he is now the last statewide democrat in what's become a solidly red state. part of the reason he is trailing republican political newcomer tim sheehy, a businessman and military veteran. he has come under recent scrutiny, accused of fabricating the story of a war injury. sheehy maintains he was wounded in afghanistan. >> i want to see all our vets on your feet. thank you, thank you. >> reporter: thousands moved to montana during the pandemic, driving up housing prices and property taxes. thomas and heather dilworth run big sandy organics in senator tester's hometown. they supported him in the past, but are now undecided. >> cost of living has gone up, housing, property taxes. >> absolutely. >> will that influence your vte? >> absolutely. it influences the vote. >> yes, ma'am. >> this is surviving. it's hard to think about anything else if your first concern is survival and paying rent and putting food on the table. so that has to be obviously a

top concern. >> reporter: as voters go to the polls, the vistas are as majestic as ever, amid a demographic landscape undeniably changed. i'm omar villafranca in brenham, texas where the race between republican incumbent ted cruz and his challenger colin allred is heating up with just days to go. no democrat has won state office here within 30 years. and tonight allred is within striking distance of upsetting cruz, bidding for his third term. >> ted cruz has shown us for 12 years that he is all about himself. >> reporter: allred, a former professional football player has made gains among african-americans and hispanics across the state. >> health care is really important to me and reproductive rights. >> reporter: texas has one of the strictest abortion bans in the country, and allred has seized on it. >> this abortion ban is ted cruz's abortion ban. >> reporter: campaigning in central texas today, cruz called allred a radical who votes with joe biden. >> we're going put him on a donkey, slap his [ bleep ] and

send him west. what would be your closing argument to those few undecided voters? >> listen, i think every election should be about the records of both the candidates. i've spent 12 years fighting every day for jobs, for freedom, and for security. >> reporter: on the air, cruz has run ads attacking allred for supporting transgender rights. >> colin allred supports boys playing in girls' skirts. sports. >> reporter: while allred has hammered cruz for flying to mexico during a deadly winter freeze three years ago. >> this is a guy who fled to cancun while texans were stuck at home freezing. >> when that happens, when you have someone like that who runs for reelection, they should not be

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series television ratings and this season's batting averages both hit 50-year lows. baseball, they say is dying. but never mind the current world series between two of the gym's game's stalwarts, the yankees and dodgers. want to feel better about baseball's health? just go to a milwaukee brewers game. ♪e'll have a barrel of fun ♪ >> reporter: here in major league baseball's smallest market, cheese curds sweat under flood lights. frozen custard into pools. and on the stadium's second level, the most authentic milwaukee touch of all. >> a standing ovation fobob bob uecker in the radio booth. 54th home opener in his career, 90 years young. >> reporter: in six undistinguished seasons as a catcher in the majors, bob

uecker never played an inning for the brewers. >> hit up and get out of here, gone! >> reporter: but during a half century as the team's play-by-play announcer -- >> the throw, he is in there, a three-bagger. >> reporter: he has become equal parts mayor and mascot in the city of his birth, all the while declining offers from bigger markets, laying off pitches as it were. >> you heard george steinbrenner came trying to recruit you in the '80s, and you said no, i'm good here in milwaukee. >> steinbrenner sent a couple of people out the talk to me about joining the yankees. >> reporter: trying to poach you. >> yeah. but i loved milwaukee, born and raised here. >> reporter: uecker began his major league career in 1962 with the milwaukee braves before the franchise moved to atlanta. >> i was the first player from milwaukee to ever be signed by the braves. i was also the first milwaukee native to be sent to the minor leagues by the braves. >> reporter: if uecker's onfield inadequacies hampered his

playing career, they provided some of his best material in a lengthy and lucrative second career as an actor and comedian. >> mr. baseball, would you welcome bob uecker. >> reporter: employing a bone-dry wit, he made more than 40 appearances on johnny carson's tonight show. >> i did tonight shows whenever they wanted. >> give me as fast as you can all the teams you've ever played with. >> braves, cardinals, phillies and the cardinals again. braves again. and then june i was with -- >> i would leave here on a sunday afternoon, fly to l.a., do the monday night show, take a red-eye back here, and be here for tuesday's game. >> all right. maybe i wasn't the greatest player of all time, but fans, they forgive and forget. >> reporter: the carson guest spots led to a series of notable tv commercials. >> you're in the wrong seat, buddy. come on. >> oh, i must be in the front row. >> reporter: as well as a starring sitcom role. >> nice hands, 47. >> yeah, i could have caught that one. >> let's not go crazy.

