arthel: just 16 days out from the election, the candidates are working to reach out to voters. president trump with a packed schedule today, he'll be heading to california shortly for a fundraiser there ahead of a rally later tonight in carson city, nevada, while democratic nominee joe biden is in battleground north carolina where early voting is well underway. hello, everyone. welcome to america's news headquarters. i'm arthel neville. hi, eric. eric: hello, arthel. hello, everyone. welcome. i'm eric shawn. both the trump and biden campaigns are putting a heavy emphasis and focus on winning

over key state voters who could decide this election in three weeks. like pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, arizona, nevada and north carolina. that is where our coverage starts right now. jack skjacqui heinrich is in noh carolina, she is live in durham with the latest there. hi, jacqui. >> reporter: joe biden visited his son's grave this morning after church as he usually does. he's now making his way to durham where he will tell people to vote early and this comes as polls show biden's lead in the state is too narrow to count on. the real clear politics average has biden up by just 2.7 points and president trump won north carolina by 3.6 points in 2016. in a memo to supporters, biden's campaign warns things are tighter than they appear. writing that in states where we're counting on to carry us to victory we're only up by 3 points and we know that even the

best polling can be wrong. in the critical number of states we are functionally tied and we need to campaign like we're trailing. biden's plan was to hold back during the week. he's making a quick stop before returning to delaware this evening. biden has plenty of preparation to do following allegations of inprpropriety in the new york post. as the paper slow drips new claims, the former vp has yet to formally respond. during the first debate, president trump was already on the attack for answers. the campaign cited the former vice president's tax returns, official schedule and republican-led senate inquiry as proof that he didn't use his position and then u.s. foreign policy to enrich his family. eric. eric: he called the allegations a, quote, smear campaign against

him and his family. meanwhile, jacqui, the president out on a midwest swing, hit michigan and wisconsin last night, now he's out west. >> reporter: that's right. the president began his day in las vegas. he's holding an event at a church. then he'll head to california for a round table and fundraiser before heading back to nevada, he'll have an event in carson city later today, a big rally and then he'll spend the night in las vegas tonight. this followed back to back rallies in michigan and wisconsin yesterday, he's laying into big tech for censoring the hunter biden story and pushing the economic message claiming if biden is elected, the recovery will stall, a vaccine will be delayed and taxes will go up. the president is focusing on the campaign because the debate strategy is changing. >> when you talk about style and you talk about approach, i do think that president trump is going to give joe biden a little bit more room to explain himself on some of these issues, whether it is are you the chairman, are you the big guy as we've seen

articulated in the e-mails, do you support packing the court. >> reporter: final presidential debate is in nashville on thursday. eric. eric: wow, everyone will be watching that, jacqui, thank you. arthel: eric, just sort of recapping what jacqui was telling us aboutever one's busy schedule, president trump kicking off a string of campaign rallies this week, starting in carson city, nevada. he will make stops in arizona, pennsylvania, north carolina. ahead of the final debate with joe biden on thursday. as for the former vice president, he's in north carolina today. on wednesday, former president obama will stump for him in philadelphia. right now, we're going to bring in los angeles times reporter, sima mada. thanks for joining us this morning. so while on the west coast, the president will attend a reception at the home of a big money donor, in now port beach, -- newport beach, california. how critical is that stop?

>> it is very critical for him. the president, while he raised enormous sums of money, he also spent it very freely. we just got the third quarter reports and joe biden out-raised the president by $125 million. you can see this in the advertising spending where the biden campaign is spending a lot more to air a lot for ads in a lot more states than the president is. i was at the site of the fundraiser, it's in an exclusive community, the beach boys will be playing at the fundraiser. it's hosted by palmer lucky, a 28-year-old tech whic wizard. he sold his company to facebook for $3 billion. there's a lot of money in these circles. arthel: sounds like a place i would like to be. the president will travel to nevada for a rally, another battleground state. what does he need to accomplish

