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welcome to our viewers joining us from the united states. i'm becky anderson in our middle east programming. we continue. with our coverage with the blast in beirut that rocked the entire city and the region. beirut is a city in shock.

mourning its dead and comforting its injured. this site, a monstrous explosion that ripped through the heart of the capital shocked the country and, indeed the world. the lebanese no stranger to destruction, the country's history will tell you that. listen to what some people there are saying about how this was different. >> in 2006 i went to south lebanon to see this. it took 30 days to do the same destruction. we had it in one explosion. i've never seen something like that. >> i heard the rumors and trying to understand what happened. there was lots of confusion and rage that this could happen. there's massive negligence or

act of terror. we don't under. you have to worry about wearing your facemask because you got coronavirus at the hospital for treating a small wound. >> across the city buildings bore the brunt of the blast's sheer force. this is one example. one said i found myself flying back from the hit. i thought the building was going down. mohamed is on the line from beirut. you describe a truly terrifying experience. thoughts and prayers with the people of beirut the this morning. where were you in relation to the blast and what happened, mohamed? >> good morning, becky. i was around 200 meter or 300 meter away from the blast itself.

i was in my house and i was one of the lucky ones that i stayed alive. there's a lot of old houses that exist on this treat as well. they were demolished on top of their inhabitants. the number have rised to 100 people. there's still a lot of missing people. the scene is really catastrophic. this is the worst thing i've ever seen, even worse than 2006 war. >> mohamed, how are people coping this morning? >> i think, i think we're still under -- i mean what's happened is really huge. is really big. you need the screen to clean their places, clean their houses. try to connect with each other.

make sure everyone they know is safe. there's a huge process or huge demand for more accountability, for more transparency and more rule of law and more judicial independence. what really happened is not something that was surprising for many of us because we're living in a country where in the last 30 years we have this political oligarchy that controls the political scene and they control the institution and he they control all the agencies and this is full of corruption, full of neglect, ignorance. so there was no surprise that this was a decision that happened as a result, this explosion happened. and also the last year or so we have this economic collapse. we have the banks are taking our money.

there's no corrupt person in jail. no one in charge of what's happening. >> mohamed, the prime minister said the explosion was at the site of explosive materials that have been stored at the port for some six years. he vowed to conduct a thorough investigation and to hold those responsible to account. give wren what you just said, do you trust this government is equipped to cope with this disaster and will be transparent in its efforts to get to the bottom of what happened? >> this government is not equipped. this government is very weak. it's been appointed by the state political oligarchy. the prime minister is weak. they can't say anything else than that. they can say they will do an investigation. there's blame going around. the judge or some decision by some judge somewhere. really the problem is -- i also see some places where they are

blaming t blaming them of doing some work yesterday. really, i don't trust this state. people don't trust them. i don't think there's going to be any result. >> there are offers of support flooding in, not just from the region but importantly from the region but around the world. as a citizen of beirut, when you reflect on what happened last night where you are this morning, what does this city need, mohamed? >> i think many people have lost their place where they live. i think because of the port as well there's a lot of medical, there's a lot of food in it as well because we import 80% of everything we consume. so most of it has been vanished.

so basically whatever has vanished is the need of the people of the city. otherwise there will be starvation, less medicine around especially with covid-19. so medical support, food is the most urgent thing. >> mohamed, we will leave it there. we thank you very much, indeed. >> thank you, becky. >> our condolences. we'll continue to cover this story and stay on it. let's turn now to the substance believed to be the cause of the deadly explosion. ammonium nitrate. 2750 tons of it was stored at beirut port. now just to put that into perspective, only about two tons of ammonium nitrate was used in the 1995 oklahoma city bombing in the u.s. ammonium nitrate is used to make

explosives. it reacts when any kind of energy is applied to it. knowing how dangerous it is questions are being raised why it was stored so close to a densely-populated area. for the very latest developments let's get to our reporter who is monitoring things for you from istanbul. let's begin with the situation on the ground. tragically the death toll continues to climb as does the number of those injured. >> reporter: you know, becky, as you know, beirut very well this is a city that has seen it all. but it has seen nothing like this. by all accounts everyone would tell you they have gone through wars, terror attacks, assassinations in 2004 and '05. nothing like this. it is a city devastated. the lebanese government has declared it a devastated city. this is a national emergency. they have said you've got entire

neighborhoods as you heard from your guest early on, entire neighborhoods that have been decimated by this blast. search-and-rescue operations are, of course, ongoing but with very limited capabilities. we've heard authorities there straight after the blast calling for more support for emergency services, for medical services to be heading in to beirut to help them with the first response to this incident. according to the house minister, becky, at least 80 people have been killed. these are the confirmed dead bodies that have been retrieved according to the health minister. more than 4,000 people injured. they are warning these numbers are going to rise. there are people who are buried underneath the rubble. so many people unaccounted for. so many people in beirut are searching for their loved ones.

