lock them all up. >> donald trump in michigan. focus on jailing the governor han controlling the state's spiking co-vid cases. we'll tell you about the president's battle ground blitz. will it be enough? millions of americans casting ballots in what's shaping up to be a record setting election for early voting. and later, italy faces a growing coronavirus case load. with more cases per day than at the height of the first wave. live from cnn hong kong, welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. "cnn news room" starts right now. >> almost 40 million cases of covid-19 have now been

documented worldwide since the pandemic began. the virus is spreading unchecked almost everywhere. the global map is glowing with hot spots from the uk to japan. we'll have the latest from europe just ahead. no country has been hit harder than the united states. it only has a fraction of the world's population. yet, it counts for one fit of all co-vid infections and states. at least ten states are reporting record numbers of new cases including michigan and wisconsin. u.s. president donald trump held packed rallies in both states saturday. social distancing was largely ignored and masks. addressing the severity of the crisis was not on the agenda. he continues to attack governor whitmer for trying to shield her sta state. >> get your schools open. your schools have to be open.

right? [ chanting lock her up ] >> lock them all up. >> the fbi says whitmer was recently the target of a foiled kidnapping plot by domestic extremists. she posted this reaction to the president on twitter. this is exactly the rhetoric that has put me, my family, and other government official's lives in danger while we try to save the lives of our fellow americans. it needs to stop. wisconsin posted the highest number of new co-vid cases on friday. and rallies like the president held on saturday are the types of mass gatherings public health officials say should not happen. we have more from jeremy diamond from wisconsin. >> reporter: president trump is now losing to joe biden

according to the recent polls by an average of 7 points. so the president campaigning here in janesville, wisconsin trying to win back some of his supporters. he talked about his support for law enforcement in particular. speaking here in this town of janesville, wisconsin which is just 60 miles from kenosha, wisconsin where a black man jacob blake was shot by police and after that there were protests and unrest that the president has amplified and talked about. the president didn't talk about in wisconsin, the surge of coronavirus cases that are happening in this state. wisconsin is experiencing one of the worst surges in the country at the moment. hospitalizations have tripled over the last month, and the state of wisconsin experienced a record number of cases just a day before the president came here to janesville to campaign. now, the white house's coronavirus task force itself has warned about these kinds of

events that the president hosted here in janesville. the task force writing in the weekly report about the state of wisconsin saying wisconsin's ability to avoid increases in hospitalizations and deaths will depend on increased observation of social distancing mitigation measures by the community until cases decline. lack of compliance with the measures will lead to preventable deaths. that is what is startling, to see the white house's coronavirus task force say essentially those very same types of events the president is holding with thousands of people packed closelydistancing, very people wearing masks will lead to preventable deaths. the president continuing to hold the events. he's pledged to hold particular events to this over the next two weeks leading up to election day. once a day, multiple times a day as well in order to try to save

his chances at reelection. journ jeremy diamond. joe biden has a significant lead in most polls. his campaign is warning supporters not to become complacent in the final two weeks. for more, here's jason carroll. >> reporter: the campaign putting time resources and energy into battle ground states with early in person voting. the same images out of places like north carolina. for his part, vice president joe biden will be in durham, north carolina today. speaking to voters, telling them to be patient and get out there and vote. senator kamala harris will do the same on florida on monday. she'll make two stops there. biden not out on the campaign trail on saturday. neither was harris. biden met with advisers from the campaign on saturday. harris for her part as you know, a couple people within her orbit tested positive for covid-19.

out of abundance of caution, they physically kept her off the campaign trail for a few days. she tested negative on saturday. looking ahead again, biden in north carolina today. you've got senator harris in florida. she'll be there on monday. joe biden will be in pennsylvania on monday. she will be in michigan tuesday. but wednesday is the big day. that is the day that former president barack obama will be campaigning for biden. he's going to do that in philadelphia and a number of democrats are saying if there is one surrogate you want out there, stumping for you, that would be the one. >> well, it's set to be a record breaking year for early and mail-in voting ahead of the november 3rd u.s. election. early voting officially begins in monday in florida. about 2.7 million people voted by mail there in 2016.

