The next president ial debate. The white house still refuses to release key details on the president s health as President Trump returns to the oval office calling his illness a blessing, touting that experimental antibody cocktail for helping him beat the virus and now says he wants everyone in the country to get access to it. All of this as the seriousness of the white house outbreak escalates. A new report that white house staffers may have exposed thousands of people to the virus. Sounding the alarm. Dr. Faucis urgent warning that the number of american lives lost to the virus could double if things dont improve. Plus, a former cdc director calls the Trump Administrations handling of the pandemic a slaughter as hot spots surge across the country. Wisconsin forced to prepare a Field Hospital as their Emergency Rooms overflow. Hurricane emergency. Overnight delta strengthening in the gulf after wreaking havoc in mexico. Now louisiana, mississippi and texas all bracing for the powerful storm to strike. Mandatory Evacuations Ordered including areas hit hard by hurricane laura this summer. We are live along the coast tracking the very latest. Prime time countdown. Amazons huge annual sale days away. Why some experts are saying you should start Holiday Shopping right now. Plus, how other retail giants are stepping up the competition this year. Im back in the new york groove and a new spin of new york summer. Why the stunning Grocery Store performances are taking tiktok by storm. And were fighting in the Grocery Store the duets catching on quicker than you can get through the checkout line. This morning were hearing from the man who started it all. And were fighting in a Grocery Store we do say good morning, america. Good to be with you on this thursday morning. Another late night for you, george. It was. But it did end a little bit earlier. They actually ended the debate three minutes early. I dont know if thats ever happened before. Three minutes of extra sleep. First we talk about the hurricane bearing down on the gulf coast. We are going to talk about the hurricane, robin. Its called hurricane delta. It is gaining strength and its expanding overnight in the gulf of mexico bringing a possible lifethreatening storm surge. Those hard hit areas that were just ravaged by hurricane laura a few weeks ago. Ginger will bring more on that. First, the fallout from last nights faceoff. The Vice President ial debate just like Everything Else dominated by the pandemic, saw the plexiglass shields in place. The minutadministrations recor front and sunner. It was a much more civil debate but last week but the exchanges were sharp an substantive even if many of the moderators questions went unanswered. Mary bruce is in Salt Lake City and as george said the president ial debate a little different from what we saw last week in the faceoff there. Good morning, mary. Reporter good morning, robin. There was a very different debate last night. We just learned it may be the last debate. The commission announcing the next debate is going to be virtual and already President Trump is saying if thats the case he is going to pass. He will not attend next weeks debate. This morning President Trump says if the next debate is virtual he will not do it. The commission announcing the next face off will be virtual with the candidates participating from separate remote locations. Saying the decision was made to protect the health and safety of all involved. Bidens team says hes still in. The pandemic upending this race. Taking center stage at the Vice President ial match up. The American People have witnessed what is the greatest failure of any president ial administration in the history of our country. Reporter separated by plexiglass and sitting over 12 feet apart the california senator accusing Vice President mike pence and the white house of keeping americans in the dark. They knew what was happening and they didnt tell you. They knew and they covered it up. Reporter pence pulling from the president s playbook claiming a vaccine is right around the corner. We believe well have literally tens of millions of doses of a vaccine before the end of this year. Reporter but experts say it likely wont be widely available until several months into next year. With the outbreak at the white house growing, pence asked to explain how did this happen. That rose garden event, a great deal of speculation about it. Many of the people who were at that event, susan, actually were tested for coronavirus, and it was an outdoor event which all of our scientists regularly and routinely advise. Reporter but no social distancing and very few masks and he failed to mention the celebration included an intimate indoor reception, instead saying americans should be free to make their own decisions about how to protect themselves from the virus. It has already infected 7. 