but everyone knew him as willie. pres. clinton: willie was and is a name synonymous with democracy in america. through the organization he founded, the southwest voter registration education project, he nearly doubled hispanic voter registration and dramatically increased the number of latino elected officials in this nation. his appeal to the hispanic community was simple, passionate, and direct. su voto es su voz. your vote is your voice. >> we are going to be talking about the records of the southwest voter registration education project. they are the oldest and largest nonpartisan latino voter registration organization in the country. the collection contains the first 20 years of the organization's existence. they are still in existence today. it is a very deep and wide collection if you are interested in learning about voter registration, particularly in minority communities. the organization was started in 1974 by willie velasquez. he is from san antonio. as a very young man, he was heavily involved in the chicano mo

i'm willie geist. with the presidential election just nine days away, the united states is hitting record highs this weekend in cases of coronavirus. overnight, we learn ted the chi of staff to vice president mike pence and another top adviser tested positive for covid-19. but the vice president will remain on the campaign trail, as president trump and joe biden make their closing arguments with some 60 million early votes already cast. we'll have the latest in a live report and talk to chuck todd about how these final days will play out. >>> then, our sunday focus on all of those polls you're seeing right now. after 2016, democrats are suspicious of joe biden's polling lead, and republicans see a reason for hope. so how much should you trust the numbers? we'll look into it. >>> plus, in our sunday spotlight, the future of going to the movies, as theaters sit empty and films go straight to streaming, are we watching the death of a great american tradition? >>> and later, a new sunday sit-down with drew

>> well, good morning, willie.sh donald trump a speedy and full recovery because i believe the american people deserve to see him resoundingly defeated next month. but i'm concerned about things. one, the side effects of the medication he's on, the confusion and impulsiveness are some of the side effects and the last thing we need is a donald trump more impulsive and aggression than he has been. there's a great preoccupation in the white house, as far as his health and the white house staff's health. being able to respond to any crisis is questionable. third, i think a lot of our foreign adversaries as panetta rightly pointed out are looking for signs that in fact they can take advantage of the situation right now. might russia, vladimir putin, decide to do something in belarus or china decide to do something in hong kong or the south china sea knowing that the national security hierarchy is in fact distracted as a result of this health crisis we are facing. >> so you laid out a couple of scenarios and that led to

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it's amazing. >> it's just completely ridiculous, willie.aw you retweeted that, it put a twinkle in my eye. it's ridiculous. it's absolutely crazy. we don't need to hear these people speak and if they say that the nominee's not answering questions, they may want to lick in the mirror. amy klobuchar got her to answer questions and she wasn't giving speeches. that's probably a blueprint here. if you ask pointed questions the right way, you're going to get answers. >> cory booker did the same as well. jonathan lemire, i put that same question to you. we know how republicans on capitol hill are feeling, judge barrett was impressive. democrats disagree with her in a lot of places, most importantly maybe on the affordable care act. but how is the white house feeling about how this process is moving today? >> perhaps the president has a twinkle in his eye too, willie. the white house is very pleased from what they've seen so far. president briefly addressed the hearings as he left the white house yesterday for that rally in pennsylvania, said that

>> reporter: yeah, willie.ebrating the holidays safely. it mentioned that low-risk activities include small dinners with family members as well as virtual gatherings obviously also moderate risk activities include small outdoor dinner with family and nearby friends of course those high-risk activities include shopping in crowded stores and large indoor gatherings it's best to avoid that. but the holiday travel season will look very different if you're at the airports now for example, sky lounges, they're prepackaging snacks, they have plenty of hand sanitizers everywhere. hotels are doing things very differently. so this holiday travel season will be one like none other, guys. >> for sure. turkey over zoom gabe gutierrez, thanks so much, gabe. >> it will cut down on any family fights, though. just mute. sorry, bad connection, uncle john anyway, let's check in with dylan and get the latest on the weather. good morning. >>> good morning and it is chilly in the northeast where we do have the rain besides that wher

