Required halfhour checks. It is rare to see guards in the bureau of prisons be held accountable in a criminal court for felonies. This is a big deal. Reporter epstein, arrested on july 6, was being held at m. C. C. While awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges. According to the indictment, at approximately 6 33, an alarm was activated. Epstein was alone in his cell and not responsive with a noose around his neck. Today in washington, the director of the bureau of prisons faced questions about the investigation into epsteins death in one of her facilities. Theres got to be either a major malfunction of the system or a criminal enterprise at foot to allow this to happen. So are you looking at both . Is the f. B. I. Looking at both . If the f. B. I. Is involved then they are looking at criminal enterprise, yes. Reporter the Union Representing the two officers who both pleaded not guilty today say that the charges sidestep the larger problem of chronic understaffing in federal prisons. Tes accusers is giving chilling new details about what life was like inside his manhattan. Maria farmer says she met epstein in the 90s when she was a young artist. In a lawsuit, she accuses epstein of sexually assaulting her and her younger sister annie. Farmer says she was the first known accuser to report epstein to police a decade before his first arrest. She spoke with Anthony Mason in her first tv interview. I want people to know that these women are strong and theyre still standing. Reporter the women that maria farmer started drawing in month are all alleged victims of jeffrey epstein. She sketched seven so far, including her younger sister. I tried for a long time to just not think about them, and then i decided i cant ignore it any more. Im going to draw them, im going to paint them, im going to glorify them. Reporter shed been unable to paint for more than 20 years, she says, after her own alleged assault by epstein and his close friend ghislaine maxwell. Thats g jeffrey d they took away the thing i was supposed to do. They did that to everybody. Reporter farmer was a promising young artist when she said she met epstein and maxwell at an art show in new york city in 1995. Epstein bought this painting of hers that night, then she says eventually offered her a job. The 26yearold soon found herself working the front desk in his palatial new york city town house. Did you see young women coming into the house . Yes, i saw many, many, many, many, many. Reporter all day long . All day long. I saw ghislaine going to get the women. She went to places like central park. I was with her a couple times in the car. She would say, stop the car and she would dash out and get a child. Reporter what did she say she was doing when she did this . Getting victorias secret models. Reporter farmer found epsteins behavior mysterious. One day i said to jeffrey, what goes on in this house . Why are you always upstairs . He said, ill show you. So he took me up there in the elevator. We went he showed me all of ghislaines quarters. Reporter she had her own suite in the house . Oh, she had her own floor. Reporter ultimately farmer says epstein led her to his bathroom. And there was a marble altar. He said thats where he gets his massages. Reporter epstein told her the whole house was wired with pinhole cameras and took her into the media room where they were monitored. I looked on the cameras and i saw toilet, toilet, bed, bed, toilet, bed. Im like, i am never going to use the rest room here and i am never going to sleep here. Reporter was there videotape . It was all videod all the time, yeah. I asked him one time, what i do do with this . He said, i keep it. I keep everything in my safe. Reporter in the summer of 1996, farmer says epstein sent her to be an artist in residence on the vast estate of les wexner, the c. E. O. Of elle brands which owns victorias secret. How would you describe epsteins relationship with wexner . Epstein told me what the relationship was. He said wexner would do anything for him. He bragged about it. Reporter the estate, she said, was heavily guarded by Armed Security and dogs. She stayed in what she was told was the guest house. Did you ever see him . No, i called wexner the wizard of oz. He was the one behind the curtain that had all the power. Reporter on the night this photograph was taken by maxwell, farmer alleges in her complaint that maxwell and epstein sexually assaulted her there. How were you doing at that moment . Oh, i was hysterical. Reporter farmer alleges in her complaint that when she tried to flee the following day, she was not allowed to leave. She claims a member of wexners staff warned her. His exact words were, youre not going anywhere. You are never leaving. You are never leaving. Reporter farmer says she escaped only after calling her father for help. In a statement, the wexners said they had no knowledge of farmer, never met her, never spoke with her. And the guest house where farmer says she stayed was not a wexner guest house. Farmer alleges maxwell threatened to destroy her reputation in the art world. And in one phone call, she believes, threatened her life. She says, youre going out to jog on the west side highway every day and i know this. You need to be very careful because there are so many ways to die there. You have to be really careful. Look over your shoulder. Reporter farmer said she reported the assault to the fbi, but she told us it wasnt for another decade, just before epsteins first arrest in 2006, that an agent finally appeared at her door. Farmer says they never followed up. They still havent asked to talk to me. They are trying to pretend i do not exist. Thats right. I want my report and i want it printed out so i can show everyone how much they failed. I dont know if ill ever get it. Weve been requesting it forever. Reporter is this getting any easier at all for you . This is not getting easier right now. I believe it will get easier once i do the paintings. I think thats going to be my therapy. Reporter shes still waiting for justice. But in painting her fellow survivors, maria farmer has finally found her art again. Because im healing myself through this process. No one is going to do it for me. Reporter so those paintings mean a lot to you . They do. These women mean a lot to me. These women mean a lot to me. Ghislaine maxwell has heres another cleaning tip from mr. Clean. Cleaning tough bathroom and kitchen messes with sprays and wipes can be a struggle. Theres an easier way. Try mr. Clean magic eraser. Just wet, squeeze and erase tough messes like bathtub soap scum. 