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our viewers here in the united states. i'm rosemary church. it is now official, democrat joe biden selected kamala harris as his running mate in the race for

the white house. biden's choice perhaps the most important one of his political career caps his months long search for a partner to challenge president donald trump in november's election. biden's figures also historic. harris is the first black and asian-american woman on a u.s. major party ticket. in a tweet biden called her a father heless fighter for the little guy and one of the country's finest public servants. democrats will appear together for the first time as running mates later today during a speech in delaware. here's jeff zeleny with a close look at the biden-harris ticket. >> reporter: joe biden's decision to pick kamala harris as his running mate is history in the making. senator harris from california will only be the third woman in u.s. history to be on a major party's presidential ticket as a running mate. certainly other history-making factors as well. her father was jamaican. her mother was indian. she's the unique american story.

she grew up in california a product of the civil rights movement as well. more important to this search the former vice president i'm told had his eye on a variety of candidate. he vetted nearly a dozen specific candidates. senator harris in the end he kept coming back to. i'm told by his advisors one of the central reasons why she had been tested in a national campaign. of course she had run against him in the democratic primary campaign but knew the rigors of that campaign. joe biden knows how difficult can it be on the national stage running for president. of course this is his third time running for president and he knew the potential of throwing in someone who had never been on a national stage as they try to do something very difficult in u.s. politics, that's defeating sitting president he knew he wanted someone with campaign experience. also this moment in time. this moment in the u.s. history here, with calls for racial justice. police reform. the coronavirus crisis. certainly she fits the moment at least in his view.

so this is something that's going to be a fascinating dynamic going forward here. president trump already immediately went after senator harris called her nasty. he uses that word a lot to talk women he doesn't like. a lot of energy on the democratic side of the ticket. it's also i wanting on the republican side of the ticket really this is less than three months until the general election campaign here. the president has pledged to leave mike pence on the ticket as vice president. that's certainly something that will be discussed going forward but we do know on wednesday in wilmington, delaware we'll see senator harris for the first time next to joe biden. they will have an event and a fundraiser in the evening. in this very unusual campaign, essentially a virtual campaign they will come together face-to-face. then voting begins, early voting about one month from now. jeff zeleny, cnn, washington. many top democrats are rallying behind kamala harris'

selection. former president obama says she's more than prepared for the job. he goes on to say her own life story is one that i and so many others can see ourselves in, a story that says that no matter where you come from, what you look like, how you worship, or who you love there's a place for you. hillary clinton tweeted i'm thrilled to calm kamala harris to a historic democratic ticket. she's proven herself to be an incredible public servant and leader and i know she will be a strong partner to joe biden. please join me in having her back. this from atlanta mayor who was also in the running for the vp slot. >> i immediately thought of my 9-year-old daughter and what this will mean to her to look at television and to see someone who reflects all we encourage or girls to be and that's someone who is courageous, someone who

works hard, someone who, obviously, is intelligent and well studied and willing to put themselves out to serve others. so it makes me proud, but i think more than that it should make our country proud that there will be representation he at the highest office that represents who we are as a diverse people and what we value as a country. >> as we mentioned president trump wasted no time slamming kamala harris as cnn reports. >> reporter: it took less than two minutes into president trump's first comments on the historic pick of kamala harris as vice president joe biden's running mate the first black woman to be on a major party ticket for the president to refer to her as nasty and mean and disrespectful. watch. >> plus she was very, very nasty to one of the reasons that surprised me, she was very -- she was nastier than even

pocahontas to joe biden. she was very disrespectful to joe biden. and it's hard to pick somebody that's that disrespectful. she said things during the debates, during the democrat primary debates that were horrible. >> those attacks play directly into racist and sexist stereotypes about black women the president making clear he won't shy away from his divisive political playbook one he used during the 2016 campaign when he referred to hillary clinton during a debate as a nasty woman and one, of course, he has used since during his time as president. now despite the fact that the president insists senator harris was his number one draft pick in terms of someone who vice president biden would pick as his running mate trump campaign advisors making very clear to me that kamala harris was by no means their number one pick. they would have much rather seen someone much more divisive, much more controversial like the

