had to update their wi-fi. or upgrade their wi-fi, because everybody's on it all the time. important story. absolutely. thank you. all right, thanks for joining us, everybody. i'm dana perino. i'll see you on "the five." who knows what the five of us will get up to this afternoon. hey, bill hemmer. >> bill: just another day. nice to see you, dana. fox news alert, coming up in a moment, president trump will speak later today as sally crawls in lid after slamming the gulf coast pregood afternoon, and bill hemmer. sally made landfall early today as a category 2 hurricane. currently a tropical store, dumped more than 2 feet of rain in some areas. logit power for half a million homes and businesses, and it's not over. reporting today with jonathan hunt live in alabama. an update from the head of fema live in a moment, i will speak with florida governor ron desantis coming up live in tallahassee. first, however day , election day 40 days away.

joe biden expected to lay out his plan to get americans at coronavirus vaccine. he said the trump team failed to do their job is the number of deaths approached 200,000 here at home. trump campaign says biden wants to keep america shut down in the gridiron on lockdown, as we get some big news from the middle west battleground state's big ten football coming back to the field. the trump issue managing two issues, the fires in the american west and sally in the southeast pair that's in it for chief white house correspondent john roberts to report live from the wet lawn today. we'll start with you. >> if only you could take some of that rain from sally and give it to the folks at west who don't have enough rain. dr. robert redfield, bill, raised a lot of eyebrows and made headlines today in a hearing up on capitol hill. what he said, he expected there would be a vaccine available in either november or december, but on a limited basis for people who are at high risk. that it wouldn't be more broadly available to the general public probably until the end of the

second quarter, maybe even the third quarter, which could put it either in the summer or as far back as the beginning part of fall. i put that question to kayleigh mcenany, the press secretary, whether or not the president will be happy with that timeline. listen here. because we do believe it'll be widely available by the end of the year. it's why we partnered with sanofi, gsk, pfizer, johnson & johnson to manufacture 100 million doses. we still feel like were on the right timeline. >> when you say widely available, do you mean to everyone or just people at high risk for the virus? >> i'm not going to engage in the hypothetical but it's our goal to have at least 100 million in production by the end of the year. >> in all fairness to the press secretary, there was not a hypothetical, because the cdc director did say that it would be available on the limited basis. president trump i think would like to see it more broadly available. he's got a briefing at 5:00 so maybe we'll be able to put that question to him. one thing the president is happy about is the announcement that came out from the big ten, that

after further consideration some new medical information testing possibilities and a whole lot of pressure from president trump, though they did not cite that, they will begin a football schedule on the 24th of october. here's what kayleigh mcenany said about that. >> the president was happy to get this thing going, and now you will have players in maryland, new jersey, pennsylvania, wisconsin, ohio, iowa, indiana, illinois, minnesota, mississippi, and nebraska will now have access to football, which is very good to see. >> back we restarted, bill, on hurricane sally. fema has prepositioned a lot of personnel and supplies in the south there to respond when the storm begins to move on and emergency responders can get out there. 3.2 million meals, 209,000 blankets, 117,000 blue tarps, 52,500 blue roof sheeting, sees

500 cots, generators, and all kinds of pp items, in addition to 2500 team personnel, eight assistance teams, incident support teams, urban search and rescue task forces, with swift water capabilities. three national guard teams, 60 people, 12 tactical vehicles, and six support humvees stage for high water rescue and recovery operations as well as disaster medical assistance teams. one of the problems is that a lot of this equipment and personnel is in mississippi and louisiana because that's where the original track of the hurricane looked like it was going before it took a sharp right and went into really slim pensacola. bill? >> bill: thank you, john. john roberts reporting on that. we'll get to the fema director in a moment. hurricane sally causing catastrophic flooding in parts of the florida panhandle in southern alabama. jonathan hunt live in mobile, alabama, 35 miles from where it made landfall. jonathan, how goes it now this afternoon there? >> well, bill, sally is now moving on and inland.

