context there. thank you very much. thank you for joining us today. come back tomorrow. busy news week ahead. busy day right here. brianna keilar picks up our coverage right now. have a good day. john, thank you. i'm brianna keilar and welcome viewers here in the united states and around the world. we begin with a sober reality check from the head of the world health organization. >> this virus is proving exceptionally difficult to stop. what it has clearly demonstrated is take the pressure off the virus, the virus bounces back. >> it's not hopeless unless we do what we're doing. if we want it to be better it is up to us as citizens to step up in the absence of a vaccine and a national testing strategy. experts are clear. follow the recommended safety measures like wearing masks and social distancing and

dramatically cut down the transmission of the virus and the numbers show how important this is because right now the u.s. has more than 5 million coronavirus cases and almost 163,000 deaths. schools are beginning their reopening plans and anxiety is already high among parents and educators and now alarming new finding from the american academy of pediatrics that almost 100,000 children tested positive for the virus in the last two weeks of july. in georgia you will remember this picture from last week of students packed in the hallways of a high school. that school is now shut down for at least two days after several positive cases. college football is likely done for. there are reports that the leaders of the power five conferences may postpone or even cancel the football season. over the weekend, the mid american conference announced it canceled the fall season and in the midst of the coronavirus chaos the secretary of health and human services is describing a pandemic response that is out

of touch with reality. >> in terms of the president's historic response to the coronavirus crisis, a novel, unpre unprecedented pandemic we have been able to manage to ensure that the disease burden did not exceed our health system capacity. >> it's a historic response all right but not in the way that secretary azar means. the u.s. has more than 5 million cases of coronavirus, almost 163,000 deaths at this point as we mentioned. comparing that to the rest of the world that's actually many times more deaths than the u.s. should account for considering its population. and tom foreman is with us now on this. there are five states that are outpacing the rest of the u.s. show us how they're doing. >> reporter: if you look at the numbers, forget the political apprehensions about this, look at the numbers right now. california, florida, texas, new york and georgia are leading in

the big bulk of the katcases ine country. it is a threat in every state but they account for the really big numbers out there. are they accounting in the same way? no, not necessarily. huge populations with big surges, their trends are looking a little bit better now. new york being one of them. some places the trends do not look good but a smaller number of cases but a sense of how embedded this can be in a big population. if you look at the global picture this is where you can really see the difference and the counter play to what secretary azar just said there. if you look at the global picture, the united states is still way up in the numbers there. massive numbers accounting for a quarter of the kass in the world even though we are about 4% of the population of the world. that is an equation that nobody really wants to see. the u.s. trend because of people gradually accepting masking and social distancing, it has been

slightly improving. that's possibly one reason why the jump from 3 million to 4 million and from 4 million to 5 million looks a little bit more like each other in terms of the number of days involved because the trend with social distancing and everything else seems to be working in the right direction but don't forget in all of this, the u.s. response is by the assessment of many others far below standard. look at the assessment from a foreign policy magazine looking at this. their take on it was that the united states simply belongs in the bottom of the countries in terms of responding to this virus. for not really getting enough supplies, moving proactively enough and key point here again back to what secretary acar said, a big knock against the u.s. response from the beginning is that the administration here has not been shooting straight with the american people about the number of cases, the import

of that and how to deal with that. one of the key reasons why the u.s. response is being ranked so badly is simply that it has not been honest from the government level and made it worse. brianna? >> all right. tom foreman in washington, thank you. texas and florida have now topped half a million total cases each. the they join california in hitting that mark. texas with an up stick of cases after a drop there and florida reporting another 4,000 new cases which is actually a drop there but it is the lowest daily case total it's reported since the end of june but an extremely elevated number of virus cases. florida is a hotspot even as it reopens more schools. our teams are on the ground and i want to start with ed lavandera in texas. >> reporter: startling sta tis eks, the coronavirus positive

infection rate in the state tops more than 20%. that is a record high. top health experts say that this infection rate is one of the key indicators showing how quickly the virus is spreading through the state but also comes as the number of tests reported here on a daily in texas dropped significantly. 70,000 tests a day two weeks ago now and now less. brianna? >> reporter: counties across the state of florida are planning to reopen this week according to the florida education association and also to the districts' websites. 9 of the 12 schools are in counties with positivity rates of 5% or higher. this is as of saturday according to the florida department of health. last month cdc director dr. robert redfield said that schools in counties with

