adriana diaz, thank you. tonight federal prosecutors are charging six russian military officers with launching cyber- attacks designed to interfere with international elections and the olympics as well as hitting companies and hospitals right here in the u.s. now, the charges come two weeks before an election that national security experts worry could be targeted by foreign hackers. cbs' jeff pegues has more on the investigation tonight from the justice department. >> reporter: the wanted poster of the six alleged russian hackers says that they should be considered armed and dangerous. >> the crimes committed are truly breathtaking in their scope, scale and impact. >> reporter: prosecutors say they did a billion dollars in damage, hitting a pennsylvania hospital system, a drug company and causing chaos around the world. >> they turned off the lights in ukraine, they disrupted the olympic opening ceremonies. >> reporter: now officials are worried that russian hackers are targeting the u.s. election through ran

norah. >> o'donnell: adriana diaz with all that important information. thank you. earlier, we spoke with dr. anthony fauci, the director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases about the nationwide spike in cases and where the country goes from here in the fight against covid. >> we were in a difficult place to begin with, norah. as you know, what we're seeing, unfortunately, is upticks in case positivities, test positivities. that's going to translate, as it already is, into additional hospitalizations, which ultimately are going to translate into additional deaths. and now we're starting to see, as you said correctly, an uptick in cases, you know, in 37 states. i mean, that is a substantial proportion of the united states of america. >> o'donnell: let me ask you about these large-scale events. 10,000 people will reportedly attend president trump's rally tonight in an airport hangar in des moines, iowa. do you consider that type of event dangerous? >> when people are close to each other and you don't have virtually everyone wearing a mask, tha

we get more now from cbs' adriana diaz. >> reporter: two setbackbacks in 24 hours in the fight against covid. tonight, drug maker eli lilly is halting human testing of a covid treatment citing a potential safety concern. a person familiar with the trial tells cbs news that the pause will last approximately two weeks. treatment, which uses covid antibodies, is similar to a therapeutic given to president trump that he touted as a cure. >> it was like unbelievable. i felt good immediately. >> reporter: this comes as johnson & johnson says its vaccine trial, the largest to date, is also stopping temporarily while it investigates if an unexplained illness was caused by its vaccine. cbs news medical contributor dr. david agus says these pauses are routine and reassuring. >> this is not unusual and i hope americans see news like this and have comfort that we investigating every single issue with these drugs and with these vaccines to make sure they are safe for the american people. >> reporter: 37 states are seeing a rise in average new cases. only one state, south carolina, is down. a key dr

adriana diaz explains. >> reporter: at the university hospital of madison, cases doubled. the nurse said it happened almost overnight. >> i'm frustrated. it is scary. you don't want to take that home to people you care about. >> reporter: you feel safer in the covid unit than you do in the public in some places. this covid unit used to be limited to this one hallway, now they've had to expand to three hallways because of this surge. dr. jeff pothawk has already air lifted several covid patients in. >> we thought they were going to be okay and all of a sudden they end up here. there's some regret at that point. it's too late. there isn't a do over. >> we need help in the hospital from people outside to start wearing the masks and start staying away from people. >> reporter: with covid cases surging across the nation, the former head of the fda says, brace yourself. >> we have two or three hard months ahead of us. >> reporter: new peak is hitting one utah health system especially hards. icu beds this weekend reached over 100% capacity. >> this is as serious as it gets. we ha

adriana diaz, cbs news, milwaukee. >> yuccas: such heroes.ad on the "cbs weekend news," making air travel safe again one test dummy at a time. looming, there are efforts to make people feel safer about flying. as cbs' kris van cleave shows us, new cleaning methods and masks are going a long way. >> reporter: university of arizona researchers working with boeing are applying a live virus that's harmless to humans but more resilient than covid-19 to airplane surfaces flyers are most likely to touch. they them applied the enhanced cleaning techniques airlines have been rolling out since the pandemic began: disinfectants, electrostatic sprars, antimicrobial coatings, and this ultraviolet light wand boeing developed to clean cockpits. the researchers found all four procedures were shown to effectively kill covid. >> it can give us a virus-free airplane. >> reporter: this follows research from the department of defense and darpa using a test dummy that simulates a coughing passenger spewing out the equivalent of thousands of coughs. when the dummy

