resource. the government says tonight it will not remove them from their jobs and if they experience virus symptoms, they should just go get tested. thank you so much for joining us. ""ac 360" starts now. good evening today. the president of the united states did something rare. he expressed a notion that we can all agree on that kids belong in the classroom but then made it quite clear beyond what it means to himself and his reelection, he doesn't actually care about those kids at all. he doesn't care about their health and safety nor t, nor th health of their teachers and parents and federal guidelines for keeping them safe. guidelines based in scientific fact not fantasy. but facts about how to stop this virus from spreading in schools. the president bragged today about getting the cdc to change their guidelines to weaken them and low and behold the cdc which used to be a world respected organization, they are going to come up with new guidelines, less difficult ones. just think about that. the cdc puts together guidelines

based on science to protect kids, science and teachers, staying six feet apart and masks and having air flow in rooms and washing hands and because the president thinks it's too difficult, the cdc is going to weaken them. it's not just me saying that. the vice president said it out loud today. >> the president said today we just don't want the guidance to be too tough and that's the reason why next week the cdc will be issuing a new set of tools. >> oh, we don't want guidance to be too tough, the vice president said. let's just have guidance based on magical thinking or a pamphlet written by the advisers diamond and silk. the president threatened retribution for schools. in germany, denmark, norway and sweden, they think it would be bad politically if they open schools before the november election but important for the children and families, may cut off funding if not open. germany, denmark, norway and sweden.

i want to show you what life looks like in those four countries. there are the lines bunched together in the bottom of the graph. germany reported 279 new cases yesterday. according to johns hopkins university data and denmark ten, norway 11, sweden 283. the total of 583 new cases yesterday in a population of about 100 million. as for the united states, we have more than 60,000. 60,000 new cases. today we surpassed 3 million since the outbreak began. 132,000 lives lost. cases rising 35 states holding steady in 12 falling in just three. that is the reality today. tomorrow looks worse. not better. >> i would not be surprised if we go up to 100,000 a day if this does not turn around. but i think it's important to tell you and the american public that i'm very concerned because it could get very bad. >> we are still knee-deep in this he says. a consequence he goes on to say if states reopen too soon and

disregarding cdc guidelines for when and how to do it safely. disregarding cdc guidelines like the president is now doing with schools and getting the cdc to rewrite the guidelines. here is his tweet. i disagree with cdc gov for opening schools. they want them open they are asking schools to do impractical things. he didn't even have to meet with them, listen. >> the cdc will be issuing new guy di guidance in the next week, a fi five-part series of recommendations to give new tools to the schools but what dr. redfield made clear yesterday, i'm sure he'll make clear again today. we're here to help. >> new guidance next week. five-part series of recommendations. here to help. i want to show you the c didc website and tough guidelines there. page after page of science based advice considerations for safely opening schools in the words of one section header full of

another headline says guiding principles to keep in mind or another section promoting behaviors that reduce spread. there is advice keeping students six feet apart and ventilation and protecting staff. it's comprehensive and isn't exactly outdated information. material came out back on the 19th of may. after weeks and weeks of promises and claims they were just being edited. watered down. then one night with no fanfare they popped up from the cdc website. this is more than two weeks after the task force stopped %-p president washed his hands of the crisis but still pushing states to reopen economies, which many did before the guidelines showed up on the cdc site and by that point, they were already open. the horse was out of the born. more specifically, the virus was. flash forward to today as the president pushed states to reopen schools. he's now openly trashing those very same guidelines. the coronavirus task force is folding like a bridge table minus anthony fauci not at the

briefing in person. they are trying to spin it everything they are doing is in the best interest of states. this question was asked by the vice president. >> can you explain why the president is threatening to cut funding from schools at a time when educators are saying they need more so they can safely reopen? >> first and foremost, what you heard from the president is determination to provide the kind of leadership from the federal level that says we'll get our kids back to school because that's where they belong and we know based upon what our best health officials tell us that we can do that. >> he sounds so earnest when he says that. determination and the focus group tested buzz words the president likes determination and leadership. put it together, doesn't mean anything. determination that provides

leadership. it just noise. it's lies and noise. yes, of course, kids belong in schools. the same public health officials when they are being honest they don't believe reopening schools or reopening states should take precedence. they recognize it's not an either or choice. they know getting back to any semblance of normality can't happen until the virus is under control hence the guidelines and warnings. we've seen what disregarding them leads to. today the president's top team of scientists minus dr. fauci who couldn't answer simple questions about what the science is on the risk of doing the exact thing the president is pushing to do. >> dr. birx, what's the infection rate among children and what's the latest in terms that you know in terms of how the virus presents in children, how children transmit the virus to older adults, nearly a third of teachers across this country are age 50 and older and what's the best practice in terms of testing and a school child is tested for covid-19. >> those are all good questions.

