jer@fnc. i'm paul gigot, hope to see you right here next week. ♪ ♪ i'm feeling great. i don't know how you? how is everyone feeling? good? we are starting really big with our rallies and everything because we cannot allow our country to become a socialist nation. we cannot let that happen. sleepy joe biden has betrayed black and latino americans, if you think he can run the country, you're wrong. eric: you heard president trump saying he feels great. he's back up there on the balcony speaking to a crowd of supporters at the white house just within the last 2 hours. you know it was first in-person event since the president tested positive for covid-19 on october 1st. he doubled down on his law and order theme saying there is

progress also being made on a coronavirus vaccine and he attacked democratic policies and made a pitch to black and latino voters. hello, everyone, this is america's news headquarters, i'm eric sean, hi, arthel. arthel: hello, everyone, i'm arthel neville, the speaking before hundreds of supporters in south lawn, comments coming just 23 days before the election and as he plans to return to the campaign trail, the president's team announcing he will follow up today's event with stops in the battleground states of florida, pennsylvania and iowa. that's coming up next week. we have fox team coverage. rich edison has more on election security concern. hillary vaughn is following campaign. we begin with mark meredith, live at the white house. mark. mark: president trump, he had plenty to say to supporters gathered in the south lawn as you and eric mentioned. this was the first time we saw the president hold public event after leaving walter reed

medical center. the president did have a mask as he came out. but it was interesting as he reached the podium, he decided to take the mask off. the crowd was cheering, you can see the supporters that were there, a lot of them wearing their masks and make america great again hats. >> i want to thank all of you for your prayers, i know that you've been praying and i was in the hospital, i was watching down over so many people and i went out to say hello to those people and i took heat for it but i would do it again. mark: this wasn't an official white house event, not campaign event and certainly had a lot of campaign talk about that and the election, the president says he feels good about chances in battleground states even though the polls may show the opposite. he also encourages people to get out and vote claim if he does lose the country will certainly see a difference. >> we are getting great polls all over the place and they understand it.

it's driving them crazy and you know why, though, and it's because of the spirit, the spirits of which the likes the country hasn't seen in a very long time. mark: that was the president today but we know he will be out on the campaign trail hitting multiple battleground states next week including pennsylvania, iowa and florida, florida is where the campaign kicks off again with the presidential rally on monday evening, vice president mike pence, he's in florida today, he's expected to speak in about 15 minutes or so, a lot of people eager, arthel, to see how the campaign is going to adjust with the new presidential covid reality, plenty of things to watch in the days and weeks ahead. arthel. >> no doubt about that. park there's an enthusiastic crowd in the south lawn today with the president up in the balcony and i want to correct myself because we were covering that live and i mentioned that the president, he mentioned that he had gone out to see some somf the supporters and perhaps took heat for that. in context now i want to confirm that it was the president referring to his, you know, his

motorcade while outside of walter reed hospital and not at the white house today. i want to go on record correcting that. eric. eric: right now we are waiting for campaign event from joe biden. it's going to happen this hour. it's at one of the most important battleground state sites there. the democratic presidential nominee will deliver remarks, building back the economy for working families, it's being held in the important swing state of pennsylvania. that's where we find hillary vaughn. she's on the campaign trail in grove city, pennsylvania near errie, hey, hillary. hillary: democratic nominee joe biden wants to focus voters' attention on two topic that is he wants to talk about, the economy and coronavirus, but biden over and over again keeps getting asked one question he does not want to answer, will he pack the supreme court, biden this afternoon on his way here to pennsylvania defended his

decision to dodge the question. >> the fact is that the only packing going on is this court is being packed now by the republicans after the vote has already begun. i'm going to stay focus on it so we don't take our eyes off the ball here. hillary: some swing state voters want to know his position, biden faced the same question with two separate interviews in battleground nevada yesterday and biden made it clear voters will be kept in the dark until after election day. >> this is the number one thing that i've been asked about from viewers in the last couple of days. >> you're asking by the viewers who are republicans who don't want me to talk about what they are doing to the court right now. >> sir, don't the voters deserve -- >> no, i'm not going to play his game. >> biden has gone pub with his position last year while campaigning in iowa over fourth of july weekend, he said this,

no, i'm not prepared to go on and try to pack the court because we will live to rule that day. today biden will be in eerie, pennsylvania, he's on the ground and talk to union workers, business leaders and entrepreneurs about the economy, the number one issue he wants to talk about today, eric. eric: all right, hillary, we will talk more about court packing later, arthel. arthel: election day over 3 weeks away, mail-in ballots are key to voting during the coronavirus pandemic and judges in swing states across the country have been ruling on exactly those issues, rich edison explains. >> each state has its own laws on how, when and where its citizens can vote and won -- who is on the ballot, millions of americans are voting by mail because of the covid-19 pandemic. in wisconsin a federal appeals court blocked extension for

counting absentee ballots. the ruling means absentee ballots must be delivered to election clerks by 8:00 p.m. on election day. democrats will likely appeal that decision to the supreme court. in florida, federal judge has denied a request to extend the state's voter registration deadline. judge mark walker says the decision was a close call and rooted in preventing chaos in what he calls florida's precarious and chaotic elections. walker added, quote, in so ruling this court note that every man who has stepped foot on the moon launched from the kennedy space center in florida, yet florida has failed to figure out how to run an election properly, a task simpler than rocket scientists. this u.s. the supreme court rejected republican's challenge to steve bullock's plan to send in mail-in ballot to the vast majority of voters. earlier in the week the supreme court sided with republicans in north carolina.

to texas, federal judge blocks greg greg abbott's order reducing locations to one per county and in ohio back and forth rulings have just swung to the republican secretary of state and his request to limit the number of ballot drop boxes to one per county. officials also acknowledged 50,000 voters there just received incorrect absentee ballots, they say they are now mailing the correct ones. stanford mit law election projects says it's tracking more than 300 cases across 44 states arising from the covid-19 pandemics arthel. arthel: rich edison, thank you. eric. eric: well, arthel from the stormy election to a real storm. hurricane delta has been downgrade today a tropical depression after touching down in louisiana. we have team fox news coverage for you in all of this,

meteorologist adam klotz is tracking down the path but first let's go to mike tobin in lake charles which of course was hit earlier this year by laura and now they have a double wall-up. mike: the heros of the day, convoys and convoys of trucks coming to the town, we started with 688,000 people without power. these crews have knocked that number down to 537,000. no fun if you're one of those without power but take comfort in the fact that these crews are knocking the numbers down. delta made landfall as category 2 hurricane, with giant wind and rain feel. state police report nod casualties from the storm last night. people in lake charles other than power the damage is not too extensive, most of the damage you see is from laura 6 weeks ago. the human impact is really in the form of discouragement and

fatigue because midway through cleaning up from one hurricane, they have to start over at the beginning and do it again. still volunteers with the cajun navy say there are people who need help. >> there's debris that's keeping them from being able to get out of their home as well or they don't have vehicles to travel out the area with. mike: that was 7,000 people displaced in immediate area. the mayor of lake charles encouraged them to stay away for a little while longer. facebook message that read today is not the day to come back to lake charles if you can avoid it. allow our public safety and other city personnel to do their job today and starting to pick up the pieces. coming back out to live pictures, you can see the number of trees that are snapped and because of the way some trees are trim addway from the roadway. when you look over here you have the debris piles, you can tell that is old debris. that is from the cleanup and

