numbers, but it is certainly a leading indicator that democrats are getting votes out and they'll be in the bank come election day. >> appreciate your insights. thank you very much. hello to viewers in the united states and around the world. top of the hour. john king in washington. thank you for sharing a very busy news day with us. 35 of the 50 united states report increase in new coronavirus infections. and there's a new covid economic punch. new unemployment claims are also on the rise. the unwelcome coronavirus disruption includes the 2020 campaign. the democratic vice presidential nominee, kamala harris, cancelling a north carolina campaign stop. the reason all too familiar. a staffer tested positive for the coronavirus. the biden campaign says the senator was not exposed and that her shift to online events a few days is out of abundance of caution. the coronavirus is also the reason why there's no presidential debate tonight. the president's diagnosis

scrambled the original plan. instead, voters now have to choose watching prime time, the president on nbc or joe biden on abc. the president is on the road. a north carolina rally first, then to miami. the president says the united states is doing fine versus the virus, you need not worry. but the numbers don't lie. nearly 60,000 new infections added to the case count just yesterday, wednesday. all the data tell us we're climbing to a new peak, not as the president says coming down. dr. anthony fauci calls the math self-evident, says the united states enters the next months in kproe mie compromised position. leaders in europe considering shutdowns in some cases. look to the president of the united states, you hear something very, very different. >> what happens if you get a big spike in cases in the united states? and cases are rising. >> we're not doing any more

lockdown and we're doing fine. we're not doing any shutdowns. we learned about the disease. young people, 99.9%, right, are in great shape, strong immune systems. the younger the better, hard to believe. >> we're doing fine. that's the president of the united states. you heard him there. we're doing fine. that was the president of the united states a couple hours ago. we're doing fine. let's take a look at the state trends. 35 states are heading the wrong direction. more new infections now compared to data a week ago. 35 states are trending up. if that's your definition of doing fine, that's an odd definition. 12 states holding steady. only three states have fewer infections than a week ago. you see all of the red and orange, new coronavirus cases headed up. three states setting records. ohio, north dakota, new mexico, setting records for single day case count. that means those three states are heading up as well, part of the national surge. when the cases go up, wait a few

weeks, deaths go up as well. 23 of the 50 states, nearly half, reporting more deaths from coronavirus today compared to data a week ago if you look at it. it is just about everywhere. deep red states, 50%. ten of the states report 50% more coronavirus deaths this week than the data a week ago. trending the wrong direction. here's the case time line. this is where we are now. if you want to look at the trajectory, the red line is going up. that's not fine. you don't want to go up as it gets colder and more people go indoors. about 18,000 cases a day on average into the summer surge. we got close to 80. some days above 60 for many days, from 20,000 up to 60,000 in the summer surge. question is, if we start at 40,000 with a fall surge, how high will we go. that's the concern of public health experts. that concern is deepened by this. deeper the blue, the higher the positivity rate. how many people are being

tested, what percentage of them are positive. 40% in wyoming now, 32% in south dakota, 22% in idaho, 22% in wisconsin. you get the point. high double digit positivity, means more cases today and likelihood of those people spreading it, more cases tomorrow. when positivity goes up, cases go up, hospitalizations which had come down start to go back up. we are months away from a vaccine. some at the white house say we'll have herd immunity. let this play out. more people will be infected and start to develop immunity. scientists, top experts say that idea is simply nuts. >> there's about 30% of the population has underlying conditions that make them more susceptible to getting the adverse events and outcomes of serious disease with covid-19. if you just let things rip and let the infection go, no masks, crowd, it doesn't make a difference. that quite frankly, george, is ridiculous. what that will do is that there

will be so many people in the community that you can't shelter, that you can't protect who are going to get sick and get serious consequences. >> joining the conversation, cnn medical analyst, former cdc detective, dr. yasmin. grateful for your time. you heard the president, he says no lockdown, no lockdown, no lockdown, he says we're doing fine. we're not doing fine if we are going up toward 60,000 new infections a day. at this perilous moment, what should a country be doing, even if you decided the economy cannot sustain a national lockdown. what should a country be trying to do to turn the numbers around? >> yeah. america is definitely not doing fine. we should be doing many of the things other nations have done to successfully at least control the pandemic. instead, the u.s. has the world's worst covid-19 epidemic and the highest covid death rate