willie?ika. >>> meanwhile, new york state is putting in restrictions in growing hot spots. governor cuomo implemented the tiered closures and it closes down the schools and the restaurants and a limit on large gatherings. joining news is president and ceo of the northwell health, michael dowling title of "leading through a pandemic t inside story of humanity, innovation and lessons learned during the covid-19 crisis." i want to first ask you about what's happening in new york. we have long been told that even though it had been suppressed over the summer, it would come back in new york city and across the state of new york in the fall and the winter. i had a call with my kid's school where they underlined that fact, we have to remain vigilant because the expectation is that coronavirus will be back in our lives. how do you see the horizon of when it comes back and how strongly it coupmes back? >> well, complacency is dangerous and they get calm and everything looks good, that it really is goo

>> good morning, willie. glad you asked that question because all of this is about expectation setting for the american people on what they can and cannot -- what they expect if they come down with covid-19. that letter by dr. conley is the first of its kind nationwide. when you're talking about the care of the individual with severe covid-19 pneumonia which is what the president had, in no circumstance would you ever clear an individual of what we call a rapid an tijen test. it's a quick and a cheap test meant for broad screening of the huge populations. that's the intention of the test. it's -- the fact that it's quick and cheap means that you sacrifice on quality. willie, these tests historically have false negative rates anywhere from 30 to 50%. as we learn more, and i know the company will say oh, well, our initial results are great, but as we have learned more about the tests we know they underperformed. why they'd choose a historically poor performing test to clear the president who can get the best te

>> good morning, willie.elieve that it's october, almost november 2020 and we are far, far worse today than we were back in march and april when i started talking to you on "morning joe." statements like that from the president, still talking about making this false, it's just a flatout lie to say that testing is causing cases. let's be clear, and by cases we mean infections in human beings. these infections are caused by only one thing, and it's a virus. a highly contagious, viral pathogen that doesn't need help president issing. by the president holding these massive rallies, he's the virus's number one wing man and it's directly correlating to what we're seeing in the field. frontline workers are being bombarded again by patients and now with winter coming, we're going to see a rise in other respiratory viruses such as influenza, not to mention heart disease and stroke and cancers. it's going to be a significant burden on the health care community, willie. >> so, doctor, i guess i wonder, a 60-year-old man

. >> triple threat there, willie geist. it is dangerous to your health to go to those things. >> yeah. start with the gathering with the covid reasons and this is an additional layer, but you're smushing a bunch of people together in a time when we're racing towards more infections and president trump is carrying on with his rhetoric and rally as if that's not happening. >> yeah. other people in his family are dismissing of this seriousness of this going away. donald trump says we keep turning the corners. we keep setting the records for the number of coronavirus cases every day and we had a thousand -- i think over 1,000 people died of covid-19 yesterday. just to put this in perspective, that's more people dying in one day than died in u.s. fatalities in afghanistan over the past decade. donald trump talks about how long we have been in afghanistan and soldiers that are still getting killed in afghanistan and the marines. more people died yesterday of covid in america. something we just -- again, now take for granted every

>> very good question, willie. the reality of it is, the two campaigns are in very different positions in this new reality. the trump campaign has largely relied on the in-person i got to get out, be in the crowds, have face time with the american people. the biden campaign was we don't need to do that. we'll do the town halls via zoom. have a much more social media type of campaign. so i think, in the short term at least, the biden campaign is going to be better positioned to continue their campaign outreach and efforts, because they have already integrated that into their orpperations. the trump campaign is going to have to figure out how, at least the next two weeks, particularly given the president may be side lined so it may be difficult for him to do in-person, via zoom or other media outlet, those type of communications. how they continue a campaign in the face of this. what it means for the debates, the commission is probably sitting down right now trying to figure out do we even have the next two debates g