there was a fear that last night that stuff would get picked up and blown around and hurt people but that just didn't happen last night, eric. eric: despite devastation thankfully no lives were lost last night. arthel. arthel: for more on delta's path as it goes further inland we will go to adam klotz, adam, what can you tell us? adam: hey, arthel, this is a storm on the move but it is a really large storm. so we see the center of circulation, that's where the low pressure is around central mississippi. but all of the rain and activity stretching across the west getting to mid atlantic, portions of alabama and getting into the atlanta, georgia area, that's a tornado watch. the ingredients are in place and typically you can't see tornadoes on the eastern side of the storms and that's going to be the case at least a threat off and on today. everything in the yellow highlighted box, same area, elevated risk of tornadoes but

chance of severe thunderstorms where you're talking about hail and heavy rains and winds up to 60 miles an hour. we could still be talking about thunderstorm activity with a whole lot of rain. in some of the red boxes, flash warning, heavy rain right now and in the mountains, leading edge of rain, moisture system all the way through the weekend. how much more rain is on the way? some areas 4 to 5-inches just by sunday, so a lot of additional rainfall in a very small amount of time and that's when you start to talk about flooding, otherwise the motion of this storm going from low pressure -- tropical depression, weakening but it's going to be lifting into kentucky tomorrow evening. the winds continue to die down but brings rain with it. this is going to be one for folks to pay attention to for the next day or two. arthel: i cannot wait for november 30th to arrive, the end

of hurricane season. adam: right. arthel: thanks, adam. eric. eric: yeah, that is for sure. as we have been reporting this afternoon, president trump, well he's now planning at least 3 campaign stops in key swing states over the next few weeks despite his testing positive for the coronavirus just over a week ago. straight ahead, why questions now still i thinker about his medical condition and how that's reshaping the white house race. priceline works with top hotels, to save you up to 60%. these are all great. and when you get a big deal... ♪ ...you feel like a big deal. ♪ priceline. every trip is a big deal.

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arthel: the senate judiciary committee to begin hearing for nomination of amy coney barrett monday morning, a republican on the committee is pushing for members to get tested for coronavirus before the hearing gets underway. alex hogan has details now and live in new york city with more, hi, alex. alex: hi, arthel, in just 2 days all of this should begin. amy coney barrett would be introduced by two republican senators and a former notre dame law professor and she herself will have the chance to give her own remarks before this all begins. >> we have been working all week making preparations for judge barrett's hearing. we will begin with our opening

statements on monday, then on tuesday and wednesday, you're going to have rounds of questioning where each member is going to have the opportunity to question. alex: it's been nearly 1 month since the death of former supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg. the fierce liberal champion for social justice and gender equality. the nominee to replace her amy coney barrett will likely be grilled on her stance on health care, gun rights and abortion. critics raising concern after a report found the 48-year-old fail toddies close information about 2013 talks she gave at antiabortion events. the nominee responded yesterday sharing the paperwork with the senate judiciary committee. the statement included a paid ad where she and her husband denounced the roe versus wade decision. barrett lives with her husband and 7 children in south bend and the seventh circuit court of appeals judge was formerly a notre dame law professor and

once clerk to former justice antonin scalia. lindsay graham will preside over the hearings this week with a push for there to be testing before this. if everything goes according to plan, this could be concluded by the 22nd with a vote taking place on the 26th and that would be just 1 week before the election. arthel: oh, boy. hey, alex, looks like you're right near italy, can you go grab me a hot chocolate when you finish working? alex: i would love to bring that to you, alex. take >> we have to vote, we have to vote these people. vote them into oblivion. eric: president trump calling on supporters to vote against the

democrats. first white house event since coronavirus diagnosis. she's plan to go return to campaign trail next week and first stop in florida, that would be stanford, florida following visit to battleground state pennsylvania and iowa as questions linger of medical condition and decision to return to the campaign trail, we don't know the results of the latest covid-19 test yet, phil wegmann, one topic of today is the court packing that the republicans accuse democrats of planning. where is that issue going, how do you think the court packing issue is playing with voters? phil: well, mike pence was able to get senator harris into a tight spot in the issue and she sort of dodged the question twice and now reporters and the trump campaign are holding biden's feet to the fire. i think what we are seeing right now is that the former vice

president doesn't want to tip his hand because the if he admits, yes, i'm interested in adding more justices to the supreme court that riles up the republicans at the same time if he says no, that's not an option, then he sort of gives up leverage with his base which is, you know, much more progressive on this issue. i think he's trying to ride it out as long as he can and so we are in this position where joe biden seems to be saying to the american public, elect me and then you'll find out. eric: and how are we going to find? what do you predict? phil: i think at this point they have sort of doubled down on not giving a straight answer. it would be a reversal for them to -- to be transparent here. i think that, you know, with the backdrop of the amy coney barrett confirmation hearing this week, they're going to continue to argue that trump is the one who is actually, you know, abusing institutions and norms but this is going to be the fight that i think is going

to take us through the next 3 weeks and up to election day. eric: yes, speaking to have fight, we just saw the president two hours ago for the first time since diagnosis and ready to go, the doctors say he's clear to go, he looked fine, he sounded fine, 18 minutes, not one cough, so that certainly is good news. how does this return to the campaign on monday impact the race? phil: yeah, we were all looking for that cough to see if he did. we are see if there were any residual effects of the illness. the president looked good, he talked for 18 minutes, there was no coughing, at the same time the president and the white house has not given a straight answer as to when the president last tested negative for the virus. he's sort of brought the campaign to the white house before he heads to florida on monday and he returns to a lot of his greatest hits, he promised to overcome the virus,

he said, quote, democrats were going to be defeated oblivion, end quote and attacked biden on law enforcement and embracing socialism. this was his attempt to return to form and turn page on coronavirus but his own personal health, that's still at question and that makes the task that much more difficult. eric: that certainly does overshadow this. you're right. he discussed some of the major themes that have been part of his presidency and campaign. let's listen. >> first of all, i'm feeling great, i don't know about you. how is everyone feeling? i'm honored to welcome -- we call this a peaceful protest. [cheers and applause] >> to the white house in support of the incredible men and women of law enforcement and all of the people that work so well with us and i have to tell you, our black community, our hispanic community, thank you

very much. [cheers and applause] >> thank you. eric: he was speaking to candice group, they call the blackxist for blacks believing the democratic party. do you think he will continue the themes in the next few days? phil: he will continue the themes. running for reelection is one of most pivotal moments, how can it not be but running for reelection after you survived a once in a century illness and that's certainly the defining moments of president trump's life, so he's -- he's in the political fight, he's also, you know, he still may very well be in this personal medical fight and i think what this all culminates to is that this is the -- this is the fight of his life. it's no longer a cliché and i think that, you know, the president clearly thought that reelection was going to be a breeze before the pandemic, you know, that is no longer the

case. it threatens his campaign, threatens his personal life but there like we saw at the white house, he had a crowd of about 300 people and returned to showman self. we will see if he can keep the sprint up in the ninth inning. eric: bottom of the ninth, phil, great to see you, thank you so much. arthel: eric, thank you. up next we will speak to a doctor on how to prepare for a likely coronavirus surge as the weather gets colder, plus why americans traveling between new york and london could expect a shorter quarantine period by the winter holiday season. so through ancestry,

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arthel: bottom of the hour, time for some fox news headlines.