compared to any other developed nation, john. in fact, there was an article published in jama that found that if we were n track with other developed nations like spain, for example, we would have had a death rate lower by 47%, meaning about 90,000 to 100,000 americans who died from covid-19 would still be with us today. like that's how bad the covid-19 response has been because we're refusing on a national level, sometimes on a statewide level to implement measures we know work. as you mentioned, we have 60,000 americans newly diagnosed yesterday. last week, we had four days straight of more than 50,000 new infections. 50,000 infections diagnosed each day. and the health care system is already signaling that it can't cope with that. there were 30,000 americans sick in hospitals last week, it is up by more than 5,000 this week.

the up tick is happening and it is not even happening slowly. in places like north dakota, i am really worried about, they're saying the health care system is at capacity. in bismarck, there's only one available icu bed because of covid-19. that's not only bad for covid patients, that's bad for your grandmother if she has a heart attack, orchid th a kid in a ca accident. it has an effect on people in other health areas. >> as we have these conversations, the centers for disease control updating the forecast. projects 240,000 deaths by november 7th. you see 217,000 on the screen. 25,000 more americans to die in several weeks ahead, just several weeks ahead going into the rise in case count. you get that when you see that, the projection, the president's own cdc, saying 240,000 americans, that number goes up in a couple of weeks. you understand the exasperation of experts like dr. fauci, saying please separate, wear a

mask. the president moks mask use, packs people in rallies. listen to dr. fauci trying to urge americans after halloween comes thanksgiving. you cannot, must not do what you normally do. >> it is unfortunate because that's such a sacred part of american tradition, the family gathering around thanksgiving. that is a risk. you may have to sacrifice that social gathering unless you're pretty certain that people that you're dealing with are not infected. >> there's no question, if you look at the data, the cdc saying plainly that more and more people are having more and more gatherings. that's why we're getting more and more cases. >> yep. and it can be these small gatherings sometimes, not to mention states that are allowing large gatherings, only capping them at 500. that's huge. that's how easily we see these

can turn into super spreader events. now is not the time to let our guard down. the fact that hospitalizations are increasing in 41 states shows that not only are we not doing the right things to prevent transmission of coronavirus but we're also doing all of the wrong things to curb the spread of flu. we're in for a double whammy now, we are in for convergence of covid-19 pandemic and flu epidemic. so now is the time to really wear a mask, even if it happens that you live in the u.s. and mask mandates are not happening, despite all of the evidence from other nations, mask mandates can save lives. a study from university of washington, john, estimated that about 95% of americans were to wear a mask the next few months, we would save 80,000 lives. that's what's really at stake. mask wearing, getting a flu shot, doing physical distancing, even when the president or local officials are not telling you to do that, that's the right thing

to do in order to save your life and protect those around you as well. >> we started with the president saying we're fine. one of the thing that frustrates public health experts is he is traveling the country saying i recovered, they gave me a cure. i had coronavirus, they gave me a cure. he had an experimental treatment you and i couldn't get if we came down with coronavirus, at least not as quickly as he did. that's one of the things dr. fauci worries about. you see the case count and hospitalizations going back up, dr. fauci is afraid, this is me adding to him, but the president says one thing, but most americans can't get that kind of care. listen. >> when people say the president beat it, i'm not worried about it, what's your response? >> that's sort of like saying somebody was speeding in a car at 95 miles per hour and didn't get in an accident, so i can go ahead and speed and not get in an accident. there are also a lot of people who are his age and his weight which did not do as well as the

president did. >> it is interesting. we discussed this before. right now in the final days of the campaign, dr. fauci, he is not saying it this way, but seems compelled every day to go out and say pay no attention to your president, please listen to the science. >> absolutely because the president was essentially a guinea pig. he received experimental medical treatment that haven't been tested on that many people. you and i, if we get sick, your grandmother, if she falls ill, they're not going to have access to those sophisticated medical and experimental medical treatments. you cannot compare the standard of health care, that privileged level of having personal physicians that the president got to what most americans got. think back to summer, john, when people in houston were dying of covid in their homes, not getting any medical care because they couldn't even get to a hospital because that's how overwhelmed the health care system was. that's not any comparison to the care the president is getting. not only is he cavalier about

hig his own health, he is saying inaccurate things about young people. not every young person has a robust immune system. we have seen kids get really sick and die with covid-19. this misinformation, disinformation he is spreading is costing lives and will continue to do so which is why we need people to listen to dr. fauci, listen to the scientists, not listen to him. >> grateful. i'm listening to you. that's one of the reasons we bring you back to bring science into the program. up next, we return to campaign 2020. the president on his way to north carolina son. kamala harris was supposed to go to north carolina, that trip cancelled because a biden campaign staffer tested positive for coronavirus.

