that's yes for less. at ross. good morning, america. president trump seeks to reassure americans he's recovering from covid-19. >> i came here -- >> the president tweeting out a video saying his health is improving. >> i feel much better now. >> echoing a warning from a senior white house official that the next 48 hours will be critical. >> over the next period of a few days, i guess that's the real test. >> but transparency now becoming an issue with the president's medical team dodging key questions about his health. >> i'm not going to go into specifics of what the findings have been. >> what abc has learned this morning. cases spreading. eight people who attended the rose garden ceremony where president trump announced his supreme court pick now testing positive, including former new jersey governor chris christie. why he checked himself into the hospital.

the voices of the voters. how americans are reacting to the news that the president is hospitalized. >> my first reaction was, oh, my god. [ cheers ] >> the well wishes as many wonder what this means for the campaign. football sidelined. the patriots/chiefs game postponed after reports players on both sides tested positive for covid-19, including star quarterback cam newton. plus, the report of a positive test overnight for a saints player. and cinema shutdown? reports that more than 500 regal cinemas are being shuttered. ♪ >> the news about this big-budget movie that may have been the last straw. and good morning. the president looking to reassure americans about his condition by tweeting out a video overnight.

his doctor says trump has made substantial progress since he was diagno he says the president is not out of the woods, but he's cautiously optimistic. that coming after a day of contradictory statements. his doctors' comments not quite matching up with what the white house was saying about the president's health. >> and there are growing concerns about how the white house has handled testing and contact tracing. the president is now among at least eight people who have tested positive after the white house event on september 26th to reveal the president's supreme court nominee. among the people at the event now infected, former new jersey governor chris christie who has checked himself into a hospital. >> multiple sources telling abc news that friday night was, quote, scary, and they were concerned about the president. for the latest this morning on the president's condition, let's go to abc's rachel scott in bethesda, maryland. rachel, good morning. >> reporter: whit, good morning. the white house has offered conflicting messages on the president's health. bottom line here, we still do

not know when the president will be discharged, when he first started experiencing symptoms, or how he was infected. the president insists he is feeling better. but that came just hours after a senior white house official told us he is still not on a clear path to full recovery. overnight, president trump recording this video from the hospital telling the american people he's on the road to recovery, but admitting he's not out of the woods just yet. >> i came here, wasn't feeling so well. i feel much better now. you don't know. over the next period of a few days, i guess that's the real test. so we'll be seeing what happens over those next couple of days. >> reporter: this coming after a stark warning from a senior white house official telling us the next 48 hours will be critical in the president's fight against the virus. that assessment at odds with what doctors told reporters earlier saturday. >> this morning the president is doing very well. it's ior4 ur we remain cautiously optimistic,

but he's doing great. >> reporter: at walter reed, the president's medical team insisted trump's symptoms, a mild cough, nasal congestion, and fatigue were improving, but dodged key questions about his health. >> do you have an estimated date when he might be discharged? >> well, i don't want to put a hard date on that. >> what was his fever when he had one, sir? >> i'd rather not give any specific numbers. >> reporter: has there been any sign of -- >> i'm not going to go into specifics of what the findings are. >> reporter: the white house physician, dr. sean conley, repeatedly declined to say if the president ever received supplemental oxygen. >> has he ever been on supplemental oxygen? >> right now he is not on -- >> i understand. i know you keep saying "right now." should we read into the fact that he had been previously? >> yesterday and today he was not on oxygen. >> reporter: sources tell abc news president trump had trouble breathing on friday and did receive supplemental oxygen at the white house before he was transferred to walter reed medical center. >> yesterday morning we were

real concerned with that. he had a fever and a blood oxygen level had dropped rapidly. >> reporter: the president's doctors said he finished the second dose of the experimental drug remdesivir saturday evening. this morning the still unclear when and how the president was infected. the white house's physician has already had to backtrack on the timing of the president's diagnosis. >> just 72 hours into the diagnosis now. the first week of covid. >> reporter: conley saying he incorrectly suggested trump tested positive wednesday, not thursday. and now a growing list of officials and advisers close to the president have contracted the virus. the latest, his personal assistant and body man, nick luna, seen here next to hope hicks without a mask boarding air force one just one day before she tested positive. eight others w w feedto at a reception inside the white house that day, guests maskless and close together, and outside sitting in the first four rows, the first lady, senator mike

