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and i'm rosemary church. just ahead, there are now more than 20 million cases of the coronavirus in the world. a quarter of those in the united states, and yet the u.s. president is urging the country to go back to normal. also ahead, president trump is forced to temporarily leave a white house briefing after a shooting nearby. the details on what happened. and a hurricane-like storm sweeps through the u.s. midwest, leaving more than a million without power. >> good to have you with us. we are reached another significant and somber milestone in the battle against the coronavirus. the number of confirmed cases worldwide has now surpassed 20 million. and even though the u.s. has 4%

of the world's population, it has one quarter of the world's cases at just over 5 million. while americans struggle to deal with this pandemic, the trump administration insists additional unemployment insurance will be ready to go out in most states within the next two weeks. but how this will work is just a little murky. treasury secretary steve mnuchin says he hasn't spoken with democrats since talks on coronavirus relief broke down last week, but he's ready if they call. and we're now learning the trump administration is weighing restrictions on the u.s./mexico border, citing virus concerns. a source tells cnn the administration is considering ways to restrict entry that could include american citizens and legal permanent residents. cnn reached out to the department of homeland security and cdc officials for more information, and they declined to comment.

well, this virus mayhem is presenting huge challenges for schools and parents. a new report shows a sharp spike in the number of children with covid-19 in the u.s. in the past four weeks, there's been a 90% increase that is according to the american academy of pediatrics and the children's hospital association. cnn has been tracking the reopening plans for the country's 101 largest school districts. so far, more than half are only offering online instruction. others have come up with hybrid plans, and a few are undecided. kyung lah shows us the debate of a reopening that's raging right alongside the virus. >> we won't go! >> reporter: as florida teachers protest back to school in person, at least 12 counties in the sunshine state returned to the classroom this week, nine of them with positivity rates higher than the cdc's recommended mark for reopening.

next door in georgia, the governor today applauded its first week back to school in many counties. thinking week went real well other than a couple of virtual photos. >> reporter: that's despite hundreds of public school students and faculty quarantined, testing positive after returning for in-person classes. that includes this high school northwest of atlanta and this viral image, now temporarily moved to online learning after nine reported cases. >> it's like a really bad experiment, you know. they're trying to find some kind of fluency, but they're using my kids and the kids that my kids grew up with as bait. >> reporter: the numbers paint a stark picture for the back to school season. the american academy of pediatrics says nearly 100,000 children pested positive for covid in the last two weeks of july, a 40% increase in child cases. covid continues to rise in these

eight states in red. the death toll flat. the u.s. averaging one thousand dying every day. in illinois, cases are up sharply. chicago's mayor closed a lakefront beach after seeing this packed area. in texas, where the state's positivity rate remains above 20%, some churches are now worshipping outdoors. and then there was the sturgis south dakota motorcycle rally. on fears of contracting covid and taking it home? >> hell no. we're going get it sooner or later. [ bleep ] the mask. >> reporter: the reality of the virus is sinking in to college football. the first major conference postponed its season, the mid american. >> it was not a decision that was made lightly. it was not a decision that was made quickly, and it was a decision that was made based on the advice of our medical experts. >> reporter: as the top leagues meet over the future of the fall

season, the president urged college football resume. >> he is very much would like to see college football safely resume their sport. >> reporter: this push by the president to get football started in the fall is part of the administration's overall effort to get students back in the classroom. primary, secondary, and even college age. students back into the physical classroom despite all the questions about the safety of those decisions. kyung lah, cnn, los angeles. >> joining me now is annette fernandez, a teacher in daytona, florida, preparing to go back to in-person teaching at her elementary school. thank you so much for talking with us. >> thank you for having me. >> now your story broke my heart you. set up a gofundme page to raise money for a portable sink because your students don't have access to running water in your portable classroom. how is this even possible in the

richest nation in the world? >> yes, it is possible. we have 12 portables right now, and the portables don't have access to water and sijs for hand washing. i think that the portables were temporary classrooms from, you know, maybe years ago, and we're just still working from them. and so i came up with this idea because it will literally take so much of our instructional time just to stand and make sure that everybody walks over to a bathroom that is not close to our room just to wash our hands. and so i thought it would be safer for our children to have a sink in the classroom where they can wash their hands. >> you are a true hero for doing this. so many american teachers. >> thank you. >> do dip into their own pockets to provide supplies. and this is going far and

