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frustration with coronavirus restrictions as cases across the continent surge. good to have you with us, it has been one week since u.s. president donald trump left walter reed medical center. now questions about his health and covid-19 status are following him back on to the campaign trail. he insists he's totally negative. those are his words, negative for the disease he suggests, and keeps down playing a virus that's killed nearly 215,000 americans. in a tweet, he even says he's immune. twitter flagged that as misleading and potentially harmful. the president made a similar statement sunday on fox news. take a listen. >> i have to tell you, i have

fantastically. i really feel good. i even feel good by the fact that, you know, the word immunity means something. having really a protective glow means something. i think it's very important to have that. >> the president is set to hold a campaign event later today in florida. this as he comes under fire for a misleading ad. cnn's jeremy diamond has details from washington. >> reporter: president trump is heading back to the campaign trail hitting a trio of battleground states, beginning today in florida. tomorrow the presidential is going to go to the battleground state of pennsylvania before heading to iowa on wednesday. now, president trump heading back on to the campaign trail after the president's physician says that he has recovered from the coronavirus. also saying that the president is no longer infectious. now, the president himself claimed that he had gotten a negative test for coronavirus. the president's physician, dr. sean conley didn't exactly

say that. instead, he said the president's latest molecular test for coronavirus is that he's no longer infectious. he did not say the president tested negative for the virus. the president and campaign are seizing on that letter to say that the second debate that had been cancelled by the commission on presidential debates after president trump withdrew from that second debate, the president's campaign are calling for that debate to be reinstated saying the president should be able to participate after he has been cleared by his doctor to resume public activity. another controversy is hitting the president and his team on sunday. dr. anthony fauci putting out a statement on cnn after the trump campaign aired this misleading ad. >> president trump is recovering from the coronavirus and so is america. together we rose to meet the challenge. president trump tackled the virus head on as leaders should.

>> i can't imagine that anybody could be doing more. >> now, dr. fauci saying in a statement to cnn, in my nearly five decades of public service i have never publicly endorsed a political candidate. the comments attributed to me without my permission in the gop campaign ad were taken out of context in a broad statement i made about the effort of public health officials. it is clear looking at the interview which was taped all the way back in march in the early months of this pandemic that dr. fauci was indeed referring to the members of the coronavirus task force and other public health officials, but nonetheless, the president and his campaign standing by the ad. the president noting that these are dr. fauci's own words. what is notable is that the president and his reelection campaign seem to realize that the president is getting bad marks on his handling of the coronavirus, nearly six in ten americans have said in recent polls they disapprove of the president's handling of the virus. and what's also clear is the

campaign is using dr. fauci's image and words because fauci is far more trusted by the public on the issue of the coronavirus than the president is himself. >> and that was cnn's jeremy diamond at the white house. democrats and republicans are gearing up for a political show down on capitol hill as confirmation hearings for president trump's supreme court nominee amy coney barrett are set to begin in the next few hours. senate republicans are moving forward to confirm barrett quickly despite some committee members testing positive for the coronavirus recently. >> anybody that has a concern about showing up can virtually interview judge barrett. she will be there. i will be there, and to my democratic colleagues, america has to go to work monday, including us. we're going to work. we're going to work safely. >> cnn's lauren fox has a preview of today's hearing.

>> reporter: the first day of hearings is going to be lawmakers getting to make their opening statements, as well as amy coney barrett the nominee making her opening statement which cnn has obtained. we expect she'll say quote there's a tendency in our profession to treat the practice of law as all consuming while losing sight of anyone else. i worked hard as a lawyer and as a professor. i owed that to my clients, my students, and myself, but i never let the law define by identity or crowd out the rest of my life. also looming over this hearing is going to be the fact that coronavirus is still very much a factor in these proceedings. remember, two lawmakers, both republicans on the judiciary committee tested positive for coronavirus just more than a week ago. those individuals, thom tillis of north carolina, as well as

senator mike lee of utah both tested positive, and while we know that tillis is expected to attend the hearings in person later this week, we still don't know whether or not senator mike lee will attend in person. it's critical whether or not they show up. because the top democrat in the senate chuck schumer told reporters that if those two members, and it has to be both of them being absent are not there on thursday, the day of a critical vote in the judiciary committee he will not provide the number of democrats a quorum. that could slow down the nomination process. while the first order of business is what lawmakers say in their opening statements, what amy coney barrett says in her opening statement on monday, it's also important to remember that the health of the individual members on this committee is going to be closely watched over the upcoming days. for cnn in washington i'm lauren

