velshi starts now. good morning, it is saturday, october the 3rd. we re 31 days until election day, one month to go. i m ali velshi, roughly 210,000 americans are dead from covid-19, and roughly 7.4 million have been diagnosed with the disease. president donald trump and first lady melania trump are now two of them. as a precautionary measure and on the recommendation of his physicians, the president is right now in the walter reed national military medical center, and he will be working out of the presidential offices at the facility over the next few days. the white house says that the president is experiencing, quote, mild symptoms. nbc news has learned that trump has a low grade fever. the president s physician, u.s. says trump, quote, remains fatigued but in good spirits, and melania has a, quote, mild cough and a headache. commander connolly also said trump has started remdesivir therapy and has received a single eight-gram dose of regeneron s experimental polyclonal