♪ ♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> i'm errol barnett and we've got a lot more to tell you about this morning, including an election security. two weeks ago, senate republicans blocked a bill that would give states a billion dollars to shore up the security of their vote tallies and require paper back-up ballots. the foreign governments, spacial russia, expected to try and influence next year's presidential election, the u.s. cyber security and infrastructure security agency is hard at work to protect the vote. tony dokoupil reports. >> this is the core of home land security and national security right now. it cuts to the heart of what america is. >> that's what i always say.

it's not that national security is election security. fundamentally what we do in this agency is ensuring that this experiment of our constitutional republic can continue forward. >> reporter: until recently chris krebs was the head of cyber security policy for microsoft. now he's the top u.s. official responsible for protecting the vote, and he does it as head of an agency created after the 2016 election, when according to investigators, russian agents breached voter databases in at least two states. in addition to hacking and releasing emails from democratic officials. >> the russians are continuing to destabilize our form of government and way of life in general. >> reporter: they want to undermine democracy? >> that's right. that's their planning factor. they're trying to get in our head, hack our brain, so to speak, and have us lose faith in our processes. this is our collaboration space. >> reporter: krebs gave us rare access to a classified area he calls the watch floor where teens constantly monitor for

digital threats. so on election day 2020, what will this look like? >> we will have campaign officials, we will have state and local departments, federal bureau of investigations, everybody will be in here sharing information in real . >> reporter: right now the scenario that worries krebs the most is the so-called ransomware attack, targeting election offices. what if somebody locked up a voter registration database a month in front of an election? >> okay. what are our fall back positions? >> reporter: you're gaming that out now? >> absolutely. >> reporter: the department of home land security is working with thousands of local jurisdictions in all 50 states. and one of its top goals is making sure every digital vote is backed up with an old-fashioned paper record. for the 2020 election, i think we're looking at about 92% of the votes in america will be cast associated with a paper ballot. >> reporter: not to be a sin i can, 92% still leaves millions of votes with no back-up. >> no, that's absolutely

correct. that's why, again, i'll take every day we have between now and then, 2020, to continue improving the security of these systems out there. >> reporter: as they secure the machinery that supports our elections, they are also keeping an eye on the information that drives them. the feds have worked with social media platforms to counter misinformation and they have published documents warning the public in simple terms about foreign interference. >> it's textbook. it's identify the divisive issue. get it out there, get people engaged, and then really start driving the wedge issues, and splitting people apart. >> reporter: how do you deal with the situation where the president of the united states is himself tweeting and retweeting conspiracy theories? potential misinformation, in some cases unverified accounts that twitter later takes down? and in the case of his son, the mueller report found he retweeted a russian operative. so what do you do -- your

mission to clean up disinformation and misinformation online -- when some of the figures promoting that are tied to the president of the united states or are the president himself? >> yeah, so, you know, the president has obviously a very high profile twitter -- twitter presence. we operate at a different -- in a different space at a different level. we're in the security space. the president's twitter account and what he says stands on its own. what we need to be able to do is provide every american, you know, a foundation where they can discern on their own whether that's legitimate or not. >> reporter: so even though president trump has sometimes cast doubt on russia's interference in 2016, the trump administration, the government at large, is prepared for russia, north korea, china, iran in 2020? >> look, i've gotten all the direction from the white house i need. as far as i understand, it's coming straight in the oval.

make sure that election security is priority and protected 2020 election. >> the trump administration is proposing a controversial new rule that would allow faith-based adoption and foster organizations to deny their services to lgbtq couples. now, critics say it's a license for discrimination. jan crawford has more. he will >> it was the most incredible gift that i could have received. and just want to give that to someone else. >> reporter: as someone who was adopted, kerry ann hamilton always knew she would do the same when it came time to expand her family. she and her partner l.j. are in the early stages of the process. but a proposed rule by the department of health and human services would allow foster care and adoption agencies to reject lgbtq families on religious grounds. the move would also apply to other programs receiving federal grants, including those that help with hiv prevention or homelessness.

>> what this rule does it eliminates the number of willing and loving and safe families for children who are in need of homes, and that to me is very troubling. >> reporter: proponents of the new rule dispute that claim. travis weber is with the family research council, a christian advocacy group. >> this really just allows a bigger pool of organizations and parents who could pick from an organization that aligns with their own beliefs and philosophy on the family and on where a child should be placed. >> reporter: in a statement, the family equality council, an advocacy group for lgbtq families, said the rule will further limit the pool of loving homes available to america's 440,000 children living in foster care. and puts providers' interest in discriminating over the needs of youth in care. >> it's really unfair to call someone's long-4eheld religious beliefs -- it's important these organizations have the ability to place these children and

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so, it's been decades now since punk reigned over the musical landscape. but when it did, the godfather of the genre was iggy pop. now 72 years old, the musical legend is back with his 18th solo album "free. anthony mason gave it a listen. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: iggy pop has always been a primal performer, an artist who literally bled for his audience. it was iggy who invented the stage dive. at 72, he has finally stopped. >> i haven't stage dived all year. >> reporter: you have not? >> i've done 12 gigs. i work the front. i'll get in their faces, but i can't -- i can't do that any more. i did it up through last year. >> reporter: yeah. >> and if i do it now, it's something liable to detach itself. >> reporter: his last album, post pop depression, released in

2016, was his first to crack the top 20 on the pop charts. how did that feel? >> it sort of felt like -- okay. >> reporter: done that. >> yeah, exactly. it was, okay. for those of you who didn't think -- you don't have to do that every time. ♪ she wants to be a james bond >> reporter: this time for his 18th solo album "free" iggy is crooning over a jazzier groove. >> my skills are better than they were 20 years ago. i can, i can handle a tune now, and i wanted to do that. >> reporter: iggy made his name in the late '60s as the howling frontman for detroit punk pioneers, the stooges. he remembers trying to explain his singing to a girlfriend's father. >> she had told him i was a vocalist. he said, well, you must sound like neil diamond.

