>> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. and welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm natalie allen live from atlanta. updating you on the major breaking news, u.s. president trump's medical team is cautiously optimistic, their words, but warns that he is not out of the woods yet. as he spends a second night in the hospital battling coronavirus. earlier he posted this video. >> i'm starting to feel good. you don't know over the next period of a few days i guess that's the real test, so i guess we'll be seeing what happens over those next couple of days. >> his doctor later said he's

made substantial progress since his diagnosis. the doctor adding that the president spent a lot of saturday conducting business. the white house releasing some videos -- photos of that. but a source told reporters the previous 24 hours were not so positive, that the president's vital signs were, quote, very concerning and tat the next 48 hours will be critical. "the new york times" and associated press said that source was white house chief of staff mark meadows. later saturday meadows called into fox news and painted a somewhat more optimistic picture. >> the doctor is exactly right. he is doing extremely well. in fact, i'm very, very optimistic based on the current results. and as the doctor said, he's not out of the woods. the next 48 hours or so with the history of this virus we know can be tough. but he's made unbelievable

improvements from yesterday morning when i know a number of us, the doctor and i were very concerned. >> doctors say the president is getting remdesivir for five days. a source close to the white house added that trump definitely has had supplemental oxygen, although his doctor was evasive when asked about it. >> has he ever been on supplemental oxygen? >> right now he is not on oxygen -- >> i know you keep saying right now, but should we read into the fact -- >> yesterday and today he was not on oxygen. >> so he's not been on it during his covid treatment? >> he's not on oxygen right now. >> at that same briefing dr. conley created a lot of confusion about how long it had been since the president was diagnosed. he later released a statement saying that he misspoke about the timing and tried to cleanup his mistake. one former white house medical advisor ripped conley for

offering so few details. >> if you go out there wearing a white coat you are a medical doctor not a spin doctor. and what we saw today was just spin. >> meantime another person in the president's orbit has been infected. nicholas luna is one of trump's personal assistant and was frequently in close contact with him. he is just the latest of several trump aides, advisers and allies to test positive this week. a senior official in the administration tells cnn many of those infections likely can be traced to the rose garden ceremony last week at the white house where the president announced his supreme court pick. there was no social distancing and not everyone wore masks at that event. several attendees have tested positive. cnn's sarah westwood is now joining us from walter reed medical center in bethesda, maryland, and hello to you, sarah. are we learning anything more

about the president and how he's doing? >> reporter: well, hello, natalie. and the latest on the president's condition comes from a memo that the president's physician released this evening saying that he's made substantial progress since he was diagnosed with covid-19, and that he received his second dose of remdesivir today. he was fever-free heading into this evening. but as you mention there was a lot of confusion and mixed messages from this white house today, and that started with a briefing that dr. sean conley, the president's physician held. this morning around 11:00 a.m. with reporters here at walter reed he painted a really rosy picture of how the president was doing today and was upbeat about the president's prospects. but moments later a source told reporters at walter reed that the president had had very concerning symptoms over the past 24 hours leading up to his hospitalization here. ando it wasn't quite clear where exactly the president's condition was. another point of confusion came around the time line.

dr. sean conley used terms like 72 hours to describe when the president first learned of his diagnosis and began treatment. but that conflicted with earlier statements that the white house had released about the time line of the president's illness. later conley was forced to issue another statement where he clarified what he had said about the time line. so just a lot of confusion from this white house about the president's condition today. and all that comes as the white house medical unit is continuing to task aides and advisers and that stem from that september 26th event in the rose garden. it's believed that this outbreak that has sickened the president and so many of his advisers began there. nicholas luna, the president's body man and director of oval office operations is the latest to test positive, but that outbreak has included the campaign manager bill steppian. members of the president's debate team like kellyanne

