i want to add north dakota care for all north dakota and. simply being a resident will to a privatess insurance buying group. it is a co-op model. which works so well in a rural environment. that will give north dakota residents access regardless of what happens on the federal level. i believe we can have cheaper health insurance. towe would be allowed purchase our health care any state and any company. when they limit our health care. >> prior to becoming governor, i had a opportunity to work with companies in health care. we have a $20 trillion economy. for trillion of that is in health care. that is twice the size of the soviet economy in 1989. people think we can somehow regulate a $4 trillion economy. and have the federal economy -- government control it. these are to federally run systems. i think it is the wrong idea. if the federal government wants ,o do block grants to a state we can take care of rural hospitals that can do it better. the northtion to dakota cares for all north , i wouldd -- dakotans prioritize investing in communit

of north dakota.h dakota, when it comes connectivity has been a success story, is that correct? >> it really has been and thank you, it is a pleasure joining you. north dakota which is almost overwhelmingly by locally owned providers, there are some 96% of the state. what we have here north dakota is a situation where those companies invest in themselves, they invest in their community, and the infrastructure, and the customers that those locally owned companies serve. in fact, mr. pratt just mentioned chattanooga being a gate -- gig community, north dakota has 300 rural gig communities. you have emphasized the locally owned aspect of these private companies, is that correct? what is the importance of that? arees, really, what they are the telephone cooperatives in a majority of cases and family-owned companies in a few small commercial companies, 16 in all. into beingvolved state-of-the-art broadband providers. nobody is interested in voice right now, voice is just one of the applications that we use

any questions for david crothers of north dakota? alyson: no, i think you covered everything really well. >> david crothers of the broadband association of north dakota, thank you for being with us. david: my pleasure. >> allen pratt, what did you crothers.mr. -- ? allen: they are ahead of the game in a lot of rural areas and across the state and whole country. we interviewed several superintendents in north dakota and also did a couple podcasts about the connectivity as march and april rolled in. dr. stephen johnson from lisbon public schools was one of our guests. he mentioned they were 96% covered during that time period, which if you looked at the numbers during that time, they were number one in the country with everyone being connected. we were really excited and hope other states pay attention and do the same work as north dakota. >> alyson klein? alyson: so, how has the pressure on state budgets because of the economic downturn, how is that impacting your schools? are they worried about that at all? are they looking ahead and

in north dakota, the new cases curve right now looks terrible. look at north dakota. i mean north dakota has been going up rapidly and with increasing steepness since the early part of july. last month alone, over the month of september, the state of north dakota saw an 80% rise in cases in one month. today for a fifth straight day, the state hit a record number of new cases. there's no statewide mask requirement in north dakota. the republican governor there is up for re-election, and he keeps say publicly that north dakotans wouldn't follow a mask requirement even if he instituted one, so he's not going to bother. the state has been through three state health directors in the past four months. this is as the state has developed into the fastest growing epidemic in the country. they've gone through three state health directors in four months. the last state health director lasted only two weeks before he quit. hospitalizations keep peaking in north dakota and then peaking again and then peaking again. for a glimpse of what that means, look at this snapshot in time. a

humphrey had been born in south dakota before moving to north dakota, both history professors. they had a lot in common. mcgovern was shocked he went to such lengths to deny it, that would not deny the nomination, he had already locked up other delegates from caucus states. this went all the way to the convention floor where he proposed a delegates half mcgovern supporters, the other half his supporters. tuesday of the convention, wednesday was the day mcgovern was supposed to submit his vice presidential nominee. as mr. witcover mentioned, people were exhausted having a fight over this delegate question in florida. so when they got up the next morning, they didn't have a short list of vp nominees. and in fairness, they generally didn't name the vice presidential nominee until the convention, except when mcgovern picked eagleton, now you see vice presidential nominees are picked well ahead of the convention to be vetted. it took all day to pick somebody willing to run as george mcgovern's running made. came down to just a few minutes before the deadline. at that time he also --

