to investigators and was awaiting sentencing, very important case, we'll continue to track it for you. thank you for joining us today. see you back here tomorrow. could be vp choice day. we like those. busy news day average. brianna keilar picks up the coverage right now. have a good day. hi there. i'm brianna keilar, welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. the data says it all, children are not immune to the coronavirus. the new report shows a 90% increase in children testing positive for coronavirus over the last month. florida alone saw a 137% jump. children are not the only population experiencing a sharp rise. right now the coronavirus is spreading at an alarming rate inside of nursing homes and assisted living facilities. thousands of families across the country are in mourning. the average daily death toll is remaining around 1,000 people, florida setting another unfortunate record today with

267 people dying. and in the meantime, as the global number of cases crosses 20 million, russian president vladimir putin says his country has approved the world's first vaccine and named it sputnik v, a hat tip to the first satellite launched during the space race. there are many questions about the safety and the quality of that russian investigation. health and human services secretary alex azar says being first is not the goal. >> the point is it is not to be first with the vaccine, the point is to have a vaccine that is safe and effective for the american people and the people of the world. we need transparent data, and it has got to be phase three data, that shows that a vaccine is safe and effective. >> the u.s. timeline for a safe and effective vaccine is still the end of this year. but let's get back to that alarming rise that we're seeing in cases among children. the school year is already under

way in many parts of the country. senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is with us now, and, tell us what we're learning from this updated report, elizabeth. >> to your point, i want to say now that schools are under way in some parts of the country, we may be seeing a bigger spike. let's look at the numbers that are in this new report. what it finds is that since the beginning of the outbreak, there have been more than 380,000 pediatric covid-19 cases, and that's a 90% increase in covid cases among children in just the last four weeks. and from july, if you look from july 9th to august 6th, that short period of time, not even a month, nearly 180,000 new pediatric covid-19 cases. now, i know what a lot of people are thinking, well so what, kids get covid, sick for a day, my kid has been sick for a day with a variety of different kinds of viruses over the years, why does

it matter? here's why it matters, two reasons, one, 90 children have died from covid since this outbreak began according to the american academy of pediatrics. that's approximately what the number of children who die in a flu season, we take great care to prevent those deaths in a flu season, we should do the same here. and, of course, as you and i have discussed before, children are little disease victectors. if they don't get sick they could get us sick. it is not the flu. >> elizabeth, thank you so much for that reminder. now to vladimir putin's claim that russia has developed and approved the world's first coronavirus vaccine. cnn's senior international correspondent matthew chance is in moscow for us. so, this seems quite quick, matthew what did the president say what he announced its approval? >> reporter: it was just approved. what it says is the world's first coronavirus vaccine, despite major concerns about the safety and effectiveness.

top officials, russian president vladimir putin announced the russian made vaccine sputnik v has undergone all the necessary checks. now registered for use, even though phase three human trials have yet to begin. he also said, one of his own daughters has been vaccinated, an extraordinary statement. a sign of just how much confidence russia wants to show it has in what is casting as a huge contribution to the victory over coronavirus. >> matthew, thank you. putin's push to declare this vaccine a world first before conducting human trials is raising some red flags. the rapid speed at which russian researchers developed the drug has experts wondering about its safety. i want to talk about this now with dr. regina beset, the medical director and assistant professor at baylor college of medicine. thank you so much for being with us, doctor. russia started its first clinical trials at the beginning of june, it plans to begin mass

vaccinations in october. what do you think about this timeline? >> well, you know, the humanitarian in me is excited there have been advancements made, but the scientist in me is very concerned and i'm going to urge everyone else to look at the data very cautiously. vaccine development is no small feat and this is not child's play. it usually takes years to develop a vaccine and the fact that russia has already approved the vaccine without undergoing phase three clinical trials is much to be concerned about. >> so back in june, there was a new york times op-ed written by two doctor and put forth the idea that president trump could launch an october surprise, they worried that the president could fast track a vaccine and use it as a campaign stunt, especially after he touted hydroxychloroquine as a miracle cure, which it is not. do you think this scenario could happen and do you think that in the u.s. there are measures in place to stop a vaccine that isn't safe and effective from coming forward?