boy, has she left a mark along the gulf coast of alabama, and indeed florida. here in mobile there is extensive damage. you can see behind us here, just one of the properties that has all its windows blown out. you come across the street here, they are boarding up another one that lost its windows. as we go to the left a little more, a lot of the famous trees that mark mobile's parks have lost a great deal of branches. this is not, by far, the worst of what sally brought. bill, the worst was in pensacola, florida. it's still more to come, but we understand some of the streets there are already standing in about 3 feet of water. we understand, as well, from officials down there, that they are undertaking rescues already and they expect many more of those rescues to be necessary in the coming days. the reason for that, bill, you've got all of the water

falling in the rivers here. that wants to rush out to the gulf. you've got the storm surge coming in from the gulf, those two forces meet and all that water goes back onto land. they expect it to keep rising over the next couple of days. for everybody there, it is a frightening time. listen here. >> everything is underwater. buildings. it's crazy. and it just so happens the power people, they are the only ones that are not flooding. >> hurricane sally came ashore just before 5:00 a.m. last night, bill. hitting just close to gulf shores alabama. a lot of people lost power as those 105-mile-per-hour winds hit. there were at one point hundreds of thousands of customers without power along the florida

panhandle, and the alabama coastline. obviously power officials working to get that fixed right now, as everybody here in mobile and in so many places along the gulf coast begin what is likely to be a long task of cleaning up the mess from hurricane sally. >> bill: 16 years ago was ivan, same spot. thank you, jonathan hunt. i want to bring in fema administered peter gaynor to come in and what are you getting from the gulf coast? hello and good afternoon to you. >> it's agreed to be here today. sally is an ongoing storm. i think some of your reporters capture some of things going down. the surge and rain that creates inland flooding. water is going to be the issue. whether you live on the coast or, more importantly, if you live in land, as sally makes its way through alabama, through georgia, through south carolina, it's going to be about flash flooding. inland flooding, water. the message today is to heed the directions of your state emergency managers, stay out of

the water, don't drive and water. turn around, don't drown. keep yourself out of trouble. >> bill: can you move those assets into florida and georgia and south carolina as needed? because it's been reported a lot of them are farther to the west. >> we have assets all through the south. typically we don't put our resources in the path of a hurricane. we can move them where they need to be. again, plenty of resources in the region, from florida to louisiana. it is not an issue today with sally. >> bill: can you say whether the storm was worse than you expected or not yet? >> the storm is still ongoing so i'm not going to give it any grade. how bad it is in the eye of the boulder, if you're on the coast and he lost her home, it was bad. if you're inland and jerome got flooded, it's bad. let's wait until it's all over. i think my goal today is to make sure safety is number one you don't put a generator indoors.

a carbon monoxide will kill you. stay off your roof. you will see a lot of these post-storm deaths and injuries because people get out there too soon, put themselves at risk. again, heed the advice of your local emergency managers. stay safe until you get the all clear. >> i'm looking at the path, seeing atlanta, georgia, a lot of trees in the area, power lines. it's got to be a big concern if the storm moves and linda cross. decode the power is always a concern with winds and rain, plenty of utility crews are in the region. they do a tremendous job. mutual aid across the country and into canada. again, no problem with mutual aid utility crews to come and restore power. we have to do that when the storm is gone and it's safe. >> bill: you're also dealing with the fires in the american west. what are you healing from california and oregon today? there has to be good news in the

last 24 hours. is that the case? >> actually talked to oregon, the federal delegation this morning pat i talked to the emergency manager out there in oregon. conditions are better. more moist weather always helps. again, many fires out there that they are dealing with. it's been a long season for both california, oregon, and washington. we continue to support them and i'll be due. the president was out with governor newsom making sure that, again, they had all the resources at their disposal. the president just signed a major disaster declaration for oregon to make sure they have everything they need to respond and recover from those fires. >> bill: it's a remarkable thing. thank you for your time today. you got your hands full, bald night. peter gaynor, will stay in touch with you and your team in the southeast and the american west. thank you for coming on today. more in a moment here. our top story, pensacola sitting under 30 inches of water, perhaps. we will talk to florida

