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Covid cases climbing, hospitalization numbers growing nationwide as cold weather approaches, how the countrys largest city is dealing with coronavirus hot spots. I promise you, i will not let you down. And new tonight, cnbc takes the pulse of voters this key swing states will covid in the white house impact the election. Live, from cnbc Global Headquarters the facts, the truth, the news with Shepard Smith. And good evening, we begin with the breaking news youve been watching here on cnbc the president is back at the white house. He is going to come off the helicopter, marine one in just a moment these are the pictures of him arriving we saw the president walk out of walter reed and board marine one without assistance and walk up the staircase at the white house or he will at least. The president s doctors say he may not be entirely out of the woods yet, but his condition has continued to improve, they say, since yesterday, and they insist the president is healthy enough to leave walter reed as he just did. The president s medical team today refused to disclose details. Doctors did scans of the president s lungs but they would not say what the scans showed, citing patient privacy laws. The last lung issue with a sitting president was when reagan got shot. The white house released information about president reagans chest xrays three days after the shooting in fact, they put the chest xrays on tv the president s doctors refused to disclose when the president first tested positive or when he last tested negative. On testing, can you tell us when he had his last negative test i dont want to go backwards. Mean totime, the covid outbrk at the white house keeps growing. Today we learned Kayleigh Mcenany and two aides are covid positive yesterday, the press secretary was still working, around reporters and others without a mask she is one of the several people at the white house rose garden ceremony last weekend and have now tested positive. Heres a snapshot of where everybody was sitting that day earlier today when he announced he would be leaving the hospital, the president tweeted do not be afraid of covid, and dont let covid quote dominate your life. That virus has now killed more than 210,000 americans and is still killing somewhere around 700 people every day across our nation, and right now were seeing hospitalizations surge in nearly two dozen states we have just gotten the White House Pool tape. This wasnt live it was video that they sent out afterwards of the president walking in and heres that video. Sometimes they allow live cameras out there to record these sorts of things. Today they only allowed the pool cameras to shoot it and turn the video tape around so that we could show it to you here that is, the chopper is taking off, the president is back in the residence, and we believe were going to see him again. Were not certain, but we believe, we have every reason were going to see him again, and should we, well take you back there for that. A pretty incredible turn of events here in the last 30 minutes. We have been told that he would leave the hospital at 6 30 eastern time and shortly thereafter he did. And here he is on the balcony. Its a long way away this camera, but you can see the president waving there, and were expecting to see him again soon, ive just been told. At any rate, eamon javers is watching over all of this. Well talk to eamon outside the hospital in bethesda eamon. Reporter yeah, thats right. What theyre saying here, the medical team is saying is they felt confident to let the president leave here at Walter Reed Medical Center in bethesda because they didnt need all of the elaborate medical equipment and procedures that are available here they felt that the president could go back to the white house, he could have that final dose of remdesivir at the white house, supervised by the white house medical unit and that facility, which is world class, inside the white house, would be enough to handle what they think theyre going to see over the coming days, but sean conley, the president s doctor today said that the president is not out of the woods yet he laid out sort of what to expect medically over the next coming days. Heres what he said. Were in a bit of uncharted territory when it comes to a patient that received the therapies he has so early in the course so were looking to this weekend, if we can get through to monday, with him remaining the same or improving, better yet, then we will all take that final deep sigh of relief. Shep, as you point out, there are a couple of things that the white house would not disclose today, including what was on his lung scans conley citing hipaa regulations, but again, as you point out, the president could waive those and order the documents to be released if he so chose. The president clearly does not want that information out. Excuse me me to interrupt, i know you cant see it, but this is the White House Pool tape of the president , lets listen here how are you feeling how do you feel . Not a lot to hear he got some questions, but we really didnt think we would hear much from him, and sure enough we didnt hes going to go inside. We have reason to believe we may see him again, and if that happens, we wanted to go back. I wanted you to finish up, if you could, eamon with Kayleigh Mcenany. The White House Press secretary announcing today that she has tested positive for this terrible disease a number of over people inside the press office have now tested positive as well so this is a debilitated white house that the president is running to the virus is running rampant throughout the president s staff, throughout the residents at the white house, including the president and the first lady who are now infected with it this is going to be a very tricky couple of days here as the president tries to grapple with running the country, running an election campaign, and trying to get his arms around the scale of the virus problem inside his own home and inside his own professional staff. All of that very daunting even for somebody thats fully healthy, shep. Lets see if we hear anything here this is all stage craft. Now that its happened, i can tell you that we were given advan advanced notice that the president would walk up the stairs and they had crafted it such that he would stand there for this moment, this standing moment, where he removed his mask theres no one around him, obviously, im not judging him im telling you what he did. He removed his mask. Now hes saluting, obviously, and eamon, can you see this . I mean. I do not have those pictures, shep. Its quite something. He clearly wanted a moment, and maybe hes saluting the doctors, and nurses who helped care for him or maybe the secret Service Agents who were just with him and in his 6 foot range on board marine one or maybe the staffers who are inside the white house to protect and serve him when he returns inside infected with covid19 maybe he was saluting the nation i dont know, but i know, you know, eamon, hes Still Standing there, and for a photo opportunity, the last time i remember just a sort of stop and stand, that was outside the church after they had removed the demonstrators from in front of the white house and he held the bible up i dont remember and there crow go. He just finished his standing, eamon. Reporter you know, look, its visceral, shep, what the president wants to demonstrate here, physical strength, im standing on my own 2 feet, walking, ambulatory, im okay. This president does not like any sign of weakness at all, physical or otherwise. What were told is that he really did not like the coverage over the weekend which presented him as something of an invalid with oxygen emergencies and the like he was rearing to go, to get out of walter