jon lapook. and john dickerson. featuring jon batiste and stay homin'. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater office building in new york city, it's stephen colbert! >> stephen: hey, everybody. welcome to "a late show." i am your host, stephen colbert. this-- this is a very unusual episode of the show. because, well, this is a very unusual day. we weren't actually even going to do a show today. i wasn't going to even be here right now. but, then again, a lot of people are in places today that they did not expect to be. because, in the early-morning hours, we learned that president trump and first lady melania tested positive for covid-19. now, say what you will about the president-- and i do-- this is a serious moment for our nation, and we all wish the president and the first lady of the united states a speedy and full recovery. news on trump's condition has been sketchy. this morning, the president's old friend, dr. ronny jackson-- remember him? he said the president and the first lady are going to be okay, tweeting, "they are both fine and

jon lapook. dr. lapook, thanks for being here today.sy you must be. >> i'm happy to be here, teachen. thank you for inviting me. >> stephen: well, it is-- it is truly troubling to see the president taken off to the hospital. >> what a sobering moment in time, stephen. it really is. and it-- and it was upsetting to see the president of the united states with covid-19, and especially, you know, i was in the covid wards in april at n.y.u. langone, where i'm a professor, and i know that people can the first week, they can be quite stable, but then in that second week, they can take a turn for the worse. and i suspect that's why they want him under close observation at the medical center there. >> stephen: well, obviously, we're hoping for the president and the first lady to fully recover. now that he is at walter reed, what do we know about the severity of his condition, in anything? >> you know, you know, we've heard that, you know, he has some mild symptoms and a low-grade fever. we don't know what a low-grade fever is, exactly. >> stephe

jon lapook. doctor, three interventions with medicine and two efforts to stabilize the president's breathing. what does that tell us? >> well, you know major, we need some more information. for example we need to know what is the chest ct show, does he have knew fonia and what do the blood tests show, is there an increase in inflammatory markers that he is perhaps later in the disease, that he is in the inflammatory stage. the reason why that is important is that the first two medicine he was given the remdesivir and monoclonal antibodies, it makes sense, the idea of them is to de crease the viral load. and in that first part of the disease, that makes a lot of sense even though these medicine are experimental, they haven't been proven to be safe and effective, still that kind of makes sense and that was the decision his team made. the dexamethasone say little bit different because in the big new england journal article that was in july, it was shown to be effective in de creasing mortality signi

jon lapook.ight, contact tracing, one of the most important things you can do to help slow an outbreak, but the white house has reportedly rejected the c.d.c.'s help to do just that. what does that tell us? >> reporter: you know, contact tracing is the basic detective work that helps you figure out if somebody is infected without knowing it and potentially spreading the infection to other people. if you bring back that picture from david martin's piece. take a look at it. it was nine days ago. we know that several people there subsequently tested positive for the virus. look around. not many people are wearing masks-- almost nobody. it's inside. and we now know that inside from the c.d.c. that the virus can spread not only six feet, but beyond six feet in these small droplets, these aerosols, and it's a crowded room. now, we don't know if this is the site where others got infected but that's what contact tracing will help you figure out. >> o'donnell: one of the concerns, definitely. we learned j

jon lapook. all right, doctor, do you think the president's physician was completely transparent today? >> reporter: nora, it really did not seem like it. and transparency is so important at this uncertain time. and at the top of my list is, what did his chest imaging show in i mean, we know covid attacks the lungs. what was his ct scan? what was his chest x-ray. you would think if they were normal they would be shouting that result from the top of the rooftops but we haven't heard anything about those results. >> o'donnell: we have also learned the president was given this oxygen before he went to walter reed. wha does that indicate? >> reporter: you know, it wouldn't be surprising if the president of the united states is diagnosed with covid-19 and has some respiratory symptoms, why not put on some oxygen just until you figure out what's going on? but, again, the parsing of the words, did he have the oxygen? did he not? it raises questions are they not telling us something? and yet, the good ne

jon lapook sat down with a chat with dr. fauci for "60 minutes." >> are you planning to vote in person? >> i'm going to try to vote in person. i like the atmosphere of going and voting. >> i think some people are afraid. >> if someone asks me, i'm 75 years old, i have ahypertension, and i'm a little bit concerned, alleviate your concern and do absentee ballot. >> but they could vote in person if they are careful. >> yes. >> dr. anthony fauci has been the voice of logic since the pandemic began. right now he's worried we're heading in the wrong direction. worldwide, the number of new cases is surging at an alarming rate as seen in this map by johns hopkins university. this week, russia reported a record number of infections, and cases are spiking in the uk, france and italy. >> when you have a million deaths and over 30 million infections globally, you cannot say that we're on the road to essentially getting out of this. so, quite frankly, i don't know where we are. it's impossible to say. >> what dr. fauci knows for sure is