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>> bill: the former vice president joe biden holding an event in wilmington, delaware. he will speak any moment now. while we wait, we may get some questions, too. a reporter, peter doocy, says they were two microphone set up on both sides of the stage. normally when that happens they take questions from reporters. we'll see if that's the case. look about, everyone. i want to bring in jason miller. jason, good afternoon to you and welcome to the program. we've got a few things cooked up for you, see what you think inside the trump campaign. did you see are poll that came in on sunday morning? our national poll, joe biden against donald trump. biden-harris at 51, trump-pence at 46. the difference of five points. margin of error is two and a half. in theory, this could be a dead even race. the reason we make that point, jason, is because if you go back to the general election results

of 2016, and look at hillary clinton and donald trump, she won by 2.1 percentage points in the popular vote. do you think this race is that close in 2020, jason? >> i absolutely do. there's another poll that came out and showed president trump leading by one point. that's the white house watch national poll they had out there. here is the reason why folks need to realize the battleground states are so different from nationally. the left of center group, the third way, had an analysis after the 2016 race, where they said democrats tend to have a 16% wasted food from running up the score in blue states. republicans have a 30% wasted vote running up the score in red states. when you look at these polls, you have to realize president trump is doing about four points better when we talk about the battleground specifically. >> bill: you believe nationally it is essentially a tie, it's what you are saying at the moment? >> absolutely. we saw the pulling out today

that showed president trump leading by one. i think this race is that tight. i'll be across the board. we are pretty excited about positioning. >> bill: you mention the battleground states. we do this scenario to try and figure out which states will go which way. here is what we think is unmistakable in today's observation. the big ten football is coming back, third or fourth week of october. look at what we have here, all these states and gray. they are all toss ups. they all played big ten football. pennsylvania, ohio, michigan, wisconsin, minnesota, and iowa. do you think and do you talk about, within the campaign itself, the significance of that decision? and how these folks made votes on november 3rd? >> absolutely. see its decision that i think president trump deserves a lot of credit for helping to get big ten back out on the football field. this is what we need to realize, this is a cultural event. this is a way of life. it's not just folks in the big ten, there are places even in

the pac-12. absolutely in big ten, we need these states. minnesota, wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania, ohio, iowa, these are all key places. for the president to push that hard to get big ten football, he gets a lot of the credit and they will reward him. >> bill: are you think he's the only reason? >> he's a big part of it. he's a part of a catalyst and i think college football fans are trip supporters. this will give us a nice boost. >> bill: we sell c. wall street journal, jason riley races today. he is the headline. "does trump have a reelection strategy? he want dumb equipment he won't win without broadening his base support, but that doesn't seem to matter to him." the case he's making is he's trying to win 2020 the way he did in 2016. >> actually, i think this race is a lot different for a couple reasons. one, look at the fact that president trump delivered us the greatest economy ever, and he's in the process of doing it again. let's talk about who this has

helped the most, as we talk about african-americans, latinos, hispanics, also with women, asian-americans. the most recent fox news poll, the one you just showed a moment ago, i president trump getting approximately 40% of the latino vote. this is up from 28%, that president trump got in 2016. you saw it earlier this week the president was in nevada and arizona, doing a latinos for trump event. a lot of big things coming with continued outreach with the african and american community. the numbers are a bit off where he is with african-american voters. we are seeing anywhere from 15-20%, even in some cases a little bit higher than that. this is a much broader, much more diverse coalition. not just what we saw the republican convention, but president trump is going to win back with a broader base. which i respectfully disagree. >> bill: one more question here on the early voting. the results that are trickling in for some of these states

indicate that democrats are returning or requesting ballads at a much higher rate than republicans. inside the campaign, how do you counter that? >> we've done some polling on this. what we found is that democrats are largely going to show up and vote for joe biden. if they're going to show it. there's a big enthusiasm gap with a lot of the soft democratic voters. republicans are going to show up and vote for president trump and a much higher enthusiasm level. we know that they are going to be there. whether they do that in early voting or in absentee voting or an election day itself, the base voters are going to be showing up in voting for their respective side. you see again a lot of the growth opportunities with hispanic voters, african-americans, as we talk about independents were president trump as a great message on the economy. they might vote at different times, but it's not changing the fact of who they are going to vote for. we like the position we're in right now. if i were president trump, i would be pretty jazzed up.

>> bill: you're relying on it heavy in person vote on novembe. we'll see whether or not that's the case. jason miller, i'm out of time but i appreciate yours today. i hope you come back. waiting on joe biden, will bring that in a moment to read also investigating the investigators. the senate panel gave the okay to subpoena some big name former obama officials. we will give you the list on that coming up. plus, the manhunt for the young men who ambushed two deputies. about that search and the latest on that, next. ♪ the different positions i've had taught me how to be there for others. ♪ i started out as a cashier. i mean, the sky's the limit with walmart. it's all up to you. ♪ ♪ makes it beautiful.