there today. >> when you look at the president and vice president's schedule, it tells you where they campaigns are at. the vice president will be in north carolina. it voted narrowly for obama in 2008 by less than half a percentage point. this is a very traditionally republican state. the fact that biden feels he can compete there it signals some confidence that he is growing the map. president trump is going to nevada which has been recently pretty democratic. that might signal they believe they have a chance there too. he'll hold two rallies in arizona, which has traditionally been a red state. you have a significant senate ray racrace there. i think where they're traveling tells you where they think the campaign is. the biden campaign shows they feel strongly they're growing the map and the trump camp is trying to hold onto states they won four years ago. arthel: in the meet and greet in the north carolina area, what does the former vice president have to accomplish there today. >> i think he needs to encourage early voting which the

campaign has placed a huge emphasis on early voting and we're seeing record breaking numbers across the country. 26 millions had either voted early in person or by mail. you can see kamala harris is going to florida in the early part of this week, on the first day of their early voting, they're placing a heavy e emphas on getting voters out early. president trump has questioned the fairness or whether these early voting efforts can be rigged, his campaign is really encouraging his supporters to get out there and mail their ballots in early too. arthel: former president obama will head to philly this wednesday to campaign for his former vice president. pennsylvania, a key battleground state, 20 o 20 electoral votes r grabs. in 2012, president obama got 51.97% of the vote over his republican challenger, mitt romney. in 2008, candidate obama beat senator john mccain, 54.9 to

44.1%. now, candidate trump's 48.18% of the vote beat hillary clinton's 47.46% in pennsylvania. so the question is how persuasive will president obama be in pennsylvania for the biden/harris ticket? >> in 2016 you had african-american voters didn't turn out in the same numbers they did for president obama and suburban women didn't turn out for hillary clinton in the same way they did for president obama. they are going to emphasize that joe biden needs to win states like pennsylvania. arthel: he's going after for black women and those who set it out in 2016. >> this is a city, as well as the suburban women, particularly college educated women, they were all right on 201 2016 for president trump but they showed up in the midterms for the

democrats. arthel: i want to take a moment right now to look at some reporting from the washington post today on efforts by the trump campaign to get the president to stay on message and is saying in part, quote, there are some in trump's orbit who urged a sharper focus on the policy consequences of a biden victory for taxes, healthcare and other issues. most trump aides say a focus on the economic growth before the pandemic and how trump would rebuild the economy is the best megs an -- message but the president has sought to ramp up attention on hunter biden. listen, the president also trusts his own instincts even if his choice goes against his add vieders, is president trump trumpeting a winning message? >> he used such message as in 2016. it wasn't about 2016, hillary clinton's. mails, et cetera -- clinton's

e-mails, et cetera and he won. i talked to voters yesterday, vaters that support the president and plan to support him. they have all to the one said they're supporting him because of the economy, because they believe he helped them financially and he put america first and led the job creation before the pandemic hit and a number of them expressed discomfort with -- they obviously -- i don't always like what he tweets or when he says things but he's putting the economy first, rolling back federal regulations, the judicial appointments. so talking to voters, the policy seems to be the sweet spot. the president does -- he goes by his gut and his gut was successful in 2016. arthel: we'll see if it works this time. thank you so much for rolling through all of those items with me, sima, thanks so much. have a good day. take care. eric. eric: arthel, twitter targettings lots of anger from

trump supporters as the senate judiciary committee is set to vote this week on sending a subpoena to the ceo, jack dorsey, after they limit ted the report of the new york post news stories about hunter biden. now republicans are accusing the social platform of censorship. we have team fox news coverage for you on all a of this, claudia cowen is in california, she has reaction from the big tech companies in silicon valley. first, let's go to mark meredith, live in washington with the latest on the controversy. >> reporter: good afternoon. social media companies have millions of users, they're very popular. some in congress believe that these companies have gotten too big, that they need to be regulated or really kind of broken down all together. this latest outrage that we've seen all stems from what happened with the new york post story and twitter's behavior when they tried to block access to a story involving joe biden's son, hunter. twitter decided to pull back,

