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brand new this morning, the first ad from the harris campaign just released in the new target of opportunity, they see we've seen an exclusive never before seen details on what happened behind closed doors course as is supreme court rewrote the book on presidential immunity and breaking overnight one of the largest wildfires on record, getting even bigger now sparking what is called fire tornadoes. >> i'm john berman with sarah sidner and kate bolduan. this is cnn new central how long harris is heading to georgia today, laser-focused don this battleground state exhibit a, a new harris campaign mode shared with cnn overnight. >> the campaign through strategy on how they plan to win georgia the secret weapon

may be according to them disenfranchise georgia republicans the memo saying in part, trump has waged a full on war with with georgia's top republicans, including governor brian kemp, and the secretary of state, brad ryan burger. the harris campaign is also launched again, new $50,000,000 ad campaign in battleground states today, cnn's priscilla alvarez has this new era has news reporting on all of this. she's joining us now. >> what do we expect? what do you expect or are you hearing about to expect from harris in georgia when she touches down kate, this is expected to be a rally with big turnout and the idea here is to surge that enthusiasm into action, especially in the critical state of georgia. >> remember, this was a state that president biden narrowly won in 2020. and when he did it marked the first time that a democratic presidential candidate had won in nearly 30 years. and that is the reason that it is being so closely watched now, now, ahead of the

visit, the campaign releasing a new ad that essentially gives us a glimpse of the argument that the vice president will continue to make over the next couple of months. and that is that she's going to prosecute the case against former president donald trump. all of this, of course, is part of that 50 million paid he'd media campaign. but democratic strategists that i've spoken with also say that it's not just about prosecuting the case, but also articulating how her vision is going to impact people's lives, especially in georgia. this is a state that president biden also visited this year, and it was at a time where voters are disillusion. they were quite apathetic over the two unpopular candidates, former president donald trump and president biden. but now some strategists say they are observing that enthusiasm on the ground and they're hoping that the vice president of the campaign can start to capitalize on that, especially with this rally. but of course, kate, it's not an easy safe for democrats and the campaign is well aware of just how competitive it's going to be

we have 24 offices in the state of georgia and we do to georgia has very competitive. >> it's clear the vice president is energizing and mobilizing or base it's also true that republicans that excuse to donald trump and the ticket has problems. republicans in georgia look at geoff duncan who is saying we want official in that state who is repeated trump's record and made it clear he is not fit for office the vice president will be joined with lawmakers and democratic officials, but she's also bringing star power. >> megan thee stallion will also be at the rally. and again, what is expected to be a big moment for her? in georgia, a state that democrats are hoping to keep in play this election absolutely great to see you, priscilla, and great reporting. >> as always, sara. >> all right. just out a brand-new attack ad from donald trump targeting of course, kamala harris. >> this time on the border joe biden made kamala harris border

czar to fix immigration first, she ignored it. >> do you have any plans to visit the border at some point she just lied. the border is secure of course, she is not. >> the borders are however, the attack lines getting sharper from donald trump's side of things. but now the j.d. vance cat lady controversy is growing partly because our kfile report this morning finds the things republican vice presidential nominee, j.d. vance has said about americans without children goes well beyond childless cat ladies, cnn's alayna treene is joining us now with more on this. what can you tell us about this well, what we've learned as sara and this is due to our colleagues on the great k file team. >> they found that those now infamous childless cat ladies comments that vance made last week that resurfaced that was not a onetime thing. he has said, we as a history really i should say, of making similar comments. the team dug into some of what he had said publicly and found that he is

referred to people without children as being mentally unstable, as being sociopathic. i want you to take a listen to what he said in this podcast from in 2020 there, you just these basic cadences of life that i think are really powerful and really, really valuable when you have kids in your life. and the fact that so many people, especially in america's leadership class just don't have that in their lives you know, i worry that it makes people more sociopathic you can ultimately our whole country a little bit less less mentally stable. >> and of course you talk about going on twitter. final point i'll make is you go on twitter and almost always the people who are most deranged and most psychotic are people who don't have kids at home so clearly very heart rhetoric and it shows that again, this was not a onetime thing despite what vance's team has said that his comments in 2021, that clip