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>> bill: the nationwide vandalism and looting sparked by the police killing of george floyd has caused more than a billion dollars in damage. that's according to axios, rich reports it would cost the insurance industry more than any other violent demonstrations in recent american history. protests spread to at least 140

u.s. cities after video showed a minneapolis police officer kneeling on floyd's neck while floyd shouted, "i can't breathe." in the meantime, the shirt don't ask continues in l.a. for a suspect a shot to sheriff 's deputies while they were sitting in their patrol car. this, as a local city manager was put on leave for posting, "the chickens come home to roost," on his personal instagram after the ambush. alex dillon to leave a comment to debbie on a program today. thank you for your time. any progress in finding the shooter? >> we are making progress. , we are fully multiple leads, piecing the whole story together. we are off on the right path, and resolution for this hopefully. >> bill: is not hours or a day away, sir? >> it depends on how each path

leads us. >> bill: entirely understood. why has this been so difficult to apprehend the shooter? >> the random and brazen nature of the act, there was no interaction, new confrontation conflict whatsoever. it really left us relying on physical evidence, video surveillance, and from there the reward offered by the county, by private entities. it has sweeten the pot, so to speak, if they saw something, say something. the public outpouring of support, and we really are hoping that we will get the leads in the right direction. >> bill: what is the update on the officers? are the critical still or have they been upgraded? >> they are in stable condition. they are still in intensive care. i believe one is being moved off of intensive care right now, but they have a long road to recovery. the damage was pretty significant. >> bill: best to them and their family. in the meantime, you challenged

lebron james to put up some money. have you heard back on that, sir? >> no, i have not. strangely enough, the people stepped in where he didn't, and we have gotten donation after donation that has increased the reward. now we have people donating for the care. that is also been increasing. definitely the outpouring of support across the nation has been very touching and we really appreciate it. >> bill: i'm certain that's the case. how much money are you up to? >> on the reward side we are over $300,000. >> bill: that's impressive. >> and in a short amount of time, very. >> bill: my best to you. we hope you make an arrest very soon. alex villanueva, we will follow it for you. waiting on joe biden, we will bring that to you when it happens. tropical storm sally. the state still working to contain the virus, as well on top of that, i will talk to

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that state is working to contain the covid virus. florida has the third most confirmed cases in the country. the florida republican governor, ron desantis, thank you for your time and good afternoon to you. i know you kept a very good eye on the storm. she turned your way. what is the latest on the panhandle now, governor? >> it was a major water event for places like escambia and santa rosa counties. it is you go further east, you see a lot of water in some of those other counties. really, from pensacola, where you have several feet of water building up in the downtown area, that's the most hard-hit area. we have come in florida, search and rescue teams mobilize. national guard mobilized. the federal government has been helpful helpful. the local emergency responders, they're fantastic. there's already been hundreds of rescues. we have had 15 air rescues through the coast guard. we also have national guard air assets that are en route to

assist those efforts, as well. we knew because it was so slow that it was going to dump a lot of water. we're hoping it didn't quite go like it did, but we have the assets in place. the main thing we want to do right now is protect people's lives, of course. the next thing that needs to be done is get power back on. you have hundreds of thousands who are without power. of course, the third thing will be looking at the property damage and getting people back up on their feet. it's important to note what you see in the flooding now is obviously very significant. there is likely going to be more flooding over the next couple days as the water that's being dumped in georgia, for example, starts to move its way down to florida. you have obviously the water that surged from the gulf still there. a lot of those rivers are going to overflow. the folks on the ground or planning for that, as well. they may need to do some more evacuations. it's a difficult situation, but i can tell you there's a lot of great people on the ground to bring a lot of great things. >> bill: no doubt about that.