i think it really comes to the evidence base of what do we have as far as testing in children. so if you look across all of the tests that we've done and when we have the age, the portion that is the lowest tested portion is the under 10-year-olds. so we're putting into place other ways to get testing results from them and looking at antibody in that discarded sample to figure this out because parents have really done an amazing job of protecting their children. >> again, what does that mean? it all comes down to the evidence base she says. yes, parent haves done an amazing job protecting their children. we can agree on that. what about the rest of what he is said. she went on for two and a half minutes without answering the question. what she really said right there in what we played you was essentially, we don't know. we don't know what the effect on kids is. we don't know about the transmission with kids. we don't know. it's not -- we just don't have the evidence. rather than just saying that

because that would then suddenly make it seem like well, maybe it's not a great idea to force kids back into school and force teachers into rooms. you know, she either couldn't say it or she wouldn't say it. for the cdc director robert redfield, this guy, wow. what he's done to the cdc. he acknowledge he's bending to the president's wishes today. >> you're talking about the guidance the cdc put out. it sounds like it's in the best interest to send kids to school. will you change that guidance because the president said he doesn't like it? >> i want to reiterate. we'll continue to work with local states and jurisdictions. i think the guidance that we've put out gives a series of different strategies for them to

consider what is the most appropriate in their unique situation to adopt again and i want to come back to the goal. when the goal of this is to get schools reopened, i did mention and i want to reiterate, that goal is just not a goal to reopen schools, that's a goal because we believe that's in the best public health interest of the students for the reasons you've heard. >> yeah. if i was him, i'd close my eyes, too, when i was saying that stuff because it means nothing. it's a non-answer answer. that is what passes for leadership from this white house, nonsensical talk and lies and buzz words. we're in a pandemic. the virus is here and killing us and a lot of good people are fighting to stop it and hospitals and labs and good people are fighting it in their bodies to stay alive but lies and buzz words mean nothing. kaitlan collins did some of the questioning today. she joins us now. what was it like being there? i'm stunned at the scientists, you know, just saying

nonsensical things and doing back flips to keep employed, i guess, because they think they are so essential to back up what the administration is doing. >> and i understand they feel like they have to walk this fine line of not, you know, contradicting or conflicting something that the president has said but they are being asked legitimate questions that are informative and helpful for decisions that people are making about reopening schools and then we don't get straight answers on things as simple as are you going to change the guidance because the president tweeted that he did not like the guidance? so you saw in his answer he does say it's going to continue to evolve but schools start to open in a matter of weeks. some of the teachers are going back in less than a month from now and so if this guidance is still evolving baue because the president isn't happy with what they put out, that isn't helpful to teachers adapting to it and weeks going on. we didn't get a ton of answers from this and this is only the second briefing from the coronavirus task force that

we've gotten in about two months and so i asked the press secretary what specifically in the cdc guidance is it that the president doesn't think too impractical and expensive for the word and lunch that wouldn't work and to get their lunch. and was the president had with this guidance. >> dr. fauci, what did she say? >> he was on the stage because the white house for that meeting that task force meeting while the rest of the task force and the majority of them were there. why is dr. fauci not there? the president is criticizing him. kayleigh wouldn't say yes, the president has confidence. he said he has confidence in the

conclusion the medical advisors are bringing to him. he basically takes the information they give to him and pulls the information and makes his decisions off of that. not always exactly what they have recommended is basically the way she answer that. >> wait a minute. i don't understand. they had a meeting, the task force had a briefing with the members of the task force that we saw. they told dr. fauci oh, don't go to that. go to the white house and just listen ochon a conference call? >> yeah, a tele conference at the white house. that's how he participated instead of going to the department of education. washington isn't that big. it a mile and a half down the street. that the why you did not see him on stage at the briefing afterward. even though he was at the briefing a few weeks ago at hhs. >> and -- wow. i mean, you know, if you're in a job and everybody schedules a meeting but they tell you, oh, yeah, don't go to that meeting.