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Also, theres just a whole bunch more being dumped on educators than used to be. Its not as respected as much. Its just a tougher profession than it used to be. We have 11 sick days. Reporter 15 years ago wilson says there were about 30 candidates for every job opening. But in the last few years, some postings have attracted zero applicants. Our high school principal, she happened to be at a restaurant. The waitress said that she was trying to become a teacher through an alternative licensure program. Reporter so you hired a waitress who was working to become a teacher. Yes. Reporter you helped expedite that process. Yes. Reporter on this day teachers in training visited some of the classrooms, including holly kanes kindergarten class. What do you see as some of the major problems facing Rural School Districts . Affordable housing is probably the number one, you know. We do live farther out so the prices of things are higher. You go to the Grocery Store in a small community, youre going to pay a higher price than you would at a king supers. Reporter the 26yearold said she struggles to pay Student Loans and make ends meet on her 35,000 a year teaching salary. To cut costs, last year she lived in this camper in a field outside of school. What kept you going while you were living in that trailer . Just coming to School Every Day and seeing, seeing the children and just making bonds with them. Good job. Reporter we heard from holly who talked about living in a trailer. Yes. Reporter what does it say about how difficult it is to work and make a reasonable salary . Its difficult. It has to be something you truly love. Reporter mary bower loves the job so much she came back in 2018 after leaving in 2013 to be close to her husband and their home near denver. Its about 90 miles away. Now during the week, bower stays with her sister in simla. She said i know someone who has cheap rent. By that i mean free of the. So i stay at my sisters for free. Reporter she returned too big sandy to teach spanish after the district failed to find a qualified teacher. They lost their spanish teacher at the beginning of the year and tried online. It was pretty difficult for them. A lot of the kids had to go back and repeat the year that they lost. Reporter they were that far behind . They were that far behind, yeah. Reporter the coaxing former teachers and retirees back into the classroom is a band aid solution. Youre expecting upwards of 8 to 10 teachers to retire in the next five to ten years. What do you do then . Tough thing. Some schools are in that boat right now, and i think were short changing our students. Reporter wilson hopes that some of these College Students actually return here as teachers. Im curious. How many of you would be interested in a rural school or a school like this in the future . What changed your mind . Everyone is kind of in it together and i really like that aspect. I went to a high school where i graduated with 300 people. To think this school has 300 kids from preschool to 12th grade blows my mind because Everybody Knows each other. And just to think that you could, like, work in a school with that kind of community, that bond, i just i want to be a part of it. Reporter jericka duncan, simla, colorado. And the cbs overnight news will be right back. When you humble yourself under the mighty hand of god, in due time he will exalt you. Hi, im joel osteen. Im excited about being with you every week. I hope youll tune in. Youll be inspired, youll be encouraged. Im looking forward to seeing you right here. You are fully loaded and completely equipped for the race thats been designed for you. Women in japan are taking a stand against having to wear high heels at work. This comes amid growing backlash against Office Fashion rules that many say are discriminatory and outdated. Lucy craft has more from tokyo. Reporter activist yu yuni ishikawa has become the face of an activist in japan. Her feet and shuds are not stat. Heels are an expression of japan male cheuvenism. Their campaign means shoe suffering. Japan has been called the land of uniforms for good reason. The nations czar orrial conformity starts early and continues throughout life. High heels have become part of the dress code for working women in japan. Wearing them is considered a kind of office etiquette. Even japans labor minister weighed in calling high heels necessary and reasonable. Such was this entrenched male mindset in japan that at her old job at a funeral parlor where she spent six hours a day on her feet, heels were mandatory. 3 inch heels were the rule, she said. When quitting time rolled around my toes were bleeding. I thought, guys do the same job as me. Why do they get to wear flat shoes . She then vented online and japan felt her pain literally. Scores of women shared war stories about grinning and bearing it through blisters, back pain and hammer toes inflicted by prolonged high heel use. The Kutoo Movement was born demanding the right to wear comfortable footwear at work. Its a movement that seems to have legs. Recently major bank sumitomo mitt tatsuma i abolished dress codes amid support. Translator i think heels should be optional, she said, an airline employee. Requiring heels makes me wonder, why arent men wearing them . Traditional Companies Might wear high heels, but not progressive firms. She works in i. T. Meanwhile, ishikawa is turning her pain to profit, she has a new book and is about tout her line of sensible shoes, another step toward footwear freedom. Lucy craft, tokyo. A and that is the overnight news this wednesday. For some of you the news continues. For others, check back with us a little bit later for the morning news and, of course, cbs this morning. From the Broadcast Center in new york city, im don dahler. Its wednesday, november its wednesday, november 20th, 2019. This is the cbs morning news. Day four, a new round of televised impeachment inquiry hearings set for today. Whos next on deck and the Key Takeaways from tuesdays testimony. Candidate showdown. The top ten democrats running for president square off in atlanta. Whats at stake. Breaking overnight from overseas. Two u. S. Service members have been killed in afghanistan after a helicopter crash. Captioning funded by cbs captioning funded by cbs good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs headquarters here in new yo