. >> you're in ann arbor, which is in some ways in the middle of this new surge. what does it feel like for you? >> i tell you what, saturdays in the fall, to me, in ann arbor always meant going to the big house, 120,000 people packing into a football stadium to watch our michigan wolverines play football. that hasn't happened. we're about to play football but it's not going to be a packed stadium. our county in ann arbor just announced the stay-at-home order for the next two weeks for students on the university of michigan campus. this is not normal. and it speaks to a broader epidemic underneath this pandemic. we have institutions that have not been ready for where we are, and have not been able to respond to the fact that nationally we have not had a response to covid-19 that has protected our young people, protected our old people, protected the way we live. and so this is not a normal fall, and i think everybody's feeling that, but it's about to get worse, and we have to make sure that we're doing what we can to protect ourselves, our families, our loved ones

thank you let's go back to the medical side of things with dr ali phantom in ann arbor michigan senior vice president of the vaccine research development of blue willow biologics i thank you for your time doctor the republican strategist guest we were just speaking to charles moran was saying that well the president has to show that life goes on that he comes back to the white house his residence his place of worse work he took his mask off and he went back in what's your take on it there surely as i was trying to ask charles there has to be a concern about contagion going forward exactly that's a that's a major problem because our coding to the timelines he anybody would expect that the president is not free still have it go to. his infectious and therefore he's a danger to a people who are around him so therefore the taking of the mask of and also the decision to leave the hospital and go back to the white house is the kind of a move which is really tells you about the director of the president because this is a president from meaning that the decision we also talk about that is it a

do appreciate it thank you still with us as well talk to them who we spoke to last hour he's an ann arbor michigan senior vice president of vaccine research and development at blue willow biologics thank you for staying with us dr i don't know if you heard clearly donald trump's statement that he made there on his arrival back saying things like i'm better i know there's a risk but maybe i'm immune main your take on that. well i think that he did not study a good biology and buy a home of g. and the new knowledge in the hospital to this is not enough you need more than 2 days to understand what's going on the ore body i think that puts happening there is that our here received one of the on antibody cocktail and that big mix him feel better which is good also he received other things but to come and say that he is immune you know it takes it takes more time until usually not if you are on immunity so therefore it cannot declare my immune i'm going out he still infectious and it did take up to 2 weeks in a marriage to clear the virus are naturally and therefore with the help that he got he

can't wait for november 14th when wisconsin comes to ann arbor. morgan -- threw it behind and almost intercepted by green. played well tonight. >> kirk: sure has. when you play corner in don brown's defense, a lot of times you're left on an island. and the big question, and it will continue to be questioned when they play teams that can throw the ball better, how will the corners hold up? you know, and that's -- they've had some great corners over the last four, five, six years and green is on one side, gray on the other. they're going to be challenged a lot more as they go down the line in this schedule. >> chris: defense that returned only two starters in the back seven, held up well tonight. that will make don brown feel good. potts on the edge. and don can crank up some ac/dc. he said he's a huge fan of ac/dc. people were accusing him of being kind of maybe a fan of the crooners, like a dean martin, he said, no -- >> kirk: like you. bin bing crosby? >> chris: i'm right with him on ac/dc. >> kirk: i've been in the car with you. you listen to th

the vast majority of her students are in ann arbor and it's a real challenge keeping them safe and healthyis sense. percento you have any of the percentage that's in person? are 80%. david: and what is the testing regiment and what does it tell you? >> >> are frequency of positive tests is that when we are had twog randomly, we or 300 cases among students. but the rate of those cases have gone up. it's mostly in the setting of off-campus social situations with diseases spreading. there's very little, if any spread in the classroom or on the campus. andly in residence halls social circumstances. david: we have heard about such -- fraternity and sorority campus parties and off-campus parties. do you actually suspend students if their founders attended one of these? dr. schlissel: we are collaborating with the state and our local government, the approach is educating, and they placed a limit on the number of people who can be present indoors at an event. a 10 person limit, 25 for outdoor congregations. bywe try to enforce this educating the students on why it's important, and that frequently

