around the world, only 4% are black. do you think black agents are held to the same standard as white agents? >> no, no african-american in the bureau is held to the same standards. >> you have to be twice as good to get as far as somebody else. >> in addition to the members of the mirror project, cbs news spoke with more than two dozen, current and former black agents, all of whom describe facing some sort of racial discrimination while working inside the fbi? >> do we bump up against bias, racism? absolutely. >> i have experienced, you know, invisiblity, when you talk about being a black female in the fbi, sometimes you are not even seen. >> these former agents told us that managers inside the fbi who are mostly white tend to only promote individuals who look like themselves. >> you start to wonder, is it because i'm black? i mean, what do i need to do in

order to position myself to be promoted? to go to that next level? >> today, of the agents' running the 56 field offices across the country, only three are black. >> a picture is worth a thousand words. >> diversity amongst more than gender is important. >> the agents we spoke with say that is not what the fbi is like at all. >> the fact of the matter is, the fbi is majority white male, that you are going to majority grow up, so you will be the beneficiary of that more than anybody else is. >> it is not solely the responsibility of a minority to bring minorities in to the fbi. it's everyone's issue. >> they believe it matters now more than ever because the fbi is investigating potential civil rights violations in the case of

george floyd, breonna taylor and the seven shots fired in to the back of jacob blake in kenosha, wisconsin. >> as the fbi, we are the lead agency to protect civil is rights. >> do you think this there's enough black agents working on the cases right now? >> no, i don't. >> the fbi should actually have minorities working those cases. a white male growing up in nebraska is not going to have the same life experience as a black female growing up in new york city. >> do you think communities of color are getting a fair shake from the fbi? >> no. >> members of thor mirror project sent this letter to director ray last month. in it they called for the fbi to be held accountable for its hiring and promotions practices through formal reporting to congress, the department of justice, and the office of inspector general. >> if the leaders, the senior executives, if they don't

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a p hhotographer from russis far east won for a photo called "the embrace," it shows a rare siberian tiger marking a tree with her scent. >> a monkey meditating. a crocodile carrying hundreds of its offspring, and a squirrel scurrying away from two gazing owls. >> this is my favorite category. >> ross kidman cox led the judging at the photographer of the year awards choosing from 50,000 entries from around the world. >> they are complex pictures. you can look at them again and again and see more. >> look closely. you will see a hippo, hiding in the mud.

and a lion peering through the grass. but the images now on display at london's natural history museum are meant to do the more had than make you stop and look. tim littlewood said is they are made to make you stop and think. >> they are a spectacular show case to remind us that we are part of nature and we are can desperately responsible for nature. >> he said that the theme of our impact on nature runs stronger this year than in the previous 5-1/2 decades. >> take this image of a man slicing up bats in a indonesian market. >> markets like this are hot beds for voiiruses like covid. and there's destruction of the amazon. those images are screaming natural history and the human impact story. >> others tell a more subtle story.

this picture of puffins taken off the english coast. >> i know that they are quite endangered because there are only certain areas with the amount of fish they need to eat. >> matt moran watched for wild life closer to home in monday done. >> all you want to think of is composing and firing a shutter. this image worked for me, you have that incredibly intense stare, with a female looking at a younger brother saying no way you are getting this rat. >> back off. >> yeah, totally. >> the duchess of kate middleton announced the winner. >> this year's wild life photographer of the year sergei goshkof, for his image "the embrace". >> what made it the winner? >> you can see it, the color and the light. it's the shot of a tiger, from

the russian far east, they have had big poaching problems. but with protection the good news is that tigers are increasing. >> the people behind these photos hope they had move us to do much more to protect our beautiful planet. >> wake up, herb, it's our home, our collect hive home. >> reminding us, we are in this together. >> london. >> legendary writer and producer and all around funny man norman lehr is back on cbs, with a reboot of his popular sitcom, one day at a time. 45 years after that show debuted right here, the remake is starring rita morena, and its back home. and 98 years old, he is still an executive producer of the show and he took time out to chat about life and comedy. >> this is not a normal

conversation, this family needs boundaries. >> boundaries? what do you mean, boundaries, boundaries are for white people >> it's a show with nine lives and with good reason. one day at a time premiered in 1975, featuring an independent single mother raising two daughters. >> you do not know enough spanish to know that i'm insulting you. >> netflix revived the popular sitcom for three seasons. but when it was cancelled last year, fans rallied and the comedy found a familiar new home. >> how does it feel to have "one day at a time" back at cbs for the first time in 45 years? >> absolutely glorious. i is have always loved the show. i loved the earlier inkacarnati, i have never loved this rendition of "one day at a time" more. >> he has not been afraid to tackle the topics of the times.

