♪ ♪ hello, everyone. i'm kate bolduan. thanks so much for joining us this hour. coming up very soon a historic day in the race for the white house. in just a few hours joe biden and kamala harris will be making their first appearance together as running mates. it was less than 24 hours ago that biden announced senator

harris as his choice for vice president making her the first black woman and first asian american to appear on a major party ticket. what will their opening message be today? they're also learning more about biden's process in choosing a running mate. we know there was a pretty long list of finalists that were being considered. let's get to arlette saenz in wilmington, delaware, where biden and harris will appear this afternoon. arlette, what are you learning about today? >> reporter: well, kate, we will see joe biden and kamala harris appear together for the first time as the democratic ticket. they are set to deliver remarks a little bit later today in wilmington and this comes after joe biden informed kamala harris just yesterday that she was the running mate pick. this caps off a month-long search process where biden actually interviewed 11 of the women he was considering in the final nine days of that search process. ultimately, deciding on the california senator, a former

rival of his, to join him on the democratic ticket and biden informed harris over a video chat yesterday asking her to join him as his running mate. take a listen to a bit of that vid t video the campaign released today. >> are you ready to go to work? >> oh, my god. i am so ready to go to work. >> first of all, is the answer yes? >> the answer is absolutely yes. i am ready to work. i am ready to do this with you, for you. i'm just -- just deeply honored and i'm very excited. >> now ahead of this event today, joe biden also tweeting saying that if kamala harris and i are elected we're going to inherit multiple crises, a nation divided and a world in disarray. we won't have a minute to waste. he added that's exactly why i picked her. she's ready tole lead on day on.

that's how biden is viewing this first day with kamal as his running mate. what is this event going to look like? it's going to be incredibly different than other vice presidential rollouts. typically, you have the presidential nominee and his vice presidential pick speaking before thousands at a giant rally. that is just not possible right now with the coronavirus pandemic which has changed the way campaigning is held right now in this country. biden's events have typically been a bit smaller and they've adhered to social distancing guidelines and biden has entered the room wearing a mask and removes it as he's approaching the podium. i am told biden and harris' spouses will be attending today as they reach this historic moment with that ticket announced. >> i was just looking down here arlette, as we are tracking kamala harris' movements now, we have fresh reporting from

jasmine wright, caroline kennedy that say senator harris has just departed her apartment in d.c. and heading to wilmington right now. in true joe biden fashion he wondered if she would jump on the acela. she's jumped into a grayish suv with tinted windows. the movements are happening and a lot of anticipation building for that event where arlette is in wilmington. we'll be watching that and tracking that coming up very soon. thanks for that. while we are standing by for that, we are also standing by for a big announcement from the school district in georgia. it found itself in the glare of the national spotlight after a high school student posted that viral picture of a crowded hallway on the first day back to school. that same school has now been closed for a third straight day because of a covid cluster of cases that popped up. school officials were soon expected to reveal if and when they plan to reopen again, and i guess the big question of

course, now is how they'll do it safer this time. cnn's nick valencia is in atlanta. he's been tracking this from the very beginning. nick, what are you hearing about this? >> reporter: well, we still don't know, kate. that's the short answer. we just reached out to the district. we still don't have an update about how they are going to proceed, but as we know that north paulding high will be closed for a third straight day. it is one of the school districts here in georgia that had a photo go viral showing students standing shoulder to shoulder not wearing masks and not following social distancing recommendations and the other districts and cherokee county among the first in the nation to re-open schools, they're having their own set of problems. more than 900 students and teachers have been asked to quarantine because of rising covid cases in that district. i spoke to a local parent jamie chambers says this should be a warning for schools across the country. >> i would think objectively anyone looking at this would see it as a disaster. what's ultimately going to

happen is it's going to spread out all throughout our area and there will be a lot of people who are in danger because of it. we all want our regular lives back, and i have nothing but sympathy and empathy for people who do, but we're not living in normal times. >> reporter: the superintendent of cherokee county schools declined an interview with cnn, but in a letter to parents yesterday defended the decision to reopen schools saying 30,000 of the 42,000 in the students in the district elected to go back to face to face learning. i spoke to parents just a little while ago, they said if that survey was taken today that number would be significantly less. parents, kate, had a lot of faith and optimism that these schools individually would do the right thing, though there are many parents in that district who feel that they're fighting a losing battle. we visited the district over the weekend and found a var cavalier attitude with some non-believers thinking that this coronavirus is just a hoax.

