the justices of the supreme court are elected officials, which is not true. >> ben, i need to end it there for today. we'll continue this as challenges perk up. thanks for spending time with us. brianna keilar picks up coverage right now. have a great day. hello, i am brianna keilar. i want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. we are seven days out from a presidential election for a nation in crisis. where president trump and nominee joe biden spend the last few days says a lot about the state of the race. this is an all out run on the battleground states for both campaigns. there are some surprising pit stops. biden is speaking this hour in georgia, a state that hasn't gone blue since the '90s. that race is in a dead heat. president trump is putting all his focus on the midwest with three stops today in michigan, wisconsin, and nebraska. and it is the midwest where the

coronavirus is seeing the highest positivity rate. the average number of new daily cases nationwide is ballooning, 70,000 at this point. that means more hospitalizations. 11 states report record numbers of patients admitted for coronavirus that's putting icus under a lot of pressure. americans will soon decide who they think is best to handle the crisis. according to a new axios poll, 60% believe the federal government is making the pandemic recovery worse. that's not good news for president trump who is trying to change the subject to the supreme court and to mail-in voting. former vice president joe biden is expected to take the stage any moment in georgia and we're going to take you there live when he does. and as biden hits georgia, his former boss is stumping in florida. he is making a stop in orlando and attacking trump for his handling of the pandemic. >> what's his closing argument?

that people are too focused on covid. he said this at one of his rallies. covid, covid, covid. he is complaining. he is jealous of covid media coverage. listen, you have a president now, wants full credit for an economy he inherited, wants zero blame for the pandemic he ignored. but you know what? the job doesn't work that way. you've got to be responsible 24/7. you have to pay attention 24/7. tweeting at the tv doesn't fix things. >> cnn political correspondent mj lee is with us now. the former vice president is in warm springs, georgia, mj. the site of fdr's little white house. what's his strategy in that state? >> reporter: brianna, we are exactly one week out from election day. it is fascinating that joe biden is choosing to spend his day in georgia, a state as you mentioned, democratic

presidential candidate hasn't won since the 1990s. this was bill clinton in 1992. and biden explained the strategy this way to reporters. he said i feel good about winning some key midwestern states like michigan, like pennsylvania, like wisconsin, and with states like iowa, georgia, he feels like he has a chance. that's why we are seeing him in georgia today, why we are going to see him campaigning in iowa friday in addition to wisconsin. in a few minutes, we're going to see the former vice president give a speech in warm springs, georgia. this is where the campaign says he is going to be talking about the issue of national unity. we have seen him do this over and over again. the campaign believing they can make an appeal to voters that believe the country is too divided right now, later in the day, he will make his way over to atlanta, georgia where he is going to be talking about importance of getting out and voting, and importance of early voting as well at a moment when we have seen record levels of

early voting already. and then i think what we saw from former president barack obama just now in orlando, that was fascinating. remember, the former president was in florida over the weekend campaigning in miami. goes to show how important the state is with so many electoral votes up for grabs. we really saw him doing his sort of surrogate thing, showing why he is such a compelling surrogate for the former vice president. he said that he could attest to his character, his experience because he has worked with him in the white house for eight years and unleashing a set of blistering attacks against the president on everything from covid to health care. his personal conduct even mentioning his tweeting habits. but overall, he had this overarching plea to voters. he said you have to turn out like ever before, the party was complacent back in 2016 and obama basically saying i don't

want to see us make the same mistake of last time, brianna. >> all right. we'll see how that impacts voters with his final push for joe biden. mj, thank you for that report. president trump has another three stop day on his campaign agenda today. soon we're going to hear him speak at a rally in michigan before he heads to a stop in wisconsin, and then onto nebraska. those three states have a combined 31 electoral votes up for grabs. they are states he won. jeremy, president trump has to hope the blue wall isn't rebuilt along the great lakes. is that behind his travel plans today? >> reporter: no question, brianna. excuse the volume. as for the president's campaign, he is going to three states.

