Will begin with President Trump on the campaign trail and on the attack. Not against his opponent but the countrys top Infectious Disease experts. In a series of insults on twitter, he said he is a disaster and called fauci and other experts idiots, with just 15 days until the election and down in the polls in nearly every battleground state, tonight the president appears intent on minimizing the onavirusrus pandemic, telling Campaign Staffers that americans are tired of hearing about the virus and just want it to be left alone. But the president s comments come as the countrys leading Public Health experts are now warning that the next three months will be the worst of the pandemic. Nationwide the number of new single day infections has reached a new high. Since this summer and hospitalizations are up in 39 states. Tonight in a cbs news exclusive were inside one of the hardest hit hospitals in wisconsin, a state where new infections have exploded and where doctors are struggling to keep up with coronavirus patients. There is a lot of new reporting we have for you tonight. Our team of correspondent is standing by to cover it all. Cbs ben tracy will lead off from the white house. Good evening, ben. Reporter norah, good evening. So President Trump is behind in the polls and two weeks from the election his campaign is being criticized for not having any sort of consistent message. Now the president is launching these new attacks on dr. Fauci and all but dismissing coronavirus. On a phone call with his Campaign Staff today President Trump veered way off message, seeming to acknowledge he has given up on combating the virus virus that has now killed more than 220,000 americans. People are tired of covid. I have the biggest rallies ive ever had and we have covid. People are saying, whatever, just leave us alone. Theyre tired of it. Reporter the president also tore into dr. Anthony fauci, the nations top Infectious Disease expert as well as other top Public Health officials. People are tired of hearing fauci and all these idiots, these people, these people that have gotten it wrong. Fauci is a disaster. Reporter on 60 minutes sunday fauci told dr. Jon lapook that the white house has blocked many of his media appearances. He also said President Trump thinks wearing a mask is a sign of weakness. Were you surprised that President Trump got sick . Absolutely not. I was worried that he was going to get sick when i saw him in a completely precarious situation of crowded, no separation between people, and almost nobody wearing a mask. When i saw that on tv, i said, oh, my goodness. Reporter asked today why he doesnt just fire fauci President Trump took another swipe at the 79yearold who has served six president s. I dont want to hurt him. Hes been there for about 350 years. I dont want to hurt him. Reporter but at his rally in arizona today the president then made fun of a wild pitch fauci threw months ago at a baseball game in washington. And he is a wonderful guy, i like him, he just happens to have a very bad arm. Reporter the president s attack on dr. Fauci are not sitting well with some in his own party. Republican senator Lamar Alexander said if more americans paid attention to faucis advice we would have fewer cases of covid and it would be safer to go back to school and work. Now, former Vice President joe biden had far tough err words for President Trump today. He released a statement in that he says, the American People are tired. Theyre tired of your lies about this virus. Theyre tired of watching more americans die and lose their jobs because you refuse to take this pandemic seriously. Norah . Odonnell ben tracy, thank you. And with just 15 days to go before the election our cbs news Battleground Tracker poll shows joe biden maintaining his en maintaining hisr president electoral lead over presi trump with an estimated 279 estimated 279 electoral votes compared to the president s 163. Now, one of those toss up states is arizona where the president held two rallies today and biden stays off the trail for four days of debate prep. Heres cbs ed okeefe. Reporter President Trump made his sixth Campaign Trip to arizona today hoping to turn the tide against joe biden who could become the first democratic nominee this 24 years to win the state. You dont have events like this and come in second in arizona. 15 days from now we are going to win the state of arizona. Reporter but the latest cbs s biden holding a lead inolding arizona. He has a lead in arizona. He has a three point edge, similar to last month. And four in ten seniors say mr. Trump has put them more at risk during the pandemic. He knew that this virus was five times more deadly than the flu. Reporter it is that message that Kamala Harris and the Biden Campaign continue to push. He knew it was airborne. But what did he do . He kept that information to ormation to i call it a coverup. Reporter she was in florida day where early inperson voting began with many lined up before sunrise. This is the reality of trumps covid response. Reporter voters are seeing the campaigns covid attacks on tv, too. Biden is outspending the president on ads in most swing states including by three to one in key battleground of wisconsin. In that state its also the pandemic that is bringing voters to biden. Mr. Trump won it in 2016 by just 23,000 votes and made his sixth trip there just this past weekend, but likely voters say biden would better handle the ter handleas they told cbs the pandemic, as the adriana diaz. How would you rate the president s job with covid . 0 . 0 . Reporter and nearly half of likely wisconsin voters say mr. Trump has hurt their states attempts to curb the outbreak which has urge surged again in recent days. I dont like all the lies. And all the lying about covid. Hes not doing anything but lying and just saying it is getting better. Its not. Reporter meanwhile the Trump Campaign is calling on organizers for a schedule debate to focus only on Foreign Policy and ensure microphones cant be cut. The Biden Campaign said they agree the moderator would choose the subjects and the president is just afraid of answering questions about the pandemic. Norah . Odonnell ed okeefe, thank you. Still so many questions about that debate. Health experts are warning tonight that the months ahead will be some of the hardest of pandemic and it comes as the u. S. Climbs towards a third peak and nowhere is it more true than in wisconsin the countrys hot spot it is setting records for cases, hospital admissions and deaths. Cbs adriana diaz went inside a hospital in wisconsins capitol. Reporter at University Hospital in Madison Covid hospitalizations have almost doubled since the start of the month. Nurse catie lanoway said it happened almost overnight. Im really frustrated. It is scary because you dont want to take that home to people you care about. Reporter you feel safer than out in the public. This covid unit used to be limited to just one hallway with about 10 patient humans rooms, now they