Election. Trump has given up on fighting the pandemic says biden. 11 days until the election more than 50 million early votes in the United States already have been past. Lets begin with more on the breaking campaign news. Our chief White House Correspondent jim acosta is joining us from florida. The president speunderstands ho important florida is to him. Reporter thats right. The debates behind him President Trump in the fight of his political life and trailing joe biden in florida where he is campaigning tonight. We are stationed outside the president s Upcoming Event in pensacola. We can see Trump Supporters streaming into this venue behind us. Hardly any of them Wearing Masks at this moment. We want to show you a live picture of a Current Trump rally taking place in the villages in central florida, a key part of that battleground state. Trump export supporters not social distancing and not Wearing Masks as this coronavirus is raging across the u. S. Reporter campaigning in the mustwin state of florida, President Trump is predicting a comeback as he is trailing in the polls and running out of time. It will be a great red wave like youve never seen before. Youre going to have a wave like youve never seen before. Reporter president is patting himself on the back after his less hostile debate with joe biden. I wanted to play by the rules and feel strong about it. Two different styles. Im able to do different styles if you had to. Reporter mr. Trump is saying he has always responsibility for his responsible to the coronavirus. I always take responsibility. Reporter even though that is, obviously, not true. No, i dont take responsibility. Reporter as covid19 cases are once again peaking in the u. S. , the president and Top Administration officials gathered in the oval Office WithoutWearing Masks. As mr. Trump needled one reporter for using it. This is jeff mason. He has a mask on that is the largest mask i think ive ever seen. Reporter dr. Anthony fauci said the west riwings resistan to mask setting virtually everybody is tested that day to go into the oval office but the image of that is something that may give the wrong impression to people. Reporter fauci acknowledged the president is listening to controversial Task Force Member dr. Scott atlas who doesnt say to wear a mask. Yes, mr. President , ill listen to the scientists and ill empower them. Reporter at the debate the president was sending more mixed signals falsely claiming the virus is going away. We are rounding the turn. We are rounding the corner. Its going away. Reporter while also saying americans may have to grow accustomed to life with covid19. I say we are learning to live with it. We have no choice. Reporter biden slammed mr. Trump for that. He says we are learning to live with it. People are learning to die with it. Anyone responsible for that many deaths should not remain at president of the United States of america. Reporter the president claimed he will is not a racist. I cant see the audience because its so dark. But i dont care who is in the audience. Im the least racist person in this room. Reporter while smearing undocumented immigrants who show up for their court dates. Hate to say this but those with the lowest i. Q. Might come back. Reporter they say biden had a gaff when he wanted the u. S. To transition from fossil fuel to green energy. Would you close down i would transition from the industry, yes. A big stachlt. It is a big statement because i would stop why would you do that . The oil industry pollutes significantly. Id stop giving them federal subsidies. Reporter mr. Trump tried to turn to Benjamin Netanyahu for help as he touted a peace deal between israeli and sudan. Listen. You think sleepy joe could have made this deal, bb . Do you think he would have made this deal somehow . I dont think so. Well, mr. President , one thing i can tell you is we appreciate the help for peace from anyone in the america and we appreciate what you have done. Yeah. Reporter even though the president is happy with his debate performance, not all of his advisers are pleased. I talked to one Trump Campaign adviser on who said the president did not deliver a knockout blow against joe biden at a time when he needed it most. Getting back to showing you how these supporters are behaving at these rallies, wolf, take you back to the villages in central florida. Show you live pictures from there. Again, supporters there are not social distancing and not Wearing Masks and i can tell you behind us as people are streaming into this pensacola rally, also again not Wearing Masks as they head into this venue. The president is packing in thousands of supporters into these rallies even though there is a track record that some of these supporters are getting sick after going to his events. Wolf . Clearly he still has a huge following. Thousands of people showing up at all of these rallies in these key battleground states. Jim acosta, thank you so much. Lets get more on the breaking pandemic news right now. Brian todd is working the story for us. I understand we are getting some important vaccine news . What is the latest . Right. Reporter the drug Maker Astrazeneca is about to resume the experimental vaccine trial of its vaccine in the United States. That trial had been on pause since last month because a volunteer in Great Britain had suffered a neurological condition, but asextra ztrazene its safe to resume the trial in the. America is by almost every metric in the stage of a surge. Reporter university of washington predicts 160,000 more americans could die by february 1st. 32 states are trending up and reporting new cases. There were more than 70,000 new cases across the country