president says he s feeling fine. but he is again isolating at the white house and canceled his weekend travel plans. cbs christina ruffini is at the white house tonight with more. christina, we know the president tested negative just yesterday. what s the latest? reporter: that s right, adriana. according to the president s doctor he tested positive this morning on an antigen test. and did tweet a video. let s take a listen. we have a short clip, i believe. i m doing fine. everything is good. commander and i got a lot of work to do. reporter: now, the president s doctor says this is a rebound case as you mentioned. it s a rare but known issue after taking that antiviral paxlovid which the president took for several days following his initial diagnosis on july 21st. he then had four negative tests in a row, even celebrating with a rose garden speech before testing positive again today. christina, how common are these rebound cases? reporter: it s not exactly known because th
that s good news. that s darren peck. there s vern glenn. tonight, covid rebound. the president tests positive for the virus again. i m doing fine. everything is good. also tonight, catastrophe in kentucky. the death toll keeps rising, as receding floodwaters reveal the scope of the disaster. there s no words. it s just hard to imagine. the race to find the missing with more rain forecast this weekend. plus, russia accused of new horrors in ukraine, as families face the fury of the front line. monkeypox spreads. efforts intensify to contain the outbreak. more cities are saying they don t have enough shots. i m michael george with the race to get vaccines to at-risk communities.
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it was kind of rushed onto the market, so the data is still coming in. the head of the covid response team here at the white house says these relapse cases are rare, in the single digits but the good news is even if you rebound most of these cases are mild, 90% of people who take this stay out of the hospital. the president is not going back on the medication. he s just going to isolate and wait until he gets another negative covid test. adriana. christina ruffini, thank you so much. now, to flood ravaged kentucky. the death toll rose again today. at least 25 people have been killed. and rain is again forecast for this weekend, as rescue crews struggle to get to the hardest hit areas swamped by what s described as the worst flooding to hit the region in decades. we get more now from cbs tom wait. reporter: kentucky is racing to recover as receding floodwaters reveal the scope of devastation in the state s hard struck appalachian region. entire communities were wiped out in the c
US President Joe Biden retests positive for COVID-19 after an antiviral therapy, White House declares, insisting that he is not experiencing any symptoms.