i want to welcome viewers in the united states and around the world. more families are without their loved ones today after the deadliest day of the summer so far.

1,499 american lives lost wednesday the coronavirus. in fact, it's the 17th consecutive day the u.s. has averaged more than 1,000 deaths per day and it's a stark reminder the u.s. does not have this pandemic under control. while deaths are rising, tests are decreasing. 25 states are reporting an increase in test pausetivety and that's something dr. anthony fauci addressed a short time ago. >> when you look at other pats of the country, this is what's disturbing to me, is we're starting to see the inklings in the upticks of the percent of the tests that are positive, which we know now from sad past experience that, that's a predictor that you're going to have more surges. so, unless we all pull together to get that down, and we don't have disparities in some states are doing this and some states

are doing that, we're going to continue to have this up and down. so, that's the thing i'm concerned about because i believe we can. we have it within our power to be able to get that down. bottom line is i'm not pleased with how things are going. >> those comments following a dire new warning from the head of the cdc. act now or it will be the worst fall in public health history. i'm joined by associate professor of medicine. doctor, thank you so much for being with us today. i want to begin with your reaction to these comments from dr. redfield. can we get back on track or are we destined to have a terrible fall that might eclipse what we've been going through? >> i think that terrible fall is a possibility if we don't all really hunker down and do our part. and the steps to take are fairly simple. and dr. redfield laid them out

and it comes down to wearing a mask, social distancing, washing our hands, being vigilant. these are measures we have been talking about for a while and it's been several months now. it's not easy to still ad here to the same vigilance. but this threat of a second wave or an awful fall is real and really every individual, even if you're in an area of the country, i'm in new york city, where we feel we beat this thing, we can come back. and in other parts of the country, they're struggling a lot. when you think about it, if we all, and if we all stayed in our homes for the next three weeks, this thing would die out, you know what i mean? there is a way to control it. it just is up to us. >> and dr. redfield, he admitted today. he said the u.s. was underprepared for the pandemic. i mean, we all knew this but

we've been hearing from the administration this downplaying of what the response has been. he basically says it's been great. we know it hasn't been great. what does it mean to have the cdc director admit reality so that it can instill faith in folks to believe what he's saying? >> i mean, i think, authenticity and honesty is important. this covid situation has become such a political issue, which i think is unfortunate. but there's a lot of mistrust in what we're hearing, either from the government or health officials. i think it's important it's restored because we have things coming up that could help, like vaccin vaccines, for example, if the messages they're getting from the government is tlnt, people may not take the vaccine. and that would be a disaster because that's a potential to take control of what could be a very dire situation. >> and i want to ask about the

new report out about the cdc. and it shows there's a rise in mental health conditions during the pandemic. i think that's something we all knew was going on. i think everyone is struggling more than they normally do and some, we're learning, are struggling a lot. how much does this concern you? >> i think it's very concerning. the i think you have people with underlying mental health issues to begin with and when you add something like this pandemic, it's overwhelming. and then you have people who maybe didn't have issues like that before but are undergoing relationship stress, economic stress, worried about their children, their own health. so, it's a tremendous issue. and then you have the covid people themselves, actually survived from the medical standpoint, but have lingering symptoms and mental symptoms also. so, there's so many factors involved here. and people are calling that the second wave, which is the mental

health outlook coming out of this. we're going to see the effects of that, not just in the short term, but i believe in the long term as well. >> thank you so much for walking us through it. and reminder that help is available through the national suicide prevention hotline, 1-800-273-8255, on your screen. he's likening the challenges to the navy s.e.a.l. team that killed osama bin laden in 2011. >> guylord said she likened opening the school to bringing opsalmau been laudn to justice. so too would they continue

meaningful instruction or distance learning. all in, all the time. >> dos santos and the education commissioner have pushed districts to reopen, threatening to withhold state funding frem those that refuse reopen. we'll have much more on that ahead. but first a look at other headlines from across the country. >> reporter: in new york. check out this video that's been circulating on twitter. it's of a new york city bus and a crowd on that bus partying. they confirm this is one of their buses. and the group jumped on board while attempting to navigate a block in the street. that crowd stayed on board for about 15 minutes and put the driver and each other at risk. the agency's president saying in this egregious situation, they're crowded, no one was wearing masks and it's important to keep that in mind when

working with law enforcement. the bus was disinfected. >> reporter: in pennsylvania. police are trying to find the identities of two guests at children's theme park outside philadelphia, after they say they aggressively punched in the face a teen employee who was just trying to enforce the mask policy. police are combing through video, as well as reservations that can give them a tentative id. the 17-year-old employee required facial and jaw surgery, dh is expected to recover. >> reporter: after a third straight week of no positive tests inside the nba bubble, they'll be allowed to have guests join them. they must be family or friends