demonstrators began -- demonstrations began after the news of a black officer would not face charges in the february police shooting death of black teen happening at local mall. chris christie leaving hospital a week after checking in following his positive covid-19 test. and south carolina senator lindsey graham refusing to take a coronavirus test before a debate with his democratic challenger yesterday. organizers then changed the debate format to back to back interviews. eric. eric: and wish governor christie well, good that he's out of the hospital. even though coronavirus cases in the country have hit a two-month high, reopen travel between new york and london with shorter quarantine periods, doing that before the holidays, charles watson has the details, he's in

atlanta, home of the cdc, charles. charles: just in time for the holidays, the wall street journal is reporting that officials from both the transportation department and the department of homeland security are trying to shorten the current 14-day quarantine period for folks traveling from new york city to london as tests become widely available. officials are reportedly working on trying to establish testing protocols for passengers before and after they board an international flight. rapid tests are expected to be the primary form of testing, however, those tests are known to treat accuracy for quick results. both the trump administration and foreign government have to be in agreement for the plan to move forward. new york governor andrew cuomo facing criticism after shutting down businesses and schools in zip codes with high positive

cases, predominantly orthodox jewish communities. governor said the lockdown was not to single out any religious group. >> this cluster happens to be the ultra orthodox brooklyn in queens. we have always attacked clusters. when restaurants were creating clusters and the local governments weren't enforcing against restaurants, i enforced against restaurants. charles: and in texas next week texas governor greg abbott will allow bars to reopen at 50% capacity and so far harris county and dallas two counties, dallas and houston say they will not open their bars. officials there citing coronavirus increases. eric. eric: all right, charles in atlanta, thanks so much. arthel. arthel: health experts warn as the weather gets colder the coronavirus pandemic is expect

expected to get worse and more deadly, this is because people will be spending more time indoors coupled with the seasonal cold and flu outbreaks both of which are also driven by viruses, for more on this let's bring in dr. amir, doctor in san diego, thanks for joining us. what can people do to stay healthy at the start of the cold weather season as indoor mingling will also increase? doctor: yeah, with covid-19, it's a big mystery right now how it's going to behave in the winter months. there's a couple of encouraging factors and a couple of discouraging factors. the encouraging factors is that we've had several months to prepare for the winter months and we have increased testing and increased supply of ppe, the discouraging factor that you mentioned is people are going to congregate indoors more which we know is how the -- one of the main ways covid-19 will spread

indoors. we also know that in the cold there's more and more evidence that the virus will survive longer. additionally which is going to complicate covid-19 pandemic is seasonal flu is about to peak. the last 2 months and the first 2 months of the year is when seasonal flu usually peaks. not only are we combating the covid-19 pandemic, we also are going to combat the seasonal flu. so common sense stuff are -- are, you know, the u.s. can view to keep us combating this virus is continued social distancing, continue limiting indoor gatherings. if you must gather indoors, improve ventilation such as leaving windows open if you can, put heppa filters in hvac units and you can put them on your desk and lastly is continued to wear masks whenever in public,

one thing that i always tell my patients is that the best analogy of wearing masks, it's like seat belts and you're in the car and driving around, you wear your seat belt at all times because you don't know when the next accident is going to happen. you don't wait for the accident and then put on your seat belt. likewise, when you're wearing your mask, you don't know when you're going to run into somebody that's infectious. you are not going to be able to put your mask right when you run into somebody is infectious. therefore, if we want to get the virus under control, if we want to keep our citizens safe, we start opening up america safely, we all need to sacrifice and keep wearing masks. arthel: now, i want to ask you dr. fajid, how do you wear masks, the proper way, a lot of people have them, i keep mine nearby, their noses which drives me insane, and so i want you to tell us how the wear the mask and when to wear the mask and a

lot of people nowadays are wearing face shields but i see people with face shields on with no mask underneath, is that correct? doctor: so cdc just updated their guidelines and made it very clear not only does this virus transmit through droplets which are large particles that will travel up to 6 feet in ground but also air and travel long distance, and the only way to effectively combat this is to take all of these precautions and put them together including masks, so what i always tell people, not all masks are created equal, so right now you have a variety of masks out there from some people wear bandanas and some people wear n-95 masks. ideally, we want all of our population to be wearing surgical masks or n-95 masks.

the only reason we transition and said it's acceptable to wear cloth masks is because there was a big shortage of ppe at the start of the pandemic. but now that the ppe supplies are improving, first thing to do is get everyone to wear the right masks. so the most effective mask to help you decrease transmission of this virus are surgical masks and if you can n-95 masks. that being said, any device -- any mask only works if you use it correctly. so if you're wearing it and it's not covering your nose, not covering your mouth, it's not being used properly. it's not a good barrier to prevent transmission. so when you're wearing your mask, you want to make sure you're covering your nose and covering your mouth and if your mask gets wet, they get dirty, replace them and get a new mask. if you must use cloth masks one key to remember, they are not to be used continuously day after

day, you should wash them at might be male once a day if not have several to use throughout the day and then wash. arthel: what about face shields? doctor: face shields would prevent initial surge of droplets, but they're not nearly as effective as masks. face shields will also help protect droplets from getting into the mucous membranes of your eyes but priority is making sure that all citizens have masks. arthel: do you wear a face shield without a mask or unless you have a mask underface shield? >> you must have a mask. mask along with all of the other measures, you to take together to be able to effectively combat this virus. arthel: okay, dr. amir fajid i wanted to talk to you about other topics as well but i think we are open to hearing about mask and the proper way to wear them so we kind of got stuck on that but we will have you again

back here with us on fox news, thank you so much. doctor: thank you for having me. arthel: okay, eric. eric: well, arthel, we are learning more about that plot to kidnap whitmer, 6 suspects arraigned yesterday and the governor's claims the president's rhetoric has been inspiring to extremists. christina. christina: eric despite the violence directed her way governor whitman has been out and active speaking to constituents. >> i think that the president has given harbor to domestic terror organizations. we need leadership who will step up, we need all of our state houses as well. christina: however, president trump says he's against any extreme violence and on thursday he tweeted that governor whitmer

isn't given enough credit to federal law enforcement for taking action saying in part, quote, rather than saying thank you, she calls me a white supremacist while biden and democrats refuse to condemn antifa and looters and mobs that burn down democrat-run cities. 6 of the 7 isn'ts charged by -- charged and one is facing extradition from south carolina and 6 others are facing federal charges. some of the men now charged with domestic terrorism plotting to kidnap the governor, back in the spring according to state attorney general's office, started surveillance some of the suspects earlier this year after social media posts called for violent overthrow of government and law enforcement, eric. eric: christina, thanks so much. arthel. arthel: the president making claims of voter fraud, the practice of poll watching is

