we like to call it friday eve around here. >> friday eve. i love it. good morning to you, our viewers in the west, and welcome to "cbs this morning." it's thursday, october 8th, 2020. i'll gayle king with anthony mason and tony dokoupil. debate battle. senator harris and vice president pence face off over the pandemic and other hot-button issues at the only vice presidential debate. plus, a big new controversy over the next presidential debate. back in the oval. president trump returns to his office and makes surprising claims about the effectiveness of his covid treatment. we'll fact check his remarks amid n new concerns about the white house outbreak. hurricane delta strngtens as it churns toward the gulf coast after wreaking havoc in cancun. how people in louisiana are

preparing for impact. and driving the conversation. nascar's jimmie johnson will talk to us about why he feels the sport needs to change when it comes to race and his friendship with bubba wallace. >> he says he's learned a lot. first today's "eye opener." it's your world in 90 seconds. >> the american people have witnessed what is the greatest failure of any presidential administration in our history. >> it was a very civilized debate where you got to hear the conversation. even if the questions weren't answered sometimes. >> the american people deserve a straight answer. if you haven't figured it out, the straight answer is they are going to pack the supreme court. >> after taking the experimental drug regeneron, the president called the drug a cure and said he'll make it free fr anyone who needs it. >> i think this was a blessing from god that i caught it. >> the commission on presidential debates announcing the second presidential debate will be virtual. >> i'm not going to waste my time on a virtual debate. you sit behind a computer.

it's ridiculous. >> hurricane delta churns toward the gulf coast. >> we are facing life-threatening storm surge outside of the levee protection system. >> facebook will ban political ads for an indefinite period after the polls close on november 3rd. >> all that -- >> he went viral on tiktok. >> ocean spray saw the video and gifted him a new truck. ♪ >> and all that matters. >> yes! >> there is a conflict at the white house between a cnn reporter and a raccoon. >> now, no events on the presidident's schedule today. >> on cbs this morning -- >> the big debate story was a fly that landed on the vice president's head. it stayed on his head for 2 minutes and three seconds.

technically that fly is now his running mate but anyway, mike pence's fly just became the most popular halloween costume of 2020. >> this morning's "eye opener" is presented by progressive. making it easy to bundle insurance. >> welcome to "cbs this morning." we were watching that fly last night as everybody was. at some point they said is the fly alive? did he just die? he stood there so long. >> you knew this had to happen. the fly already has a twitter account. 90,000 followers. lots to say this morning. and that's where we begin not with the fly but with the vice presidential debate where senator kamala harris and vice president pence clashed on many issues including the pandemic. harris called it the greatest failure of any presidential administration ever. pence strongly defended president trump's response. >> the candidates were protected by plexiglass panels among concerns that pence splay been exposed to the white house outbreak.

also harris was the first black and asian woman on a vp debate stage. nikole killion was there. and it certainly felt different than the last debate. >> good morning. vice president mike pence and senator kamala harris interrupted each other a handful of times last night but, for the most part, this was a much calmer debate than what we saw last week. and both campaigns say they feel good about their candidate's performances. >> the american people have witnessed what is the greatest failure of any presidential administration in the history of our country. >> reporter: separated by plexiglass, kamala harris wasted no time talking about trump's downplay of the virus to, in his words, prevent a panic. >> how calm were you when your kids couldn't go back to school. how calm were you when your children couldn't see their parents because you were afraid they could kill them. >> reporter: vice president mike

pence defended the administration. >> what i want the american people to know that from the very first day, president donald trump has put the health of america first. >> reporter: and said the biden/harris plan was nothing new. >> quite frankly, when i look at their plan that talks about advancing testing, creating new ppe, developing a vaccine, it looks a little bit like plagiarism. >> whatever the vice president is claiming the administration has done clearly it hasn't worked. >> reporter: at times, the vice president dodged questions. >> how would you describe our fundamental relationship with china. >> thank you, susan. let me -- before i leave that, let me speak to voting records, if i can. >> would you want your home state to ban all abortions? >> well, thank you for the question, but i'll use a little bit of my time to respond to that very important issue before. >> for her part, harris wouldn't say if a biden administration would attempt to add seats on the supreme court. >> joe has been very clear, as

the american people are, let the american people fill that seat in the white house and then we'll fill that seat on the united states supreme court. >> i just want the record to reflect she never answered the question. >> thank you. >> the next debate, joe biden will answer the question, but i think the american people know the answer. >> reporter: there were interruptions -- >> repeal the trump tax cuts. >> mr. vice president, i'm speaking. i'm speaking. >> reporter: but far fewer than the last debate and the candidates did get to issues like health care. >> obamacare was a disaster. the american people remember it well. president trump and i have a plan to improve health care and protect pre-existing conditions for every american. >> reporter: but the president has not provided a comprehensive plan and harris pointed out the trump administration is trying to dismantle the affordable care act in court. >> if you have a pre-existing condition, heart disease, diabetes, breast cancer, they're coming for you. if you love someone who has a