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despite the nation facing a health and economic crisis, they're spending time on his shower hab tsz. calling to roll back water efficiency standards after this complaint. >> you go in a new home and turn on the faucet, no water comes in. if you're like me, you can't wash your beautiful hair properly. you waste 20 minutes longer. please, come out, the water t drips. they put restricters on it. i signed it out. >> joining us now is cnn chief climate correspondent, bill weir. tell us what this is all about. >> you have to laugh to keep from crying. because the president has made no secret of leaning in, especially on the stump, he talks about how fluorescent lights make them look like a

strange color. diswashers and he's made this his personal mission, despite everything else going on in the world. and then president george hw bush limited the shower edhead. and the president would take shower heads like these and make two and a half gallons come out of all of them. he wants two and a half gallons to come out of ten, 25 shower heads because he's not getting enough. even consumer reports says this is ludicrous. you can get a good shower within the government limits. this will just cause so much waste when it comes to hot water, the fuel that goes into heating that as well and especially out west. and to back off, he's obsessed with this at a moment when hundreds of millions of people around the world don't have

access to clean, drinkable water. about a third of humanity doesn't have the kind of plumbing, and especially less goes in to a two decade mega drought, which is going to get worse as they need to livable off the trickle of the colorado river, if scientists are right. it seems like the methe metapho hotel is on fire and president trump is, as alarms are sounding, he calls and complains about water pressure. >> yeah, that's what it's like. er for thank you for giving this overview. it's important to remember the water challenges in our country and abroad as well. abysmal poll numbers and yet, instead of trying to provide stability, the president

made a series of media appearances this week where he resorted to fear mongering as he took a hammer to institutions that americaned should be able to trust right now. he and his administration seem unconcerned by china, russia and iran trying to undermine the electoral process and trying to sew doubt about whether or not votes will count or if americans can trust election results. as you're well aware, there's a pandemic happening and it will still be happening in november. in fact, experts say it's going to be worse. people need options to vote safely. for many that will mean voting by mail n stead of in person. and the president is dead set against mail-in voting, unless it's in florida. listen to what he said this morning. >> if we don't make a deal, that means they don't get the money. that means they can't have universal mail-in voting.

>> he just admits he doesn't want to make voting easily accessible and safe. he'll say it's because mail-in voting is ripe for voter fraud. but it's not. they refute his claim that foreign nations will weigh in on mail-in voting. and that's by the conservative heritage foundation. but the post master general has approved cuts to the postal service. and i should mention the post master general has behaved in a way to that's raised questions about his credentials. he continues to hold a multimillion dollar stake in a postal contractor, which is an obvious conflict of interest. and in the meantime, republicans are trying to get kanye west for

the election. kanye west's wife, mind you, publicly says he's going through a mental health crisis right now. west says he's been talking to jared kushner, the president's son in law and senior advisor. the president is once again openly interfering with the justice department, making comments about the active and controversial investigation of the russia probe. this is trump's warnling this morning. >> bill barr's a chance to be the greatest of all time but if he wants to be politically correct, he'll be just another guy. >> he's pressuring the attorney general, who's already done him quite few favors. but listen to how he described fbi director, crisfer wray in regards to this investigation. >> so, christopher wray was put there. we have an election coming up. i wish he was more forthcoming. he was put there for good

reason. he was chosen by a certain person and i said go ahead. put whoever you want. i'm so honest that i said you could put anybody you want. let's see how wray turns out. he's going to turn out one way or inother. >> wray is the person trump hand picked. the fbi says it's cooperated with multiple investigations into the russia investigation, even assigning agents to some of barr's efforts. from pushing unproven treatments to lying about how testing works, his own cdc director is breaking from him. >> this is the greatest public health crisis to hit this nation in a century. we were underprepared. i'm asking you to do four simple things. wear a mask, social distance, wash your hands, and be smart about crowds. if we don't do that, as i said that last april, this could be

the worst fall, from a public health perspective we've ever had. >> the briefings provide no real information, no national strategy for testing or containment. instead, they devolve into political rants. and if you take a look at our residency and fact checker every night, you'll see how he's been saying the president is being more and more dishonest. and daniel says he's often just copying and pasting because the president tells the same lies over and over and over, including the one about the time table of the vaccine. >> what's the earliest we could see that? a vaccine? >> sooner than the end of the year. could be much sooner. flrls >> sooner than november 3rd? >> i think in some cases yes, possible before. but right around that time. >> that's not true. even by the most optimistic of time tables, the vaccine won't

