This is the last thing that southern louisiana needs. Still tarps from hurricane laura that came through. This is new day weekend. Victor blackwell and christi paul. Beautiful shot of the capital this morning as we welcome you to this saturday at 6 a. M. Up early. Were grateful for it. Good morning. As many as 2,000 people could be at the white house today. President trump is hosting his first public event since being hospitalized for covid19 symptoms. We have to talk about what we do not know. The white house has not released the results of the president s new test. Well hear how the president describes his health this morning. This morning, the second president ial debate youve been waiting for, officially canceled. President trump refusing to debate joe biden virtually. Cnns Sarah Westwood is following all of the developments from the white house. Sarah, 2,000 people expected there today. Dr. Anthony fauci called the last white house event a super spread very event. Reporter right. After an event that Public Health experts believe this was the super spreader event. It sickened the pred and a dozen people there were sick jentd. The president is set to deliver a speech from the balcony. He may not be close to the crowd but the crowd is going to be close to each other. They are supposed to bring masks, temperature checks will be performed. Those measures proved unable to stop it from spreading. The president has been up beat. Hes been delivering a number of lengthy phone interviews since hes been in isolation. Hes been working in the oval office and potentially exposing his staff. They have been quiet on when the last test was. On monday, even though we dont know whether the president is still contagious, he is planning to go to florida for a campaign rally. Hitting the trail before we know much about what the danger is to the people around him. You talk about what the president said last night. Ha has he said anything where he contracted the virus . Reporter we heard him say where he contracted it was at an event honoring gold star families. Cnn said they traced this back to the rose garden ceremony where they nominated Amy Coney Barrett to the vacancy on the supreme court. We have not heard much from the president s position at the end of this week and we still dont know about the extent of this outbreak and where the president might have contracted the virus. Sarah westwood, thank you. Today joe biden is heading to eerie, pennsylvania. Last night he slammed President Trump over hosting thousands of people at the white house today. He criticized the president s recent behavior. Reckless personal contact since his diagnosis. The destabilizing effect its having in our government is unconscionable. He didnt take the necessary precautions to protect ourselves and others. The longer donald trump is president , the more reckless he gets. How can we trust him to protect this country . The next president ial debate is canceled. The former chairman told the New York Times, quote, in seven decades of televised president ial debates, in is the first time its been canceled. The loser is the american voter. Joining us is erroll lewis. Host of the you decide podcast. Good morning. Reporter good morning, victor. Up to 2,000 people at the white house. We know theres a rally scheduled for monday in florida. We know the health risks already. Whats the political benefit . The people who show up at trump rallies, who may show up at the white house, they dont attract undecided voters. Whats the risk reward analysis on why the president is doing this . Yeah. The president likes these rallies. He likes in person events. You can see him physically drawing energy from it. Thats his preferred way of campaigning. You have to keep in mind whatever happens on the white house lawn will be tiny compared to all of the different ways it gets pushed out through social media, rebroadcast, videos, so forth. Its a wonderful, domestic setting. Thats why the president has staged so many events from the white house. He wants this to be an image solidified in everybodys mind. We havent seen much from the president. This will be a big pageant. Cnn and every other News Organization will have cameras there to show him looking like the president of the united states. The white house says, when the president reports negative they will report that. The president said he has had a test. They have not reported the results of that. Safe to assume the result was positive. No News Conference from the white house physician, dr. Conley. Not even a vague paper statement. I think its important that we not kind of gloss over just how much is being concealed from the American People and the really know. Were left to draw our own conclusions. Weve seen this with dr. Conley before. There will be a straightforward question, did the president get oxygen . He didnt get oxygen today or two days ago. You have to fill in the blanks, okay, he got oxygen yesterday. Its a silly game these folks play. Nothing to do with transparenct. Half concealing information thats not to be concealed. Not just for political purposes but from the point of view of running the government. As long as they feel constrained to play the games, i would have to assume its the Campaign Leadership and or the president himself who want to play these games. Dont say, this dont say that, when we can ag figure out the president is a sick man. Loets talk to the debate now. First one canceled. First president ial televised debate canceled since they started. If if looks like the first one . What really was lost. What do you see as the significance of the cancellation . Reporter its twofold. First, it means that the president didnt think he could pull off a successful debate in those circumstances. When you are remote, there are producers who can curtail some of the