seniors than any democrat has, in a generation. don. >> kate bolduan, thank you so much. and thank you for watching. our coverage continues.

we know that americans just have three more days until the election, an event coincide, an explosive number of new covid infections. nearly 100,000 americans tested positive for covid just in the past 24 hours. and that's the highest number ever recorded in a single day by one country. now take a look at this map. the one-day record pushed the u.s. infection record well past 9 million people. only oklahoma, louisiana and hawaii have improved in the past week. and the country has broken daily records all week, each new high far outpaced the worst of last

july when the peak hit 77,000 cases in just one day. total numbers aside, the real measure of the threat is in hospitals. 14 states and one u.s. territory are reporting their highest numbers yet of covid patients. more than 46,000 people nationwide. >> what it means is that we are seeing escalating spread. at the moment today, we now have one person being diagnosed of coronavirus every second. we have one american dieing of coronavirus every minute and that number is increasing. >> president trump, however, continues to insist that the pandemic is on the decline. >> we will deliver a safe vaccine to the american people in just a number of weeks. and, by the way, without it, we're still rounding the corner. without it, we round the corner. >> we're rounding the turn on a pandemic. >> so this is the final weekend of campaigning before next week's election.

and both donald trump and joe biden are trying to make every single second counseled. we'll get the latest now from jim acosta. >> with his fight for re-election pending on his handling of the coronavirus, president trump is attempting to pull hills reporters through a state of denial of pandemicism. that the increase is due to more testing. >> you turn to the news, covid, covid, covid. cases are up. why are cases up? because we test more than anyone in history. >> but that is not true, neither is the conspiracy theory that doctors in the u.s. are manufacturing a higher death rate if patients die from coronavirus. >> the president is worried joe biden will shut down the country, including national holidays, if he is elected. >> there will be no weddings, no thanksgivings, no christmas, no

fourth of july. >> biden says the president is making it all up. >> i'm not going to shut down the economy. i'm going the shutdown the virus. >> the president is back to making fun at fox news masks. >> are you wearing a mask? i've never seen her in a mask. >> by contrast, biden is making masks part of his campaign. >> this isn't a political statement. it's patriot duty, for god's sake. but still donald trump refuse toes listen to science. >> for congresswoman omar -- >> she doesn't love our country. the biden plan will turn our country into a refugee camp. >> to michigan governor gretchen wittmer. >> i don't think she likes me too much. what do you think snch. >> both the president and biden spend the day barnstorming the u.s. sweeping through states

crucial to the upset win four years ago. biden defended his decision to stop in minnesota. >> i thought we would stop in minnesota. i don't take anything for granted. we're going to work for every single vote up to the last minute. >> and they say you can only have 250 people so they thought i'd cancel. but i'm not canceled. >> the president's eldest son, don jr., is complaining about the pandemic's impact on the states. >> why aren't they talking about deaths? oh, because the number is almost nothing. because we've gotten control of this thing. we understand how it works. >> that's nowhere near true as there were nearly a thousand deaths thursday as the number of cases in the u.s. hit a record high. but clinging to covid-19 exaggeration seems to run in the

family. >> they gave me something called regeneron. the next morning i woke up and it was like god touched my shoulder, right? i said wrong, let me at him. >> and the president found a way around the social distancing measures. after he arrived, he addressed an overflow crowd outside the venue where supporters were not following social distancing guidelines, another example of the president flouting his he own administration's guidelines. oxana pisic is a global health expert from london. good to have you with us. it was laid out in that report, the scale of the infection in the u.s. is absolutely terrifying. it took two weeks to go from 8 million infections to 9 million infections. and i just want to also say those steps, that means there is

one person being infected every second and one person dieing every two minutes in the u.s. what do you make of this? >> this is an exponential growth. this means that we are heading towards particularly in the u.s. the worst part of the pandemic is ahead. we are going to see an incredib incredibly steep rise. once you start to get into the rate of growth at this speed, it means the restrictions that have to come in will be harder. geographic bli whly what we saw march is there were some hot zones that were epicenters of the outbreak in the u.s. but what we're seeing now is it's reached nearly every part

of the u.s. although it doesn't match what's going on at the beginning, if we just take new york, for example, that's a direction it's going to head en masse if we aren't able to reverse the current rate of growth. >> and also you heard in that piece the president saying doctors and hospitals are inflating the covid numbers for financial gain. what do you think when you hear that? >> i think it's incredibly, first of all, inaccurate and disrespectful to the role that our health care workers, especially those that have died in the line of duty at the beginning of the outbreak when there wasn't sufficient ppe, to put it as though there is significant financial gain when they were taking risks every day, it's entirely misleading and that has, i suppose, a political underpinning reason,

