"newsroom" starts right now. hello, everyone. i'm kate bolduan. thanks for joining us for the next hour. he still doesn't get it. that's what a source says that's familiar with the president's appearance at the white house coronavirus task force meeting. he does not get it and does not grasp the severity of the crisis that we are now six months into. mind you, yesterday was also the first in-depth task force briefing that the president has joined since april. yes, april. back in the middle of april there were just over half a million cases in the united states. the country was looking at just over 33,000 deaths, and that's the last time the president sat for an in-depth task force briefing. there are now 4.7 million cases and that means more than 120,000 more people have died from covid

since the president was last in an in-depth task force briefing and still the president doesn't get it. you don't even have to trust a source familiar with the briefing. just take a look at this morning. in a new interview on fox the president was trying to make the case for opening schools and he argued once again that the virus is going to disappear just using different words. >> my view is the schools should open. this thing's going away. it will go away like things go away and my view is that schools should be open. >> he is clearly focused on pushing all schools to reopen without offering a plan for how to do so safely, but despite his best efforts some of the nation's biggest school districts are not listening. chicago just announced that it's going to start the year completely online after initially saying that kids will be in classrooms a couple of days a week and in districts that had already started school this year in person like

georgia, they're quickly running into problems. cnn's diane gallagher is in at atlanta and the school year is just starting this week in some parts. what is going there? >> yeah. in georgia, much like other states especially across the south where things tend to start earlier it is a mixed bag. others are doing a hybrid version and then some are going back in person like in cherokee countiy and on monday when school started in cherokee can'ty at the elementary school, most of them were wearing masks and some of these pictures don't really show social distancing, but masks aren't required and at the elementary a second grade student tested positive for covid-19. the district informed the parents on wednesday just a couple of days after they began and all 20 of the students in that second grade class and the teacher now have to quarantine at home for 14 days.

that class isn't necessarily, we don't know if it's one of those in the pictures there, but that's the situation while they deep clean the classroom and continue to do contact tracing to make sure that those students, if they were exposed don't also test positive. the teacher right now, we are told is not showing any symptoms so they will continue teaching virtually from their home and it's not just the schools that have started in person that are starting to see problems. marrietta, their school district, when they began pre-planning, they're starting the school virtually and they did so yesterday, but they have five employees that tested positive for cover id 19 acovidd in gwinnett, so they can't work. school is starting virtually kate next week in that school district. we have no word on whether or not that will impact the start of school in the state's largest

school district, but these districts are coming to terms with what going to school during the pandemic is going to mean for them. >> it's so complicated. it's wonderful to see those sweet, although they're pixe pixelated as they're trying to get back in class. thank you so much, dianne. >> with me now is dr. lina wen and the former baltimore health official. let me play something else for you that the president said this morning about kids and coronavirus. >> i'll read it for you. we're having a technical issue with it. he says this, if you look at children, children are almost and i would say almost definitely, but almost immune from this disease. so they've got it stronger. i think the technical issues worked itself out. let's have the president say it in his own words. >> if you look at children,

children are almost -- and i would almost say definitely, but almost immune from this disease. so few, they've got stronger, hard to believe, and i don't know how you feel about it, but they have much stronger immune systems than we do somehow for this, and they do it. they don't have a problem. they just don't have a problem. >> we know that kids aren't immune, doctor. we know this very well. they are getting it at a lower rate right now, but what do you say to that? >> well, it's not true, and i think it's important for us as scientists and doctors to set the record straight that children do tend to get less ill than adults do, but some children get very ill. they end up getting hospitalized and they end up in the icu. some children tragically have died because of coronavirus. also children don't live in a bubble. they live with their parents and grandparents and we know their children can transmit the virus

and can be at risk for transmission. >> i don't mean to interrupt, but it's one thing that the president misses consistently and always is that it's not just about getting sick. it's about as it has been from the beginning, spreading it and the children don't live alone, by definition. please continue. >> that's right. children don't live alone. they can potentially indeed spread it to other people in their households and we also know that it's not just children in the schools and it's staff and teachers and their families and having so many people, whatever their age congregate in one setting when there is community spread that's ongoing and very high is just really dangerous and change the dynamics of the disease and furthers the spread as we have seen in our own country and in israel and other country, too. >> we've seen cases of kids getting covid since schools opened in indiana and it happened in georgia, as well. what do you think parents need to understand about what we know and what we don't about kids and