reed he wanted to demonstrate this. And he wanted to have that moment both coming out of the golden doors here at walter reed and walking into the white house, the standing picture that youre describing shep its all a piece to show this president is fine or at least is going to be fine. We all hope so. Thanks very much, eamon javers. He mentioned Kayleigh Mcenany, shes not the only person in the president s inner circle to test positive for covid19 Chris Christie tested positive over the weekend he was in on the debate prep former white house aide, kellyanne conway, she confirmed on twitter that she tested positive, that was friday night, and the president s campaign manager, bill stepien, he tested positive after traveling with hope hicks and there are concerns more will test positive in the hours or days ahead cnbcs kayla tausche. Reporter you have a host of high ranking Public Officials who have come down with the coronavirus who were at a variety of rnc events and you have the coronavirus spreading at every rung of 1600 pennsylvania avenue. The House Keeping staff working in the residence, two members have tested positive, three journalists who have been working at White House Pool events over the last week have also tested positive were awaiting word from the White House Correspondents Association on whether there is more you also have two lower level aides working in the press office who report to Kayleigh Mcenany, and then you have the plain clothes guard who accompanies the president at all times. He is married to an aide to jeb bush theres a lot of concern to jared kushner. We reached out to kushners office his wife, ivanka trump said she tested negative today but is working at home out of an abundance of caution there are others who have had covid exposure as well, like the attorney general william barr who said he tested negative but is now in isolation because of that exposure that he has had. There are many officials in this boat one of them is not the Vice President mike pence who is currently on his way to utah for a Vice President ial debate that will happen later this week. But shep, earlier today i had the opportunity to speak with jo head of the Domestic Policy Council and member of the White House Task force. Based on the way the white house an outbreak of this scale was inevitable. I think the fact they didnt get hit sooner, probably did lead to a sense of fatalism and over confidence over time. Just humans behaving this way, and here weve got people back in school, people going back to work, and the kinetics of Human Interaction are increasing more so you will see more infection. Reporter there are questions about the other end of pennsylvania avenue as well, with an outbreak growing at the capitol. Three republican senators testing positive and quarantining, and of course the republican led senate is operating virtually for two weeks. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi acknowledged that there is no formal Testing Program but said one would be hard to operate because there are 20,000 people who report to work at the capital on any given day, and when Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell was asked a similar question about when there would be a robust Testing Program put in place, shep, he declined to answer the question. Kay lattention tonight on the president s health dr. Nahid badalia, director of special pathogens unit at boston medical center, and nbc news medical contribute doctor, theres still a lot that we dont know about the president s health what does todays discharge suggest to you good evening, shep. I think you have heard over the weekend that for a majority of us who have been taking care of covid patients, the initiation of steroids generally implies that someone is at least moderately to severely ill with covid19 and so the way that im envisioning this is this is a person who is a patient who is elderly, who has a couple of medical comorbidities or at least being overweight, and has received experimental drugs along with steroids that imply hes sick enough, and maybe we dont understand of course none of us know what the inside of his care looks like but today, transferred to me as dr. Conley said is not a patient being discharged to the hospital, hes getting discharged to go to another medical supervised unit. Hes going to the white house where there is that support, and the kind of things that they will be doing for the rest of this week, a few things theyre looking at, right, one is the fact that hell need to continue to have blood work he got the experimental therapy, regeneron last friday. Hes continue to go get remdesivir, and they will continue to watch him clinically, and if they should need so, they have imaging there. The other is cdc says, and what we know from studies is a person who is infected is generally infectious or contagious to others within the first ten days of their illness after they have stopped having their fever, you know, 24 hours after they have stopped having their fever but at least ten days from the on set of symptoms, which means the president is currently contagious, and what i would see is the white house is probably preparing to create that Infection Control protocol, to ensure he can continue his work or be in his residence without infects others around him. It was a relief to hear the doctors say he improved. Hes not a brand new guy, and that appeared almost, you know, that appeared fairly effortless. But weve all sort of studied this enough now to where we all understand, when youre older, its harder, and when you have comorbidities, which he does, that makes it more complicated and we also know that six, eight, ten days in, some patients, not all, but some patients get a lot worse and it can happen really fast are you concerned there . Yeah, and i would say the fact that they started him on steroids so whats driving that second kick of this disease is that this virus, you know, does the damage that it does, and then it elicits your immune system to have this response thats overactive which then damages your system itself, and that span of the immune inflammatory response can continue for a while. I would say the start of the steroids implies they were worried about that they are watching him closely about that, and thats one of the things theyll be watching on his blood it is heartening to see him walk, to be able to do this. And i hope it means that he has received the best care possible in the world, i would imagine, and he is feeling better you know, the part that i want to ensure, because i think his tweet sort of is harmful in the way that by putting on what potentially looks like this orchestrated move from one hospital to another medical unit, it makes people feel like this is not a serious disease. I can tell you this is anything from the truth there are people when they get hospitalized have severe course. Doctor, cant thank you enough speak to you again soon. I mentioned the coronavirus is spreading across the nation, and there are particular areas of concern including new york city where there are surges in particular neighborhoods officials targeting nine zip codes, statewide, the number of positive tests is at 1 , which is really fantastic. But these zip codes are seeing rates well over 3 you can see some of them are much higher than that. We mentioned schools in the area are shutting down starting tomorrow but for now, nonessential businesses will stay open. The t new york governor say that new cluster are like hot embers in a field of dry grass the entire city is under threat. Cnbcs Contessa Brewer is in one of the brooklyn hot spots. How are they dealing with this, tackling the new cluster reporter you mentioned it there. No school. Starting tomorrow in nine communities, and just as were facing this