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The citizens of the state of alabama, regardless of who they are. >> reporter: the final push for democrat doug jones includes a small army of volunteers who say they knocked on 80,000 doors this past weekend trying to get out the vote. also helping jones, former president barack obama, who recorded a robo-call to help lure crucial young and african american voters to the polls. by comparison, jones' opponent, republican roy moore, has not had a public event since last tuesday. he did sit down with a local tv program to, once again, deny he had any improper relations with the nine women who ha...

This whole episode, it is the fact it looks like when you look at the classifications it's not the super secret stuff. it's older devices impacted. talked about how to use 3.5-inch floppy disk. maybe this is older stuff. somebody further down the food chain. >> you are going to see the newer stuff coming and some of it is creepy. the computer chip in a microwave in your kitchen when the door is open can be accessed wirelessly as a listening device. who is doing the accessing? the fbi needs to find that out. just as important as finding the mole is to find out who is spying. steve: if my microw...

Submarine and they have deteriorated and the worse is the ballistic missiles and russia and china modernized their nuclear arsenal. what are we concern body here? we want mutually insured destruction. if anyone uses a nuclear weapon, it guarantees their te instruction of their own society. that has kept the peace since world war ii. >> leland: i remember that 60 minutes went down in the bunkers and they were launching icbm with floppy disk. i mean the big ones that are five and half and still used dos on their computer and blast and a big scandal within the air force and minutemen launch syste...

Using an 8-inch floppy disk. >> where do you buy a floppy disk? i can't imagine what the price is now. and so that's the big threat is this slow, grinding, lower quality, higher cost set of services. >> reporter: the cost of caring for such ancient equipment is now so high the feds don't have much money left over for anything else. among the biggest spenders on i.t., hhs at $13 billion a year, dhs at more than $6 billion a year and the va at nearly $4.5 billion a year. >> the federal government spends almost $90 billion a year on information technology and almost 80% of that is spent on operat...

Using an 8-inch floppy disk. >> where do you buy a floppy disk? i can't imagine what the price is now. and so that's the big threat is this slow, grinding, lower quality, higher cost set of services. >> reporter: the cost of caring for such ancient equipment is now so high the feds don't have much money left over for anything else. among the biggest spenders on i.t., hhs at $13 billion a year, dhs at more than $6 billion a year and the va at nearly $4.5 billion a year. >> the federal government spends almost $90 billion a year on information technology and almost 80% of that is spent on operat...