we are it in concord, 75 in san jose, and 67 for san francisco. for the weekend, we will see offshore winds start to kick in and that could bring smoke from wild fires are burning to our north into the bay area. i do not think it will be as bad as last week but some ♪ some good morning to you, our viewers in the west, and welcome to "cbs this morning." it's friday, tgif. september 18th, 2020. i'm gayle king with anthony mason and tony dokoupil. vaccine showdown. president trump is challenged by another of his own experts. dr. anthony fauci on when a coronavirus vaccine will be widely available. the latest from the campaign trail including top voter questions for joe biden. sweeping destruction. we take you on a helicopter ride to see the full scope of the hurricane's devastation. how one community is rallying around a church that lost its steeple. europe's covid warning. cases surge again after many countries thought they had the

virus under control. plus, we have a rare look inside one production facility gearing up for a vaccine. >> and america divided. we hit the streets to learn how politics are eroding our shared sense of reality right down to what we see. >> apparently we see things differently. first, here's today's "eye opener." it's your world in 90 seconds. >> the gloves are off. i can now call him grossly incompetent. >> the president held a rally in wisconsin while joe biden appeared at a pennsylvania town hall. >> i married a silly girl. >> i look up to you. do you have any plans to stand up for us health care workers. >> how will you handle russia's involvement with trump? >> they don't ask me questions like that. >> a former senior adviser on the coronavirus task force endorses joe biden. >> the president said maybe this covid thing is a good thing. i don't have to shake hands with these disgusting people. >> the southern coast working to pick up the pieces following hurricane sally's destructive

path. >> we have all hands on deck. we want to make sure to continue to keep people safe. >> more evacuation orders for people in california. wildfire zones. >> i hope my neighbors all get out and they're all safe. >> we've got to hope and pray. >> naomi osaka has withdrawn from the french open because of a hamstring injury less than a week after she won the u.s. open. >> all that -- >> the browns beat the bengals in a shootout. >> got him. touchdown, browns! >> and all that matters. >> there it goes! see ya. back-to-back to back. >> another six home runs. the yankees became the first mlb team ever to hit at least six homers in three straight games. >> there it goes! they've done it again. 17 home runs in three games. >> on "cbs this morning" >> the military whistleblower says federal officials sought to use a heat ray to deal with protesters outside the white house in june. >> here's some footage of it

being tested on a human subject. >> so how long can i take the heat? here it goes. >> 1-1 thousand, 2 -- >> it works for getting cbs reporters off your property. you've been warned, john dickerson. stop stealing my beef steak tomatoes. >> announcer: this morning's "eye opener" presented by toyota. >> that's very john dickerson. >> always in the garden. >> this heat thing is very fascinating to me. i didn't know such a thing existed. just the fact they were thinking about it is a little scary. welcome to "cbs this morning." we're going to begin with this on the campaign trail with the president facing new pushback over his claims that a coronavirus vaccine could be available by election day. both president trump and joe biden campaigned last night. the president spoke at a mostly maskless outdoor rally in wisconsin which just hit a new daily record for covid cases. biden took questions at a

socially distanced town hall. also hearing from dr. anthony fauci who has joined cdc director robert redfield in challenging the president's timeline on when a vaccine could be widely available. weijia jiang is at the white house. good morning. >> good morning to you anthony. two former senior administration officials tell cbs news that scientists are being pressured to work on an accelerated timeline. and that the white house cares more about messaging than sharing public safety information. one source said the biggest concern is that leads to an unnecessary delay in getting out information that is critical to saving lives. >> we will deliver a safe and effective vaccine before the end of the year. >> president trump once again pushed his claim that the general public will have access to a coronavirus vaccine within weeks. >> the fda, when they approved it fast, they went very fast, very quick at levels that nobody else could have ever achieved.

>> reporter: multiple former senior administration officials tell cbs news there are concerns the fda will act under political pressure from the white house to expedite vaccine approval. >> if, in fact, it looks like that vaccine is safe and effective, i can tell the american public that i will take the vaccine when it's available to me and i will recommend to my family that they take it. >> reporter: dr. anthony fauci said a vaccine could be ready soon but added that it likely won't be used widely until late 2021. earlier thursday, a former adviser to vice president mike pence who served on the coronavirus task force blasted mr. trump's response to covid-19. >> he doesn't actually care about anyone else but himself. >> reporter: in a video endorsing joe biden, olivia troy alleged the president said this about meeting his own supporters. >> the president said maybe this covid thing is a good thing. i don't like shaking hands with

people. i don't have to shake hands with these disgusting people. >> reporter: yet in a good-bye email to task force staffers obtained by cbs news, troy was largely comp accomplishmentary writing, i've witnessed firsthand how dedicated and committed all of you have been to doing the right thing. >> then the people get a hold of her and say, let's say some bad things about donald trump. >> reporter: and as he has done with past officials who have spoken out against the administration, the president questioned troye's credibility. >> she has nothing to do with me. i don't know her. i never met her. >> reporter: dr. fauci, on the other hand, worked with troye. >> i like that she was a good person. she was important to the team. >> reporter: a white house statement, the vice president and general keith kellogg, troye's supervisor all described her as disgruntled. this all comes as cbs news confirms it was white house officials and those from the department of health and human services, not cdc scientists, who made the recommendation last month to change guidelines to