conway, chris christie and also three republican senators at this point, natalie. >> and we don't know if there will be more from that event who test positive. thank you sarah westwood for us at walter reed hospital. let's talk more about the president's condition with a family physician and national consultant. he joins me now live from hawaii. hello, doctor. thanks for coming on. >> thank you, natalie. how are you tonight? >> i'm well, thank you for asking. the president, though, now spending a second night at walter reed. he says he'll know in a couple of days how he's doing. as we just heard it's kind of tricky to know exactly how he's faring since the doctor has not been that forthcoming with details. what do you make from what you're hearing about it? >> well, i think what we know about the disease, there's still many days before we're going to know for sure. the average number of days

before someone is admitted to the intensive care unit after the on set of the disease is 10 to 12 days. so the way this disease destroys the lung tissue over time, that lung destruction will lead to shortness of breath, decreased oxygenation, and that's why the questions being asked about is he on oxygen or not, those are very important because that is sign there is worsening damage to the lung tissues, so he's far from being out of the woods right now. >> right, and we now know that his chief of staff said that his vital signs were very concerning. what does that tell you? >> well, again, when we look at one thing we follow closely it's what's called the oxygen saturation. it's that little monitor put on your finger and tells you how much oxygen you're getting into your blood stream. also you look at the heart rate because as you're struggling for oxygen your heart rate will go up, and the oxygen level will drop. and that can happen -- it's very common we'll see in 36 hours

people will go from normal oxygenation to being on a ventilator or to being in serious condition in the icu. so there's often to not a long period of time before someone will just be compromised. >> what does it indicate to you also, doctor, that the president is on a five day course of remdesivir? >> that's probably fairly standard. we'll see that going on. remember remdesivir, people have got the flu, they've been put on tammy flu. that's just a standard anti-viral. so that doesn't really scare us. i think most of us really raised our eyebrows when we knew he was put on the regeneron treatment which was very experimental and only, what, 275 patients had ever received it. and a lot of us were like, really, i mean i would not give it to my family. so to be that experimental and be getting it is something we all looked at. >> you have diagnosed and followed some 3,000 covid

positive patients who have recovered. assuming the president recovers, what will his recovery look like? what can he expect? >> you know, that is question i think the country needs to start addressing because the number one thing we're seeing in post-covid patients who are hospitalized is extreme fatigue. so over half of them are having extreme fatigue. the second thing we're startering to see shortness of breath where he probably is not going to be able to walk that easily from the rose garden to his helicopter. here's one that bothers me a lot. we're starting to see upwards of a quarter degree or so of memory loss and also have some type of confusion. they'll have mood disturbances and sleep disturbances. that is something i think as a country we have to understand our commander in chief is experiencing these very common symptoms that we're seeing across the world. what do we do?

>> and we know that he has conditions that could contribute to his recovery. his age is a factor, his heart and his obesity. >> yes, i mean a lot of us as soon as he was diagnosed had put together you know, our expert opinions and i think consensus is that someone at his age with those conditions had at least and still has at least an 8% mortality from this. and with those three conditions that we know of, let's put it that way, he would be in that 8% possibly even up to 10% or more depending on how he would change during this condition of recovery. and again, oxygenation is key. the other one that we haven't talked about is there are a lot of neurlologic events. there are damages to the brain that we call microthrombosis, and memory lapses can occur and that can lead to memory changes

or even small strokes. there's so many possible problems that can occur at this stage. we just don't know. >> i want to ask you and refer back to the thousands of people you've treated and you've seen with positive cases. and i'm sure many of those folks didn't think they were going to get covid, took precautions, maybe some didn't. and how do you think this president might be changed emotionally after going through this? and we certainly know that he did a lot of disregarding the coronavirus leading up to him getting it. >> you know, again, that's a great question because one of the things we're looking in the covid recovery patients is just their emotional status. and there is a lot of depression. and we're finding that people if they've been in the hospital for a period of time they might have some ptsd because it is a near death experience, and it is a experience that affects you psychologically. now, how our president is

