remember that express lane. president to continue carrying out his duties without you have to have that fastrak. disruption while recovering. still, the announcement throwing walgreens, costco, two great sources for that. the future of the country's leadership. >> that will do it for us this friday morning. both the president and first the president speaking by phone lady are quarantining after to fox news confirming that hope hicks had become infected by the virus. testing positive for the >> she tested positive. she's a hard worker, a lot of coronavirus. masks, so she wears masks a lot, but she tested positive. i just went out with the test. you know, because we spend a lot of time. good morning. and the first lady just went out breaking news. the president tests positive for the coronavirus. we're revealing his diagnosis in with a test also. a late night tweet saying he and so whether we quarantine or the first lady have covid-19 and whether we have it, i don't know. >> hicks is regularly in close will quarantine immediately. the stunning news after one of his closest aids, hope hicks, contact with the president seen tests positive. the president on fox news just last night. >> she tested positive. here without a mask at his flying on air force one with the i just went out with a test. president tuesday and wednesday traveling with the president to a rally in minnesota. we spend a lot of time, and the hicks tested negative the morning of the minnesota trip first lady went and had a test also. but began showing minor symptoms >> tracing the president's contacts. that evening.

hicks riding on air force one she was quarantined on air force and his helicopter days ago with other top officials. one for the return flight to the president feet from joe washington. the president suggesting service members and law enforcement may biden on the debate stage. have given her the virus. >> it is hard when you are with this morning, biden's message to people from the military or from his rival. word that vice president pence and his wife tested negative. what it means for president trump, his health, the campaign, law enforcement and they come over to you and they want to hug and the nation's security. you. today friday, october 2nd, 2020. you get close. things happen. from nbc news, this is "today" with savannah guthrie >> in a prerecorded speech thursday, president trump contradicted his own public health experts insisting the virus would soon be in the and hoda. rearview mirror. >> the end of the pandemic is in and hoda kotb. sight. erace social live from studio 1a. distancing and masks saying this. >> look, i have a mask right here. good morning, everybody. i put a mask on, you know, when it is 7:00 a.m. on the west coast. i think i need it. tonight is an example. everybody has had a test and you you're waking up to this extraordinary news. the president and first lady have announced that they have both tested positive for the have had social distancing and all the things you have to. coronavirus. it started with word that hope but i wear masks when needed. hicks has contracted the virus. i don't wear a mask like him. >> she has been traveling a lot every time you see him, he's got a mask.

he could be speaking 200 feet away from me and he shows up with the biggest mask i have with the president this week. to and from tuesday's debate. ever seen. >> reporter: we learned from the she boarded marine one, that's the president's helicopter, with vice president's spokesperson, the president's inner circle to attend a rally in minnesota. both mike pence and karen pence it is after that event when tested negative for coronavirus this morning. hicks apparently began to show last time they were together was this past tuesday in the oval office, 48 hours before the president tested positive. symptoms and isolated herself. >> last night, 10:44 eastern, you see pence earlier with the the president tweeted he and his wife were awaiting test results and two hours later tweeted was with the president saturday. revealing positive results. the virus and tested negative as well. >> we heard from the president's physician overnight. moments ago, nbc news confirmed he is resting but well. the chair woman of the republican national committee he expects the president to continue carrying out his duties has tested positive after a without disruption while recovering. >> and joe biden tweeting this. member of her family had become infected. we will pray for the health and >> and hadn't seen the president safety of the president and his family. >> there are a lot of elements to cover. since last week, was not at the we have complete coverage for debate site. you. we heard from house speaker let's start with peter nancy pelosi on msnbc. alexander. you have some breaking news on what were her remarks? the president's symptoms.

can you tell us more? >> reporter: we know that the house speaker met privately with >> reporter: yes, savannah and hoda, let's get to that. some of the president's top aides, including the treasury a white house official tells me president trump has mild secretary, steven mnuchin who tested negative today. here's what she said to msnbc a short time ago. symptoms but remains in good spirits. he is working in the residence >> this is tragic, it is very and he and the first lady are in isolation. it remains unclear how and when they were exposed to the virus. sad, but it also is something that again, going into crowds, another piece of new unmasked was sort of an information, their son tested negative. invitation for something like i am told all precautions are taken to keep him safe and this to happen. healthy. >> reporter: as for the any public events on the president's schedule have been president's day today, the only cancelled, with discussions under way whether the president item remaining on schedule is a will address the american people phone call on covid-19 support in some form today. in an extraordinary and stunning announcement overnight, to vulnerable seniors. president trump delivering his >> there is a lot to unpack there. we'll bring in dr. john torrez own diagnosis on twitter. and casey hunt. tonight the first lady and i tested positive for covid-19. we will begin our quarantine and >> dr. torrez, we heard from recovery process immediately. we will get through this trump's doctor. together. melania trump with a tweet of he said he's doing well, expects

her own. we are feeling good and i have postponed all upcoming engagement. to carry out his duties, and we the president's physician reporting the president was well heard he has minor symptoms. saying the president and mrs. a would you break it down for us? tell us what that means? >> what it means, coronavirus effects people in different ways. up to 40% of people have no symptoms when they infected with coronavirus. at first we thought he was in that category. and mild and moderate, that's the vast majority of people with symptoms with coronavirus, and hopefully doesn't progress to the severe category. even though it is a smaller amount of people, those are ones that get hospitalized and tend to be in icus on ventilators. he is 74, above the age of 65 is a higher risk category, based on his physical in june, he is obese. that's a risk category as well. those two factors a concern. his mild symptoms could progress

to more severe symptoms. they'll be keeping an eye on that the next few days and weeks. >> we know he has excellent health care. do you think, dr. john, that they would use some therapies that are available, convalescent plasma, we reported about a steroid having some impact on very severe cases of covid. is that the kind of thing they may administer to him prophylactically, hoping the symptoms don't get worse? >> savannah, at this point they might be doing some of those therapeutics. the one they would be looking at, remdesivir, it cuts down symptoms and length of illness in coronavirus and convalescent plasma shown to help as well. steroids, you have to be careful. if he only has mild symptoms, it could make matters worse. he was a big advocate of hydroxychloroquine. at this point, hydroxychloroquine hasn't shown

