well, a warning for americans from a top member of the white house coronavirus task force. dr. deborah birx says an ominous new phase is on the horizon. >> but i want to be very clear, what we're seeing today is different from march and april. it is extraordinarily widespread. it's into the rural and equal urban areas. to everyone who lives in an urban area, you are not immune and protected from this virus. that's why we say no matter where you live you need to wear a mask and socially distance. >> the u.s. now has more than 4.6 million known coronavirus cases. roughly 1/4 of the world's total. more than 154,000 americans have

died. a new projection from the cdc suggests another 18,000 or more people could die in the next three weeks. meanwhile, the test positivity rate which shows how fast the virus is spreading is going up. it's rising across 2/3 of the u.s. compared to last week. u.n. infection numbers are holding steady at half the country. florida and california seen in red are the most dangerous hot spots. u.s. president donald trump spent sunday playing golf without a mask. it's his 284th visit to one of his own clubs since taking office. in the midst of mixed messages, mr. trump has used much rosier terms to describe the outbreak than his top experts. jeremy diamond has more on that. >> reporter: in recent days we have watched as president trump has continued to downplay the severity of the coronavirus falsely claiming time and again that the rising cases we are

seeing in the u.s. is due to an increase in testing. the president also continuing to hawk hydroxychloroquine, the drug that has proven to be an ip effective treatment for coronavirus. the message we're hearing from the public health experts within the same administration is very, very different including the message we heard on sunday from dr. deborah birx. the white house coronavirus task force coordinator. she made clear that this is extremely widespread making c r clear that it's happening in the early days and also in rural communities. she gave a message specifically to the rural communities encouraging them to practice the mitigation efforts. listen to her warning about the seriousness of the situation in the united states. >> we are in a new phase and that's why i really wanted to make it clear to the american people. it's why we started putting out governor reports directly to the health officials and governors in every single state, because

we could see that each state had to be taylored. this epidemic right now is different and it's more widespread and it's both rural and urban. >> reporter: now dr. birx did say she is seeing something that is, quote, a bit reassuring, and that is the notion that it appears that cases in the west and the south may be beginning to plateau or even decline, saying that it seems that those mitigation efforts that have been put in place in some of those states are working, but she is also making clear that the states that are beginning to see even slight increases in their test positivity rate needs to immediately begin to slow down the reopening plans and ramp up the mitigation efforts. >> dr. birx is defending her handling of the coronavirus outbreak. she took issue with a "new york times" story from last month detailing her role but she had nothing but kind words for house

speaker nancy pelosi despite reports that pelosi had strongly criticized dr. birx last week. when questioned about it, pelosi didn't back down. >> i think the president is spreading disinformation about the virus and she is his -- she is his appointee. so i don't have confidence there, no. >> i have tremendous respect for the e tremendous respect for her long dedication to the american people and i think it was unfortunate that "new york times" wrote this article without speaking to me. i have never been called polyannish or nonscientific or data driven. i will stake my 40 year career on the fundamental principles of utilizing data to utilize data to implement programs to save lives. >> joining me is dr. ali khan. he's the dean of the university

of nebraska's college of public health. thank you for being with us, doctor. >> thank you for the opportunity. >> white house coronavirus task force coordinator dr. deborah birx warned americans that the coronavirus is more widespread than ever in both rural and urban areas. not only did she insist that everyone wear a mask in public, but she also said that anyone living in a multi-generational home should consider wearing a mask inside the house if they're in a high-risk group. so dr. birx blamed the increase in cases on people refusing to wear masks and social distance. is it enough to blame people without following that up with a national mask mandate? wouldn't that make sense? >> absolutely. there's probably three questions in that statement of yours. so because of the greatest public health failure in the united states ever, we have gone from approximately 100 cases per million per day to 200 cases per

million per day. intere there's no doubt it is more widespread than previously. there's no doubt if everybody wore masks we could get the cases down. that's only part of the picture. we have to be very careful about shifting blame for the failed public health response to individuals. yes, individuals need to wear mask but the government needs to do its job in leadership in use of data and in dropping community transmission with test and trace and isolation. >> dr. birx also defended herself against accusations against democratic house speaker nancy pelosi that the trump administration is spreading disinformation. there is no evidence that dr. birx did but she said there are great signs. do you see any reassuring signs? >> nationally i see no

reassuring signs. with all due respect to dr. deborah birx, we don't have a national strategy. our current national strategy to me seems to be 1,000 national deaths. this is a herd immunity while we wait for a vaccine and protect vulnerable individuals. >> white house admiral says wearing masks and avoiding indoor gatherings would have the same effect of lockdowns. >> getting this under control is going to require things. mask wearing is appropriate, avoiding gatherings, but where is the test and trace? where is the isolation of people who have disease? where's timely testing?

