norah. >> o'donnell: nikole killion, thank you. tonight, i'll be joined by gayle king and john dickerson for live coverage of the debate. that's beginning at 9:00 eastern. and there's much more of our interviews with both presidential candidates. that's this sunday on "60 minutes." tonight, we're following several new developments in the covid-19 pandemic. the mayor of chicago is imposing a 10:00 p.m. curfew starting tomorrow for bars, restaurants, and most businesses, as that city faces a new spike in cases. and the f.d.a. has just approved the first covid treatment. cbs' janet shamlian has more. >> reporter: breaking news tonight: a major milestone-- the f.d.a. approving the first and for coronavirus in the u.s., remdesivir, now available in hospitals nationwide after manufacturing ramped up earlier this year. you called it also a significant step. why is that? >> this is the first drug in the eight-month history of this pesky virus that is f.d.a. approved, which certainly has benefit, i think, if used in the right setting. the k

jamie. >> yuccas: nikole killion in washington, thanks so much.oronavirus crisis in this country is taking a dangerous turn. cases are spiking, an in at leat 41 states. the number of people hospitalized is also setting records. more than 83,000 new cases were confirmed friday. that is the worst day yet. cbs' danya bacchus has the latest. >> reporter: the coronavirus crisis is intensifying. the surge causing pain across much of the nation. 15 states have now reached a pandemic peak in hospitalizations, and daily infections nationwide spiking 273% since the start of september. >> it will no doubt overwhelm many of our health care systems in this country. >> reporter: in montana, the daily infection rate is up 500% in the past five weeks. ohio has more people hospitalized than at any other time during the pandemic. >> imagine if a bus, we had a fatal bus crash every week. would we act? yes. we would act. >> reporter: as the virus rages across the midwest, big ten football kicked off in the states where it's hitting the hardest without fans. >> we wil

norah. >> o'donnell: all right, nikole killion, thank you so much.'s turn now to the economic despair being felt nationwide. tonight, a hospital system in st. paul, minnesota, is closing, unable to pay its bills in the pandemic. 900 workers are going to lose their jobs, and in a sign of the times, the city wants to turn the hospital into a shelter for its growing number of homeless. this as tonight in washington hopes for a financial life line are fading. here's cbs' nancy cordes. >> reporter: white house whiplash-- just hours after calling off stimulus talks, president trump said he wants congress back at the bargaining table on a set of standalone bills. >> well, it's hard to see any clear sane path in anything that he's doing. >> reporter: house speaker nancy pelosi had been in talks with treasury secretary steve mnuchin over a comprehensive, $1.5 to $2 trillion package with funding for schools, testing, small businesses, and those federal unemployment benefits that lapsed in july. without it, economists warn the financial strain will only get wor

norah. >> o'donnell: all right, nikole killion, thank you so much. let's turn now to the economic despair being felt nationwide. tonight, a hospital system in st. paul, minnesota, is closing, unable to pay its bills in the pandemic. 900 workers are going to lse their jobs, and in a sign of the times, the city wants to turn the hospital into a shelter for its growing number of homeless. this as tonight in washington hopes for a financial life line are fading. here's cbs' nancy cordes. >> reporter: white house whiplash-- just hours after calling off stimulus talks, president trump said he wants congress back at the bargaining table on a set of standalone bills. >> well, it's hard to see any clear sane path in anything that he's doing. >> reporter: house speaker nancy pelosi had been in talks with treasury secretary steve mnuchin over a comprehensive, $1.5 to $2 trillion package with funding for schools, testing, small businesses, and those federal unemployment benefits that lapsed in july. without it, economists warn the financial strain will only get

we'll break it down with john dickerson and nikole killion.t was a different tone this time around, wasn't it? >> good morning. both campaigns are declaring victory, even though the candidates went after each other last night. the mute button was barely used, allowing for a calmer and more substantive debate. >> i've been congratulated by the heads of many countries on what we've been able to do. >> as covid cases rise across the country, president trump praised his administration's response and teased a vaccine. >> we have a vaccine that's coming. it's ready. it's going to be announced within weeks. and it's going to be delivered. >> he has no clear plan, and there's no prospect that there's going to be a vaccine available for the majority of the american people before the middle of next year. >> the former vice president tore into the president's handling of the pandemic. pointing to the more than 220,000 americans who have died. >> anyone who is responsible for that many deaths should not remain as president of the united states of america.