affected. he's obviously a different person than a lot of normal people, how he'll be behind the scenes versus to the public that's hard to say. i also wonder as his wife has the disease at the same time as a couple, gosh, that's going to present some real interesting challenges in relationship, emotions and how you respond to others. hopefully the white house has woken up and takes their security for wearing masks and doing testing a lot more seriously right now. >> we certainly hope so. thank you so much for your time and your expertise, dr. scott, and thank you for what you do for all of us. >> thank you for having me. >> we are just a month away from the u.s. presidential election and with donald trump's guideline by his coronavirus diagnosis we wanted to find out what voters thought of his handling of the pandemic. here's what a few have had to

say. >> did the president's handling of coronavirus influence your vote this year? >> it sure did. this has been poorly handled and a lot of it could have been eliminated. >> he has been denying the whole science behind coronavirus, and so i hope this is wakeup call for him. >> it's a very contagious disease. i figured at some point with all the protections he would caught it. >> blaming him for all the deaths is ridiculous. this is something we've never experienced before, ever. >> joining me now is julie norman, a lecturer in politics at university college london. good morning to you, professor, and thanks for coming on. >> good morning, natalie. >> we're hearing from voters about what they think about president trump getting covid, and it certainly depends on whom you ask. how do you think the news may in general affect how people vote on the election day?

>> well, natalie, i don't think the news itself will affect voters choices. it won't really change many minds. for most of trump's supporters they will probably see this as somewhat inevitable from the president being out on the campaign trail. and the white house is -- you're being very strategic in trump being a warrior pulling through this. so as long as the president does recover fully this week i think most of his supporters will see him as that type of warrior figure. while meanwhile democrats, of course, many will see this as something they might have seen coming given the president's response tuesday the virus in the past, really underscoring the need to have someone in the white house who takes the virus seriously and also for many democrats really bringing health care to the forefront of the campaign. seeing the kind of care that the president has had rightfully so, but trying to emphasize that other voters should also have

care at this time. >> it's really unbelievable that one month before an election the president of the united states falls ill and is in the hospital. the question is i mean voting is underway already. how this campaign looks from here. how does this campaign go on from here? >> well, that's exactly right. even if this news doesn't shift many voters' opinions, it's definitely going to change the campaigns in terms of their shape in this crucial month going forward. trump will need to be canceling many of the in-person events and rallies that he had planned. these are situations in which he thrives and does quite well usually with his base and probably will be sending surrogates instead such as his children or vice president mike pence. but this will affect the biden campaign also. we've already seen over the last few days that the biden campaign has chosen to remove most negative ads.

they have also canceled at least one event, they need to be playing this somewhat carefully in the sense of keeping biden's momentum going but not look like they're exploiting this moment and of course keeping the public health concerns in mind as well. this also, of course, there was the future debates into question especially the second debate. that will be coming up on october 15th. and that will certainly have a different format if it goes ahead. >> right, taking it day by day right now to be sure. it'll be interesting to see how the president being ill affects partisanship we've seen over this pandemic as well. and i also want to ask you, though, how his illness and others illness in his circle affect the critical issues like the stimulus bill and the confirmation process for the supreme court. >> absolutely. so, again, this news is affecting pretty much everything right now. the president's own diagnosis, of course, but the fact that

many others in the upper levels of government, several senators including several senators on the judiciary committee have also tested positive as well as many staff in the white house. so we expect that this will probably delay at least by several days the confirmation hearing for amy coney barrett, for the supreme court nomination in the senate. right now we're hearing from mitch mcconnell that that schedule is still on track. the judiciary committee will be holding hearings with members calling in virtually if needed, so they are trying to keep that on track. but it will be difficult for that to move ahead if the virus continues to spread as many predict it will poong that level of government. and like wise for the stimulus bill as well, there was already momentum building behind that to try and get something through. with the president's condition as well as markets falling on friday in response to the uncertainty around his condition there's certainly an extra pressure on congress to get that

