it is the top of the hour. i am brianna keilar. more than 84 million americans have already cast their ballot. with just four days to go, president trump and joe biden are both stumping in battleground states, biden arguing he should be the one to lead the u.s. out of this national crisis, trump arguing the whole thing has been overblown. despite the fact that yesterday markeded worst day yet for the country with coronavirus, with nearly 90,000 new cases, and

almost 1,000 deaths in one single day. all of that orange and red you see, bad news. omar, to you first. michigan said a record single-day high number of cases. >> reporter: for starters, brianna, while there are a lot of people with masks there's a lot more without masks. you can see bei hind me there's thousands of people who have packed into here, just a day after the state said a single-day report for coronavirus cases. around 3600. to give you an idea, a week ago that number was around 1800.

this really is in the final push for a state that he won by a percentage point back in 2016. the real question, though, is how many people are actually left who haven't cast their vote. the early voting period has been incredibly enthusiastic. we've already seen more than 50% of the entire 2016 turnout accounted for in just the early voting period, with 2.6 million ballots returned. again, as part of this final push, it was 1.2 early voting ballots that were returned during this period in 2016. tomorrow president obama and joe biden are expected to be in michigan as well. this is just the first stop for the president today. he's expected to head to wisconsin and finish the day, just days before the presidential election now, brianna.

>> it's start starting to definitely feel like that final stretch pace. jessica, what do we expect the closes message to be? >>. >> reporter: well, brianna, this is where the coronavirus pandemic and politics and the 2020 race are all colliding. no state could be more illustrate traitive of this than wisconsin, where they're seeing cases break records, the positivity rates break records. one health officials call it a nightmare scenario. and that has been the central message that has been key to biden's closing argument all across the country. so we can expect to hear him really drilling down on that. ed biden campaign making the bed that americans do want someone different leading them through this pandemic. joe biden yesterday accusing president trump holding what he called super-spreader rallies with no social distancing, no masks in place. as we've been showing you, biden's events are very

difficult. drive-in rallies, rallies with small numbers of people with masks required and spaced out at six feet, social distancing rules in place. just couldn't be a starker contrast between these two men and their plan for the coronavirus pandemic, what they are offering to american voters. when biden comes here to wisconsin tonight, you can guarantee he's going to be talking about the coronavirus pandemic, his plan, his vow that if he is elected on day one, he will work to get it under control. we heard him talk earlier this week when he got the briefs from his health and team of scientists and drats, he said we know this is going to be hard, but he says he has a plan, he knows what to do. he's asking americans to vote for him so he can put that plan into action. >> thank you both jessica and omar. president trumplanet trump's

taken a turn. >> i went through the cdc. i kept hearing about new infections. why are they talking about this? because the number is almost nothing. we've gotten control of this. we understand how it works. they have the therapeutics to deal with this. if you look at that, look at my instagram, it's gone to nothing. we're outperforming europe in a positive way, so well we've gotten hood of this. >> that is a lie, and it's a slap in the face of the hundreds of thousands of americans who have died and will die from the coronavirus. let's start with the facts before we get to his smirk. he says this on the day that nearly 1,000 people died from covid. he says this on the very day the number of cases hit i highest mark of the pandemic. he says this as the nation sees a 44% rise in hospitalizations.

he said this as 17 states report record-high hospitalizations yesterday. it appears he's basing it on a cdc table that shows provisional numbers and presenting them as actual number. the cdc's disclaimer says they are the total number of deathed received and coded, and do not represent all deaths that occurred in that period. it says, quote, these estimates are based on incoming death certificates. if donald trump jr. had ever had the misforting to secure one for a family member who had died, he would know that. quote -- death certificates tame time to be completed. the cdc explain that, quote, states report at different rates. it takes extra time to code covid-19 deaths, all of which means, quote, provisional data are not yet complete.

one can tell that trump junior was stepping in it, as he called deaths almost nothing from the reaction from laura ingraham. she started the segment with a jovial expression. as her guest minimized deaths on a day that almost 1,000 -- she stops nodding, her smile changes, and yet she offer a lifeline. >> there are covid deaths, but the question is are they rising with the rising case numbers? we know from all the charts, you can go on all the web sites, you can see that maybe a sleight up tick, but not tracking with the rising case numbers, which frankly is good news. >> deaths are not tracking with the rising case numbers. good news, she calls it. deaths don't track with rising case numbers. they never have. deaths lag cases by the amount of time it takes for someone to get deathly ill and die.

