Main street hurting. Has the economic pain finally caught up with wall street who here is voting for trump . This is not political its patriotic the message and the money whats the president ial ad war telling us in this final week of the race live from cnbc Global Headquarters the facts. The truth. The news with Shepard Smith. Hurricane zeta roaring inland it crashed ashore in Southeast Louisiana less than two hours ago as a powerful cat 2 storm,o ago as a powerful cat 2 storm, the nbc climate team expecting disgist it is gist just one mile show of a category 3 the nbc climate team expecting extensive damage zetas hammering a region still recovering from two major hurricanes this year Nbc Universal coverage coming up first tonight, from our new studios at cnbc Global Headquarters, a dire warning from the former head of the fda, the pandemic is about to get much worse and were at only the beginning of a steep curve were about, you know, maybe three weeks behind europe, maybe a month at the most. Trajectoryo so were on a trajectory to look a lot like europe as we enter the month of november. So i think things are going to get worse. Some facts now, covid cases rising in 47 states over the past week, almost the entire nation infected patients are overwhelming some hospitals in americas heartland and in the american west. The writing has been on the wall for weeks. The doubt on wall street, theyre finally taking notice. The dow having its worst week since march when the pandemic first began to rage plunging more than 900 points today alone. In el paso hospitalizations have tripled in less than three weeks, emergency tents set up in parking lots for extra space the Convention Center turning into a makeshift field hospitaln a leading doctor in that city says theyre talking about the possibility of rationing hospital care. Nationwide, covid has never been this bad we talked to Doctors Today across the country to find out what theyre seeing right now and where they think were headed i think we learned our lesson in march and april really having to deal with such a dramatic increase in cases and seeing our hospitals be overwhelmed where most people knew somebody that had been infected, but it is always possible like were seeing in europe that new york does have another wave, another surge. Europe its continued to spread throughout the city. If we continue to have exponential spread a week from now well be above 1,000 and two weeks from now, 2,000 people in the hospital and thats not tenable. It doesnt matter how many resources. This is a Major Public Health emergency. We may well tap at 100,000 cases a week, 100,000 cases a weeke dieing from there are a thousand people dieing from this pandemic. This is a National Tragedy we have a national emergency. America on alert. Europe has been a predictor of whats coming here there, it just has become so bad that new lockdown orders were germany. Dr. Anthony issued today in france and germany. Dr. Anthony fauci now, the nations leading expert on Infectious Diseases joins us dr. Fauci, thank you good to be with you youve said a National Mask mandate is maybe a good idea, why maybe . Well, the reason is i would hope that we could pull together as a country. We havent yeah. We have not and thats the reason why i said very clearly is it time for the mandate, dr. Fauci . We lean on you for advice do we need a National Mandate or not . Yes well, we do, if we dont get one then i would hope that the governors and the mayors do it locally if its not done nationally but dr. Fauci. Yes are you still does the are you still in the president s ear or no and if not, who is well, i havent spoken to the president in quite a while about the situation with regard to the outbreak, but i can tell you right now why i can tell you right now regardless of that what we do need is adherence to mandate ors do a mandate youre th not, if mandate is needed, lets do a mandate youre the one who decides, dr. Fauci. Is it needed . Are you going to let me finish hey, shep, are you going to let me finish . Its pretty urgent, doc no, it is very urgent and thats the reason why i have been urgently saying everygot to do things that single day that we have got to do things that have not been done uniformly and consistently throughout the country the numbers that you put up are stunning this is going to get worse because were going more into a cold season as we get through the fall and into the winter wooe with the Holiday Season going, weve got to do something different. We cant just let this happen. Were going to have many more hospitalizations and that will inevitably lead to more deaths and this is an untenable situation and thats the reason why i say we have got to do t t thes these things youre using the word mandating masks, yes, if that works lets do it. I dont think its going to happen nationally. Why if it doesnt happen nationally the reason is because it may not come from the white house to do it, and if it doesnt then i think that the mayors and the governors should do it. There are mandates in more than a hundred countries and even russia is onboard as of yesterday, but not here. Does who does right is there any who does who does the white house listen to on this you know, i dont know. A lot of theres a lot of input from a number of different sources into the white house it isnt only one person i mean, obviously, right now youre aware that dr. Scott atlas has much more of an access to the president regarding Health Issues than i do. How do you feel about that . You know, it doesnt matter how i feel about it, shep. Im just going to be doing my job trying to get the message out as im doing here with you the National DisasterPreparedness Center