interventions of supplemental oxygen. today the president was reported to be without a fever. brgutdifficulty. we begin outside walter reed in bethesda, maryland. >> i'm about to make a little surprise visit. >> after tweeting the video from his suite at walter reed hospital late today, the president made a surprise drive by, waving to supporters outside. >> the president's doctors say he is extremely eager to get back to the white house. and that could happen, they say, as early as monday. bu they are describing some symptoms that are deeply worry some. >> i came here wasn't feeling so well, i feel much better now. >> reporter: from his suite at walter reed military center, president trump posted the this video on twitter saturday night.

at a press conference sunday, his doctors said the president wanted to return to the white house soon and they said he might get his wish. >> if he continues to look and feel as well as he does today, our hope is that we can plan for a did discharge as early as tomorrow. at the same time, they described symptoms that were at times disturbing. >> over the occurs of the his illness, he has had two drops in oxygen cat rasaturation. >> it can be a dangerous warning sign that requires a treatment with a steroid. the president's physician tried to explain why he suggested on saturday that the president had not received supplemental oxygen when in fact, he had. >> i was trying reflect the up beat attitude that the team

had. >> at the rose garden ceremony for his had supreme court pick. >> judge amy coney barrett. >> super and applause ] spreader event. this photo highlights attendees, packed together and without masks who tested positive since then, including the first lady, former white house counselor, kellyann conway and former fwon governor chris christie who is now in a hospital. on twitter he said, this reckless action put others at risk for catching covid 15 for no good reason. >> joining me is jon lapook. doctor, three interventions with medicine and efforts to stabilize the breathing. >> we need more information.

we need to know what does the chest ct show and does he have pneumonia and what do the blood tests show? are therein creases in the markers that that are showing he is perhaps later in the disease than we think. that he is in the inflammatory phase. the reason it's important. the two medicines he was given. those, it makes sense, you know, the idea of them is to decrease the viral load and in that first part of the disease, that makes a lot of sense is. even though the medicines are experimental, they are not proven to be safe and effective. still that makes sense and it was a decision his team made. the dexamethasone is a little different. because in the big new england journal article that was in july, it was shown to be effective in decreasing mortality significantly in people who needed a breathing tube and to a lesser extent, people on supplemental oxygen. it was not thought or found to be helpful in people who did not need oxygen and that's what we are told where the president is right now. that he is off of the oxygen and

his levels are okay. so, i think we need to know what was the logic behind all this, and of course, i'm looking from the outside in, i don't know the whole story. so, it's hard to assess what is going on. >> the dexamethasone is a steroid, does anything else come with it in terms of side affects, doctor? >> there are side affects for steroids and the more series ones are long-term. but short-term. one of the things i wonder about is it can decrease fever. if you are saying he has no fever and you are relying on something, he may have a fever that you don't know he has. >> does this sound like he can come home tomorrow. >> this home is not a normal homicide, and i'm told from my sources the white house is well equipped, almost like an icu if needed. he will be getting closely monitored. if he does take a turn for the

worst, they are prepared to do what needs to be done. >> we thank you. >> the coronavirus is not slowing down, it's picking up. in a reversal, new york said that schools and businesses in hard-hit neighborhoods will be closed. new informations are rising in 31 states. wisconsin among the worst. there's trouble on the grid iron. tom hanson has the latest. suddenly the nfl is on the brink of a covid crisis. today the new orleans saints and the detroit lions game kicked off normally and positive tests from players on both the kansas city chiefs and new england patriots caused a literal delay of game from sunday to monday and it's not just on the ground. covid's exaimpact is everywhere >>this is my last flight. >> the airlines have laid off 30,000 employees.

