this picture of the rose garden. see it?ttendees that are named have, already, tested positive after attending this white house event for supreme court nominee judge amy coney barrett. including, kellyanne conway, and i don't think he's on there, bill stepien. the campaign manager. he was there. we're waiting to hear about governor -- former governor of new jersey, chris christie. and there are a lot of other people that were there. we don't know what their situation is. we've heard some people have tested, and tested negative. does that mean that they really don't have it? maybe. why? oh, it never ends. you always keep the speculation going. no, it is science. testing is not always exact. okay? it takes time to manifest. it's one of the reasons we started looking back and then the president gets it from her and tested positive the next day? there are two problems with that, one, it does not usually happen like that. did they really not test the president for 24 hours after finding out someone that close to him being sick? a

a ceremony in on off supreme court nominee amy coney beret which took place in the white house rose garden last saturday several people who attended that largely mosque free event have since tested positive house speaker nancy pelosi center best wishes to the president but said this was a lesson to be learnt this is tragic it's very sad but it also is something that again is going into crowds unmasked and all the rest the sort of a brazen in the taishan for something like this to happen it's sad that it did but nonetheless hopeful that it will be a transition to a saner approach to what this virus is all about. ok you know sort of my condo is in maryland let's talk about the politics of this 1st of all because we need to try and work out how both sides of the political divide are trying to adjust to what is really uncharted territory in many words. well that is both sides attempting to work out exactly how the course of the political process has changed to the election coming up in november but before i get into that drop if i could just mention we've just heard steps of the president's do

it's a lot to keep track of, chris, to your point going back to rose garden event. chris: that then raises a complete separate question because democrats are -- i think the only way you can say it are trying to use this outbreak among members of the senate, ron johnson who wasn't at that event but he has also tested positive, are trying to use that to say, hey, let's slow down on the hearing for amy coney barrett, let's slow down on the confirmation of amy coney barrett. obviously they are doing everything they can to try to push this past the election and try to -- to blockade her confirmation as a supreme court justice, the judiciary committee under the chairmanship of lindsey graham says we are going ahead with this and even raised the possibility of virtual hearings. there's been a lot of hearings in the senate that have been virtual where everybody is not in person. there's going to be a battle over that as democrats try to say, you know, there's a health risk here. we just can't have the confirmation and can't have debate and vote on the floor. there's a certa

my governor chris christie becomes the latest to test positive for coverage 19 having attended rose garden events now thought to be a super spreader of the disease in the senate to suspend its legislative work for 2 weeks. the fight for me going to care about intensifies with both as a by john and i may be accused of targeting civilians. taking a step towards peace sudan's government and great side a deal of sunshine in the agreement. and the world athletics comes to kenya with one of the 1st major sporting events in africa since the outbreak of the content. so the team of doctors treating the u.s. president for covert 900 say they are cautiously optimistic with his progress and have suggested that he began showing signs of the virus on wednesday afternoon which he did then previously disclosed double trump was admitted to the walter reed national military medical center in maryland on friday he's been. receiving experimental treatment for the disease i well go to say he's doing very well multiple reports are quoting sources say that some of the trauma so vital signs of the last 24 hours w

a few people who attended the rose garden event on september 26th wore man 6 and the chairs were space close together president trump was announcing the nomination of amy coney barrett to the supreme court but as the guests mingled and chatted amongst themselves the corona virus was silently creeping through the air it is for all intents and purposes a super spreader event we have multiple people that are affected there now we're seeing blossoming chains of transmission that probably emanate from there so this will be something that will be recognized as a super spreader that when the story of 1000 years at least 8 people who were there have now tested positive for covert 19 besides trump and 1st lady maloney a trump they include utah republican senator mike lee who was seen hugging and interacting with other people north carolina republican senator tom tillis trump advisor kellyanne conway and an unidentified reporter covering the event the latest to announce testing positive is republican former new jersey governor chris christie who also helped trump prepare for tuesday's debate not

following an event at the white house rose garden last week a number of prominent republicans have also tested positive. including 2 senators from the judiciary committee who are due to consider trump's new nomination for the supreme court. the trump is reportedly on the mend his chief of staff says the next 2 days will be critical in the president's fight against covert 19. u.s. election seem imo is joined by stacy we just heard the president says he's doing well he's going to change is he going to change his us use tools wearing a face mask well he could have taken the opportunity to be a different man and he did not take it he think the the staff at the hospital and he made it sound like this disease is just something that just happened to him and didn't acknowledge the fact that he did not wear a mask and perhaps he did not take proper precautions with these really big rallies and contrasts and so i think that a lot of people whether you are a democrat or republican would have liked to see the president identify with people who are struggling with the disease more and to express the