cbs news chief medical jon lapookent dr. jon lapook asked dr. anthony fauci for this asked dr. anthony fauci for this sunday's "60 minutes." >> how bad would things have to get for you to advocate a national lockdown? >> they would have to get really, really bad. first of all, the country is fatigued with restrictions. so we want to use public health measures, not to get in the way of opening the economy, but to being a safe gateway to opening the economy. so instead of having an opposition, open up the economy, get jobs back, or shut down. no. put shut down away and say we're going to use public health measures to help us safely get to where we want to go. >> o'donnell: and there's much more of dr. lapook's interview with dr. fauci. that's this sunday on "60 minutes." tonight, there are growing questions about the man once known as america's mayor, rudy giuliani, and if he is being used by russia to influence the 2020 presidential campaign. we now know that giuliani met extensively with a man considered an active russian agent and sanctioned by the u.s. government. the intelli

jon lapook who is in new york. good evening, dr. lapook. let's talk about that. what are these risk factors for the president? what concerns you? >> reporter: well, we know that age and obesity-- he is technically obese by the last measurements we have-- those increase the risk of mortality and of hospitalization with covid-19. now, we know that in the united states, the mortality for the people over the age of 65 is 15% it's serious. the odds are statistically that he is going to do well. there's one thing that's predictable about coronavirus that it's unpredictable so he will be very closely watched. >> o'donnell: we have very few details about the president's medical history because the white house has just not released that much. we got a letter from his doctor saying he's taking vitamins, zinc, melatonin and was being treated with an experimental antibody cocktail. does that concern you at all that they are using an experimental drug on the president? >> reporter: well, it tells you that they are very, very concerned. it is experimental, and that means we ha

. >> joining me is jon lapook. doctor, three interventions with medicine and efforts to stabilize the breathing. >> we need more information. we need to know what does the chest ct show and does he have pneumonia and what do the blood tests show? are therein creases in the markers that that are showing he is perhaps later in the disease than we think. that he is in the inflammatory phase. the reason it's important. the two medicines he was given. those, it makes sense, you know, the idea of them is to decrease the viral load and in that first part of the disease, that makes a lot of sense is. even though the medicines are experimental, they are not proven to be safe and effective. still that makes sense and it was a decision his team made. the dexamethasone is a little different. because in the big new england journal article that was in july, it was shown to be effective in decreasing mortality significantly in people who needed a breathing tube and to a lesser extent, people on supplemental oxygen. it was not tho

as jon lapook pointed out.any patients you see a resur resurgenresurg resurgence a week or so down the line and as we've heard from many people who have been through this and thought they had come out the other side, months later, they can have lingering after effects that in many cases still haven't really been explained. as we keep pointing out, there is so much we still don't know about this virus. >> but at least right now, please pay attention to the science. the mask wearing is so important. >>> ahead, a white police officer is accused of murdering an unarmed black man in texas. we'll hear from the family of jonathan price was his name who say he was shot dead after he was breaking up a fight. but >>> my name is henry. i work in amazon. i saw climate change. we want to be sustainable. when you have a truck covering >>> we have much more news ahead. john dickerson will look at the president's staged return to the white house. you're watching "cbs this morning." that's why there's new dayquil severe honey.

jon lapook. and john dickerson. featuring jon batiste and stay homin'.the ed sullivan theater office building in new york city, it's stephen colbert! >> stephen: hey, everybody. welcome to "a late show." i am your host, stephen colbert. this-- this is a very unusual episode of the show. because, well, this is a very

jon lapook on assignment for "60 minutes." >> dr.s weekend americans face another surge in the covid-19 pandemic. infections have passed the eight million mark and are rising rapidly. there are more than 218,000 dead. during the course of the pandemic, dr. anthony fauci has been the physician most americans have relied upon for their information. but now, instead of worrying solely about developing vaccines or therapeutics, dr. fauci finds himself unhappily caught up in presidential politics, under protection from death threats, and forced to defend science itself. with 16 days until the election, we began our conversation with a question many have been asking. are you planning to vote in person? >> dr. anthony fauci: i'm gonna try to vote in person. i like the-- the atmosphere of going and voting. >> lapook: i think a lot of people want to vote in person, but they are afraid. >> fauci: if someone asked me," i'm 75 years old, i have hypertension and i'm a little bit concerned," alleviate your anxiety, do an absentee ballot, no proble