that's where everyone is going to be and where decisions are made and cameras will be. you go to the utility closet and sit there and listen to the conference call, that's not a good sign. you asked about the president and c drrksdc being on the same. what's the reason for that? >> they haven't been on the same page. the president has often been at odds with them or privately fumed about the cdc director at times and so clearly they weren't today with his tweet attacking the guidance they put out. the question of that is so much more than just the white house insisting they are on the same page. but attended a task force meeting since april. i asked kayleigh why isn't he going to the meetings if he wants guidance and they want to talk about it before the cdc puts it out? he said the president is briefed on what goes on at those meetings. >> okay. wait a minute. the president hasn't been to a task force meeting since april?

>> that's right. he has not attended a task force meeting since the month of april and before that when they were meeting every single day including the weekends, he would go once every eight days or so according to multiple people attending the meetings but he has not attended one since the month of april. >> kaitlan collins, thank you very much. coming up next, the man that runs new york city schools and what he heard today and a top official on sending kids back to school on these conditions. beaches and research on silent spreaders and how wide spread they may be. because heart and kidney disease

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assistance and pushing to relax federal guidelines for doing it safely. on monday the education commissioner ordered all schools to reopen for in person learning. that commissioner thanked president trump for criticizing the cdc on the school reopening guidelines. again, this in florida where 42 hospitals report they have no available icu beds due to the outbreak. joining us is a baltimore city health commissioner in 180 local schools and richard, chancellor of the new york city department of education. he runs the largest school system in the united states. chancellor, let me start with you. the cdc guidelines that currently exist, i don't know if you've seen them. the cdc says they are recommendations, not mandatory. do you think they are too ownerous or too difficult and the notion that the cdc is now just going to redo them because the president thinks they are too tough. does that make sense to you from

a scientific standpoint? >> anderson, thanks for the opportunity not at all. i'm an educator, i'm not a physician. i don't play a physician on tv. we depend on the guidance that we're getting from the cdc and publishing healc health officia sure we're being safe as we go forward. we're depending on science, not science fiction how students will come back to in person learning. those are not recommendations, not just off the cusp things we're thinking about. we're taking them serious every word, every sole boill boll is gold because the lives of children and adults are depending on that guidance that we receive in erm thterms of co back to in person learning. >> explain how you will do this in new york. >> in new york we have one of the most densely compacted cities in the world. our schools are no different. we have 1800 schools. some of them are over a century old. so we are taking all of the

social distancing requirements, all of the health and safety requirements, all the of the requirements and guidelines around disinfecting and ppe. the use of masks. the use of hand washing, temperature checks. they are all part of our reopening plan for whenever we do come back to in person learning. now that the critical for us because we know that of the 1.1 million students, we did a student and parent survey, we had over 450,000 respondents and one of the number one concerns that parents had as well as our staff members are having is it a safe and is it a medically safe environment for us to come back to in person learning? so we're planning for all contingencies. >> dr. nguyen, "the washington post" of ed you wrote the single most important requirement for resuming in person instruction is suppressing the level of covid-19 infections in the community. if the level of infections across the u.s. continues or increases, can schools safely

reopen, do you think, dr. nguyen? >> well, that's the question, anderson. right now, the answer is no. especially if you look at the areas that are actively having surges. some of these communities in arizona, texas, florida, we're seeing an infection rate of 1 in 100. think about a school that has 1,000 students. that means that ten people are walking in on day one who are actively infectious not knowing and it spreading it to others and the school would have to close down soon after with multiple clusters of infections. that's not tenable. we have more than 40 states with increasing number of cases and the single most important thing that the trump administration can do if their goal is to reopen is put in the hard work and support the states that are trying to get infections underer control. these states will be faced with really difficult decisions such as do they close down bars and restaurants and nightclubs over the summer in order to allow for the infection level to be low enough that schools can reopen? the trump administration should be supporting those goals and

not threatening funding. >> chancellor, obviously, new york is doing better than it was, thank goodness. in the fall, will students be going to classrooms? >> well, in the fall our contingency plans and i couldn't agree more with dr. nguyen. we have to talk about federal funding to allow school districts to be able to open safely, not cutting funding. that's not realistic for us. in the fall, we know that the physical distancing requirements and the guidelines will not allow us to have 100% of students in a classroom on any given day. for us, we put out guidance today and we have five models that we're asking principals to try on for size, if you will, that will require on couple of days students are in person, some of them are based on 50% capacity, some of them are based on 33% capacity and the idea is

