regression. >> the job can be a challenge in the current environment price says. after one missouri school district hired her to lead a session the school board got threats. >> i had a driver and asked for extra security of which they obliged. they were the ones getting the threats. >> to attend the school board meeting you felt you needed security? >> i was actually going to the school to give a keynote presentation on radical empathy. >>

nicole schmidt speaking out about her daughter's death. she says she wants to see petito's fiance, brian laundrie, behind bars. schmidt tells 60 minutes australia she urged her daughter to be careful as she and laundrie set off on a road trip across the country. >> i worried. i told her to be careful, be safe, you know, make sure that -- to be aware of your surroundings, you know, don't trust everybody. i knew. but i felt safe because she was with brian and i felt like she would be okay. i thought he would take care of her. i just want to get him in a cell for the rest of his life. >> brian laundrie has not been charged in petito's death and he remains missing. over the weekend, petito's family posted photos from wyoming, where her body was found. the family has received petito's remains, so now they can lay her to rest. >>> a judge denying bail for a once prominent south carolina attorney embroiled in a string of scandals and tragedies. alex was in court just a short time ago for a bond hearing. this is the man whose wife and son were mur

we do know that gabby's mom, nicole schmidt, told the "daily mail" that she texted brian and his mom, roberta laundrie, on september 10th saying she was trying to get in touch with gabby. she says neither of them responded to her. the next day on september 11th, gabby's mom filed a missing persons report in new york. she told the "dr. phil" show that at first she was worried about both of them until police told her that brian was back home in florida with the van. >> i felt it the night i found out the van was in florida on the 11th. i felt in my heart that she was gone. >> just you knew then? >> when did the northport police first make contact with the laundrie family, and were they cooperative? >> the first time that we had interaction with that family was on september 11th. very late at night. blending over into the 12th after midnight. and i would say that they were not cooperative as far as sharing any details. you know, any time you come and you're potentially trying to figure out if -- is someone missing, are they just not wanting to talk to their family, what's going on, and y