pre-existing condition -- >> thank you, senator harris. >> if you are rnd the age of 26 on your parent's coverage, they're coming for you. >> as you showed earlier, perhaps the most talked about part of the debate was not the fly on the wall but the fly on the vice president's head. about 15 minutes later, biden's campaign flew into action tweeting an image of biden with a fly swatter using it as a fundraising opportunity. today vice president pence and senator harris are campaigning in the battleground state of arizona where biden will join his running mate. >> nikole, thank you. now to breaking news about the next presidential debate. the commission on presidential debates made the october 15th event virtual due to the coronavirus. president trump who is still being treated for covid is not happy with that decision. ben tracy is at the white house following all of it. ben, what's going on? >> good morning. president trump says debates

should be done in person so he is not going to participate. instead, holding a campaign rally on that night. now the debate commission did make this decision without consulting the campaigns, although former vice president joe biden says he will show up. president trump is also making new claims about his health. >> i'm not going to waste my time on a virtual debate. that's not what debating is all, about you sit behind a computer and do a debate. >> reporter: during an interview with fox business, president trump says he's not going to waste his time on a virtual debate. >> trying to protect biden. everybody is. >> reporter: he insists he's feeling great. praising an experiment at antibody cocktail he was given to treat his coronavirus infection. >> i feel perfect. there's nothing wrong. i had a case. i got it knocked out. i think it was regeneron that was responsible for it. because of that, it was sort of like almost a gift from heaven. >> reporter: that echoed his statements outside the oval office wednesday. >> it just made me better, okay? i call that a cure. >> reporter: there is no cure

yet for the virus and the treatment the president received at walter reed, according to one analysis, would cost the average american more than $100,000. >> i want to get for you what i got. and i'm going to make it free. >> reporter: the drug made by pharmaceutical company regeneron is currently only available to clinical trial participants and has still not yet been approved by the fda. earlier wednesday, the president's doctor released another very brief update on his condition saying president trump has been symptom-free for more than 24 hours and has detectable levels of covid antibodies in his blood. but those are likely due to his treatment and not an immune response. on that phone call, the president also made light of his ability to recover from the coronavirus. >> i am back because i am a perfect physical specimen and i'm extremely young. and so i'm lucky in that way. i don't have heart problems. i don't have diabetes. i don't have any of the problems you read about. perhaps a couple of pounds we

can lose here or there. there's a lot of people in that category. >> late last night, regeneron asked the fda for an emergency use authorization for this experimental drug that president trump claims, without evidence, cured him. the company says initially it will have enough doses for about 50,000 patients. that's far less than the hundreds of thousands of doses president trump says are ready to go. >> ben, thank you. we're joined by our chief medical correspondent dr. jon lapook. good morning. how does this experimental treatment work exactly? >> anthony, remember there are two phases. that first phase, about a week long, the virus is multiplying in somebody's body. in the second phase, that inflammatory phase, the body's immune system is overreacting to that virus attack. it's that overexuberant reaction that can cause so much damage. what you want to do is in the first week try to somehow decrease the amount of virus or effect of the virus. that's what this monoclonal

antibody does. it prevents the virus from actually attacking and infecting a human cell and that with remdesivir are two approaches to try to decrease the viral effectiveness, the viral load and viral damage in that first week. >> we heard the president call it a cure. is it? >> it's too early to say that it's a cure. remember that there are symptoms. that's how somebody feels and signs. that's actual data. he says he's feeling well. i'm sure the president's doctors are happy about that. but remember he's on steroids which can mask symptoms, mask fever and make him euphoric and increase his mood, cause insomnia. so really, right now, they've got to watch to see the -- not only the symptoms but the signs. what are the blood tests showing, the xechest x-rays. >> is it safe? are there side effects? >> you know, so far it does seem to be safe at least in he

regeneron study. it showed people who got the placebo had no -- had about the same number of side effects as the people who got the treatment. in terms of the way it works, these are humanized antibodies and there's been a long history of them being used. and they do seem to be safe. but again it is experimental and with any experimental treatment you have to follow it and see is there some unexpected side effect. >> dr. jon lapook, thanks for being with us. people in louisiana are filling sandbags and boarding up windows for the sixth time in the last few months alone. hurricane delta is headed their way growing more powerful and threatening to hit the state as early as tomorrow. delta barreled through cancun and cozumel yesterday our lead national correspondent david begnaud is awaiting the storm in southern louisiana. >> good morning to you. welcome to cajun country, my hometown. we're used to hurricanes happening here. what's different about this, it could be a repeat.

