sisters. still, there was always a little tension especially when it came to sunday dinner. >> the grandmothers were kind of in competition with one another. so we would start here, at grandmom jacobs, we would have a typical italian mealidwait, i m. >> reporter: so you had to go to the other grandmother? >> we had to eat at both houses. >> reporter: it was here at the home of her maternal grandparents that jill jacobs first introduced the family to joe biden. the u.s. senator she had been dating. a widower, nine years her senior with two young sons. >> my grandmother when she saw joe, she was so excited. i can picture her in her house coat, and her black lace up shoes. she said i'm so excited to meet you because she was a staunch democrat. >> reporter: jill and joe biden were married in 1977. she said she first fell in love with his boys. bo and hunter. and they were front and center in 1980, when she realized that she and joe might be expecting a new baby. >> they went with me to the drug store to get the pregnancy test. >> reporter: i love that. >> they were the ones who actually told their dad? >> yeah, they told joe. >> reporter: we are having a baby. >> we are having a baby. and i said, baby. >> reporter: they chose ashley. as much as jill biden loved being a mom. she wanted a career, she got a dock docterate in education. >> i teach a lot of immigrants and refuges. >> reporter: do you think you will keep teaching if you become first lady? >> i had hope so. >> allde. if we get to the white house, i'm going to continue to teach. it's important. and i want people to value teachers and know their contributions and lift up the profession. >> reporter: so you are really planning to do it as first lady. wow. >> yeah, yeah. >> reporter: our future first lady. at campaign events from her dining table. >> this pandemic has shown a light on the inequities throughout the united states. >> reporter: dr. b as her assistants and staff call her speak to teachers groups often. do you see yourself as someone who will be an adviser to the president? >> it's a marriage. and you listen to one another. you talk things out with one another. >> reporter: have you weighed in on who you think would be a good vice president for him and who might not be so great? >> you know, we have talked about the different womens candidates. but it has to be joe's decision, who he feels most comfortable with. who shares had h s his values. that's what he said barack had. >> she knows me i think better than i know me. >> reporter: we caught up with vice president biden this past week. what's the secret to this marriage? >> i adore her. sounds so stupid. i was saying to her the other day, when she comes down the steps and i look at her, my heart still skips a beat. >> reporter: but in 2015, couple went through the devastating loss of their son bo, to cancer. >> what did it mean to you to have her at your side during this? >> in one sense i wish she was not there, because i hated to see the pain, we can be completely totally open and let our grief show through with one another and i've been lucky to have her. as i had to have my son hunter and daughter ashley and they have been great for us. >> reporter: you write that you feel sometimes like a piece of china was that shattered and put together again. >> yeah. >> reporter: but you still feel broken. >> you know, you can't lose a child and be who you -- you are changed forever. you are not the person you were before your child's death. so, yeah you are broken. >> reporter: still she said bo wanted her dad to run for president and she is all in on the campaign but there's allegations. there were allegations that women felt he was too familiar. >> i think it was a space issue. >> reporter: he made them feel uncomfortable. from . realized that andearned tot aware of it now and keeps his distance. >> reporter: and say has watched aspresident trump has tried to make their son hunter's work in ukraine a campaign issue. >> it is a total distraction. we knew this, rita, when we decided to run. as i said to joe, we have experienced the worst possible thing that can happen to us in life. we lost a child. together, we can handle anything. and that's what we are trying to do. >> reporter: you hold a grudge against president trump for some of the things he has said against your family? >> i don't think he should be attacking my family. my family is not fair game. joe is running against him. that's different. not my children. >> reporter: biden said if she n,ng for irst lady she will ad cancer research and support for military families as she did as second lady. so delaware, this is your ref u refuge. >> isn't it beautiful? >> reporter: it is gorgeous. but she will always make time for a little fun and still laughs about a practical joke she played years ago when she was the first to arrive at air force 2 one day. overhead bin and i jumped in to there and then as soon as they went to open the bin i -- you know, i jumped out and i scared everybody. i think we laughed for like a half an hour. >> reporter: and if jill biden becomes first lady -- will we see unconventional things from you? >> i hope so, why not. things are so serious and these times are so tough. sometimes it takes a little levity and ♪when you have nausea, heartburn, indigestion,♪ ♪upset stomach, diarrhea pepto bismol coats and soothes your stomach for fast relief and now, get the same fast relief in a delightful chew with new pepto bismol chews. thdoveen+care in-1 banface. it cleanses and moistuizes with 1/4 moisturizing cream. leaving your skin feeling comfortable and smooth. dove men+care 3-in-1 bar. for bathroom odors that linger try febreze small spaces. just press firmly and it continuously eliminates odors in the air and on soft surfaces. for 45 days. ivin d t cusnd o lohelpinvemore, with the geico back. and because we're committed for the long haul, the credit lasts your full policy term. the geico giveback. helping riders focus on the road ahead. in the ongoing battle against coronavirus, one tool has been sorely lacking here in the united states and that's contact tracing. where you notify people who have been exposed to someone testing positive. overseas, some governments are p the job. we report from rome. >> reporter: in the united states, coronavirus is spreading like wild fire. and melissa thomas is stomping out the embers. >> i'm calming on behalf of the new haven health department. >> reporter: her mission is to break the chain of infection by having a list of everyone that encountered a patient and urging tested.e who was ncehe testultsre wot he to. ontact tracing apps are already being used here in italy. germany, and around europe. thanks to a rare collaboration by both google and apple. the tech is free for any country to use to develop its own app. using the phone's blue tooth signal, it can detect other phones that downloaded the app. if two users come close enough, the phone records the data. later if one of them tests positive for the coronavirus the other will be notified. of course, that is if the other person also has the app. marcus talks about tech in germany. he like most germ ans was skeptical. >> privacy is a strong value. >> reporter: even before germany had, south korea and singapore started to use notification but more invasively. the technology by google and apple does not. there's no a database, it's phones talking to phones. so far the u.s. is not using it. dr. tom freeden, the former director of the cdc said there's no federal requirement to contact trace. >> in the u.s., we have really lacked a clear national strategy. >> reporter: he cautions that apps cannot replace traditional contact tracing. >> but the really am bimbitiousa require that a large proportion of people opt in to the appear and that the blue tooth signal works where you are at and falsositivnd false negatives. >> reporter: now, up tick in italy has been slow, only about 4 million downloads here so far. but germany's app has been downloaded by 20% of the country. amid a pandemic with few solutions in sight, (birds chirping) (woman chattering) - [narrator] ordering dinner for the family? 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