About so long. We dont have to be held prisoner by this administrations failure. Good morning to you on this saturday. It is october 24th. Im christi paul. Look who we woke up early. Great to see you, christi. Im Boris Sanchez in for victor blackwell. For now, ten days before the election. While we are rounding the final turn of the 2020 race, were not as the president continues to insist and, again, on friday rounding the turn of the pandemic. Yeah. The u. S. Is reporting now its highest number of new Coronavirus Infections in one day since this pandemic started. Again, the highest number of new infections in a single day. It was more than 82,000 new cases yesterday. Well let these numbers sink in for you in a minute and break out some of the most important ones. Hospitalizations have increased by 33 this month. And right now there are 41,000 people in the hospital fighting the virus. Cnns Paulo Sandoval is with us from new york for the very latest. Paulo, good morning to you. Reporter good morning, guys. You mentioned hospitalizations. Here in new york the situation isnt that much better. Hospitalizations the highest theyve been. It does not look good. We heard from one last night from the centers for disease, research and policy that says we can easily hit six digit daily figures very soon. This pcr display is a visual representation of the lives taken by a virus that seems to be surging again. Over 223,000 dead and counting. Eight months into the covid crisis, hospitalizations and infections are at an alltime high in many states across the country. This week marked the First Time Since late july the number of daily new cases exceeded 71,000. If youll look at the numbers of the daily infections, the upticks on the map of more than 30 states that are having upticks, its not going to spontaneously turn around unless we do something about it. Reporter as the president claims, we are rounding the turn on the pandemic. His opponent and many medical experts are warning we are only headed towards a dark winter. The reality is the worst could be yet to come and the beginning is the warmup act and were already seeing that across the northern states. If you look at covid19 heat map, the whole northern part is lit up. Reporter with hope hanging on a safe covid19 vaccine, drug Maker Astrazeneca said friday it has a green light from the Food Drug Administration to resume the vaccine trial in the u. S. Been on pause since a volunteer in brittain developed a neurological condition. The head of the National Institution of health are growing worried that even after a safe vaccine is approved, a growing number of americans may not be willing to take it. Recent cnn poll found 45 would not try to get a vaccine even if one was widely available. Possibly allowing the virus to stick around for years as dr. Francis collins. Ive been talking so optimistically how were likely to have a vaccine by the end of the year. Only 50 of americans are interested in taking it, were never going to get to that point of immunity across the population where this covid19 goes away. Reporter this week an updated model published in the journal nature forecasts some possible grim scenarios suggesting we could see up to a million covid deaths if social distancing mandates are eased and only half the population wears masks in public. Anthony fauci tells cnn he thinks the u. S. Should just mandate mask use. I get the arguments saying if you mandate a mask, then you have to enforce it and that will create more of a problem. Well, if people are not Wearing Masks, then maybe we should be mandating it. Reporter this weekend big ten football is back prompting some of the mayors in College Towns involved to ask the conference for help in fighting the spread of the virus. The mayors wrote, quote, they generate a lot of gatherings, consumption of alcohol and these activities have also been associated with an increased spread of covid19. This morning there still are theories of who or what could be fueling the spike. For the who we have young people who have increased it to older adults. Small gatherings could be fueling this. The family events. Marylands governor this week said that was their number one source of transmission. Second was house parties. Paulo sandoval, great wrapup for us there. Thank you. Thanks, guys. No question that the pandemic is going to be on the minds of voters in just a few days as they cast their ballots. Many of them early. Today both campaigns are busy in the battleground states. President trump heading to North Carolina, ohio, and wisconsin. Meantime, Vice President mike pens hitti pence hitting two stops. Senator Kamala Harris will be next door in ohio. Former president barack obama is stumping for biden in south florida. Our reporters are out on the trail this morning. Cnns mj lee following the Biden Campaign. We want to start with cnns Sarah Westwood in West Palm Beach. Good morning, sarah. The president has business rallies planned in three covid hot spots later but he has a big item on the agenda first. Reporter thats right. Good morning, boris and christi. Yeah, a very busy day for President Trump starts here in West Palm Beach where hell wake up at his Maralago Club for the First Time Since early march. So the pandemic has kept him away obviously for months. A lot has changed since the last time we all were here. The first item on the agenda is voting, presumably for himself here in florida where he is still registered to vote. Hes encouraged his supporters to vote in person and not necessarily trust the vote by mail system. A symbolic gesture going in person. Then he has a very busy Campaign Schedule with rallies in North Carolina, wisconsin and ohio. Those are three crucial