>> maid and a butler, you too? >> maid and a butler, what? >> they must be real rich. >> hold it, diane, we are the jeffersons. >> hi, i'm from the census. >> why did you do that? >> a guy wanting a list of latinos in my house? no thanks. >> the bonnie franklin version and the rita morena version is now. and the this is the moment we are alive, when something is over, it's over and we are on to the next. >> the pandemic may have temporarily slowed production but it has not slowed the 98-year-old down. he has won his second consecutive emmy for live in front of a studio audience, beating his record for the

oldest especially michigmmy win. >> i grew up watching shows that are in the quote unquote norman lehr tradition, you touched on political topics. you touched on social issues. i suspect it's the same now that you have younger people watching your shows, much in the same way, and they were just as popular as those shows that premiered in 1971, 1972, why do you think that is? >> i think they are very true to the human condition. and the foolishness of the human condition. i fell in love of with that phrase and that idea and the foolishness i saw all around me. >> how important is it for the representation that we see through the characters of "one day at a time," how important is it for the american people to see that on television? >> i think, it helps us understand each other. and accept that there's very little difference you know, from the latin family, from the

bonnie franklin family to the justina machada

with the presidential election 13 days away, we sent tony to the battleground state of michigan to take the pulse. literally the pulse of voters in mccomb county. >> reporter: we try to get the pulse of the voters every election. this year, we decided to take that literally, asking republicans and democrats what's got them riled up. and then measuring the results. donald trump has been saying that he saved the auto industry. >> it's not true. it's not true. we have several plants that closed under his administration. >> reporter: i will say, you went up to 105 there. to do it we put pulse readers on

fingers of voters, carefully wiping down the equipment in between uses, and following cdc guidelines. then, we talked politics. what motivates you in 2020? >> peace and love, right? i love america and i love americans and i'm supporting trump because i think he will do what's best for america and all americans. >> reporter: doug who declined to provide his name, started with a resting heart rate at 104, perhaps a little elevated from the street corner rally behind him. >> there's going to be an election and a president, and after that is done, we still have to love each other and still be americans and we have to stop dividing. >> reporter: you are spiking here as you talk about the need for love over division. you are at 139. >> am i? all right. >> reporter: that's a high for the day. >> i have more student loan than a mortgage on my house. >> reporter: you started on 80s and then up to 150, 106.

>> we need to start paying attention to climate change, i think it's like the coronavirus. where we know it's coming and we are not acting on it. >> reporter: you went up to 112. that was the second highest. heart rates can fall and in fact, with two voters we found their pulses decreased when talking about something that made them feel discouraged. >> to me, it should be something that we should all be trying to come together. >> reporter: when talking about the president's coronavirus response, this woman'ses pulse hovered in the 80s. when we asked her about race, it dropped. >> reporter: your pulse goes down consistently when you talk about social injustice. well, thisan got going fast and never dipped once. coronavirus restrictions seemed to set her off the most. >> this is supposed to be a free country, i'm not feeling free. sfwl >> reporter: you are jumping in to the 130ss. what makes you the most upset? 2020? >> it's been a dumpster fire. you know what i'm saying?

>> and that is the "overnight news" for this wednesday. for some of you theews continues and others you can follow us online at any time a it's wednesday, october 21st, 2020. of this is the cbs morning news. 13 days out. president trump and joe biden enter the homestretch as covid-19 loom officials both campaigns and rural america. border crisis. more than two years after migrant families were separated at the u.s. mexico border, lawyers say they still can't find the parents of more than 500 children. staying shuttered. disneyland and california may not reopen any time soon. the