super-spreader event: more than seven people at the rose garden last saturday have now tested positive, the latest, former new jersey governor chris christie. the urgent scramble to contact trace. covid on capitol hill: the senate majority leader says it's time for the senate to clear out after three senators test positive, what this means for the confirmation battle over the supreme court nominee. 2020, america decides. days from the v.p. debate, what's being done to keep the number twos safe, and the former campaign rival hitting the trail for joe biden. n.f.l. time-out: another game called off after superstar quarterback cam newton tests positive. so what does it mean for the season? the gam>> this is a special edif the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell, reporting from the nation's capital. >> o'donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us. we're going to begin our special edition of the broadcast with breaking news tonight. president trump is trying to convince americans that he is getting better, tweeting out a four-minute video of himself at

we counted about 150 people in the rose garden at that event. very few masks, little social distancing at all. this was a happy occasion for folks, so there were lots of greetings and handshaking. people were congregating -- >> people were still shaking hands at the white house? >> they were. >> i haven't shaken any hands since probably february or march. >> i saw a couple of elbow touches, but, yes, there was a lot of contact and movement. and it just seemed like just a normal time except for the handful of masks in the audience. >> so you think you're fine? that's what we want to know. >> i hope i'm fine.

rose garden event over the weekend, this is a point of contention.he people in red there have been diagnosed as positive. and then you've got mike pence in the yellow right now. as we look ahead, he has a debate coming up on wednesday of this week. and i'm wondering if you could chime in, would you advise him otherwise? do you think that he should be debating on wednesday, because tested positive? >> vice president pence should be in quarantine. he should not be around anyone at all, much less traveling anywhere at the moment. he has high-level exposure that close contact is defined as six feet apart for at least 15 minutes. it looks like he meets those criteria just by that one photo alone. much less we should mention the rose garden ceremony wasn't just the ceremony outside. there was also a private indoor event as well where i would assume close contact occurred as well and these are also individuals that are not only not wearing masks, but are shaking hands. they might be hugging, kissing, and engaging in other dangerous behavior as well. vice pr

next the california pastor who also caught covid at the white house rose garden during an event. >>> plus, santa clara county gearing up for indoor businesses. straight ahead for you the time line for reopening. >> being back in town is really great. having a solid place to stay is definitely a blessing. >> thousands of evacuees return home in the glass fire zone. next, what kept many away despite being back at home. "today in the bay" starts right now. >>> and a good tuesday morning to you. thank you for joining us. i'm marcus washington. we'll have a look at that commute coming up in just a bit. first let's start out with the forecast. it's a terrific tuesday, kari. how is it looking out there for us? >>> it looks pretty terrific today. it's going to be a little bit cooler as we take a live look outside in san jose. we're starting out all clear here and our temperatures in the upper 50s will lead into some upper 70s by lunch time if you're planning on heading outside. we are going to see some of our high temperatures in the low 80s for the south bay but some upper 80s for the south

i hear a lot of talk about the rose garden ceremony for amy coney barrett.prior when i walked into the white house complex prior to sitting in the rose garden. but we're also hearing that bill stepien and the campaign manager and head of the republican party have contracted the virus and neither one of them were at the rose garden. so, look, i don't think it's as simple as one event and i'm not sure in the testing protocols. if you test negative on a wednesday, but then you start with your symptoms later in the day and then test positive on thursday, how that occurs. i'm not a physician or someone who runs these tests, but, you know we have to look at that i think to understand. if hope hicks was feeling ill on wednesday coming back from minnesota, but provided a negative test earlier in the day, how do we know when that begins to grow and begins to manifest itself? >> the president as you know has been criticized for not wearing a mask and talking down, people who do for holding indoor rallies where there isn't a lot of social distancing and for playing dow

more than 120 people were in the rose garden at the time. we know many of knows who have become infected were among those present there. so it really raises some new questions about whether they did anything. we still don't know from meadows whether the president was tested every day. the white house hasn't said when his last negative test happened as well. we're still trying to get to those answers and hopefully getting a chance to talk to his doctor at some point today, but no indication that that will happen either. >> and from the video we just looked at, we can say senator mike lee, who tested positive, is a hugger. he's hugging everyone in sight. i mean, even if they weren't wearing masks, it's so unusual to see people hugging in this day and age. nobody around us hugs for, you know, seven months now. >> and andrea, to interrupt very briefly, you make an important point. beyond the interactions you see right there, meadows said at this point they've finished their contact tracing, we're told by white house officials, they've not identi