beyond. so you will return to school for in-person teaching at the end of august. >> correct. >> what are your biggest concerns about that right now? >> my biggest concern, number one, is myself becoming sick and bringing it home to my family. but i'm also truly concerned about my students. i don't think we've thought it through. if my students get sick, i don't think that i can -- i can live with myself. i don't think that if one of my kids got sick and something devastating happened, how could i come back to the classroom after this? so my biggest goal is to do whatever i can to keep them safe. >> incredible. a lot of our viewers watching this from overseas would be shocked to hear this playing out in so many schools across america. nearly 97% of the students at your school live in poverty.

>> correct. >> about 75% are black. 7.42% are hispanic. why do you think these students have been forgotten in the middle of a pandemic, particularly given studies show that these children are more vulnerable to this virus than white kids? >> i think one of the biggest issues is we don't have people from our community that are representing us when these decisions are made. and so we lack the representation for these communities. >> and thankfully, you exceeded your goal to buy a portable sink for your own classroom. now your aim is to buy sinks for the other portable classrooms. >> yes. >> at your school. how likely it is that you'll raise those funds, and what will be the ramifications if you don't? >> i am not sure. this is the first time i've ever done a gofundme, and so i'm super new to it. but i've raised enough to buy

two. so i have another teacher in line, and i'm ready to order for her. but if i can raise more, then i'll provide more. >> well done. and i did want to ask you, because you have to go back to school. that's a requirement there in florida, but you wouldn't have virtual learning as an alternative anyway, because presumably, these students wouldn't have access to the wifi and the devices required to do that. >> that is correct. currently i believe our district does not have the technology to provide for all students. this is correct. >> annette fernandez, thank you so much for talking was. >> thank you. >> and for doing what you've done. you're an incredible teacher. >> thank you so much. i appreciate it. >> and while the world desperately waits for a covid-19 vaccine, the head of the food and drug administration says the u.s. will not cut corners to approve a drug.

dr. stephen hahn also insists that safety will not be compromised. he made those public remarks on monday. some health experts have questioned whether the fda might rush a vaccine to the marketplace before it's ready. the president of the american medical association is also speaking out on this issue. dr. susan bailey was on cnn earlier. >> it takes time to recruit people to enter these studies. and with the vaccines, after they get the first dose, they have to get another booster several weeks later. and then you have to see if they catch covid-19 in their communities. and that just takes time to do. and if you don't have adequate data comparing the placebo group with the group that got vaccine, you're not going to be able to tell whether the vaccine works or not. it's just that simple. and these things take time. >> a cnn poll conducted back in may found that one-third of

americans would not try to get vaccinated, even if a drug was widely available and low cost. we have new details on an officer-involved shooting outside the white house monday. we're told a 51-year-old man approached secret service claiming he had a weapon. he then ran toward an officer, who shot the suspect. law enforcement sources tell cnn the man turned out to be unarmed, but the incident was alarming enough the security to whisk president trump away from his daily coronavirus briefing. cnn's boris sanchez has more. >> reporter: certainly an unplanned, if not unprecedented interruption during the president's press briefing today with reporters. he was speaking about the coronavirus pandemic when a secret service agent stopped him mid sentence and said, "sir, we have to leave the room." the president saying okay and following that secret service agent out of the press briefing room. the white house was put on lockdown for approximately ten

minutes. the president we later learned was taken to the oval office. he told reporters that he asked if he could return to the press briefing room to finish this coronavirus pandemic briefing. he was told that as soon as the scene was cleared, he could. the president eventually returning and confirming that the white house was put on lockdown and that he was taken out of the room because there was a shooting just outside the white house grounds. the secret service confirming that one of their law enforcement agents opened fire on a person. that person transported to a hospital. the president revealing that he didn't have very many details on the person's condition or even the basis for the altercation. he said it may not have had anything to do with me. the president was asked by reporters if he was rattled by the incident, and he asked, quote, do i look rattled? he eventually pivoted to the purpose of that briefing, talking about the american economy, his democratic rival joe biden, and then getting into his attacks on mail-in voting

and democrats in general. the president summarizing what, again, was seemingly unprecedented by telling reporters simply things happen. boris sanchez, cnn at the white house. lebanon's people are outraged the government has resigned, but that may not mean the end of protests on the streets of beirut. we'll explain.

