i'm brianna keilar and welcome viewers here in the united states and around the world. just a short time from now joe biden and senator kamala harris will make their first campaign appearance together as the democratic ticket for the 2020 presidential race. it's historic as she becomes the first woman of color on a major ticket. here's a clip's her answer to biden's big question. >> first of all, is the answer, yes? the answer's absolutely yes, joe, and i am ready to work. >> now, harris should be arriving from delaware any moment, and cnn political correspondent arlette signs is there for us.

tell us wa we know about this event. >> reporter: brianna, joe biden and kamala harris will appear together first time as the democratic ticket here in wilmington, delaware, expected to deliver remarks later this afternoon. both spouses, jill biden an doug on hand. this comes as biden capped off a month-long search for his running mate deciding to go with a former rival, someone he saw tested on the campaign trail to join him on the ticket. when biden calls kamala harris yesterday on videochat to ask her if she would be his running mate. take a look. >> 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's absolutely yes, joe, and i'm ready to work. i am ready to do this with you, for you. i -- i just -- i'm just deeply

honored, and i'm very excited. >> reporter: now, biden has been tweeting offering up a preview what their message could be's one of those tweets saying if kamala harris and i are elected we're going to inherit multiple crises, a nation divided and a world in disarray. we don't have a minute to waste. he adds, that's exactly why i perked her. she's ready to lead on day one. they will appear here in wilmington, delaware later today. they are holding a virtual grass roots fund-raiser as they are trying to energize their supporters heading into that november election. brianna? >> all right. arlette in wilmington, thank you for that. now to the pandemic. three consecutive days now the u.s. has reported fewer than 50,000 new infections. when comparing new cases this week versus last week, the data shows new cases are trending down. the average number of new infections down by 11%. but that is just part of the

picture. the average number of people dieing from coronavirus is still hovering around 1,000. it's been that way for two weeks now. we often talk about the numbers and trends, but, remember, behind each of those 1,000 daily deaths is a person, and an entire family that is missing their loved one. just yesterday florida and georgia reported their highest single-day death toll since the start of the pandemic. those two states are also dominating with the highest number of new cases over the last seven days. both governors of georgia and florida, refusing to issue a state-wide mask mandate defying science showing face covering can reduce transmission. until tuesday omaha was largest u.s. city not requiring public masks, in public. that's changed. and there's this question that i think a lot of people have, which is, are you wearing a mask the right way? today there is new advice out there from the association of american medical colleges about what is effective and what is

not. and this national guidance includes wearing close-fitting masks with at least two layers, preferably three. and masks in public for everyone 2 years and older. the group says masks are critically important indoors including all businesses open to the public for both staff and customers as well. joining me now is emergency room physician dr. rob davidson and executive director of committee to protect medicare. and we also saw recent guidance from the cdc on not wearing masks with one-way valves in them. clearly a need now not just to tell americans to wear a mask but how to wear one. >> that's exactly right. and having the association of american medical colleges speak out like this. they represent every accredited medical school in the united states and in canada. they represent public hospitals and the va. that's a big statement from them. i wish the governors of georgia

and florida would take note and issue a mandate, but they wouldn't have to do that if the president would lead on this and issue a mandate and have every bit of their messaging be about the importance of masks and how to wear them properly and what kind of mask to wear, because people need that information from their president. >> and a modeling study suggests without state-wide physical distancing policy, 80% of americans would have been infected with covid. what would that have looked like compared to what we're dealing with right now? >> i mean, if you remember back when this all started, i remember back in mid-march when i had to come get my daughter from school in new york city and two other kids here in michigan had to come home from school, we shut it down in many places. most places across this country responsibly shut it down and we kept people away from each other and still saw massive numbers of human deaths, unlike any other country. then people turned a blind eye to exactly how we got to that

point driving the anybodies down and said, look, everything looks great. the president was tweeting to places like michigan and places like texas and florida, arizona, now georgia. we know they opened up, not going along with the guidance from public health officials. not remembering why exactly that we were able to control those numbers outside of the original epicenter of new york and parts of michigan. and we see what's happening now. like you said. we've had 16 days now straight of over 1,000 deaths. even though numbers are down and cases down to about 40,000 or so that is still a tremendously high number of cases per population, more than any other country in the world, maybe except tore bfor brazil, i belid we have to learn from the data. people say we don't have information, data, we don't have -- we do. this is science. this is where trusting the scientist comes into play and we need to continue social distancing to drive the numbers