jon lapook te house white house has blocked many of his media appearances. he also said president trump thinks wearing a mask is a sign of weakness. >> were you surprised that president trump got sick? >> absolutely not. i was worried that he was going to get sick when i saw him in a completely precarious situation of crowded, no separation between people, and almost nobody wearing a mask. when i saw that on tv, i said, "oh, my goodness." >> reporter: asked today why he doesn't just fire fauci president trump took another swipe at the 79-year-old who has served six presidents. >> i don't want to hurt him. he's been there for about 350 years. i don't want to hurt him. >> reporter: but at his rally in arizona today the president then made fun of a wild pitch fauci threw months ago at a baseball game in washington. >> and he is a wonderful guy, i like him, he just happens to have a very bad arm. >> reporter: the president's attacks on dr. fauci are not sitting well with some in his own party. republican senator lamar alexander said "if more americans paid atten

jon lapook. good morning. how does this experimental treatment work exactly?> anthony, remember there are two phases. that first phase, about a week long, the virus is multiplying in somebody's body. in the second phase, that inflammatory phase, the body's immune system is overreacting to that virus attack. it's that overexuberant reaction that can cause so much damage. what you want to do is in the first week try to somehow decrease the amount of virus or effect of the virus. that's what this monoclonal antibody does. it prevents the virus from actually attacking and infecting a human cell and that with remdesivir are two approaches to try to decrease the viral effectiveness, the viral load and viral damage in that first week. >> we heard the president call it a cure. is it? >> it's too early to say that it's a cure. remember that there are symptoms. that's how somebody feels and signs. that's actual data. he says he's feeling well. i'm sure the president's doctors are happy about that. but remember he's on steroids which can mask symptoms, mask fever and mak

jon lapook on assignment for "60 minutes." >> lapook: 20 years ago, scientists stunned the world whennounced they had decoded the genes that make up a human being. they hoped to use that genetic blueprint to advance something called gene therapy which locates and fixes the genes responsible for different diseases. as we first reported last year, a clinical trial at the national institutes of health is doing exactly that, in an attempt to cure sickle cell anemia-- a devastating genetic disease that kills hundreds of thousands of people around the world every year. for 15 months, we followed the scientists, and patients, who are ushering in a genetic revolution. >> jennelle stephenson: i'm excited. >> ray stephenson: today is the big day. >> lapook: it's the day after christmas, 2017, and 27-year-old jennelle stephenson has come with her father and brother from florida to the national institutes of health, just outside washington, d.c. >> jennelle stephenson: good morning. >> lapook: she's one of a small group of patients to receive an infusion containing altered d.n.a. >> nurse: this i

jon lapook spoke with dr.bad would things have to get for you to advocate a national lockdown? >> they'd have to get really, really bad. first of all, the country is fatigued with restrictions. so we want to use public health measures, not to get in the way of opening the economy, but to being a safe gateway to opening the economy. so instead of having an opposition, open up the economy, get jobs back, or shut down. no. put shutdown away and say we're going to use public health measures to help us safely get to where we want to go. >> you can see all of dr. lapook's interview with dr. fauci tomorrow on "60 minutes." >>> president trump is holding campaign rallies in michigan and wisconsin today, even as coronavirus cases surge in those states. fresh off his own diagnosis, mr. trump held three rallies on friday. two in florida and one in georgia. in ft. myers, he promised to help seniors get past the virus. >> i'm moving heaven and earth to safeguard our seniors from the china virus to deliver life-saving thera

jon lapook. >> i'm not surprised that more than the lungs are affected, but i'm surprised on the extent of the virus how wicked it is. >> reporter: kayla developed cardiomyolathopy. it went off during our visit. >> some days i can handle it and some days it doesn't seem real and the other days it feels absolutely hopeless. >> it is truly insidious what this virus does to peoplesbodies. >> reporter: photographer diana barrett developed blurred vision. her doctor diagnosed her with glaucoma, apparently with long haulers that's not the only eye problem. >> we are now actually seeing many cases of covid demacular degeneration and other issues. >> reporter: diana is th online group of more than 100,000 volunteers who share their post covid symptoms. the group quickly mobilizes to stoke and support ongoing research. they provide a gold mine of data. >> we need to help the scientists. >> more women appear to be affected than men, which is an issue. some doctors are not taking women's complaints seriously. >> i got thrown like so many different types of medication, everybody thought it was anxi

jon lapook, dr.auci took the time to explain why his stance on masks changed. >> let's see if we can put this to rest once and for all. it became clear that cloth coverings, things like this here, and not necessarily a surgical mask or an n95. cloth coverings work. so now there's no longer a shortage of masks. number two, meta analysis studies show that, contrary to what we thought, masks really do work in preventing infection. >> no doubt. >> so no doubt. >> and there you go. this morning, we're in new york city. new york state continues to be really strict when it comes to keeping an eye out for large gatherings. there was supposed to be a wedding in brooklyn in an ultraorthodox community and the guest list was going to be as high as 10,000 people. the governor intervened on friday night and sent his officials there and said you can't have more than 50 people. >> yeah, david, it's being reported it's a rabbi's grandson. it was an open invitation to 10,000 people so really glad the governor stepped