1969, you know, i didn't want to be neil diamond, although i recognize his quality. >> reporter: iggy is the alter ego of james osterberg, jr., who has been married since 2008 to nina alu. she said, i couldn't live with an iggy pop, but i can live with jim. >> yeah, sure. >> reporter: are they two very different people? >> they should be. put it that way. >> reporter: jimmy osterberg grew up in a trailer park in ypsilanti, michigan. these are your folks? >> this is my father, james osterberg, sr., my name sake, and this is lou ella, my mother. >> reporter: jimmy was voted most likely to succeed in high school. but when music became his passion, his father, an english teacher, did not approve. >> it seemed like a head in the clouds dream to him. but at the end of his life, he took my hand and told me that i

made my dreamcome true. >> reporter: he did? >> yeah. he's a great man. >> reporter: what did it mean to you to hear your dad say that at the end? >> i was shocked at his generosity. he was trying to square things with me a little bit, you know? he also told me, you were right about vietnam. ♪ it's 1969 okay >> reporter: this summer marked the 50th anniversary of the stooges debut album. but iggy, the last surviving member, saw no reason to celebrate. you turned down a chance to do a tribute at madison square garden. >> yeah. that would have turned into such a hype fest. i'm not a madison square garden guy. >> reporter: but he did accept a lifetime achievement award from british gq. >> there was no speech, you know. just thanks, thanks, thanks,

ciao. >> reporter: you like it like that? >> i like it like that. yeah, yeah. >> reporter: in a new book of his lyrics, till wrong feels right, iggy looks back on his career. >> it was really fun to do the '60s, the '70s. by the '80s i'm getting grumpy. >> reporter: and by the '90s he writes he'd become an endangered species. when it turns to the 20th century, you say i crawled out of my dark cave and into the limelight of love and acceptance. >> yeah, and it's -- that's tongue in cheek. >> reporter: but there's some truth to it? >> there is a lot of truth to that. ♪ >> reporter: he remembers a moment driving in miami, where he moved in the '90s. >> i pulled into a gas station in like old cadillac convertible. all of a sudden, vroom, vroom, from two opposite directions. two cop cars come screeching up and flank me. and i thought, oh, [ bleep ]. and they both went, iggy pop! man, tell us about it, whatever, you know?

and i realized, hey, i'm in. this is cool. not everybody.

a first grade girl from little rock, arkansas, is changing the face of the u.s. military. or at least, u.s. military toys. steve hartman found her story on the road. >> i'm coming in for another shot. >> reporter: it was during one of her brother's air raids that 6-year-old vivian lord was struck. struck by the fact her army men were just that, men. >> i noticed that there was no girl army men. >> reporter: no girls? >> they don't make them. >> reporter: and were you disappointed when you found out there weren't any? >> very disappointed. i don't know why anybody has not thought of that. >> reporter: so the little girl from little rock, arkansas, wrote a letter that read, in part, please, can you make army men girls that look like women?

she sent copies to several army men manufacturers, including jeff imel, owner of bmc toys in scranton, pennsylvania. >> i've never gotten a letter from a child like that. every now and then somebody asks do you have any female toy soldiers. >> reporter: the answer is no. although jeff says it is on a list of future potential projects. he even showed vivian some of his concept drawings. >> they were doing sketches, but they were busy making boy army men. >> reporter: vivian just can't understand why this has to be so hard. >> i'm not a big company. it's expensive to produce a new figure set, so i have to do my due diligence and make sure it's actually something people want. >> reporter: jeff said a lot of people don't want women in the vintage plastic military. part of the push back over the years was there weren't women in combat during world war ii. so including them in a traditional set, brandishing anything other than a nurse's bag wouldn't be historically accurate.

might confuse the poor tikes. of course, dinosaurs and chewbacca never fought on the same battle field either, yet no one has an issue with that pretend play. why not empower young girls by including womesoldiers in these sets? >> so -- >> reporter: get ready, vivian. >> -- i'm going to do it. >> reporter: you're going to do it? >> i'm gonna do it. >> reporter: so vivian put this to the top of the list. >> she put it to the top of the list easily. >> reporter: shortly after receiving vivian's letter, jeff commissioned the first prototype. he expects them to be ready by christmas 2020. >> and that makes me so very happy. i want to play with them every day. >> reporter: every day? a decisive victory in the battle for equality. >> i'm trying to your airplane. >> reporter: steve hartman, on the road in little rock, arkansas. >> all right. and that is the overnight news for this wednesday. for some of you, the news continues. but for others, check back with us a bit later for the morning news and, of course, "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center here in new york city, i'm errol barnett.

it's wednesday, november 6th, 2019. this is the "cbs morning news." mexico massacre. new details of heroism after nine american women and children are killed in a suspected cartel hit. declaring victory. democrats and republicans celebrating after election results are tallied in heated races in key state. what the races say about campaign 2020. thrown to the ground, a florida deputy finds himself behind bars after an incident at a school. captioning funded by cbs captioning funded by cbs good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. this morning, there's been a