willie? >> no. willie, it's so clear his heart wasn't in it.ohn heilemann hit the nail on the head. he seemed to be throwing things at biden but he didn't have them fully thought out in his mind. kind of throwing them out there, tipping back on his heels and pursing his lips and going what do you think about that, joe? and you wouldn't at some point knew what he threw out there because he didn't know that much about the issue. whether it was on hunter biden or whatever. it's like his heart wasn't in it. >> yeah. there's no prep. there's never been any prep. he goes on instinct and wings out there, but when he goes on friendly media, if he does a call-in interview to fox business, that audience understands the shorthand about hunter biden but most had no idea what he was talking about he burrowed deeper into the narrative. to john's point about this not being 2016, you know, he's running against someone that he can't get his arms around. the president is. he's wishing it was somebody else and there was a moment on that last night when he started

i'm willie geist. president trump sin nevada as part of his whirlwind cross country scramble to win a second term as polls show he's trailing joe biden with two weeks to election day. the president in the crucial states of wisconsin and michigan on saturday, attacking michigan's governor once again after federal authorities stopped an alleged plot to kidnap her. >> meanwhile, joe biden is in north carolina looking to add states to the map as he attacks the president's response to the coronavirus crisis. a live report. >> plus chuck todd's analysis just ahead. >> plus our sunday focus on what lies ahead in the coronavirus pandemic. with cases surging across the country, public health experts sounding aparms and some politicians taking alert from the first wave. >> and with an american league championship crowd last night, game seven and the world series just two days away, we'll introduce you in our sunday spotlight to the die-hard baseball fans finding creative ways to watch games in person during this

patel, willie, good to see you this morning. i wanted -- i'll keep you out of the politics as we always do, but president trump again was talking dr. anthony fauci. he said people are sick of this pandemic. he says, you know, time for dr. fauci to kind of lay low for a little bit. what is the impact of that downward pressure from the white house? as you look at polling of people who say it's not as bad as i thought it was, maybe it's not as bad as the scientists are saying it is. maybe i won't get that vaccine because i don't trust the doctors and science anymore. from your point of view, from a public health perspective what does that all mean? >> willie, it's a great question because it's affect all of us downstream. we are seeing people who are saying, you know, this really isn't as bad -- this is the media hyping this up, and i don't want to get a vaccine, what do you think? and at least they're having the conversation so that we can try to course correct it but the damage it's doing is widespread. and by the way, it's comin

>> good morning, willie.it's -- the trouble here is, you know, we are now seeing the sustained increase in hospitalizations. so it's not just not that there's more testing and we are seeing people who have the disease getting picked up. but we are seeing the results of those who are getting sick end up in hospitalizations. it's really hard in the u.s., as opposed to europe, that had this large wave and then went down and then came up again. we have always had multiple peaks and high plateaus in between. what we're seeing now is exactly that. what could change, what could keep us where hospitals don't get overwhelmed and someone who is part of this -- who is part of this response and in the spring, i don't want lockdowns because lockdowns mean i walk out and streets are empty and i walk into the hospital corridors and this means the hospital corridors are teeming with sick patients and that's what we're trying to avoid. we avoid it with the masking, physical distancing, get the flu vaccine so you don't need to

>> that's right, willie.arlier in the day fed chairman did say there was additional need for stimulus. the market took that as a positive and continued on its upward path. and then out came the tweets. as you can see on this chart of the stock market minute to minute yesterday, the market reaction was instantaneous and immediate. it's not every day you see a market roll over like this based on all things, one tweet. but it sent shockwaves through certain industries. obviously the airlines which have been dependent on a lot of federal aid as well as hotel travel. you saw stocks and airlines down 3%, 4%. macy's down a lot. hotel companies like marriott, aircraft, company like boeing which had already warned it was likely making fewer planes in the years ahead, also all went down because these businesses were depending on it. the airline aid ran out and the airlines on october 1st are going to begin to lay off people and so it really scared the stock market which was very much counting on this stimulus as part o