allowing the story to be reshared. the damage was pretty much already done and now that story is out there. president trump has accused social media networks of essentially trying to silence conservative viewpoints. he spoke out against social platform at a campaign rally last night in wisconsin. >> the big tech companies have become crazy. they won't let the fact that we caught him in a total corrupt deal, they won't let the news get out. >> reporter: this week, the senate judiciary committee is expected to vote on whether to issue a subpoena to twitter's ceo, jack dorsey. house minority leader kevin mccarthy had plenty to say about this earlier today on sunday morning futures. >> just as china is trying to influence our election, we find that twitter and facebook are doing the exact same thing and they should be ashamed and if te american public is outraged about this. >> reporter: dorsey tweeted last week that the company's communication over the biden story was not great and they could have provided more context

the head of the federal communications commission suggest social media companies could face more regulation in the future, this is what he had to say, quote, social media companies have a first amendment right to free speech but they don't have a right to special immunity denied to other media outlets such as newspapers and broadcasters. that's not just republicans that are republicans that are speaking out. we heard from a subcommittee, suggesting that apple, google, facebook, that they are essentially monopolies and they are too big and the government may need to step in. they feel it's not just about information, but also about commerce. eric: mark, thanks. arthel: now we're going to go to claudia cowen in california with the latest response from those big tech companies. claudia. >> reporter: arthel, as you might imagine, the big tech companies in cal california are

unapologetic, saying it's their company, they can make their own rules, especially when it comes to what their employees are posting on social media. twitter says employees can post what they want and if the message is anti-trump, so be it. here's this from twitter's chief human resources officer, jennifer kristie. in a statement to the new york post she says, quote, we do not hire based on political beliefs and eat completely support our employees' rights to express themselves and support the causes they care about. our employees are professionals and we require them to bring objectivity to their work regardless of personal views, this despite some tweets that cross a line. the new york post called out twitter's head of site integrity who called the president a racist tangerine and actual nazi. over at facebook the official response has been to flag posts including the president's that in the company's view are misleading. last week, feedback removed a post from the president that compared coronavirus to the flu and as we heard is reducing

redistribution of the new york post's reporter on hunter biden and a twitter had also blocked that reporting. conservatives have complained about the systemic liberal bias in silicon valley. at a free speech rally in san francisco was supposed to include a march to twitter headquarters. things turned violent when hundreds of antifa counter protesters overthrew police barricades and attacked demonstrators. the organizer of the rally was punched in the face and lost two teeth. three san francisco police officers were also injured but at last report no arrests have been made. back to you. arthel: oh, boy. claudia could you you when. thank you. -- claudia cowen, thank you. eric. eric: the new york post, a corporate cousin of fox. have you voted by mail? americans are doing it in record numbers. straight ahead, we'll talk to one of the nation's top early voting analysts and what this means for the race to the white house and if the numbers of all

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tracing part is so important because communities of color had been disproportionately affected by this. arthel: house speaker nancy pelosi highlighting a key issue she has with the white house's latest pitch for a coronavirus relief bill, now five months in the making. pelosi says she's optimistic the two sides will come to an agreement on money for testing. after speaking last night with treasury secretary steven mnuchin, the house speaker is giving the white house a 48 hour deadline to work out differences on a stimulus package. pelosi and mnuchin plan to speak again tomorrow. eric: the -- the say the miles are two miles long. they've never seen anything like it. the spirit in our country is incredible. it's going to be happening in pennsylvania, you watch, it's going to be happening all over the place. eric: that was president trump in his rally last night in

muskegon, michigan on the record number of voters who are casting ballots early. many folks wait hours in line he despite coronavirus concerns, many others voting by mail. alabama has broken the state record, more than 90,000 voting so far there. the story seems to be the same in many other states. we're joined by one of the nation's top experts on mail-in voting, he is professor michael mcdonald, professor at the university of florida, runs the u.s. election project, part of the university's election science group, they keep track of all the vote by mail numbers across the country. great to see you. thank you. >> great to be with you. eric: what are the trends you're seeing now in mail-in voting? did you ever expect that you would see this volume? >> we flu before the election -- we knew before the election started that we were going to have a record number of mail ballots sent to voters, over 82 million that i've been able to track in this election so far. we knew there would be a lot of

