Yesterday. If you want facts, if you want hard answers, tune in just two hours from now. Dr. Anthony fauci and other Top Health Officials will be on capitol hill to face questions from lawmakers about the need for a federal, a National Strategy, and the administrations optimistic prediction that a vaccine could be 90 effective. What does the data tell us . Dr. Fauci is urging caution about any hard predictions at this stage. Thats obviously a very optimistic estimate. We all hope its going to be that way. Im not sure if it will be 90 . But i think its going to be reasonably good. President trump heads to florida today where he will address the pandemic and the approaching hurricane. It comes as the president is drawing a rare rebuke not only from democrats, but republicans, even one of his predecessors, for raising the possibility, the threat perhaps, of delaying the november election as more states opt more mailin ballots due to the danger of voting during the pandemic, something only we should note congress has the power to do. The president cannot delay the election. We begin with cnns randi kay, live in Palm Beach County, florida, with our top story on a hurricane hitting a state in the midst of a galloping outbreak of this virus. Reporter yeah, and as were still seeing record deaths here, jim, in the state, 253 deaths just yesterday, and florida is still leading the nation in terms of new cases, just under 10,000. And we could go from bad to worse in the next day or so as we wait for this hurricane that is barreling toward the state of florida. It could hit here tomorrow. We are under a Tropical Storm watch right now and then the hurricane will make its way hugging the east coast, make its way north. Meanwhile, its unclear how this will work in a pandemic. How do you evacuate safely . Is there enough ppe for fema workers or shelter workers . Are the shelters even open . Can you safely social distance . These are all questions as were facing this hurricane coming towards us in the midst of the pandemic. The state is closing all of the testing sites. Here in Palm Beach County they closed eight of them. In the three hardest hit, miamidade, broward and palm beach, theyve closed 33 testing sites. The tents would not be able to withstand the Hurricane Force winds. All of this probably top of mind and will likely come up at this hearing later this morning, 9 00 a. M. Start on capitol hill. Well hear from the nations top three health officials, that includes dr. Anthony fauci, the cdc director, Robert Redfield and we will be talking about how to contain the pandemic and try and find a National Plan to do so at this point. Jim, back to you. Its months into this. We should have a National Plan by now. It doesnt seem like its happening. Thanks so much. For more on the hurricane that has intensified overnight, threatening florida, and as it moves, the entire u. S. East coast. Cnn meteorologist Allison Chinchar has been tracking it for us. All the paths take it up the coast. How big will it be, how strong, and for how long . Yes, i think the strength is really going to be the biggest concern. At the 5 00 update the National Hurricane center put out, saying its a possibility this could get to a category 2 as it slides to the north ask west. Right now hurricane isaias has sustained winds of 80 miles per hour, gusting up to 100 miles per hour. In terms of tropical systems, this is moving relatively quickly to the northwest at about 17 miles per hour. In terms of where it is expected to go, it will continue on the northwest track heading towards florida. Youve got the models pretty much split. Some of them want a landfall over florida, others having it skirt along the east coast and continuing to ride up the very track, potentially making a landfall across the carolinas or perhaps even later somewhere across the northeast. So certainly something to keep an eye on. In the shortterm, you have hurricane warnings out for the bahamas and Tropical Storm watches out for portions of southern floored. This includes miami, as well as fort lauderdale. The biggest concern Going Forward is going to be the rain, the amount of flooding potential. The highest amounts look to be in the carolinas where we could see 35 inches total. Please keep us posted. Thank you very much. Joining us the cnn chief medical correspondent, sanjay gupta. Great to see you. I remember a few weeks ago this was a frightening hypothetical, its Hurricane Season starting, what if a hurricane hits a place where coronavirus is spiking. Now here we are. So florida, the idea that hundreds of people would be packed into an emergency shelter, the idea that Emergency Services would be taxed now with the hurricane beyond coronavirus, what are you looking at this morning . Reporter my parents live down in florida. I was with them for a couple of days this past week. This was the big topic. Theres a few things to consider. One is randi kaye was mentioning obviously the testing weve been talking about for months now, will have to take a pause. Theyre not up to snuff in terms of what they need to be doing. Theres going to be more people who are unable to get tested who may have the virus continue to spread. We know what happens in those situations. Also, people, if they need to be evacuated, obviously difficult to keep physical distancing at those times. We find