renewed outbreak in new york city, Governor Andrew Cuomo and mayor bill de blasio appear to be engaging in a kind of power battle. The only action were taking today on this data, we are using the zip codes to close those schools tomorrow. Reporter that falls short of mayor bill de blasios plan which calls for closing nonessential business in nine zip codes where infections are surging. Today, de blasio pushed back saying the closures are happening. The Governors Team are considering if they have alterations they want to make to that geography or the approach but until we hear otherwise, our plan is to move ahead wednesday morning with enforcement in those nine zip code of all nonessential businesses. Reporter the governor and mayor were also at odds during the first wave with the governor often trumping plans announced s by city hall the bickering not sitting well with local Business Owners. You wish they could get on a call and have a conversation it doesnt always feel like the most efficient government. Reporter the latest outbreak comes six days after new York City Restaurants reopened for indoors dining Business Owners are trying to salvage whatever they can from a terrible year. As a city, we all have to do our best to keep each other safe thats what were doing at pies and thighs we hope thats what theyre doing at restaurants across the city. Reporter here in williamsburg, brooklyn, you can imagine the Business Owners are crushed at the prospect of things shutting down once again. After all, new yorkers are tough. I mean, facing daunting odds, shep, in the spring, and asking themselves, come on, if we cant make it here, can we make it anywhere there you go. Contessa, thank you very much. And im the idiot who called him mario cuomo instead of andrew. The doctors say we can likely seeour future here in america over in europe covid cases flaring across france tonight forcing paris into a maximum covid alert as they put it. Starting tomorrow, bars in the french capital will shutter. Restaurants open but under strict regulations last week, the country had more than 77,000 new cases. Thats from johns hopkins. Nbcs matt bradley live for us this Global Headquarters<\/a> the facts, the truth, the news with Shepard Smith<\/a>. And good evening, we begin with the breaking news youve been watching here on cnbc the president is back at the white house. He is going to come off the helicopter, marine one in just a moment these are the pictures of him arriving we saw the president walk out of walter reed and board marine one without assistance and walk up the staircase at the white house or he will at least. The president s doctors say he may not be entirely out of the woods yet, but his condition has continued to improve, they say, since yesterday, and they insist the president is healthy enough to leave walter reed as he just did. The president s medical team today refused to disclose details. Doctors did scans of the president s lungs but they would not say what the scans showed, citing patient privacy laws. The last lung issue with a sitting president was when reagan got shot. The white house released information about president reagans chest xrays three days after the shooting in fact, they put the chest xrays on tv the president s doctors refused to disclose when the president first tested positive or when he last tested negative. On testing, can you tell us when he had his last negative test i dont want to go backwards. Mean totime, the covid outbrk at the white house keeps growing. Today we learned Kayleigh Mcenany<\/a> and two aides are covid positive yesterday, the press secretary was still working, around reporters and others without a mask she is one of the several people at the white house rose garden ceremony last weekend and have now tested positive. Heres a snapshot of where everybody was sitting that day earlier today when he announced he would be leaving the hospital, the president tweeted do not be afraid of covid, and dont let covid quote dominate your life. That virus has now killed more than 210,000 americans and is still killing somewhere around 700 people every day across our nation, and right now were seeing hospitalizations surge in nearly two dozen states we have just gotten the White House Pool<\/a> tape. This wasnt live it was video that they sent out afterwards of the president walking in and heres that video. Sometimes they allow live cameras out there to record these sorts of things. Today they only allowed the pool cameras to shoot it and turn the video tape around so that we could show it to you here that is, the chopper is taking off, the president is back in the residence, and we believe were going to see him again. Were not certain, but we believe, we have every reason were going to see him again, and should we, well take you back there for that. A pretty incredible turn of events here in the last 30 minutes. We have been told that he would leave the hospital at 6 30 eastern time and shortly thereafter he did. And here he is on the balcony. Its a long way away this camera, but you can see the president waving there, and were expecting to see him again soon, ive just been told. At any rate, eamon javers is watching over all of this. Well talk to eamon outside the hospital in bethesda eamon. Reporter yeah, thats right. What theyre saying here, the medical team is saying is they felt confident to let the president leave here at Walter Reed Medical Center<\/a> in bethesda because they didnt need all of the elaborate medical equipment and procedures that are available here they felt that the president could go back to the white house, he could have that final dose of remdesivir at the white house, supervised by the white house medical unit and that facility, which is world class, inside the white house, would be enough to handle what they think theyre going to see over the coming days, but sean conley, the president s doctor today said that the president is not out of the woods yet he laid out sort of what to expect medically over the next coming days. Heres what he said. Were in a bit of uncharted territory when it comes to a patient that received the therapies he has so early in the course so were looking to this weekend, if we can get through to monday, with him remaining the same or improving, better yet, then we will all take that final deep sigh of relief. Shep, as you point out, there are a couple of things that the white house would not disclose today, including what was on his lung scans conley citing hipaa regulations, but again, as you point out, the president could waive those and order the documents to be released if he so chose. The president clearly does not want that information out. Excuse me me to interrupt, i know you cant see it, but this is the White House Pool<\/a> tape of the president , lets listen here how are you feeling how do you feel . Not a lot to hear he got some questions, but we really didnt think we would hear much from him, and sure enough we didnt hes going to go inside. We have reason to believe we may see him again, and if that happens, we wanted to go back. I wanted you to finish up, if you could, eamon with Kayleigh Mcenany<\/a>. The White House Press<\/a> secretary announcing today that she has tested positive for this terrible disease a number of over people inside the press office have now tested positive as well so this is a debilitated white house that the president is running to the virus is running rampant throughout the president s staff, throughout the residents at the white house, including the president and the first lady who are now infected with it this is going to be a very tricky couple of days here as the president tries to grapple with running the country, running an election campaign, and trying to get his arms around the scale of the virus problem