covid as they prepare to send them back to school. >> think the risk of having severe illness from covid-19 for children is low, but again, children can spread it. say you're in a situation or you're in a community where the rate is one in a hundred. on day one, say the school has a thousand people. you have ten children what are actively infectious and able to spread it to others. it's a question of when there are outbreaks and parents have to be ready to have their kids home again and also when we have testing and the backlog of cases that we have. we can have a child be at home waiting for a test ten days and 14 days and i think there are a lot of contingencies to think through the logistics of what it would look like even if kids do go back for in-person

instruction. i wonder how you felt when the president sat down for the first coronavirus briefing yesterday and that was since april. a source coming out of it says he doesn't get the severity of this crisis. he said again, that he thinks this thing is just going to go away. >> it's not going go away, and i think it should be abundantly clear by now that it could have gone away. other countries have been successful in suppressing the infection, but we have not. we are less than 5% of the world's population where 25% of the world's cases and it doesn't have to be this way. there are actually steps that are within the president's control. for example, universal mask ordering or universal mask wearing order, having restrictions on indoor gatherings, making sure that there's a national strategy for testing so that we're not waiting two weeks for results to come back. these are all things that the president can do right now, but it begins with him recognizing the severity of the problem and

they're not powerless against the virus. we need his leadership, too. >> we're at a point when that's not going to happen and i don't know when it will, it's great to see you, doc. thank you. coming up for us, douls county in texas, now record reporting one of the deadliest attacks and while the new cases are trending down. mail-in voting. fine for florida, a disaster for nevada, a disaster for the president. what is motivating this for donald trump. - i didn't know why my body was moving on its own.

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i'm coy wire in atlanta. the university of connecticut has become the first major college football program to cancel its football season due to covid-19 concerns. athletic director david benedict saying the safety challenges that placed our student athletes at an unacceptable level of risk. the players say they support the decision. uconn already had four games canceled by other conferences shutting down non-league play and that includes the university of illinois from the big ten. that league formally approved their conference-only slate and issued minimum standards for covid testing and safety protocols for all their sports. i'm pete montine in washington. southwest airlines is cutting back on its cabin-cleaning procedures. it told flight attendants in a newen term memos that the focus will be on fewer items like tray tables and lavatories. southwest is trying to speed up flight turnaround times as it it

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this morning president trump is claiming it could be years before the november election is determined. that is if he says states move ahead as planned with expanded use of mail-in voting. he's especially targeting the state of nevada, a competitive state this november, his campaign overnight filed a lawsuit against the state as trump had threatened for its expansion of mail-in ballots because of coronavirus concerns. the campaign is trying to make a coherent legal argument in the suit, lawsuit, president trump is already exposing his honestly nakedly political motivations that have nothing to do with the safety and security of the election process.

mail-in voting would be a mess. one has a democratic governor and one has a republican governor. >> florida is different in the sense that it had been doing it and they've had two very good governors, frankly, and they have an infrastructure that's taken years to build, but nevada. they start voting very soon and he just threw it out there and the other thing is the votes don't have to be counted or tabulated until seven days after november 3rd. >> joining me right now is joshs doey, cnn political analyst for "the washington post." great to see you, josh. you've done some great reporting on what is really going on here. what are you hearing? >> a number of political advisers, ronny mcdaniel and others are repeatedly pressing the president to stop his rhetoric against all mail-in balloting and a lot of early

polling is that democrats are embracing this practice far more than republicans and what his advisers fear is with his constant rhetoric about this it could hurt his chances to get those ballots that he needs for himself. >> and what are you hearing about the president also continuing, he did again this morning, to push this claim that results are going to be delayed potentially. this morning he said years, which is not going to happen. what is behind that portion of this? >> well, the president is certainly raising lots of questions about mail-in balloting and they're pointing to new york as one of the key areas. there is a congressional primary there where six weeks after the ballots they were still counting and they're pointing to cases here and there saying that the united states, its infrastructure is not ready to count mail-in ballots after the election. a lot of them are saying we will be ready for election day and it's pointing to some of these places where there have been issues and not years' long delay