fox. new polling finding democratic presidential nominee joe biden well ahead of president trump nationally. biden is also leading or neck in neck with mr. trump in key battleground states. cbs news polls show biden favored 52 to 46 points over mr. trump in both michigan and in nevada. they are tied in iowa and with all eyes on the upcoming supreme court hearings, many are wondering about joe biden's plans for the court, should he get elected. cnn's arlette saenz has the deat a times. >> reporter: joe biden and his campaign deflect on whether the former vice president intends on adding more justices to the supreme court as republicans are seeking to turn this into a campaign issue, as hearings are about to begin for president

trump's nomination for the supreme court, amy coney barrett. the biden campaign on sunday again called this a distraction from the president and his allies. take a listen. >> this is a distraction they want to throw out, a hypothetical they want to throw out to distract from the fact that they are trying to ram through a nominee who is going to change the make up of the court against the little of the american people. they don't want to talk about that. they're trying to create a distraction, and send folks down a rabbit hole talking about this. >> reporter: joe biden said he opposed packing the suprecourt, there are no public indications that he has changed his position on that. he has said he will not answer until after election day. on monday, joe biden is heading to the battleground state of ohio where polls have recently shown that president trump and joe biden are locked in a tight race. just four years after president trump won ohio back in 2016.

and joe biden hoping to make this state more competitive heading into the november election. arlette saenz, cnn, washington. >> joining me now is cnn chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin, thank you so much for being with us. >> good to be here. >> so republican senator mike lee says he will decide monday morning if he will attend amy coney barrett's hearing after testing positive for covid-19 last week, along with senator thom tillis. it is of course key that both are present to make up a quorum for the crucial vote thursday for barrett to advance this nomination for approval before the election. where do you see all of this going? >> the republicans have decided that they are on a mission to confirm amy coney barrett to the supreme court before the election and it seems likely that they have the votes to do it, but this is really a surreal

event because this committee hearing is really a matter of these senators risking their lives. you have two senators as you pointed out who were very recently diagnosed with covid. you have two republican senators, the chairman, lindsay graham and the senator grassley from iowa who refuse to take covid tests and several senators, including grassley, pat leahy of vermont, and dianne feinstein who are in their 80s and terrifically vulnerable to this disease, which is spreading through the senate. so, you know, this is not just a important hearing. this is a literally life or death matter for the members of congress who have been -- who have to conduct it, and the republicans have chosen to conduct it. >> yeah, certainly a lot of

factors to consider. and jeffrey, on monday, we will hear the opening statements from senators in the hearing, and then barrett herself will give her opening statement, and we have that now if we can just bring that up. barrett says she was shaped by the late justice scalia's reasoning, and she adds that his judicial philosophy was straightforward, a judge must apply the law as written, not as the judge wishes it were. so clearly she hopes to convince democrats that she won't be flounced by her religious beliefs here. how will that likely play? >> you know, i think the democrats are smart enough to stay away from her religious background. there have been very liberal justices who were catholic, and very conservative justices who are catholic. that's not the issue here. the issue is her judicial philosophy. justice scalia's view of the use of the constitution were very

different from those of justice ginsberg whose seat is at issue here. and what makes this nomination so important is that it looks like a strongly liberal member of the court is going to be replaced by a strongly conservative member and that has very profound, real life implications for life in the united states. >> and democratic senator chuck schumer is demanding that barrett recuse herself from the upcoming supreme court decision on the affordable care act, and any possible election case that might come before the court. how likely is it that barrett will recuse herself, and what questions should senators be asking her about these two issues and the controversial case of roe v. wade. >> i do think there is a pretty good argument that she should recuse herself from anything related to the election. president trump has been so

explicit in saying that he wants his justice, amy barrett, to vote for him on anything related to the election, that there really is an odor of impropriety about it. as for the affordable care act, really see why she should have to recuse herself on that. on roe v. wade, which is the supreme court decision that prohibits states from banning abortion, that is one of the profound issues in american law, but i look for judge barrett to duck questions about that the way most supreme court nominees duck it. and she will say it's settled precedent, which it is, but that doesn't mean that she won't vote to overturn it because that, she has given every indication in her background and her history and her associations that she is someone who is profoundly

opposed to constitutional protections for a woman's right to choose abortion. >> jeffrey toobin, always a pleasure to get your legal analysis. many thanks. >> sure. and be sure to tune into cnn for the latest from amy coney barrett's confirmation hearing. it all gets underway at 9:00 a.m. eastern, and 2:00 p.m. in london. still to come, anger across europe over coronavirus restrictions even as some countri countries log record spikes. that's next. olay faced expensive serums and won.

