andrea canning : you wake up from your coma.icate. dr. lori wright : she didn't give up. brittani marcell : it was a struggle. andrea canning : you're not you're the witness. brittani marcell : it's almost like a nightmare. andrea canning : the detective wanted you to do hypnosis?

here's andrea canning with "the disappearance of sandi johnson." >> reporter: it's a celebration no mother would ever want to miss. a child's 5th birthday. but suddenly, she was gone. out of his life. >> there's nothing that anybody could really do to fix that or repair that missing part. >> reporter: his mother, sandi johnson, was outgoing, energetic, and an awesome mom. >> those kids were everything to her. >> reporter: so why wasn't she there to sing "happy birthday" to her son? >> all they knew was she disappeared into thin air. >> reporter: she should have seen you get married, go into the merl and become a police officer one day. >> it's a -- toughest day to deal with. >> reporter: it was heartbreaking and baffling. >> it was a true mystery as to what happened to sandi. >> reporter: that true mystery, what happened to the vibrant young mom who vanished from a agricultur suburb endured for years. those who loved sandi johnson, those who longed for her return waited almost two decades for answers. and a slice of justice. the story starts in april, 1996. april 26th to be precise. a frid

here now is andrea canning with the conclusion of "facing the here's andrea canning with the conclusiong the music." >> reporter: they matched the killer's dna to the crime and were ready to arrest him. until -- you realize he's not at home. he's on vacation. >> he was on a trip across america with his wife and daughter. >> reporter: now, he had a decision to make. >> do we arrest him and not have our investigators interview him? do we risk the safety of his new wife and adopted daughter. >> reporter: what do you do? >> i make a decision to wait. >> reporter: their man returns to lancaster. and on an early summer day in 2013, they arrested him outside of his house. what was his reaction? >> he was acting calm. this is a joke, right? they kept telling him, no. you're arrested for criminal homicide. >> he denies it? >> he denied it. he denied knowing her. today, we have an arrest of christi raymond roe. >> i don't know the guy. >> turned out, many people knew the accused by a different name. d.j. freeze. christie's friends were floored. >> he was the guy that went to the same church as me

here's andrea canning with "unchecked evil." >> reporter: look at the pictures and you can see reaganokes was a ray of light. >> she was a vivacious ball of energy. >> she was always just so fun to be around. she felt like part of my family. >> i still don't think i've ever met anyone that could make me laugh like she did. >> reporter: a caring friend, a devoted daughter. she radiated life from her very first breath. >> she came out eyes wide open, just ready to take on the world. >> reporter: which made her final moments all the more incomprehensible, terrified and alone in that darkened field. >> to just think about what she had to endure and what she was ultimately clinging onto at the end was just to live and be able to go home. >> reporter: your sister met with evil that night. >> uh-huh. that's all he is just evil. >> reporter: for reagan's family, the way she was taken from them wasn't just heartbreaking, it was infuriating. is this a crime that never should've happened? >> absolutely never shoulda happened. they had this monster in their grasp and their control. and they let h

what can you say about this, this lack of showing an example? >> well, i'm not making judgments, andrea. the only thing i can do is repeat what i repeat maybe 20, 30 times a day, that in order to avoid the acquisition and transmission of this virus, which is highly transmissible, you should have uniform wearing of masks. you should have physical distancing. you should avoid crowds. you should try and do things outdoors much more than indoors. and you should frequently wash your hands. and to me that goes for any situation, without exception. >> dr. fauci, thank you so much, thanks for being with us today. >> thank you, andrea, i appreciate your having me. >>> and we're following a lot of breaking news today. now this out of michigan, where the fbi says they stopped a plot to kidnap michigan governor gretchen whitmer. six men have been arrested and charged. joining me now with more on all of this, nbc news investigations correspondent tom winter. tom? >> reporter: andrea, the plot and the arrest today being announced by federal authorities in a case that's being charged in the western di

andrea canning: is your gut telling you this is someone she knew?probably somebody that she knew, an ex- boyfriend or a current boyfriend. natalie morales: but, miles away, a string of alarming encounters. phynesia edwards: he had a knife. he put it to my neck.