battleground states and three states that the president did carry in 2016 but where hes either trailing joe biden or where the margin for him is very, very thin. Hes working to shore up support in those key states. At rallies yesterday we heard the president promote a level of optimism about the pandemic that isnt rooted in the data because we are seeing infections spike across this country. Lets take a listen to what he said in pensacola. A safe vaccine that quickly ends this horrible pandemic, rounding the turn. With or without the vaccine. We have the vaccines. Theyre going to be great. With or without it, were rounding the turn. Normal life, thats all we want, fully resuming. We want normal life fully resuming. And thats happening. Reporter now, of course, weve heard local officials and Public Health experts warning convening gatherings in, as you mentioned, boris, covid hot spots. We have seen few guests Wearing Masks and adhering to social distancing guidelines. At a Different Event in florida, the president expressed ambivalence about adhering to social distancing guidelines. You know what, some people want to stay in. Thats good. Do it. Do it. Im sort of like, lead your life, right . Some people agree with me, some people but if you want to stay in, if you want to do what youre doing, you do it. If you want to get out, you want to be careful, socially distance, all of the things, you can wear a mask if you cant socially distance, but there are a lot of things you can do. But some people want to stay in. Reporter now as weve kind of seen, the president s Closing Argument appears to be trying to put a rosie spin on the virus, trying to return to normal life even though we are seeing the rising cases of coronavirus and were seeing the death toll in the u. S. Continue to climb. We do expect the president to pursue a similarly packed schedule basically every day from now until election day. Were ten days out and the president has been hitting multiple states a day in that final spread, boris and christi. Youve got to lead your life is pretty much how you wind up with a Record Number of new infections in a single day and months after the pandemic began. Sarah westwood with the president in West Palm Beach florida. Thanks much. M. J. Lee is with us in pennsylvania where joe and jill biden are campaigning. What dupuis is going to happen today . Reporter well, in these final days, guys, the Biden Campaign is promising the former Vice President will have a robust Campaign Schedule, and that brings them here to the state of pennsylvania today. They are first going to be campaigning in the philadelphia suburbs. Youre absolutely right. Everybody would acknowledge that this is a critical state. Keep in mind this is a state that President Trump narrowly won back in 2016 and these days the polls coming out of this state have looked very good for the former Vice President. A cnn poll earlier this week shows the former Vice President with a tenpoint lead over the president. Clearly this is a state that they want to put in their victory column, and very important to note, too, that in terms of just his closing method that we are seeing in these final days, clearly covid19 and what biden plans on doing to contain this virus is going to be so sentences central to what he wants voters to hear from him in these final days. Yesterday we saw him make a speech in wilmington, delaware. It was sort of a comprehensive speech that weve heard him talk about in the final weeks. He talked about sort of what his plan would be to try to keep this virus in check if he were to be president , including talking about the enforcement of mask wearing. How he would hand out vaccines and ppe and of course going after what he sees as the president s failures in dealing with this virus, even pointedly saying that he believes the president has quit on the American People and one thing that was kind of interesting was that biden over and over again sort of asked the American People to imagine a Better Future under his own presidency. Take a listen. We dont have to be held prisoner by this administrations failures. We can choose a different path. Imagine a day in the not too distant future when you can enjoy dinner with your friends and your family, maybe even go out to a movie. When you can celebrate a birthday, wedding, graduation surrounded by your nearest and dearest friends. Now weve got a sense of just how close we are on election day by seeing what kind of surrogates are campaigning for joe biden. We have former president barack obama and we have Kamala Harris, bidens running mate, campaigning in ohio. We have Bernie Sanders in western pennsylvania and cher in las vegas and jon bon jovi campaigning. M. J. Lee. Quite a lineup. Thank you so much. We have plenty to share. Lets bring in cnn political analyst, talu. Great to see you, sir. I want to pull up that map of where all of the candidates are going, the candidates and surrogates. The map shows where things are in the campaign. We heard from m. J. There. Biden is camping out in pennsylvania. A lot of projections have pennsylvania deciding the winner of this election. President trump blitzing the campaign trail. Rallies in three different swing states. When you look at this map, what does that say to you, talu . Well, it shows that biden has a large number of paths to victory while trump needs to essentially play defense for the map that he won four years ago. The president needs to win florida. If he loses florida, essentially that means this race is over. He needs to do well in the upper midwest, pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan. Hes spending time in some of those states. The fact that states like georgia, ohio is in the