and the state reports more than 3 million mailed ballots have yet to be cast this year. west in nevada, early voting began saturday in las vegas and elsewhere in clark county. so many cars streamed in polling locations. officials are calling it a ballot dropoff parade. in georgia early in person voting keeps setting records. more than 1.3 million votes cast by mid saturday. that's more than 130% increase from 2016. north carolina is also seeing a major jump in early in person voting, but it's absentee ballot system has been under scrutiny. diane gallagher reports. >> every day for more than a month now lee checks the mail and comes up empty. >> i submitted my application august 20th in person at the board of election's office. >> reporter: you have not voted? >> i have not received a ballot.

>> reporter: like thousands of others in north carolina, because of the pandemic -- >> i have a compromised immune system. >> reporter: she is voting by mail for the first time this year or trying to. according to ballot tracks, a new tool that north carolina voters can use to check their status, her original ballot was mailed september 11th. she contacted the county in september and they cancelled the original and sent her a new ballot. she is still waiting to get it. >> it makes me angry. >> reporter: across downtotown, different problem. vincent returned his and his dad's ballots weeks ago. he was shocked when we told him state data showed him their ballots have been been seaccept. >> i've been doing it the same way for years. i'm the witness. i'm his son. >> reporter: so far more than 1.3 million north carolina voters have requested an absentee ballot, and almost 40%

have been returned. according to state data, nearly 72 00 are under review. the black voters make up only 16% of the statewide ballot returns but they account for almost 40% of the ballots listed as pending. >> this is no way to run an i election. >> reporter: this is the president of the north carolina naacp and is a member of the board of directors in a county where nearly 6% of ballots are listed as pending. >> many of them are for the first time undergoing this process, and they're naivete to it is causing some of these ejectio ejections. >> reporter: as election workers review ballots for processing, they're supposed to notify a voter if there's a problem. most issues can be fixed without having to fill out a new ballot. but a slew of lawsuits surrounding what to do with

ballots missing witness informations led to them waiting for court guidance leaving thousands of voters in limbo as the clock ticks down to election day. >> and people are losing confidence. they're losing trust in the election cycle. >> reporter: creating suspicion in the shadows of north carolina's ugly history of minority voter disenfranchisement. >> i feel like they're trying to do voter suppression. >> i want to cast a vote. >> reporter: are you afraid your state is going to prevent you from doing that? >> i don't know the answer. >> let's bring in robert gucci who teaches sociology at lancaster university. what is your take where americans are casting early votes? what does it say? >> for those who rallied for the republic, this certainly is a huge win.

and shows us maybe how voting needs to change and has needed to change for a long time in the united states. not just in terms of early voting but through technology and through the postal service. something donald trump was trying to get rid of. but this is showing a lot of enthusiasm, and maybe having us think differently about trying to get everything done in such a short time. now, don't know if that means people are going to want to wait a few days for results. that may need a few more years before we can do that over a few days, but this is a good sign for those who want to see the republic and the democracy take hold. >> just over two weeks until election day, and obviously the sprint is both on for donald trump and joe biden. what strategies are you expecting from both sides? >> well, donald trump's strategy all along has been to attack, attack. and to make fun and shame.

he's going to need to figure out how to balance that out with some policy. it's not just about make america great again like it was the first campaign and it's not just about the emotion. certainly that's driving a lot of his supporters but he's going to have to come down with more specific policies if he wants to get those people off the fence. and for joe biden, he kind of has to do the same thing. he's been laying low, trying to keep his gaffes low and trying to let donald trump make a rukous and react to that, but we don't really know yet what kind of president joe biden would be. so he needs to step up a little bit and tell us more about how he would govern, not just how he would govern differently than donald trump. >> and what about seeing obama on the campaign trail this week? do you think that will be an obvious boost for joe biden? >> well, that's his ace in the hole.