to work especially at this stage, probably not something they're going to give him. if i was a staff member, i would look at remdesivir and convalescent plasma to get him through this and keep the symptoms mild. >> quickly, some of the cdc guide lines are confusing. one point they said 14 days to be quarantined or isolated. some paperwork says 10 days. depending how he progresses, what's the right number? >> it depends on quarantine or isolation. initially he was under quarantine because he had not tested positive. he was exposed. that puts you in the quarantine category which means we're waiting to see if you start testing positive or get symptoms. once you do, you become isolated. then we know you're infected with coronavirus. at that point, once you're isolated, it is ten daytime period, if you have no symptoms. once you start having symptoms, that clock starts again. it is a ten daytime period from when symptoms start. once you start having symptoms, you have to be fever free for 24

hours at the end of the ten daytime period and symptoms have to start improving. we'll see what happens. at this point since symptoms started today, the 2nd, puts him until the 12th he is in the zone where he has to be isolated. on the 13th, again if he is fever free, symptoms have improved, that's the point they no longer consider him contagious. >> casey hunt is talking to members there and in touch with the biden campaign. want to put up the image of the deba they were socially distant. moderator, chris wallace, the president, joe biden, all three men over the age of 70. in that risk group. what have we heard from the biden campaign? is there concern he may have been exposed? is he going to be tested? what do we know about that? >> well, savannah, the process of trying to figure out the answer to those questions is under way. and the biden campaign hasn't had too much to say this morning. we did hear from joe biden in a

tweet where he says that he and his wife have their thoughts with president trump for a quick recovery and they hope for health and safety of the president. nbc news has learned that the white house has not been in touch with the biden campaign or hasn't been within the last hour or so to talk about contact tracing and possible exposure. so this is something where everyone has been scrambling to figure out the answers, to try to make sure they're safe. we're still waiting to hear about testing. we know the biden campaign does have regular testing regimen in place. the vice presidential nominee kamala harris was tested yesterday, was negative. she was not at the debate. to give you a sense of how careful they are about it, they have been very careful about this on the campaign trail, and one concern in that room is that the trump family members that attended, while they were socially distant from others in

the room, they didn't wear masks as the rules had set out, and in fact staff from cleveland clinic approached, tried to give them masks, they were declined. one of former vice president's family members tweeted about it at the time because his family members of course were wearing masks when they were sitting in the audience as the debate was undertaken. again, we're still figuring all of this out. the biden campaign, former vice president biden was supposed to be in michigan today campaigning. their travel plans still apparently up in the air there because they are trying to take into account all of the health and safety not just of the former vice president but all of those that travel with him and are around him on a daily basis. >> let me get peter back in here. a lot of people will be curious about how it went down day by day. the white house staff that are really close to the president

and in proximity are tested every day. talk about how this might have played out. hope hicks would have been tested tuesday, then gets on air force one, wednesday was on marine one, the president's helicopter, these are very tight quarters. can you explain how this played out over the last few days? >> you're right. i traveled on marine one, it is small. if you're in tight quarters, not wearing masks, potential for exposure would be great if anybody on the helicopter had the virus.asraveled with the president several times this week. traveled with him and some aides to pennsylvania. tuesday traveled with him and others, constellation of contacts together aboard air force one to and from the debate site in cleveland. wednesday, as you noted, that's the day the president traveled to minnesota for the rally. hope hicks we are told tested negative wednesday morning, had no symptoms. then traveled with the president, was there in minnesota and started to feel the symptoms.

she flew back on air force one to washington with the president. she was quarantined aboard the plane and then as i understand from a white house official i spoke to, it would have been common, can't tell me if he fintively she would have been tested thursday morning. and that's when yesterday morning it was determined she had tested positive. obviously as we know, based on that constellation of contacts there are a lot of folks here at the white house and in the campaign that are revisiting their experiences and interactions over the last several days. they're doing contact tracing now. moments ago, bill stepien, the president's campaign manager, sent a statement to all staff. anybody with exposure to any of those individuals that tested positive needs to immediately self quarantine. he said in his statement the now, but campaign offices around the country remain open. >> so peter, right now at this moment in the white house, have

protocols completely changed? is it kind of a new day in the white house? >> i mean, there's definitely a jarring feeling. you can see it in the eyes of aides. i ran into the press secretary a moment ago, huddling with her staff behind closed doors, trying to sort out messaging, what they know and don't know at this point. frankly, there are a lot of questions they don't have answers to. i asked if the president is taking therapeutics, recommend did he say fear or anything else to treat the virus. they weren't in position to answer that at this point. right now, we have seen some aides, some traveling with the president just yesterday coming in the gates to get tested today. one of the president's aides that traveled with him yesterday afternoon walked through gates of the white house with no mask on as he entered the building to be tested today. >> stand by. i want to bring in jeremy bash, national security analyst, i mean, first and foremost thoughts are for the president and first lady and their health

and speedy recovery. but he is not just any american citizen, there's always that issue and questions about the national security implications and what that uncertainty means and how the pentagon and how the national security apparatus of the country would handle a moment like this. >> savannah, the president is in isolation in the white house residence. although he is in isolation, he has secure phones, he can give orders to the military through chain of command. i worry about two scenarios, savannah. if he gets so sick like boris johnson, uk, he had to go in intensive care. in that situation, the president was incapacitated. mike pence would be acting president. and if our adversaries try to do something during this uncertain time, if they, for example, tried to initiate a provocative military action against one of