lee, senator thom tillis, former adviser kellyanne conway, reverend john jenkins and former new jersey governor chris christie. all have the virus. christie, an abc news contributor, spotted here hugging other attendees. overnight, revealing due to a history of asthma, he checked himself into a hospital as a precautionary measure and is experiencing mild symptoms. christie was also in the room for the president's debate prep. five of the nine there have tested positive. >> were folks wearing masks? were you wearing a mask? >> no. no one was wearing masks in the room when we were prepping the president during that period of time. >> reporter: three senators have now tested positive for the virus. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said he will be canceling all senate votes for the next two weeks. but he made it clear the senate will be coming back for the confirmation hearing of the president's supreme court nominee, judge amy coney barrett. that is scheduled for october 12th. democrats are slamming the move calling it reckless and dangerous. eva? >> rachel scott for us at walter

reed, thank you. joining us now is chief medical correspondent dr. jen ashton. thank you so much for being with us this morning. in rachel's piece, we saw the video of the president speaking from the hospital. he said in that video the next few days are the real test. now we've been told that the president's vital signs were at least at one point very concerning. we know that he received oxygen. what does that say to you? >> wow, so much to unpack there. first of all, big picture here, as i've been saying from the start of this pandemic, i think it is really important to get medical information from medical professionals. get political information from politicians. what may be very concerning to a layperson may not be very concerning to a physician. in terms of this oxygen question, i can only tell you as a practicing physician if i had a 74-year-old man who happened to be the president of the united states, i would have an

extremely low threshold for putting a little bit of supplemental oxygen on someone. we really can't read too much into what dropping means. if a number goes from 97 to 96, that is not as clinically significant as if it goes to 88, for example. >> we also know that the president and his staff are tested on a regular basis. with that amount of testing it, how is it possible that he and other senior staff were still exposed to this virus? >> well, eva, this virus does not need security clearance. testing for surveillance measures is not the same thing as preventive measures like masking and distancing and hand hygiene. yo. so it is not a license to not wear a mask, sit inches apart from someone, or go into crowded places. we have to remember that in terms of viruses, there's a latency period where you can be exposed and, therefore, infected

and test negative, and there are false negatives. so testing does not mean that all of those other measures don't get followed. >> and the white house has been criticized this morning for its contact tracing around all of this. talk us through how contact tracing is supposed to work and what people who are exposed to someone who is exposed to the virus should do. >> so this is really important, eva, and this comes from cdc guidance. if you are exposed to a confirmed covid case, meaning prolonged, close contact, or potentially even an enclosed indoor space for a prolonged period of time, you go 48 hours from when that person developed symptoms or when they tested positive. so i'm going to use you as an example. if you were exposed to someone who tested positive on friday morning, you go back 48 hours from that point wednesday morning. if you were with that person on monday, you do not need to

self-quarantine. if you're within that 48-hour period, you need to self-quarantine for 14 days, and eva, follow this one, testing does not exonerate you from that quarantine period. so you can test negative five times in 14 days. you still have to quarantine for 14 days. >> an important clarification for a lot of people who have questions about that contact tracing this morning. dr. jen ashton, thank you so much. whit, over to you. eva, turning now to the presidential campaign entering its last four weeks. up-ended because of the president's illness. the vice presidential debate still going ahead as scheduled on wednesday, but with at least one change. abc's andrew dymburt joins us from washington with more on that part of the story. andrew, good morning. >> reporter: and good morning, whit. the timing of the president's situation here really affecting both campaigns down the final stretch here. after the president tested positive for covid-19, shortly after his debate with joe biden, now for the upcoming vice presidential debates there's a

trp nos itized himornafety.heca while joe biden has pulled all negative ads. both candidates now forced to re-imagine their campaigns and reach out to voters virtually. while trump delivered this message from walter reed hospital, biden back in delaware for a digital town hall with union workers over the weekend. >> i'm in a little bit of a spot here because i don't want to be attacking the president and the first lady. >> reporter: as he was leaving evening mass in wilmington, the former vp telling reporters that he was not tested saturday for the coronavirus, but that he will be sometime today. >> you were not tested today? >> i was yesterday. >> and you'll be tomorrow? >> and tomorrow. >> reporter: with the campaign promising in a new statement to release the results of every covid-19 test biden takes. with president trump off the road and battling the virus, his campaign says it will still move forward with in-person events as

