In a surreal display that alarmed Public Health experts, trump reved his mask before entering the white house potentially infecting the dish anyone inside. We will get the latest. Then we speak to Kristin Urquiza, whose father died from covid 19. My dad was a healthy 55yearold. His only preexisting condition was trusting donald trump. And for that, he paid with his life. Week, Kristin Urquiza attended the president ial debate sitting just feet away from President Trump. She is now in selfquarantine. Plus we will speak to a College Student in vermont who is doing what the white house doesnt want the cdc to do trace the contacts of people who may have infected or been infected by President Trump. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. President trump returned to the White House Monday after being hospitalized since friday for covid19. He will continue treatment at the white house. On monday night, trump walked out of the golden front doors of the Walter Reed Medical Center and then walked to the president ial helicopter. It was the beginning of a bizarre sequence of eventshat alarmed Public Health experts. At the white house, trump removed his mask as he posed for pictures. He then saluted and gave thumbs up. At times, trump appeared to be short of breath and panting. He then walked into the white housunmasked, potentially exposing the household staff many of whom are older and people of cor. At least two housekeeping staff have recently tested positive. Trp also reased a video whe he minimed the risk of covid19. Prestrump i learned so much aboutoronirus d one thg that ifor rtain, dt t it domate u. Dont be afraid of it. Amy trumps medical team has refused to answer key questions, including when trump last tested negative for covid19 and details about his lung scans. And whether he has pneumonia. Meanwhile, more Close Associates of trump have tested positive for the virus, including White House Press secretary Kayleigh Mcenany and two aides. Well have more on President Trump after headlines. Other coronavirus news, the New York Times is reporting Top White House officials are blocking new food and drug admistration guidelines that would likely delay the approval ofny Coronavirus Vaccine until after november 3. Election day. The fda wants to monitor the health of trial volueers for two months to make sure there are no longterm side effects but the whithouse opposes the plan. In other medical news, the cdc has acknowledged covid19 can be spread by airborne transmission in indoor settings. The cdc had made a similar statement in septemberut then removed the information from its website. In international news, the World Health Organization now says as much as 10 of the worlds population may have had covid19 a far higher number than previously thought. India has become the third country to pass 100,000 reported covid19 deaths after the u. S. And brazil. Meanwhile, in iran, the government reported 235 deaths monday, the highest daily toll since the start of the pandemic. Much of tehran has been shut down again and hospitals are at capacity. A number of European Countries have announced new records in daily cases in recent days as britain, france, germany, italy, and spain have all imposed or announced stricter containment measures. As early inperson voting kicked off in South Carolina monday, the u. S. Supreme court sided with South Carolina republicans by reinstating a law that requires a witness signature for mailin ballots. Democrats argued the requirement puts people at risk during the pandemic and decreases voting. The ruling will not apply to ballots that have already been mailed. Early voting is now open in california, iowa, illinois, maine, michigan, minnesota, montana, nebraska, South Carolina, south dakota, virginia, vermont, and wyoming. Meanwhile, in florida, the states Voter Registration website crashed and stayed down for several hours monday, the deadline to register for the november election. Kristen clarke of the Lawyers Committee for civil rights under law called on florida officials to extend the deadline, adding or we will explore other options to protect the rights of those seeking to register to vote. In iowa, a judge has blocked a republican directive barring counties from sending out absentee ballot applications with prefilled voter i. D. Information. The republican effort to require all ballot requests be blank when sent to voters resulted in tens of thousands of ballot requests being invalidated. Election officials are now determining whether they can still get ballots to those residents whose applications were invalidated. And in arizona, a federal judge issued an order extending the Voter Registration deadline until october 23 due to the ndemic. In other election news, senator Kamala Harris and Vice President mike pence are expected to hold their debate separated by wednesday plexiglas. Pences team mocked the news. Spokesperson katie miller, who herself tested positive in may, said if senator harris wants to use a fortress around herself, have at it. Pence has so far tested negative for covid19. In related news, joe biden appeared at a sociallydistanced, outdoor nbc news town hall in miami last night. He said President Trump bears some responsibility for contracting covid19. Mr. Biden anybody who contracts the virus by essentially saying masks dont matter, social distancing doesnt matter, i think is