>> i'm very doubtful that that can happen. just for comparison sake -- companies, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. in the last 25 years, there have been seven truly novel vaccines created. the shortest amount of time it took them to create a vaccine was four years. not four months, but four years. and here we are speaking of creating a vaccine within nine to ten months of the virus first being discovered. luckily for us in the united states we do have measures in place to ensure efficacy and to ensure safety. vaccine approval goes through the food and drug administration in the u.s. and there are lots of measures in place to make sure vaccines undergo the proper steps and proper clinical trials before we give it to u.s. citizens. >> i want to ask you about someone who we have been watching go through her covid journey, actress alyssa milano who says she has been battling

symptoms for months now. let's check out her latest tweet. >> i just wanted to show you the amount of hair that is coming out of my head as a result of covid. one brushing. this is my hair loss. from covid-19. >> what do you think about that? we're learning new things about new side effects all the time. but have you seen hair loss as a side effect? >> i personally have not seen hair loss as a side effect. but, again, there is so much that we just don't know about this illness and about this virus. the first case of covid came to the u.s. in january of 2020. we're only eight months in. we have no idea what the long lasting side effects are going to be or what the sequely is going to be. though it is something i haven't

seen before, don't doubt it is something that could potentially occur. >> and, i mean, we have heard of hair loss, of course, i think in cases of stress, right, which presumably people are very stressed out in the middle of the pan democrdemic if they're suffering through this. >> absolutely. not only mentally and emotionally but physically. that virus can take a toll on people's bodies. i had colleagues who contracted covid in the line of duty who are still dealing with the consequences of the disease, still dealing with shortness of breath, when they try to walk or do minimal activities. they're still dealing with disgdi disdizziness when they stand, passing out episodes, there is so much yet to be discovered and my greatest sympathies go to ali alyssa milano. >> we have talked to people who have run long races after covid and having a hard time getting up the stairs even months later. dr. regina beset, thank you so much. >> thank you for having me. a megachurch pastor defies

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a number of megachurches in california and other states are openly defying state and local mandates and holding crowded indoor services despite the threat of the coronavirus. for the past couple sundays,

pastor john mcarthur welcomed congr congregants to grace community church. virus cases and deaths continue to climb there. grace community church could face a thousand dollar fine a day, and its leadership reportedly retained one of president trump's personal lawyers as part of a litigation team in case the city or the county responds with legal action. on the final sunday of july, pastor mcarthur told his congregants there is a time to obey law, but that obedience cannot override one's duty to god. >> we must obey god rather than men. does this mean we have no responsibility to our leaders? not at all. god has ordained human government for the peace and well-being of temporal society.

when orders come, however, to us, that contradict the orders of our king, we have to obey god rather than men. >> pastor john macarthur is joining us now. thank you so much for being with us. >> it is my pleasure. glad to be here. >> and i know that you have been concerned that spiritual health is being sacrificed to physical health. can you tell us about your concern? >> well, it just one way to illustrate that is the fact that every sunday in the life of this church for decades we have had four and a half hours every sunday of training of children, three hours in the morning, hour and a half in the evening, for six months we have had no classes for children. we teach them the bible. it is very, very critical for their young lives. the parents miss that.

the children miss that. maybe they're the most precious reality in this church. this is not a -- this church is not sort of a ted talk kind of church. it is not really just a gathering of adults. it is a fully generational, multigenerational experience all through the weekend, culminates on the lord's day. all of that has been shut down. when it furst happirst happened thought millions were going to die, so we did live stream and nobody was here. as the weeks went on, people started slowly coming back, and they just kept coming and coming until last week there were six or 7,000, that's two weeks in a row, it wasn't that we mandated it, or told them to come back, they started coming back and what caused them to come back was they realized that the death rate in california is .02%.