>> good morning, willie.l, we know that the contact tracing hasn't been as robust as it should have been and from the reporting we know that the cdc which is the nation's agency to control the diseases hasn't been pulled into this. so we don't actually know how big it is. when you look at those numbers, you know, there's the exposures that happened at the rose garden, but then you probably have people who converted or became positive because of that exposure who continued to expose others because they weren't aware that think had been exposed. so it's multiple links to events that are leading to the bigger disaster or outbreak than we're aware of and it really comes because the white house had a heavy reliance on the testing only strategy because they focused on using the rapid tests which is not as accurate in asymptomatic patients, and they didn't take the rest of the mitigation measures including the distancing, the masking. almost sort of creating the magical thinking as long as the tests are negative but

attorney general, it's willie geist.y the waters, talking about ballots being found in creeks, all of them have been debunked. being stolen. how much voter fraud do you see and how much should you expect with mail-in ballots, for example? >> well, look, trump's own fbi has talked about how there's a minuscule amount of voter fraud and listen, i prosecuted people for voter fraud but not the kind of stuff that donald trump is allegi alleging. the basis for one of the federal suits he filed our vote by mail statute is rife with fraud and i said, hey, mr. president, put up or shut up. demonstrate the fraud and the judge said, you don't have to demonstrate actual fraud, just the possibility that fraud could exist. it's a relatively low evidentiary bar and he could don't that and the judge dismissed the case. he's spun the tales he has never been able to back up in court, but here's the deal. he's doing it for a specific reason. you used the word muddy the water. i think he's trying to create chaos because what he's trying do,

horton or it willie horton was not the only figure discussed in that spot, but it was based on the willieof people confuse the two. they think the first spot was a bush ad. it really wasn't, but there was some either spoken or unspoken coordination because they were so closely aligned. i think it's fair to say, worth pointing out that willie horton or at least not willie horton specifically, it was raised earlier in the primaries by out gore who was running for the democratic nomination against michael dukakis. he raised the furlough issue first and inspect it up. dukakis use the revolving door imagery in the --ponse, didn't they? guest: didn't they? guest: that is something i have seen curious. a lot of political and gators to tell the candidate, do not but i do notarge, know that it would be incompetent, but it was a poorly .un campaign in so many ways the dukakis campaign waited too long to respond. and aike one spot showing few minutes later, you see another spot on television, it was several weeks before dukakis figured out how to respond and that was the story of the .ukakis campaig

willie, that's sort of what you do when you visit family, right? >> exactly. the minute i sit down at the thanksgiving table i say i'd like to drive the hell out of here. nobody loves a truck more than donald trump but maybe my nephew frank. he wants to get behind the bill wheel and honk the horn. i think that's an instinct a lot of us have. >> i guess so. but he understands that things aren't going quite the way he expected them to go a long time ago and you get the -- a sense of frustration. he's talked about wanting to leave the country if he loses. if he doesn't win iowa, never going back to iowa. it's -- it's an interesting closing argument, but we're going to look at a lot of polls today. >> yeah. >> and just go through the state of the race. we're one week away. can you believe we're one week away from this election. >> i can't, i can't. i know some health officials in allentown, pennsylvania, that wished he would have gotten the hell out of there before he arrived yesterday. good morning and welcome to "morning joe." tuesday, october 27th along with jo

they did talk about willie horton a lot. they said at one point, i'm going to make willie horton be my running mate. it is not like he didn't have anything to do with it at ad itself was not baker's creation. he asked for them to take it down. we asked him about that and that was the one moment he said that the willie horton ad was probably something that was over the top and went too far but then takes a back and says, look, we had to win. we had to do what we had to do to win. they were 17 points down and came back to win the most extraordinary upset and presidential history to that date. host: let's go to sam, democrats line, maryland. caller: i address this question to susan glasser, who i read in the new yorker every week, knock strong, and rightly so. he is the worst president in american history. he is the biggest liar in american history. he is the most incompetent present to didn't -- incompetent president and you say that week after week after week and baker voted for him in 2016 and says he is going to vote him --

it hasn't fully sank in. >> alice, it's willie geist.rob. you do have a beautiful family as we can seen on the photographs on the screen this morning. i desperately don't want to make you go through the worst days of your life, but i think tit's im for people not taking some of the restrictions seriously. did rob have any pre-existing conditions, anything that might have exacerbated this for him? >> no. he was pretty healthy, i would say. we were always walking and bike riding and we were very active. i would say i honestly think the overtime probably ran him down because the police work 12-hour shifts. i think sleep deprivation can help make you sick. you know, but that's just what he did. >> so he is a healthy guy, a police officer, a great dad, as you pointed out here. so you said you only had a chance to actually see him twice in the hospital. you and his mother on mother's day and once when they took him off the ventilator. what were those days like for you and your children? >> well, it's kind of hard to put into words. i mean, it

