it's friday, september 18th, 2020. this is the "cbs morning news." building momentum in minnesota. president trump and joe biden are set to campaign in the battleground state today where early voting kicks off. this is the worst we've ever had it here in rain and flooding. >> sally's aftermath. the storm tears apart homes and businesses as the national guard takes on a lifesaving mission -- rescuing hundreds of people stranded by floods. football during a pandemic. a fan tests positive after attending the first nfl game of the year. the year. so what happens now? captioning funded by cbs good morning, and very good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green.

we begin on the campaign trail. check your calendar -- there are just 46 days to go until election day. there are a lot of key dates to keep in mind, , though. early voting begins today in minnesota. both president trump and his rival joe biden will campaign there today. and in just 11 days, the pair will face each other in cleveland for the first of three presidential debates. the other two are in october. the latest cbs news battleground tracker poll finds joe biden leading president trump nationally with a ten-point edge, 52% to 42%. laura podesta is following the race very closely. laura, how are both men trying to lure in those precious, precious undecided voters? >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie. well, by pointing out each other's faults and spending a whole lot of time in precious swing states like wisconsin and pennsylvania where they were campaigning yesterday.

president trump and joe biden campaigned in key battleground states last night. >> hello, wisconsin. >> reporter: the president looked to boost enthusiasm es focusing on some 26m ca i >> 33,000 emails, but that wall going up -- >> reporter: the president also announced another $13 billion in aid for farmers hit financially by the pandemic. a cbs news battleground tracker poll shows president trump losing to the former vice president in wisconsin. >> count every vote. >> reporter: during a cnn town hall in pennsylvania, biden said mr. trump's misleading attacks on election security is a sign the president knows he's trailing. >> if the president had even remote confidence he was likely to win the election, he wouldn't be doing this. >> reporter: at the socially distanced q&a with voters, biden promised to pressure mask mandates and spoke about president

trump's coronavirus response -- >> you lost your freedom because he didn't act. the freedom to go to that ball game, the freedom of your kid to go to school. >> reporter: yesterday a former vice p presidential aide on the white house coronavirus taor ed olivia troy described what she saw from the president. >> he doesn't care about anyone else but himself. >> reporter: president trump brushed her off as a disgruntled former employee. >> she doesn't know me. >> reporter: today both candidates head to minnesota with early voting begins. and they'll both be in northern minnesota but about 150 miles apart. president trump will be in bemidji, biden in duluth. >> thanks a lot, laura. so fbi director christopher wray told lawmakers russia is still out to disrupt this year's election. >> we certainly have seen very active, very active efforts by the russians to influence our election in 2020 through what i

would call more than maligned foreign influence side of things. social media, use of proxies, state media, online journals, et cetera. >> wray appeared before the house homeland security committee yesterday. he said russia's main goal is to denigrate democratic presidential nominee joe biden. wray's remarks come as president trump ramps up the theory china is interfering in the election to get biden in office while downplaying well-founded reports russia is trying to help him get re-elected. so what's left of hurricane sally is still dumping heavy rain in the south, and this morning we're getting a better look at all the damage. newly released satellite images show the before and after pictures from areas in alabama. sally hit as a category two on wednesday, battering alabama and the florida panhandle. at least two people were killed. skyler henry reports from spanish fort alabama.

we're being careful. >> reporter: angela's 1 -year-old was inside their house when two trees came crashing througugh their ceiling. >> as soon as it hit we popped up out of the couch and the chair, oh, my god, what in the world? >> reporter: from above, here's the devastation hurricane sally brought to the gulf coast with its 105 mile-per-hour winds. this church's steeple left dangling by a thread. >> very emotional to talk about it. >> reporter: the category-two storm turned roads into rivers from florida to alabama, shredding homes and businesses. >> sally was a record-breaking rain and flooding event. >> reporter: long lines are forming at gas stations. sierra butler, a mother of two, traveled from pensacola, florida, to alabama to fill up. >> it's horrible. i even came up on the highway, the lines are extremely long all the way to the middle of the highway. >> reporter: as sally moves on, you can see the damage here around spanish fort alabama. the high tide is starting to recede, but the mess left behind

means a long cleanup for tens of thousands in the area. in florida, the national guard rescued hundreds of people stranded by floodwaters. >> we never thought it was going to get this bad, and you know, here we are. >> reporter: as the storm moved inland, this massive oak tree came down on a home in atlanta killing 30-year-old gerald crawford. >> every one of those individuals we have here worked as hard as they could go to get to that person. >> reporter: forecasters expect sally to continue moving farther north bringing severe thunderstorms to the mid-atlantic. skyler henry, cbs news, spanish fort, alabama. we have marked another grim milestone in the fight against covid-19. the number of confirmed global cases has now surpassed 30 million. the u.s. leads the way with more than six million infections reported. meantime, there has been an alarming explosion of cases in europe. the world health organization is urging countries in the region not to shorten quarantine periods.

europe set a new recst ces recds overnight, crews in california are searching for a missing firefighter who was s battling the el dorado fire east of los angeles. so far the fire has burned more than 19,000 acres. meantime, new evacuations are underway for people impacted by the bobcat fire. it's racing toward homes northeast of los angeles. evacuation orders are in place for residents in the town of writewood along with the community, rather, of juniper hills. one man tells us he packed up all of his stuff and is hoping for the best. >> scary, you don't know what's going to happen. so just pray. >> i hope my neighbors all get out and they're all safe. and i just pray that we come back to a home. if we don't, gosh, again, it's just stuff, right? >> crews from all over california have rushed to the region to help battle the flames.

so far the bobcat fire has torched more than 50,000 acres and is only 9% contained. coming up on the "cbs morning news," a classroom assignment involving suspected kenosha shooter kyle rittenhouse draws outrage. football fallout. some fans at last week's chiefs game have been told to quarantine. this is the "cbs morning news." quarantine. this is the "cbs morning news." new advil dual action with acetaminophen fights pain in two ways. advil targets pain at the source... ...while acetaminophen blocks pain signals. the future of pain relief is here. new advil dual action. when you have depression, it can plunge you into deep, dark lows. and, can leave you feeling extremely sad and disinterested. overwhelmed by bipolar depression? ask about vraylar. not all types of depression should be treated the same.