in a blending learning model, some students will have two days in person learning and then the rest of the week they will have remote learning, while other students come into remote learning because we can't accommodate all of 100% of our students on any given day. so it's going to look very different for not only students and families and teachers. we're in a position of choosing the least ownerous choices and we're not being helped by the federal government with clear direction and funding to put the safety measures in place. >> dr. nguyen, during the virus task force briefing today, the cdc director dr. redfield said his agency guidance were recommendations, not retirements. someone that crafted public health policies, does that make sense to you? they don't force everybody to do something but shouldn't there be sort of firmer language at the very least? >> absolutely.

look, when i was the health commissioner for baltimore, i looked to the cdc all the time for unambiguous very directive . it not taking aautonomautonomy officials. i agree with the chancellor. i poured over cdc guidelines because i wanted to do what was right for the people that i served and in this case, for the students, teachers, the staff and for their families. we need that kind of clear guidance and it's just so backwards anderson to be hearing comments about how we need to be revising these guidelines because they are preventing reopening. that the just as backwards as saying testing is causing infections. it doesn't make sense. you should look at that and say if we can't meet the guidelines, we are not safe to reopen so let's work on these safety precautions to protect our students and staff and families. >> dr. nguyen, chancellor, thank you so much, appreciate all you do. up next, as the president

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president trump's determination to reopen schools in a region of the country that helped elect him four years ago to southern parts of the united states. cnn era hill has the latest on the spread of the virus. >> reporter: as cases surge across the sun belt, the white house task force is advising hot spots to buckle down. >> really asking the american people in those counties and in those states not on use face coverings but really not gathering at homes, either and decreasing those gathers back

down to our phase one recommendation which was ten or less. >> reporter: in less than a month, the united states added a million new cases adding more than 51,000 every day. former hot spots also seeing new spikes. >> we have lost all the gains made in june and are now seeing some numbers that rival our peak back in april. >> reporter: as cases climb in louisiana mandating masks at all times unless you're eating or drinking. in los angeles, the infection rate rising. houston's mayor cancelling the texas gop convention. >> if you still refuse to recognize the public health danger to everyone involved, then i am still the mayor. >> reporter: the city added more than 1,000 new cases on tuesday a daily high. >> the cases don't really tell the true tragedy of this that

the patients are piling now into hospitals, into icus. >> reporter: 42 hospital icus in florida are full. more than 50 have just 10% of the beds available. in miami-dade county where the positivity rate hit 28%, the ventilator use is up more than 100%. arizona has just 145 icu beds remaining. >> the best we can hope for now is to put out these multiple fires around the country and get to a point of a slow burn, where there is a steady rate of infections and unfortunately, deaths. >> these aren't 80-year-olds that should die. these aren't 80-year-olds that were going to die next week. these are 80-year-olds that contracted a virus because a group of people didn't want to wear a mask. i had a mom and grandmother drive themselves into my hospital and only one drove home. >> what are officials saying about those increasing

infections in los angeles county, erica. >> reporter: in los angeles county, what they are seeing in the rise of cases and infections and hospitalizations, they are crediting it to community spread and there is a slight uptick in deaths and the health director today said listen, i want to warn you, we are going to see more deaths among our loved ones and they boars because as we know, the deaths is an indicator that lag, two, three, four, five weeks sometimes, that number will lag behind the rise in cases and hospitalizations. >> erica hill. thanks. perspective from two leading public health experts, michael osterholm and someone you just heard from in erica's report, dr. peter hotez at houston's baylor college of medicine. a million new infections. the u.s. has more than 3 million cases. what do you expect will happen in the coming weeks? >> the number is only going to continue to rise. many cases in the pipeline.