more now on today's decision to keep kamala harris off the campaign trail for a few days. the democratic vice presidential nominee was supposed to be in north carolina now. those plans were cancelled after a member of the senator's

campaign staff tested positive for covid-19. a campaign flight worker also tested positive. arlette saenz joins us. what's the latest? >> reporter: the biden campaign says they're doing this out of abundance of caution after two members of the traveling team with kamala harris tested positive for coronavirus. this morning, the campaign announced that harris' communications director and then noncampaign person who was a member of the flight staff also tested positive for covid-19 last night. senator harris herself yesterday taking a coronavirus test and testing negative. let me run you through a bit of what we know about this incident. these two individuals were on an october 8th flight with harris. on this flight, the campaign says harris wore an n95 mask as did both individuals who were on the flight. the campaign says that harris

doesn't meet the cdc definition of close contact for exposure, and both of these individuals tested negative immediately before and after that flight. now, the campaign also says that these two individuals attended personal events the days after they flew with harris, and then returned back to work and tested positive before returning to work, before the scheduled trip they were supposed to take today. now, both of the individuals did not have contact with biden or harris 48 hours prior to testing positive, senator harris was last tested on wednesday with a pcr test, she tested negative, but she's expected to be tested again today. they've cancelled all her in person campaign events up through sunday. as for joe biden, the campaign has said that he did not have contact with these individuals in the few days prior to their

positive test. so he is going to move forward with his in person campaigning, starting tonight, here in philadelphia, a town hall that he is going to participate in. the biden campaign believes they can still safely campaign in final weeks before the election, but what you're seeing, john, is the biden campaign practicing what they preach. they have been transparent, were deliberative in information they are providing to the public, surrounding these coronavirus diagnoses, stark contrast to what's played out at the white house the past few weeks. >> hoping the caution will be rewarded, not punished by voters. kamala harris off the trail for a couple of days. arlette saenz, appreciate the reporting. we'll keep on top of that. up next, pennsylvania is one of the big swing states, the source of a giant 2020 battle. still a father. but now a friend. still an electric car. just more electrifying.

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pennsylvania and its 20 electoral votes viewed by the trump and biden campaigns as crucial, and the commonwealth's 2016 embrace of trump helped him shatter the so-called blue wall of industrial states. now in the final days of 2020, joe biden holds the edge, believes pennsylvania win would block a trump path to victory. dana bash was recently visiting pennsylvania is back to join us

now. dana? >> john, as you know, in 2016 president trump was the first republican to win pennsylvania in almost three decades. he did it by boosting vote in conservative areas much higher than republican candidates before him. trump's campaign manager, bill stepien, points to a surge in new republican voter registrations as evidence there are more votes to squeeze out of his base. we went to a key pennsylvania county to check it out. a line forms outside well before opening. waiting to enter the trump house. a mecca of sorts for the president's supporters in southwest pennsylvania where trump's record turnout four years ago helped deliver his surprise pennsylvania victory and the white house. she created the trump house in 2016, pushed diseffected democrats and voters to choose trump. >> we gave people a place to

come to to believe they could win. >> now the trump supporters show up for swag and yard signs and help registering to vote. >> we need trump in there again. i'm 65. i think it is time to register. >> have you not voted ever? >> no. >> rural west moreland county has seen a surge in registrations. >> from what i have seen in the past couple years, ashamed to say i was a democrat. >> honor to have you here. >> joe biden is ahead in pennsylvania polls, but his campaign motto is every vote matters. campaigning here in westmoreland county this month which hillary clinton did not in the 2016 general election. >> not an area democrats come and campaign often, but you're here, why? >> i'm here because like i said, we are not taking any vote for granted. >> gina surilly was miss