adriana diaz reports from chicago. >> reporter: with the nation seeing nearly 50,000 cases today, an ominous warning from public health officials. >> we are truly headed into the fall with a could he video individual virus disaster on our hands? >> reporter: seeing roughly twice as many cases as the spring. >> i hope these numbers jolt the american public into the realization it's on a trajectory of getting worse and worse. >> reporter: are we still in the first wave or is this the second wave? >> i don't believe this infection is being transmitted in waves. what it is, it's more like a coronavirus forest fire where, in fact, it burns, burns, burns. as soon as you let off the brake, then it all comes back again. >> reporter: there he is a flflairup in the northeast wher cases are up 40%. in wisconsin a judge ruled against a group voting against the mask mandate. >> i don't know if i'm going to make it. >> reporter: he's angry but resilient. >> i want to survive this so i can take care of my family. i have a he got a 10-year-old boy. i'm going to fight this with every breath i got. it

we get more now from cbs' adriana diaz. >> keep walking backwards!>> reporter: the evidence presented about the deadly march 13 raid was released in 14 audio clips. in one, former detective brett hankison is heard telling investigators he thought they were being fired upon by an assault rifle. >> i saw the illumination of fire coming at what i thought at the time was a figure in a shooting stance and it looked as if he was holding-- he or she was holding an ar-15 rifle-type of gun. >> reporter: but breonna taylor's boyfriend, kenneth walker, only fired a single shot from a .9-millimeter handgun. the jury listened to an interview from officers that indicated they may have raided the wrong house. >> reporter: for the first time, we learned why there was no body camera footage of the raid itself. detective anthony james, who was wearing a body camera, explained why. >> reporter: but the recordings don't include jury deliberations or discussions of potential charges. kevin glogower represents an anonymous grand juror who has concerned about the process.

norah. >> o'donnell: adriana diaz with such incredible reporting. thank you, adriana.here is troubling new information tonight about hundreds of migrant children who n re separated from their parents at the southern border by the trump administration. more than two years after a s deral judge ordered families to be reunited, hundreds of children and parents are unaccounted for. here's cbs' manuel bojorquez. >> reporter: we were there earlier this year when 17-year- old selvin junior reunited with his father, more than a year and a half after they were separated at the border. they're among the lucky ones. nearly 2,800 families were separated under the trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy, but more than 1,500 children were separated before the policy became official. of those, lawyers and volunteers have been unable to find the parents of 545, according to a court filing. >> many, many of them are under fi five years old, and an enormous percentage are under 10 years old. so some of the children may have spent half their lives at this point separated from thei

adriana diaz has the latest from louisville, kentucky. >> reporter: kentucky attorney general daniel cameron has until noon friday to hand over 20 hours of grand jury recordings in the breonna taylor case. in a motion filed tuesday, cameron requested an extension to, quote, redact personal identifiers of any named person and to redact both names and personal identifiers of any private citizen. [ chants ] protesters and breonna taylor's mother have not stopped demanding justice after the grand jury only indicted one of three officers, former detective brett hankinson, in the police raid that led to taylor's shooting d death in march. hankison was charged with wanton endangerment for shooting into a neighbor's apartment. he's pleaded not guilty. in an exclusive interview with wdrb-tv cameron said while some feel justice was not served he feels the facts won out. >> i cannot fashion the facts in such a way to meet a narrative. >> reporter: the other officers who fired at taylor including the bullet that killed her, myles cosgrove and jonathan mattingly, was not indicted on any charges.