dozens either people going to hospitals, frantically looking for their loved ones or we're seeing so many posts on social media, photos of those missing phone numbers looking for them. >> save the children. saying there are likely many children killed and traumatized. it sound like we're having technical difficulties from istanbul. save the children sadly saying there are likely many children affected, killed, injured or traumat traumatized. the impact felt across the city and indeed around the region. we'll continue bringing you the very latest from here. for the time being it's back to atlanta and rosemary church who

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we are looking at live pictures here from beirut in lebanon. three days of mourning in the aftermath of this explosion. we don't know the cause of it. what we do know from the redcross that some 100 people have been killed, 4,000 have been injured. of course those numbers the death toll is expected to rise with many more people still missing. so looking at those live pictures in the aftermath of this devastating and deadly explosion in beirut at the port there. we will continue to follow this, of course. but let's go to our other main story that we've been following, the coronavirus death toll in the united states is now nearing 157,000 cases. president trump is defending his administration's response to the

pandemic, claiming it's under control even though his own health experts say it is not. on tuesday the president tweeted this photo and noted he had a great meeting with the coronavirus task force in the oval office. the last time he attended an official task force meeting was back in april, according to a cnn source. it's not clear what led to the change. while the president insists the pandemic is under control cases are still surging in some parts of the country. cnn's erica hill shows us some of the hot spots. >> our notion response to the pandemic should be a national embarrassment. >> it's under control as much as you can control it. >> the data that comes from the white house task force, that's what dr. birx said. there's uncontrolled spread in over 32 states in the country. >> reporter: six months into this pandemic the virus is not under control. despite the president's claims.

cases surging in southern illinois. >> the data can tell you if you're winning or losing against the virus. unfortunately, right now, the virus is winning in jackson county. >> reporter: early gains given way to spikes in san francisco. >> people pretty much following complacency. they aren't scared any more of what's going on. >> reporter: there are some bright spots, california's positivity rate is declining and 14 states including arizona and florida are seeing a dip in new cases over the past week, of the 28 states in yellow those holding steady many are plateauing at a very high level. >> i think those new levels will make what we had already boy i wish we were back in the old days. >> reporter: deaths which lag two to four weeks are rising in these 27 states. arkansas and west virginia seeing record hospitalizations. georgia has a surge hospital

again. >> it saddens me we're still headed in the wrong direction so many months after we had an opportunity to get on the other side of covid-19. >> reporter: in georgia the largest school district, 260 employees can't work because they've either tested positive or been exposed to the virus. two new studies suggest testing and contact tracing still lacking are the key to re-opening schools. >> we don't want to endanger one student, one teacher, one support professional, one community member. >> reporter: teachers in one phoenix district calling on the governor to issue statewide safety mandates as arizona's top education official warns it's unlikely any school in that state will be able to re-open safely for in person or hybrid learning. >> if you just look at the facts the u.s. has about 4% of the world's population and about a quarter of the cases, 25% of the cases. we definitely have a problem here in the u.s.

>> reporter: mississippi's governor ordering a statewide mask mandate for the next two weeks. he said this will help get kids to schools. that man tate will apply to schools, both teachers and students. the governor delaying in person learning in some of the state's hot spots for those in grades 7 through 12. in new york i'm erica hill, cnn. joining me now is dr. amy phillips a cnn medical analyst and chief clinical officer for providence health system overseeing clinical care at dozens of u.s. hospitals. thank you, doctor, for being with us and for everything do you. >> always a pleasure, rosemary. >> i do want to start with that extraordinary interview president trump did with axios. the president tried to say the coronavirus was under control and said it is what it is, referring to the soaring death toll and added his administration was doing all it can. what's your reaction to his suggestion he's done all he can.