where's robust testing? it's very easy to go point at individuals and say this is your fault. this is the biggest public health fair our ever in the united states. the government needs to step up with leadership. >> many thanks to dr. khan there. storm warnings have been extended further along the u.s. east coast as tropical storm isaias is expected to grow to hurricane strength when it reaches the carolinas. alerts have been issued up the coast. the tropical storm is bringing heavy wind, rain, rough tides to florida after slamming into the bahamas on sunday. let's turn to our meteorologist pedram javaheri. what are you seeing in the next few hours and days? >> the storm has the potential, as you mentioned, to strengthen. the gulf stream where this is going to be parked over within

the next couple of hours, it doesn't take much to get this to a hurricane. just 4 miles per hour shy of what is being did he have va 125i9ed off the east coast of no da. we are feeling the tropical force winds on the east coast. the environment is such here, you have high pressure to the east, we have jet streams trying to push it back to the east as well. if you put this in place it will skirt the eastern coast line whether it makes landfall at the carolinas. we're going to watch that carefully. but if the next landfall is to occur, we think it would happen in about a 24 hour period. essentially tuesday morning local time across the region somewhere between the borders of north and south carolina, myrtle beach, that's a tropical storm, potentially strong one making

landfall across the region. eventually by tuesday night into wednesday morning potentially a tropical storm with the approaching areas of northeastern united states. more on that in a minute. 2 to 4 feet, that's the storm surge from areas around myrtle beach, charleston. this is the day here. it is a full moon today which means the astronomical high tide for the entire month of august is taking place on this monday. you look at the timing, the high tide is expected to be around 9 p.m. at 6 1/4 feet and 2 to 4 feet on top of that could take the water levels up to 10 feet. that would bring water into the height of charleston. in the that may be the case. you put all of this together, rosemary, 50, 60, 70 mile per hour winds on top of a saturated

soil leads to power outages for the concerns to be rather widespread in the northeast. we'll watch this with power outages, the pandemic, typically slower and timed responses to these events could make them difficult to go in the next few weeks in that region. >> this along with the pandemic, it's too much for many families to have to handle. pedram, many thanks for bringing us up to speed on that. then on the other side of the u.s. where the pandemic is raging, of course, they are dealing with a wildfire. thousands of people have been driven from their homes in southern california due to this. the u.s. forest says the apple fire has scorched more than 20,000 acres, that's 8,000 hectares. so far, no injuries reported. local fire officials say the mountainous landscape is making it difficult to put out the flames. >> we've got extremely steep,

rugged terrain. we have many different drainages that are all kind of intersecting together and that creates these funneling effects of different wind patterns. it creates more erratic fire behavior. with that we have very thick brush. we have a flammable ecosystem called shap pa rel. it hasn't burned here in a long time. we don't have a lot of fire history in the area. >> at least one home and two other buildings have been destroyed by the fire. california has the nation's number one choice. after the break, one of australia's most popular states declares a state of disaster after hundreds of new covid-19 cases are reported. the latest on the situation in victoria. that's next. it cleans grease five times faster

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new stricter lockdown measures are now taking effect in the path of the state of victoria. the premier declared a state of

disaster after almost 700 new infections and 7 deaths were reported saturday. tight restrictions, which include a nightly curfew for melbourne will be in effect for six weeks. let's go now to cnn's anna coren. she joins us live from hong kong. good to see you, anna. australia was so successful in containing this virus the first time it hit, and now it's responding quickly again with severe and strict measures. so talk to us about that and the very latest on this. >> reporter: rosemary, we have to remember that for the last month the city of melbourne, australia's second largest city with 5 million residents, have been under the stage three lockdown. it has certainly been limited as to their activities. they cannot leave melbourne. they cannot leave victoria's borders, but despite those restrictions, the number of daily infections have been growing every single day. it's 4, 500 cases.