former national security adviser susan rice or california congresswoman karen bass. those people, the trump campaign advisors feel would have been able much more easily to brand them as the radical left. the trump campaign making clear in a statement on tuesday they will continue with that strategy to tie both senator harris and former vice president joe biden as part of this radical left despite the fact that senator harris is viewed as much more of a moderate within the democratic party, so much so she was even attacked by progressives as not progressive enough during the democratic primary in 2020. some political watchers say kamala harris rose to national prominence within the democratic party several years ago when she inter roinvestigated trump nominees during senate hearings like supreme court justice brett kavanaugh and former u.s. attorney general jeff sessions. >> do you have any communication

with any russian businessmen or any russian nationals? >> i don't believe i had any conversation with a russian businessman or russian nationals. >> are you aware of any -- >> a lot of people were at the convention. it's conceivable. if i don't qualify you excuse me of lying. >> as you heard, president trump mentioned earlier harris made headlines when she attacked joe biden during the democratic primaries last year. during the debate she criticized his work with his work in segregation and highlighted his work against bussing. here's part of that exchange. >> vice president biden, i do not believe you are a racist. it was hurtful to hear you talk about the reputations of two united states senators who built their reputations and career on

segregation of race in this country. and it was not only that but you also worked with them to oppose bussing. and, you know, there was a little girl in california who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bussed to school every day. and that little girl was me. >> some members of biden's vetting team reportedly resisted choosing harris but ultimately he defended her and picked her as his running mate. so let's talk now with cnn political commentator, who is also a former south carolina state representative. good to have you with us. >> thank you so much for having me. >> so why do you think joe biden selected kamala harris? was she always the clear choice to meet this moment given her political and legal credentials and her background? >> i don't think she was a given.

i don't think she was a slam dunk. one of the benefits she had over the candidates who by the way were more than qualified, karen bass more than qualified, susan rice, the list goes on and on. there were a vast list of qualified women of color. so let me start there. but kamala harris did have a relationship with joe biden. it dates back to a time as attorney general and her relationship with joe biden. she never lost a race, a lot like amy klobuchar, to be exact. but she's been district attorney in san francisco. she's been statewide elected official as attorney general. and now she is, again, a statewide elected official in the largest state of the union. so she brought all of these qualifications to the table. and at the end of the day i think it was not only history because she's not only the first african-american female to be at the top of the ticket, she's

also the first person indian-american descent to be at the top of the ticket. today is a big day. it's weird we're here so many centuries after our country's founding but i'm proud of today and i'm proud of the democratic party and we'll see what happens between now and november. >> of course, the trump campaign immediately attacked kamala harris, excusing her of embracing the radical manifesto. president trump called her nasty. his catch phrase for most women. so how will harris likely strike back against these and other attacks that will inevitably keep coming? >> she's tough. i think that's one of the things joe biden recognized. she's been through the gauntlet, the political gauntlet. she did run for president of the united states and so she's been somebody who has been on the stage before. but she's not out there be to an attack dog. these attacks by trump will fall

on defense ears. donald trump has never dealt with black women particularly well whether or not it's april ryan or hill and the list goes on and on. so they are having a great deal of trouble figuring out how to deal with the future of this country. i said it earlier and i'll say it again. the republican party is going backwards. . while they are embracing confederate monuments and confederate flags and what the country once was, you now have a ticket and a party that is representing the future and that's why people are excited about what joe biden has done today not only being the vice president to the first black president, but now actually running for president and bringing along the first black, especially female who is the vice presidential nominee. >> one of the first big tests that kamala harris will face is a vice presidential debate with her counterpart mike pence. how will that likely go given

