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brunhuber. we are following breaking news at this hour. u.s. president donald trump suffered a great personal loss. he says his younger brother robert trump died saturday at a new york hospital. cnn kristen holmes has been traveling and filed this report for us from bridgewater, new jersey. >> reporter: president trump's younger brother, robert trump, passing away late saturday night. a night after president trump had gone on an impromptu visit to new york city. the press had known he was going to new jersey at the last minute. they told us he was going to a hospital in new york to visit his brother robert. we had known he had been ill but not illness he had. he had been in hand out of the hospital since the spring. the white house issued a statement on behalf of president trump. it is clearly an emotional and sentimental statement here. it says, it is with a wonderful heart i share that my wonderful

brother, robert, peacefully passed away tonight. he was not just my brother. he was my best friend. he will be greatly missed. his memory will live on in my heart forever. robert, i love you, rest in peace. clearly there, you can see the strength of their relationship. the president said on numerous occasions robert supported his candidacy for president 1,000 percent. again it is unclear what the illness is that robert trump passed from. we are waiting to hear more information from the white house. it is again his younger brother who had been ill since around the spring passed away late saturday night. kristen holmes, cnn, traveling with the president in bridgewater, new jersey. >> and less than an hour, ivanka trump tweeted out, uncle robert, we love you, are you in our hearts and prayers always. earlier this week, president trump spoke at the white house about his brother. this is what he had to say. >> i have a wonderful brother.

we've had a great relationship for a long time from day one. it's a long time ago. and he's in the hospital right now and hopefully he'll be all right. but he's pretty, he's having a hard time. >> late saturday night robert trump passed away, president trump is expected to attend his brother's funeral. he was 71-years-old. meanwhile, the world is still losing ground in the battle against the coronavirus. the world health organization received reports of a record number of new cases in the last 24 hours. more than 294,000. the figures from the u.s. are just as grim. it's reporting an average of 1,000 deaths or more from covid-19 in a 24-hour period that brings the u.s. death toll to more than 169,000. now, california is still the hardest hit state with more than 12,000 new cases, including

backlogs. in georgia, the governor is letting cities impose mask mandates with some restrictions. his executive order says they can't be forced on private property or at polling places and there the a scary report coming out of the cdc. it says covid-19 rates among children are steadily increasing. the agency says children now account for more than 7% of all cases. kids under 18 make up about 22% of the population. the cdc also says one in three children hospitalized with the virus ends up in the icu and that's the same rate as for adults. now, those cdc numbers on children will certainly give parents something to think about as they ponder about what to do about school. christina alesci has more on what the virus is in kits. >> reporter: that's right, new cdc guidelines parent might want to consider as they weigh

whether or not to send their kids back to school this fall. the cdc acknowledging children transmit the virus in homes and summer camps. the cdc noting it is rising. 7.3% of all covid-19 cases are among children. that is up considerably since cdc's last guidance, which was at 2% for children with covid. also the cdc noting that the lower rates in children could be atributable to school closures in the early part of the pandemic and that's why it was lower for children. now, given the new guidance, it is entirely appropriate to be questioning public officials, including governors and mayors, who have put forth plans to reopen schools or allow them to reopen. in new york, particularly, the governor last week announced the fact that schools can reopen. we have reached out to the governor here to see if these new cdc guidelines factor into the decision or change the plan

at all. we have not heard back from them. but educators here in new york city, the largest school district in the country now expressing a lot of unease about schools opening here and whether they have the right precautions and the right equipment to deal with the large influx of students who would be coming back to school here, but for now, at least as far as new york is concerned, it looks like full speed ahead on school reopenings. back to you. >> dr. jonathan reiner is a cnn analyst andp professor at george washington university. he joins me from washington. thank you so much for joining us here. so let's start with the situation we're in now. friday, we set the record for the most cases in a single day in august, but saturday, president trump claimed we have done it right. is there anything we have done right in this crisis? >> no not from our public health perspective. we're still not testing enough.