kate? >> that's the thing, i was talking about it with another superintendent it's not us versus them, in terms of school versus parents. they're all in this together. students, parents and the school district. it's not going to work any other way. nick's on top of that and he'll bring us that from the holden county school district. let's give you an overall look of where the country stands today and it's an interesting look today. in florida and georgea, for example, they're seeing record deaths from the coronavirus. florida reporting 276 people died yesterday. in georgia, where nick is, 122 covid-related death, but at the same time across the country, the united states is reporting less than 50,000 new cases for three consecutive days. look, that is nowhere near great, but it is down, as you can see very clearly there from the highs that we saw earlier in this summer. what does that mean? and there may be now new thinking about the virus now.

a new way of thinking about the virus now. a cold that kills, that is one world renowned medical researchers and expert is saying today. >> this is a cold virus. we've known about these cold viruses. it's a cold virus that can kill, that's the difference. in other respects, how it infects and how it's transmitted, who gets it is very, very similar. >> professor william haseltine there. the way you think about this virus should help inform how all of us try to protect ourselves and our loved ones especially as children are starting to head back to school. joining me right now is an assistant professor of epidemiology at the school of public health. let me ask you first, maybe what we can call a conflicting picture coming from the covid indicators right now. average deaths across the country down, but death rates

still rising in some of these trouble spots that we're looking at and also the positivity rate across the country. it really hasn't changed in the last few weeks. what do you see when you see these indicators? is this good news or bad news? i would say it's still generally bad news. we should not settle for having 50,000 new cases per day, but the good news here is that cases are potentially coming down, but this is a very heterogenous virus saying you can have major outbreaks in one part of the country and you could have very few cases in another part of the country and so we have to figure out how to deal with this as a whole country because as long as there are cases happening in one part, we still have transit especially we have students going back to college. so any cases anywhere, really keep risk pretty high all across the entirety of the united states. >> let me play something else

that professor haseltine said about getting re-infected with covid. >> this virus comes back and reinfects exactly the same person. it's not like you get it and you're protected for life. it is a virus that can fool your immune system and we're still trying to struggle to learn what that means for vaccines and what that means for the epidemic. we know it can come back. >> last week, that caught my attention because last week dr. fauci was asked about this concept of reinfection and he was more cautious and he said we can't make that determination right now. what do you make about this, dr. mina? >> i think it is very important to be more cautious about that kind of statement. on the one hand, it is likely that people can get re-infected, but we have to look at what it means when someone gets reinfected and most people upon reinfection would have probably already built up an immunological memory and protection from their first

infection. so even if you get reinfected the same as we often see with common cold viruses, then we should see less of your disease and potentially, totally asymptomatic disease and reinfection is a normal process with viruses like this, but the idea is that our immune memory and our protection will kick in on those reinfections and we will not have as severe disease. >> so interesting. still so much we do need to learn as much as we have learned about coronavirus, how much we still do need to learn about it. thank you so much. i really appreciate it, dr. mina. so then there's this. here's a quote for you, the quicker we make face coverings our new normal the faster we can gain control over covid-19. that is the message today from a major medical group putting out new guidance in a new effort to take the politics out of the issue of masks, it seems, and also explain and encourage everyone to really get onboard.