just issued a report on the Novel Coronavirus and concluded that at very minimum, 130,000 american lives could have been saved. As many as 210,000 lives had we had what that center calls more robust federal coordination and leadership are they wrong i thin no. I think we should have had more. I mean, obviously, weve had a disparate response i have been saying that, shep, for months now that when for months now that when we have a uniformed response where all of the states do things in a uniformed manner with regards to mask, distancing and avoiding congregant settings, it may be different than if we did it the way we did it than if we did it in a disparate way sciencebased sciencebased policies will prevail Going Forward with donald trump as president giving his attacks on science and government scientists. Do you agree with that im not going to get into that, shep im not going to get into political statements and ill stick with Public Health statements i appreciate that and i thank you. Cnn theres new audio, dr. Fauci, that came out today on cnn during which Jared Kushner said on april 7th, midapril, seven months ago that the president is taking back the country from the doctors. Is that when the president stopped listening because many of us out here would like to know how this happened i dont know exactly the timing, but it was clear that some months ago there was a ons to looking at openin pivot away from complete focusing on Public Health issues to looking at opening up the country with regard to the economy. That was very clear, and it was stated that way, and that may be what youre referring to, but im not sure of the timing of that 500,000 new cases in the last weeking czar says that thats a sign the president s testing czar says that thats a sign that were surging. The president says its because were testing more theres clearly confusion among the population about whats really happening could you help us understand it . Yes unequivocally, there are more cases that are real cases. Thats manifested by the numbers, the data are strong its also manifested by the fact that if you look at the map of the country where youre having an uptick in cases we are also i having upticks in hospitalizations, so the cases are real theyre not just as a result of testing. Earlier today you talko earlier today you talked to the journal of the American Medical Association or jama and you talked about what an extraordinary thing has happened in melbourne they had an 111day lockdown starting with 20,000 cases a day and two days ago they had zero cases. Why cant we do that yeah. I, you know, when you talk about lockdowns that certainly they were extremely successful. There is very little appetite for a lockdown in this country there is going to be a major pushback both from above and at the local level. However, what melbourne did, what australia did as a country was very successful. The i was on the phone with my australian colleagues two nights ago, and they were describing exactly what you said. R or not e acceptable, i do not think so, shep i do not whether or not that would be acceptable, i do not think so, shep i do not think it would be acceptable theres covid fatigue in this country and people would be pushing back strongly. If thats the case, which i t to do the next best think it is, then weve got to do the next best thing weve got to double down very, very strongly on the things that ive been talking about withl acceptance of masks, distancing an regard to the universal acceptance of masks, distancing and avoiding crowds and congregant settings. If we did just that, we would be doing much better than we are doing right now. T now. We spent much of th we spent much of the day, dr. Fauci trying to figure out where we are in a month. We talked to doctors all over the country and a month from tomorrow, four weeks from tomorrow is thanksgiving people are making plans. E us a visualization based on the could you help give us a visualization based on the science, what a month from now looks like in america . Change, if things do not change, shep if they continue on the course were on, theres going to be a whole lot of pain in this country with regard to additional cases andhospitaliza. We are hospitalizations and deaths. We are on a very difficult trajectory we are going in the wrong direction. We are averaging 70,000 cases per week weve gone up as high as 83,000 last friday, and if you look at the map that you just showed on the screen, there the map that you just showed on the screen, there are a large number of states that are going in the wrong direction if that continues were going to be in much worse shape a month from now than we are today. To well, i remember mu well, i remember much worse shape for our small group in new york i remember locked down for months on end, and seeing no one and doing nothing. Thats not coming to the rest of the country. What does that mean to those surges around thanksgiving you look at el paso and you juse country, shep, that are going to even have more of a problem because there are some wonder how are they going to come out of this yeah. There are certain regions of the country, shep, that are going to even have more of a problem because there are some places in the heartland and in the northwest that never had the kind of hospital and intensity care facility and flexibility that some of the larger hospitals in larger cities like new york, chicago, new orleans, philadelphia and others. So the concern is that if you talk to the people who have done that who are in those regions of the country, theyre concerned d that if the trajectory continues they will be in a that if the trajectory continues they will be in a position where