adriana diaz reports on the uptick in the midwest. >> reporter: wisconsin just set two records no one wants, the most daily covid cases and deaths the state's ever seen. >> this is really the five-alarm fire in our communities. >> reporter: one hospital system saw a 500% rise in covid patients in the last few weeks. to ease the strai, a field hospital built near milwaukee opened all while midwest hot spots rage. in minnesota, the national guard is helping contain a nursing home outbreak. next door in south dakota, the more than 30,000 people infected so far would make it the state's third largest city. michigan, once a covid hot spot, hospital admissions have doubled in the last month. the wider view isn't much better. at least 13 states broke records for hospitalizations in the last week. a bad omen for the u.s. could be what's happening now in europe, which has more daily cases than the u.s. for the first time since spring. a curfew was announced in paris while italy set a record for a one-day surge, and countries across the continent are reimposing lockdowns. here at home, the cdc

>> o'donnell: adriana diaz, thank you. tonight a man working as a security guard at a denver protest is in jail, held without bond and suspected of first degree murder after a violent clash left one man dead. a warning: some viewers have video you are about to see disturbing. here is omar villafranca. ( gunshot ) >> reporter: in cell phone video taken from a distance you can hear the gunshot and see an orange cloud of mace. a photographer caught the confrontation up close. the images show 49-year-old lee keltner hitting a man, then a puff of orange mist and a man with his gun aimed at keltner, a bullet casing ejecting from the gun. keltner was shot and pronounced dead at the hospital. 30-year-old matthew doloff now in jail accused of firs degree murder was hired as a security guard for a local tv station covering a conservative rally and counter-protest. city officials say he was not licensed as a security guard in the city. social media accounts claim doloff was a left wing extremist and antifa member, but authorities say

adriana diaz, thank you.s year's early voting data points to african american turnout that could rival the records set when barack obama was elected. but tonight there are questions whether black voters and their ballots are being treated equally. here's cbs' major garrett. >> reporter: inside the guilford county elections building in greensboro, north carolina, early ballots are processed, sorted, and in some cases, rejected, if voters fail to fill them out properly. while the overall rejection total is relatively small, absentee ballots submitted by latinos and african americans in the state are three times more likely to be turned away than those from white voters. near the top of that list is guilford county, where dr. t. anthony spearman sits on the board of elections and serves as president of the north carolina n.a.a.c.p. >> african americans have not been cultivated to use the absentee ballot, and as such, it's their first time doing it. with that naivetÉ comes along some opportunity for them to not g

adriana diaz, thank you. seven months into the covid pandemic, the c.d.c.out with new guidelines for public transportation, recommending r at passengers wear masks at all times on planes, trains, and buses. we get more now from cbs news transportation correspondent kris van cleave. >> reporter: travel tensions: a passenger hits a flight attendant in miami last night. the b.b.c. crew onboard says the drgument involved someone the argument involved someone refusing to wear a mask. delta says two customers did not comply with crew member safety instructions and were kicked off. earlier this month, mask mayhem on this allegiant flight. and in july, ride share rumble. this woman loses it when her lyft driver asked her to put on a mask. >> hopefully she wasn't positive and he doesn't come out positive. >> reporter: tonight, seven months into the pandemic, the centers for disease control has issued a strong recommendation-- everyone wear a mask when using mass transit, passing through hubs or when in a ride share. the recommendation comes after pressure from the a

adriana diaz ventured in a covid unit in milwaukee's biggest hospital to see for herself, what patients and medical teams are up against. >> hi, sue. >> hi. >> how are you? >> 73-year-old sue papas said she did everything she could to protect herself from the coronavirus. that's why she is angry, she still ended up in the icu in milwaukee. >> what do you say to people who don't believe this is real? >> i -- i don't know what to say to them. i'm sitting here, i'm sicker than a god damn dog, and it's real. >> how do you think she is going to do? >> i feel good about her. i really do. it's hard to say though, because we have seen patients that hang out and on high oxygen for weeks and then they require intubation, it happens so fast. i struggle with going to the gas station and someone is not wearing a mask. because i am, i am a diabetic, i'm a pregnant woman. like, i am risking more going to the store than i am coming to work because i know that we are all 100% protected here. >> in the past month, the number of covid patients here has more than tripled. this patient has been intubated an