be ready by the owned of tend o or beginning of next. keep in mind scientists and doctors around the country have publicly said they worry the vaccine will be rushd before it's ready for political purposes. and he's making promises about the next round of stimulus relief. >> if you permanently rescind the payroll tax, how do you pay for social security? >> we're taking it out of the general fund and what we'll be doing is we'll get it approved, in that case, by congress and we'll take the money from other places, other than we'll not take it from social security in any way shape or form. >> how do you fund it from the general fund when they just incurred a debt? >> we have tremendous growth. you look at what's happening here. next year, unless somebody comes in -- >> that's a con. the pay roll tax funds social

security. if you take it away without a realistic plan to fund it, you can bankrupt, not only social security but medicare as well. this will put more money in people's pock tsz before the election and his explanation, magical. in an uncertain economy during a once in a century pandemic. separately, quote, the suburban housewife will be voting for me. they want safety and are thrilled that i ended the long-running program where low-income housing would invade their neighborhood. biden would reinstall it in a bigger form with cory booker in charge. that's both racist and sexist. that word, "invade" is a big dog whistle when he talks about nonwhite people coming to where white people are. doesn't it seem like he's still living where women are just june cleever carrick cutures.

>> when i come home and dinner's not ready, i'll go through the roof. >> on top of all that, in that tweet, he not so randomly picks an african-american democratic senator to lead biden's, quote, l low-income house nothingivation. >> they're going to, in my opinion, destroy suburbia. and so you understand, 30% plus of the people living in suburbia are minorities. they want to change zoning so you have lots of problems. they want to build low-income housing. you want something where people can aspire to be there, not something where it gets hurt badly. >> again, he is saying the quiet part out loud there. it is not the 1950s. the suburbs have become more and more diverse. most homes have two working parents, including women who work. and today alone the president trauded out a number of sexist troupes.

called nancy pelosi stone cold crazy, alexandria ocasio-cortez not even smart and kamala harris. >> and now you have a, sort of a mad woman, i call her, because she was so angry. >> the angry black woman troupe from the mouth of the president of the united states of america. a reminder, as he focuses on suburban women, that many suburban women, they're actually black. it's 2020, not 1950. still ahead, a philadelphia judge refuses to obey a mask mandate posted on his own court room door. and i'll be speaking live to the parents who lost their 32-year-old son to the virus. . you say the customers make their own rules.

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and you can see there's been a substantial rise in the red area. more deaths in that younger category. and epidemiologists are studying why and say race seems to be a factor. african-americans makeup just 18% of florida's population but they're accounting for 44% of coronavirus deaths. one of those casualties was herman castro. he managed a mcdonald's and was just 32 when covid claimed his life last month. j joining me now are his parents. i'm so sorry to both of you. i'm so sorry. and i'm so glad you are here to talk about your son. we see he's lit from within. he looks like a very fun person.

>> a friend of guy. and good son and devoted to his church and to his kids. he had two kids. that he left behind because of his terrible -- like i say, he was charming to everybody. everybody is knowing him. they have always said something good about him. that's how he was. >> and miriam, i see you -- i see the sadness and i see the happiness at remembering how wonderful a person he is.

>> yeah, i remember my son. he loved me. he loved everybody. good man, good friend. good father. responsibility for everything. my heart is broke because i miss my son. forever. >> yeah. i know he loved his mama. and i think in his case one of the really difficult things to understand, herman, is just how quickly this escalated. because i know that you spoke on the phone, that you guys spoke on the phone with him the day before he died. and he said he was feeling better.

and a chance and the day before he died. the next day he passed. he told me that he had breakfast that morning. and next day i got this phone call, so they had to rush me out of the shift i was on. and put me on a 14-hour flight to new york and then you fly home. >> and i know herman, that's incredibly difficult for you, having not been able to be there with your son and with your family when this happened. miriam, we see in the photos of your son, we see some beautiful children.

will you tell us who he is leaving behind. >> he left behind two beautiful kids. >> josiah -- >> and they miss him. he was very, very close to them. whatever you see him, they was with him. they miss him a lot. >> and miriam, i know you couldn't be with him at that hospital. could you tell me a little bit about the last conversations that you had with him. >> he called for facetime wednesday and he tell me, ma, i

love you, ma, i love you very much. tell my sister be careful because this is no jokey. the covid is no jokey, man. tell everybody in my family take care of yourself. please, i love you, ma, i love you very much. i love you. >> herman and miriam, i am so sorry he's gone. and i thank you for talking to us about herman jr. and i hope you can take very good care of each other. i know you can't replace your son. and i hope you guys can take good care of each other. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> thank you for having us. >> we'll be back in a moment. woman: my reputation was trashed online.