the vice president was at a rose garden event just in front of mike lee. fewer than fix feet, close contact, but he's going to debate on wednesday night and then going back to in person campaigning from a national security perspective, reconcile that with the priorities. when the president is in the hospital. >> right. so that's exactly the point. so mike pence is not just the vice president. he holds the office of the vice president. that office from a national security perspective is what we call our redundancy. you have a president and then a spare. it's as simple as that. you want the vice president, especially when the vice president is ill, you know, he may not be very ill, but especially when the president is ill, you want the vice president to protect himself because of the role he plays in america's national security, in america's transfer of power. so i think, i wouldn't treat those two events as the same. if mike pence continues to test well, leading up to the debate, he probably can go to the debate because he's probably not infected. but the r

of these, 13 were in attendance at the september 26th rose garden event.president pence in last night's debate defending that rose garden event that may have sparked the ongoing outbreak at the white house. >> if i may say that rose garden event, a great deal of speculation about it. my wife karen and i were there and a lot of those were actually tested for coronavirus and it was an outdoor event that all of our scientists regularly advise. but the difference here, joe biden and kamala harris talk about mandates not only with the coronavirus but a government takeover of health care, the green new deal. all government control. we're about freedom and respecting the freedom of the american people. >> let's talk about respecting the american people. you respect the american people when you tell them the truth. you respect the american people when you have the courage to be a leader speaking of those things that you may not want people to hear but they need to hear so they can protect themselves but the administration stood on the information if you had as a p

he also attend today rose garden event that dr.nthony fauci has dubbed a superspreader. >> and was part of that team to help the president prepare for that debate. paulo sandoval, we are so glad he's out and hopefully feeling good. thank you so much. >>> still to come, the president of the university of notre dame facing backlash following his covid-19 diagnosis. why a student petition is calling for him to resign. taking california for a ride. companies like uber, lyft, doordash. breaking state employment laws for years. now these multi-billion-dollar companies wrote deceptive prop 22 to buy themselves a new law. to deny drivers the rights they deserve. no sick leave. no workers' comp. no unemployment benefits. vote no on the deceptive uber, lyft, doordash prop 22. one ride california doesn't want to take. >>> welcome back. the president of the university of notre dame attended the amy coney barrett rose garden superspreader event without a mask, and now he has tested positive for covid-19, and he's facing backlash and calls for h

a ceremony in on off supreme court nominee amy coney beret which took place at the white house rose garden last saturday several people who attended that largely mosque free event have since tested positive house speaker nancy pelosi sent to best wishes to the president but said this was a lesson to be learnt this is chad it's very sad but it also is something that again going into crowds unmasked and all the rest the sort of a brazen invitation for something like this to happen it's sad that it did but nonetheless hopeful that it will be a transition to a saner approach to what this virus is all about the white house doctor has confirmed the president received one dose of an experimental drug regeneration it has not been through final clinical trials and was administered on what is called a compassionate use basis this is the only way a drug and not approved by the f.d.a. can be administered to a patient who is not part of a clinical trial. ok let's not talk to my condo in maryland might you were outlining in your report there be events that brought us to this situation with president tru

, everybody in the rose garden up. there you see it right there. you see where senator mike lee is circled and you see right in front of him is the vice president of the united states. neither of them wearing masks at this point. mike pence is supposed to be doing a debate -- a democratic -- with the democratic vice presidential nominee, kamala harris. there's mike pence right there, right in front of mike lee, who has been confirmed with coronavirus. jane jay, the theory is, or at least the guidance from the center for disease control is that if you've been in close touch with someone who has coronavirus, you quarantine for at least 14 days, right? >> yeah, that's right. and so, and what is close contact mean, right? that's unmasked within 6 feet of somebody and for longer than 15 minutes. so it's distance and it's duration and it's unmasked. you know, looking at that image that you're showing, wolf, it looks like that does fit the criteria. and again, you quarantine irrespective of a test. a lot of people say, well,

i was watching the video of this rose garden event, dr. gupta, and i saw all of those -- there's kellyanne conway -- all those people sitting there. no masks. no social distancing. and now, we have several people, members of our government, if not elected officials, advisers to the president, all, sitting there, includeth attorning the general of the united states, chief of staff, thom tillis, who's now tested positive. he is wearing a mask, by the way, though. and kellyanne conway, now, the breaking news. has tested positive for covid-19. what is going on, sanjay? >> well, i mean, first of her, the people who are newly diagnosed. just having talked to so many people who received that diagnosis, it's jarring for people, you know, because it, suddenly, makes it very real. and statistically, chances are, people are going to recover requeand be okay but it is very jarring. don, to your point, i think we're starting to be able to describe this as a potential super-spreader event that occurred. it was outside, which was beneficial. but as you m

