Murder hornets the searchanddestroy missions aimed at the invagd species. And later, special delivery a sushi chef loses his shirt to save his business. This is this is the cbs weekend news. Yuccas good evening. Im jamie yuccas in los angeles. 10 days and counting, election day is drawing near, and the countrys Coronavirus Crisis is getting worse. Today marks the firstever national voteearly day. Many across the country did just that. Take a look. Joining more than 56 million americans who have already cast their ballots in person or by mail. Also today, President Trump barnstormed three battleground states as joe biden looked to reverse democratic fortunes in pennsylvania. Cbs Nikole Killion starts us off. Reporter on this national voteearly day, President Trump cast his ballot in west palm beach. I voted for a guy named trump. Reporter hoping others follow his lead, the president hop scotched to three battleground states saturday, including north carolina, where he mocked the pandemic. Covid, covid please dont go and vote, covid. Reporter . And knocked opponent joe biden for his comments on the oil industry during thursdays debate. The last question, i said, you mean youd get rid of oil . He said, yes, id wean ourselves off of oil. I said we just won texas. We just won pennsylvania. We just won a lot of different places. Reporter in pennsylvania, the former Vice President tried to shore up votes. Its go time. Its game day. We have 10 days left. It may come down to pennsylvania. Reporter with backtoback events in two pivotal swing counties, biden brought out heavy hitters, like rocker bon jovi. Town boy reporter and down in miami, former president barack obama, who renewed his rebuke of the president. If he cant answer a tough question like, what would you like to do in your second term . Then its our job to make sure he doesnt get a second term. And thats why over the next 10 days weve got to work hard to let joe biden and kamala harris, the next president and Vice President of the united states. Reporter both campaigns are blanketing the battleground with top surgats. The president is getting help from Vice President mike pence and his former u. N. Ambassador nikki haley, while biden has deployed running mate kamala harris, his former rival, bernie sanders, and even the legendary singer cher. Jamie. Yuccas all big names. Nikole in the midst of all this campaigning, Amy Coney Barrett appears to be moving closer toward confirmation, especially with the help of one more senator today. Reporter well, here in washington, alaska senator Lisa Murkowski announced that she will vote for barrett, even though she opposed filling the vacancy right before the election. That means republicans will likely have the votes they need to confirm barrett monday. Jamie. Yuccas Nikole Killion in washington, thanks so much. The Coronavirus Crisis in this country is taking a dangerous turn. Cases are spiking, an in at leat 41 states. The number of people hospitalized is also setting records. More than 83,000 new cases were confirmed friday. That is the worst day yet. Cbs Danya Bacchus has the latest. Reporter the Coronavirus Crisis is intensifying. The surge causing pain across much of the nation. 15 states have now reached a pandemic peak in hospitalizations, and daily infections nationwide spiking 273 since the start of september. It will no doubt overwhelm many of our Health Care Systems in this country. Reporter in montana, the daily infection rate is up 500 in the past five weeks. Ohio has more people hospitalized than at any other time during the pandemic. Imagine if a bus, we had a fatal bus crash every week. Would we act . Yes. We would act. Reporter as the virus rages across the midwest, big ten football kicked off in the states where its hitting the hardest without fans. We will have a Law Enforcement presence on campus and around the stadium. Reporter but Americas Health care system is being pushed to the brink, according to epidemiologist michael osterholm. Were going to end up experiencing the trifecta of shortages, doctors and nurses, protective equipment, and third well see major drug shortages, stretching the system beyond anything weve had in modern history. Reporter california saw a big spike in cases this week, but those higher infection numbers are because of a backlog in cases, all from l. A. County. Over the next few days, officials will be monitoring new test results to get an accurate covid case count. Jamie. Yuccas dania, thank you. There will be much more on the election and covid crisis tomorrow on face the nation. Margaret brennans guests including National Security adviser, robert obrien. Arkansas governor asa hutchinson. And kansas city mayor quinton lucas. A Police Officer who fatally shot a black teenager in waukegan, illinois, has been fired. 