mail ballots, a lot of opportunities for people to vote in person early. what we didn't expect to see was such a demand by voters to vote. we are already over 27 million people have voted in the election so far. that's at levels that are running in person early voting maybe two to three times what they were in 2. howie2016 for mailballots, we'rt 10 times the number of mail ballots at the same time in point in 2016. eric: what surprises you the most about this? is it the lines? is it the people showing up and waiting? is it number of people who are requesting mail-in ballots and voting by absentee? >> the whole gamut of everything. we've never seen this many people vote so early in the election. that's a good news story, by the way. it's really important. because we were concerned about how the coronavirus was going to affect the conduct of the election. seeing so many people successfully vote, in-person and by mail means that the system's working and it helps election

officials. they're able to process those ballots over a longer period of time. we're very concerned about especially the mailed ballots coming in right at the very end and overwhelming election officials. by spreading out the demand or the number of ballots that are coming out into election offices over time, that's helping election officials better manage the election. eric: you just hit on a great point. we've heard about the problems or potential problems that could be with such an avalanche, such a volume of ballots. do you think election systems and election boards in this country are prepared to handle the influx of what they're getting? >> so far, we are. i mean, we have had isolated problems. so we have had long lines unfortunately in some places. we've had ballots, wrong ballots sent to voters. but we're still over two weeks out from the election so election officials are catching these errors, they're identifying problems and they're fixing them now when we still

have plenty of time before the election to get things right. so although we've had a few problems, overall we're -- the system's working well, so let's not detract from the overall big news, good news story from the few isolated problems that we're seeing. eric: that's a good point. people made a big deal out of let's say 2,000 ballots in loss an losangeles were mailed out te area where they didn't have the choice for president on it. 21 million, these were 2,000, and they caught it and it was corrected. let's take a look at mail-in ballots. can you, using the tea leaves, see what's going on in terms of potentially predicting the winner. let's start with nevada. there you see it. these are returned mail-in votes, 70,000 by democrats, 31,000 republicans. double the number of republicans in nevada so far in early

voting. then we have pennsylvania, i mean, look at those numbers. man, seems like the republicans are getting wiped out in early voting. these are the mail-in ballots that have been returned so far. and then we also after a this have -- who do we have next? north carolina where we saw jacqui heinrich earlier, not as much, more republicans there one would think but still, overwhelming for the democrats. and finally we have florida. very important state. more democrats voting by mail than republicans. what can you -- can you determine anything from that? they always say more republicans vote in person than democrats. so how would you analyze these numbers and would they indicate a potential joe biden win or is that not possible to extrapolate that at all? >> i think you have to be very cautious in interpreting these numbers. this election is completely

topsy-turvy, unlike anything we've seen before when it comes to the early vote. usually republicans vote by mail in those states, usually democrats vote in-person early. instead what we're seeing is lots of democrats voting by mail and these are lopsided numbers in favor of the democrats. i want to get through more of the in-person early voting person to see if republicans are deciding not to vote by mail and will be voting in-person and of course we have election day itself. so we have a long way toss go. there may be a couple states where we might be at the very end of this whole election season, be able to say something about turnout. it does look very high for this election so far. if this keeps up we'll have a very high turnout election, maybe 150 million, highest turnout rate since 1908. we may be able to tell like colorado or nevada, something about the partisan competition of the electorate because those are all mail states and the votes have to be into election

