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choices include governors, mayors, lawmakers and former obama administration officials. then there's the conventions. no funny hats, bad dancing or balloon drops this year. democrats are still planning for with coronavirus cases a mostly virtual event. spiking in many states, a lot of though biden still plans to people want to know if it's safe to use a public restroom. accept the nomination in milwaukee. after a not so filled arena in richard schlesinger has a look behind the stall door. tulsa and surging coronavirus cases in florida, the president last week cancelled plans to >> reporter: it is certainly not hold his convention in jacksonville. the sort of thing one mentions in polite company. another big concern in the coming weeks, foreign so forgive us for mentioning interference. the nation's top counterintelligence official says he's primarily concerned with china, russia and iran, but public restrooms. other countries and groups could also do harm to our elections. but covid and changing hem and finally, there's how you will you are bound to notice before cast your ballot and how your vote will be counted. too long. >> the state of the american polling locations could be limit restroom, well, it's evolving. wit less available poll workers >> reporter: katherine anthony is the vice president of the american restroom association, due to covid concerns. and, yes, you heard that right. election officials anticipate >> you do what you need to do historic demand for absentee and you come out. >> reporter: she's an voters unwilling or unable to architecture professor who vote in person. thinks a lot about american restrooms.
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>> there's great room for so that could lead to scenes improvement, and in this era of like this one in new york city covid, it's more and more where they're still counting important that we all have thousands of absenteeal clean, safe restrooms to go to. from congressional primaries >> reporter: right now the held almost five weeks ago. american restroom association in some states early voting believes there are too many begins 41 days from today. surfaces to touch and too little and in each of the states that privacy in the privy. allow for absentee balloting, of course, there is a deadline. >> these days with covid, you some cases it's just a few days just don't want things spreading from one place to another. before election day. in some cases it's about two weeks out. >> reporter: you don't have to be dr. fauci to see that the current design of the american an iconic vehicle is making restroom with all that open aa comeback. space does very little to the ford bronco will ride again control the spread of covid. in 2021. it was a big hit at its formal today's bathroom stalls usually unveiling earlier this month. have partitions that conceal and while new broncos won't be only the bare minimum. delivered until next spring, you the idea of partitions that can make a reservation for the leave up space goes back at suv now. ford says you'll be contacted in least to frank lloyd wright, who december to configure your championed it in this building vehicle and set a price. i got to see what the buzz was in buffalo, among others. he thought these restrooms would all about. >> you need a bronco. be easy to clean. >> reporter: the ford bronco rides again. a moment robert parker has been at bradley international airport waiting 24 years to see. he's owned 12 broncos so far and in connectcut, the new bathrooms are private and can't wait to park a 2021 model
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touchless and even featur a next to the classic 1972 he's light outside the stall to tell you if it's being used. restoring. >> when i think about bronco i and these new bathrooms aren't think about, you know, my bucket just more private, they might well be much safer. list, things i've always wanted scientists have been studying to do, places i've always wanted what happens when a toilet is, to see. >> the bronco, a totally new pardon me, flushed. concept in transportation. >> reporter: when ford this animation from the journal introduced the 1966 bronco, it was unlike anything on the road "physics of fluids" illustrates or off it. what is called the plume. >> the bronco is a roadster, >> well, i think that you want to make sure that microbes wide open, all fun and aren't escaping the toilet when adventure. >> reporter: its original code you flush it. name, g.o.a.t., go over any terrain, and bronco was the >> reporter: jim walsh is the vice president of product first vehicle dubbed an suv. marketing at the american >> in the service of america, ford, the mass builder, has made standard company where they're thousands of jeeps. racing to figure out how to eliminate the plume. >> reporter: its inspiration traces to world war ii and the >> so what do you do to combat ford-built general purpose or that? gp. >> it's all about the velocity, jeeps designed to go wherever the troops needed to. angles and design of the toilet >> when coming in for a landing, bronco can take it. >> reporter: over the next 30 that's receiving it that limits the splash. years, through five generations,
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ford sold 1.1 million broncos, >> reporter: the plume project is a work in progress, but for including pope john-paul ii's now businesses are doing what pope mobile during his 1979 they can to make restrooms safer. visit to the u.s., and the truck this movie theater in south drove right into pop culture. haven, mississippi uses police speeding through 1,200 movies. tape to block off every other ♪ in my bronco urinal so men can be socially >> reporter: and rolling into more than it00 songs ♪ distant, but bigger businesses rolling in my bronco ♪ need bigger plans. >> so obviously the this is our >> it could be a very good bet core business, but everyone who comes here uses the bathroom. that this is o.j. simpson's >> reporter: jeffrey hamilton vehicle. >> reporter: but the bronco is perhaps known for this infamous runs the mohegan sun casino in slow-speed chase across southern connecticut. before he could allow gamblers california. murder suspect o.j. simpson hiding in the back of a white back in he knew he couldn't have ford bronco as police pursued people taking a chance in here. >> you think about a bathroom, and estimated 95 million watched you can't control who stands it live. next to you. but by 1996, the hulking that's out of your corol, so what ytandin no two-door suv was falling out of favor as folks wanted four you. >> reporter: every other urinal doors. is blocked off here, too, and production ended just as mark the restrooms are frequently was starting at ford. >> this is what i would think cleaned by attendants who have about every day when i wake up and every night when i go to bed also been trained to gently