that resurfaced last week and got a lot of attention from him speaking on tucker carlson show was out of contacts. >> i'm going to walk you through some of the other instances that our team found. so in may of 2019, advance had told the crowd that quote, babies are good because we're not sociopath in november 2020. he said, quote, that the most arranged and most psychotic people do not have kids in 2021, there was an email that his team but circulated that said radical, radical childless leaders in this country are those referring to people without children. and then in september 2021, he tweeted, quote, cat ladies must be stopped and i want to put some of this into context for you, sir, because i've been talking to both vance's team as well as trump's team about some of these comments. first of all, as much as they are pushing back on this, we saw j.d. vance kind of tried to clean up his comments at the end of last week privately, they acknowledge of course they do not like that this attention is on these comments. it's not a good look for him, particularly on the week his first week

really getting out there on the trail as donald trump's running mate but they also are arguing and that look, donald trump is still happy with vance. they think that they can move beyond this. i think it's difficult as we're continuing to dig up old emails and interviews that he has done saying similar things and so it's gonna be interesting to see how they tried to move away from this just given he has said this so many times and heatedly. and it does seem like it's something he believes that people who do not have children don't really understand policies and make poor decisions. that's what he has said in the past. with no proof of any of that. and using twitter as real life is interesting. also new this morning though, jd vance's team is now responding thanks to new audio obtained by the washington post of a private conversation that he recently had with donors, vance appearing to share concerns that harris has taken over the ticket. listen all us a little bit of a political sucker

punch. the bad news is commonly harris does not have the same baggage as joe biden because whatever you might say, cobble layers in a lot younger and kamala harris is obviously not struggling in the same way that joe biden did i mean, it's basically saying, look, she's a better candidate. what is the campaign saying though, about these comments? >> i will read you their statement, but i do just want to point out, i mean, that is remarkable sound bite that the washington post god and also i think just focusing on what he said which was, you know, whatever we might have to say. it makes very clear that what they are saying publicly is not necessarily what they believe privately, but here is a statement from vance spokesperson william martin? he said, quote sorry. okay. he said quote, poll after poll shows president trump leading kamala harris as voters become aware of her weak failed and dangerously liberal agenda, her far-left ideas are even more

radioactive than joe biden particularly in the key swing states that will decide this election like pennsylvania, michigan, and wisconsin. now sara this does drive of course, with what i'm hearing as well in my conversations with senior trump advisers, i think it's clear that they were essentially measuring the drapes after that cnn debate in late june and now with harris in the race, it's entirely changed. this election cycle and their entire playbook on how to attack their opponent they have, of course, concerned about paris and have had to change gears on how to try to find out how to define her workshopping lines it's very you know, they recognize that this race is going to be hard in the fall and while they have not said that publicly, here's the proof of having vance say that to donors in a private meeting? >> sounds okay to say that you were facing a more formidable challenger. >> it's an interesting to see the way they're trying to clean this up. alayna treene. thank you so much. appreciate your pointing this morning. thank you. >> all right new this morning,

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other countries and other groups are still trying to figure out what the change at the top of the ticket on the democratic side means. there's probably more to come down the road on what their true intention i'm sorry how is this all being monitored and sort of figured out that this is irans work. we also, as you mentioned, russia is still playing around in the electorate here. in the united states. how is that figured out how is that monitored? well yeah, well, this information from the director of national intelligence is part of a regular set of intelligence reporting. again, that has developed over time since the 2016 election, where the intelligence community, the u.s. intelligence community is trying to keep the american people updated on what those foreign threats are too democracy and our public institutions. and so this report does include information on iran, on russia, and china, and others, what they do is they use, our unique assets in the intelligence community that signals intelligence, that's