positivity rates of 5% or higher might consider not reopening. brianna? >> rosa and ed, thank you so much. as florida and other states reopen schools cases of kids with coronavirus are on the rise. in the last two weeks of july, more than 97,000 children were diagnosed with coronavirus. a 40% jump. and that is the finding of a study published by the american academy of pediatrics and the children's hospital association. north paulding high school in georgia is temporarily moving to on-line only. the school and the district came under scrutiny after this photo of students crowded in a hallway. at least six students and three staff members tested positive for the coronavirus and that is forced the school to close down for deep cleaning. joirning me now is chelsea lennon, a sophomore at the high school and her mom with us, as well. michelle salas.

thank you for being with us today. >> thank you for having us. >> thank you. >> so chelsea, you have spoken out about conditions at the school. which woese should mention we dt expect to see a mask requirement when the school reopens as soon as wednesday. i want you to listen to something that your classmate hannah waters talked about after receiving threats after making that photo available and it going viral. >> some of the things are like, we're going to jump every girl named hannah in the tenth grade or hannah will have a rough day at school on monday so someone said i know where this girl lives because he lives in my neighborhood and just not -- they're not entirely, like, something to worry about but we try to take them seriously. >> okay. look. you hear what she is saying, chelsea. you have spoken out yourself. have you received criticism or threats? have you seen the threats that

hannah is describing here? >> personally i have not received any threats from anybody in my grade or anybody at any school. i have seen the screen shots of hannah receiving threats from the class of 2021 group chat because they have a senior group chat. i have seen those and i have seen adults, you know, on facebook, twitter calling out to hannah like threatening her or starting rumors but personally i have not received any threats myself. >> i want to ask you about the picture you saw that hannah posted. was that accurate of -- was that an accurate look at conditions at your high school? >> i would say that represents how north paulding looks like pretty accurately especially during dismissal when most bus riders have to go out the front door of the school and crowded and no one wearing masks and

crowded and next to people not wearing mask, you are next to people who are and especially during class change, as well. that's how it looks. sometimes it is crowded or not but you are lucky if it's not that crowded. >> okay. look, michelle, as a parent, are you comfortable with the school taking these two days to deep clean and then having chelsea return to school at the reopening? we may find out tomorrow exactly what they're doing but now it's two days of deep cleaning and reopening wednesday without masks required still. are you comfortable with that? >> no. no. and deep cleaning? i thought they deep cleaned before they started school and yet there was a spread of the virus anyway. it seems to me that the scientists and the medical people are telling us something to take note of whether you're a conspiracy theorist or believe in one side or the other. the fact is they have used the

kids at paulding county specifically as guinea pigs to try this out so they got clapped back, they got caught that they weren't prepared. so now the schools rolling back and will clean the school and do this. and no masks so let's try again so it is like a really bad experiment. you know? they're trying to find some kind of fluency and using my kids and the kids that my kid grew up with as bait. so i don't appreciate that, no. >> chael chelsea, would you feel safe? i think i know the answer to that question and want to know how others students that you talk to feel. would they have the concerns you and your mom have? >> most part my friends that i hang around they are worried about going back to school. the whole main goal of this was to bring attention to making mask mandatory and instead of going online. it is very important to recognize that we are not trying

to get rid of the school year. we are not trying to force everyone to go back to digital learning. we want safer precautions to be taken if we go back to school and as far as i know 50% of the kids, you know, take this seriously and are like excited about this and then the other half is making a joke out of it or saying it is not that serious. and saying that, like, it is not that important, shouldn't matter. >> michelle, i wonder if you think the school or the district or the county is opening itself up to lawsuits by not taking precautions like masks which are something that, you know, that's pretty easy to do. are you hearing any talk among parents about that? >> lawsuits, you know? that might happen. but i'm more concerned what happens to bring on a lawsuit. i don't want a parent to lose a

parent or a child that loses a teacher because they got a virus that killed them. i think it's funny to jump to the lawsuits instead of thinking about what can we do to, you know, squash any possibility of anything happening to our students or our teachers. >> yeah. well, look. michelle and chelsea, thank you for coming on. you're really in -- you're wardi wading through this as the school year is set to begin across the country so thank you for being with us. >> my pleasure. >> thank you. the rich are having parties and l. sacha. is trying to crac down. we'll hear from somebody that describe it is parties with kanlged lions and tigers. bill gates said the testing situation is mind blowing insanity. and as congress dithers the

president signs a series of executive actions.