inside his own home and inside his own professional staff. All of that very daunting even for somebody thats fully healthy, shep. Lets see if we hear anything here this is all stage craft. Now that its happened, i can tell you that we were given advan advanced notice that the president would walk up the stairs and they had crafted it such that he would stand there for this moment, this standing moment, where he removed his mask theres no one around him, obviously, im not judging him im telling you what he did. He removed his mask. Now hes saluting, obviously, and eamon, can you see this . I mean. I do not have those pictures, shep. Its quite something. He clearly wanted a moment, and maybe hes saluting the doctors, and nurses who helped care for him or maybe the secret Service Agents<\/a> who were just with him and in his 6 foot range on board marine one or maybe the staffers who are inside the white house to protect and serve him when he returns inside infected with covid19 maybe he was saluting the nation i dont know, but i know, you know, eamon, hes Still Standing<\/a> there, and for a photo opportunity, the last time i remember just a sort of stop and stand, that was outside the church after they had removed the demonstrators from in front of the white house and he held the bible up i dont remember and there crow go. He just finished his standing, eamon. Reporter you know, look, its visceral, shep, what the president wants to demonstrate here, physical strength, im standing on my own 2 feet, walking, ambulatory, im okay. This president does not like any sign of weakness at all, physical or otherwise. What were told is that he really did not like the coverage over the weekend which presented him as something of an invalid with oxygen emergencies and the like he was rearing to go, to get out of walter reed he wanted to demonstrate this. And he wanted to have that moment both coming out of the golden doors here at walter reed and walking into the white house, the standing picture that youre describing shep its all a piece to show this president is fine or at least is going to be fine. We all hope so. Thanks very much, eamon javers. He mentioned Kayleigh Mcenany<\/a>, shes not the only person in the president s inner circle to test positive for covid19 Chris Christie<\/a> tested positive over the weekend he was in on the debate prep former white house aide, kellyanne conway, she confirmed on twitter that she tested positive, that was friday night, and the president s campaign manager, bill stepien, he tested positive after traveling with hope hicks and there are concerns more will test positive in the hours or days ahead cnbcs kayla tausche. Reporter you have a host of high ranking Public Officials<\/a> who have come down with the coronavirus who were at a variety of rnc events and you have the coronavirus spreading at every rung of 1600 pennsylvania avenue. The House Keeping<\/a> staff working in the residence, two members have tested positive, three journalists who have been working at White House Pool<\/a> events over the last week have also tested positive were awaiting word from the White House Correspondents Association<\/a> on whether there is more you also have two lower level aides working in the press office who report to Kayleigh Mcenany<\/a>, and then you have the plain clothes guard who accompanies the president at all times. He is married to an aide to jeb bush theres a lot of concern to jared kushner. We reached out to kushners office his wife, ivanka trump said she tested negative today but is working at home out of an abundance of caution there are others who have had covid exposure as well, like the attorney general william barr who said he tested negative but is now in isolation because of that exposure that he has had. There are many officials in this boat one of them is not the Vice President<\/a> mike pence who is currently on his way to utah for a Vice President<\/a> ial debate that will happen later this week. But shep, earlier today i had the opportunity to speak with jo head of the Domestic Policy Council<\/a> and member of the White House Task<\/a> force. Based on the way the white house an outbreak of this scale was inevitable. I think the fact they didnt get hit sooner, probably did lead to a sense of fatalism and over confidence over time. Just humans behaving this way, and here weve got people back in school, people going back to work, and the kinetics of Human Interaction<\/a> are increasing more so you will see more infection. Reporter there are questions about the other end of pennsylvania avenue as well, with an outbreak growing at the capitol. Three republican senators testing positive and quarantining, and of course the republican led senate is operating virtually for two weeks. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi<\/a> acknowledged that there is no formal Testing Program<\/a> but said one would be hard to operate because there are 20,000 people who report to work at the capital on any given day, and when Senate Majority<\/a> leader Mitch Mcconnell<\/a> was asked a similar question about when there would be a robust Testing Program<\/a> put in place, shep, he declined to answer the question. Kay lattention tonight on the president s health dr. Nahid badalia, director of special pathogens unit at boston medical center, and nbc news medical contribute doctor, theres still a lot that we dont know about the president s health what does todays discharge suggest to you good evening, shep. I think you have heard over the weekend that for a majority of us who have been taking care of covid patients, the initiation of steroids generally implies that someone is at least moderately to severely ill with covid19 and so the way that im envisioning this is this is a person who is a patient who is elderly, who has a couple of medical comorbidities or at least being overweight, and has received experimental drugs along with steroids that imply hes sick enough, and maybe we dont understand of course none of us know what the inside of his care looks like but today, transferred to me as dr. Conley said is not a patient being discharged to the hospital, hes getting discharged to go to another medical supervised unit. Hes going to the white house where there is that support, and the kind of things that they will be doing for the rest of this week, a few things theyre looking at, right, one is the fact that hell need to continue to have blood work he got the experimental therapy, regeneron last friday. Hes continue to go get remdesivir, and they will continue to watch him clinically, and if they should need so, they have imaging there. The other is cdc says, and what we know from studies is a person who is infected is generally infectious or contagious to others within the first ten days of their illness after they have stopped having their fever, you know, 24 hours after they have stopped having their fever but at least ten days from the on set of symptoms, which means the president is currently contagious, and what i would see is the white house is probably preparing to create that Infection Control<\/a> protocol, to ensure he can continue his work or be in his residence without infects others around him. It was a relief to hear the doctors say he improved. Hes not a brand new guy, and that appeared almost, you know, that appeared fairly effortless. But weve all sort of studied this enough now to where we all understand, when youre older, its harder, and when you have comorbidities, which he does, that makes it more complicated and we also know that six, eight, ten days in, some patients, not all, but some patients get a lot worse and it can happen really fast are you concerned there . Yeah, and i would say the fact that they started him on steroids so whats driving that second kick of this