hurricane delta is, as of now, projected to make landfall within 15 to 20 miles from where hurricane laura made landfall just six weeks ago in lake charles. you there were for it. that would be incredible if the same people devastated by laura get hit yet again. let's start with what delta did in mexico. >> we're in a pandemic ght now. and knowing that we're going to have close quarters this whole entire time with a hurricane, trying to figure out how we're going to do what we could for our family. >> reporter: this is not what the detalo family from south dakota was expecting on their vacation. riding out hurricane delta at a packed shelter in playa del carmen as the storm slammed mexico with 110-mile-per-hour winds. the mayor of cancun spoke about fallen trees and utility poles that were down which made the roads impassable. around 266,000 customers had lost power. >> we saw this with hurricane laura. >> reporter: now it is louisiana bracing for another impact. people filled sandbags wednesday

as they prepared to hunker down. just six weeks after hurricane laura ripped through this area as a category 4 hurricane. >> for us to actually have to go through this and witness this again, it's breathtaking. >> reporter: jasmine jack lost her lake charles home to laura. that city was devastated by the hurricane. and its residents are still digging out of the wreckage. while we were there, we saw construction crews fixing a roof as the sun was setting on a warm louisiana night. debris from laura still litters the streets, windows are boarded up and it makes people continue leaving louisiana. >> i've been thinking about leaving, and this kind of giving me the reason to do it. >> reporter: this morning, along the louisiana gulf coast there are mandatory and voluntary evacuations in place in different places. as we take a look at the radar, you have delta in the gulf right now. it's expected to strengthen to a category 3 at some point today.

but here's the catch. as it gets closer to the louisiana coastline, the water is cooler there. so it's believed that delta will weaken to a category 2. by comparison six weeks ago, hurricane laura was a category 4 when it hit this area. landfall is scheduled for, give or take, five 5:00 or 6:00 local time tomorrow night. >> man, david, you look at those stories and go how much more can we take? how much more? please, 2020, enough. thank you very much. >> these louisianans are resilient bunch. >> yes, i know you guys are. i know you guys are. david, thanks. louisville police have released a huge batch of evidence from an investigation of the raid that killed breonna taylor back in march. now it raises brand-new questions over why police trgeted her home in an effort to prosecute her ex-boyfriend. the police lieutenant who came to the scene after the shooting told investigators, quote, something really bad happened. the material includes more than 250 videos and more than 4,000

pages of documents. our national correspondent jericka duncan is following this story. >> reporter: the documents, graphic videos and photographs were released wednesday as the outcry for justice for breonna taylor continues. this video shows a close-up view of her boyfriend kenneth walker outside taylor's home after she had been shot. telling officers his girlfriend is dead. >> my girlfriend is dead. >> reporter: moments later, a s.w.a.t. team enters taylor's apartment. >> watch the kitchen. watch the kitchen. >> it's clear. >> reporter: they quickly determine it's a crime scene. >> we have to be mindful of what we say. we're on camera now. >> reporter: at the center of the case, whether a search warrant for taylor's home was issued properly. police records show the warrants stem from taylor's communication with ex-boyfriend jamarcus glover who was the target of a narcotics investigation. the release includes audiotape

of a sknralhoujailhouse convers. in it, glover says he had not been in touch with taylor, further calling into question the justification for the raid. >> breonna did know. me and bre ain't been around each other in over two months. >> reporter: and the interim police chief is continuing her investigation into the deadly raid. it could result in disciplinary actions or even firings. meanwhile, the fbi continues its investigation into possible civil rights violations and an anonymous grand juror is waiting to find out if they can speak out about the grand jury process. gayle? >> there's still so many unanswered questions in this case. but i want to look at that tape again, jericka, you just showed us with kenneth walker. when you hear that 911 call, he's in such ianguish and pain. to see him that night with police going, my girlfriend is dead, he doesn't know what it happening. >> yeah.

he doesn't. he really didn't. and his mother actually, there's audio of her on the scene talking to officers about what she said her son did which was call her and tell her how scared he was because he didn't know what was going on. >> heartbreaking story and still a lot of people believe no justice in that case at this time. thank you jericka. why one midwestern state is seeing a hospital emergency caused by a

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welcome back to cbs "this morning." the coronavirus pandemic is suddenly hitting harder in many parts of the united states. in fact, 31 states now reporting an increase in the average number of new cases, and one of the hot spots is in wisconsin, which saw a record number of covid-related hospitalizations just yesterday. take a look at this time lapse video showing a new medical facility built at the wisconsin state fair park, a facility admitting patients not seriously ill but still in need of care. our reporter is at the site in west allis outside of milwaukee. good morning. what are officials doing to get this outbreak under control? >> reporter: good morning, tony.