down further. >> must be alarming to you and a lot of people there on the front lines knowing more than 900 health care work earns in the u.s. died now of covid according to a data base from kaiser health. and what's important to note as well is that this disproportionately affects frontline workers of color and those who experienced ppe shortages. what else needs toing done to protect frontline workers? >> we still need the president to utilize the defense production act to ensure proper ppe is available to all frontline health care workers. that still is not the case. i mean, i will tell you. in the area i'm in, the numbers are under pretty good control. our governor, whitmer, here in michigan has done a great job keeping things locked down to an extent. however, i'm still using an n95 mask, one a shift. better than used to be. used to be every five shifts. right on the box say do not re-use. used to use these with

tuberculosis patients and threw them away leaving the room and now a whole shift. other places a week long or longer than that. the effect of that, 900 health care workers are dead and more to come, unless the president takes leadership and uses the defense production act and makes sure that equipment is available. >> dr. davidson, thank you so much. >> thank you, brianna. a teacher in south dakota protests kwi her own tombstone as bikers swarm or state and the governor will not mandate masks. plus a conspiracy theorist is one step closer to being electsed in congress. to congress. winning her primary in georgia. her history of bigoted remarks, and why this may be splitting the republican party. and moments from now, joe biden and kamala harris appear together first time since named as his running mate. this is cnn special live coverage. absolutely, it intelligently senses your movements and automatically adjusts to keep you both comfortable.

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health experts say more should take coronavirus more seriously. wearing masks, staying away from large crowds and social distancing. they're not. sports leagues grapple playing shortened seasons or whether to play at all, the debate is pitting politics and big money against safety, as rumors swirled ahead of the big ten and pac 12 college campuses canceling their seasons, president trump weighed in. >> these people are so powerful and so strong and not lots of body fat. maybe none in some cases. you know? and very healthy people. >> you know, people don't realize. it's a tiny percentage of people

that get sick. and they're old. it just attacks old people. i think football's making a tragic mistake. >> now, he's not alone. listen to legendary college football coach lou holtz. >> want to play, go play. i think we shut everything down six months. i'm going crazy being in quarantine. move on with our lives. they stormed normandy knew casualties, going to be risks. >> the invasion of normandy resulted in a quarter million dead just on the allied side and football, of course, is hugely important to americans. it is an escape in a terrible time but this isn't war. it's sports. many college football players want to take the risk. they've taken to social media declaring, we want to play. ohio state qb and heisman trophy contender justin fields tweeted abbreviation for shaking my

head. and a player from florida state wanted to play despite falling ill with coronavirus along with many members of his family including his father who since recovered after spending time on a ventilator. >> there's always going to be risk. they've put in place very strong standards to help daily screenings, mass everywhere. masks everywhere. 's consistent coronavirus testing i really feel and we as a team feel safe and putting in all this work. >> not all college football programs are being as careful as they should. lap la sta la state quarantined dozens once practices resumed in june. clemson had dusens test positive for the virus. remember, the data on coronavirus in young people is quite lacking. just learned when it comes to children who were thought to be less affected by the virus, almost 100,000 tested positive in the last two weeks of july, which is an uptick of 40%. we also know that doctors have started to report lasting heart and lung problems in healthy

college athletes who have been stricken with coronavirus. even athletes with mild or no covid symptoms are ending up with an inflammation of the heart muscle called myocarditis. >> it can lead to scar tissue within the heart muscle. that scar tissue cannen a focus for arrhythmia or my o cardial arrest. >> keeping at base with isolation and testing, nba, wnba, sock. while football and baseball had more problems. seem scenes like this, a brawl sunday, certainly do not help. when the president says sports should continue, he doesn't prioritize sports that are keeping covid at bay. for the nba, players supported black lives matter and spoken out on social injustice and racial injustice and against the president, he called them dumb.

