One veterans long struggle, and why a Defense Department employee is now speaking out. And murder hornet mission. How crews use dental floss and a vacuum hose to find and destroy the first nest found in the u. S. You heard them correctly. Dental floss and a vacuum hose. First, heres todays eye opener. Its your world in 90 seconds. Heres what we have to do. Were not going to control the pandemic. We are going to control the fact that we get vaccines. Therapeutics. The white house chief of staff mark meadows says the United States wont be able to get covid19 under control. They are admitting defeat. This is the greatest failure of any president ial administration in the history of america. Mike pence will stay on the campaign trail despite news some of his staffers tested positive for the coronavirus. I think hes taking all the precautions. And my understanding is hes tested negative. Vice president mike pence plans to preside over the Supreme Court confirmation vote for Amy Coney Barrett. Putting the health of everyone who works in this building at risk. The u. S. Setting records for daily increases in covid19 cases. Were in a dangerous Tipping Point right now. Were entering whats going to be the steep slope of the curve of the epidemic curve. More than 59 million americans have already voted. More than all of the early vote in 2016. All that cardinal s hand the seahawks their first loss. Intercepted by izaka simmons. And all that matters. Could donald trump win this . Sure. Im one of those folks, those competitors, its not over until the bell rings. 60 minutes aired their interviews with the candidates including a sitdown with President Trump that was abruptly set short. On cbs this morning. That is into center field phillips has tied the game. Coming around. Throw home. Now he stumbles. But the ball gets away. Tampa bay wins it from the heartbreaking loss in game four to the win in game five. And the dodgers win game five they now lead the world series three games to two. Announcer this mornings eye opener is presented by progressive. Making it easy to bundle insurance. Welcome to cbs this morning. If you were watching game four, you know they needed that win big time. Can you imagine how many times they replayed that play over and over . All is well exaltation for rays fans and dodger fans over the weekend but dodgers up 32. Good series. This is a good broadcast. If i do say so myself. Nice transition, gayle. Good morning to you, tv viewers. Were in the final full week of campaigning for the president ial election. Just eight days away if you can believe that. Americans will make a decision bound to change history. So far the voters seem very eager to participate in this. Early turnout, look at the lines, has been massive, including in battleground states. Its estimated nearly 60 million americans have already cast their ballots in early voting. This comes as the u. S. Hits new highs in daily coronavirus case numbers, including Record Numbers friday. 228,000 people were newly diagnosed in just three days. Were also hearing about a second outbreak of the virus at the white house. This time involving aides to Vice President pence. Weijia jiang is there. Will the Vice President be quarantining . Good morning, anthony. No, the white house said that Vice President mike pence will not change his Campaign Schedule because he is considered essential personnel. Cdc guidelines say those people can continue working as long as they are asymptomatic and take precautions. But critics say campaigning is not an essential duty. We need four more years of President Donald Trump in the white house campaigning in North Carolina, Vice President mike pence made no mention of the covid19 outbreak in his inner circle. The Vice President s chief of staff marc short, outside political adviser marty obst and three additional aides tested positive for the virus over the weekend. His press secretary said while Vice President pence is considered a close contact with mr. Short, he will maintain his schedule because he is essential personnel. The Vice President wore a mask on and off the plane. Get it done, North Carolina reporter but took it off while giving his speech. Many in the crowd were not covering their faces either. The same was true at President Trumps rally in New Hampshire where he told supporters, contrary to evidence, the end of the pandemic is near. Were rounding the turn. Even without the vaccines, were rounding the turn. Its going to be over. Reporter on sunday, white house chief of staff mark meadows suggested the spread of the coronavirus is inevitable. Were not going to control the pandemic. We are going to control the fact that we get vaccines. Therapeutics and other mitigation why arent we going to get control of the pandemic . Because its a contagious virus just like the flu. Reporter in battleground michigan, senator Kamala Harris called out the trump administration. They are admitting defeat. And ive been saying that and joe biden has been saying that from the beginning. Reporter harris who quarantined after some of her staffers tested positive earlier this month says the white house should follow their lead, including Vice President pence. He should be following the guidelines. Reporter Vice President pence did test negative for the virus yesterday but theyre slaming his plan to preside over the Senate