it takes two to eight weeks after symptoms start. she likely knows this. shortly after the horrific answer, laura ingraham trying to wrap it up really quick. >> donny, we've got to roll. it's not the first time ingraham has tried to steer away, like in august when she asked the president. >> who do you think is pulling biden strings? >> people that you've never heard of, people in the dark shadows. >> what does that mean? that sounds like conspiracy theory. what is that? >> it's the journalistic equivalent of the blow .bumpers used for children in bowling alleys, like when she tried to course correct president trump about a kenosha police officers being compared to a golfer missing a short putt. >> couldn't you have done something different? couldn't you have wrestled him?

in the meantime he might have been going for a weapon. there's a whole big thing there, but they choke, just like in a golf tournament, they -- >> you're not comparing it to golf, because that -- >> no, i'm saying -- >> donald trump jr. posted his cherry-picked graph on social media three days ago. he should have known for days it was wrong, if he cared. he still went on television and said coronavirus deaths are almost nothing. the 971 people whose deaths were reported yesterday were everything to the people who loved them. there are 229,026 people who have died in this pandemic. their deaths should not be denied. i want to bring in gloria borger to talk about this. the president's done dismisses that 1,000 americans dies in one single day is almost nothing. i don't know how you would

describe it, willfully ignorant or just very stupid when it comes to this. what do you think about what he said. >> i think it's disgraceful. he noises the truth, but chooses to live in an alternate university. on a personal level, of a son from somebody who was quite ill with covid, it's remarkable that he's so dismissive of the number of deaths from covid. he knows how sick he father was. he knows that his father had to get extraordinary treatment and drugs that are not available to most of us in order to help him and help him improve quite quickly. yesterday he's so dismissive, because he has to live in this universe, because the universe in which covid is issue number one and hangs over the whole campaign is a problem for trump and a problem for the trump campaign. so it's like father/like son.

the son is just mimicking his father, saying we have turned the corner, everything's going to be great, we're going to have the therapeutics and the vaccines, and we're going to get back to normal, so don't pay attention to all of this other chatter, because it's not true. when, of course, it is. >> it also feels like a buzzer beater on the part of donald trump jr. and his dad. we are talking about how deaths lag by two to eight weeks, because it takes time before people deteriorate or die. the deaths will follow, but they haven't yesterday. what you have is the president and his supporters like his son who saying it's not really a thing, and it's incredibly cynical. then you look at the increased number of hospitalizations, for example, all over the country, they are campaigning as if covid doesn't exist anymore.

in the middle of an up tick, a large up tick throughout the country in covid. there are spikes, and they are saying there are not spikes, it's in the rear-view mirror. well, that's very difficult for people to kind of absorb, so the only way you can do it, i guess, is to either make fun of it, as the president does, when he said covid, covid, covid, that's all we're going to hear about, or challenge the statistics or challenge the scientists. that's how you get people to come into your universe and believe you, because it is around the corner. the election is on tuesday, but people are already getting nervous about this you have to find a way to say it. . i think they know that. that's part of reason why --

"new york times" reporting that the of has changed his plans for election night and is going to remain at the white house. what does that signal to you? >> well, first of all, he was going to have a celebration at the trump hotel, and the trump hotel is smack-dab in the district of columbia. the district of columbia has some rules which say you can't have occupancies of more than 50 people. it is true that there are limits on the number of people you can have at gatherings. if the trump campaign were not to abide by that, they could lose their liquor license. it's a serious thing for a hotel. so i wouldn't be surprised if mayor bowser has been having some conversations with them. i also think that they may be deciding what kind of event they want to have. i remember -- you were there, brianna, when hillary clinton

had this huge event last time. how was that when you were in the room for that? >> yeah, that's right. >> it wasn't so great. so i don't know whether they have just decided being at the white house is the best place, but i do know there's clearly an issue with having it at the trump hotel. >> gloria borger, thank you so much. wonderful to see you, as always. next, el paso county, texas is trying to shut down for two weeks. but the state's attorney general is pushing back. also, i'm going to speak to a photographer who documented these heartbreaking moments, as families hit hard by the pandemic are now being evicted from their homes. georgia senator perdue backs out of hi final debate. he's not alone. why so many republicans are skipping the stage. when i was in high school, this was the theater i came to quite often.