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she was not able to vote in her lifetime, but i wanted to honor all that she had done to ensure a lasting legacy of education and civic involvement.

i'm very proud to carry on her story. storm system known as derichio rolled through the midwest with punishing winds as powerful as a category 2 hurricane. cnn meteorologist tyler malden joins us from atlanta to tell us what this is all about and what impact it had. >> reporter: this event produced wind speeds up to 106 miles an hour. that would make it a high end category 2, almost a category 3. unbelievable stuff. we saw 478 severe wind reports today. overall with this as it moved to the south and east we saw 427

wind reports in total. as you can see here, the damage with this system, unbelievable stuff. it's exactly what you would see with a major hurricane with 2x4s going through houses and into rooms. dangerous stuff. it's easy to think about a dere c ho as a quick storm but they're long lived systems. they last more than four, five, six hours. they need to have a swath of damage more than 250 miles and sustained winds of greater than 58 miles an hour. oftentimes they produce gusts in excess of 90 miles an hour and they're common in north america, europe and south asia. here in the u.s. we see at least one derecho event per year. we see the most or the area that

gets impacted by derechos in the tulsa, oklahoma, going into little rock, arkansas. what's left of the derecho event we saw monday? it's petering out and going over nashville, tennessee, at this second. you can see light shower activity, thunderstorms mixed in there, too. it has really lost its punch. as we go into tuesday afternoon we're going to see scattered showers and thunderstorms up the entire east coast as we have hot, humid conditions. we're not looking at another derecho event. >> tyler malden, thank you for bringing us up to date. appreciate it. lebanon's government stepped down on monday less than a week after the massive explosion in beirut led to days of protests. the prime minister announced his resignation along with the cabinet. he called the blast a disaster beyond measure and he blamed

endemic corruption going back years for the improperly stored chemicals that officials believe triggered that explosion. protests escalated over the weekend and into monday. demonstrators occupied several government buildings and clashed with security forces. let's go to sam kiley. what is the latest from there? what does lebanon's future look like right now? >> reporter: well, from the perspective of the protesters who are going to be gathering here where i'm standing just a few hundred yards from the center of the -- the epicenter of that blast, you can see the damage it did to the silos there, rosemary. it acted as a wall protecting more of beirut that could have been damaged. it is pretty spectacular, 160 dead. people are continuing to demonstrate. as far as they're concerned, nothing has changed with the

resignation of the government that took itself four months to be formed because the system that led to the government is what they say needs reform. that interestingly is something you're hearing both from activists and from members of long-standing dynasties here as my report shows. if you're in the lebanese opposition, this is democracy in action. 30 or 40 yards down the street this barricade there is the lebanese parliament, the outer door. the demonstrators are absolutely dead set, they told me, on getting into more and more government buildings to try to demonstrate that the government is a joke. as the cleanup continues after thousands of tons of fertilizer is believed to have blown up and destroyed parts of beirut, activists are 5d amount that

lebanon's secretary is politics and corruption led to the blast. >> we will go to the parliament, their houses, to each place to get them down. they will go to a place, they will not be able to go through the streets ever. they kill people. it's a big thing to us. >> reporter: lebanon's parliament in which 128 seats are shared under electoral law following the civil war 30 years ago was dissolved monday ahead of new region. they're pessimistic that even early elections would bring change. >> when i see the protesters, the revolutionary, when i saw them and i see them yesterday and they want to change lebanon. they want a new lebanon, but the

obstacles to change in a new lebanon is in this specific point. you cannot change lebanon. >> reporter: close to the epicenter of tuesday's blast, the party's headquarters is in ruins. it's a largely christian party. its secretary general was killed in the explosion. his bloody handprint still visible. the grandson of the party's founder and son of a former president, nephew of another president who was murdered, sammy gamiles supports the street protests. >> we are all from families that were part of the old lebanon. this is -- the new generation doesn't come from nowhere and it's our duty to do our own revolution, each one in his society and the place where he