warren, michigan first, talking about how he won narrowly last time around. then onto nebraska. [ inaudible ] this is a state the president, won by fewer than 11,000 votes last time around. the polls are not indicating that's about to happen. he is down nine points in the recent polls. but the president hopes he will have one of three states, michigan, wisconsin, and pennsylvania, where the president was campaigning yesterday. he needs to win at least one of those states in order to get to the path to 270 electoral college votes. that's why you're seeing the

president campaigning strongly here in the midwestern states. one thing we have to talk about, brianna, the fact that the president was continuing to do this, deny reality of surge of coronavirus cases, holding rallies like this one. already you have a couple thousand people behind me. you can see people on the stage behind the president, they are wearing masks, the campaign requires them to do so to stand behind the president. the majority of the crowd is not wearing masks. that's the picture we see across the country as the president is crisscrossing the country, particularly the midwest where you are seeing a surge in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations. brianna? >> that's very interesting. has the folks behind him wearing masks, caught on the head on shots, might appear that a lot of people are wearing masks but really, they aren't. jeremy diamond from michigan. the supreme court just ruled on another battle over mail-in voting in a key swing state.

the justices decided that wisconsin absentee ballots will only be kounlcounted if receive election day. all of the appointees voted to reject a six day extension a lower court issued in wisconsin last month. i want to bring in bill weir reporting from milwaukee. bill, this comes at a time the post office is under a lot of pressure, not to mention a pandemic prompting more people to vote absentee. how are voters reacting to the ruling? >> reporter: it sort of pushes the urgency to today, brianna. this is the day when you absolutely have to get that absentee ballot in the mail to be sure it is counted by election day. you can still deliver them by hand up to 8:00 p.m. on election day. but it is telling about pent up urgen urgency, as president obama was urging, especially communities of color, black people in milwaukee that didn't show up four years ago, it is telling

that of all absentee ballots sent out already, 85% in madison returned. 77% in milwaukee already returned with a week to go. the state is so evenly divided. 47.9% democrat, 47.8 republican. last four elections going back have been decided less than one percentage point. after florida in 2000, the hanging chads, wisconsin was the next closest state. the democrats are saying get out there, get your ballot out today. getting volunteers to try to motivate people by the phone. we heard stories of republican campaigners canvassing door to door, not as worried about covid-19 as the state spikes. whether that will play itself out in the end, brianna, may come down to the count on election day. you can look at the counties, their political makeup. you see huge numbers from

milwaukee, we know that will bode well for vice president biden. in the northern counties, those folks may wait until election day and show up in person. it will come down certainly to the wire. the head of the wisconsin democratic party told me last night that in the course of human history, just by fluke of electoral college, few people have more influence over humanity than a single voter in the state of wisconsin. brianna? >> bill, thank you so much. beautiful sound behind you there in milwaukee as well. as coronavirus is exploding in the u.s., a new study shows antibodies fade over time. this is a nightmare scenario for health experts. and another study shows 80% of covid patients have too little of a earn vitamin. and moments from now. joe biden speaks live.

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more than 69,000 cases a day. number of hospitalizations at the highest number since august. elizabeth cohen is with us to talk about what we're seeing. researchers are learning more about the virus eve day, including a possible role that vitamin d could play in a patient's outcome. tell us about this. >> this is an interesting study out of spain. published in a medical journal. they looked at patients who had covid and found that they were often deficient invite minimum d. let's look at the actual findings. they looked at 200 covid-19 patients, found 82% of them had a vitamin d deficiency. that happens sometimes. when compared to people that did not have covid, only 47% of those had a deficiency. we know that vitamin d deficiency may impair the immune system. so what this researcher says is you know what, vitamin d supplements might be helpful for

some populations. should people in nursing homes, often deficient and high risk for covid, should those folks take supplements. it is not a recommendation for everyone to take supplements but certainly interesting research. i think there will be more work on this. >> and there's new evidence, right, that coronavirus antibodies may not last long. that's not good news. what did the study find exactly? >> it is not good news at all. i know a lot of people that had covid think now i'm immune. maybe not. this is a study from the uk, a large study. look at what they found. when they looked at more than 17,000 people with covid-19 antibodies, when they tracked them over three months, more than 26% decline in antibodies in just three months. we don't know what this means. we don't know if it means they lost immunity, didn't lose i am unl unit, lost it to some extent. scientists said for months this