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dedicated to diversity that it is a core value, but the former black act agents we spoke to sa they experience and witnessed something entirely different during their decades-long careers inside the fbi. >> when the culture is not conducive to minorities, you have an obligation to speak out. >> reporter: eric jackson was the special agent in charge of the fbi's dallas field office. >> i believe a crisis is happening. the seventh floor in the fbi is where decisions and policies are made. right now there are no african-americans on the seventh floor. >> reporter: of the top ten leadership positions in the fbi, all are held by white men. >> what has occurred is what a lot of psychologists collins stugsallized racism. >> reporter: as head of the fbi's black affairs diversity committee, jackson says he got a firsthand look at how the upper ranks of fbi leadership kept blacks from climbing the ladder.

>> as the only blackson in the room and i hear people talking about we want to prevent, we don't want to change the culture, that's code word for me that we don't believe that there is a problem. >> reporter: you think that's code words? >> oh, absolutely. when you leave out of a room you're demoralized. >> reporter: several former black agents cold cbs news that managers inside the fbi who are mostly white tend to only promote individuals who look like themselves. >> first of all, the numbers are horrific. >> reporter: black women make up only 1% of the 13,000 fbi agents around the world. jennifer love retired in 2012 as an assistant director, reaching the highest rank of any black woman in the fbi's history. >> it became tiring. i would go in and everybody looked the same. white men with their dark suits on, their white shirts, the blue and red ties. >> reporter: love says she was a champion for the fbi.

even appearing in recruiting ads. near the end of her career as the bureaus head of security, she oversaw the mandatory polygraph examinations for new recruits. >> i had a stack of letters from black and brown people who failed the polygraph thought they were being asked inappropriate questions. >> reporter: she crunched the numbers and discovered black applicants were disproportionately failing the polygraph exam. her proposal, videotape the polygraphs to create accountability. >> i can tell you internal to my division, they were opposed to it. >> reporter: they didn't want to do it. >> they didn't want to do it. >> reporter: the number of black acts s agents in the fbi hovered so long f low for so long they created this. black agents historically only have made up about 5% of the fbi. a number lower today. >> to sit here today and hear

that the numbers have gotten -- gotten worse, and the personal sacrifice. listen, i moved my kids eight times. two divorces. okay? i can love the bureau and want it to be accountable, but you've got to believe that it's necessary. >> reporter: eric jackson's successful career came to an abrupt end last year. >> i saw the glass ceiling. >> reporter: he was guns for an executive position, only six in the entire fbi. he was told he wasn't eligible, because his rank. jackson says the bureau changed the eligibility rules while he was applying and the job went to a white agent with similar credentials. >> other black special agents in charge. we noticed that, and the message was sent loud and clear that the rules didn't apply to us. >> reporter: jackson retired last year after 21 years with the fbi. how are you going to respond to

people who just say this is sour grapes? >> if they think this is sour grapes then they don't understand what's going on, because if -- if we don't look like the community we serve, how can that community trust us? >> reporter: all of the former agents that we spoke with say they are coming forward, because they love the fbi. in the meantime, fbi officials say that director wray expressed a willingness to discuss some of the issues raised by our report. while they regret he was not able to schedule an interview before the report aired, officials tell me that director wray expressed a willingness to sit down and discuss some of these issues in the coming weeks. gayle? >> let me tell you, encouraging to hear. i'm thinking there needs to be meetings on the seventh floor. it's heartbreaking to hear how these agents operated, dedicated to the agency and treated this way.

seems a lot of questions need to be answered. >> reporter: well, there are, and i have to say, gayle, since our first report aired we've gotten a lot of emails from other former black agents and some phone calls as well. >> hmm. >> all right. to be continued. really nice job. when you hear the numbers, guys? 4% black. 1% are women. must be missing a number there? >> and going in the wrong direction. >> they say once you hear it, you can't act like done hear it. now that you know you know, maybe there will be some change. very well done. ahead, alright, everyone, we made it.