say that asymptomatic people shouldn't be tested, even if they are exposed to somebody who is tested positive. tony? >> that's exactly what people are worried about, weijia. thank you. at a drive-in town hall in pennsylvania, joe biden faced tough questions last night on his own plan to deal with the pandemic. he said we should listen to scientists to get the country back to normal. but his answers also clarified his view on a national mask mandate. ed o'keefe reports. >> mr. vice president -- >> reporter: one after the other, pennsylvania voters asked joe biden what he'd do differently to address the coronavirus pandemic. >> what plan do you have in place to keep us from contracting covid-19 virus in our workplace? >> that requires us to have rapid testing, protective gear available from the very beginning, like this president hasn't done. >> how will you get the proper messaging out to all americans to keep them informed? >> what presidents say matter.

people listen. i will make it clear what is needed to be done. >> reporter: one thing biden wants americans to do is wear a mask, but his stance on that has changed. first he call for a national mandate. >> let's institute a mask mandate nationwide starting immediately. >> but what we asked him to clarify his stance earlier this month, he conceded he might not have the authority. >> you can't do things the constitution doesn't allow you the power to do. >> reporter: so last night biden said he'd mandate masks on federal property. >> if you are on federal land, you must wear a mask. in a federal building, you must wear a mask, and we can have a fine for them not doing it. look, this is about saving people's lives. >> reporter: biden said it's an irresponsible trump administration that's cost people their rights. >> 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. the freedom to see your mom or dad in the hospital. the freedom just to walk around your neighborhood. because of failure to act

responsibly. >> reporter: the former vice president was also asked about a major issue in battleground, pennsylvania. hydraulic fracking. a cbs poll found voters split on the issue,e, largely along part lines. in the past, biden has said he wants to move away from fracking. last night he said that could happen gradually. >> fracking has to continue because we need to transition. we're going to get to net zero emissions by 2050, and we'll get to net zero power emissions by 2035. but there's no rationale to eliminate, right now, fracking. >> reporte: later today, biden and the president are both here in minnesota where early voting begins today. more specifically, in northern minnesota, a battleground region within this battleground state. polls show joe biden winning the land of 10,000 lakes, but the president's really eager to do so having lost here by just one point four years ago. biden will be meeting with union

workers in duluth and the president will be holding an airport rally. >> every vote is going to make a difference. 46 days and counting. you know that, ed o'keefe. good to see you. the remains of hurricane sally are dumping heavy rain in virginia this morning raising new concerns about flooding on the gulf coast. we've got an aerial view of the damage from u.s. customs and border patrol helicopters. parts of alabama and florida were devastated when sally made landfall on wednesday. you can see the docks have just turned into splinters. that's what they look like. and buildings caved in by winds over 100 miles an hour. and a powerful storm surge. that storm killed at least two people there. manuel bojorquez is in mobile, alabama, with more on how long the cleanup could take. they have got a lot of work to do. manny, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. definitely a lot of work to do. the cleanup from hurricane sally could take weeks or even months. and it's damage like this done to this church where the steeple was blown off the roof that has

this community coming together to help in this time of need. this is the damage leaders at the el bethel primitive bacht church in mobile, are still trying to wrap their heads around. sally ripped the church's steeple off the building. yesterday, members of the church showed up to help the pastor begin the cleanup process. >> preaching messages prior to this storm about the lord will provide. stormy people in a stormy world. he was preparing us for this. >> reporter: about 50 miles south, the damage is even worse. ft. morgan, alabama, near where sally made landfall is now a disaster zone. there, the storm ripped entire floors off homes and left boats piled on top of each other in the rubble of a collapsed dry dock. from the air, we got a look at the path of destruction sally left behind. a pier in gulf shores, alabama, was ripped in half after a $2.4

million renovation. a ribbon cutting ceremony was scheduled for the day sally made landfall. we also saw chunks missing from the pensacola bay bridge which was in the middle of a $400 million makeover. so far, the city of pensacola says sally caused more than $12 million in damage. back in mobile, pastor yates estimates it will cost about $300,000 to fix that steeple and te roof. he says he's just happy the damage wasn't any worse. >> we were emotional. very emotional at first. but then we were thankful that there was no life lost. >> that's just a building. >> that's just a building. >> pastor yates told me he does plan to hold sunday services inside the building with masks and social distancing. he says it's a way to bring hope to his congregation during these times. >> thank you, manny. that's a stunning picture. wow. all in all, those are really stunning pictures what happened

down there. everything tossed around and that steeple, the most symbolic of all. >> it's not the morning after where you know what happened. it takes a couple of days. pictures start coming in and you see damage like that. >> that's called having faith, though. they'll still have service on sunday and still going to go and worship. i saw interviews this week and somebody said, listen, mother nature always bats last and she often bats a thousand. she has the final say. we've just -- we just do the cleanup. we have a tragic development in the wildfires in the west. a firefighter missing in the eldorado fire east of los angeles was found dead overnight. it is one of two major fires in the area that have flared up in the past 24 hours. more people were told to leave their homes after the bobcat fire spread in the foothills northeast of l.a. flames got within a mile of one small community last night. farther north, dense smoke from the wildfires has forced yosemite national park to close until conditions improve.