north dakota and south dakota reporting more case ps per capi than any other states in the union.orth dakota is one of the only states that's conducted more covid tests than the state's population. that's the one piece of, i guess, green shoots there. josh lederman is in bismarck, north dakota. josh, what have you learned about the state's response and the struggles they've had? >> chuck, here in north dakota, they are testing a lot. at this event center we watched as 500 cars pulled through in about an hour and a half. they all got covid tests. the national guard and local officials on hand here. the people drove out without ever getting out of their car. they'll get their results in about 48 hours or so. but despite the fact they are doing all of this testing, you can't test your way out of a pandemic. we saw that with the situation at the white house and what happened with the outbreak there. here in north dakota, they are also doing aggressive contact tracing. the state was actually on the cutting edge as far as having apps to be able to use to do contact tracing but there's b

jake, in south dakota, go ahead. >> good evening. actually jack. >> sorry about that. >> excellent program tonight, my question is whether george mcgovern was ever elected in the 1972, what there be any circumstances under which he could've been nixon, had he avoided the eagleton tobacco and other problems of the convention, you know the late acceptance speech? >> sadly, i don't think so. i think the conditions that we've talked about, so lengthy tonight, where a mixed bag of the campaign, as i also indicated. for all the support mcgovern got from protesters in the war, there were so many more people who didn't look at the war that way. they didn't think it was a disaster. and the attitudes were shaped by a president, president nixon who played on the preacher tourism and played on their emotions. and turned the demonstrations, that probably helped mcgovern, into almost a national disgrace. in a way that helped nixon. >> scott farris was george mcgovern political career over after 1972? >> he continued to serve the united states sena

the talking heads you just heard want south dakota to fail because they didn't lock down in south dakota. what has that produced? something people love. it's called a job. unemployment rate that is the second lowest in the country. look at how this compares as blue states where things are really blue. new york, illinois, california, hawaii. they had the most draconian of lock downs and restrictions. total disaster zones. joining me is kristi noem. governor, have you gotten any apologies from those individuals? >> no, no apologies, laura. my people are happy. they appreciated the fact that we didn't shut down their businesses, we allowed them to be flexible, take care of health and protect the public while still taking care of their customers and employees as well. we're doing good in south dakota. we're managing covid-19. also our economy is thriving. i think people are recognizing that leadership has consequences. what we're doing in south dakota is republican leadership. >> laura: governor noem, when you toured the country and done some campaign events for president trump, there is sti

joshua winn is on the front lines in north dakota.rth dakota university school of medicine and the state's chief health strategist who has warned the state needs to take rising cases seriously. i really appreciate you taking some time, doctor. give us a sense of how things are in your state right now. >> well, give, chris, and i think you got it right, that the numbers are clearly headed in the wrong direction. you know, i think north dakotaens got lulled by that law that you were talking about where when the pandemic started we were relatively immune, and i think we let down our guard and now we're paying part of the price for that. >> you know, one of the things i think early on, right, when you had -- when you had the outbreaks concentrated in fairly dense and urban areas around detroit, around new orleans and louisiana and then around the new york metro area, there was a sense that density, you know, related to this, right? that denser places were more at risk, and one of the things we're seeing now, particularly in your state, ne

it's really bad in north dakota. it's really bad in south dakota. it's bad in a number of other states, but wisconsin is setting, like, records almost daily now for new cases for the number of new covid patients hospitalized, for new deaths from covid. the governor of wisconsin just announced that a new field hospital has to be opened at the state fairgrounds because so many wisconsin hospitals are hitting capacity and getting overwhelmed. we are hearing stories now from wisconsin and from the dakotas, as i mentioned, about covid patients being turned away. doctors spending hours on the phone trying to find a hospital that will take a transferred covid patient, because everybody's full and there's nowhere to put anyone. this was the news today in the "grand forks herald." "bismarck, dickinson and minot, north dakota, are all managing heavy patient volumes." as of yesterday, there are a grand total of three icu beds available in all of bismarck, north dakota. that's the state capital. over 70,000 people live there. bismarck, north dakota, right now h