>> my reaction is that that is akin to throwing in the white towel. i do not believe we've done all we can. we had over 150,000 americans die of this disease. compared to other countries, that's an astounding death rate. we got children trying to figure out how to bury their parents. this is not okay. it cannot be what it is. we can't be complacent and accept it. we have to keep fighting. >> in that same interview president trump didn't appear to understand the fundamentals of this pandemic, fumbling questions on the country's death rate. he doesn't look at death as proportion of population he looks as deaths of proportion of cases which of course makes him look better. what was your response to that part of the interview and what's the most reliable way to analyze these numbers anticipate compare them to other nations to see

where the u.s. and other nations sit. >> he keeps arguing we're doing more testing and finding more cases. we find more cases because we have more cases. we have more people dying of this disease. so if you just follow deaths per population that is as valid as any other measure we can get to look across different countries and the u.s. very unfortunately excels in that measure. it's not one we want to he lead in and one we stand out for. >> doctor, in the president's briefing tuesday he said his testing efforts have been incredible and then falsely claimed people were getting tests back in a matter of minutes. now that might be his own personal experience at the white house but certainly not for everyone else. do you think he doesn't understand what's going on across america when it comes to testing or do you think he's trying to mislead us? >> it's hard to put myself in the mind of the president.

i can say people going to the white house getting a test. his personal experience might be telling him something different than the rest of the country is experiencing. the rest of the country is not getting that kind of service. you know, if we had and what we're working on developing now is an inexpensive antigen test. we can do that for every person every day. that's not what exists. it might exist in his mind it doesn't exist in reality on the ground. >> our thank to dr. amy phillips for her perspective. more than 3.7 million people are without power as a huge storm makes its way up the east coast of the united states. isaias is now a post-tropical cyclone, according to the national hurricane center. the storm has killed at least five people including several people whose deaths are being blamed on falling trees. there have been preliminary

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in news from beirut the number of dead now, at least 100. from a massive explosion that leveled the city's port. the red cross said 4,000 people were hurt. today there's a national day of mourning in lebanon.

>> oh, my god! oh, my god! >> beirut hospitals are overwhelmed with injured survivors. one person says the city looked like an apocalypse. right now search-and-rescue efforts under way. lebanon's prime minister said more than 2700 tons of a highly explosive material ammonium nitrate had been stored for years at a port warehouse without proper safety measures. beirut's governor says the catastrophe is unlike anything the city has seen. cnn's ben wedeman has more for you now from beirut. >> reporter: no one knows yet how many people died in tuesday's blast in beirut.

the destruction was so extensive, the shock wave felt across the city. the emergency services so overwhelmed it was up to whoever could help to provide a bit of comfort to the injured. open lots turned into field hospitals. the blasts happened just after 6:00 in the evening. with what started as a fire in a port warehouse, culminating with an explosion the likes of which war scattered lebanon has never seen. the whole house collapsed upon us this woman says. in an instant lives were lost and livelihoods destroyed. this person has come to the wreckage of what was his electric goods store. 40 years he says war, we've seen woes of every kind but not like this. as if the knick crisis, the

coronavirus, the revolution weren't enough this tops them all. life was already a struggle in lebanon with its economy in free falling and coronavirus on the rise and now this. >> we got here an hour ago and as you can see it's destroyed. we've been open since october and we've been fighting every month with different circumstances, economic situati situation. it's a catastrophe. what's happening in lebanon is catastrophic. >> reporter: in the word of the lebanese-american poet, pity the nation. ben wedeman, cnn, beirut. the explosion in beirut was so powerful it registered a 3.3 magnitude earthquake shattering windows and damaging balle inin far away from the epicenter. a journalist shared images of her home on twitter immediately following the blast.

every window is blown out. the doors ripped off their hinges. she described what she called utter chaos writing i'm walking through streets strewn with shattered glass in a black out with injured people stumbling about and ambulances wailing. hospital staff pulling bodies out of hospitals. one out of three out of commission. the damage is staggering. how will lebanon bounce back? well bel tru welch joins me from beir beirut. how are people coping and coming to terms with what has happened? >> it really feels like a nation that is completely stunned. i went down this morning in my neighborhood which is a kilometer from the epicenter of the blast. people were trying to clear the broken glass from the streets. shards of metal. destroyed shop front, destroyed

homes. some people were still looking for their missing loved ones. instagram accounts being started. already got 60,000 followers of people sharing photographs of people who are still missing. it really still does feel like utter chaos. the hospitals are really at breaking points. particularly those who were damaged in the shockwaves that hit the whole area. >> the prime minister vowing to hold whoever is responsible for the explosion to account. but what such an enormous cache of highly explosive material doing stored at the port so close to the city for six years and who knew about it and did nothing. all questions that people of beirut want answered this morning, bel. >> absolutely. million dollar question here. everyone wants to know how this could have happened, 2700 tons