of michigan students account for 60% of the covid-19 cases in that local area around the town of ann arbor, michigan. this order is in place until election day, wolf. officials saying the situation in that town, especially related to the students, is now critical. they're under a stay-in-place order. they can't go anywhere except to class, dining halls, or do work that cannot be done remotely. >> we'll see what happens at the university of michigan. thank you very much. >>> joining us now dr. richard besser. dr. besser, thank you very much for joining us. things, clearly, are redding in the wrong direction now. as you heard the former fda commissioner said we're a week away from potentially seeing a rapid acceleration of new cases. some experts are actually warning these next few months could be the worst of this entire pandemic. do you agree with those assessments? >> well, i think, wolf, a lot depends on how we react and respond as a nation. as we're getting into colder weather, the vie russ will do better. less pa story v -- lerespiratory viruss like colder weather. we'll see kids retur

obama did unsuccessfully campaign for hillary clinton in this area of ann arbor in 2016. here in michigan, biden's campaign is relying on detroit's democrats while the president is appealing to critical counties and suburban women. harris? >> thanks. this is "outnumbered." i'm harris faulker. here, dagen mcdowell, kennedy, jessica tarlov. in the center couch seat, town hall political editor and fox news contributor, guy benson is with us. great to see you all. headed to michigan, guy. the president one last time just in a surprise as 47.5% to hillary clinton's 42.7%. he's behind in the polls. he talks about how he can flip that. he can turn that around by being on the ground. you say what about the state of michigan and its importance? >> it's relatively important. the president would like to hang on to it. he just beat hillary clinton. mrs. clinton was leading in the polls, which looks familiar to this time around. she was so confident, overconfident about michigan four years ago that she spent very little time there at all. didn't spend a lot of time focused on that sta

after off-campus parties were blamed for more than half of all new coronavirus cases in the city of ann arbor. on tuesday, a house committee on the coronavirus crisis released white house reports revealing the trump administration has been aware of an alarming nationwide rise in cases for over a month, even as president trump publicly downplayed the crisis, got sick with covid-19, and held crowded campaign events that contributed to the spread of the disease. coronavirus cases continue to surge across the european union as colder weather drives people indoors and pandemic fatigue sets in. in germany, some residents of bavaria were ordered to shelter at home for two weeks in the nation's first new lockdowns since april. belgium's health minister is warning hospitals could soon be overrun by what he called a tsunami of covid-19 patients. at the vatican, pope francis wore a face mask throughout a public svice tuesday -- the first time the ponff has fully complied with vatican city protocols that went into effect on october 6. in latin america, brazil's official covid-19 death toll is approaching

pole, it can easily destroy a series of large cities on the east coast and in new england such as ann arbor boston, portland, baltimore, and norfolk. >> the f 100 this is designed only to go out to kill aircraft carriers. it's got a very special kind of guidance war head so that just in the few minutes it can be launched from china out to as far as a thousand miles, u.s. aircraft carrier. >> china is absolutely rapidly outpacing us in terms of their military development. what they have in terms of long range missiles that can reach every one of our bases in the pacific, airbases as well as naval bases, and we certainly are at risk in not having the capability to defend ourselves against that. maria: feeling much of china's military advancement has been intellectual property theft an issue proving to have ramifications beyond just economic and corporate. >> i can't say a whole lot other than it's the case that we worry about it every day. the threat of not only commercial intellectual property but the military technology is real. you can look at some of these systems and you see similarities

dishonesty, a biden ad running in michigan, actually featured a reported bar owner struggling in ann arbor to keep his business afloat during the pandemic. well, as it turns out, that struggling bar owner was actually a wealthy millionaire tech investor who supported governor whitmer's stay at home order that contributed to michigan's restaurant and bar industry being destroyed. so, what does it mean for the polls in michigan? joining he us now is one of the only pollsters in the country that accurately predicted the 2016 election, that donald trump and win michigan, that he would win in wisconsin and pennsylvania, he is the chief pollster for the trafalgar group, his name is robert to haley, he's with us. robert, good to see you. i'm looking at your polls. you predicted it would be as close as it was in 2016, you predicted it accurately. i've got you right now, wisconsin, one point lead for biden, michigan one point lead for trout, florida trump up by two, pennsylvania biden up by o, ohio trump up by four. we've got north carolina, the president up by a point and a half. minnesota is a de