turning back to the presidential race. a major development for americans voting by mail. the u.s. postmaster general louis dejoy has been temporarily blocked by a federal judge for making operational changes at the post office that could delay the delivery of ballots. this follows a lawsuit by 14 different states and the judge called dejoy's actions a, quote, politically motivated attack on the agency. the postal service says it is ready and committed for the november elections and it also says that any suggestion that the changes were politically motivated are, quote, completely and utterly without merit. we have breaking news about tiktok, the hugely popular video platform the commerce department is banning new tiktok downloads in the u.s. starting on sunday and banning another chinese-owned app wechat. the trump administration says it wants to stop them from sharing user information with china's government. the apps deny doing that. the tiktok ban could be rolled back if its owner can complete a

deal to spin off its u.s. operations to an american company. an agreement to partner with oracle still needs u.s. approval. this is big. i can see tiktok users, there's 100 million of them all freaking out because it's hugely popular. and they are hoping, you guys got to figure out a way. >> a lot of kids not going to be happy. very popular with kids. maybe the most popular app with kids right now. >> the deal with oracle doesn't seem optional if they want to keep operating in the u.s. >> if you don't have it, now is a good time to get it uploaded before sunday. >> the clock is ticking. airline executives are in washington pleading with the white house and congress to extend coronavirus relief. airline employees are hoping to avoid mass job cuts if government funding is aloud iio run out this month. kris van cleave is at the airport. >> this is a case where trouble on the tarmac is likely to be

felt well beyond the terminal. commercial aviation support moers than 10 million u.s. jobs. that works out to 1 out of every 14 jobs in this country. massive layoffs here could ripple through the larger economy. that's why you're seeing bipartisan support to act, even if that action remains stuck in a legislative holding pattern. >> save our jobs! >> reporter: in 12 days, these flight attendants rallying on capitol hill will be out of work, furloughed unless congress extends its $25 billion airline payroll support program. >> real people who need to feed our families. >> reporter: people like flight attendant arnold ramirez seen capturing the moment he learned he was losing his dream job. >> felt like a punch in the stomach. >> reporter: the arizonainate sieve among the 19,000 at american airlines alone who will be laid off or furloughed in october. he thought he had a backup plan working retail but just learned that store is closing. so he'll lose that job, too. >> i just feel like everything

is just getting taken away from me. i just hope it gets better soon because i really would love to keep my job. i just -- i have no words for that. >> reporter: passenger traffic remains down 65%. u.s. carriers lost $11 billion in the second quarter alone. as many as 76,000 airline workers could be furloughed next month and service to cities nationwide slashed. monica kolb is a widowed mother of two who became a flight attendant after her husband died of cancer six years ago. >> i was setting myself up for a new way, a blank canvas to paint my own story as a single mom. trying to find that happiness that i thought i had lost. >> reporter: last year, she beat breast cancer. now she's at risk of losing her family's livelihood and health insurance. >> is this scarier than battling

cancer? >> this is scarier. i still have hope. i've beaten cancer, and i'm here. i didn't get over this to be brought down by a virus. >> reporter: critics argue airlines were already given taxpayer money and point out that they are bracing for the potential of a four-year recovery. it's unclear if a six-month extension would save any jobs in the long run. for flyers if there's not an extension, prepare for fewer options and longer travel times as the airlines will start reducing service, particularly in smaller and medium cities. anthony? >> so many folks in the airline industry in desperate situations, kris. thank you. ahead, making a covid vaccine for hundreds of millions of people. only on "cbs this morning," we go inside a production facility that's ready to get

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kingdom where a vaccine could very soon go into production. this sterlil production line could be mass producing a vaccine against covid-19 within weeks. right now they're training staff, filling glass vials with water. they could start filling vials of a covid vaccine here as early as november. maybe even before a vaccine has been approved. and that's because as soon as they get that final approval, they want to start sending it out to the public. >> unprecedented times and require unprecedented -- >> the world needs about 7.5 billion population to be covered. >> reporter: the managing director, ravi limaye said his facility can produce 240 million doses of a new vaccine in a year. but if the vaccine they start producing here doesn't get approved for safety, they'll simply have to throw it out. is it a gamble?

is it a gamble to start packaging up millions of doses of a vaccine before it has that final approval? >> i won't say it's a gamble. this is investment in public health. >> reporter: the oxford vaccine arguably the front-runner in the race to stop the new virus despite a pause in its trial, will likely be produced here. the u.s. government has given more than a billion dollars to the drug company behind it, astrazeneca, to secure at least 300 million doses. but the world's biggest vaccine manufacturer, which is based on india, warned this week that production is not being ramped up quickly enough. and it could take until 2024 to produce enough doses of vaccine to cover the entire world. anthony? >> holly williams in london, thank you. ahead -- a startling demonstration of our country's growing partisan divide. we find out how democrats and republicans see the world differently. and you can always get the morning's news by subscribing to

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this morning we're seen democrats and republicans may be seeing completely different worlds. there's a gallop poll that shows a dark and widening world on a variety of political issues. but now a growing number of researchers are coming around to the idea that politics actually alters our perception. it changes what we see. we decided to put that idea to

the test. >> they want to destroy this country. >> if you've been following politics this year -- >> this president is a vindictive man. >> he's determined to stoke division and chaos. >> he's in his basement again. >> you may find yourself wondering what exactly is wrong with people? >> all they can do is spew hatred. >> are they not seeing what you're seeing? >> fascists ruining this country. >> we're going to show you two video clips. tell us what you see. >> we'll do. >> we show identical clips to trump supporters and biden supporters. starting with this clash between police and black lives matter protesters. almost everybody had a strong reaction. >> that's terrible. this is awful. this shouldn't be. >> but when we asked a question designed to test their political filter, their answers could not have been more different. >> who do you think is being more aggressive?