is. >> reporter: but in martyr square, they include former lebanese commander george nadal, he wants to see the old guard swept away entirely. >> change is coming. we will go to their homes or do it by force. >> reporter: that night it was the protesters that were eventually swept away but not for long. they have plans to harness public anger over the beirut blast to more powerful revolutionary rage. now that public anger we're expecting to see more today and in coming days. they say they're going to take over government buildings and drive the government out of power. we heard there a warning. ultimately, this is a system

seen by many, many people on the ground here in lebanon as being fundamentally broken. >> sam kiley joining us live from beirut. many thanks. with the government stepping down and the economy plummeting, the people of lebanon are demanding accountability and real change. earlier i spoke with rand randa sleem, director of the institute. take a listen. >> it's difficult to see how we are going to willingly give up power. they have so much interest. and in this process or this system, we have demanding change in this establishment and the political establishment is united in resisting people's demands for change. >> who do you blame for last

week's explosion? do you think that justice will be served? >> that's another question is to establish a commission to figure out how the ammonium nitrate shipment made it here. why was it stored for -- since 2014? who had access to it? and finally what caused the explosion? there is a lebanese committee established by the political police and an investigation led by lebanese judges, but many of the lebanese mistrust the credibility of this committee and that's why they are demanding an international body to let -- you know, that is credible and whose results

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welcome back, everyone. well, the white house is mulling over the idea of a symbolic executive action on mail-in voting. that is according to a source that spoke to cnn. it has been a favorite topic of president trump's for weeks now, and he was speaking about it again at monday's press

briefing. >> i'll tell you who's meddling in our elections, the democrats are meddling by wanting and insisting on sending mail-in ballots where there's corruption all over the place. >> and with all the talk of mail-in ballots, it is a good idea to actually see how the system works on the ground and that's what our lucy kapanof did. she went to a county in colorado that's been using them for a number of years now. >> this machine processes 20,000 ballots an hour. it's really loud. we would not be able to talk this closely to it. >> reporter: george stearns is an elections administrator in jefferson. everything is out in the open? >> severing in the open. >> reporter: he's invited the president to tour this facility. >> there's no massive fraud. our elections are secure as much as they are accessible. >> reporter: all registered

colorado voters receive a bat lol in the mail. you can vote in person but an overwhelming majority of ballots including 99.3% have consistently been returned by mail or ballot drop box. >> everyone knows mail-in ballots are a disaster. >> reporter: this week the president sued them tweeting mail-in ballots will lead to massive voter fraud. >> we've been doing this for seven years and we can say with certainty that that is not the case. >> reporter: that's because of what stearns says is a rigorous system of checks and balances. for a mail-in ballot to be counted, the envelope must be signed. a bipartisan team of experts compares the envelope signature to those stored on file. >> if there isn't a signature that matches, that's going to be pushed off to the side and investigated. >> reporter: data from the conservative heritage foundation

shows nine cases. >> nine is too many. that's 9 out of 16 million. that's nearly less than 1 in a million. >> reporter: in june they said millions will be printed by foreign countries and others but colorado says that's not a concern. many things change in each election cycle. another bonus. >> you have mail in ballots, we have a paper trail and we store that for two years after the election. our voting equipment, our voting machines never connected to the internet. they never have been. never will be. our counting equipment never connected to the internet. >> it would be a total joke. >> another false claim by the president that mail-in voting

benefits democrats tweeting republicans should fight very hard when it comes to statewide mail in voting. tremendous potential for voter fraud and for whatever reason doesn't work out well for republicans. >> tonight we shook up the senate. >> in the 2014 general election the first election after colorado switched to mail-in voting, republicans flipped a u.s. senate seat, won a majority in the state senate, gained seats in the statehouse and won three of four statewide offices. >> we've seen there is no partisan advantage. we've seen a record turnout from democrats, republicans and unaffiliated voters. >> the president has said elections could be delayed in months. >> we deliver most of our results on election night on time. >> it makes the process faster. >> in colorado it unquestionably makes it faster. >> how difficult is it to fake a ballot? >> dead people cannot vote.