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larger objectives are, their strategic objectives it's, not necessarily to determine or influence the outcome in favor of a single candidate in the upcoming election really what the kremlin is trying to do. and let's make no mistake the russian activities in the 24 election, just like the 20 election in the 18 and 16 before them are directed by the kremlin and putin himself their objective here is chaos. it's undermining democracy, it's causing us to lose faith in our political leadership in the processes by which we elect our leaders, they have generally of view that democracy doesn't work, and that their approach autocracy and authoritarianism is the appropriate solution at this point in time their brand is chaos. >> i am curious how much influence you think that they do have both russia and iran have on the electorate. when you look across across the broad scope of the things that they do, mostly using social media to try to get into

people's heads i think this is the exactly right question we need to be asking at this time. >> i think we tend to make these these foreign intelligence services and their proxies looked to be 100 foot giants. they are not, they are not that capable. we do more damage to ourselves frankly, and our own online political discourse. but the issue is not the tactical impact on the specifics of the election. it's the broader strategic impacts on our confidence in democracy and public institutions and the process itself. and if they succeed there, that's good enough from their point of view. and this is why we have to be made of a bit sterner stuff. we have to not let them get in our heads. we have to take a deep breath and realize, you know, ultimately it's american voters that decide american elections. >> yeah chris, i think you hit the nail on the head when you said we do it to ourselves so much more, they just sort of exploit what we do to ourselves in many instances, chris krebs.

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was denied bail, cnn's lucy kafanov is in cohasset california with the latest for us this morning. what are you seeing? what are you feeling, lucy? >> well, first of all, i'm john. good morning. i'm wearing this mask because the air is just still so thick with the smoke even though the fire tore through this particular area on thursday and just to put that larger number that you mentioned into perspective, more than 373,000 acres? burned just 14% contained john, that is more than 12 times the size of san francisco. now, we are in a small town near chico, near the he go area called cohasset. the population here just under 900. most of the people were evacuated from this area when the flames tore through here on thursday, devouring structures, you can see very little left behind make out a white vehicle, a pickup truck in the background, but a lot of these structures, it's really hard to figure out even what they were, whether

they were homes or some sort of storage garage areas that's sort of unclear just because of how comprehend tens of does damage has been in these or this is just one of at least 165 structures so far destroyed by the park fire, thousands of people under evacuation in this whole area meanwhile, the man accused of starting what we're now describing as the sixth largest fire in california history appeared in court on monday. ronnie dean stout, the second has been charged with arson, and according to court documents, witnesses saw him pushing a burning car down a 60 but embankment he then caused the dry grass near there to catch fire and explode. he was seen, according to court documents, blending in calmly with a crowd afterwards. he did not enter a plea. he on monday, but butte county district attorney mike ramsey said that stout had a previous criminal record. he was denied bail. take a lesson no, ma'am. today

for because of his record the fact that he is facing life imprisonment, that this was an extraordinarily dangerous act and he does appear to have an alcohol problem. and so we can have such a dangerous person out there in the community, particularly in these times now, if convicted, this would be his third felony and under california's three-strikes lots, he would be automatically sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. but regardless of who started this fire, john, these unprecedented hot hot and dry conditions are extremely dangerous. we have nearly 5,000 people battling this fire, 30 helicopters assigned to this blaze, and we are the good news here is we are expecting relatively low winds which should help with the firefighting efforts, but we are also expecting higher temperature person. so folks in

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what the you can be very much how much is too much i think everything felt a lot i shall not seek and i will not accept the nomination of my party for another term. as your president 1960 sunday at nine on cnn in the nine days since kamala harris replaced president biden at the top of the democratic ticket, she has essentially tied donald trump in many polls really across the board. >> some suggests that whoever she picks up as her running mate could help give her the edge, the pool of vp candidates starting to thin out. now as of this morning, and i guess it should because they're kind of out of time. michigan governor gretchen whitmer saying she's not part of the vetting process, north carolina governor roy cooper withdrawing himself from the candidate pool just last night. that is where cnn's harry enten comes in,