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expert in all things philadelphia. professor, great to see you. >> my pleasure. eric: of course. poll watching. you've had incidents in your state. legitimate poll watching to root out possible wrongdoing and making sure that nothing nefarious is going on and voter intimidation and voter suppression? >> yes, and what you have to do is look at each state where state laws and state regulations, you know, governing pretty much what goes on with poll watching as well as other election officials. and so let me start with two cases in pennsylvania that have some relevance. now we have satellites and drop boxes where people as you accurately point out can, you know, drop off their ballots. in philadelphia, they also set up satellite sites, satellite sites, there are 8 of them. and in the satellite sites you

can go in and register to vote and drop off your mail ballot, well, the trump campaign went to court and a judge said, no, no, you can't have political observers which is what the trump campaign want, i call them observers in this case and the judge said they are not polling districts despite the fact that you could drop a ballot off there and so a philadelphia judge said, no way, no how, and you can't have watchers. in a case just decided today and this is pretty important, a federal judge dismissed the case where the trump campaign challenged the pennsylvania requirement that -- that you must be a county resident to be a poll worker. you must be a county resident. that case was dismissed and so, eric, if you think now that we

have legal cases, imagine what's going to happen after the election in close states when we have all of the challenges that are going to come to mail-in ballots where we will have a record number of people vote by mail. eric: the trump campaign says they are -- will be getting 50,000 poll watchers across the country, the democratic side will have them out there too, not even counting the lawyers. let's just deal with the poll watchers. what happens, and there's discussions of -- of potential intimidation especially in open-carry states if people with the weapon at a polling site, for example, member the new black panther party in philadelphia, a guy had a baton, the ruling on that was you can't carry deadly weapon within a few hundred feet of polling place. how does law enforcement election authorities deal with this? >> pennsylvania is an open-carry state as you pointed out.

here is the situation. i think they are going to have particularly in some portions of the state and i'm not just talking about pennsylvania, they might have to do something to have law enforcement available. look, it's an understatement to say this is a contentious will - bitter election and more republicans will vote in person than democrats. all the polls say that. more voters, democratic voters will vote by mail and then you're going to have this business of how they're counted and, you know, open up the ballots, count them on election day, some states like pennsylvania, pennsylvania supreme court has said 3 extra days, they confirmed that's okay. 3 extra days to count the ballots, so we vote on november third or by mail earlier and you have until friday, so i think you're exactly onto something. we will have to be very careful that violence doesn't spill out and i do think there has to be

law enforcement officials in and around a number of polling places. i would be stunned if they're not multiple lawsuits filed in many states after the election and some of it could be on poll watchers and some can be on the legitimacy of mail-in ballot and might be other situations involving legal cases as well. eric: well, it's up to the law and certainly people who have been trying their best and you're right, it's going to be a while potentially before we know the actual result because of some of those extended deadlines in pennsylvania, professor, we are watching you. political professor who knows all things about the keystone state and elections, professor, thank you. >> thank you. whatever whatever arthel. arthel: north korea unveiling what appear to be massive

ballistic missile and how the u.s. is responding to pyongyang's latest provocation. ♪ ♪

eric: north korean leader kim jong un warning that he will fully, quote, mobilize nation's force if threatened.

this as he took center stage at a military parade that unveiled what appeared to be a new intercontinental ballistic missile. another addition to pyongyang's growing arsenal, kitty logan live in london with the very latest, hey, kitty. kitty: this new missile on display on 75th anniversary, the first time it's been seen in public. this is a parade that happens every year, familiar sight but took place in the dark for the first time. thousands of troops marching in formation in this predawn ceremony paying tribute to the country's founder. north korean leader kim jong un taking center stage and promise building what he calls defensive power. he did not mention any specific country as a besiege threat but talked about the coronavirus pandemic claiming that north korea hasn't had any cases at all. we can't be sure if accurate but

the country extremely isolated. new long-range ballistic missile perhaps ever seen and new indication that north korea continues to develop perhaps more sophisticated weapons. although there was tough talk at the annual event, eric, there was so far no direct criticism of the u.s. back to you. eric: still a brutal, brutal regime. kitty logan in london, thank you. arthel. arthel: thank you, coming up at the top of the hour, joe biden to address supporters in battleground pennsylvania, we will have that for you live as it happens, stick around, we have more news after this very short break here in the fox news channel.ve ♪ ♪

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eric: any moment now we expect to hear from democratic presidential nominee, joe biden. he will take the stage at an event in erie, pennsylvania. you can see the event in erie, up by the lake, is underway. it's being billed as a, quote, building back the economy for working families, you know, the rust belt so hit hard for so many years, pennsylvania one of the most important battleground states in this election. hillary clinton narrowly lost it to donald trump in 2016. it is really ground zero for many in this race. hello, everyone. this is another hour of america's news headquarters. i'm eric shawn. hi, arthel. arthel: hello.

i'm arthel neville. joe biden,remarks will come after president trump addressed his supporters at an event at the white house earlier today and as the latest new york times sienna poll shows the former vice president leading the president by 7 points after the first debate. we have fox team coverage, mark meredith is at the white house. but we begin with hillary vaughn, she is near erie. hello, hillary. >> reporter: hi, arthel. democratic nominee has made 11 trips to pennsylvania since june but this is his first visit to erie, pennsylvania. he made it clear he is on the campaign trail today because he tested negative for covid and he thinks the president should have to do the same before he goes back out on the trail. biden scored a union -- toured a union training facility earlier where students learned hands-on. he doubled down on his decision to withhold information for voters about how he feels about

expanding the supreme court. >> the fact is that the only packing going on is this court, being packed now by the republicans after the vote has already begun. i'm going to stay focused on it so we don't take our eyes off the ball here. >> reporter: biden says what republicans are doing right now is unconstitutional but has not made it clear how exactly it violates the constitution. this question, though, of adding seats to the high court is following biden from swing state to swing state. in nevada he was asked about it twice. the first time he said he will cross that bridge if and when he gets to the white house and says he does not think he's obligated to share his views with voters before they vote. >> this is the number one thing that i've been asked about from viewers in the past couple of days. >> well, you've been asked by the viewers who are probably republicans who don't want meeting to talk about what they're doing to the court right now. >> sir, don't the voters deserve to know -- >> no, they don't. i'm not going to play his game.

>> reporter: we do know the other half of the democratic ticket, senator kamala harris, would be at least open to the idea. earlier in the spring she told politico, quote, we are on the verge of a crisis of confidence in the supreme court, we have to take the challenge head-on and everything is on the table to do that. but eric, biden has gone public with his position about adding seats to the supreme court in the past. in fact, it was when he was campaigning in iowa over 4th of july last year where he said he would not support packing the court because he thinks we would, quote, rue the day if that were to happen. eric. arthel: all right, hillary vaughn, i'll take it. eric: i was going to say as soon as the vice president speaks we will bring it to you. meanwhile, president trump earlier today held his first public event at the white house since he was diagnosed with covid-19 last week. his appearance there comes as he prepares to get back on the campaign trail in the coming week. the president expected to make stops in florida, pennsylvania

and iowa next week. three states he won in his upset victory in 2016. mark meredith live at the white house with the very latest on that and the aftermath of seeing the president come out on the balcony and give a rousing 18 minute speech to some of his supporters. >> reporter: president trump, he seemed like he was thrilled to be back out there speaking with supporters. this was an event geared toward law enforcement supporters. while he did have a lot of different topics in the speech, he took a few moments to address his personal battle with coronavirus. >> first of all, i'm feeling great. i don't know about you. how is everyone feeling? good? on behalf of myself and the first lady, just has been really an incredible outpouring and we're starting very, very big with our rallies and with our everything, because we cannot allow our country to become a socialist nation. >> reporter: the president kept his distance from the crowd by speaking from a balcony at the white house. most of the supporters gathered were wearing masks as far as we