right? and barack obama came out earlier during the nomination for biden, and he's been playing it fair in the background quiet, because this isn't barack obama's campaign. this is joe biden's campaign. but it is about time for barack obama to come out and do that for harris and biden. but that also might have a bit of a flip side to it. if people start to look at joe biden as barack obama and said office anymore anyway, let's flip back to trump. all this stuff is coming down to what people find as a fundamental aspect of what they want in a president. so it will help, but for others it might just rally even more donald trump support. >> robert, it's been a tumultuous first term for president trump to put it mildly. support for the president is eroding across the country according to national polls. what do you think that trump can

do to win back those voters who were with him in 2016? >> well, i do think some of what he might be losing is support among white women. that was a huge push for him in his first election, and i think we saw in the last town hall debate a softer maybe side to donald trump or how he can try and tone it down a bit. i think that for him that might help to kind of keep it a little bit softer, not just for women, but in that sense he wasn't attacking the woman who was sitting across from him which we would hope and expect a candidate would behave that way. for donald trump that was something a bit new. and i think that responds to seeing a lack of support or slipping support from that strong base that he's had. so he's going to have to think about that strategy, but at the end of the day, people have to judge him on the way he's

treated women in that particular case, and that hasn't looked good. so he has to figure out who he is, and how he's going to answer to those past times, because in the last few weeks, they have a lot of dirt they could dig up on donald trump and put out on the ads. and democrats have to decide if they want to go that route. >> president trump has two weeks to turn that image around. robert gucci, great to get your analysis. many thanks. there's much more to come right here on cnn including a look at the escalating coronavirus cases in the u.s. and whether the long-feared cold weather surge has arrived. and disney park employees in the u.s. are facing layoffs as the pandemic decimates revenue. we'll look at the human cost behind the financial decisions. ♪ discover lash paradise. a caring formula and feather soft brush. for voluptuous volume and intense length.

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welcome back. coronavirus cases are increasing rapidly in the u.s. as experts warn that a feared cold surge is underway. on friday ten states reported the highest ever single day tallies of new infections. and more than 30 states are seeing more cases this week than they did the week before.

hospitalizations are climbing nationwide. and the nation's daily average of new cases is up more than 60% since mid september. the total cases in the u.s. is more than 8 .1 million with almost 220,000 deaths. >> we're joined by dr. peter drovac, an infectious disease and global health expert. great to have you with us. i want your take on the rallies president trump is holding in states where we are seeing record surges of coronavirus infections. >> it's irresponsible. minnesota has been tracking the outcomes of a rally held there a couple weeks ago and has documented 20 cases among people who attended the rally or counter protested and likely there are more infections seeded

from there. we can see the rallies in which most people are in close contact and not wearing masks can be super spreader events and they're happening where the amount of transmission is exploding, for example, in wisconsin yesterday, is extremely concerning. >> yeah. i mean, the white house coronavirus task force urged officials in wisconsin last month and then this week to prevent large social gatherings. it's been labeled a red zone with the fourth highest rate of cases in the u.s. you would assume what the president has been doing is highly dangerous, and could potentially be causing preventable deaths. >> it certainly could. it's another example of the white house not following its own guidance and in wisconsin we've seen a concerning rise not just in the number of infections but in the number of hospitalizations that are up well over a third just over the last week there's a field hospital that's been set up in anticipation of a crush of new

co-vid patients coming, and so we may be starting to see the kinds of terrible scenes that we saw in new york and other places last spring occurring in places like the midwest. >> and doctor, the fact that many of the people attending the rallies are not wearing masks even though that is now common place across much of the world? >> it's one thing we know works. masks are a tool to prevent the spread and a tool of freedom. the more of us wearing the masks, the higher the likelihood we'll never have to lock down. it's the one thing that if everybody was doing it, models estimate that we could prevent 75,000 deaths with a simple intervention. so it's extremely important, and the continued politicizing of masks and the talk about so-called herd immunity strategy is dangerous right now. we're just on the cusp of things here. we've seen this wave of cases