it's willie. congratulations on the book.titude toward white collar crime that, well, you know, it's just money. they lost some money but those obviously destroyed people's lives. a lot more than a kid who was caught selling or possessing a nickel bag or something like that who was prosecuted. so can you speak to how big this problem is, and to 2008 and the financial crisis. did it change the way at least law enforcement and prosecutors look at white collar crime? >> sure, willie. nice to see you again. this is a gigantic problem. there are more victims of white collar crime than there are of street crime. and i just want to point out, we've been hearing donald trump talk a lot about law and order. and he's always decrying this call for defunding the police. but let's be absolutely clear about this. he's not for law and order when it comes to the white wealthy and well connected. the irs in charge of auditing and enforcing our tax laws has had its budget cut substantially. it's down $2 billion from ten years ago. they have 30

what do you think, willie? willie is back with us today. we're 1st of october, 25% capacity.gs? >> well, listen, again i'm always trying to stay positive but i see what's happened. i have a lot of friends in the business. people come to me for advice, a lot of places are closed down. they're bankrupt. they're out of money. they're out of resources. they're in a state of depression. they're broken. but i'm taking the 25%. i have my team rally. we did well in bayside. we did well in astoria. still half the people satin side. some people came inside. my biggest store, which is my biggest rent and biggest supporter for the company is the west side store on nineth avenue and 34th street. that i didn't open yet, because i'm doing whole business analysis. i'll trying to get as much data as possible because i can't afford to open in a city with nothing open, nothing at jacob javits, nothing at madison square garden and hudson yards, open up, pay $25,000 a month for the location and staff in place. we're trying to come up with a two-week plan. maybe only open monday through friday, se

our north america corresponent david willis was watching.te house at pains to stress this was not a campaign event, stress this was not a campaign eve nt, eve n stress this was not a campaign event, even though it very much took on the form of such with a loss of the crowd wearing those maga hats. they wore masks, but we re maga hats. they wore masks, but were not socially distanced, about 400 of them in total. mr trump said he was feeling great and, as you mentioned, that a vaccine was not far away. now, he has clearly been itching to get back on the campaign trail, having been forced to sit it out, of course, for more than a week because of the coronavirus diagnosis. the president looking to make up for lost time, as it were, withjoe biden leading and some of the key battleground states as far as the polls are concerned and just, what, 22 days to go before the presidential elections. not too long to go at all. still questions about the specifics of his health, though, david? absolutely. and the white house declining to say whether the pres

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. >> willie horton murdered a boy . >> she points to a willie horton commercial as another representation of that strategy. >> white voters feel that blacks are going to take their property, their lives, and their means of production. >> in the wake of the ad controversy, and dozens of members are leaving the svo concerned it links them with racism. >> we can and do take a strong stance against racist actions and speak out when we see them. >> a councilwoman from the sixth district from whom the attack ad was posted for her reelection drive sent a statement saying i am ashamed with the pastor report i have received from the svo. the money donated by the svo to my campaign has been donated to a local nonprofit dedicated to fighting racism. a timeline for the completion of the internal investigation at the svo has not been given. this is not the end of it has several councilmembers have scheduled a meeting or a press conference at city hall tomorrow to speak out and call for reforms within the svo. we will head back to you. >> jesse, if you can just clarify, is there anything that shows tha

