Vice president pence, senator Kamala Harris. Faceoff in the first and only vp debate. What to expect and how the night could impact the election. Plus boarded up and seeking shelter. Hurricane delta slams into mexico and heads our way tonight, tracking the storm, as it barrels toward a better gulf coast. Live from cnbc global headquarters, the fact, the truth, the news with Shepard Smith. Good evening again tonight our nation is at an impasse. Many of us and those who lead us are dug in on how to tackle the coronavirus. How to shore up the lives and livelihoods of those caught in the covid crosshairs, the infection rate is climbing rapidly. That is not in dispute, but we as a nation are at odds about how exactly to live with it, how to fight and where to fold as we stare down the killer among us and what to do about the money that tens of millions of americans desperately need stimulus talks are stalled and many who suffer wonder right now if help is coming at all as our leaders play political poker at the skys the limit table with the election just 27 days away we begin tonight on covid watch. The numbers of positive test results increased in 39 states over the past week there have been record high hospitalizations in the midwest. Nationwide, were seeing nearly 44,000 new confirmed cases every day on average and increasing steadily over the past month in wisconsin, the governor calls the situation dire some hospitals there, overwhelmed. Its getting so bad in wisconsin theyre opening an emergency Field Hospital to try and deal with the overflow. Our covid coverage begins there. Gabe gutierrez in the hardhit city of green bay. Gabe reporter shep, doctors here say the situation is getting increasingly dire and outside Lambeau Field where the Green Bay Packers announced they will no longer allow fans until further notice here at this iconic stadium, but the real story is the dramatic increase in covid cases and hospitalizations we saw video today from inside one of the local hospitals here, st. Marys where doctors and nurses are battling this crisis. About a month ago there were some 800 or so covid cases daily in wisconsin now that number is above 2300 and as you mentioned, shep, today the governor announced that he was activating a Field Hospital at the state fairgrounds near milwaukee we spoke with one of the doctors at the center of this crisis today. This is the picture he painted the situation in wisconsin the best way i can describe it is awful from the number of patients turning positive every day compared to the number were testing to whats actually happening inside of our hospitals. Were admitting more and more people that have covid19 and what thats doing is its causing the whole system to almost get on the verge of collapse because then we cant take care of everybody else. On the verge of collapse, shep that doctor says that some of the major hospitals here are one bed away from reaching their capacity and tomorrow, shep, here in wisconsin a new order from the governor takes effect mandating that businesses and indoor gatherings are capped at 25 , but as you know, this is creating a lot of controversy here just several months ago the state Supreme Court agreed with republican lawmakers and struck down the governors stay at home order. Many Business Owners here and Trump Supporters also say that any type of shutdown would be disastrous for this states economy. Gabe, months ago in new york, worried about bed space and ventilators and across the country, really. Whats the biggest concern in wisconsin . Well, shep, ventilators here arent the problem according to the doctors we spoke with and bed space is a concern and the real issue theyre having is with staffing. Theres a concern of any of the doctors and nurses get sick and it will be tough to replace them so, shep, youll recall several months ago it was doctors and nurses from across the country going to new york city and now doctors and nurses and Health Professionals in wisconsin is asking for help to beef up staffing as they deal with this crisis, shep gabe, thanks. In the midwest big concern now areas in the northeast and the mid atlantic quickly becoming hot spots of their own. In delaware, cases on the average are up 25 this week over last. In new jersey, highest case numbers in four months in pennsylvania, the highest in five months. In connecticut, another surge, average daily cases up 64 over just last week, but that states still marching on with reopening. Phase three starts tomorrow in connecticut, that means, restaurants, libraries, hair salon, all of it can now operate indoors at 75 of capacity though bars and nightclubs remain closed and new york city targeting nine specific zip codes, in brooklyn and queens where cases are rising so fast all schools in those areas now closed, and protests erupted last night in a brooklyn neighborhood thats home to a large Ultra Orthodox Jewish community. Hundreds of people marching through the streets, some setting masks on fire, furious with the governor and the mayor for new restrictions and theyre not alone. Frank holland now with a different set of demands being made by frontline workers in the big city we are very nervous and anxious. Jane is a nurse in suburban new york city, the rise in hot spots underscores the need for Health Care Workers to have the ppe, staff, and resources they need weal be the warriors. We will be the front line soldiers, boots on the ground. Thats not a problem we will do it, but we need the resources. And the fear of going home and bringing it back to people that i love theres fear of getting sick myself when do we want it . Now front line workers rallying in new