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. ♪ this is the "cbs overnight news." a new cbs battleground tracker poll out today finds a dead heat in ohio between president donald trump and former vice president joe biden. the president won ohio by -- in pennsylvania, which mr. trump won by one half of one percent our poll shows biden ahead by seven points. even with the president off the road, his campaign is moving forward with events in key battleground states and on wednesday. vice president and senator kamala harris will meet in utah% for the one and only debate.

ed okeefe joins me now. >> joe biden is pulling advertising off of the interpret. -- advertising off of the internet. biden is planning to go to south florida monday. there were campaign events over the weekend and he and his run are mate, kamala harris will campaign together on thursday. not much changedfor the trump campaign, the fundraising e-mails are going out at the usual clip, they are coming from his had children instead of from the president instead and they have copy and pasted and sent the videos in to campaign fundraising e-mails. they are still asking for cash. >> fair to say, the presidential debate to come will take on greater significance? >> boy, if this was the under card in the forgotten debate in

the past. one could argue it's now the most important one of the entire series of debates this fall. the 61-year-old vice president mike pence, the 55-year-old california senator is kamala harris, far less no one to americans across the country and obviously, all that has gone on, in the recent days is a reminder that any time, a vice president could to he -- could potentially have to step. both under a clearer micro scope, and more attention paid to the event. the vice president will go to battleground arizona. it's the first debate since she was nominated in august. >> ed okeefe, thank you so much. you can watch the vice presidential debate and we hope you will right here. cbs news coverage begins wednesday at 6:00 p.m. word that president trump contracted the virus prompted

concern among many americans and around the world. elizabethpalmer is in london. i'm sure that president trump is going to be fine. he has got the best possible care. >> reporter: up beat words from a man who has been there. prime minister boris johnson. >> i shook hands with everyon. you'll be pleased to know. and i continue to shake hands. >> reporter: casual at the start of the pandemic, johnson caught covid in march and almost died. his popularity soared when he was out of the hospital, but it has since slumped as the britains widely criticize his hadling of the pandemic. another leader that caught the virus was brazil's president. he skocorned masks, but a mild case, which had him back at work with his approval ratings up. that may have been more to do

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37,000 to open the polls on election day. we wanted the 50% extra as a reserve force in case there's a resurgence in the virus or people that choose to not show up on november 3. so what our target is 55,000. >> reporter: that meant recruitirecruit ing tactics, allowing 17-year-olds to be poll workers, and giving incentives tore charitable organizations to pitch in. >> we have to keep showing up at the polls, not to just cast our own vote bougut to make sure ots can to. >> democracy does not work if just a few people do it. >> this will be the year that we

recruited that new generation of poll workers. >> reporter: among the mu generation is a first time poll worker. >> if we cannot staff the polls it's too easy to close them. so, i don't want to give any excuse for voter suppression. >> she will serve at this precinct. >> i'm doing it because we need to. and also because i can. i am incredibly lucky. incredibly privileged that i can do this i and i think it's a time that we figure out whatever our capacity is and do what we. >> up to 300,000 new poll workers will be needed, that is based on the assuming that 40% will not be there had. britain's young royals asking tough questions.

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stories, the surprise supporters outside the military medical center where he is undergoing aggressive treatment for coronavirus. president was trump was in a motorcade and wearing a cloth mack, even so, the is continuin to improve, has been fever free since friday night and could be released back to the white house as early as tomorrow. the president is governing from a special presidential suite at walter reed and is on a course for remdesivir. that is the overnight news for this monday. for some of you the news continues, please check back later for cbs this morning. you can follow us online at cbs news.com. if yououn, j m for my podct. i' garrett.

♪ c bm cbs news original reporting. ♪ this is the cbs overnight news good evening everyone, president trump less than a month from his re-election verdict made a surprise visit to supporters outside the walter reed military medical center where he will be had hospitalized for a third united with covid-19. the president's doctors say if all goes well, he could be discharged as early as tomorrow. there are unanswered questions about the condition of president trump's lungs. did he exhibit any signs of pneumonia or other virus related illne illnesses? we did learn more about the president's condition on friday. it was not good. he ran a fever.