across much of the country right now. it's different than what we saw before where in the spring where the virus hadn't seeded everywhere. now it has. as we move indoors to the winter, this ongoing first wave could turn into a tsunami. >> i want to ask you about the 70,000 new infections reported in the u.s. on friday. it's the highest number in a single day since july. why are numbers still going up and will it get worse with winter? >> there are a number of reasons. the first and foremost is we don't have a coordinated national strategy for trying to address the covid-19 pandemic. what we've seen obviously is that as we move into the cooler months in the fall, more people are moviing indoors where the risk of transmission is higher. kids are back in school, students in university. all these things are starting to drive things up. also you go back to the spring, most of our cases were

concentrated in a few areas. and it hadn't again seeded some of the midwest and mountain west states to the extent they are now. we're seeing at the moment a distributed and high level of community transmission across all the country. that's why i'm worried. i think it's going to get much worse thls we act quickly to turn the tide. >> that was a doctor speaking with me with a short time ago. disney is set to lay off 28,000 people in the u.s. disney world in florida has reopened but the company's california parks remain closed and it's left workers in a tough spot. ste stephanie eel imhas more. >>. >> reporter: disney land is known as the happiest place on worth. >> my return to disney is like my return to home. >> reporter: this designer gives

disneyland the holiday magic. he's worked more than a decade at the park. this month he was told it would all be coming to an end. disney announces they're laying off some 28,000 employees. how did that impact you? >> it's devastating. we're all worried about our livelihood. am i going to be to stay in this house? i'm 52 and on food stamps for the it's time in think life. >> reporter: after disney world's reopening in july, disneyland hoped to reopen, but california's summer co-vid spike led the governor to delay reopening indefinitely. on october 12th he repeated his health first approach. >> they're people from all around the world. no not just people close to come together and mix. >> reporter: earlier this month disney fired back and said we

reject the suggestion that reopening disneyland is incompatible with -- we have taken a robust science based approach. >> reporter: the entire region relies on the tourism that comes here because of the park. >> 264,000 jobs lost in the anaheim area during co-vid. >> reporter: anaheim's chamber of commerce launched a campaign to push back against the governor. >> let's reopen theme parks and r reawaken our region. >> reporter: 19 lawmakers agreed. newsom wants his own answers. he sent his health officials to inspect safety protocols that disney world in florida and tour california parks. >> we wanted to show them it's not what you're thinking. walking through a park and seeing all the different signing, the plexi glass, the

staff they'll have there visibly cleaning the high touch surfaces. >> reporter: not everyone is jumping to reopen for the sake of the economy. this woman is a housekeeper at the disneyland hotel and one of nearly 3,000 local 11 service workers at the park. she wants to go back but is worried about the virus. >> if i bring it home, i could lose my mom, my children. that's a deadly disease. >> reporter: mark griffin agrees. safety is priority one followed closely by a return of the magic. >> we make the magic. the thought of losing that, i'm no kind of withdrawals from that. >> is it part of your identity? >> disney is my identity. >> cnn, anaheim, california. >> after the break on cnn news room, the coronavirus is surging once again across europe. we'll take you to italy to find out how it's changing tactics to fight a second wave.

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welcome back to our viewers in the united states and around the world. european governments are skrakling to get covid-19 under control. the red and orange you can see here show areas where the virus spread is up from last week. at least 10% more than the week before. germany recorded more than 7800 new cases saturday. that's a new record. one german governor warned the nation is in danger of, quote,

losing control in some areas. meanwhile in italy one of the hardest hit nations at the start of the pandemic, there were almost 11,000 new infections reported from friday to saturday. that's a new daily high. cnn has reporters covering the co-vid crisis from across crisis. let's join ben wedeman. a record number of new daily infections in italy. the prime minister is due to announce new restrictions. what can we expect? >> reporter: yeah. it's important to keep in mind this is the fourth day in a row that we've seen record highs. highs far higher than we saw earlier this year in march which was the height of the pandemic here in italy. now, just to give you an idea of where we are, we're in naples outside a co-vid hospital where tents have been set up for co-vid testing. this facility is open seven days a week. they test about 1,000 people a

day. unlike in the past when you needed to show symptoms of covid-19, now anybody can show up and get these tests for free. now, people can come as early as 5:00 a.m. to get numbers. they open at 8:00 in the morning. and it seems to be fairly smooth operation and everyone we've spoken to who has come out of this testing center seems fairly satisfied with the efficiency and the speed of the work that's been doing here. now, yesterday we spoke with the senior infective disease specialist here in this region who told us that they are testing numbers larger than before. that explains why the numbers are so high, the positive numbers, but it's important to keep in mind that the number of deaths is actually relatively low. it's still in the double digits. it hasn't gotten anywhere near