through this week. >> one more for you, professor. you know, this president has been considered a bully. you mentioned biden's ads. he took off his attack ads. the trump campaign is not doing that. but do you think we may find a softer, gentler president trump when he recovers from this? what impact it might have on his emotions and his outlook on life? >> as we heard coming something out of covid-19 can certainly affect individuals in different way, and it'll be interesting to see how this affects trump and how this affects his messaging in particular around the virus. of course he has spent the last six months really down-playing its threat. now obviously many taking it seriously, seeing his condition and even if the president doesn't change his own messaging again this is something that has

a also affected his staff, his campaign workers, and even if some of the visuals and optics change with more people wearing masks, more people social distancing within the white house or at his events that could be a silver lining to all this, and just tampering down some of the real polarization, hyper-partisanism arn this virus. >> we'll wait and see and hope the first lady recovers well in this ordeal, too. it's hard to believe they're both going through it. thank you so much. we appreciate your insights. >> thank, natalie. the president's positive coronavirus diagnosis is sending shock waves through the political scene in the u.s. we're going to talk more about the biden campaign and how it's being affected right after this. ♪

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last saturday president trump held a ceremony at the white house rose garden to announce his nomination for supreme court. she was there with her family. dr. sanjay gupta shows us how this event became dangerous. >> reporter: what you're looking at is the origins of a likely super spreader event. at least eight people including president donald trump himself are now infected, and that is among those who have had the ability to actually get tested. you can't see the virus, but what is happening during a super spreading event? >> it's a very rough analogy, but if we think of a camp fire and say that's a person who is infected and releasing virus, it's not like it's the ring around the person that is actually going to be the risk. it's those that are on the side where more of the virus is being projected either talking or the breeze, the air that's blowing it there. >> reporter: but it was also these moments that caught cnn

medical analyst aaron bromoge's eye. >> when they're all finished and coming up and shaking hands and saying congratulations, that's where if i was a betting person i'd be putting my money on where this occurred. >> reporter: we know that the safety protocol for the event was to test anyone in close proximity to the president. but it wasn't required for everyone attending the ceremony, and it clearly wasn't full proof. again, take a look here where the people diagnosed as positive were sitting. not next to each other. which leads us to, again, look at what happened right before and right after. former white house counsel kellyanne conway closely leaning in to speak with attorney general william barr. lots of people closely interacting with their guard down. it can be difficult to pinpoint these super spreader events. this one ceremony, though, is giving us a look at the anatomy of how it happens all the time, not just here but anytime people aggregate together in large

groups in the middle of a pandemic. >> there's no doubt there's been transmission at the protests, the political rallies. it's just a fact the virus doesn't discriminate. just because we haven't documented it doesn't mean it hasn't happened. it just means we've got an event now very visible, well documented, well tested and we're seeing the outcome from it. >> also keep in mind as you heard it's usually not just the event itself but sometimes people get together before the event, a pre-event. sometimes they get together after an event closely clustered together in smaller settings. that's something the contact tracers have to look at as well, what's tying people together that's tested positive? it's also important to note the answer to this question. when was the president's last negative test? why is that important? because we know that he was -- we got a positive test on friday, but when was his exact

exposure? we also know he developed symptoms on friday, but usually if you look at this time line here you'll see that at the bottom you learn that the people are usually most contagious two or three days before they develop symptoms. so if you develop symptoms on thursday or friday you're talking about wednesday, tuesday, possibly even monday where the president may have been most contagious. who did he come in contact with then? it's a big job contact tracing all those people, but that's what's happening right now. >> sanjay gupta for us there. the number of people around the u.s. president who have become infected with covid-19 is raising new concerns about the potential spread of the virus onboard air force one. why experts are concerned about the presidential plane. that's coming up. also the virus isn't just spreading at the white house but on capitol hill as well. why this could hurt president trump's chances of getting his supreme court pick confirmed