. >> that was adriana diaz reporting from chicago. >>> overseas china is testing 9 million people over the next five days after finding a dozen cases of coronavirus in one port city. such aggressive measures are a hallmark of the chinese response to the pandemic. ramie inocencio reports from shanghai. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: something nearly unthinkable has happened in china, a return to normal. from morning tai chi at beijing's temple of the sun, to the lunch crush in the central business district. and the rush home at sunset across the avenue of eternal peace. chairman mao tse-tung keeps watch over tiananmen square and a country post new normal. it's hard to believe cities across china with millions of people looked like ghost towns earlier this year. in january, cbs news was the first u.s. network in wuhan where the pandemic started. the government struck back hard and fast, forcing up to 50 million people into lock down for two months. building new hospitals in less than two weeks. welding some families inside their homes. testing and contact tracing descending on new outbreaks with speed

. >> adriana diaz, thank you. >>> there is new evidence this morning the alleged plot to kidnap michigan governor gretchen whitmer was part of a wider conspiracy also targeting virginia's governor. catherine herridge has the details. >> i will not work under a cloud of intimidation. >> reporter: virginia governor ralph northam emphasized he and his wife were safe. while the targeting of northam never went beyond the talking stage, the alleged operation to kidnap michigan governor gretchen whitmer was advanced. the six suspects allegedly trained at this wooded site in michigan, where investigators found shotgun shells, bullet holes, and spray painted targets. the suspects are accused of planning to kidnap whitmer from her vacation home, then escape by boat and leave the governor stranded in lake michigan. but the defense attorneys argued their client just talked a big game and didn't plan on going through with it. the men were allegedly angry over the state's trickett covid policies. and both whitmer and northam blamed trump for singling out their states when he tweeted in april to libera

in a cbs news exclusive, adriana diaz went inside wisconsin's largest hospital to see what patients andmedical teams are up against. >> hi, sue. >> hi. >> how are you? >> reporter: 73-year-old sue pappas said she did everything she could to protect herself from the coronavirus. that's why she's angry she still ended up in the icu in milwaukee. what do you say to people who don't believe this is real? >> i don't know what to say. i'm sitting here, i'm sicker than a god damn dog and it's real. >> reporter: how do you think she's going to do? >> i feel good about her. it's hard to say because we've seen people hang out on high oxygen for a week and then they need intubation and it happens fast. >> reporter: this nurse is 17 weeks pregnant. >> i struggle going to the gas station and someone is not wearing a mask. i am pregnant, i am a diabetic woman. i risk more going to the store than coming to work because we're all protected here. >> in the past month, the number of covid patients has tripled. this patient has been intubated. >> the reason they're flipping him is because it's been proven

adriana diaz reports. >> reporter: body camera footage shows an officer approach tafara williams andcelis stinnette in a parked car and identify them by name. >> you're marcelis, right? you're under arrest. >> why? >> because i said. >> marcelis, you're under arrest. >> because he got a warrant. >> the officer didn't say what the warrant was for. and marcelis' girlfriend in the driver's seat takes off. >> hey, hey, hey! >> they just ran me over. >>ast one point, the car reverses off camera. then you hear a crash and roughly six gunshots. >> ran me over. >> reporter: only after the shooting did that second officer turn on his body camera. >> i was right behind you and you almost tried to run me over. >> reporter: the police department says that officer's life may have been in danger. >> the vehicle that he was investigating began to reverse towards the officer. >> reporter: williams said she lost control of the car. family members drawing an emotional press conference wednesday where stinnette's grandmother broke down. they questioned the timing of the body camera activation. >> this