i thought you dodged a bullet there. listening to your answer, you got your hands full right now throughout the entire panhandle. >> you can always -- hurricane michael, we had 155-mile-an-hour winds hit panama city. this obviously you had 80 to 100, which is significant. much more water and much slower. we are hoping that, as we get through this, we are able to protect lives. that's the main thing. i know the folks have been doing a great job. >> bill: i want to take our viewers to the map and talk about covid. in your state, you have been hit by it incredibly hard. eve spiked in july and you have come down. this is about a month ago. this is august 11th. you are changing cases week to week, up to 9%. i know it's a lot greater than you or anybody wanted. if you watch this bottom line number and you come to the current day five weeks later, you're only up 3%. which is good news. you've taken that curve and flattened it down quite a bit. what do you believe is the state of play for covid in florida

today, sir? >> the most important thing we look at is not the case is, bill. a lot of those cases, they can pick up dead virus. you have people who may not even be contagious who test positive that are symptomatic. but we look at are the emergency department visits, the covid patience who require hospitalization. since our peak in the third week of july and hospitalization, we have 80%. we have floridians who are hospitalized in florida hospitals, and the emergency visits are down about 80%, as well. those are indicators that are going well. a lot of what we are seeing on college campuses, places like university of florida, florida state, those are things to be cognizant of, but that is not likely to drive significant hospital uses. it is long -- >> bill: do you anticipate -- >> i think right now the total number of covid patients in florida hospitals represent about 4% of all of our licensed

beds. from the beginning we have focused on making sure we are protecting the vulnerable, the elderly. we have to do that in this storm, as well. they are impacted by that. to make sure we have this hospital resource. we have always had it. the medication, the ppe, everything. through july, the surge, we are in a much better spot now. i think -- i think we have shown we are going to be able to handle what comes down the pike. we are hoping we don't see another summer surge. hopefully we won't, but we are prepared. >> bill: just focusing on the math, we know how close it was in 2016. the president beat hillary clinton. can you give our viewers a sense about absentee ballots that have come in for respective parties to date in florida? do you have that information? >> i think you are seeing democrats more interested in voting by the mail due to covid. that is pretty clear on all the

polling. republicans are more interested in voting and purpose. i think you will see a divide on that without question. i think you see a much higher percentage of republicans show up to the polls and you will see the inverse for the democrats. i think now, the difference between now and '16, you look at a place like miami-dade county, the president didn't perform well there and he still won the state. he is performing much better there. i think he has united the republican base for sure. he's winning a lot of these independent play or less, particularly in the hispanic community. that is really significant. i think that biden has not been able to make the sale on a lot of voters that a democrat would need to win. i think it's always competitive in florida and this will be no different. but i think the president has the advantage. even some of the polls you are seeing that have him tied or even a head, he was not leading in any polls in '60 that were publicly available. when i was running for congress in my district, i saw it. when i was knocking on doors, i saw it. i saw the independents breaking

for him. i think you will see something similar here in florida in 2020. >> bill: we've got 48 days. i hope you come back. thank you, sir, for your time. best during the storm. ron desantis, the governor there, in tallahassee. thank you. last friday we marked 19 years from 9/11. comedian jon stewart has helped advocate for funding for victims and first responders. this year he was back on washington, back on capitol hill, to take up a new fight. >> if you live next to a toxic smoke plume filled with cancer-causing elements, and you are breathing it in, day in and day out, it's going to make you sick. >> bill: comedian, actor, and advocate jon stewart is once again in a fight, this time for veterans who say they are sick and dying from toxic waste released by burn pits in iraq and afghanistan. >> you're going to get home, and people are going to tell you, just like they did with the 9/11

community, wrist, "it's in your head, you're not really sick." b1 stewart champion these veterans please and they seem to go unheard, all because of money. >> this is money. that's it. when you've got an f-35 that may never be battle ready, and it's going to be a cost overrun of about $1.4 trillion, and you are gaslighting your own veterans on their health care conditions because you don't want to pay for it? >> bill: along with advocacy groups, the feel-good foundation and burn pits 360, he is setting his sights on helping over 200,000 veterans who claim they have fallen ill to a prolonged exposure to burn pits. the pits were used at a majority of u.s. military bases to get rid of waste and garbage by setting it on fire with jet fuel as the accelerant. >> ten years later, still realizing that we really haven't even moved the needle. b1 rosie torres, founder of burn