last week it got up to 700 cases. so officials realized that their strategy was not working, that they had to impose a much harsher restrictions. hence, stage 4 restrictions were announced yesterday. that, as you eluded to, means curfew. 8 p.m. through till 5 a.m. no one is allowed out on the streets for non-essential businesses will be closed for the next six weeks along with schools and child care centers. only one member of each household will be allowed to leave the house and shop for groceries each day. people are al loud outside to exercise but only for one hour a day. the premier daniel said this will cause severe pain, there's no doubt about it, but this is the only way to control this crisis. he said there is no stage 5. this is all they've got in their bag of tricks, and the

australian prime minister, scott morrison, he spoke a short time ago and he said what victoria is doing is necessary. it's obviously heartbreaking. extremely frustrating for those people who have been under lockdown for the last month. they have another six weeks ahead of them. he said this needs to happen to really bring this pandemic under control. he is offering payments, disaster payments of up to $1,000 to every victorian who tests positive saying there should be no economic reason for people who are infected to not self-isolate for 14 days because as we know, rosemary, there were victorians who were still going out to work when they were sick, when they had gone and had tests and were waiting results. even those who had tested positive for coronavirus. they were still going into the workplace. hence, this has spread like wildfire in melbourne. people have not been taking it seriously enough, have been lax in their approach.

hence, the government is coming saying this needs to happen to bring these numbers down. rosema rosemary? >> anna coren joining us live from hong kong bringing us up to date on the situation in australia. appreciate it. earlier i talked to kathleen bennett, a professor and chair at deacon university in melbourne. i asked her if she thought these new measures were taken seriously and successful? >> we did so well with the first wave. we had lots of cases imported with return travelers and we did go very quickly to a strict lockdown at the time, which we called stage 3. that had a great impact in that we eliminated local transmission pretty much across the country and we were managing return travelers really as our main concern for most of may and june. when we saw the cases rise,

which was due to essentially a reintroduction of the virus through travelers and a breakdown in quarantine in the hotel quarantine system, we ended up with quite a rapid rise in cases quickly but because we had such an early investment from the first phase and we had only 100 deaths australia wide at that point, the decision was made to go hard again. unfortunately like with other countries, there's a different dynamic with the second wave. there is a lot of fatigue. people perhaps in australia didn't take it as seriously because we had done the right things and gotten off lightly in the first phase. in the city of melbourne we need to fully contain this. we did flatten the curve. while we saw the numbers rise quite quickly, for the last week it's stable but we are beyond the peak.

there wasn't enough push in terms of people's compliance to actually start to really brt the numbers down. that's what led to this next level of restrictions to really try and shorten this now, get the numbers down and get the numbers back to the point where we're hopeful we can suppress the virus and eliminate local infection again. >> australians like americans, british citizens, are not comfortable wearing masks. there has been push back. on the whole, people are starting to get used to the idea. as an epidemiologist, do you think life can return to some sort of normal as long as people wear masks in all public places and could this be a way to avoid shutdowns? avoid the shutdowns that leads to economic stress which creates problems of its own? >> absolutely.

it's interesting how people adopted masks. there was a lot more talk and push back but in fact in melbourne, before we even went to mandatory masks, i would go to the supermarket and at least half the people there were wearing masks. so it's going to become much more of the norm. i think when that happens it's easier to understand how effective it can be, so what compliance looks like. and if people are wearing it, then it does allow you to perhaps ease some other restrictions as we go ahead that make life more bearable and more sustainable from an economic point of view but also, you know, factors in even what is the new norm, which is keeping up with social distancing is very important. the hand hygiene remains critical. that all becomes more habitual along with mask wearing, then we probably are in a position where we can look to ease restrictions again, but we have to stay on alert. the victorian story tells us what, you know, is probably one

traveller, security guards became infected at work, took it back to different parts of the community that are really well-connected just as we were relaxing restrictions. like other countries in the world, you see them comply. even with masks and other precautions, you have to stay on the lookout the signals that the new level of community transmission might be taking off and then do what is happening in new south wales, going in very aggressively with contact tracing and testing very early. that's the only way you can pull these outbreaks back and stop these waves. >> katheryn bennett talking to me last hour. authorities in the british city of manchester have declared a major incident after a recent rise in coronavirus infections. officials say this will allow agencies to better coordinate their response. the u.k. government has already tightened restrictions in northern england, including banning people from mingling with those from other

