This is CNN breaking news.

We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world.

I'm Will Flitzer in the situation room.

We're following breaking news on the coronavirus and the worsening second wave

here in the United States.

Tonight, nearly 224,000 Americans are dead. The US case count keeps

climbing and climbing and now hospitalizations are rapidly increasing, hitting the highest

level since August.

It's yet another alarming indicator of the dangers ahead.

But a new study shows as many as 130,000 American lives

could be saved over the next several months if most Americans started to wear masks.

Also breaking, President Trump is in the must win state of Florida right now.

He's still in need of a campaign

reset even after he managed to give a more measured performance in his final

debate with Joe Biden last night. The day after their face-off the former vice president he is now escalating his condemnation of President Trump's handling of the pandemic saying the president seems to have given up

11 days before the election so so many voters already have had their say

as of this hour more than 52 million, 52 million early ballots have already

been cast.

Let's start our coverage this hour with our Chief White House correspondent,

Jim Acosta, covering the president.

It is now down in Florida.

Jim, the president is now in this frantic dash to election day.

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