president trump is cleared for the campaign trail by his doctor but we still don't know when he last received a negative co-vid test. and suggestions the united states could be in for a catastrophic winter with the death toll closing in on 400,000 by february. and it isn't just the u.s. paris has a record number of daily cases hit france. live from cnn world head quarters, welcome to our viewers in the united states, canada and around the world. this is "cnn news room".

>> u.s. president donald trump has received the all clear from his doctor and his bout with covid-19. it was just last weekend that the president was in the hospital. on saturday he reappeared to tell people falsely the coronavirus was disappearing. >> through the power of the american spirit, i think, more than anything else, science, medicine will eradicate the china virus once and for all. we'll get rid of it all over the world. you'll see fairups in canada. you saw that today. a lot of flareups, but it's going to disappear. it is disappearing. and vaccines are going to help and therapeutics are going to help a lot. >> and soon after that event the president's doctor released him from isolation saying he no

longer appeared contagious, but the doctor's cheery note left unanswered questions about the president's health after a serious disease. we get the details now from jeremy diamond. >> reporter: the president's physician doctor sean conley is clearing him for return to public activities. the doctor writing in a memo released saturday night the president is no longer considered a risk of transmission for the this coronavirus to others. let me read you a part of this memo from the doctor where he writes this evening i am happy to report that in addition to the president meeting cdc criteria for the safe discontinuation of isolation, this morning's co-vid pcr sample demonstrates by currently recognized standards he's no longer considered a transmission risk to others. now, at day ten from symptom onset, fever free for well over 24 hours, and all symptoms improved, the assortment of advanced diagnostic tests

revealed there is no longer evidence of actively replicating virus. and dr. conley goes onto say he'll continue to monitor the president's health as he returns to a more active schedule. president trump didn't wait for this memo before holding an event on the south lawn of the white house on saturday. the president did stay at a distance from the several hundred people who attended this event on the south lawn of the white house, but those folks while they were mostly wearing masks, they were also not observing any social distancing. packed quite closely together just two weeks after the event in the rose garden of the white house that is now considered a super spreader event. and perhaps the origin point for many of the positive coronavirus tests that we have since seen at the white house. president trump needed this memo in order to get more public confidence in his return to an active schedule. and that is exactly what he's going to be doing this coming week. the president hitting three battle ground states florida, pennsylvania and iowa this coming week.

jeremy diamond, cnn, the white house. a new co-vid projection is giving the united states a grim wakeup call. the model is based on current conditions and as you can tell, most states are seeing an increase in cases compared to a week ago. johns hopkins university puts the number of u.s. coronavirus deaths now at more than 214,000. the university of washington model projects an enormous increase to more than 394,000 covid-19 deaths by february 1st. the model also says if social distancing mandates are relaxed, that number could easily surpass half a million. but that same model predicts if almost in the u.s. wore masks tens of thousands of lives could be saved. president trump may insist the coronavirus is disappearing, but he's not a doctor or nurse on the frontlines of this pandemic. listen to what this emergency room physician told erica hill. >> myself, i'm an er doc, and my

colleagues across the country, we are all seeing increasing numbers of covid-19 patients who are coming into our ers, getting really sick, requiring hospitalization and even intensive care. we did see those spikes in numbers about a month ago that were largely younger people going back to college. what we're seeing now is it's starting to spread within the community and we're all deeply afraid this is the beginning of that dreaded second wave. we still don't have adequate personal protective equipment for physicians and nurses on the frontlines across the country. we still don't have adequate testing supplies and as we've just discussed, we still don't have a cure. >> the current case count in the u.s. is more than 7.7 million cases since march. of course, that's a staggering figure, but a former head of the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention says the actual number is likely five times higher. a doctor speaking earlier at a

cnn town hall says that's why so many americans have died. >> the death rate is a fact. it's a tragedy. we need not to get hardened to the reality that these are health care workers, these are mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters. and it's going on every day. we are having 1,000 more deaths. the next month we're going to have 20,000 more deaths in the u.s. but we can turn this around if we understand that it's a matter of learning how to do one thing right which is all of the science. be guided by the facts. tell people when what we know when we know it. work together. recognize we are all connected. you may not get sick at all from this. but you may spread it to someone who then dies or spreads it to someone else who dies. that's why we all have to recognize we're in this together. there's only one enemy, and that's the virus. in that panel there, a doctor also used to head the cdc

and she told the cnn town hall mixed messages from public officials are undermining american's confidence in an eventual vaccine. >> americans can tolerate really tough truth, but it has to come from reliable and credible sources. and i think the other thing is consistency. one of the reasons that we have so much anxiety among the americans is because they're hearing different things from different political leaders. we haven't consolidated and cascaded the messages from reliable sources. we kind of have a free for all where even can invent their own interpretation of the trout. if we want people to have trust in the vaccines, we have to tell them what we're doing and why and explain how we're managing the safety and efficacy evaluation and prepare them for whatever side effects we might realistically expect to occur, and then we have to keep them informed as we go forward.