early as next week, calling it operation maga. meanwhile, a trump re-election bus tour also kicked off this weekend as scheduled with top surrogates gathering indoors. few wearing masks. and in what has already been a wild race for the white house, shrouded with uncertainties in the midst of a pandemic, the runningmates are readying for a political showdown of their own as senator kamala harris prepares to take the debate stage against vice president mike pence later in the week. she made a stop in salt lake city, utah. >> let's do the work that is necessary to continue to fight for our ideals. >> reporter: for pence, he's pressing pause on the stumping. he'll be back on the trail next week. in light of president trump testing positive for covid-19, sources tell abc news harris and pence will sit 12 feet apart after the biden campaign requested more space during their debate. and there's been at least one notable shift in safety protocols from the trump re-election team after some staffers and surrogates were not wearing masks in iowa. they did start to wear them on the second part of their team

trump bus tour. dan? >> andrew dymburt, thank you. so much to talk about. let's bring in our chief anchor george stephanopoulos who is going to be hosting "this week" later this morning. george, good morning to you. so cold, hard political question here. how is this likely to play politically for the president? is it likely to garner a lot of sympathy for him, or highlight a lot of the criticisms of his handling of the pandemic? >> short answer is who knows? we've never faced a situation like this before. we've never had a president facing a personal health crisis just a month away from the final votes in a re-election campaign. but here's what we know about what the situation was before the president announced he had covid, before he was hospitalized. he was trailing by at least seven points. in the debate, the first polls that have come out since the debate show that the president bore most of the blame for what happened there on tuesday night and was likely losing some support. people believe he lost that debate. we've got a new poll out this morning showing that nearly three in four americans believe the president didn't take the appropriate precautions, didn't take the chance of getting covid

seriously enough. and we know that with about 30 days to go until the final votes the president had to do something to turn this around in a world where covid was the worst possible issue for him all through the course of this campaign. so i think it's hard to imagine that this would help him. but again, we have no idea how this is being processed in the minds of the american people. >> this has been a wild year. so who knows what's going to happen next, as you said at the beginning of that question. what about for joe biden? how tricky a tightrope is this period of time for him? >> well, you see how he's handling it. he came out immediately, wished the president well. but reinforced the message that he's been delivering all along during this campaign. we have to take the pandemic seriously. we have to take social distancing and mask wearing seriously. we can't fix everything else in this country until we get a handle on this pandemic. i think you're going to see him continue to focus on that. whether we're going to see another debate between joe biden and the president i think is a

real open -- real open question. the first supposed to be on october 15th. it's kind of hard to imagine it's going to take place on the 15th. we'll have to see. >> meanwhile, we've got the vice presidential debate coming up. does this now become increasingly significant given the current context? >> i think it's possible that people will pay more attention because of the health crisis right now. i think there's no question about that. my guess is it's going to be a more sedate affair than last tuesday. >> yes. pretty much anything would be. george stephanopoulos, thank you very much. i want to remind everybody to watch george's show. he will go one on one with trump campaign senior adviser jason miller and biden deputy campaign manager kate bedingfield. that's coming up on "this week" here on abc. george, thanks again. eva, over to you. president trump's health could be a factor for markets in the week ahead. for more on that we go to abc's deidre bolton. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. you said it, what is going on with the president right now is certainly going to affect the markets. so think about instability being

injected into the system and uncertainty. so in this tick tock about how we hear the president is recuperating, if it's faster, if it's slower than expected, that is likely to move markets. there's also questions, for example, if he's taking longer to recover, what does that mean for the functioning of government? how many other senior administration officials may fall ill? these are all questions that investors will be focused on. we saw the direct cause and effect. you remember this, the president tweeting out confirming that he had tested positive for coronavirus. that was at around 1:00 a.m. eastern time, of course, on friday morning. you saw the dow futures drop immediately, 500 points. this just shows you to what extent investors are keyed in to what is going on. of course with the coronavirus, it is a reminder when our president gets it, we are all vulnerable. and that, of course, casts a long shadow over our economic recovery. dan? >> yeah, the stakes are

political, financial, psychological, profound in every day. deidre, thank you very much. we're going to switch things up now and check the weather with rob marciano who's tracking tropical storm gamma from westchester county in new york. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. another chilly day in the northeast, dan. the tropical storm gamma has done some business to mexico and some familiar spots if you go to the yucatan and cancun. they've got winds -- it was almost a hurricane when it came on shore. here's cozumel doing some pier damage there. and you see the turquoise blue waters with nearly a hurricane storm there. nine inches of rainfall, with more rain coming. kind of stalled right there in the southern gulf of mexico. it will meander for some time. we're very active in the tropics. this will continue to bring potentially life-threatening rain to mexico. then another one behind this as this kind of sits in the bay. we're looking at the next alhe xico that one may well develop --