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the u.s. is on the brink of 9 million cases, and we can't hit that milestone this afternoon. the utah governor is soundings the alarm. dan simon has details. >> reporter: brianna, with cases continuing to surgeon in utah, the governor is warning there could be a crisis of care. it stands at about 18%, and the utah hospital association is saying that they're nearing a situation where they might need to start rationing care. that's when hospitals would decide who gets an icu bed and who doesn't. it also means that if things are strained, people who might have had a heart attack or stroke may

not get optimal care. when asked why the state is not enforcing mask mandates, the governor said it's up to local authorities to do so. and he cited his own granddaughter, who said she lost her sense of smell. dan, thank you. in el paso, texas, a massive spike in cases has prompted a county judge to prompt a lockous of nonessential businesses. >> reporter: this pandemic is overwhelming hospitals and medical teams all across this county. more than 1300 new cases anoned today, the positive infection rate is at 20%. because of all of that, the county judge here has ordered a two-week shutdown of all nonessential business. this is parking a political showdown with state officials in austin. the attorney general here in texas says the judge does not have the authority to issue this

shutdown of the local economy here in el paso, but it comes as if they say if they do not do something to get this pandemic under control, they will see an unprecedented level of death. with me now to discuss these headlines is drth matthew, a public health specialist. doctor, yesterday, the u.s. said a new record of cases. the former fda commissioner is predicting that it may cross the 1,000 cases a days mark. but this devastation is happening after diagnosis or after symptoms, two weeks or more. what are you expecting here in the coming weeks? >> that's correct, brianna. there's always a bit of a lag period. it takes about 5 to 14 days, usually 5 days from when you're exposed to develop symptoms, and then about two to four weeks for

patients who actually go into the hospital and eventually to the icu. as a result of that, the deaths will lag behind the number of cases. this is really a nightmare, and i'm not trying to be an alarmist. back to the super and summer, these were hot spots, forest fires here and there, but if you look at the map, we're talking about cases uniformly going up all over the u.s. yes, we could hit 100,000 in a matter of weeks. one of my biggest concerns, brianna, as a doctor, is the rationing of care and a lot of patients that will not get knee replacements or colonoscopies or ma'am ograbs. this is a desire situation, we have to be prepared for this. >> explain that more, the rationing of care. it's taking out some prevent tiff obviously important measures like mammograms. what happens when and you have

lot of covid patients and icus are full and doctors have to determine who can best benefit from certain resources. do you get to that point with rationing care? >> absolutely. that's exactly the definition, unfortunately of rationing of care in an icu or emergency room. a 30-year-old walks in and 80-year-old walks in, but the e.r. doctor and icu doctor will need to decide how many icu beds do we have? how sick are the patients? and who has the potential of making it through a crisis, a severe covid illness, somebody who is untubated, a lot of time covid patients do not get extubated. sometimes patients have to be airlifted.

this couldn't even make it to an icu bed. >> we heard the president touting essential the recovery. he's touted the regeneron, he a's explain what that means and tell us what that indicates. >> yeah, so basically there's quite a few ways that you can develop an antibody, if you will, to covid-19, through a natural infection, when you recover. we know you do have immunity for maybe a few months, and then you this a vaccine, which is really what's recommended, but you can also just give antibodies from somebody who ah recovered and directly infuse that into a patient who was severely sick with covid.