>> let's bring in a family physician in hawaii and expert on coronavirus testing. thank you so much for being with us again. let's start with the memo from the president's doctor. we saw -- he said mr. trump is, quote, no longer considered a transmission risk to others. the doctor cited the results of a co-vid pcr sample as well as an mrna test. what he said was ambiguous at best. what do you make of it? >> i would say i agree, kim. now, they are following guidelines with cdc to say that if you're ten days into the diagnosis and one day after no symptoms, no fever, you can be released. so we don't go with the 14-day mark anymore. it can be ten days plus one if there are no symptoms. now, what most of us are raising our eyebrows at is the pcr. the pcr is so sensitive, if you

read the cdc guidelines, you are not supposed to repeat a pcr for 90 days after the initial diagnosis because it's so sensitive. it's almost always positive for at least three weeks, probably even up to 45. many patients we have are positive for 90 days after they have it. >> so what about the mrna test? does that give us more clues, then? >> you know, i think they're being ambiguous as you stated. that does not give you the information for you to say that the president is not a transmission risk. the other thing is the test is not used broadly. it's not used by the cdc. it's not used by a standard state. so to use that as the definition of why he's not a transmission risk, i don't think any of us would be really looking at that as valid. >> all right. so if you were in the audience where he was, he wouldn't

necessarily be confident he wouldn't be transmitting. he did give a speech yesterday. he's going to hold rallies. he has a fairly taxing campaign schedule. what's the chance of a relapse, and the situation perhaps getting much worse based on what you've seen this patients, especially ones who are older? >> i think he's faired quite well, and watching some of the clips of him and looking at the way he's moving and breathing, remember, he would have a lot of shortness of breath and fatigue. i think he's recovered quite well. so the chance that he's going to have a relapse at this stage most of us would feel is quite low. does he have any other side effects of symptoms we're not aware of? he's not showing us that he does, but, again, you know, i would be looking for hopefully at these rallies that people would be heeding the advice of wearing masks and social distancing, because we all have to lead by example with that. hopefully we'll see that from

the rest of the people in the audience watching out for that. >> yeah. from what we've seen so far, that seems unlikely. in that address from the balcony, the president said it's going to disappear. it is disappearing which is what he said in february and as "the washington post" pointed out, more than 213,000 people have died since then. so obviously it's not disappearing. what's your sense of where the country is right now? >> the biggest issue we're worried about as earlier in your newscast, we talked about the projections from the university of washington which we all respect, is we're going into the winter season. we go indoors and don't have open windows. we have rooms where we're all sharing the same air. we are all very concerned after thanksgiving, christmas, new year's, that january and february will be devastating. so unless america really understands to wear the masks

even though you're home for the holidays, to do social distancing, to use the right ventilation, we could have a very, very serious first quarter of the next year. and we're all worried about that. >> all right. we'll be following this. thank you so much for speaking with us, doctor. thank you it. thank you. a top health official has a dire warning about the second wave of covid-19 in england. we'll go live to paris and london for the worrysomedetails. and in iraq a family finding new hope despite a war and devastating loss and the coronavirus. stay with us for that. three derm ingredients in one cream. don't settle for less. revitalift triple power with pro-retinol plus hyaluronic acid and vitamin c. it visibly reduces wrinkles. firms. and brightens. now that's triple power. revitalift triple power moisturizer from l'oreal. nyour happy place.power. find your breaking point.