some of the computer models are doing that. at the very least, florida is going to see rainfall out of this. by thursday, friday, maybe saturday, getting closer to the northern gulf coast. this is something uncertain but we have to watch very closely. that's a check of what's happening in the tropics. good sunday morning. a little bit of fog from our sutro tower cam. hazy conditions with the spare the air alert. we will be cooler, five to ten degrees cooler from yesterday's readings but certainly hazy conditions. temperature also keep getting cooler each and every day. more dramatically midweek and then eventually leading to some rain. 85 in fremont, look for 90 in livermore with mid-70s downtown and a deeper marine layer through the week. >> reporter: the fires continue to burn in california. good news, a pattern change, cool weather coming there. more in the next half hour. back to you. >> we'll take that good news. rob, thanks so much. we'll talk to you soon. back to the big story we've been following this

morning -- the president's diagnosis just one month before election day. of course, it's a stunning development for most voters regardless of their political positions. will it impact how they actually cast their ballots? janai norman has a look at how voters are reacting. janai, good morning. >> hey, whit, good morning. millions of americans have already cast their ballots. talk about an october surprise. as so many still have yet to vote and are now left wondering what impacts the president's health will have on the election. for the first time in generations, americans are waking up to a u.s. president facing a major health issue. outside walter reed medical center and in cities across the country, supporters sending well wishes. >> how's the president doing? >> he's doing well. >> all right. >> in good spirits. >> reporter: with many americans wondering what happens next. >> this covid-19 can get anybody. it don't matter the position you got. >> my first reaction was, oh, my god.

and then i saw the stock market had dropped. so apparently that's the reaction across the entire world. >> reporter: some turning to social media -- >> decided to put the news on. so i was up until about 3:00 in the morning on twitter and facebook. >> reporter: while others are tuning out. >> i don't want any more stress and dissatisfaction with what is happening in the country right now. >> reporter: and focusing on the president's behavior during the pandemic. >> he really needs to know it can happen to anybody at any given time. >> reporter: and his management of the crisis, criticizing his supreme court nomination announcement, now believed to have been a super-spreader event. writing, "mothers gave birth alone. families weren't allowed to attend a grandparent's funeral. graduations and weddings were canceled." the unknown impacts on the election weighing heavily on voters. >> i'm pretty worried about the president's health, especially during this time that we need him to lead this country to a greater height. >> reporter: some wondering what impact his condition will have on the race. >> it couldn't have come at a

worse time for him. i'm not sure how it will impact the presidential campaign. >> and of course we're now less than a month out from election day. and so much still remains to be seen. guys? >> janai, thank you so much. coming up, covid trouble for the nfl. positive tests forcing one of today's games to be postponed. and the breaking news overnight about another team's positive case. and does this presidential announcement in the rose garden qualify as a super-spreader event? plus, what it says about covid safety outdoors. also, the disastrous scenario of presidential succession and the gray areas in the 25th amendment that could cause a crisis of control. we'll be back in a moment. "good morning america" sponsored by united health care. see what care can do. "good morning america" respons sponsored by united health care. see what care can do.

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least 600 buildings since starting one week ago. the flames threaten another 29,000 bay area homes. it has burned more than 97 square miles and only 15% contained. let's get a check of the weather with meteorologist lisa argen. >> liz, good morning to you. the northerly winds lightened up in the north bay. you can see a little fog from mt. tam. it is 54 in the city. 59 in san jose with 48 in santa rosa as well as novato. still warm in the 90s looking at 74 in san francisco. cooler through the weekend, rain by the end of the week. liz? >> lisa, thank you. thank you for joining us. the news continues right

♪ never see me cry there's just no time to die ♪ welcome back to "gma." on this sunday morning, billie eilish debuting the official video for the new james bond movie. but bond fans, you're going to have to wait a little longer than expected to see 007 hit the big screen. the movie delayed for a second time because of the coronavirus. it's now expected to be released next april. and this morning, "variety's" reporting that this news as well as other big movie delays due to covid have sparked regal cinemas to make the decision to keep all of its more than 500 theaters in the u.s. and all of its uk theaters closed until possibly 2021. >> i really miss going to the movies. >> i do, too.