their adversaries, that could cause a national security crisis to escalate very quickly. >> dr. torres, i was struck at a piece of video, hope hicks for purposes of this discussion is patient zero, first we know of in that inner sank tum of the white house to test positive. here she was wednesday, about to board air force one. first shot, she's walking up with jared kushner, the president's son-in-law and here they go up the stairway. as anyone would, walking up a staircase, she grabs the railing. then you see people follow on, they grab it, too. we know about coughing and sneezing, that's how the virus is transmitted. could it also be an issue if people touch a space someone just recently touched when they're positive for the virus? >> savannah, that's one of my first thoughts when i saw the video the first time, she was touching things that other people coming by were touching

as well, and if they end up touching their face, they're not wearing masks. easier to touch the mouth and nose and get into the body that way. the key is don't touch your face, wash and sanitize your hands. i have no idea if my guess is probably not. >> 19 minutes after the hour. we want to check the west coast weather. >> quick look. a big ridge of high pressure making for extreme heat throughout the west with massive heat range. looking at this thing stuck in place. no big changes happening. 26 million people impacted north of san francisco all the way down to san diego. record possibilities today. talking about 103 possibly in redding, 102 in ramona. eli, 84 degrees. in the next several days, into the weekend, triple digits. las vegas in the upper 90s, bakerseld in the mid 90sfi.

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good morning. it's 7:26. i'm laura garcia. here are today's top stories, the breaking news we've been following all morning, the president and first lady testing positive for covid-19. good morning. i'm scott mcgrew. we are monitoring the latest from the white house, also negative tests coming in from other politicians in the u.s. government. mike pence probably the most important has tested negative as has treasury secretary mnuchin. vice presidential candidate kamala harris and mike pompeo, the u.s. secretary of state, all saying they are negative. the president has been traveling throughout the week. he was in duluth, minnesota, wednesday night. hope hicks was with him and accompanied the president back on air force one. she was the first to complain of symptoms. we continue to watch for news out of the white house. the latest is that the president is experiencing mild symptoms from covid-19. >> reporter: a local woman who attended tuesday night's presidential debate as a guest

of joe biden said she is, quote, terrified she might have been exposed by president trump and melania trump who tested positive for covid-19. her father died of covid-19 and blames president trump for not doing enough to contain the virus posted in a statement that trump has, quote, no regard for human life and criticizes his family for refusing to wear masks as they sat nearby in the auditorium in the debate tuesday night. a quick look at the forecast right now with kari. we have temperatures today inland that will reach into the upper 90s in triple digits. high fire danger as well as poor air quality. as we go into tomorrow throughout the rest of the weekend, slightly cooler temperatures headed our way for the valleys and we'll continue to see it cooling off middle to end of next week. some 60s by the end of the week for san francisco.

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7:30 on the west coast. 10:30 at the white house. the president and first lady are in isolation, they tested positive for covid-19. that's the big story this morning. >> we're getting information in minute by minute. we learned this morning in the last few hours that the president is, in fact, experiencing what the white house calls mild symptoms. his son tested negative for the virus, even though his parents tested positive. we want to go to peter alexander. good morning again. >> reporter: good morning to you and hoda again. we learned that ivanka and the president's some, jared kushner, tested negative for coronavirus. but let's try to walk through the time line as relates to one of the president's closest aides, hope hicks who we learned yesterday tested positive for the virus. tuesday, hicks traveled with the president and first lady and a

lot of other contacts, 20 to 30 others, flew to ohio for the debate. part of a large entourage on the plane, flying home that evening. wednesday, hicks we are told felt fine. that evening, she began experiencing symptoms. it was at that point she was quarantined aboard air force one for the return flight to washington.st yesterday, hicks received a covid test, at least one it appears, turned out the test was positive. don't know what point of the day she found out that information. president trump was traveling to bedminster, his golf club in new jersey, a private fundraiser. we were told he and everyone were tested. later, everyone was tested for coronavirus. wasn't until the wee hours this

morning the president and first lady announced they tested positive for the virus and that they would begin to quarantine immediately. for now, they're isolating behind closed doors in the residence behind me. i am told by the white house officials, conversations are taking place whether the president in some form will address the american people today. savannah? >> peter, thank you. we'll keep in touch with you. earlier this morning, we had a chance to speak to cory lewandowski, the former campaign manager. still in close touch with the president. gave us interesting insight what unfolded the last few days. >> good morning, savannah. i know what you know is that obviously the nation is hoping for a speedy recovery for the first family. what we've seen is right now, the president and first lady have no signs of the coronavirus pandemic other than testing positive for covid-19. we know the president is going to be able to continue to do his job from inside the white house. this will change his travel schedule.

i was scheduled to be with him, we were going to fly to florida for another campaign rally. that's been postponed. without getting too far ahead of what the president's plans will be, we know his travel plans will change. he is going to self isolate as the recommendation of the cdc guidelines are. and i had the privilege to be with the president wednesday. i was tested for covid-19 prior to spending time with the president on wednesday. i was with him on saturday at the white house. i was also tested there as is the state of protocol. >> how quickly do test results come back when you do it, what kind of test is it? >> when you go to the white house, you see the abbott lab, 15 minute test. they notify you if you test positive. when i was at the white house saturday, i was notified i did not have covid-19. again wednesday when i was with the president, i was tested immediately before seeing him. took about 30 minutes. probably the abbott lab test again. i was notified i was negative for that. out of abundance of caution, i think everybody that's been

around the president and senior staff will be self isolating >> and to follow-up on that, interesting, you were just with him, you're in a good position to know how this goes down. once you test negative, would you wear a mask around the president? would you stay six feet apart or do people then go about their business as normal? >> well, i can tell you that at the event i was with the president on on wednesday, everybody was six feet apart. it was a private fundraiser, he took pictures with individuals but they were six feet from the president. there was no direct action with the president, no handshaking with the president at all. i can't speak to any people participating speaking to the staff. hope hicks was at that event. i couldn't speak to that. i can tell you out of abundance of caution, i believe everyone will be self isolating. >> you have ridden on air force one a few times, too. hope rode on air force one to the rally before she had