mix shows he is playing defense. He needs to beat the polls in order to win. Right now it shows his path to victory is narrow and divided. His surrogates are looking at a widening path and looking at what the conservative and red states like georgia and texas where they see things, early voting numbers that show they may be competitive there. It does show that the race continues to trend in bidens favor but whats going to happen on election day with a lot of President Trumps voters coming out could ultimately shape the outcome of the race. Right now it seems like President Trump is fighting an uphill battle. Yeah. Certainly the polls have been showing it. Theyve been remarkably consistent throughout this race, especially in key swing states. Many of them not even within the margin of error the way they were in 2016. Nationally biden looks to be up some ten points. Is there anything right now in this race with so many ballots already cast that you think might change the dynamic. Well, the debate earlier this week was really the last time for either candidate to speak to a Large National audience of tens of millions of people. I dont think that debate changed the trajectory of the race. Right now President Trump is trying to recreate what he did in 2016, which is barn storaging the countk barnstorming the country and trying to stay on message and shave down the margins and see if he can eke out a victory. In terms of Major National events, you know, you always have to expect the unexpected, especially this year, especially under this presidency. In terms of changing the actual contours of the race, it does seem like this race has been incredibly steady over the past several months. Expect the unexpected. Thats certainly an understatement, as you well know. I want to zoom in on georgia very quickly. It hasnt gone for a democrat since bill clinton in 1992, and yet it appears it will be competitive in this race. Ultimately, what is it going to take for biden to win . If you look at 2018, there is a relatively competitive governors race. It energized governments. Biden needs to do better than Stacey Abrams did with white voters and it needs to juice turnout in getting people to come out and vote in the early Voting Period and on election day. Makes sure he holds down the margins. He has a shot at winning georgia. It seems like the early vote numbers show that democrats are fired up. If biden can keep it very close on election day, then he could eke out a win. If he does, its hard to see President Trump win reelection. Even if he doesnt, have the Trump Campaign dedicate resources there is sort of a victory in himself. Tolu, thank you for sharing part of your weekend with us. Still to come, dr. 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I spoke to dr. Saju matthew last hour about the need to stay vigilant. Heres part of that conversation. Learning from history, i was reading about the spanish flu pandemic back in 1918 where 500 Million People, 1 3 of the worlds population was affected, and 15 Million People died. And guess when most of the people died . They died at the beginning of that second peak in october, november of the year 1918. You know, its almost a dark, sobering thought that we are exactly at that same place. Now at that time it was in the middle of the war and the soldiers were carrying the virus with them. People were living in tight spaces, but guess what . Quarantine fatigue hit these people. They took off the masks, went in the streets and thats when most people died. Unfortunately, we are at that point right now. Weve got people who are saying im done with this pandemic. I thought that all i had to do was to follow these measures for three months. You know, we dont have a vaccine. I want to live my life. And what i would urge most americans at this point, boris, is to not give up. This is the time to hunker down and, listen, just follow the simple guidelines. Wear the masks. Wash your hands. Watch that distance. Make decisions about not going into indoor activities and large public gatherings. Its actually fairly simple. Yeah. The next hour were going to speak with tracey nixon, chief nursing officer of the university of utah health center. Shell tell us why the recent rise in covid19 hospitalizations around the country is a dangerous sign. Coming from somebody who is a nurse and in it so we can get her perspective. I know there are these long lines in some places and a lot of uncertainty. More than 52 Million People have already voted in this years election. Coming up, some of the challenges though that voters are facing when they do go to the polls. For the first time in more than 150 years, santa claus will not be coming to town, at least not to macys. 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Meantime, Pennsylvanias Supreme Court has ruled that mail ballots cannot be challenged or rejected for signatures that dont match versions that are already on file. And the texas Supreme Court this week ruled that drive through voting in the states largest county where houston is located can continue. The Republican Party of texas argued those Harris County polling places were violating election law. Election experts counted over 200 lawsuits filed in the leadup to voting. The Voter Suppression handbook say theres a wellorganized effort to block certain groups. Take a look. 08 was the beginning of the whole demographic tide. The first election where we could see the demographics impacting. If we continue to under perform in this multiracial world that is going to be america, the white voters are going to be clear minority. The Republican Party will cease to exist. Ken smith is with us. Hes the executive producer of the film. Tim, glad to