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saturday reporting almost 58,00. a senior medical official warns england is at a tipping point. a repeat of the spring outbreak can be stopped but only if people act now. for more let's go to london as a top english medical official says as we said, the country is at a tipping point let's go to melissa bell first in paris. we said france set a new record and a new record set again today. >> that's right. it's the third time this week a fresh record has been set in france. more than 26,000 new cases announced on saturday night. and of course, that has all kinds of consequences look ahead the next couple weeks in terms of the number of people likely to be entering icu. already here in the greater

paris region 40% of icu bed rates. once we get to 60%, that's one of the main criteria for pushing paris into what would be referred to in france as a state of sanitary emergency. that would bring with it some form of partial lockdown. the numbers are extremely worrying, because they tend to indicate that over the course of the next couple weeks, this figure, the figure of people entering icu will continue to increase. in fact, according to to the projections of regional hospital services we will be meeting more than the 60% occupancy by the end of this month. so what we've seen in other countries already, for instance, in spain where the spanish capital is on a partial lockdown, i think this is something that is almost likely going to be considered here in france at some point, given the record rises this week, and

again, it is just a question of projecting one's self a couple weeks from now. >> worrying there. melissa bell in paris. let's go to selma in london. we're talking about restrictions in france. the uk pondering new restrictions as well. >> reporter: absolutely, kim. and this comes after a really worrying and confusing week across the country. we've just heard from one of the top scientists saying the country's reaching a tipping point and there will be more deaths in the coming weeks. decisive action needs to be taken. otherwise history will repeat itself, a reference to the pandemic in the spring. very worrying words. they are backed up by the data. we've had the number of cases nearly double in one week's time. you now have nearly a quarter million coronavirus cases across the country. there is a rise, a resurgence of the virus in the north of the country in particular where rates of hospitalizations are

increasing rapidly. you have a city like new castle up north where the university reported 1,000 confirmed cases. and as this week has unfolded, by and large the government of prime minister boris johnson has been silent, and they have drawn criticism for it. now on monday he is expected to address the house of commons and while we don't know the content of that announcement, according to leaked media reports, what the government is considering is a three tiered system. similar to what's happening in france. essentially cut up the country g geograph geographically, put each of the region at a level based on the number of cases. if an area is level three, extra restrictions will be imposed and those could include shutting down restaurants and bars, banning the mixing of households and potentially some sort of an economic relief package for the businesses that will have to close their doors. but all eyes now on prime minister boris johnson ice statement monday.

we keep hearing from experts from the british medical association, from the top scientists, the important thing to do now is to provide clear and simple instruction to the public to stem this rise in cases. kim? >> absolutely. all right. thank you so much, salma. well, india now has surpassed 7 million covid-19 cases. on sunday the country's health ministry reported more than 74,000 new cases. they also reported over 900 deaths bringing the death toll to more than 108,000. and india is now a close second to the u.s. in the number of cases globally. and then brazil has now surpassed 150,000 co-vid deaths. a total second only to the u.s. as you can see here, that didn't stop hoards of people from cramming into a department store saturday with a total disregard for social distancing. and that guy, that's the store owner. he's firing up the crowds.

he's a vocal supporter of the president who has down played the virus. affiliates, cnn brazil, says police ordered the store closed hours later. iran is mandating masks in its capital tehran as the country tries to curb a growing death toll from the coronavirus. iran's president announced on saturday that anyone who violates the mask mandate will be fined. more than 28,000 people have died from the virus in iran and the country's health ministry reported 195 new deaths on saturday along with almost 3900 new cases. iran is the worst hit country in the region and also struggling with an economy that's crippled by u.s. sanctions. cnn has been following the story of an iraqi woman through years of hardship as she endured sanctions, war and corruption and then after that she recently recovered from covid-19 with the help of her 19-year-old autistic

son. she toells arwa damon this pandemic has a lesson for all of us. >> didn't i tell you we shouldn't use black? it's sad. she gently reminds her son. the 19-year-old is autistic. he uses colors, not words, to communicate with depth of his anguish. she can sit next to him now. we assured him she's okay. after she and her husband contracted covid-19, he had to care for them. a reflection of just how dire the situation of hospitals is in europe. >> translator: my first thought was, what if he also catches it? i was scared. i was shaken. >> reporter: i'll never forget the first time we met shortly after her first husband was skilled in a car bomb in 2007. how she spoke in gentle tones about having to identify the love of her life from a

photograph of his teeth and a metal pin to his knee, his body was so charred and melted along with nine others. how she felt as if she was wearing a cloak of death, but life lost its color becoming black and white. her son was just six at the time. four years later she looked transformed. she spoke with pride about how he had just transferred out of a special needs school, that he still carried darkness inside because of the death of his father. a darkness that came out in his drawings. a cloud with rain painted over in black. >> translator: we've worked for years to get him away from the black of death, she says. corona brought the black back into his drawings. >> reporter: that in so many ways is the story of iraq.