pennsylvania in donald trump's miss usa pageant. now she's a democrat working to blunt trump's advantage. >> in 2016, donald trump was a fresh face. he was new to politics. everyone was excited. he made big promises. bring back jobs. frankly, donald trump broke those promises. >> in small town pennsylvania signs matter. trump's are everywhere, big and bold. biden's are out there, too. >> when you see signs like this, it makes the republicans and democrats that voted for trump in 2016 realize i'm not alone. >> a big biden challenge, his supporters are being covid careful. >> never did we think we would be meeting by zoom. >> she is the head of democratic women of west moreland county works from home. clear about the goal from trump country. >> we can't win pennsylvania for him but can add to the total

numbers. >> as for republicans, they never stopped traditional ways of getting out the vote. knocking on doors, walking in neighborhoods in masks, using a gop data driven app to find and persuade voters. >> depending who the voter is, we're able to tailor that message at the door, on the phone to how we think we need to target that voter, turn them out. >> given the struggles in the suburbs, boosting the vote here is critical for trump. >> how important for him to get his numbers even higher than it was four years ago? >> i do think we need to increase voter turnout for the president to offset some of what may be happening in the southeastern part of pennsylvania. >> back at the trump house, leslie shows us the log of visits from thousands of trump supporters. >> what do you think this year? >> my number is have tripled. four years ago my work was hard. i had to convince voters to vote for the candidate. i had to convince them president

trump was the best choice for them. this time i don't have to do any of that. they're all in. >> whether enough are all in could determine whether trump can overcome the head winds he faces to win pennsylvania and a second term. >> and republicans we talked to in rural southwest pennsylvania where we traveled to a person, john, they were really candid about the fact they understand the president has real problems in densely populated suburbs in the commonwealth of pennsylvania, never mind elsewhere. but right there, they feel a lot of pressure to deliver big for trump if he has any chance of winning the keystone state. they know it could determine if he wins a second term. >> fascinating piece at a fascinating time at a fascinating place. thanks for that. let's continue the conversation with someone that knows the territory, pennsylvania congressman lamb. grateful for your time. you listened to the piece from dana. let me ask you up front, polls are bad for the president,

including your part of the state now, but the trump campaign says it has a secret weapon of newly registered republicans, people coming out of the wood work that never voted in the past. are you seeing that in your area? >> we're seeing a little of that in the registration numbers, of course. i personally am not sure how many new votes that represents for the president. i think what they may be doing is going back and getting people who were registered at democrats before that voted for the president and just convincing them to switch over. i'm not sure it is new votes. there's no question his strongest supporters have been doing good organizing work, far away from the big cities, in the same area i have been competing for two years. we need to work very hard to earn back the trust of these people who were the base of the democratic party for a long time, used to feel we represented them very well. >> and to people that may not remember your story, you are, joe biden hopes, the canary in a

coal mine. you won a house district that once had rick santorum in it, in allegheny county, you stretch to butler county. what is the situation on the ground now? dana makes a great point. joe biden needs to win allegheny county, needs to win that big. i think you would agree. places like west moreland, and others, he is not going to win them. the key is will he get swamped like hillary clinton did. >> i think he will do well compared to four years ago. a lot of reasons for that. one, the people you showed in dana's piece, i know those people, phyllis, commissioner sureli, they've done a lot to help the democratic party get on its feet in these areas, reconnect, reestablish trust with these people. secondly, we have the highest unemployment in our region now that we've had since the steel industry collapsed in the

early '80s. you talk to people that worked in steel, they remember standing in line for a sack of potatoes and free butter and everyone looking out for each other. that's what it reminds of again. president trump made specific promises how he would strengthen the steel industry, help people with jobs, help them earn more, protect social security and medicare and hasn't kept those promises. in fact, a lot of the industries, things are looking worse than four years ago. and vice president biden has a plan. no one thinks it is perfect or any particular policy is perfect, he is saying i will take responsibility, i will fight for your jobs, fight for your paycheck, bring back manufacturing, build infrastructure. a lot of things president trump promised four years ago and didn't do. >> a lot of democrats don't have to be in the campaign thought joe biden was the wrong guy for the moment. you think the numbers back it up. monmouth university poll, white, no college degree, people like my dad that work with their hands, trump 53, biden, 34.