could tell but there really was little to no social distancing out there and while this was billed as an official white house event, it sure felt like a campaign speech with the president having plenty to say about democrats and the polls and also his chances come november. >> we have had more enthusiasm right now, right now, this year, than we had four years ago by a factor of three times. i just want to thank you and get out and vote, we've got to make this bigger than even four years ago. it's more important. this is the most important election we've ever had. >> reporter: the white house schedule can change day-to-day but we have an idea of where the president's going to restart his campaigning and that includes in florida on monday, a rally outside of orlando and sanford. then he has events that you were talking about in pennsylvania and iowa. i wouldn't be shocked to he see another event added on the schedule because the debate that was supposed to happen in miami, eric, that's been canceled so we know the third presidential debate but what will really be the second one is going to

happen later. no debate this week. instead, the president will have plenty of time to go out and campaign. eric. eric: and that will do. mark, thanks so much. arthel. arthel: eric, confirmation hearings are set to begin monday for president trump's supreme court nominee, judge amy coney barrett. she's expected to face tough questions from democrats especially on the issue of abortion. yesterday, barrett submitted a letter to the senate judiciary committee disclosing that she had earlier put her name on an ad that denounced the 1973 roe versus wade ruling as, quote, infamous. alex hogan is following these developments for us and she's live now. hi, alex. >> reporter: hi, arthel. we're likely going to hear a lot of questions concerning barrett's stances on things like healthcare, gun rights and reproductive ones. there's new scrutiny over the supreme court justice nominee after a report came out saying that amy coney barrett did not include some information for the senate judiciary committee's

questionnaire. the report including 2013 speeches that she made at anti-abortion events and a paid ad where she and her husband denounced roe versus wade. barrett responded yesterday, submitting the information. it's been nearly one month since the death of liberal icon, former supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg. 48-year-old barrett is a favorite among conservatives. this week's questioning begins on tuesday. if all goes according to plan, the committee could clear her for a nomination by october 22nd and vote by october 26th. lindsey graham will preside over the hearing. the south carolina senator faces his own re-election race with democratic challenger jamie harrison. last night's debate was canceled, though, after graham refused to take a covid-19 test. in a letter, democratic senators have asked graham to push off the hearings because of the pandemic and senator joanie ernst saying she thinks people should be tested if they're going to be spending time

together in these hearings but these hearings will not look like the ones that we've seen in the past because of the pandemic. senators will be allowed to tune in virtually to prevent the spread of covid-19. arthel. arthel: okay, alex hogan, thank you very much. eric. eric: well, you know, election day just over three weeks away and there are concerns about mail-in voting and voter access among some people. well, now a growing number of cities are working to assure that voters have trust in the credibility and integrity of the system. rich edson has more from washington. >> reporter: each state has its own laws on you how, when and where its citizens can vote and who is on the ballot. this year, courts are more involved than ever as millions of americans are now voting by mail because of the covid-19 pandemic. in wisconsin, a federal appeals court blocked an extension for counting absentee ballots. the ruling means absentee ballots must be delivered to

election clerks by 8:00 p.m. on election day. democrats will likely appeal that decision to the supreme court. in florida, federal judge has denied a request to extend the state's voter registration deadline. judge mark walker says the decision was a close call and rooted in preventing chaos in what he calls florida's precarious and chaotic elections. walker added, quote, in -- eric: we're interrupting that report because former vice president joe biden is now taking the stage. he's in erie, pennsylvania, the heart of the rust belt. this event is called building back the economy for better working families. erie county had about 11% unemployment rate. it hit 19% in april. let's listen to the former vice president and democratic nominee. >> you have over 355 proud plumbers, pipe fitters and more behind me, than i can possibly thank you for. also want to thank rick for

sharing his story with us today and for being part of a conversation this year, where he shared his story with america. and rick, delaware's thought of being a great corporate entity and chemical facilities and all those things but we have a $4 billion, use probably well know, agricultural industry in the del delmarva peninsula. a lot of farmers are being hurt badly. farmers are gutted by the president's broken promises and reckless trade war. our farmers just like union members and anyone who actually does hand honest's day's work see him and his promises for what they are. rick, i want to thank you. i think you put it best in the op-ed you wrote last year, you said it's a bunch of hot air and cold wind. folks, this is it. election's here. the choice couldn't be more stark.

the stakes couldn't be higher. so many pennsylvanians are facing hard times right now. after my debate in cleveland last week, i took a train. i've ridden a lot, amtrak train from northeastern ohio into pittsburgh, greensburg, johnstown and i heard the same stories everywhere i've been hearing all around the country. you're trying your best but it never feels like enough. you're not looking for a handout. you are just looking for a fair shot. that's how my dad felt when we had to leave scranton after no work, coal died. he was in sales. he wasn't a guy who was in the coal mines, although migrate grandfather was a -- they tell me the first irish catholic state senator ever elected in the state of pennsylvania and he was a mining engineer. i remember him saying, he made that walk which a lot of you know here in erie, i call it the

longest walk any parent has to make, up the short flight of stairs saying we can't play on little league anymore. we've got to leave. dad doesn't have a job. i have to leave. i remember him taking us home, my mom and three children at the time, home to my grandpops' and how much pride it must have cost him to say will you take care of gene and the kids. i'll be back. he commuted every weekend, 157 miles down to delaware. we ended up in a steel town called claymont delaware. my dad got a sales job. he worked hard. it took four years to build a decent middle class life and be able to buy a home. it wasn't easy for him. he had an expression. he said joey, i don't expect the government to solve my problems but i at least expect them to understand my problem. america deserves a president who understands what people are

going through. you're facing real challenges right now and the last thing you need is a president who exacerbates them. more than 210,000 are dead as is pointed out. we lose anywhere from 700 to 1,000 people a day, dead. the president was told a little while ago when he was told 100,000 people a day were dying, you know what he said? he said it is what it is. well, it is what it is because he is who he is. more than 7.5 million americans have been affected -- infected and counting. 175 cases, 75,000 cases, right here in pennsylvania. my heart goes out to all those families who like many of us have lost a child, look at that empty child at the dining room table at night where someone you love used to sit. my heart goes out to everyone struggling during this economic

crisis. nearly 11 million jobs lost since the beginning of the crisis and still have not come back. temporary layoffs turned into permanent layoffs. we're still down, 674,000 manufacturing jobs nationwide since the crisis started. and more than 40,000 manufacturing jobs here in pennsylvania. the trump presidency will be the first presidency since -- since hoover, that is going to end up leaving office with fewer jobs than when he came into office. since hoover. president trump is leaving -- he talks about this v-recovery, we went down real quick, we're coming up quick. that's what you call a k-shaped recovery. the folks at the top of the k are doing very, very well. recession -- the top, those folks, everything is going up for them. everybody in the middle and below is going down. seeing things get worse. that means essential workers who sacrificed to keep us going through this pandemic are being

left behind by the most unequal recovery in american history. and it means while the top -- this is a fact which is startling to me when i found it out. the top 100 billionaires in the middle of the pandemic, they made 300 billion additional dollars. hear me now? 100 individuals made $300 billion this year. what did the bottom half get? they got the slide down because the fact is, the president can only see the world from park avenue. i see it from scranton. i see it from claymont real. you all know what i'm talking about. you all see it from erie. that's why my program to build back better is focused on working people. think about it. think about all the people you know who got up this morning and had the following conversation.

