she was the first, first laidy to write a daily newspaper column and host a weekly radio show. >> we still see in the youth of today, an absolute faith in their own ability to work out our destinies. >> reporter: of all the monikers and titles assigned to her, which was her favorite? >> she registered herself over and over again as homemaker. >> reporter: are you serious? >> or housewife. she thought you were a genius if you could make a home anywhere you were. >> reporter: feeling at home with herself was a life-long journey for eleanor. she was born in 1884, in to material wealth and emotional scarcity. >> she was not allowed to show fear. she was not allowed to cry. if she was upset, she was told to go in the bathroom, put her head over the tub and cry there. >> she adored her father, the

brother of future president teddy roosevelt. but he struggled with addition. and her mother mocked eleanor for her serious demeanor and calling her granny. >> it was a say of on not just saying, you look old and sour, you look like something that i don't want to be. it was a real excommunication. >> reporter: what did that the do to eleanor? >> well, she herself would say, i wanted to sink in the floor boards. >> reporter: orphaned at the age of nine, she was engaged to her fifth cousin at 19 what did he see in eleanor? >> she was the president's niece. that was the moment he could say, by god i'm marrying that woman and i'm going to be the president of the united states myself. >> reporter: the marriage would be one of history's greatest political partnerships. she feels useful?

>> and therefore love. andthe great disconnect for them was in discovering they could only be useful to eep other but might not make each other happy as intimates. >> reporter: although they would have six children, franklin would find romantic love with other women. eleanor would seek intimacy with men and women. throughout eleanor's life, she channelled her own hunger for affection in to compassion in service to others. >> she was a noticer of other people who did not like to be noticed herself. she preferred the attention to k2/÷ on you than her. >> reporter: during world war i while franklin was assistant secretary of of the navy she visited arlington national cemetery daily to bear witness to the burial of american soldiers. >> if nobody showed up, she felt it was her duty to show up next

to the grave and observe everything and listen to taps. ♪ i was just thinking, i began every morning for a number of years when i was writing this had book listening to taps and taps is sort of the eleanor roosevelt anthem. in it she was able to connect can through sorrow and pain to the country, in its most sorr sorrowful and painful moments. >> reporter: loss. >> it was what her life was primarily based on. >> reporter: by the time franklin was elected president, he had been stricken by polio. eleanor became his eyes and ears going right to the source of the country's pain during the depression. meeting minors in appalachia, challenging southern democrats to support anti-lynching legislation and during world war

ii, visiting interment camps where japanese americans were imprisoned only because of their race. >> she always gave the truth. >> reporter: the first lady was often alone at the wheel driving herself across country. >> people looked in her eyes and saw somebody listening to them and who somehow was seeing them in ways that they maybe had never been seen. she was letting you know that your government belonged to you. but more importantly you belong to your government and you had something to do, democracy was a two-way street. >> reporter: after franklin died, eleanor spent more time in this stone cottage in new york, her long-time sanctuary, but she never retired. >> now, here is mrs. roosevelt. >> reporter: in 1959, she hosted her own public television show.

now, in her 70s, she held forth with younger leaders like senator john fmt kennedy. it so happens that mi ckalis's mother worked on the program and met ms. roosevelt. >> i was trying to get a stick of gum from the first lady. what i took away and feel still is this feeling of a person from whom goodness was literally pouring forth from these eyes that were alive and radient. >> reporter: where does it come from? >> it comes from a lack of fear so you can be that person for millions of people. >> eleanor roosevelt died on november 7th, 1916. mourned by millions the world over. a once uncertain child of

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presidential election continue to be counted it's worth looking at what a possible biden administration might focus on. one issue on the democratic agenda is climate change. this morning we take you to california's sierra nevada, where one of the world's most accomplished snowboarders has first hand views. >> the key to hiking with kids and a lot of food. >> this pro snowboarder is getting his family ready for a hike in the mountains of california. >> you are not allowed to complain about being cold when we are at 11,000 feet. >> reporter: for jones, high elevations and low temperatures are nothing to complain about. ♪ he spent the past three decades chasing the best powder on the planet. along the way, winning the big mountain rider of the year title 11 times over the years, he noticed something disturbing. >> i was seeing changes to the