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welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm natalie allen. you're watching "cnn newsroom" live from atlanta. u.s. president trump is spending his second night at walter reed medical center battling the coronavirus. his doctor says mr. trump is not out of the woods yet. but that he's made substantial progress. the president tweeted video messages saturday saying he feels much better. earlier in the day a source told reporters the next 48 hours will be critical. "the new york times" and

associated press say that source was white house chief of staff mark meadows seen here. he later seemed to contradict himself saying in a tv interview that he's very, very optimistic about the president's recovery. coronavirus is also putting president trump's plan for the supreme court under threat. three republican senators have now tested positive for covid-19, that could potentially delay the confirmation of mr. trump's pick, judge amy coney barrett. cnn's phil mattingly explains what happens next. >> it's not just the white house that is grappling with kind of the magnitude of this moment, the president testing positive for coronavirus. it's also here on capitol hill where now three republican senators have also tested positive for coronavirus. obviously the public health issues there trying to figure out, one, how those senators intereare going to deal with it. there's also the question what

happens next on a massive issue, the nomination of amy coney barrett to join the supreme court. republicans made very clear they're working on a compressed timetable. they want her confirmed before the election. in fact, hearings were already scheduled. two of the republican senators, tom tillis, mike lee, they're on the senate judiciary committee. they'll need to be present if the committee is likely to vote on that nomination. so the big question now is two fold. one, will those senators who tested positive be okay in time, be able to come back in time to consider that nomination? i think this is what unsettles everybody on the republican side of things is anyone else going to get sick? right now they don't have answers to those questions. while they've made very clear they want to move forward on the nomination, that answer could change that calculation. phil mattingly, cnn, capitol hill. now that president trump and

several others have tested positive for covid-19 democratic nominee joe biden will get tested more often. that's what our sources are telling us. the nominee himself says he does not want to attack the president and first lady but that he would have handled the pandemic fundamentally differently. >> for so long washington left our state, cities and transit agencies to bid against one another. if that's not the president's responsibility, what the heck is his responsibility? not my fault, i have no responsibility. go to your mayor, your governor, your employer. it's unconscionable. >> cnn's arlette saenz is following the biden campaign for us. >> reporter: joe biden is moving forward with his in person campaigning and officials say will be tested more regularly for coronavirus. this follows the news that president trump tested positive for coronavirus as well as several other people in his orbit. now, the biden campaign says that they will release the

results of the test each time he is tested. biden last received his last negative test results on friday and told reporters that while he wasn't tested on saturday he will be tested for coronavirus on sunday morning. now, the biden campaign had always adhered to social distancing and safety standards at his campaign events. officials believe that the way they've structured these events have promoted health and safety not just for their candidates but also those involved in the events and the general public. biden is always wearing a mask when he's at these events and they have people at social distances from each other and him. and those are protocols that they plan to move forward with as he continues to campaign in person. on monday biden is heading to south florida, and on thursday he will travel to arizona. his first visit to the battleground state, and his running mate kamala harris will also be joining him. kamala harris is set to face-off against vice president mike

pence in their first debate on wednesday. and we're learning there have been some changes to the way that debate will play out. the two candidates will be seated down for that debate, and originally were only slated to be seated 7 feet apart. they will now be 12 feet apart from each other as this debate plays out. we've also learned that masks will be required for everyone in that debate hall except for the two candidates and moderators. this follows tuesday night's presidential debate when many in the audience on the trump side were not wearing masks. but going forward anyone who is in that debate hall must wear a mask, and if they fail to do so they will be asked to leave. just one of the many changes that is occurring in this campaign due to the coronavirus pandemic. arlette saenz, cnn, delaware. the next debate will be between vice presidential nominee kamala harris and vice president mike pence. cnn special coverage beginning