you know, honey, i know we need four new tires. they're bald. we can't do it now. we've got to wait. we've got to wait. you know what? i know we just lost our insurance but we're going to be okay. we're going to hang in there. or you know, having to make a choice, literally a choice between getting the prescription or putting food on the table. if i said to that 10 years ago you would look at me like i was writing a fiction story. but that's the truth. these are decisions people are making today, right now. independent analysis put out by a highly respected wall street firm of all things, moody's, from wall street firm, projects that my build back better plan is going to create 18.6 million jobs in four years. that's hard and now. that's not a liberal think tank. that's moody's. and it's going to create 7 million more jobs than the president's economic plan. and a trillion dollars more in

economic growth than the president's plan. and here's how it works. i'm going to raise taxes. i'm not going to raise taxes on anybody making less than 400 grand. but you won't pay a penny more. but those making more than that, i'm going to ask them to finally begin to pay their fair share. i'm going to ask the big corporations and the wealthy begin to pay. 91 of the fortune 500 companies today pay zero tax. you hear me? zero tax. how many of you pay zero tax? and billionaires are paying at a tax rate because it's all investment money, they're paying a lower tax rate than you pay if you have a job as a plumber. how can that be? so i'm going to raise, the money i'm going to raise will allow us to invest in working people and grow the middle class back and make sure everyone comes along this time. my plan is about making the kinds of investments that are going to stimulate economic

growth. to get it back to full employment fast and help us build back better than before. we're going to create millions of good paying union jobs. i had the honor of being the guy in charge of the recovery act when the great recession occurred. the president turned to me, he used to love doing it at state of the union messages, he never told me what he was going to do. he said joe -- joeys going to take care of the $800 billion. well, we got it. we got it done, less than two-tenths of 1% waste or fraud and we built back the longest expansion in american history. manufacturing and technology making sure we're going to make the future made in america and infrastructure, building airports, schools, affordable housing. upgrading the water and pipes. making sure it's sustainable and resilient. laid down by union fitters and pipes across the country.

clean energy, we're going to upgrade 4 million buildings with weatherization of 2 million homes. that will create 1 million good paying jobs, union jobs. union jobs will be filled by men and women like in this local here. look, folks, we're in a situation now where if you take a look at the build back better, i'm going to take a second but i hope i don't take too many seconds before it rains here. number one, we're talking about it, mr. president, a little while ago. he promised an infrastructure plan in 2016, '17, '18, '19. he didn't do a damn thing, not one single bit. he promised to relieve main street slammed by the recession. but guess where that money went, that the congress passed? it went into the mar-a-lago crowd, the wealthy. i'm not joking. it didn't go to small businesses. it didn't go to the people who needed it. my plan to revitalize american

manufacturing and infrastructure says we're going to use buy american rolls, only supposed to buy american now. i'm going to invest $2 trillion in infrastructure and clean energy. we're going to raise over $3.7 trillion by eliminating that tax cut for the super wealthy. and folks, we're going to fix water pipes, pipelines, replace lead pipes, upgrade treatment plants. we're going to construct 1.5 million new affordable housing units. we're going to build $100 billion, rebuilding our schools. we're going to retrofit which we started in our administration, 4 million buildings including advanced heating and cooling systems. there's going to be such a race to job creation for unions that you're not going to believe it and i really mean this. and by the way, when i did the recovery act, which was $800 billion, not one -- we had the largest infrastructure project short of eisenhower's interstate highway program, since that.

not one dollar went to anything other than the prevailing wage. had to be prevailing wage. look, i'm also going to make sure that corporate america being so kind wanting to take over registered apprenticeships many you know what that's about. you guys spend a quarter billion dollars a year making sure you have apprenticeships that are the best trained people in the world. folks, i'm going to pass the pro act. they're spending over $2 billion a year trying to keep you from being organized around the country. that's a promise. and also strengthen labor standards, especially osha rules. there's a lot we can do. it's not enough to praise workers. we've got to make sure they get benefited. folks, look, my dad had another expression. after he lost his job, we moved to delaware, he'd say, you know, he said, joey, a job's about a lot more than a paycheck. it's about your dignity. it's about respect. it's about your place in the community.

it's about being able to look a kid in the eye and say honey, it's going to be okay. you know, the fact is that every time the word climate change comes up donald trump thinks hoax. every time it comes up i think jobs. let me be clear. no matter how many lies he tells, i am not, not, not banning fracking. period. we'll also increase income. we're going to see the burden and the cost, we're going to increase -- we're going to make sure not prevailing wage, you can't mandate that, you guys, by the way, i said inside, another expression my dad has was there's only one deal with abuse of power, corporate america is exercising now, it's with power. and the only power we have is union power. you're the guys that keep the bar bearans on the other side of the gate from taking everything and that's a fact. so look, i'll try to move along quickly here. the fact is that we ease the

burden on the major costs in your life. what's the average middle class person fear the most? trying to tear down the affordable care act. we're going to build on it, adding a new health insurance option, a not for profit public option which will give private insurers real competition. we'll increase the subsidies so premiums are lower and we can afford plans with lower deductibles and lower out-of-pocket expenses. because we're going to be able to do that with the money we take back from the super wealthy. we're going to take on the pharmaceutical companies with a plan that slashes the cost of prescription drugs by 60%. look, folks, we're going to work with states to ensure that every three, four and 5-year-old has access to free high quality preschool. not day-care. you send them to preschool, there's evidence that 58% of them will go all the way through, no matter what their background, no matter what poor neighborhood they come from. you start them at age 3, they have 58% better chance of

graduating all the way through high school and beyond. we're going to sure the low, middle income families will never spend more than 7% of their income caring for their young. talk to the women around here. i was a single dad for fine years. i couldn't afford help. i thank god i had my mom and my sister and my brother to help me with my kids when my wife and daughter were killed. we're going to make four year public clench and universities tuition free for families making less than $125,000 a year. and when erie gets the first new community college to open in pennsylvania in 27 years, we're going to make sure that it's free for anyone who qualifies to get in. [ applause ] >> that's a fact. by the way, that costs 6 billion a year. that's about as much as we give a tax deduction for racehorses. this -- we've got to have priorities. if you're buying your first home, look at all the people who got out of school since the 9/11

generation. where they get out of high school without a graduation, where they got out of college, no graduation. where they thought they had good jobs waiting for them but they got shut down in the great recession and now. what are they doing? they're unable to make that first home down payment. they're out there busting their next. a lot of them are college graduates and no jobs, no access. i'm going to make sure you get a tax credit for up to 15,000 bucks for your first time home buyer, period. that's going to provide your down payment. we're going to protect social security, increase benefits for millions of seniors. so they can retire with dignity and some respect. folks, look, if we're going to get anything done, we've got to come together. we're going to have to vote like we've never voted before. early voting is open here in pennsylvania. so go vote if you can. and go to iwillvote.com/pa to

find out when and where you can vote early. if you requested a mail-in ballot, return it as soon as possible. make sure you seal it first. in the secrecy envelope and then sign the declaration on the outside of the envelope before you return it. as i said early this week, on the sacred grounds of get i gettysburg, i'm running as a proud democrat but i'm going to govern as an american president. i'm going to work as hard for those that don't support me as those who do. i'm so proud in this campaign to have earned the support of so many proud and patriotic republicans including pennsylvania's former governor and secretary of homeland security, tom ridge, i want to thank him publicly for his endorsement. we may not agree on everything. we agree on this. this is a moment to put country above party because after all this country's been through, after all that america's accomplished, after all the years we stood as a beacon for