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it's th it is thursday, october 8, 2020. welcome back to cbs this morning. i'm gayle king. the vice presidential debate. we'll have analysis from both sides of the sooil. >> facebook cracks down taking new measures. how the threat became too big to ignore. >> and jimmy johnson's last lap. why the driver is retiring and what he thinks the sport needs to do a midst the push for social justice in america. >>nd a our opener for 8:00.

the vice presidential debate where they clashed on many issues including the pandemic. >> this was a much calmer debate. both say they feel good about their performance. >> the commission has made october 15 event virtual. president trump not happy. >> not going to waste my time. that's not what debating is about. >> he said debates should be done in person and he's not going to participate and instead hold a campaign rally. >> delta is expected to stren h strengthen to a category 3. as it gets to the coastline, the water is cooler there and it is believed it will weaken. >> senator harris you through

some blows that were dodged how interesting. my god, look his hair. he's attracting flies. it stayed there over two minutes. it made a life there. it joined sole cycle and mixed at the bars and changed voter registration to mike pence's head. >> joined sole cycle. it does say something when the topic of conversation about the debate is about the fly. >> i had no idea what he said in the time the debate was there. i had to go back and watch it. >> right off the back, the commission has announced next week's second debate between president trump and joe biden will be held virtually given concerns about the perfect easy's health as he battles the coronavirus. this follows last night's vice presidential debate. it was some what more civil than

last week's presidential debate. there were disagreements over topics like the pandemic. vice president pence supported the response. >> the american people have witnessed the greatest failure of any presidential administration. they've forfeited their right to reelection. >> harris said she would not take a coronavirus vaccine if only president trump said it were safe. she would take the word of scientists and led pence to undermining politics. >> stop playing politics with people's lives. the reality is we will have a vaccine before the end of the year. it will have the capacity to save countless american lives. your continuous undermining of

confidence is just unacceptable. >> we are joined now by a senior advisor to obama and president trump's previous joints of staff. vice president and senator harris were a return to normalcy. i don't think many people were j yelling at their tv like a at the presidential debate. i don't know if it needed a return to normalcy but it turns to training the trajectory of this race. what do you think voters heard that could change their vote at this late stage in the game? >> sure. good morning. thank you for having me. >> it is a vice presidential debate, so if they don't really move the needle a whole lot but i do think there were a few things vice president pence did

that were effective. he pivoted back to kamala harris a number of times. one thing you heard a lot of was the issue of fraking and energy and the green new deal because the trump campaign has put a lot of stake in the outcome in pennsylvania. fraking in western pennsylvania is a big deal for jobs. kamala harris is very vulnerable. they won't answer the question on the green new deal. that is one thing very effective. second thing is that the kamala harris would not answer the question on whether or not they would pack the courts. talking about dismantling a key institution. pack the supreme court to expand as a reaction to the supreme court battle currently taking place. those two things are important. again, vice presidential debate.

ask lloyd benson how it did for him. he got a ticket back to texas. >> if people are saying lloyd who? that's the point. fraking, vice president pence said they want to ban that. is there is variation there. i'll go to you. the gender dynamics. senator harris the first black woman on a vp ticket. not a lot of interruptions. there were some. she took to saying mr. vice president, i'm speaking. how do you think that played with voters? >> i can't tell you how many women are in meetings where they are consistently interrupted by mend she checked him and she sent a signal that you you are not going to be able to run rough shod over me and i'm going

to deliver my message. >> we've heard president trump has just announced he is not going to do a virtual debate. he's not going to waste his time sitting behind a computer ridiculous. what do you make of that given the conditions of joe biden saying, look, i don't want to debate him if he's not covid free. a lot of people are nervous about his condition. could you start that off, please? >> sure. i think it would be a colasal mistake to announce this before getting a signoff from both sides. it would be very odd if they didn't have signoff. usually, there is a back and forth just like the plexiglass. you have to make sure biden or the other party doesn't have a

teleprompter. there are problems with a virtual debate. >> do you understand the president's position on this and why he's not going to do it? >> i understand the position because it -- debates should be face to face. they should find a way to do this whether it is put them both in different rooms next to each other. you can see how big brother does it on cbs. they can figure out a way to do it. >> it is great to know you you are watching big brother. >> back in the day like 20 some years ago. >> sure. that's what i say about real housewives too. i used to watch it. >> my wife watches it. >> me too. >> valerie, what do you have to say? >> so gayle, good morning. first of all, families all across our country have had to make adjustments.