california has more positive coronavirus cases than any state in the country yet despite that fact los angeles is dealing with a rash of pop-up parties. mayor garce the i calls them nightclubs in the mountains. the city is cracking down on these events, threatening to literally pull the plug cutting off water and power once these events are discovered. with know now is someone working on legislation to stop the parties from taking place.

los angeles city councilman with us now. councilman, i want to ask you about the legislation but first tell us more about what is happening at these parties, how many people are attending, what they're all about. >> thank you, brianna. i'm a big fan of the show and thank you for having me on. yes, we are having these multi-dollar production house parties. we're not talking about small neighborhood barbecues but the rich and powerful getting to act like they get to play by a different set of rules when they don't. >> okay. so they're having -- it's essentially like crazy nightclub stuff, right? you said something about caged lions and tigers? >> yeah. so i first got into this issue four years ago when a resident actually called me saying, council member, we have a baby giraffe walking up our street. i thought it was a practical joke and that's when i realized

there's these parties thrown, tickets being collected, bouncers, you name it. literally nightclub in the hollywood hills. we passed legislation the first party house ordinance back in 2018 that included escalating fines and possible misdemeanor prosecution and it severely curtailed party houses but with the coronavirus pandemic happening it created a resurgence, especially because all the nightclubs and the bars are closed on the sunset strip and needed to increase tools to make it more harder to throw the parties. >> okay. and who's throwing these? who's going? are you talking about just regular folks from los angeles? celebrities? are these executives? who's going? >> well, first and foremost, i put squarely the blame on two individuals. and that is first the homeowner.

the homeowner who's rernnting o the home to throw the party and party promoters making a profit. this is irresponsible, deadly and against the law. >> how will you tack this will? >> like i said, back in 2018 we did have fines and criminal misdemeanor prosecutions but obviously that's not scaring these individuals because they can make a lot of profit so i've been speaking with the mayor's office and city attorney and want to make it as difficult as possible so we'll shut off the power and water and possibly revoke any other permits and pulling the certificate of occupancy to make it as difficult as possible and prosecute in a multitude of ways as we can. >> do they -- they have permits that allow them to do this? >> no. so when i say per mitts, they're illegally done but if that home has a permit for a renovation or anything else, we'll pull all of

it. this is not just to penalize the homeowner for the party but make it uninhabitable so they pay the -- pay the fines and pay for doing this illegal party. >> okay. because right now it seems like the fines aren't enough of a deterrent so look. this is -- thank you for coming on. i think a lot of people look at when's going on and they can't believe that in the middle of a pandemic folks are doing this. but we appreciate you explaining what you're tackling with this. thank you. >> thank you very much. appreciate it. >> great to see you. the surgeon general and georgia's governor with a massive testing site but the governor refuses to mandate masks. actor antonio banderas reveals he tested positive for coronavirus. hear what he has been going through. we know that speaker pelosi and president trump have not spoken since october and now she

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kind of primary contender for this. we reported late last week that the campaign aids were making preparations initially for the president to potentially deliver this speech from the truman balcony of the white house with an audience on the south lawn of the white house. of course, there's been some controversy not only criticism of democrats of the president used the white house as a backdrop for an overtly political speech like accepting the republican party's nomination but the number two senate republican jon thune said is that legal? the president insists it is and he has made clear the cleempspre is the white house. brianna? >> all right. thank you. live from the white house. the heavens and the earth and executive orders. >> the lord and the founding fathers created executive orders

because of bickering and divided government. >> listening to peter navarro there, a top adviser, it is god's will to sign executive orders like president trump did with stimulus talks going nowhere in congress but when president obama did it republicans considered it blasphemy. >> president obama has been lawless in his use of executive orders. >> you're not a king or a dictator. you can't do whatever you want. >> president obama uses pen and phone and executive orders to exceed the power. >> the president said before he is not king but acting like one. >> may seem tempting, it may serve him politically in the short term. he knows this is not how democracy is supposed to work. >> nobody ever heard of an executive order that all of a sudden obama because he couldn't get anybody to agree with him signing them like they're butter. the executive orders are an outrage. we have a president that can't lead. he said to hell with this.