offices by election day. if we see the numbers persist through election day, that probably means good news for biden in those states. eric: and finally, when do you think -- when you consider all of the deadlines and the court cases, when do you think we could have a winner? >> florida should count 99% of its ballots on election night. and there will just be a few overseas military and voters and provisional ballots that won't be counted. unless we're in a recount situation in florida, we're going to know who won florida. and florida is a bigen economy lbig enchilada.if trump wins fls we know he's had a good night and he may win some of those states. they're going to take a little longer to count ballots, like in michigan, pennsylvania and wisconsin. so i'd say look to florida. there will be other states that are fast reporting states too, places like arizona, colorado an

even if those -- like colorado may not be on the battleground, it will give us a read of the overall shift, the national shift of the vote and that will help us understand what may be happening in the states that are slow reporters. eric: professor mcdonald says it's basically up to florida yet again. remember back then? professor, good to see you. thank you for your analysis and a your work. folks can go on the website to find out more information and keep up and we'll get you back on to analyze this. thanks so much. arthel. arthel: thanks, professor. and with voter enthusiasm high and the pandemic still ongoing, election officials in three critical swing states face special challenges with record numbers of mail-in votes. katie burns has more. >> reporter: will it take months? probably not. could it take weeks? probably. >> reporter: in battleground

states like pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin, workers can't check ballots until election day. >> if the state legislature or the governor doesn't change the law we will never have results on election night. >> reporter: most states are havhave a head start with a cans precanvassing. >> it sounds simple, taking a ballot out of the envelope takes the most time. >> reporter: jennifer more reel ran elections -- morel ran elections. she said checking ballots takes longer than you think. >> take out the ballot, remove the piece of paper, unfold it, flatten it and get it ready for scanning and take that and a times that by thousands or hundreds of thousands and you start to get an idea. >> reporter: a swing county in the northeastern part of the state is dealing with more mail-in ballots than ever. >> we're getting more every day. >> people are going to be looking at pennsylvania for the votes.

we won't have the results on election night unless they allow us to precanvas earlier. >> reporter: the county manager says the longer it takes to come one the final count -- >> that's when people worry about things like voter fraud, stealing the election, what's out there. people want the results on election night. doesn't everybody want to be done with the election by now. >> reporter: there's a bill moving through the courts in pennsylvania that if passed would let election workers start checking ballots the saturday before election day. the decision would have to be made next week. in philadelphia, katie burns, knocks fuse. eric: there's a new court ruling on a ballot counting deadline seen as a victory for republicans in one swing state. ahead we'll get reaction from the spokesperson from the democratic secretary of state there and what it means for voters in the mid crest as -- midwest as fox news coverage of the election and all things continues for this sunday. it's either the assurance of a 165-point certification process.

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arthel: here's headlines we're following this hour. as mourners in france pay tribute to the teacher beheaded whicby a suspected terrorist oud of paris on friday, we learned the teacher was the target of an angry social media ca campaign. among those arrested were the father of a female student. that man posted on facebook that his daughter was disciplined for being upset over a lesson about the prophet muhammad. the suspect posted a video after meeting with the school a day later, saying the country's president is inciting hatred of muslims. new york officials squashing plans for a 10,000 guest wedding in brooklyn, reportedly for a granddaughter of a top wha hasic jewish leader. facebook announced it rejected or removed more than 2 million

ads on facebook and instagram aimed at confusing voters, warnings about false information were also placed on another 150 million posts. voteers trust the system. voters are voting absentee in record numbers and the results and bottom line is if we catch any fraud within the protocols we've got in place, i refer to the attorney general for investigation and swift justice. eric: that's michigan secretary of state, joslyn benson, reassuring voters about the reliability of voting by mail. she appeared at a seminar on voting by may just this past week. michigan is seen as a must win state, because of the coronavirus pan he demic de-- pc it has no execute voting by mail and ballots have been pouring in but the state appeal's court struck down a ruling that allowed absentee ballots that be counted up to two weeks after election day.