but equally, it's misinformation. that type of information is then what sticks. that every single scientific body including the w.h.o., the cdc are backing. so, again, it's capitalizing on some fringe views and trying to push them into the mainstream. >> there in the uk, infections are not doing so well there. they've surpassed the government's worst case scenarios. do you think that's too little too late? >> urch has once again become the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic. what we're seeing here in the uk is the areas that are able to slow some of the spread have had

circuit breakers and other types of interventions. but in some ways, we do see that it is going to be -- without that september 21st recommendation for a larger amount of areas to go into the circuit breaker, that we are now heading into in about 17 to 20 days, hospitals at their current rate of doubling. we will see the same level of hospitalization rates as we saw in december. we have to take more severe measures for a longer period of time that has more expenses, not just on health, but we're going to have to do it for longer. instead of two weeks, it might be something like in france where we're seeing it for a month or a longer period. so, really, the key to action is to ensure that we are on top of

the current race, the values tempted to be between 1.2 and 1.6 right now. we can't have a more targeted or sophisticated approach. as you say, too little too late. >> thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you. >> so steadily rising coronavirus numbers in the uk have authorities, as we've been saying now, a lockdown. according to the british paper, prime minister boris johnson is debating the move and could make that call next week. downing street confirms a new conference on monday, but says the report is speculation.

british scientists are warning things are heading in the wrong direction. selma, give us a sense on this reporting that there could be this national lockdown. what do you make of that? >> let's start with these numbers that you just mentioned. according to the bbc, and, again, these are local media reports, the government is looking at projections of 4,000 deaths a day if nothing is done about with the rising coronavirus cases. so they are looking at some really stark, terrible figures. and prime minister boris johnson is making a decision right now and a decision that he says he absolutely would not want to make. and that is a nationwide lockdown. he's looking at a tiered regional approach where he has carved up the country geographical giving each area one of three levels and based on the number of infection of coronavirus cases, each section

has had a specific level of lockdown. the city of manchester, he's faced opposition from the scientific advisers, who have for weeks said a short, sharp, but complete nationwide shutdown is needed. he's faced opposition from business leaders who said a nationwide lockdown provides more financial support and better certainty for businesses. he's faced opposition from the opposition labor party and prime minister boris johnson has been, this entire time, steadfast in his approach. he has been resolute that a nationwide lockdown is not needed. so the question will be why now, robin? if this takes place, he will need to explain it to the country. >> and what are folks saying? >> well, for weeks, people have been asking questions. these tiered restrictionses get

people into the minutia.s get people into the minutia. get people into the minutia. that has been part of the questioning. what is the substantial meal? can i keep my restaurant open if i serve a sandwich or is it a sandwich and crisps? the infection rate has risen. you've had this outburst from regional leaders who don't want to impose restrictions. and, of course, we have to hi here about the death rate. this means the nhs could potentially be overwhelmed. for these medical workers to face this nightmare, coming up on christmas, that's a very difficult pill to swallow and he's going to need to explain it. >> yeah, he sure is. selma, thank you very much. so the u.s. election is three days away, but millions and millions of americans have already voted. after the break, the latest on early turnout and effort to ensure absentee ballots are

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already cast their ballots in the upcoming election. that's information according to cnn edison research. in texas, nearly 9 million people voted early in texas in thursday. that is higher than the state's total turnout in 2016. the postal service has faced scrutiny since the postmaster general imposed policy changes that slowed down mail delivery. the u.s. election is actually 50 state elections with the winner besided by some simple arithmetic. phil mattingly now explains. >> if you want to know what the math looks like, check back in

with 2016. those lessons dominates even where the candidates are going. they are focused between friday, saturday and sunday on the midwest. out into pennsylvania, as well. in other words, the former blue wall that president trump blew apart back in 2016. let me take ow a journey about why this part of the country matters so much. let's start here with where states are solid red. you can kind of go through here and kamala harris may be in texas on friday. republicans feel like they're going to end up in a good place in texas. for the sake of argument, give donald trump all the states that he won back in 2016. you can give him the state of florida, the state of georgia