on september 19th a week before the rose garden ceremony, 18 football players tested positive and 40 are in quarantine. this is not a good time to have the campaign manager sidelined 31 days before the election. this morning donald trump remains commander in chief, us officials tell me there is no plan to transfer power to the vice president. the following statement, there has been no change, us military stands ready to defend our country and interest, no change to the readiness or capability of our armed forces, national command structure is in no way affected by this announcement. reaction from around the globe was swift, donald trump the first lady tested positive, friends and foe alike weighing in. british prime minister boris johnson led his nation when battling the virus from the hospital. >> i think we all want to send our best wishes to the president and the first lady. i've done that this morning as you can imagine. >> officials tell me no chance the military's foster around the world, army soldiers in syria wishing the president well and focused on their mission. >> lucas t

following an event at the white house rose garden last week a number of prominent republicans have also tested positive. including 2 senators from the community who are due to consider trump's new nomination for the supreme court. though trump is reportedly on the mend his chief of staff says the next 2 days will be critical in the president's fight against covert 19. u.s. election team imo is joined by stacy we just heard the president says he's doing well he's going to change is he going to change his attitude towards wearing a face mask well he could have taken the opportunity to be a different man and he did not take it he thanked the the staff at the hospital and he made it sound like this disease is just something that just happened to him and didn't acknowledge the fact that he did not wear a mask and perhaps he did not take proper care precautions with these really big rallies and contrasts and so i think that a lot of people whether you are a democrat or republican would have liked to see the president identify with people who are struggling with the disease more and to express

we know they're trying to do it based on the rose garden ceremony on saturday. i don't know how much they are doing it. we know the people in new jersey got a letter, the president was positive when he did that event in new jersey. they got a letter. they basically been told to go to the cdc website. but it is a level of concern and anxiety. as you point out a lot of people will go out and get tested. that does not mean necessarily anything if it comes back negative because it can take several days to come back positive. so you know you are looking at a lot of different viral dynamics and how this all works through this one example here. >> doctr. sanjay gupta, you are amazing. 24 hours a day and always on time. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> this is a complete mess. it is horrible for the president and his wife and family. shameful that it happened. it did not just happen to them. it happened to us, too. he's the president of the united states and i raises all kinds of governmental concerns, national security. is it more at risk now given how he and thes

an updated report, two people so far having tested positive from the rose garden event.it's up to six people. not only six senators, mike lee and thom tillis, but the president of notre dame university and ronnie mcdaniel traveling with the president. >> it might be more feasible to do contact tracing at a fund-raiser event where you have names or at the rally in duluth or some other events might be close to impossible. >> that's absolutely right. >> nbc's cori coffin in bedminster, new jersey. thank you. >>> we have more to tell you about. a new report from the national academy of medicine lays out a plan for distributing the vaccine in four phases. health care workers and people with underlying conditions would be first followed by teachers, child care workers, and children. the cdc will use this report to make its final distribution plan. >>> the michigan supreme court struck down governor gretchen whitmer's orders saying she drew from a 1985 law that's understand constitutional. her covid restrictions will remain in effect for 21 days. >>> the grand ole opry in nashv

who else within their now orbits outside of the rose garden ceremony may be coming back positive. there is a real medical investigation that goes into this. but i think it has become clear if your point that that event on saturday was a super spreader event of some sort. we don't know exactly who, why, was there other sort of ancillary events, satellite events that could have worsened it even. people may get together not just at that ceremony but then go inside together. who knows. but that is the sort of investigation typically by public health department probably now in conjunction with the white house medical team. >> and you also underscore there are other people in the proximity, but perhaps they don't have access to the kind of testing that gives you instant or near instant results. they may be in the category of they have to wait another ten days, so you don't really know for a long time all the other people who could potentially be spreading to others. let me bring in ryan nobles, hey ryan, the president has said that he gets tested every day for covid. and dr. gupta was u

on monday he held another rose garden event with vice president mike pence and members of congress. an administration official says the pences tested negative. top aide hope hicks later tested positive. the president's adult children and their spouses so far testing negative. during the debate they refused to wear masks as required even when reminded bay cleveland clinic doctor. two people leading the president's re-election effort also now testing positive. trump campaign manager bill stepien and rnc chairwoman ronna mcdaniel. >> and add to that list overnight you had trump's body man nick luna, who works in close proximity to the president, bloomberg is reporting that he had tested positive. and it gets even muddier because he is married to one of jared kushner's main assistant, these two senators who were there at the event have tested negative, ted cruz and josh hawley. cruz was not at the event, but hawley was sitting next to tillis. cruz interacted with senator mike lee who tested positive for the virus. >> again, both negative there for those two. we want to bring in kathy pa