we still don't have a universal masked mandate. we still have states that are opened in really dense viral outbreaks where they should be closed. so there isn't a lot that we have done right. i will say that patients in hospitals throughout the united states has been magnificent and the mortality rate, case mortality rate is about half what it was at the beginning of the pandemic in the united states. so i think we've gotten that right and that getting even better. but from a public health perspective, no, we haven't gotten a lot right. >> so we heard dire predictions this week from the director of the cdc that said that the pandemic coupled with the flu season could create quote the worst fall from a public health perspective we've ever had. so then on saturday, president trump said he disagreed with those comments. who is more likely to be right

here? >> yeah. so, the president really doesn't are the expertise to disagree with the cdc director. he may not like what the cdc director is saying. he tends to side line people who issue statements that he finds distasteful. but i agree with the cdc director's concern. look, i'm hopeful that people wearing masks in the united states and social distancing will have a demonstrable effect on the flu. it should and i hope it does. the other campaign that we need to start now is that we need to vaccinate everybody in this country for the flu. you know, in our best year in the united states, we barely vaccinate 60% of the population and if you look at younger people, it's barely a quarter. so we need to do much better than in this year and vaccinate just about everyone. we need to may have been the way

for making people comfortable getting vaccines, having trust in our public health experts, when we talk about vaccines and then look to vaccinate everyone when we have a covid vaccine. >> but, yeah, i'm curious how you will go about doing that? even with the covid vaccine, for something that could be deadly, what is it some third of americans say they don't plan on getting it. so how would you do that as a public health policy to try to get more people comfortable with the idea of vaccines? >> well, i think it's going to be different in different communities. but i think this has to be, people have to be educated at the grass roots level. i think you know there are parts of american society that distrust the government and in those parts, i think it has to come from the people that are trusted in those parts of this country. but the message has to be clear, that we won't release a vaccine until it's safe and effective.

i ha it the phrase warp speed. it sound like we are trying to get this out as quickly as possible. you know, we have a saying during an emergency in the hospital where we work quickly but we don't rush. i think that's the message that public has to understand. we're working quickly, but we're not rushing and we won't release a vaccine unless it's a great vaccine. restore public confident in that. we have a cancer vaccine. the hpv vaccine is a cancer vaccine and barely half of teenagers are up to date on that. so, we have, we do have a long way to go. >> now, we used to think that the zaez was basically just you know impacted the lungs. it can have devastating effects on the cardiovascular system. the cardiac complication of covid-19 could be devastated and linger after recovery and one disaster told cnn basically it was as if their patient's hearts

were on fire. i want to ask you, you are a cardiovascular specialist. i wonder whether there might be many otherwise healthy people who will have long-term chronic problems because of this virus? >> well, we'll see. we are learning a lot about this disease. this is a brand-new disease. we're learning about it in real time unlike the last major pandemic. the hiv-aids crisis in the '80s. now information is disseminated on a minute-by-minute basis. so we're learning a lot very quickly. we know that if are you admitted into the hospital with covid, about a third of those patients will have elevated cardiac enzymes. the muscle enzymes we use to secretary heart muscle damage. there has been a german study that used mri data whether people are recovering weeks out have any evidence of the sort of small scars in the heart and you

can see it in an almost 70% of patients. you know, how meaningful these small scars are. we know covid is a systemic disease. it's not just a pulmonary disease. it's best not to get it. and you know, the message that some people have tried to disseminate, which is, you know, if you are not over 70-years-old. you don't have substantial co-morbid disease, you are likely to do fine with this is not true. it's best not to get this disease it's best to wear a maveng amask and social distance. because we don't know the long-term consequences of it. >> yet, another reason people should take this seriously. thank you so much for your time, dr. jonathan reiner. we appreciate it. >> my pleasure. president trump continues to attack mail-in voting during a saturday news conference, he repeated his unproven claims, an election held largely by mail won't be fair or legitimate.

>> we are going to have an election that takes place on a beautiful day, november 3rd. and usually at the end of the evening they say donald trump has won the election. donald trump is your new president. whatever they say, you know what, you are not going to know this possibly if you really did it right for months or for years. because these ballots are all going to be lost, they're going to be gone. >> house democrats are considering possibly cutting their summer recess short to deal with the growing controversy. the post master general and republican donor has been criticized for changes he recently implemented. now those changes have effectively slowed down mail service by eliminating worker hours as well as hundreds of sorting machines. cnn confirmed the inspector general of the postal service is now reviewing those recent changes as well as ethics compliance. senate democrat bernie sanders