disease is that this virus, you know, does the damage that it does, and then it elicits your immune system to have this response thats overactive which then damages your system itself, and that span of the immune inflammatory response can continue for a while. I would say the start of the steroids implies they were worried about that they are watching him closely about that, and thats one of the things theyll be watching on his blood it is heartening to see him walk, to be able to do this. And i hope it means that he has received the best care possible in the world, i would imagine, and he is feeling better you know, the part that i want to ensure, because i think his tweet sort of is harmful in the way that by putting on what potentially looks like this orchestrated move from one hospital to another medical unit, it makes people feel like this is not a serious disease. I can tell you this is anything from the truth there are people when they get hospitalized have severe course. Doctor, cant thank you enough speak to you again soon. I mentioned the coronavirus is spreading across the nation, and there are particular areas of concern including new york city where there are surges in particular neighborhoods officials targeting nine zip codes, statewide, the number of positive tests is at 1 , which is really fantastic. But these zip codes are seeing rates well over 3 you can see some of them are much higher than that. We mentioned schools in the area are shutting down starting tomorrow but for now, nonessential businesses will stay open. The t new york governor say that new cluster are like hot embers in a field of dry grass the entire city is under threat. Cnbcs Contessa Brewer<\/a> is in one of the brooklyn hot spots. How are they dealing with this, tackling the new cluster reporter you mentioned it there. No school. Starting tomorrow in nine communities, and just as were facing this renewed outbreak in new york city, Governor Andrew Cuomo<\/a> and mayor bill de blasio appear to be engaging in a kind of power battle. The only action were taking today on this data, we are using the zip codes to close those schools tomorrow. Reporter that falls short of mayor bill de blasios plan which calls for closing nonessential business in nine zip codes where infections are surging. Today, de blasio pushed back saying the closures are happening. The Governors Team<\/a> are considering if they have alterations they want to make to that geography or the approach but until we hear otherwise, our plan is to move ahead wednesday morning with enforcement in those nine zip code of all nonessential businesses. Reporter the governor and mayor were also at odds during the first wave with the governor often trumping plans announced s by city hall the bickering not sitting well with local Business Owners<\/a>. You wish they could get on a call and have a conversation it doesnt always feel like the most efficient government. Reporter the latest outbreak comes six days after new York City Restaurants<\/a> reopened for indoors dining Business Owners<\/a> are trying to salvage whatever they can from a terrible year. As a city, we all have to do our best to keep each other safe thats what were doing at pies and thighs we hope thats what theyre doing at restaurants across the city. Reporter here in williamsburg, brooklyn, you can imagine the Business Owners<\/a> are crushed at the prospect of things shutting down once again. After all, new yorkers are tough. I mean, facing daunting odds, shep, in the spring, and asking themselves, come on, if we cant make it here, can we make it anywhere there you go. Contessa, thank you very much. And im the idiot who called him mario cuomo instead of andrew. The doctors say we can likely seeour future here in america over in europe covid cases flaring across france tonight forcing paris into a maximum covid alert as they put it. Starting tomorrow, bars in the french capital will shutter. Restaurants open but under strict regulations last week, the country had more than 77,000 new cases. Thats from johns hopkins. Nbcs matt bradley live for us this Early Morning<\/a> in paris. Hi, matt. Hey, shep, you know, the situation here, im not sure if it would actually be anything remarkable to you if you looked at it. The fact is they are putting in these new confinement measures, but you wouldnt necessarily recognize them it was only a couple of months ago when president Emmanuel Macron<\/a> said that france is at war with the virus, and only a couple of weeks ago, he said we have to live with the virus, and shep, i got to tell you, they are living this city is still going strong, and even though the government has just said they are going to impose the new measures, its because of this will to keep going that this new reconfinement is really only a rec confinement in names its unclear if theyre going to mean anything for diners and revelers that are out at night or whether theyre going to mean anything for the people who own businesses it seems to me like a lot of people here are not going to be abiding by the rules they havent been abiding, if by the spirit of the law not by the actual law itself. I spoke with a bartender, a waiter here earlier this evening, and he said that this is going to be a massive economic blow. He said he was confused by the new measures that were announced today because again, they look a lot like the old measures and he lamented a certain loss of the essential cafe, and bar culture here in paris. Heres what he had to say. No restaurants in paris no bars in paris no hotel in paris. Its not paris reporter its just not paris. Because paris is, you want to drink something at the terrace it is very paris, the cafe, the restaurants, the bars, the spirit of paris. Reporter its just like what i told you last week, shep the fact is if the french authorities actually did try to do a reconfinement in earnest, the french people would revolt shep. Matt bradley live in paris. Question, has the president s diagnosis had an effect on the election and if so, what is it . Well, i mentioned we started our cnbc change Research Polling<\/a> just after we got word on friday that the president had covid and the pollsters worked nonstop all weekend. The results are in and well have them for you next. And then, more Football Players<\/a> test positive. The nfl keeps moving, even with super star cam newton sidelined with covid how long can the nfl keep players on the field im looking forward to having an opportunity to do a town hall meeting. State of the race, we go inside the numbers that reveal a remarkable swing toward the former Vice President<\/a>. And hundreds of movie theaters, shutting their doors for good will your local cinema survive the fact, the truth, the news wit the vote, new tonight, the first look at the impact of President Trump<\/a>s covid diagnosis, and hospitalization on the election. We just got the results of our new Cnbc Change Research Poll<\/a> states of play we asked likely voters in battleground states. First, how many of you have serious concerns about the virus. The answer, 72 . Up from 63 when we asked the same question last month the biggest increases in florida and wisconsin and North Carolina<\/a> people have serious concerns so lets stay on that issue. Considering the president s hospitalization, we asked, did the president take appropriate precautions . Did Vice President<\/a> biden . 39 believe President Trump<\/a> did. 75 believe that joe biden did take appropriate precautions, a clear majority and now perhaps the most telling result look at this chart, this is joe bidens favorability climbing significantly in the last two months as the president s remains flat steve kor knanacki has been div into the numbers. This is the favorable, unfavorable score for biden in the six battleground states. 