what we already know about both of them, and their debating skills? >> that's not going to be anything. we're not worried about that. i think that there are a lot of people like myself who -- when you look at it, if all things were even between kamala harris and the rest of the individuals who were in the running to be vice president, you know that she by far is the person who you want on the debate stage. she's not only excelled in the courtroom but here we are, there's nobody who can tell you how hard a kamala harris punch is other than joe biden. right? so, we're here, and mike pence really doesn't stand a chance on the debate stage with kamala harris. he'll be prepared. and somebody who is going to be able to effectively run circles around him. that's a big day. get your popcorn ready. >> watching very closely. thank you so much as always. >> thank you for having me, rosemary. kamala harris' nomination

means one thing for sure, actress maya rudolph will be basis. she garnered an emmy nomination for her portrayal of the california senator on "saturday night live". >> we also would like to welcome california senator kamala harris. now, erin that little girl you just introduced, that little girl was me. >> rudolph was participating in an "entertainment weekly" panel when the news brook tuesday. she said she was surprised and that the news of the vp pick was spicy. still to come on "cnn newsroom" a fourth day of unrest in beirut. protesters are furious over the catastrophic explosion at the port and we'll have the very latest.

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last week's massive explosion in beirut. more than 170 people were killed, 6,000 were wounded, hundreds of thousands are now homeless. later protesters returned to the streets facing off against police who responded with tear gas. the demonstrators aren't satisfied with the resignation of lebanon's government, they want the ruling elite stripped of power. with the government apparently falling short in the clean up and aftermath of the explosion people of beirut are literally taking matters into their own hands. ben wedeman has our report. >> reporter: this car is loaded with bread and other supplies. she and her friends are part of a massive volunteer effort filling the void left bay government and political elite that on the ground appear to have done very little. >> they are not doing anything. they are sitting in their houses, spending our money. it's ridiculous. >> reporter: the state in the

form is present in the streets of the badly damaged neighborhood. sitting and watching. store owner hasn't ruled out government aid will eventually come. not yet, not yet, it's still early. it takes seven or eight years he says. no one from the state has come to check on us. no one never says his wife. we thank the people who have helped us. fellow shop keeper is looking beyond lebanon's borders for assistance. >> if we don't have support from outside lebanon, they can do anything. >> reporter: the governor of beirut said the cost of the damage will total $5 billion. the government has allocated $66 million in disaster relief and for reconstruction. over the weekend donor nations

agreed to provide lebanon with almost $300 million in emergency aid but that aid comes with a very pointed condition. it must not be channelled through the lebanese government presumably to ensure it doesn't fall into the pockets of corrupt officials. even a group of south korean residents set up a tent where they provide snacks, refreshments and facemasks. the streets here team with volunteers helping however they can. among them this woman. >> we care for each other. but we have a government that doesn't even care about us. >> reporter: many short coming of the lebanese state are well-known to the people here and that familiarity has bred nothing but contempt. ben wedeman, cnn, beirut. dramatic new developments in belarus where the opposition candidate in the presidential election says she fled to

lithuania to protect her children. a video of her surfaced tuesday calling for an end to anti-government protests and saying the nation has made its choice. but her supporters fear she was forced into saying that and threatened into hiding by the longtime president. her husband is in jail and several members of her campaign have also been detained. meanwhile the tense protests over the election continue on the streets of minsk. the eu is threatening sanctions on belarus calling the election neither free nor fair. in hong kong a pro democracy newspaper owner arrested under the national security law has posted bail. jamie lai was detained monday on suspicion of colluding with foreign powers and police raided the headquarters of his newspaper. critics called his detention an attack on press freedom. authorities claim they are targeting individual offenders