responsible for what happens to them. Amy in texas, a white Police Officer has been charged with murder for the Fatal Shooting of 31yearold jonathan price, a black man who was killed at a gas station on saturday. Officer shaun lucas tased and shot price even though he was walking away from him and was nonthreatening according to the Texas Rangers who arrested lucas. Just prior to his killing, price had reportedly intervened after a man assaulted a woman, but that situation had already been resolved before officer lucas arrived at the scene. Jonathan price was a motivational speaker and trainer and former college fooall player at hardinsimmons univsity. In california, prosecutors said monday they are reopening an investigation into the 2009 killing of oscar grant, a 22yearold unarmed black man, by a white transit officer in oakland. The officer who shot grant, johannes mehserle, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, but another officer present at the scene, anthony pirone, was terminated and never charged even though a report revealed he repeatedly lied to investigators and attacked grant, stating a cascade of events that ultimately led to the shooting. Oscar grants family called for the case to be reopened. His mother, reverend wanda johnson, spoke at a monday News Conference in front of the train station where her son was killed. If it is going to be our judicial system continues to lie and continues to not honor their words, then we will continue to be out here and remind the world of how our judicial system is continuing to fl people of color. Amy oscar grants mother speaking at fruitvale station. Survivors of chemical weapons attacks in syria have filed a criminal complaint in germany accusing the Syrian Government of killing more than 1400 people in two separate attacks, one in the damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta in 2013 and another in the village of Khan Sheikhun in 2017. Meanwhile, the united nations, the United States, britain and france blocked the former head of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons, or opcw, from testifying monday. Jose bustani was slated to read a statement about a possible internal opcw coverup of a chemal attacin doumasyria, in 2018. The cw and t Trump Administration have blamed the Syrian Government for the attack but leaked documents show two opcw investigators have questioned the official findings. The u. S. Bombed syria days after the alleged attack. After bustani was barred from testifying at the security council, he recorded a video reading his prepared remarks. The opcw is confident in the robustness of its scientific work and the integrity of the investigation. Then it should have little to fear and hearing out its inspectors. However, if the claims of evidce shows exclusion of key instigatoramong otr allegations a unfoundedit is even me imperative that you should be dealt with open and urgently. Amy in kyrgyzstan, protests have erupted following a parliamentary election sunday critics say was rigged through votebuying. Demonstrators are demanding prorussian president Sooronbay Jeenbekov resign and to hold a new election. On tuesday, protesters seized a government building and freed a jailed former president , almazbek atambayev, an adversary was sentenced on corruption charges and is adversary of the sitting president. In eastern russia, marine biologists are warning of an ecological catastrophe after scores of dead seals and other marine animals washed ashore over the weekend in the kamchatka peninsula. Several surfers reported the water had a foul odor and unnatural color and left them with chemical burns to their eyes. The cause of the apparent Chemical Spill has not been confirmed but sometime rocket fuel stored in the areas military testing grounds may have leaked. Leaked internal documents from exxonmobil reveal the oil giant plans to increase annual Carbon Dioxide emissions by 17 by 2025. Bloomberg reports exxons plans could add the annual Carbon Emissions of a country like greece to the atmosphere, or the equivalent of 26 coalfired power plants. Exxonmobils own scientists have known about the threat of Climate Change for decades but suppressed the information and have not committed to curbing emissions, even as other Major Oil Companies have announced cuts after Massive Public pressure campaigns. The Environmental Protection agency has granted oklahoma environmental regulatory control of nearly all tribal lands in oklahoma, rolling back sovereign rights for dozens of tribes. The move effectively cancels out many rights that would have been gained after a Landmark Supreme Court ruling earlier this year asserted about half of oklahoma remains native American Land recognizing a 19th century u. S. Treaty with the muscogee creek nation. In a statement to news outlet the young turks, casey camphornek of the ponca tribe of oklahoma said after over 500 years of oppression, lies, genocide, ecocide, and broken treaties, we should have expected the epa ruling in favor of racist Governor Stitt of oklahoma, yet it still stings. In media news, Los Angeles Times executive editor Norman Pearlstine has resigned after only two years in the role. This comes after several investigations into pearlstine, including one published by vice news that alleged he ignored serious concerns from staff about a toxic workplace, lack of diversity in the newsroom, sexism