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we have a lot of people. thousands and thousands. i want to just tell you how happy everybody is, including me with justice barrett. she's going to be a great justice for many, many years. i am very proud of the way she went through the process. it was an incredible process. a tough process. she got through it very easily and we're very proud of the fact that she's now a justice of the supreme court. i only saw he was on fox. and fox puts him on all the time, but sleepy joe on all the time. what they should do, they should show the picture of sleepy joe when he rushed to pennsylvania, he saw that i had 25,000 people at each event. when he rushed to pennsylvania and did a statement and got lost

in a fog. they should show that. or they should show the picture where he called me george. he thought i was george. i guess he is talking about george bush. he thought i was george and they should show that. no. fox is very disappointing, but fox puts on this -- this would not have happened with roger ales. i can tell you that. i'll always talk about it, people should get it. our people should get it, the stimulus. but nancy pelosi is only interested in bailing out badly run crime ridden democrat cities and states. that's all she's interested in. she is not interested in helping the people. after the election, we'll get the best stimulus package you've ever seen. i think we're going to take back the house because of her. i think you have a lot of congressmen and women, republicans that are going to get elected. we'll take back the house, we'll

hold the senate, we'll whoehold white house. you look at the poll that came out today and yesterday, a lot had to do with the gator with the rallies, i don't know, but take a look at the polls, look how we're doing in wisconsin, look how we're doing in iowa, look how we're doing in ohio, look how we're doing in florida, look how we're doing everywhere practically. i think we're doing very well. going to have an exciting night. it would be very, very proper and nice if a winner would be declared november 3rd instead of counting ballots two weeks, which is totally inappropriate and i don't believe that's by our laws. i don't believe that. we'll see what happens. >> mr. president, shouldn't the voters judge you on covid? >> voters are judging me on a lot of things. one of the things we've done a really good job on is covid. we would have millions of people, millions right now, we would have millions of people

dead. two million people, they were projecting 2.2 if we didn't do what we did. we did the ventilators, now we're doing all of the equipment. now we're doing vaccines. we're doing therapeutics, done a great job. people are starting to see. biden had the swine flu, he had the worst job anybody has ever seen. had no idea what he was doing. his chief of staff said he had no idea what he was doing. i'll see you in michigan. we're going to have some fun. thank you. >> all right. i want to bring in gloria borger, chief political analyst to talk about this. couple things to fact check. the president touting a wonderful covid response. it is not. numbers are clear from experts looking at data analysis that this government's terrible response to the pandemic has cost american lives and it cost a lot of lives. he also talked about joe biden.

he said he mistook basically george bush for him or was saying george. he is talking about a video clip of former vice president biden who was talking sort of before a concert where george lopez was the host and he was answering a question from george lopez. so no, he didn't. but gloria, what did you think about what the president said there and he kept it pretty short. >> he did keep it pretty short. i think the one actual interesting thing to me aside from all of the lies was what he said about getting a decision the night of the election. he said it would be proper and nice to get a decision on november 3rd. he said if we didn't, it would be inappropriate and he believes it's against the laws, but he wasn't, you know, the way he has been which is we can't certify this election, i can't guarantee

a peaceful transfer of power. he kind of dialed that back just a touch to me saying it would be proper to get the result because he understands, i think, that it is state by state and a lot of states are allowing counting to go on and this may go to the courts, it may not. i think he kind of understands that now. another thing to me which was bizarre which is that he seemed to hold up roger ales as a p paragon of virtue, none of this showing the democratic candidate or former president speaking would ever happen under roger ales and he says that that is the right thing for a news station to do. now, we understand that fox is the mouthpiece for the president, but at least it has to keep up, you know, a pretense of showing the news during the day, which is what it does, and he said well, that would never

happen. >> i also wonder, one of the groups he's trying to win back is suburban women. here he is talking about roger ales who built fox news, this hero of the golden age. roger ales was a predator. he was ousted after multiple disturbing allegations of sexual harassment. >> that's right. that's right. and the president is still defending him because when roger ales was alive as we now all know, that he was in the president's pocket, not just in the evenings but all day long, and of course, the president doesn't like the fact that they're even showing barack obama on television or showing joe biden on tv. he doesn't like that. that's why he was late. he was watching barack obama speak on television. i would add that one thing that he seemed to tweet about is that barack obama got it wrong on his taxes, that in fact as he keeps saying he has spent millions in taxes which we know maybe state