symptoms and knew she was sick. she would have been in the staff cabin. how tight quarters is that? how would you describe that part of the plane? >> you know, savannah, about the size of a conference room. it is small. there's a table there, about 8 seats around the table and some outside seating along the edge of the airplane wall. you know, it is close proximity. if you have 8 or 9 people, you're going to be very close as you would be in a regular conference room or board room, so any of those individuals that would have been in that cabin with hope i'm sure will be retested and isolating as well. >> i have to let you go. are yo do you feel like you need to do that, get another test? >> yeah, i do. i need to get another test done immediately, that's the responsible thing to do for family, my friends, the community. i'm going to do that today as well. >> thank you. good to get that inside perspective. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> the conversation earlier with

cory lewandowski, former campaign manager for the president. there are a lot of ripple effects. we talked about national security and the economy. upon the president's announcement, u.s. stock futures fell immediately overnight. the dow is open. stephanie ruhle joins us now. the dow down a bit, not seeing a free fall, thank goodness. >> not a free fall, savannah, but it is a reminder. markets don't like uncertainty, even before the president got this positive covid test, we knew the number one thing rattling markets was uncertainty around the election process. this only creates more chaos. it is an important reminder, the economic crisis and health crisis are directly tied. if you're the president of the united states, theoretically, the most protected person out there contracting this, it is going to have a ripple impact. think of all of the people that

said i want to get back to work, i want to go back to school. you're seeing today the sectors being hit, travel and leisure, retail, hospitality, oil and people aren't going to go out to dinner, they're not rushing to go back into the office. that has a real economic impact. >> it's interesting you say that. we all know what the president does and says matters. people watch and use it as an example. do you feel like just the notion that it has reached even the highest level, somebody who has presumably all of the protections around him, you feel like that will have a dragon the economy in terms of that uncertainty people feel? >> well, it is going to have a drag in that you're going to see people change their conduct and all this talk that covid is behind us, clearly it is not behind us. look at the jobs report that came out today, savannah. yes. 600,000 people came back to work in the last month.

in theory, that's a positive, everybody is back at work. but we're seeing a recovery slowdown. we hear about a v shaped recovery, meaning the economy was great, covid hit and dipped and now we're shooting back. when you look at the jobs number and recovery slowing, that takes us to what's known as k recovery. things went down, shot up for some people, for others they continuing to languish. what you don't hear in the jobs report is what we got in the last week from companies like disney, goldman, sachs, airline industry, laying oftef tens of thousands of people. and a lot of those job losses are permanent. when news like this comes out, and more states say we need to slow down on reopening, you're going to see more businesses say we're keeping more employees home. that means a lot of employees lose jobs, support staff lose jobs. all of this matters now. this is the last jobs report we get before the election,

remember, a lot of people care about politics. most people care about providing for their families and their pocketbook. that's how they vote. >> good perspective to keep in mind. thank you very much. we'll continue to watch the markets if we see the live picture of the dow down 233 points. we will continue to watch it, come back as needed. hoda, it is such an extraordinary morning because coronavirus has touched every single person in this country in one way or another but you just want to take a pause, i'm sure. when you saw the news on your phone middle of the night, you were as shocked as everyone. >> like every american, i got up at 3:30 in the morning and saw that news, i immediately thought oh, my gosh. what's going to happen next. i feel like there's sort of a calm as we are laying it all out. >> hopefully we'll hear from the white house with more information. on that subject, we're turning to politics a little bit up next.

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they remain in good spirits. the president does have mild symptoms and as we look to try to make sure that not only his health and safety and welfare is good, we continue to look at that for all of the american people. he continued to be not only in good spirits but very energetic. we talked a number of times this morning. i got five or six things he tasked me to do like i do every single morning and he is certainly wanting to make sure we stay engaged. i think the other thing that is critically important, the doctors continue to monitor both his health and the health of the first lady, will continue to do that. they'll be glad to provide some updates later today as we look

at this, but i think the great thing about this president is not only is he staying committed to working hard on behalf of the american people, his first question to me this morning is how is the economy doing, how are stimulus talks going on capitol hill. a number of us in the core team of the white house continue to get tested on a daily basis like we have been and as we look to that, we are very excited about making sure that not only that the health and safety of the president and first lady is addressed, but certainly that we address this battle together as a nation together and the american people can rest assured that we have a president that is

not only on the job, will remain on the job, and i'm optimistic that he'll have a quick and speedy recovery. >> how would you describe the symptoms? >> well, i'm not going to get into any treatment that he may or may not have. he has mild symptoms. as we look at that, the doctor will continue to provide expertise in the residence. he's in the residence now. in true fashion, he's probably critiquing the way i'm answering these questions and i can tell you that a number of us will be reporting back to him on the task at hand. >> what day and time did you

find out that hope hicks tested positive. >> actually, as we look at this, i'm not going to get into the tick tock. in terms of hope hicks, we discovered that right as the marine one was taking off yesterday. we actually pooled some people traveling and in close contact. the reason it was reported out frankly is we had already started the contact tracing just prior to that event. as you know, last night even in minute we got a confirmatory test from the president, we felt it was important to get the news out there at that time. so that's why we sent out the tweet late or actually early

this morning. >> i have obviously been tested. hopefully more than six feet away, if there's any concern from a guidance standpoint, we have protocols in place. early on when we first started to tackle the covid-19 battle, we actually did two different things in the white house, a nu looked at not only additional testing but certainly mitigating risk for social distancing and private meetings and the like. i think it goes to the broader question, even with a lot of mitigating factors, jim, what you have is a virus that is contagious, that certainly continues to be, regardless of whatever protocol we have, that it has the ability to effect everybody.