cnn's elizabeth cohen joins me now. she's been looking into this. so elizabeth, what is the association of american medical colleges saying here? >> they're giving some very basic advice about how to wear masks. i've got to say, this is super easy to do, right? some things are tough and this is not one of them. let's take a look at what their advice is. cover your nose and your mouth with the mask. that seems very basic and you see people pulling it down under their nose all of the time and sometimes people are wearing it as a necklace, no good. don't each bother. try to keep gaps to a minimum and if you're going to use a cloth mask use two layers, three better and still, see the points above and also recommended for indoor and outdoor spaces. people often ask, wait a minute, we feel like we're all over the place with masks. yes, the guidance has changed and that's because we've never done this before on this scale. kate? >> that's a great point, elizabeth. >> thank you so much. coming up for us, we are

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in a few hours a history-making appearance in wilmington, delaware. kamala harris will join joe biden on stage for the first time since officially becoming his running mate on the presidential ticket. what does this moment mean for the now biden-harris campaign? what is the newly minted vice presidential nominee's message

out of the gate? joining me right now cnn political commentator karen finney former spokesperson for hillary clinton's 2016 campaign. gr great to see you, karen. if you were advising the campaign, what is the message that you would want to see kamala harris get across? what do you want to hear from both of them collectively in this first appearance today? >> the most important thing obviously, this has been, i think, the last 24 almost hours has been very exciting. i think you've seen enthusiasm from democrats. it's a moment to really try to galvanize that enthusiasm and use this as a moment as a rallying point, right? to say we're the team. we're moving forward and together we're going to unify this country and move into our bold future. this is a ticket, kate, that really represents our country. it represents the diversity of our country. we saw people articulating how important it was to have someone who represents a lived

experience spp she comes fr experience. she comes of an immigrant background, ba black woman and south asian descent. >> i do notice you take issue with what we heard from some folks in the last 24 hours which is that harris is a safe, easy or conventional pick for biden's running mate, why is that, karen? >> oh, when i heard that i had to laugh because i thought, you know, if you are a black woman in america, and you have faced racism and as so many women also sexism, you know it was not a safe choice. it was not an easy choice. it was a bold choice. we've already seen the misogynistic and sometimes racist attacks that have come at her in the last couple of weeks in this process, there is more to come. i think she's demonstrated she's tough and she can take it, but you know, it was still a bold

choice on the part of the vice president given that, you know, these things still exist in our country. there's nothing safe about it. >> one thing that we saw about kamala harris is that during the primary is that she's good at person to person politicking. she has a real talent for that retail side of politics, connecting with the crowd or getting into the crowd. there are so many videos of her literally reaching out and talking to people and touching people. in the age of covid, there's no way there are chances to do that. how do you -- >> right. >> from an operative standpoint, what is the way you utilize that skill set in the covid era? >> she is so good, i hate to say this on camera, but obviously, i will say that on many different platforms at this point because we've seen people do zoom calls and the campaign is trying to use technology to connect with

people and in some ways it's been able to make that a little bit smaller. yes, it's exciting to be in a big rally and there's a balloon drop, but it's also that sort of intimacy of one-on-one conversation that you can actually feel to some degree in some of the zoom calls even though we're a little zoomed out. so i think that will really be an important skill because that's the way that we're having to reach out to voters between now and november. it's unlikely that we'll be able to see a big in-person rally. so these smaller gatherings will be critical. >> very critical. a campaign like no other and a moment like no other is definitely what we're seeing play out. thanks, karen. good to see you. much more to come. >> you, too. much more ahead for us. fall season, spring season or no season, the college football season is very much undecided and one of those leaders who just made the tough call joins

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football this fall is becoming complicated and a bit more confusing. the big 12 is reportedly joining the acc and the sec with plans to push ahead with their fall seasons yet the two other most powerful conferences in the ncaa and the pac-10 just canceled their fall seasons because of concerns over the coronavirus. how can one call it off, while another fornges ahead both citing the advice of medical experts. the president of the university of oregon and the chairman of the pac-12 ceo group. talk to me about your decision that you made, what was the single most influential factor in deciding to cancel the fall season? >> thank you, kate. and i wish i wasn't back on today to have to talk about this, but the most important factor was the health and safety of our students, period. that was what we were -- that's what we care about.

