civil unions cbs' seth doane reports tonight from rome. >> this is a man who cries with humanity. >>eporter: pope francis' comments in the documentary were the most public support ever made by a pope. to an interview for the film "francesco," he said "homosexual people have a right to be in a family. they are children of god. what we have to create is a civil union law." it's a dramatic departure from the past. this 2003 church document opposes gay unions because "they obscure basic moral values and cause a devaluation of evrriage." >> this is not a change of doctrine. but it's a major sea shift in attitude. >> reporter: monsignor anthony figueiredo is a cbs news consultant. but if church doctrine, church teaching doesn't change, then 't c really changes? >> well, attitude is very key. pope francis has always upheld marriage is between a man and a woman. but civil laws have changed, and unless the church accepts these civil laws, it means we're ,ctually promoting discrimination if we do not accept what has gone on, on the civil level. norah, l.g.bnorah, l.g.b.t.q. advocates see this

. >> seth doan recording from rome. >>> the russian government is asking the world health organization to speed the process of registering one of its vaccines and moscow said that it will quickly distribute the drug worldwide once testing is complete. they caution that russia may be cutting corners in the testing process. if and when a safe and reliable vaccine is available, another daunting problem will be getting the drug to the public. we report. >> imagine preparing to transport a coronavirus vaccine. without knowing the vaccine will be manufactured. what the packaging will be. or how cold it will need to be kept. >>> that's the daunting task before shipping companies like did dhl, according to the ceo of global forwarding usa david goldberg. >> there's a had the of things that are unknown and we have been talking to the different manufacturers who are in various stages of the trials to get ready. >>> in this air hanger, vaccines are stored in various temperatures before being send to doctor offices, pharmacies and hospitals. >> we have been moving the flu vaccine, and the meningit

seth doane and elizabeth palmer tell us why the whole world is watching this year's election. time for halloween, luke burbank visits a drive-through haunted house. plus steve hartman, politics with john dickerson and more on this "sunday morning," the 25th of october 2020. and we'll be back after this. in the bay area, we believe in science. traffic and air pollution will be even worse after the pandemic. that's why we support measure rr to keep caltrain running. which is at risk of shutdown because of the crisis. to keep millions of cars off our roads, to reduce air pollution and fight climate change. and measure rr helps essential workers like me get to work and keep our communities healthy. relieve traffic. reduce pollution. rescue caltrain. [all] yes on measure rr. they all endorse yes on prop 25. to end unfair, unjust, discriminatory money bail. governor gavin newsom and van jones. they're voting yes on 25. the western center on law and poverty. the dolores huerta foundation. californians for safety and justice. and the california democratic party. they all agree that th

. >> he may be right i just doan know about qanon. >> as for biden, he acknowledged mistakes on the crimeill and impact on black americans and he hasn't said yet whether he's going to add seats to if supreme court if effected. >> it's not what's going on now. >> don't they have a right to know where they stand? >> they do, and i have a right to know where they stand. >> you'll come out with a clear answer come election day >> yes, dpebldi rk, depending o handle this. >> tracie potts has more it's less than a week away. >> it's going to be in the south and that's where the president is today, to florida and georgia where he's trailed joe biden down in the south. the president will be talking to residents there and voters there while biden heads to michigan, a state that democrats desperately want to take back this time around he's talking health care today, and, of course, that came up tonight with both town halls focusing on coronavirus. and both candidates addressing whether americans, all americans, should be wearing a mask >> i'm good with masks i'm okay with masks. but just the other

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mexico's president has criticized a lot doan's in europe cola graham authoritarian andrus manual lopez obrador says european governments are treating their citizens like children whose comments came on the day mexico passed 98000 deaths linked to corona virus is enough i have to have a lower body that it's a lot thorgeir and urged by you authorities by the government with all due respect on the part of those who opt for the us confuse aren't a sign of faith in people that you're putting yourself above as what dorothy and sing citizens as children why they don't understand well latin america has been hurt badly by the coronavirus and they'd workers in venezuela are warning the country is struggling to respond on the front line hospitals are lacking basic supplies many patients have been left to die to raise a ball reports the. fighting over $1000.00 is a major challenge in most countries but even if where hospitals are running short of medicines and staff the battle is even harder. every day to this hospital and get access to care for her father she says her presence is the only guarant

seth doan is in rome. seth, how is that country responding to that?ll, anthony, there are new rules and regulations. for a while we've had to wear the masks both outside and inside. now the newest restrictions include a curfew that all restaurants have to close after 6 p.m. and gyms and pools are also closed. there have been some protests, scattered protests around the country. and in some cases various extremist groups have hijacked those protests sparking violence. overnight police in riot gear fired tear gas to push back protestors that had set fires in the northern cities of tyrin and milan. while most protests against the government restrictions, curfews and closures have been peaceful, italy's national police tell cbs news, these scenes are the result of inches be city gators from far right, far left and groups that infiltrated and carried out violence. across europe coronavirus cases are spiking. this shows the surges since september. look at germany, spain, the united kingdom and france which now has the fifth highest number of cases globally.