19yearold Marcellis Stinnette was killed, and his girlfriend wounded after the officer stopped the car she was driving earlier this week. According to police, the car started rolling backward when the unidentified officer approached. Thats when he opened fire. The navy is investigating what caused a deadly plane crash. It happened friday when the training aircraft, a t6texan ii, crashed into a home in the gulf coast town of foley. Both crew members on board were killed. Remarkably, no one on the ground was injured. The Colorado Wildfires turned deadly overnight. An elderly couple who did not evacuate died together in their longtime home. Cbs Omar Villafranca has more. Reporter fastmoving flames from the east troublesome fire have torched more than 18,000 acres just overnight. The second largest fire in colorado history has burned almost 300 square miles, larger than the city of chicago. Thousands have evacuated the towns of granby, estes park, and grand lake. But some have stayed behind, which can cause problems for crews combating the fire. When we have people in the area, that creates more danger for also, because oftentimes well get pulled into a rescue operation that risks the lives of our firefighters that are trying to save life and property. Reporter images from the front lines show what emergency crews are up against 40foot trees turned into giant fire sticks with waves of flames sweeping over the bonedry ridges. More than 700 crews from across the country are digging containment lines, but high wind and low humidity are making the fight to contain the fire difficult. These intense winds are blowing branches and parts of trees way away, and then, they start a fire there. And that becomes very dangerous for the firefighters. Reporter with the fire less than 10 contained, crews have not been able to search for victims or properly assess the damage. It was too windy today for helicopters to go up and drop water on hot spots, but there is snow in the forecast, which could help crews battle the flames. Jamie. Yuccas omar, thank you. Good news today from washington state. It came in a statement of two words got them. Today, federal agriculture authorities destroyed a murder hornet nest, releasing these images, showing dozens of the invasive insects trapped inside that long, clear tube. The nest of asian giant hornets, an invasive species, was the first ever found in the united states. The twoinch insects are called murder hornets because theyre predators of valuable honey bees. They were tracked with a tiny transmitter attached with dental floss. Remarkable. Now to an amazing story of survival. Dash cam video captured this jeep look at that rolling down a mountainside near telluride recently. Two people and their dog were sight seeing when the driver stopped and got out. Thats when the car began rolling downhill. Amazingly here, the woman in the jeep survived and is recovering. Decker, their black lab, was found days later unharmed. Lucky there. He was one of the pioneers of outlaw country music. I knew a man mr. Bojangles and he danced for you yuccas Jerry Jeff Walker is best moan for that pop song. He wrote it with a street performer who called himself mr. Bojangles. The song became a big hit in 1971 for the nitty gritty dirt band. Jerry jeff walker died friday of cancer at his home in austin, texas. He was 78. Straight ahead on the cbs weekend news, no middle ground in the midwest when it comes to fighting covid19. Cbs goes inside the surge in wisconsin. Also, airlines try to ease travel jitters. The new solutions to get you home for the holidays. And later, the raw reactions to a sushi chefs beefy new delivery system. The five deadliest days of the people so far. 145 dead. Its one of the worst hot spots in the country. This week, cbs adriana diaz gained rare access to the states biggest hospital, caring for some of the most critical patients. Reporter there are five covid units at aurora st. Lukes Medical Center in milwaukee. This i. C. U. Is for the most critical. Nurse ashley bonus has been here since the start, treating patients like 73yearold attorney sue pappas. Hi, sue. Hi. How are you . Reporter like so many, she hardly left her house for months, but still ended up here. I cant explain it. I was pissed. I was really upset. My family busted their butt. Reporter to be safe. To be safe. And all of a sudden, i get it . This is nuts. Reporter what do you say to people who dont believe this is real . I i dont know what to say to them. Im sitting here, im sicker than a dog, and its real. Reporter her daughter and sister are infected, too. You okay . I wish people would take this serious. Reporter how do you think shes going to do . I feel