yep, absolutely. >> the butter on my popcorn -- >> one of many things. yeah. >> yes. they will come back at some point. meanwhile, though, the pandemic is far from over, and cases of coronavirus now heading toward 7.5 million here in the u.s. alone. american deaths closing in on 210,000. the statistics that i just rattled off are now increasingly personal for the president of the united states. this morning he is one of 30,000 americans in the hospital. he's receiving treatment for covid at walter reed medical center while trying to reassure americans about his health. abc's rachel scott is right there at walter reed with more. rachel, good morning to you once again. >> reporter: dan, conflicting messages from the white house this morning, and still lots of unanswered questions. we still do not know how the president was infected, when he will be discharged, or when he first started experiencing symptoms. overnight the president did release a video from the hospital telling the american people he's on the road to recovery, but admitting he's not

out of the woods just yet. that video came hours after a stark warning from a senior white house official telling us the next 48 hours will be critical in the president's fight against the virus. at walter reed, the president's medical team insisted trump's symptoms, which include a mild cough, nasal congestion, and fatigue, were improving, but they also dodged key questions about his health. now a growing list of officials and advisers close to the president have contracted the virus. the latest is his personal assistant and body man nick luna, seen next to hope hicks without a mask, boarding air force one just one day before she tested positive. eight others who attended saturday's rose garden ceremony for the president's supreme court nominee have been infected, as well. that includes former new jersey governor and abc news contributor chris christie. now christie was also in the room for the president's debate prep. five of nine people there have contracted the virus. christie told us days ago that no one was wearing a mask. whit? >> still a lot of questions. rachel scott for us in bethesda, outside walter reed.

thank you. joining us now is dr. ashish jah, dean of brown university school of public health. dr. jha, always great to have you. we have a lot of questions. i want to start with the ceremony, the nomination ceremony at the white house last weekend when president trump nominated amy coney barrett to the supreme court. more than half a dozen people, i believe the latest count is at least eight who attended that, have now tested positive even though this was outdoors. would you classify this as a super-spreader event? >> yeah, good morning, whit. thanks for having me on. you know, usually we can classify these things after we've done all the contact tracing and tested everybody. but it sure looks like it was a super-spreader event. whether it was during the outside ceremony or the inside reception they had afterwards, we don't know. but it sure looks like it was a super-spreader event. >> we know a number of guests also traveled together on air force one, as well. most would agree that the president of the united states should get the best medical care possible. when it comes to these

experimental treatments, thousands of people across the country who are suffering from this virus, and their family members who are suffering, they're now going to ask if they can have these treatments, too. give us a reality check on the remdesivir and specifically this antibody cocktail. who will have access and who won't? >> yes, so remdesivir should be available to people who are hospitalized across the country. it has gotten preliminary approval from the fda. in terms of this antibody cocktail that the president got, we don't actually know if it works or not. we're hoping it does. the studies are being done right now. and if the studies pan out, then i'm hoping later in the year and really probably in 2021 it will be widely available. the president got something where we don't know if it's going to be helpful or not. >> do you think all of the emphasis on development of a vaccine may have actually slowed down the development of some of these experimental treatments like the antibody cocktail? >> yeah, you know, again, of course all of us are looking forward to a vaccine.

one of the things that many of us have said is, first of all, we do know how to prevent the disease before the vaccine which is wearing a mask and doing some amount of social distancing which wasn't happening at the white house. also gets our eye off the ball around therapy. we've got to focus on all of those things. vaccine's not going to be panacea. >> all right. dr. jha, always appreciate it. thank you so much for spending the time with us this morning. eva? let's switch gears and check in with rob marciano who is from westchester, new york, this morning. i believe that is your front yard if i remember correctly. >> reporter: yeah, to be clear, i'm not from here technically, but i do live here. and i don't plan on moving here until either -- until the neighbors kick me out which is going to happen any day. good morning, guys. >> well on your way. >> reporter: we have a beautiful -- yeah, i'm on my way. chilly morning here in the northeast. you know, the fall is happening. so we've got some great video that i want to share with you of some waterfalls for one thing. just north of here, just southeast of syracuse in pratts

falls, new york. then some foliage where it's peaking across central new york and new england. also, cool shots of this happening. i always like highlighting athletes out of redbull. in dardendale, arkansas, this guy, terry adams, he is a flatland bmx legend. he did a little dance in the moonlight to photo series with jeff rose and took some cool shots of the harvest moon rising there as he did his thing on the bmx bike. and lastly, good news in california at let now, but they're still dealing with fires, but a pattern change coming. we'll see temperatures drop off 10 to 20 degrees. there's one of the neighbors now starting to call to get me out of the hood. that's a check of the national headli good morning. low clouds and fog and a steadier onshore flow helping out the air quality in san francisco. hazy today. numbers cooler around 90 inland and look ahead, rain by next weekend.