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welcome back, everyone. florida is reporting a new record number of deaths from the coronavirus. but it's currently one of at least 20 states that have seen case numbers fall over the past week. still concerns remain as the school year begins in parts of the u.s. >> reporter: stark warnings and

reprimands today as children and the elderly, america's most vulnerable now lead the late summer surge in cases. after a drop in june new health data shows an alarming spike in nursing home cases due to community spread. a separate report shows a 90% increase in covid cases among children over the last four weeks. these spikes come as 43 states show the average number of cases holding steady or down compared to the previous week. >> when school starts both at the high school level and in college and universities we think we're going see an explosion of cases in september that will far surpass what we saw after memorial day. >> reporter: at risk the big ten is out for the fall. large conference announcing a delay of all fall sports including the lucrative football season calling it too risky. from florida state university's football field governor desantis said cancelling student

athletics is a misstage. his own state health department reports an increase in child cases in one month and highest daily death toll reported tuesday, 276. in georgia, hundreds of students remain quarantined after covid exposures from the first week in school. georgia's governor has resist ad statewide mandate calling the first week of school a success. at the white house the president claimed this about children with no backing in science. >> they don't catch it easily. they don't get very sick. according to the people i've spoken to, they don't transport it or transfer it to other people or certainly not very easily. >> those dubious claims continue to clide with the calls by the country's leading experts for all people to wear masks at all times. >> they should be universally wearing masks. there should be the extent possible social distancing. avoiding crowds. outdoors is better than indoors.

>> in the hunt for a vaccine, russia claims it approved the world's first coronavirus vaccine. and has received interest worldwide for a billion doses. trump administration questioned whether it's safe. >> the point 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. russia is set to begin a massive covid-19 vaccination campaign in october despite questions over the safety of its newly approved vaccine. the russian president made the big vaccine announcement on tuesday claiming it is a global first but phase three trials have literally just begun. and asthma enthusiast chance explains experts are very skeptical about this vaccine. >> reporter: you couldn't accuse the kremlin of ignoring the

proper value of its vaccine. they even called it sputnik after the soviet satellite that shocked the world and launched the space race. now it's the vaccine race the kremlin said it's won hands down. >> translator: a vaccine against coronavirus has been registered for the first time in the world this morning. it works quite effectively. it forms immunity. >> reporter: how does know? he says one of his own daughters, perhaps the one who is an acrobatic dancer has been vaccinated, his eldest a medical specialist. put wynn said she had a slight temperature at first but feels much better now. extraordinary from a russian president who rarely mentions his family. we still don't know for sure how many children he has. still it underlines how much confidence the kremlin wants to show in its new vaccine despite concerns no clinical data has been published. soldiers were used as volunteers

in early tests and crucial third phase human trials have started worrying short cuts say critics and the kremlin dashed across the line. >> the point is not to be first with the vaccine. the point is to have a vaccine that's safe and effective for the american people and the people of the world. >> reporter: there's been. criticism inside russia too. a prom meant pharmaceutical industry this week calling on health officials to postpone the vaccine because it may put lives at risk, not a warning that's been heeded. officials say front line health workers and teachers will be vaccinated first then the elderly and other vulnerable groups. in fact, russian officials say there's a vast global appetite for their vaccine. applications for more than a billion doses they say have already been received from more than 20 countries. it may not be safe or even work,

but russia can proclaim at least to itself that it is once again a planet saving superpower. matthew chance remember cnn, moscow. and during an interview with "national geographic" top u.s. expert dr. anthony fauci says without evidence to support russia's vaccine it may not be safe. and with such a quick turnaround he doubts it will be effective. >> having a vaccine and proving that a vaccine is safe and effective are two different things. i hope that the russians have actually definitively proven that the vaccine is safe and effective. i seriously doubt that they've done that. >> in the united states many states are opening school even though community transmission is surging. in georgia, those one school district seeing firsthand the end result of risking the health

of students, parents and teachers. cnn's nick valencia has more. >> masks are not a big deal and should not be mandated anywhere. >> reporter: in georgia, cherokee county with jeremy and his family live were among the first in the nation to re-open schools after the first five days of classes, at least 15 schools or more than a third of the district reported cases the district has had more than 900 students and teachers from elementary to high school were asked to stay home and quarantine. >> i would think objectively anyone looking at this would see it as a disaster. what will happen is it's going to spread all throughout our area and a lot of bhoerm in danger because of it. >> reporter: brandi worries she might be one of those in danger. at first the mother of four who says she's immuno compromised