i want to rest and do other things including to play golf. this guy played hundreds of rounds of the golf. >> president trump has actually played two and a half times as much golf as president obama had at this point in his presidency but that aside, where does president trump stack up in terms of using executive power? after three and a half years, the president has signed more expectative orders than presidents bush and obama did at this point in their first terms. but when the opposite party is in power, well, in this case, the lord is working in mysterious ways. the president's actions are also causing confusion about how legal they are as well as how, when and if they will be implemented. with me now to discuss this is gina smilick and we have our gloria borger with us, chief political analyst. gina, what do these orders even if they're fully implemented do with helping states and

americans who are struggling? >> not a lot. i think they really underwhelmed expectations in many ways. one of the big issues here is that the unemployment insurance expansion which would extend that expanded unemployment benefit of $600 a week to $00 a week and theoretically through the end of the year doesn't have enough money behind it and tap relief pot of money for hurricanes and only $44 billion in it and one out of every four dollars.to be funneled into the program comes from the states. we know that the states are already facing massive budget shortfalls, hard hit by the coronavirus and repeatedly urged congress to step up with more help and so asking them to step in and fill that void at this time is probably not super realistic and not lead to a good

outcome here. >> and, you know, gloria, the catch is that 3 of the 4 connective orders can't be implemented by the white house alone. so what is the point for president trump of doing this then? >> show. he wants to show that with his signature which we know is not true but with his signature that he can do what congress cannot do. and look. the american public deserves to be frustrated by the way at the fact that the congress cannot get together and come up with some extension of unemployment benefits. the democrats wanted it the $600 level. the president expects to be applauded for cutting that in half. but they ought to come up with something but the point of what the president did was to say, look, i can do these things even though when you read in the fine print i actually can't. >> and, you know, to that point, jeanne, what is likely to happen

from congress' point of view certainly when it comes to giving aid to americans who are struggling, it's almost a dare to tell them to intervene in helping people. >> yeah. i think one thing that president trump really has sort of touted about the executive orders and several are technically memorandum and not executive orders so slightly less powerful but what president trump touted about them is to bring everybody to the bargaining table. people will negotiate because the orders exist and seen very little evidence of the democrats that there's been an impetus to strike a deal because of this. there's a lot of daylight between what the democrats on capitol hill are pushing for and willing to get and democrats are willing to offer. democrats have been pushing for a lot more benefits to the states, been asking for sort of a continuation of these fairly generous unemployment benefit that is the republicans resisted

and until we get agreement on the critical issues the executive orders probably won't do a lot in terms of a deal to be struck. >> the president revealed this with the democrats asked to restart talks only to have pelosi and schumer say, that's not really true. what are you hearing? >> that it's not really true. that the democrats haven't asked to restart talks. i think the president wanting to be the savior here. they're games and ought to get over it but i pushed the democrats back in a corner by doing this and now they will have to negotiate. they do have to negotiate but for different reasons from the ones president trump is talking about and, brianna, the big sticking point here is, of course, the money for state and local governments. the president which is about a trillion dollars, the president is not interested in providing money to states which he says

have failed in their fight against covid and by that he's talking about blue states. he is not interested in doing that and the democrats are saying we have to provide this money to state and local governments, otherwise the first responders are going to be fired. think will not have any jobs because this's who pays their salary so this is a huge trillion-dollar sticking point and something has to give on that. >> yeah. it is not just blue states who have seen major challenges. we have to be clear on that. thank you so much. chicago's mayor scolding beach goers after this scene. find out what she did in response. hear what the future of malls may look like as stores start going empty. america's democracy is under attack as russia and china target the election three months away. try wayfair. you got this!

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chicago's mayor has a stern message. after spotting a large crowd gathered at a popular beach, mayor lightfoot snapped this picture and dozens of people are crowded together, many don't have face masks on. they're not social distancing.

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new york. actor antonio banderas said he tested positive for coronavirus announcing the news on instagram monday morning marking his 60th birthday and wrote with a photo of himself that he feels relatively well. he also added that he is quote confident that i will recover as soon as possible. and that he will use this time in quarantine to read, write and rest. he is the latest celebrity to reveal that they have tested positive, from tom hanks to mel again son all of whom since recovered. >> reporter: i'm allison kosik in new york. amazon, the company seen as a big disrupter for retail, could be moving into your local shopping mall. "wall street journal" is reporting that amazon and simon property group the biggest mall operator in the u.s. are exploring turning anchor department stores into amazon distribution hubs, the talks are reportedly focused on converting