that if you wear masks in situations like this, you can greatly mitigate the spread. One of the things i think is interesting and peter hotez brought this up, weve seen evidence when you have significant storms, because people in that case are sort of forced to stay at home, forced to physically distance, you do see numbers going down. Youve seen that before, for example, with ice storms during flu season, where you see a sudden dropoff in overall spread. So youll have all these counteracting forces. Obviously its not a good thing overall, but well be keeping on close eye on what happens. Sanjay, National Response plan, forgive me for shaking my head. Were six months into this and there is no National Plan and no apparent interest in one from this administration. Given that, what is the most likely trajectory for this outbreak in the coming months as perhaps some children go back to school, but the expected fall spike or second wave happens with the weather change and so on . What is the likely path of this in the next several months . Reporter you know, its very interesting, jim. Some predicted early on that what you would see is these sort of progressive waves occurring across the country. We saw it first in the west coast, washington state. We had the first people who were infected. California, new york obviously, and then youre seeing it in the south and now its moving toward the midwest. You sort of see these ebbs and flows and what seems to happen is that we dont really fully eradicate the infection. We sort of half treat it in various places and then it starts to come back as any disease would. If you think of the country like the human body and do these half measures, the disease never really goes away. When it comes back, it can come back more forcefully and spread more widely. That seems to be whats happening. I asked dr. Fauci about this last night and i said where are we in the arc of this entire thing. And he basically said we could have been in the seventh or eighth inning right now as you see in the European Union because of National Strategies that really stamp out the disease, but were still sort of in the second or third inning. It is why we need a National Strategy, because even new york where you are now is not is still vulnerable as a result of whats happening in the rest of the country, even if the numbers are down right now. Everyone is vulnerable. There is no cure. This thing is wildly infectious. Yes, we all feel it. Were all still vulnerable. Thats why this morning at 9 00 a. M. East coast time its going to be so interesting to hear dr. Fauci, dr. Redfield, and dr. Gur ard, were going to have to answer questions and the lawmakers are going to ask them about the absence of a National Strategy. I am reluctant to post political questions because thats not your purview, however should the admiral be able to answer where the National Strategy is since President Trump promised it two weeks ago . Will we get an answer to that today . He absolutely should be able to answer it. I dont know if we will get an answer to that today. You know, with the admiral in particular, its really been his focus on testing. And where we are on testing and why we still dont have a National Strategy on testing. The fact that testing is just basically used to identify hot spots in the country as opposed to actually being able to do surveillance, bring numbers down, isolate people who are infected. Thats still not happening. So hes been asked about it, i asked him about it last night at the town hall. Its still this sort of acknowledgment that, yes, we dont have enough testing, its unrealistic to test the whole country, which isnt really the point. No one is saying we need to test the whole country. But we need to be doing adequate testing. The fact that we dont have a National Strategy means we surge in one area and another area in a bit of time and the other areas sort of get forgotten. I love your analogy of only half treating a patient for a disease. You dont quite kill it and it comes back. Lets talk about a vaccine, if we can, because you and i have talked to dr. Fauci a number of times and hes always been fairly optimistic saying that it is realistic to imagine a workable vaccine perhaps as early as the end of this year, beginning of next year. That said, when you asked him last night about this idea of a 90 efficacy rate coming from the director of operation warp speed, he injected some reasonable, if not doubt but questions about that. Reporter yeah, you know, i was really surprised that the head of operation warp speed said 90 efficacy, that he threw that number out there, as are a lot of scientists that i talked to late last night and early this morning. The thing is, we dont know. What theyre trying to do is they say, hey, look, when someone gets infected, how many of these antibodies do they make. Now the vaccine, we give them antibodies, how many do they make. They find theyre similar whether youre vaccinated or infected, youre producing the same amount of antibodies. What we dont know is how protective is that. There is no correlating measure, we call it. I would love to tell you that is 6 inches or 3 meters worth of protection or 20 pounds worth of protection, something you would understand in terms of overall protection. But we dont really have that measure here. So everyone is sort