football is very important to our schools, so are the other sports like track, basketball, volleyball, all of those sports, but in the end, you know, we need to -- these are our students and we need to protect them and we need to be able to protect them and we determined there was too much uncentery and too much risk at the moment to be able to go forward with the season. we didn't cancel the season, importantly, what we did is we postponed it. we are still hoping to have a season in the spring, but at the moment we are just going to continue assessing things. >> i've seen some reporting that the pac 12 heard from medical advisors about the possible link between coronavirus and the troubling heart condition that apparently has already been seen in some big ten athletes and it's called myocarditis.

>> it raised the risk and uncertainty. there were early correlations between covid-19 and mio carditis and other heart issues and we decided we couldn't take the risk of moving forward with contact practice at the moment until these sort of things were clarified and we didn't have the capacity to do constant mris of the students going forward. and so we decided that that was one of the factors. it wasn't the only factor. there are a bunch of -- we have a great medical advisory board. we have great universities in the pac-12 with great medical schools and so their advice to us was not to begin practice. too much uncertainty. we have to understand, and so we include california, utah, oregon, washington, colorado, big variety of states. we don't even have the

permission of government authorities to play in some of those areas and the spread in some of those areas is quite significant. so that was an additional reason why we decided not to go forward. we thought it was just unfair to the students, unfair to the coaches and then the staff -- and our fans to keep putting, going later, later, later and keeping their hopes up when it didn't look like this was going to resolve during the fall season. >> and that's -- i wonder with everything that you've seen and analyzed, do you see a way for honestly any conference to be able to play safely this fall? >> i don't want to judge the other conferences and make decisions and cast aspersions on their decisions. we all have to make decisions ourselves. these are hard decisions and actually all of the decisions that presidents are making right now are hard. this isn't -- this is a decision

that -- some people say it's just football, oh, it's just volleyball or track. these are students' lives, right? they dream about this. they practiced and these are communities which are losing great economic opportunities and commerce. this was not an easy decision, but we ended up making -- and this is also a very costly decision for the universities not to have football and other sports, but at the end of the day, parents entrust in us the welfare of their students and we are not going to play with that. we're going to take that obligation very, very seriously. >> president schill, very quick, before the big 10 canceled the season the coach very noteworthy, said they'll find a way to play regardless. do you expect to see any of the pac-12 teams breaking ranks and playing with another conference?

>> absolutely not. we all went into the meeting yesterday and we were in one voice. it was amazing. you put 12 presidents together and you normally get 12 different views. every one of us said we're coming out of this unanimous. we all agree with this decision and our athletic directors agreed with this decision. the values of the pac 12 are very, very strong. students first and no matter what, and so i'm proud to be part of the pac-12. >> well, thank you so much for coming on, president schill. it is always great to have you on. i'm sorry with this type of news, but we'll see how things progress. stand by to stand by as we see what's next with this virus. >> i hope the next time i'm on it's talking about something better. >> it's all important, but hopefully with good news would be nice when it comes to the coronavirus. >> good news is right. >> thank you so much. >> stay safe, kate. >> you, too.