>> i think it's been horrible for basketball. look at the basketball ratings. they're down -- down to very low numbers. very, very low numbers. people are angry about it pap nastiness of the nba the way it was done, too. so i think that -- they -- the nba's in trouble. >> i haven't noticed them sending back things at me but i will say wouldn't be that surprised. some are very nasty. very, very nasty and frankly very dumb. >> trump made it clear he wants sports back, if athletes shut up and play. he was asked who was a better basketball play jermichael jordan or lebron james? who has been critical of him. >> who is better as a basketball player? michael jordan or lebron james? which -- >> michael jordan. >> no doubted in your mind. >> i've seen them both. michael jordan, but-oplus he wa political so people like him

better. >> not interested in the nfl being back in players, many who are black acknowledge the national reckoning on racial injustice going on. >> they want to open, open badly and working with government. i would say this. if they don't stand for the national anthem, i hope they don't open, other than that, i'd love to see them open. we're doing everything possible for getting them open. i think in protesting, otherwise, shouldn't protest our flag or our country. >> the president notably is focused on the reopening of college football, where fans trend conservative in the sports's biggest conferences and his allies dismiss the health risk as they see a business opportunity. florida's governor ron desantis saying this -- >> i asked president thrasher and the coach about, hey, some of these other conferences shut down, can we welcome their players in the state of florida? not exactly sure how the ncaa rules work on that but i can tell you if there's a way, we

want you guys to be able to play. >> despite the fact florida is one of the hardest hit states with positivity rates soaring and testing on a downward slide. the president is right to be concerned how the cancellation of sports affects americans especially looking for relief from health and economic troubles in the middle of this historic pandemic. >> if there's no college football a lot of upset people and ultimately that's not great for the president, and his popularity and his job in terms of keeping this country safe and dealing with the pandemic. >> but the president downplaying the virus and politicizing sports and masks is only making it tougher to reopen. washington nationals pitcher sean doolittle putting it this convey. >> if there aren't sports is because people aren't wearing masks, the response so politicized. sports are the reward of a functional society. >> in the middle of a pandemic,

in the middle of a recession, shutting down sports is a sign the government is failing. it's the last thing an incumbent president wants less than three months to election day. i want to talk now with the president of the sports and leisure research group john last. you've been doing interesting polling in a number of industries including sports and sports fans. so maybe you can put this into context for us. you actually asked football fans if they would be more upset by the cancellation of the season, or the loss of their presidential pick? and i think this really puts maybe where americans p s priors are. half more upset about football. what did you find? >> amazing. very much reflective of a lot of the economists perspective we see across a number of issues readed with sports and other leisure activities. our barometer done every other week and asked previously which would be more upsetting. those under the age of 45, half

college football fans 49% nfl fans would be more upset by cancellation of their upcoming seasons than if their candidate lost the election. people are passionate about sports and a desire to get back to normal. >> i think everybody misses sports. right? what you hear all of your friends talk about. i'm sure all of my do. you've been conducting, as you said, surveys every couple of weeks. you're on wave, what is it now? >> just finished ninth wave of research. doing this nonstop. >> started? >> march. >> nine two-week periods here that you've been looking at. i know that over time you saw people very worried at first. then they started to be a little bit more optimistic about reopening. then you saw that they started to get a little more pessimistic. where are we now? >> we're still at a pretty low point, unfortunately. we saw a little the

-- attitudes last week. now end of march showing people are concerned about a lot of things going on in country and certainly very concerned about really nowhere in sight when the we get back to a sense of normalcy. >> thank you for this. appreciate it. looking at a number of industries and new trends popping up. we'll check back in with you again soon. >> thanks so much for having me. 400 teachers refusing to return to the classroom in new jersey. hear how the district is responding. plus, a teacher in south dakota protests with her own tombstone. i'll speak with her. and in her victory speech, a candidate says they will kick that b word. didn't say b word, said the actual word, pelosi. i'm going to speak to the reporter that she kicked out of the room. you try to stay ahead of the mess