andrea canning : your instincts were right that something happened in the middle of the night.e sleeping. natalie morales : she was just sixteen. emma, the honor student, cheerleader, volunteer. keegan : she could get along with anybody. nathan : always so like kindhearted and sweet. lauren : she wanted to be a nurse.

once again, here is andrea canning with noises in the night. >> emma walker had been murdered.ieving ex. >> what did he change the bioto? >> living every day through emma walker. >> rest easy, my angel. i love you so much. >> yeah. >> and now emma's friends were looking back on her romance with riley. they remembered a high school boyfriend who was jealous, possessive, even obsessed. >> he started to get very kind of controlling of her, like where she was, what she did, like if she wanted to hang out with our friends. he was like, you're not going. >> he didn't want her to hang out with people like it was just him and her. >> and if emma went somewhere without him -- >> he would text her 40 to a hundred times. >> just blowing her phone up. emma, emma, emma, talk to me. text me back. call me. >> yeah. >> just all over again. >> call her 2k0, 30 times. >> emma's parents thought the relationship was toxic. they had seen their daughter change. >> this new personality with riley in the picture was not one that you recognized. >> no. not with emma. her fun loving self was no longer -

intimidating will this be for minority voters or others who are afraid to vote. >> it can be very intimidating, andreao continue to show up, make a plan. if you can vote early, do so. don't wait until the last minute and certainly do not let anybody intimidate you. i think what president trump is doing is fueling anxiety about the integrity of our election. in the united states that should not be. we have secretaries of state around the country whose job it is to make sure we have open and fair elections, and yet we see the kinds of activities where people are standing in line waiting 10 and 12 hours. it's unconscionable. the way we combat that is to vote, not get discouraged and let anybody intimidate you but show up and vote. >> the president again this weekend in michigan attacking governor whitmer, again, 12 days after the plot to kidnap her. she says the president is encouraging domestic terrorism. what can we do about this since he's going to be out on the stump every day. >> we'll have to combat it. i'm glad she's using her voice to combat and push back on him. all she's trying to do is keep pe

andrea canning : this was a horrific scene. craig stedman : it was a nightmare scene.er students that day. marianne taylor : i was petrified. i just thought who? why? craig stedman : we looked at suspect after suspect after suspect. natalie morales : the crime was a mystery for decades. vince mirack : we were still with no answer. ellen greytak : i mean, this poor family.

. >> what the president said, andrea, was preposterous. can i just echo you and also yamiche to say, kristen just did an extraordinary job in particular on this issue, which we have not heard in any of the presidential debates or vice presidential debate or really on the campaign trail thus far, probably the signature issue, and definitely the signature retreat when it comes to donald trump's presidency, walking away from the separation of 5,500 children. the idea that they were well-taken-care-of, it couldn't be further from the truth. as you said, i was one of the journalists who saw the children, in cages, after being taken from the arms of their parents. i will never forget seeing it with my own eyes for the rest of my life. but physicians for human rights actually probably describes it more concisely. they call it torture and say it meets the u.n. definition of torture. the american academy of pediatrics says it was government sanctioned child abuse and the president of the united states defines that as well-taken-care-of. >> jim messina,

definitely mental status changes can be expected, andrea. >> robert gibbs, you worked in the white house. can you imagine the press secretary, all these other close aides, hope hicks, now the pentagon implicated as well, it is "home alone" there, because people are afraid to come to work, and they should be working from home now, those who have not become infected. >> andrea, look, we've all had to do this, since march. you know, we've been lucky, many of us have been lucky. we're not front line workers, but we're able to go into our homes. we're able we're able to conduct business. there's absolutely no reason that most of the white house staff could do that. should a few people be there? yes. should they be socially distanced? yes. should they be wearing masks? yes, we're six months late on that. but people exposed directly to the president and hope hicks ought to be quarantined. the exact model of behavior that we've been asking the american people to do for six or seven months, they turn on the tv now and they see that the building most identified with our democracy is paying no atte