48 favorable, 49 unfavorable the importance context is this, election day 2016 in the same battleground states, this is where Hillary Clinton<\/a> stood. You can see only 43 favorable, way over 50 on the unfavorable. Trump has been attacking biden hard the attacks do not seem to be sticking as they did against Hillary Clinton<\/a> at least for now. Thats within o. Two big changes we see second one is this, this is actually our wall street journal nbc poll, but look at this, voters 65 and over, before the debate, we had biden leading by four among Senior Citizens<\/a> after last weeks debate, we took this poll, look at that jump, the movement for joe biden nationally in the nbc wall street journal poll was among Senior Citizens<\/a> and this was also developing as a big story here demographically because that would be a major break from the last 20 years here you see last four president ial elections, Senior Citizens<\/a> have been a republican group, sometimes overwhelmingly if biden wins seniors by even a point, thats a major change, and again, our polling after that debate last week shows he might be moving ahead by well over a point among seniors. The numbers are not in the president s favor right this moment but give us some context, and is there precedent for coming back for these sort of deficits make no mistake, these are the worst numbers since the convention we have been seeing since donald trump it was around this time four years ago when we were saying the same thing i do think this is worth keeping in mind. This what youre looking at here is our october 13th, 2016, nbc wall street journal poll, and there it was, Hillary Clinton<\/a>, over 50 ahead of trump by 10 points nationally actually, the biden lead is a little bit more in our poll. The point is, less than a month before the election, double digit deficit, there certainly is precedent for him making big strides in the final weeks amidst controversy yes deed, theres more of this in just a few minutes well have the latest headtohead numbers between the two kanscandidates a very busy weekend and a very busy month moved peoples votes. A black man in texas called a pillar of the community is dead tonight shot and killed by Police Witnesses<\/a> say he was trying to help tonight, the investigation and tracking the spread, the president s fundraiser that raised covid concerns. We talked to people who were there. Do they believe their health was put at risk . For skin as alive as you are. Dont settle for silver gold bond champion your skin im Shepard Smith<\/a>, and this is the nooews on kavp catchcnbc President Trump<\/a> back at the white house after three nights in the hospital. Marine one landed at the white house lawn at the top of the news hour. There is no cure for covid19, the president taking a mix of experimental treatments. Reporters asked the doctor what the president is taking. They wouldnt answer on friday, the white house announced President Trump<\/a> received a single eight gram dose of regenerons antibody cocktail again, its experimental and not approved by the fda. His doctor also confirmed the president has been taking sync vitam vitamin d meltonin, and a daily aspirin. And a fiver day course of remdesivir finally, yesterday, the president e president s medical team said he had been given a steroid, typically reserved for severe covid cases. Regeneron told cnbcs science reporter, meg tirrell that only a handful of people have received its drug outside of Clinical Trial<\/a>s. Shes here now are there serious side effects that the president could be dealing with from these drugs. There potentially are, shep, lets start with the antibody cocktail this is experimental, and we have only saw the first results on it, six days ago. The main thing to look out here im told is a rare side effect known as an infusion reaction. This is a drug thats given by iv, and so youd see that reaction, though rare, while the drug is getting administered it would be stopped in that case, and it doesnt sound like that happened here for remdesivir, the president s doctor said with each dose, they monitor for kidney, and liver effects and dexamethasone, the common steroid that the president is now taking. Doctors say a common side effect of the drug, temporary feelings of euphoria. You were talking about this earlier, some suggesting that could explain trumps tweet saying he feels better than he did 20 years ago of course the drug is not indicated for patients early in the course of their disease because it can suppress the immune system. Regeneron saying because the cocktail prv cocktail provides an immune boost, it may counter the effect and he may be characterized as a severe patient because his oxygen levels dropped below 96 on friday and saturday and for severe disease, remdesivir and duchess of suss dexamethasone is a common treatment given in the hospital, the drug people arent going to be able to get easily is the cocktail the fda could potentially act to provide an emergency use authorization potentially in days, talling thcalling it an e, using it in the president to treat covid19 until then, the only way to get it is to join a Clinical Trial<\/a> or through compassionate use as the president did. The Company Aware<\/a> of the equity issues here, particularly potential political ones saying they have reached out to the Biden Campaign<\/a> to tell them about compassionate use in case they have need of it. New Jersey Health<\/a> Officials Say<\/a> theyre tracking more than 200 people who attended the president s fundraiser there on thursday of last week. Here are the numbers from the new jersey governor. 206 attendees, and 19 Staff Members<\/a> at the Trump National<\/a> golf club in bedminster. The cdc reports its helping the state track down anyone from out of state did the fundraiser violate health guidelines. Phil murphy said on cnbc theyre investigating. If it did, theyre calling the state attorney general. It is clear that the president and his staff acted recklessly in coming to new jersey in the first place, knowing that they had been exposed to someone with a confirmed positive test. To Frank Holland<\/a> now on the ground tonight in bedminster with more on how Health Officials<\/a> are trying to keep this virus from spreading. Charlie colleen felt safe enough to take his face mask off. He and 200 others on an attendee list with the focus of Contact Tracing<\/a> by new jersey and federal Health Officials<\/a> after the president tested positive for covid19. He seemed to be in health and great spirits, so i was surprised that he did contract coronavirus. Kolean and others believe proper protocols were in place face coverings were in small groups both were held indoors, but attendees say they were kept at least 6 feet away from the president and only allowed a minute to dhchat still some understand the controversy. I think the speculation is justified as to whether the president knew or not. I didnt feel unsafe based on the procedures they were taking. Whether the president knew or not if he was sick, i cant say. I do believe if the president knew that he had covid, the campaign should have cancelled the event beforehand. Contact tracing emails from new jersey advised anyone within 6 feet of the president for more than ten minutes to quarantine for 14 days. Katherine hermy says she does not feel at risk. I was 40 to 45 feet away. The president stood behind a podium when i saw him so i see no reason why i would even suspect that im going to get ill. This is very much a race against the clock. Reporter new Jersey Governor Phil Murphy<\/a> saying the actions by the president and attendees could come with grave consequences. The actions leading up to and during this event have put lives at risk. Reporter and shep, the governor and state Health Department<\/a> are