i want to bring in cnn's tom foreman who is in washington and following this closely as we are watchinghe spread. tell us the most worrying areas right now, tom. >> reporter: if you put aside all of your political beliefs and just look at the numbers no way to reconcile what the white house is saying with reality. johns hopkins says right now, the u.s. is averaging close to 800 deaths every day, a 13% increase from just a week ago. we talked about how a lot of things happen in fall return to school and people back from vacation and people packing together because it's cold out and indeed have the backimpact the numbers say it is. pennsylvania where the president is going right now, they just saw their highest daily case average in pennsylvania and, yet, people, again, for the president's call are packing together to say let's cheer on the president despite the fact many health experts say that is a terrible, terrible idea. wisconsin up where we saw the return of big ten football over the past couple of days here, they are doing a lot of things to try to protect the athletes there to try

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here's cnn's tom foreman. >> joe biden knows what military families go through. it's like to send a child to war. >> in battleground arizona, biden is pushing hard on a message that could resonate with conservatives. while trump is trying to punch his way out of second place in the polls. >> i worked for 40 years and paid my taxes. i've earned my social security and medicare. >> reaching out to the state's large number of retirees and anyone else who will listen. >> president trump will end our reliance on china, eradicate the coronavirus, and make our medicines and supplies here in the united states. >> one thing tilting the map in biden's favor is the sheer volume of his ad spending. coast to coast, biden has so far dropped $423 million compared to trump's $368 million and this week, democratic ad spending will be more than twice as high as republicans. >> a simple proposition, folks. we're all in this together. we got to fight this together. >> reporter: so while the top biden ad in iowa is talking unity in that battleground, trump has tried to pick targets, d

tom foreman, cnn, washington. >>> the pentagon is trying to reassure americans that u.s. national security is not at risk because of the president's illness. officials say his status doesn't warrant a change in defense alert levels or military posture saying there's no change to the readiness or capability of our armed forces. our national command and control structure is in no way affected by this announcement. the u.s. military stands ready to defend our country and interests. >>> we have spent most of this newscast focused on president trump's situation. on the day he said he tested positive, so, too, did 44,000 other americans. more than 800 died. and of course, globally the coronavirus continues to spread. tens of millions of people have been infected around the world according to johns hopkins university. india just passed 100,000 deaths, and sadly, more than one million people have died. each of those has family members, friends, and loved ones mourning their loss. >>> i'm natalie allen. thank you for watching this hour, and keep it here on cnn as we continue to br

tom foreman is with me now. tom, we're seeing records set for new cases in a single day as well as seven-day averages. tell us which states are reporting these numbers. >> reporter: well, as a practical matter, more than 30 are headed up but if you look at the states seeing the biggest increase in the seven-day average, what you do see is a greater propensity for that as you move into the more northern states. you see it worse in the northern states. easy reasons. we went back to school and because, by the way, getting cooler. get north of the line there where you see more of the states clustered, you see the two down there, oklahoma and new mexico are the only two below that line. well, above that line, above that line the temperature right now tends to be 60 degrees or cooler. below that line, 60 degrees or warmer, so of course people are being forced closer together. those are the 13 states with the highest seven-day average. if you look at those that have had the spike, the seven states with the highest spike

as cnn's tom foreman reports, conley is becoming just as famous for what he doesn't say. >> when did president last test negative for covid? >> i don't want to go backwards. >> how high was the president's fever? >> i'd rather not give any specific numbers. >> any sign of pneumonia? >> i'm just not at liberty to discuss. >> was he ever getting supplemental oxygen? >> he's not on oxygen right now. >> yesterday and today he was not on oxygen. he's not on oxygen right now. >> from the start of the 74-year-old president's battle with covid, white house physician sean conley has been giving vague and oddly optimistic assessments considering trump was hospitalized, being pumped full of powerful drugs, including an experimental treatment, and when conley was caught misleading, turns out the president had gotten extra oxygen, his explanation? >> i was trying to reflect the upbeat attitude that the team, the president, that his course of illness has had. i don't want to give any information that might steer the course of illness in another direction. >> reporter: conley's file, he went to not