and north carolina, as well, and where he's won handily back in 2016 in the midwest. give him the state of ohio and the state of iowa. democrats feel quite good about the state of arizona. where does that lean things? it leaves pennsylvania and it leaves the upper midwest. let's say you give the state of pennsylvania to joe biden. all joe biden has to do, take up and get michigan. and one of two, minnesota or wisconsin, both said the democrats feel comfortable with. minnesota they feel comfortable with. even though president trump was there on friday. now say you give pennsylvania to donald trump. now all donald trump has to do is win any one of these three

states. if donald trump were to win pennsylvania with these southeastern states, as well, and win michigan, actually win michigan, he's there. orr say they hold michigan and donald trump wins the state of wisconsin, he's at 270. the upper midwest matters now. pennsylvania matters mow than ever now. it's why you see the counties where they are right at this moment. there is no more value commodity. all of them, all of those visits will be in the state of pennsylvania over the course of this coming weekend. most of them have been in all of these states over the course of the last several days. watch where they're going. that tells you the story of this understand of this campaign. so up next on cnn, donald

trump and joe biden are political polar opposites. we'll look at the candidates' drastically different plans to tackle some of america's biggest challenges from health care to immigration. that's next.

welcome back to our viewers here and in the united states. it is just about 30 minutes past the hour. so the u.s. has just posted the highest number of coronavirus cases ever recorded in a single day anywhere in the world. we know over 999 americans tested positive for covid-19 in the past 24 hours. that pushed the u.s. infection

total well past 9 million with the vast majority of states moving in the wrong direction. hospitalizations are rising, too. 14 states in one u.s. territory are reporting their highest numbers yesterday of covid patients. in an election year where a deadly virus surging across the u.s. health care is a critical campaign issue. by it's one of many including foreign policy, and im investigation. let's take a look now at where the candidates stand on five key issues. we have a series of reports start, elizabeth cohen on health care. elizabeth. >> i think we have enough of an interview here. >> after president trump walked out of his interview with "60 minutes," his press secretary handed leslie stahl a binder. >> it's a little heavy. >> oh, my god. this is his health care plan? >> yes. >> okay. thank you. >> you're welcome. >> cbs says the president's

so-called health care plan was a collection of executive orders and congressional initiatives, but no comprehensive plan. >> obama care is a total disaster. >> on the campaign trail, president trump promised to get rid of obamacare and he's still making that claim four years later. >> president trump has been promising to release a detailed plan for months. >> we're signing a health care plan within two weeks. a full and complete health care plan. >> why didn't you develop a health plan? >> it is developed. it is fully developed. it's going to be announced very soon. >> when? >> when we see what happens with obama care. >> if obamacare is invalidated, protecting people with pre-existing conditions would be eliminated. last month, president trump signed a new executive order promising to keep pre-existing conditions protected. >> this is affirmed, signed and done so we can put that to rest.

>> but his order doesn't have any practical force. another trump promise of many years, to address surprise medical bills. so far, he hasn't, but he says he will. he's promised to cut drug prices by allowing imports to canada and by forcing prices in the u.s. to be more in line with what they are in other countries, but so far, nothing. president trump has issued regulations extending short-term insurance plans. he's introduced legislation allowing hospitals to disclose the prices they set with insurance companies which is set to go into effect in january. for middle income families, biden has said he will offer more subsidies with insurance. >> some low income people would be able to get insurance at no cost. >> keep your private insurance if that's what you choose to do, but you can choose a

medicare-like option if you're poor. >> very different views from very different candidates about how to fix health care in america. elizabeth cohen, cnn reporting. so a it's a rallying cry that transforms the way the united states is treated and seen by the rest of the world. while joe biden is now largely hoping to pick up where president obama let me teft off. but the world has changed and has left the two candidates on opposite ends of most major issues. on north korea, trump has boasted about his beautiful letters and friendship with dictator jim jong union. >> we have a very good relationship and there's no war. >> but north korea's nuclear program continues. biden says trump gave kim

exactly what he wanted, an in-person meeting with a u.s. president. trump has improved the relationship with israel, which was deeply strained in the obama/biden administration. he moved the u.s. embassy to jerusalem. it's the rivalry with china that will define much of u.s. foreign policy for decades to come. trump started a fierce trade war, repeatedly blasting china for the coronavirus painting himself as the one to confront them. >> we had this horrible plague that came from china. >> biden has called trump's approach erratic and promised more consistency with other allies. alliances themselves are in the balance. >> in nato, i said, you have to pay. we've got $130 billion a year more from me. they didn't do it for 15 years,