major sacrifices. 2 210,000 people have lost their lives. i think they've made a decision based on science. i think it is another exam people of president trump ignoring the best interest of people around. none of that should happen. we should be as safe as possible. if that means it should happen virtually, let's do it virtually. it is yet another example of his disregard to our health and safety. what they have done is success in terms of how they've handled this covid-19, telling me what failure looks like. >> i want to circle back to something, the harris/biden decision not to answer directly, are you intending to expand the supreme court. why do you think they are doing that? why not just answer? >> i think senator harris made a very smart decision rather than getting lulled into a hypothetical down the line. she focused on where we are

right now. we are in the midst of an election. it is unprecedented to have a hearing and supreme court justice this close to the election. she usesed her time wisely to talk about what is at stake here. families are worried about health care. she went through the analyses of what is at stake if amy coney barrett is confirmed. taking the position that affordable care act is unconstitutional. people with preexisting conditions, children couldn't stay on parent's plans after the age of 21. that's what people who are watching at home are worried about. what is going to happen to my health insurance in the event it is ruled unkoconstitutional whe the president will replace it. >> we are running out of time and not going to be able to get

to the fly moment. valerie and lance, thank you we appreciate it. >> ahead, jimmy johnson talks to us about bubba wallace and their efforts to make

>> more news ahead including how facebook is taking more action with confusion and abuse for the next month.

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facebook is taking new steps to protect the election with less than a month to go. the company says it will stop running issue and political ads after polls close november 3rd. the aim, reduce what it calls opportunities for confusion or abuse. this comes a day after the company banned groups supporting the bogus conspiracy theory known at qanon, portraying president trump as a secret warrior. jamie yuccas shows why facebook is tightening the reins. >> tellingngayle king, mark zuckerberg under increasing pressure to monitor and control political content. he says he wants to be sure that campaigns don't use the platform to declare victory prematurely, or argue an ongoing vote count

means the election is rigged that would be dangerous. delegitimizing of the election. it could risk increasing people getting into the streets and civil unrest after the election, which i think would be very problematic. >> reporter: at the time of that september interview, facebook banned new political ads the week prior to the election. but now it's extending that ban to all political ads after polls close as well, with no set end date. >> they're scared. >> reporter: ewired" ed fer in chief believes facebook executives are facing pressure from employees and the media to take action to better control the platform's political content. >> they are worried their democracy will be destroyed in one way or another and they don't want to have a role on that. >> join army for trump's election security operation -- >> reporter: another new policy going forward, ads like this one using so-called militarized

language, or other ads seemed designed to intimidate voters or election officials removed. >> almost built a monster it can't tame and they're trying their hardest right now. >> reporter: this action is coming relatively late for facebook, with less than a month before the election. last month alphabet inc. which owns google said it would block election-related ads after the polls close also for an indefinite period, and twitter has already banned all political ads, anthony. >> all right, jamie, thank you. ahead, we look at a new cbs documentary that began as a story about america's only city run entirely by women. how it turned into an uncomfortable look at institutional racism. you're watching cbs "this morning."

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documentary from cbs originals looks at deeply rooted racism in a progressive southern city. welcome to pine lake is what it's called and examines how the leadership of pine lake in georgia, america's only city run entirely by women allegedly turns a blind eye to institutional racism. but it did not create. nonetheless, the polls, the police chief, sarai y'hudah green haired as police chief after ticketing of an african-american officer. before the pandemic, keep that in mind, chief green explains why she wants to serve. here's a look. >> you know, you know where everybody lives. you know, you actually engage. you're not necessarily jumping from call to call to call. so when you're not -- i mean, you're not jumping from call to

call, it allows you to do the kitten in the tree. crossing the old lady across the street. it allows you to do those type of things. >> what's today? blue day? you got the blue hat. they got the blue shirts jand y, and you got the blue -- nobody sent me a memo. i didn't get the memo. >> need a memo! what's your name, man? >> chief green. >> chief green? >> yes, sir. >> you the chief? >> yeah. >> what you want to eat this morning? >> i'm good. >> may i buy you some breakfast. >> i'm on a diet. >> my car giving me hell. >> you got a tire issue. mr. collins going to hook you up. >> each person has made the life decision to put on this uniform, has a love for humanity, a desire to serve, protect and be a part of something greater than themselves. >> i remembered that as a poem. felt to me like a poem. did you send it to me because it was your way of also saying to the new mayor, i want you to see

us? >> this is who you have in your employ. this is who we are. and i wanted it to be a certain -- a certain level of comfortability, too. >> chief y'hudah green, an honor and pleasure to continue working for you and thank you for agreeing to do this. >> i'm definitely humbled. i thank you for allowing me the opportunity to even open up and show that other side. >> yeah. chief green is working really hard. pine lake they say is predominantly white but the surrounding area is 90% predominantly black. the complaint, 90% of complaints, police profiling the black community not residents but getting majority of tickets. >> going to the people of color, majority of tickets. >> yes. >> and getting your tire fixed. a key thing. when you have predatory ticketing, every little thing on your car become as fine. >> that's right. >> it rolls into something else. lose your license, big problems result. >> yes. >> major issue.