let's speak to our north america correspondent david willis who's in los angeles.ically not supposed to be an actual campaign event but it had the flavour of one. it certainly did come out very much so and donald trump of course hasn't been seen in public about from white house produced videos snc returned to the white house on monday following his stint in hospital. this was his opportunity to say to is to support us, i'm back. he's clearly been itching to get back on the campaign trail to make itching to get back on the campaign trailto make up itching to get back on the campaign trail to make up for lost time, if you like. we've seen a fuselage of tweets in the last few days. and some rather exasperated calls to friends on conservative media outlets. this was the president back large as life from the balcony of the white house addressing a crowd of about 100 people mainly blacks and latinos whom he is hoping to woo and latinos whom he is hoping to woo and swing states such as michigan and swing states such as michigan and florida. what else did he say though? he

the indiana governor's debate between incumbent republican eric holcomb, democrat willie myers, and libertarian donald rainwater. you are watching c-span, your unfiltered view of government, created by america's cable television companies as a public service and brought to you today by your television provider. the bipartisan policy center released the results of a report looking at demographic changes and their impact on the election. this is 90 minutes. >> good morning. i am the director of governmental study --

for more, i'm joined by our north america correspondent david willis in los angeles.ery interesting, the president bullish about the state of his health, saying that he feels well and he wants to get back on the campaign trail as early as saturday. he is hoping to put together a rally in the swing state of florida and won the following night in another swing state, pennsylvania. that following the word from his personal physician sean conley that the president has now completed his treatment and can return to normal duties. what was interesting about this interview was the president was asked by somebody who has long been a supporter of his, fox news's sean hannity, whether he had been tested recently for the coronavirus, since his diagnosisjust over a the coronavirus, since his diagnosis just over a week ago. and did you test negative and on both occasions, the president dodged and declined to give a straightforward answer. now, there has been a lot of speculation of course about when the president first became infected with the coronavirus, potentially affecting the

david willis, bbc news, los angeles.ous disease epidemiologist dr syra madad, who featured in the netflix series pandemic, what she made of the white house doctor's statement. well, there's a couple of things. first i do not think it gives him clearance in terms of him not being infectious with covid—i9. they're not explicitly saying whether he's negative. and on top of that there's a few problems. if you actually read between the lines of what this letter is stating, it is stating that he's actually positive because they are referencing cycle threshold time, which is something we do look at from a pcr standpoint. it seems as if he is still positive, but, you know, based on the indication of how the letter is being worded, it's not negative and so, clearly, there is this vagueness and this cryptic message that's being sent out to the public and when we talk about the cdc guidance in and of itself, he's stating that president trump meets the guidance for discontinuation of isolation precautions. if you actually look at pr

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david willis reports.e—time split screen showdown, the presidential candidates competing for eyes in duelling debates, a stark reminder of how strange this entire campaign has been and when it came down to the pivotal issue of the day, a virus that is claimed more than 215,000 american lives, the two men seemed to occupy, notjust rival channels, but competing orbits. he said he didn't tell anybody because he was afraid americans would panic. americans would panic. americans don't panic. he panicked. the president insisted america has turned a corner on the coronavirus. many people are catching it, getting the disease that was sent to us by china and should not have been allowed to happen. everybody is working hard to get this thing out of our country, get out of the world. look at what is going on in europe. massive spikes. the president defended his conduct in response to the pandemic, including an event at the rose garden of the white house that has since been deemed as a super spreader, no—one in the au

. - [child] yes, this is willie wonka. - hi. - we decided to get a pandemic puppy, 'cause we never had puppy before. and we thought this would just be a great time, 'cause we're usually so busy. - [lester] in california, brayden and his sister kennedy now share all their love with their puppy named willy wonka, an irish terrier with red hair just like them. - he's really fun to play with. and he just makes like the best snuggle times. and he always tries his best to be good. - [kevin] just remember, if you do get a puppy, it's your responsibility to take care of them all the time. because the more you love them, the more they'll love you. right, lester? - okay, kisses. (woman laughs) right, kevin. and believe it or not, that happens all the time and it makes me feel so good. we love our animals. kevin, thanks. for more now on how you can have a spooktacular halloween, we wanna bring in kate biberdorf, author of "kate the chemist: the big book of experiments". you got a really cool experiment just for halloween. and kids, don't try this version at home. kate, it's great to see you. happ

