not taking a break, the u.s. vice president stays on the campaign trail despite several of his aides testing positive for coronavirus. an alarming trend, record numbers of covid cases across the u.s. and europe this weekend. and within hours, amy coney barrett is set to be confirmed to the u.s. supreme court, never mind that it's just eight days before the election. and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. you're watching "cnn newsroom." i'm michael holmes.

welcome everyone. as the u.s. enters the final week of the 2020 election season, it is also enduring its worst stretch of the coronavirus pandemic. the country now recording more than 225,000 deaths from covid-19. and for the 7th straight day it has confirmed more than 58,000 new infections with a couple of days well over 80,000. not a single state is currently trending in the right direction. and once again, the virus hitting the white house. cnn has learned at least five people close to the vice president have tested positive, including one of mike pence's closest aides and his chief of staff. pence was in close contact with some of those staff members. but so far he's refusing to quarantine. his office says he's tested negative and plans to hold more

campaign rallies in the days ahead. the white house chief of staff, mark meadows, defending the vice president's decision to continue campaigning, but admitting that the nationwide outbreak is out of hand. >> here's what we have to do. we're not going to control the pandemic. we are going to control the fact that we get vaccines, therapeutics and other mitigation areas -- >> why aren't we going to get the pandemic. >> because it is a contagious virus like the flu. >> why not make efforts to contain it? >> we are making efforts to contain it. >> by running all over the country not wearing a mask? >> we can get into the back and forth. let me say this, what we need to do is make sure we have the proper mitigation factors, whether it's therapies or vaccines or treatments to make sure that people don't die from this. >> well, meadows comment comes just as the white house faces another potential second outbreak of the coronavirus.

cnn's kaitlan collins with more from the campaign trail. >> the vice president was in north carolina yesterday despite the fact that several of his top aides have recently tested positive for coronavirus, including within 24 hours his chief of staff, marc short, who is now self-isolating and is not likely to return to the campaign trail with the vice president over the next several days. of course there's only a few days left until the election. the vice president has been on the road nearly every single day including earlier this week when he was on the road with marty oaks, who we now learned has tested positive. the situation is there are several staffers close to the vice president who have tested positive for the coronavirus, including his body man. there are several staffers in quarantine because they were in contact with someone who tested positive, but the vice president himself is refusing to follow cdc guidelines by staying at home. the white house says that's because he's an essential worker and he's been cleared by the medical team to go out.

we haven't had an on the record statement from the vice president's doctor saying as much. this comes on the day mark meadows told jake tapper yesterday in that interview that they are not going to get control of the coronavirus. he basically said they are going to have to focus on vaccines and therapeutics but there is not a way to contain it, which is not what we have heard from health experts who said if people wear masks and did social distance, two things the white house has rebutted over the last several months, they said that could help stop the spread of coronavirus or at least slow it in the united states. that doesn't seem to be the white house' point of view. and that's in contradiction to what the president is telling us for months, which is that coronavirus is under control and we're rounding the corner on the pandemic. >> kaitlan collins reporting there. president trump holding crowded rallies in new hampshire and maine. as usual, mr. trump seemed unbothered by the spikes in coronavirus cases all around the

country. and as usual, no social distancing, very few masks. he then travelled on to maine where he mingled with crowds. you can see there signing caps and pumpkins even in close quarters with people. maine home to one of the most competitive senate races of the year with republican senator susan collins fugting to hang on to her seat. the democratic vice presidential candidate kamala harris was back on the campaign trail this weekend. she cancelled all travel a week ago after two week in her orbit tested positive for the virus. that's not happening, as we said, with the vice president mike pence. sunday in michigan, harris criticizing that vice president who is also, of course, the head of the white house coronavirus task force, for ignoring the advice of his own health experts and refusing to quarantine. >> he should be following the guidelines. we're doing it. i think we have modelled the right and good behavior, and they should take our lead.