talk to me about these vp candidates some of the top candidates, if you will, how they do electorally other states? >> yes. so nationally, a lot of these guys aren't particularly well-known. so i think it's important, look at their home states that people who know them best to get an understanding, okay of how popular these guys can potentially be. this is how much they outperform biden's 2020 margin there last election, all these guys ran in 2020 22 and the one name that just stands up on this list is josh shapiro from pennsylvania. look at this. he outperformed biden by 14 points. my goodness, gracious. look how large that it sometimes i think an answer is just staring straight in the face. and in this particular case, josh shapiro is looking at you, right in the face. look, mark kelly is not to panic hi there, right. he outperformed biden by five points and keep in mind, he was running in a federal race which isn't quite apples and apples, right? with a gubernatorial, statewide race, but still five points, not bad, outran all the other democrats in arizona. tim walz, who seems to have been picking up some sort of momentum on social media. but look at this, he

only outperformed bottom by 0.6 months very much on a different planet than let's say a josh shapiro, who's the clear runaway winner on this particular metric, isn't a proof that the vp candidate can help them carry a state right? >> so we look at all of this, right? okay. what is this exactly mean? there is one proven effect for a vp, right? and it is in fact as home-state effect look, it's not necessarily really particularly large. it's 0.5 to two points on average, added to their running mates margin compared to the baseline. but you know how close can say that's how much. >> this is the whole, whole ballgame. i'm in pennsylvania last time was decided by 1.2 points. you look at arizona, it was decided by 0.3 points. if you're we're able to add 0.5 to two points that could all of a sudden help you capture a state like arizona or pennsylvania, especially when you got guys like shapiro who route rahm biden by 14 points or mark kelly who outran biden by five points, they could definitely be the types of candidates who could help put one of those two states over

the top, which of the time? hop candidates home states is most likely, maybe most important for harris or trump to win. >> yeah, there you go. if let's say you're choosing which we know mark kelly and you're choosing between him and a josh shapiro, which of these two states is the one that you actually want to provide that boost to say, this will give you an idea, right? >> the chance that this state puts either harris or trump over the top and the alliance throughout college, once again, look at pennsylvania as the clear one runaway winner here, a 30% chance, a 30% chance that, that is the state that puts you over the top of the electoral college arizona. it's just a 4% minnesota is less than a 3%. why is pennsylvania so important? well, it has so many electoral votes as 19 electoral votes, right? so if you're able to put that in your back pocket, all of a sudden your electoral map for kamala harris becomes that much easier and it makes donald trump's map a lot more harder, a lot harder. >> i should not a lot more harder is also now leading to any conclusion though, worse will end up, but no interesting

nonetheless interesting unless i don't know which way shall go. >> but the math points in a very clear direction of my mind. >> it's good to see you nice to see you, john. >> all right. with us now, democratic senator dick durbin of illinois, the second highest ranking democrat in the senate, and the chair of the judiciary committee, senator, have you received your vetting materials for the vice presidential pick? >> i'm taking a pass on that. i enjoy being senator from illinois do you care to lobby for your senate colleague? >> colleague mark kelly in this process? good morning where we were a lot of good people in the race and it sounds like a politician's answer, but it's true. >> i mean, i listened to the analysis before this their arguments we made for jb pritzker of illinois, very successful governor who has shown some real leadership and loyalty to the ticket. i then you can go through long list let's do it possibilities. but the bottom line is the decision has to be made and soon just a few days remain before the ballot. names have to be submitted to the states. >> center, the trump campaign,

and it's associates have started running ads against vice president harris. and the new york times this morning has noted how she has shifted some of her positions since she was first running for president in 2019 in 2020, i'm just gonna read you a paragraph from the times article she changed her position on fracking in pennsylvania. she released that just friday in the times says in addition to change your position on fracking campaign official, say she now back the biden administration's budget requests for increased funding for border enforcement, no longer supported a single-payer health insurance program now echoed mr. biden's call for banning assault weapons, but not a requirement to sell them to the federal government, which he apparently back before how can you think voters feel senator about a candidate who does shift positions well, the issue may be so central to the campaign that it makes a significant difference but i think the bottom line is the voters judge these candidates in their entirety they have an

