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Jerusalem 77/ 62 0 79/ 62 S 77/ 59 S

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Lahore 96/ 70 0 94/ 65 PC 94/ 66 PC

Manila 82/ 77 1.01 88/ 79 T 89/ 78 T

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Riyadh 90/ 66 0 93/ 64 PC 92/ 62 PC

Seoul 64/ 45 0 63/ 45 PC 66/ 46 PC

Shanghai 72/ 58 0 70/ 60 C 65/ 59 R

Singapore 88/ 79 0.06 85/ 80 C 89/ 80 C

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Taipei City 80/ 75 0 83/ 75 T 82/ 74 PC

Tehran 76/ 52 0 75/ 54 S 74/ 52 PC

Tel Aviv 86/ 68 0 85/ 72 S 83/ 70 S

Tokyo 72/ 61 0.01 64/ 56 R 60/ 57 R

Vladivostok 49/ 31 0.04 52/ 37 S 56/ 37 PC

Amsterdam 54/ 44 0 53/ 41 C 52/ 43 PC

Athens 79/ 59 0 77/ 65 S 80/ 69 T

Barcelona 64/ 55 0.14 64/ 48 PC 63/ 49 S

Belgrade 66/ 41 0 67/ 50 T 62/ 46 Sh

Berlin 50/ 44 1.05 53/ 43 Sh 52/ 41 Sh

Brussels 54/ 37 0 52/ 40 C 53/ 38 PC

Budapest 54/ 41 0.34 52/ 48 Sh 54/ 43 Sh

Copenhagen 52/ 43 0 51/ 43 C 53/ 42 PC

Dublin 55/ 48 0.12 53/ 43 PC 52/ 45 PC

Edinburgh 54/ 48 0.34 50/ 41 PC 52/ 42 PC

Frankfurt 54/ 39 0.61 53/ 46 Sh 54/ 43 PC

Geneva 54/ 41 0.04 49/ 45 Sh 55/ 43 Sh

Helsinki 48/ 37 0 47/ 33 PC 44/ 31 PC

Istanbul 73/ 66 0 75/ 63 S 76/ 66 S

Kiev 63/ 48 0 64/ 51 PC 57/ 47 Sh

Lisbon 68/ 55 0 68/ 53 S 70/ 52 S

London 58/ 46 0.09 56/ 44 PC 56/ 46 PC

Madrid 63/ 48 0 63/ 37 S 61/ 38 S

Moscow 61/ 46 0.04 58/ 41 PC 46/ 33 C

Nice 64/ 52 0.16 63/ 51 C 65/ 52 Sh

Oslo 46/ 32 0 53/ 39 S 51/ 34 PC

Paris 59/ 45 0.08 54/ 44 C 56/ 45 PC

Prague 45/ 40 1.55 52/ 43 Sh 48/ 40 Sh

Rome 68/ 59 0.38 64/ 54 T 63/ 49 Sh

St. Petersburg 52/ 41 0 47/ 36 PC 42/ 34 R

Stockholm 47/ 37 0 50/ 40 PC 47/ 36 PC

Vienna 48/ 43 0.96 52/ 44 Sh 46/ 43 Sh

Warsaw 52/ 43 0.36 50/ 38 C 50/ 41 PC

Acapulco 89/ 76 0 88/ 78 T 88/ 76 T

Bermuda 82/ 75 0.05 81/ 74 S 81/ 73 PC

Calgary 39/ 30 0.12 42/ 28 PC 35/ 17 Sn

Edmonton 41/ 30 0.05 43/ 25 SS 36/ 14 SS

Guadalajara 80/ 60 0 84/ 59 T 84/ 56 T

Havana 87/ 66 0.05 88/ 73 T 88/ 74 T

Kingston 90/ 79 0.02 88/ 79 T 89/ 79 T

Martinique 90/ 75 0.05 86/ 74 T 86/ 75 T

Mexico City 75/ 54 0.04 78/ 52 PC 75/ 50 PC

Monterrey 91/ 66 0 96/ 68 PC 80/ 62 C

Montreal 59/ 46 Tr 67/ 47 C 54/ 42 R

Nassau 86/ 79 0.09 88/ 78 T 87/ 77 T

Panama City 82/ 73 0.04 85/ 74 T 87/ 75 T

Quebec City 55/ 46 Tr 61/ 46 C 54/ 40 R

Santo Domingo 90/ 73 0.02 88/ 73 T 87/ 73 T

Toronto 63/ 46 0.02 62/ 41 R 52/ 36 S

Vancouver 55/ 45 0 55/ 48 PC 55/ 47 R

Winnipeg 45/ 41 0.05 42/ 22 SS 38/ 19 PC

Bogota 66/ 47 0.03 67/ 48 R 68/ 48 T

Buenos Aires 75/ 63 0 67/ 63 C 72/ 64 S

Caracas 93/ 69 0.09 87/ 75 T 90/ 75 T

Lima 67/ 59 0 68/ 61 PC 68/ 61 PC

Quito 67/ 49 0.01 71/ 51 R 72/ 51 C

Recife 81/ 75 0.13 86/ 77 PC 86/ 76 S

Rio de Janeiro 82/ 74 0 76/ 70 T 74/ 68 T

Santiago 73/ 46 0 86/ 52 PC 80/ 53 PC

Sao Paulo 88/ 63 0 71/ 58 R 69/ 57 C

Warm air will surge north on southerly
breezes over the Appalachians and the
Atlantic Coast. Temperatures will climb to
several degrees above average as a result.
A batch of showers and thunderstorms will
dampen the Florida Peninsula and coastal
areas of Georgia and South Carolina. Most
areas along the central and western Gulf
Coast will remain dry and warm.
Farther northwest, showers and spotty
thunderstorms will align along a press of