>> reporter: and perhaps most memorably -- >> hello again, everybody, harry doyle here. >> reporter: the role of the perpetually blitzed announcer in the "major league" movies. >> born into the wine of a offering, just a bit outside. >> reporter: this past summer, harry doyle bobblehead night -- >> that's the reason we came today, to get the bobblehead. >> reporter: what's your favorite bob uecker line? >> "just a bit outside." that's where my wife put me a lot of times. >> he is just uniquely funny. >> reporter: before serving 16 years as baseball's commissioner, bud selig owned the brewers. and in 1971 he hired uecker, misguidedly, as a scout. >> he says he wasn't much of a scout. >> legitimately true. there were mashed potatoes on a scouting report. i couldn't read it. he couldn't read it. >> reporter: mashed potatoes on your scouting report. we got to find a new line of work. >> that's exactly right. >> reporter: selig moved you canner to the broadcast booth later that year. >> how about that one, folks!

>> reporter: today there is even a statue, where else, in the very last row of the upper deck, behind a pole. >> no doubt about that, baby! >> reporter: but for all the stardom, all the gigs and gags, the late-night laughs at his own expense -- >> he fancies himself still a player. do you sense it? >> oh, yeah. he lets us know about his catching days. >> reporter: brewers pitcher brandon woodruff. >> he is one of us. he is part of the team. and i think that's why we embrace him so much is he is on this ride with us. and that's what makes it cool. >> you know, i played the game. so i know how hard it is. i know how tough it is to play this game. >> reporter: you still have a bond with these guys out here doing it? >> oh, yeah, absolutely. the game celebration when we win, that's a big part of it, man. >> celebrating on the field, celebrating in the stands. >> reporter: to be able to walk into that clubhouse and be with them. >> reporter: but baseball's cruel, and in milwaukee,

celebrations are short-lived. earlier this month, with the brewers just two outs from winning the wild card, the new york mets came from behind on a dramatic home run. >> deep warning drag and gone. >> reporter: on the radio, uecker didn't hide the hurt. >> i'm telling you, that one had some sting on it. >> reporter: the brewers' first world series title will have to wait. there is speculation that the heartbreaking loss may have marked uecker's last game as announcer. but as his 91st birthday nears, the man they call mr. baseball told us he doesn't want to imagine his life without it. >> now the pitch, strike him out swinging. >> i don't know what i would do, you know, with no more. if i think of no more baseball for me. i don't know what that would be

like. you know, i got out of high school and i joined the army. and i signed a baseball contract. that's been it, really. >> so long, everybody. from american family field here in milwaukee. >> that was jon wertheim reporting. artificial intelligence is now in invading many aspects of our lives. now it's even in the ice cream shops. cbs' tina kraus explains. >> reporter: italy has a centuries old love affair with ice cream. and a gelato maker in milan is giving it a 21st century twist, churning out new flavors with the help of artificial intelligence. "we started using chatgpt" says john francosampo. who owns the ice cream parlor. he says the ai tool helped create a new frontier of flavors after they fed the chatbot of a list of more than seven doesn't current recipes. the first creation is white chocolate with a berry sauce, balsamic vinegar and caramelized

black pepper, he says, a combination i never would have thought of. skeptics stopped complaining after the first taste. "i chose the two flavors created with artificial intelligence" this customer says. i must say, this is very balanced. so it's very good. another ai special, vegan salted and sand blasted hazel nut with oat milk and peaches sauteed in prosecco. massimo grasso is credited as the ai genius and says he is not worried technology will take his job away. he says chatgpt is not able to balance a recipe. so for the moment, my role is still fundamental. and chatbots can't eat it either, and that's sweet news for customers. tina kraus, cbs news.

a community in san francisco is putting a new spin on their ride to school. itay hod has the story of the bike bus. >> reporter: it's a daily scene that plays out in homes across america. families rushing to get their kids off to school. some ride their bikes. many more take the bus. >> are you ready, bud? >> yeah. >> reporter: but today, 9-year-old callum johnson is doing both. instead of a seat on a yellow school bus, callum and his mom leslie are catching what's known as the bike bus.