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>> reporter: air force one, a symbol of presidential power around the world. now the question is whether or not how key it was to spreading this virus to the white house and to key members of the administration including the president. we know from administration officials that hope hicks got onboard air force one wednesday night flying back from the president's rally in duluth and began showing coronavirus symptoms onboard and was put in a separate cabin. air force one is different than most airplanes that you and i fly on about 4,000 square feet says the white house with the president's cabin in the nose, a conference corner in the wings and the president's back. those who study the threat of the virus especially in the confined space of an airplane says there's no way hicks could have been truly separated from everybody else onboard. and those who have flown on air force one say there's no way that the president could not have known about this. here's what they had to say. >> i traveled on air force one. it is a larger plane than

others, but it is not a huge space. the notion that hope hicks would be quarantined on air force one and that the president wouldn't be made aware of that situation is really suspect to me. at the same time white house physician staff travel on air force one, they would ostensibly update the white house chief of staff. >> reporter: researchers stress to me flying on an airplane right now is relatively safe so long as you're wearing a mask. commercial airlines have mandated that. apparently no such mandate on air force one. we've seen hicks and the president both boarding the airplane without wearing a mask, which brings into question a whole other layer of the story, whether those who operate air force one could have been endangered. that could create a whole new security risk. the 89th airlift wing out of giant base andrews says it's following cdc protocols. it's not said whether any air men have tested positive for the virus. but our own national security

analysts say it needs to be ready. it is a flying white house like we've seen right after 9/11. pete muntean, cnn, wash. throughout history many presidents and aides and their supporters have tried to hide illnesses from the american public and the news media. since president trump's coronavirus diagnosis reporters and the public have had to piece together confusing information about mr. trump's condition. there was a time when reporters willingly went along when asked not to publish details about a president's declining health. a presidential historian spoke to cnn earlier about trust andtranand transparency particularly with this president. >> the rationale is the public will panic, we can't do it. i mean, look at cleveland, having a secret surgery for jaw

cancer in the middle of a recession they figured oh, my gosh, the stock market will go down so we can't let the public know. so he's on a french yacht and has his jaw removed and we don't know about it then. he's trying to persuade the country to do the league of nations and has a severe struck, so they don't tell the public. that's not regarded well for wilson or his administration at the time. fdr in the middle of world war ii is diagnosed by a young cardiologist with severe congestive heart failure and the he goes out the personal doctor does and says it's just withdra bronchitis, he'll be fine. and they can trust the people that are telling them what they're not supposed to know. >> i know you said trust in the president's word is critical and timetables are the spine of history. given that i'm wondering what you make of what we've seen in

just the last two days or three days? >> well, the conflicting timetables i think is minuscule example of the fact we've lost in many ways trust in the president's word. and it's the most important thing a president has. a president is the person that has to tell us that we need to go to battle why it's important to do so. roosevelt, fdr had to tell people while race rationing was essential in world war ii. if you don't believe even the timetable of what's happened who knows what when is what history is always about. and the fact we've had a conflicting timetable now just raises the larger question of what it was that president trump knew back in february about the seriousness of the virus but didn't think the public could hear it, thought again the public would panic. it's the same thing all over again. >> doris concerns goodwin always has semuch knowledge. the u.s. president isn't the only world leader to have gotten

infected. he joins a small group of presidents, prime ministers and other leaders who have caught the virus. some of them like mr. trump spent a lot of time downplaying it. cnn's nick robertson shows us. >> i've taken a test. that has come out positive. >> reporter: when boris johnson tested positive for covid-19 late march there was little surprise. but the lessons of his infection are worth reviewing. >> i shook hands with everybody. >> reporter: for weeks before his positive test johnson seemed slow to acknowledge covid's dangers. other government ministers got it, too. but as they recovered johnson got worse. nine days after his positive test he was taken to the hospital. shocking the nation when she was moved into icu. >> i've today left hospital after a week in which the nhs has saved my life, no question.