you know, just as we've sat here a month ago and talked about 20,000 cases and 40,000 seemed like it could never happen and now 60,000. as we also talked about 100,000 cases a day are not out of the question. this is just going to continue to spread as it is right now. >> and so how does it start to go down? i mean, is it -- i mean, what -- is there something to pin some hope on? >> well, i think the one thing we have to acknowledge is we have to go back and know one wants to use the word lockdown even today they are very cautious talking about what we need to do at the task force press briefing. the bottom line is we have to clamp back down again. the countries that vehicsuccess contained the virus got it down to a level of one octo two case. then contact tracing will work. when the entire forest is on fire, all the testing and

contact tracing in the world won't shut it down. it will take a lot of distancing issues and back to square zero in a sense in march for many locations. >> dr. hotez, the vice president said today there are early indications that positivity rates are flattening. isn't that misleading? if they are flattening at all they are doing so at high numbers. >> there is a disconnect between the charts debra birx showed. the charts showed a steep acceleration and the major metropolitan areas of arizona, texas, florida across the south and that really hasn't changed and the numbers continue to accelerate in our hospitals and our icus and we remain in a terrible public health crisis and i completely agree with mike. there is no end to this increase unless we do the hard work to start bringing this back and really try to create a thanatio plan to look state by state by state to bring this down to a

level of containment because the contact tracing is not going to work and we're not going to be able to open up schools safely in areas where you have acceleration. we're supposed to open schools in houston towards the end of august. i don't see how you do that as students get sick and teachers start to get sick. >> professor osterholm do you believe as seasonal flu comes around, there is going to be another sort of wave? i don't know if wave is the right word of covid? >> i think covid is not going to slow down unless we make every effort to make it slow downment we're in a debate with a virus that doesn't care our message. it going to do what it going to do. the best we can do is distancing mitigation strategies to get like other countries. influenza, we're not sure what it will do. there may be interference between the two and we haveless activity. there could be more. the bottom line message is keep

thinking about the covid situation from the standpoint right now probably about 7% of the u.s. population has been infected with this virus to date. it not going to slow down transmission until it gets to 50 or 60%. i said slow down, not stop. when you think about the number of people that still have yet to be infected that will get infected to get to that 50 to 60% rate, we are just on the beginning of this pandemic and that's what we have to help the public and leaders understand. we have to be in this for a long haul and that means shutting it down now will pay a big dividend before hopefully we get a vaccine. >> professor, 239 scientists from around the world published a letter asking the w.h.o. to be clear explaining how coronavirus can transmit in the air there is emerging evidence that was their term of airborne transmission. can you explain what that means for our lives every day? >> yeah, well, first of all, when we talk about respiratory transmitted viruses, we're

talking about what comes out of our breathing tract when we cough. there are very small particles like marbles or bowling balls and everything in between. the w.h.o. said it the big particles by you. these aerosols, the things that float in the air, the next time you're in your home and see the sunlight in the window and see the dust floating there and think i have a dusty house. that the an aerosol. when i talk sitting here in this studio, i'm filling this studio with aerosols you can't see. they are there with virus. you have to understand aerosols themselves can transmit this virus. they can float in the air for sometime and it's not just those that you out out or sneeze out that are going to continue to spread this disease and the data i think are compelling to support their message. >> dr. hotez, i mean, essentially that means, you know, whoever has used this

studio that i'm in right now, if they used it an hour ago and they have left and i walk into this, there could still be aerosol particles in the air? >> that's right, unless you have a mask on. this virus replicates in high amounts in our upper airway and that the a distinguishing feature of the virus. as you speak, it releasing huge numbers of virus particles and that's why the masks can work so well. look, we can make a big difference in this country. if we're willing to do the hard work now, it's not too late if we implement a very aggressive strategy over the summer when things are relatively quiet, we can make a big impact and start to open up schools safely, start to open up colleges and universities safely and maybe have the national football league, college football and nba if bedo the hard work this summer. the problem is there is no leadership willing to take that on and create strategies for every state to tell the states this is what you need to do for

your particular state and some states they're already there. they don't have to do that much. texas and florida and arizona have a lot of work to do but it is doable if there is a political will and leadership. that's what is tragic. we could have an extraordinary fall in the united states in 2020 if people were willing to let that happen. >> yeah. professor, lastly, when you and i have spoken over the course of this spring, you often said we're in the second inning of a nine-inning game. are we still -- what inning are we in now? >> the third or fourth. what got me from second to third or fourth was we weren't sure if this would be influenza where there are waves like in the ocean you have a block of first cases and for reasons nothing to do with human mitigation, they just tend to fall off and go through a period of very low activity for several months and then you see a big second wave. we now realize this is not like an influenza virus this is the

coronavirus and this is just one heavy burn. as i describe it, it's a raging forest fire looking for wood. some say season nalality plays role. i didn't think in april or may this would be seasonally adjusted. that's the key. it's going to keep going. >> yeah. michael osterholm and dr. hotez, thank you. silent spreaders could be responsible for half of the covid-19 cases. we'll talk with a co-author when we continue. when you shop for your home at wayfair, you get way more than free shipping. you get thousands items you need to your door fast the way it works best for you. i'll take that! -wait, honey, no... you get a delivery experience you can always count on. you get your perfect find at a price to match on your schedule. yes! you get free two day shipping on the things that make your home feel like you.