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f -o -o virtual. 400 teachers notified the district they require special considerations for health-related risks and cannot teach in person. as a result, insufficient staff to safely open. with five weeks until school begins it is unfruitful to continue to pursue something that cannot occur. the town of elizabeth, new jersey, is located just south of newark. scientific evidence, of course, proves that masks save lives, but one teacher in south dakota is try to make her school board accept the data as she pushes for making masks mandatory ahead of the new school year. special education teacher lizzy hansen put her message on a poster depicting her own tombstone for a demonstration last month urging the school board to rethink its policy and joins now to talk. lizzy, thank you so much for being with us. you are a first year teacher. you're just a couple weeks away here from start of the school

year. i know this biker rally going on in south dakota near you especially has you worried for start of the school year. a quarter million people expected to take part in the sturgis biker rally this year. what are your concerns? >> as you said, 1% of a quarter million is still 2,500 people in the state that are bringing this virus here and interacting with people throughout the day, potentially spreading it to, up to 50 people a day they can spread it to, and those people go to home to wherever they are, across the country. they'll most likely come to where i'm located and potentially spread it there, and i'm terrified what it's to come in the next couple of weeks after this sturgis biker rally. >> what is your school doing to protect students and staff, and certainly in your view, what

they are not doing, to protect students and staff, when it comes to masks, but also other precautions? >> so when it comes to masks in my school, i'm actually in two schools. both are expected but not required. so it's the expectation if you're able to, you will wear a mask, but if a student isn't wearing a mask, we can send them to the office are and there will be a call home and the parent says, no, don't have the to wear a mask, issue ends there and they don't have to wear a mask. the remainder of the school year. one of my schools for sure, i believe the other one is, too, ordered masks for all staff and all students so that there are masks available for those students that might not have resources at home, come from modest means. so we are making sure that safety is available when possible, but if the parents don't want them to wear a mask, they don't have to.

we're doing a lot of cleaning and just making sure that kids are in the safest possible environment. >> and social distancing? >> social distancing is a big challenge, especially, like, if i have 30 kids in a classroom. there's absolutely no way six feet between any of them. and -- kids need to get up and move. that's how they learn. they need to be active, need to be engaged. that's how we really get their minds and bodies moving. that's just not possible with social distancing. we have to do fire drills. active shooter drills, absolutely no way to do social distancing in any of those situations. if we're trying to get outside for a fire drill i can't have 18 kids, six feet apart. that's an insane number.

it's like 100-foot line. that's not -- and -- no possible way, for a fire. >> i want to ask before i let you go. your governor resisted calls for masks. she's downplayed the significance of them for students. what do you want her to know? >> i want her to know that despite whatever she says i'll be the best teacher the kids have ever had, no matter what position she puts us in. bottom line, everybody needs to the safe. if researchers are wrong, look silly a couple of months. wearing a mask over our face, but if the they're right, we're potentially saving lives. >> lizzy, thank you so much. lizzy hansen, teacher joins us from south dakota. appreciate your voice. >> thank you so much. the president trading the

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in georgia, a gop candidate who byes b buys into a conspira group in good position to win a congressional seat. marjorie taylor greene has a track record of incendiary and racist rhetoric, like islamicen vags wa invasion and that george soros turned over jews to the nazis. this remark on nancy pelosi said, she's a hypocrite, anti-american, and we're going to knock that b out of congress." and as he raced to jot down her words my next guest was kicked out of the room. greg bluestein, political

reporter for "the atlantic journal constitution." thanks for being with us. greg, before we get to what happened to you, tell us a little bit more about what she believes in. >> yeah. i mean, this is a candidate running to her party, hard right, on a range of issues and sees herself as a true conservative representing a deeply republican northwest georgia district, an open seat. who believes that a lot of republicans including even conservative, some conservative republicans are spineless, not willing to stand up to liberal left, to the lying media in her words and also to their own party. >> and what is the general election looking like for her? >> she's the heavy favorite to win. this is a seat that the incumbent republican, who's standing down this year, won with about three quarters of the vote. a deeply conservative area, which is the reason why someone