you say the president wins nine votes. the president won by 30 points plus against hillary clinton. why is it joe biden is running stronger, is it him or reaction to president trump saying he hasn't delivered on those promises? >> i think what it is is that vice president biden is talking straight to them about the problems they're having in their own families, with their own jobs. president trump is talking about himself constantly. everyone that's against him and coronavirus that he had and all these things. vice president biden is coming here repeatedly, made a trip through west moreland county. when he did that, he earned support of the workers that work in natural gas and build roads and bridges and locks and dams. those unions stepped up, stood with joe biden on stage two weeks ago in a way they didn't four years ago. i think president trump thought he had a lot of their votes. they're seeing the infrastructure never got built and heading into a tough winter

when construction projects are getting cancelled left and right, price of natural gas is down. there's not a lot of drilling taking place, we need infrastructure bill and need it bad. there's a steel company in the county that was in dana's piece that pays three times what they should to ship goods across the state. takes their trucks 900 miles because there's not enough roads and bridges to wear the weight of them. where it would take you or i 300 miles for that same trip. that problem facing them four years ago faces them today. vice president biden's plan would fix that. he is focused on their issues and them, not on himself. >> 19 days we'll be counting votes in key counties. congressman, appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you. up next for us, more sad news, more positive tests in the nfl.

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sport, everybody in close quarters, middle of a pandemic, it is what it is, just deal with it. there are others, including fellow players in the last week saying this is getting to a crisis point, they don't feel the league is doing enough to keep them safe. what's the truth? >> well, i think it is somewhere in between. i think the reality of it is that we're trying to play a sport, a contact sport where we're all tied in together in the middle of a pandemic and really don't have guidelines how to do that. i think there is leadership between the nfl pa and nfl that are doing everything they can as far as protocol standpoint to make sure we're doing it safe as possible, and knowing that those protocols are going to change and adapt as we learn more and push throughout the season. >> you see it now in the sec, not just the nfl, it is football. close contact sport, people practicing close together, weight room close together. it is harder than most professions to keep separate.

nick saban, coach of alabama testing positive. florida lsu game postponed and 21 were positive, and missouri. as you live through this for your own health and safety, are adjustments being made along the way, things you would raise your hand and say i think my team, the saints, is doing everything we can, but we can do this differently or do this better? >> we always have to follow the science. to me, honestly, i was surprised we made it this far. that's been because of protocols that are put together. the first month and a half was really just on boarding players back into the facilities, getting back into training camp. that was pretty uneventful. once we are now a quarter way through the season, guys with more time, away from facilities, people's children going back to school, you're bringing players in and out of facilities from a transactional standpoint. there's more exposure. i don't think anybody stepped into the season thinking nobody would have a positive test or that we weren't going to have

some of these events where we have to reschedule games or shut facilities down, but we'll just continue to follow the science and update the protocols as much as possible. >> the chief medical officer for the nfl says a bubble would not work for the nfl. people have watched the nba championship just finish, hockey finished its season. we're watching baseball playoffs. the teams have been traveling. do you think the approach now where you have to get on a plane if not playing a home game, travel to a city, check into a hotel and all that, is that the only way or could the nfl be doing this somewhat differently? >> i think there's been a few opinions on team travel and what's the best way to approach it. so far, i felt decent about the way we've done it, adding more buses so players aren't packed into buses. obviously talks about having more than one airplane, less people traveling, restrictions of us being able to leave the hotel when on the road, everything being as much of a

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president trump right now in the air on his way to battleground north carolina. north carolina, let's go back to 2016 to remind us. north carolina should be a trump state. he won it, 173,000 votes four years ago. it is in play in campaign 2020. one of the states the president won four years ago where joe biden is tied or leading. right now, let's look at the most recent polling in north carolina. biden, 46, trump, 42. that's statistically a tie, maybe a slight biden edge, but competitive with maybe biden in a lead in a state the president carried four years ago. what's the problem and can the president come back? let's discuss. cnn commentator, republican