. >> this is going to be quite a debate, let's bring in nikole killion inside the debate hall in salt lake city and has been talking to representatives from each campaign. good evening, nicole. >> good evening, to you, norah. senator harris has been here for days preparing with close aides, her chief of staff tells me that her main goal tonight is to speak directly to the american people, and contrast what the biden campaign would do compared to the current administration. expect her to use her prosecutor chops to go after the vice president, especially on the pandemic. don't forget it was her team that insisted on these plexiglass barriers. >> o'donnell: all right, nikole killion, thank you, and i want to bring in cbs's paula reid quarantining at home after she was potentially exposed to covid while covering the white house. good to see you, paula. tell us what you know about the trump-pence campaign. >> good evening, norah. well cbs news has learned that the vice president has participated in three 90 minute sessions ahead of tonight. working along with florida attorney general pam

good evening, nikole. >> reporter: good evening, norah. the biden campaign says the former vice president will use tonight as another opportunity to speak directly to the american people and lay out his agenda. they view this debate as a test of prsidential temperament and say biden is prepared for whatever comes his way. they do expect the president will go after biden and his son hunter, but they think that's going to backfire. biden told reporters today he hopes the president plays by the rules. norah. >> o'donnell: all right, let's bring in cbs' paula reid, because she covers the white house and president trump. paula. >> reporter: good evening, norah. president trump heads into tonight's debate with little formal preparation. he said this week, though, that he insists that he gets plenty of practice by fielding questions from reporters nearly every day. now, senior campaign official says the president will try to focus, least some of tonight's discussion, on biden's son hunter, but many of his other advisers are encouraging the presid

cbs's nikole killion spoke to three generations of men to see where they stand. >> i'm 46, take it easy. >> each week demetrius short leads runners through nashville but it is the race for president that has him going the extra mile. >> have you all voted yet? >> yes. i voted, normally with me being in the military, i'm apolitical, pretty much an independent. >> which is why retired marine harold rucker didn't support president trump or hillary clinton four years ago. >> i pretty much voted for the libertarian. i couldn't see either one of those two. >> imagine if all those folks actually turned out to vote. >> this election the biden and trump campaigns are increasingly courting african-american men through ads. >> now it's our turn. >> our responsibility to take our power back. >> he wants everyone in america to have the opportunity towards success. >> and most recently in the last debate. >> nobody has done more for the black community than donald trump. criminal justice reform. prison reform. opportunity zones. >> we have to provide for economic opportunities, better education, bett

and several other events we should say are also planned across france paris based political analyst nikolic. plays the deadly incident does highlight the refugee crisis unfolding in france. it's too early to see what type of change was there with these refugees coming into france what kind of check this friends do how would they do it to see their background or these people coming from what are their beliefs or what are their motivations why they come in here 'd. do they belong to any specific organizations i think this that we shows that france does not do that it doesn't do it correctly innocent people which shouldn't be here if you are 20300000 people here illegally each year and i'm not even sick. talking about people coming illegally or is you are you going to help them. do you have jobs are you going to help them to learn french are you going to help them in the culture to appreciate the culture to earn the culture but there definitely is a major 1st of all problem which is the integration 3 people are coming in and there's not enough means to help them integrate but also the 1st musl

nikol pashinyan told the bbc that the region was facing assault from azerbaijan, turkey and what he callednning dispute over the territory which is officially part of azerbaijan, but run by ethnic armenians. 0ur correspondentjonah fisher sent this report. sirens ten days in, there is no sign of either armenia or azerbaijan easing up. in and around the disputed region of nagorno—karabakh, shells are falling on cities and on civilians. with people fleeing and having lost territory, armenia‘s prime minister is on the defensive. under international law, armenia has been illegally occupying nagorno—karabakh and the adjacent areas for more than 25 years. you can see why some people have very little sympathy for your plight... translation: that is not true. it is true. look at international law, look at the un general assembly resolutions. translation: there is no such international law that you are citing. everyone is citing the un general assembly resolutions but very few people, unfortunately, have read them. there isn‘t anything in it to say that armenia has occupied anything. that is not the