starting with seth doan, here in europe, they are watching the election closely.ames were at the top of the ticket. one seems to get the most attention. president trump. >> he is really taken the world by storm. >> in a good way or bad way? >> i would, well -- in an american way. >> reporter: the chummy europe/u.s. relationship has strained recently. the long-time allies parting ways over climate change and spatting over trade. with new u.s. tariffs on products made from french made airplanes to italian parmesean cheese. >> it's okay. >> the united kingdom's former ambassador to the u.s., knows both worlds well. >> people who, are used to a more traditional american -- find it extraordinary, disrupt i have and they don't like it. >> derek made headlines in 2019. aft after a confidential memo leaked. this type of direct assessment, he argues in his new book. is typical. >> you praised trump. >> he had messages that really connected with people and his way of delivering the messages was extraordinarily effective. the difference now is that he has a record to run on.

happened to her, what will he do now between election and day and not do after election days if things doany way to discuss it is disgusting but also terrifying. >> claire, it is such sick, looking for a word that doesn't end with it, such sick stuff. an i think about our country's response to islamic terrorism and i was in the middle of it. and the bush policies, buckets of policies were incredibly polarizing. i'm not advocating them. the threat was same. it started with a "t" and it is called terrorism. and it blows my mind that we don't have a response to the threat of domestic terrorist. and we have a president who sits atop the executive branch who's former adviser elizabeth neumann described him as a obstacle. you used to serve on the senate homeland security committee. what should we be doing? >> well, what we should be doing is we should have a leader of this great nation that understands that urging people to use extra judicial processes, whether it is kidnapping a governor and taking her out in the woods for a trial, and some form of physical harm, or whether him bragging about ma

it has just driven the value of the companies to a point where the fundamentals doan line up with theything is echoed from a letter from green light capital. they report to valuations, high concentration in single sectors and small basket of names. and the general thesis is that the top, as they put it, was on september 2nd. anticipate that we're in the process of moving from greed to complaisancy do you think that top whenever it's coming is in the past or is the music still playing? >> i don't think we're at the top of it strafrngely enough as i mentioned before, part of this is can some of the companies use the extra capital to further their position in the market right? it's an amazing opportunity if you're a company with this extra capital to go and acquire buying to adjacent markets and continue to execute in a way that maybe they're not doing. i do think there is nervousness. if you look at the market yesterday, there is a bit of a dip. a couple of stocks, especially sap tanked a bit people are nervous its a skiddish market right now. people are waiting for it to fall it doesn'

. >> reporter: the stress of the pandemic made mike doane smoke marijuana more often and unable to train as the "krav maga" student and stuck at home. these are increasing reasons why they are visiting barbary sunset . >> it's a nice chill factor to calm down. >> reporter: it is a san francisco only cannabis dispensary on the westside who said sales have doubled as the pandemic began. that has helped them to expand the product line with much of the this is coming from first- time cbd users dealing with insomnia and anxiety. >> if you are a parent at home listening to a lack of things open and you're listening to your child running up and down the halls, it's best to kind of start out slow with cbd. >> reporter: the dispensary pivoted the business. >> we never closed. like i said, we were adaptable and expanded we started delivery. >> reporter: barbary sunset said they have doubled the staff to 30 including adding new drivers across the state the legal marijuana industry is still facing a year of declining sales as a result of the covid-19 recession according to the governor. the governor

hrustic, six inches right in the fire doan where over 376,000 acres have burned.s you move into sunday night, also into monday, look at the snow stack up, one to close to two feet of snow. >> wow. >> temperatures also, daytime highs in the 20s, lows down to minus 10 degrees. >> good grief. >> that's the help those firefighters need. as we get out here to the wider view you can see on the backside of the storm system the wind driving down across northern california, and this is the other problem. the same storm producing this fire danger. right here in the bay area from flap napa and sonoma, down to san francisco and san jose, 20 to 50-plus-mile-per-hour winds. in the mountains, to 40-mile-per-hour wind gusts in the lower elevations with these wind gusts coming in, pg&e is cutting power to thousands of people as we move through sunday, monday and tuesday. so their equipment don't start additional fires so another thing to deal with here in 2020. >> i'll say. hang on. jeff ranieri, thanks >>> there's a new drug on the street have you heard about this? experts say it

when the black woman said, you know, systemic racism, the white woman across her was yelling back, doan use that term, don't use that term. ab pick up on your reaction or reasonings for why the republican party just is incapable of recognizing and acknowledging that systemic racism does actually exist. >> well, look, i think they don't wan to believe it. i think it is as much that they don't believe it as they don't want to believe it. because if you do believe it, it lays you down a series of conclusions that are self-damning and troubling and much more comfortable to believe this isn't a problem. look, the republican party went down a path, it had a choice but it went down a path to embrace white grievance as its core. and we are in the last gas as a national party. i think donald trump is going to be crushed on tuesday. absolutely crushed. even if he won, where this country is going is determined now. and donald trump and stephen miller and all of these people, they're not going to stop it. of the americans who are 15 years and under, the majority are nonwhite. they're nonwhite wheth

. >> i -- >> independent under article three and i doan take orders from the executive or the legislative branch. >> could i restate my question because i don't think you understand it. i'm asking as an act of empathy, could you understand the fears that are exhibited by people we put up. the two people i put up, michelle and merit, i don't know what their political party is. i don't know if they're going to vote for me. i'm on the ballot. but i know there are people that wanted their voices to be heard because they are afraid right now. and what your nomination represents. all i'm asking is can you empathize with that and understand that? >> senator, i could certainly empathize with people struggling. i could empathize with people who lack health care. you know, one of the things that was so striking to me when we went to get our daughter vivian from the orphanage in haiti was the lack of basic things like antibody and it made be appreciate the fact that we have access to health care so i could certainly empathize with all of that. with respect to the a.c.a. and should i be confirmed and