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skolled patients who might try that, you know, how are we going to bring the bronco back? to leave without washing their >> reporter: and he wasn't alone. hands. >> how do people shame people a group of ford employees aroun into washing their hands? >> just a reminder. underground worked on their own hey, you're in the bathroom. time for more than 20 years to you walk out. get ford to saddle up. hey, don't forget to wash your >> our management would sometimes even tell us, don't hands. >> like my mother used to do. >> exactly. even say the "b" word anymore. and i'll tell you, 100% of the >> reporter: they came close time people turn around. three times. >> it's fun to joke about this only to see the idea sent to the stuff. i gather talking to you this is stables. >> that's not where the market's going. something you consider important we're not going to do a bronco, for your business. so stop talking about the >> you need to create an bronco. environment in a business where people feel safe. >> reporter: they didn't and >> reporter: the rush to convert three years ago a public change restrooms has been good for business at the american of heart. > ladies and gentlemen, i'm standard company. pleased to finally announced >> well, look at that. >> reporter: they're developing that we are bringing back the ford bronco. >> reporter: and work started on all sorts of new touchless bringing back not just the devices. >> it incorporates the flush iconic two-door bronco, but a bigger four-door and a smaller touchless here and wash it is and scours the inside of the suv called bronco sport. we were the first allowed to take a ride in a preproduction urinal as well. >> reporter: they're looking at model with some adult new, deeper sinks to control supervision from ford. splashing. rolling in the new 2021 bronco, and they're putting it has a lot of the same feel as a classic bronco. anti-microbial substances in you can take the doors off.
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their sinks and toilets. you can take the roof off. and vice president mike walsh sees a brighter future for part of the roof off. and, of course, it's designed to drive over or through just about anything. bathrooms. >> will they be nicer than the bathrooms of today? >> i think they will. >> reporter: bronco won't be in >> reporter: there is nothing dealerships until the spring, simple about battling a pandemic but robert parker is already that spreads so easily. making room in the driveway. so it is probably inevitable ♪ rolling in my bronco that as covid becomes a fixture of daily
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where are you?! hollywood is remembering honey, did you hear about these new geico savings? mom? olivia de havilland, one of the you'll get an extra 15% on top of what geico could already save you. remaining stars from can i call you back? hollywood's golden age. you know your father's learning to make sourdough. even though he knows i prefer rye! including "gone with the wind." there's never been a better time to save with geico. off screen, she is remembered as a fighter who challenged hollywood's contract system and won. anthony mason looks back on her life and career. >> reporter: it's the role for which she was most famous. playing melanie in the 1939 classic film "gone with the wind."
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it also scored olivia de havilland her first of five academy award nominations. she would go on to win two. the first for playing an unwed mother in 1946's "to each his own" and again in 1950 for her lead role in "the heiress." >> he finds me pleasing. >> oh, yes, i'm sure he does. >> reporter: she returned to the oscar stage over a half century later as a presenter at the 2003 oscars. >> this night is a memorable one for me. and so was that night 53 years ago. >> reporter: never a pushover, de havilland pushed for fully realized characters and fsl to on t winning in court to get out of her restrictive co first signed when she rs, a was just 18 years old.
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that had her playing opposite erroll flynn in "the adventures of robinhood." >> robin. >> yes? then you do love me, don't you? >> reporter: she would go on to star in movies for the next 5 years, retiring from film in 1988. she moved to television, winning a golden globe for her work in "anastasia: the mystery of ana". she first won the award back in 19350. >> my golden globe has been waiting, i think it's 37 years, for a mate, and at last i can take this companion back. >> reporter: one of the last stars of the golden age of hollywood, olivia de havilland gone at the age of 104. >> her legacy lives on. the law that limits contracts for actors and actresss is called the de havilland law, and that is the "overnight news" for this tuesday. for some of you, the news
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continues. for others, check back later for "cbs this morning" and follow us online any time at cbsnews.com. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm kris van cleave. ♪ captioning sponsored by cbs >> o'donnell: tonight the nation's largest test for a possible coronavirus vaccine is now underway, 30,000 volunteers, 89 sites around the country, with the government making a nearly $1 billion bet on its success. dr. anthony fauci calling this a truly historic event. we'll speak to the first person in the country to get the trial shot. but questions remain. will it work and how many americans would try it? the new numbers out tonight. working from home for another year: tech giant google will
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keep employees out of the office until summer 2021. baseball in jeopardy? two games postponed tonight and the urgent scramble to contain sp
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