good about her. I really do. Reporter are you worried about yourself . Getting this . Initially, i would say yes. We. Im a type 1 diabetic. I am also 17 weeks pregnant. Reporter ashley, youre pregnant and youre still choosing to come here and work in the covid unit every day. It was a hard decision to make, but its also that emotional support during all of this. You you take me to a different i. C. U. In this hospital, and im not going to have the camaraderie that i have here. Reporter in the past month, the hospitals Covid Patients went from 20 to 77, nearly quadrupling. One, two, three. Reporter this patient has been here for more than two weeks. The reason why theyre flipping the patient its called prong is because its shown to help them breathe better and has been prove tone help Covid Patients survive. The securing the patients head is dr. Charles charles ojielo, who worries about the staff. At some point, fatigue begins to set in. How do we keep our staff refreshed and able to continue to do this, since its lasting longer and longer. Reporter its been a marathon. It has been a marathon, and we dont know when its going to end. When we started this, i asked my husband, who fought in the war in afghanistan as a marine, how do you prepare for this battle . He told me to figure out what youre fighting for and keep that at the forefront. So this community, these patients, these families that are being affected by this, thats what im fighting for. Reporter fighting batle every day in the war against covid. Adriana diaz, cbs news, milwaukee. Yuccas such heroes. Still ahead on the cbs weekend news, making air travel safe again one test dummy at a time. Looming, there are efforts to make people feel safer about flying. As cbs kris van cleave shows us, new cleaning methods and masks are going a long way. Reporter university of arizona researchers working with boeing are applying a live virus thats harmless to humans but more resilient than covid19 to airplane surfaces flyers are most likely to touch. They them applied the enhanced cleaning techniques airlines have been rolling out since the pandemic began disinfectants, electrostatic sprars, antimicrobial coatings, and this ultraviolet light wand boeing developed to clean cockpits. The researchers found all four procedures were shown to effectively kill covid. It can give us a virusfree airplane. Reporter this follows research from the department of defense and darpa using a test dummy that simulates a coughing passenger spewing out the equivalent of thousands of coughs. When the dummy wore a mask, testing found on average just. 003 of the particles reached another passengers breathing zone. Specifically, can i tell you sit in seat x,y,z . No, they all performed very well. Reporter this week, seven months into the pandemic, the c. D. C. Strongly recommended people wear a mask when flying, are in a transit hub, on mass transit, or in a ride share. Airbus said its researchers found if passengers wear masks the number of droplets reaching another passenger is lower than what it would be on the ground with social distancing because of the planes air circulation and hospitalgrade filtration systems. Infex disease expert dr. Carlos del rio. Its not one thing. Its adding all the din things really makes plane travel very, very safe. Reporter the airlines say there are only about 44 docume documented cases of someone catching covid during a flight, and all but two of those happened before mask mandates were in place. But critics say its very hard to know concrete numbers because so many people are asymptomatic, and Contact Tracing in the u. S. Has been lacking. Jamie. Yuccas all things to consider. Kris, thank you. Next on the cbs weekend news, unprecedented revolt. Protesters in thailand put the king on notice. Things, including a year of protests, both in the u. S. And abroad. This week, demonstrations against Police Brutality and state violence in nigeria turned deadly, claiming at least 12 lives. And today, tensions are high in thailand where prodemocracy protesters are demanding change. Cbs Ramy Inocencio has more. Reporter defiance against thailands military leaders this weekend. The threefingered salute from the hunger games movies and books the symbol of the opposition. This surge of anger coming after Prime Minister prayat chanocha said he would not give in to protester demands to resign. In the past three months, mostly peaceful crowds, reportedly in the tens of thousands, have taken to the streets. Demonstrators facing down police in riot gear, others against the hard knock of water cannons. 