5 Million People across the country. The difference is President Trump and i trust the American People to make choices in the best interest of their health. Reporter over and over again both candidates dodging questions. Harris ripping into pence for trying to dismantle obamacare. If you have a preexisting condition, theyre coming for you. If you love someone who has a preexisting condition, theyre coming for you. Reporter pence said they have a plan to cover people with preexisting conditions, but wouldnt say what that plan is. Instead pushing harris on whether a Biden Administration would pack the Supreme Court. People are voting right now. They would like to know if you and joe biden are going to pack the Supreme Court if you dont get your way in this nomination. Lets talk about packing. Joe biden gave a nonanswer. Reporter the debate a stark contrast to the clash between President Trump and joe biden with a return to civility. I want to congratulate you on the historic nature of your nomination. Thank you. Reporter this morning the trump team is saying instead of attending next weeks debate the president s campaign will hold a rally instead ichlts ts unclea the president will be attending. Hes been itching to get out there, even as he battles this virus. George . Lets get more on this. Senator booker you saw senator harris the prosecute the case on covid. You heard the response from Vice President pence. Said the Biden Administration would do basically what the Trump Administration has already done. He even included that dig on plagiarism. Yeah, it was a catastrophic failure on this Trump Administration and Kamala Harris really aptly pointed that out. Even the moderator said how could we as a nation be so far out of step, so many more deaths, so many more infections than even our neighbor to the north, canada . And unfortunately, pence couldnt provide an answer of why the death rates under their leadership are so high. In fact, he cant even provide an answer to the they cant even abide by their own recommendations and have created a superspreader event in what should be the most secure part of america which is the white house. Sara fagan, Vice President pence was able to make a more forceful case on the economy and taxes than President Trump did last week in that debate. Did this debate make any difference . Did it alter the trajectory of this race which is really moving against the president and the Vice President . Well, i think it stopped the bleeding. I think Vice President pence gave the best economic argument. He said the economy is on the ballot. The american comeback is on the ballot. He made the best case tying tax policy, climate policy, the green new deal. He really had senator harris on the defensive. The only point either of them was on the defensive i thought all night was on that economic section. She was uncomfortable with her answer on taxes. She kept coming back to it and we need to hear more of the economy from the president and the Vice President. Its how they will get those republicans, the 10 of republicans who today are not voting for donald trump. Like his policies dont like him necessarily. Thats how they can win them back. Senator booker, two debates now in a row where neither Vice President biden nor senator harris would answer that question about what democrats are going to do if, indeed, Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed in these next couple of weeks. Will democrats pack the court . Well, again, this is a stacking of hypotheticals. It is distracting from what theyre trying to do right now. The majority of americans do not want them to jam this Supreme Court justice through. They want us to stop it, and im not going to concede that shes going to get on the court because this is wrong. Its wrong according to Lindsey Grahams rule and Mitch Mcconnells rule of how we should handle it. How do you stop it . Lets focus on where we are, and the reality is this is wrong and our health care as a result as Kamala Harris said plainly, this is a person that has been hostile towards the Affordable Care act. President trump has been trying to tear it down. It involves everything from our preexisting conditions to lifetime caps, it is just sad what theyre trying to do, and im going to go to work next week in the Committee Hearings to try to stop it. Sara fagan, probably the biggest unanswered question was on health care by mike pence. He keeps talking about this plan to protect preexisting conditions coming from the president and the Vice President. Its now almost four years into the administration. The president has promised it many, many times. Its not there and they are in the court trying to strike down obamacare. They should put out a plan. Theres no question about it. I think its a weakness. I dont know that itll come in the next few weeks. But having said that, the president and the Vice President and virtually every republican on the ballot has made very clear that they support protecting preexisting conditions. Its been universal. So the notion you know, i thought that a weak moment for senator harris was when she said theyre coming for you. Theyre coming for you. Those kind of scare tactics, i dont think are helpful in politics. But i do think the president should put out his health care plan. Thank you both very much. Michael . Thank you, george. Now we turn to the growing outbreak in washington. At least 34 people connected to the white house now testing positive for the virus. President trump returning to the oval office and claiming an experimental drug cured him. Our senior White House Correspondent cecilia vega is in washington with more this morning. Good morning, cecilia. Reporter hi, michael. Good morning to you. On top of all of that listen to this. Theres this new report out by usa today that says the white house outbreak could potentially have exposed thousands of people to the virus through these rallies, events and meetings in recent days and yet here we are. The white house will still not say publicly when the president last had a negative test, and that is making it nearly impossible to trace his contacts. This morning the coronavirus outbreak on the grounds of the white house even worse than the Trump Administration has admitted. Abc news