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Europe is struggling to contain a second wave of coronavirus infections. France is reimposing a state of health emergency. When people say the president beat it im not worried about it. Thats sort of like saying somebody was speeding in a car at 95 miles an hour and didnt get in an accident. The university of alabama announced that head football Coach Nick Saban tested positive for covid19. All that the dodgers set a postseason record scoring 11 runs in one inning. Grand slam and all that matters. I would kick myself if i didnt just ask you if you noticed the fly on the Vice President pences head. We could see it at home. Could you see it sitting next to him . On cbs this morning. Voting is under way in several states or not only people casting their ballots. Theyre also cleaning them. They have received at least 100 ballots damaged by disinfectant alcohol spray. And in one case, someone even microwaved their ballot. What set dog you use to microwave a ballot . Potato . I have to say, if you are microwaving your ballot, im okay with you sitting this one out votewise. I really am. This mornings eye opener is presented by progressive. Making it easy to bundle insurance. No, jimmy, no, dont sit it out. Every vote counts. But i dont think you need to microwave it. Im surprised people are being so a little over the top, but about a dozen people. Dial it back a little bit. Theyre taking it seriously. We take it seriously, too. Thats why we begin with this story. The campaign for president and mr. Trumps attempts to catch up to joe biden who, by the way, has a significant lead in national polls. Both are now participating in competing town hall events tonight set to be televised at the very same time. This comes after the president refused to participate in a planned virtual debate. Yesterday the president held a rally in iowa where he tried to revive an old line of attack against joe biden based on suspicious new claims linked to Rudy Giuliani. Paula reid is at the white house this morning. Paula, good morning. Good morning. President trump is using his own familys experience and recovery from this virus as a rallying cry to encourage americans to now get back to normal. Last night in iowa, he rallied over 5,000 supporters in spite of White House Task force guidance that says the gatherings in that area should be limited to just 25 people because of the rising number of cases in the state. Barron is just fine now. Hes tested negative, right . Reporter President Trump is using his son barrons recovery from covid to urge schools to reopen. Because it happens. People have it and it goes. Get the kids back to school. Reporter dr. Anthony fauci told cbs evening news anchor and managing editor Norah Odonnell on wednesday the president is not likely to transmit the virus on the campaign trail but still warned against holding large gatherings. I cant advise the president about what he can do and shouldnt do with regard to political campaigns. But i can reiterate my statement that when you have congregate seths s settings of a lot of people together, closely packed, when most are not wearing masks, thats a risk situation to be avoided. Reporter over 216,000 people in the u. S. Have died and cases are rising across the country. Iowa has had more than 100,000 covid cases and hospitalizations are increasing. Voters overwhelmingly say the economy is their biggest concern, but the president focused the first half of his speech on attacking his rival. And this is a big smoking gun. Reporter with weeks until the election and trailing in the polls, President Trump seized on a report in the New York Post published wednesday claiming files and emails were taken from a laptop that allegedly previously belonged to hunter biden. The report alleges the former Vice President used his position to advance his sons business interests in ukraine and that both bidens were not truthful about that relationship. Vice president biden, you owe the people of america an apology because it turns out you are a corrupt politician. Okay . Reporter the Biden Campaign said the allegations were false and noted that an investigation by Senate Republicans had cleared the former Vice President any of wrongdoing in ukraine. The story sourcing has also raised questions about its authenticity as the files were given to the post through an attorney for the president s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and allegedly obtained from a repair shop owner who said the device was allegedly left and never picked up. Twitter and facebook have both limited the distribution of this hunter biden story and last night, twitter appeared to suspend the account of White House Press secretary Kayleigh Mcenany when she tried to share this story. Twitter later clarified saying that this article contained images of personal information like private email addresses, and what twitter classified as hacked materials. Twitter says that sharing hacked material or personal information violates its terms of service. Paula, thank you. Minutes ago, the Biden Campaign said two people working with senator Kamala Harris have tested positive for covid19. One of them is her communications director. It is said that senator harris has not been in close contact with either person recently but she is suspending travel just as a precaution through sunday. Now this comes as the Campaign Steps up efforts ahead of election day as ed okeefe reports. Reporter joe biden is now sitting on a record size campaign war chest. 