of ammonium nitrate being stored at a port that's close to residential areas. within the radius there's streets of restaurants and bars that are often busy in the evenings. people want to know how this possibly happened and why this explosive material was kept there for so many years without proper safety measures. of course it comes at a time when lebanese already angry at their government. they are experiencing a financial collapse that reached a crescendo in october. people already very hungry. people want jobs. they are struggling among crippling power cuts. this blast -- obviously i covered wars and bombings i never felt that kind of explosion. it was huge. it really did just rip through central beirut at such a difficult time. >> politically this port is under the influence of the speaker of the house and his

political party which, of course, is closely aligned to rumor and conjecture exactly who knew what was being held there and for how long. at this point the morning after people will be reflecting on just what has happened and how as you rightly asked last night, how lebanon will bounce back. what are your thoughts at this stage? >> well, really, i can't really see how it will bounce back without an exceptional amount of international help, because the country, as i said, is already limping through this financial crisis. you know, lebanese l ira lost 80% of its value since the start of the year. already seeing such high inflation in terms of food costs. people don't label their food produce because it changes. suffering from 20 to 22 hour power cuts. most homes are relying on

generators. fuel is running out. people were experiencing total black outs for large periods of the day. businesses were destroyed, of course, by the coronavirus pandemic. knocked down as well as the fact people are locked down and many businesses, sorry, accounts. at so many levels disaster here. for this to happen and it to be due to something like negligence wig push people over the edge. i don't see how the country can do it on its own. >> bel trew is in beirut as we look at pictures. the aftermath morning pictures of the port of beirut and for those of us who know this city well, it is absolutely remarkable. i mean, it's almost unbelievable to think that that is a port

that sits just a mile from downtown beirut and that's the image coming to us this morning live from beirut. cnn's team on the ground experiencing the explosion firsthand. here are the first images of our beirut bureau after the blast. you can see the destruction, broken window. ben wedeman writes, it's an earthquake, i thought, as the cnn bureau in central beirut shook tuesday with a violence i've never felt before. i crouched down on the floor waiting for more tremors. a split second later i heard glass shatter and the crunch of metal and you can read the rest of ben's firsthand account of this massive explosion online. there's a link to ben's analysis. a blast like no other on our home page, cnn.com. still to come, lebanon is concerned after u.s. president

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the lebanese red cross has just announced it has set up multiple temporary shelters in beirut as the city struggles to cope with the sheer scale of the devastation launched by a massive explosion which ripped through the city's port sending shockwaves through the city and beyond. lebanese officials are concerned with u.s. president donald trump calling that deadly explosion an attack. lebanon hasn't called the event an attack and officials from the u.s. state department -- sorry department of defense said no indications the explosion were an attack. an official said fit had been the u.s. would automatically be

deploying troops and assets to the region and that hasn't happened so far. when president trump was asked if the blast could have been an accident he doubled down on his claims. >> this was not some kind of a manufacturing explosion type of event. this seems to be, according to them, they seem to think it was an attack. it was a bomb of some kind. >> cnn's senior international correspondent following the story from london. is there any evidence to back up mr. trump's claims at this point? >> reporter: well i just got off the phone with chris hunter who is a decorated explosives expert for many years with the british special force and still works in syria and iraq. he's on leave at the moment. just spoke to him. he said it was scientifically

inconceivable that the main blast that so devastated beirut and we've seen that picture of that giant fast-moving bubble of white smoke that erupted across the city, mr. hunter said was probably close to the speed of sound. he believes strongly given the evidence coming from the government in beirut that there was 2700 tons of ammonium nitrate being stored in that location, and nearby where either fireworks storage or weapons storage that after examining in detail the video footage that he's seen a great deal of it now, it is clear to major hunter that there was an initial fire, however that was started and that it generated sufficient heat that ignited the otherwise pretty wise stable

ammonium nitrate into this explosion causing to it rapidly expand all at once. he also said that if there was 2700 tons of amonmonium nitrate. he does leave the possibility it was either ammunition or fireworks, judging from the initial fire where one could see flashes of light that are caused either by foorks ireworks or ammunition burning off. in his terms it looked like a quote-unquote industrial accident, becky. >> sam kylie is in london. thank you, sam, analysis on certainly what experts appear to believe happened, judging by the images that they have been able to see. countries around the region and around the world are rallying.