in my state of south dakota, it is 4.1%. the economy is trending in the right direction, as it starts to open up again. there's demand out there for labor. the demand for labor goes up, the price for labor goes up. that's what i think you're going to continue to see, i believe, along with the senator from oregon, that we need to help people who are unemployed and the bill that was just voted down by the democrats would have done that at a $300 benefit above and beyond what the constituent unemployment insurance program pays and in most states that's about 90% of wage replacement. so it's not, you know, to suggest that the republicans are being heartless, it just isn't true. i mean, obviously the amendment that we offered back in march when the cares act was being considered had 100% wage replacement, seems shrike a very intuitive, practical thing to do, to say we're going to replace what you were making what you were working. obviously the proposal that was voted down by the democrats earlier today about the state unemployme

and she was on her way back to the dakota.. >> i needed a police escort to get out. and i walked out and, unfortunately, my pants were covered in blood -- the bottom of my white pants. and i had some idiot in the street yell that he would offer me $500 for my pants. >> there were extensive resuscitation efforts that were made, but none of them did any good. there were transfusions that were attempted. none of them were able to save his life. >> there's no way to change that. there's no way to fix that. there's no way to make it better. and i remember just kind of sinking down to the floor. and then the phone started ringing some more. and then i realized that the whole world was watching. >> late this evening, one of the world's great entertainers and musicians, john lennon of the beatles, was shot outside his new york home. >> i thought, how could something like that happen in my city? you know, i was heartbroken. >> nobody knew what to make of it. like, people having no idea what to think. and then immediately wanting to tur

south dakota, north dakota, places like that. so, we definitely need to look at the states where cases are going up, localities where cases are going up and really look at what's going on, how we can increase public health measures, how we can increase testing, how we can increase contact tracing, how we can support isolation and quarantine measures and stop those chaings of transmission. 13 men have been charged with an alleged plot to kidnap the governor of the us state of michigan, gretchen whitmer. the fbi says the plot involved six of the men abducting the governor and taking her to a remote location to put her on trial for treason. governor whitmer has accused president trump of encouraging far right groups by, as she put it, fraternising with domestic terrorists. just last week, the president of the united states stood before the american people and refused to condemn white supremacists and hate groups like these two michigan militia groups. "stand back and stand by," he told them. "stand back and stand by."

>> unfortunately, north dakota majority are not wearing masks.given the message from the state level that personal responsibility is the way to go when it comes to masking up and wearing masks and social distancing. so we've seen large weddings. people are continuing to operate kind of as they had before covid even was here. and that's leading to a lot of our numbers increasing and we're seeing lots of different clusters and such across north dakota. >> you have said that you're having a -- there's been a real issue there in terms of contact tracing. why? what's happening? >> i think we're at the point now where people are frustrated. i know we've been in the pandemic close to seven months here and when we do our contact tracing there are individuals that are refusing to cooperate. so we're dealing with people maybe saying they don't have any close contacts or if they have been to a wedding or large gathering they're not giving us that information. so that gives us a real hard time to try to do the contact tracing work and contain some of the spr

to somehow to suggest that this vote would be delayed because to do so when people do so in north dakota to nominate a jurist rather than the nearly perfect amy coney barrett would anger the people of north dakota and do great damage to my conscience. this is a great night. >> it's a great day for indiana and america. i was proud to cast my vote with great enthusiasm for judge amy coney barrett to serve as associate justice of the supreme court. this has been a long process for america and a fairly short process with respect to procedures because there's been great efforts made by senate democrats to try to pull amy coney barrett into the political fray but she resisted demonstrating she intends to follow the law as written in the constitution of the united states. we won. republicans, americans because amy coney barrett demonstrated that she intends to follow the law. she's a faithful constitutionalist and we couldn't be more proud and the great state of indiana. one of our own in just a short period of time will be sworn in as an associate justice in the supreme court of the united sta