mountains and they coincide the d with what the world scientific community was saying as the planet is warming and we have on do something about it. i had no idea that the front lines would be here in washington, d.c. >> he started a nonprofit called protect our winters to unite the winter sporting communities. >> there's 50 million people that identify around the outdoors. that is this bonding thing that we come together on. it's a number that if we come together is a massive voting block. >> we are headed up glacier canyon. >> that includes a climateologist that is tracking the decline of the last few glaciers in the yosemite region. >> in 1975, where did it end? >> in 1975, it looked like a

glacier. it doesn't anymore. >> the science is telling me, my kids, kids could be the last snowboard snowboarders. a new york times poll showed that climate is the most divisive issue in the country. >> reporter: he is focusing on how to tell it to voters too. especially conservative ones who are still denying the established science behind climate change. and that inspires the new documentary purple mountains where he travels to the swing state of nevada to find common ground between red and blue. >> climate talk gets lumped in to a bunch of other policies that are mostly from a liberal agenda. >> this guy danny, i met him because his truck had a friends of coal sticker on it, right underneath it was a keep tahoe blue sticker. i said, you know to keep tahoe blue, it's to cut down on burning coal. >> not surprisingly he finds

that common ground way up on a mountain. >> you would not think that a hard rock minor from northeast nevada and a snowboarder from california would meet up. it's the kind of communication and interaction that i think we need. >> it turns out we are a lot closer on many of the issues. >> yeah. >> you can snowboard off the top. >> back at the top of our hike. >> so this is the shot in 1883 from the same spot. >> it's time for a sobering reality check. >> the glacier has lost 85% of the total mass in the coming two decades this will be gone. >> california gets 60% of its water from snow melt. two decades from now, their perfect aquifer is shut off. >> that's right. >> despite such dire predictions, jones is hopeful that politicians that disagree on everything else can reach across the aisle and that tackle the one issue that impacts the

entire planet. >> we know which way the summit is, we don't have a when you humble yourself under the mighty hand of god, in due time he will exalt you. hi, i'm joel osteen. i'm excited about being

with you every week. i hope you'll tune in. you'll be inspired, you'll be encouraged. i'm looking forward to seeing you right here. you are fully loaded and completely equipped for the race that's been designed for you.

with the presidential vote count getting most of the media coverage, it's worth noting that the coronavirus pandemic is not going away. we have the story of two young men determined to help protect their local front line workers. >> yeah! >> wonderful. >> when the pandemic hit, 12-year-old tensing and zubin took their robotic teams skills and took their equipment to provide life safers. >> we wanted to find a way to keep people safe. >> what started with helping their own family. >> it's 3-d printed. his is injected molded. >> became a push community wide.

>> word of mouth spread and we were getting requests for shields. now we have nine teams from five different school stricts. >> face shields take up to four hours to print and then they are sanitized and sent out. >> we donate to staff, because they play a key role in the ecosystems as well. >> the brothers nonprofit socal face shields for front line workerers was created on to make sure that everyone who needed a shield received one. >> my mom is a front line worker. she works in a grocery store and interacts with thousands of people every day. >> fellow robotics teammate joined as well. >> seeing how it impacts her, this project gave me an opportunity to give back and help, even if it was minor. at first it was now it's huge. >> huge, as in the group has printed and donated over 15,000 shields to front line workerers who may not have been first in line. >> my name is --

>> i'm coming from the navaho generation. >> it has kept me coronavirus for six months. thank you, thank you, thank you. >> after sending donations across the country, the boys are looking at a different front line. >> these are 1,600. they are reuseable. >> our main focus are election workers and we want to make sure that they would stay safe since they help keep the process of our demack rasy going. >> this was the first i heard of students. i heard of some nonprofits donating too hospitals. but i had not heard of an donating to the elections office. >> the two of you can't vote yet, but you are donating to poll workers and supporting the election process. how does it make you feel? >> makes us feel prud of ourselves. we are contributing to the system, so it hemakes us happy. >> and that's the "overnight

news" for this evening. reporting fr it's friday, november 6th, 2020. this is the "cbs morning news." >> we think we will win the election very easily. we think there is going to be a lot of litigation. >> the count is being completed. and we'll know very soon. >> no winner yet. president trump and joe biden offer opposing messages as several key states get closer to counting all their ballots. challenging the count. protests are held nationwide, raising security concerns for local officials. pandemic problems, the covid crisis rages on, hitting a new high in the u.s. for the second day in a row.