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>> reporter: frustrated protesters in london march against covid related restrictions. in glasgow, bar and restaurant workers dump ice on the street in protest. anti-mask protesters in dublin say they are sick of being told to what to do. >> this is justly unfair, and it's a crime against humanity, and shame on the government of ireland. >> and in rome, citizens pushed back against government measures to curb the spread of the virus, despite daily case numbers initially spiking this weekend to levels not seen since march when the country was in lock down. across europe, many citizens are craving a complete return to normally, though the numbers paint an alarming picture. england is at its tipping point says its deputy chief medical

offi officer and boris johnson is expected to announce further steps to prevent the weekend with a record of 26,000 cases in 24 hours on saturday, as cases are on the rise, so is frustration as governments across the continent are responding. restrictions on night life in berlin have left business owners agitated. >> translator: because of this measure, the world is watching berlin. i don't understand how the mayor can destroy the largest economic sector of his city. it's unbelievable. >> reporter: but the german leaders continue to stress the importance of those restrictions. >> translator: i once again make an urgent appeal to the 20 to 40-year-olds, to understand this is not a time for partying, not a time for negligence but it is a time to protect others, especially the elderly and prevent the number of infections from exploding. >> reporter: for now, people continue to living within confines, desperate to go back to the life they once knew. isa soares, cnn.

and our correspondents are tracking developments from across europe. nic robertson joins us live from london, and scott mcclain is standing by in berlin. good to see you both. nic, let's go to you first, prime minister johnson will outline restrictions but there is considerable concerns from people in britain, how will authorities deal with that and what measures are expected? >> reporter: there's a big north south divide in england. the north of england has a much higher rate of infection generally speaking compared to the south of the country. the prime minister is trying to simplify the restriction measures that different areas of the country will face. there have been a number of different local and regional lock downs across the country, and just two weeks ago, the prime minister was asked about

the lock down situation in the northeast of the country, and he didn't know what restrictions applied. so this is an effort to simplify it. there will be three tiers, a med yu medium, high and very high. and some members of the cabinet will be meeting to fine tune the details of what will apply in those three tiers, but the highest tier we understand will affect the city of liverpool at least, and we understand from officials in liverpool that that means their pubs, their casinos, their gyms will be shut down, but there's a question of whether or not their restaurants were shut down. you have this frustration in the north of the country from people generally who feel that the south are getting off light, having unfair restrictions imposed on them. you have the councils, the sort of regional authorities in those

areas in the north of the country saying the government restrictions that have been applied really aren't coping very well to bring down infection rates in their areas, that local knowledge is more important and the government hasn't been listening to that. that's particularly relevant on rack and trace, which isn't working as well as the government said and is leading to an erosion in confidence generally in the government, and i think the other piece of the picture the government will focus on today is the economic support that these local areas want from central government when the businesses like the pubs, like the gyms, like the casinos in liverpool get shut down, what financial support will there be for those workers, and we're also expecting to get details on that as well today. rosemary. >> many thanks. appreciate that. joining us from london. let's go now to scott, and scott, germany, france, other european country, struggling

with restrictions and increasing case numbers. what is the latest on this? >> hey, rosemary, so just to put things into context for you here. almost every large city in germany is now considered a coronavirus hot spot. stuttgart in the southwest has even called in the military to help it try to tamp down cases there, and it's really a similar picture that we're seeing across europe. france, the czech republic, poland, over the weekend, they recorded record new case counts. poland has recorded new daily records for the past four days. france in response has closed bars and restaurants in the paris region. in the north of the country, they are cancelling noncovid related procedures in some hospitals to make way for the onslaught of coronavirus patients that they are expecting. if you look at the numbers, the main hot spots around the world, india, brazil, the united states, they're all starting to see cases slightly declining or slightly starting to rise in the case of the united states.