north dakota just as concerning.state reporting nearly 4,000 active cases today with over 650 new cases and hospital capacity is dwindling. the death toll tripled its previous high on wednesday as the state faces a critical shortage of hospital beds. just 16 available icu beds and 186 regular inpatient beds in the entire state. but things are particularly terrible in wisconsin, where new cases are skyrocketing. the state -- look at that chart. the state is reporting nearly 3,000 new cases today. the second highest total to date just behind yesterday's record. hospitalizations across that state rose 36%. the entire state of wisconsin reporting just 16% of hospital beds remain available. in the past two weeks, new cases have jumped by nearly 50%. their state is reporting a daily case rate of nearly 20%. governor tony evers this week warned that the virus is, quote, out of control in wisconsin. and atop wisconsin's state health official echoed those remarks by warning the state is in a dangerous place that is overwhelmi

josh letterman is there in bismarck, north dakota.w, early voting is starting there in north dakota while coronavirus cases are still on the rise. josh, what are you seeing there? >> reporter: well, the concern is, craig, as north dakotans start going to the polls for in-person early voting, and as the colder weather forces people indoors more of the time, it is going to make it that much harder for officials to get a handle on this covid surge that now has north dakota leading the nation both in new cases and really in terms of new deaths from coronavirus. the conversations people are having here are the kind of conversations we had back in march and april in other parts of the country. it sort of felt like we had perhaps moved past running out of hospital beds, about surge capacity for medical workers. you mentioned sanford hospital behind me. they added six icu beds to try to have a better ability to care for these patients. they're still down to just one available staffed icu bed. there's been cars lining up to get into the hospit

north dakota is hurting, too. we'll dig into the situation there with a reporter on the ground a little later this hour. >>> but first, how the trump campaign responded this morning when pressed on the latest crisis in containing the virus. >> the reality is, i go out there -- >> there are more than 220,000 dead americans, lara. there's literally no objective health expert who thinks that the president has done a good job with this pandemic. we have the highest death rate in the entire world. >> that's not true. jake, here's what i'll tell you, we are coming out of it. we're seeing the death rate decrease dramatically. >> no. >> we also have a huge population, wherever you want to compare us to canada, compare us to europe. we're doing actually much better than europe is. >> no, we're not. >> not only with the virus, but financially. >> we are. these are numbers. you can go look them up. >> i have. >> the president isn't spending much time worrying about the pandemic that is raging across the country. in fact, the

in the whole state of north dakota. the state reporting zero staffed icu beds available. cases are growing so fast in north dakota that contact tracers can't keep up. the state is now telling people who test positive that they need to do their own contact tracing because north dakota state tracing operations are completely overloaded. the republican governor of north dakota still refuses to issue a mask mandate for the state. he says, quote, it's not a magic bullet. but the mayor of fargo, north dakota, decided to enact his own mask mandate for the people living under his jurisdiction in fargo. the mayor saying, quote, this is about science, not politics. this is our community's health. joining us now is the mayor of the great city of fargo, north dakota, dr. tim mahoney. mr. mayor, thank you so much for being here, i really appreciate you taking the time. >> you're very welcome. this is a really serious problem for our community and our state so i'm very pleased to help out, helping people get better. we hate to be num

mayor, the north dakota rise has been happening for a couple of months now.g it. and i know you've been dealing with it. why now, why wasn't this implemented a month ago or two months ago? what's your explanation for that? >> one of the things the state of north dakota has tested in essence 105% of the population. i think if other states would test more, you might find your numbers higher, because what's happened is a lot of people who are positive, asymptomatic, aren't being found. so i think what's happened is we just finally found out what the true number was in our population. we thought we only had 2% in positives. we're now 13% of the people tested are positive. we found more tests and we found more going on. and initially we were way low at the summertime. so we had a real low negative in the community. so we thought, wow, we escaped this thing, but we really haven't. and you know and i know this virus is just kind of a wiley coyote. it goes all over your community. you don't really know it's there. but the schools started, and we had more people that