. >> i mean, andrea, we can look at polling all day long and there's just something fundamentally differente ground with voters, the way that you are, the way that jenny is. i mean, i have been talking with voters here, all latino, and their issues are all over the board. no voter is a single-issue voters. they will talk to you all day long about the president's handling of the pandemic and health care and the economy, and then they'll almost always talk about the character of the president, about divisiveness and unity in this country. so i wonder when you see these poll numbers, do they reflect what you are seeing on the ground here in florida? >> i think most latinos have been waiting for the trump nightmare to end, and this year in particular with the covid pandemic we have over 16,000 people have died in the state of florida, over 25,000 families are facing eviction and millions have lost their jobs. and this pandemic has been disproportionately impacting latinos and black communities. and so i think we are seeing record-high turnout numbers and will continue to see that through electi

andrea: i don't know so i can't answer that question. one thing i can be certain of is he has been preparing. that would perhaps be another contrast between pence and president trump, who seemed to think the presidency itself was adequate preparation. pence will have spent a lot of time getting ready and certainly getting ready to scrutinize harris's record. john: this is rebecca in port orange, florida. on the line for those who support the trump-pence ticket. caller: i don't have a question. i am just concerned with the mail-in ballots. i don't see that many biden signs in the area i live in. i am just concerned about the mail-in ballots. john: do you think mail-in ballots is going to be one of the big issues tonight? andrea: i think the trump administration has articulated a concern with potential fraud with mail-in ballots. indiana has any voter id law for some time. it has been upheld by the courts and it is useful when you show up at the polls to cast about. -- to cast your ballot. in indiana, absentee ballot voting has been accepted for decades a

tell me how you're coping and what can be done. >> andrea, thank you very much for having me on and thank all the coverage that you've provided about the state of emergency that el paso is in. and, you know, you've been following our community for a long time, and we've found ourselves to be ground zero, unfortunately, in crisis after crisis under the trump administration. and this is the latest one. we have about 585 el pasoans who have died as a result of coronavirus. i've had close friends who passed away as a result. local heroes. it's just been incredibly tragic. teachers, health care workers, essential workers, parents, children, suffering needlessly because we still don't have a national testing strategy. we still don't have recognition by the president or by the texas governor that latino communities, brown and black communities, are far more vulnerable and susceptible to the covid pandemic. we don't have strong enforcement. i live in a state where the governor has chosen to tie the hands of local elected officials and local governments. and so, you know, it's been an incredible t

can do all of these things and do them well. that's why tough choices will be required, choices i am prepared to make, mr. bush is not prepared to make. but, andrea, i think we can go far beyond this as well, because we have opportunities now step-by-step to bring down the level of strategic weapons, get a test ban treaty, negotiate those conventional force reductions. i would challenge mr. gorbachev to join with us in limiting in eliminating regional conflict in the middle east, in central america. let's get him working on syria, their client state, and see if we can't get them to join israel and other arab nations, if at all possible, and arab leaders, in finally bringing peace to that troubled region. and i think that's one reason why we need fresh leadership in the white house that can make progress now in bringing peace to the middle east. let's go to work and end this fiasco in central america, a failed policy which has actually increased cuban and soviet influence. the democratic leaders of central and latin america want to work with us. i've met with them, i know them, i've spent time in south america-speak the language, so does senator b

. >> andrea, thank you. >>> coming up, can mouthwash help fight the coronavirus? our medical expert weighs in. >>> but first former new york mayor rudy giuliani's run-in with borat. many people with type 2 diabetes like emily lower their blood sugar. a majority of adults who took ozempic® reached an a1c under 7 and maintained it. here's your a1c. oh! my a1c is under 7! (announcer) and you may lose weight. adults who took ozempic® lost on average up to 12 pounds. i lost almost 12 pounds! oh! (announcer) for those also with known heart disease, ozempic® lowers the risk of major cardiovascular events such as heart attack, stroke, or death. it lowers the risk. oh! and i only have to take it once a week. oh! ♪ oh, oh, oh, ozempic®! ♪ (announcer) ozempic® is not for people with type 1 diabetes or diabetic ketoacidosis. do not share needles or pens. don't reuse needles. do not take ozempic® if you have a personal or family history of medullary thyroid cancer, multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2, or if you are allergic to ozempic®. stop taking ozempic® and get me

