again, that's wausau, wisconsin. they had 61 patients yesterday who had or believed to have covid. that's a 30% increase from just the day before. the ceo telling the "associated press" today, quote, the problem is how do we care for you if you have an accident when we have an overflow of covid patients. officials at the hospital in green bay said yesterday their hospital was at 94% capacity. they hope to convert part of their campus at green bay into some other space for beds that isn't being currently used as beds. green bay is one of the places in wisconsin where president trump is hoping to hold a gigantic in-person mega rally this weekend. he wants do that in green bay and also lacrosse. the white house, the white house just this week warned wisconsin that the state is in terrible shape in terms of uncontrolled spread of the virus. the white house warning wisconsin state officials this week that their per capita case rate right now is more than double, actually triple the national rate. because of that, the white house just told wisconsin this week that the state's viral sprea

for his rally in wausau this will be his fifth campaign visit to the state this year already and he'lln tuesday for another rally. joe biden meanwhile has only visited the state twice in the past two years. both of those visits coming last month despite that in the latest fox news poll, biden is leading in wisconsin. 49-44. , though, it is worth noting that puts president trump just within the polls margin of error and in a similar position to where he was in polls in 2016 before he ultimately won the state by less than a single point. like a lot of midwest, though, wisconsin is currently seeing a disturbing wave of the coronavirus. this week the state set records for the highest number of cases in the 7-day period highest average cases per day and the highest average virus related deaths per day. those trends are concerning because hospitals across the state are either already at capacity or close to it. here in wausau around 10,000 people are here for tonight's rally and i can tell you there are a lot more maskings than i've seen at recent rallies for the president, though, still not

>> reporter: on tuesday, a new state record, 34 reported deaths the nurses at asipus hospital in wausau bear witness. >> people are dying every night. there's nothing we can do about it. this virus is just beating them and we are trying, we are doing everything that we can. >> we have had several people come in here and be very sick that all they did is want to see the grandparents i'm a grandparent. i would like to see my grandchildren. this is larger than them >> reporter: eight months into the pandemic a nurse in green bay worries public support for them is slipping. >> seeing multiple deaths multiple days in a row, it's really hard to try to stay positive when the community itself isn't really got your back they don't believe it exists they don't see what we see. >> reporter: health workers repeating the same advice hope it may finally sink in. >> i ask you as the public to wear your mask, wash your hands, social distance. >> please just wear a mask socially distance. do whatever you can not to catch this. >> reporter: today a 500-bed field hospital opened to take the strain off the

the more than a month of fighting in the region thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of wausau on friday to protest the polish government's near total ban on abortion opponents have been defying pandemic restrictions to take part in one of a court ruling last week banned abortions in cases where the fetus has congenital defects. at least 9 people have died and dozens more are missing after heavy rains triggered a landslide in el salvador the president has sent in the military to help in the search and rescue operation. police in france have arrested a 3rd suspect in connection with thursday's knife attack in nice is no 2 a dumbass silica according to police sources it's the 3rd islamised attack in france in just 2 months the country's interior minister says france is being targeted for its defense of free expression and secularism authorities are now beefing up security across the country as nice remembers the dead. niece is still mourning a 60 year old woman who lost her life inside the church and 54 year old van son luke a whose job it was to look after the building. do they

you are in wausau, wisconsin but not new jersey have to fix that so we're six, seven months into thiswe've had time to reflect and adapt. what has been maybe the most surprising thing about this unfortunate experience from a business perspective, what have you learned, what have you discovered >> great question. i think that we really think about that lot it has been very surprising, even though we had an app for online ordering and it was in process before the pandemic, that has blown up about 300% since then people are -- they don't really even want to call anymore. it is online ordering which we like and that has been -- our customer even though we are a fried chicken concept and sometimes our customer, it is definitely an evolving customer, but 8% to 10% of our customers are brand new to us. and so a lot of those have come through online and that may be old hat to some brand, but we've been around for about 55 years we've gone through the ups and downs. and so we're just introducing this app technology and online over the last year or so but the pandemic has put a lot more opportu

i am a nurse who works on the covid medical unit at wausau hospital. it has been quite an experience. we started off small scale, seeing patients who are being ruled out for covid, and now we're seeing they were walking, talking, independent. now we're seeing people on high amounts of oxygen, needing to be repositioned, needing to be intubated, needing to be on large amounts of oxygen. n-95 masks do not absorb tears when you are at a bedside removing somebody from a bipap, letting a family facetime them to say good-bye and you sit with them as they take their last breath. it is not something that i ever thought i would be doing as a nurse during a pandemic, and we're seeing it more and more frequently. >> my name is david eggman. i'm a nurse. i've been a registered nurse for 20 years. i've worked in icus for 20 years. since april, i've been volunteering in the covid icu. we had it pretty darn easy in april, may, june and july here in wisconsin/north-central wisconsin. since august, it's gotten bad, and it's getting much worse. we have many patients who

. >> inside the icu at a hospital in wausau, wisconsin, the number of covid patients is growing fast.lth system saw a 30% jump in covid patients in a single day, according to ceo matthew haywood. >> this is just the beginning of us having two or three months of this. and we've got to get through this. >> reporter: 82% of all hospital beds in the state are full. after new covid cases more than doubled over the last month. milwaukee county hospitals may need to use this alternate care facility at the state fairgrounds if trends continue. >> right now we can't live like we're back to the way things used to be. we can't afford to act like things are business as usual. >> reporter: as cases rise across the midwest, ohio governor mike dewine announced the results of a large antibody study on thursday. it revealed millions of ohioans likely remain vulnerable to infection and that herd immunity is a long way away. >> so what we have to do is hang in there. we've got to keep this virus low and we wait for the vaccine to hit. >> reporter: as several vaccine manufacturers continue critical work