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tom foreman is "outfront." >> i'll say it all the time.and concern about them are ricochetting through the immense web of people surrounding the president. announced his new supreme court nominee last weekend with health officials, his attorney general bill barr and more standing by. now several from the event have tested positive, including trump, the first lady. trump has shared space with vice president mike pence. trump met with a gold star parent, military leaders, cabinet and congress members, journalists too. >> no matter where we go, we're having crowds like i don't think anybody's gotten before ever. >> trump met with mark meadows who went to capitol hill to talk to mitch mcconnell who along with pence met with amy coney barrett. trump talked with his treasury secretary who went to see speaker of the house nancy pelosi. and to prepare for the debate trump sat down with hope hicks, chris christie, rudy giuliani, and mike pence. >> no one was wearing masks. >> leaving for the debate, trump was surrounded by dozens of people with few

tom foreman slash science. germany is celebrating its 30 years anniversary of reunification in 190 west germany and east germany reunited to become one nation what was it like to join us and shift today to take a virtual journey through time. this is what the berlin wall looked like and unbreachable stone obstacle on the close god dividing the city for most citizens of the g.d. are leaving the country for west germany was not possible you had to go to extreme lengths to flee like digging underground tunnels using virtual reality it's not possible to experience what it was like when people try to escape and one from khosla got to experience what it was like for his grandfather who dug a tunnel underneath the berlin wall. this man in this picture is tells me here from go is that he's my grandfather and in this picture you see him building a tunnel under the burden wall losing of your car goes on to one chrysler and social historian and at the very time traveling back to the 1964 for the you to show virtually hist

cnn's tom foreman has more on the numbers plus the ads that campaigns hope will win undecided voters. >> joe biden knows what military families go through. he knows what it's like to send a child to war. >> in battleground arizona, biden is pushing hard on a message that could resinate with conservatives, while trump is trying to punch his way out of second place in the polls. >> i worked for 40 years and paid my taxes. i've earned my social security and medicare. >> reaching out to the state's large number of retirees and anyone else who will listen. >> president trump will end our reliance on china, eradicate the coronavirus, and make our medicines and supplies here in the united states. >> one thing tilting the map in biden's favor is the sheer volume of higgs ad spending. biden coast to coast has dropped $423 million compared to trump's $368 million. and this eek, democrat ad spending will be more than twice as high as republicans. >> it's a simple problem sis, foekz. we're all in this together. >> so while the top ad is talking unity -- i'm a proud union guy and teamster, but i w

well tonight, cnn's tom foreman has a report card on trump's record. >> but i didn't back down from myt every single one. >> reporter: really? let's look. promise one. >> i will build a great, great wall on our southern border and have mexico pay for that wall. >> reporter: under trump as of midseptember, 331 miles of wall constructed on nearly 2,000 mile border, almost all of it replacing existing seconds. nine miles of new wall and no evidence mexico paid for a foot. promise two. >> going to repeal obamacare and replace with something better. >> reporter: republican effort to overturn the law in 2017 failed but trump and congressional allies killed the requirement to have insurance, individual mandate and hope the supreme court will strike it done this fall, replacement plan, no sign of it. speak of the courts. promise three. >> i'm pro-life, judges will be pro-life. >> reporter: none of trump's nominees have said they plan to overturn roe v. wade but willing to to restrict rights. promise four. >> we're going to renegotiate the disaster known as nafta, going to renegotiate. >> repor

. >>> i'm tom foreman in washington, d.c., where the government is now going to require hospitals alloss the land to report not only covid cases but also flu cases as we head into the fall. flu, contrary to what the white house said, produced nowhere near the number of fatalities covid has already. nonetheless, the combination of the two viruses heading into colder months has health officials concerned. they want accurate counts across the country so they know exactly where it is and how hard it is hitting. >>> i'm alison kosik in new york. santa claus will still make an appearance at the mall this year. but don't count on hugging or touching santa or having the kids sit on his lap this year. at some malls owned by brookfield properties he will meet with families as he sits inside a giant snow globe or behind a giant picture frame. the idea to have a touchless experience with santa. some mall operators placing santa behind plexiglass. it will have a bench in front of it so kids can sit down and take a photo with santa. some are offering zoom calls with santa instead of in-person visit