elected to send her kids to learn face-to-face but pulled them out two days later after one of her kids came home and said he didn't feel safe. >> he we expected the cherokee county school district to keep our kids safe. >> reporter: brian hightower declined a request for an interview. in a written statement today he defended re-opening schools saying he had the majority support from parents while he stopped short of mandating face coverings he said we know all parents do not believe the scientific research that indicates masks are beneficial. but i believe it and see masks an important measure to help us keep schools open. three weeks before school re-opened chamberers wrote an open letter to the superintendent. blasting the district's 77 page re-opening plan as flawed alleging it was hastily put together. several parties were at the park with their children including

this self-described teacher accusing chamberers of generating controversy. >> i hope you're right and i'm wrong. >> reporter: no one at the park would speak to cnn on camera. one mother said she sent her kid back to school because they were going get the coronavirus sooner or later. >> we all want to be normal. we all want our regular lives back. i have nothing but sympathy and empathy for people who do. we're not living in normal times. >> it looks normal behind us. >> people are just choosing as if it is until it is impossible to ignore. >> reporter: i spoke to parent in cherokee county who tells me they were told by a school principal they didn't need a mask because they were shielded by god. it's that kind of cavalier attitude in the county. that many parents worry will lead to an increase in infections. nick valencia, cnn, atlanta. >> new zealand has re-imposed coronavirus restrictions after reporting its first locally transmitted cases in more than

100 days. auckland is now under lock downfor at least three days. but the rest of the country is facing less severe restrictions. for more cnn's will ripley joins me from hong kong. so how do authorities there think these new cases came into did country? >> reporter: they are still trying to figure that out, rosemary. this is a country for 102 days enjoyed the enviable position of being able to tell people there was no covid-19 being spread in the community and now all of a sudden you have this household in auckland with four members confirmed to have the virus and additional at least four probable cases that they are still trying to verify, doing contact tracing, isolating all of that. one of the members of the household who has the virus was working in a cargo facility. they are working whether it came in on cargo. whether they need to step up

sanitation of packages because it's been proven in the past viruses can live in refrigerated environments for quite some time. as they investigate the source they are also trying to make sure they detect any other cases that might be out there in the community and prepared, new zealand is, to test tens of thousands of people in the coming days even though they haven't had the virus for more than three months. they bolstered their testing extra about its and officials think this was inevitable the virus would resurface at some point and they say that they are ready so they have police checkpoints set up in auckland to make sure people are complying with this lockdown which means schools are closed, non-essential businesses are closed and proposing dissolution of parliament for a few days. the prime minister's party expected to do quite well in those elections in part rosemary because of how decisively they handled this pandemic from the beginning. you talk about schools

re-opening in the united states where there are places with thousands of active cases and in new zealand where they have right now a total of five active cases confirmed because there was one imported case and these four local cases and shutting down schools in their largest city for that. >> she has been an impress jeff leader for that country. thank you. you are watching "cnn newsroom". college football in the u.s. is the latest sport to be hurt by the virus with two of the five big conferences postponing their seasons. we'll take a look. the time to d. without the commission fees. so, you can start investing today wherever you are - even hanging with your dog. so, what are you waiting for? download now and get your first stock on us. robinhood. it's kind of my quiet, alone time. audible is a routine for me. it's like a fun night school for adults. i could easily be seduced into locking myself

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welcome back, everyone. two of the biggest conferences in u.s. college football have postponed their seasons because of the pandemic. the big ten and pac-12 say they pulled the plug on football and several other sports to keep their student athletes safe.