go to dealdash.com right now and see how much you can save. >>> good day, everyone. i'm andreain washington. the final showdown just hours from now. president trump and former vice president joe biden facing off on the debate stage for the final time, a political prize fight moderated by nbc's kristen welker. the candidates' contrasting styles never more apparent than last night. the president in north carolina, wednesday night, for another rally. his crowds growing larger by the day, mostly without masks, ignoring the reality of the pandemic. >> that pandemic is rounding the corner. they hate it when i say it. all you hear is covid, covid, covid, covid, covid, covid. covid, covid, covid, covid. that's all they put on because they want to scare the hell out of everyone. >> joe biden focusing on debate prep all week, relying on the firepower of former president barack obama, delivering his most

those very different points of view play out as well as, of course, at the polls. >> can i make one statement, andreaad. >> that's about voting in person. i know a lot of people are, you know, agonizing, do i go down to vote? i will tell you my mother herself is agonizing about that. voting in person is about as safe as going to the grocery store. you wait outside, six feet apart, wearing a mask, that should be fine. you're going to be indoors for a very short period of time to vote. many places, including pennsylvania, the machines are disinfected, people are using a pencil eraser to vote, it should be pretty safe. i don't think you should agonize that much. your vote is important. [ inaudible ]. >> zeke emanuel, dr. zeke, thanks very much, thanks for that. >>> and ready for a courtroom fight. the pennsylvania attorney general says he's prepared for any republican challenges to the state election process. he joins me next on a special edition of "andrea mitchell reports" live from philadelphia, only on msnbc. robinhood believes now is the time to do money. without the commission fees. so, you can st

you can do all the strategy in the world, andrea, you know this, right? you can plan all day, but when you get in the moment and the person you're with decides to throw all your strategy out the window, what do you do? you sit back and you wait for the show to unfold as we saw the other night. and i think whether it's a town hall meeting with citizens asking the question or the next presidential debate between him and joe with a moderator, the president is going to be his own person and his campaign is going to have to deal with the outcome, the fallout from that, accordingly. >> i want to play for both of you what the president said last night, all of a sudden, after the push amy coney barreback frn his party that he doesn't know who the proud boys are. >> you have to give me a definition, i don't know who they are. >> reporter: you said stand by, what did that mean? >> just stand by. look, law enforcement will do their work. they're going to stand down, they have to stand down. >> i misspoke there because, ron, that was on the south lawn, obviously, befo

can you explain where you're getting all this money from? >> yeah, andreayou very much for having me again. the only dark money is lindsey graham's dark money from the corporate pacs. we've raised record numbers from grandmas and grandpas at $37 a person, andrea, from all over the state of south carolina. and i'm so, so proud of it. i'm humbled. but as i love to remind our folks and our supporters, this isn't about raising or breaking a fundraising record. this is about bringing hope back to south carolina. this is about making sure that the people in south carolina get the representation that they need, that lindsey graham hasn't provided them over the years. and that's why we have to run through the tape. mitch mcconnell in just the past 2 1/2 weeks has put almost $20 million into this race because he sees what we see. lindsey graham is in trouble. that's why i tell folks, if you want to volunteer, if you want to help us, go to jaimeharrison.com and be part of how we make history here in south carolina. >> according to "the post courier," the number of ba