99.98% chance you're not going to die have covid. they didn't buy the deadly narrative and they just started showing up. and we began to receive them and they were told they couldn't sing, they were told they had to wear masks, we were told that if anybody gets within some other person, you can meet outdoors, but if anybody gets within another person within six feet for more than 15 minutes, they have to be quarantined for two weeks. well, how do you navigate that with 6,000 people? >> if you get within someone who has tested positive, you mean? >> no, no. if you get within someone other than a family member, if you get within six feet for more than 15 minutes, the health department said you have to be quarantined for two weeks and they said it applies to children. >> i think -- i think that means if you're near someone who has tested positive. that's been a somewhat standard approach to people who test positive for coronavirus.

but i do want to highlight something that you recently said during a sermon you were talking about some of the statistics that you actually just mentioned if we can listen to that. >> there is another statistic. half of those people who died are over 80. so if you're under 80, you have a 99.99% chance that you're going to live. through this whole thing. that just doesn't not equate to the response that society has had. >> but if you just look at friday's statistics in your county, in los angeles county, there were 48 deaths, just in one day on friday, and there were a little less than a third who were folks above 80, but a little less, a third, people 30

to 69. >> to be honest with you, i just don't know when the truth is being correctly represented. i know -- >> if i may, pastor, if i may, that's from the public health department in los angeles. you doubt the numbers they're putting out? >> yeah, i actually do. i think they're having trouble in the state of california, the governor just declared that he was firing the state health director because the system, the computer system had miscounted all kinds of things, so the whole state is in an uproar and then came out and said we can't ease up because we don't even know what the numbers are. so it is so chaotic. but the bottom line is in people's own life experience, they're not seeing these kinds of things in any abnormal sense

and they came back on their own volition because this is the most essential thing in their life. they wanted to be here. they came with joy and not with fear. >> no doubt. look, we heard a lot of people who are -- they need that spiritual attachment and going to church is so important. one of my questions for you is this really an either/or choice between spiritual and physical health. is it possible, i think you're overflow area is outside, can you not get creative, we heard of other churches there very close to you who are doing outside services, they have cooling systems, they're checking temperatures, they're social distancing, they have masks, which to be clear when we look inside of your church it is indoors as you said, thousands of people, there is absolutely no social distancing, there is no masks. why not get creative so you can obey as you put it god's law, but also obey public health regulations? >> yeah, it is a fair question.

so we have been creative, we brought in a tent, put it in the parking lot and first sunday we had that, it just filled up and overflowed. so then we created a screen out of the middle of a large patio, that overflowed and filled up. and people just kept coming and coming and pouring into the worship center. we don't orchestrate this, this is a church. we don't ask people to make a reservation to come to church. we don't know who is coming. >> but you opened the doors, sir. >> well yeah, because we aren't going to have the people standing outside in a mob all pushed up against each other. we open the doors because that's what we are. we're a church. and we're going to trust those people to make adult decisions about the reality of their physical and spiritual health and how that balance works for each one of them. nobody is forcing anything. they're here because they want to be here.

>> and i hear you on that, but you know they look to you, they trust you, you're their pastor, you're a religious leader for so many thousands of people, do you worry that if people are coming into your church and they are not practicing what are considered just safe precautions, mask wearing, social distancing, that some of them could die or get sick? >> well, and in the first place, i can't express to them a worry. there is enough fear going on in this world and in this climate. there is some reason for normal avoidance of illness, that would be true in any time, in any year. but i'm not going to add to the fear because i'm not convinced that what is being propagated is actually reality. neither are they. that's why they're here. and i don't know of anybody in our church, and that's a large

