i was a long-term democrat committee person. i voted for trump in 2016 and i plan on voting for trump again. >> my name is debbie. i'm a democrat. i was disillusioned with politics but it's better since biden chose harris for his running made. >> what was the most important thing that contributed to your decision debbie? >> i think bide seven more sensitive to people's needs and to the middle class. i think trump is very about himself. >> my community is 100% democrat controlled and i feel like i've been dealing with just lip service people an not action, and i've -- that's why i've changed, you know, my viewpoint. trump seems like the type of person who has let's just do it. >> we're all affected by the economy. we'd like to get a candidate for president that would be able to reign in the pandemic, get out

of these difficult times and i believe widen will be the candidate. >> cynthia? >> i don't like his denial of the extent of the pandemic. therefore, i could never vote for him. >> i could never vote for president trump because he has proven to be unfit for the presidency help has lied, he has mishandled the pandemic. >> hannah? >> i feel that his demeanor hasn't always been something that i aligned with, but i do align with his policies. i'm not a big fan of his twitter but i'm not voting for someone on twitter. i'm voting for a leader of the country. >> you're from a military family. >> uh-huh. >> president trump was reported to say some fairly derogatory things about people who served, including people that died in battle suckers. what was your response, what was your family's response that? >> honestly, it's completely

unacceptable. if it's true, it's deeply disheartening. is that going to swing my vote between these two people? no. >> it's not enough? >> it's not enough. >> how significant has the pandemic affected your lives and -- >> significantly in all ways. >> did all of you hear the audio tape -- >> yes. >> speaking about -- >> same way. i'm not going to panic somebody. ok. you got a fire in the building. don't stand there and cry about it. follow me. he doesn't have the right to determine how i'm going to think about it. he hid the truth. he did it only for his own self benefit for re-election. i'm angry that he did that. he lied again and i don't agree -- >> well -- >> hold on. >> he continues from my perspective to undercut the scientific community. i come from the scientific community. i cannot tolerate that.

>> hannah? >> well, i agree that the pandemic hasn't been handled completely perfectly. i also know that trump has given a lot of power to the states and so the states have made their own decisions that have been not so great, so i think that while we really want to blame somebody, i don't think president trump is that person. >> anytime you have the president of the united states telling people to inject themselves with chloroorks that's problem. to me, it's an embarrassment to the united states, the way he has handled this pandemic. i think we would not have so many deaths if he had handled it differently. >> you are as suburban women among the most desired voters in the country right now. are you -- >> god, that's -- wow. >> are we -- >> what do we get?

>> so my question is president trump has made a direct appeal saying that the democrats are going ruin your nehoods. >> uh-huh. >> no, no. >> you don't -- >> no. no. i don't take it as a threat at all. it's just trying to build up fear. >> i think it's a nonknish. jiets non. >> not an issue. >> are any of you worried about the integrity of this election? >> i'm more concerned about the disenfranchisement of voters and their votes not being counted. i can tell you personally, i will not be using the u.s. mail to.llo to a drop box. >> i've been very kwernds the president constantly attacking the mail voting as being fraud lentz. there was nice read that virginia started early voting and they were some right wing people that showed up taunting people in line. >> i think if trump does not win

he's going to call a fraud. it's going on the a fraud if i don't win. >> there's so much polarization within people, i don't think the selection is going to be that fun to go through, but here for it. >> i can't wait till november 4th is over so start can look a little more normal. you can only watch so many "gillmore girls" or "little house on the prairie." >> before we move on, you should knee anthony mason asked them about the choice to fill the vacant supreme court seat. vacant supreme court seat. none said witte affect their (ringing) - hey kaleb, what's up? how you doing? - hey, i'm good, guess what, i just had my 13th surgery. - really? i just had my 17th surgery. - well, you beat me. - well, i am a little bit older than you. - yeah it's true. how are you doing? - i'm doing good.