theears as a regulator, people of north dakota have resented it. there are big issues like powers in the u.s., power plants, but there are many, many other issues at the bureaucratic level where the federal government is always overstepping its bounds and the court has always defended states rights, state sovereignty. so, for me i really focused my discussion with her on what she sees as the role of states in cooperative federalism that we are experimenting with as the freest country in the world and i was very satisfied in her grasp of the issue and her commitment to federalism as a jurist. host: are you hearing that the vote will take place tonight at around 7:30 p.m. eastern time? i am. we voted on and pass cloture at around 1:00, wrapping up at around 1:30 yesterday afternoon. meaning that we fast 30 hours, the time under senate rules for democratssuming the take time to put speeches on the floor. with brett kavanaugh, they had 30 hours and they only used 25 of them. it appears we have at least 52 republicans that will vote to confirm judge amy

in north dakota, south dakota and the upper midwest, we're very mobile. >> right. >> so i'm a littleicent to try to enforce a mandate on a local level. anything that would be significant in nature would have to come from a higher level from the state because it's nothing for somebody in north dakota or south dakota for matter matter or eastern montana to say let's go shopping this weekend and shop. that's what we do in the midwest. >> you'd be better off saying we need more testing and a mask mandate but then let businesses try to operate safely. >> i'm not for a mask mandate. i think we need to rely on people to do the right thing in the right situations. if you can socially distance, then -- the need for a mask. but it depends on the situation you're on. do you have at-risk categories so that you need to protect yourself further than someone asymptom atic if they contract cov covid. many need to contact their local health providers to find where they fall in the categories and what the best protocols are to protect themselves. there's some personal responsibility that needs to take

he basically runs north today can he take a dakota.en and those five any given day are in school, out of school,oday dakota. and i have five grandchildren and those five any given day are in school, out of school,day dakota. and i have five grandchildren and those five any given day are in school, out of school,ay dakota. and i have five grandchildren and those five any given day are in school, out of school,y dakota. and i have five grandchildren and those five any given day are in school, out of school, dakot. and i have five grandchildren and those five any given day are in school, out of school,dakota. and i have five grandchildren and those five any given day are in school, out of school, in school, and we have to quarantine and all of these things. and it is ridiculous because again we go back to the governor and now he put out a thanksgiving day challenge that if things go well, you can all be together on thanksgiving. you know what, harold hamm can afford on go anywhere he wants for thanksgiving. i don't want my grandkids aroun

after the break we're live in north dakota where in the last two weeks alone covid cases are up more50%. the dire a nurse is seeing of the worsening situation. >> we have seen a recent uptick in cases. a couple weeks ago we had one to two patients on the floor and we currently have six to seven at a time. they are significantly more sick than the ones we saw in the beginning of this pandemic. n th beginning of thipas ndemic my name is trisha. i'm 70 and i live in mill valley, california. my biggest passion is gardening. i love to be outdoors. i have jaybirds that come when i call. i know how important it is to feed your body good nutrition. i heard about prevagen and i heard about the research behind it. taking prevagen, i have noticed that i can think clearly. my memory is better. i can say that prevagen is one of the most outstanding supplements i've ever taken. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. everyone said i was crazy. when i started this commute, so fifteen years ago, i got my first subaru and i did it anyway. my outback always got me there. so when it was time, of course

states like south dakota, wyoming, north dakota, minnes a minnesota.nesota. they are all seeing their highest seven-day averages for new cases. is it because some of these cases were lax with restrictions? and we all remember south dakota's massive biker rally. remember, in sturgis, south dakota? could that be part of this? >> it could definitely be part of this and probably is. it's difficult to quantify, for example, the role of sturgis in all of these states. we know that people from around the country, from every state, went to the sturgis rally. and there have been many people diagnosed with covid, after returning to their -- their home states. figuring out exactly what proportion of that was driven by sturgis, i don't think we'll ever be able to know because people may not report their illness. they may not get diagnosed. they may spread it without even knowing it. but it definitely had -- there were enough confirmed cases that we know it has played a role. and there was also some -- there's miscommunication by leaders, even now, in the dakotas,