>> the filmmaker says the council is blind to institutional race inch and excuses it away, not tackling it. clearly they want to do something about that. watch the original the documentary "welcome to pine good morning. it's 8:25. i am len kiese. demonstrations underway in the east bay at three hospitals within alameda health systems. it's the second day hundreds of nurses are on the picket line to demand better working conditions. san francisco fire department mourning one of their own. firefighter paramedic jason cortez died yesterday during a training drill. fire department flags will be at half staff. ice arrested more than 125 undocumented immigrants in sanctuary cities across california in a week long operation. some arrests happened in san francisco but the majority were in l.a. authorities say more than 95%

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welcome back to cbs "this morning." time to bring you some of the stories that are talk of the table this morning, and anthony. you're going first. >> i'm going first? >> we usually start with upbeat stories. something i had to share. very restaurant nearar n nashville for spepeaki spanish.h. the band's's trumpet playerr lorenzoo lororena andnd fellow musisicianan a assaulteded ove saturday reportedldly b by t tw who had told them too spepeak english. phototos o of ththeir i injurur posted t to inststagraram. ththe friendnd momoraleles, bad

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sitting there, speaking spanish, in a restaurant and would be assaulted. >> i know the members of this band well. they are a fabulous band and lovely people. and this -- that's why this really hit me hard. >> right. you know, physically, they'll be okay, but mentally, that's going to mess you up. >> that's right. it's a trauma. absolutely a trauma. >> it's going to hurt. my turn? >> you're up, yeah. >> my story, i thought you were going to take this story today. noi i see why you didn't, but i know anthony's going to do it so i'm not going to. i see why you didn't. mine is about that lip-synching man on tiktok. anthony told us about his two days ago. t of his dreams. ♪ used to play the way you feel it ♪ >> every time i see that it just makes me smile and giggle. i love this guy. that's nathan. on a long board drinking ocean spray cran raspberry juice to the tune of fleetwood mac's

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raccoons. go online. fussing with the raccoon and turns, goes right to the camera and starts talking. very well done. >> people don't understand what we go through. i have never been attacked by a raccoon in this job. a lot of things have happened. not that. >> i hope that never happens to any of us at anytime. moving on, seven-time nascar champion jimmie johnson hoping to be a driver for change both on and off the racetrack. a longtime friend and supporter of bubba wallace. love him, too, the only black driver in nascar top tier. what looked like a noose later found to be a door pull was found in wallaces garage at talladega speedway. featured in "o" magazine. jimmie johnson reads, think about ways to make it more inclusive. today johnson honored for his own inclusion efforts with a nascar drive for diversity award and right now we are happy to

say, hi, jimmie johnson! so good to see you. >> hello. >> may i say when you -- >> thank you. great to be on the show. >> my other job is at oprah magazine. when you agreed to write the tribute, we were doing the hula! jimmie says, yes, people applauding's we were so excited. you share in the writing saying you and bubba have were friends a very long time, close to 15 years but never had a discussion with him about the challenges of being the only black driver in nascar. once you two started talking about it, it was revealing to you's why did you start talking and what did you learn? how did it affect you? >> well, really, with george floyd's passing, bubba and i just started talking about that topic, and i realized in the conversation that bubba today deals with things i've never dealt with, still. and i've known him for so many years, and we've always talked racing and kind of current life events but never gone there, and then once we went there, it inspired me to talk to many

other friends of mine in the black community, hispanic community, far and wide, and it was much more revealing than -- than i was aware. so i put that on myself and spent a lot of time learning and listening, and certainy grew a lot in these last few months and in understanding the big picture as many americans have and many around the world, for that matter. >> i love you wrote bubba was stopped by police and how bubba handled it. now you said how you would have handled it. >> yeah. two totally different scenarios and that was an example of just how different my experience has been versus his. >> yeah. you said, i don't know if i would have held my tongue. the point i'm making. because i think it's, it's really refreshing for you to say something like that, to say, i never really thought about anything like that. and i wouldn't have accepted that kind of behavior, the way he was treated. the cop specifically said to him, can you afford this car? that was tth question they said

to him. >> exactly. yeah, and i'm confident that's not a question that i would receive being pulled over. >> now nascar has banned the confederate flags. you have a lot to say about that because some are still flying at nascar. what do you think when you see that? what do you think people need to know and understand? >> that it's hurtful, and i do respect the argument that everybody has a right for freedom of speech and expression, but you're welcome to do that on your private property. when you're at a sporting event or a public facility, inclusion should be the top priority, and to fly a flag that is hurtfu and painful for many is just not acceptable, and i'm proud of nascar and the efforts they've made this year to really remove the flag from the tracks, and in bubba's, he's a huge part why that all happened. >> jimmie, in the op-ed you write how you were disgusted when you first heard of the news. nascar later said it was a