yesterday, the highest detaaily count in months. People are just tired. They are tired of months of mask wearing and social distancing. They are letting down their guard and, unfortunately, the coronavirus is not done with us yet even if we are done with the coronavirus so we need to double down on the basic measures. Mask wearing is number one. Number two, number three. Reporter in fact, that same Modeling Group at the university of washington says if 95 of americans wore masks in public, more than 100,000 lives could be saved through february. In the meantime, the head of the National Institutes of health said a vaccine wont be the magic bullet if enough people dont get it. Ive been talking to optimistically how we are likely to have a vaccine by the end of the year. But its only 50 of americans are interested in taking it. We are never going to get to that point of immunity across the population where this covid19 goes away. It could be here for years. Reporter in three coronavirus hot spots in the u. S. , vastly different approaches to mask wearing. The mayor of new orleans says anyone not wearing a mask in her city could get a 500 dollar ticket. This is just another urge and another encouragement to follow the simple guidelines to put that mask on, keep your distance so we can stay on track. Reporter but in south dakota, the governor tweet that the government should not mandate mask wearing. Quote. And in colorado, a federal judge has cited with two churches who sued. The judge ruling that the churches dont have to limit their indoor capacity and dont have to require parishioners to wear masks. It goes squarely against colorados covid19 rules. We will worship together. We will have congregational singing and do that without the government interfering. I find that somewhat confounding to the best of my knowledge, there is no religion in the world that does not put human life as the number one priority, the number one value. Reporter we have this just in as well. Despite the proclamations by President Trump and the United States is turning a corner with the virus the president s own Surgeon General said this coming week, we will probably have what he says is the highest number of cases we have ever had on a daily basis in the United States. He notes that cases are going up in about 75 of the jurisdictions across the country and dr. Adam said that invariable deaths will increase as well. I simply dont understand why president keeps saying we are turning the corner. It makes no sense at all. Its getting worse and worse. Brian, thank you very much. Joining me now, is a top vaccine expert who resigned from the federal government on october 6th several months after filing a whistleblower complainant. You heard brian todds report showing there are troubling trends unfolding right now. Coronavirus cases are surging and hospital saiizations are up. Just how dire is the situation heading into the winter right now . Thanks for having me on today, wolf. Im very concerned about the numbers that we are seeing today. More cases today in the last 24 hours than we have seen for many months since the start of this entire pandemic. It was entirely predictable as he laid out in my testimony to the Congress Last may. If our government didnt step up and show leadership and put in place proper guidelines and strategies and plans to stop this pandemic and slow its spread, i predicted back in may that we would see the darkest winter in modern history. Unfortunately, donald trump and his administration has failed to put any of those actions in place that we have talked about for months. President trump has failed to protect americans from this pandemic. He is still in denial. We heard that last night in the debates. He is still is not telling americans the truth. Until americans hear the truth and see leaders leading by example, they are not following the best Public Health guidance and that is why we are seeing this skyrocket in cases and it will translate into more deaths. Hundreds of thousands more deaths over the coming months. Unless we have strong leadership and everyone takes action now. But there are some developments involving therapeutics, some developments of vaccine which is your specialty. What is your reaction to the news from astrazeneca, for example, that illustrates vaccine tri its vaccine trial will resume in the United States after safety concerns. Youre a true expert in this field. What do you think . Well, wolf, its a sigh of relief. Whenever we develop vaccines for anything, when we get into larger clinical studies, we are always going to find something that happens in a person and we have to stop and investigate whatever happens and determine if it was related to the vaccine or not. And determine if it poses some risk that will be greater than the benefit that we would see if we had a vaccine for that particular disease target. It sounds like the fda to their time to review this. Astrazeneca provided the information and data it needed for the updated review. With the fda giving a green light to continue in that Clinical Trial tells me they are going to continue watching and monitoring closely for any similar events such as what they have seen already. However, the fda must be comfortable that either the event was rare or unsignificant for whatever they investigated and or the company has a really strong plan in place to monitor for that to happen again. If it does, im sure the fda will be notified very quickly. Im encouraged that the trial is continuing. Im encouraged that we have five or six other Clinical Trials also in late stage development. So i think we are getting closer and closer to a vaccine. On the other hand, you heard what