strategist doug hyde joins us. you have done some campaigns in the state. why is it at least competitive now, shouldn't be. >> we have both empirical and anecdotal evidence on this. if you look at the polling, it is consistent joe biden is in a good place compared to where hillary clinton was. the reason is that joe biden is seen as a likeable, popular candidate, where hillary clinton wasn't. anecdotally in 2016, i remember being home the week after the "access hollywood" tape came out, hearing people say i am voting for bernie in the primary, donald trump in the general, i am voting against hillary clinton. last time i saw my father before he passed in october of 2016, he said i am voting for donald trump, voted for bernie sanders, but i wish joe biden with wiere running. a lot of independents like that. >> let's go through the state. you look at charlotte, you think african-american population, you also have growing suburbs. you think about rally, durham, you think of universities and medical centers, rising number of professionals, suburban

women, people with college degrees. the state is changing in a way, given reaction to no, it isn't. when you talk about universities, let's also keep in mind that historically black colleges and universities in north carolina, they are scattered throughout the state. what we saw with barack obama in 2012 where north carolina was the second closest in the state at the time, those universities were turn-out machines for the obama campaign. they were a big boost to him. if you're looking at durham county, most people think about duke. but if you look at the hbcus in durham county, wake county, salem state, they were turn-out machines were obama and stand to be poised to do the same thing as early voting is happening right now in the state or joe biden. >> it is not just a battleground for the presidency. the republican incumbent thom tillis trailing a few points to

his democratic challenger. some republicans are saying if the president can't turn his ship around himself and turn it around quickly, maybe republicaning, you see the roll there, maybe republicans should shift. the situation today is more dire for more mr. trump. this time he needs something like a royal flush. in such a bizarre year anything is possible, but possible doesn't mean likely. as insurance republicans better fight like hell to keep the senate. do you see evidence or do you think it is wise that republican donors, for example, say sorry, mr. president, we're taking the money from you and we're going to ram it into these key senator races. >> having been in north carolina and south carolina recently and the democratic candidate went to my rival high school. we would always beat them in basketball. north carolina is a much closer race, but it doesn't get the attention that south carolina the getting. if you are a republican and you

want to save the senate, you have a real opportunity to keep thom tillis in office. he's basically been running the bunker campaign that the trump campaign says that biden is running. if he's not answering these questions and more questions may come up, it is an opportunity for thom tillis. i'll tell republican donors look at the money. >> i appreciate your insights there. when we come back, the president says some things about covid. world leaders take a very different approach. assume nothing. just like the leading brand, kraft real mayo is made with high quality ingredients at a price you can feel good about. no wonder kraft is so good.

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mayor has outright rejected calls from the government to increase the alert level of this city to very high risk. that is the highest tier in the covid alert system. this is what the mayor had to say. >> they're asking us to gamble our residents' jobs, homes and businesses and a large chunk of our economy on a strategy that their own experts tell them might not work. we would never sign up for that. >> prime minister boris johnson's strategy to deal with this latest strike is under increase ed scrutiny. they say small, limited regional lockdowns is the best way to deal with it. others say a scircuisicircuit b needed. you have the county's top

scientific advisers while the number of coronavirus cases across the u.k. continues to rise. >> i'm scott in berlin. like in many other european countries, young people are being blamed for spreading the virus. yesterday chancellor angela merkel had a question for them. >> we must call especially on young people to do without a few parties now in order to have a good life tomorrow or the day after. and a lot is rising on this, and we saw the unruly effects on our economy that the spring had, and we are a high performing country, but our resources are not unlimited, so we must be careful with our resources. >> yesterday merkel met with the premiers of gur many's federal states to hash out a more unified response to the resurgence of the virus. the meeting stretched well into the evening, and when it was over merkel announced that in virus hot spots which include

most large german cities, restaurants and bars will have to close early. there will also be limits on social gatherings, both in public places and private homes as well. the government will see how things go over the next ten days or so and see if these measures can help flatten the curve. if not, the chancellor says she is prepared to bring in more stringent ones. >> hope to see you back here tomorrow. have a good day. hello. i want to welcome viewers here in the united states and around the world. the u.s. is far from where it needs to be on coronavirus infections as we are heading for colder weather that will force americans indoors. americans are dying of covid-19 at an average rate of 700 people per day. more than 51,000 new cases are being recorded each day. and just last hour, the