as you know, the president can keep a wide circle, all of you that interact with him know that. even with that wide circle around the president, we find that he is having to deal with this like so many millions of other americans and people around the world had to do. i can tell you that what we're doing is focusing on the therapeutics, the vaccines, continuing to do that, and that doesn't change. go ahead. [ inaudible question ] >> we tested all of our core staff. i can tell you that mr. kushner, mr. scavino, myself, a number of us have been tested and come back with negative results. yet at the same time i fully

expect as the virus goes on, other people in the white house may have a positive test result. we have a plan in place to ensure that the government not only continues to move forward but work of the american people so even as recent as this morning, a little after 8:00, the president was giving me a number of things to make sure i get done. i'm sure i will actually have those do outs, have to be back to him later today. i've got to wrap. i'm not going to -- i wanted to come out and give an update to all of you, show the courtesy of giving an update. we'll have future updates. i'll be glad to do that. any other specifics at this

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he continues to be not only in good spirits but energetic. talked a number of times this morning. i got five or six things he tasked me to do like i do every single morning and he is certainly wanting to make sure we stay engaged. >> a few moments ago, white house chief of staff mark meadows on the president's condition saying that he has mild symptoms but is feeling well and continuing to do his work, but of course is in isolation in residence at the white house. 8:00 on the west coast. we continue to cover this breaking news story. let's go to peter alexander standing by. good morning again. mark meadows, chief of staff, somebody traveling at length with the president and also shuttling around capitol hill with the supreme court nominee, amy coney barrett, and he just revealed he also, mark meadows,

has tested negative. >> reporter: yeah, that's exactly right, not just meadows, ivanka and jared kushner testing negative. the president's chief of staff mark meadows moments ago confirming president trump is experiencing symptoms. here's what he said. take a listen. >> the president and first lady tested positive for covid-19. they remain in good spirits. the president does have mild symptoms. >> reporter: mark meadows saying he fully expects others at the white house will test positive in days ahead and said the white house lerarned hope hicks teste positive as the president boarded marine one yesterday, but still continued with scheduled events, including a multi million dollar fundraiser at his new jersey golf club. in an extraordinary and stunning announcement, president trump delivering his own diagnose on twitter. tonight, the first lady and i tested positive for covid-19. we will begin our quarantine and

recovery process immediately. we will get through this together. melania trump with a tweet of her own. we are feeling good, i postponed all upcoming engagements. the president's physician did not indicate whether he was experiencing symptoms, saying the president and mrs. trump plan to remain home in the white house during convalescence, adding, rest assured, i expect the president to continue carrying out his duties without disruption while recovering. the announcement throwing the future of the country's leadership into uncertainty. late thursday, the president speaking by phone to fox news. confirming that one of his closest advisers, hope hicks tested positive. >> she wears masks a lot, but she tested positive. >> and revealing that he and the first lady were awaiting their own coronavirus test results. >> i just went out with a test. you know, we spend a lot of time and the first lady went out with a test also. so whether we quarantine or whether we have it, i don't

know. >> hicks is regularly in close contact with the president, seen here without a mask at his pennsylvania rally on saturday. flying on air force one to cleveland tuesday, again, no masks, and on wednesday traveling with the president to a rally in minnesota. a source telling nbc news hicks tested positive the morning of the minnesota trip but began showing minor symptoms that evening. she was quarantined on air force one for the return flight to washington. the president suggesting service members and law enforcement officials may have given her the virus. >> it is very, very hard when you are with people from the military or from law enforcement and they come over to you and they want to hug you and they want to kiss you because we really have done a good job for them. and you get close and things happen. >> in a prerecorded speech to the al smith charity dinner thursday, president trump contradicted his own public health experts. insisting the virus would soon be in the rearview mirror.

>> the end of the pandemic is in site. >> the president who has been reluctant to embrace social distancing and masks saying this. >> i have a mask right here. i put a mask on when i think i need it. tonight as an example everybody has had a test, and you have had social distancing and all the things you have to. but i wear masks when needed. when needed i wear masks. i don't wear masks like him. every time you see him he's got a mask. he could be speaking 200 feet away from me. he shows up with the biggest mask i have ever seen. >> reporter: we learned from the vice president's spokesperson, vice president mike pence and karen pence tested negative for coronavirus. nbc news confirmed that chair woman of the republican national committee tested positive after a member of her own family became infected. >> peter alexander, thank you. >> a lot of questions on the

medical front. a lot of people are waking up to hear the news that president trump has covid-19. he has some other health issues. tell us your prognosis on this one. >> the concerning thing, he is 74. that puts him in higher risk category for complications, 65 and above puts you in that category, and his physical four months ago showed a bmi in the obese range. another risk factor for complications from covid. he only has mild symptoms. they started saying he has no symptoms, now mild symptoms. covid can progress quickly. need to keep a close eye on him. he has excellent health care. hopefully with that health care and with who he is, and his immune system, keeps us under control. >> we do stories here, talk about people that are elderly that end up in the hospital, on ventilators. is that something common among

the elderly or is that a rarity? >> something that's more common among the elderly, those above 80. 65 and above is a higher risk category but not that common overall for coronavirus. the vast majority of them recover from coronavirus without problems or complications. but puts them at higher risk. not unusual for someone his age and health condition to go from mild to severe symptoms, to the icu. we have to keep a close eye on him. >> i'm confused with some testing. hope hicks tested negative tuesday, then positive on wednesday. we just heard that vice president pence tested negative. are people going to have to test and retest to find out if they have it, and what is the test they should be taking? >> well, the tests they're taking now is the one that has what we call a false negative issue. in other words, people that don't have symptoms can test negative and still have