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show you some video. you can see that suv right there, that's kamala harris leaving her d.c. apartment heading off to meet joe biden in delaware. harris, as one would expect, now under secret service protection. so her motorcade is on its way. their first appearance together as running mates coming in just a few hours. a first appearance and a historic first. harris is now the first black woman, first asian-american to appear on a major party ticket. joe biden's former running mate, president obama put out a statement after the announcement saying biden quote, unquote, nailed this decision. i've known kamala harris, and she's more than prepared for her job. she's spent her career defending our constitution and fighting for folks who need a fair shake. this is a good day for our country. today kamala harris is making history. joining me right now is former senior adviser to president obama, valerie jaret, the author

of "finding my voice. when the perfect plan crumbles". >> i love that title. >> this is history. what does this history bring to this ticket right now? >> well, it brings a talented, smart, savvy public official who has devote herd life to fighting for those who don't have a voice. i think she has integrity and character, wit and grace. she will compliment vice president biden. he knows her well and has a proven track record both running for office at the state and federal level and the work she's done as a senator on the judiciary committee as well as the intelligence committee gives her a command of both domestic and foreign policy that gives her the gravitas to own the world stage and be a terrific partner to him. >> i was thinking about this

moment in history and speaking with you and remembering that you come from a long line of remarkable and accomplished women. have you talked with -- have you talked about this moment with your mom and what this moment means? >> yes. i spoke with my mother last night and she says the same thing to me, actually, that senator harris' mother said to her which is that when you're the first and let's face it, senator harris has said it, when you are the first, make sure you're not the only. i would add, kate, as you know, my grandson is black and indian, as well. his father is an immigrant. so in a sense our stories weave together and i love the fact that he's going to grow up with this image of a powerful vice president if everything falls the way i hope it will, and vice president biden just tweeted something. it also speaks to this occasion where he said, look, as the

daughter of immigrants, she has always believed in the promise of america because she's lived it, and what she wants to do is ensure every american has that same opportunity that she does. so i think it's a dream ticket, and i think -- i get goosebumps every time i think about the two of them together. i look forward to seeing them actually physically together, the photo of them on the zoom yesterday was just priceless and so let's get going. i will also say one more thing, kate. we've already seen how she was treated even before the nominee with racist and sexist jokes and as you know, a group of women wrote a letter to the media last week in advance of her selection saying you're on notice that we're going to call you out on that and you're going to be hearing from us later today in a little bit more detail on that. she won't ever speak back to that. she's not going to say anything, she shouldn't have to, but it's up to us to protect her. >> i want to ask you about a shade of that. i want to get your take on

president trump's initial public reaction to the harris announcement because it gets to this. listen to this. >> she was my number one pick. she did very, very poorly in the primaries, as you know. she was expected to do well, and she was -- she ended up right around 2% and spent a lot of money. she was extraordinarily nasty to kavanaugh, judge kavanaugh then, now justice kavanaugh. she was nasty to a level that was a horrible thing the way she was, the way she treated now justice kavanaugh, and i won't forget that soon. >> what's your reaction when you saw that? more so, what does it tell you about the fight ahead? >> well, that it's going to be nasty, but this is the point. when would he ever use the word nasty or mean when describing a man? this is exactly the point. we should be watching our language and not referring to

women with the language that you wouldn't refer to with a man and trying to describe her in that way as well as his tweet about suburban housewives. >> yeah. these are all veiled, sexist and racist comments and we'll call them out whether they come from him or anybody else. >> that tweet about suburban housewives and how low-income housing would be invading their neighborhoods again. that's not just -- that's not sexism we're getting at, that is barely thinly veiled racism that that is getting at. you have willy horton ads coming at you all over again. >> yes, and we can't let that go. we can't let that go. so you'll be hearing a lot from us. >> thank you for coming on. >> i appreciate it. >> you're welcome. you're welcome, kate. coming up, an alarming spike of covid cases at nursing homes. yes, again. what is behind the rise? because! people ask me what sort of a person should become a celebrity accountant. and, i tell them, "nobody should."