they hope to resume competition in the spring. you look at this decision. it just, we just believe collectively there's too much uncertainty at this point in time in our country, and to really, to encourage our student athletes to participate in fall sports. >> according to "fortune" magazine 65 of the most reputable college football barack obama's generate $4 billion. in 2018 they made $1.8 billion in total profits, more than 27 million pervert. despite coronavirus case numbers soaring in the u.s., president trump thinks the season should go on as planned. joining me now is steven collinson a cnn politics white house reporter. thanks so much for being with us. >> hi. >> so, two big college football

conferences postponing the season, a big blow to colleges and to president trump who keeps insisting football continue despite surging covid-19 cases. this decision, obviously, will result in considerable lost revenue. what does it reveal about the president's leadership? >> well college football is an absolute tradition in the united states in the fall. each state has a number of big university teams, hundreds of thousands of people watch these games. if you turn on your tv on a saturday morning you can watch college football pretty much between noon and past midnight. so what the president is so concerned about is if there isn't college football it will completely contradict his notion, his argument as he runs into the election season that america is back to normal during the pandemic. that is the reason why he keeps putting pressure on these college football conferences, these leagues to continue to

play. >> what influence might he apply, what sort of pressure, perhaps over the southeastern conference, the sec decision, which will have to be made very soon? >> right. that, of course, is in the south of the country, an area where the president is very strong politically. states like alabama, georgia where he's hoping to do very well in the election. the problem is, though, is that reality is staring these colleges in the face. the reason why they cannot go ahead and play college football is because the virus has been spreading like wildfire through the sun belt and many other areas of the country. there isn't sufficient testing to keep testing college football players every day. you got these vast teams, 75, 80 players on a team, vast entourage of coaches. u.p.s. hasn't put in place the contact tracing system like some countries like new zealand and

south korea have that helped them suppress the virus. whatever pressure that the president brings to bear in his news krepss the reality of the spread of the virus, the fact you can't get hundreds of thousands of people inthe 2to t stadiums and teams can't travel safely across the country to play their games the decision is really out of the president's hands and reflects the reality of the fact that the united states has not got the virus under control. we're still seeing 1,000 deaths pretty much every single day and more hot spots popping up. so it's the reality of the virus that's topping these college football games not some notion that players and coaches don't actually want to play. >> with that in mind, i mean it has to be said if president trump announced a national mask mandate now along with an extensionive national rapid test program he could turn this pandemic around by the november election even before then. why wouldn't he just do that? surely that would be easier than

pushing against the reality he faces. >> it's very interesting. the president, you know, i've rarely covered a politician who has such a strong connection with his political base, his most faithful supporters. but he's never really been willing to do anything to sort of lead that base in a different direction. the president clearly feels that trump supporters, conservatives, are still against the idea of a government telling them they have to wear a mask and he spent so many months undermining the idea of people wear a mask it's hard for him to turn around and tell everybody to wear a maverick and he doesn't really want to do it politically. i think that's one of the reasons. you know, the president has never really taken this pandemic seriously. he's never put in place the kind of testing and tracing organization that you're talking about nationally that might help

suppress this virus. >> thanks so much. and still to come, a new book claims to tell behind-the-scenes story of harry and megan and the events that caused them to step back from their royal roles earlier this year. what the book's author told me after this. these folks, they don't have time to go to the post office

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"finding freedom" is written by two journalists and provides a detailed portrait of their life behind palace walls. and a glimpse at some of the events that led to the couple stepping back from their royal duties. the duke and duchess of sussex have denied contributing to the book. earlier i spoke to the book's co-author and royal author omid scobie and asked how he managed to tell the couple's story without direct access to them. >> this book was borne out of a unique situation as my time covering harry and meghan and speak with those close to them i realized there's a difference

between what we're seeing about the couple in the pages of the british tabloids is different of what i was seeing and from speak to those who work with them who know them. so i felt there was a chance here to tell another side of the story and although there was no participation from the couple in the books we were able to speak to southeast people closest to them within their inner circle, close friends, palace aides past and presents a well as people they worked with in their charitable space and in meghan's entertainment career as well. >> and thanks so much for your company. "early start" is up next. you're watching cnn. have a great day. we support memorable moments,

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