Mid Morning With Aundrea February 17, 2020 (Part 1)

Today on Mid Morning with Aundrea find out what cars were named the safest, and a special behind the scenes look at the hit show "Macgyver."

That does if you're in the market to buy a new car, you'll want to hear what cars made "safes vehicles" list and, behind the scenes of the hit cbs show "macgyver.

Plus, inside an ice castle.

Midmorning starts right now.

It has been two years since a gunman killed 17 people at marjory stoneman douglas high school in parkland, florida.

Since that time, active shooter drills have become routine for many schools and students.

But now the nation's two largest teachers' unions are pushing to change how they're conducted.

Vladimir duthiers explains.

Unannounced active shooter drills happen at least twice a year at the neptune, new jersey high school where charlize kepler is a freshman.

We met up with charlize and her mom, beth, at their local coffee shop.

"a lot of school are conducting these active shooter drills.

How do you feel about them?"

"i feel sad tha they are necessary, but as a parent it makes me feel comfortable that there's something being done..."

The drill at charlize's school last fall sparked immediate controversy in her community and school districts nationwide.

"no one shoul ever support doing something just because you feel like 'well, we have to do something so let's do this.'

When what you're doing can actually cause trauma and fear for those children."

Lilly eskelsen garcia is the president of the national education association.

The nea wants to end drills where weapons are drawn and actors play roles as victims - sometimes covered with fake blood.

"one of the thing we know is not helpful is to have an active, realistic shooter drill that can frighten, terrorize, traumatize the big people and the little people in that school."

The nea also wants to notify teachers, students and parents in advance of active shooter drills.

"alert, alert this i a drill, we are pretending&" in 2018, cbs this morning aired a live, pre-planned shooter drill with a group of ohio fourth graders.

=kids stacking desks= even with notification and television cameras in their classroom, students revealed how frightening the experience could be.

"who here i scared when they go through these drills?"

As for charlize, the active shooter drills are not traumatic, they're typical.

"... we don't see i as something that's so terrifying as some of the older generations // because it's just kind of how we've grown up and lived."

The keplers do agree with one of the changes the teachers unions would like to see and that's providing students with school-based mental health assistance.

Vladimir duthiers, cbs news, new york.

Under the mississippi school safety act, school districts have active shooter drills twice a year.

They are required within the first 60 days of each semester.

It does not allow teachers the option to opt out.

The insurance institute for highway safety is out with its list of the safest vehicles.

Elise preston reports.

To earn a top safety pick.... vehicles must perform well in six different crash tests.

The insurance institute for highway safety also measures roof strength..

And evaluates whether headlights provide good vision.

This year 64 vehicles earned a top safety pick award, seven more than last year.

And 23 received the highest honor of top safety pick plus.

"it is a encouraging sign, uh, especially since we raised the bar a little bit this year."

I-h-s president david harkey says vehicles had to meet a higher standard in crash tests.

They also were required to have pedestrian detection systems that can prevent an accident.

Of all the automakers mazda took home the most safety pick plus awards with five.

Subaru had four.

Gm's cadillac was the only u-s car company to earn the top award.

"i do think tha vehicles are as safe as we've ever seen them."

But harkey says carmakers can do even better.

"one of the thing we would like to see more improvement on is headlights."

He would like to see top performing headlights become standard on all vehicles... giving drivers a better chance at avoiding an accident in the first place.

Elise preston, cbs news, new york.

Elise preston, cbs news, new york.

Hyundai had eight models that earned a top safety pick award and three were given the top safety pick plus.

A new survey finds many couples are being unfaithful... when it comes to money.

Marin austin looks at how many are committing financial infidelity.

"we have a share account."

Evon and stephen manalasay have been together for nearly 30 years and came to an agreement on finances when they got married.

"he makes th money, i handle the money.

Make sense?"

"so communication?"

"yes.

But many couples are aren't open and truthful when it comes to money.

Creditcards.com surveyed 25- hundred americans in serious reltionships.

They found 44 percent admitted to commiting "financia infidelity" "financia infidelity usually takes one of three forms: it's secret debt, secret accounts, // or it could be secret spending."