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including here in the u.k. the u.k.'s prime minister boris johnson and brazil's president were the two most high profile political leaders to come down with covid before president trump's announcement and all three men have repeatedly down played the virus. johnson ignored social distancing warnings almost as a matter of pride. >> i was in hospital the other night where i think there were actually a few coronavirus patients, and i shook hands with everybody, you will be pleased to know, and i continued to shake hands. >> reporter: then he contracted covid. he continued to work in isolation, making a rare appearance looking disheveled and weak until he was transferred to an icu, severely ill. doctors said it was touch and go his deputy had to step in until johnson recovered and thanked the national health service. >> the nhs has saved my life, no question. >> reporter: johnson tweeted this morning he wishes president trump and the first lady a

speedy recovery. other international reaction was barred china daily wrote the positive test is yet another reminder that the coronavirus continues to spread even as trump has tried desperately to suggest it no longer poses a danger the french government spokesman says this demonstrates that the virus spares no one, including those that have shown skepticism like the president of brazil, he called it a little flu, financial bailouted precautions, saying closing the economy did more harm than the pandemic. his covid case appeared mild, and he claimed hydroxychloroquine cured him canada's justin trudeau's wife also tested positive for covid they both went into isolation. she soon recovered and this morning russia's vladimir putin who lives in one

of the world's most isolated and protected bubbles wished president trump well in a telegram, according to russian state media. i am certain your inherent vitality, good spirits and optimism will help you cope with this dangerous virus, the telegram reportedly said. >> richard, you mentioned boris johnson, world leaders who contracted the virus how do things play out for them after they tested positive >> reporter: so very differently. and it seems to be a factor of how severe their cases were. boris johnson who according to his doctors nearly died from covid-19 did have an initial bump of sympathy he also has a young child. and even his opponents rally around him now, that bump of support seems to have faded away now that this country and other european countries are going through

something of a second wave very different from the brazil president. he had a mild case and he used it to show his invisibility. his standing didn't really change in the countries. his supporters thought he was fantastic. they liked he was supporting hydroxychloroquine to show there is a cure out there. although medical professionals dispute that. seems to be a factor of how severe the case is >> richard, thank you. let's bring back in our correspondents and analysts. hallie jackson, casey hunt, an jeremy bash, our national security analyst, let me start with you the big news this half hour is the vice president's office has announced that he and second lady karen pence have tested negative good news and a sigh of relief at the white house because of that. >> and the vice president gets tested every day it's that we believe that rapid tests based on the information that we have so far. but it is significant because up until, savannah, as you said maybe 20 minutes ago that had

still been an open question. the vice president sending his prayers and well wishes to the trumps, to president trump and the first lady now we have that piece of information, which is another piece of the puzzle that locks in let me tell you what we're looking ahead to today the vice president is set to get on the road. as the president is quarantining in the residence, you have the vice president who is ready to get out and do some campaigning, at least as of the latest guidance that will happen in just about two hours from now that he will get on air force two and there may be an opportunity for him to speak with members of the press. joe biden is also set to be on the road today as well, leaving for michigan later this morning. let me flag one other thing. that is close to now, just about 40 minutes from now, the health and human services secretary isl moving forward azar was one of the people with the president this week on monday that was in the rose garden in an outdoor setting we don't know if he had interactions that were perhaps

sustained and close with president trump prior to that event, maybe in the oval office. and those are kind of the key things that we're looking to in the next hour here. >> let's turn to casey hunt who covers the hill for us first the biden campaign so far we have not heard anything, am i right, from the biden campaign about any of this and secondly, how are people reacting on capitol hill because there has been a lot of commingling with some of the top aids at the white house who have business on capitol hill and there are a lot of questions about whether people on the hill need to be tested as well. >> there absolutely are, savannah first the biden campaign we still have not heard anything formally the former vice president is scheduled to campaign in michigan today we can say that there are conversations going on about what is the safest way to proceed with campaigning, considering he was on stage with the president at that debate on

tuesday night. we know they have a lot of testing protocols in place they are tested regularly. so we're watching to see if any of those plans change. in terms of capitol hill, you are absolutely right mark meadows in particular is a potential vector here for covid-19. >> the white house chief of staff. >> while there have been protocols in place -- yes, the white house chief of staff he was on the plane with president trump on air force one and been on capitol hill meeting with the president's support and other members of the senate, including top leaders like mitch mcconnell, the majority leader in the senate. so that raises concerns about how far this potentially could have spread on capitol hill, raises questions about the timing of those supreme court hearings, for example. and while senators have been really careful and mostly have been wearing masks and socially distancing in the hallways, you can see in pictures of those

meetings with amy coney barrett, many are not wearing masks and there has been complacency from people like meadows who are around the president and tested all the time saying we don't need to wear a mask because we know that we're not sick so some questions there as well. >> let me bring in jeremy bash who worked in the last administration and found yourself in the west wing many, many times marine one. talk about the tight found yourself on helicopters similar to marine one. talk about the tight quarters and how having a case at that high level inside the west wing might affect a great number of people at a very high level in our government >> yeah, savannah. people look at the white house and see a mansion but actually the work space, the west wing is very close quarters. you have got narrow quarters, low slung ceilings it is not like people can spread out there, so we're talking about the president, his senior aids like hope hicks, jared kushner, kayleigh mcenany. understand the secret service

agents and others who may be exposed. >> thank you we'll be back with you in a few. coming up, 8:24 now. let's turn to mr. roker. >> things have been quiet in the tropics. one wave coming off african coast. now has a 90% chance of development. and you can see these development zones. they stretch from the caribbean all the way to the gulf of mexico we will be watching this over the weekend. >> good morning. i'm meteorologist kari hall. as we take a look at the red flag warning that will be in effect for today, we'll see all of our elevations above 1,000 feet experiencing some high winds and very low humidity. so a lot of concern there as our temperatures heat up. we're back in the upper 90s in a few spots reaching into the

triple digits. for tomorrow, a little cooler. and that cooling continues into sunday. but a much more significant cooling is coming our way by the end of next week. and that's your and that's your latest weather. >> thanks, buddy coming up, we will switch gears a little bit as harry smith joins. his celebration of 95 years at the grand ole opry >> later on pink power, we will meet a nurse doing heroic work for children even as she herself fights breast cancer we will honor her and celebrate. but first a check of your local news and weather consuming the n

