romero a live are all of our us and she's assistant professor at the new mexico state university was by that i'm a scientist and i research responses to global climate change and how that response impact our ecosystems and the emission of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide i believe fungi it will help us save the world by understanding how fungi responded to i mean change we will be able to better plan in adapt for future climate brought by global climate change and who will be able to develop better medication strategies i live in disarray and i'm fascinated by desert i'm just i which in most cases are invisible and i wanted to ask what is a good way to engage people living in the desert to care for fungi when and there's no mushroom surround so she's in a complete different ecosystem there where you spend your days in the old growth forest and it's fascinating these things are kind of all over the planet what do you what do you think about that with with climate change global warming. well i think it's you know it's a continuum you know based on the amount of debris in the soi

states. new mexico was hard hit as university of new mexico ph.d.nt and fellow student discovered. >> it was somber. and we were picking up birds very quietly in our own respective bags and generally the only things were saying was just, incredulous at how many birds were there. >> some experts blame a early september cold snap when the temperature dropped 60 degrees in a single day. killing off insects. >> scott rashid runs the colorado avian, research and rehabilitation institute. he thinks that smoke and ash from unprecedented forest fires across the west may also be a factor. >> outside for all the ash coming out of the sky, and looking at these poor birds and thinking about how small their lungs are, to me, my guess is that they just, they can't breathe anymore. >> this is another migratory sparrow. >> reporter: the bird avian conservation scientist. take a look and tell me what you see? >> i see western greebs, and american white pelican, and canada geese, not surprisingly. >> reporter: he is worried about next spring when the birds fly back t

states. new mexico was hard hit as university of new mexico ph.d.enna mccoloug and nick discovered. >> it was somber. and we were picking up birds very quietly in our own respective bags and generally the only things we were saying, how many birds were there. >> reporter: some blame an early cold snap when temperatures dropped 60 degrees in a day killing off insects. >> there are no flying insects. no food for the birds to eat and they are more likely to succumb to starvation. >> reporter: scott runs the colorado avian research and rehabilitation institute. he thinks smoke and ash from unprecedented forest fires across the west may also be a factor. >> for all the ash coming out of the sky and looking at these poor birds and thinking about how small their lungs are, to me, my guess is that they just can't breathe anymore. >> this is another migratory sparrow. >> reporter: arvind panjabi is the avian conservation scientist. tell me what you're seeing. >> oh, i see some western greebs out there, the american white pelican, canada geese. >> reporter: h

mexico. the united states has reported a daily record of coronavirus cases john hopkins university said there were more than $90000.00 new infections in the last 24 hours the us is the worst affected country in the world is now nearing 9000000 cases since the pandemic began. staying in the u.s. with just days to go now until one of the most contested elections in recent u.s. history more people than ever have voted early and and president of numbers of under 30 s are turning out to cast their votes as well we're going to take a look now at some 1st time voters from both sides of the political divide. this is all about her future and now ella has just turned 18 she's old enough to have her say. the 1st time employing us for such a crucial election. and it's really going to determine a lot about how the country's going to evolve in the next 4 years and even after that so you know it's little bit nerve wracking but i'm deathly super excited that i can take part and i can help in any way that i can traditionally young americans have been turned out to vote in huge numbers but things look different this time around one week b

university. dr. reiner, 31 states with increase in case counts and hospitalizations. and those 31 states, as you can see across this country. cases in new mexico doubling in the past two weeks. the entire midwest seeing a spike. when the president says, now obviously i showed him saying this month after month after month, but this time when he says we're rounding the turn, anything that backs that up? >> no. he also says there's a light at the end of the tunnel, which is clearly an oncoming train. we had 68,000 new cases today, the highest total since july 30th. sometime tomorrow, we'll pass the 1 million case mark for october. so in 17 days, we will have added another million cases. just to give you some perspective, it took 100 days for us to get to the first million positive cases. and now every 17 days. so we're clearly not rounding the corner. when you tell your followers that masks aren't important or we're just about there and everything is over and you bring together these super spreader events, you prolong the agony for the country. and the responsible thing to do is to tell the country what they need to do to get through this safely

state. and there is more modeling, more date that shows that things will continue to get worse, unfortunately here in mexico. new data from a model. a very influential model from the universityon is suggesting that the overall death toll here in mexico by february 1st could be nearly 130,000 deaths. mexico already has one of the highest death tolls from the coronavirus of any country around the world. and so over the next several weeks, this is what we're going to be watching. where do the number of new cases go? do they continue to rise and how do health officials respond? mexico has been hesitant to put in very strict quarantine measures across the country. different states have done different levels of quarantine measures. if the number rises here in mexico the question is, do those quarantine measures increase, and that's something that the government has been hesitant to do because of the economic impact that's been so devastating to so many in this country. matt rivers, cnn, mexico city. >>> countries in south america are also struggling with the virus, colombia is fast approaching 1 million cases and 30,000 deaths, of course to johns hopkins university. vice president

state's top health official worries beds are getting scarce. new mexico human services secretary is with us. 74% up for hospitalizations, the number itself sounds hard and high. listen here to dr. john fleming from university of new mexico hospital putting it in context for us. >> things are bad now in the hospital setting. we're full. we ran out of space in every way you can imagine this week and it was a little bit scary. >> it sounds a little bit scary. walk us through the crisis in your state right now. >> well, john, i think i would echo words of dr. fauci earlier about the slightly higher baseline. we were doing very, very well three, four, five weeks ago with test positivity rates in the 2 to 3% range, case counts, in 6 to 8 per 100,000. over the past five weeks, we have seen a very rapid up tick as one would expect with a virus like covid-19. >> what is it. obviously you're in a better part of the country but it is getting cooler everywhere, especially in mountain areas, northern part of your state. is it the cool, is it college campuses, is it all of the above in. >> yeah, you know, we believe it is just people being with other people, breathing the same air which there are lots of opportunities t