patient. >> reporter: but consumer group public citizen found since jault least 38 hospitals in 32 cities and 12 states have reported shortages. further, ha states that have large epidemics with more new hospitalizations often received less recommend des vir from the public government. >> the trump administration assumed control of remdesivir allocation and distribution and it's not going to the right places. >> reporter: for example, the report says one week in jael, alabama, florida, and georgia reported the most new hospitalizationin hospitalizationings. yet ohio, despite having fewer new admissions received far more remdesivir. georgia got none. you're saying the administration did not distribute this drug the way they had promised to. why do you think that happened? >> we can't know. we just know that the trump administration hhs did not follow its own stated criteria

to allocate remdesivir according to hospital burden. >> hhs calls that a fundamental misunderstanding of its system with a official telling us the government has been able to fairly allocate distribution of enough medicine to treat 650,000 people in a fair and equitable process. in a statement the white house said anytime the trump administration has had a request from a governor for increased supply of remedies veer we've been able to meet those demands can but some democratic senators have been asking questions about remdesivir since may, writing in letters to the administration, that the remdesivir distribution plan appeared to be shrouded in secrecy. maryland senator chris van holland. have you gotten responses to either letter at this point? >> no. we've not heard anything. i think it's an indication that the administration does not want to be transparent about its decision making process. i am -- that, of course, hurts

all of us. >> reporter: he says transpapersy is key, not just for this drug but for future covid-19 treatments or vaccines. >> if we're facing this degree of mismanagement today, these kinds of shortages, what will happen when we have hopefully a safe and effective vaccine? we're going to have to do much, much better. if we run into a similar situation with the vaccine, many people are going to suffer. >> reporter: well, public citizen also outlines what it calls manufacturer gillead sciences monopoly over the drug saying also his limited supply of remdesivir. gillead says there is adequate supply to meet demand and if hospitals don't have enough they should talk to their state department of health. >> that was anna werner reporting. facebook announced in the week leading up to the november 3rd

presidential election. the company says it will remove any post designed to suppress or discourage voting and flag in some cases remove misinformation about voting related to the coronavirus. mark zuckerberg detailed the new policy in an exclusive interview with gayle king. >> are you afraid of putting out information that mail in voting isn't so safe? >> one of the things that we're going to do is at the top of facebook and instagram we're going to be putting accurate information about how to vote by mail and how to do it accurately. we're also going to be acting on content that people try to put out there, that says that it is fraudulent. if people post content that broadly is trying to delegitimatize the outcome of the election, either by saying things like voting by mail will definitely defraud or you know, other things that basically

undermine these democratic principles of methods of voting that we know are safe. we're just going to add some context to those posts. >> one of the chief critics, as you know, is the president of the united states. he says in may there's no way -- zero in caps -- that mail in will be anything less than fraudulent. in june, printed by foreign countries and others. be the scandal of our times. july, the 2020 election will be rigged if mail in voting allowed to take place. we could go on and on. how are you handling the president of the united states to let him know and let people using your platform know that this is misinformation, is it not? >> i certainly think that anyone saying that the election is going to be fraudulent, i've heard that's problematic. i think additional context needs to be added. >> it's not just anyone. it's not just a regular joe. it's the president of the united states. yes. >> this will definitely apply to the president once this policy goes into place and it will

apply to every equally. >> have you engaged with the president, mark, about his posts on this particular topic? >> i don't think recently. i have had discussions with him in the past where i've told him that i thought some of the rhetoric was problematic. i did talk to him, you know, be clear about how -- just the importance of making sure that people have confidence in the election. election. >> we'll have more the ultimate sulfate-free lather test competitor / pantene add water / add shampoo add dirt / add oil blend for 15 seconds 2x more lather pulls dirt & oil out of your hair