>> you talked about north dakota, south dakota.ome of the states in the midwest, will have to put on social distancing mandates sooner because there is more virus out in the community. and as winter comes in, it's going to spread faster and faster. and then, some of the other states where it's not, you know, growing at the same rate, will, you know, be a month mibehind that. but absolutely, we're going to have to see what's happened in europe, reimposition of the mandates, to avoid hospitals being overwhelmed. or we're going to face, you know, a really large death toll. >> i -- i know the study on mask wearing, to me, is juastonishin. what are you hoping leaders take away from the study? in this state and this state, it's likely they're going to be -- you know, you're going to have to institute, you know, more -- i don't know if lockdown is too severe a word but -- but more social-distancing mandates, in some of those states. not -- so that hospitals aren't overwhelmed. the fact that you know that now, it's not clear that the peopl

the garbage or drives the buses needs help in south dakota. if it's a red state or in new york if it's a blue state. it's despicable to say it's just for blue states. that's the kind of divisiveness that donald trump has created in this country. that's why so many people don't like him and what our republican colleagues, unfortunately, since he's become president have followed through on. our bill is far more comprehensive. it deals with the needs. very little money for testing. very little money for state and local governments. no money to help restaurants or stages or nonprofits or rural hospitals. no money for hospitals in general. so the bottom line is very simple -- ours is a broad, comprehensive bill. theirs is a narrow, skinny bill done to appease 20 republican senators whoens with ad no money -- no -- who wanted no money, no money. and they won't even debate that either. so i say to my good friend from south dakota -- and he is my friend -- we have one view. the american people are for a $2 trillion bill, a recent poll showed, 60%, 70%

we saw that also in north dakota heitkamp'sr heidi win in 2012.ooking at the significant native vote in 2020, critical battleground states to flip the senate. i write about four key races where native voter populations are small but significant, including montana but also north carolina where we are seeing two presidential candidates for the first time really courting native voters in a public way and dangling sovereignty out for everyone to see. i think it is an extraordinary -- it will be an extraordinary race to watch because home of the lumbee tribe had been a swing vote in the last 2016 election. they represent 40% of the population in robison county and voted roughly 5% of the vote, which carried trump in that county. so now when they have prospects of two presidential candidate both promising their sovereignty to full force, it will be interesting to see how that might shake out. i don't know if you noticed this but trump was scheduled to return back to north carolina just yesterday and was postponing that due to windy weather. his --lated

and the states that are having a really hard time right now, states like south dakota, north dakota, and idaho, and other red states, states where the trump campaign is confident enough where they don't have to win, where they don't have to campaign, that has to be a relief for public health officials, thinking that for all they're dealing with with covid and the numerous states being stressed right now in terms of numbers and hospital capacity, how much of a relief must it be if you don't have to worry about getting a visit sometime in the next month from the president's super campaign caravan where he likes to pack people together as close as possible and tell them they don't have to follow any advice they hear about masks or distancing. we've seen reports last week from missouri, also from idaho of rural hospitals being overwhelmed now just like the hospitals in wisconsin are. now, because of the polling in missouri and idaho, i'm guessing they're not likely to have president trump come visit, to pack thousands and thousands of maskless people and congregate events for the preside