>> i would have to say the protesters because they're not letting them go through. >> who is being the aggressor there? >> nypd. >> the police, not the protesters? >> right. the rioters. they're not protesters. they're rioting. >> as far as i can see, there's no violence or anything from the protesters and police are acting a little violently. >> the protesters. they're challenging you. they're challenging the cops. okay, come on. do it. >> seems to me like, nypd showing a lack of restraint in their crowd control, frankly. >> it was the same with this video. a well-known confrontation between armed homeowners and demstrators marching past their homes. >> is that what i think it is? this is so wrong. >> once again, people from different political parties were seeing very different things. >> these people are just sitting there protecting their house. they don't want to shoot nobody. they don't want to harm nobody. they're strictly protecting their house. >> if you had to pick the person being more aggressive or -- >> the person with the gun, yes. it would be the person with the

gun. >> they are defending what they could while they were there. i'm not against it. >> so in terms of who is being aggressive, it's -- >> the protesters. >> who is being more aggressive? >> oh, the person with the assault rifle without a question. >> in fact, there was only one thing everyone seemed to agree on. >> do you think america is becoming more politically divided? >> yes. >> yes. >> that's for sure. >> absolutely. >> yeah. because we're so fricking polarized. >> this is a problem that's getting worse? >> yeah, it's getting worse and i don't see it unwind anything time soon. >> joe is a professor of psychology at new york university. >> political identities of one of the most important political identities people have in this country. and that's grown over time. >> how did that happen? >> our political leaders stopped cooperating and voting in different ways. the media that we tune in to. you can select media that aligns with your political identities, and social media allows you to tune in to whatever you want to tune in to. whatever you hope to see. so you can confirm all your

beliefs and identities and expectations by plugging into these different realities. >> that can make it harder to understand why others would view things so differently. can you imagine a democrat looking at the videos you saw and coming to the complete opposite conclusion? >> no, i can't. no, i can't. >> so this is known as what's called the bias blind spot. it's really easy to see bias in other people but hard to see it in ourselves, even though other people around us, our friends, family and colleagues can see when we're biased. we have a hard time seeing it. we think we're rational. >> what does it mean for our government, our democracy, our country if we can't look at a shared reality? >> if you don't see the same facts, you can't have a serious discussion about how to come to some solution. some things are very clear but most things are ambiguous. and so we have to decide how we're going to interpret them. and you can interpret them through an extreme partisan lens and decide anybody who doesn't see reality the same way you do is an evil person that needs to

be defeated or you can pause and ask yourself, am i seeing it the right way? am i seeing it the only way? and why are they seeing it differently than me? >> the key there is pause. >> yes, yeah. >> pause and ask yourself, what are you looking at? are you seeing it the right way? is there another way to look at it? but the reality is that in the moment we're living in, you can show people the very same video and they become to opposite points of opinion. >> to that point of pausing. social media works so quickly and people react so fast that there isn't a lot of pausing anymore. in fact, quite the opposite. there's a lot of rushing to conclusions and judgments. >> the bias blind spot is very scary. but if you don't see the same facts. that's the thing. how do we get past this if we don't even see the same facts? >> how do we run a government if we doebn't have a shared realit. each of us believes we're seeing the truth and everyone else is crazy. we have to ask ourselves, maybe we have it wrong. >> it's very important because that's part of the job we have to do sometimes. you have to look at something

and go, why does this person see this so differently. what do they see that i don't, that i am not seeing? >> part of why the virus is so bad. it separates us. and the only way to get past this is through conversation. it's to meet people who have that opposite point of view and to talk to them. >> it's really hard. >> reminds me of marital counseling and the counselor would say, but that's your reality. that's not his reality. and my thing is, he's wrong. >> reminds me a lot of marital counseling. >> it does. >> because we're looking at the same thing. >> like the proof is right there. don't you see it? >> that's fascinating. i wonder how you get past that. >> that's our dilemma. >> mine was divorce. i don't recommend that. >> we tried that once. it was called the civil war. >> we've got to work this out. >> ahead, vladimir duthiers will look at the stories you'll be talking about l

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could you send that copy? i'll have it framed and put in my home. nice looking. >> you look like a comic book kung fu rock star. >> i like it. >> he nailed it. he nailed it, anthony. there you go. >> true. what have you got today, vlad duthiers? >> yes. thank you very much, chad. here are a few stories we think you'll be talking about today ---ed to s national black voter on -- today is national black voter days. celebrities recorded psas telling why it's important to vote including beyonce's mother, tina knowles. >> i consider it a privilege and an honor for my voice to be heard. whatever you do, get out and vote, people, like your life depended on it. take pride and vote. >> nba stars blake griffin and tyson chandler also released messages. the campaign wants to empower black americans to go to the