trump repositioned those soldiers on the syrian border with turkey, she made a comment to andrea mitchell that we can keep them there at a minor cost, senator shaheen said only a few soldiers getting killed -- i take that personally and because i have two sons that are serving, one at west point when that graduated in west point and we need to take care of her fighting soldiers in the moms and dads out there, you don't want a u.s. senator who thinks losing a few u.s. soldiers is okay to keep people somewhere. >> 30 seconds to respond. >> that is absolutely wrong, i would never say that losing soldiers was okay and in fact when it became clear that russia was putting bounties on american troops in afghanistan i spoke out and called on the president to say something to vladimir putin, my opponent did nothing on that, he did not, the president or state talk to vladimir putin, that is unacceptable, he is wrong, i would never that losing our troops was acceptable and he knows it. >> 15 seconds to respond. >> senator shaheen, if you look at the tape and you see that you said we've only lost a few soldiers,

what more can you tell us about that conversation with? >> that's right, andrea.colleagues at "the washington post" report that robert o'brien, national security adviser, told the president that any information he receives from rudy giuliani is at risk of being contaminated by the russians because of what u.s. intelligence agencies had uncovered about giuliani. and o'brien left that discussion not convinced that the president was taking it seriously. in fact the president said something along the lines of, well, you know, that's rudy being rudy. and of course rudy giuliani has continued to be close with the president, defended him as his personal attorney through the impeachment proceedings, and now is a close political adviser in the reelection campaign, is in that room with president trump, helping lead the president's debate preparation. >> which is, you know, all the more concerning, because we have all of these instances where the president is telling the attorney general to go and investigate his political opponents, including joe biden, president obama, hil

andrea saluted. the ensuing corner something solid past you can see i cannot for the equaliser why no one. shot the goals are greater specimen this is only their 2nd this season it was enough to earn them their 1st point as well though they still carry the burden of a 20 match winning streak. pulled hard defender philip klein hard grab the headlines in their match against braman he scored his 1st league goal in his 51st bundesliga match those live oaks league only lasted 10. because lining up to live in some catastrophic costs forcing a foul on the court. penalty for braman. back home handily buying new clothes food clothes is full of the season. one all have the final whistle in a match for the blind hope one forget anytime soon. are in the champions league this season but they haven't been conforming like it in the bundesliga so far they need help where they can get. things to live stream sounds like one take on it. cause chaos look. at the penalty. man stepped up with a quarter of an hour to go. no sign that champions league form however especially not at the back about their course nuc

can? >>> thank you for that report andrea. >>> cal fire is concerned that a change in the winds could push the flames over the fire lines port kenwood, and glen ellen. if that happens, we could see new evacuations. >> obviously if we do have winds that come through, and heat up the current fire activity that is within the perimeter that has been established in that area, there is a high probability that there will be a spot fire created from amber casts coming out of any of the heavy vegetation. >> today, the governor visited st. helena touring fire stricken areas around foothills , adventist elementary school. while there, he spoke about the state's strategic fire suppression plan. which includes forest management. >> we have now developed a partnership with the forest service, to double the amount of acreage, that we are actively managing. with prescribed burns, with vegetation management. >> you might have noticed that orange haze around the governor there, today's air quality in st. helena is so bad, the police department on main street was now getting out masks to residents. city offi

can happen when wiring money for just about anything. shep. >> what do people do to keep this from happening to them, andrea >> well, shep, just knowing that this can happen, that's the best start. that's a great start, right there. and experts say look closely at those e-mails. make sure every letter in the sender's address is what it should be. you look for things like an extra period in the address or a letter, like a g replaced with a q. and also, if some -- somebody e-mails you, late in the game, wanting to change all those wiring details, that's a major, red flag you have to stop right there, get on the phone, confirm every detail, before you wire any money. shep. >> i'll say. andrea day, thanks so much >>> historic, final mission. a record-setting voyage may mark the end of an era for nasa the big bucks nasa will stop shelling out to one nation, next >>> an historic space mission could be the last of its kind. this russian spacecraft, with an american astronaut on board, landing safely today at the international space station. nasa says it was a record-breaking 3 hour and 3 minute voyage. the fastest trip, ever richard engel now, on why

can save. >>> good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington with just 19 days to go until election day.paign strategy has been temporarily upended as running mate kamala harris has been grounded for the next few days, they say in an abundance of caution after her communications director and a nonstaff flight crew member tested positive for covid. theig