. >> well, tom foreman, thank you very much. thank you all of you for joining us. breaking news coverage with anderson. >> reporter: the president of the united states returns to the white house a little more than an hour ago. three days since he was taken to the hospital and four days since he learned of his illness. we don't know how serious his condition was or is. he was in fefected with covid-1. he then turned around and without his mask walked inside, back into a white house that's now seen more covid infections than the last couple of days than the entire country of new zealand had. the president was trying to project strengths but he proves disregard of anyone else forced to be around him. once he was inside and most people were no longer watching, he came back outside with a camera proved and walked back inside -- restaged what was already a staged event. yes, still no mask. tonight there is still so much we do not know about the president's health. we don't know why he was given the kind of drugs for most serious cases including one or mood altering medic

tom foreman, chi cnn, washingto. >>> max boot is a senior fellow at the council on foreign relations and joins me now from new york. always good to he sao yosee you. trump seemed to base his whole reelection campaign on the pretense that the coronavirus is going to magically disappear, not even all the resources of the white house could keep him safe. how much greater is the danger to the rest of the country, unquote. and that is a key point politically, max. it lays bare the president's own playing down of the virus, and here we are. >> exactly right, michael. i mean, really, since the virus hit, president trump has been pretending that it's going to go away of its own accord. he said numerous times magically it will disappear. this summer he said it was down do embers. he said this september we're about to get a vaccine. he said on thursday before his diagnosis was announced that we were turning the corner. and i think the fact that he is now in walter reed hospital because of the coronavirus is a very sharp indication that we are not turning a corner. the virus is not disappearing

tom foreman is out front. >> i didn't back down from my promises and i kept every single one. >> reportert, great wall on our southern border and i will have mexico pay for that wall. >> reporter: 331 miles of wall have been constructed on the nearly 2,000 border. almost all of it replacing existing sections. there are only nine miles of new wall and no evidence mexico paid for a foot. promise two. >> i am going to repeal obamacare and replace it with something much better. >> reporter: the trump allies did kill the requirement for people to have the insurance, individual mandate and they hope the supreme court will strike the whole program down this fall. a replacement plan? still no sign of it. promise of the court. >> here is what's going to happen. i am pro-life. the judges will be pro-life. >> reporter: none of trump's nominees said they'll overturn roe v. wade. same goes for trump's record number conservative judges placed in lower courts. >> reporter: promise four. >> we'll re-negotiate the di disaster known as nafta. >> u.s./mexico/canada agreement called usmca. >> reporter: his p

. >> well, tom foreman, thank you very much. thank you all of you for joining us.king news coverage with anderson. >> reporter: the president of the united states returns to the white house a little more than an hour ago. three days since he was taken to the hospital and four days since he learned of his illness. we don't know how serious his condition was or is. he was in fefected with covid-1. he then turned around and without his mask walked inside, back into a white house that's now seen more covid infections than the last couple of days than the entire country of new zealand had. the president was trying to project strengths but he proves disregard of anyone

cnn's tom foreman joining us now, and tom, that figure, i mean, 90 million people, it's about 43% ofo have voted already, and we're not even talking about people who are voting absentee. >> reporter: yeah, this is just astonishing, how many votes have come in so far. really, we're pushing up on two-thirds of the entire number of votes that were cast in the 2016 election. certain trends have emerged that make this also very interesting. for example, the bulk of this early voting is happening in 16 key states that we have identified as being important here, including the battlegrounds out there. shows some of the enthusiasm. that is one of the up trends in this. also up, the number of young voters seems to be higher than it was in the past at this point in the race. the number of older voters down at this point in the race. don't jump to big conclusions about that. older voters trend republican, tend to vote on election day. but nonetheless, they're interesting to look at those trends. and none of that tells us what we all really want to know. when will we have a result in this? when w