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welcome back to you our viewers in the united states and around the world. president trump will be back out campaigning this week after being stricken with covid-19. his doctors issued a memo late saturday saying mr. trump no longer appeared to be contagious

and is safe to leave isolation. it's not known if he has tested negative for the virus. now, even before the doctor's announcement, hundreds of supporters crowded the white house lawn as the president made his first public appearance after leaving the hospital last monday. despite all evidence to the contrary, he told them the coronavirus was disappearing. now, while president trump rallies at the white house, democratic presidential nominee joe biden is out trying to win over independent voters and disaffected republicans. cnn's jessica dean followed biden on the campaign trail as he made his case to voters in the state where he was born, pennsylvania. >> former vice president joe biden campaigning in the critical battle ground state of pennsylvania on saturday. he traveled here to erie, pennsylvania. it's in a county that president trump won narrowly in 2016, and it is taylor-made for biden's economic message he's been

delivering to white working class voters in towns like erie, notably biden touring a train facility at a union hall before giving remarks that could be described as his bread and butter economic message. >> the top 100 billionaires in the middle of this pandemic, they made 300 billion additional dollars. hear me now. 100 individuals made one $300 billion this year. and what did the bottom half get? they got to slide down because the fact is the president can only see the world from park avenue. i see it from scranton. i see it from clay mont, for real. you all know what i'm talking about. you see it from erie. >> in the meantime, vice president biden's campaign reported that he underwent pcr testing, the gold standard co-vid test on saturday. and that test came back negative. the campaign has said that joe

biden will continue to be tested regularly and always when he travels. jessica dean, cnn, pennsylvania. well, the democratic presidential nominee is leading comfortably in national polls. that's in part thanks to scenes like this, senior citizens throwing their support behind joe biden rather than the republican. that's likely making president trump nervous and with good reason. look at the numbers here. a recent cnn poll conducted by ssrs finds that 60% of likely voters over the age of 65 plan to choose biden. now, joe biden is also touting his endorsements from across the political aisle as he tries to win over potential voters. his campaign on saturday unveiled the first television ad featuring cindy mccain, the widow of republican senator and war hero john mccain. she says biden's friendship with her late husband shows he can

unite the country. >> now more than ever we need a president who will put service before self. a president who will lead with courage and compassion. not ego. a president who will respect the sacrifices made by our service members and their families. a president who are honor our fallen heros and a president who will bring out the best in it, not the worst. >> the full minute long ad is running in arizona, a key battle ground state this election, and it will air nationally later. for more on all this, let's bring in thomas from oxford, director of the center for u.s. politics at university college london. thank you so much for joining us. as we just heard, joe biden campaigning in pennsylvania, courting some who voted for mr. trump in 2016. any evidence he's making headway? >> well, i think based on the polls, kim, biden does seem to

be effectively courting disaffected trump voters. that's essential if he wants to flip states from red to blue in 2020. case in point really is pennsylvania. that where biden is from and also my home state. and biden has been crisscrossing that state in recent days. in places like erie and gettysbu gettysburg. a poll shows biden holds a 13 percentage point lead in pennsylvania. trump won it in 2016 by less than a percentage point. i think key to converting the trump voters in parts of the rust belt is appealing not only to the rim counties of some of the major cities but also etch sizing the clear economic message in smaller towns predicated on trump's failures to deliver on his pledge to bring back blue collar jobs hit by globalization and automation. i think given national unemployment numbers that are still reeling from covid-19, biden has a real opportunity to flip some of the disillusioned trump voters with a pragmatic

message. >> and money helps as well. biden has been spending big in particular pouring money into states that once basically looked out of reach here in georgia, ohio, texas, iowa. i read according to advertising analytics that he'll double the president's spending. biden has a lot more money to spend. what are we to make of that fact and what effect could that have going into the last weeks of the campaign? >> in politics money definitely tends to follow the leader. that what we've seen with biden. he started with 466 million in cash reserves. that's roughly 14 1 million more than trump had. that's a really sharp reversal, i think, it should be said in the numbers compared to the beginning of the election season where it was trump's campaign team with the much bigger war chest. right now there's less than a month to go before the election, so both candidates are going to be going on spending sprees. i think there's evidence more evidence that how money is spent