good morning. it's 8:26. consuming the news this morning, a breaking revelation that president trump and the first lady say they have tested positive for covid-19. hope hicks, a trump aide, has tested positive for the virus as well. the white house says the vice president, mr. pence, and his wife have tested negative. at midday, our scott mcgrew will break down what this means official the election. here at home, the glass fire continues to force people out of their homes in the north bay. so far, it's scorched more than 60,000 acres and is just 6% contained. we'll have the very latest in our midday newscast. or head to our home page for the latest at any hour. kari, how are the fire conditions today? >> it's still looks pretty bad. we have the red flag warning that continues. you can see how thick the smoke is in the air. our air quality is very unhealthy in the north bay and that will continue as we go throughout the weekend. the spare the air alert has been extended through tuesday as we

will only see some minor improvements as we go into the next several days. our temperatures still very hot today. we'll have more updates throughout the morning. chris? >> kari, thank you so very much for that. i'll have another local news update in half an hour. now back to the "today" show in new york. this election,

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away from a smuckers jar. today's weather is brought to you by folgers, the best part of waking up. we need to look ahead to the weekend. i think we all need this and we start off with tomorrow autumn chill in the northeast and parts of the great lakes hot, dry out west. then sunday, sunday we've got a flood threat continuing through the southeast and florida. we have also got warm weather out west very fall like in the plains and wet weather through the ohio river valleys. that's what's going on around the country. here's what's happening in your >> good morning. i'm meteorologist kari hall. let's take a look at our high temperatures for today. it's going to be very hot as our temperatures reach into the upper 90s. even up to 101 today in antioch. in san francisco, we're reaching into the mid-80s.

our seven-day forecast shows we'll still have some very warm temperatures into the weekend. although it will come down slightly, but the fire danger definitely continues for today. all right. and it's time. it's our all right. and it's time. it's our favorite. that's right sunday night, football night in america. savannah's eagles fly into levy stadium. does that stadium make me look fat? i don't know but we're looking at the 49ers in santa clara partly cloudy, 75. eagles, 49ers. sunday night football night in america. >> if there was ever a morning -- wow. >> wow >> i was feeling a little fuzzy there. actually, that wasn't planned. that's just the way rope shoots things.

>> oh, mr. roper. >> thank you for that. we needed that this week. >> you're welcome, america. up next, icons of country music honoring its most iconic venue. this is "today" on nbc they do one of the most difficult jobs there is, even in normal times. our frontline health care workers. and when these heroes lack the resources they need, 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. ...this one's for you. you inspired us to make your humira experience even better... with humira citrate-free. it has the same effectiveness you know and trust, but we removed the citrate buffers, there's less liquid, and a thinner needle...

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anniversary. the longest running radio show in the country the 1920s, radio was the hot new thing. and in 1925, nashville station wsm with a 50,000 watt signal began to broadcast a barn dance show on saturday nights. >> from the folk music capital of old, nashville, tennessee, grand ole opry. >> a country where half of its citizens still lived in rural areas. that barn dance soon came to be known as the grand ole opry. listening in on saturday night became as sure a thing as going to church on sunday. >> people would gather around their radios and listen to the grand ole opry.

>> performers like little jimmy dickens and minnie pearl were as familiar as family the carter sisters, hank williams through the decades, country stars. >> this is just about the best job in the world. >> johnny cash, patsy klein, loretta lynn and of course dolly parton ♪ i will always love you >> and while performing at the opry remains a cherished experience, an invitation to become a member leaves the true stars humble. >> it was a true welcoming to country music. it is like you are one of us. >> trisha yearwood and garth brooks became members in the '90s she was 15 that trisha first truly imaged herself on stage. >> i remember sitting in those pews and watching artists perform.

>> did you dare dream as you looked up the stage that, i want to be there one day. >> yeah. you dare dream it, but you still don't know i always saw myself there. and i think being on the grand ole opry stage was one of those things like if that ever happens to me, then i've made it that was the goal. >> what was it like the first time you stepped on the stage. >> you see every face in the audience and you are terrified my first memory is just being nervous because this is the place where you want to do good. you are scared at first, but then something kind of warm washes over you and you feel like, this is going to be all right ♪ and even if they have to run away. >> garth brooks. >> garth remembers his first time, too. >> me and my college roommate got to go play didn't have a band yet didn't have a deal yet we're walking toward the stage at 2:30 in the morning i look over at kitty wells who

was walking. i was like, holy cow. >> on the stage at the opry is a six foot circle. a piece of the stage from the auditorium where the show was performed for decades. >> what is it like when you step into that circle >> that circle is its own energy i think about patsy klein stood on that spot that's always where my mind goes to. >> to perform at the opry, to be a member is a lot of legacy to uphold. >> the whole journey is representing country music as its best. >> what does the opry mean to you? >> when people asked me my biggest accomplishments, i always mention the grand ole opry, being a member and it preserves the history of country music. >> you are part of something bigger than yourself understand you are lucky enough to be members, you are part of that band. >> so the opry has never missed a show in 95 years never missed a saturday night in 95 years. this is no exception a very, very limited audience.

happy birthday to the opry. >> wow happy birthday. >> happy birthday, indeed. thank you, harry good to see your basement, too, buddy. >> all right, guys coming up next, morgan radford is ready to help us recognize an incredible nurse who is a survivor of childhood cancer and now she's taking care of kids with the disease as she herself fights breast cancer mom of three she's an incredible woman. we'll meet her coming up after this

we're back on a friday morning with a very special pink power story and our breastill cancer awareness month. >> you will love her erica is doing incredible work every day.

she does it even as she herself battles breast cancer. we will meet her in a moment but first permission to live life with hope. >> hi! hi >> what do you love about that profession >> it's the kids i love working with kids >> erica is a pediatric oncology nurse at the university of minnesota's masonic children's hospital in minneapolis. she knows firsthand what it's like for the children she treats when she was 15, erica was diagnosed with hodgkin's lymphoma. >> was that tough for you?