following an event at the white house rose garden last week a number of prominent republicans have also tested positive. including 2 senators from the judiciary committee who are due to consider trump's new nomination for the supreme court. though trump is reportedly on the mend his chief of staff says the next 2 days will be critical in the president's fight against covert 19. joining us now is our correspondent in washington greetings carolina we just heard the president say he's doing well did he also defend his decision to continue containing without a mask. well in this video of the 2nd one he released from the hospital his 70 trying to kill the room morris we heard yesterday saying that his health condition was quite serious we don't know though if this is going to change anything on his position towards the measures to stop the infections in the states like wearing a mask or keeping keeping social distance we have to consider that the mask has almost become a political symbol in this country trump has treaties ice the mask and even made fun of joe biden for example during the pre

it was an event that was held in the rose garden. it was a rose garden that was packed. people seated shoulder to shoulder, virtually nobody there wearing masks. this has been routine. >> now joining us by phone is the republican national committee woman from california, supporter of president trump. we are just weeks from the general election. the president had a full week of campaigning planned. first tell me, were you even surprised by this after we learned about hope hicks testing positive? >> i was surprised by it because of some of the other people around the president like mark meadows tested negative today. we can't draw conclusions about how the president was exposed by whom and when. that would be rampant speculation and irresponsible. >> okay. let's talk about the fact that we saw all of the people gathered in the rose garden. what does president trump need to do going forward? we all like to assume he will remain asymptomatic and that he and everyone will be fine, recover, be healthy. what would he need to do going forward for his campaign? you know there wou

monday he was in washington holding events on the south lawn of the white house and in the rose garden. he also helped debate prep -- he held debate prep sessions with several others who have since also tested positive now. on tuesday, he flew to cleveland, ohio, for the presidential debate with joe biden. then flew back to d.c. the next day, mr. trump traveled quite a bit, holding a private fund recognizer in minneapolis, minnesota, and attending a crowded campaign rally in duluth. later that night, one of his top aides, hope hicks, began feeling sick. on thursday, hicks tested positive for coronavirus, but president trump still went to bedminster, new jersey, for a fundraiser. the white house press secretarisecretary defended his decision to go. >> it was deemed safe for the president to go. he socially distance. it was an outdoor event and was deemed safe. >> when he returned to the capitol, he confirmed hope hicks' diagnosis. early on friday, mr. trump tweeted that he and the first lady had tested positive for covid-19. >>> pluresident trump's conditi could have an impact on the pr

hashtags like rose garden massacre and gop superspreaders are trending right now. however, some lawmakers say we need to put differences aside and be supportive. >> this is a day to pray for his recovery. and recognize that there are 200,000 people who have died so far, 7 million have contracted this horrific disease. and it's real. and my heart goes out to everybody suffering right now. and to the president and his family. reporter: also despite the online criticism there's also millions of people showing their love and support for the president including the children. donald trump jr. sharing this pic of his dad says, quote, i'm humbly asking you pray for health and well being of my father and the first lady. so a lot of ongoing reaction to all of this on social media. from sympathy and concern to criticism. arthel. arthel: christina coleman in los angeles. thank you. ♪ eric: former vice president joe biden's campaign has been polling negative advertising after the president's covid diagnosis. mr. biden say he's going forward with campaigning this while the presi

nomination just 16 days since she was formally nominated in that event at on the rose garden of the white house and no it looks as if the vote could well take place

after attending a september event in the rose garden.rie is the head of harvest christian fellowship in riverside and attend add prayer march in washington, d.c., with vice president mike pence. he also attended the rose garden ceremony announcing president trump's supreme court nominee. multiple people within the president's inner circle who attended the rose garden indoor/outdoor event have tested positive for covid. press secretary kayleigh mcenany and the two top assistants joining the list of several high-level staffers also testing positive. >>> now to the south bay, live pictures from downtown san jose, and there is good news. santa clara county getting ready to allow businesses to resume indoor operations. but when that will happen really still not set in stone just yet. "today in the bay's" kris sanchez is live for us with that possible time line this morning. kris? okay, we'll get to kris -- here we go. >> reporter: that could change as early as next week. and that news was as well received as a free dessert last night with som

in of course you remember the rose garden is the place that super spreader event that happened were 12 people, at least 12, rather, they had tested positive for covid-19 after that so they are having that at the rose garden, we are hearing tonight, and sources are telling us that hundred will be there. we are also hearing that the seats will be socially distanced, so anyone who is seated will be socially distanced, and then masks will be required. i can tell you i've heard about masks being wired there come you know, since the president has recovered from covid, and i did not see a lot of people wearing masks. it will be interesting to see what happens. >>> required but not enforced. all right, thank you. >>> this just in, the battleground state of wisconsin will not be extending its deadline to count mail in ballots. the supreme court sided with republicans in this case, today justices refused to reinstate a lower court order, calling for ballots to be counted six days after november 3. democrats argued the pandemic is grounds for extending the deadline. >>> still ahead, and stream