♪ a pedal-powered convoy that blends family time with the morning commute. >> it's exciting. it's not just how we get to school, it's an event. >> reporter: the co-founder of the san francisco bike bus, luke bornheimer says the idea is to crank up the fun on the daily ride to school. >> kids don't want to sit in the back of a car and just be driven to school which is really borg boring and lonely. >> reporter: during the 1960s, 42% of school children walked or biked to school. today it's only 11%. the push to get them moving again is now shifting into high gear, and not just in san francisco. >> good morning, good morning! >> reporter: sam balto is an oregon teacher and the founder of bike bus world, an organization that helps others start their own riding groups. he says today there are more than 500 of these bike buses globally. are bike buses having a moment right now? >> they're definitely having a moment. but i think this moment is going to last a long time. >> reporter: chris livacarri,

the head of presidio school in san francisco says the bike bus is a great way to get kids to start the day on the right foot. >> they need the energy, the blood flow to the head to really be focused, be energetic. >> reporter: inspiring a whole new generation of cyclists by putting a fresh spin on the morning commute. itay hod, cbs news, san francisco. >> bye! >> bye. >> well, that looks pretty fun. and that's today's "cbs news roundup." for some of you, the news continues. for others, tune in later for "cbs mornings" and follow us online any time at cbsnews.com. reporting from the cbs broadcast in new york city, i'm shanelle kaul. ♪

hello and thanks so much for staying up with us. i'm shanelle kaul in new york, and here are the top stories on "cbs news roundup." in the presidential race, kamala harris campaigns on the gender gap, blasting donald trump over comments he made about women. the white house is calling on china to help curb north korean aggression after pyongyang launches a new long-range missile designed to reach the u.s. and the death toll is expected to rise in spain from the aftermath of monstrous flooding. both kamala harris and donald trump held rallies in western states on thursday, marking their final appeals to voters. cbs' cristian benavides is following the latest on the campaign trail, reporting from battleground georgia, which is now seeing record numbers of early voters.

>> reporter: the presidential candidates headed west to make their final campaign pushes ahead of tuesdays election. former president donald trump rallied near las vegas thursday night. >> we're going have an america that's bigger, better, bolder, richer, safer, and stronger than ever before. >> reporter: in phoenix, arizona -- >> are we ready to win? >> reporter: vice president kamala harris called out remarks trump made in wisconsin about women. >> i'm going to do it whether the women like it or not. i'm going protect them. i'm going protect them from migrants coming in. i'm going protect them from foreign countries that want to hit us with missiles and lots of other things. >> he simply does not respect the freedom of women or the intelligence of women to know what's in their own best interests and make decisions accordingly. but we trust women. >> reporter: vice president harris narrowly trails former

president trump in arizona, where she's been hammered on immigration and inflation. with election day looming, more than 63 million americans have voted either in person or by mail. georgia's secretary of state says at least 3.6 million residents, or half of active voters in the state have already cast their ballots in early vote, which ends on friday. >> georgia voters are smashing through every voting record. >> reporter: georgia went to president biden in 2020 by fewer than 20,000 votes. cristian benavides, cbs news, alpharetta, georgia. according to reporting by the associated press, white house press officials altered the official transcript in which president joe biden appeared to take a swipe at supporters of donald trump. biden created an uproar responding to racist comments made by a comedian at a trump rear who referred to puerto rico as a, quote, floating island of

garbage. this week biden appeared to refer to trump supporters as garbage, however, the white house press office insisted the president was not referring to trump supporters. the presidential race is not the only tight political contest heading into election day. control of the house of representatives is also seen as a toss-up where republicans currently hold a slim majority of only eight seats. cbs' scott macfarlane has a look at some of the pivotal races in unlikely places. >> reporter: the political colors could be changing along the hudson river in new york too. u.s. house speaker mike johnson campaigned for new york republicans about an hour north of new york city. >> the majority for the house runs through new york and california. >> reporter: trying to salvage his perilous eight-sat house majority. all 435 u.s. house seats are up for reelection next week, but cbs news reports only a few dozen are considered competitive. nearly a third of those are

concentrated in california and new york. >> it's almost unheard of to see tv ads for congressional races because it doesn't make a lot of sense, but you're seeing it because of so much money. >> reporter: court orders forced a redrawing of unconditional maps in new york, setting up a potential half dozen blockbuster multimillion-dollar races. in new york, it's democrats talking about the border. >> i will work with anyone from any party to secure or southern border. >> reporter: and republicans talking ivf. >> i believe health decisions should be made between a woman and her doctor. >> reporter: a mirror imaging california, where derek tran is one of five challengers trying to win seats held by republicans. >> the fact that a daughter of california is going to be the next president of the united states, it's lifting up all the other blue campaigns, the challenger races here in california. >> reporter: race for control of the u.s. house could be an extended cliff-hanger. california processes its vote count slowly, sometimes taking days or weeks.