church, who is sick at this time, i don't know of anybody -- we haven't had anybody in our church in the hospital with this through all these months. so, of course, we care about that. we -- i know people in the hospital, i can't even go to the hospital to minister them when they're dying and i have to talk with people who are on their death bed on a phone call because i can't get into the hospital to minister to them. our people know restricted in way that is not constitutional that is burdensome, that is targeting a church and makes no sense in light of the actual numbers of deaths that they're seeing. >> i would just implore you, sir, some people can be asymptomatic and also to look at those numbers, i mean, the understanding is they're underreported. that is something you can take to the bank as you make decision for thousands of the -- that affect thousands of people. >> well, the bottom line, i don't make that decision. that's their decision to make. and they make that decision

because that's the decision they want to make in their hearts and i'm good with that. that's for them to decide. >> all right, pastor, we wish you luck, we wish you health and safety. thank you so much, pastor. >> my pleasure. thank you. apple's tim cook is now i billionaire, joining a club that has gotten richer during the pandemic and democrats want them to pay. i'll speak with a survivor who thought covid was a hoax and what happened in the tense moments when the secret service pulled president trump from the briefing room? new reporting next. - [narrator] did you just reward yourself for spending a perfectly reasonable amount of time on the couch with tacos from grubhub? grubhub's gonna reward you for that with a $5 off perk. (doorbell rings) - [crowd] grubhub! (fireworks exploding)

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$42 billion to his net worth and tesla's elon musk tripled his net worth, adding $43 billion in less than five months. for more on this new bill, let's bring in manu raju on capitol hill. tell us how the tax would work and how much this would bring in and if this is likely to become law or not. >> reporter: not this congress, virtually no chance given the makeup of this congress, republican in the white house, it is not clear how many democrats would come down to support this, but it does have support in the left part of the democratic caucus, bernie sanders, but also support of ed markey who is up facing re-election, facing a difficult primary from his left in massachusetts. he's a co-sponsor of this bill and kirsten gillibrand of new york. what this bill would do is impose a 60% tax on billionaires who have reported increasing their wealth since mid-march up until august. it would affect 467 billionaires

and according to sanders office, would raise $421 billion by posing that 60% tax on their newly accumulated wealth. you mentioned jeff bezos, look at bill gates, he added $16 billion in wealth from mid-march, up until today, warren buffett, that billionaire investor also increasing from $68 billion to $80 billion and additional $12 billion that would be taxed as well. this idea that the senator introduced last week has not been part of any of these discussions that have been going on, on capitol hill, to try to deal with the economic recovery here, stalled discussions between the democrats and the white house. but if joe biden becomes president, democrats take the senate, this will be one of the things that the new administration almost certainly will have to deal with, will have to listen to, maybe they'll have to fight with their own caucus to determine whether or not to move forward in this way. but one idea, popular idea, may

not have much support on capitol hill, but we'll see how the democratic leaders ultimately have to deal with this if they face pressure from the left. >> manu, thank you so much for that. and we're getting a look today at who will be speaking at the democratic national convention. as you might expect, president obama and the former first lady michelle obama are on the list. also on the list are senator bernie sanders and new york congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez, part of the party's progressive wing. there is speculation about who joe biden could pick as his running mate. cnn's arlette saenz is with me. does this speaker list reveal anything about a potential vice presidential pick? >> the speaking schedule does tell us that joe biden's vice presidential pick will speak on wednesday night. but other than that, there aren't really too many other clues. a few of the serious contenders on biden's list are scheduled to

speak, you have gretchen whitmer on monday, elizabeth warren on wednesday, and tammy duckworth and kamala harris both scheduled for thursday. but officials have been very quick to warn that just because they already have speaking slots that doesn't necessarily mean anything about their vice presidential chances. because whoever is selected as his running mate will be speaking in that wednesday night slot that is reserved just before president obama is expected to speak. but, you know, right now, biden is in that final stage of deliberations, as we really could get an announcement about his vice presidential pick any day now. and a few of the serious contenders we have talked about over the past few days are kamala harris, the senator from california, who is perhaps one of most well known of the contenders in this list right be democratic primary. there is susan rice who worked alongside biden in the white house. and michigan governor gretchen whitmer speaking on monday night, she traveled here to