>> it was tough, but i still -- i still wanted to be me, and i still went to school through it all. i was in our high school's marching band, so i wasn't going to let cancer like take those things away from me. >> her cancer in remission, she studied to become a nurse, married her husband chris and they have three daughters. but in 2019 she was diagnosed with breast cancer. >> it was probably the worst day of my life it really was because i didn't need the doctor to tell me what that meant i knew as soon as it came out, i knew as soon as my doctor called me that pet scan didn't look good her breast cancer spread to her spine. it was terminal, stage four. >> how do you tell the man you love that? how did you explain that >> it's hard i mean, i'm like, well, you know, it just means that it's not curable. it's hard. and so we had a good cry together, and we had a couple more since then. >> yeah. >> and, you know, we're working together to get through it. >> how did you have the conversation with your young girls? >> that probably was like the second worst day of my life. >> yeah. >> we started with my oldest,

and we told her, you know, that mom had a sickness and that it wasn't going to go away. but i'm getting treated for it and i'm going to be here for a very long time. >> she continues to work at the hospital despite her diagnosis. >> one of the many things that makes you remarkable is you put on your scrubs and you went back to work. >> yeah. >> why did you decide to do that >> because i'm not just a wife i'm not just a mom, but i'm also a nurse. it's part of who i am. so i want to go back to work and i want to -- like part of me wants to help the children that are here so if i can do like just a little bit to change a life, i view it as i'm helping to cure their cancer so even if i can't cure my own,

i'm going to go out there and i'm going to try to cure somebody else's. >> i feel like you are a living, walking life lesson. what are you hoping to teach through what you do? >> don't ever give up hope live life. you know, as much as you can and if there wasn't a pandemic, i would be out traveling, in addition to all of this, you know, my work and my family, i would be taking my family all over the country and all over the world. but that i'm going to have to just wait a little while longer, keep my hopes up. >> okay. are you inspired this woman is amazing. erica is here along with her family is it true right now you're on a shift and you're taking a break to sit here and talk with us this morning again? >> well, i'm actually not on a shift. they gave me the day off for this. >> well, you deserve it. how does it feel to just be surrounded by the people you love you are with your family

you have all these nurses that came out on this special day to be with you? >> it's so amazing and a little overwhelming, honestly i just try to be, you know -- i just try to be me, and i don't expect all of the outpouring from anybody else or anybody jus else in the world. i just kind of want to just go through life living my life, and this is just -- it's so amazing to be surrounded by all these people it is making me tear up. >> hoda says you are a living, walking life lesson. i think you are a livi you are incredible morgan has something she wants to share with you. morgan, i will let you take it away >> hey there, guys can you hear me? >> what is this? >> can you hear me >> hey i'm here

hello, guys. i'm here to see you, erica i've got a little surprise for you. >> okay. because ford warriors in pink heard about all your hours and years and service and dedication as a nurse, and they wanted to surprise you with this new 2020 ford explorer. and we're so excited because that's not it, erica if you look inside this car, there are 13,000 masks inside that you can share with other women so that you can help protect them in their breast cancer fight but it doesn't even stop there because erica we heard you talk about wanting to travel with your family and continue to make memories ultimate road trip experience so that you guys can see the country you can travel and make memories >> i don't know what to think right now. you deserve all of this.

you have been helping children day in and day out you haven't stopped working. you are in the middle of your own shift. you are raising beautiful children and a beautiful family and we are all so excited for you and grateful to you for all that you have been through so i hope you get in thi and make beautiful memories. >> thank you so much. >> do you know where you're going first? >> i don't know. i mean, i was planning to take the family -- yeah out to hawaii. so i don't know how i'm going to make a road trip. >> somehow we're going to make that trip to hawaii happen you said that that was on your list of things to do i'm not calling it a bucket list it's going to be a to do list and we want to make that happen. >> no. it's a to do list. >> we're honored to know you you're an incredible human being. you are changing lives every day. those kids are fortunate to have

someone like you holding their hand because you are really one in a millionin a million. you really are. you really are >> thank you so much >> thank you so much. >> wow it's just -- again, overwhelming, so overwhelming. >> all right, guys can we all give erica a big round of applause out there? >> yeah! hats off to you. >> we wish you the best of luck, hon. >> get behind the wheel and put the pedal to the metal we're sending you all our love and wrapping our arms around you. >> thank you. >> we're back in a moment. but first this is "today" on nbc. (garage door opening) the 1966 e-type roadster... my father spent 3 years restoring this car... it is his love... it is his passion- it is his fault he didn't lock the garage. don't even think about it!

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lafayette, california. working in a public school as a teacher for nearly 40 years. thank you for doing that joseph wiggins, a skilled craftsman. built his own home for his family where he raised four wonderful kids happy 100th day to ernest moore. elaine kalin is also 100 obtained her masters degree from university of michigan before becoming a professor at mit. francis weber of green field, wisconsin is 100 he says the secret of longevity besides that bumping hat is not addressing the small stuff a scientist who once served as a sheep-away counselor to the late justice ruth bader ginsburg. >> wow >> how about them apples

that's pretty cool. up next on the third hour of today, we will have much more on this morn's top story. president trump and the first lady testing positive for coronavirus. but first your local news and weather.

good morning. it's 8:56 on this friday morning. i'm chris chmura. we've been following a breaking news story all morning. president trump and the first lady are now in quarantine. they say they have tested positive for covid-19. several people close to the president, like the vice president, mr. pence, and his wife, as well as the president's daughter ivanka have tested negative. hope hicks, however, one of the trump's top aides has tested positive. coming up, scott mcgrew will walk us through the latest developments and ongoing reverberations. for realtime updates, check out our twitter feed. the glass fire continues to force people out of their homes in the north bay.

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