administration and the fingers pointing at the rose garden events yesterday. the supreme court nominee was being announced but tracing has to go well beyond just an event and you wonder who's organizing it is making. well we've got an answer to that but not whether it's actually being done the doctors said saturday that the white house was in overall supervision off the contact tracing for people and elements that may have come close to the president they say that this is being done in conjunction with the centers for disease control the c.d.c. the see now that being said off to that meeting at the rose garden last saturday president trump also traveled to a number of then you see had a debate on tuesday night he traveled to various states including new jersey on thursday now authorities in those states that he visited insistent that they have not yet been contacted by the white house in terms of contact tracing meshes they are being left on their own to try and sort it out on their own basis the new jersey governor for example has launched a tracing process f

following an event at the white house rose garden last week a number of prominent republicans have also tested positive. including 2 senators from the judiciary committee who are due to consider trump's new nomination for the supreme court. vote trump is reportedly on the mend his chief of staff says the next 2 days will be critical in the president's fight against covert 19. joining us now is our correspondent karen leaders from morning in washington greetings carol you know we just heard the president say he's doing well did he also defend his decision to continue containing without a mask well in this video of the 2nd one he released from the hospital his 70th trying to kill the room or as we heard a yesterday saying that his health condition was quite serious we don't know if though if this is going to change anything on his position towards the measures to stop the infections in the states like wearing a mask or keeping keeping a social distance we have to consider that the mask has almost become a political symbol in this country trying to trade as i say the mask and even made fun

there was headlines made when senator mike lee, who tested positive after that rose garden ceremony, spoke at the hearing without a mask before putting one back on. his office said today that the attending physician in congress said another test was not necessary for him. but some senators did not show up including senator kamala harris, at least not in person. they were joining by remote. she made a point of saying she had asked the chairman, senator lindsey graham before testing before the hearing. here's hour senator graham addressed that later. >> could you explain what cdc compliant means? >> it means that the room is set up social distancing regarding the virus that the architect of the capital measured the space and as to me, i was tested a week ago friday, had brief contact with senator lee, i was negative. >> so, terry, you heard it today with us, senator graham saying they were compliant with cdc guidelines today. >> reporter: cdc come mreent, but democrats were looking for me. in part because there is a coronavirus outbreak associated with this nomination. the event at the

attorney general bill barr was at an event at the white house rose garden a week ago she has since tested positive for the virus and so to republican senator mike lee seen here shaking hands touching and hugging people at the same event. with an election to win trump has been on the road to addressing voters. but he hasn't always want to face mask or followed social distancing god lines. outside of the volta reed hospital trump supporters have been gathering to show their support for the president. but with a month until the election trumps illness has thrown his campaign into uncharted territory. and if donald trump hopes to stay in office he's going to have to beat the coronavirus 1st. and still with us from washington d.c. is the w. correspondence to fund the month so chef and we saw in that report numerous people in trump's inner circle have now tested positive for covert 19 did his physician say anything about where the president and the others could possibly have been infected. you know he stayed away from this because this is of course highly public political it's it's problematic

senators. >> yep. >> who are exposed in the rose garden. to some extent, by the spread of the virus through the super spreader events that were allowed to happen because of this homicidal negligence. >> it was -- it wasn't just allowed to happen. it was, you know, put forward, it was supported, it was, you know, created because of a different reality that the president was trying to project and has been all along throughout this pandemic. carl bernstein, i appreciate your thoughts. >> one quick thing. for the press and for democrats and republicans alike on capitol hill, it is essential that in the next 24, 36, 48 hours, whatever it takes, that we learn the realtimeline of the president's illness and when it was -- and his testing, every test that he has taken. it is essential to the national security of the united states that we find the answers to these questions and every reporter covering him should be dedicated to this, and every decent senator and congressman should be committed to this. >> we are going to discuss more about the natio

it was an event that was held in the rose garden. it was a rose garden that was packed. people seated shoulder to shoulder virtually nobody there wearing masks. this has been routine. this is the way -- i mean, i was out at the debate in cleveland and you, you know, you saw the president's staff. he had 20 seats set aside for family and advisers. and almost none of them were wearing masks. at one point somebody from the cleveland clinic had to come in and hand out masks to the president's family and supporters. it's almost as a badge of honor that the president and his senior staff have almost never been seen wearing masks. i mean only a handful of times have we seen the president himself wearing a mask let alone his top advisers. this is -- i go to the white house quite frequently. there are signs as you enter the white house complex that say, maintain social distancing, six feet apart. you go inside that white house complex and as a matter of course, you know, the press, you know maintains social distance and wears mavenlgs but do not see the same thing happening by an