expanded to three hallways because of this surge. Reporter dr. Jeff pothalf is part of the medevac team that has airlifted Covid Patients in. We thought they would be okay but then all of a sudden they end up here, there is some regret. At that point there t is too late. We really need help here in the hospital from people outside to start wearing the masks and staying away. Reporter with covid cases now surging across the nation the former head of the f. D. A. Says brace yourselves. We have two or three very hard mondays ahead of us. I think this is probably the hardest phase of this pandemic. Reporter a new peak of hitting one Utah Health System is especially hard. I. C. U. Beds this weekend reached over 100 capacity. This is a serious as it gets. We have had to turn away transfers, people in other states. Reporter in chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot says the city is facing a second wave with more than 500 new cases a day. We are increasingly seeing large gatherings of unmasked young people. Folks, that has to stop. Reporter but some encouraging news at new york city schools. Of more than 16,000 covid tests, just 28 came back positive. 20 staff members, eight students. Back in wisconsin doctors arent just confronting hard truths but also midwestern resilience. The people in the state i just think we need to bubble that up to the top, that team spirit, that grit, and maybe we can get through this. Reporter while covid records are being broken here in wisconsin, there have been lawsuits against the governors mask mandate and 25 limit on indoor gatherings. Limit on indoor gathe ruled agaa judge ruled against those capacity limitations, but just today another judge put them back in place. So the rules keep changing, norah. Odonnell wow. Adriana diaz, thank you. Tonight federal prosecutors are charging six Russian Military officers with launching Cyber Attacks designed to interfere with International Elections and the olympics as well as hitting companies and hospitals right here in the u. S. The charges come two weeks before an election that National Security experts worry could be targeted by foreign hackers. Cbs jeff pegues has more on the investigation tonight from the justice department. Reporter the wanted poster of the six alleged Russian Hackers says that they should be considered armed and dangerous. The crimes committed are truly breathtaking in their scope, scale and impact. Reporter prosecutors say they did a billion dollars in damage. Hitting a Pennsylvania Hospital system, a drug company and causing chaos around the world. They turned off the lights in ukraine, they disrupted the olympic opening ceremony. Reporter now officials are worried that Russian Hackers are targeting the u. S. Election through ransomware cyberbugs that can freeze computers and their data. Ransomware at this point is a National Security issue. Reporter it happened in placid lasalle county, illinois, where ransomware hackers froze all the countys data and left this electronic note. Your network have been penetrated, it read in bad english, and threatened loss of your data. What exactly did the ransom note say . To send i believe it ended up being like 428,000 was what they wanted. Reporter on average two governments in the u. S. Are hit every week. Lasalle county never did pay that ransom, but it is on high alert today with voting already underway there. The d. O. J. Action today is widely seen as a warning to russia. The message stay out of the u. S. Election. U. S. Officials are guarding against hackers trying to disrupt the election. Norah. Odonnell jeff pegues at the justice department. Thank you, jeff. And tonight talks for a new stimulus are coming down to the wire after House Speaker nancy pelosi set a tuesday deadline for a deal. Both sides are still billions of dollars a part as they try to they try to agree on money for testing, Unemployment Benefits and schools. Now, this as frustration with washington gridlock grows while millions struggle make ends meet. Heres cbs janet shamlian. Reporter Christine Brills rent is due in two weeks and she doesnt have it. Right now im trying to get a job at papa johns to work during the day. Reporter delivering pizzas . Delivering pizzas. Reporter the 52yearold mom of two lost her job at a barbershop when the economy shut down in march. Since stimulus funds ran out in july, shes living on unemployment 784 a month. How does your life change when this 600 ended. How didnt it . All my bills were late. I had to ask for help from a church to help me pay my rent. Reporter its been almost three months since that extra money stopped coming. The number of unemployed americans has more than doubled since the pandemic began and some 55 million are now living in poverty. Eight million joining the ranks since may. Brill says she is one of them, for less than 50 to last her the rest of the month. What do you think about the impact in washington on another stimulus for you and for others. Like, why hasnt it happened already. A lack of empathy t is all political agenda. They are more concerned about getting elected, reelected. Reporter christine lives here in houston, but her frustration and despair is echoing across the country tonight. The stark reality that at least for now there is no additional money from the cares act going to people who need it. Norah. Odonnell janet shamlian, thank you. Were going to turn to a surrkable story of survival. Were learning new details tonight about a mother who was stranded in utahs Zion National park for nearly two weeks before she was finally rescued. Tonight cbs carter evans talks with her sister. Reporter holly courtiers family says she was extremely de hydrated and weak when she was found alive after 12 days missing in Zion National park. Her sister Jillian Oliver says courtier survived by drinking river water. What was her condition when they found her . She was very dehydrated and found out she had april concussion and she couldnt move. She could barely speak. She was bruised very badly. Her daughter kaley chambers tells cbs news her mom injured her head on a tree and was too week and disoriented to seek out help. Courtier an experienced hiker left no itinerary and did not bring a cell foe. Questions remain about how the 38 year old mother was able to survive for nearly two weeks in the wild. Her daughter says she was without food the entire time and was unable to take more than a step or two without collapsing. She couldnt even open her mouth to drink. Reporter when they found her. Yes. And she couldnt even talk. Reporter courtier had apparently lost her job as a nanny and had been visiting national park. Last week there was concern rescues were one running out of time. She is so thankful no one gave up on her, gave up hope, we just kept looking. We knew we just werent going to leave until we founder. Carter evans, cbs news. Odonnell there is still much more news ahead on tonights cbs evening news. 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