and control of the house could come down to california. scott macfarlane, cbs news, new york. in overseas news now, a developing threat from north korea after it test fired a new and powerful intercontinental missile on thursday, one that could reach the united states. the launch came as south korea's foreign minister was in washington for meetings with secretary of state antony blinken. blinken says he is concerned that north korea might receive russian missile technology in exchange for sending troops to help moscow fight the war in ukraine. cbs' tina kraus has more from london. >> reporter: for the first time in almost a year, north korea launched a new and more powerful missile that could potentially reach the u.s. mainland. south korean and japanese officials say the missile was fired almost vertically thursday, traveling upward for 86 minutes, reaching a height of more than 4300 miles before falling into the sea that

would be north korea's longest flight time and highest altitude ever. north korean leader kim jong-un said it shows, quote, our will to respond to our enemies. air forces from the u.s. and south korea staged joint aerial drills in response to the missile launch, a launch u.s. officials called a flagrant violation of multiple u.n. security resolutions. the test came as a south korean delegation visited leaders in washington, and just days after the u.s. confirmed pyongyang deployed soldiers to russia to likely join russia's war against ukraine. >> we now assess that there are some 10,000 north korean soldiers in total in russia. they fully intend to use these forces in frontline operations. >> reporter: the u.s. and south korea have called on north korea to withdraw its troops from russia as tensions escalate in the region. a south korean military official said the launch may have been timed to the u.s. election in an

attempt to strengthen north korea's future bargaining power. tina kraus, cbs news. at least 158 people have now died in deadly flash flooding in spain. as you can see here, the damage is widespread, with debris strewn throughout neighborhoods. according to rescuers, at least 155 of the deaths were in valencia in eastern spain. some areas received more than a year's worth of rainfall in just eight hours. dozens are missing, and nearly a thousand spanish soldiers have now been deployed to look for survivors. when "cbs news roundup" continues, with just days to go before election day, we'll go behind the headlines and find out what's happening inside the campaigns with their very own cbs news politic adam: while serving in afghanistan, i was hit by sniper fire. the fighting was so intense, the medevac chopper was barely able to land. in the hospital, i was given a 5% chance to live. it's a good thing, math wasn't my best subject.

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this is "cbs news roundup." i'm shanelle kaul in new york. there are now less than five days to go until election day. to break all this down, we're joined now by cbs news political director fin gomez. fin, great to see you here in person. we are really down to the wire. i want to start with asking you about the fallout from the trump rally last weekend. we've really seen kamala harris now try to capitalize on this moment. is it working? >> the harris campaign thinks so. they tell me they have seen the dial move. they've seen that this story is breaking through, that's a term i'm hearing a lot from them, especially with the latino voters in pennsylvania, that key battleground state where there is 600,000 latino voter, and especially with the puerto rican community there. and of course, its battle margins this past week show that it was at 50-50. so it is close. and that could, that could have an impact. >> okay, we're also seeing some early voting numbers coming in.

what are those numbers? what is it saying about the state of the race right now? >> it's high. i mean, to compare to historical trends and cycles, look, 2020 was very high for obvious reasons because the pandemic. but right now over 65 million americans have voted. and we still have days until election day, right. >> wow. >> it shows that there is a level of engagement. we have seen some pockets here and there of some increased level of participation. i see big engagement by democrats. but the republicans are holding their own. they made inroads in that early vote. we're also seeing some senior voters who have primarily have very crucial voting bloc that have been primarily trending towards vice president harris and the democrats. but again, it's so early to tell. and right now those trends, those trends can change. they can. but what we're seeing right now. >> for sure. and what about the timing on election night. do we have a sense of how long this could realistically take? >> i think -- i think everyone

should prepare for not just the night. there may be a few nights and maybe even longer than that. >> okay. >> if you look at all the polling, all the recent polling, it shows a dead heat of a race across the seven battleground states. really, i've never seen anything like this. actually, we haven't seen anything like this in modern history at this point in a presidential cycle. so in both campaigns, expect it to be tight. none of us know. we're not in the predicting business. but it looks like it's going to be a very tight race. >> and in pennsylvania specifspecific i know all eyes will be on the state election night. what are you looking for there and what is the state of the race right now? >> it is such a dead even race right now, but what i'm looking for are the get out the vote efforts and how voters go to the polls in two key places, and that is in philadelphia. vice president harris really needs that black voters to turnout, like they did in 2008 and 2012.

