top of the hour, i am brianna keilar. and there have been signs of improvement. the rate of new coronavirus cases is show ing decline in parts of the country. but for the third day in a row, the u.s. is reporting more than 1200 people dying from infection. the average daily deaths has surpassed 1,000. that means more than 11,000 jobs have been cut short in two weeks. and a new model is projecting that deaths will clime toob 300,000 by december 1st and they say 70,000 lives

could be save d if more americas wear masks. and a major announcement a short time ago that all districts are authorized to reopen for in-person learning. >> today is the deadline to look at the infection rates and make a determination. by our infection rates, all school districts can open. everywhere in the state. >> that includes new york city schools, the largest public school district in the country. and cnn's alexander field is joining us on that. tell us what all you're learning about this decision. >> reporter: look, the governor is saying the infection rate is low enough that schools can open everywhere. but depending on what region you're in, they could have to close their schools. they'll continue to assess the numbers as they go.

but this is big news because we're talking about new york city. that is the largest school dest rlkt in the nation with 1.1 million students. they unveiled a plan to send students back with a mix of online learning. this makes them the only school around the top ten biggest school districts starting with some in-person learning and that's because the infection rate is so much lower than any states across the nation. he says it's incumbent on everyone to keep students in school. he says each school district across the stated will have to post online their plans for contact tracing, covid testing, if necessary and remote learning and meetings to discuss with parents and meetings with teachers as well. we know in the end this is all about whether or not they feel

comfortable going in the school buildings and whether or not parents feel comfortable sending their kids there. >> thank you. . for six monthinize to the pandemic, the coronavirus testing situation is getting worse, not better. not only are results taking too long, more than a week in some cases, 29 states are doing fewer tests this week than last week and that is more than half the country. elizabeth cohen is joining us to discuss this. this isn't what we would expect. so, what's behind the decline in the number of tests being given here? >> right. we can't test our way out of the pandemic, but we should be doing more testing, not less but these numbers tell us it looks like we're doing less. let's take a look at these numbers. if you take a look at the daily average from july 31st to august 6th, there were 715,000 tests done per day. that is almost a 10% decrease

over the previous week. some of this had to do with electronical reporting issues. there were kinks in that system. and it had to do with a hurricane that effected florida. still, we want to see the numbers go up, not come down. 1.8 million jobs added. a vast slow down from june when a net 5 million jobs were created. this is without the extra600 in unemployment benefits. today is the deadline for the next stimulus bill to restore the money. law makers are nowhere close to meeting the deadline and that is cold comfort to many close to losing everything mp. opinion columnist is joining us right now. put these numbers in context for us.

the >> in isolation, 1.8 million jobs sounds pretty good. it's pretty rare that we have a monthly job growth figure in the seven digits. it seems less good when you realize it's actually quite big slowdown from the previous month and we had an eight-digit drop in spling. we are nowhere near having recovered the ground lost during the recession itself, which may still be ongoing. and it's cold comfort given how many millions of americans are struggling to put a roof over their head. >> i mean, they're worried about very real things. and this $600 for federal unemployment benefits that would supplement state unemployment benefits. because many say it's a disincentive for working. >> in normal times, that would

be a valid concern. >> at least on the margin, you're going to have people decide not to return to work. and there were five studies by columnist, at yale, at the federal reserve bank of new york, etc., that have looked at what is the consequence of this higher benefit and they have found in fact it does not appear to be discouraging work. doesn't seem to have any effect, in fact on hiring or unemployment. and that makes sense when you consider how few jobs relative to how many people are out of work and all the other reasons people might not be able to go back the previous jobs they had, including infection risk, lack of child care, etc. so, that amount of money doesn't seem to be doing what it would do in normal times. it does help them continue to buy groceries, defaulting on their mortgage payments, etc.