100 at this point. now, in this region of italy the governor has ordered all schools and universities closed. restaurants in theory are supposed to close their doors at 9:00. we were in a straupt yesterday, and it was past 9:00 and people were still going. there's a lot of life in the streets. you don't really get the feeling that anything is out of the ordinary by co-vid terms, of course. and, therefore, there doesn't seem to be a lot of panic or fear at this point. the government it's believed has done a thoroughly decent job rnd the circumstances in dealing with this. now, as you mentioned, the italian prime minister will be speaking this evening, and it's expected there will be measures taken. we're nowhere near a lockdown we saw earlier this year being

implemented. there's a possibility of local curfews along the lines of what france implemented, but they're trying to maintain the balance between effective measures to stop the surge of new cases and not damaging the economy any more than it has already been hurt from the pandemic. >> ben wedeman, as always, great to see you. joining us from naples in italy. restaurants in europe seemed to be recovering from the initial wave of the pandemic. but the new wave could change that. >> reporter: last call in london. life is changing for people there. now subject to tighter tier two coronavirus rules. they can no longer mix from people with other households indoors and they're limited to numbers of six. more than half the population of

england is under new restrictions. as well as many parts of europe where that meal out with whoever whenever is regulated by governments to try to stop the spread of the virus. >> the pay is reduced. but the bills are not reduced. it's not right. but we don't have any choice. >> reporter: but more countries are clamping down on eating out. poland's prime minister is urging people in areas with high infection rates to stay at home. and belgium will soon close its cafes, bars and restaurants for a month. >> i really believe that cafes and restaurants are stigmatized. it's more than clear. we feel like we're the bad guys. >> angela merkel is encouraging people to avoid social distancing. >> translator: please fore sake any journey that is not

essential. every party that is not absolutely essential. stay at home where at all possible. >> reporter: but some local businesses are fighting back. in berlin a court overturned a curfew for bars to close at 1 1:00 p.m. alcohol can't be sold after that time. bar and restaurant owners say they can't afford to lose their livly woods. but with surpassing more than 4,000 cases a day friday, many of them in europe, tougher restrictions may be something people have to live with even though they've hard to digest. cnn, berlin. after a summer of managing the spread of covid-19, france is now setting shocking daily records for infections. a nighttime curfew is in effect in major cities to try to bring down the numbers. melissa bell joins us from paris. the french president, tell us

about the strain the health system is currently under, and how are people reacting to the curfew. >> in places like marseilles and the south of france, already the icus are seeing serious strain on their resources and here in the greater paris region, more than 46% of icu beds taken up by co-vid patients. as the french president said wednesday, the second wave is likely to prove more dangerous than the first because of now the fact that the virus has spread across the fronts and also health workers are tired and there are this time around no spare beds. that is the severity of the situation that france is facing. >> we seem to have lost her joining us there in paris. but as we said, the french president said that curfew that is now in place for the next

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we want to go live to bangkok where protesters are filling the streets in thailand's capital. demonstrations and marches have been ongoing in thailand since july. we've seen them escalate in recent weeks. protesters are calling for a new constitution reform of the monarchy, the disillusion of parliament and resignation of

the country's prime minister. the police earlier in the week used water cannon to clear demonstrators who gathered in the main business district. there were rows of security troops advancing on the site. this protest is peaceful. stay with cnn for any further developments. >> many former trump officials have had unkind words, but some of the most disparaging comments are coming from a former white house chief of staff. cnn recently learned kelly described president trump as the most flawed and dishonest person he's ever met. john bolton also a harsh critic to the president spoke about kelly's remarks with cnn's wolf blitzer. here's some of the conversation. >> i hope john kelly and the others would think about this. i think they would find a lot of support. they will be criticized by people who will call them