urging attendees to take a covid test between tomorrow and thursday. They say it can take five to seven days for the virus to be detectable, and a negative result before then is not as reliable stocks jumped higher to start the week, and thats whats topping cnbc on the money. Renewed for Disaster Relief<\/a> with americans suffering in the covid crisis house Speaker Nancy Pelosi<\/a> and the treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin<\/a> spoke on the phone were told on moving a package forward. The president stepping up calls for congress to get it done. Talks continue tomorrow. The last relief package is passed six months ago. It expired last week. Like a Grocery Store<\/a> that has no food to sell. Thats how the head of Regal Cinemas<\/a> describes his movie theaters hes decided to close all 500 plus locations in the u. S. This thursday the Company Began<\/a> reopening in july, but the ceo says the delay of the new james bond movie is a damaging blow. The stock down 20 on the session. And Package Delivery<\/a> from walmart by drone the Company Testing<\/a> new ways to get their products to all of us. It signed three deals with Drone Companies<\/a> in just the last month. Playing catch up with amazon and ups. On wall street, the dow up 465 today. S p up 1. 8 , the nasdaq up 2. 3 . 29 days until the election both campaigns in full swing as a Record Number<\/a> of voters cast their ballots early. See whos hitting the trail for each candidate then lester holt gives an inside look at the town hall with joe biden. Can the former Vice President<\/a> sway the undecided voters. And to egypt can details of an incredible find 60 korcoffins that are thousando President Trump<\/a> back at the white house after leaving the hospital you saw him there on the balcony just a short time ago for the stand and salute moment, maskless earlier this hour, walking back to the white house pausing for that photo op at the top of the stairs lets get to nbc news chief white house continue Hallie Jackson<\/a> on the north lawn this evening. Theres so much we dont know, and we were just talking in the commercial break, how are his lungs . Reporter we dont know the answer to that, shep i wish i could tell you. The president s doctor, sean conley is not disclosing details of the president s lung scans or addressing the issue of whether the president might have pneumonia as experts who are not treating the president and dont know for sure but looking at the scope and scale of this. Heres another we dont know, when was the president s last negative test. The president s physician did not say. He didnt want to look backwards. You have to remember, shep, looking backwards is how you end up not spreading this infection further, right, being able to find out the time when somebody was infectious, even before they got a positive test is critical to determining who else is exposed and who else may be at risk theres another question, and im working as we were coming on the air to get an answer for you on this. Why did the president take off his mask when he went up the stairs to the blue room balcony as he returned to thewhite house. He may not have been putting people at risk in the physical space where he was its unclear based on the video, and im obviously not there, how far away folks were but from a messaging perspective, folks have been listening to seven months medical experts saying one of the most critical things you can do in the pandemic is keep the mask on. And dr. Redletter said the president is unquestionably and without doubt a super spreader whats the mood around there i would say a couple of things surreal is one i would say quiet is the other i have been covering this Administration Since<\/a> day one, and you dont often walk into the white house on a very busy weekday and see it as empty as it has been here why is that . Well, its because some staffers are working from home, a lot of them are we heard that Kayleigh Mcenany<\/a> has tested positive. Two deputies have tested positive i spoke with one white house official he was wearing a mask. I was wearing a mask we were far away, outside, i said why did you even come in today, and the argument is that some of these staffers are considered and deemed essential workers and so they feel like there are certain things they can only do at the office for security reasons and other reasons, and that is why youre seeing at least some folks here, but boy, shep, it has been a very extraordinary to say the at least, 72 hours covering this white house. I bet it has. Hallie jackson out in the yard, thank you, hallie. Thanks, shep. 72 hours at Walter Reed Medical Center<\/a>, the president back at the white house obviously but that hasnt stopped the campaigns. Vice president pence is set to attend a rally in arizona coming up on thursday, ostso in three days Officials Say<\/a> donald trump jr. , eric trump, and laura trump will hit the campaign trail meantime, the former Vice President<\/a> joe biden is down in miami. Today he visited the Little Haiti Cultural Center<\/a> there. Biden also spoke in the citys Little Havana<\/a> neighborhood also this week, the Vice President<\/a> ial nominees face off in their first debate. Thats wednesday night, and this time, there will be plexiglass between the two candidates we learned that just today remember, the level of early voting has been unprecedented. Almost 4 Million People<\/a> have voted already. Thats a record by far this time in 2016, only 80,000 people had voted by this point the democratic candidate will join lester holt for a campaign town hall here on cnbc live at the top of the hour. I spoke with lester this afternoon, and asked him if the president s move from the hospital to the white house made for any last minute changes . Well, its going to be obviously the first time we have seen him in prime time, really talking in details about what the president has been going through. I think its fair to say there will be asking some realtime questions as the story moves along. The Vice President<\/a> has been obviously very careful here, not wanting to gloat or i told you so at the same time, hes running a campaign that is centered on the whole idea that the administration has been ineffective, and lack sdealing with the covid crisis. I hear you have undecided voters in the crowd tonight. How hard was it to find those . Reporter its not easy a lot of interviews involved trying to get to the crux of what issues that people are leaning toward i would say a fair number of people, though, are undecided. We do have some people on the panel, though, who have suggested that they may not vote, that they may be turned off by both candidates well kind of get a mixture of people who i guess you could argue votes are up for grabs. How much have the campaigns had to adjust and adapt since the president tested positive, lest center. A lot you saw quickly, the Trump Campaign<\/a> the president himself was campaigning on the drive around. The signal was given right away that its full steam ahead for the trump team the Vice President<\/a> out on the stump surrogates, family members out there, and theBiden Campaign<\/a>, of course, decided not to run negative ads but that didnt stop the campaigning. Vice President Biden<\/a> here in florida today, a state thats critical to his fortunes on the campaign trail, so i think maybe some of the rhetoric coming from the biden side has been shall we say fine tuned or lightened up on some of the message, but i think 29 days ago, no one is ready to suddenly suspend a campaign. The biden town hall, a few minutes away on nbc, do you expect or anticipate that youll have a town hall with President Trump<\/a> as well before the election were always in contact with both campaigns and in fact, we have communicated to the