thank you from me, from all of us. >> reporter: by contrast brazil's president bauolsanaro barely seemed phased when he got covid-19 this summer. overall he loudly played down its dangers. his resilience reinforced its messaging. it won his a brief popularity boost, the nation willing him well again. but within weeks of leaving hospital his ratings plummeted back as the nation's pandemic problems persisted. the other big take-aways from his brush with death was the rosy optimism on his office's pronouncements on his health and his struggle to get back to full strength. 56 years old and overweight johnson took two weeks off after leaving hospital. his much younger pregnant partner carrie simmons says she

had covid symptoms, too, bounced back more readily, soon having a son. the couple naming their child after the doctor johnson credits with saving his life. >> i start the day by going for a run with the dog -- >> reporter: johnson took up jogging, shedding some of his excess weight. covid's lasting impact on him and the nation a push to get fitter, to aid survival and hold the pandemic as bay. nick robertson, cnn, london. >> and it's not just politicians as you know. one of the top football stars in the united states positive for coronavirus. when we come back, what that means for nfl games this weekend and beyond. ♪ ♪dy-na-na-na, na-na, na-na, eh♪ ♪dy-na-na-na, na-na, na-na, eh♪ ♪dy-na-na-na, na-na, na-na, eh♪ ♪light it up, dynamite ♪shining through the city with a little funk and soul♪ ♪so i'ma light it up like dynamite♪

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. we've got new numbers on the spread of the coronavirus, and it's certainly discouraging. for example, france reported a new daily record saturday, with nearly 17,000 cases in a 24-how much period.

that's over the previous record set over a week ago. the united kingdom reported 12 dhourks 12,800 cases. those cases more than doubled the uk's seven-day average. the government says it has resolved the technical ish ucsu. the unit on saturday, the state of california surpassed 16,000 total deaths from coronavirus. the department of health reported 88 new deaths. new york is ramping up testing and conducted a record high number of covid tests friday and reported six deaths on saturday. officials in the state of kentucky reported the highest number of new cases for that state sense the pandemic began. and a record high case count in

wisconsin as well. a university of washington researcher talked with anderson cooper earlier, and he delivered shocking news. his research institute predicts there could be 2900 covid-19 deaths per day in the u.s. in december. it's a potential reality, he says, americans can avoid. >> we have a tremendous amount, you know, we, the american people, have a tremendous amount of control over what actually happens by how we behave, how much risk we take in terms of interacting with others and most importantly wearing a mask. and that can make a huge difference. >> right. your latest model predicts 363,000 u.s. deaths by the end of december. do you know if masks were worn what that, how many lives could be saved by december? >> yes, we, you know, given what we know about the effectiveness

of masks and given what we know about half of americans wearing a mask when they're out, we think that about 86,000 lives could be saved if we could get mask use way up. so it's very much in our control as to what's actually going to happen. >> so, this is so important, so you're saying, 86,000 lives could be saved in the next several months if people wore masks. and you said get way up. what percentage of the population would you need to wear masks to save 86,000 lives? >> well, we've got to get up to the level in places that we see like singapore, that's 95% of the population wearing a mask when they're in a setting where they're at risk of transmission, out of the home in any indoor setting or even outdoors when you come in close distance of other people. >> and you think what percentage of the population is wearing masks? about half? >> we're just under 50% are

wearing masks in those settings. >> wow. so less than half of america is wearing masks in settings that they should. >> absolutely. >> wow. >> we continue to see the impact of the ongoing global pandemic on the sports world. now the new england patriots' quarterback, cam newton, has tested positive for covid-19, according to the nfl network and espn. the patriots were scheduled to play the kansas chiefs sunday but the nfl decided to postpone the game after players on both teams tested positive. they hope to play either monday or tuesday. this will be the second game their week that has been postponed due to the coronavirus. on friday, the league rescheduled sunday's tennessee titans and pittsburgh steelers game for october 25th. lots of shuffling around to be sure. thanks for watching this hour, i'm natalie allen. new developments in president

trump's battle with coronavirus, i'll be back with the latest news.

this is cnn breaking news. >> and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world, i'm natalie allen coming to you live from atlanta. the u.s. president right now is spending a second night hospitalized amid conflicting reports about his condition. donald trump's medical team says it is, quote, cautiously optimistic, but also admits he's not out of danger. on saturday evening, mr. trump posted this video from walter reed medical center. >> i'm starting to feel good. you d