but in europe, the cases are really only going in one direction, and that is straight up. there is one area of particular concern here that we can add on to that graph, and that's czech republic. per million people, their cases have absolutely skyrocketed, which is interesting. this was a country that was an early coronavirus success story, a country that managed to close its borders relatively early. the travelers it did allow in had to show a negative test in order to be let into the country. the prime minister is asking all health workers in the country to help fight the coronavirus after a large number of doctors and nurses tested positive for the virus. he's warning if things don't turn around in a hurry, there could be a second nationwide lock down, something every country is trying desperately to avoid. in italy, they brought in nationwide mask mandates. in jegermany, they have mask

mandates across the country. in ber lylin, they closed bars restaurants early this past weekend to tamp down the virus. we're also going to hear more from government officials later today on testing strategies and on quarantine rules. rosemary. >> many thanks, scott mcclain, joining us live from berlin. new polling from key battleground states, with the coronavirus raging in many parts of the u.s., we'll discuss the state of the presidential race with our panel. that's next. in business you have to be able to shift-pivot-adap

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the u.s. president is returning to the campaign trail ten days after announcing he had covid-19. he insists he's totally negative, and even immune from the virus. this as polls show most voters are critical of his pandemic response. the trump team wants to change that with a new campaign ad, but it may have backfired already. it uses a clip from dr. anthony fauci out of context in an effort to falsely suggest he's praising the president. take a listen. >> president trump is recovering from the coronavirus and so is america. together, we rose to meet the challenge. president trump tackled the virus head on as leaders should. >> i can't imagine that anybody could be doing more. >> so let's talk now with cnn political commentator, dr. abdul el sayed, he endorsed bernie

sanders. and alice stewart, a former communications director for senator ted cruz. welcome to you both. >> hi, rosemary. >> alice, i want to talk to you, he talks about fake news, and dr. fauci says he did not give permission for his words to be used and has never endorsed a political candidate. it's this behavior that adds to the distrust voters are feeling with the trump administration. polls showing six in ten voters disapproving with the way way he's dealing with the pandemic. what do you say to that? >> well, rosemary, it's pretty clear that for quite some time the last several months, the administration has considered dr. fauci the boogeyman when it came to the coronavirus and really down played a lot of the advice and information he was portraying, but they realized that he certainly had the

support and faith of the american people and the information and the warnings that he had been giving were actually helpful and correct, so i understand why the campaign would want to use his comments and advice that he was giving because people do support him. these are the kind of things from a campaign standpoint. you generally run it by the person you were using, this was just a situation where they clearly saw that covid is a situation they need to get in front of. they need to show someone that has strength and confidence of the american people, and that's exactly why they did this. >> doctor, what's your reaction to that? >> it's the height of cynicism, right? to the point where the white house actually released a number of times, a sheet of indications where dr. fauci got it wrong, as if to down play him, despite the fact he's one of the country's

most trusted experts on covid-19, and turn around and use his likeness and words taken out of context in a campaign ad i just think is such a cynical ploy on the part of the campaign that is clearly drowning right now. >> and alice, the president's physician gave him the all clear to do upcoming rallies, and then in a call to prayer, mr. trump said he tested totally negative for covid. that is not what his doctor said. his physician avoided stating the president tested negative, and said he's no longer considered a transmission risk. why the play on words here, and why is it okay to put people at risk at these rallies? >> right. rosemary, i will believe that the president has tested negative for coronavirus when the doctor looks squarely in the camera and acknowledges as much skprs t and the reality is just because it is okay for him to go out and

conduct rallies again doesn't mean that's what should be done. i think it's imperative, especially given the fact that he is just recovering from covid that they need to use caution, they need to socially distance, they need to avoid large crowds, encourage mask wearing. that's the advice moving forward. look, he does need to get out there. he does need to get his message out there. he had the perfect opportunity to do so this week in the debate with joe biden, and he decided that he didn't want to participate in that when it was being done virtually. that was a tremendously huge missed opportunity, but he's moving full speed ahead, going out there to meet face to face with voters which is very important because the poll numbers, not just nationally, but in a lot of these key battleground states, he needs to make up some ground, and this is the best way obviously they feel they need to do so by holding rallies. >> doctor, what's your reaction to finding out that the president will be going to florida, pennsylvania, iowa, in

the coming week? >> it's quite clear given what his physician said that they were looking for a test that they could use that wouldn't say he is positive for covid-19 to give him some kind of fig leaf for the wantonly irresponsible choices that him and his campaign are making to take a clearly sick man that could be shedding virus out on to the campaign trail to potentially infect many other people after having already been part of a super spreader event based at the white house that left 37 people and counting sick. so this is just, i just think it is in keeping with the level of cynicism and lack of honesty with the american people, and disdain for the well being of the folks around him that the president is making these choices. >> and many thanks for joining me. the trump administration has been pushing for schools to