chillier air from the Great Lakes to the
central Mississippi Valley. The chilly air will

settle over the Midwest and is likely to

help energize a storm in the Northeast on

Friday that can lead to an early-season

snowfall over higher elevations of New

England on Saturday. Less wind is in store

for the Rockies and High Plains as show-

ers dampen Montana, Wyoming and the

western part of the Dakotas.

Meanwhile, it will be dry, hot and sunny

in the Southwest. Gusty winds will contin-

ue to elevate the wildfire danger, espe-

cially in California. The Northwest will get

a break from damp and cool conditions

before the next storms roll in from the

Pacific Ocean at the end of the week and

into this weekend. The progressive nature

of these storms will be to knock down the

fire risk.

FOCUS: WET SNOW FOR PARTS OF NEW

ENGLAND A storm will rapidly intensify over

eastern New England on Saturday. Rain

will be heavy at times from Massachusetts

to Maine, with strong winds. There will be

several inches of heavy snow over the

Green and White Mountains of northern

New England.

NBC was battered with criti-
cism on Wednesday after it an-
nounced plans for a Thursday
town hall event with President
Trump to air opposite an already-
scheduled ABC forum with his
Democratic opponent, Joseph R.
Biden Jr.
Top Democrats, media pundits
and many journalists inside NBC
and MSNBC were taken aback by
the network’s choice of the 8 p.m.
Eastern time slot, which will make
it impossible for Americans to
watch both candidates live.
“The point of a news organiza-
tion is to serve the public,” Vivian
Schiller, a former executive at
NBC, Twitter and National Public
Radio, wrote on Twitter. “This is
the opposite.”
Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden were
originally scheduled to face off on
Thursday in Miami at a formal de-
bate — until last week, when Mr.
Trump abruptly withdrew after
the Commission on Presidential
Debates decided to stage the
event virtually over concerns that
Mr. Trump could still be conta-
gious with the coronavirus.
Mr. Biden quickly arranged his

own telecast with ABC, prompting

Mr. Trump’s campaign to seek its

own event that evening. After a

lengthy negotiation — NBC

wanted proof that the president

would not pose a health risk,

which it received only on Tuesday

— the network announced its

plans Wednesday morning.

Several people familiar with in-

ternal discussions described the

network’s thinking, requesting

anonymity to share private con-

versations.

Mr. Trump’s town hall event will

be patterned after a similar Biden

forum that NBC hosted on Oct. 5,

the people said. It will be held at

the same outdoor Miami location,

with the same format that fea-

tures questions from Florida vot-

ers — and the same 8 p.m. time

slot.

But given the conflict with Mr.

Biden’s event on ABC, why not

simply start Mr. Trump’s after the

former vice president finishes?

NBC officials argued internally

that such a move could be prob-

lematic because many more

American households watch tele-

vision later in the evening. In the-

ory, they argued, starting the

event at 9 or 10 p.m. Eastern

would grant Mr. Trump access to a

larger potential live audience than

Mr. Biden had for his NBC event

on Oct. 5.