regeneron has two of the antibodies. they're called monoclonal, one that's taken from a patient with covid-19. the other is manufactured in the lab. now, if you look at the spectrum of how somebody gets sick with covid. after five days, you get mild symptoms. at that point your immune system trying to kick in and develop antibodies. the theory is, if you give patients that regeneron antibody, when they have mild symptoms, it really helps your immune system sort of kick in and fight the infection. however, when patients develop severe symptoms, when they're intubated in the icu, there's a cytokine reaction, and at that point the antibodies don't really seem to help. a lot of patients die from the cytokine response, so the

studies have,000 to benefit when you have mild symptoms and not severe symptoms or patients on oxygen therapy or who are being intubated. >> thank you so much. look, it's so helpful, but it's so helpful to hear you speak in detail. dr. matthew, it's good to see you. >> thank you, brianna. next, an interesting trend is emerging of republicans just bailing on their debates. s.e. cupp will join me live to talk about it. plus details on why walmart is pulling ammunition from its store shelves. it's an important time to save. with priceline, you can get up to 60% off amazing hotels. and when you get a big deal... ...you feel like a big deal. ♪

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with the races getting tough, the debates are going away, just skipping debates. this happened with senator lindsey graham in south carolina. it reportedly happened reportedly with senator roger marshall in kansas. the latest is senator perdue in georgia. he's skipping the last debate against his challenger jon osoff, so he can attend a trump really, but i'm sure this moment is also still on his mind. >> perhaps, senator perdue would have been ability to respond to the covid-19 pandemic if you hadn't been fending off multiple investigation for insider trading. it's not just that you're a crook, senator, it's that you're

attacking the health of the people that you represent. you did say covid-19 was no deadlier than the flew. all the while you were looking at your own assets and your own portfolio, and you did vote four times to end preexisting conditions. s.e. cupp is the host of cnn's "s.e. cupp unfilltered." it's so weird to see them skipping out on they it's anot middle fingers to voters. when you don't show up to debate your record or explain a proposed record, for give me, it's an effu from voters. when the president of the united states won't show up, when he storms out of interviews with journalists he doesn't like, and

of course the big one, when he tries to prevent you from voting, i think it's safe to say the republican party of trump doesn't have any respect for the will of voters. >> it's also -- it makes me think of how -- look a lot of people deride this cancel culture. we hear it a lot from republicans, but it seems to be part of that to me, they're just blowing this off and kind of cancelling their appearances. >> they're blowing off the voters. i think we all stand to be reminded that they are public servants. they work for you and me, brianna. not the other way around, so this idea that they don't have to be health accountable to the voters, to the press, to internal and external oversight, to checks and balances, this really is sort of an overriding of long-held, you know, political tradition that they

are servants. again, it starts from the top, and it trickles down. trump has created a culture of unaccountability. frankly, i hope it's one of the first things that joe biden does, if he's elected, is to restore that idea of accountability to voters, to the press, to oversight, to congress, because that's been sort of eroded over the past four years. >> i wonder here, just a few days out from the election, how you're feeling. we're hearing from a lot of people who just think -- they just don't know what to think after 2016, where everything seemed completely upended, how is it looking to you? >> i have been, just from covering 2016 the way we did, i have been having some serious flashbacks. hillary clinton was up 14 points around this time in 2016.

i was talking to lots of smart people who are saying it was kind of hers to lose. we heard from some folks who said, no, no, trump voters are underrepresented. i always agreed with that, that they were underrepresented in the polls, but i didn't think there would be enough of them to really swing it for him. at least when it came to the popular vote, we were right. this time i'm just a nervous, frankly. biden is doing just an well as hillary was. he doesn't have her unfavorables, which is positive for him. i don't think polls is all that predictive when it comes to presidential races. i really -- i don't know what to expect on tuesday or the coming weeks. >> yeah. i think a lot of people are in that boat with you, s.e. who knows? >> the message is to vote. vote, brianna. even if you think you're in a

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further the capturing the anguish. john moore is the getty photographer who captured all of these images. he happens to be on assignment at the trump rally in michigan. that's where he's joining us from. thank you so much for being with us. can you tell us what you noticed the most when you go out and shoot these scenes? is there any one thing that shows out to you about people being evicted or the sheriffs serving these notices. >> reporter: it's interesting, there's so many thousands of people just on the verge of the abyss with this upcoming eviction crisis. in arizona, i was in maricopa county with constables, and they were going house to house, evicting people from their homes. now, it's hard to describe really the level of chaos that is in people's lives, especially

