Captioning funded by cbs good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Were going to begin with a much more civil president ial debate. At least compared to first showdown. President trump and joe biden faced off for the last time last night with 11 days to go until election day. The candidates presented contrasting visions on issues from the coronavirus pandemic to climate change. Natalie brand is in nashville, where the debate took place. Natalie, what were some of the biggest highlights . Reporter good morning, annemarie. Well, this debate, as you mentioned, looked vastly different from the first president ial debate with far fewer interruptions. But the candidates still clashed and challenged each other over six policy areas. And as you said, they presented very different visions for the country. The final president ial debate of 2020 started off with the coronavirus. Were learning to live with it. People are learning to die with it. Reporter as the virus killed more than
Ramped up earlier this year. You called it also a significant step. Why is that . You know, this is the first drug in the eightmonth history pesky virus that is f. D. A. Approved, which certainly has benefit, i think, if used in the right setting. The key is the right setting. But its not a home run. Reporter the experimental drug was previously authorized only for emergency use, and was used to treat the president. The news coming as coronavirus hot spots worsen. El paso reporting more than 1,100 new cases today. Unless we do something to control this this high increase in covidpositive exposures, well quickly run out of resources. Reporter 39 states report their average number of new cases is rising. Hospitalizations are climbing in 36 states, and straining resources. For all the numbers, its the names and faces that best illustrate the devastating toll. 33yearold Patrick Buchanan worked at an Elder Care Center in indianapolis when he contracted covid. He was hospitalized only a day
Im anne marie green. Of course we are going to start this morning on the campaign trail with just eight days left. The coronavirus remains the biggest issue. Over the weekend, over 228,000 cases were reported in the u. S. According to Johns Hopkins university. Records were set on friday and saturday with 83,000 each day. Five aids to Vice President mike pence tested positive for the virus including his chief of staff and political advisor. Pence, who has tested negative, plans to campaign for President Trump this week. Nancy, how are the candidates spending these final days on the trail . Good morning. President trump will head to pennsylvania and joe biden will stay in delaware before traveling to georgia as we enter the final full week until election day. With with a week and a day to go, neither side is taking anything for granted. It is not over until the bell rings. We feel good about where we are. I dont understand how he plays. President trump spent the weekend in battleground s
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Biden exchange a week out from election day. Plexiglass barriers were going to separate the two rivals but were removed at the last minute as both tested negative for covid19. The coronavirus pandemic dominated the first part of the debate. Trump defended his handling of the crisis while biden criticized the president s response. This is a worldwide problem, but i have been congratulated by the heads of many countries on what we have been able to do with the if you take a look at what we have done in terms of goggles and masks and gowns and everything else. And in particular, ventilators. We are now making ventilators all over the world, thousands and thousands a month, distributing them all over the world. It will go away, and as i say, we are rounding the turn, we are rounding the corner, its going away. The expectation is that we will have another 200,000 americans dead by the time between now and the end of the year. If we just wore these masks, the president s own advisers have to