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but not too close for comfort. the u.s. death toll from covid-19 has now passed 200,000. still, there are those who question the need to wear a facemask around. others, even though masks have been used for decades to fight disease. here's this overnight news history lesson. jai guess the first thing is do we need these things during this interview? >> no. i'd say no because we're appropriately distanced and we're outside. >> let's take them off. >> i think we can. >> the man behind the mask is

to their first known medical b use, during the black death. the bubonic plague of the middle ages. those were some masks. >> everybody probably is familiar with the classic image of the beaked position, the plague doctor. >> the plague doctor look like ravens about the pick on the bones of the dead an image that stwiks you. the masks may have been useless against the disease, which was carried by rats and fleas, but they did actually serve a purpose. >> they would wear this bikini and put lavender in the beak as a koirnlt to the noxious vapors that was thought to spread this contagion. >> it wasn't just that the world smelled and people dying with boils and everything else.

>> stunk. >> this was thought to have medicinal purpose. >> it was counter aerkt these bad odors. >> the idea that disease could be carried in the air endured for centuries but it wasn't proven until the great manchurian plague in 1936, which killed 60,000 people. >> what happened in china in the winter of 1910, a young chinese doctor was practiced in manchuria with a french colleague and wu observed that many to have patients seemed to have a disease that transmitted very rapidly between them and he hypothesized that it wasn't being spread by the usual plague flea root but byry spire torey drop letsds. so they wore masks. long story short, they didn't catch the plague whereas the doctor he worked with died.

>> he didn't wear the mask. >> he didn't wear the mask. i suppose there was some idea of a presumptious doctor telling me. i i know better. >> the mask has become commonplace in asian city during the flu season. i was has had its moments in the west. during the spanish flu pandemic of 1918-19, san francisco had a mask wearing public ordinance. >> they were fined $5 if they were caught not wearing a mask. >> these days is more left-right than east-west. the nonmask wearer in chief may% be living out two cultural fantasies. studies show men are less likely to wear a mask. >> put your hands up shut your mouth and -- >> in hollywood's version of the

old west masks were for bad guys. >> take off the mask. >> the mask has come a long way, not just in terms of social acceptability, but technically. the doctors in manchuria made theirs out of bandages. better than nothing but not as good as this. the now coveted n 95 mask, mold not woven out of synthetic fibers. it owes its inspiration to sarah little turnbull whose work on the first mold oed bra cup for 3m in the 60s morphed into a medical mask. now the facemask is morphing again from medical to fashion yes along with the coronavirus, it has arrived. you know, once you see retailers, clothing companies

think there's a market, the opportunity, i think they'll catch on.

the neat round spaghetti that you can eat with a spoon has just turned 55. and it's still a hot seller in one massachusetts town. steve hartman found touching story of the love for spa get owes on the road. jai thought i had reported on this week when i traveled to l addle borough.

>> let's talk os. this is christian mr. speaker donald. >> you never know where life will lead you. >> her obsession began afternoon the birth of her daughter ashlyn. she's autistic. she stopped eegtd food altogether with the sole exception of spa get owes and meats balls. teachers were working to expand her pal lat when the pandemic hit. >> we couldn't find spa get owes anywhere. >> why was there a run on spaghetti o's? >> i was losing my mind trying to find it. >> that's when the miracle happened. spa get owes started showing up reds of cans in the people l. in the community who heard about

ashlyn in the local paper and wanted to help. >> if it wasn't for the kindness of people like that we wldn't have gotten by. their future is in the back of your minds. who's going to take care of them when i get old and to see people come out and embrace us gave me so much hope that they will love they are and take care of her when i'm not here. >> spaghetti o's is hardly. every can now is fortified with faith in humanity. steve hartman, on the road in add lt borough, massachusetts. >> and that is the overnight news for this wednesday. for some of you the news continues. for others, check back later for "cbs this morning." follow us online anytime at cbsnews.com. report prg the nation's capital, i'm jeff pegues. i prg the natio

capital, i'm jeff pegues. ng prg capi l, i'm jeff pegues.prg the it's wednesday, september 30th, 2020. this is the "cbs morning news." >> shut up, man -- >> who is on your list, joe? >> the clash in cleveland. the presidential debate devolves into anger and interruptions. the biggest takeaways from the first of three showdowns. releasing the recordings. major developments today in the breonna taylor shooting investigation. kids and covid. as more students return to school, the number of young people diagnosed with people diagnosed with coronavirus is going up. captioning funded by cbs good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green.