and what the president is saying, but legitimate concerns, nonetheless. >> the point is getting the count correct, if it does take a week or two longer under the health crisis circumstances, okay, i kind of say. in nevada, especially, they did have an expanded mail-in balloting, just in june when they were -- in a primary there. so they didn't have any issues there. how big of a problem could this become for the president and the republican party? because as you've mentioned it's not only democrats who are building out mail-in voting, and one of the republican senate candidates and president trump's campaign are pushing folks to vote by mail. both democrats and republicans and the like and this will be an unprecedented election for mail-in ballots and a lot of folks are fearful to go to the polls and a lot of people are dislocated and a lot of reasons people might vote by mail and there's concern on the republican side that with the president's rhetoric on mail-in

balloting saying that he thinks it's fraudulent or rigged that some of his voters may be more reticent to accept the practice. you are seeing that from consultants, and we took it to the alabama secretary who was trying to explain to voters the difference between good and bad mail-in ballot because they didn't want to go against the president. it's one in the same. >> there's one type of mail-in ballot and that's what he's trying to explain to folks. >> the president continued this morning to say that the postal service can't handle this amount of mail. that's one of his arguments. let me play what the governor of nevada said about that exact point last night. >> we've had mail-in voting, absentee ballots going on for as long as i can remember in the state of nevada and we've never had any problems and i certainly don't anticipate problems this time around. i guarantee the post office that there is in florida is the same in nevada.

it's the united states postal service. if they can handle it in florida, they can certainly handle it in nevada. >> the postal service says it has ample capacity to handle the election. what is this one about? >> well, what the president is doing is he's raising different concerns repeatedly about mail-in voting. and his own postal service saying there is an avalanche of mail-in ballots that he's trying to convince folks that maybe some of them will get lost in the mail and he repeatedly references paterson, new jersey and misplaced ballots there, it is a concerted strategy to just raise lots of questions about the election. >> yeah. founded and most unfounded just to confuse and stir up fear. the president confirmed your reporting that he's considering giving his convention speech,

acceptance speech from the white house. how serious do they actually are about this, because it would present a slew of issues? >> the sources indicate they're quite source and most events will be in washington after trying to get the convention in charlotte and then trying to have it in jacksonville. the president has been convinced that he really cannot travel expensively for the convention and most of the events will be in washington. the president has repeatedly brought up having it at the white house on the front lawn in meetings and that's one of the scenarios that is of high likelihood. >> we shall see. good to see you, josh. >> good to see you. president trump says a devastating explosion that rocked beirut was an attack, his word, but u.s. american military officials are disputing that. we'll be back. down to our appliance superstore where we've got the best deals on refrigerators, microwaves, gas ranges and grills. and if you're looking for...

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this morning the death toll is rising after an enormous explosion devastated parts of biroutb beirut, lebanon. >> unbelievable, really. that explosion killed at least a hundred people. hundreds are missing still and

thousands are injured. here's another perspective on it. new drone video into cnn this morning, it really gives you a sense of how powerful that blast was. it was felt more than a hundred miles away. look at that building right there. it looks like every single window blown out, scattered below. president trump spoke out, was asked about this blast. he said this was no accident. he calls it an attack. listen. >> i've met with some of our great generals and they just seem to feel that it was -- this was not a some kind of a manufacturing explosion type of event. this was a -- seems to be according to them, they would know better than i would, but they seem to think it was an attack. it was a bomb of some kind. >> a bomb of some kind. cnn's ryan brown is at the pentagon joining me right now. brian, what are you hearing from