have you here. Thank you very much. Thank you. We have Record Numbers of people voting by mail already, and that is because in large part of this pandemic people are afraid to go to the polls. You say some of the additional security measures are a form of Voter Suppression. What evidence do you have of that . Well, we sort of started our detective work in 2016, and back then president or then candidate trump was talking about rigged election, as he is talking now, President Trump, about rigged elections. Back in 2016 we started our filming, he focused on the polling places. You know, it would be rigged in the polling places. Now hes talking about vote by mail fraud. The reality is there is no, you know, justification. Theres been lots of studies done that vote by mail has any fraud and its just totally hellacious. The same sort of tactics he used back then. Youre seeing it in a number of states. You mentioned texas. Theres only one dropoff box per county in texas. Some counties only have a few thousand people but Harris County has more than 2. 5 million voters. In ohio theres only one polling place per county, early polling place. So they really are looking for ways to sort of, you know, impact the growing demographic tide of black and brown voters, you know, which has really sort of started as we made clear in our film in 2008. Republicans had to sort of one of two choices. Either they could suppress these new voters or they could kind of appeal to them in terms of policies. They, you know, chose the former route and they have been doing it ever since. Its sort of spread across not only the legislature with restricted voting laws but also increasingly in the courts where the Republican Senate and trump has appointed a number of republican or not republican but judges and 25 of the new federal judges are trump appointees. Tim, you talk specifically about texas and the situation there, so i want to ask you about that. The governor, greg abbott, hes still fighting in court to keep ballot drop boxes to one per county. Hes argued hes expanded in different ways, by expanding early voting by six days and allowing hand delivering of mailin ballots. Do you not see that as a fair tradeoff . The other thing he did, theyve kept only people over 65 and people who have what they call legitimate illnesses, they dont qualify covid as legitimate illnesses and do vote by mail. Hes trying to play it both ways. They also have voter i. D. In texas which, you know, the Supreme Court has struck down and came back, you know, after shelby versus holder was passed. So people in texas, for instance, college ids can be used, but gun permits can for your i. D. To vote. So theyre sort of focusing on the type of voters via this voter i. D. That they want to get to the polls. So if somebody feels like theyre being held back or that there is some sort of Voter Suppression in their area, is there anything they can do about that . Yeah. Theres this wonderful organization, 1800ourvote which you can call. They have 24hour lawyers on call and have call centers. One of those we actually shot in 2016 in washington, d. C. , where theyll take your call. Try and resolve your issue. Whether your poll has been closed, there have been 21,000 polls closed since 2016 that wont be open this year. So if you go to your old polling place and its closed, you can call this number and theyll tell you, where do you live . Youll say, x, y, z street. Theyll say your polling place is now here. Tim smith, good to have you with us this morning. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Still ahead, earlier this year they helped keep families afloat, but can washington agree to a new deal on stimulus checks. Well be right back after a quick break. Thats why ive got the power of 1,2,3 medicines with trelegy. The only fdaapproved, oncedaily 3 in 1 copd treatment. 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There are so many people, families right now pinning their hopes on a stimulus deal that could be reached in washington. The question is, is there any possibility it could happen before the election . Were ten days out. The prospects dont look great. Lets bring in cristina alesci. The prospects arent great, its not just that the white house has to come up with a deal with nancy pelosi and the democrats, they have to come up with a deal that republicans in the senate are also going to support. Where do things stand right now . Reporter thats right, boris. We have not even cleared that first hurdle Nancy Pelosis spokesperson saying on twitter saying that at some point pelosi will work with steven mnuchin. Once they do that, they have to go to the senate. All of that seems unlikely. All of those parties coming together ten days before. It seems very unlikely before. No ones willing to actually walk away from the talks because they know politically they face a backlash from the public if they do that. The white house Economic Advisor larry kudlow tried to dance around this yesterday for us, boris. Now the clock is ticking though, as you know. The elections 12 days away or whatever it is, and its going to be very hard to get it done. I just want to defend my friend, secretary mnuchin and potus on this. Quickly. We tried very hard to narrow the gap, very hard. We cant leap the final hurdles on policy disagreements. There you have it. They cant leap the final hurdles on policy disagreements. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of americans continue to file for initial unemployment benefits. Boris, this is just stunning. We have seen a flattening of this number from march and throughout the summer but this needs context. Not everyone who came off of this chart, not all of the people who are no longer on initial unemployment go back to work. They either have extinguished or their benefits have expired and theyve gone on another program and some of them have gone back to work but its very tough to tell based on that data alone just how healthy the American Worker is at this point. And we know we have seen, you know, food insecurity, worries about eviction, all of that facing the American Worker. Ive seen people try to soothe this in some way by looking ahead at the holidays. Ive seen people putting christmas stuff up already because it just brings you a little bit of joy, comfort. Now i cannot believe i have to say we are getting word santa claus is not going to be at macys for the first time in 160 years. Is that true . That is true. No miracle on 34th street. Macys will do virtual santa visits. This is just one example of how American Life is not back to normal despite what the president keeps on touting on the campaign trail. No one feels normal at this point, and even worse on the economic front, americans are expecting leaner holidays this year. A recent survey this week showed that 38 of people are looking to spend less this year than they did last year. We havent seen levels of that response to that question since the great recession. Christi . Yeah, santa claus certainly hits a couple of those risk factors for covid. Probably best if he spends the holidays hanging around the north pole. Cristina alesci, thank you so much. Every saturday were highlighting cities across the u. S. With resources to help you if you need help right now so grab your phone or a pen and a piece of paper. Write down this information. First of all, lets go to massachusetts together here this morning. Today and next saturday the Massachusetts Military Support Foundation is having a drivethrough food bank. Its from a Cape Cod CommunityCollege Parking lot. Its happening from 10 a. M. To 1. 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Looking for the worst misinformation thats happenings and finding great content to counter it, on peoples feeds all over the nation. I want to look at what happened in 2016. There was a fake Community Page allegedly created by the russians. An activist group called bla blackivist is what theyre calling themselves. How many of these groups are you seeing in 2020 . Were seeing a few. It was one of the biggest in 2016. You have to remember when the senate did a report on russian interference in 2017, after that election, it found that the number one target of russian interference were black americans. So theres been a lot of misinformation since then. Weve seen a lot of that popping up. Bots, trolls, other bad actors, doing everything from putting up billboards to making confusing communitiesquerading as black o latino people to misinform voters. Have they evolved in any specific way from 2016 to 2020 . Oh, absolutely, theyve been more sophisticated actually. One of the things that you said at the top of the segment, the platforms where we are every day are not doing enough to actually catch up to how clever these groups have become. They always seem to be one step behind, actually. Thats why we have to do everything on our own to make sure our brands and communities are informed. Educate us, what can we do to help the people we know and love who want to vote and make an educated vote, how do we help them do so . Theres a couple of things i would suggest. First of all, one thing id like to remind people, this fight is happening on your own feeds. And sometimes, good people have bad information. We always say factcheck that family group chat where you may not see things that are true. Where it is credible. Talk to people about it. We always say, only argue online with your friends. If theres a person on the internet who is cranky who seem to be dragging you into a fight. That might be a paid troll. That might be a bot. Just avoid those folks altogether. Most importantly, we have a plenty of everything at black. Org how to find your voting place, and how to make that plan, make that plan and follow through and take your family and friends with you. Andre, its been great information. Thank you so much. Thank you. Absolutely. Well be right back. I cant do another four years of this. I cant. Theres never been more divisiveness in this country. Its frightening and sad. That was trumps whole thing, you know, take the politics out of it and run it like one of his businesses. I know people were looking for that kind of change, but its not working. You know, weve only gotten more in debt, we have this virus now out of control, people out of work, no healthcare. How is that helping people . We need someone that knows what theyre doing, and i think its biden. I know he will listen to the experts. Thats what we need. I trust him 100 to get this under control. He has the capability to bring us back together. 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Plus, how nurses are bracing for a surge, as the u. S. Sets a new coronavirus record. The next hour of new day starts right now. We have some breaking news. The u. S. Reporting more than 80,000 new covid19 cases. We are now in the full surge. Were rounding the turn. Were rounding the corner. Its going away. The truth of the matter is, that were turning the corner into a tsunami. As president , ill mandate mask wearing in all federal buildings and all interstate transportation. Because masks save lives, period. We really need to doubledown on the kind of Public Health measures that weve been talking about so long. We dont have to be held prisoner by this administrations failure. Good morning you it. Im christi paul on this saturday morning. Look whos here. Always a pleasure to be with you, christi. Im bor