on net, it seems as if it's helping keep consumer spending afloat and keep more on their payrolls because they have more customer whose can go out and spend money. there's a big risk now that this unemployment supplement has expired, that it will be a huge drag going forward and you can imagine people are going to stop being able to buy stuff, which is going to hurt small businesses that they pate ruinize. >> we've heard stories of people who are in vulnerable categories and they're scraping by with these benefits. but it works for them barely, for this moment. because they feel like going back to work is a likely death sentence for them. and that's a very big concern for some people. there's also this new report published by the aspen institute. there's up to 40 million americans who could be evicted by the end of the year and 80%

would be black or latino. >> if you look at the consequences of the pandemic, both health wise and economically, there's no question that ethnic and racial minorities have bore the brunt of this down turn and of these dual crisis. so, i think that's not at all surprising. and it underscores the fact that congress needs to get its act together and come to an agreement about the number of financial lifelines that households need, businesses need to again continue, at least in some semblance, resume some of the normal economic activity they were engaging in before, because if not, you're going to have a cascade of bankruptcies, evictions, hunger and all sorts of other negative consequences. congress has the power to bring some relief, even if they can't fix everything. until the pandemic is under control, that's in charge of the economy.

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in his wildest dreams, dr. anthony fauci, says he could never have imagined the attacks on medical professionals. so, why is there such a divide in this country over the virus? much of it can be explained by what people watch. they're more likely to dismiss the severity of the virus if they listen to this. >> i'm dead right on this. the coronavirus is the common cold, folks. >> this virus should be compared to the flu because at worst, worst case scenario, it could be the flu. >> and it's no wonder some americans see the world health organization as a villain. >> there's a quote from the world health organization today. he said this is a time for pulling out all the stops. >> they are sabre rattlers. >> and if you wonder why the vice president and others have

dismissed a second wave. >> the 1918 second wave, i've been monitoring australia and so has dr. fauci, you know how many cases are in australia today? 11. only 11 new cases. that's the southern hemisphere. that's essentially our november. it predicts we're not going to have a big second wave. when children go back to school, we're going to test teachers, students. we have very mild, mild cases among our young or asymptomatic. butted we're going to keep an eye on them. >> it's back to school time. millions of students are not back and no, we don't have adequate testing. the president recently said fox news doctor was his guide through the pandemic. >> i watch you all the time and you're almost like my guide to this, because, frankly, you know how important it is. >> some of the president's defenders have cast doubt on the u.s. death toll. >> now, watch the numbers of

death go up. >> right. >> watch everything increase because they wanted to make it look bad. >> now in may, cnn reported the president himself privately questioned whether deaths were being overcounted while dr. fauci said it was actually the opposite. >> the number is likely higher. i don't know exactly what percent higher but almost certainly it's higher. >> the virus was discounted as a political ploy to keep the president from getting re-elected. and the president retweeting a quote that said do you really think these lunetics wouldn't inflame infection rates. and it's his former chief of staff. >> the reason you're seeing so much attention to it today is they think this is what brings down the president. that's what this is all about. tell people to turn their televisions off for 24 hours but it's not a death sentence.

it's not the same as the ebola crisis. this is something we deal with. >> now, former chief of staff. that was when he was chief of staff and he had a voice in the white house. five months after that, he wrote an op-ed criticizing the response because it impacted him when his children couldn't get tested or get their results back quickly. and with the help from the president, somehow the models the white house uses are even under attack. >> one thing that's certain, the models we have been told to deal with have consistently been wrong. >> these models have been so wrong from day one. they've been so wrong, so out of wack. >> well, that was may when they forecast 135,000 deaths by august. unfofrp und unfortunately they underestimated the hardbreak. and we've fact checked hydroxychloroquine but it's still in the blood stream even

though doctors say it's not an effective treatment for covid. >> donald trump was right, a very effective rate. >> i'll come more than you. it is a cure. >> why did they inject themselves in a debate over a drug it approved decades ago? >> i think the obvious answer is the fda is corrupt to the core. >> we have anchors proclaiming on this drug as if they reviewed all the peer-review studies on this. i actually know the science on n this pretty well at this point. >> cnn anchors? >> there's no evidence to show that it is. >> there's not evidence that it improves those patients' outcome. whether they're seriously ill in the hospital or have moderate disease. >> all models show consistently that hydroxychloroquine is not effective in the treatment of coronavirus disease or covid-19. >> just to be clear, those are

the president's top health experts. and if you wonder why the nation's leading infectious disease doctor has been vilified in the middle of a pandemic. >> when it comes to making long-term health recommendations, this guy, fauci may even more off base than your avage epidemiologist. >> there's a rose garden ceremony and fouchy for the first time wearing a mask. the mask is a symbol of fear. >> the people have to fire him and they have to fire him by saying he's a fraud. the most important thing is people have to quit listening to him. >> keep in mind heedr. fauci ha served under six different presidents. they questioned whether dr. fauci created the virus after it was widely shared. and it's not even something a guest said in passing. it's literally in their ciron.