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aniston playing linda barrett and brad pitt playing brad hamilton in the recasting of the movie. that's the famous scene with the cars moving in stereo. if everybody remembers that. so the 1982 movie was hosted by dane cook and it included sean penn, the original specoli, julia roberts, matthew mcconaughey. it's raised more than $50,000 for penn's organization, core, which helps vulnerable communities all over the world. there are so many classic lines in the movie including my favorite -- if all else fails, play side one of led zeppelin four. >> now that's a zoom call i wish i'd been on. >> it was good. shia labeouf played the spicoli character. it was funny seeing sean penn cracking up. it was fun to see jennifer and brad. i get the sense they've moved on. it was nice to see them side by

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first, here is today's eye opener. the president facing push back over his claims that a coronavirus vaccine could be available by election day. two former senior administration officials tell cbs news that scientists are being pressured to work on an accelerated time line and that the white house cares more about messaging than sharing public safety information. >> later today, biden and the president are both here in minnesota where early voting begins today. polls show biden winning. the president is really eager four years ago.e by one point - >> the cleanup from hurricane sally could take weeks or months. it's damage like this done to this church that has this community coming together to help. >> commercial aviation supports more than 10 million u.s. offs through the economy.

barbados is removing queen elizabeth as their official head of state. >> why now? did barbados just get sick of the british? i thought she looked fly. >> this morning's eye opener is presented by toyota. >> that's good. the queen in cornrows. >> whoever put that together was really good. >> very good. we will begin with politics. it's a busy time. both candidates for president held overlapping events in separate swing states. former vice president joe biden took part in a drive-in cnn town hall in pennsylvania where he addressed a number of topics, including the coronavirus, suggesting the president should step down over his response. he accused of president of fanning the flames of racial tension in america. >> the president talks about in joe biden's america. he may be losing it.

he is president. i'm not the president. this is donald trump's america. do you feel safer in donald trump's meamerica? >> president trump slammed protesters at an outdoor rally, this one in wisconsin, calling them anarchists. he claimed a coronavirus vaccine will be available to the public very soon. despite top health officials saying it's not likely until next year. former senior administration officials tell cbs news there are concerns the fda will face political pressure on approving a vaccine. today the president and joe biden are both in minnesota. the latest cbs news battleground tracker poll has biden leading the president by nine points. major garrett joins us. good morning. the president held another rally in front of a mostly maskless crowd, as we referred to moments ago. he has been contradicting his own top health expert at the cdc about vaccines and about masks. why is the president taking this

strategy? >> let's talk about the vaccine first. the imperative for the trump campaign and the president is to say, this is going to be developed in trump time. if it weren't for the president's pressuring, it wouldn't happen as rapidly as it is. the president wants credit for that. that exposes or raises questions about political imperatives as opposed to scientific and public health imperatives. that's where the president is. on the rallies, the trump campaign knows that they have to have a stark contrast with joe biden visually in the time of the pandemic. trump campaign republican party data shows voters most want their lives back. the trump campaign cannot look as cautious as the biden campaign because that does not suggest if he is re-elected you have a chance of getting your life back. they know it's risky. the president has no option other than to leave this choice to his supporters. in nevada last week, several supporters said, i'm not wearing a mask, i trust my president. they don't want to break that bond. >> the biden campaign is a sharp

contrast. he held a socially distant town hall last night. is that working? >> it is in this sense. the biden campaign wants to convey, we are about science, we are about caution and we are about using those things to get the country on the other side of this coronavirus as rapidly as possible. their visual presentation during this campaign and rhetorical presentation is caution and care will get us out of this sooner than recklessness. that's the message of the biden campaign. it's not always clean. biden has had a tough week trying to talk about the mask mandate. he said he couldn't do it. then he said he could. then he said, i could probably only do it on federal property. that's a big mess on something that ought to be clean and simple for the biden campaign to articulate. they are having problems this week in a way that a challenging campaign in this pandemic probably ought not to have. >> the president has faced a couple of significant controversies in the last two weeks. the article about his comments

about the military. bob woodward's book about him playing down the virus. any evidence that's affected his campaign? >> in politics, politicians and pollsters talk about circuit breakers during a campaign. what happens when a circuit blows? everything goes out and you have to stop everything and get the lights back on so you can resume. circuitbreakers in po breakers you are doing. the president was trying to reshape the conversation about law and order and things like that and the economy. both of those events have stopped that momentum. i had a comfonversation with a campaign official and with sarah huckabee sanders. i asked them both, is the president in your point of view a net favorite over joe biden but a net underdog against the pandemic? both said that's a hard question to answer. he is a favorite against biden

but an underdog against the pandemic. at long . >> that's interesting. i know when the circuit breaker breaks, you flip it and it goes back on. >> you have to stop everything to do it. that's the point. >> that's true. that's true. i get the point. i see what you are saying there. a former advise in pence's staff has broken from him and going -- has endorsed biden. they are labeling her a disgruntled employee, even though earlier she was highly praised. do you think that's going to matter? b, do you expect more to follow suit? >> it's possible that more people who once worked in the administration will see the polls, see biden is likely going to be elected. they may come to that conclusion. say it's safer to be on the other side of history than where they were. will it matter to trump supporters? they will buy the disgruntled label. what is it about this presidnt that keeps attracting people who have become disgruntled?