his doctors won't say how high and rured two interventions of supplemental oxygen. today, the president was reported to be without a fever. breathing with out difficulty. we begin with chip reed outside walter reed in bethesda, in maryland. >> i'm about to make a little surprise visit. >> after tweeting om huite in walter reed hospital late today, the president made a surprise drive-by, waving to supporters outside. >> the president's doctors say he is extremely eager to get back to the white house. and that could happen they say, as early as monday. but, they also are describing some symptoms that are deeply worrying. >> i came here, was not feeling so well. am feeling better now. >> from his suite, president trump posted this video on twitter saturday night. >> i just want to tell you that i'm starting to feel good. >> at a press conference sunday, his doctors said that the president wanted to return to the white house soon. and they said he might get his

wish. >> 53 continues to look and feel as well as he does today, our hope is that we can plan for a discharge as early as tomorrow. but at the same time, they described symptoms that have at i'ms been disturbing. >> over the course of the illness, the president has experienced two drops in his oxygen. >> a drop in oxygen levels can be a dangerous warning sign that in the case of the president, required a treatment. he is taking two experimental drug therapies. >> the president's physician tried to explain had why he suggested on saturday that the president did not receive supplemental oxygen when in fact he. >> i was trying reflect the upbeat attitude that the team, the president, through the course of illness, has had. it came off that wrp trying to hide something. it's unsure how he contracted the virus.

the supreme court court nominee event may have been a super spreader event. many have tested positive since then, including the first lady, former white house counselor, and former new jersey governor chris christie who is now in the hospital. >> the president's journey out here to thank his supporters drew a response from democratic congressman ted lou of california said this puts others at risk for contracting covid-19 for no good reason. >> we are told that the next several hours can be critical for the president. doctor, three interventions with medicine and two efforts to stabilize the president's breathing. what does that tell us? >> well, you know, major, we need more information, for example, we need to know what is

the chest ct showing? does he have pneumonia? and what are the blood tests is there an increase in the inflammatory markers that tells you that he is perhaps later on in the disease than we think. that is he in inflammatory phase. the reason it's important, the first two medicines that he was given, those, it makes sense that, you know, the idea of them is to decrease the viral load and in that first part of the disease, that makes a lot of sense. even though the medicines are experimental, they have not been proven to be safe and effective. still, that kind of makes sense and that was a decision his team made. the dexamethasone is a little bit different because in the big new england journal article that was in july, it was shown to be effective in decreasing mortality significantly in people who needed a breathing tube and to a lesser extent for people who were on supplemental oxygen. it was not found to be helpful in people that the did not need oxygen and that's what we are told where the president is right now. that he is off of the oxygen and

his oxygen levels are okay. so, i think we need to know, what was the logic behind all this, and of course, i'm looking from the outside in, and i don't know the whole story, so it's hard to assess exactly what is going on. >> does it all add up to you, dr. jon lapook for a safe transfer of the president back to the white house as early as tomorrow? >> normally you say you do not discharge a person from hospital to home, but this is not a normal home h. this is not a normal home. he will be getting closely monitored and you want to make sure that if he take as turn for the wofrts, they are prepared to do what needs to be done. >> we thank you. >> and a new cbs news battleground tracker poll out today shows a the dead heat in ohio between trump and biden. the president won ohio by eight points in 2016. in pennsylvania, which mr. trump won by one half of 1% our pole shows biden ahead by seven points. even with the president off the

road, his campaign is moving forward with events in key battleground states and on wednesday, vice president pence and senator kamala harris, will meet at the university of utah for their one and only debate. cbs's ed okeefe joins me now, ed, what is the state of the campaign with the new pandemic variable? >> reporter: the only real thing that changed, major, at this point is that joe biden is pulling negative advertising off of television and the internet. doesn't mean he is stopping his advertising entirely. it's not at all the case. you will not see explicit attack adds against the president. mostly attacking the leadership in the pandemic itself. biden is continuing with plans to go to south florida on monday. and there were campaign events over the weekend and he and his running mate, kamala harris will campaign together in arizona on thursday. not much changed for the trump campaign either. the fundraising e-mails are coming out at a usual clip, they are coming out from his

children. and they have copy and pasted and sent those videos that the president made for the world for campaign e-mails. and they are asking for cash. >> the vice presidential debate to come will take on greater significance? >> if this was the under card and the forgotten debate in the past? this is now one of the most important the this fall. the 61-year-old vice president mike pence and the senator harris, far less known to americans across the country and obviously, all that has gone on in the recent days is a reminder that at any time a vice president could potentially have to step in for the president. so, both of them now under perhaps a clearer micro scope and there will should be more attention paid to this event. and as we mentioned, the vice president will then go to battleground arizona the same day that harris goes along side bind. it's their first joint campaign appearance together since she was nominated as the vice presidential running mate back