instead of embracing fauci, he embrace as doctor who says hydroxychloroquine is a cure, which it's not, and claims that sex with demons is a blame for gi gynecological problems. >> i don't know what country she's come from but says she's had success with hundreds of different patients. i know-nothing about her. >> here's something about her. she believes in alien dna, seriously. she believes in that. one congressman who refused to wear mask and taking hydroxychloroquine, floated this. >> i know moving the mask around, getting it just right, i'm bound to put some virus on the mask that i sucked in that's most loikly what happened. >> all right, that is most likely not what happened according to doctors we have spoken to. often when the president lies or

makes a completely false claim, his pedalers will continue it. >> if you look at children, children if are almost, and i would say almost definitely, but almost immune from this disease. >> and he said when children are almost immune from the disease, they say that trump posted false information. the trump campaign is exactly right when they said that kids are almost immune. >> they're not. and that is just a small snapshot. it's not just a deadly virus, it is deadly misinformation as well. i want to bring in host of smerconish to talk a little bit now. there are several studies on this subject that have produced findings. it seems possible, in these same findings, to fight the pandemic,

when everything >> and it's very sad the virus has become the stuff of political polarization. i don't think it's the full story though. i was watching the last hour, the bikers arriving insideicide and one of the individuals interviewed cast this lack of masks as the stuff of freedom. and the shift is a banner under which many are choosing not to wear a mask. but it's really not a function of freedom or self determination. your failure to wear that mask, as you well know, is really about a lack of responsibility toward me. you can let your freak flag fly but don't do it in close proximity to others because you may be carrying covid-19, may give it to me and i might carry

it back to an elderly parent. that's the shortcoming. the reason i say it's not just coming from conservative outlets and the president and so forth, i see plenty of carelessness out there that defies all political laboring. for example, the house party a couple of days ago. one shot, couple of them fatally. gang activity. all those kids in at the georgia school in close proximity, there are a lot of people out there awfully careless towards their fellow man or woman. >> yeah, look, i think people, especially in cities where there have not been major surges, but things are headed in that direction, arall e also feeling that. we can see that looking around our city in washington. there is something i want to get to. joe biden is trying to clean opgaf. this is something that happened

thursday. biden seemed to say that the african-american community lacks diversity. let's listen. >> and by the way, what you all know, but most people don't know, unlike the african-american kmup african-american community, with notable acsepgszs, latino is an incredibly diverse community, with different attitude of immigration in florida than when you're in arizona. >> the trump campaign calling those comments an insult to the black community and trying to limit the political fallout that the suggestion it's monolithic, biden took twitter saying he wanted to clarify the remarks he made earlier in the day. he said, in his tweet, in no way did i mean to suggest the african-american community is a monolith, not on identity, not on issues, not at all. throughout my career, i have

witnessed diverse thought and sentiment within the african-american community. you heard, i know, michael, a lot on this from your listeners today. how are they seeing this? >> not the way i expected them to. first of all, from my perspective, it wasn't a misspoken word. there was a thought process there and it was several sentences long. i think he meant what he was saying at the time and recognized the political incorrectness of it. the part that surprised me, today on sirius xm, taking telephone calls from several people of color, african-americans self described because i can't see them or latino hispanic americans, who have said to me there was something logical about what joe biden was saying. they didn't take umbridge to it and several questioned why he walked it back. i thought that was remarkable. >> that is remarkable.

just in the approach here, though, not even in the content, but the approach, you notice there one candidate -- it's kind of the thing that normally candidates do, right? they apologize, clarify quickly, and when you look at president trump, he never does apologize or clarify. >> and so half the country looks at the president and says my god, why didn't he apologize for that. but the lack of apology and i'll say it differently. the lack of a filter is exactly why those who support him do support him. >> that's a very good point, right? they love it. michael, thank you so much. it's so interesting you're talking to real folks as they call in and we appreciate your sharing their voices. we'll see you on tv tomorrow morning, of course. a georgia student says she was suspended after her photo of a crowded hallway went viral.