a ceremony in on off supreme court nominee amy coney beret which took place in the white house rose garden last saturday several people who attended that largely mosque free event have since tested positive house speaker nancy pelosi center best wishes to the president but said this was a lesson to be learnt. this is tragic it's very sad but it also is something that again going into crowds unmasked and all the rest the sort of a brazen invitation for something like this to happen it's sad that it did but nonetheless hopeful that it will be a transition to a saner approach to what this virus is all about the white house doctor has confirmed the president received one dose of an experimental drug regeneration it has not been through final clinical trials and was administered on what is called a compassionate use basis this is the only way a drug and not approved by the f.d.a. can be administered to a patient who is not part of a clinical trial my kind of al-jazeera but. let's get more with rosen jordan in virginia roseland obviously this is an experimental drug so all eyes are on walter ree

he was also at that event in the rose garden on saturday.has also tested positive. he was reportedly spotted getting into a vehicle with hope hicks. and the latest person, another senior us politician to test positive for covid—i9, senator ron johnson, a republican who heads the senate homeland security committee, was diagnosed on friday. a spokesman said mrjohnson was feeling healthy, and not experiencing any symptons, but would now go into isolation. and they gave no indication as to where the senator may have aquired the virus. and to add to that list, chris christie who did debate prep for the president ahead of that contentious debate, has also tested positive for coronavirus. you‘re watching bbc news. good evening. donald trump‘s medical team has said he‘s "doing very well" — as they gave an update on his health a short time ago outside the hospital where he is being treated for covid—i9. dr sean conley said the president was not on oxygen or having difficulty breathing and was in good spirits and walking around. the white house descri

a central concern is the rose garden event saturday for judge amy coney barrett. a number of people who were there have, now, tested positive. including, two senators, republicans, on the senate judiciary committee. obviously, fundamental to her nomination. and what did we see there? some masks. many without. very tight together. exactly what you're not supposed to do. so, if this was the event, not hope hicks, that's a long time. that was last saturday. how many more people were exposed? how many more did the president expose? how big a circle are they drawing around the president and this event for contact tracing? and, of course, all of this was kept secret. you heard nothing about that saturday event. nothing about anybody who tested positive after it. and you didn't even hear, until 24 hours after they knew about hope hicks and not from the white house, we found it out. bloomberg and then cnn. that secrecy may have carried a price of more cases. now, look, i'm sorry the president and his wife and others are sick. it is made worse by the fact that it did not h

the prooeevious rose garden eve that turned into a super spreader event. at that point they said he did not need to be quarantined. at that point close contact is defined as having 15 minutes close contact with somebody within six feet. his doctor says he did not meet those criteria. the criteria have changed and even since that time that rose garden event could be an accumulative exposure over 15 minutes over a 20-hour period. the vice president has had that and many staff have been infected. the definition of essential worker, critical infrastructure worker basically has to do with carrying out responsibilities that protect and preserve national security and public health. interestingly enough, what he's doing is quite the opposite of that. to your point is not preserving public health. he may be a source of actual spread here and negative test does not basically say for certain that he could still not be carrying. he could test positive the next day. he should be quarantined. he knows that. the doctors around him know that. many people in the same posit

a week ago this gathering took place in the rose garden to announce president trump's nomination for the vacant seat on the supreme court at least 8 people who attended have now returned positive tests for covert including 2 senators the white house protocol for such gatherings is to administer and teach and tests which return results in 15 minutes but which a number of studies indicate produce a false result in nearly 50 percent of cases there's going to have to be complete from top to bottom review of the measures that are going to need to be taken forward all these questions are being punted another tweet from the hospital ward prays for the hospital staff or described as amazing the supporters at least apparently prepared to accept the president's words and the doctor's diagnosis at face value mike hanna al-jazeera but that's. let's just listen in to what trump had said in his video statement i came here wasn't feeling so well i feel much better now working hard to get me all the way back i have to be back. because we still have to make america great again we've done an awfully g

we saw some of the images from one of the rose garden events i think and there seem to be a number ofgetting quite close and not wearing masks. in hindsight would you accept that the white house starting with the president should have been more responsible? what is not widely reported on that event is that every person who attended that rose garden event took a covid test on the white house grounds and waited for the test to come back so every person who attended that rose garden event had tested negative for covid before working out. they were also all wearing masks until they got the test results back so everybody at that event at that time was negative for covid. but isn't the point that you could be infectious getting symptoms and a couple of days before you are going to test positive and therefore you could be still able to spread it? yes, but i do not think any of those people who attended that they were exhibiting symptoms because they would not have been allowed on the premises. what about questions about the timeline of when mr trump travelled on to an event after knowing all