of guessing. It worries me when you start throwing around 90 as the number that that becomes the basement, that becomes the expectations of what this is going to be and very few vaccines perform at that level of efficacy. Im sure dr. Fauci will be asked about that today. Dr. Gupta, thank you very much. We appreciate all of the information. Cnn has just learned the u. S. Government is committing another 2 billion to support Coronavirus Vaccine development. Two pharmaceutical companies will be partnering to produce 100 million vaccine doses. Cnns Elizabeth Cohen is live in savannah, georgia, with the details. Tell us about this breaking news. Reporter you know, this is just another vaccine, one more to add to the list that operation warp speed is funding, and many of them are being funded to the tune of billions of dollars. Lets take a look, alisyn, at the entire list. So there are two that are already in phase three trials. Thats the final round of trials before hopefully review of data and approval. Thats moderna and pfizer. Affidav astrazeneca, Johnson Johnson also getting funding. Theyre expected to begin phase three by september. This one we just learned from, glaxosmithkline, they say they will be in phase three by the end of 2020. Theres also two more unnamed vaccines. I had an exclusive interview yesterday and he said eight total. I you add that up, that adds up to eight. I asked the doctor when do you expect most americans will be able to get a vaccine. I think this is very important because everyone keeps hearing, oh, by the end of the year. Thats not quite right. What the doctor told me is that by the end of the year, december or maybe january of next year, he expects there will be tens of millions of doses for high risk people. High risk people are elderly, they have Underlying Health conditions or perhaps they are morbidly obese and those people he said he expects will be able to get the vaccine end of this year, beginning of next. When i asked him about the rest of americans, he said ideally by the middle of next year or possibly the end of next year. So as we sort of move forward in the pandemic, i think its a good thing were moving forward with the vaccines. But remember that for most americans it will likely not be until well into 2021 that were actually able to get a shot in our arms. Its good to temper our expectations. Does the price tag seem high . Thats what the other companies are getting as well, that covers development of the vaccine and Clinical Trials and also manufacturing. Thats whats happening different here than with other outbreaks. Theyre manufacturing these while theyre testing them. They know that some of these probably wont work and they will have wasted a whole lot of money, but they say that its worth it in order to get us out of this pandemic. Elizabeth cohen, thank you very much for giving us all of this breaking medical news. President trump is raising the notion of delaying the president ial election over his bogus claims about mailin voting. Is all of this a distraction . The president has some reelection woes. We get to the bottom of it. The o get out and go again. 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A classic trump nondenial saying i dont want to delay the election, but then saying the election might not mean anything if he so deems for whatever reason, claiming that mailin voting makes it illegitimate. That struck me as worrisome words coming from him, his attempt to delegitimize the election will not fade, that in fact he will double, triple, quadruple down on it. Reporter what we saw yesterday, jim, was the president s attempt to clean up what he had tweeted. What he tweeted was something he didnt disavow at the news conference, which was the suggestion of delaying the election that met with a swift rebuke from republicans who wanted no part of it. That was a bridge too far even for them when they normally avoid his controversies. He has been, as you say, doing this buildup, laying the groundwork for many months now to try to suggest that the results of the election wont be legitimate and he is doing this on baseless claims that theres going to be widespread rigging in his words of this election, if by mail voting is used. The big question for a lot of people heading into november is what voting is going to look like. All he is doing is exacerbating those fears, not trying to calm them. Wasnt it interesting to hear republicans like senator marco rubio immediately rebuke it. Marco rubio tweeted worere goi to have an lek, its going to be legitimate, its going to be credible, its going to be the same as its always been. Are they at a breaking point . Reporter look, i do think theres going to be a big question of whether you see republicans who are facing the potential loss of their Senate Majority this fall in part because of the president s numbers and how poorly hes doing. If they start to take more steps away from him. But on this one i think its a very specific thing. Im not sure it relates to future actions. On this one you are undermining something that has been foundational to u. S. Democracy, which is the election is held, set by congress, the president does not unilaterally have the authority to make a change, even if he wants to. I think there are desires to show the country that, you know, hes not inching toward making broadsc