reopen for in-person learning despite the president's own son doing virtual school. it has left it up to the schools and local health officials to figure out how to do so safely. cnn's bianna golodryga has our support. >> i have this just up here so that the kids can refer back to it. >> reporter: for the past six months, karen ingoso has been teaching her 3rd graders from this makeshift classroom. >> you find just a huge amount of information just asking that question, how is everybody doing. >> reporter: the first few weeks of remote learning last spring were challenging. ingoso says less than half of her 42 students regularly logged in for class, and those that did seemed gripped with fear. >> i can vividly remember this one student of mine, he was like, am i going to die from covid? am i going to catch it? do i have it already because i

was coughing yesterday. >> reporter: the start to this school year is better. >> everybody is coming on every day, even with the technical issues and things like that, people are logging in. >> reporter: also better, the city's seven-day average of new covid-19 cases, down to 65 from a high of almost 158 in july yet online learning has not been without its challenges. less than two weeks into the school year, fewer than 2/3 of baltimore public school students were able to log in to virtual learning schools, according to ceo of baltimore city public schools. and while most of the nation's largest school districts began the semester fully online, nearly half are offering some form of in-person learning. >> confirmed cases in the schools were pretty low. >> reporter: without a federal tracking system, it is difficult to compile official data on school-related cases. however, initial data from 700 school districts collected by brown university's covid-19

school response dash board suggests spread within schools may not be as rampant as feared. >> we had about 120, 130,000 kids in in-person learning. >> reporter: confirmed cases were found in less than 2/10 of students. >> rates in staff are a bit higher. >> reporter: experts are also learning which students appear more vulnerable according to initial data. >> what we have seen is that sort of age-related deno, ma'ph >> reporter: in new york city where half a million students returned to school billions last week, signs of trouble. 169 public schools are now closed to students after an up tick of covid cases in their neighborhoods. karen ingoso believes schools should remain closed for now. the risks in her view far outweigh the benefits, when

presented with early data. >> you want to make sure it's safe. i don't want to be a guinea pig, is it safe. i know what i do in my space. i know how i'm handling the pandemic, but i can't control what anybody else does. >> reporter: bianna golodryga, cnn, new york. >> and just ahead, why some young volunteers are willing to expose themselves to covid-19 for vaccine trials. >> this was a way for me to take back control of the situation to be like, okay, i can do this, to make it better. >> next, more from volunteers deliberately putting themselves in covid's way for the greater good. back in a moment. want to brain better? unlike ordinary memory supplements- neuriva has clinically proven ingredients that fuel 5 indicators of brain performance. memory, focus, accuracy, learning, and concentration. try our new gummies for 30 days and see the difference.

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that is a slight decrease after three straight days of record high increases in new infections. cnn's fred pleitgen joins me live from moscow. russia has set a new daily record for these confirmed coronavirus cases. what is the latest on that, and what might it reveal about the efficacy of russia's covid vaccine? >> well, i think very little about the actual efficacy. that's something that's still being tested by the russian authorities. it certainly shows despite the vaccine has been certified, it's far away from being available to the general population here in this country. one of the things that we have to keep in mind about the russian vaccine, sputnik v is it was certified by the russian authorities without having gone through those key phase 3 trials which of course are the big large-scale trials to determine whether or not a vaccine works and whether or not it is safe, so the russians still fairly at the beginning of those phase 3 trials, even though they have

said that they believe the vaccine will work. and it seems as though the authorities are acknowledging that fact as well, that they are going to have to go through this wave of infections they are seeing right now in the country without having a vaccine widely available. in fact, the moscow mayor just said yesterday, he said, look, in a couple of months, as he put it, there will be a vaccine available on an industrial scale, but right now it's up to the population to get through this very testing phase at the moment. the russian authorities are urging people to stick by the anti-pandemic measures. moscow itself is really the epicenter here in russia. i was looking at the numbers just now, and it's around 4,400 new infections in the past 24 hours, around 4,500 the day before. they continue to remain very high. they put new measures in place already. they have extended school holidays a bit. they are saying if things don't get better, new additional