So why not hold the event on a

different night? NBC executives

have insisted that the date was

their choice, the people said, and

that Thursday fit the president’s

schedule: Because of the now-

canceled second debate, Mr.

Trump’s evening was free.

It was unclear if the Trump

campaign would have accommo-

dated a request by NBC to move

the event to a different day. The

president is trailing in many na-

tional polls and is eager for oppor-

tunities to make his case to a siz-

able audience. NBC’s publicists

declined to comment.

Numerous staff members at

NBC and MSNBC expressed pri-

vate dismay on Wednesday at

their leaders’ decision. One for-

mer NBC News executive, Mark

Lukasiewicz, who produced politi-

cal conventions and candidate for-

ums for the network, wrote on

Twitter, “This is a bad result for

American voters, who should not

be forced to choose which to

watch.”

In 2020, many Americans pre-

fer to watch television programs

at their own pace, using DVRs and

online streams. Viewers who want

to see what both Mr. Biden and Mr.

Trump have to say on Thursday

will have plenty of options to do so.

But presidential events have a

unique draw, particularly at the

height of the campaign: Mr. Biden

and Mr. Trump’s first debate in

Cleveland last month drew 73 mil-

lion viewers. Neither town hall on

Thursday is likely to come close to

those numbers, given that formal

debates air simultaneously across

a dozen or more networks.

Still, by scheduling Mr. Trump

against Mr. Biden, NBC may end

up providing the president with

one of his preferred talking

points: Mr. Trump is almost cer-

tain to score a higher Nielsen rat-

ing than Mr. Biden, since the event

will also air on NBC’s sibling cable

channels, MSNBC and CNBC.

Whether exposure to a mass au-

dience is politically useful for Mr.

Trump is an open question: He re-

ceived poor marks for his per-

formance at last month’s debate.

NBC officials had held back on

confirming the Trump event until

they had credible evidence that

the president would not pose a

safety risk to other participants —

including network crew members,

the Florida voters on hand to ask

questions, and the moderator, Sa-

vannah Guthrie of the “Today”

show. Network management said

it was not comfortable relying

solely on the word of the White

House physician, Dr. Sean P. Con-

ley.

On Wednesday, NBC proffered

a statement from Dr. Clifford

Lane, a clinical director at the Na-

tional Institutes of Health. Dr.

Lane said he and Dr. Anthony S.

Fauci, the nation’s top infectious

disease expert, had reviewed

medical data about Mr. Trump’s

condition, including a P.C.R. test

that the N.I.H. analyzed on Tues-

day. (A P.C.R. test is a widely used

virus diagnostic that is considered

more reliable than a rapid antigen

test.)

Dr. Lane concluded “with a high

degree of confidence” that the

president was “not shedding in-

fectious virus,” NBC said.

The network did not explicitly

say that Mr. Trump had received a

negative result from the P.C.R.

test.

In an interview on Wednesday,

Dr. Fauci said that he and Dr. Lane

had reviewed the P.C.R. result, as

well as data from viral cultures

and multiple negative tests on a

rapid antigen test produced by

Abbott and called BinaxNOW.

Dr. Fauci said he and Dr. Lane

had corresponded with Dr. Conley,

who provided all of the informa-

tion that they assessed. “We were

just given the data, and we made a

determination from the data,” Dr.

Fauci said.

Combined with the fact that Mr.

Trump was more than 10 days out

from the onset of symptoms, Dr.

Fauci said, “we can say with a high

degree of confidence that he is not

transmissible.”

Mr. Trump’s P.C.R. test had a cy-

cle threshold — a proxy for viral

load — of 34.3, Dr. Fauci said. Ac-

cording to data provided by the

Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention, people with a thresh-

old over 33 carry little to no live vi-

rus.

The NBC town hall event will be

held outdoors at the Pérez Art Mu-

seum in Miami, and audience

members will be required to wear

masks. The network said that Ms.

Guthrie and Mr. Trump would be

seated at least 12 feet apart.

NBC Faces Blowback for Scheduling Trump’s Town Hall Opposite Biden’s

‘The point of a news

organization is to

serve the public. This

is the opposite.’

By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM

Apoorva Mandavilli and Maggie
Haberman contributed reporting.