White House Team<\/a> prior to the president being hospitalized our desire to do Something Like<\/a> this or a sit down or whatever we might be able to accommodate. But certainly offers have been put out to both campaigns and the biden camp decided to do this. In just 14 minutes, lester, thank you so much. His town hall follows the live airing of the newscast, 8 00 eastern tile on cnbc and an antisemitic attack in germany tops our news around the world in 80 seconds. Germany, police arresting a man accused of attacking a jewish student with a shovel the attack near a synagogue in hamburg, german media report the suspect suffered serious head injuries nearly a year ago, a gunman attacked a german synagogue on yom kippur, reports showing antisemitic attacks rising in germany. France, dozens feared dead, heavy flooding ravaging, sweeping away homes and damaging roads. France deploying 500 firefighters to find the missing victims. Experts say the country saw half the average annual rainfall in just ten hours e jugypt, a centuries old discovery, archaeologists finding 59 coffins that were buried 2,600 years ago, showing a perfectly preserved mummy inside the findings will be displayed at grand Egyptian Museum<\/a> next year. The philippines, hundreds of people in cars had their pets blessed on world animal day. The pandemic forcing the annual event to be a drive through. The priest sprinkling holy water on dogs, cats, even birds. Apossum event on this trip around the world in 80 seconds. Friends and family called Jonathan Price<\/a> a wellliked member of his north texas community. And now theyre wondering why police shot and killed him this is a live look as residents in wolf city, texas, have gathered asking whats happening with the investigation in the hands of Texas Rangers<\/a> a vigil in texas now, and a Police Officer<\/a> on administrative leave. A story too familiar in america. The Texas Rangers<\/a> investigating why an officer shot and killed 31yearold Jonathan Price<\/a> at a gas station. It happened on saturday. His friends say he was a pillar of the community his family says he was only trying to break up a fight between a man and woman. Nbcs Morgan Chesky<\/a> live in wolf city in texas. Morgan, what are you learning about saturdays shooting, the details . Reporter shep, good evening, we know that investigators staying very tight lipped on the circumstances surrounding this tragedy. Texas rangers have taken over the investigation, but what were learning tonight here, shep, in wolf city, that Jonathan Price<\/a> was absolutely not a stranger in this community, and proof of that, right behind me, several hundred people turning out here on one of the main thoroughfares in town, gathering to pay tribute to jonathan and his family who have been in this community for three generations. Friends and family taking the microphone here, sharing their favorite memories of jonathan, also calling for justice following the circumstances of his death. Just a few minutes ago, shep, i had a chance to speak to jonathans father outside of his childhood home and he explained to me what took place whenever he got the call that his son had been shot and he had an exchange with the Police Officer<\/a> shortly thereafter take a listen. Reporter what have police, what have investigators told you about what happened that night i havent heard anything. I havent. Reporter they havent told you anything. Not me. All i know is my son is dead, and he got shot by a Police Officer<\/a>, and the Police Officer<\/a> is not in jail reporter wolf, city Officials Say<\/a> the officer who fired the fatal shots has been placed on administrative leave the Texas Rangers<\/a> just released a Statement Today<\/a> saying that they have now taken over this investigation from wolf city, but have no further comment at this time. Shep. Morgan chesky, live for us there. Thanks, morgan. California marking a grim milestone. Wildfires have burned 4 million acres of land so far this year 4 million. For perspective, thats larger than the state of connecticut and more than double the states previous record for any year tonight, fires still rage in spots from San Francisco<\/a> down to los angeles. Firefighters hoping to catch a break with the weather, and it looks like they may get it the forecasters calling for cloudy conditions with a chance of rain this week. 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Rnch breaking covid rules in the nfl could cost your Favorite Team<\/a> a win that from roger goodell, bans on gatherings outside the facilities, limitings t the num of tryouts, mandating all players and staff wear personal protective equipment and so much more compliance is mandatory, break the rules, pay more fines, could lose a draft pick, could have to forfeit a game the Tennessee Titans<\/a> had 20 total positive tests over six days none today, if there are none tomorrow, they can reopen facilities. Just minutes away now from nbcs town hall with joe Biden Lester Holt<\/a> hosting here on cnbc lets turn to robert costa, National Political<\/a> reporter with the washington post, nbc news political analyst. We want to get your reaction to this survey, in a headtohead match up in six Battle Ground<\/a> states, joe biden leads by 5 . It was 4 points a month ago. So hardly any movement statistically, none. Does that surprise its not a surprise because most president ial campaigns are known for signature political moments. Instead, this campaign is known for a blizzard of moments. That makes it hard for voters who may be undecided to really figure out what matters. Think about Bob Woodwards<\/a> book rage, the death of justice ginsberg, the New York Times<\/a> story on the president s tax returns, now the president s health its like a pingpong ball going back and forward of headlines and the paces are staying respectively in their own corners. That poll, a cnbc research poll, but the next couple of days are fraught with peril, and rich with opportunity. It just, i dont know which one were going to get yet do you know if theres a strategy the strategy for President Trump<\/a> is to try to revive his political prospects by reengaging with the campaign, whether thats on social media or through television, eventually to get back on the campaign trail this has been a frozen president ial campaign for weeks, really months due to the pandemic but its really been frozen due to the president s hospitalization in recently days now that dynamic changes it certainly does robert costa, thank you so much. Well be watching at the white house over the next hour or so and have complete reporting tomorrow, beginning with squawk on the street in the morning and squawk box, and well have full coverage on cnbc business day and throughout the evening and now you know the news for this monday, october the 5th, 2020 im Shepard Smith<\/a> at cnbc Global Headquarters<\/a>, hope to see you 5 00 President Trump<\/a> stoking new controversy upon his return to the white house after he leaving Walter Reed Medical Center<\/a> this as joe biden repeats his call for a mask wearing at an nbc town hall last night on wall street, stocks coming off a big monday, but what if stimulus doesnt get done look out, louisiana, alabama, mississippi, florida again, another mass hurricane is brew, threatening area","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"archive.org","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","width":"800","height":"600","url":"\/\/ia801702.us.archive.org\/24\/items\/CNBC_20201006_080000_The_News_With_Shepard_Smith\/CNBC_20201006_080000_The_News_With_Shepard_Smith.thumbs\/CNBC_20201006_080000_The_News_With_Shepard_Smith_000001.jpg"}},"autauthor":{"@type":"Organization"},"author":{"sameAs":"archive.org","name":"archive.org"}}],"coverageEndTime":"20240716T12:35:10+00:00"}