dr. Francis collins, the National Institutes of health, is warning if only 50 of americans are willing to go out there and get the Coronavirus Vaccine and god willing there will be a safe and effective vaccine either one dose or two doses, whatever it takes, the virus could still stick around for years if only half the American Population is willing to take the vaccine. What does that illustrate to you . It illustrates we have a long road ahead of us still. Even with an effective vaccine, youre right, americans have to take the vaccine. We have a lot of trust to rebuild amongst the American Population and our government and the manufacturers who are making those vaccines. I think the politicization of the pandemic that we have seen by the white house, by President Trump over the last several months, the political pressure on the cdc and the fda have not done anything to help build trust. I think, if anything, its eroded trust. So the fda by using an external Advisory Panel as the vaccine become available is a critical step for that transparency i hope will build trust in the American People to take the vaccine. However, as dr. Collins indicated, even when we have a vaccine, i think its going to take another whole year from now before we have sufficient supplies and the process to vaccinate enough people across america and, therefore, we are going to still be Wearing Masks and social distancing for a a while even after we have a vaccine. Dr. Fauci told me a few weeks ago he thinks even with a vaccine that is safe and effective, most of us will still be forced to wear masks for most of next year given the fact that even a safe and effective vaccine might only be 70 effective meaning 70 of the people who get the vaccine will have a positive outcome from it, but for 30 , maybe its not going to much at all. So this is a problem that is going to be around for a while. Rick bright, thank you so much for joining us and thank you for your important work. Thanks, wolf. Up next, democratic president ial nominee joe biden talks about his pandemic plan and says we dont have to be, quote, held prisoner by what he says on President Trumps failures. We are tracking the race to win 270 electoral votes as the candidates are focusing on the battleground states with 11 days to go before election day in the United States. Hey kim with 5 cash back on travel purchased through chase from freedom unlimited, you can now earn even more. Book that hotel kim, because you are worth it. I am worth it. Now earn 5 on travel purchased through chase and so much more. Chase. Make more of whats yours. With priceline, you can get up to 60 off amazing hotels. And when you get a big deal. You feel like a big deal. Priceline. Every trip is a big deal. I try so hard, i cant rise above it dont know what it is get a dozen double crunch shrimp for one dollar with any steak entree. Only at applebees. Fresh off last nights president ial debate joe bidin is back on the campaign trail intensifying his attacks on President Trump and his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. The former Vice President today laid out part of the strategy for dealing with covid19. Tell our viewers what he said. Reporter its clear in the final days of the election joe biden wants to keep the coronavirus front and center in this campaign. You saw him talk about it last night in the debate and in his speech today offering a different vision how he would approach the pandemic that is still gripping the country. He was once again critical of the president as he spoke in wilth wilmington, delaware are today. Take a bit of a listen to more of what biden had to say earlier today in delaware. The longer donald trump is president , the more reckless he gets. We dont have to be held prisoner by this administrations failures. We can choose a different path. We can do what americans have always done, come together and meet the challenge with grit, compassion, and determination. Reporter biden also ran through a bit of the policy and strategy for how he would approach covid19, should he become president. One of the things he said is that he wouldnt wait until becoming president being in the white house to get to work. He said that during the transition, he would Start Talking to governors about the resources that they might need in their states and he would Push Congress to have a bill on his desk by the end of january to provide resources for Public Health and economic concerns. Biden also again talked about a mask mandate saying that he would press governors to institute that in their states if they didnt implement that, he would go to the mayors and local officials to try to get that done. Biden acknowledging himself on a federal level he could only mandate masks in federal buildings. One of the over arching things you heard from joe biden he will listen to the scientists and what has guyed all of his response to the pandemic and he says that is how he would operate in the white house. Now for bidens part campaigning the next few days they are likely to hammer away at this message. Tomorrow he will have events in pennsylvania, that critical battleground state that President Trump narrowly won in 2016. And he is also getting some more help from that top democratic surrogate president obama who will hit the campaign trail in florida. All events smaller, socially distance as they are trying to present that contrast to the president with the coronavirus. Former president obama will be there for joe biden tomorrow is very, very significant. We will have a lot of coverage of that over the weekend. Our thanks to you for that report. Lets get more from cnn Political Correspondent abby phillip and former