qatar, kuwait and iraq are sending field hospitals and supplies to beirut. that's according to lebanese state tv. the uae here has just sent a plane load of aid. iran's foreign minister said his country was ready to help in anyway necessary. britain, turkey, france, spain, just some of the other countries offering condolences and support as well. israel also offering humanitarian medical assistance. approaching lebanon through diplomatic channels. let's get to tel aviv. that offer of humanitarian help coming after israel and israeli officials announcing they had nothing to do with what at the port, elliott. >> reporter: that's right, becky. there's little love lost between israel and lebanon. lebanon, one of just a handful

of countries that israel designate as an enemy state and never diplomatic relations between the two countries. that was one reason why if the foreign minister felt a need to go on television to say israel had nothing to do with this and no reason to believe it was anything other than an accident. at the same time the foreign ministry putting out a statement offering humanitarian aid to the lebanese government. we heard from benjamin netanyahu saying he instructed the national security council with aides to the u.n.'s special coordinator for the middle east peace process to see how israel could help lebanon. we also heard from the president who tweeted out in english, hebrew and arabic saying we share the pain of the lebanese people and sincerely offer our aid. we're hearing in the last 24 hours and the words we're hearing last week tensions were

rising on the border between israel and lebanon really quite stark. a week ago the israeli army said they thwarted an incursion on to the israeli occupied sites by squatter and hezbollah bears responsibility for any retaliation from israel. a week later things are very much focused rather than on the rising tensions between the two countries but perhaps on the tragedy that's happened in beirut and israel's ability and offer to try to lend a hand. >> elliott is in tel aviv for you this morning. thank you. we'll continue to follow the developments out of beirut. the coronavirus pandemic is, of course, our other main story. rosemary church has more on that for you. rosemary. >> thanks so much, becky. yes. top u.s. health official is traveling to taiwan to learn more about the coronavirus. ate high level trip almost certain to anger china.

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a key member of the trump administration is leading a delegation to taiwan to learn

from its success in battling the coronavirus. u.s. health and human services secretary alex azar will arrive in the coming days, despite its proximity to china, taiwan has less than 500 confirmed cases. in just the past hour or so china lashed out over the secretary's visit. cnn's paula hancock is with us now, live from taipei. good to see you, paula. apart from thumbing its nose at china what is this delegation led by the u.s. health secretary expecting to achieve in taiwan and what is china saying about this? >> reporter: well this is a rare visit by a high level u.s. official. this is the highest level since 1979. in four decades. i want really is two fold. as you say the premise for the visit is coronavirus. the fact that taiwan has dealt with the pandemic so well. if you consider this is a country of 23 million people.

they have 476 cases. the vast majority of those were imported and they suffered just seven deaths. clearly taiwan has dealt with this a lot better than most countries around the world and we note the delegation with secretary azar will be meeting with the president and the foreign minister and talking about coronavirus. but there's another element to this. as you say china has already reacted to this visit. bay ying is very unhappy with the fact that there's such a high level u.s. official coming here to taiwan. beijing considers taiwan to be part of china. and it is a very sensitive issue which washington knows extremely well. what we've heard from the foreign ministry in beijing a spokesperson saying they made stern recommendations to the

u.s. about this meeting. they said u.s. and taiwan should not be having official interactions. now washington knew this was going to anger beijing when they decided to carry out this visit so, yes, the premise is about coronavirus and there is a lot that the united states could learn about how to deal with coronavirus from taiwan, but clearly there's a second element to this visit, rosemary. >> absolutely. paula hancock bringing us the latest there from taipei, taiwan. thank you for you. before we go we do want to bring the very latest. we've been covering this story from beirut. of course, the massive and deadly explosion that happened yesterday. it's 11:55 in the morning there. it happened just seven minutes after 6:00 p.m. in beirut local time. we know at this point 100 people have been killed. 4,000 wounded. but we do expect that death toll

sadly to rise because so many people are still missing and they are trying to fine them. loved ones are trying to find the family members who have gone missing in the aftermath. you can see it's total devastation across beirut. this has taken people by surprise clearly. it looked like a huge explosion. you can see the clouds, the massive white clouds, and it is just devastated the city there, beirut, and the people who have lived there. it's almost a failed state. they have already been dealing with so very much. you can see there that was the initial explosion there. we will, of course, at cnn continue to follow this story. thank you so much for your company. i'm rosemary church. "early start" is up next. you're watching cnn. want to brain better? unlike ordinary memory supplements-

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