Im ann marie green. Were going to begin this morning with a preview of the final debate between President Trump and joe biden. Theyll be at Belmont University in nashville tonight making the closing arguments to the public with just 12 days to go until the election. Meantime, top intelligence officials held a rare last minute News Conference yesterday saying russia and iran used Voter Registration information to influence the election. So natalie brand is in nashville. Natalie, is there any impact at all on Election Security . This was quite a stunning press conference. It was. And National Security officials stress that integrity of the election is intact. They say the goal by adversaries was to sew chaos and distrust. All of this coming in the final critical days of election season and ahead of this final faceoff of the candidates who have taken different approaches to prepping for tonight former president barack obama held an event for him yesterday and biden took a break to prepare. With joe and kamala at the helm, youre not going to have to think about the crazy things they said every day. Reporter the current commander in chief brushed off the attack at a raleigh in North Carolina. There is nobody that campaigned harder for crooked hillary clinton. Reporter tonight the two candidates will be here in nashville for the final debate. A cbs news poll found 69 of the viewers were annoyed by the constant interruptions. It was like two kids going at it. Reporter many voters say minds are made up but still want to see a debate focused on the issues. Rather than the personal attacks that are going on. President trump says he may interrupt biden less and hopes he trips himself up and is also expected to bring up Hunter Bidens work overseas. The bidens got rich. Well, North Carolina and our country got robbed. Reporter last night National Security officials announced iran and russia obtained Voter Registration data to influence the election. The great women and men of the Intelligence Community caught this activity immediately. You should be confident that your vote counts. They accused iran of imfating eye rightwing group and sending emails to democratic voters that threaten to come after them unless they vote for President Trump. Now federal officials did not reveal how that voter data was obtained. The National Security leaders say they are also working with the private sector, tech and social Media Companies to make sure the platforms are not being used by adversaries to spread misinformation and propaganda. All right. Natalie brand in nashville, thank you so much. So our live prime time coverage of the final president ial debate starts tonight at 9 00 eastern, 6 00 pacific right here on cbs. Senate democrats are boycotting to Days Committee vote on judge Amy Coney Barretts nomination. Chuck schumer said in a statement he wouldnt grant the sham and rush proceedings any legitimacy. The boycott will not stop the federal judges confirmation though to the High Court Next week. Senator Lindsey Graham said that panel will move forward on voting with or without democrats. And now to the latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The number of cases worldwide has now surpassed 41 million. The news comes as a joint study by boeing and the university of arizona reveals disinfectants already used on planes are successful in killing viruses like the one that cause covid19. Boeing says the results show passengers face little risk of catching the virus from recently disinfected aircraft surfaces. Pope francis is making headlines around the world this morning, becoming the first pope to endorse civil unions for samesex couples. Its a dramatic departure from the church. Reporter pope francis revealed his support for samesex civil unions in a documentary debuting in it rome. During an interview in the film, the pope says homosexual people have the right to be in a family. They are children of god. You cant kick someone out of a family nor make their life miserable for. This he calls for a Civil Union Law saying that way they are legally covered. The documentary touches on issues most important to francis, poverty, racism and the environment. Im convinced that we can make a difference. Im sure. Reporter the director says francis was very clear. He wanted the film to be more than a biography. I think of him as the man of prolife on the global scale. Because any issue that you see in this movie is specifically him caring about humanity without putting label. Reporter the film features the story of a gay activist in chile who describes meeting the pope and sharing his experience as a survivor of clergy sexual abuse. I have seen him almost cry with a story i tell him about letters that i bring him about people that have been abused. And he is a man of action. And he suffers. Reporter since becoming pope, francis signaled a more tolerant tone towards samesex relationships, an parent break with the Roman Catholic church. Remarks on civil unions are sparking cheers from one side of the debate and calls for clarification from the other. Cbs news, los angeles. In northern colorado, thousands of firefighters are taking on three major wildfires. Theyre