>> somebody got a ballot for a dog. >> my dog walks with me but he's yet to vote or turn one in. >> golden, colorado. u.s. health secretary, alex azar, has met with the territory's foreign minister. he praised taiwan for its response to the coronavirus pandemic but he says the island has been unfairly excluded from the global conversation. the health secretary talked about that in an exclusive interview with cnn's paula hancocks. >> it is a call to action that taiwan needs to be appropriately represented in international flora so its expertise, data, evidence can be fully integrated, something that has been denied to them by the

communist cumulative party of china. the way taiwan has been treated and the undue influence of beijing are part of the reason why president trump has determined that the united states needs to leave the world health organization. >> just before you went to meet the president this morning, chinese fighter jets did cross the median line in the taiwan strait, waters between china and taiwan which taiwan sees as harassment. china sees taiwan as part of its territory. they're making a point. what's your response to that? they know you are here. they are unhappy this visit is taking place. >> it seems to be a continued politization by beijing of public health relationships. this should be sharing information, transparent information, unprecedented

public health crisis and instead they seem to want to play political games as they have done at the world health organization. this disease had its outbreak in china. because china did not reveal the rapid human to human spread of the disease, did not reveal what they were learning about asymptomatic transmission, did not share the first viral isolates with other countries. shut down travel even as they allowed chinese to travel throughout the world, they seeded europe. and what spread to the united states was actually the disease burden that was allowed to seed into europe and went to the united states. >> what would you say to critics of the trump administration who say visit here three months before an election. >> my visit here is about supporting taiwan and supporting taiwan, the international public

health community. my visit is about health, it's about the health of the people of taiwan, about the health of the american people and it's about the health of the people of the world and the way we protect that is by entities around the world being transparent, cooperative, collaborative, compliant with the international health regulations and taiwan has been a model of that. >> well, long awaited video has been released from the arrest of george floyd. it reveals in greater detail what led up to his death. we will have that when we come back. with natural essential oils. air wick scented oils. connect to nature. robinwithout the commission fees. so, you can start investing today wherever you are -

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officer's actions and the response from paramedics. portions have been leaked to the daily mail previously and are under investigation. cnn's sara sidner has more on the video and we must warn you it is very disturbing to watch. >> reporter: the encounter between george floyd and police begins with a tap on floyd's window. it appears to startle him. >> let me see your hands. stay in the car. let me see your hands. >> i'm sorry. i'm sorry. >> reporter: 14 seconds after approaching his car, officer lane pulls his gun. both hands. put your [ bleep ] hands up right now. let me see your hands. put your [ bleep ] hand up there. >> reporter: floyd said he been

shot before and begins to cry. floyd is pulled from the car and he struggles when they try to handcuff him. >> stop resisting. >> i'm not. >> reporter: the officers have not yet told floyd why he's detained. the public has seen the surveillance video but now they can hear the officer's frustration and floyd's fear. >> you acting erratic. >> my hand, man. >> reporter: floyd is taken across the street crying the whole time. at the squad car a second bigger struggle ensues as officers try to put floyd inside. >> i'm claustrophobic. >> stand up. >> i'm claustrophobic. >> stay on your feet and face the car door. >> reporter: this is what they couldn't see well. floyd initially resisting getting into the police vehicle and being pushed by one side by king. >> tang, man. i'm going to die.

>> i'll roll the windows down. >> reporter: then pulled in on the other side by officer wayne. this is the first time you hear him say, i can't breathe. >> please. no. no. >> take a seat. >> i can't breathe. i can't breathe. please. >> reporter: soon you can see the officers on camera about nine minutes into the encounter. floyd finally hears what he's being arrested for. >> under arrest for forgery. >> reporter: chauvin and king pull floyd to the ground. you can see chauvin's knee go down on his neck. he calls out for his deceased mother. >> mama. mama. >> reporter: the cell phone video the world saw picked up from here, but in the body cam video the sound is crystal clear revealing more details. >> i didn't mean it man. mama, i love you.