households. the u.k. has over 306,000 cases of coronavirus, that's according to johns hopkins university, and the fourth highest number of coronavirus deaths worldwide with more than 46,000. let's get more details now on this with cnn's nic robertson. he joins us from downing street. good to see you, nic. what more are you learning about the rapid rise in the city of cases in manchester? >> reporter: yeah. this affects a large number of people, actually, rosemary. 2.7 million people live in the greater manchester area. they all fall under there. what the local authorities are trying to do is essentially allow them to better manages the government's restrictions that are close by. those instructions, as you say, households should not mingle, either within the house or in

pubs and restaurants, that's a very clear piece of guidance. that has been given because quite simply the government has been able to look at statistics of who's getting infected and how and see how the majority of infections are either somebody coming into your house and spending time in your house or you going into somebody else's house and spending time there. so this is what caused the government late last week to put this new plan in place for these particular areas, but greater manchester has ten different council areas, and what they are seeing in the worst affected of those, and nine of the ten have all risen remarkably quickly to worrying levels. all of them, population about 1/4 million, is the worst affected. and there they've seen the rates of infection per 100,000, sort of number 100,000 the numbers we're sort of used to hearing

compared to rise over the past couple of weeks from 41 to 62 to 148. so they've really moved very quickly. and that seems to be the new sort of methodology for the government. what's been done in manchester takes it to a new level. you essentially put all the local services under a central command, they get access to better and quicker resources, and i think the expectation in the country at the moment is this could become the model that would be applied to other areas. the government recognizes and the prime minister has said he's had to put the brakes on some of the easing measures that were due to come into effect over the weekend. weddings were supposed to involve groups of up to 30 people. the reception, that has been put on hold because the prime minister thinks there's a second wave coming. >> that is the big concern. nic robertson live from 10 downing street in london.

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welcome back, everyone. microsoft says it's still discussing a possible purchase of tiktok. that follows president trump's threat friday to ban the popular video app from operating in the u.s. tiktok is owned by a chinese startup. len nghi jokos is live to join us to talk about this. microsoft is still toying with the idea of purchasing tiktok. how will the security concerns

be taken care of? >> reporter: an american company purchasing it will take care of many of the concerns. under chinese law, if the government were to replace any data information that they wanted, then a chinese owned company would have to be beholden to those rules. what's interesting is microsoft says they are currently in discussions with bytedance which is the parent company to purchase the u.s. operations. they're looking to purchase the canadian operations as well as new zealand operations. this is an interesting twist in events. on friday president trump said a ban could be imminent, he's willing to issue an executive order to do so. we know microsoft was on the phone with president trump. the ceo says, look, they're going to get this done by the 15th of september. they're going to move quickly.

you have to look at valuations, the risks involved. now whether bytedance is going to want to give up its prized asset is going to be interesting to watch. bytedance wants to shake off the reputation of being a chinese company. it is under the chinese jurisdiction. india has banned tiktok, which is interesting because they've also cited national security concerns. australia has mentioned their worries and so, too, has south korea. this is definitely not an issue just endemic to the united states. the big game changer here will be and of course the fate of tiktok in the u.s. really does hinge on an acquisition and change in ownership. for the millions of tiktok users in the u.s., they have cited their concerns and anger and they've said they're heart broken and of course that is going to be an interesting one to watch. many of these people will be heading to the polls on this

year. interesting what happens when you take away a favorite social media platform. rosemary. >> an incentive for the young voters to get out there. we'll see what happens. u.s. lawmakers and white house officials will meet again in the coming hours to try to reach agreement on a stimulus plan. a key sticking point is the extension of the $600 weekly unemployment benefit that expired last week. republicans view it as a disincentive for some americans to go back to work and want it cut to $200. they want states moved to benefits based on percentage of workers' wages. >> the fact is they put on this floor at the end of the week $200. so when you say, we don't want 600, they have no support. we are ub any fied in our support at $600. they are in disarray.