this controversial emerged, because it's -- it's already sort of so solemnly republican, a basically march to the right and marjorie taylor greene initially running to a more moderate district in center of atlanta and switched to this race when the incumbent decided he wasn't going to stand again and immediately went even further to the right, and made the most of a very jumbled field to emerge front-runner. >> how much of this is, something we should read into as a larger trend? is this a symbol of how these, you know, out there conspiracy theories are permeating the republican party or is this a one-off? >> she's one of several candidates. most of them are long shots. still, several candidates who have embraced the qanon view. she's a future republican star,

that was said by president trump. it's not something that should be seen as a one-off. and indeed in georgia, many republicans, at first, tried to distance themselves from her, but then didn't really do anything to stop her rise. fearful of their own political, wasting their own political capital against someone who is seen as the front-runner of the race and generally didn't want to hurt their own election chances in november. >> and greg, tell us about your experience? you actually got kicked out of the room last night at her victory party. you're a serious journalist but seem like a nice guy. what happened here? >> yeah. i've been covering georgia politics in some form or fashion for like 20 years. and never kicked out of a victory party. a time of celebration, candidates usually want the media attention. i was the only reporter in the room that i could tell, at least. a small room. didn't sneak in or anything.

kind of walked in. had my laptop open. i knew several people, many people in the room, i should say. not like i was covert or anything like that. usually conciliatory, not mending fences, building bridges. sometimes more fiery. this was more like dropping a napalm bomb. not only attacked democrats and the media, but went after her own party in a sign of what's to come. republicans in georgia have long feared that she would be a giant headache for their own party, and i think last night proved that to be true. >> yeah. you were just there doing your job. quite normal to be in a victory k party covering it. happens all the time. >> exactly. >> greg bluestein, always good to see you. >> thanks for having me. just in, the pandemic is hitting the golf world. the masters tournament is happening but without spectators. >> evolution of president trump attacks on senator kamala harris

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from the moment kamala harris stepped into the ways for 2020, president trump's opinion's her ebbed and flowed. in january of 2019 sh, shortly after ms. harris announced her running, best opening so far, kamala harris. opening act, would be her. i just think she teamed to have a better opening act than others, better crowd, better

enthusiasm. some others are very flat. that tune turned sour after the democratic primary debates taking aim at harris during tv interviews to speeches on the road. >> i don't see the other ones. i really don't see it. they talk about kamala. i don't see kamala. >> we've got kamala. kamala is falling. >> i think that kamala did not do well last night. i think kamala had a bad night last night i would say. >> when he wan speaking about kamala harris performance, other form of communication, that being tweets. in october declaring harris was faily badly in her bid for the nomination. in december when harris announced she was endinger campaign, hi sarcasm hard to miss, tweeting, "we will miss you." also the democratic party was

doomed by vp kebcontenders on j biden's lichte, kamala harris being one of them. his tone curiously changed last month feeling about harris as a vp pick. >> how do you rate kamala harris as a vp? >> i think a fine choice. kamala harris. a fine choice. >> now, fast-forward to yesterday when it became official biden picked kamala harris to be his running mate. >> i thought she was the meanest, the most horrible, most disrespectful of anybody on the u.s. senate. she's also known, from what i understand, just about the most liberal person in the u.s. senate and i would have thoughted by won have tried to stay away from that a little bit. >> ironically enough according to campaign finance records, the president donate add total of $6,000 to harris' attorney general re-election general campaigns in 2011 and 2013. the president's attacks on

harris are only bound to get bigger as the race moves forward. that's just one aspect of the kind of scrutiny she will face. katie hill is a former california democratic congresswoman who knows a lot about those challenges. she is also author of a new book called "she will rise: welcoming a warrior in the battle for true equality." congresswoman, thank you so much for being with us. if i can just askia what her pick as the running mate means to you. >> i was so excited she was chosen. i was one of her earliest endorsers and, as the presidential pick, so, i was hoping for more of a harris/biden ticket but i'll take the biden/harris. but i think she's the leader we need and going to show the importance

of women in leadership positions and what we're able to do. so, i'm thrilled. >> you have said though that whoever biden picks, because we were expecting he was going to p pick a female running mate. you said would face misogyny and double standards. now you have kamala harris, the first woman of color running for vice president on a major ticket. what type of challenges do you think she's going to face? >> well, we're already seeing it from donald trump himself. he's laying out the nasty woman playbook, the mean -- you know, every term the oh, not apologetic and everything like that. we're seeing exactly the same kind of troupes used against women time and time again, especially strong women, women seeking power or already in power and men are afraid of it. i expect he's going to pivot