and now north dakota leading the nation in terms of the rate of new covid cases as well as deaths at the hospital behind me, they only have one available staff icu bed left but the issue of masks and covid restrictions still very controversial here in north dakota take a listen to what public health officials and local residents told us today about the surge. >> we have large events in north dakota we have people going out of eating, restaurants, bars and people who are getting together socially and they're just not taking the precautions thatthe need to take. >> what do you think when you see people still not wearing masks even as this is becoming such a problem here? >> i think they're being pretty selfish. >> selfish >> yeah, because they're just doing what they want to do they're not respecting anybody else >> there is no mandatory mask mandate here statewide but in the last few minutes, the mayor of fargo, north dakota announced he is putting a mask mandate in place. >> that is late from josh letterman in bismarck. >>> covid cases are up all across the nation. america averaging

and north dakota is being hit especially hard.per capita in the u.s., adding 760 cases this weekend alone. >> that brings the statewide total to more than 31,000 and now they're running out of icu beds. nbc's gary grumback is live ins by marc this morning. gary, what are you hearing? >> reporter: good morning. we're here outside of sanford medical center here in bismarck, north dakota, one of the two largest hospitals in the entire area of bismarck. and it's also the location of the entire icu bed in the entire bismarck area. this has public health officials in the area really concerned and they're already coming up with surge plans. everything from moving around hospital beds here at sanford to even the idea of creating a field hospital over at the fargo dome a couple of hours away in fargo, north dakota. what is causing this spike? this is what everyone's asking. and folks i've talked to tell me they believe it's simply covid fatigue. folks shut down here in march like much of the country did and didn't see many cases in the spr

inexorable rise in north dakota the last few weeks. today, that state recorded its 12th straight day of active cases reaching a record high. 12 days in a row. north dakota's governor has resisted instituting any kind of statewide mask order because he keeps saying it wouldn't matter, that people wouldn't follow it even if he did it. fargo tonight became the first city in north dakota to implement a mask mandate. in south dakota, where the republican governor has refused to order any statewide covid restrictions, after record numbers of cases and hospitalizations, the mayor of sioux falls, south dakota, today is urging residents of that city to "wear a dang mask," saying he needs them to do more. they're not going to do anything at the state level. he's got to do something at the city level. states across the country are breaking record after record at this point, as the president continues to downplay the virus. today he called dr. anthony fauci another career scientist involved in the u.s. public health response -- he called them idio

the loans were critical to keeping north dakota small businesses open.the point that i'm trying to make sure is that we don't know what the future holds for the city, but a public bank cannot only help us to create new opportunities, but to provide critical assistance in times of disaster. if we had our own bank, we have the ability to set our financial destiny in a much larger way. this is one of the promises and potential of a city bank. i agree with the treasurer and the b.l.a.'s recommendation that we move forward with the business plan. thank you. >> chair fewer: thank you very much. supervisor walton, i know that you have to leave. so, please, ask your questions and if you don't get your questions answered i'm happy to continue also the conversation. >> supervisor walton: thank you so much, chair fewer. that was going to be my question in terms of the continuance or completing the entire hearing today. >> chair fewer: i think that we should make a motion to continue this to the call of the chair. having seen two reports -- i think that there's a li

north dakota, south dakota and montana seeing 700 new cases a day.isconsin hit a new daily record today with 5,000 new cases and 33 deaths. hospitals are overwhelmed and health professionals are pleading to stay home. pleas that are early similar to this spring. >> there's rooms for people that passed away. we go in and have to clean. and it's not an easy thing to do. when you know somebody just passed away in that room. >> since august it's gotten bad. and it's getting much worse. we have many patients who have come in here and the last words before we put a breathing tube in, they didn't realize it was as bad as it was. >> this is not something that you want to catch. this is not a way that you want to die. people are dying every night. there's nothing we can do about it. the virus is just beating them. >> experts warn the upcoming fall and winter could be as bad as the spring. if not worse. for more i'm joined by global health policy expert. thank you for being here. i played it in the last segment. i want to play it again. this is donald trump on