taxes but not federal taxes. so, you know, it is the same old same old. >> and to other countries. and taxes to other countries. not to the federal government of the united states of america that he's president of. he also said, gloria, that there would be stimulus talks after the election. stimulus talks hit an impasse. they got the first infusion of help and have been hanging in there, right, barely. some not at all. not been hanging in there. >> that's right. the democrats passed a stimulus package. trying to negotiate for the largest package they can. remember, the president pulled the plug on stimulus. what was it, earlier this month. i can't even remember any more. then he decided i can't pull the plug on stimulus because my republicans are mad at me. so yes, i want a stimulus package. not only do i want a stimulus package, i want a bigger stimulus package than anybody

proposed. then the republicans came back to him and said we can't vote for that. the republicans cannot agree on a stimulus package. the democrats are just fine with what they have. he is saying elect me and you're going to get a bigger and better stimulus package. which donald trump is anyone supposed to believe? the one who wanted to pull the plug or one that wants a bigger and better one and can't get his republicans to go along with him. >> yeah, we'll see what voters think, right? >> exactly. >> gloria, stand by. we're going to have joe biden speaking in moments, i'm going to want to talk to you about that. plus, another rise in the number of children being infected with coronavirus. and task force member dr. deborah birx says in other words has the least mask use she's seen in the u.s. hear the reasoning behind why folks there are behaving this way. chaos erupting in philadelphia after the death of a black man shot by police. this is cnn special live coverage. with sofi, i was able to condense all of my loans

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marquette branch holds 600 inmates. at one point, more than 200 of the 327 employees could not come to work either because they tested positive or had come into close contact with someone that had and had to quarantine. here are other coronavirus headlines that cnn correspondents are covering. >> i am adrian in chicago. in two months, the seven day average jumped 405%. let's give you perspective. it took about seven and a half months before wisconsin saw 100,000 cases, compared to 36 days for the second set of 100,000 cases. since start of the pandemic, covid-19 has ended the lives of more than 1700 people in wisconsin. >> i am jacqueline howard in atlanta. the number of covid-19 cases

among children has jumped 14% in just two weeks, according to american academy of pediatrics. the group says more than 790,000 children in the u.s. have been infected with coronavirus, among them, more than 90,000 new cases were recently reported over a couple of weeks and that marks a significant increase. >> i am pete monteen. so many people wonder if travel for the holidays in spite of the pandemic. filtered air on a commercial airliner is 99% safe from coronavirus. harvard scientists stress that wearing a mask on board a flight is critical. their study focused only on the air on board the airplane. they say there needs to be more research on the entire travel experience, something called curb to curb, that includes the air inside of airports. >> thank you so much to all the

correspondents for those reports. another big concern is rural america, the coronavirus hitting the last untouched areas in the country and local health officials are concerned about the strains on hospitals. montana has tied a record high of 360 hospitalizations. it is one of 11 states recording record high hospitalizations. sue woods is with us now, the director of central montana public health. sue, i appreciate you being here to talk to us about what your community is going through. how concerned are you about the spike in cases in montana and do you feel like you have resources, do hospitals have resources they need to handle the rising number of patients? >> well, i think all health care providers and public health workers are concerned with the spike that we're seeing now. i know our hospitals depend ing

on capacity are over what they normally see, so yeah, it is an ongoing concern for sure. >> the white house coronavirus response coordinator was in north dakota and said over the last 24 hours as we were in your grocery stores, in your restaurants, frankly even in your hotels, this is the least use of masks in any establishments f any place we have been. we find that deeply unfortunate. you don't know who is infected and you don't know if you're infected yourself. is that something that you see happening in rural america more broadly? are you seeing that, sue? >> well, honestly i think that we've had more mask use since the numbers have been rising at least locally. it is always a concern that there are people that just don't wear masks. but when i go out, what i'm

seeing now compared to say a month or two months ago is encouraging for me at least. it seems like people are becoming more aware and more compliant with the governor's directive. >> that's wonderful news. people are trying to stay safe and protect neighbors and friends and family. can you give us a sense of when you look at rural populations and the access that folks have to medical care, it might be something that they have to travel farther to get. what are the unique challenges that rural communities are facing in the pandemic? >> well, i think that's exactly right, what you said. there is in a lot of communities 50, 75, 100 miles to the nearest hospital. because of this, what we see are small communities drawing together to support each other.

they're looking out for each other, taking care of their elderly, making sure that they have the groceries and medications that they need. you know, we're used to being isolated in montana. you know, it's a beautiful, big space with not a lot of people and so we're used to taking care of each other. i'm always encouraged and heartened by how well our small communities take care of each other. >> yeah. it is a beautiful place. there's nothing like a small community for that true sense of community that you're talking about. sue, thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you for having me. justice brett kavanaugh haf showed his hand how they could disrupt vote counting. and philadelphia has protests around the city with dozens of officers hurt. we're live there next.

