This is CNN breaking news.

Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world.

I'm Will Flitzer in the United States and around the world.

I'm Will Flitzer in the situation room.

We're following breaking news.

The US coronavirus death toll is now just top 220,000 people

with more than 8.2 million confirmed cases.

And tonight, one health expert is warning

that the darkest weeks of the pandemic still lie ahead.

But even as the country moves into this the second wave President Trump is

repeatedly lashing out a top infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauchy

mocking him slamming his media appearances and calling him and I'm quoting the president right now a

disaster and an idiot.

The president campaigning right now in the critical battleground state of Arizona where Republicans have won every

presidential election over the last 70 years except one but it's now actually up for grabs

and a Trump campaign advisor tells CNN and I'm quoting him now

time is running out. We're tracking the race to 270 electoral votes with the

election just two weeks from tomorrow and more than 28 million ballots already cast here in the

United States. Let's get straight to the White House first. Our chief White House

correspondent Jim Acosta is on the scene for us. Jim. Two hundred and twenty thousand Americans dead in this pandemic,

and the president is actually stepping up his attacks

on one of the country's most respected health experts.

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