military officials about what the president said. >> reporter: well, the pentagon is remaining officially quiet about the president's comments referring all questions to the white house, but military sources are telling cnn, multiple sources that the initial assessments, the current assessments about what took place was that it was, in fact, an accident. there is no evidence at this point in time of any kind of attack, any kind of bombing attack and there was some confusion about where president trump's assessment is coming up and he cited unnamed military generals for that assessment and officials saying that initial assessments indicate that it was an accident and not an intentional attack, and they point to the fact that there's been no adjustments to force protection and no movement of u.s. military troops in the region indicating that they don't see an attack and they don't have any intelligence suggesting an attack. without those changes, there just doesn't seem to be the response that you would typically see if an actual bombing attack of this magnitude

had taken place. of course, they're continuing to assess this and they're continuing to look at it, some of the chemicals that lebanese officials have pointed to as causing this explosion are key components in many improvised explosives and bombs, but at this point in time the u.s. military sources telling cnn they have no evidence to point to an attack of any kind despite the president's comments. >> and the lebanese prime minister, he's speaking out, at least with an initial assessment of what they're thinking. what are you hearing about -- i don't know, what they actually think caused this explosion? >> well, there seems to be pointing toward this combustible chemicals, ammonium nitrate, over 2,000 tons of which were present at this location. reports that it had been at that location, stored there for several years. lebanese officials are saying they are considering putting the port authorities, those responsible for overseeing storage at this port facility under house arrest pending this

investigation. lebanon also putting the military in charge of some of the response of domestic security operations given the destruction wrought by this explosion. >> ryan, thank you so much. coming up for us, we have news coming in about joe biden and his acceptance speech at the dnc, the democratic convention. that after a quick break. strongerre pron or more effective against pain than salonpas patch large there's surprising power in this patch salonpas dependable, powerful relief. hisamitsu.

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democrats' milwaukee convention to accept the democratic nomination. this is according to democratic party officials. let me bring in right now cnn's arlette saenz and david chalian. arlette, this is a big announcement, but what do you hear is driving it? >> kate, this is the latest change of the convention plans amid the coronavirus pandemic and democratic officials tell our colleague jeff zeleny that joe biden will not be traveling to milwaukee. he will instead be delivering his acceptance speech in his home state of delaware and zeleny is also told that health officials in wisconsin had warned about the potential risks with the coronavirus pandemic, one senior official telling jeff that the fear of community spread in mill walk we media, projection teams and party officials was just getting to be too much. we don't want to risk anyone's health for this. so as of right now, biden and his runningmate will be

delivering their speeches from other locations. the only speakers expected to be in wisconsin will be wisconsin officials and voters. joe biden has long said that he was going to accept that nomination in wisconsin, but that he was also going to listen to the health experts and doctors relating to this coronavirus situation in that state, and so now we are learning that these plans for the convention have really been derailed once again due to the coronavirus pandemic. >> i mean, david, these are unprecedented times, but this just doesn't happen. >> i think this is just another example. coronavirus has impacted and up ended so much of the way in which we live our lives and so, too, is it completely up ending our presidential campaigns. this 2020 campaign will not look like anything else that americans are used to seeing or have seen in previous presidential campaigns because

of coronavirus, and what you have here now, kate, i think if you just stepped back for a moment, the republicans after going to charlotte first and then jacksonville and needing to pull out of that and we wait it see how they're sort of going to set up what they do for the week of -- the following week, the week of the 24th and now democrats who early on scaled down, told delegates not to come, they were -- they made it clear that biden and the v.p. nominee would be in milwaukee wisconsin and that's no longer the case and basically now it is another satellite location to highlight wisconsin in a way that convention programmers hope to highlight other officials and regular americans in battleground states across the country. it is no longer really the site of joe biden's convention, and so i just think what you have here is the undoing of a tradition because of this

continued spread of the virus and these things, both the republican and the democratic side are going to be almost entirely virtual. >> yeah. honestly, take this as further evidence that things are not trending in the right direction when it comes to the coronavirus. both parties would love to have packed these convention centers and have everyone come together and reporters want to be there as well to cover history and this is further evidence that things are not getting better nearly as fast as anybody would want despite what maybe the president says and this is just another example of it. great example for jeff zeleny. thanks for jumping on, i appreciate it and see how things will change and they likely still will in the coming days. schools are starting to reopen and some states are already starting to report problems. the latest from gwinnett county schools, the largest school district in georgia saying about 260 employees have either tested positive or been exposed to the