far both sides are attacking with extensive casualties, including civilians, armenian prime minister nikol pashinyan saying what is happening today as the war declared against the armenian people an existential threat we must use all means to defend ourselves, adding also by john is now firing on armenian soil in the town the knees for drones were spotted in shot down near the capital yet a van last week. turkey is aiding azerbaijan. he says with f 16 fighter jets in syrian rebel groups to fight as mercenaries following its playbook in libya. the new york times reports france and russia back these claims long issue this lake is being overlooked by the gathering together here today in solidarity with patriots >>on wednesday, thousands of armenians in la gathered at the is very consulate calling on the international community to intervene on thursday representative jackie spear adam schiff, frank pallone and 32 other members introduced a resolution 1165. >>condemning assad by john and denouncing turkey for its interference. france, germany, russia and the u.s. which co-chaired the oc human s

nikole killion was there. and it certainly felt different than the last debate. >> good morning.ice president mike pence and senator kamala harris interrupted each other a handful of times last night but, for the most part, this was a much calmer debate than what we saw last week. and both campaigns say they feel good about their candidate's performances. >> the american people have witnessed what is the greatest failure of any presidential administration in the history of our country. >> reporter: separated by plexiglass, kamala harris wasted no time talking about trump's downplay of the virus to, in his words, prevent a panic. >> how calm were you when your kids couldn't go back to school. how calm were you when your children couldn't see their parents because you were afraid they could kill them. >> reporter: vice president mike pence defended the administration. >> what i want the american people to know that from the very first day, president donald trump has put the health of america first. >> reporter: and said the biden/harris plan was nothing new. >> quite frankly, when

>> nikole, thank you. >>> ed o'keefe followed joe biden's event.he former vice president took questions on a wide range of issues. >> he did and made some revelations of his own. he said he'll have more to say on the future of the supreme court and answered questions on whether he'd take a covid-19 vaccine. his was far less contentious than the president's. questions about the pandemic topped voters' minds at the town hall featuring former vice president joe biden. for example, would he take a covid-19 vaccine? >> the body of sciences say that this is what is ready to be done and it's been tested, has gone through the three phases, yes, i would take it and i would encourage people to take it. >> reporter: would he mandate all americans get a vaccine? >> it depends on the state of the nature of the vaccine, when it comes out and how it's being distributed. >> reporter: and would he force infected parts of the country into lockdowns? >> you don't have to lock down if you're wearing the mask. >> reporter: under questioning by george stephanopoulos, bi

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nikole killion went on the campaign trail to talk with some of them. >> reporter: pat timmons goodsont felt like home. >> reporter: we caught up with the congressional candidate as she resumed in-person campaigning at this drive-in church service. >> y'all, let's pray with our feet and go out here and vote. >> reporter: her latest stop crisscrossing north carolina's 8th district, one of the most competitive in the country. >>> what do you see as the key issues in the race right now? >> health care, health care, health care. >> reporter: she got into the race after serving as the first black woman on the state supreme court, hoping to make history again. >>> you are one of a record number of women of color running. what does that mean to you? >> i'm proud. i am excited. i'm hopeful. i'm prayerful. at this time in our nation's history, women of color are offering themselves. >> reporter: a record 117 women of color are nominees for the house and senate this cycle. 84 democrats and 33 republicans. approximately half are african-american and more than a quarter hispanic. >> i am running f

nikole killion is at the white house with more on this. good morning. >> good morning to you, jeff.nd later today, president trump will hold rallies in michigan and wisconsin. even as coronavirus cases hit record levels. but the trump campaign says it is taking strong precautions for its events. president trump returned to the white house after a rally doubleheader in georgia. >> we're winning in florida. we're winning here. >> reporter: and florida where he brought up aide hope hicks who contracted the coronavirus nearly two weeks ago. right before he did. >> we can share a microphone now. >> reporter: at each stop, the president went after democratic rival joe biden making dubious claims and egging on supporters who put a new spin on an old chant. >> that biden family is corrupt. it's a corrupt family. i'll tell you something, though -- lock them up. you should lock them up. lock up the bidens. >> reporter: the president resurrected a "new york post" story that stirred controversy this week. the paper published what it claimed were emails allegedly taking from a laptop belonging t