we are breaking records for the number of people that are contracting a deadly virus. and this administration fails to take personal responsibility or responsibility in terms of leading the nation through this dangerous, dangerous and deadly mass casualty event. and that's why they have forfeited their right to a second term in office. >> harris made multiple campaign stops in michigan, and here is why. michigan traditionally a blue state. president trump the first republican to win there since 1988. but he won by a razor thin margin, fewer than 11,000 votes. michigan is home to the bloc of blue collar workers that delivered the election to conservative ronald reagan in the '80s. both democratic and republican camps are vying for this key group of workers that has the ability to swing the vote. as cnn's jessica dean explains, first the biden camp wants to shake things up in traditionally

red states. >> reporter: we're now entering the closing week of the 2020 presidential election, and joe biden and kamala harris are hitting the campaign trail going into states that really tell you a lot about where the campaign sees things right now. joe biden will be heading to georgia later this week. that's a state that no democrat has carried since 1992 when bill clinton carried that state. for her part, kamala harris will include texas on her travel schedule. again, democrats haven't had any luck in texas in a long, long time. but the biden/harris campaign sending harris into texas in the closing days hoping to up their chances of carrying that state and all of its electoral votes come next tuesday. >> cnn politics white house reporter steven collinson joins me now to talk about all this. we're going to start with the five people in vice president mike pence's orbit testing positive for coronavirus, his chief of staff among them. and that follows of course the

president, his wife, his child and many others in the white house. how damaging politically is it for the administration, which is already, of course, fighting claims of mismanagement? >> well, i think what it does is the administration and the white house simply can't get out from under this coronavirus pandemic. we're heading into the last week of the campaign. the president doesn't want to be talking about coronavirus at all, but he cannot escape it. and the fact now that the vice president is now in the middle of another coronavirus hot spot in the white house really advances the point that the democratic nominee joe biden is trying to make. he's basically saying that trump and pence, the president and the vice president, can't keep themselves safe, can't keep the people around them safe, so how are they going to keep the rest of the american people safe. and that really plays into this issue of whether the white house's mishandling of the pandemic should disqualify the president and the vice president

from claiming a second term. >> how do you see it playing out on the electoral map? there's some surprising states in play. >> i think what's very interesting is the fact that the president is playing defense on a lot of territory that he wouldn't want to be defending in the last week of the campaign, if you think about states like georgia, arizona, even texas where democrats think they can do very well even if they don't pull off that state at the end of the day, these places where the president should have been strong and should have had locked up. arizona, for example, in the southwest is one of these classic changing states. they're showing us the future of american politics. big urban/suburban centers are changing states that used to be rural and conservative into swing states and potentially democratic states going forward, not just in this election but elections to come. that's also the case with a

state like georgia, a real solid conservative state that's changing demographically and coming into play. the president is fighting not just in the big midwest battlegrounds but all across the map. he can't afford to lose many or any in fact of the big seven or eight swing states if he's going to get a second term. >> it is interesting. he has slipped with women, suburban women, of course. even among some of the non-college educated whites. but the thing is among the immovable base, many of them are the non-college educated whites and lower income people, and they're most affected by potential things like health care, loss cuts to social safety nets like food stamps and so on, income inequalities, all things the trump administration has negatively impacted. yet they are still loyal. why is that? >> i think in conservative politics, especially in

particular with this president, he's forged a cultural connection with many of these voters that supersedes some of the economic issues. you know, he has styled himself as the voice for the american people, people who feel they have not been served well by washington, d.c., the global trade seeing their jobs disappear abroad to low wage economies. they believe america is being ripped off by foreign countries. they culturally feel this america first philosophy in their bones. so, i think that's one reason they stick together. >> very quickly the massive mail-in ballot, the early voting, 58 million people have voted. in some places i think more votes are being cast now than would in past elections by election night. what does that suggest or shouldn't read much into it at the moment? >> i mean, i think it suggests there's real enthusiasm to vote in this election. a lot of experts are predicting we could see 150 million people

vote in this election. the number the last time was 136. it looks like democrats are doing quite well in some urban centers. and actually among younger voters who are the hardest voters to get to show up at the polls. their share of early vote has ticked up. generally democrats are more likely to vote early absentee by mail. republicans have told pollsters they're more traditional, they'll go to the polls on election day. extrapolating too much from these early figures would probably be a bad idea, other than to say there is real energy in the electorate and we've still got eight days to go. >> totally agree, not to read too much into it. you're absolutely right about the energy. steven collinson, thanks so much. >> thanks. the u.s. has recorded more than 8.6 million cases of coronavirus now, by far the most in the world. have a look at the map there, the graph, the trajectory as

infections soar, record rates. health experts are now calling for drastic measures to try to slow what you see there on your screen. the former food and drug commissioner says it is time to consider a limited and temporary national mask mandate, warning that more deaths and hospital admissions in the weeks to come. his suggestion comes days after the nation's top infectious disease expert also signalled he would support a nationwide mandate. quick break. when we come back, italy's prime minister says another lockdown would be devastating. italy one of the many european countries trying to slow a second wave of the coronavirus. also still to come on the program, with the u.s. election just over a week away, states continue to smash records with their early voting numbers. we'll be right back. a live bookkeeper is helping