they will be strapped for things like intensive care beds. Dr. Fauci, i cant thank you enough for taking the time heady days ahead, well lean on you or as we say, follow the fauci. Its always good to be with you. O be with more on covid coming first the hurricane. Zeta surprised the forecasters and got lots stronger before it i dont know, less than two hours ago as slammed the gulf coast about i dont know, less than two hours ago as a very powerful category 2, borderline category 3. It made landfall in Southeast Louisiana and at this moment according to the Hurricane Center it is hitting new orleans. Zeta came on with 110 mileanhour winds remember category 3 is 111 and its right there forecasters say it could bring lifethreatening storm surge into louisiana, south an mississippi and alabama and beyond the main concern is the heavy rain and damaging winds. Zeta is moving lightning fast for a hurricane. Last report 24 miles an hour forward progress, expected to rip through the region quickly before moving across the southeast. The nbc climate team says we should anticipate severe some a. Zeta and thi structural damage in some areas. Zeta and this is unbelievable. Zeta is now the 11th named storm to hit america this season, the most in any season ever on record nbcs Morgan Chesky was right in new orleans in the eye of the storm until 45 minutes ago until it got so bad he had to bug out. Youve been there storm after storm. Describe today s shep, good evening. We were on the banks of lake pontchartrain for the better part of today gathering information about this upcoming hurricane here and you mentioned how fast it was moving that 24 mileanhour speed as it moved into the gulf and the lowlying areas of louisiana we experienced that first hand, we were getting ready to do a series of reports from right there in the waterd the waves started washin that wind picked up and the waves started washing inland and we were outside that area where the floodgates are controlling some of that surge we shot a clip or two and then decided it was just too dangerous and we moved inland to the French Quarter where the thu is staying, bu crew is staying, but dry right now. As we were driving into the interior part of new orleans, the wind picked up and so did the rain and we started to witness power flash after power flash from the Vantage Point on the highway an the highway and this was a border line category 2, border line category 3 and the mayor was encouraging everyone to not get out in this. Fortunately, we made it to safety and its a testament to the power of these storms. Right now the skies temporarily cleared up in new orleans as i looked up right now. We do know there is a significant danger in mississippi and that would be on the other side of this hurricane and thats where we could be seeing 11 feet of storm surge. The main threat is in the aream. The main is the powerful wind gusts, the potential for tornadoes tonight and we are hearing report of outline parishes as a resulte ps if there was a Silver Lining hopefully it will clear out soon. Bill cairns is in the Weather Center and it came up so fast and intensified so quicklyso quy it gave us all whiplash. It was almost a category 3 major hurricane right over the top of new orleans normally in a year would be this huge story and if morgan is still listening, morgan, youre in the eye of the hurricane right now. It is cent in the eye of the hurricane right now. It is centered right over the top of downtown, new orleans the winds have gone calm after gusting nearly 100 miles an hour let me take you through some of the latestme take you through s the latest he here we have the wind gusts and some of the games stopped working when the storm went through. New orleans will be just fine in an hour or once you go through the eye thats about it. New orleans will be just fine in an hour or two right now the worst of it is over with is now with the troublesome weather or areas of mississippi and coastal portions in alabama in a lot of the parishes, numerous for people has trees and it still has 115mile per hour windss trees and it s its so shep, well have widespread Power Outages to atlanta tomorrow morning and the wind gusts will continue to be the biggest problem with the storm. Shep, you mentioned 11 storms this season and the named storm hitting the u. S. Five of them hit louisiana and that has never happened before. N south mississipp with all of that water in south mississippi, im worried about hancock, and pass christiane, some of the ones that got hit by katrina. Bay st. Louis yeah. Latest nu some of the latest number, the storm surge is up four to five feet and we expect a max of up to 11 feet. So thats happening now for the small communities from pascagoula and bay st. Louis and hours is the waveland, and the next two hours is the critical time for those looks. We hope that after katrina everything was built safer to s built safer to survive things like survive things like this waveland 31 feet from katrina. The vote now and the ads for president on tv. E spending record money to get people in swing states to se the campaigns are spending record money to get people in swing states to see them the strategy behind their messages in this sprint to the finish we just voted. I dont think anybodys ever seen anything like this. Candidaa six days to go, the candidates, the vote and breaking down the numbers of one key battleground state from bombs to viruses. G trao meet the dogs being trained to sniff out covid19. Plus, overruled. E to keep inside the legal battle to keep guns away from the polls the facts, the truth. The news with Shepard Smith back in 60 seconds. 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