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i'm major garrett in washington, thank you for staying with us. the white house is facing a credibility problem involving the president's battle on the coronavirus, the medical team has said that the president has continued to improve, unquote and return to the whise as soon as today. but the white house doctor admitted to providing a overly rosie descriptions of the president's condition 24 hours earlier. he took questions from the reporters. >> you said that there were two instances where he drops in oxygen. can you walk us through the

second one? >> yeah, yesterday, there was a another episode where it dropped down to 93%, watched it, and it returned back up. as i said, we evaluate all of these and given the timeline where he is in the course of illness, you know, we were trying to maximize everything that we could do for him and we debated whether we would even start the dexamethasone and we decided that in this case, the potential benefits early on in the course probably out weighed any risks at this time. >> reporter: did you give him a second round of supplemental oxygen yesterday? >> i would have to check with the nursing staff. i don't think that, if he the did, it was limited. but, he is not on oxygen and the only oxygen that i ordered or provided was that friday morning initially. >> reporter: about what time was that yesterday? >> uh -- yesterday, what was

yesterday? >> reporter: you said the second instance? >> yeah, over the course of the day. >> reporter: what was the president's current blood oxygen level, that's the first question -- >> 98%. >> reporter: and what do the x-rays and ct scans show? are there signs of pneumonia. are there signs of lung involvement? were there damage to the lungs? >> we are tracking all of that. there's expected findings. >> reporter: his oxygen level had, has it dipped below 90? >> we don't have any recordings here of that. that's right. >> reporter: yeah, what about at the white house or here, anything below 90 just to follow-up on her question? >> no, it was below 94%. it was not down in the low 80s or anything. >> the dexamethasone steroid --

>> reporter: yesterday you said the president was in great shape, had been fever free. minutes after the press conference, we were told that the president's vitals were very concerning. simple question for the american people. who's statements about the president's health should we believe? >> the chief and i work side-by-side, and i think his statement was misconstrued, what he meant was that 24 hours ago, when he and i were checking on the president, that there was a momentary episode of the high fever and that temporary drop in the saturation, which prompted us to act quickly to move him here. fortunately that was a limited episode, a couple of hours later, he was back up, mild again, you know, i'm not going to speculate what that limited episode was about so early in the course, but he is doing well. >> reporter: what are the expected findings in the lung-s and why is he not wearing a mask

in the videos released? >> the president wears a mask any time he is around us. and we are all wearing our n-95s. and full ppe. he is the patient and when we can, when he will move in to the public and we move him out and around to other people, not in full ppe, as long as he is still under my care. we will talk about him wearing a mask. >> reporter: is he in a negative pressure room? >> i'm not getting in to specifics of his care. i'm sorry? >> reporter: the lung function question, can you talk about that? >> i would share, that like every patient, we perform spirometry on him, and he is maxing it out. we said, see what you cando it's over tweef m25mililiters e time. he is going great. >> reporter: disclose that the president had been administered

oxygen? >> it's a good question. >> reporter: thank you. >> i was trying to reflect the up beat attitude that the team, the president, through his course of illness they have had, didn't want to give any information that might steer the course of illness in another direction. in doing so. you know, it came off that we are trying to hide something that was not necessarily true. and so, here, he is the, the fact of the matter is, he is doing well. he is, he is responding and as the team said, if everything continues to go well, we are going to start cdischarging him back to the white house. that is it thank you. >> that was the white house physician. with 29 days to the general election. mr. trump's hospitalization has up ended the presidential campaign. ed okeefe reports. >> reporter: in the coming days you can expect what remains of the 2020 presidential campaign

ot different. on wednesday, vice president pence and joe biden's running mate, kamala harris are set to debate in salt lake city, she arrived early. >> reporter: this thursday, pence, biden and harris are going to hold events absent from the campaign trail, at least in person was president trump. >> my wife, jill and i parade that they will make a quick and full recovery. >> biden has been wishing the ailing president well, adding. >> the news is a reminder that are we as a nation need to do better. >> reporter: the business of washington is set to continue. majority leader mcconnell said that the full senate will not meet in person for the next few weeks but the judiciary committee will. in order to begin confirmation hearings for supreme court nominee, amy coney barrett.