>> reporter: this weathercast sponsored by weathertech. whit, i can see you being a bmx flatlander, dancing in the moonlight on your tricycle. >> still with the training wheels on, though. i'm a dad now. got to keep it safe. keep it real while keeping it safe. thank you, rob. >> thank you, robert. coming up on "gma," the latest blow for the nfl forced to postpone a big game today. >> that's right. then the most adorable q&a involving the young royals. that's ahead in "pop news."

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welcome back to "gma." and football fans missing out on one of today's big games. the patriots versus the chiefs postponed after reports of positive coronavirus tests on both teams. abc's trevor ault is outside nfl headquarters here in new york city. good morning, trevor. >> reporter: good morning. you know, we've seen the nfl issue some pretty massive fines for covid protocol violations like coaches not wearing masks on the sideline, but the league has not been able to avoid what's now a rising caseload. and it is raising questions about what changes could be in store for the rest of the

season. as the nfl battles to dodge covid infections, the past 24 hours, the pandemic has shaken up the nfl schedule. the new england patriots game against the kansas city chiefs now pushed back to monday or tuesday after pats star quarterback cam newton tested positive along with chiefs practice qb. >> it was a chaotic moment from the moment the patriots got the news that cam newton tested positive for covid. the quarterback is the center of the team. so there are other tmsthe leagu the quarterback gets sick, he's a spreader to everybody else. the patriots saying in a statement a player immediately entered self-quarantine, and everyone on the team has since tested negative. though doctors say the virus may not show up in testing until several days after exposure. the league says any decision about rescheduling will be made with the health and safety of players, the team, and game-day pecoidation. already this week, the nfl postponed a different game between the tennessee titans and the pittsburgh steelers, as now at least 16 members of the

titans organizations have tested positive, including eight players. the nfl's fighting to contain these outbreaks as the nba and nhl wrap up what have been essentially covid-free seasons. though both of those leagues committed to keeping their athletes in contained bubbles, while the nfl's measures mainly consist of extensive testing. >> while they do a great job of testing, that's only one layer of a multilayered strategy. testing was never going to be enough to prevent cases from spreading across teams. >> reporter: now overnight it was reported new orleans saints fullback michael burton tested positive after flying with the team to detroit. but just moments ago, espn reports that test was rerun and came back negative. so the saints/lions game will continue today as scheduled. whit? >> so many challenges for these pro sports teams trying to get back on the field. trevor ault for us.

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that risky job gets ten times harder. prop fifteen makes corporations pay their fair share. to invest in our communities, in our clinics, in the essential workers who treat everyone- rich, poor, and in-between. whether it's this pandemic or the next health crisis, vote yes on prop fifteen. for all of us. welcome back. the welcome back to "gma." the focus on the president's health is raising a lot of questions about what happens if an american president becomes incapacitated. so let's bring in michigan state university professor brian kalt, author of "unable: the law, politics and limits of section 4 of the 25th amendment." brian, good morning to you. let me start with section three of the 25th amendment for a second which involves the voluntary transfer of power. that's only been used a few times in our history. anseit once, george w.

bush twice. all three times it was just for a few hours while they had medical procedures that required general anesthesia. >> so let's talk now about section four which is what you focus on in your book, section four of the 25th amendment. it addresses transferring power without the president's consent, much different. tell us about that. >> yeah. so there's the easy case, the president's unconscious, he can't execute section three. that allows the vice president and a majority of the cabinet to say he's unable, he's incapacitated, transfer power to the vice president. the other possibility, though, is if the president is unwilling to declare that he's unable, but they think he is. so again, eyan transfer if the president objects to that, he will take power back eventually unless the vice president and the cabinet and two-thirds of the house and two-thirds of the senate all

agree that he is incapacitated. the bar is pretty high if the president says that he's okay, the bar is pretty high to keep his power away from him. >> what happens if the president and the vice president are both incapacitated? >> well, then we have a problem because the 25th amendment only addresses power transferring to the vice president. past that, we do have a line of succession, but we don't have any standards or processes in place. so if trump and pence were incapacitated, nancy pelosi could say, okay, i'm in charge. but if pence disagrees, says i'm not incapacitated, there's no -- there's no process like we have with the 25th amendment. >> fascinating and perhaps confusing and controversial process that may or may not play out. brian kalt, thank you very much. we appreciate your guidance and input on a sunday morning. we'll be right back with something completely different, though. "pop news" with janai. though. " npop news." for so long. it was kind of a shock after i started cosentyx. i'm still clear, five years now.