york city pushing for a proposed state law that would mandate those workplace protections. Having the helps and the employers enforce guidance is like having the fox watch the chicken coop we need enforceable standards with clear guidelines. The governor says hes protecting the public by ordering the closure of nonessential businesses in the most severe hot spots on thursday some people are unhappy i understand it. These limitations are better than going back to closedown which is what happens when the infection increases. Times like these i feel like flowers are essential. Beautiful bouquets more popular than ever during these ugly days of the pandemic at this family flower shop in brooklyn Constantine Bellios knows it will hurt many new yorkers. By closing my business, you know, i cant give my employees the money that they deserve. In turn, they cant feed their families, in turn they cant pay their bills. And small Business Owners here in this hot spot told me the uncertainty is another major issue. They dont know for sure when they can reopen and they dont know when all of their employees will come back and most importantly, they dont know if their customers will return. Many are facing stiff competition from Big Box Stores that will remain open while closed frank . The president left the white house residence today and returned to the oval office this afternoon and just posted a fiveminute long video on twitter in which he thanked an experimental drug for his improved condition. I want everybody to be given the same treatment as your president because i feel great i feel, like, perfect. This video coming at the end of the day when the white house said the president spoke with governors and met with his top aides. Cnbcs Kayla Tausche joins us now. Kayla . Shep, that fiveminute video came late in the day it was just one of dozens of tweets that the president posted to twitter today after a midday memo from the white house physician saying hes symptom and feverfree, he headed to the oval office. The tale as you see here is the marine guard standing outside the west wing portico as he does when the president is inside a senior official tells me that the president enteredfrom the outside so as not to expose other staffers from there the president talked to governors about hurricane delta. He talked to his treasury secretary about Economic Relief and he talked to uk Prime MinisterBoris Johnson who himself fought the virus earlier this year. For anyone meeting the president in person, thats two people, mark meadow, the chief of staff and dan scavino, their n95 masks and goggles outside the oval office and i obtained the communication to white house staff sent five days after the outbreak be gab. It says mafshgs are mandatory in the west wing and just encouraged elsewhere aides must submit to random testing or anyone testing positive or quarantined for their exposure must get clearance and a negative test before returning to work kayla thanks. The money now on the pandemics back, the crisis hitting individuals is escalating if you need money to pay your bills and feed your family, that money is not coming. Not right away, it cant until congress act, the president signs and the treasury prints. Thats the process its slow and it hasnt even begun. Heres where stimulus or Disaster Relief stands right now. Yesterday afternoon President Trump shut down talks between the white house and the House Speaker nancy pelosi hours later the president said he was open to piecemeal fixes, but not for everyone in need this morning Speaker Pelosi talked again with the treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin about a bailout for the airlines, something the house tried to pass last week and we just learned they had another conversation an hour ago so where are we now . Cnbcs elylan mui about the stimulus that bill that the treasury secretary and the speaker of the house discussed would have given 25 billion to the airlines and extended that help through march, but that legislation went nowhere fast in the house. It was brought up at the last minute at the end of the legislative day and republicans blocked it for procedural reasons. They called it just another political stunt by the democrats. Now there is a bipartisan bill in the senate. Two republicans and two democrats that provide the same help for the airlines, and i am told that after the president tweeted last night, one of the chief sponsors, gop senator roger wicker, he started polling his colleagues to see if there was any hope of moving this legislation forward. There were also bills in the senate that would extend the Payroll Protection Program allowing Small Businesses to take out a second loan if they need it and some republicans have even gotten behind the idea of direct checks 1,000 a person for adults and for kids the white house has tried to figure out if it could do any of these moves on its own it cant, and so that Means Congress would haveto act, but shep, i am told that there is a lot of skepticism on capitol hill over the political will to get something done and theres not a lot of time left to do it before the election. Back to you. Ylan mui, thanks. Forget corporations for a minutes. Think main street with me. The company you worked for shut down in covid and you dont get a paycheck or government relief so you sure dont go to restaurants. Those restaurants and close and fire their workers, then they cant spend around time. Thats called a Small Business death spiral heres cnbcs kate rodgers with one restaurants dilemma sanitize the top. The losses for Business Owners like San Francisco restauranteur johnny mathini are piling up. He