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the 2016 election outcome and is actively working to denigrate joe biden's campaign. the director of the national counter intelligence center is saying that beijing prefers that president trump is not re-elected and the national security adviser said there's consequences to interference by foreign adversaries. >> alike the president to lose and china like russia like iran have engaged in cyber attacks and phishing with respect to the infrastructure and websites. there will be severe consequences with country that attempts to interfere with the free and fair elections whether they prefer joe biden or president trump. it doesn't matter. we are americans. we won't have foreign countries deciding who our next president is going to be. >> i want to bring in cnn global affairs analyst max boot. max, thank you so much for being

with us. can you just react to what you heard the national security adviser say? >> i think robert o'brien is trying to pull the wool over our eyes because what he and president trump are trying to do is to suggest, well, there are some foreign countries in favor of joe biden, some in favor of trump and t what intelligence community is saying, they're saying something different. the difference betwleen covert, disinformation community that russia is running for the second time to re-relect president just as they help relect him, there's no comparison because most countries, while they may have closed president trump's re-election, they're not trying to interfere in the same way and unfortunately what they're doing is they're in effect enabling the russian election attacks by trying to prevent the community

from exposing them. >> absolutely. i mean, if you're not going to come out and say so. president trump, last summer, said he would welcome foreign election interference in the united states and clearly, based on their actioness, that is what trump thinks. he does not want the intelligence community to oppose the russians. in fact, there was a blockbuster article in the "the new york times" magazine this weekend, which revealed that last year the white house tried to water down, in fact, did succeed in watering down, the national intelligence estimate, which said russia wanted to re-elect trump. then they inserted language that takes away that judgment. and in fact, the article suggests dan coats was fired as director of national intelligence because he refused to make changes and subsequently, his successor was

fired because one of his aids briefed congress that russia wants to re-elect trump. and now, of course, trump as the kind of sycophant in john rad cliff, as acting director of national intelligence who will prevent the community from being as active as they need to be to expose what the russians are up to. >> the president's national security advisor also promising severe consequences for election interference. but also says this. >> there's almost nothing we can sanction lecht. we've put so many sanctions on the russians. by the way, the prior administration didn't do. individuals, companies, the government, whether related to norris -- we've picked out literally scores of russian spies, worked on their consulates in the west coast, there's not a lot left we coo do with the russians and

nevertheless we continue to mess with the russians. don't get involved in our elections. >> i among other actions, sanctions between the time of president trump's election and his coming into the white house. >> absolutely. there were plenty of sanctions from president obama. and to be fair, there have been some during the trump administration. most of those implemented over president trump's objections. but the notion that trump has been clear about telling russia to but out of our elections, absolutely false. he's never said that. remember, he said russia, if you're listening, it would be great to get hillary clinton's emails. he's never said russia, if you're listening, but out of our elections. just as he refuses to tell putin do not place bounties on the heads of u.s. service members in afghanistan. remember, they've known about this intelligence and haven't done anything about it.

trump has nasty things to say about just about everybody under the sun but never, ever says anything mean about vladimir putin and certainly never tells putin not to get involved, which suggests he's giving him a go amed to do just that. >> and he's one of the biggest defenders on his lack of action. >> o'brien has no credibility. he was just saying unlike other national security advises havers, he doesn't listen to phone calls. that's far of the job mp what is he doing? the largest event in the country since the pandemic is ntdway insideicide and the annual motorcycle rally is bringing new fears of a super spreader. and the president is predicting a vaccine by election day but exprlts say there's no way that's going to happen.

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there are growing concerns that a super spreader event could be happening right now at a huge motorcycle rally. already for the second day in a row, south dakota is reporting more than 100 new covid-19 cases. cnn has been at the rally all weekend. >> reporter: i'm in sturgis,

south dakota and you can see all the motorcycles in the streets. this is a 10 of 7,000 but swells to over 250,000, they believe, for this event. this is one of the largest events since the pandemic started. and they're so glad the event is here. they have less than 10,000 covid-19 cases. a lot of people are siting that's why they feel comfortable not wearing masks. the same way they don't wear helmets, nay don't feel they need to wear masks. >> i'm trying to keep everybody safe, but at the same time, the world's going to go on no matter what. i just hope it doesn't end up causing, you know, mass breakout. >> i'm not worried about it all mp we're from california, so, honestly, this is refreshing and not have to worry about it. >> no matter where you look,