>> mark meadows and i will be back here every single day until we reach an agreement. we understand there's a need to compromise but on the other hand there's a big need to get kids into school, get people back to jobs and keep the economy open and keep people safe. >> and for many americans, that extra $600 helps pay the rent and if it's discontinued, they worry they could end up out on the street. cnn's paul bercammen has one family's story. >> reporter: tension on the streets of los angeles this weekend. economic worry. people wondering how they're going to make ends meet. the $600 from the federal government gone and looming on the horizon, how to pay your rent or make up for rent that has not been paid. there is a moratorium on the things in the city of los angeles, but in the state some other eviction moratoriums may go away soon. we talked to the alvarez family.

they haven't been able to pay rent in three months and they are greatly concerned about what's going to happen down the road when someone comes to collect that rent check. >> we need real help, like cancel the rent because -- we live with the pressure we can't pay the rent. as soon as this is over, another one is here and how are we supposed to do that when we can barely pay for the month we're living in. >> reporter: also at play here, landlords, many of them in southern california relying on rental income to make their living. and one community activist said this is all such a double-edged sword. >> what we need to do is not only explore but we need to act boldly and put programs in place that will protect the renters and the landlords. we understand that. most of the renters that i speak with, if not all of them, they

want to pay their rents but it doesn't help. the lapped lords will suffer, especially the mom and pop landlords and that worries me a lot. >> reporter: it could give relief to landlords and renters. stay tuned on that. california reckoning the covid-19 pandemic and the very serious consequences on health as well as all of these economic whoas. reporting from los angeles, i'm paul bercammen, back to you. japan marked a fifth straight day of 1,000 confirmed infections. tokyo is requesting restaurants and bars that serve alcohol to close at 10 p.m. to help mitigate the risk of spreading the virus further.

meanwhile, china announced 43 new covid cases on sunday. it says the majority of them were locally transmitted. and philippine president rodrigo duterte said he is reimpoetsing restrictions. they have more than 100,000 new cases. it will cover the capital city of manila and nearby provinces. anyone under 21, 60 and older or those with health risks have to stay home. the only exceptions are for buying essentials and going to work. more than 2,000 people in the philippines have died from the virus. well, the coronavirus death toll is soaring across latin america and the caribbean. health officials there have now confirmed more than 200,000 fatalities since the pandemic began. brazil accounts for almost half that total. its outbreak is by far the worst of the region.

more than 2 point upon 7 million cases have been reported in brazil so far. despite the mounting death toll, some brazilians are refusing to take this seriously. in fact, in some areas life is starting to look much like it did before the pandemic. cnn's nick peyton walsh is in rio with more. >> 94,000 dead now here in brazil. a startingly high number a country which at times appears to be day-to-day acting as if the disease hasn't taken a regrip of the population. we've seen over the weekend the number of deaths contributed to by just over 500 and 25,800 new cases. startlingly high new numbers but for brazil because of reporting like over the weekend, not as high as we've been seeing in the 50,000 or so cases that have been reported and some over the past couple of weeks. the disease continues to tear its way through the high levels

of government. the comptroller general reporting himself positive last week. that comes after the first lady, michelle bolsonaro said she had tested positive and after her husband, president bolsonaro, the man whose behavior is watched. he was seen in the south of the country meeting supporters in the town waving hydroxychloroquine, a medicine proven ineffective in study after study and may even be harmful for people with coronavirus. he was seen, too, on sunday leaving the presidential residence in brazilia, the capitol, without wearing a mask. it's surprising to see how daily life tries to carry on uninpacted and how the government appears to behave as if it isn't the most grave

problem they face. president bolsonaro was critical over the weekend about how local officials had been providing unemployment support by those affected by a lockdown. brazil's government doing its best to downplay the disease. nick payton, walsh, cnn. and coming up, tens of thousands of kurds on the turkish/syrian border have been displaced after their american allies abandoned them last year. we'll have an update when we come back. food soils some detergents can leave behind, washing away even the smallest food residue, so it doesn't redeposit on your dishes. and oxi is cascade's most powerful clean, formulated without any chlorine bleach, for a deep hygienic clean you can see and feel. cascade + the power of oxi. the #1 recommended brand in north america.

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it has been about nine months since president trump abruptly abandoned kurdish allies on the turkish/syria border. without support they are largely left to fend for themselves.