coronavirus, meaning that they won't be able to return to work, won't be able to return to school just yet and there's also this, take a look at this picture from another school outside of atlanta, crowded hallways and students packed shoulder to shoulder leaving families and teachers with more and more questions about how safe it is to head back to class. one teacher in gwinnett county, georgia, saying she's now left with no option, no decision other than having to resign to all of this. joining me now is that teacher, ashley newman and the fifth grade teacher with gwinnett public schools and thank you for coming in, and i appreciate the time. talk me through why you decided to resign from teaching? >> it is a very intense time here in gwinnett county at the moment. we are working hard to figure out why these decisions are being made at such a high level without any input from the community. as a mom of a 4-year-old i'm in

a position where i am protective of my daughter. i know that if i send her to school her teachers will do everything they can, but i don't feel comfortable with that as a parent, and the county originally offered options for work at home and those were retracted without any explanation as to why. we are asking right now for transparency and inclusion as community members in the decision making process because if there is no input from every side of the community, and it's just being made by the higher-ups without any explanation and no data to support it. just yesterday, we found out that there are going to be a phase-in process to bring the students back into the classroom, all of them in the class by september and the numbers are not showing that that's possible right now. we just heard two days ago from harvard expert who studied our specific county and our numbers and said we are not in a situation to go back to school. >> we are seeing -- we're seeing

examples of kids testing positive as they head back to school. how hard was -- how hard was this decision for you? because gwinnett has an interesting thing going on. with students starting virtually, if the school system said if your student is 5 years oldsmobiler you can bring them to do the virtual education to class. your daughter is 4. how hard this was decision for you? >> it was an impossible decision. i am hoping that they see our real stories and our families. i have one of the many stories. i've been getting messages constantly of one mom who has a child in the nicu and the doctors have told her that if she ends up going into the school building she is risking the lives of all of those nicu children. i've also talked to people who have cancer, finishing up chemotherapy or starting chemotherapy. they have not been given the option to work from home and

we're not getting any solid answers as to why and we need this change because it's only going get worse before it gets better. >> look, there are a lot of different views on going back to school, right? or many different views. one is it's not safe. if it's not safe you should not be putting your life, your children or the students in your class on the line because you can catch up on education. i also hear people say, teachers are essential workers. you must be back in school helping students just like doctors are back in the er helping patients. it's complicated. it is complex and it's scary because there's so much uncertainty. what do you think about all of that -- this give and take? >> as a first responder wife, i have an opinion on it as well saying that i understand that we are trained for many different circumstances as educators, but we are not trained for health pandemics.

that is not what i went to get my degree for, and we need the support of the community to help with us this because the truth is that this is not a teacher versus parent argument. this is not at all and that's how many news outlets have portrayed it. the truth is that this is a community issue and we need to find a way to be able to get through to the higher-ups and help them see that if the teachers aren't safe then the students aren't safe and then the community is not safe. >> there's no way out of this other than together no matter what anyone thinks or wants to argue. ashley, thank you for coming in. i would really like to hear more of how things progress with gwinnett county schools and how things are going for you, but thank you so much. >> absolutely. thank you. coming up, good news for movie fans. after multiple delays, "mulan" is finally headed to disney plus, but it is going to cost you and what it means for disney, just ahead.

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shaking up a streaming approach after losing nearly $5 billion last quarter due to the pandemic. a big announcement from the company, too. long awaited "mulan" action remake coming soon to homes and theaters where available. cnn chief business correspondent christine romans has more on this move. >> reporter: kate, after multiple delays audiences finally able to see disney's "mulan" at home. the live-action veshgs of the 1998 animated classic streaming on disney plus september 4th. for an additional $30. disney will release the film in

theaters in markets where disney plus isn't available and anywhere theaters are open. a huge hollywood experiment releasing a blockbuster for additional cost. something disney's ceo called a one-off. the importance of disney, bright spot in an otherwise pandemic ravaged picture for disney. they lost $5 billion in the quarter. first loss since 2001. astonishing $3.5 billion as revenue cratered 85% from last year amid the park closures. disney plus says they have more than 60 million subscribers, something that took netflix years to do. kate? >> thanks, christine romans. appreciate it. for the latest stock market news check out "markets now" streaming live 12:45 eastern only on cnn business. joe biden is getting closer to picking his running mate. his wife saying we'll know who she is going to be.

