voters who helped him carry the vote in 2016. the forum vice president and his wife jill biden r biden heading tomorrow to bucks county, a battle ground state that hillary clinton won four years ago. today, president trump in the oval office. >> campaign begins and, yeah, i think last night was very, very successful. we've gotten great great polls, great everything. >> last night we saw the president of the united states lie to the american people and repeatedly lie about the state of this pandemic. >> both campaigns sending surrogates to pennsylvania this weekend. vermont senator and

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reported its highest daily number of coronavirus cases. 77,640 cases recorded in just one day. the previous high was back in july. the total number of cases in the u.s. is now more than 8.4 million. pennsylvania reporting its highest number of new cases since the pandemic as well with 221 n 2219 cases confirmed. take a look at this. a memorial at independence mall. you can see the chairs, 850, representing ten pennsylvaniaians who died from the virus. that's 8500 people. today on msnbc, said he expects it to continue to climb. we've learned a lot more since

march. >> we have a lot more capacity, whether it's ppe, ventilators we know a lot more about this virus on a medical front. focus has shifted away from seniors and toward a younger demograph demographic. >> on the road to recovery now. supporting representers at rented from losing their holes. that program in camden county began a few

you for weighing in at 3:00 p.m. when we return, the principal of morin high school school schooll four students tested for covid-19. we'll be back on the

>> a private catholic high school has closed campus weeks after opening. officials heard about a large party last weekend. joining us is chris valdez, the principal of morin county school. you are one of the first to reopen. tell us why you made that decision. >> the decision to reopen is pretty simple. as a catholic school, our mission is the spiritual and intellectual formation of our students and we know that is best done person to person, eye to eye. sort of describe it as an antisocial media approach to being in a relationship. when you're in person, in the

flesh, when you look each other eye to eye, you build relations like that. we know it's good for kids' social/emotional health. it's good for their connection with teachers. it had been the priority since march when we closed. >> that is a sentiment we've heard that in-person learning -- virtual learning is just not the same. what precautions did you put into place to keep everyone save? >> we started back in the summertime opening up our athletic program. we put together health and safety team. we put policies and procedures for kids for screening and for heavyweight and those kinds of things. we also put in our policies for what happens when an exposure happened or a positive test happened. luckily that didn't happen in the summer but we did get to stress test all our practices.

we had a summer retreat program where we had a hundred kids on the campus every time. just get comfortable with being back on campus. they could see the signage and the glass casings. we put all those things necessary to keep kids safe. it's helped them and helped our teachers to be on carpous slowly before actually entered into the instruction mode. i think everybody's gotten a sense of confidence and peace. it's mission as usual. we're doing the mission, of course. that's spiritual and intellectual formation. we need people to get acclimated to that notion. >> absolutely. it's a little bit of a shock for us here at abc 7. easing in to being back at the workplace in a reduced capacity. that did take time. it's a responsibility that a lot of people needed to adhere to. no matter what you do precautions wise, in school that

cannot prevent let's say a party outside of school. for all of the viewers who aren't up to speed on what happened, give us a sense of this party, what it was, and how you heard about it and were alerted to it. >> i think that's absolutely right. i think one of the things that's coming out of this covid experience is our interconnectedness, it's clear than ever before. we talk about that in our spiritual training. the virus has let us know that we are interconnected and my behavior affects other people's lives, and yes, i think what's going on here is a little bit of return to normalcy, even though it's not perfectly normal, has triggered other things in their life they'd like to return to normal. they're high school kids, they're social beings. they're desirous of being in connection with one another inside of school and outside of

school. this desire to speed up back to normal before we're ready to do that, it's not time to be gathering in large paces. yeah, we got word -- actually, some goings on with kids in the same way we see beaches that are larger than we have in the past. we got word that there was a gathering of some of our students and students from other schools as well. i don't want to talk about the source and all that. we did our normal procedure to find out what happened. what we found out was that there was some irresponsibility going on with this gathering and given all the precautions we've taken, the slow orientation, all of the investment we put into this, it didn't make sense for us to continue on put our students and teachers at risk. my sense is probably not a lot of exposure. we probably won't see any

positive test on this. i don't know. knock on wood. the message really is we have a long year to go. we can't start thinking we have to go back to normal. we have to -- in-person learning's going to require some sacrifice. large gatherings just simply can't happen. >> i guess my last question for you is going forward, what are your next steps. this can't feel good having to close everything up. i understand many people are feeling that fatigue of having to shelter in place and take those precautions. what are those next steps? >> that's a good question. these couple of weeks are allowing us to figure out the next steps as well. but this feels like a blessing ultimately. we got a couple of weeks in early. the kids understand the value of -- the difference between being in person having being on zoom. they love it. they're a little disappointed. they're angry, in fact. there's a pause, certainly, and