the other thing that's in interesting, all the so-called gris gru disgruntleds say, the only thing is the presidency. when you see the message about politics overstepping other considerations as president of the united states, it could become a lingering problem. >> tony had an interesting piece in the last half hour about democrats and republicans, how people are so in their lane and they don't see any other points of view. how do you break through something like that during this particular campaign that is so polarizing? >> i don't want to disappoint you. we don't. that is going to have to be a favor that's broken over time and experience. it's not broken in this campaign season. as tony's piece showed, people can look at the same thing and find at their value level one thing represents something to them and that another person with their value level it represents something different, even though the thing that they are watching is the same thing. it's the value contrast which

goes back to this presentation of campaign events. how do they look, how do they make you feel? the trump campaign is one place. the biden campaign is another. they believe for their base supporters, it's that communication, that expression of your values that will motivate them to come out to vote. >> major garrett, thank you very much. ahead, an exclusive look inside the national museum of african-american history and culture before it reopens today. how museum staff hope to inspire visitors amid the ."

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four smithsonian four smithsonian museums are reopening to visitors today. they have been closed more than six months because of the pandemic. cheap reed got a look at what te national museum of african-american history and culture is doing to keep visitors safe. chip, good morning to you. i'm so glad to see they are

opening up. this is long overdue. people are ready to go. why was it so important to reopen this museum now? >> reporter: well, you know, the central mission of this museum is to teach people about the long struggle for racial justice in this country. people who work here say, that is a lesson that might well be more important right now in this country than ever. where crowds used to gather outside the national museum of african-american history and culture, staff members are now preparing for a new reality. >> of course, you have to wear a mask. >> reporter: the acting director says for the first couple weeks, there will be just 250 tickets issued each day, compared to over 4,000 before the pandemic. video exhibits and touch screens will be turned off. the lobby is now equipped with plexiglas and hand sanitizer. >> the public is safe but also our staff is safe. >> reporter: you have sensors

that can keep track of the numbers of people coming through. >> we do. high up in the ceiling. we can see how many people are in each space. as it gets too crowded, we might direct people to other parts of the museum. >> reporter: three other smithsonian museums reopened today with similar precautions. after months of nationwide protests calling for racial justice, these exhibits offer a timely message. >> we have always been a place that's looked at social justice. i think as people come to visit us, they will see that history. they will understand how people have really worked very hard to try to make a difference in the world. hopefully, it will inspire them to make a difference in the world as well. >> reporter: the museum has been collecting signs and other artifacts from recent protests, gathering stories from people marching in the streets. and from those impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, which has seen blacks hospitalized at whites.five times the rate of -

>> one of the things we are trying to do is to capture how all this is impacting individuals in our society. as a consequence, we created a space where you can talk about how covid affected your life and what kinds of things you might be doing to try to have it lessen that impact. >> reporter: would it be fair to say in some ways this museum is needed now more than ever? >> absolutely. we want to make sure we tell the unvarnished truth is what we often say. also to point out that even in the struggles that people face, there are up sides to it. we want visitors to see both those things, so they understand that there will be challenges, but there are ways of confronting those and maybe finding a better path to follow in the future. >> reporter: he says the response to the reopening has been overwhelming. there's already a long waiting list to get in. as i mentioned, they will start at 250 people today. gradually work up to 1,100 people over the next two or three weeks.

that's only about a quarter of the size of the crowd they used to get before the pandemic. it's just not safe to let those kinds of numbers in now. >> just the fact you can go back again is great. thank you, chip. we got to take the show there. we got to broadcast there live. the first network to be able to do so. it's a powerful, powerful, powerful place. the exhibitions that they have on display, you walk out of -- i don't care what color you are, you can't help but be moved by the nation and what we have been through and what we have done and what we have accomplished. >> i'm glad museums are reopening gradually. >> you have been. >> i went to the museum of modern art. very small group of people in there. it was just so nice to be able to go at all. i'm really glad to see this. >> 250 people, that's a big difference. it's worth it. >> there will be lines. be sure you are socially distant. >> they have that, too. >> it's worth it. >> i haven't gone yet. >> pull some levers for me to

get in. >> we know people. a first look at an interview with lady gaga. she talked about her mental health and why her most recent studio album almost did not happen. you are watching "cbs this morning."

♪ you're the one that i've been waitingor gotta quit this crying nobody's gonna heal me ♪ ♪ if i don't know and let go hard to believe gotta have faith in me ♪ that's lady gaga singing "stupid love" from her sixth studio album. the album earned her the artist of the year award at that year's mtv video music awards. she reveals it almost never happened. lady gaga told lee cowan that chronic depression made it almost impossible to write. she said it got so bad she might not have gone into her recording

studio at all had it not been for her producer, michael tucker. also known as blood pop. >> he used to come upstairs and would go like, come on, we've got to go down. i would play chords and start singing and writing. yeah, he encouraged me. >> reporter: pulling you through it? >> it was like a baby walking, you know. come on. you're an artist. you're an artist. and i would -- then it would come out, you know. and then we'd fill the room with music, and i'd go in there, and i'd lay it down. and then i'd hear it back, and i would smile. and i'd say i sound pretty good, blood. he would go, yeah, you're lady gaga. and then i'd dance around for a little while. and then i would go upstarts, and i'd lock myself on my porch, and i'd stare at the sky. i would be sad again. >> i love that she's so candid about suffering from depression. she also suffered -- i think