tell my kid i love her. >> reporter: floyd keeps crying. >> i can't breathe, man. ah. ah. ah. i can't do nothing. >> ems is on the way. >> reporter: king says an ambulance has been called. chauvin's knee has been on his neck for a minute when officer lane asked about moving floyd. >> please. please let me stand. please, i can't breathe. >> reporter: officer lane complies and floyd continues to beg for his breath. he's told to stop talking. >> i can't breathe, officer. >> stop talking. >> you going to kill me, man. >> takes a heck of a lot of

oxygen. >> reporter: after officer chauvin's knee has been on his neck for five minutes, officer lane asks whether to move him. floyd's voice has weakened. the world sees how this ends. they couldn't hear what the body camera reveals. it is something lawyers for former officer lane are seeding on trying to exonerate him. >> stand. >> [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. >> sorry about that. >> reporter: but the ambulance was of no use. floyd lost consciousness and was pronounced dead at the hospital. sara sidner, cnn, los angeles. this just in to cnn. russian president vladimir putin says his country has developed the first coronavirus vaccine. cnn's matthew chance joins us now from moscow. how is this even possible?

>> reporter: well, it's been definitely developed at break-neck speed. that's led to all sorts of criticism about whether this vaccine is safe or even whether it's effective. within the past few minutes really vladimir putin has appeared on national television in a televised video conference and we see it in russia. he made the announcement and said this vaccine that has been developed in russia has gone through all of the steps and it's approved for use with the russian public. it makes it the first ever. rashdless of the efficacy, it's the first vaccine that's gone to market and has been approved by use anywhere in the world. there was word from the russian health minister in that panel of cabinet ministers speaking on national television. he said it was a huge contribution, this is the health

minister, to the victory of the coronavirus. there is another development as well. vladimir putin revealed during that video conference that one of his own daughters, who we don't see very much of at all, nothing of, in fact, has been vaccinated with this russian-developed vaccine. he said that she had a slight temperature at first but now she feels well. he didn't say which daughter it was. he has two that we know of. clearly this is something that if this is the case, vladimir putin and the russian state has a great deal of confidence in. if vladimir putin's willing to allow his own daughter to be vaccinatewide this russian created vaccine. that doesn't detract from the criticism that's been leveled at russia about the kind of tests that have been done on the vaccine, the crucial third phase of human trials have not been

carried out. but with the administering of this vaccine to the general public. we're told by the russian health minister that it's front line health workers and teachers in the country that will get the vaccinations first and, of course, we also understand from other russian officials that mass production of this vaccine is now going to be stepped up and they hope to produce up to 170 million doses in russia and other countries as well which have agreed, apparently, to produce this vaccine by the end of the year. look, whether or not this vaccine is effective or safe, it does look like it is going to be widely distributed and administered to millions of people around the world and ahead. rosemary. >> people are desperate. phase three human trials have not been completed. that makes a lot of people very uneasy. matthew chance. thank you very much. still to come on "cnn newsroom," a massive motorcycle

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and that is rock band smash mouth performing there. quite the entertainment for a massive biker rally currently underway in south dakota. the event has drawn scrutiny this year with the pandemic raging in many states. over the weekend south dakota reported more than 200 new covid-19 cases. the surge in infections comes amid growing fears the annual motorcycle rally could become a super spreader event. cnn's ryan young spoke with some people about their decision to attend. >> i'm in sturgis, south dakota. you can see all the motorcycles here in the streets. this is a town of 7,000 but it as well as to over 250,000 they believe for this event. this has to be one of the largest events since the pandemic started. they told me they were so glad this wasn't canceled. south dakota has less than 10,000 covid-19 cases. a lot of people are citing that's why they feel comfortable

not wearing the mask. they don't wear helmets, they don't believe they need to wear masks. >> i'm trying to keep everybody safe but at the same time we're here to do what we're here to do. the world is going to go on no matter what. seems like everyone else has the same opinion. i hope it doesn't end up causing mass breakout. >> i'm not worried about it. we're from california. you have to wear masks everywhere you go. >> no matter where you look, there are thousands of bikes here. some people are staying in hotels. some people are staying in rv parks. they feel comfortable. a lot of them feel like the pandemic numbers are not real. they're not worried about this being a super spreading event. health officials have concerns. we'll have to see what happens in the next three days. >> two to three weeks from now we'll be watching. thanks for your company. i'm rosemary church.

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