here's where the perfect storm is coming into effect michigan will be hosting michigan state in ann arbor on halloween day and those students are being asked, shep, to respect this order that's in place, to not congregate outside and to be careful with the spread of covid. this is going to be a major test for the big ten and college football to see if they can pull it off. >> let's hope. sam brock, thanks so much. >>> report kids separated from their parents during border roundups like three years ago, 2017 well, we now know the government can't find the parents of 545 children that's the nbc news report from court files by the ashrew as part of a court-ordered effort to reunite the kids with their parents. the problem here, the united states deported those parents before the judges could issue those orders and now lawyers and immigration groups say they can't track down hundreds of them so the kids have been apart from their parents for two to three years, and there is no resolution in sight. >>> the white house claiming today interest wants those families back together >> we've contacte

i live in ann arbor, the big house is literal two miles from my house. stadium in the country. i wish we could go to the big house. it's not the right thing to do. if you want to turn the swamp into an actual swamp, have 90,000 people in there in the middle of a covid-19 pandemic. it's not worth it. and turning something enjoyable like college football, which we're playing, you can watch on tv, into a super-spreading event, it's not worth it. it's irresponsible. and coaches should stick to coaching. >> all right. dr. sayed , thank you so much. >> thank you. >>> a tornado touched down north of atlanta last night. one person was injured. it damaged a homeless shirelter as well. up to 30 people were displaced because of the damage. that's the shelter there. >> the tornado was part of a series of strong storms across north georgia that were caused by hurricane delta. the winds, they ripped over trees and ripped into homes. we, of course, saw the heavy flooding in streets. atlanta fire rescue says they responded to more than a dozen calls for vehicles trapped

. >> reporter: so the district bought six bots at $125,000 each next stop, ann arbor, michigan >> reporter: my ultimately goal here is to bring robot technology out to the world in such a way that it makes everyone's lives better. >> reporter: like this food delivery bot matthew johnson roverson's latest invention it's being tested right now at seven locations in the area, including this korean restaurant >> it's like the next-level contact-free delivery. >> the restaurant uses a tablet to hail the robot, drops in food, and the package rolls out for delivery it's operated remotely and sends customers a text when it arrives. and the best part -- >> it's cute as a button and it shows up on time >> reporter: last stop, austin, texas, where robots are in development to help speed things up at covid testing sites. >> the robot is the lab. a patient will come up to the machine, taking a serialized tube, spit in the tube, hand it to the machine >> inside the machine, a robo arm goes to work processing the sample the entire test is done right there. >> basically does the work of about eight techni

many of you probably know the chrysler headquarters in ann arbor. will never forget the meeting i had with the ceo. and they were in big trouble on the question was whether or not there would be any assistance for the auto companies and general motors and chrysler. i remember that discussion with that ceo when he said, congressman, let me be clear. the economy is in shambles, money is not available, and i'm literally 4, 5, maybe six weeks away from liquidating chrysler. not reorganizing, liquidating. i looked around that room and the faces of the people -- i don't think they had heard from the ceo that this company was going to disappear. i had visions of that giant parking lot with grass growing in it, no cars. families in difficult shape. witht back and worked colleagues and talked to president obama and joe biden and said, we've got to do it and we've got to include chrysler. i will say to this day, and i will say it over and over again, when people were betting against michigan workers, when donald trump set, hey, let detroit go bankrupt -- he s

. >>> michigan an ann arbor woman beating the coronavirus after 196 days in the hospital she tested positive back in march, and was on a ventilator for months doctors say they called in her family three times, expecting for them to say goodbye, but each time she bounced back family and friends celebrated yesterday as she left the hospital, part of this cnbc trip coast to coast >>> here's one for you, mexico's former defense secretary, right, was also the godfather of one of that nation's most violent drug cartels. we just learned this in the last couple of hours. hear this. federal prosecutors in the united states took the guy down. his name is salvador cienfuegos. he was busted last night at l.a.x. the indictment says he's charged with money laundering, cartels referred to the general as the godfather. in exchange for money, cienfuegos allegedly sicced his soldiers against his rivals. in other words, he put the armies against the cartel rivals and the feds say he helped navigate drug filled ships in mexican waters he served as the highest ranking military official for six yearsa so no, ther

signed a year in advance and the survey data we had suggested that students were coming back to ann arborer we were fully remote or not. we were also very concerned about the loneliness and isolation many students are suffering. we were concerned that there were some classes that just can't be taught online. things like laboratory instruction, music and arts instruction, and we didn't want those students to suffer. we have students that are coming out of the foster care system, where we are their place to live. so it was a complicated, difficult decision, but we decided on balance to give it a try. and to put in place a good public health guidance with masks and distancing. all of our large classes were made remote. we emphasized in-person, only when the course could really be taught best in person or only in person. and we put some confidence and faith in our students to work together and give it a try. the first several weeks of the consumers went quite well with pretty small numbers of cases. it's the last three or four weeks, as you see happening all around the nation, that things hav