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records within 43 million cases across the region. france reporting over 52,000 new cases on sunday, breaking its daily record for the fourth day in a row. the country's positivity rate more than doubled the u.s. another daily infection record was broken in italy. but the prime minister says italy cannot afford another lockdown. the government now ordering bars and restaurants to close by 6:00 p.m. while businesses like movie theaters, casinos and gyms must close their doors altogether for now. and spain's prime minister declaring a new state of emergency on sunday. that includes a nighttime curfew and travel restrictions. meanwhile the uk reporting nearly 20,000 new infections on sunday. whales largely spared from the virus earlier this year but is now under a fire break, as they're calling it, a fire break lockdown because cases are

rising there. cnn explains how that will work and the mixed response it's getting. >> reporter: shutting up shop and looking down. friday's last orders were filled with uncertainty. come sunday, wales 3 million residents were once more ordered to stay at home for the next two weeks. a fire break deemed essential to stop covid in its tracks. >> a short but deep period of restrictions that will interrupt the virus, break the change of transmission. but that is the best hope we have of being able to get things back on track. >> reporter: the decision was welcomed by these shoppers on the streets. >> it's about time that somebody took the bull by the horns. >> there's people dying at the end of the day. just stay if had and respect that. >> reporter: but not so much in the supermarkets where a ban on the sale of non-essential items prompted a petition to loosen the new laws almost immediately.

meanwhile, businesses braced themselves from meager taking. >> why the second time? we wash our hands, we social distance in the store. why can't we stay open safely? >> reporter: like scotland in northern ireland, wales has its own government with autonomy over matters like health. it claims this national lockdown is needed to prevent the virus spreading from big cities to remote places where it hasn't yet gained a foothold. the porous border with england is also a source of concern. they were spared the first wave of the pandemic only to recently witness an uptick in cases, thanks largely to tourists bringing the virus over the border from hotspots in england. the world's government says it's following scientific advice, part of that science confirms

genetic material from covid-19 is popping up in waste water in wales. >> it was very, very busy in the summer. >> it was really busy. >> reporter: thousands of visitors were streaming into snow done i can't every day. now not even the locals are allowed out without good reason. halloween is off the cards so that maybe christmas can be saved. >> you can't do anything and you can't diversify. we've all built our businesses up over 15, 20 years. you know, what can you do? >> reporter: wales is taking a different approach to other parts of britain still focused on local tiered restrictions. this lockdown will last until november 9th. whether the picture will look less bleak thereafter, it may be many more weeks before that becomes clear.

nina dos santos, cnn, wales. israel starting to ease the second nationwide coronavirus lockdown and people there have mixed feelings about it. the country has reported more than 309,000 infections according to johns hopkins university. but new daily cases are dropping steadily, which is good news. israel saw fewer than 700 on saturday down from a peak of more than 9,000 a few weeks ago. while there is relief that israel's latest lockdown appears to be working, there's also a lot of finger pointing over why the situation got this bad in the first place. oren liebermann with that. >> reporter: in the heart of the desert, the second wave of coronavirus hit hard. this town was labelled a red zone because of a high infection rate. a second lockdown was inevitable. but it was also embraced. >> there was definitely an awareness in the community of the seriousness of the situation and the need for severe

measures, measures that would be effective. >> reporter: the town closed schools early, going above and beyond health requirements. religious services were moved outdoors before it was mandatory. and in late spring, the mayor created a local contact tracing network, not relying on a national plan. >> i need to fight the covid, and i need to give them hope. i need to work for their immunity, and i must do everything i can that they will trust me. >> reporter: across the country, public trust in the national leadership's handling in the coronavirus crisis has plummeted. the different sectors in israel attacked and blamed each other for a second wave of infections that was much worse than the first. a second general lockdown only exacerbated the bitterness, even as it brought down the numbers. >> any time you reach the point