it's called fibromyalgia where you have intense pain. she's talked about that. because her music is so good. she's not like the other kids in the class. but she's so talented. and i really respect and admire that she's sharing herself in this way. >> it's so important. listen, this time has been difficult psychologically for everybody. particularly for people who have anxiety. artists, i've talked to so many who have struggled through, you know, the last six months. >> to me that shows the power of depression. she's super talented person, has the resources around her to get help, and yet still even she is laid low by this. i liked that her producer said, yeah, but you're lady gaga. sometimes even lady gaga doesn't -- you're really good. you can do this. >> sometimes you don't feel like it. you can more more of the revealing interview this weekend, of course, on "cbs sunday morning." if you or someone you know is seeking mental health resources, you can call the national alliance of -- mental illness

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welcome back to "cbs this morning." welcome back to "cbs this morning." >> i hate the buildup about this. it's friday and i feel like something silly, something light. everybody has been talking about it all week. this debate. would a giraffe wear a bow tie like this or like this? take a look. which is the correct way to wear a bow tie? >> i have a very clear and definite thing about this. the lower one. the bow tie goes below the adams

apple. >> between the two. >> can you find out who is winning in this debate so i can share it before we get off the air? i always think it should be at the top. i disagree with you. any well-dressed giraffe wants to wear it at the top. i'm told, the bottom one is winning so far. >> really? it looks better. >> remember when they had the blue dress and gold dress? i love these kind of games that they play. >> when it's under the chin, it looks like the giraffe is a gift. happy birthday, here is a giraffe. the other looks like he is going out on the top. >> patty is wrapping up like, i'm done with this conversation. let me save you from yourselves. i thought it was fun. >> this is one of those that you will never find an answer. it's like the two political

divides. >> anthony? >> i have a familiar face from the tv show "seinfeld." doing his part to fight the coronavirus. >> no soup for you. >> it's still funny. he has teamed up with a company for a special face mask. the mask says, no mask, no soup. it shows his face. for every mask sold, the company will donate one to a charity. it's the soup nazi protective face mask. it's available in three different colors, red, white and blue. >> you are right, it's still funny. i don't know why that became so funny. it's so silly. >> it was based on a guy down the street here. >> who did that? >> who did something like that. >> i never saw him. >> i still love seeing that. >> i have a dispatch from the front lines of our quest for beauty and beautiful skin. there's a spa in jordan in the

middle east that offers facials using giant african land snails. look at these pictures. >> no, no. oh, my god. >> they eat up the dead skin. they open up the pores. they make your skin looking plump. >> what if they settle on your eyeball? >> a two-hour session. i have been reading this book called "clean." it's about how we wash too much. all these rid you'lls. we don't need to do a lot of it. >> that's gross looking at that. people are eating their frosted flakes and cheerios. we are grossed out. would you do that? >> no. >> my giraffe story doesn't look so bad. >> i don't think you need to wash your face. take a break with all this stuff. put the soap away. >> i'm for that. a serious story out of texas. a mysterious case involving the death of a beloved college cheerleader. it's headed back to court.

she died nearly three years ago from extensive injuries. prosecutors say she was beaten to death by her boyfriend. his defense team has other explanations for how she died. now the case is headed for a retrial in january. >> reporter: in the early hours of october 30, 2017, allison steele was told her 19-year-old daughter would not survive. >> even the most explicit television shows don't show you what i saw that day. >> reporter: her daughter, a sophomore and her 22-year-old boyfriend had attended a music festival. there they drank alcohol and took mdma, a drug known as molly or ecstasy. mark told police they left the

festival after getting into an argument over her ex. >> get over this dude. he ain't worth your time. >> reporter: they stopped at a gas station parking lot where they had consensual makeup sex. then he says, she passed out. >> i reached over. i felt her throat. i didn't feel anything. >> reporter: that's when he rushed her to the nearest hospital. the medical examiner ruled she died from blunt force face and head trauma. mark was charged with murder, sexual assault and later with kidnapping. he pleaded not guilty to all the charges and was released on bail. >> there are no eyewitnesses. >> reporter: john hunter is his attorney. >> no one saw anything that transpired between them. >> reporter: he said the bruises could have come from medical staff as they tried at least seven different times to revive her. >> she had been worked on within

an inch of her life. he did not cause her death. >> reporter: other possible theories he presented at trial, could she have died from complications from the molly she consumed? or could she have possibly fallen before getting into the car? >> there's more than meets the eye. things aren't always as they seem. >> peter, fascinating story. this is a retrial in january. what happened at the first trial? >> in the first trial, the jurors just could not make up their mind, despite graphic photographs of her body. how she got those injuries. the two sides battled it out. she was injured from head to toe. the prosecution was saying, that's impossible to get that from a fall. she must have been beaten. the family when they entered the room for the first time to see her said she looked like she had fallen out of an airport. they were convinced she was beaten. the defense was able to raise