can have the strongest and best defenses possible if we modernize, if we go forward with competitive strategies, and if we do follow through on the packet commission report. >> governor dukakis, one minute. >> well, andrea, we've just had another example of why the vice presidents mathematics just doesn't add up. i think you know because you've cover these issues, that there's no way that we can build all of the weapons systems the vice president says he wants to build within the existing defense budget. everybody knows that, including the people at the pentagon. now, my defense accra terry is going to have a lot to do with some of those decisions, but it's going to be the president that's going to have to ultimately decide before the budget goes to the congress what's estimates are going to go and what are going to start. we are not going to spend the billions and trillions that mr. bush wants to spend on star wars. we're not going to spend billions on railroad cars. it's a weapon systems we don't need, can't afford and won't help our defense posture at all. we won't spend hundreds of millions on the space point from washington to tokyo. those are the decisions that the chief executive has to make. yes

andrea, for having me. at the early voter on instagram is a one stop shop where you can get all the information you need for vote early in person.

andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. you can't predict the future. but a resilient business can be ready for it. digital foundation from vmware helps you redefine what's possible... now. from the hospital shifting to remote patient care in just 48 hours... to the university moving hundreds of apps quickly to the cloud... or the city government going digital to keep critical services running. you are creating the future-- on the fly. and we are helping you do it. vmware. realize what's possible. a master'sdgren, youin chemical engineering., and you're technically a genius... and it appears you're quite the investor. i like to trade. well, td ameritrade has pros ready if you need help, say talking through a new strategy... ... just in case things, you know, get a little rocky? i'm sorry on the upside i think that's waterproof. maybe not... ♪ some people say that's ridiculous. age is just an illusion. how you show up for the world, that's what's real. what's your idea? i put it out there with a godaddy website. >>> young people under 40 make up more than a third of eligible voters in the u.s. but m

andrea saluted. the ensuing corner songs and salo past you can see i can pretty equalizer 11. shot goes our prayers back to me this is only their 2nd this season it was enough to end them their 1st point as well though they still carry the burden of a 20 match with st. paul hard defender philip lined hard grab the headlines in their match against braman he scored his 1st league goal in his 51st bundesliga march though 5 books lead only lasted 10 minutes because line up delivered some catastrophic costs forcing a foul on luna to keep the court. penalty for braman couche back home a 100 lead by mccluskey proved his force of the season. 100 how the final whistle in a match philip meinhardt won't forget anytime soon. are in the champions league face season but they haven't been performing like it in the boonies they got so far they needed help where they could get. fixed the wolves triggs not sounds like swap they started the short back cause chaos in the box was a penalty. in his home and stepped up to convert with a quarter of an hour to go. till. no sign of that champions leagu

the line of an activist conservative judge, not someone who can play the role that a justice kennedy did, that a justice roberts has? >> andrea, the reason i put up that chart yesterday of 120 cases, cases that are in many examples long settled, they were decided ten or 20 years ago or longer, those are cases where if justice ginsburg were replaced with a justice scalia or someone who followed his approach as judge barrett has said she will, that it would change long settled things, from civil rights to environmental practice to access to justice. the native american rights. to a whole range of things we understand to be part of our modern society from privacy to health care to lgbt rights. what makes me most concerned about judge barrett is how in her law review writings she's also made it clear she's to the right of justice scalia in terms of her willingness to reach back and overturn, reexamine, reconsider and overturn these long-settled cases. it's that practice of not reaching back and changing settled law that gives some predictability to the way that our national standards of privacy and of respect for each other are s

i'm taking things over from andrea who is having some camera issues. we'll rejoin her if and when we can. along with us we have garrett haake, robert costa, phillip rucker, kimberly atkins with "the boston globe" as well as charlie sykes with the bulwark. thank you all for continuing to watch this speech along with us. i thought these were some of president obama's strongest comments to date, garrett haake. let me start with you. the president taking aim at president trump's covid response, saying we can't afford this incompetence, and then saying the idea that the white house has done anything except screw this up is nonsense. really some fiery language from the former president. he also took direct aim at mark meadows, at jared kushner, and said the white house has essentially waved the white flag when it comes to fighting covid. garrett, what were your key takeaways from this speech? >> yeah, kristen, somebody took the filter off barack obama. this was barack the bad cop here, essentially, especially that first 15 minutes, really ripping the administration's covid response. i thought