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>> bill: the senate committee has approved subpoenas and depositions, more than three dozen former obama administration officials paid on that list you will recognize a lot of the names. john brennan and james clapper, former fbi director james comey, president obama's former chief of staff dennis mcdonagh and samantha power and susan rice, among others. timing the depositions is up to the senate homeland security chair, republican ron johnson. the anchor of the story is martha maccallum. here to talk about this. joe biden will come out in a moment. he might to question so he may interrupt us. what do you get done less than seven weeks from an election? if it was your intent to get to the answer? >> i think there's a scramble going on. i think there is some frustration with the fact that we haven't heard from the durham report, which, by all expectations, we heard from the attorney general months ago that that was going to come out over the summer. my understanding is they've had new information, new leads, and they are taking their time with

that. as for ron johnson, i think there's a scramble to get this in before the election. i think there's a real concern about the possibility of losing the senate and all of these leads and story lines drying up. i think back to peter strzok coming out and saying definitively, on sunday shows this weekend, that the president was compromised by russia, that there was no doubt about it. you look to where the proof that happened, in the 2-year investigation, millions and millions of dollars spent. i think peter strzok must be profoundly disappointed with the mueller folks are able to dig out. now ron johnson is trying to get these folks in front of a panel and asked him some questions about, for instance, why was michael flynn questioned and what was the evidence? >> bill: i just wonder if we'll ever get the answers on this. >> what is your bet, bill? [laughs] >> bill: i'm on the 49% side of it. >> i'm with you. >> bill: bill barr did an interview from chicago. it's only on audio but here is part of what he said about

voting and what could happen after election day. >> liberals project. the president is going to standn office. i've never heard of that crap. i'm the attorney general, you would think i would have heard of it. they are projecting. they are creating an incendiary situation where there is going to be a loss of consequence. >> bill: what he is describing is what he calls the so-called resistance. you heard his comments. he offered quite a bit, especially for an attorney general. >> i think bill barr is someone who speaks honestly and shares what he thinks. he is obviously very frustrated with the story line that he has seen coming out. at the heart of them, they undermine people's faith in the system. which i think is deteriorating. i think about going up of people talking about elections in eastern bloc countries and places where you couldn't count on the outcome, that there was reason to think there was so much corruption that you couldn't trust the outcome. it was something that was never worried about in this country.

i think that there are efforts to undermine that confidence. i think that is a very serious, worrisome trend. he also talked about the sort of capricious distribution of ballots. harvesting and undue influence, when you got these universal ballots sent out to every single person in the state. there is a deliberate act of walking into the voting booth, checking your signature in that book next to the name, or, at the very least, signing up for an absentee ballot that comes to you. i think he is hitting on something that is real, of substantive concern. >> bill: he talked about it without really being prompted. almost as if he seemed to offer the answer he gave. the mail-in ballot, he has significant concerns about it. before joe biden comes out he will likely take questions today. how do you think this has gone for him, when you have the harris-biden comment? you have the iran-iraq confusion from yesterday. >> i'm wondering when he'll come out. last night we waited for the whole hour, we were told he was coming out at 6:30 and he never came out until 8:00.

we know he was on-site, so he is definitely running behind. we'll see how that goes this afternoon. clearly there are concerns. i think when you have two of the same faux pas, the harris biden administration coming out of the... the... kamala harris as well as joe biden. you have to wonder who will run the show. it's a legitimate question to ask. we had a poll months back that they believe he wouldn't finish out the first term. that's a big number. i do think more than ever people are looking at this as a team. that's the way they probably should be, given their own suggestions about how things are going to work. >> bill: 13 days to cleveland, debate number one. thank you. >> looking forward to it. >> bill: in a moment we mentioned big ten football is back, but how do colleges plan to get players safely back on the field? i will ask ohio state's team doctor, who consulted with the league. he's coming up next, live. ♪ veteran homeowners: newday's helping thousands of veterans