several times, depending on what message is resonating the most with his base. he will play most on misogyny and racist troupes? >> you're someone who, you flipped a seat to be a democrat and in that seat, do you think it's going to backfire on him or do you think it's going to work for his base? >> who knows about his base. the base that's still with him, honestly, you have to write them off. what we really need to consider is that part of the country that maybe voted for trump before and has serious regrets about it or people who didn't vote before, and that is the key element i think is really up for grabs. i think kamala's exactly the kind of candidate who is going to generate enthusiasm and get people out to vote, who otherwise might not have. so, you know, i -- there's -- to me, donald trump, there's no

back tire fo backfiring to what he says with his own base. but to everybody else, there is. >> one of the groups he's trying to attract, white women, he's trying tew tract suburban women and he has been making a play for them in very unveiled terms. "the suburban housewife will be voting for me. they want safety and are thrilled i ended the long-running program where low amcome housing would invade the neighborhood. biden would reinstall with but in bigger form with cory booker." >> they brought the entire change over in the house of representatives. i think he has a complete misread on that. they've been moving more and more in the liberal direction. hillary clinton won my district by seven points, even though it

was republican-held in for nine decades. i won it by in my opinion. i think there was an aberration that it flipped back to republicans. i but i can almost guarantee you he's biden's going to win it by 16 points and we're going to see that across suburban districts. even the idea of a suburban housewife. that's not even something that looks the same as it would have even a few decades ago. >> that's right. tend to be a lot of working women as well who are also houses wives, wearing two hats. i want to talk about your new book. i know i've been asked to reflect -- you resigned from congress. you talk in your book about your own struggles as a female law maker. you talk about double standards that you experience. and i know that you say you don't regret leaving congress.

but you did leave that there was an ethics investigation looking at something you denied, which is an alleged improper relationship with a then current staffer. you denied that. important to note. and i wunonder, if you could al address the question of do you wish that you had let that play out so you could still be in congress as a voice to be heard there? >> well, at the time t felt like the right decision, not because of the ethics investigation. and i think that's simply something people are wanteding to point to because it looks more nefarious. and he's being bum barded with letters one after another. and he unleashed a flurry of screen shots, things taken out of context. the photos were taken without my permission.

but i thought it was the best thing to do was to resign for my staff, my family, my colleagues. i didn't want to be a liability, just as we were approaching impeachment and especially for my freshman colleagues going into these tough races. i didn't want to be the person they had to be asked about, whether they were hypocritical to supporting me as opposed to brett kavanaugh. taking myself out of that equation seemed like the right thing to do. do i wish things had played out differently? yeah, i frequently do. but it didn't have anything to do with the ethics investigation. >> can i ask you real quickly do you think that you should have been a liability? if you were convinced you would be cleared in an ethics investigation, do you think you should have been a liability? >> i think photos themselves and the fact i've had a relationship

with a campaign staffer was going to be used against me no matter what and my colleagues no matter what. people didn't parse the difference between the alleged relationship verses the relationship that i did have. so, i didn't think that was going to make a difference. the investigation was mute to the point people were trying to make. the -- my fear of hypocrisy and the fact i said kavanaugh needs to be held to these standards and donald trump shouldn't be in office and even that al franken should resign. i thought it was the right thing for me to step back and say i've crossed into this grey area. it was mistake and i'm sorry for it. but i shouldn't hold my sthoofl same standards that i would want to see other people held to. and that's certainly been a painful experience. and i have a lot of regrets of

what led to that, which i talk about in my book. i think the bottom line is, for me, is we need to elect more women. there are misogynistic double standards that play out throughout our lives, and not just women in office. and to address those barriers, we have to get to true parody. >> you address that in your book "we will rise." and thank you, congresswoman katy hill, for coming on to talk about it. >> thank you very much. i'll talk to my very own -- 'f your own well-being especially if you have a serious chronic medical condition. at aetna, we're always here to help you focus on your health. because it's always time for care.

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