383 million raised in the month of september alone. And top aides say theres a total of 432 million still in the bank. How the Biden Campaign plans to spend the money is unclear. But this week alone its spending more than 24 million to advertise on tv in 16 battleground states. Even on wednesday, biden was raising money at private virtual fundraiser and will do so again today before appearing tonight at a televised town hall meeting with voters. And then theres former president barack obama. Hey, georgia, barack obama here. Reporter hes expected to campaign for biden in the closing days of the election in key battleground states. Appearing on the popular pod save america podcast, he had a message for democrats discouraged by Party Leaders not pushing harder for more liberal priorities. Its that we just dont have the votes and the clout. So progressives, if you want progressive legislation, get out there and keep working after the president is elected. Reporter meanwhile, early voting numbers are coming in from states already casting ballots. And they are huge. Places like california, florida, georgia, michigan and virginia already 16 millionplus votes are in. Shattering records from 2016. Gayle . People are showing up. Thank you, ed. Supreme Court NomineeAmy Coney Barrett has finished testifying to the Senate Judiciary committee and appears to be very much on track to replace Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. Like other recent nominees for the high court, barrett avoided answering many questions from committee members. Nancy cordes is on capitol hill. Its still called capitol hill, last time i checked, nancy. Good morning to you. What comes next . Well, today the Senate Judiciary committee is going to hear from a host of legal experts, half of whom support Amy Coney Barretts nomination and the other half who dont. And republicans may try to vote her nomination out of committee today. Democrats will likely delay that by a week but that is probably where their stalling power ends. The hearing part is over. Reporter with overwhelming support from republicans, judge barrett seems destined for confirmation. Just do the raw numbers, then theres no way to stop it. Reporter during her two days on the hot seat, barrett insisted she is independent. I assure you, i have my own mind. Reporter but that was hard to gauge because, like other nominees, barrett withheld her views on big issues like Voting Rights and gay rights. Think of how you would feel as a gay or lesbian american to hear that you cant answer whether the government can make it a crime for them to have that relationship. They are pushing me to try to violate the judicial cannons of ethics and offer advisory opinions, and i wont do that. Reporter with help from republicans, she made the case that even a Supreme Court with a 63 majority might uphold the Affordable Care act. Pointing to the socalled doctrine of severability that allows judges to strike down part of a law. The main thing is the doctrine of severability, as a presumption to save the statute if possible is that correct . That is correct. Democrats were skeptical. The position of the Trump Administration is to throw the whole thing out. Well, senator klobuchar, i think that the republicans have kind of made that clear. Its just been part of the public discourse. Okay. But its is the answer yes then that senator klobuchar, all these questions youre suggesting that i have animus or that i cut a deal with the president , and i was very clear yesterday that that isnt what happened. Reporter if all goes as planned, barrett will be confirmed about a week before election day, two weeks before that important obamacare case goes before the court. And a jubilant lindsey graham, the chair of the judiciary committee, said yesterday that he will likely be the first unabashedly prolife woman to be appointed to the court and only the second conservative woman in history. Anthony . Nancy, thank you. A new jump in coronavirus cases pushes the total number of infected americans to nearly 8 million since the pandemic began. That includes more than 680,000 infections reported in just the past two weeks. The newest victims include a Top College Football coach, alabamas nick saban. He announced yesterday he has tested positive. Mola lenghi is following the renewed outbreaks. Reporter sixtime National ChampionCoach Nick Saban of the alabama crimson tide has been sidelined by the coronavirus as has the schools athletic director. But saban says, as of now, theres no indication of a teamwide outbreak. We test our players every day. I get tested every day. I feel fine. I felt fine. I was very