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chaos erupts in philadelphia after police shoot and kill a black man. officers arrest dozens of protesters after 24 hours of rocks and bricks being thrown. this injured some officers, including one who was hit by a pickup truck. crowds set fires. a witness that recorded a video of the shooting said the victim, walter wallace jr. was confronted after leaving a house armed with a knife. brynn gingras is in west philadelphia and has more on the video as well as an update on the protests and the

investigation. brynn, we understand several officials are asking people not to rush to judgment. walk us through what happened. >> reporter: yeah, exactly right, brianna. first, i want to say we are outside the home of walter wallace where his mother is living, cameras are setting up. we are expected to hear from her for the first time since this happened last night. this is the street we are standing on where walter wallace was shot by police and his mother was not only there, not only witnessed that but also was crying out for police to de-escalate, to not shoot her son. again, this all happened before her eyes. we're waiting for that. you can imagine we heard from family members that she's doubled over in pain, in anger, with so many questions and that anger really flooded out into the streets of west philadelphia whereas you mentioned there were instances of looting and police officers hurt as well as arrests. a city on edge today as

questions swirl around a fatal officer-involved shooting in west philadelphia monday which the philadelphia district attorney's office now says it is investigating. the confrontation was captured on graphic video. police say a 27-year-old man, walter wallace, was brandishing a knife, but it is unclear what exactly led to the deadly shooting. >> struck the male, dropped the knife, was scooped up by one of the discharging officers, took him into the police car, drove him to presbyterian hospital. unfortunately he succumbed to his injuries. >> reporter: the incident led to looting and unrest in philadelphia last night where the police department says more than 30 people were arrested and dozens of officers were injured. one suffering a broken leg after she was struck by a car. pennsylvania governor tom wolff said he is saddened by wallace's death. >> i share in mourning with the

family. i and my staff have been in constant communication since last night with the folks in philadelphia and the hope is that that doesn't escalate into anything more than the peaceful protests that this kind of situation brings out. >> reporter: police were responding to a call about a domestic incident. his mother tried to intervene. a witness to the shooting, maurice holloway pleaded with him to drop the knife. >> i don't know what his demeanor was. something had to be going on that wasn't normal. >> reporter: he wishes the call hadn't led to wallace's death. >> shoot him in the leg or don't shoot him at all. >> reporter: head of the police union said they had to use lethal force, released a statement saying we support and defend these officers as they, too, are traumatized by being involved in a fatal shooting. mayor jim kenny echoed confusion

of the community and hoped for a speedy, transparent investigation saying in a statement, quote, my prayers are with the family and friends of walter wallace. i have watched the video of this tragic incident and it presents difficult questions that must be answered. >> all right, brynn, thank you. let's listen in to joe biden in georgia. >> longest walk an american can makeup a short flight of stairs to his children's bedroom to tell a child you can't play in that little league team any more, you can't go back to the same school, we can't stay here, joey. we can't stay in scranton any more. we have to move. there are good jobs in delaware. when i get one, i'll come back for you, your sister, your brother, and your mom. it is only 157 miles away, joey.

my father came home every weekend for that year or more but he always said when we finally got settled in delaware, used to say joey, job is a lot more than just a paycheck. he said it's about your dignity, a job, about respect, about your place in the community and right now in this autumn afternoon, millions of americans all across this country feel they've lost all of that. a seize nzason of protest has b out across the country. violence that won't be tolerated but much of it is a cry for justice from a community long had a knee of injustice on their neck. the names of george floyd, breonna taylor, jacob blake,

they'll not soon be forgotten. not by me, not by us and not by this country. they're going to inspire a new way of justice in america. these are historic, painful crises. the insidious virus, the economic anguish, the systematic discrimination and one of them would have rocked the nation, any one of them, yet we've been hit by all three at once. but if we're honest with ourselves, the pain striking at the heart of our country goes back months -- not months, dut ye but years. our politics too long mean, bitter and divisive and you hear it now in the distance. we've stopped seeing dignity in one another. we've stopped showing each other

respect. too many among us spend more time shouting than listening. more time fighting than working together. more time demonizing and denigrating others than lifting them up. the divisions in our nation are getting wider. angry people are upset. anger and suspicion are growing. and our wounds are getting deeper. many wonder, has it gone too far? have we passed the point of no return? has the heart of this nation turned to stone? i don't think so. i refuse to believe it. i know this country. i know our people. and i know we can unite and heal this nation. warm springs is a good place to talk about hope and healing.