image of donald trump. >> they haven't had an hov kamala harris propels them to make a decision on how to vote. take a look at what's happened since joe biden stepped out of the race and kamala harris stepped in, there has been a dramatic shift of young people for example, and their opinion of whether this race is important it's in the entirety of the career of these individual candidates, as well as all of the positions take its seldom that one position is going to decide to vote because the republicans in the trump campaign are now trying to label the vice president as a liberal. what will it take? keep that from sticking well, they're going to beat her with that as long as they can possibly do it. >> tried to make an impression, but i think they're going to find that a former process the state attorney general in california, who served on the senate judiciary committee with me, has a lot more to her background that just as simple labeling one thing that may have backfired on republicans

is our comments from senator j.d. vance. he made them in 2021 kfile, cnn has reported that actually made them over a period of time repeatedly about people who don't have children, suggesting that people who don't have children who already camped can be sociopath. and then he used the phrase childless cat ladies at one point to describe then senator and vice president kamala harris, i want to play you what president, former president trump said about this last night. listen totally said is he, he does like me for him. >> he likes family. i think a lot of people like family and sometimes it doesn't work out. and you know why you don't meet the right person? well, you don't meet any person. but you're just as good in many cases, a lot better than a person that's in a family situation so trump is saying, maybe being single makes you better than being in a family situation. >> but why do you think these comments have been so resonant? >> because an effective candidate for president should not be saying negative things

about people who are childless. some of them have made the decision to be childless in some have tried very valiantly to raise a family and they've just been physically unable to do so. both childless and families deserve representation from the very best candidates for president jd vance's comments are troubling at a minimum center, you're going to hold hearings today on the secret service in their response or lack of response to the assassination attempt on donald trump, including, i believe testimony from the now acting secret service director, how has your faith in the ability of the secret service changed over the last few weeks given that attempt listen we hear, lots, of theories about international assassins and terrorists and their threat to highly elected officials in the united states. >> and allies separate schemes and technology. >> this was a 20-year-old community college student who

defied the best expertise of the united states and secrets service and law enforcement in pennsylvania and locally and came within an inch of killing a former president of the united states. it say to yourself, what in the hell happened here? we're supposed to be better than that. we have thousands of peoples who are, people who are in government and responsible for keeping these elected officials safe. that's why we're having this hearing this morning. >> what do you hope to find out? >> how we failed and we did fail and whether we can avoid that in the future. and i take it personally, were 20 days away from a democratic convention in my home, not my own time of the talent represents chicago. and i'm proud to represent it. we want to make sure we do everything every person saved from visits are city center, dick durbin from illinois. thanks so much for being with us. appreciate your time. >> sara. all right. thank this morning, cnn has exclusive new reporting about what really happened behind the scenes at the supreme court before the six out of three justices delivered, donald trump his big

immunity way, and perhaps most it's notable, is something we did not see from chief justice john roberts, cnn's joan biskupic is joining us now to explain john, this is your excellent reporting. >> let's just state that as fact. now, what did you learn happened behind the scenes to get to what is a hugely consequential, consequential decision, not just of course for donald trump, but for all the presidents in the future that's right. >> sara. and you're correct. even point out what we've all known john roberts to this point we know that he is chief justice who has really tried to get compromise between the right and left, especially on these important questions. of presidential powers. and he also has been insistent about how a once a judge dans the black robe, he leaves his or her political affiliation behind remember back in 2018 when he admonished but then president trump himself and said, we do not have obama judges or trump judges, bush judges, or clinton judges. what

we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them. and so we go into this sara believing that we're going to have him working between the size. but what i found out in my reporting on this summer, sara, is that when the justices met in private the day after the oral arguments they're in private than nine of them in this. okay. panel conference room near the justice chief justice's chambers as they went around the table, it was a hard and fast 6-3 vote with six the six republican appointed conservatives on one side, ruling for former president donald trump and the three democrat appointed liberals, ruling for special counsel, jack smith, in his effort to try to bring the former president to a criminal prosecution there was no effort by the chief justice in this case to reach out to the left