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california's economic challenges are deepening. frontline workers stretched too thin. our nurses and medical professionals in a battle to save lives. our schools, in a struggle to safely reopen, needing money for masks and ppe, and to ensure social distancing. and the costs to our economy, to our state budget? mounting every day. we need to provide revenues now, to solve the problems we know are coming. in a major reversal a georgia high school that

suspended a student after she took this photo of a crowded hallway and posted it on social media, has reversed the suspension. hannah waters says she took the photo because cdc guidelines were not being followed and she was concerned for everyone's safety. the superintendent says that picture was taken out of context. evan, i do not know how a photo can be taken out of context. seems to show what's going on. but you tell us what's going on here. >> reporter: well, i think we're learning something about the power of civil disobedience in this enterprise. hannah waters called her photo good and necessary trouble. she knew it may run afoul of the rules but it was worth while to do it. everyone wants to see what the inside of school is going to be like in the fall. it showed a crowded hallway with

kids not wearing very many masks and she thought that was damaging. the official to the school originally said that, look, yes, as you said this is taken out of context, a five-minute period between classes. but they also told parents that, this isn't a very good photo. and we're trying to make changes to the way we're doing things. so, in the battle between hannah waters and the school system, she appears to have won. at first they said okay, this is bad butted it did violate the rules, so you're suspended. and the mother telling cnn the suspension will be lifted and nothing on hannah waters' record. in my opinion, this is a story about a covid hero, brianna. >> and i think we thought they were standing that close all day in school. i think we're pretty clear this is them moving through the hallway there. thank you so much. really appreciate it. 250,000 people are expected to

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now, staying home isn't just staying in the place they love. it's staying safe. home instead. to us, it's personal. despite warnings from health experts, the 10-day rally is expected to draw more than a quarter million people to a city with a population of 7,000 and masks are not required. the mayor says he cannot stop people from coming. joining me is the vice chairman of and he lives in sturgis and own as hotel there.

thank you for giving us your perspective on the ground. i know you're in a unique position because you're an elect odfilg ed official and a business owner. i wonder if you think this should be taking place in the middle of a coronavirus pandemic. >> let me say first of all they had no say in saying we would have a rally or not. the city made the decision that they did. so, from the county's perspective, there wasn't any decision to be made from that perspective. from the business-owner's perspective, my opinion is that with the people coming anyway, it was our responsibility to prepare for the people that came here. and that includes the public safety aspect of it, law enforcement, dispatch, we need

to be ready for the people who chose to come here. >> look, we know this is something your city depends on, when it comes to economically. i mean, this is where it's at. this is the event for the whole year. but what precautions are you taking? >> so, in the hotel, we follow the cdc guidelines. we've taken the recommendations from the state department of health in the city, as far as reducing occupancy, spacing tables. extra sanitizing l of those things that are pretty well published. we're following. >> and what about masks? >> that's a choice of the employee if they want to wear one, they're welcome to. if not, we're not requiring it. >> are they choosing to wear them? >> about half. >> about half. okay. so, you own the facility and --

i mean, i know you're saying it's a choice but for the people who are wearing masks, their resistance to catching coronavirus is actually quite diminished when they're around other people not wearing masks. are your employees aware of that? >> that's pretty well published. everybody's aware of what's going on with the coronavirus and i think it's a personal choice -- how you decide to handle. >> south dakota has just over 9,000 confirmed coronavirus cases. this is actually among the lowest -- it's one of the lowest state tallies in the country there. are you worried the case numbers might spike after this? >> yeah, they could tick up but

south dakota, at the direction of our governor and the plan she put together for our state, we've been a pretty open state for the whole time throughout this whole thing. and we've held large events recently. i think we had the first prosports event with the bull riding and we had the fourth of july celebration just recently without too much uptick, if any. if we can get through this one to, it will be a positive step forward to reopen america. >> what does it mean, not own lownly to you, there are a lot of business owners in sturgis. what does it mean, overall, for business owners in sturgis, if you cannot have this huge event? >> yeah, so it's a big piece of the economy the way it's evolved and grown. from the county's perspective,

there are buildings and property values in mead county that wouldn't be anywhere close to where they're at now without the rally. so, it effects the -- all the public budgets and, not to mention the business owners. the employees and downtown too. so, it's a big deal. >> all right, rod. thanks for coming on. we have experts who say outdoors is better than indoors and they support soelg support social distancing and masks and we know they're making different choices during the course of the rally. but we appreciate you being with us and telling us what's going on there. >> appreciate it. thanks for having me. >> we appreciate you. s.c. cupp getting criticism