areas or break the flow of it. Thats the first thing. We dont know whether hes in any condition to do this. The radio interviews when hes calling into different news interviews, you can hear him hacking and coughing. Hes in need of convalescence. He needs to stand down and make sure he can get himself better. I dont know it was going to happen in time for that to be something that could be done even remotely. You know, its something that were going to be talking about for a long time. He doesnt want a regular debate. He doesnt want something he cant control. Its understandable politically. Very unfortunate for the public. Lets turn to the house, Speaker Pelosi back in the creation. This is going nowhere in the senate. Is this about substantively anything more than really needling the president . What does this do to those democrats who will be on the ballot, are on the ballot . The vote comes in in a little more than three weeks, purple districts, still progress on the coronavirus . Well, look, it happens to be, as is often the case with nancy pelosi, something that is arguably responsible area. I dont think anybody would suffer a single vote when we have a president who is sick, not clearly arguably incapacity there and taking therapies that right be given to him. Three weeks after election, Everybody Knows what nancy pelosi is doing. Needling the president , sticking a knife in there. Will it help the folks in her conference . Of course it will. They can say, look, im trying to do whats best for the country. We cannot have enone with those. Whos taking treatments that will possibly impair his judgment. This is not the right time and the right way to deal with it. At this point we will have to deal with them. Erroll lewis, always good to have your insight. Thank you. You know were tracking delta this morning as well. A Tropical Storm moving into louisiana, the south this morning. There is widespread heavy rain and flooding that is a big threat there. Almost 730,000 people are without power in louisiana, aeks as, mississippi. More than 1 2 Million People lost their power. People in the region are still trying to recover from. You can see the wind blowing debris around in some neighborhoods. Its the fourth named storm to hit louisiana right after. Good morning. Good morning to you both. The potential is rain and the potential for tornadoes. Sustained winds of 45 miles per hour. Its no wonder, the power outages. Texas point picking up a wind gust of 100 miles per hour. The other threat is going to be tornadoes. This is valid until 1 p. M. Central time, 2 p. M. Eastern time. Encompasses portions of florida, mississippi, and alabama. That may spread out even more as we go through the day. That does include cities like montgomery and alabama. It it is still going to get decent rainfall. You can pick up 6, even 10 inches of rain. For some areas, keep in mind its on top of what weve already had. Louisiana picking up 17 inches of rain. Lake charles picking up 15 inches of rain. Folks, its going to be on top of what theyve already had. Thats going to be a can i go concern for the gladding. The rain on their way here will pile up on top of that. Piling up on top of it indeed. Allison chin chara, thank you very much. Well have more. Derek van dam has been there in louisiana. He joins us now from del comb there. Whats it looking like now . How was it overnight . Reporter yeah, victor. Good morning to you. We are in louisiana in an area, a town that is no stranger to flooding and storm surge. It is a regular thing. We reported from this area and this forecast did verify for this region. There are some homes that have been retrofitted with stilts. Some of the older homes, theyre inundated with water into the first parts of their buildings there. These people are all too familiar with these sights, especially when the stronger storms come in. We look at some of the observing sites from the National Weather service just to our south. They had between 9 and 10 feet of storm surge. Storm is moving out, tide going down. Quite a night, indeed, in delcomb in louisiana. Well send it back to you. Derek van dam. Glad you and the crew are okay. Thank you. So more than half the country is seeing a spike in coronavirus cases. More than 57,000 new cases just recorded yesterday alone. Those field hospital. Plus, the first group of men arrested in a plan to kidnap michigans governor and putting her on trial, we have dye fail. Get your protein from a greener source. The original plantbased protein. Im dorothy hamill. Im thinking about medicare. I know i want coverage that connects all the different parts of my health care. There are benefits like dental, vision, hearing and telehealth. You can see a primary care doctor from the comfort of your home. Its the season to add a little warmth to life out here. 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Only two states, maine and nebraska, are reporting a decline in cases right now. Now theres a worrying report from the New York Times that says the white house blocked what would have been the toughest federal mandate from stopping the spread of the virus. According to the paper, two federal Health Experts said they stopped to make masks compulsory. The White House CoronavirusTask Force Led by Vice President mike pence declined even to discuss it. Paulo sandoval is in new york with the latest for this warning. It seems the more we learn about, this the more there is this obvious political inflect i ion, influence on what were seeing from the scientists and hhs. Even though were seeing some of that influence play out here, victor, we are hearing from some of the experts prompting certain warnings from officials, for example, dr. Deborah birx, the head of the White House Coronavirus task force. 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