obtained an internal memo sent wednesday to top officials at fema listing the total number of infected white house staffers and other contacts at 34. Thats ten more than had been previously known. Perhaps you recognize me. Its your favorite president. Reporter President Trump supposed to be in isolation in the residence posting this new video to twitter filmed in the rose garden by a white house staff photographer. He also spent part of the day working in the oval office. The president now calling his illness a blessing. I think this was a blessing from god that i caught it. This was a blessing in disguise. Reporter hes also touting the experimental antibody cocktail made by regeneron that less than 10 people outside of Clinical Trials have received. I heard about this drug. I said, let me take it. It was my suggestion. I said let me take it. It was incredible the way it worked, incredible. Reporter now he says he wants everyone to get access to that same treatment. Overnight Regeneron Pharmaceuticals formally asking the fda for the emergency authorization the president is pushing for. His white house doctor releasing few details about the president s condition saying he is feeling great and symptomfree claiming they detected antibodies. But regeneron telling abc its likely those antibodies are from the drug and not generated by the president s own immune system. With the election just weeks away and the president trailing in the polls, he now concedes there will not be a vaccine before november 3rd. But even as the virus has now killed 211,000 americans, President Trump continues to downplay it. Youre going to get better. Youre going to get better fast just like i did so again a blessing in disguise. Good luck. Reporter now there is scathing criticism out. Unprecedented. The new england journal of medicine writing an editorial condemning the Trump Administrations response to this pandemic calling for a change in november and on top of that, abc has now obtained this letter written by a former head of the cdc under both republican and democratic administrations written to the agencys current director calling the response, michael, a colossal failure and a slaughter. That speaks volumes. Thank you so much, cecilia. Were going to turn now and talk more about the president s condition now with abc news chief medical correspondent dr. Jennifer ashton. Doc, we want to talk go straight about regeneron. The president s physician said they detected antibodies in his blood. Now, regeneron said they could be from the treatment, not his own immune system. So how important is the difference . Well, i want to be crystal clear, michael, it should not alter behavior one iota. The cdc recommendations are that a person who has tested positive for covid isolate for ten days since the onset of symptoms or that positive test. But according to Infectious Disease specialists depending on the test method or things they use to check the antibodies they could be picking up the regeneron antibodies. But it is also possible that someone on this timeline could be making their own natural antibodies. But bottom line, you still isolate for ten days. Yesterday the president , he called the antibody treatment a cure. And saying hes trying to get it approved for emergency use. This is something only a handful in the u. S. Have received outside of Clinical Trials. Is it too fast . Well, to be clear, before the fda grants an emergency use authorization, they need to see we need to see phase 3 Clinical Trials for safety and efficacy. In medicine and science, we do not go by anecdotal reports which is one patients experience. Its absolutely positive when someone has a good effect but does not mean that can push forward on emergency use authorization yet. Certain things you just have to be patient and wait for the right cure. All right, thank you so much, doc. Robin . More now on the coronavirus emergency with global cases now topping 36 million this morning. Here in the u. S. 32 states are seeing an increase in cases, 35 states reporting a rise in hospitalizations. One hot spot on both of those lists is wisconsin and will reeve is there with the latest. Reporter this morning, a grim forecast as covid hot spots continue to emerge across the country. Dr. Anthony fauci warning the number of american lives lost could double if things dont improve. The models tell us that if we do not do the kinds of things were talking about in the cold of the fall and winter we could have from 300,000 to 400,000 deaths. Reporter here in wisconsin, hospitalizations doubling in the past month. Authorities opening an overflow hospital to keep up with rising case numbers. The governor telling people to stay home. Its critical, perhaps now more than ever, that wisconsinites step up and stay home as much as you are able. Reporter the family of 28yearold Adeline Fagan says she was a victim of nationwide ppe shortages telling us she had to rewear the same protective mask over and over again. The houston ob gyn lost her battle with covid in september. We need to start taking this seriously and if youre not, please start because this has been the worst time of our lives and i wouldnt wish this on anyone. Reporter the hospital where dr. Fagan worked released a statement saying in part our colleagues receive instructions and training on the proper usage of ppe which includes n95 masks their staff are expected to exchan exchange masks at the end of every shift according to cdc guidance. George . Will, thank you very much. 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