it is heartbreaking. >> she lives a park rose garden. in memory care facility. he had a uneven record of health and safety violations. now it has 4 confirmed deaths and several more inconclusive. >> she was actually in very good physical health. >> she was blindsided by his mother's death last month. especially because staff told her she was being segregated on the second floor. with other residents testing negative. yet one family dropped off her medication. >> my mom actually walked into the office. she was not supposed to be there. >> two days later she went into intensive care. a loss the family blames. >> we do. my mom was lots of supposed to be on the first floor. >>> they seek to offset medical cost as her husband had unrelated health crisis at the time that she passed. , for a family left wondering if the practices exposed susan. >> the families are networking. angry they pay high fees but cannot even get their loved one on the phone each week. >> somehow my name gets skipped off the list. they cannot get to because there's too many other people on the l

ten attended the rose garden ceremony where the president announced his supreme court pick. others, including hicks, former new jersey governor chris christie, and trump campaign manager bill stepian attended a debate prep meeting at the white house. the president's daughter, ivanka trump, has tested negative. at the debate in cleveland, she didn't wear a mask. over the weekend, she was recorded by "the daily mail" jogging with her husband jared kushner in their washgt nt now wearing muoues tell abc news cle to the president cald "a full-blown freak-out" among the white house staff. "new york times" reporter michael shear, who tested positive after flying on air force one a week ago saturday, says no one has reached out to him to trace his possible contacts. >> nobody from the white house has said boo and asked anything about where i was or who i talked to or who else i might have infected. >> reporter: there are also serious questions about why the president traveled to a fund-raiser in new jersey on thursday after learning hope hicks had the virus. new jersey officials are

not something we get still channelling now, the colleges and associates infected at the rose garden. >> how concerned are you for the health of chris christie, considering -- >> he is a high risk, close to 60. roommated to have asthma, and obese, and infected with covid. he is hospitalized. getting remdesivir. there is a high likelyhood, it won't be an easy case for him as well. >> going now to chris christi and his condition. outside of morris town medical center, where the former governor is where we speak. there are a lot of he has asthma as well, and tested positive for to vid. what do you knowads perhis. check, after saying he was doing it as a precautionary, he said he was feeting good. it is the cbc does classify those who are overweight at a higher risk. >> contract chase, going back to thursday evening, when the president had a fundraiser, 200 people at that event. all the efforts for contact, how far down the road are they with contract tracing? >> the contract tracing is going on in new jersey for months. rut they are now going into the list of 200 plus people there a have

the president caught the virus but one possibility is last saturday's event in the white house rose garden at least 7 people including 2 republican senators who attended trump supremes court nominee ceremony have tested positive they don't choose day trump was in ohio for the 1st presidential debate with joe biden the president's onto raj including family members they didn't wear masks in the debate moderator has said that donald trump did not arrive in time to get tested before the event took place and on wednesday the president flew to an election rally in minnesota with his aide hope hicks who picks tested positive on thursday and despite that diagnosis from within his inner circle the president then attended a fundraiser at his bed and it's the golf club in new jersey former white house counselor kellyanne conway and trump's campaign manager bill stepien have also tested positive a conaway was at the rose garden event last saturday well dr american is a senior lecturer at the university of leeds school of medicine and he says in this case contact tracing will be a hugely complicated pr

treated for coronavirus at walter reed medical center and two gop senators, who attended a packed, rose garden ceremony for trump's supreme court nominee, also, revealing they have tested positive for covid-19. let's bring in cnn's congressional correspondent, phil mattingly, and political analyst, carl bernstein. good evening, one and all. both of you. so, phil, breaking news, tonight, regarding north carolina senator thom tillis. what can you tell us about that? but, hang on one second. phil, i have some breaking news for you. i think that you want to get to it, right? from the president of the united states. do you have that? >> do i, personally? i do not have that but i have seen kayleigh mcenany's tweet about the latest update from the -- oh, are you talking about the president's tweet? or the tweet by the doctor? >> no, the president's tweet. i was going to get to you about thom tillis but since it's up, i'll just let you respond. the president says it's going well, i think. thank you all. love. that's the president's latest tweet at 11:30 p.m., this evening. go on, phil. >> that's the w

at least 18 people now connected to the president have tested positive. 11 of them at that rose garden event introducing judge amy coney barrett, including hope hicks, three senators, and just today, we learned press secretary kaylie mcnanny have tested positive in the west wing. the president tweeting about leaving walter reed, telling the american people, "don't be afraid of covid. don't let it dominate your life." it drew outrage immediately, who pointed out this country hit 210,000 lives lost today, and that the doctor and the president received the best health care in the world, those experimental treatments. many upset with him, saying don't be afraid of covid in this pandemic. and we begin with our chief white house correspondent jonathan karl tonight. >> reporter: after receiving some of the most advanced medical care in the world for three nights, including experimental treatments usually reserved for the most serious covid cases, president trump tweeted today that he is heading back to the white house, telling americans, "don't be afraid of covid. don't let it dominate your l