delaware to meet with the former vice president, recently. so biden right now in that final stage of deliberations as he's going to make one of the most consequential picks of his candidacy. the campaign has encouraged their supporters to sign up for text messages to be among the first to know who biden selects. they tell me they had a significant uptick in the number of people signing up for that list, which could also act as an organizing tool for them going forward. but certainly a lot of people are going to be checking their phones including me over the next few days as we wait for the announcement. >> oh, yeah, you're going to be tied to the phone, thank you so much. appreciate the report. more and more celebrities d dismissing the virus and spreading misinformation. i'll speak with a survivor who regrets dismissing the virus as a hoax after he and 14 family members got sick from a gathering, some very, very ill. and the doctor who is advising college football and whether to

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coronavirus cases, but as the virus spreads so too does misinformation about it and a growing list of celebrities are some of the main culprits. take smash mouth, they played at a pack eed concert and listen t what the lead singer had to say on stage. >> crazy, you know. now we're together tonight. and we're being human once again. >> smash mouth isn't alone n recent weeks, madonna and jon voight have come under scrutiny for their social media posts downplaying the severity of the deadly disease. nba star michael porter even posted his own conspiracy theory about the pandemic on snapchat. here with me now is cnn chief medea correspondent and host of "reliable sources " brian stelter. it is hard enough to sift through the information, the accurate information on

coronavirus, but here celebrities are weighing in to the disinformation and adding that to make it even more difficult. >> yeah, and because they are celebrities and they have millions of fans and followers, they can do real harm as a result. smash smoumouth should try bein closed mouth. madonna claiming there was a hidden cure to covid-19 being kept from the public. i understand sometimes conspiracy theories bring people comfort because they provide simple explanations for scary problems. but they are simple solutions because they're nonsense, they're quackery and a simple google search will usually set the celebrities straight. this is a big problem. five months into this worldwide pandemic, a brand-new study found that misinformation about covid-19 across 87 countries in 25 different languages, a lot of claims about illness and transmission and mortality, there are all sorts of misinformation -- misinforming claims out there and just in the

past hour, facebook announced that it has removed more than 7 million pieces of misinformation relating to the virus between april and june. so they are having to remove millions of pieces of misinformation from these platforms and that is partly because of the celebrities who make a bad situation worse. >> yeah. they have big platforms, you're right. brian stelter, thank you so much. as the misinformation spreads, so does the danger for families across the country. my next guest openly admits he thought the coronavirus pandemic was a hoax, that is until a small family gathering in june eventually resulted in 14 of his own family members getting sick. one of them died and another is still in the icu two months later. tony green shared his story on the blog the opinion table and he's here with me now. tony, thanks for joining us, please tell us how your family is doing right now. >> thank you for having me. family is in varying stages of

recovery. most everybody is back to normal. i've been about a month clear now. but my father in law remains on a ventilator. they were right next door to one another, they did not know it until after she had already been taken out. >> this is very real for you. i would hope that you could share with us when you have that family gathering, clearly you wouldn't have done it if you thought this was a possibility. but you had heard about numbers around the country, you know, you had seen some of the stories, what was it that made you think actually maybe it is not as big of a threat as people are making it out to be? >> well, you know, going back to the beginning of it, as it was starting to make its way into the united states, i was skeptical. is this just another rebranded flu, trying to send panic, you know, crash the economy and

things like that, and in all fairness, there is so much misinformation out there and like you're talking about with celebrities, people have a certain amount of influence and whether your audience is a thousand, 2,000 or 20 to 50 million people, people listen to you and they take what you're saying at face value most of the time. so there is a lost things that were going on that were causing me to believe misleading information. and i will also add that, you know, it seems likely the white house, the communication was really broken down, scientists, doctors, everybody is learning about this as we go along. there are things that have to be corrected as we discover more and more about the virus. but it seemed like it was being downplayed, don't panic, don't worry, to the point where you just think, okay, well, you know, the president is not worried, if the white house isn't worried, we're taking steps to cure this situation, okay, let's go on with life.