two women reportedly still atop the list, former national security adviser under president obama susan rice and senator kamala harris. as the campaign enters the final vetting stages on this, cnn has given an all-access pass to the early 2020 presidential races. the new cnn film "on the trail: inside the 2020 primaries" produced exclusively for hbo max taking you behind the scenes with some of cnn's amazing female correspondents, reporters as they cover the election. here's a sneak peek. >> we're awaiting results of the first, results from the iowa caucuses. >> check it. >> about this time -- you know, we're starting to expect to hear candidates lay out how they get through the night. >> results. >> and we work very well together. i figure out the information we need to get and then get that

information. we call it the next thing. >> what do you have? >> they're not going to come out. not coming. we won't know what's going on. >> at all? >> no. >> i've always been very good at talking to people and being able to extract information to get what i want. >> maybe. >> and that is -- >> i view that as a positive in the most humble way. >> joining me now, two of the dynamo team, cnn correspondent and jasmine wright. loving it. a tag, girl. and first on the news one of the candidates that you were covering, kamala harris. still atop the vp list. it's wait and see, of course. what are you hearing and seeing around the chatter of the vp

candidates? >> now because of joe biden not traveling to mill walk any person, we're understanding all the challenges of the campaign, that it's having, in addition to trying to select the right running mate. all of this is piling on to the campaign. we're now hearing that the vice presidential candidate, his selection, will now be accepting this virtually once selected. a lot of layers here, kamala harris certainly one of the key names we keep hearing about, kate. a senator from california. she has been a barrier breaker in almost every single elective position she'd had. this would certainly be something that would be a step for her, that her campaign would certainly like, that she would like in her political career. something that, kate, i think we've talked a lot about is ambition, and how much ambition somebody should have, and that has been something that is really quite gendered and something swirls around the

selection of this vp pick, kate. >> absolutely. and something that we -- in the gender of politics something you see in the film. talk about this film. a reporting experience like no other. being in bed. trying to think of a kind word for it. people will see that in this film. what do yid you take away from experience? >> yes. absolutely grueling. days are exhausting and long sometimes 12, 15 hours, but while in the process of those long days, it's also fun. it's exciting. you feel ageneral lyn rush being in the moment and being a part of kniss really historic election, a time we really haven't seen before. so it's grueling but it's exciting. >> and when you look at the field, and kind of -- covering kamala and amy klobuchar. the largest group of women ever

mirroring the diversity that you can see now among the press corps who covered them. did you and jasmine recognize that when in the midst of this? >> actually a moment during amy klobuchar's campaign where when jasmine and i were both there and i looked at the press riser, and every single photographer, every single embed, every single reporter print and broadcast was a woman. and that's when it really hit me that tons of change. it's not the boys on the bus. it is a diverse field of reporters, and it is matching the women who are running for office, not just for president but for congressional offices as well. kate, we've talked about 2018 being the year of the woman. 2020 is exceeding that number. so it is something that is continuing as people fight to have a more diverse congress representing them. >> awesome look at awesome people really at the peak of

their game and i'm really excited to have you on and excited for everybody to see it. great to see you guys. thanks to you both. be sure to watch "on the trail: inside the 2020 primaries" streaming on hbo max tomorrow. thanks for joining us, everybody. i'm kate bolduan. cnn coverage begins now with john king. >> thank you, kate. hello, everybody. i'm john king in washington. thank you for sharing this day with us. vivid proof of the last of the coronavirus disruption. cnn just learned joe biden accepting the democratic nomination in delaware, home state, and not travel to the convention city, milwaukee. the change, the same day president trump told us he might give his convention speech from the white house. we learned that as the president spent part of his morning chatting with friends. "fox & friends" to precise to hear assessment of