with two members of the panel, having tested positive for covid-19. it's unknown how they will participate. much like everything else, the pandemic plunged the campaign in to chaos back in march. when the first postpone events were cancelled. ever since, president trump and opponent biden have been a study in contrast. mr. trump is rarely seen wearing a mask. biden is rarely seen without one. >> can i take my mask off? i guess, i can, all right. >> reporter: biden's postpone events are small and in frequent. only those invited can attend at a social distance. but up to through wednesday, trump was holding rallies packed with thousands of support ers many of whom do not cover their faces. from the campaign start, biden lipt willed his

appearances to brief remarks. >> the administration's failure on testing is huge. it's a failure of leadership and execution. >> and mostly hunk hadared down at home in wilmington, delaware. >> i wish we could have done it together and it went more smoothly. >> reporter: it's recent days when biden does not talk or tweet about the president's response to the pandemic. >> the reports, the reports, oh, it's covid. >> or mocked biden for his this is caution. >> i do not wear masks like him. every time you see him, he could have a mask. he could show up with the biggest mask i have seen. >> reporter: polling from september shows 52% of voters said biden would do a better job handling the pandemic and that was before mr. trump's diagnosis. in a campaign season already robbed of many of the usual trappings.

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but they were all denied library cards and told to leave. feeling dejected, they went for lunch in a lunch counter where sandra would be denied service. >> so their policy apparently was that because of the law they had to serve us now. but they had been instructed to not serve whites in the presence of blacks. >> reporter: the case was heard by the u.s. supreme court. ruling in her favor. even with that legal victory, she still thought about the library card she never received. 56 years later, her had -- her son sent a letter to the library informing them of the incident and they replied. >> i'm so honored to be able to provide to you a library card for library of hattiesburg. we have with registered you

under carolyn -- the name that should have been on the car . >> reporter: the current library director was happy to be a part of the healing moment. >> i feel a real sorrow, a sorrow that people were denied those very basic every day rights that other people basically took for granted. >> reporter: her passion for reading was not deterred by not getting her first library card. she became a middle school, high school, and university librarian. she even co-enonned a children's book store and earned a librarian degree in her 40s. >> as i said to the last person who hired me to work in a library that i think that i als librarians were not mean. because that certainly is how i saw that person in the hattiesburg library that day. you know, it's part of the image

that goes with librarians and i wanted to dispell that. >> michelle mille with the

in italy the pandemic has revived a century's old relate you can from the past, the wine window. for locals it's a way to enjoy their favorite libations while maintaining a social distance. >> in a city as beautiful as florence, you would be forgiven for overlooking this or this, more than 150 so-called wine ows. hatcheto renasanc now t >> i think it's great. and it's a way to social distance, i suppose. >> they were likely invented as a way for noble familto discre sell wholesale wine in small portions.

they are all over the place, aren't they? the tiny openings prevented merchants from selling in bulk, but acquired another use during the black death. merchants specifically used them to socially distance from customers on the outside. according to this medical book from the 1600s. >> so they never came in contact with each other. that's what the wine window did. it created a distance between the buyer and the sell er. an anti-plague safety measure forgotten over the centuries that is until the most recent plague. covid- covid-19, history repeated itself. here's how it works. you let t know you and you tell them what you want. you pay. and out comes your ice cream.

irresistable to those fresh out of lockdown. so the idea worked. >> yes, yes. once we really have a really long -- >> bars and restaurants caught on. now reopening wine windows long sealed shut, like this place. why do you want to open? it's fashionable. once the worst hit had country in the world, now they rank among the health haddiest among new coronavirus infections. but if this modern day playing locks them down again, some c c open their windows. >> for some of you the news continues, for others check back later for cbs this morning. you can of course, follow us online at cbs.com and if you can, please join me for my

podcast, the takeout. reporting from the nation's capitol, i'm major garrett. it is monday it is monday october 5, 2020. this is cbs morning news. the president hospitalized. the president spends mother morning at walter reed. the backlash after he stepped out of the medical center to geet his supporters. the vice presidential debate. mike pence and kamala harris square off in 48 hours. how the show down will be different from the presidential debate. >> capital clash. supreme court confirmation hearings for amy coney barrett are in jeopardy after three gop senators testiv