you need a lockdown, that's a failure of managing the pandemic. the lockdown itself is likely to work because everybody stays at home. but reaching that point is, in my view, a failure. >> reporter: this man says it was a surprise that israel's second lockdown worked so quickly. on september 30th, israel hit more than 9,000 new cases in one day. three weeks later, the numbers were down to around 1,000 a day even though a lockdown was less strict. >> all other activities like allowing people to be more outdoors to do sports, to drive more but be kind of more on their own, those are not drivers of the pandemic. so, the fact that we allowed those during the second lockdown and not the first didn't have an effect. >> reporter: they saw a similar drop from 27 in a day in september to less than 5 in the last week. here they take seriously a commandment to love thy neighbor

as themselves. >> translator: the country of israel is like a hand. the hand has fingers. all the fingers together make one hand. a hand without a finger is not a complete hand. the same thing for us. we have many different men and women, everyone with his opinions, desires, ideas. but we are all truly one. >> reporter: as israel slowly reopens, there is a fear it's too soon. the numbers are significantly worse than they were at the end of the first lockdown in may. here they say their greatest strength is a community united against coronavirus. warren liebermann, cnn. coming up here on "cnn newsroom," americans already waiting in long lines to cast their ballots for president. but there are concerns those lines aren't a good thing. one voter tells us why when we come back. it's not just a sandw, far from it. it's a reason to come together. it's a taste of something good.

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hold campaign rallies until election day. the number of americans casting their ballots early shows hower in energized voters are this year. already more than 58 million people have already voted. it's shattering records. of course part of the reason people are turning out early is to avoid crowds because of the coronavirus pandemic. but so far that hasn't made the lines any shorter. cnn correspondents are talking to voters right across the u.s. paul vercammen is in los angeles. but first to new york where more than 100,000 people voted sunday, breaking the record from just the day before. athena jones filed our report. >> reporter: we're here in brooklyn where the second day of early voting is well underway. what we're seeing today is what

we saw across the city on the first day of early voting on saturday, which is huge enthusiasm, high voter turnout and very long lines. here at the brooklyn museum, there's a line that's hundreds of people long that wraps all the way around the building. several of the folks we spoke with saying that they waited about three hours to cast their vote. all of them telling us that it was important for them to show up in person to cast their ballot in person because they had concerns about making sure their vote is counted. now, i talked about the long lines. we saw in the city as well, in the city of manhattan, in brooklyn, in the bronx, in queens lines stretching blocks long in front of these voting locations. there are 88 locations throughout the city. i spoke with one voter who said it's good to see the voter enthusiasm. but she had some issues and questions about the long lines. listen. >> i actually don't feel like it's great. i feel like that's still a form of voter suppression. i don't think that long lines

should be celebrated. i think it's great that people are turning out, but i don't think that's ultimately a good thing that we're forced to wait. lots of working americans can't wait three hours in line. it's a privilege to be able to do that. we're compromised because we're afraid if we vote by mail, our votes might get lost. >> reporter: that voter concerned about the long wait times. one thing that's important to note and a sign of the enthusiasm is that already just in the first day of early voting, a nearly 94,000 people cast their ballot. and that is more than voted in all nine days of early voting in 2019. so, we expect to see this enthusiasm continue. and folks who are coming out on a day like today have got to bundle up and pack their patience. all weekend long in california get out the vote campaigns, after all 55 electoral votes at stake, 53 members of the house of representatives to be voted on.

one unique get out the vote rally here on the streets of compton, the compton cowboys came through, and they delivered their ballots in person, dismounting from their horses at the compton library. randy savvy is a co-founder of the compton cowboys. he was down right choked up to be participating in his part of democracy. >> i just feel for the people, man, all the people of the world that's suffering. and just feel for our country right now. we're hurting like a -- we're hurting a lot, you know. and i just feel like -- i foal that for everybody that's hurting, you know what i'm saying? i've been fortunate enough to have my health and family and friends, but i feel for the people that don't have that because, you know, i know what that feels like to have it. i live my life imagining, i can't imagine if i didn't have my friends, my family, if i was sick, if i was losing my house or losing whatever because

everything going on. so, i guess i just feel grateful. i feel humble. and i feel like i'm doing what i'm supposed to do, and i feel like i'm making my family and my community and my city proud and my country proud. >> so, just another ballot cast, 6.5 million cast in california so far. they think an all-time record will be broken for turnout here in the golden state. reporting from compton, i'm paul vercammen, back to you now, michael. >> all right, paul, thank you. communist party leaders are gathering in beijing to plan the next stage of china's economic development. a look at the priorities after the break.