surprised. Reporter in august, tuscaloosas mayor shut down bars for two weeks as cases spiked following students return to campus. A move saban publicly supported. Hes been outspoken about the need to follow Public Health guidelines, even appearing in covid prevention psas. Havent i told you, you have to wear a mask when youre in this building . Reporter after having thousands of students test positive on campus during the first month of classes, the university of alabama is now reporting fewer numbers. But thats not the case for most u. S. States. Coronavirus cases are on the rise in 37 states. And hospitalizations are rising in 42 states. Wisconsin opened this Field Hospital just outside milwaukee on wednesday to handle patient overflows. The states hospitals are at 85 capacity. And covid related hospitalizations are at an alltime high. Many of our icus are strained in every region of our state has one or more hospitals reporting current and imminent staff shortages. Reporter Health Care Worker and Covid Survivor deb sumiec is losing faith in the states ability to turn things around. We cant come to an agreement. This state right now is so incredibly divided. And weve turned a health pandemic, a Health Crisis into a political thing. Reporter right now the u. S. Is averaging more than 50,000 new coronavirus cases every single day. The number that dr. Anthony fauci says is unacceptably high. He also urged americans who are making thanksgiving Holiday Plans to be very careful when getting together with loved ones. Its those small gatherings that have increasingly become linked to covid transmission. Fauci says he himself will not be getting together with his own children over the holiday over an abundance of caution. Going to be a very different thanksgiving. Mola, thank you. Europe is also having its worst covid outbreak since april with an average of more than 70,000 new cases a day over the past two weeks. Italy just reported a record oneday number. Meanwhile, britains Prime Minister is fighting with local officials over new restrictions there and france is cracking down even more as our liz palmer reports. Reporter last night people in france tuned in to hear covid update from president emmanuel macron. The situation is worrying, he said, but we shouldnt panic. But he did declare a state of emergency and a curfew in nine cities, including paris. Everyone will have to leave cafes and restaurants and be off the streets by 9 00 in the evening and stay put until 6 00 a. M. A second wave of coronavirus has taken hold. The rate of infection, for example, in france, the netherlands, spain and the uk is climbing steeply. Overall in yurneurope, theres average of 70,000 cases a day. Lets try to avoid the misery of another national lockdown. Reporter in britain, Prime Minister johnson has imposed a series of halfway measures. Like closing pubs early and limiting social gatherings to six people. But its not working. His scientific advisers are pushing for a temporary but strict lockdown. A socalled Circuit Breaker to get things back under control. I think its going to have to. And the longer it leaves it, the worse it will be and the longer well have to keep it in place. Reporter there is huge frustration with the government here over its constant changing of the rules and a dysfunctional track and trace system. Surveys say that people would accept another lockdown. What they really want is some clarity. Tony . Dont we all. Elizabeth palmer in london, thank you. Ahead with a Record Number of americans voting by mail, we wanted to find out what happens to ballots after they arrive to be counted. So the first thing we would do is scan it in. And then were going to just view the signature. Oh, wow. Trisha and i would make a ruling. It matches. So, guys, that is rare access to an Election Office. It happens to be in new york state which is not a swing state. However, that signature verification process, a version of what youre seeing there were going to show you, happens in most states in this country. And if your ballot is going to get held up, its most likely to get held up right there. Its amazing to see people actually go through it and, in fact, we do see ballots held up. Wow. Looking forward to this. Pay attention, people. It matters. Voting matters. Some of them are 20 years old. All we have much more news ahead for you. For the second time, one of the nations busiest airports is investigating a report of somebody, a knucklehead with a jetpack in a busy flight path. The latest on this very mysterious sighting. Plus a new twist in the court case against a white woman caught on camera making a false report of a black Man Threatening her in central park. Youre watching cbs this morning. Announcer this portion of cbs this morning sponsored by fasenra. For more information, visit fasenra. Com. Into a smaller life . Are your asthma treatments just not enough . Then see what could open up for you with fasenra. It is not a steroid or inhaler. It is not a rescue medicine or for other eosinophilic conditions. 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