responded saturday with this brief tweet. the post master general must resign immediately. meanwhile, congressional leaders are speaking out about the impact president trump's attacks could potential po potentially have on voters. >> i never shot that i would live to see the united states of america tolerate a tyrant who seems to just trampple on our constitution, john lewis, that would be so disappointed that he gave, nearly gave his life to get the vote for people of color and to watch complicity of the republicans who voted on to this kind of shenanigans is just beyond me. >> as president trump continues his attacks on pail-in votings. the post master is warning of

delivery delays to come. >> reporter: president trump on saturday continued to cast doubt on the reliability of mail-in voting despite experts saying widespread voter fraud in the u.s. is exceedingly rare. many states relied on mail-in voting to varying degrees four years. although the post master general made changes to the post office operations, critics say, it will hamper its ability to deliver mail-in ballots at the volume expected in november. the president praised his efforts. he also sought to draw an a distinction between absentee and mail-in voting. >> lewis is working hard. as you know, the democrats aren't approving the proper funding for postal and the proper funding for this ridiculous thing they want to do. which is all mail-in voting. universal you could call it mail-in voting. again absentee voting is great. i'm an absentee voter. i requested and got it and sent

in my vote. that's what we've had. now they want to send in millions and millions of ballots and you see what's happening. they're being lost. they're being discarded. they're finding them in piles. it's going to be a catastrophe. >> reporter: the president recently requested his own absentee ballot. but the distinction between absentee voting and mail-in voting is not black and white and the lines are blurred. both are conducted in much the same way. ballots are delivered through the mail and only nine states in the district of colombia are doing what the president was warning about, which is mailing every votary ballot. in most states, people will still have to request a ballot in order to vote. the president also is exploiting the likelihood the election result may not be entirely clear on election night. because it does take longer to count mail-in votes. the president tweeted the democrats know the 2020 election will be a fraudulent mess. we'll maybe never know who won.

meanwhile, the postal service in late july warned 46 states in the district of colombia, their election laws are incompatible with the postal service operations. for example, they said some of the deadlines states set for requesting and turning in their ballots doesn't leave the postal service enough time to get those ballots delivered. sarah westwood, cnn, washington. meanwhile, president trump's challengers are preparing for the democratic national convention next week. former vice president joe biden and his new running mail mate kamela harris are getting ready to take the nomination. jessica dean tells us more. >> reporter: newly minted vice presidential nominee kamela harris giving her first interview since that announcement was made earlier this week. and in that virtual interview, horizon praising her running mate joe biden for having what she calls the you a das the i to put a black woman on the ticket with him going also into the

policies that they hope to put in place but continuing to go back to joe biden really playing that traditional role as the vice presidential candidate in elevating the opinion at the top of the ticket n. this case, that being joe biden. harris also continues to fuel an incredible fundraising boost for the biden campaign. they announced they've raised $48 million over the two days after her announcement, which is just a shocking number considering that earlier on the campaign cycle, biden wasn't raising that in a whole quarter of fundraising. they're raising that in 48 hours. we are told that both harris and biden will be delivering their nomination acceptance speeches right here in wilmington, delaware, when the democratic convention happens next week. but until then, it's a pretty quiet weekend here in delaware as harris and biden prepare. jessica dean, cnn, wilmington, delaware. protesters in belarus aren't giving up their fight.

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there are many people who were arrested here in this country ever since the demonstrations started last sunday after the election here. thousands of people were arrested. many of them were beaten in detention. people telling us of torture while they were in detention, also people were paraded and humiliated on staged tv. nevertheless, the folks here are still coming out. they're still calling for alexander lukashenko to step down. in fact, he says he won the election by around 80% of the vote and he's spoken to vladimir putin and is still very much clinging to power. the opposition here, says they are calling for a new vote and also calling for an end to violent by the police and by other security institutions here in this country. fred pleitgen, cnn, belarus. >> just ahead on cnn "newsroom." >> i want college football to come back.