so franklin roosevelt came "to use the therapeutic waters" to rebuild himself. stricken by polio, the polio virus in 1921, he suffered from paralysis. like many other americans in those pre-vaccine decades, fdr would long live an independent life. a life that wasn't defined by his illness. to him, and to so many others, they have seen physical challenges. warm springs offered therapy for the body and i might add and the soul, but it offered something else as well. fdr came looking for a cure, but it was the lessons he learned here that he used to lift a nation. humility. empathy. courage. optimism. this place represented a way forward. a way of restoration, of

resilience, of healing, and in the years that followed, fdr would come back to warm springs often, to think about how to heal the nation and the world. that's exactly what he did. lifting us out of a great depression, defeating tyranny. saving democracy. and then it was here on april 12th, 1945, that president roosevelt died. a casualty of war as surely as any who fell in combat and the free world mourned. america's leaders wept. maybe even more important was the reaction the american people. we'll see petty officer greg jackson, a black man, cried as he played his accordion in tribute to fdr, not far from here. and the stories told that when

franklin delano funeral procession went by a man collapsed in grief and the neighbor asked him. did you know the president? the response was, no, the man said, but he knew me. he -- knew -- me. few words better describe the kind of president our nation needs right now. a president who is not in it for himself but for others. a president who doesn't divide us but united states us. a president who appeals not to the worst in us but to the best. a president who cares less about his tv ratings and more about the american people. the president has looks not to settle scores but to find solutions. a president guided not by wishful thinking, but by science, reason and fact.

that's the kind of president i hope to be. i'm running as a proud democrat. i will govern as an american president. i'll work with democrats and republicans. i'll work as hard for those who don't support me as for those who do. that's the job of a president. a duty of care for everyone. this place, warm springs, is a reminder that though broken, each of us can be healed. that as a people and a country we can overcome this devastating virus. that we can heal a suffering world, and, yes, we can restore our soul and save our country. until his last hours, president roosevelt was as work on a

speech to be delivered the next day. in it he was to say "today we must cultivate the science of human relationships. the ability of all people, of all kinds to live together and work together in the same world at peace." to live together and work together. that's how i see america. that's how i see the presidency. and that's how i see the future. i tell you this from my heart -- i believe america and american hope, not fear. unity, not division. love, not hate. the presidency, though, is only one part of the american chorus. history isn't only a story of the great and the famous. no. our history's a story of "we the people." of "all of us." together. i've long said the story of

america and the story of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. change in our country comes on the voices of the powerless, reaching the ears of the powerful. and those whose names we'll never know but have risked their lives through the words of dr. king, the universe towards justice, bending that arc is the work of our time. it will take all of us red states, blue states, republicans, democrats, conservatives and liberals. and i believe from the bottom of my heart we can do it. people ask me, why are you so confident, joe? because we are the united states of america. there is nothing, nothing the american people can't do.

and not able to do when we put our minds to it it. the news of franklin delano roosevelt's death went out on the wires. an ed editor said, clear the decks for action. i say to you today, if you give me the honor of serving as your president, clear the decks for action. for we will act. we will act on the first day of my presidency to get covid under control. we will act to pass an economic plan that will finally reward work, not wealth in this country. we will act to pass my health care plan to provide affordable, accessible health care for every american and drug prices that are dramatically lowered. we'll act to pass the biden climate plan, meeting challenges of a climate crisis while creating millions of good-paying, high-paying labor jobs. we'll act to address systemic racism in our country.

we'll act to give working people a fair shot again in this country. and we'll tooact to restore our faith in democracy and our faith in one another. today we're facing a public health crisis of historic proportions. and with winter at hand, it's getting worse. just last friday 83,000 new cases in one day. saturday, another 83,000 cases. nearly 1,000 people a day are dieing. another 200,000 deaths are expected. over the next several months. and the president keeps telling us not to worry. he keeps telling us, we're turning the corner, is his quote. he