is more crucial than how much money is spent. but the fact that biden can outspend trumps puts him at an advantage at reaching more voters and for sustained periods. the large donations that funneled to his campaign especially after trump's nomination of amy coney barrett for the supreme court give biden the resources to expand and solidify his ground game and also to pay for a barrage of ad buys. >> all right. let's turn to the president now. i'm interested in the crowd that the president had at his first public event since the diagnosis. it was made up mostly of black and latino people who were invited by an organization that wants to draw black and minority voters away from the democratic party. you know, the black vote always largely assumed to break almost exclusively for democrats but it might surprise people to hear that the president's support among african americans has grown since 2016, so any idea

why that is, and if it might have any effect on the race? >> well, i still think it's an uphill battle for trump in courting black voters. trump says black voters are embracing his projob and pro police agenda and rejecting what he calls a radical social agenda of the left. that's his words. he's trying to make the case that preco-vid unemployment rates among black persoamericane trending toward record lows. he says he's in a position to speak to kitchen table issues that black americans are grappling with. the problem for trump is any end roads he might be able to make with black voters are overwhoemed by his history of race baiting and his inability to condemn a white nationalist group and a general tendency to aggravate rather than heal racial divisions in the united states. i feel like a place where trump has been making more progress

than among the black vote is along latino voters. where you're seeing enthusiasm for the president that perhaps you didn't see in 2016. >> and that was thomas gift. a federal judge has denied the trump campaign and republican party's bid to make ballot drop boxes in pennsylvania unconstitutional. it's a major defeat for the trump team which sought to challenge several voting policies in the key swing state. the judge upheld policies which allow a voter's signature on mail-in signatures to daefuate a bit from the state. and the judge said poll workers must live in the county they will work in the state's attorney general called the ruling a win for voters and democracy. now, the judge who by the way was appointed by president trump also rejected the president's and republicans concerns about voter fraud. he said they failed to show that fraud is certainly impending.

democrats in the house and senate republicans are both blasting president trump's latest stimulus proposal but for different reasons. nancy pelosi calls the $1.8 trillion offer insufficient and one step forward two steps back. senate republicans are indicating they think it's too high. it almost ensures congress will not pass another stimulus package before election day. turning now to new zealand. people go to the polls to elect a new government in six days. it's the latest crucial test for prime minister jacinda ardern, but opposition parties are sharpening their attacks. >> reporter: fierce loyalty for jacinda ardern at her high school alma mater. the 40-year-old prime minister has led her country through

three once in a generation crises. >> we've had a terrorist attack, a natural disaster and a global pandemic, but in the tough times we've seen the best of us. >> reporter: now an election looms and ar den is running on her covid-19 record. a virus that killed over 1 million people around the world only claimed the lives of 25 new zealand ers. and now they are almost completely back to normal. a double digit hit to gdp and the question of how to behave for the recovery has given her opponent an opportunity. >> borrowed money. >> that is not -- >> national party leader judith collins said she would be a better steward of the economy, and people are listening including in the town where the prime minister grew up. >> well, i guess i would have to be proud of her. she's a pretty special person and very popular overseas, but

in the party we could probably wrap up and send her over there. >> reporter: the ruling labor party won't be banking on many votes from the nearly 8,000 people here in this town, a safe conservative seat many here say new environmental controls are too tough on farmers. and that ardern is loose with the country's pursestrings. >> the spending is too much. she's going to send the country broke. >> reporter: others who knew her say they understand what drives her. >> i think she's always had this bent that she needs to try to help people who have a tough life, to have a better life. i think we're seeing that in her politics today. >> reporter: not many countries are led by a relatively young woman from a modest background, but wlovr wins this election, new seeland's next prime minister will be a woman. >> this is extremely rare, but i

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it's dramatic. the ground is shaking beneath your feet as they pass by. experts are telling us this missile could potentially carry multiple warheads. only increasing the threat to the mainland united states despite dozens of letters exchanged by kim jong-un and our presiden president. this year things are different. the borders are closed due to covid-19. essentially shutting down trade in an already struggling economy batteried by international sanctions over the nuclear program. a widespread covid-19 pandemic inside north korea. and they have limited outdated medical resources. that would be catastrophic. i mean, this year we barely saw kim jong-un in public when compared to previous years. he disappears several times leading to speculation about his health. kim appeared to be in full form staged in the middle of the night with slick special

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