at all he tried to persuade his colleagues not to think about it, not to consider donald trump to look toward the future. in fact, at one point, he wrote in his final opinion unlike the political branches and the public at large, we cannot afford to fixate exclusively or even primarily on present exigencies and that meant in the end, sara, that with sort of the liberals cut off, that he was negotiating only with the justices on his side, including justice amy coney you barrett was her war. >> what was amy coney barrett's role in all this yeah, it was it was crucial. she was the lone member of the conservative side who tried to find some middle ground, which is a place that john roberts wants upon a time was at she was the one who tried to find some middle ground. she signed all the chiefs she all but one part of the chief statement giving this broad immunity for the most part, she was with him, but then she wrote

separately to sort of put a different spin on the framework, one that sort of emphasized how special counsel jack smith's case could go forward in the future, and she also broke off from the chief justice and her conservative brethren when she wrote that she did not agree with them that evidence of official acts couldn't even be he used in a separate criminal trial that had nothing to do with the jack smith prosecution. for example, the manhattan hush money trial in already that part of the opinion is reverberating up in new york. sarah, of course, i do want to ask you. >> you talked about robert's not trying to get everyone to come well less what does this say about him? like for the term, has he been consistent with the same standing this was a very aggressive term for chief justice roberts, sara. >> he was with let's remind everyone where he was two years ago in the dobbs abortion ruling, he was alone. he is

stood alone between the five conservatives to his right who voted to totally reversed roe v. wade and then the liberals on his left to didn't want it to be dismantled in that way. but this time he's not alone at all. he certainly has moved moved over to his colleagues on the right and is fully in control. and the big question is exactly what you asked. is this his future? is he going to throw his lot in completely with his colleagues on the right so we can control these decisions junts more they didn't need him in that dobbs ruling. they had five for a majority, but i don't think he wants to get into a position again where they don't need him and certainly in this it's really big case probably case that will define him for many years going forward he was going to just really swing for the fences and give something to former president donald trump, even though he wanted to

emphasize this was about the future of the presidency, irrespective of who is in the white house, sara getting all this great information, joan, especially in your book, nine black robes, very well done. thank you for all that reporting. really interesting, kate. thank you. >> a dragon five pa calypso, people, people enjoying a day at the beach, face a swarm of millions of dragonflies, literally just appeared to be blowing in from the ocean you can be scared now. and we'll talk about why this is the home for the world's most essential stories in journalism. >> and now, cnn has been recognized with the most emmy nominations of no and so we're going to station this year this is cnn who don't let that ship soil. your train that happens a

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nicholas maduro was declared the winner of a presidential race that has been marred by accusations of election fraud and deceit you and by the opposition. >> this morning, the carter center, one of the few independent institutions that was allowed to monitor the election, has canceled the publication of a preliminary report that was close to be released today an illinois sheriff is acknowledging publicly now that his department fails. sonya massey, massey was killed and kitchen by a deputy. he was responding to her nine 11 call of a possible prowler. >> the sharers is asking for forgiveness fell sign here. we felt sign his family and friends who feel like community and i stand here today before you in my arms wide open and i ask for your forgiveness yep. >> he was fired after the shooting and faces three counts of first-degree murder. he has pleaded not guilty the fda is issuing a new warning about popular weight loss drugs, not necessarily a new warning about the drug itself, but about the dosing of the medication. the fda says it has received reports of doses the errors as

a result of people measuring in self-administering incorrect amounts of the drug. it is urging people to check with their doctors to make sure they are taking the correct dose and rhode island under attack by a huge swarm of dragonflies and reliable is not that big. so any size swarm is a series korea's threat to that stick. you can see what happened on the beach there. one witness compare the sound of the wings to the noise of an airport also said it tasted like chicken we have booked a survivor of this dragon fly on slots, someone who lived through this attack. and we will speak with them next. stout will for just a second turn and look at that video. what i'm struck by is how calmly people there's a man who is not in so non plus, he's like, i'm just going to sit here in my chair. i would've been less non-plus well, i would say it is hard to get up from those low chairs it