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they've officially cut dan's microphone. >> he's dancing though. >> he comes back from a meditation retreat and it's just like -- >> he's on fire. >> anything goes. yeah. take it away, janai. >> all right. time for "pop news." we start with "saturday night live," back for a new season. the opening skit was a take on the debate with alex baldwin repri repriceing his role as donald trump and jim carrey doing his impression of joe biden. the two taking their sparring to irreverent levels with kamala harris played by maya rudolph stepping in. >>ou look mon alrit.li tt, "ptect b out w gsterfoer meganm daniel cameron over his handling of the breonna taylor case. now to britain's little royals.

what a transition from megan. prince william and kate releasing a video showing their kids with sir david attenboro peppering him with questions. check this out. >> hello, david attenboro. what animal do you think will become extinct next? >> well, let's hope there won't be any because there are lots of things we can do when animals are reduced -- in danger of extinction. >> i like spiders. do you like spiders, too? >> i love spiders. i'm so glad you like them. >> what animal do you like? >> i think i like monkeys best. >> so cute. this may be the first time many have heard the future heir to the throne and his siblings speak. prince william's document about the environment is due out next week and features sir david. all kids have a ton of questions, the royals -- >> but charlotte likes spiders? >> look, not me.

go, charlotte. and finally, actress viola davis showed off her latest pet project. look at the video she posted on twitter of bailey writing, "found a cure for the covid blues." sharing pics of the puppy's first photo shoot. so cute. >> ah. >> we don't know anything about adopting puppies during a pandemic, do we? >> no. i do know it's getting easier. i know it's getting easier. >> thanks for watching. stay tuned for george. building a better bay area for a safe and secure future, this is abc 7 news. >> good morning. i'm liz kreutz. some students in the north bay are getting back packs and supplies ready for tomorrow. for the first time since march, four public school districts in marin are reopening for in-person learning. schools in larkspur, corte madera, read union, miller creek

and kentfield will all reopen. teachers are excited to welcome back students and decorating hallways with balloons. they say they want to make it comfortable and fun to show the kids how much they've been missed. happening today, the san francisco museum of modern art reopens to the general public. the moma is offering free community days today through october 18th, but at last check, all the tickets for those days are sold out. the museum is limited to 25% capacity, and masks must be worn. visitors will not be allowed in d priviles. the moma opens at 10:00 a.m. let's get a check of the forecast with meteorologist lisa argen. >> fingers of fog here at the view from mt. tam, just a beautiful shot. 54 downtown. it's 59 in san jose, with 49 in gilroy. we had upper 40s in the north bay, and still do from emeryville here, 48 novato. 60 in ncord. a s much as fiven s now is good i

parts of the north bay. moderate from oakland to livermore, and san jose. so we're going to keep it in the hazy category for our east bay, our south bay, with numbers today around 90 in livermore. 87 for you in san jose. about 90 up in santa rosa. mid-70s with that west wind up to 20 miles an hour, picking up today, then we'll see a southwest wind so we're still hazy through early tuesday. modest cooling, the more traumatic cooling. how about rain the end of the week. liz? >> we hope that happens. "this week" is next. see you at k.

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the president gets covid. >> wasn't feeling so well. i feel much better now. we're working hard to get me all the way back. >> trump hospitalized after worsening symptoms require oxygen in the white house. >> the oxygen saturation levels -- yesterday morning we were real concerned with that. >> reporter: has he ever been on supplemental oxygen? >> right now he is not on oxygen -- >> i know, should we read into the fact -- >> yesterday and today he was not on oxygen. >> he had a fever and a blood oxygen level had dropped rapidly. >> conflicting accounts from the president's doctor and staff cause a crisis of credibility. >> i know the doctor and i were very concerned.

>> he's in such great spit