feels great. biden will now take questions during a town hall here on abc instead. president trump s condition tonight. the interview he gave today, saying there s nothing wrong and that he d been very sick. also, talking about an event at the white house more than a week ago for gold star families, saying they wanted to get close to him, that he didn t stop them. but tonight, what about those gold star families, has anyone reached out to them, could they have been exposed? jon karl standing by for us. we re also tracking that hurricane now closing in on the u.s. expected to slam into the u.s. tomorrow. ginger zee and rob marciano both live tonight. here in new york city, the alarming covid outbreaks. the new hot spots tonight. hundreds of schools closed. 35 states reporting a rise in hospitalizations. wisconsin, for one, about to open a field hospital. new video released tonight in the breonna taylor case. what it shows. and america strong tonight. the grandfather, the baseb
the white house since august the 6th, because my impression was their approach to how to handle this was different from mine and what i insisted that we do in the senate, which is to wear a mask and practice social distancing. the words from mitch mcconnell. let s get to jon karl with us live again tonight. and jon, the president saying there that those gold star families wanted to get close to him, that he didn t stop them. but we were all curious, what about the flip side, has the white house reached out to those gold star families in case they were the ones exposed to the virus? reporter: david, we found out that the white house did reach out to the head of the group that brought the gold star families to the white house. that group then in turn cof ted each and falies thaat that event and i am happy to report that none of the gold star families have either tested positive or displayed any symptoms consistent with coronavirus. all right, that is really encouraging news. all ri
tonight, the white house answering questions, pressed on the president s claims on voting. tonight, the images coming in, the long lines of early voting already under way in this country. president trump and his claims about voting by mail. the white house is grilled today. where is this river where ballots were supposedly found? how they answer. governors in several states pushing back on voter intimidation, saying early voting and mail-in voting is safe. and breaking late this afternoon, the governor of texas and his controversial move, vastly cutting down on the number of locations for handing in your mail-in ballots. jon karl standing by. the coronavirus surging in the u.s. tonight, the images here. the hospitals now full in wisconsin. front line workers sounding the alarm. president trump now moving one of his rallies to a different
million people, stretches out over 1,700 miles, will only have one dropoff location to return their ballots. the governor says he issued the proclamation for security reasons. some local officials say it is just simply an effort to suppress the vote. jon karl leading us off tonight. jon, thank you. we know all of this can be difficult to track at home, the daily headlines on early voting, safe voting in this pandemic. so, our partners at fivethirtyeight have put together an easy to use state-by-state guide on voting both in person and by mail. you can go to abcnews.com/wntvote2020. of course, the coronavirus will be a major issue driving voters, and tonight, the virus is now surging in much of this country. more than 30 states with cases on the rise. and wisconsin is one of the nation s red zones. images coming in from hospitals near capacity. late today, president trump moving a rally from one wisconsin city to another, but now, some authorities in that next community are already
here also in person? what would that do to you? it would almost it would bring things to a stop. some of these people would be in line until midnight. reporter: you don t want that to happen? we don t want that to happen. we want to get people through as quickly as we can. reporter: the voters here in fairfax county are happy to wait in line. voting early and not taking any chances. it s worth the wait? no doubt, it s worth the wait? no doubt. no doubt. yeah. reporter: how confident are you that your vote is going to be counted? i feel way more confident than if i mailed it in. i want to make sure that my vote is counted. jon karl out with the voters today. let s get right live to jon, he s in washington, back there tonight. and jon, i know there s also news coming in out of texas at this hour. the republican governor there issuing a new order, cutting the number of locations where voters can drop off their mail-in ballots. i know democrats are already saying this