Ted rossman from creditcards dot com says 34 percent admit to spending more money than they feel their partner would be comfortable with.

17 percent have kept a secret account and 12 percent carried secret debt "what's even mor surprising is 27% say that it's even worse than physical cheating.

So this is really a big deal for a lot of people."

Millennials are the most likely to be financially unfaithful.

One out of four of has kept a secret bank account hidden from a partner.

24 year-old anna bagley is single but doesn't plan to share a bank account with another person.

"when you jus start out, you're really aware of all your expenses and when you get in to a relationship it's hard to not think about that."

Rossman says honesty is the best policy.

"just make sur that you're on the same page about your income, your expenses, your goals - it's really important."

Couples that invest in a financial communication& can see big dividends in a successful relationship marin austin, cbs news, los angeles.

Talking to babies may seem silly.

But scientists say the way you talk could shape a child's future.

That story pa parents may play a bigger role in their child's speech development than many realize -- according to a new study.

Mandy gaither has more in in today's health minute.

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áhowá parents talk to infants -- is strongly linked to how the child's speech develops -- according to an ongoingstudyrece ntlypublished in proceedings of the national academy of sciences.

-- the study showed that children whose parents who were coached in parentese -- a near-univers speaking style distinguished by higher pitch, slower tempo and exaggerated intonation -- showed significant gains in conversational turn taking and vocalizations between 14 and 18 months.

Coaching meant educating the parent on benefits of speaking to their babies -- and being encouraged to engage the child in back and forth conversational- type exchanges.

One of the authors says children of those coached parents -- produced real words such as ball or milk at almost twice the rate of children whose parents áweren'tá coached to speak parentese.

A previous study on the same group of babies showed parents who were coached to use parentese -- had babies who babbled more and had more words by 14 months than those who were not trained.

For today's health minute, i'm mandy gaither.

A plant-based food company is suing california food regulators, partly over the company's butter.

John ramos has more on the..

Butter battle.

"here at miyoko' creamery in petaluma they're producing butter and cheese from plants.

But according to the dept.

Of food and agriculture that's not what they're doing at all."

Miyoko schinner is on a roll.

Her company turns cashews, oats and legumes into items that taste just like dairy products.

Her best-selling vegan butter just got picked up by costco and her company is doubling in sales each year.

So she was surprised when she got this letter from the california dept.

Of food and agriculture saying she should stop calling her vegan butter&butter.

"when i saw tha letter i actually burst out laughing."

The letter says a product cannot be called butter unless it is made exclusively from milk or cream.

Actually, there are a lot of non- dairy products with "butter" their names but the letter says miyoko's packaging is creating an "erroneou impression" wit consumers.

Miyoko schinner/founder, miyoko's creamery "i don't thin there's a single confused consumer out there&no more than a consumer is confused when they order almond milk.

They know it's not dairy milk&in fact, they're ordering almond milk because they don't want dairy milk."

But the letter doesn't stop there.

It also says the company website must remove this picture of a woman hugging a cow because it implies that's where the product came from.

Miyoko believes this is simply a government agency trying to protect an industry that feels threatened by change.

"yes, they're goin to be threatened and they're going to try to challenge this.

But the fact is there's a huge amount of consumers that are transitioning to a new food system."

Jennifer berretta/berretta family dairy "i don't see he product as a threat to the industry.

I feel her messaging is a threat to the industry.

Jennifer beretta helps operate her family's dairy farm in santa rosa.

She believes miyoko's goal it to put an end to the dairy business altogether&a fact that miyoko doesn't deny.

Jennifer says in this battle, words matter&even words as simple as "milk" and "butte "we're not tryin to control.

We're just making what the definition is, fit.

And milk, the definition is from a mammal."

So what's in a name?

An established industry and an upstart challenger are setting up a battle over butter.

So far the company hasn't changed their packaging, instead filing a lawsuit against the state for violation of freedom of speech.

When we come back, some single guys use dating apps.

Others - reality tv.

But this next guy has a really big idea.

We'll show you when mid morning