measures might have to be put in place as well rosemary. >> many thanks to fred pleitgen joining us live in moscow. >> officials are ramping up testing after a cluster of cases. the northeastern port city is home to some 9 million people, and officials hope to test all of them in the next five days. authorities are tracking at least a dozen new cases, all linked to a local hospital. that hospital is now on lock down with more than 114,000 people having been tested. at least one neighboring city is urging residents to stay away from qingdao. central china was the original covid-19 epicenter but the local outbreak was brought under control after an intense lock down. in britain, some volunteers are actually eager to deliberately be exposed to the coronavirus to test the effectiveness of vaccine

candidates. they're young and fierce, but human trials come with risks of course. cnn's phil black caught up with some of those volunteers. >> like so many, stephanie hidalgo has quietly endured the challenge, the inconvenience of living through a pandemic, but she wanted to do more. >> this was a way for me to take back control of the situation, to feel like i was in a less hopeless place, a less hopeless world and be like i can do this to make it better. i chose not to be in fear. >> reporter: so she volunteered to be deliberately infected with the coronavirus. >> i was shaking but then without knowing, i just typed my name in, let's go for it. >> reporter: shaking? >> yeah, because it can be scary, like, you're going to be potentially exposed to the virus. >> reporter: alice is also keen

to be infected. >> identify just got the e-mail. >> reporter: he helps with running the recruitment campaign stephanie signed up to. so far tens of thousands around the world, and has been lobbying the uk government to make use of them through potentially risky research. >> i wake up thinking about trials and go back to bed thinking about challenge trials. >> reporter: they involve giving young, healthy people a potential vaccine, like this one developed by london's imperial college, and later testing it by deliberately dosing them with the virus. proponents say it's faster than waiting for test subjects to be exposed to a specific virus in the real world. with numerous covid-19 vaccines being developed, some scientists think challenge trials could help identify the best of them sooner. >> by taking that small risk on myself, i can, you know, potentially protect thousands of other people from, you know, having to be infected without consenting to it. >> reporter: critics say challenge trials have limited

use because the young, healthy people who take part don't represent the broader population. they have been used against other viruses. this is corporate video from a london facility that recruits, exposes and strictly quarantines people to test influenza vaccine. >> we have a wonderful safety record that we're all proud of. >> reporter: but there are always risks, especially with a new virus that's already killed more than a million people. an epidemiologist say it's likely some volunteers would be needed for a control group to make sure the virus dose can cause disease. it means they would be exposed to the coronavirus without receiving a vaccine. the real potential for doing harm to volunteers would be closely scrutinized by regulators. >> a challenge trial would have to make the cogent argument that the benefits to society greatly outweighed the risk and that evidence and data could not be achieved in a safer way.

>> reporter: test subjects in challenge trials are compensated financially, but alice's father knows that's not motivating his son. >> it's at the forefront of science and technology. it's something to benefit others. it's something rather brave, it's something slightly different. that's him in a nutshell. >> i don't care what he says, i do what i like. >> reporter: a crucial ingredient for any trial will be the determined idealism of its young volunteers. phil black, cnn, london. >> brave young people there. still ahead, would you take a flight from sydney to sydney? how an australian airline is aiming to boost spirits with a flight to nowhere. back with that in a moment. robinhood believes now is the time to do money.

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coronavirus restrictions are ready to embark on their next adventure, even if it's only a seven hour flight on qantas airways from sydney to sydney. for them, it's about the journey, not the destination. >> oh it's very upsetting for us because we love traveling and so on. as soon as we saw this one here, i thought we've got to go on this one. >> reporter: tickets to the so called flight to nowhere sold out within ten minutes. middle seats were left empty so passengers could social distancing. the boeing dreamliner flow over australia's sights like the greet barrier reef. >> spectacular. i thought some of the sites we saw today one would never get the chance to see it quite like that. i felt that i was so close to a lot of them. >> reporter: and of course, there was an in-flight meal for that special class of people who miss eating a meal at 30,000 feet. the experience is designed to be a morale boost for travelers

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president trump holds his first campaign rally tonight since being diagnosed with coronavirus. >> and in only a few hours, senate confirmation hearings begin for trump's pick to replace justice ruth bader ginsburg on the supreme court. we'll have a preview. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is "early start," i'm boris sanchez in for christine romans. >> great to have you boris. i'm laura jarrett, october 12th, 5:00 a.m. in new york. 22 days until election. we begin this morning with president trump headed back on the