the rest of the year, it cannot be that here in the year 2020 we'll allow the government of the people, by the people, and for the people to parish on this earth as lincoln said. we can do better. we can do better than what we're seeing. we can be what we are at our best, united states of america. all of this division being pushed by this president, all this stuff about encouraging -- in the debate we had, i asked him to condemn the proud boys, he said stand down but stand ready. what's going on here? this is not who we are. this is not who we are as a country, for real. we can argue like hell but at the end of the day we come together. i am more optimistic about america's chances today than i've ever been. why? because i think the blinders have been taken off. people are realizing what's

really at stake here. i think we can pull this together many i'm optimistic. i really genuinely am. but here's the deal, guys. we've got to go out and make sure you vote because the only way we lose this is by the chikanery going on relative to polling places. not a single, solitary reasonable person in either party has said mail-in ballots are corrupt. no evidence. he's trying to make it sound that way. trying to put people in polling places, the same guys you saw standing blocking people's way in virginia with banners and rifles slung across their shoulders. folks, it's not who we are. we're so much better than this. so i say to you all, god bless you all, let's go out and vote and may god protect our troops. thank you, thank you, thank you. [ applause ] eric: we've been listening to democratic nominee joe biden in erie, pennsylvania, the heart of

the rust belt in the key state of pennsylvania that the president won narrowly. he's at the erie training center, part of the plumber's union there. saying president trump has bungled the coronavirus response, cratered the economy, mr. biden laid out his plan to in his view revive our nation's economy from education, drug prices to health coverage. there is no agreement on capitol hill for a new coronavirus relief package. susan ferricio. chief congressional correspondent joins us now. he went through the list, the typical stump speech of promises and then towards the end, susan, we heard him say it is a moment now, this is a moment to put country above party. he referenced tom ridge who presumably was in the audience, former republican governor of that state who endorsed him over president trump. he referenced the proud boy comments in the debate and had harsh views. does this race get down to one of policy or personality, temper

and testimon testimony tempermeo the next three weeks. >> mr. biden is trying to steer it toward personality and character and the question of which direction the country's going in, that's clearly what he's trying to hit on during his speeches. but he's going to have a hard time doing that because i think the trump administration has been somewhat effective at pointing voters at what his policies are going to be. you heard that a little bit today in erie when biden talked about fracking. you heard him say repeatedly, i'm not going to ban fracking. pennsylvania, this is a big issue, energy policy's a huge issue for pennsylvania voters and biden has been a little bit ambiguous about how he feels about fracking as has kamala harris, his vice presidential running mate. and he tried to steer that question away by saying he's not going to ban frackin fracking en though in the past he made

reference to ending fracking and ending fossil fuel use after a number of decades. so it's going to be a battle between what biden's policy is and how much energy he can get voters to devote to thinking about whether this is about personality with the president and i think that's why you heard him touch on that proud boy comment at the end and about why we should put country over politics at this point. in other words, trying to say that he is really the best person of best character to be elected. he talked about tom ridge endorsing him. he's got other republican endorsement as well, over president trump. so he's trying to steer it that way. of course, the trump campaign is talking more about what biden's policies are going to be and whether or not biden is really up for the task of running the country. eric: i mean, biden says the same thing about the president, saying he's not up to the task of returning the done -- running the country. we didn't hear anything about the alleged democratic plan to perhaps pack the supreme court in this or any reference to that

and he hasn't wanted to talk about it when he was asked by reporters about that. do you think that the trump campaign will try to make hay of that issue and how does the vice president respond? >> so far, the vice president's not done a good job of dealing with that issue. it's a really important issue and i think the trump campaign is trying to highlight what that would mean, if you pack the courts and how it would steer the country in a different direction potentially, change the way our government operates by altering the third branch of government. and i think biden has had a really hard time, he's struggling because he keeps getting asked. reporters are going to keep asking him this question and the trump campaign is going to keep highlighting the fact that biden is refusing to answer a really important question and biden has to be careful here because the base is clamoring for a court packing, specifically, saying now is the time. if they're going to put amy coney barrett on the supreme court, we need to come back and add our own justices that we

choose to the court, which would expand the court. and so biden can't say no, i'm not going to do that because then you've got a whole wing of the party that's going to be really dissatisfied. and maybe they won't show up on november 3rd. maybe they won't vote for mail or not vote at all so he has to be very careful about that. he also doesn't want to abandon the very voters, swing voters like who he was addressing today in erie who may not be comrpt ' comfortable -- comfortable with that. he's saying i'm not going to tell you. so far, he's getting away with it. it's a question of whether people will be ultimately satisfied with not knowing how he stands on it and the ability to dodge that. we'll see if that comes up if there is another debate if that question comes up again. eric: one thing he was hitting on was the economy, erie, 11% unemployment rate, it hit 19% in april. let me show you a tweet from president obama in which he referenced the job creation records of various presidents. number one is bill clinton, 23 million and then there it is

right there, as you can see, 12 million for president obama, president trump has lost 4 million jobs. and we mr. biden just now go after the president's tax plan, talks about scranton versus park avenue, you know, he called it the corporate chieftans who are grabbing the dough barbarians. how i this playing with voters out there who have been decimated by the coronavirus and what's happening and millions of jobs are not ever coming back and people are worried. >> right. and trump has not polled well in his handling of the coronavirus and the economy. it's a tough position for any president to be in, having to deal with a pandemic and this unprecedented economic lockdown that the country's been under. i don't think any incumbent president could not walk away from that bruised up the way he is in the polls on that. the question is when voters

ultimately vote, whether they think he is the person who can lead them out of this because the president obviously -- the economy was humming along at a very successful pace before the pandemic. so the trump administration is trying to remind people of that and trying to say he can bring the jobs back, the way he got the economy really at an accelerated pace during his administration. i don't think they've made that case as well as they could, just based on the poll numbers i'm seeing. and so biden's trying to make the case. he's saying i'm not going to raise taxes for people making over $400,000. you heard that today because the trump administration is trying to really make it clear that biden's going to raise taxes. it's tough to run and say you're going to raise taxes. biden is trying to differentiate, saying no, only on the rich, only on the corporation. eric: 400,000 or below. >> one of the reasons why the jobs were going so of well is because of those corporate tax cut rates. that's another issue for the trump campaign to take up with him.

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eric: no doubt it's been really hard for all of us and for people around the world to live with the constraints of coronavirus. now officials in our country are reportedly working on one way to open of it up a little bit at least if you want to travel from new york to london. they hope to have it ready in time for the christmas holidays. charles watson live for us in atlanta with the very latest. maybe they'll get it done by thanksgiving. what are they planning, charles. >> reporter: the wall street journal is reporting that officials from both the transportation department and the department of homeland security are working to shorten the 14 day quarantine period for

folks traveling from new york city to london, just in time for the holidays. officials are reportedly working to establish testing requirements for passengers before and after they board an international flight, rapid tests are reportedly expected to be the primary form of testing. however, those tests are known to trade accuracy for the sake of quick results. both the trump administration and foreign governments have to be in agreement for the plan to move forward. public health officials in wisconsin say the state will open a field hospital near milwaukee next week as a surge in coronavirus cases overwhelm hospitals. wisconsin's governor said it wit will work as a transition facility for covid patients who are less ill in order to keep beds open for patients that need high level care. >> if we keep adding 70 patients to the hospitals per day our hospitals will soon be out of beds.