a new reflection on what they have here. moving forward, we're going to remember this, right, so it's a really good time. >> uh-huh. >> remember it as an important bench marc step. i have think we're actually going to have to have some community ideas of dos and don't. county guidelines are very -- they're very much about common sense. washing your hands, mask, keep socially distant. the governor was putting out news about how many families can gather over thanksgiving, that kind of thing. i think we need to have some conversations about dos and don'ts outside of school. i don't want to overreach as a principal. i want this to be a place where kids can academically flourish. so i think we need to have some town community conversations about the dos and don'ts outside of the campus. i don't have detail on that and i do think it is going to require a community effort to

really understand what that is, not only so we can see where people's mind set is but also so there's buy-in by everybody. >> not to mention, i think having to shut down has been consequence enough. so that will speak volumes for your students. thank you so much for being here. >> thank you. >> now, on the heels of this conversation, we are about to talk with a ucsf doctor who says now is the time to reopen san francisco schools. stay with us. we are taking a break

well, it is a debate that has been ongoing for months, when should schools reopen for in-person learning. one local doctor says the time is right now, at least for san francisco. joining me is dr. naomi from ucfs. thank you for being here.

>> thank you for having me on the show. >> what is your rational? we've heard so much about the u.s. as a whole entering into this third wave of pandemic, especially going into the holiday season. san francisco has been better in flattening the curve. is that your thinking on why you think things can reopen? >> absolutely. we know that community prevalence is actually one of the very important baseline things that you need to have in place, that it should feel low in order to feel comfortable opening schools. in san francisco we were in our search -- the second wave in july, it was clear that's not a good time to be getting children back to school. so yeah, that's one of the most basic pieces is making sure community prevalence. >> speaking of pref dense, we had london breed on the show on tuesday. she said they need to move with

more deliberate speed on the public school system, but they aren't there yet. what is she in specifics talking about and what is your response to that? >> there's -- there are like multiple layers of complexity in order to be able to open schools safely. that's things -- as we know, there's the public health principles have to be in place and we have to have prepared our schools to have them in place. that's really what the biggest issues are, masking, strong stable cohorts, good sanitation, and testing. the testing piece is extraordinarily important for us to be able reopen schools. >> testing obviously tremendously important on all facets when it comes to tackling this virus. we just spoke with the principal at more ip catholic talking about protocols that we're seeing there. he just closed campus because of a large party last weekend.

is that going to be the new normal? we're going to see kids wantsing that accepts of freedom and getting that fatigue? are you concerned about that? >> uh-huh. yeah. it's one of those things, i gave a talk to some independent school families yesterday and i said for each moment in the pandemic, you can say that's good or you might say that's bad. so that's good, low prevalence, that's fantastic. it meanings that we can open up and get our kids back into school but it has the that's bad because everybody's going to be great, everything's fine and i'm going to take higher risks. we need to double down as a community to keep safe in order to keep our schools open. >> when you have that almost i think of it as a devil on your shoulder telling you that's bad in the back of your mind. we had the principal of a school from sauce lito on a couple of weeks ago.

they seem to have every single precaution in place but they are now closed because a teacher there tested positive. if that didn't work, how can public schools manage this? and is one positive case reason enough to then shuts down? >> uh-huh. so one great question because we know that there are going to be infections that -- that there is a person in a school who is going to be infected. that will happen because covid is in our community. the important piece about all those layers is to preven that up fedex from spreading to other peop people. the department of public health don't say the whole school has to shut down. that's the rational bmd the stable cohort. if you have one cohort and one teacher has only been with 12 kids, you need only shut down

the cohort and not the whole school. >> we have time for one more question. and i want to give you an opportunity. if you had a chance right now to speak to the powers that be in making a decision going forward, what is your message to them? >> i would say stick together as a community. we -- like we have to be a unified voice against covid-19 in terms of we got to work together. teachers have to work well with the school administers have to work well with the public health department, that this whole idea of people fighting with each other is not the way forward. the goal should be decreased damning done by covid-19 as a unified group together, being flexible, being transparent, trying to do our best for the teachers and kids. >> i think it's a message you can't hammer home enough. it's going to take a lot more conversation. >> that's right. and i'll say one last thing,

which is wear your mask. >> we cannot stress that enough. we even have reminders here around the station everywhere you turn. dr. bardock, thank you so much for taking the time to join us. >> my pleasure. >> we are taking a break on air. the conversation continues on facebook live. leave comments and questions,

wow. we got to a lot, didn't we. thank you all so much for joining us in this interactive show called "getting answers." we talked to the principal of more ip high school. they shut down out of an arrive

bhun dance of caution. we'll be here each and every tonight, the sprint to the finish. after their final debate, president trump and joe biden both campaigning. the president in florida tonight. declaring in the debate, we are turning the corner on the virus. the former vice president saying the reality is different, that we face a dark winter ahead. as we learn tonight, more than 82,000 new cases of the virus in this country in just the last 24 hours. the highest number in months. doctors have warned we needed to be at 10,000 a day as we head into fall. tonight, president trump seizing on joe biden's comments in the debate on the oil industry. biden telling reporters right after the debate what he meant. as the virus in the u.s. continues to spike across several states, the midwest, the south, the middle of this country, deaths now topping a thousand two days in a row now. a public health official breaking down in front of th