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those are some of the headlines on the "morning newsstand." "the new york times" reports last month's heavily criticized cdc recommendations about coronavirus testing were not ientten by the agency's human services revised the cdc's earlier guidance. the "times" says that the recommendations were posted on the cdc's website over their objections. the revised recommendations said it was not necessary to test people without symptoms if they have been exposed to the virus. "the dallas morning news" reports on a controversial assignment asking high school students in the teenager accused of killing two people at a protest in kenosha is a modern-day hero. 17-year-old kyle rittenhouse is accused of killing two people and wounding another during a demonstration last month over the police shooting of jacob blake. an english teacher asked students to write about each of six potential heroes. one of the choices was

rittenhouse. others include gandhi, malcolm x, george floyd, and one of the men killed in the kenosha shooting. it outraged many including a sister of a student in that class. she did not want to be identified. >> just completely calls into question like the teacher's character, their ability to even teach students like my sibling in a way that is fair. >> the school district apologized and said it is investigating the teacher. students were told not to complete the assignment. and the "kansas city star" reports ten fans who attended the chiefs game at arrowhead stadium were told to quarantine. it came after another fan tested positive for the coronavirus. health officials say the fans may have been exposed to the person who tested positive the next day. the fan attended the game in an open-air field box in the lower level. according to chiefs protocol,

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how does a snail facial sound to you? the slimy procedure is the latest trend at a spa in jordan. the owner says that the giant african land snails produce collagen and eat up dead skin. recently products containing snail slime have become popular in many places including france and italy. dermatologists say that there has been no significant scientific research proving the benefits of the slime. and it is time for the cbs "money watch" now. diane king hall is here in new york. diane, my question is it looks like the snails are doing all the work. do we have to tip them? >> my goodness. i mean -- i hope not. you said the price of beauty. i call it the cost of being cute, although to be fair, i would not try this. no to snail facials, no to

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winston groom was 77. batman is back in action. production for the movie "the batman" has resumed in the uk after being shut down earlier this month when its star, robert pattinson, reportedly tested positive for the coronavirus. the positive test result came just three days after the movie resumed shooting. it had been on hiatus for almost six months due to the pandemic. it's set to open in october of next year. the british world war ii veteran who helped raise more than $40 million for the country's national health service is back in the news again. captain sir tom moore released his autobiography and launched a new charitable foundation. moore received donations from 163 countries when he celebrated his 100th birthday in april by walking 100 laps around his garden. he was knighted by queen elizabeth. moore has been approached by several movie studios about his life story and has one person in mind to play him. >> only person i can think of is

david beckham because he's such a charming person. i've met him, and he really -- he would be the part very well. >> yeah, but is he a good actor? moore's foundatihe people facing bereavement and combat loneliness. great causes. coming up on "cbs this morning," an update on coronavirus vaccine efforts in europe as preparations ramp up to manufacture and distribute a vaccine. i'm anne-marie green, this is the "cbs morning news." e. i'm anne-marie green, this is the "cbs morning news."

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challenge foring for all of us during the pandemic, but it is espeors a e dog, melissa golden's lab is a golden cross, and luna is helping her in the world. >> she's the best dog in the world. she navigates me around down sidewalks, around obstacles, across streets, across strange or differing and changing levels of terrain. >> reporter: but there's one thing luna can't be trained to i makes keeping six feet apart a challenge for melissa. >> it's very difficult because unless someone speaks to you or unless you hear some other audible cue coming from them, you don't know how far away they are from you necessarily. >> reporter: so if guide dogs can't be trained to keep six feet apart, it's all the more important that we in the public are trained to maintain social distancing.

glen hoagland is president and ceo of the seeing eye, the oldest guide dog school in the country. it breeds and trains hundreds of dogs every year. >> really the sighted person who could really be helpful by communicating their distance from the blind person with their dog and letting them know that i'm here. >> let's go. good girl. >> reporter: melissa also says when you recognize a guide dog and its owner, it's up to you to distance yourself. >> if i'm not social distancing from you, i'm not trying to be disrespectful or discourteous. i simply don't have the visual cues that you have. we appreciate and thank you ahead of time for taking the steps on your own to walk to the other side of the street or walk a few steps down. >> reporter: above all, don't try to pet or interact with a guide dog. letting them do their job is the best way to keep them and their owners safe. michael george, cbs news, morristown, new jersey. coming up on "cbs this

morning," an update on coronavirus vaccine efforts in europe as preparations ramp up to manufacture and distribute a ri cine.> plus, e natial beosg the pandemic. we'll hear why it's needed now more than ever. and we'll talk with actress sarah paulson about her series "ratchet." that's the "cbs morning news" for this friday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day and a great weekend. great day and a great weekend.

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