absentee ballots. this year it is expecting at least 200,000, possibly 250,000 are you prepared to process that many mail-in blots if they come in. >> the hard part is counting them as quickly as we can. >> bucks county is increasing the staff from ten to 25. it had four scanners. night has ten. and it is refurbishing this office to make room for staff and machinery. >> it will be absentee and mail-in central. >> tom freitag. >> we'll have ten to scan the ballots quickly. squloot clear ballot, a company specializing in vote by mail technology made the equipment. >> we've increased our customer base by 35% during the pandemic. >> hillary lincoln is vice president of marketing. 1y50 75% of our pennsylvania counties have had to scale their

absentee equipment. so we've helped them do that. >> reporter: of the 13 states expected to be competitive this fall, pennsylvania is one that does not allow the processing before election day. that means opening envelopes, flattening battles and preparing them to be scanned for counting. that takes time. >> any kind of retleef that that we could open dmi earlier would really help. three days, three weeks, anytime would help. >> reporter: the legislature is debating whether to allow processing before election day. but bucks county expects to be counting mail-in ballots after november 3rd. >> we want to be done before -- i would say within a week. >> best case scenario it's going to be a couple of days. >> yeah. >> maybe even three. >> yeah. >> bucks county went for hillary clinton by less than a percentage point in 2016. a competitive county in a

competitive state with, oh, by the way, 20 electoral votes. the overnights news will be right back.

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superstar keith urban headlines a star cast in the country music awards. the show was postponed for six months due to the coronavirus but you'll see it here on cbs this evening. urban says he's happy to be back on stage. tracy smith has his pandemic story. roicht you might say that keith urban has come a country mild this year. ♪ ♪ we were just a couple of years shorter ♪ ♪ name on the fake i.d. >> reporter: he has a grand new album ready to drop and he'll be on top of the country world as host of the music awards. but like so many of us he was stranded at home this spring

with the quarantine. and he had a tough time getting use tliefd as a traveling musician with no place to go. o ♪ ♪ bring me a higher love ♪ >> reporter: besides music what have you been doing? >> just kicking back. i confess that i was -- i didn't transition smoothly into this new way of doing things. >> reporter: how did you renaekt the initial days and weeks? >> i was going to put my sweatpants on, sits on the couch and watch tv, wailt till the whole thing blows over. roichlt handy said it took a good kick in the pants to get him off that couch. >> i just didn't do anything. i did nothing for seemed like an eternity for me. roicht what pulled you out of it? >> a turning points came, a friends of mine whom i call sometimes for advice, i don't this and i can't do that, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, he said

keith, is there anything you can do? within that call i started to pivot. i know it sounds cheesy, but that's what it was. i pivoted over towards what i could do. >> i love that advice. i'm going to use it on my individuals. >> it's easier said than done, i tell you. >> but once the 52-year-old superstar got back in the game, things started to happen. like this benefit concert at a nashville drive-in. so let's talk about the drive-in con certificate you did the first one in may. it was one of the first that a musician did. did you go into that being a little apprehensive? >> yeah, absolutely. i mean, i'm playing a drive-in, right? great. didn't have that on the list of ooylife, but here we go you know. i was so we were t i at allnd particularly great thafl we got to do it for all the front line workers. >> could that be the future of touring for now at least? drive-in concerts? >> i hope not, tracy.

please, no. >> god bless you guys, god bless the u.s. god bless the drive-ins. come on! >> reporter: in some ways, the chaos of 20 followed keith urban into the recording studio, too. his latest album "the speed of now part one" was finished under the cloud of the pandemic and he says you can feel it in the music. >> there's a chunk of this record, probably a good third of it that wouldn't have happened without what we went through. >> reporter: a third of in it. >> probably. i would say i had 70% of the record finished. some of these songs came because of the times, from the time and were even created during that period as well. >> reporter: for example, the song "out the cage" is about something a lot of people can relate to just now an

overwhelming need to escape. ♪ ♪ don't know how long but i've been trapped in for a while wondering if i'll make it out ♪ ♪ ♪ sometimes i forget who we were back then ♪ ♪ >> reporter: not every shopping is about the state of world. is there really a poloroid? >> when i moved to nashville, i lived in this just run-down house in a questionable parpt of town and we're all crammed in there and we used to throw the most insane parties and somebody foolishly gave use poloroid camera and fridge would get covered in snapshots of these encounters. all i can say is i'm glad you can burn poloroids. >> ok so they no longer exist. >> no. i hope not.

no. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: and here's another good thing that came out of being kwarn teenld. urban's been doing free online concerts for his fans. you've also been playing some instagram concerts with the best backup dancer i've seen in a while. >> not bad. >> reporter: is that just kind of a spontaneous thing that's been happening? >> that's -- yeah. yeah. because you know, we want to ply, and i needed a guitar tech. so you know, put my wife to work. >> what do you need? igate. igate. >> thank you. >> give me that. >> over to you. roicht identity doesn't hurt that his guitar tech is one of the most famous women in the world. there are a couple of lyrics

about how a woman can save a man. >> right. >> reporter: i'm wondering if that rings true for you. >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: they've been together since 2005 through the good, the bad, and did downright awful. nicole was telling us that you, in a sense, at a anaheim her life saved her, that when she lost her dad you were about to go on stage and ow dropped everything and flew back to her and she said like literally picked her up off the floor. >> i didn't even know how to get up from this. >> how did you get up? >> i had a husband that came right back. i called him screaming and crying. he was about to gone stage and he walked off stage and got on a plane. he'd just gotten there. he flew six hours and he was right back. >> for her to be in nashville and me to be in california was this excruciating and having

just landed, i've got to the get back immediate live. waiting around to be able to get a plane to get me back as fast as possible was just indescribable. so family first in everything. ♪ ♪ i then got a whispered your name ♪ ♪ that's when everything changed ♪ as the title of the new album suggests, kooirt ban is tufd living life at full speed. ♪ ♪ want to live >> reporter: he's found out that some of the biggest rewards can only come out of slowing down. are you hope snfl. >> i'm always hopeful. we will learn so much from this moment. so much, and when this comes again and there's no doubt it will at some point, we'll be way better prepared for it and i think have a new way of doing things. we're always going to play somehow some way. we're going to figure out a way to do it.

>> you can watch the academy of country music awards right here on cbs starting

six months into the pandemic and a survey found one in six americans are food insecure. that includes about 18 million children. now, there's a nationwide effort to help feed the hungry one healthy bag of food at a time here's vladimir duthiers. >> reporter: wednesday mornings are a busy times in this is brownsville neighborhoods of new york. boxing of food rf delivered by the palate. >> water mel onts, green pep, poe tomatoes, potatoes. >> sorted and bags filled to the brim are loaded back into trucks to be distributed throughout the city. this massive effort supports a much hum bler one. this is the friendly fridge. >> thank you so much. this 3450e7bs a lot.

>> a sidewalk refrigerator stocked with food for anyone in need. the quality of the fooded in here, these are some serious eggplants. >> it's important to us that people feel like they're getting quality food. alexis and his brother run universe city, a organization with a high mission. designed by the community, employed by the community and benefitted by the community. >> that gives people fresh and organic food that they might not always have the opportunity to purchase themselves. eggplant, kale, cucumbers. they see the french as one more way to o reach their goal. >> the fridge allows for people to connect on their terms and on their own time. >> reporter: they now support a loosely linked network of fridges around new york city. free food franklin buildings have been around for years but the pandemic created the

circumstances for a grass roots movement. >> it's a north america of individuals who took an interest resing down whenhehut pantrs down people, especially those who went into recent unemployment, without the resources they need to provide for their family. >> reporter: you can find them all across the country each with its own personality. like this one in charlotte, north carolina, created by shamell jackson. >> bread, vej tablets. fruits at the bottom. >> reporter:his cafe is filled with dpreshesh produce from loc farmers, restaurants, and gardens from around the community. >> people are able to come by, grab a handful of carrots or whatever there might be in here and feed t familyfr healthy, lo food. >> reporter: nick garcia lost his job in may. >> it's been helping me.

i can only imagine how many othersrs. >> vladimir duthiers, thanks. and that is the "cbs overnight news" for this wednesday. reporting it's wednesday, september 16th, 2020. this is the "cbs morning news." breaking news -- sally drenches the gulf coast. how the rare slow-crawling storm is impacting millions. when will it end? dozens of wildfires in the west have burned millions of acres as smoke drenches all the way to the east coast. trump town hall. the president fuels questions from undecided voters with the election seven weeks away. why democratic challenger joe biden didn't take part in his biden didn't take part in his own. captioning funded by cbs good morning, good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. we are going to begin with hurricane sally.