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new study out of yale says half of the coronavirus cases, half could be caused by silent spreaders, people that are asymptomatic or presymptomatic. the onset of the virus may be the most contagious in the presymptomatic stage which researchers say is uncommon for respiratory infection. director for the center of infectious disease modelling and analysis at yale university. thanks for being with us. can you walk us through what your research found? it's frightening to think a majority of people might have the virus and may be transmitting it without knowing it. >> thank you for inviting me, anderson. an unusual aspect of covid-19 is

the peak of infectiousness occurs during the presymptomatic phase as you summarized. by translating clinical data by viral load and symptoms to population level epidemiology impact, the majority of transmission is atris buttribua people not exhibiting symptoms because they are presymptomatic or the infection is asymptomatic. not only are people infectious when they are not symptomatic, that's actually when they are the most infectious. >> so from a public health standpoint, i mean, what do you do about that? if somebody doesn't even though they have it, you know, i mean, that's not good news. >> exactly. so this makes control of covid-19 particularly challenging. in some baways more challenging than disease as frightening as ebola. for example with ebola, people did not become really infectious until they are extremely sick.

so measures based on early symptoms such as temperature checks are quite effective in the control of ebola. by contrast, with covid-19, people are most infectious before any symptoms appear. so most people who were transmitting the virus are doing so inadvertently without even realizing they are sick. for example, younger people are at lower risk of serious covid outcomes but disproportionately responsible for silent transmission. >> so that's also something that came out of this, that young people are disproportionately responsible for transmitting the virus? >> yes, they have more contacts and they're more likely to be asymptomatic and that means that they are disproportionately transmitting, as well. >> wow. so i mean, is there any -- so then what do you recommend from

a public health standpoint? i guess, it just makes it all the more important that people wearing masks and social distancing and doing these things, which we know helps stop the spread of the virus and is more important than ever based on your research to do that because you can't wait until you feel sick to start wearing a mask so you don't infect others. >> exactly. our results under score the importance of contact tracing and testing that is fast enough and extensive enough to identify presymptomatic cases prior to the onset of symptoms. right now, the gap between that goal and the reality in america today continues to expand as the outbreak accelerates and currently, the epidemic is far out pacing the availability of tests. until we have adequate contact tracing and testing capacity, staying at home is still the best thing you can do to keep yourself and others safe.

masks help. keeping a distance helps. but if folks are frequently adjusting or removing their masks, they may be transferring virus from their hands to their face. >> then when you think about schools reopening, if, you know, if it young people transmitting the virus, disproportionately not showing symptoms, i mean, that again just raises a bunch of red flags about the ability to reopen schools safely. >> absolutely. given that people are disproportionately responsible for silent transmission, reopening schools would be adding fuel to the fire. even if all symptomatic cases were kept at home like when kids started to feel sick, our study shows that a vast outbreak would likely no lly nonetheless unfol silent transmission alone. >> i really appreciate your research. i got to say it hard to hear and this is a tough hour with a lot

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chicago, as a kid she was determined to have a career in science. she had a severe learning disability, but earned two masters degrees in biology and science education. she was known for her dedication to her work and a smile, a role model for aspiring african-american women. just before her death, she landed her dream job. she was 35 years old. betty and curtis tarpley, they fell in love and got married, they were together for 53 years before they both came down with the virus. betty was admitted to the hospital, and then two days later, curtis went to the icu. she told her son she was ready

to go. after hearing that news, curtis started to deteriorate. nurses were able to bring them together one last time, and they died within an hour of each other. a nurse put betty's hand on curtis' arm, and they held on to each other until the very end. let's go to chris for "cuomo prime time." >> when we hear about the stories, we say, they had a good life. but what if they could have had six more months or another year or two? ask their families how they feel. we both know the answer, having lost parents, you would give anything for a little bit more time. thank you for telling their stories, as always, brother. thank you, anderson. i'm chris cuomo, welcome to "prime time." another day gone witut