victor willis of village people joins us live to discuss being back in the spotlight, with a little help has been suspended from the labour party following his response to a damning report into how complaints of anti—semitism were handled when he was leader. the equality and human rights commission said the party was responsible for unlawful acts of harrasment and discrimination. vicky young has more. a year ago, he was trying to be prime minister. today, jeremy corbyn is suspended from the party he joined more than 50 years ago. today, the organisation set up to legally protect the equality concluded there had been serious failings in the way labour dealt with anti—semitism. in response, mr corbyn seemed to suggest that problem had been exaggerated. prompting the dramatic step by his successor. i made it clear that we won't tolerate anti—semitism or the denial of anti—semitism through the suggestion that it's exaggerated or factional and that's why i was disappointed withjeremy corbyn‘s response. and that is why appropriate action has been taken which i fully support. very shocked and v

david willis, bbc news, los angeles. armenia and azerbaijan is under severe strain, even as the international red cross urges both sides to respect the truce in the war over nagorno—karabakh. each country has accused the other of breaking the russian—brokered deal, which began on saturday. nagorno—karabakh. each country has accused the other of breaking the russian—brokered deal, which began on saturday. nagorno—karabakh is officially part of azerbaijan, but it's been controlled by ethnic armenians since the collapse of the soviet union. more than 300 people have been killed and tens of thousands displaced in the past two weeks of violence. azerbaijan says seven people have died in a missile attack on its second largest city, ganja, that's well away from the disputed territory. but the armenian defence ministry has called the azeri allegations "an absolute lie" and accused it of shelling civilian areas inside nagorno—karabakh. the bbc‘s orla guerin is in the city of ganja, where she witnessed the aftermath of an attack a

david willis, bbc news, los angeles.aders are expected to hold further talks with ministers today as extra coronavirus restrictions for areas in england with high infection rates are finalised. borisjohnson will set out the rules in the commons tomorrow. our political correspondent jessica parker is with me. the government have already set out measures to give financial help to many of the businesses affected by these rules. what is being said about that today? on friday, rishi sunak, the chancellor, said that where businesses are legally forced to close in the coming weeks and months, and there is a lot of speculation for example around pubs, the government will step in to pay two thirds of people's wages where they are for a consecutive seven days and those businesses have been forced to close. we heard from a group of labour mayors yesterday saying in the north of england, but is not good enough, especially for people on the minimum wage, how do they make ends meet? it is a view being affected this morning by the shad

david willis, bbc news, los angeles.were warnings that if covid—19 reached gaza, it could be disastrous. the overcrowded palestinian territory governed by the islamist group, hamas, has a broken economy and weak healthca re. it's kept under blockade by israel and egypt — which say they have security concerns. gaza's relative isolation enabled it to hold off a serious outbreak until august. since then there has been a tight lock—down, but it's leaving more families in extreme poverty, as our middle east correspondent, yolande knell, reports. training for combat in gaza against covid—19. the hamas authorities are knocking hundreds of new police recruits into shape to enforce their tough controls. at home, this policeman, a father of four, has just a few minutes of family time as he gets ready for another 12 hour shift. today, he is a drive as to whether masks often, he has more grim tasks. translation: part of my job is transferring drain of the cases to quarantine centres as well as escorting the bodies of those who died

david willis, bbc news, los angeles. gary 0'donoghue is in washington. 7 focus very much on those key swing states? very much so, jealous, really, six or seven states that will make all the difference come next tuesday. intensity of the midwest, pennsylvania, nature again in wisconsin, they really won it for donald trump last time around —— michigan and wisconsin. in michigan there is a six or seven point difference, slightly less in wisconsin, by about a point, he is trailing, but in pennsylvania he is between four and five points ahead and has been pretty consistently, joe biden. he is ahead in florida with a one to two point gap, arizona and north carolina about the same, which is why the president is blitzing the upper midwest, the vice president is in california for three separate rallies. 65 million people have already cast their ballots, just shy of 50% of the total votes cast in the last election, and last time the total early vote was 47 million so we are already 18 million votes a bove million so we are already 18 million votes above that with