fast-forwarding into june, around june 12th, the monday leading up to the 12th, governor abbott here in texas had lifted some of the restraints on businesses. and increased capacity for 50 to 75% at restaurants, bars and made mention that social gatherings and small groups would be okay. so that's what we did. we hadn't seen each other in a couple of months, we decided to get together, it was just six of us, my partner, myself and both our parents, and it just kind of spread from there. it spread quickly, it spread to multiple cities and 14 of us got infected total. >> tony, i thank you for coming on, i am so sorry for what your family has gone through and what you continue to go through. there are a lot of people in your shoes and it is really important to hear you talk about this. thanks for coming on. >> thank you for

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as the debate rages over the fate of the college football season, concerns over a rare heart condition, which may be linked to covid-19, could be the thing that triggers its cancellation.

espn is reporting that myocarditis or inflation of the heart muscle has been found in some athletes. two conferences have said they are postponing the fall season and a decision from the big 10 and pac-12 could come at any time. someone who could potentially be dealing with this firsthand, team physician for the university of washington huskies as well as the seattle seahawks, director of medicine and advises the ncaa on cardiac issues. thanks for coming on. >> thank you, brianna, for having me. >> before we talk about the football season, walk us through what this condition is, and why it's dangerous. >> absolutely. so, we've heard for a while now that covid-19 has an affinity for heart injury. we first learned this in our hospitalized patients where approximately one in four hospitalized patients would have heart injury or myocardi iaial

damage. it raised a lot of questions in march and april about whether or not this could pose problems for people with less severe infections. would individuals who had mild symptoms or no symptoms also be at risk for these heart injuries? now we're learning that some young athletes who have mild infections or even no symptoms are developing inflammation of the heart muscle called myocarditis. it's been around a long time. there are other viruses that do. we're hearing and worried this causes a higher risk from covid-19 compared to other viruses. myocarditis can lead to scar tissue within the heart muscle. that scar tissue can be a focus for arrhythmia or even sudden cardiac arrest. and so it's raised a lot of caution flags. we still have a lot to learn on this. but we're certainly concerned. >> okay. so this means that there are college athletes who potentially

could have this and there could be short-term effects. there could be long-term effects for their health long after they play college sports, or it could also negatively impact their chance chances of going pro, right? >> yeah. so there's been a lot of communication amongst team physicians across the country, and we're hearing about these cases. we probably heard of about a dozen cases within the college setting, not just football athletes. you know, short term, i think the risk is arrhythmia. there are some more severe cases where the heart muscle doesn't pump as well and they can actually have heart failure. and, of course, there's concerns for long-term health outcomes. myocarditis has been implicated in tragic events in athletes for a long time. research from the university of washington has shown about 9% of sudden cardiac deaths in college athletes is from myocarditis,

and this was before the covid era. again, we're not exactly sure what all this means yet, but it certainly has raised some issues that we need to learn more about. >> so, based on what you know and, look, the outstanding questions of what you don't know, too, would you cancel this college football season? >> yeah, you know, i'm glad i'm not in the decision seat on that one. i think if football season and fall sports gets pushed back, i think it's important for everyone to remember it's not just because of the heart issues. we're in the middle of the pandemic where many cities are fighting surges, where prevalence in the community is still high, where access to testing is not available for quick turn arounds to keep our athletes in a safe environment. and we've been aware of adverse health outcomes in athletes for a while. myocarditis raises that bar even further and maybe is the tipping point where people might decide

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it is the top of the hour now. we are i am brianna keilar. elderly and children, 90% increase in children testing positive for coronavirus over the last month. many experts fear reopening schools could cause another spike. a second report showing cases rising at an alarming rate inside of nursing homes and stist ever assisted living facilities. the total case count in the u.s. is at 5.1 million cases. nearly 164,000 americans have died. several states across the southern u.s. isr experiencing a downward trend. while the number of cases are crossing 20 million, russian president vladimir putin says