that means that mail-in ballots now have to be in by 8:00 p.m. on election day. jake rallo joins us now, communications director for the secretary of state. jake, your message has been hurry up and vote because voters no longer have a two week window. how could this affect the election? >> so actually that's been our message all along. we have the law, the existing law has always been that voters had to get ballots in by 8:00 p.m. on election day. we have really for months now and prior to others, we have had already three successful elections this year, we have been encouraging voters to get ballots in as soon as possible and not wait until the last minute. that's actually the message that we're sticking with and we'll keep reminding voters if you're going to vote absentee, which is a safe, secure, convenient way to vote, then get your ballot in as soon as possible to take out any chance that it will be delayed by the postal service.

eric: the president attacked universal mail, some of the states that mail out ballots to every registered voter. he said absentee voting is fine. he does vote absentee himself. yet there are concerns. how reliable is it? people worry, is the vote going to be counted? can they track it? should they have confidence in it? what do you say to people who don't? >> we tell voters they should vote whatever way they feel most comfortable. if they feel to vote on election day in person we'll have safe, secure election day voting and we expect millions of michigan citizens will vote on election day. that said, our absentee system is the kind of system that the president has endorsed. it is a secure system. people have to have matching signatures on their application before they even get a ballot, they have to prove their identity. and then again, on their ballot envelope they have to have a matching signature to prove they are who they say they are.

and then the ballots, all valid ballots will be counted. if they arrive by 8:00 p.m. on election day and have a matching signature, they will be counted. they'll be counted actually by pairs of election workers so it's a bipartisan pair of election workers who have been trained to make sure that they count ballots without political bias. and to follow the law, to make sure that laws are absolutely followed and ballots are counted accurately. so we have just -- we just keep reminding voters that they have multiple option ofs to vote this year and all of them are safe and secure and our elections will be an accurate reflection of the will of the people. eric: people worry about the signature matching. they have a handwriting expert who can tell. so explain what's called the signature cure, that you are a state where if your ballot wasn't counted, officials can go in and you can talk to the voter and try to figur fix it?

>> clerks, election clerks across the state, there are about 1600 of them and they are the ones who actually administer michigan elections, hily ethical -- highly ethical public servants that live in the communities across the state. if they receive a ballot that has a missing signature and or the signature is not massing, they're required to contact the voter, we urge them to do so as soon as possible to give the voter the opportunity to prove their identity, correct their signature and ensure that their vote is counted and ensure their ballot is valid. and so we expect that clerks will be doing that. some maybe already are. we have 1.4 million michigan sitens who have -- citizens who have cast ballots in the state. eric: any idea when you'll get the result? how long do you thinks it will take before michigan is called. >> as you mentioned in a previous segment, michigan, our legislature only allows clerks

about 10 hours the day before election day to start preparing absentee ballots which is very different from many other states. florida for examples allows 40 days. so when we look at our august election, we had about 1.6 million absentee ballots cast and that took about 40 hours. we're expecting and we're on pace right now to have about double that, about 3.2 million absentee ballots so we're expecting it will take 80 hours so that would, for full, complete unofficial results, that doesn't mean that there won't be counties and districts that report quicker than that. but we're expecting for full -- the full count, probably until friday. there are a number of things that could make it come quicker. we recruited at our office over 30,000 election workers. we provided funding for -- [audio difficulties]

eric: i think the audio went out for a moment there. jake, thank you. jack rollo with the michigan secretary of state office. michigan by friday, he says. we've been telling you, it's not going to be election day but potentially election few days. jake, thank you. arthel. arthel: well, eric, kentucky's attorney general and the attorney for former police officer involved in the killing of breonna taylor have filed a joint court motion, attorney general daniel cameron and lawyers for ex-cop brett hanken son requests that any information in the case be kept private. a circuit judge previously ordered the release of all related evidence but they argue the coverage sounding the case has been unprecedented and releasing any evidence before the trial could impact potential jurors.

he pleaded not guilty for the shots he fired outside of the apartment. a grand jury did not directly charge any of the three officers for the death of breonna taylor. and we are just getting this tape in from las vegas, president trump attending church in vegas at the international church of las vegas. it is a nondenominational church, there with president hope hicks, kayleigh mcenany is there and social media director dan skavin of o. they're not wearing masks. but they're there, worshiping. and later the president will hold a rally in carson city, nevada. meanwhile, hospital officials in more states pleading with the public to take the coronavirus seriously as more intensive care units reach capacity.