it went down. >> trump routinely goes after nado and its members and succeeded in getting them to increase their spending. >> we find ourselves in the position where we're more isolated in the world than we've ever been 37. >> the paris climate accord is one biden wants to get back into. >> you know about paris. the paris climate accord. one of the great disasters of all time. just call up france. show paris doing? the president claims no one has been tougher on russia and sanctions have been severe. but the president has never publicly criticized putin for putting bounties on the heads of u.s. troops. >> if it were true, i'd be very angry about it. >> or for attacking the last and the current u.s. elections. >> i made it clear that any

country, no matter who it is, that interferes in american elections will pay a price. they will pay a price. >> another critical question is u.s. troops overseas. the white house says president trump wants to draw down to 2,500 troops by next spring. in iraq and syria, both biden and trump are much more vague and both candidates, both said they want to end the so-called forever wars, but that is, of course, far easier said than done. >> seven days from now, we're going to win nebraska. >> as president trump -- >> folks, it's go time. >> and former vice president joe biden make their closing arguments in the final week of the 2020 election campaign, more than 227,000 people in the u.s.

have died from coronavirus. >> by himself and not -- it hurts my heart. >> and in more than 40 states, cases are on the rise. despite this, tuesday night, the white house listed ending the coronavirus pandemic on a list of the trump administration's accomplishments. the campaign's press second wednesday refuse to go admit that this isn't true. >> i'm not going to quibble over semantics. >> biden saying wednesday the white house announcement shocked him. >> we'll let science drive our decisions. >> i took rapid action to ban travel from china and europe. >> it wasn't a ban, but the president says aggressive action early on save many lives. >> we're now making ventilators all over the world.

>> but he left states to fight each other for those life saving machines. trump didn't use the defense production act to produce more tests for the virus. nine moss into the outbreak, testing varies in availability and turnaround time for the results. biden has focused on that. imagine, with a comprehensive system of testing and tracing. >> and says the u.s. should be spending billions of dollars to determine how to get more rapid testing. and on masks -- >> i think wearing a face mask, as i greet presidents, prime ministers, dictators, kings, queens, somehow i don't see it for myself. >> for months, the president has down played them, but biden said he would ask local lawmakers to mandate masks. >> we have to have this national mandate. we must do it. >> and on covid-19 vaccines, president trump said a vaccine will be announced within weeks, but safety and efficacy testing

hasn't been complete and had a positive outcome is not guaranteed. elizabeth cohen, cnn reporting. >> i was looking at some of those big once incredible job producing factories. and my wife said what happened? i said those jobs have left ohio. they're all coming back. they're all coming back. >> in 2016, trump ran on an american first platform to bring back jobs. today in the state of ohio, job growth and manufacturing has been anemic and the pan dem you can has wiped out even those small gains. now voters are weighing whether trump -- or former valentine joe biden -- >> those are the top are seeing things go up. and those in the middle and

below are seeing things go down. >> will great more jobs in all seconders. an issue that is even more suppressing because the country still hasn't recovered almost 11 million jobs that it lost as the pandemic slammed the economy. trump has promised two things, spending $1 frl on infrastructure and keeping his 2017 tax cuts that largely favor the wealthy and corporations. looking ahead, more tax cuts in regulatory roll back will be in store. payroll tax cuts for higher wages, income tax cuts for the middle class. >> the president's tax cuts will cost an estimated $1.9 trillion over a decade and even more if he makes them permanent as promised. >> under president trump, the benefits would go to corporations and higher income well to do households. >> hello, everyone. >> biden wants to raise taxes on those making over $400,000 a

year. >> time and again, working families are paying the price for this administration each inexcess. >> the former vice president is proposing $7.3 trillion in spending which calls for 10 million clean energy jobs, as well as education, health care and housing. >> the cries of children separated from their parents at the border, one of the haunting hallmarks of the trump era immigration agenda. the zero tolerance policy has ended, but the effects remain. lawyers leading the reunification efforts revealed this month parents of 545 children still have not been found. democratic presidential candidate joe biden planning to step in on day one. >> joe biden will issue an executive order creating a federal task force to reunite

these children with their parents. >> those parents and those kids are alone. nowhere to go. nowhere to go. it's criminal. >> white house senior adviser steven miller has made clear if trump wins a second term, the immigration crackdown will continue. >> the trump administration ended the abuse of the asylum system, ended catch and release, and, therefore, dealt a devastating blow to human traffickers, child smugglers and coyotes and criminal cartels. >> miller has been the architect of every part of trump's immigration agenda. the president signed a proclamation this week capping refugee admission to the united states at 15,000 for 2021. it would be a historic low. and barring refugees from syria, yemen, and somalia. joe biden said he will set a target of 125,000 refugee admissions with the goal of no less than 95,000.