on the lower end of the economic spectrum here. the covid pandemic has brought people to the brink, and they don't know how to deal. people naturally already in crisis -- >> can you describe the most difficult eviction or near eviction that you have witnessed so far? can you tell us about it? tell us what it was like to be watching that? >> reporter: i arrived with a constable to a house of a mother and several children. she was not home at the moment. as they were knocking on the door, she drove up to the driveway, much to her horror, the landlord was there as well. they had to advise her they were about to evict her from her home. she was surprised. she had kids who would -- you

know, in the car with her. she had to go up and get their cats. the constable actually really helped the woman try to collect her belongings and collect her pets. it's easy to think that there might be victims and villains in this, but really i saw a lot of kindness on the part of constables whose job it was to evict them. i know it sounds strange, but people are in a difficult situation all around. >> we have seen the same thing. you know, the sheriff's deputies doing it, and then the folks landlords have helping put people out, that they too are affected so emotionally by having to do this. it's their job, they do it, but one person we watched said it could be me tomorrow, my sister or my mother. we're hearing, i think there's probably some strangeness in the fact we're hearing the village

people playing behind you, quite a jovial scene there at the trump campaign event, but i wonder if this, the suffering the americans, especially on the lower end of the spectrum, as you said, is that something that came up today at this event? >> reporter: not really. you don't really hear a lot about that as a trump campaign event. you know, when i come to events like this, or there in arizona with these families, you know, i see it as my role to show really what's happening. not what people read on facebook, not what they see in a tweet, and not what they hear from a crazy uncle. i want to get out there and show what's really happening. though we were concentrating on this election, as well we should be, there are millions of americans right now, who are on the brink of absolute desperation. without additional financial help from the federal government, whether it's in

terms of loans or debt relief, at the end of this year, when the cdc moratorium expires, there would be an absolute tidal wave of evictions. what i have done in the last few weeks is try to show the tip of that iceberg on what may come very soon. >> john, you have done an amazing job. looking at your pictures, they sort of cut to the bone, right? they just get you in the heart when you're watching them. thank you so much for talking about them with us. >> reporter: thank you, brianna. as we talk about people suffering, just in, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell saying not to expect a new stimulus bill until at least 2021. both sides have been negotiating, still no deal. next, we are live in three key ballots ground states as early voting has surpassed the entire turnout in 2016 in some places. you're watching cnn's live special coverage.

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trickles due to the pandemic. over here is an early voting site. if you swing over this way in the parking lot where i'm standing, you see this white tent over here? that is a covid-19 testing site. so in the same location where you early vote, you can also get tested for covid. technically today is the last day to early vote, but this site and about a hundred others are going to stay open for so-called emergency voting here in maricopa county. i want you to take a look at this video from the elections department where we were, and we watched as these blue ballot boxes were rolled onto trucks along with ppe, all of them h d heading out to those 100 voting centers that will be rolled out on saturday and sunday. these voting centers will be own all weekend. as far as the ballot count, there are now, according to the secretary of state, 2.36 million

ballots have been cast here in arizona. that is approximately 55% of the registered voters. i'm drew griffin in tallahassee, the capital of the battleground state of florida where just yesterday 400,000 people did what these people are doing right now, voting. 7.8 million floridians have already cast their ballots. both candidates came to this state to make their final arguments yesterday. jill biden will be back this sunday. eric trump will be back also this weekend in what's turning into a dogfight to get out the last and final votes for the battleground state of florida. brianna? >> drew, thank you so much, and thank you so much to all of our colleagues for those reports. the final stretch of campaigning comes as the u.s. just recorded its highest daily total of new cases since the pandemic began. and despite the risk, people are turning out in record numbers to early vote. we are live on the trail, next. one day we'll look back and remember the moment that things,

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i'm jake tapper. only four days until election day in the united states, and the u.s. is on the cusp of crossing 9 million confirmed cases of coronavirus, more than 229,000 deaths. the largest numbers of both infections and deaths of any country on earth, according to official tallies, yet we're now at the point in this race where president trump, his campaign and his allies are seemingly denying the existence of not just the threat of the pandemic, but of the hundreds of americans who are dying every day in the united states because of it. minutes ago president trump complained about coverage of the coronavirus, saying this