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facebook is bracing for what's expected to be a contentious presidential election by banning mill ads in the week leading up to the november 3rd vote. the company unveiled what it called a one stop shop with details about local election guidelines, registration and ballots. mark zuckerberg says he's most concerned about potential disputes over the election results. here's more of gayle king's interview. >> one of the things that i'm quite worried about, after election day, is that since it may take additional time for the votes to get counted this year, especially with mail in voting, there's a greater chance of

civil unrest and violence afternoon the election. some people expect there to be somebody who won on ep lex night, i don't think we're going to necessarily get that. i think it's important we start preparing people now. there's nothing illegitimate about taking a few extra days, even weeks to make sure all the votes were counted. it would be delegitimate if we didn't. >> what will you do, say, on election night if one candidate says i won when all the votes aren't in? >> we're in a place of policy. we have a partnership with if somebody tries to prematurely declare a victory in a presidential election or any others, before there's a consensus on who won the meing there isn't e going to an official result on this election, and directing people to voting information center where we'll have a list of all the official results that have come in. >> do you have any concerns

about campaign ads on your platform? are you thinking about readjusting your strategy about that? >> yes. thanks for asking about that. one of the new policies that we're announcing, we're going to block new political and issue ads in the last week of the campaign. i generally believe that the best antidote to bad speech is more speech, but when there's a vote, then if someone is kind of dumping some new information, if it's misinformation in the last days to have election, there may not be time for the normal debate and process to play out. that's why i think it's important to have extra restrictions in the last week. >> we've had the kansas before about misinformation in political alds. there seems to be a bit of a contradiction there, that you won't challenge incorrect political ads but you will challenge misinformation from candidates. >> the thing i'm very sense active is having us be the ultimate deciders of what is right and wrong and true and false in the world. there are a number of cases where we can rely on other

authorities, or on elections we partner with local election officials instead of saying hey, don't go to this polling place because the lines are really long, the local election officials says no that's false, it's fine here, we'll take that down. that's voter suppression, we'll take it down no matter who says it. >> we learned the fbi tipped off facebook to russian interference on your platform. what did they point out to you that you didn't know? >> well, over the last few years, we put a lot of effort into building partnerships with the intelligence community and election commissions around the world as well as the other tech companies. so part of the normal security apparatus now is that we share intelligence and tips with each other. between the partnerships that we have in place with governments and other tech companies, we were able to find and disrupt this relatively early. >> i've seen you mull over these things. i'm curious about what keeps you up at night. i was thinking about the kenosha guard that was an armed militia, that you have said you admitted

that it was an operational mistake that was using facebook to organize. what wentro there?you know, lisn kenosha was not a member of this group. but you did take it down after the incident where three people were shot and two died. the 17-year-old teenager. >> we spent a long time looking into this deeply and we've designated him as a mass murderer and took down all his accounts. we didn't find there was any premeditation or anything in his account that would have suggested that we missed some signal in advance. some people did report the group, and we made mistakes in not taking down the group when those reports came in. we didn't take it down. it didn't violate our policies, but we were slow on that for militia groups like this, especially ahead of this election, we're going to need to be cracking down on this more aggressively in advance of that to make sure there aren't any of

these groups that could get activated after the election and contribute to civil

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we end this half-hour with a love story. it stars a husband, a wife, and a nearly forgotten song that means the world to both of them. steve hartman found their story on the road. >> joe and sharon course of raleigh north carolina just celebrated 63 years of wedded bliss. >> wow. >> reporter: and to mark the milestone, joe gave his bride one of the best anniversary presents ever. >> of all the things that we could have done, that was probably the most meaningful. >> i love you. >> reporter: to fully appreciate the gift, you first need to hear the song. how beautiful you are zmend ♪ >> reporter: their song. it's a kenny rogers tune called

"beautifulha you could be" for years joe sang it on birthdays, anniversaries and so many other occasions that eventually friends and families memorized it, too. teresa is their daughter. >> she is the number one thing in his life. >> here's to you. >> and singing that song was the way to sing it. >> reporter: teresa says it was the way to say it. >> i'm tired. >> reporter: joe recently suffered two strokes. >> how do you spell up? >> reporter: which left him at a terrible loss for language. >> i have trouble calling my wife's name or the children's name and -- >> reporter: so you ros the song? >> yeah. >> so i just accepted it and didn't really think about it till this past anniversary. and then he started singing it. ♪ ♪ beautiful

>> reporter: mostly unbeknownst to sharon, whenever a line came back to him ihe hospital, he jotted down the lyrics and listened to the melody on a loop. >> i wanted to relearn it and to give it to my wife. us always did. ♪ ♪ althat you can be. ♪ that's how it turned out to be the same anniversary present as always. steve hartman, cbs news. >> i love you. >> i love you.>> thank you. >> on the rolled. that's the ovr this fry. for some of you the news continues. for others, check back later for "cbs this morning" and follow us on line any time at cbs news.com. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm catherine herridge.

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