>> within a hundred days, i'm going send to the united states coming a pathway to citizenship for over 11 million undocumented people. and all of those daca kids, they're going to be immediately certified again to be able to stay in this country and put on a path to citizenship. >> president trump has tried to end daca. then there's the future of the border wall. >> under my leadership, we achieved the most secure border in u.s. history and we built over 400 miles of new wall. >> the administration has moved to seize private property with more than 70 lawsuits pend to go acquire more land for the wall. and trump still hasn't made mexico pay for the wall, despite his promises. >> biden says he will take a different approach along the

border. >> there will not be another foot of wall constructed on my administration. withdraw the lawsuits. we're out. we're not going to confiscate the land. i'm going to make sure we have border protection, but it's going on be based on making sure we use high tech capacity to deal with it. >> thanks to all of our reporters there across the u.s. we'll continue to monitor this election, of course, until that crucial day on tuesday. rescuers are using huge machines and even their hands to find survivors after a deadly earthquake rocked communities n on the aegean sea. next we'll go live to search operations in turkey. pplements- neuriva has clinically proven ingredients that fuel 5 indicators of brain performance. memory, focus, accuracy, learning, and concentration. try our new gummies for 30 days and see the difference. robinwithout the commission fees. so, you can start investing today wherever you are -

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struck off the coast. at least 25 people are dead and more than 800 people are injured. two teenagers are among those who have been killed. some buildings have the flattened. a small tsunami, also, was triggered. let's go straight to turkey. damon is standing by. i know you're at a location where they're trying to dig folks out of a building behind you. what is happening right now, arwa? >> the effort has really only intensified. they brought in even more heavy machinery. this building that they're working on right now, this was once an eight-story building. it had both offices as well as residential apartments. now, overnight, there was a woman would was pulled out from this building. she had been going to the dentist, somehow someone management to go ahead in cell phone contact with her. that is how they were able to better pinpy point her position.

in another area, they did management to pull out an enderly woman from underneath the rubble of that building. but when you look at how the floors have collapsed on top of one another, at this stage, it would be quite miraculous to be able to find anyone. but there is always that hope. the crews have been digging through, filling those garbage cans, filling buckets with rubble, moving it out. every once in a while asking the crowd to remain totally silent. we spoke to a woman who was out here waiting for news of her husband who was inside the building, she believes, when it collapsed. he was working out of his mother-in-law's home because, of course, everyone is still working from home. he wanted to look for a quieter

place to be able to get his work done. there are search and rescue teams, of course, thousands of members of them are not just at this sigte but at a number of sites. and turkey is a country that was able to respond very, very quickly to this earthquake. they have teams at the ready. they are very well equipped given that turkey does lie on a number of fairley active fault lines to response to this kind of disaster, but nothing really prepares the population for this kind of trauma and fear. >> no. and very brave rescuers, as well. arwa damon, good to see you. thank you very much from turkey. while much of the world is facing a worsening pandemic, the country where it all started is showing signs that the crisis is over. a report from shanghai is just ahead. stick with us.

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subject to new restrictions and lockdowns and desperate to get back their normal lives, but as cnn's david colvan tells us, it's much different in shanghai. >> here in shanghai, we're noticing a much different lifestyle. you can notice that first and foremost in the visual aspect. look around me here. this is a popular tourist destination spot. you can count maybe a handful of people that are wearing face masks. that's because a lot of the city policies have been eased dramatically. they've said essentially you don't have to wear them in outdoor places and some indood places are not enforcing it. people feel safer and you compare it with what we saw in beijing just over the summer. i took you for a walk then.

everyone around me with the exception of maybe a handful has face masks on. it's an indication people are willing to leave home and leave the face masks behind. >> "new day" is right after this break. thanks for joining me. have a wonderful day. want to brain better? unlike ordinary memory supplements- neuriva has clinically proven ingredients that fuel 5 indicators

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this has been the worst week ever for coronavirus cases in the united states. >> by the way, you know, without it we're still rounding the corner. >> the president of the united states is accusing the medical profession of making up covid deaths so they make more money. >> doctors go in putting their lives on the line to take care of patients every day. that's not how doctors get paid. >> nearly 87 million voted across the nation. >> i feel i came out because of the hot topics. >> if you haven't