cnn's arwa damon is live in istanbul. she joins us live. arwa, tell us what the kurds are facing now after being abandoned by the united states. >> reporter: very, very difficult conditions, rosemary, and it's not just the kurdish fighting force inside syria, which is known as the ypt. now this force is considered to be a terrorist organization by turkey given their close ties to the kurdish separatist group, the pkk, that turkey has been battling for decades. the bulk of that fight is concentrated in northern iraq and that is where now turkey has launched a wide scale military operation. >> translator: you see that smoke? that's from our fields. it's hardly the first time that turkey has launched strikes in

the kurdish semiautonomous region targeting the pkk strong holds in the harsh mountain terrain. amid lived in a strong village nearby fleeing with his family in the middle of the night. his elderly mother shows us how she was shaken. for decades the turkish state has been at war with the pkk designated a terrorist organization, not just by turkey but also the e.u. and the united states. this is the largest air and ground offensive since the 1990s. turkey says it's just trying to protect its borders and stop the kurdish pkk fighters from moving into syria. in october of last year turkey invaded neighboring northern syria going after a related kurdish group called the ypt, a sister organization to the pkk. what makes the situation so thorny is that the kurdish force

turkey attacked in syria makes up the bulk of the fighting forces partnering with the u.s. in the battles against isis. the americans abandoned their kurdish allies withdrawing from key positions. the turks swept it. tens of thousands of civilians fled. today turkey still occupies the region carrying out joint patrols with the russians and americans. >> the presence of defense forces comes the complication of the need to be able to teach each one of them separately and each of them has their own. >> reporter: when it comes to the u.s., it's all about isis. they frequently have their partnership fighting isis with the kurdish ypg as part of the fighting force. >> i want to describe how we are partnering with the spf. the current threat from isis

lets you know of some other areas, other topics that we are collaborating to help the people of this region. >> reporter: yet when the kurds need big brother america or for that matter any others to step in and help them, all remain on the sideline. in northern iraq his farm lands are charred and his children miss running around outside. blame is shared, he says. our government can't do anything in the face of turkey or the pkk. countries need to get involved. it can't go on like this, but it will, as it always has. the curkurds have a proverb. no friend but the mountains, they say. >> and, rosemary, both the syrian and iraqi battle spaces

are quite complex with multiple players and competing interests. add to all of this, of course, the coronavirus pandemic where we have cases rising in both of these areas that already have a very lacking medical infrastructure and that has also impacted on access to humanitarian aid. when it comes to the civilian populations in these areas, they're really feeling the brunt of multiple wars, whether it's actual fighting or whether it's the more invisible battle against covid-19. >> awful situation. arwa damon bringing us up to date from her vantage point in istanbul. many thanks. still to come, what lifts off must splash down. the spacex capsule carrying two astronauts has returned safely to earth. the exciting details after the break.

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breaking news. nobel peace prize winner john hume has died. his death was announced by the democratic labor party he once led. he played an instrumental role and won his nobel peace prize in

1998, the year the peace agreement there was signed. well, the head coach of the philadelphia eagles is the latest member of the nfl to test positive for covid-19. on sunday the eagles confirmed that doug pedersen has an asymptomatic infection. they say he's doing well and is currently in self-quarantine. the team has notified anyone who is in close contact with him and asked him to follow the league safety protocols. major league baseball player cespedes is opting out of the game. he made the decision on sunday without telling the team. he skipped the day in atlanta and went missing for part of the day. the team sent security and eventually they found out about his decision and called it a surprising move. well, a safe return to earth

for two nasa astronauts sunday. >> splash down. >> there it is. spacex's crew dragon spacecraft safely splashed down in the gulf of mexico proving the first ever manned commercial flight a success. we are taken through the final moments. >> nasa astronauts making history with crew dragon's successful splash down in the gulf of mexico off the coast of pensacola after a two-month stay at the international space station and 19 hour journey. after the capsule parachuted into the ocean at around 15 miles per hour. a far cry from the 17,500 miles per hour it was traveling at just before reentering the earth's atmosphere.

they underwent medical assessments. this means spacex has indeed made history becoming the first private company safely bringing them home and finally returning u.s. human space flight to americans after retirement of the shuttle program nine long years ago. now this technically was a test mission intended to certify spacex's crew dragon spacecraft for future operational missions which could start flying as soon as two months from now. this is all part of a multi-billion dollar contract spacex has with nasa to regularly run missions ushering in a new program. back to you. >> thanks so much and thanks for your company. i'm rosemary church. "early start" is up next. you're watching cnn. have a wonderful day. want to brain better?

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the u.s. in a new phase now fighting coronavirus. cases are more spread out across the country, but the number of new cases is finally trending down. meantime, a tropical storm set to make a mess on the entire east coast this week. there's a new report just in from the national hurricane center. we'll take you live along the florida coast. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is "early start." i'm christine romans. >> i'm boris sanchez in for