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eric: there are new restrictions and tighter enforcement for millions of people across europe as covid-19 positive infections surge in record numbers in the continent. many countries reporting more daily cases now than during the first wave of infections when they hit. trey yingst is live in the mideast bureau with more on the coronavirus spreading. trey. >> reporter: eric, got afternoon. europe largely started to reopen after beating a first wave of covid-19. now a second wave of the virus is threatening to overwel overwm medical systems across the region. the country of france stands out among many of a growing list fighting off infection spikes. french officials confirmed 32,000 coronavirus cases yesterday alone. a curfew went into place this weekend affecting paris and eight other of cities.

this didn't stop residents from getting in one last drink and meal. >> i can see why it would be really stuff, i'm the first person to feel sorry for them. there comes a point where you have to strike a balance between public health and the health of the economy and i think we're trying to do our best. it's not easy for everyone. >> reporter: now to the united kingdom where hundreds protested new lockdown restrictions in london, with 700,000 total cases and rising numbers, boris johnson is implementing local lackdowns in a number of areas. a three tier system classifies areas based on levels of infection. in switzerland restrictions went in place on gatherings. people may only gather in groups of 15 or less. with more than 3,000 daily cases, the country may face an even tighter lockdown in the coming weeks. lockdowns are the theme of

europe today and throughout the weekend. we've seen new restrictions about to go into place or already going into place in places like ireland, the czech republic and italy. italy, which was a previous hot spot of the world, saw 11,000 cases today of covid-19. eric. eric: and we're seeing a similar surge here in the u.s. especially in the midwest. trey, thank you. arthel. arthel: well, eric, officers in the nation's largest city retiring at record numbers. top cops in new york city say it's a troubling trend. so what does this mean for protecting the public? that's ahead.

arthel: nypd officers are retiring and resigning in large numbers and police union officials say it's partly due to pressure from racial justice advocates to defund or reform police departments. alex hogan is live in new york city with more. hi, alex knew just as we've seen in many people leaving new york city, we're also seeing a higher portion of officers leaving the nypd this year. according to an e-mail sent to fox news from the nypd, more than 2,000 officers retired or

submitted their retirement papers this year. that's an increase of 87% compared to 2019. there are just under 34,500 members of the new york city police department. commissioner says he thinks an uptick from retirement stems from an increase in crime. he is calling for more resources and a call for change. >> we want to send a message that gang numbers carrying illegal firearms in new york city, they need to be prosecuted and face the harshest consequences. >> reporter: according to city crime numbers, as of last week murders this year compared to last year are up 34%, shootings increased by about 90%. shooting victims jumped nearly 99%. officers not only trying to tackle crime but also the state of community relations. new york saw a summer of protests against police brutality. the city cut $1 billion from the

nypd's budget after calls for police reform. as a step to move forward, the nypd is holding listening sessions, these are to understand how they're viewed in the community and also what they can do better and one will even be held tomorrow night at 7:00 p.m. to hear from the community. arthel. arthel: alex hogan live in new york city. thanks, alex. and we'll be right back.

leland: we are covering both canada to president president trump is in nevada and he holds the rally tonight in carson city. joe biden holds a rally in durham north carolina and our selenite will be back at 3:00 p.m. eastern, pretty soon. gillian: any moment vice president joe biden will take the stage in north carolina, get out the vote campaign event, we are tracking his arrival and as soon as he begins we will take you there lives. out on the west coast president trump is in las vegas where he attended church and soon he will head to california to meet with his supporters there, we will try and get in as much show this afternoon as we can until we've got a take you to the biden event that will be live in the interim, great to be back in studio with everybody at home. leland: we are here again. gillian: i am gillian turner. leland: it's good to be with you,