16yearold an ang is one of those passionate protesters. How are you feeling with the air of protests surrounding you and your friends . There is definitely an evident fear, but as long as there is hope, the fight will keep on going. Reporter the new king, masha vajiralongkorn, has been called corrupt. He reside in germany, where he is the king of thailand, but he lives in germany. I think that itself proves that hes an incompetent ruler. Reporter insults like that to thailands royals are criminal, with a belief the king is a living god. Until this generation. By not arowg the people to criticize the monarchy, its simply saying they are above us, and ultimately what were fighting for is democracy, freedom and equality. Reporter in midoctober a group of protesters allegedly harassed the queens motorcade, a move they denied. The Prime Minister called a state of emergency, banning public gatherings of five or more people, and targeting media groups critical of the government. You know what . We had the police in front of our office every day. Reporter he is a news anchor for online broadcaster voice tv, suspended for allegedly reporting false information. We just put the live video up of the protesters, what they were doing on the street. Thats it. Reporter and thailands peoplepowered protests show no signs of slowing. Ramy inocencio, cbs news, beijing. Yuccas when we return, meet the sushi chef who added beefcake to his menu. Restaurants around the world are struggling to stay in business during the pandemic. Cbs lucy craft found an enterprising sushi chef in japan who realized losing his shirt was the key to staying open. Reporter Masanori Sugiura of japan is bonkors about body building. His chiseled pecs and bulgy biceps won the 41yearold dad third place in a competition earlier this year. His day job sushi chef. He runs a Catering Company founded by his grandfather. But in april, after the pandemic struck, the 60yearold business teetered on oblivion, forced to lay off his entire staff, sugiura of the at his wits end. Your sales were down 90 in april. What was it like to be struggling to survive back then . translated i was consumed by anxiety. I didnt know what to do. Reporter sugiura started home delivery. But first he needed to muscle out the competition. Now when sugiura goes to work, hoe rolls up his sleeves and the rest of his shirt. Customers who buy a tray of sushi get 180 pounds of beefcake on the side. Up to 10 orders a day roll in for his delivery macho service. Its not enough to cover lost sales, but across the country, customers are salivating over abs of steel sushi, as during this demonstration at a local architectural firm. Its exciting, this woman said. Im a little jealous. He has what i dont. Why has this become such a viral hit in japan . translated brawny hunks are a rarity here. Sometimes customers tell us to forget the sushi and just send a macho man for two or three hours. Reporter to which sugiura says, please, were a sushi restaurant. Lucy craft, cbs news, japan. Yuccas hey, i get it. Being single in this pandemic, i would be ordering a lot of sushi if i lived in japan. Its tough out there. Thats the cbs weekend news for this saturday. Later on cbs, 48 hours. And dont forget sunday morning with jane pauley first thing tomorrow. Im jamie yuccas in los angeles. Have a great night. Live in the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. The bay area city taking it unusual steps by asking people to leave ahead of what is expected to be the biggest wind event of the year. If they try to get out through this road, it will be suicide. I mean, no other word for it. They got pretty good at preparing for them. We have that story coming up. Dont let this incredibly gorgeous fall day fool you, we are still on track for the significant wind event and i want to show you how this one will be felt differently than all the other ones we have seen so far this season. That evening, thank you for joining us. Im juliette goodrich. I am brian hackney. It will leave much of the bay area on edge this weekend. Powerful wind and dry conditions could trigger another round of pg e blackouts as early as tomorrow. Here is a look at the impacted areas, including every bay area county except for san francisco. The majority of customers impacted are in napa, sonoma, and marin counties. And much of the Higher Elevations in the east bay are also at risk, along with thousands of customers in san mateo and santa clara counties. Pg e is expected to give an update on the safety shutoffs any moment now and when they do, we will bring it to you live. With the extreme fire danger expected tomorrow, city of berkeley is urging people in the hills to get out now. Some streets in the hills are so narrow they can barely fit a fire trucks, so it takes a long time to evacuate when there is an emergency. There bringing in more fire crews and positioning engines in the hills