traitors. there's no doubt about it. but we've got less than three weeks until the election. if we're going to hear it, let's hear it now. >> 17 days to be precise. ambassador bolton, let's talk about russia. the u.s. intelligence community has own russia is actively trying to hurt the biden campaign. and now giuliani has gone public with what may be misinformation tied to that effort. what do you make of this? >> i want to be clear i'm not going to talk about anything that i learned that was classified while i was in the white house. but this ukraine situation really just was a tragedy the people who wanted to impeach trump did it so quickly that they didn't look at the broader picture. i don't want to say kiev is the location of the iconic film the third man. there are a lot of russian agents working ukraine not

because of the united states, buzz they're trying to influence ukraine and when people go there and supposedly get information about all these different conspiracy theories, if there aren't russian agents working them, then the fsv is asleep on the job. this is really potentially very damaging and destabilizing to the united states which is what russia fundamentally wants. they're not in this for one candidate or the other. they're in it fighting asymmetric warfare against the constitution own our institutions. >> russia is not the only country focussed on the u.s. election. north korea. we look at what this means for the u.s. and the region and whether kim jong-un will stay quiet as americans vote. >> reporter: kim jong-un had a message. tears of regret and appreciation for his people.

for the united states a glimpse of what analysts believe to be one of the world's biggest ballistic missiles. >> this new missile is so large it could carry several nuclear weapons. three, perhaps four anywhere in the united states. so what this represents is a dramatic increase in the ability of north korea to target nuclear weapons at the united states and overwhelm u.s. missile defenses. >> reporter: a new submarine ballistic missile identified by experts along with more conventional tanks and body armor. significant developments during a period the u.s. president donald trump had been talking to the north korean leader three face to face meetings and countless flattering letters did not get in the way of the north's military progress. although secretary of state, pompeo poimp says the fact they haven't tested the weapons shows diplomacy has worked. few believe north korea would

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results won't be official for three weeks but the new zealand prime minister's labor party won almost 50% of the vote. she said she'll govern for every new zealander at a divided time. >> we're living in an increasingly polarized word. more and more people have lost the ability to see one another's point of view. i hope this election, new zealand has shown this is not who we are. that as a nation we can listen and we can debate. we are too small to lose sight of other people's perspective. >> and saying in new zealand, rugby's second match wrapped up a short time ago with a win. they beat australia 27-7.

but the real test may have been new zealand versus the coronavirus. more than 46,000 fans were able to watch the match in person after the country's successful effort to halt covid-19. you can see the crowds here at eden park. there are no masks and there is no social distancing. we've been fighting a disease that didn't even exist a year ago. while we know much more than we did when the pandemic began, there is still a lot of misconceptions. here's dr. sanjay gupta. >> i went through it. now they say i'm immune. i feel so powerful. >> misconception number one. once you get covid-19, you're forever immune. one study has shown that neutralizing antibodies are produced for five months but we don't know how it translates to

how long someone will be protected after an infection. >> we're starting to see a number of people of people getting reinfected. well documented cases of people infected after a relatively beef period of time. you have to be careful you're not completely, quote, immune. >> misconception two. try to mitigate the virus by naturally achieving herd immunity. >> it's important for people to understand the medical science to know that natural human immunity of populations that is sometimes called herd immunity is very important they have to develop. >> herd immunity is not necessarily a bad thing. it's just a question of how you get there. one way is a vaccine which many people are hopeful for, but what this doctor seems to be describing is just letting the infection run free. and now this idea has gained

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governor gretchen whitmer of michigan is responding to president trump's call to have her jailed. >> lock them all up. >> this is extraordinarily dangerous immediately after the fbi uncovered a plot to kidnap and possibly kill her. >> the president is not changing his tune. continuing to insist despite all evidence to the contrary that we are turning the corner on coronavirus. >> we're hearing that his minnesota rallies last month are blamed for more than a dozen covid infections. >> there is a long track record of rally that's have led to infections. >> in three weeks the cdc says that we could be having up to 6,700 new hospitalizations each