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had experts on the call about a range of issues. we talked about school openings, we talked about the distribution of a vaccine, if and when one arrives and what plans are being made for it. we talked about the racial disparities that exist and how it is covid-19 is effecting difference races differently. and we talked about the continued lack of ppe protective equipment and testing capacity and the like. but and i put out a comprehensive plan over the last three months on each of these things. but today i want to talk about

one thing, very straight forward. doesn't have anything to do with democrats, republicans or independents. it has to do with a simple proposition. every single american should be wearing a mask when they're outside for the next three months, at a minimum. every governor should mandate every governor should mandate mandatory mask wearing. the estimates by the experts are it will save over 40,000 lives. in the next three months. 40,000 lives. and people act responsibly. and it's not about your rights. it's about your responsibilities as an american. the fact is, as americans are lining up to give blood, americans volunteer all time for food banks and local charities

and supporting neighbors in need. well, this is no different. wearing a mask less about you -- although it does help, depending on the mavsk, but it's about preventing other people from getting sick. wearing a mask will give life of a clerk in your local store or letter carrier, your child's teacher, it will increase their prospects of not contracting the virus. even though it's uncomfortable, we're not used to it, wearing a mask is going to get our kids back to school sooner and safer. every american wearing masks outdoors is going to get our businesses back and we're going to get our country back on track. but again, when i occasionally confronted with a person in public about wearing a mask, i say look, this is america.

be a patriot, protect your fellow citizens. protect your fellow citizens. step up, do the right thing. do the right thing. there's overwhelming evidence, overwhelming evidence that the mask, and depending on the type of mask you wear, increases, expedengsally the prospect that you, if you're a carrier and you don't know it, that you will not infect anyone when you cough, sneeze, sing, shout. a lot of people are dying. we're up over 160,000 people dead so far. and i'll end by saying as it goes back to the study months ago by columbia university. saying that we didn't have to be this way. the president had acted sooner, would have saved -- just one week earlier, would have saved

some 30,000 lives. i hope we've learned a lesson. i hope the president has learned a lesson. but again, this is not about democrat, republican or independent. it's about saving american's lives. so, let's institute mask mandate nation wide, starting immediately. and we will save lives. the estimates is we'll save over 40,000 lives over the next three months that is done. let me turn it over to my colleague . she has a few comments to make. >> thanks, joe. that's what real leadership looks like. we just witnessed real leadership, which is joe biden said that, as a nation, we should all be wearing a mask for

the next three months because it will save lives. and the thing about joe that the american people know is that his role of leadership in our country has always been about doing what's best for the people of our country, best for their health, well being and their families. that's what real leadership looks like. and when joe talks about his priorities, me knows and he cares about the fact that we have, as nation, witnessed 165,000 people who, just in the last few months, have died in our country. we know those individuals represent families, loved ones, grandparents, parents, sisters and brothers, aunts and uncles. people mourning their loss every day. so, what real leadership looks like is joe biden. to speak up, sometimes telling us the stuff we don't

necessarily want to hear but we need to know. and the need for this mandatory mask wearing will also be about what joe has articulated and what a biden/harris administration will do in terms of createding a pandemic testing board to get tens of millions of testing kits where needed too, build a public health jobs core, hiring at least 100,000 americans, to lead us through contact tracing, as soon as we take office. and to chart a clear path forward for a safe and effective vaccine. and guarantee every american, every american equal access to it by investing $25 billion, which is joe's plan. $25 billion in manufacturing and distribution. and when joe talks about this, i think it's important that the

american people looking at the election coming up, ask the current occupant of the white house, when am i going to get vaccinated? when am i actually going to get vaccinated? because there may be grand gestures offered about a vaccine, but it doesn't matter until you can answer the question, when am i going to get vaccinated? so, again, joe biden is about real leadership in our country and i'm honored to be with you, joe. thank you. >> [ inaudible ]. >> senator biden, what goal -- >> i at least wanted you to hear the questions. we're not getting answers. we want to be able to ask more questions. this is an important part of the process of covering a candidate, right? i just want you to know we're asking the questions.