i think that's snow on the ground behind you in north dakota.s the weather gets colder, people will move indoors. that's where officials are warning the risk is higher. josh letterman, thank you for that report from north dakota. >>> as we talk about case and hospitalizations rising there and around the country, president trump in pennsylvania is again targeting one of his top health ek perts after trashing dr. anthony fauci in a campaign call monday. >> people are tired of co-vid. people are tired of hearing dr. fauci and all these idiots, these people, these people that have gotten it wrong. every time he goes on television, there's always a bomb. there's a bigger bomb if you fire him. dr. fauci is a disaster. i get along with him very well. he's a democrat. he's a very good friend of cuomo family. he's been there a long time. i leave him there, and he's a nice guy, but he's been wrong. the only thing i say is he's a little bit sometimes not a team player. >> i'm joined by dr. natalie azar. thank you for being with us. dr. fauci is not registe

nursing north dakota, wisconsin being hit hard. -- you are seeing north dakota, wisconsin being hit hard. sort of roving hotspots that intensify, think cool down, then other hotspots occur. when it gets colder, when it gets sunny, and people cannot do things outdoors anymore the virus will accelerate its transmission because it transmits better insight and those environmental conditions make it more likely to transmit versus summer. do we know what the current rate of death is for those who contract the covid-19 in the united states? is that a number we know? guest: it takes some time to calculate because know we have problems with testing. we are not getting the right denominator. that denominator is constrained during a pandemic, especially like this. we cannot test everyone. maybe around 0.6% if you count everybody, including asymptomatic individuals. we are still undercounting, probably by a factor of 10. get thereme time to because our testing was focused on people who were hospitalized. that's going to give you the severity bias in the data and you are going to see a number of 2% o

south dakota, 18%, iowa, 16%. 20%, wisconsin. high positivity. again, a lot of states are going through the cold earlier than the southern part of the country, high positivity rate just tells you more cases today, more tomorrow, community spread when numbers are quite that high. here's the case trend line in the united states. the president says it is disappearing, active voice. no, it is climbing right now. we are going back up, not down now. saturday, 54,000 cases, sunday dropped to 44,000 cases. let's hope it keeps dropping. sundays, weekends it dips a bit. we will watch it. the trend line is what matters. here's the worry public health officials have. from 20,000 you get to 70,000, what happens if you start at 40,000 and head back up. that's the worry of public health officials as it gets colder. death trend line is down. plateaued here, 398 deaths yesterday. lower than back in august and september. can you keep it as the case count goes up? that's one of the big challenges. this is a number we're talking about again, it has been months. hosp

in north dakota, covid-19 hospitalizations hit new highs just today.oned earlier, one analysis says if the state was a country, it would have the world's worst confirmed covid-19 outbreak. indeed, for more, we welcome to the broadcast, dr. michael lebeau. he's been a practicing physician for over a decade. in plain english, what is it like in north dakota tonight? >> it's busy. we're full. but i think overall, health care, as we work together, we feel pretty good where we're at. as you look at our numbers, we're getting a little bit better news. you look at our 14-day rolling average, it's about 11.1% positivity rate, up to 11.4% over the last seven days. our hospitals, i think, continue to be challenged from a capacity standpoint. but we have not had to ration any care, we feel comfortable with staffing ratios yet. but it's a challenge. >> could you make a case that november is the new february, and by that i mean, i think there's widespread agreement that we frittered away february, we wasted it, we lost all that ground through mismanagement. and min

and south dakota. some of the states in the midwest will have to put on the social distancing mandates sooner because there are more virus out in the community. as the winter comes in, it is going to spread faster and faster and some of the other states where it is not growing at the same rate will be a month behind that but absolutely we are going to have to see what's happening in europe in position of the mandates to avoid hospitals being overwhelmed or we are going to face a really large death toll. >> the study of masks it is astonishing and more than hundreds of thousands of lives could be saved. >> yeah, it is likely you are going to have to institute more lockdown -- such a severe word. the fact that you know that now is not clear that the people who are in charge in those states are listening. >> well, you know i think what we hope is that there will be clear guidance and leadership from federal government to have a mask mandate and penalties if you don't wear a mask and start helping hospital