Chamber today for the vote on Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court. The white house is planning to hold an event tonight in her honor. You may remember that her nomination announcement was a superspreader event in the rose garden. More than a dozen people who attended tested positive afterward, including President Trump and the first lady. Anthony . Weijia, thank you. When the senate votes tonight on judge barretts Supreme Court nomination, we will bring you the results in a cbs news special report. Every day now we get new evidence of the stark contrast between President Trump and his democratic rival joe biden. Both have been pushing hard on the campaign trail but with very different messages and strategies for the final week before election day. They were also both on 60 minutes last night. Ed okeefe is outside Madison Square garden where early voters are already lining up. Good morning to you. Good morning, guys. Early voting is under way here in midtown manhattan. More than 287,000 new yorkers have cast ballots through the weekend as millions have done so across the country. Woorngs ga once again, shattering records. Young kids were asking the president and first lady for halloween treats. After he spent the weekend asking americans for votes and attacking his opponent joe biden. Hes handed control of his party over to the socialists. Reporter the president hop scotched across the country to shore up support in states where hes trailing biden. The cbs Battleground Tracker showing mr. Trump narrowly behind in florida and North Carolina where he campaigned saturday. On tuesday, biden heads to georgia, a state where the Battleground Tracker shows the race tied but where no democratic president ial candidate has won since 1992. Biden campaigned over the weekend in pennsylvania alongside his wife and singer bon jovi while running mate Kamala Harris rallied supporters sunday in detroit. And on 60 minutes biden batted away questions about whether hed try to enact more liberal policies. Your administration would be a trojan horse for liberals. That aoc, bernie sanders, Elizabeth Warren would actually be controlling policy. That this would become the most liberal administration in u. S. History. Hed love to run against them, wouldnt he . Mr. President , youre running against joe biden. Joe biden has a deep, steep and successful record over a long, long time. The president faced questions about his leadership of the country. Do you take any responsibility for the country being divided against itself . Do you feel that . Id like not to, but, you know, perhaps everybody has to take a little responsibility for it. But when people put out phony witchhunts, you know, when they spy on your campaign, you have to fight back. Reporter his exchanges with lesley stahl soon became contentious. Your first statement was, are you ready for tough questions . Are you . Thats no way to talk. Its no way to talk. Reporter then, the president cut short the interview. I think we have enough of an interview here, hope. Okay . Thats enough. Lets go. Lets go. Lets go meet for two seconds, okay . Thanks. Ill see you in a little while. Thanks. Be careful. Biden is off the campaign trail today but is headed to florida on thursday. Hell make two stops there. The president is headed to pennsylvania to keep the keystone state from slipping back into the democratic column this year. Anthony, folks tell me theyve been standing in line for about an hour, moving at a decent clip here in midtown. Big turnout in new york. Now to the Record Number of new coronavirus cases. More than 83,000 were reported on friday. That number was nearly matched on saturday, before falling to more than 60,000 on sunday. When fewer cases are normally reported. Our lead National CorrespondentDavid Begnaud is in new jersey where the governor just extended a Public Health emergency. David, why are officials there so concerned . Well, anthony, the governor says theyre seeing levels here in new jersey they havent seen since back in may. But i want to start deep in the heart of texas, in el paso, near the border because this morning, they are back on lockdown. El paso accounts for 20 of all the coronavirus cases in the state of texas right now. These are the newly assembled tents at University Medical center of el paso where the icu is now full. So is every icu across el paso county. To get control of the outbreak, county officials issued a stayathome order and a nightly curfew. The only people who are exempt are those going to work. The reasons for the new order have to do with the that were at a crisis stage. Reporter coronavirus cases are rising in 44 states. No states are seeing declines. And in the last two weeks, half of all the u. S. States have set single day records for new cases. The White House Coronavirus task force coordinator, dr. Deborah birx, says that outbreaks are accelerating because asymptomatic spreaders are going to visit friends and family. The future does look devastating right now for the number of cases that we see that potential of the rise in cases. But we can stop that Community Spread if we work together. Reporter even as new cases rise, some americans are still dealing with the lingering side effects. These are the socalled covid long haulers, like maggie flannery. The 12yearold from new york city caught the virus back