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nurse's station. >> i wanted to turn -- >> when you are outside, we will discuss whatever problem you have. okay? the patients are not allowed in the nurse's station. all right? >> that's nurse ratchet in "one flew over the cuckoo's nest." a new series aims to show her earlier life. she's an executive producer. it's filled with intrigue as nurse ratchet begins to infiltrate a psychiatric hospital and deceives the patients and employees. >> mildred ratchet. >> i didn't ask what your name was. where did you get the letter? >> it was september nt to me. >> i'm confused. there's no one in his office except for him and myself. i didn't send that and i can assure you that isn't dr. hanover's signature. >> i have come quite a long way and would like to speak with

him. >> the doctor is out of the office until later this afternoon. if you would like to leave a number -- >> i would prefer to wait here. >> looks good. good morning to you. let's just say, sister girl got some issues in this movie. what i think is so -- she really does. take us on such a ride. we get to see nurse ratchet before. we know how she turned out. we see her life before. i think it raises a question to me, don't ask what's wrong with you, you have to ask what happened to you. there's a whole back story to her life. >> that's exactly right. this is an opportunity in a fictional way and a highly stylized way, how mildred ratchet came to be the villainous character we know in that famous movie. >> how did you prepare? after looking at it, i now want to go back and look at the original. did you do that? what was your thought process as you got into her head?

>> well, i did watch it. it felt to me to be the most respectful way to do this. how sane am i that i would choose to take that on? when i rewatch the movie, she didn't seem so cruel to me. she seemed a person who was a victim of an infrastructure in that hospital who perhaps did not know how to integrate her heart and her mind. really thought she was giving those patients the best care that she knew how to give at that particular juncture in what was known in terms of the field and world of psychology and psychiatric care. obviously, we know more now. she wasn't a person capable of engaging her heart. in our show you learn why. >> it opens up in such a gruesome way. that took me a minute to recover from that. >> i appreciate you pushing through. >> i did. i did push through.

you are so good in this role. the other thing that i was drown to were the clothes. they have a great scene where you have on that mustard yellow suit you stole, by the way. you are walking down the hallway in this beautiful lighting. drawn to the costumes and clothes and you driving around in that sea foam green car. ryan murphy has a very unique way of storytelling. did that draw you to it, too? >> absolutely. any time from an acting stand point -- you don't have to be an actor. walk into a room decorated in a particular way and it can evoke so much from your childhood, from the life you wish -- you we walked on the sets, wearing stockings with seams up the back and pinched waists. it creates a look that you have gloves and hats. the care that was given at that time in terms -- it was very presentational in terms how you wanted to be perceived by the

world. >> sharon stone is in the movie. i gotta toot your horn for a second. sharon stone said this, which surprised me. she said in her whole acting career, she's never been in a movie where her co-star was also the executive producer. wo. that's a very unusual thing clearly. >> yeah. her male co-star might have been the executive producer, but her female co-star, if she had up with, was certainly not an executive producer. this is the thing about ryan, i have been working with him for a decade. he said, this is time. it's time for this for you. you have earned this. he used this beautiful phrase. i want you to step into your power. it was terrifying but exceedingly empowering. i'm grateful to him for giving me the shot to try being really misbo miss bossy boots. >> i will start using that. bossy boots, i like that. i know you as playing bad-ass

characters. you describe yourself as a nervous nellie. you must be a really good actress. there's nothing about you that gives off nervous nellie vibes. be a testament to something because i have to -- ask anybody in my life. i'm afraid of my own shadow. the fact that i have made a career in this sort of genre is, believe me, surprising to no one. ask my mother. she just can't believe that this is where i found myself. >> all right. ms. bossy boots. great, great job. great, great job in "ratched." thank you. >> i appreciate it. i'm so glad. >> you can stream "ratched" on netflix today. before we go, we'll look at all that mattered this week. look, this isn't my first rodeo...

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>> good morning, kelsey. we caught a glimpse of you before you came on the air having a little snack. did you have a little chicken for breakfast? >> play that sax. give to me -- >> vlad, people send introduction ideas. ryan of columbus, ohio, says fall is almost here which means pumpkin and spice. but you don't need any of that because vlad is so nice. >> a big question -- chunky or smooth on the guac? >> chunky, just like my middle. thanks for the question. >> a classic this morning from karen cavendar, it may be getting cold outside, but vlad duthiers comes in hot. >> that's good. >> well what you got, vlad? >> pictures of some animals from the comedy wildlife photography award. this bird, he seems to be saying, don't get too close. and take a look at the pearly whites on this fish. there is what i'm like when i get into a tub. feeling the heat. hot, hot, hot. hot, hot, hot. >> great shots.

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this is a kpix 5 morning update. a firefighter has died battling that wildfire sparked by fireworks in a gender reveal party in san bernardino county. the firefighter died yesterday and it is not clear exactly what led up to his death of judges blocking changes at the postal surface that has slowed down delivery. they say they are motivated. 14 states sued the trump administration and the usps. one private school is preparing to reopen.

city inspectors are going through a checklist, making sure hand sanitizer and cleaning supplies and equipment will be available. chairs for students will be six feet apart. we are dealing with some public transit delays. capital corridor 523 is about 30 minutes behind schedule as it goes through oakland, so keep that in mind if you are taking capital corridor. the rest of mass transit is on time otherwise. it is pretty solid along 242 southbound with the crash and two lanes blocked due to debris on eastbound 580. the bay bridge toll plaza is looking a lot better. no delays, little slow of the upper deck into the city and traffic is fine on the san mateo bridge.

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