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>> join army for trump's election security. >> reporter: another new policy doing forward, ads like this one, using so-called militarized content. such is ads already on the platform will not be taken down. >> they have almost built a monster they cannot tame and they are trying their hardest right now. >> reporter: this action is coming late for facebook. with less than a month before the election. last month, alphabet inc. that owns google said it would block election related ads after the polls close for an indefinite period. twitter has already banned all political ads. the covid-19 pandemic continues to affect just about every american in one way or another. this morning we have a look at the sometimes impossible challenges faced by working mothers. >> for clara vasquez, a home
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health aid in the farming town of sunnyside, washington. the pandemic has created a new level of anxiety. >> well, i'm here to take kir of people that need me, and i don't have no one. >> reporter: she and her husband, a long haul truck driver barely make ends meet. with school now online, they had can't afford a regular sitter for seven-year-old kevin and must rely on a patchwork of friends and family. >> and one of the things that my son always says when he goes to bed is, who's going watch me? he worries. he can't sleep right because he doesn't know where he is going to be. so it's heartbreaking to me. because there's days where i just say i'm just glad to see who answers me so i can drop you off. >> reporter: she fears he is falling behind in his school work and yearns to be home to help.
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financially, how hard would it be for you if you had to stop working? >> it's just going to put us more in to debt and i justan't afford to leave my job because if i do, i will not be able to pay my bills. >> mothers are in an impossible situation. they are doing their own job, their child care worker's job and their children's teachers jobs. >> reporter: this is the founding director of the center for work life law at the university of california's hastings college of the law. what's your call volume like now during the pandemic verses what it is in normal time sns. >> absolutely unbelievable. we will had a 250% increases in people calling us. >> reporter: washington did provide some early relief for families. but many people were ineligible and most of that money has already run out. and while plenty of father's are struggling, a new study shows that women are almost three
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times more likely than men not to be working due to child care demands because of the pandemic. >> 57% of moms now report depression and anxiety compard to only a third of dads. 80% of mothers now say they are doing most or all of the housework and home schooling. >> reporter: it's almost like people were just holding it together and the whole infrastructure is crumbling. >> well, you know, we were already in a crazy situations in the united states. we are the only industrialized nation with no paid parental leave. it's just broke. >> reporter: you may have seen the funny images of multi-tasking moms, but williams said many mothers are facing serious indifference or even hospitality from employers. >> all of them are feeling embattled right now.
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>> i was working for a fortune 50 institution. i was in the leadership in the cybersecurity department. >> reporter: it all collapsed in march. her company told them all to work from home. because of covid-19, her baby-sitter could not come to the house and her husband helped but he has a high pressure job too. she has most of the responsibility for baby logan. how did the company react to the circumstance that you were? >> i worked in a predominantly male dominated environment. i heard comments that they were not comfortable with it. they were uncomfortable when i was online, or -- i received veiled questions like when does he eat? does he ever sleep? and i felt bad, i was not
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dedicating the time that i usually do to the staff or the meeting because i was preoccupied with him. it got tricky quickly. >> reporter: soon she was left out of key meetings. >> and actually, somebody made the comment to me, we are not going to invite you because you are off doing mommy duty. >> reporter: did you ever talk to superiors in the company and say, look, i'm struggling here. can you give me some relief? >> i did. and the response was, you have to do these things or your career is in jeopardy and to had me that felt like a threat. >> reporter: she finally resigned. you couldn't struggle anymore? >> yeah, and it killed me, i worked there for ten years and i busted my butt to get there. i was bitter, i was angry. >> reporter: she was able to find a similar salary, but not everyone is so lucky. >> i am still unemployed and i
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have been looking every single week. >> reporter: the san diego insurance company where thisas switched to work at home just as her 1 and 4-year-old preschool shut down. her husband is an essential worker gone all day. she said her manager immediately that laid down the law. >> he right away would say, i do not want to hear the kids on client calls. >> reporter: didn't want to hear them. >> didn't want to hear them on client calls or see them, right? he would question, you know, my availability, can which i didn't understand because i was available all the time. >> reporter: she said a male colleague with children was treated differently but no matter how hard she tried, she said, her boss was not let up. >> i said, what else do you want me to do? do you want me to lock my 1-year-old in a room on a phone? and he just responded figure it
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out. so. >> reporter: figure it out. >> and i as just crying and i'm like, okay. so, i reported the discrimination to hr via e-mail. and a week later they let me go. and i believe it is 100% retaliation for bringing this up because there's -- i was doing my job. >> reporter: so the case for wrongful termination and retaliation. daphne is suing on behalf of rios and in the legal response, hub international insurance services denies each and every allegation rios makes and says that she was let go for legitimate business reasons. including her failure to perform her job duties. but rios is part of a trend. the government just announced that 865,000 women left the
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workforce last month verses216,000 men. >> you know, this virus doesn't just cause people to die, it's killing the working mother's careers. i feel like women are being set back decades in their progress towards equality at work. >> hey, could you give me a high five. >> reporter: and mothers like this are sounding an alarm. >> i don't ever want a mom to feel like i do that they have to choose to either work and not have kids or be a stay-at-home mom. we could have both. we can be working mothers. >> rita braver reporting. the cbs overnight news will be right back. ordinary tissues burn when theo blows.
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the 6-year-old civil war in yemen has spawned a humanitarian disaster that continues to this day. aid groups large and small are stepping in to help. that includes kids in london. we are there. >> reporter: it's a new twist on an old phrase. veng all summer long. squeezing lemon after lemon to e ney for humarian aide len. wh made you think of making lemonade to raise money? >> we like lemonade and i think
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everyone else in the world likes lemonade. >> reporter: the six-year-olds were inspired to set up a stand after watching an online news report about yemenie children in need were you sad when you saw the pictures of the kids? >> yeah, really sad. we have food and water and medicine, and it's not fair, they only have dirty water and not that much stuff. and that's why we really wanted to help them. >> take that one out, please, dar ling. >> reporter: so with a lot of elbow grease and help from mom and dad, they started selling lemonade in the hopes of raising $500. but the customers kept coming. >> that one. >> reporter: and coming. soon the boys collection box was over flowing with cash. >> here you go. >> reporter: raking in thousands of dollars and that's when they got their biggest donation from one of the world's biggest stars. angelina jolie, who not only made what their parents are
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calling a generous contribution, but she sent them a note. she is a knew nighted nations special envoy supporting displaced people including in yen. since 2014, the country has been convulsed by a brutal war. more than 100,000 people have died. millions have had to flee their homes and starvation is widespread. this scale of the humanitarian crisis in yemen may be hard for these two little boys with such big hearts to comprehend, but their parents say, it's not lost on their supporters. >> thank you. >> it's a community effort, it's friends and family and everyone chipping in together. >> reporter: for these two besties, even though somewheumm be over, they have no plans to stop selling lemonade for yemenade. how much money do you want to raise? >> 10 hundred trillion!
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>> that's the "cb it's friday, october 9th, 2020. this is the "cbs morning news." bracing for impact, a category 3 hurricane is expected to hit southwestern louisiana where people are still recovering from hurricane laura six weeks ago. >> i knew this job would be hard. but i'll be honest, i never could have imagined anything like this. >> alleged kidnapping plot foiled. 13 men are accused of planning to abduct the governor of michig michigan. what court documents reveal about starting a civil>>ating te ec meeting between president trump and joe biden appears to be scrapped. the major adjustment that
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