adriana diaz reports. >>> keep walking back -- >> walk backwards -- >> reporter: the evidence presentedbout the deadly march 13th raid was release friday 14 audio clips. in one, former detective brett hankison is heard telling investigators he thought they were being fired upon by an assault rifle. >> i saw the illumination of fire coming. what i saw at the time was a figure in a shooting stance, and it looked as if he was holding -- he or she was holding an ar-15 or long gun, a rifle-type gun. >> reporter: breonna taylor's ta boyfriend kenneth walker only fired a single shot from a .9-millimeter handgun. in an interview, officers indicated they may have raided the wrong house. for the first time, we learned why there was no body camera footage of the raid itself. detective anthony james, who was wearing a body camera, explained why. >> i did not know that it -- >> reporter: the recordings don't include jury deliberations or discussions of potential charges. kevin glogower represents an anonymous grand juror who has concerns about the process. >> the full truth is not going to be on tho

adriana diaz got exclusive access to a hospital in madison where the number of coronavirus patients doubledn the last two weeks. this was the first time it allowed cameras inside since the pandemic began. >> every day, nurse katie lanoway suits up to save lives. she treats patients at university hospital in madison where all three of their covid units are now full. >> we had one hallway dedicated to covid and the rest out here was our regular general care. a couple of weeks ago, i left work and it was that way and two days later i came back and this entire unit became covid. >> are you nervous for your own safety? >> i feel safer here around my colleagues than i would if i had to go to the grocery store. i trust the people that i'm working with, that they're doing the right thing. >> reporter: that's because outside, more and more people are getting sick. to keep up, a new drive-through testing site was just opened at the major league baseball stadium in milwaukee where they could test 2,000 people per day. >> a friend of mine who tested positive and i just want to make sure that i'm safe.

as part of our series, every state has a story, adriana diaz went to that battleground state, wisconsine affecting the voters there. it really matters this time. adriana, good morning to you. >> good morning. unlike in 2016 when there were more undecided voters people are largely decided. so it is less about candidates winning over candidates' minds. those minds are pretty much made up, but asking them to turn out and avoiding confusion over covid. it is cold here in wisconsin. with that comes call festivities. >> reporter: as goons and gob listens haunted main street in downtown racine some locals seemed spook about the election. how are you feeling about the election? >> nervous. we are divided in our house. i work this the social work field so some of the issuesed bian stands for affects me and my daily job. >> reporter: why does your husband support trump? >> he works this the industrial industry. he is saying they have done really well. >> reporter: what is dinner table conversation been like? >> we try to avoid it because we do get into some heated discussions. >> reporter: presid

adriana diaz is in chicago where there is no indoor service in bars and restaurants starting today. riana, good morning. >> good morning. the positivity rate or rate of tests that come back positive has crossed the threshold of 8%. illinois' governor hopes this ban will save lives but the restaurant association calls it a death sentence. this comes as cases nationwide are surging so high that, listen to this, it's the equivalent of one new diagnosis every second. >> we need to clamp down because we need to bring the numbers down. >> reporter: illinois governor j.b. pritzker says soaring coronavirus numbers have left him no choice but to ban indoor eating and drinking in chicago. indoor socializing is growing as the weather turns cold, says epidemiologist michael osterholm. >> we're seeing so many people who are congregating indoors where we know the virus concentrates in those settings and transmission has even increased. >> reporter: as cases continue to surge across the midwest, michigan's governor tightened restrictions on indoor gatherings thursday. and officials in wisconsin war

our adriana diaz joins us from chicago. sounds like good news. >> reporter: good morning, tony. now chicago public school officials say they are considering starting a hybrid learning model early next month but for now the city's public school students are all learning from home. while experts say reopenings can be done safely, there are of course still risks to consider. as 37 states see rises in new covid cases, the virus appears to be absent in most classrooms. >> you really can reopen the schools and get going with the schools, you've just got to be careful. >> reporter: dr. anthony fauci said schools with robust testing, tracing, and mask rules appear to be reopening safely, but he also noted areas with high viral activity remain at higher risk. infectious disease expert says while older students can contribute to spread, the risk of reopening schools depends on students' ages. >> look at kids under age 10, we've seen very limited transmission so i think we can continue to move forward with younger children doing some relative sense of safet