fighting to contain the cameron peak fire. Largest fire in colorado history. And then there is also the calwood fire and east troublesome fire. This is dramatic video of the east troublesome fire which started last wednesday. Windy and dry conditions pushed the flames past colorado highway 125 yesterday forcing evacuations in the area. With all three fires burning in the North Central part of the state, federal officials have closed all National Forests and five colorado counties. Its a hard ask. But what we want people to do is really the local community to lead the way so we can enforce this with the greater public. The cause for each of the fires is currently under investigation. And three astronauts are back on earth this morning after a sixmonth mission at the International Space station. A capsule carrying the astronauts landed in kazakhstan. The trip back to earth took about three hours. They were allowed to head home after undergoing a medical checkup. The three space travelers spent 196 days living and working in earths orbit. Coming up on the cbs morning news now, President Trump is reportedly considering firing fbi director Christopher Ray. And caught on police body camera. 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They ruled the transcripts from two days of depositions in 2016 with maxwell must be released. Shes awaiting trial on charges of helping epstein traffic and sexually abuse teenage girls in the 1990s. Epstein killed himself last year in a federal jail in new york city. And the New York Times says video shows a nasa spacecraft briefly hitting the surface of an asteroid where it collected rock and dirt samples to be returned to earth. Yesterday nasa released video of tuesdays touchdown on the asteroid which is 200 million miles away. It shows the spacecraft crushing rocks and scattering dirt and rubble. The event when the gas bottle gets fired, you can see that particles are flying all over the place. We really did kind of make a mess on the surface of this asteroid. Its a good mess. Its the kind of mess we were hoping for. Lots of material has been mobilized giving us additional confidence that we actually pushed material up into the sampler head. 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And yesterday on twitter, President Trump cast doubt on a deal before election day. The short form video ad quibi is shutting down six months after going live. They struggled after launching during the pandemic says they tend to wind down the operations and start a process to sell the assets. The founder said the world has changed dramatically since quibi launched. The Service Offers entertainment and news and episodes of ten minutes or less targeting mobile phones. It was initially promoted for on the go viewing. And amazon prime customers can now get their groceries quicker. The company is offering free onehour grocery pickup on orders of 35 or more at all of its whole foods Stores Across the nation. Prime members could previously pick them up at certain whole foods stores. In recent months they expanded curb side pickup to help customers during the pandemic. Ann marie . No hanging out for 45 minutes in the cheese section if you do that though. 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And an eighth grader in texas took home a Prestigious Science award and her find findings could help in the fight against the coronavirus. Im an eighth grader from frisco, texas. Reporter in the middle of a pandemic, this budding scientists hopes to one day save lives. Inhibiting the spike protein would stop the virus from entering the cell. With her research on a potential treatment for the coronavirus. Congratulations. You are americas 2020 top young scientists. Her project earned her top prize in the country for middle school scientists and 25,000. I isolated a lead compound from a data base of almost 698 million molecules. Reporter that discovery which she hopes will lead to a new weapon against covid19 began two years ago while she was researching another pandemic. You know that there are a lot of people at home saying what 12yearold is interested in spanish flu in a pandemic . Yeah. So school is useful. Reporter a 14yearold with many talents, doing grownup work. I just want to help the world and let children know that they can do whatever they want to accomplish. Reporter there were 60,000 deaths in the u. S. Alone. Inspiring a new generation to reach for the stars. Im signing off from frisco, texas. And im signing off for cbs news, north texas. That is amazing. Gives you hope for the future. Such bright young people. Coming up on cbs this morning, a cbs news exclusive. The were going to tour a covid19 unit in wisconsins largest hospital as the state struggles with rising coronavirus deaths. Plus, we speak with health and Human Services secretary about the time line for a covid19 vaccine and how it will be distributed. And in our series a more perfect union, well meet a 12yearold girl who composes music to build a better world. Thats the cbs morning news for this thursday. Thank you so much for watching. Im ann marie green. Have a great day. Thank you so much for watching. Im ann marie green. Have a great day