aboard a spacex crew dragon. this change revealed late today. and, she did the unthinkable and she did it in one day. who is our person of the week? good evening, and it's great to have you with us as we near the end of another week together here. we have several developing stories as we come on. we have just heard from president trump, his first time in front of cameras in eight days. and what he signalled about the election. but we're going to begin with the emergency unfolding in every corner of the country. the coronavirus and the numbers are accelerating tonight at an alarming rate. 193,000 new cases in the past 24 hours. that's a number we have never seen before. new cases, hospitalizations, and deaths all rising. several states reporting new records. governors and mayors with new restrictions tonight, trying to keep hospitals from breaking down. many are already warning that they cannot handle what they know is coming. more than 10.7 million americans have now tested positive.