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parkinson, president and ceo of the american health care association and one of the organizations behind this report. mark, thank you for being here. what is driving this spike? >> well, kate, it's incredibly frustrating because, as you know, we have made tremendous progress in reducing the number of cases in long-term care facilities from the highs of march and april. we cut the number of cases per week in half and we cut the death rate over 70%. unfortunately, when june started and states started opening up, and the people were not socially distancing particularly in the south, the number of cases in those communities increased and there was a corresponding increase in skilled nursing facilities. when we've learn side we have got to keep the number of cases in the community low, and in order to keep the number of cases in long-term care facilities low. >> what i'm hearing is there is still a shortage of protective gear in these facilities and i

have to tell you, that was almost as discouraging and frustrating. when we first started talking in march, you told me that this was a big problem of the shortage of protective equipment for health care workers if these facilities. how is this still a problem today? is no one listening? >> well, unfortunately, as the number of cases in the south has spiked upward, the demand in those states for ppe and for testing has increased among the general population and what has increased. it's really hard to get testing results. over 60% of facilities you can test a resident or staff member but don't get results back for three or four days and 25% of the cases don't get it back for over five days. we need a case rates in the states that had the spike to drop down so that we can get et testing and the care we need in long-term care facilities.

>> afraid to ask this but without quick and significant action here, what is going to happen? who needs to -- who needs to be held accountable, held to account? who are you speaking to most with this? >> two things need to happen right away. first is, as citizens, let's solve this. if everybody watching would wear a mask and encourage their friends and family to wear a mask and socially distance, we know we would dramatically reduce these rates. when people are making the conscience decision not to wear a mask they are making a decision that is killing old people in nursing homes. we need to change responsibility and change that and a refocus on longer-term care facilities. every governor needs to prmake priority every long-term care facility that the n95 mask and testing they need.

the only way to bring the case counts down. >> have leaders, has the country, in your view, i don't know, turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to what is a five-ar la -- five-alarm home ravaging our nursing home really since the beginning? >> yes. it's a hard commentary. it's not just in the united states but across the globe. indespicable. our values have not been to prioritize our elderly. look at most states, most states prisoners were tested from the residents of long-term care facilities. we just made major policy mistakes we need to make sure never happen again. >> and they can't speak up for themselves often. the worst part about this. you do, though, mark. thank for coming 0en again. >> you bet. we'll continue to draw attention to this until the very end. i promise that. coming up for us, rising gas

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americans have been paying more for groceries since the start of the coronavirus. some levels for decades putting extra strain on families already under stress. there may be some signs of eleaf. perspective here. cnn business editor at large and host of "quest means business" richard quest is here. richard, this new data that came out this morning on food prices. what do you see here? >> well, the first thing is inflation was always dodgy on a month-by-month basis, but now we have two months showing that inflation is rising, but at the core level, stripping out food and headline level, rising by 0.6 of 1%. month-by-month. annual around about 1 upon 6%. it's okay. lower than the fed's target, but if you look underneath you start

to see what is actually happening. oil prices leading to higher gasoline prices because americans are on the road. americans are traveling. they're staying at home, they're driving instead of running. summer driving season pushed gasoline up. food off just a tad. food at home fell by 1.1%. significant, because it shows supply and demand are now becoming more even. >> let me ask you quickly. you're noting meat prices especially are something to tlolook at. why are they falling? >> ah, because, again, the slaughter houses, the processors, they're managing to get the supply chain back again after covid, or restoring, and that means the price of meat, fish and eggs is down. dairy as well. interestingly, hot dogs, because of july the 4th, hot dogs were up's remember, inflation numbers

dodgy. >> yes. dodgy, as we say. good to see you. thank you, richard. for the latest stock market news check out "markets now" streaming at cnn business. thank you all for joining us today. i'm kate bolduan. cnn's coverage continues right now with john king. hello everybody. i'm john king in washington. thank you so much for sharing this busy news day with us. a hopeful dip in the hopeful coronavirus case count but still red flags. testing and positivity and cautions from top scientists and a vaccine the president said "is ready to rock" is actually nowhere near ready. more on that in a moment. first, rollout day for the new democratic ticket, first of you, is the answer, yes. >> the answer is absolutely yes, joe can, and i'm ready to work. >> california senator kamala harris, the first black