and also, on the western side, that's really the stronghold for former president donald trump, and there, there is a lot of maga electorate there. so it's really like a battle two sides of the state. and that is what the turnout is so crucial and so important. so that's what i'm looking for. and we're heading now into this final stretch. what do each of the candidates have planned for this weekend? >> they are barnstorming, barnstorming and hitting the battleground states again that are so crucial. what you're seeing now is a lot of times they're hitting the same state. they're going to do this weekend. both are going to go to wisconsin, the crucial blue wall state and also north carolina. again, very crucial sunbelt state that is very important to their paths to 270. look, this is now a time where they want to amplify their message, push their base to go out to the polls, and also still try to reach out to pass their electoral map and their targets to get people who are on the bubble. so you're seeing that right now. but, again, in such a close race, such a close race, all

these visits, all these visits to the battleground states, it could sway. we'll see. >> lots here, fin gomez. thank you so much. we appreciate this. >> thanks, shanelle. still ahead, we take you to the battleground state of arizona. last election it was ground zero of the effort to overturn the results. we'll see what election officials there are doing to reassure voters. stay with us. (peaceful music) - time to get up, sweetie! (kissing) - [child voiceover] most people might not think much about all the little things you do every day, but for me, just being able to do those little things is the best part of my day. - ready, mom!

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counting. >> reporter: these days in arizona, one of the election denialism capitals of the country, rattlesnakes are the good old days for wenicky and her partner. >> there is always going to be somebody that has that raised eyebrow. >> reporter: more than half of democrats and a quarter of republicans nationwide are very confident in their state's ability to hold elections accurately and fairly. but far more republicans are not confident. the processes are very much transparent. >> reporter: the elections director in coconino county, a mostly democratic area. >> the goal is kind of have this brutal transparency for the public. >> reporter: this is what brutal transparency looks like. coconino county spent around $1.5 million upgrading their main vote-counting facility. you had to spend more than a million dollars to disprove a

lie. >> the way i see it, it's also like a reinvestment in some of the pillars of our fundamental like contract with the public. >> how do you put a dollar sign on democracy. >> reporter: pinole county, a mostly republican area across the state also went on a spending spree, building a new facility of its own. the ballot boxes here are equipped with gps tracking devices, something county administrator says can reassure the public. >> i'm able to track every one of the cages with the gps unit on it within five feet. >> reporter: a sign of how local officials are trying to temper election skeptics like those who falsely believe tabulation machines are connected to the internet. >> the racking system that you see above your heads shows that it's a closed gateway. and that orange cable goes to our server. >> the black box here. >> yep. >> everything that gets

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the manhunt continues in the pacific northwest for the person who set fires inside ballot boxes in oregon and washington state. hundreds of ballots were damaged or destroyed, and investigators say the suspect is a middle aged white man driving a dark gray volvo. police are stepping up paroles around the drop boxes, but the fight to keep ballots secure begins at the source. here is cbs' kris van cleave. >> reporter: the sounds of democracy being printed. sorted, stuffed, and shipped

from inside this secure facility in phoenix, complete with armed guards. how many ballots do you print? >> for the general election, we'll print about 35 million ballots. >> reporter: jeff ellington heads runback election services. >> we don't overprint anything. so every step as we go through, we print exactly what the counties ask for. >> reporter: they'll use about 6,000 miles of paper, printing up to 1.5 million ballots a day, enough to fill 51 semis and weighing about the same as two 747s. what's to stop someone from copying one of your ballots? >> it's got to be on the right paper. the tolerances to cut a ballot are shockingly tight. and it's not 8 1/2 by 11 sheets of paper. >> reporter: and all of that would be hard to replicate? >> in maricopa county alone, this represents 15,000 different ballot styles. >> reporter: the kind, thickness and color of the paper can vary by the machine tabulating the vote which varies by county. so does the design and layout of the ballot itself. and every single ballot is tracked.

>> there is a secure process where the chain of custody of all these ballots from paper to ballots going to the election office to the ballots going to the voters is all maintained under rigorous circumstances. >> reporter: runback works with 30 states. a growing part of its business is now election security. >> we recently started selling panic buttons to counties because of all the threats to poll workers. >> reporter: devices that connect to 911. how many have you sold? >> right around one thousand to different counties. >> reporter: that's a lot of panic buttons. there is a lot of concern. >> reporter: concern around an election now just days away. kris van cleave, cbs news, phoenix. "cbs news roundup" will be right back.

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