in march and has experienced extreme fatigue and shortness of breath ever since then. Amy wilson is her mom. There is something between, you know, the icu and asymptomatic. Theres this weird middle ground where you dont want to be. So whatever people can do to take precautions, continues to be worth it. So what do you say to parents who say, listen, im not really worried because my kids are young. The numbers are with you, but the risk isnt zero. Covid is not something you want to get. And the more we hear about these covid long haulers, its not just young people like maggie. Its adults and even elderly people. And one thing that was interesting beyond other things that maggies mom said. If maggie goes to school on monday and climbs a flight of stairs, the fatigue she experiences is not just monday. It could last throughout the entire week. Thats whats so scary about this, david. Thank you so much. Were joined by dr. Ashish jha, dean of Brown Universitys school of Public Health. Dr. Jha, always good to see you. Lucky us, youre here on a day we need stuff to sort out. Nobody better than this. We heard dr. Birx say that its up to the the future looks devastating right now. And i guess the question is ive heard it described as a dangerous Tipping Point. My question to you is, why is this happening, and why is it happening now . Good morning, gayle. Thank you for having me on. Its happening, i think, because people are getting tired of all the restrictions. And i think were heading into Colder Weather where people are spending more time indoors. And people are letting their guard down. Again, the things weve talked about in the past like mask wearing is very uneven. And put all of that together and we are seeing, i think, a dangerous acceleration of cases, hospitalizations and deaths. You heard the president say last night on 60 minutes the reason why the number is so high is because we keep testing so much. Does he have a point . You know, unfortunately, i wish he was right but he doesnt because while we are testing more than we were testing back in april or may, our testing has been reasonably flat over the last month, six weeks. Whats going on is a lot more infections. We can see that in the fact that hospitalizations and deaths are climbing. More testing wouldnt explain that. The other thing we look at cases like little maggie that just because you get covid doesnt mean its going to be a fatal infection for you. The thing is, you dont know. You dont know if youll be one of the lucky ones who gets it and doesnt have very severe symptoms and doesnt require hospitalization. And then you have maggie who is young who gets it and still has lingering effects. Yeah, this is a very unusual virus in that a large chunk of people have very mild symptoms. Obviously, a small proportion of people end up dying. But theres another probably 10 or 20 of all people who get infected who get pretty sick and sometimes recover and sometimes just end up having longterm symptoms. Its really much, much better to avoid this virus than to sort of, you know, roll the dice and hope that youre one of the lucky ones. I total agree. We just heard mark meadows say, listen, we cannot control this pandemic. And then when he was asked why not . He said because its a contagious virus. Is that the way to look at it . We cant control it . No, i mean i dont know where to begin on that, gayle. There are lots of contagious viruses. We control many of them. Mosts of them, lots of countries have controlled this virus. The idea that america somehow is uniquely incapable of managing to control an Infectious Disease strikes me as odd. We certainly can control it, and we should. Now Vice President mike pence, as you heard, is on the campaign trail. Hes considered an essential personnel. But people close to him, his chief of staff, his body man, three other aides have tested positive. Hes head of the Coronavirus Task force, dr. Jha. Should he be out campaigning during this time . You know, gayle, this is not a close call. He should absolutely not be out of quarantine. The cdc makes special dispensation for people whose work involves Critical Infrastructure. So its not about essential personnel. Obviously, hes Vice President. Thats important. Its about, are you doing things that are critically important for the health and wellbeing of the country . I dont think any of us think campaigning, as important as it is, is Critical Infrastructure for our country. He should really be in quarantine. Dr. Ashish jha, im going to send him your number. He needs to have a conversation with you. Thank you for joining us this morning. We really appreciate it. A new wildfire threat is likely to put more than 1 Million People in the dark today in california. The states largest utility is shutting down power lines to cut the risk of accidental wildfires on a day when powerful winds are expected. And colorado, a snowstorm is slowing down the largest wildfires in that States History blamed for at least two deaths so far. Forecasters say the storm will not put out the fires and more warm and dry weather is expected tomorrow. Not over yet there. Ahead tracking down a dangerous natural predator from overseas. How scientists found a murder hornet nest for the first time. Yikes. And used oldfashioned technology to destroy it. 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