cut his workforce from 80 to six across four locations and is desperate for financial relief. I feel betrayed and let down because i keep thinking and believing and knowing we were forced to be shut down by politicians and the government and for them to decide not to even negotiate to help the country right now, the country is Small Businesses which is, i believe, the backbone of the american way the numbers are staggering. In the Restaurant Industry alone, over 8 million workers furloughed or laid off at the height of the pandemic 165 billion in sales losses from march through july and 100,000 locations completely closed according to the National Restaurant association a large portion of them expected to become permanent as the cooler months limit Outdoor Dining and lawmakers struggle with the stalemate over stimulus spending and mathini certainly ssisn alone. Half of the Small Business members that received federal aid say theyll need more help in the next 12 months and whats worse, one in five say theyll have to close their doors for good if Economic Conditions dont improve in the next six months. Kate rogers, thanks. So whats the cost of washingtons failure michaelen is the cofounder of axios, he is with us youre plugged in in washington. Lets talk about the fallout here who gets the blame when a deal doesnt get done shep, i have new reporting for you from both ends of pennsylvania avenue and the blame rightly goes mostly to the white house, republicans control the senate, so right there they control twothirds of the actors and the president out there in the last 48 hours making the toxic politics even worse. So you mentioned that phone call recently between the speaker and the treasury secretary shep, if theres going to be action, i think well know in the next 24 to 48 hours. I am told that by the time you get to the Supreme Court confirmation hearing next week, sort of everybodys in their corners. Its much less likely. If upon there will be movement on airline rescue that would be big. Youve had such great coverage and youve been so close to it in your documentary. 40,000 jobs with some help from washington they would bring some of those jobs back, but the other pieces that people are looking for, that extension of unemployment benefits. Other things that people are hoping for, very hard to see it happening before the election. Theres no way . I mean, the senate is out and once they do come up with a deal, if they ever do, it will take a while to get the money to people, but surely politicians on both sides of the fence realize people are suffering in a way that is not their fault and that they have to get something done i heard them say it just two days ago yeah. No, youre right about that, and what im hearing is that there is new pressure from the people who are running in the country, people who are not here, but are running in states and districts. Both of them are telling their leaders here we need a better story to tell, but shep, the problem is theres just nothing in the bank for either side. A person close to the process described to me the president s tweet the other day. They said it was either deliberate stupidity or just inept politics someone else telling axios you cant try to mess it up so badly. Is that fair, though, because theyll tell you, oh, this is the president , classic trump hes turning over the table so that he can reset the table. I can tell you, Speaker Pelosi in no mood to play table games with President Trump. Yeah, but you know, to be fair, isnt it possible that just like Mitch Mcconnell said the president looked at the options, said this isnt going to get done. Lets move on to something that can get done like a Supreme Court nominee. Like, i cant do this. Lets just move on politics is partly showing that you are trying, showing that you understand that human pain that the news has covered so vividly and thats the piece that the president is missing and thats the piece that his party is paying a huge price for up and down the ballot after the debate last week, the republican who was looking at state by state polling said to me, the bottom is falling out everywhere and a big problem had to do with the president s employ thee. You talk to the biden campaign, theyll tell you two of the big moments in the debate, two of the big moments have turned the politics in the country and have really given joe biden a tailwind and are both having to do with human connection, with empathy. So you had that moment where joe biden said shut up, man. A lot of his voters thinking that way, and then when hes talking about his late son beau biden, the president interrupts. So its like with the stimulus, you have to show people that you care. Michaelen, ike allen, ive o mike allen from axios. The Vice President ial debate is less than two hours away from right now. We are live in Salt Lake City. Stage set, plexiglass up the v. P. Faceoff tonight in utah, but whats the state of the election down ballots . Will the balance of power shift in washington and americas top spy hunter on election interference is russia putting out disinformation to help get President Trump elected and is china actively engaging in the Disinformation Campaign to help Vice President biden yeah, they all are. The message every american should hear. Plus wrong turn. How a giant sea creature ends up stranded wandering around this neighborhood the facts. The truth. The news with Shepard Smith back in 60 seconds. Futures in peytonville. Nationwide can help the greens get Lifetime Income because their son kyle is moving back home and could help set up a Financial Plan for mrs. Garcia. And he explained how nationwide can h