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the asian markets are mixed, as you can see there. the hang seng up half a percentage point. the shanghai compass down nearly .75 of a percent. steven jiang is in beijing with more on that. the fact that these days they can look ahead five years and make a plan is quite something. what do they expect? >> that's right, michael. the so-called central committee just opened this morning on monday and it's going to last four days. this is actually a regular occurrence but of course with added significance because of the ongoing pandemic and worsening relations with washington. now, doing this behind closed door meetings i think the leaders, especially president xi jinping is going to map out the policy initiatives for the next five years. they're probably not going to set clear gdp growth targets

anymore to give themselves more flexibility, but there are certain things they're undoubtedly going to do, including for example to increasingly emphasize domestic investments and domestic consumption as the engine to drive economic growth and also to reduce the chinese reliance on the u.s. economy. this is obviously the result of what's been happening in the past four years. but also with the potential biden administration, the leadership here understands that u.s. policy towards china is not going back to the good ole' days. they are emphasizing self-reliance in key industries especially the high-tech sector. and they're undoubtedly going to try and shore up and reinforce state backing and state funding in industries such as aerospace and artificial intelligence as well as new energy. so, michael, you know, it's interesting because as you said, this is uncertain times. the fact that we're meeting to

discuss a five-year plan is definitely a message to not only the country but the world, that this system, the political system, the top-down approach really works and works better than that of the u.s., michael. >> yeah, it's going to be interesting to see how that all plays out. it's interesting steven the u.s. on sunday saying won't be able to control the pandemic. yet in china, one case is found and millions of people are going to be tested. real quick tell us about that. >> that's right. there is a new cluster of cases in the far border city over the weekend after the initial case they had found in total 138 asymptomatic cases in the region. they've launched a swift response, locking down four towns and conducting mass testing to 4.7 million residents. they are going to complete this process by tuesday. this is the kind of response that the chinese officials say give them confidence they will bring the situation under control even though the number

themselves could be quite alarming, michael. >> yeah, millions of tests. steven jiang in beijing, appreciate it. thanks so much. and if you've been watching us around the world, thanks for being with us. our international viewers are going to have world sport up next. for our viewers here in the united states, i'll be right back after the break with more news. someday i'll ask you a question that will change me forever. yes. ♪ start your someday today with twenty to forty percent off all bridal.

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months left in the year. but republicans say they're following the constitution. lauren fox with more. >> reporter: in what has been a fast-moving confirmation process, amy coney barrett is on track to be approved to the supreme court on monday when the senate is expected to vote. this comes after the senate advanced her nomination in a procedural vote on sunday afternoon. now, all eyes are going to be on whether or not vice president mike pence will attend this vote. that's because members of his staff have tested positive for coronavirus. and while the vice president and his wife have both continued to test negative, there are some concerns on capitol hill whether or not pence should make it to this vote or not. with democratic leader chuck schumer arguing that it would endanger the senate for pence to attend that vote and other republicans saying it's not necessary for him to be there, although senator john thune, the majority whip, told me it was up

to the vice president to make that decision for himself with consultation with medical experts. for cnn, i'm lauren fox, washington. cnn supreme court analyst joins me now from washington. always lucky when we can get you on, joan. what preset is set with a confirmation like this in these circumstances less than two weeks from election day? >> good to see you, michael. and yes, this is quite amazing. ruth bader ginsburg died just about a month ago on september 17th and here we are just hours from when judge amy coney barrett is going to be confirmed for the supreme court just about a week before the election. so, this is stunning. nothing like this has happened this close to an election ever. so, it's a pretty strong precedent, especially, michael, given what we all know occurred four years ago in 2016 when the

republican majority that is pushing through the appointment of amy coney barrett blocked all consideration of president obama's nominee for the seat that had been vacated by antonin scalia. so, we've got two stunning developments here, one where an individual's blocked for about a year and one where someone was sped through in just about a month. >> yeah, exactly. i mean, how -- i'm curious to your take on how does a political charged nomination like this complicate things for the chief justice, john roberts and his stated aim of keeping the supreme court out of politics, which sort of seems a bit ludicrous as we've seen. >> that's right, that's right. you know, john roberts came up through politics early on in his career, so he knows how it works for the judiciary. he knows that these things are always drenched in politics to

one extent or another. but he maintains that once someone gets on the bench there are no such things as obama judges, as trump judges, as bush judges, as clinton judges. that's exactly what you said in late 2018. but his point is that he doesn't want the american public to believe that an individual is automatically going to side with the president who put him or her on the court.dent trump himself has said he wants her there in time for any kind of election litigation, it really assertion justice john roberts makes that you can trust an impartial judiciary but that the supreme court is just going to decide these cases as they come without regard to politics. >> i did want to ask you though, you know, how quickly will be the impact of coney barrett on the bench in terms of the