wasn't me. >> your stuff get in right. and there's a lot of groaning. maybe they didn't want to go through the embarrassment of that. >> those are big dragonflies to i'm scared all right. we're going to clearly focus on this later in the show. so standby to standby, not only do you get dragonflies this summer, but you also get covid, summer is here in zone has covid from a cluster of cases at the, at the olympics to president biden testing positive earlier this month, infections are clearly on the rise. what you need to know about the summer surge this time around, cnn's dr. sanjay gupta is here with that. it's good to see you, sanjay. we'll start with covid and then i would like your medical take on the dragonflies, but we'll get lost exactly what it what are you hearing and what are you seeing about this surge this summer? >> well we start to see the summer surges. i mean, that's one of the things about covid. i think that's sort of the headline here. you typically think of respiratory viruses

mostly being in the fall and the winter sort of getting a lull in the summertime least over the last few years now, it's sort of settled into this summer, sir. so one of the ways they measure this as through waist its water surveillance sort of getting an idea how much virus or we simply seeing in the environment. and going back to 2022, you can see there's obviously a big winter surge back in january timeframe then but then it came down and now over the last few years, you see these summer surges will still see kate how this sort of settles out over time. and there might be reasons for these summer surges we don't know what the pattern won't be long term, but it could be that people, this virus is just adapted to warmer and more humid environments could also be as the weather is getting warmer, there are more people are congregating inside and that causes the spread of the virus it could be a combination of those things. but what we do know is if you look at the map right now, what this translates to is about 36 states where you're seeing high or moderately high levels of

infection, mostly in the south, but here in georgia, but also where you are up in new york, in california as well. so warm, humid climates, or also very population dense climates, that seems to be the factor here we don't know still kate, what this will look like a few years from now, if this is going to be a continuous sort of summer and then winter sort of by phasic surge. but it's looking that way right now. >> has anything changed about what we should do if when we get covid these days. >> yes i think the best way to sort of frame that is that it's probably similar to how you probably thought about flu in the past it's not so much time-based in terms of the guidance, in terms of what you should do, but symptom-based so number used to here, five days, ten days, things like that what it really is is when you're no longer having symptoms and what that specifically means is if you had a fever, you're off those fever reducing medicines for at least 24 hours about a

fever. >> then you're, you're pretty much clear, except after a covid diagnosis, you should wear a mask for the next five days because we know even after you're no longer symptomatic, what the data will show as you still have the possibility of spread. so that's sort of it. just focus on the symptoms more than anything else. >> and president biden, we know that his doctor said he was taking paxlovid. is paxlovid now for everyone, i know when it first debuted kind of in the pandemic, there was some, you should use, you should take it if this maybe not if that was what are you thinking? >> yeah. >> this is still a little bit tough because i think if you look at the original trials of paxlovid, it was primarily studied and people who are not vaccinated so it was a little bit harder to translate all that data into the vaccinated population as well. i think for people who are high risk this is still a good medicine. in particular, i don't think it's now safe for everyone. it is authorized for adults. there's an emergency use authorization going for people as young as

12-years-old but if you have a risk factor obesity, asthma, something else, and increases your risk, then yeah, if you look at like what does that translate to? it does mean a meaningful reduction hospitalization about 51% reduction hospitalization for those who took paxlovid. that's sort of met those criteria. versus those who didn't. so i wouldn't say for everyone, but if you're high risk because of age or something else, then that strongly consider it. >> so interesting, it's great to see you, sanjay. thank you so much. >> you got it. take care and who doesn't want more, sanjay. >> okay. that's my one question for you today because sandra is gonna be back later this week to take your questions about justice. you can scan the qr code that you see on your screen, submit questions about the covid summer surge, and we'll bring you those answers later. and you see new hour of cnn, new central starts now the