i live in ann arbor, michigan, big ten country. the businesses, the restaurants, the hotels, they book on those six or seven saturdays if they don't have these weekends for the whole year, which most of them won't, it's a devastating blow the economy's going to be hurt companies aren't going to come back and be able to open their doors again. >> you know, one of the things about this is when two teams play there ain't no bubble i mean, look at these stills from the nfl this is from really cold weather.e winter breaths come out i mean, thin so you get kind of an idea about what happens with their breath i mean, that's in kansas city in the middle of the winter breaths come out i mean, think about lambeau in the snow, in the worst games it's like horses it's all intermingled. this is tough. concern that i had >> shep, that was the biggest concern that i had going into the season and this is a pretty interesting pace of factual data that's happened tennessee titans in the nfl lost several players.several players. they had to postpone

former acting dni ric grenell was honored at a trump pride event in ann arbor, michigan.ump pride advisory co-chairman, bill white. bill, great to see you. thank you so much for being here. i know you are very excited about this event. tell us about it. >> well, thanks, maria. hello from ann arbor, michigan where you can see behind me we're still on governmental lockdown. it was an you amazing event and to give the first lady's most incredible endorsement for the people in the lgbtq community, that's never happened, no first lady has ever done a video like that. with us, we have a seat at the table with president trump. i mean, the president appointed the first openly gay cabinet official which you know is ric grenell. he's a great friend of yours. he said to say hello this morning. the event was spectacular. people came from all over the detroit area to come visit with ric and to hear about why president trump needs to get reelected to protect our rights, to protect our economy, to open of up, to get this state back opened up. the people of michigan are really tired of b

ann arbor, michigan. james, you're on the air. go ahead, please. >> caller: hi. can i ask you a question? >> go ahead, james. >> caller: hi. i have two questions. hello? >> james, yes, we can hear you. ask your question, please. let's move on, please. i'm sorry, our time is short. next up is a call from graham in charleston, south carolina. go ahead. >> caller: hey, good evening. my question, i just want to know what you think, if any, debs' movement could exist in modern day america with the development of global capitalism, and then what you think debs would think about the tea party movement that's going on currently. thank you. >> thanks very much. it's always a tough thing for historians, isn't it, to project what a historical character might think today, but do you want to take a stab at it? >> it needs to be done with real caution. first thing i would say, global capitalism is not something that is new. that was very much an issue with the flow of immigrants and the flow of capital -- and the worldwide nature of capitalism in debs' own day. sometimes it se

and in ann arbor, michigan, officials there hoping to slow the spread ordering students at the universityf michigan to stay in place. the health department there saying students make up more than 60% of local cases. in wisconsin, where case rate positivity numbers and hospitalizations are all on the rise, carmen is in need of a double lung transplant, left with permanent lung damage after contracting the virus and spending 45 days on a ventilator. >> this coronavirus attacked me in every way possible that it could. i'm literally on 100% oxygen, which is even more challenging. >> reporter: we're all watching the numbers here very closely. but just yesterday florida's governor said that whatever the future may hold, closing schools should be off the table. robin. >> victor, thank you. >>> joining us again this morning is dr. jha, he's the dean of the brown university school of public health. you just saw in victor's report about nearly 300,000 more deaths than expected. two out of three of them directly because of coronavirus. so what does that tell you about the actual death toll when it c

host: joining us this morning from ann arbor, michigan is the director of the senate for the historymedicine at the university of michigan, dr. howard markel. welcome back to washington journal. guest: thank you. host: let's start with some perspective of the latest count on the new york times tracker of covid-19. this is nytimes.com. 8.1total of u.s. cases, million cases. 52,000 reported yesterday. that is a 28% increase in the number of deaths. 219,173. dr. markel, you last joined us in april or may. fairly early on. a couple of things. are things sort of tracking the way you thought they would. ? based upon your historical perspective, is this what you expected? guest: it is staggering, isn't it? it is and it is not the way i would have predicted. historians are terrible predictors. in may,n we last spoke particularly in my own home state of michigan, many states were employing social distancing measures quite strictly. and quite well. and we were predicting the downturn in cases, which we saw in the few months that followed. [indiscernible] cases began to pop up again and again a