allegations, and other ethical issues. The l. A. Times publicly addressed the papers track record of perpetuating racism both in the newsroom and in their coverage amid the national antiracist uprising and as staffers fight for more diversity in the newsroom and in management. And the nobel prize for physics has been awarded to three scientists for their discoveries related to black holes, which helped reveal the darkest secrets of the universe. Roger penrose, reinhard genzel, and andrea gehz received the award. American astronomer ghez is only the fourth woman to ever win the nobel prize in physics. On monday, two american scientists and one british scientist harvey alter, charles rice, and Michael Houghton jointly won the 2020 nobel prize for medicine for their work in identifying the hepatitis c virus, which causes cirrhosis and liver cancer. The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on and those are some friday. Of theeadlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman in new york city, joined by my cohost juan gonzez in nebrunswick, new jersey. Hiuan. Juan hi, amy. Welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. Amy in a shocking show of recklessness, President Trump left Walter Reed National military Medical Center for the white house on monday evening, staging a series of photo ops as he walked out through its golden doors after a 72 hours day and boarded the president ial helicopter back to the white house to continue his treatment for covid19. It was the beginning of a bizarre sequence of events that alarmed Public Health experts. At the white house, trump stepped off marine one and then ascended a set of stairs to the first floor balcony where he removed his mask dpite havg covid come and waved farewell to the helicopter in a propaganda style video he soon posted to twitter accompanied by dramatic music. He entered the white house unmasked, potentially exposing more staff after at least two housekeeping staff recently tested positive. Trump filled the video in front of the found the video in front of the white house which has become a covid hotot due tois the administrion neglence. Pres. Trp arresd outont. Let. Body thais a leader wod nodo what i did i ow theres a sk, thes a dang, but at is ok annow i am betternd maybe i iune. I dont know but dlet it dinate yo live get out there. Be caref. We have thbestedicinesn thworld. Amy tmps comes sparked outrage d alarm from puic heth officls and ce as the u. S. Cid death toll passed 210,000. Other video of trumps homecoming shows the president appearing short of breath. Drabdul elsayed tweeted this is not how a healthy man breathes. Meanwhile, white house physician dr. Sean conley refused monday to answer questions from reporters about the health of trumps lungs. Busy of pneumonia or any inflammation in his onset all . We have done routine imaging. Im not at liberty to discuss. Clubss you are actively not telling us what the lung scans show . Rules andre hippa restrictions that restrict me in sharing certain things for his safety and his own health. Amy dr. Conley also refused to disclose the last time the president tested negative for the virus. Can you tell us please on testing, can you tell us when he had his last negative test . Was it thursday . Do you remember when he had his last negative test . I dont want to go backwards. Amy this comes as the number of coronavirus cases emanating from the white house continue to grow. On monday, trumps press secretary Kayleigh Mcenany said she had tested positive, along with two of her press deputies, bringing the number of people in trumps circle with covid to well over a dozen. For more, were joined by dr. Dara kass, emergency medicine physician at Columbia UniversityMedical Center and yahoo news medical contributor. Welcome to democracy now can you talk about what you witnessed last night . Trump standing at the white house, returning home saying yet learned real lessons he had learned real lessons, removing his mask coming giving a thumbs up, then turning and walking into the white house were so many staff are under siege, where people are tking about it as have shut down because of the number of people who are testing positive . A couple of things. First of all, myself and anybody that has been touched by this virus, then millions of americans that have had it themselves, the hundreds of thousands the family members of the hundreds of thousands who have passed ay were horrified at this display of nonchalant is around the virus that s killed so Many Americans and infected affected all of our lives. Anyone watching this video does not think the president is healthy right now. There is no evidence he is over this, immune, better. We know this president has the idea if he thinks positively, positive things will happen. You may be convincing himself he is somehow over this virus, somehow finished the course, but as somebody who has had the virus myself and also taking care of hundreds of patients who have had it over the past six months, the virus takes time on your body, especially when you have known lung disease. We know the president has lung disease. Not just because he was clearly short of breath in that video, gasping air, but also being treated with the medications we get for patients that have lung disease. In that is what is going to have address significant percentage of patients who are in his age bra