docket? some pretty important things coming up and things she has already expressed views on in her previous life. >> that's right. exactly one week after the election, the justices will hear a case testing the entire validity of the affordable care act. it's the signature achievement in the domestic realm of president barack obama, and republicans have been trying to get rid of it for ten years. it was signed in 2010. and this is a lawsuit that she hasn't commented on directly. but twice before she has criticized court rulings that did uphold the affordable care act earlier in 2012 and 2015. so, she already comes into it suggesting she's not so crazy about the affordable care act. but the question before the justices this time around, michael, it's really a weak legal argument that the

challenges are -- challengers have brought. and i would be surprised if she ends up -- first of all, i would be superior surprised if the majority votes to strike down the entire law. and she might not even go that far herself. but even more immediately before these november 10th arguments, this supreme court is going to see several challenges that relate to the current election. ballot issues, deadlines for absentee voting and mail-in voting. so, there are just a lot of cases marching up to the supreme court that could affect the november 3rd election's outcome. >> yeah, we'll see how political it is. joan, always good to see you. thank you. >> thank you, michael. well, back to the u.s. presidential election for a second. there are, as we've been saying, just eight days to go. an astronaut living in the

international space station showing her fellow americans that there is no execute not to vote. this is kate ruben showing off her makeshift voting booth aboard the iss. she tells us how she's able to make her voice heard all the way back on earth. >> there's legislation passed a number of years ago to allow astronauts to vote in space. i think a lot of astronauts do this. they feel that it's very important. it's critical to participate in our democracy. we consider it an honor to be able to vote from space. so, we fill out a form and we vote via absentee ballot, and i plan on doing that in november. i think it's really important for everybody to vote. and if we can do it from space, then i believe folks can do it from the ground too. now, tropical storm zeta is expected to bring floods.

the hurricane center projects the storm could make landfall on the u.s. gulf coast later this week. for more details let's bring in pedram jaf harry. >> another system not only threatening mexico. it was just a few weeks ago we had hurricane delta make landfall across the peninsula there. this is another storm on approach. notice we've exhausted to 21 named storms up through wilfred. that's the national hurricane center given names and six more through the greek alphabet taking us to storm zeta. this is where we are. this is a 95 kilometer power storm sitting in an area that is conducive for development, very warm waters across this region. the concern is that this particular tropical storm will strengthen further as it approaches the government. we've seen significant damage

with the previous storm delta came ashore as a strong category 2. zeta going to be no exception. we think strengthening is approach here. we're going to watch this carefully from the landfall perspective. sometime monday evening local time and then beyond this, the storm potentially maintains its intensity as it re-emerges into the gulf of mexico and variability. the american model does want to bring this ashore in southern and southeastern louisiana. south western louisiana, maybe even coastal texas. so, breaking it apart here, you'll see quite a bit of variability exists between every single model and confidence really low on where the system ends up and how strong it is going to be just because this is the time of the year. the water temperatures are cooling off, the environment and the atmosphere also changes. tough to get a handle on storms

that are pushing a landfall here as we work our way through the latter portion of october. we notice on the coast of louisiana yet again as the likely scenario. how about the broader perspective as we take you across the western pacific? another line of storms here. typhoon works its way across the philippines in the past 24 hours and still equivalent to a category 1 hurricane as it reemerges over the south china sea. the forecast wants to take this and make landfall sometime around wednesday afternoon or even across the coast region of vietnam. maybe points to the south. you've got to keep in mind this is an area that's been so hard hit with tropical systems. we've had dozens of lives lost. early october just made landfall in the last 24 hours across this region, michael. that led to e vvacuations of

thousands of people. yet another storm with potential for half a meter of rainfall in areas hard hit. >> thank you, pedram. now attempts to remove the first nest of asian giant hornets in the u.s. appears to have been a success. scientists used radio trackers to find the so-called murder hornets in a nest in northwest washington. the experts vacuumed the hornets out of that nest so they can be studied. the species is called murder hornets because of how aggressive and efficient they are in killing their prey. they're pretty damaging to other bees as well. scientists have been trying to locate the nests since last december after they first sighted the bees in the u.s. thanks for watching. i'll be right back with another hour after the break. we are the thrivers.

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