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s.e. cupp is facing backlash over a editorial where she's thinking about voting for biden but her decision depends on who joe biden picks as a running mate. as he writes, after four years of trump's chaos and corruption, racism and authoritarianism and anileism, i'm considering voting for biden rather than write someone in as i did in 2016.

as a straunch conservative, i don't take this lightly. s. e. cupp joining us. it is great to see you. first off, tell us about the backlash, what is it and where it is coming from? >> well, it is coming from the left. because how dare i ask questions about who biden is going to select as his running mate. i must vote for anyone. and i think that is really foolish. for one, susan rice, one of the contenders being bandied about and one of two in the top tier, well susan rice is a divisive figure, not just on the far right but on the far left because of her record on foreign policy. do a cursory search of her name and you'll find stories in politico, daily beast, new york post saying she would be a great pick for donald trump.

so if you want joe biden to win, that seems like a bad calculation. i think there is a more careful way to look at who will actually be value add for joe biden's ticket. and ensure the result that the left really wants. and for someone like me in the middle, i'm center right, i consider myself moderate, i'm looking for reasons to vote for joe biden and i've mostly found them, trump is that bad. but who he selects is important because, let's face it, that person might replace him. and it is a good idea and common sense to ask questions about who that will be. >> i don't get the criticism because when you're talking about both of the candidates, they are up in years. and they have health concerns. so it really seems like you should be looking at who the vice presidential running mate or vice president is. at the same time, there is also this issue you're talking about which is it is not just enough for you to say, okay, i'm going

to vote, i want someone who is anali an alternative to trump and someone would i'm comfortable voting for and it seems like you're getting a lot of pushback for that and i wonder from your perspective what that means for people who are moderate and in the middle and that joe biden might be able to win over and what sort of this backlash would say to those folks? >> look, i think there are some on the left who think i'm voting for whom ever. i've heard i would vote for kim jong-un on the bottom of that ticket to get trump out of the office. that is fine. that is where you're at. i don't think that is a majority of where the people are at and not where moderate and center right people are. they want to know more about who could be president as joe biden's vice president. and i don't appreciate feeling bullied into voting for your guy and whom ever he chooses. that is not a way to get people

out to -- to vote, to cross party lines, maybe, which joe biden is hoping for. look, joe biden is not over the finish line yet. and we know from polling, this could go any way. there is still almost three months left, i think you should be making overtured to people who are considering voting for biden or a democrat for the first time instead of telling them to vote for whoever he gives you at the barrel of a gun. i think that is bad math. >> so clearly you would not be on board with susan rice. what about kamala harris, what about tammy duckworth and harry reid mentions elizabeth warren. what about those. >> i think kamala harris has the best shot of getting moderates like me. she has a record that appeals to people like me. i think she would be a solid choice. >> s.e., thank you so much. we can't wait to see your show and it is great to see you. just in, senior administration official said it is highly unlikely that a vaccine would be ready by

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on this. alex, tell me what we know. unfortunately we're trying to get alex. we're having some technical difficulties. we'll bring that story to you shortly. but in the meantime, dozens of nfl players say they will not play the season because of the coronavirus. a spokesperson for the nfl telling cnn that out of more than 2800 players, a total of 66 chose to opt out of playing this season by yesterday's deadline. the new england patriots had the most players opt out with eight. only three teams had no one opting out, the steelers, the falcons and the chargers. the season is set to kick off thursday, september 10th and our coverage will continue right now with brooke baldwin. we'll take it. i'm brooke baldwin. thank you so much for being with me. you're watching cnn on this

friday afternoon. in just a few days the u.s. is set to become home to a taggering 5 million cases of the coronavirus. but that number as large as it is, may not tell the full story. some 29 states are showing decline in testing compared to last week while the seven day average of new tests is down 10% nationwide. now the number of americans who are dying in this pandemic is now averaging 1,000 people per day. that is over the last week and a half. and one influential model saying the widespread use of masks could save as much as 70,000 lives through the end of the year. but the trump white house which cited that very model still will not implea. a federal mask mandate and now the centers for disease control are blasting the administration for the response and mixed messaging. >> it's one thing if the president were to decide, for example, no, we're not going to recommend mks