>> reporter: wisconsin has emerged as a hot spot over the last few weeks. hospitalizations have tripled there in the last month. next week, texas governor greg abbott will allow bars to reopen at 50% capacity and so far the state's largest counties, harris and dallas county, have said that they will keep bars closed for now. officials there citing an increase in coronavirus cases. eric. eric: midwest and down south really feeling it now, especially. charles, thank you. arthel. arthel: eric, thank you. well, president trump addressing hundreds of his supporters at the white house today and a he and white house officials continue to dodge questions on the results of the president's latest coronavirus test. his overall condition remaining a bit of a mystery. dr. patrice harris is with us now, former president of the american medical association and a former public health official. so dr. harris, thanks for being with us. and based on what we do know, and also what we don't know, is

president trump currently covid-free, free of complications, could he relapse or could he still be contagious or is he in the clear to hit the campaign trail again? >> well, thank you for having me, arthel. and certainly i can't speak to the specifics of the president's health and certainly wish the president and everyone else who is dealing with covid-19 continued recovery. whowe know that some folks recor without further symptoms. but we also know that there are many who continue to experience longer term symptoms of covid-19 and tragically over 200,000 folks in our country have died. and so we need to always keep in mind that as far as the novel coronavirus is relentless in its

ability to infect and we need to continue to make sure we are all following basic public health measures to mitigate the spread of the virus. arthel: right. and of course we want the president to be fully recovered and to progress as he appears to be and return to full health, good health. but without providing the date of president trump's last positive test, his last negative test, i want to go back to the contact tracing. can the white house conduct accurate contact tracing for those who were at that rose garden reception for judge amy coney barrett or anyone who has been in close contact with the president since he contracted coronavirus? >> certainly the more information, the better, because we do know -- and i'm glad you brought up contact tracing because that hasn't been on our radar lately but that still is an important piece of the work,

the known work of stopping the spread of coronavirus. and so we need as much information as possible. now, certainly the president's physicians know those results and are working with other white house staff, certainly it's a delicate balance that they are navigating. certainly balancing privacy and confidentiality with public trust and confidence. and so we'll have to leave those results and whether or not they share those results up to the white house. arthel: a few hundred people were on the white house lawn this afternoon, the president was above on the balcony. he didn't give a long speech but he appeared to get through without problems. meanwhile, the crowd, they were packed in but they wore masks and the event was outside. any concerns with that scenario? >> well, i saw some of the footage from that and certainly

as we know outside is better than inside and it did appear that most of the folks that were wearing masks. however, i did have some concerns as i did not see social distancing and that is another important point that we cannot for get. there is no one sort of magic wand panacea solution. it's about layers of mitigation that is important. so we must wear our masks. again, certainly outside is better than inside. but we also should be avoiding large crowds and we have to make sure we are maintaining appropriate distance. arthel: let me sidestep really quickly and get a short answer on this if i could. what's your advice for family gatherings? >> well, certainly it does he depend on where you are and the level of spread in your community and it also i can just tell you that my father, i'm very sensitive to my father being at risk and so it depends

on who else in the family has specific risk factors. but if you have been around folks in your immediate household and no one is ill and you have been following appropriate mitigation measures, then certainly you can gather within your own family. arthel: yes or no, should we get the flu shot if we're adults? >> yes. we should absolutely get the flu shot, october is a great month. we are at the beginning of you u season, have not seen widespread flu activity, so yes, get the flu shot. arthel: october is a great month. it's my birthday month. doctor, all the best to you and to your father as well. thank you. >> thank you. you too. arthel: eric. eric: there's massive power outages back in louisiana after delta makes landfall as a category 2 hurricane. coming up, we'll look at the destruction left behind and

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eric: hurricane delta now a tropical depression after making landfall as a category 2 hurricane in parts of louisiana last night and leaving hundreds

of thousands of people still without power. that region still reeling after hurricane laura struck just six weeks ago. mike hogan, that was so hashed t by laura. >> reporter: the power crews are the key players of the day. many of them were already here, dealing with the aftermath of hurricane law ray. they started the day with 680,000 customers in louisiana without power. they've been working throughout the blazing heat and have knocked the number down to less than 500,000. so it's a drayed drag if you don't have power but take comfort in the idea that these guys are knocking that number down. the hurricane came ashore at about 6:0 6:00 last night with s clocking in around 100 miles an hour. it had a huge wind and rain field. in the aftermath you have thousands of people were are displaced. many were displaced by lawyer are and they still can't go home. you have flooding, standing water, rivers that are swollen. there is physical damage to

homes. one woman in jennings, louisiana describes a tree crashing into her house. >> i'm just so grateful because if the tree would have fell anymore to the right it would have landed on all of us and we may not have been having this conversation. >> live pictures out here in lake charles. there's debris on just about every treatment one of the things the governor pointed out, the damage assessment is difficult because you can't tell what is old damage and what is new damage in this case. there was some concern that the debris would fly around in the storm last night. that didn't happen. one of the figures that governor edwards threw out, casualties from last night. zero. eric, back to you. eric: that is such great news, despite the devastation and the problems going on that no one was killed last night. thankfully, a great sight when you see the power trucks coming down the road. mike, thank you. >> reporter: you got it, eric. see ya. eric: arthel. arthel: the finger pointing has

begun as we learn more details about the foiled plot to kidnap and kill michigan governor gretchen whitmer. why she says president trump bears some of the blame. ♪ ♪ ♪ smooth driving pays off with allstate, the safer you drive the more you save you never been in better hands allstate click or call for a quote today you never been in better hands allstate and sweetie can coloryou just be... gentle with the pens. okey. okey. i know. gentle..gentle new projects means new project managers. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. the moment you sponsor a job on indeed

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them life in prison. christina coleman is live for us with more. christina. >> hi arkansas arthel included kidnapping governor and blowing up a bridge leading to her vacation home before election day. six of the seven suspects it now arraigned under domestic terrorism and weapons charges and six others are facing federal charges and some to blame on the president. >> ever since donald trump shut his sites on me there have been a lot of hateful rhetoric online, a lot of demonstrations that have my likeness, rhetoric that's coming out of the white house is dangerous. it is emboldening american domestic terrorists. and endangers all of us that means our democracy.

>> president trump defending himself on twitter in addition to saying governor witmer has done a terrible job he said, quote, i do not tolerate extreme violence defending all americans even those who oppose attack me is what i'll always do as your president witmer open up your state open up your school and open up your churches. michigan's attorney generals office tells fox news.com that the twin brothers williams and michael charged in kidnapping plot are seen here in this photo at the capitol tweeted by a michigan state senator on april 30th during an armed protest against governor witmer coronavirus lockdown orders. and all of this has apparently prompted renewed call calls by michigan democrats to have a gun ban in the state capitol building. arthel. >> christina coleman thank you very much christina. eric. eric: well, arthel that does it for us right now but we'll be back tomorrow twice first at noon eastern tomorrow and then at 4 p.m. covering all of the news as we prepare for the judge amy coney barrett hearing. president trump's campaigning on

monday in florida. we'll have all of the news, here on the fox news channel. thank you for trusting us. arthel. arthel: don't go anywhere because "fox report"'s jon scott is up next. enjoy your evening. jon: president trump making his first public appearance since his covid-19 diagnosis last week. as the white house says it has nothing to release on whether he has since tested negative. good evening i'm jon scott and this is the "fox report." ♪ jon: president trump's speaking this afternoon from the white house's blue room balcony. he addressed hundreds gathered on the south lawn for what white house calls peaceful order and still hat nos confirmed he's no longer contagious president telling supporters he feels great. >> i want thong all