so if they can disrupt that, obviously that denigrates the standing of the united states and our ability to export our values and our democracy. i do agree, though, andrea, that the analysis that was put forward by the dni at the press conference was a little thin. basically he said this was done to damage trump. i mean, i didn't read it necessarily that way. the emails actually went to democrats and threatened them and said don't show up at the polls. i would think that would be more damaging to joe biden. maybe we're ascribing too many motives to the iranians, maybe they're not playing fifth dimensional chess as one official told me. i do think this is a serious issue but let's not overstate it. the voting process has integrity. people should feel good about going to the polls. i'm much more concerned about more capable actors like russia because they have shown that they have a preferred candidate in this race and they will hack and dump and engage in propaganda on a scale that iranians frankly can't do as well. >> is one of the reasons that they came out to try to reassure people of that? there has been certainly a lot of criticism including from de

but stay with us here, because we can control what happens on november 3rd. >> andrea mitchell, you've been through quite a few of these confirmation hearings, and there's always a level of politics here. i'm with claire, the -- on how the democrats sort of stayed all on the same message. mostly, i think the republicans, too, some leaned in harder on the religious, almost hoping to pick the religious fight, others didn't. what was your main takeaways? >> exactly that. some of the republicans went there on the religious issue, harking back to what had happened during her confirmation hearing, of course, for the seventh circuit back in 2017. but none of the democrats did. none of them mentioned religion. in fact, joe biden leaving wilmington today for a campaign trip was asked, should her faith be an issue, and said, "no, not at all. her faith should not even be mentioned. that isn't the issue. the issue is health care." as claire points out, the fact they were all on the same page, when have you last seen democrats on any committee on the same page? not only the same page on health care

anymore, or less people have to go through that anymore and that this pain can stop for everyone as soon as possible. >> andrea cortez is 23 years old. there are 15 members of her family in el paso who have been infected with the coronavirus, who have tested positive. she's talking there with all that sadness, she's talking about her grandfather, lacero, who did not survive. he died with covid. el paso tonight is in crisis. el paso is closing in on 1,000 people hospitalized with covid in that one city alone, in addition to everybody else who has to be hospitalized for every reason, they've got 1,000 patients hospitalized. they're adding 30, 40, 50 more patients to their covid hospitals every day. there just isn't the medical capacity to treat that many people. that's why i wanted you to see the medical director there from the local hospital talking about how exhausted the health care providers are. there's 111 covid patients on ventilators right now in el paso according to the city's latest data. 111 people all on ventilators right now, that one city. in almost every state in the country, 47 out of 50 states,

andrea. yes, as you mentioned, hospitalizations are up dramatically in el paso. behind me, you can one of the mobile medical tents, several of them, actually, set up here at the university medical center of el paso. 12 or 15 patients per tent. right now at this hospital there are nearly 200 covid patients, some of them critically ill and airlifted to other parts of the state. they're also dealing with staffing issues here, and in many other hospitals, not just in texas but across the country, they're bringing in travel nurses from across the state. here in el paso local officials have imposed a nightly curfew to try and stop the spread of the virus. take a listen to the chief medical officer from another medical center here in the region. take a listen. >> just two weeks ago, we were having public discourse around 500 cases a day, 700 cases a day, 800. last week we broke the record three times, a thousand, 1,200, 1,400. the mortality rate is better, but the more people come in, it goes on unabated, there will be a lot of dark days into the fall, and that's unfortunate. >> reporter:

i think we can save money through this whole, very sophisticated concept, andrea that i know you understand of competitive strategies. it is new, and it is very very different, then what's happened. but it's not quite ready to be totally implemented. and it's very important. i think we can say, through the packer commission report, and i'm very proud that david pecker originated that report, he's strongly supporting me. so it's not a question of saying our budget is full of a lot of waste, i don't believe that. i do think this, we're in this serious stages of negotiation with the soviet union now, on the strategic arms control talks. and we are protecting a cup of options in terms of modernizing our strategic forces. my secretary of defense is gonna have to make a very difficult decision in which system to go forward with. but we are protecting, moving forward the negotiations, and you see i think it would be dumb negotiating policy with the soviets to cut out whatever the other of the two options right now. the soviets are modernizing. they continue to modernize and we can't simply say we'

wear masks, somebody simply said, it's all that we can do is essentially suggest it, but you can't really enforce it. and on that debate stage, andrea, we saw the president mock former vice president joe biden for wearing a mask. and the president continued to tout his giant rallies that sometimes have thousands of people still in this age of the pandemic, what he was supposed to be holding tonight, all of those future campaign event have been canceled, we understand. this is a president who wanted to break the rules and tout and really flaunt his own breaking of his own agencies' guidelines when it comes to health and safety of himself and of his family, as we saw so clearly on tuesday night, andrea. >> and thanks, monica. you alluded to him taunting joe biden at that rally. let's play some of that, phil, and take a look at it again in retrospect. >> i wear masks when needed. when needed, i wear masks. >> let me ask -- >> i don't wear masks like him. every time you see him, he's got a mask. he could be speaking 200 feet away, he shows up with the biggest mask i've ever seen. >> and so, phil, that's been his messaging. on rare occas

can expand the map. but that's -- isn't that a long shot? >> yeah, andrea. we obviously haven't had any publication of whether we'll see the former vice president today. i do think we will hear from him by day's end, however. there are a number of topics he does want to weigh in on, first you heard kristen talk about in terms of mark meadows comments on the coronavirus. also a key confirmation vote today in the senate on judge barrett's nomination, an opportunity for the vice president to weigh in. but the point is, if he does do that, he'll do it in delaware, not one of the battleground states. when you step back and look at his campaign travel since the democratic national convention, as you mentioned, 66 days since then. he's only spent half of them in public doing campaign events. the campaign said they have been trying to balance both the medical and political necessi necessities of campaigning and campaigning safely. when you do look at the breakdown of the campaign travel, you see a number of things. 10 in pennsylvania, the most traveled state in the

. >> reporter: that's right, andrea, and as much as monica says that president trump wants to ignore the coronavirus out on the campaign trail, i can tell you that i've been talking to voters all day, and all of them have mentioned the pandemic as a key issue that they are voting on as they head into the ballot boxes behind me. you can see there's been a line here all day. this is a state where we're already seeing 2.1 million ballots already cast, when you factor in absentee ballots mailed in as well as early in-person voting. compare that to the total number of votes in 2016. 2.9 million people voted in wisconsin total. we're already seeing massive numbers of turnout here in this state. when i say they're voting on the pandemic, for some of these voters that i've met here, it's not just theoretical. it's not just that they have to wear a mask when they go out of their houses. for some of these voters this virus has hit them in their own families, in their own homes. i want to play for you one woman who told me why this is so important to her. >> i believe in a great change. >> reporter: what change are you looking for? >> for eve

>> our senior washington correspondent there in washington, andrea mitchell for us, thank you. you caneastern, 7:00 central, only on nbc. >>> search and rescue efforts have intensified along the border of italy and france after record rainfall this weekend, deadly flooding at the french resort city of nice has been called the worst in a century, the rushing waters swept a wway landslide landslides and damaged buildings and left streets clogged with mud. helicopter and firefighter crews have rescued hundreds of people stranded in their homes. >> we got the news now time for a boost. >> got a good one. did you ever have the situation where you applied for a job and you came out and felt like, boy, i aced that interview? that's how keola jones felt after her interview. she came out, stop, paused and then broke out into her happy dance. that new boss actually saw it and called her you got the job. so keep on dancing. by the way, she was once homeless, said she hadn't realized anyone saw her reaction, but it all worked out well in the end. sounds like she has a good boss. fun to work with a