here‘s david willis.al experts have advised coronavirus patients to stay in their room and only venture out if it‘s medically necessary. not this patient. accompanied by secret service agents in protective gear, president trump embarked on a slow drive around the walter reed medical center to wave to supporters who‘ve maintained a vigil there since he was admitted three days ago. "great patriots", in his words, and whilst the president himself was wearing a face mask, few of them were doing the same. i love the job we‘re doing... he teased the trip on twitter after paying tribute to those who‘ve been treating him. so, it‘s been a very interesting journey. i learnt a lot about covid. i learnt it by really going to school. this is the real school. this isn‘t the "let‘s read the book" school. and i get it. and i understand it. but some think he hasn‘t learnt enough. an attending physician at walter reed, drjames phillips, described the drive—by as an act of political theatre that could cost the secret servic

david willis, bbc news, los angeles.w but its effects are still being felt in the natural world — not least among bats. wildlife groups rescued record numbers of baby bats who had fallen out of their roosts this year, and they believe the hot weather was to blame. john maguire went to meet the human "bat mum" trying to prepare them for a return to the wild. as the sun sets over the lakes at brockholes nature reserve near preston, it is time for daily exercise. to be more specific, flight training. these are common pipistrelle bats. where have you come from? 19 of them were rescued when they fell out of their roost in a house and were too young to fend for themselves. they have been hand—reared by lorna bennett of the lancashire wildlife trust — batmum. they have been in care and hand fed and then learning to eat meal worms. they are now learning to fly and actually catch the insects. so initially they have to learn how to navigate within this open space and then they have to learn how to manoeuvre to actually try to catc

our north america correspondent, david willis has the latest.resident of the united states. the defiant removal of the facemask, a message to the faithful that their man is back. first of all, i'm feeling great. i don't know about you. how is everyone feeling? cheering. a much—anticipated memo from the president's doctor confirmed the leader of the free world is no longer a risk to others. now at day ten from symptom onset, wrote dr sean conley, fever—free for over 2a hours, and all symptoms improved, the assortment of advanced diagnostic tests obtained reveal there is no longer evidence of actively replicating virus. not that the possibility of the president's continued contagion seemed to worry those that packed the south lawn of the white house several hours earlier. there were masks, yes, but little sign of social distancing. although the sea of maga caps might tell you otherwise, that was not a campaign event, according to the administration. it was, however, part of an attempt to woo black and latino voters, a group adversely affected by t

david willis, bbc news, los angeles. biden wants it tightened. the mass shooting of 17 students at a school in florida two years ago sparked a generation that hadn't been heard before. as nomia iqbal reports, to get their message across in this election, they're using shock tactics — with a voice from the recent past. yo. it's me. it's guac. a voice from beyond the grave. i've been gone for two years and nothing's changed, bro. joaquin 0liver was murdered at his school in parkland. he's been brought to life by virtual reality. vote for people, not getting shot, bro! i mean, vote for me, because i can't. this is our son. this is his activism. this is his fight. his parents are committed to a lifelong campaign — a voice on behalf of their murdered son. we talked about the vegas shooting after it happened and then we talked about the pulse nightclub in orlando shooting, and he was very disappointed about a system that was not able to fix that. and then, a few months later, it happened to him. 17 people died that day, in one

connell: a lot to digest, thank you gerri willis, melissa. melissa: joining us now steve forbes forbes media chairman, i'm just going to let you have added, what do you think everything that just went by, how is it set up for the economy, for the market and everyone's money. >> i think it focuses on the outcome of the election, what kind of environment we're going to have next year, the jobs report while some say is disappointing actually in the context of things is pretty good especially where we came up for march and april and the uncertainty surrounding investment, the federal reserve bank of atlanta does a preliminary estimate of gdp and we raised it to 34.6% for the third quarter up from 32% a week ago and the economy is showing strength despite the uncertainty out there and one of the big things i hope they include in the stimulus package, i hope they get is codified in suspending or putting the holiday on the payroll tax which gives people an immediate raise and lower the cost of hiring, he tried to do by executive order but got blocke