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- i'm szasz. and this town said: not today. [norm] and we live in columbia, missouri. we do consulting, but we also write. [szasz] we take care of ourselves constantly; it's important. we walk three to five times a week, a couple miles at a time. - we've both been taking prevagen for a little more than 11 years now. after about 30 days of taking it, we noticed clarity that we didn't notice before. - it's still helping me. i still notice a difference. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. >> bill: joe biden at the podium. let's drop on end, wilmington, delaware. >> a vaccine once one is identified. before i turn to those issues, let me say a few words about the president's comments last night. even before acknowledging to bob woodward on tape that he was fully informed on the gravity of the danger related to covid-19, he refused to warn the american

people. again, last night in a television town hall the president revealed, in no uncertain terms, the lack of seriousness with which he continues to take this pandemic. nearly eight months after this crisis, on the doorstep of 200,000 american deaths, president trump has refused once again to take responsibility or to take action. by his own admission, he continued to lie about covid-19. he doubled down on the catastrophic mistakes that he's made. perhaps worst of all, he made clear he still doesn't have a plan to bring us out of this crisis. he even said, and i quote, "a lot of people think that masks are not good," undercutting the easiest, most effective means we have for reducing the spread of this disease. this virus is still taking nearly a thousand lives a day, and forecasts show those numbers are likely to climb this winter.

but, incredibly, donald trump insists he wouldn't have done anything different. not one thing. last friday we learned that another one of the thousand americans who died due to this virus, it continues to rise. the very same day we reported a thousand deaths on friday, the very same day, canada reported that not one person died of covid-19 in canada. trump wouldn't have done anything differently? if you are a parent in america, preparing for another day your child can't attend school, if you are grieving the loss of a son, a daughter, mother, father, husband, wife, you are a small business owner was on the brink of total bankruptcy and can't open or can't go back to work because the virus is still spreading in your community. how does it make you feel to hear the president say he wouldn't have done anything

differently? if he gets four more years, why should we expect anything to change? all the president had to offer last night, president trump, was the same weak and feckless in action, the same lies and broken promises from the very beginning. he won't accept any responsibility. he still won't offer a plan. last night he repeated what he said so many times before, that even if he continues, someday the virus is going to go away by a miracle. even if he does nothing, it's going to go away by a miracle. it won't go away like a miracle. in fact, even if we get a vaccine, it will not be available for most of the population until well into 2021. we are heading into a very dangerous autumn. the fact that the university of

washington model, which the white house has previously touted, projects that cases and deaths are going to spike this november by 215,000 americans, they say are going to die. beginning to spike in november, but by the first of the year, 215,000 will be dead additionally. we need leadership to prevent that from happening. the same university model shows -- the university of washington model -- shows that, if there is universal masking, these deaths can be prevented. this could be cut in half. we can say, between now and the end of the year, 100,000 lives. let's assume we are perhaps on all of this. 50,000 lives. 150,000 dead. donald trump's own directory of the cdc told us that wearing a mask is the single most

important step we can take to curb this virus. here's what he said. "i might go so far as to say that this face mask -- "and held up a face mask. not this one. "is more guaranteed to protect me against covid than if i take a covid vaccine." i spoke with experts today about additional steps we can take to prevent needless deaths and suffering between now and the universal vaccine be made available. national guidelines, they said. standards of social distancing that can be applied to particular circumstances of states and communities based on their particular circumstance. more effective approaches on testing and tracing. we do these things between now and january, we can save even more lives. last night, donald trump indicated he has no interest in doing these things. folks, the president's first responsibility is to protect the

american people, and he won't. it's utterly disqualifying. i also spoke with the experts this morning about the paramount importance of preparing now for swift, organized, and free distribution of a safe and effective covid-19 vaccine when it arrives. i am profoundly grateful for the scientists and the researchers working tirelessly to ensure that the safe and effective vaccine becomes a reality as soon as possible. these scientists carry the hopes of our nation, our entire nation, and the entire world. when it comes to fruition -- and it will -- they will be no doubt it'll save lives. scientific breakthroughs don't care about calendars. any more than the virus does. they certainly don't adhere to election cycles, and their timing, their approval, and

their distribution should never be distorted by political considerations. they should be determined by science and safety alone. a vaccine would offer a way back to normalcy, the path toward better days for all of us. not only here, but around the world. it's not going to happen overnight. it will take months to distribute it to the entire population. i am more hopeful than ever in the power of science to get us there. one thing is certain, we can't allow politics to interfere with the vaccine in any way. americans have had to endure president trump's incompetence and dishonesty when it comes to testing and personal protective equipment. we can't afford to repeat those fiascoes. when it comes to the vaccine, when it occurs, the stakes are too high. american famie