garage door pull. i wonder what your conversations with bubba were like when he was going through that? >> that news came out in, i guess, maybe saturday evening, prior to our race. and i had already gone to sleep and woke up to the news, and as soon as i read it i texted bubba i wanted to stand with him during the national anthem. just as a friend wanted to be there with him. i couldn't believe what i was reading that morning. word traveled i was intending to stand with him and other drivers asked if it was okay if they were involved. i'm like, of course. absolutely. within a few hours, team members, team managers, everybody wanted to figure out how to show their support and other drivers came up with great ideas, and that's kind of how we evolved from me standing with him at the national, for the national anthem to all of the drivers pushing his car down pit road and the entire garage area falling out behind in support. >> stunning moment. a stunning moment.

jimmie, michael jordan recently became the first black owner, nascar's first black principle owner. do you think that's going to make a difference? >> without a doubt. i mean, it's michael jordan. his voice in sports, outside of sports. >> yeah, michael jordan. >> it's massive. i'm happy for michael, known him for a lot of years and know his upbringing here in the north compare carol area and being close to nascar and being a sport he and his family would attend and watch together. so i'm happy he's involved nor many reasons and i think the pairing with bubba wallace even denny hamlin. >> i like what you said, jimmie. number one, he's michael jord. start with that. good things happen when the michael jordan. >> correct! >> do you ever see yourself racing with team jordan? because bubba's now going to be his first driver. do you see yourself possibly racing with them? that would be very cool. >> i would be open to it. i'm in transition right now, but my focus is on indycar here in the years to come. >> okay.

but i don't think people would be mad to see you and bubba together with michael jordan. i like that picture. >> i would take the call and talk about it for sure. >> all right, jimmie johnson, thank you, thank you, thank you for joining us this morning, getting up early and writing that piece in the magazine. we were excited about it and really appreciate it. good to see you. bye. ahead in our more "perfect union" series how young volunteers are helping feed neighbors who have fallen on hard times. one bag of they do one of the most difficult jobs there is,

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jooshgs our. series, what united states is is greater than what divides us. making sure their california community does not go hungry. the gripe feeding america estimates the economic fallout from the pandemic may lead more than 54 million americans, that is texas and florida combined, and then some, 54 million, struggling to regularly feed their families this year. jonathan vigliotti shows how people in one los angeles community are coming together to help their neighbors. >> reporter: these days the parking lot at the wood cafe in los angeles is often empty. unless -- it's a sunday. >> i'm serving more people now than i would be if i was opening a restaurant.

>> reporter: demetrius was forced to temporarily close his business in march because of covid-19, but then got a call from an old friend, and former employee, natalie florez. >> i said, hey, what are you doing with your restaurant? he's like, actually, i had to lay off all my employees. it was just like -- ding! >> reporter: every week the two transformed the restaurant -- into a food drive, with a drive-through to help those struggling during the pandemic. florez got the idea from nourish l.a. after seeing families asking for help on social media. >> they're on their last $100 or less and they had no food to et. >> reporter: what went through your mind when you read those things? >> i was really upset and frustrated, because we shouldn't have that problem. >> straight for the farm. pomegrana pomegranates. >> reporter: the group collects donations, volunteers then pack bags with everything from

high-quality produce and meats to freshly baked bread and flowers. this 9-year-old is one of the youngest volunteers. >> seeing these families sometimes can make me feel sad, but once we are able to feed them, it makes me more happy. that we can actually give them something. >> the kids and the youth are really the catalyst for driving this thing forward. >> i feel like i should be coming back. i feel like i have a duty to, almost. >> reporter: on the day we visiteds organization fed more than 1,200 people. >> thank you! >> reporter: first in line -- >> i admire them that they do this. they take out their own time and, you know, they don't get paid. >> reporter: retired teacher linda scott used to rely on income from housing foreign students until covid-19 shut that down. >> did you ever imagine you'd find yourself in a situation like this. >> absolutely not.

i'm 72. so who would have thought? >> i am grateful that, you know, that we have this, and people really care. >> the problem is that this issue doesn't discriminate. food hunger is all around us, and we can refuse to see it or we could go head-on and really love our neighbors without judgment. >> we got more bread coming out, you guys. >> reporter: they hope to inspire similar food drives across the nation, with neighbors feeding neighbors, and nourishing the soul. >> how much longer do you think you can do this before you say, i need the kind of help that i'm offering people right now? >> you know what? i thought, at one point it will dry up. it hasn't right now. keeps going. i can't stop this now. i can't -- because -- this change. >> reporter: for cbs "this morning," john thin vnathan vig los angeles. a.

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