also, just to talk about what they're calling for a mask mandate and harris trying to poke holes in the president's promises on a vaccine. i want to talk to lindsey, a public health educator, clinical professor at dartmouth, top school of business. she has experience data-driven health policy. what we're seeing is on the same day dr. fauci and the cdc director, redfield have contradicted the president's sunny outlook on the virus and they're giving some pretty dire warnings. what are you taking to the bank? >> thanks so much for having me. it's great to be here. so, i listen on the data and the science first. i don't opine on politics. i look at the data and the data has me worried. that said i have a lot of hope that our actions over the coming

months, will help make for a better outcome. >> how essential is it when you cons consider a vaccine that's widely accessible to americans, best case scenario, is maybe a year away, when we talk best-case scenario. >> best practices are crucially important. and they are in our control. we can all wash our hands, wear our mask, and keep our space. so, i think that's a hopeful message, that we don't have to wallo in fear while we're waiting for a vaccine. we can take action to improve our health and that of others. >> i know you've been looking at lot of data when it comes to restaurants. if you look at where we are, 5.2 million confirmed cases. talk about how indoor dining is contributing to the spread of the coronavirus. >> so, it's heartbreaking to say

but unfortunately indoor dining and indoor socializing of any kind with crowds is very risky activity in spreading the virus. these are places we go to build and nurture community and, as a person, i'm -- i'm really missing these places and spaces. and as someone who cares is a dartmouth grad, friends of local institutions lou's restaurant and bakery i want to support him and his workers. this is hard news. unfortunately as a scientist, i have a responsibility to look at the data and articulate clearly that indoor dining is dangerous. it is risky, and unfortunately it will make things worse. >> what about outdoor dining? i've seen so many places where i've gone that, here where i live in washington, d.c., a lot of restaurants are taking their

dining almost entirely outside. some of them have parking lots that they're now converting to the restaurant. it's not functional in places where it's incredibly hot but a lot of patrons certainly are weathering the temperatures. is that safe? >> as a native texan i certainly understand the capacity to continue eating outdoors at restaurants, even throughout the summer heat. i think it is certainly safer than dining indoors, and unfortunately, public health scientists like me never really feel comfortable saying, oh, something's totally safe. if we think of risk as a gradient we can think of indoor dining as risky, eating at your house and not ricky and everything else lies in between. outdoor dining is definitely safer than indoor dining. >> thank you so much. i think search trying to feel their way through this, and so helpful to have you come and tell us what the data says.

lindsey, thanks. >> thank you. i want to bring jeff zeleny back in to talk about what we just saw coming from one of the first events we saw from former vice president joe biden and senator kamala harris. the big headline, they seem to be calling for a national mask mandate as they are proposing an alternative to president trump. >> right. we heard joe biden say, calling on governors to impose a national mask mandate. he said for three months, former vice president said for a three-month period of time, a national mandate saying could save up to 40,000 lives. calling on governors to do this. this comes after a briefing he and senator harris had for a little more than an hour or so. a briefing from, from several medical advisers as well as economic advisers including janet yellen, former chair of the federal reserve and a briefing on the state of coronavirus and the economy.

it was the headline, you said, a mask mandate for three months. at least three months. then, of course, senator harris said this is what real leadership looks like. this is politics. the biden campaign trying to show a sharp contrast between what the white house is saying or not saying about this and what they would do. it's unclear, of course, if a president could actually do a mandate but hung on governors specifically to do that. this raises a host of questions. republicans governs, of course, filing lawsuits against democratic mayors in atlanta, georgia, for instance. this is not about politics, democrats or republicans, joe biden said. i believe hedge said it's an patriotism. it's a patriot act to try to save other people's lives. it's not about rights. it's about your responsibilities as an american. certainly different language than we heard president trump say from the white house. >> all right, jeff zeleny, thank

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just in, georgia governor brian kemp withdrawn his lawsuit against atlanta's mayor keisha lance bottom after she issued a city-wide machk mandate. governor kemp has not issued a state-wide mask mandate saying he will address the issue in a new exec tib ordutive order thi

weekend. president trump has no intention eliminating funding soar social security. that's not at all what came out of the president's mouth. >> brianna, president trump want a permanent change how social security is fundy. not just defer payroll taxes wants to eliminate them. >> the payroll tax we'll be terminating the payroll tax after i hopefully get elected. we'll be terminating the payroll tax. that will mean anywhere from $5,000 even more for family and great for businesses and jobs. >> a number of republicans pushed back. most democrats don't support it. the c.a.r.e.s. act deferred collecting payroll taxes.

white house extended that throughout the year. the president goes further with a promise to terminate the tax entirely. the president grabbing on to third rail of politics changing to social security right before an election. the payroll tax funds social security. in 2011 congress deferred payroll taxes for a time replacing the funding with general revenues. but that general revenue today just incurred some $3 trillion in debt to fight the pandemic. ending a dedicated tax source for social security would be a major change to a program millions rely on. brianna? >> christine, thank you. brooke baldwin continues our coverage right now. hi there. i'm brooke baldwin. you're watching cnn. thank you for being with me. earlier this summer joe biden said president trump was "in retreat" when it came to the