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play football very badly. >> mr. trump made these comments as the university of oklahoma announced that nine of its players who tested positive for covid-19. yet, the team is still scheduled to open its 2020 season against missouri state in september. in the last week, the big 10 and the pac 12 conferences, two of what's known as the power five voted to postpone their seasons. the senior vice president and medical officer for the national collegia collegiate athletic association. thank you so much for joining us on this important topic. every day, we are seeing more cases of college athletes testing positive for coronavirus. the list of schools and programs is too long to list here. let me start with this. given the severity of the pandemic, given we are already seeing so many cases of student athletes testing positive, should schools play sports? >> well, it's a great question,

kim. so you know, the pathway to play sports is so exceedingly narrow right now. everything would have to light up just perfectly. that's why you see so many schools have decided they can't play sport. it's not an individual school decision. there are very strict mandates the ncaa has put out. the schools must follow this. so you are seeing some of the schools made decision very early. many others made them lately. and some conferences are still waiting. i think they're waiting for that one possibly that maybe there could be a break through. but the mandates are pretty rigid. >> but if the path to play is so rigid, why are so many schools still going ahead? >> well, so what they've decided, the conferences that are still going ahead, they've postponed their season. and i believe that the rational for postponing the season is a few things really need to get in

place and one is that testing has to considerably shift in the united states. right now, if testing stays as it is, there is no way we could go forward with sports. contact tracing has to improve and the other thing that is the big unknown and really is a greater risk than playing sport. that's what happens when students resocialize in school. so there is really a risk even of students being in dorms and so can the schools handle that? and can they create somewhat of a supply bubble? or is that going to really be sort of the downfall that we can't even do that? so those are the things that people are still weighing at the moment. >> hmm, i wonder, there are so many parents out there sending their kids to school. they're wondering, is it safe? what do you say as to parents of student athlete wondering that. can you assure them that it will be safe to play? >> well, i think that we can say with certainty that if there are

sports or a return to school, there will be positive covid cases. so we know that. the question is what do we do as a society? does it stay closed down? does it open up knowing we will do everything possible to keep everyone safe? that's the balancing act. there the on the one hand, the economic collapse of our society, if we all stay home. on the other hand, we know the only way you can have a sound economy is in you have sound public health. so the public health is continuing, hopefully, to im3r06. but again, that really depends on the infrastructure of testing and contact tracing. and right now, where we stand today, we're not in a place today where we can safely play sports. >> you mentioned the economy. some who have been trying to get college sports shut down during this crisis complain that schools and health officials are being do lacks because of the amount of money that college sports generates. how would you respond to that? >> well, there is no question that some schools generate a

considerable amount of money. i think when you put this in perspective, you look at what covid has really laid bare, that those that are able to move forward in our society, unfortunately, it's often dependent on the well tat you have or the resources that you have. and you are seeing the same thing play out in the united states with our colleges. you look at the only conferences that really have a possibility and an exceptionally narrow path at playing football. those are the high resource schools. because they can build their own infrastructure at their university that can allow frequent testing and can allow for a different level of contact tracing so, it really is a metaphor for what's happening in the united states right now. >> hmm, absolutely. well said. thank you so much for your time, dr. brian henlein. i appreciate it. >> thanks for the opportunity. >> let's turn to nicole auerbach the senior writer for the athletic. she's in chicago.

we heard from dr. hainline, actually playing if i wrote his quote down correctly, he said, we're not in a position to safely play sport. what do you think of all that? >> reporter: you think pretty clear through owl after this. when they unveil certain guidelines to be met to be able to participate in sports, it also outlines if you hit certain criteria, you need to shut down. some of those pieces to the puzzle involves the community. they involve the pressure that college sports are putting on the healthcare system in certain communities. outbreaks, numbers like that. as the doctor mentioned, the fact that regular students are returning to these campuses could end up making the decisions that haven't happened yet pretty straight forward. we're seeing outbreaks at notre dame, north carolina. these are schools that just started classes on monday. >> it' else to me, you know,

from the outside that so much of this policy, at least from the schools and the conferences as being formed on the fly, you see a conference thing. oh, we're going to play. in the next week, oprah, we're shuttings down, you know, speak to that for me. it seems that things haven't been thought out really well here. >> reporter: there are certainly schools of thoughts. what have they been doing? they have been telling us they have contingency plans in places, even the pac 10 and pac 12, they did have schedules released. that baked-in flexibility. they decide not to get to that point. sho people are making decisions changed on almost an hourly basis. it's crazy the conversations i am ha having with people in all levels of sport. you had the ncaa announce there will be no fall championships in

sports not major football this year, too. right now, we're leading toward this path where only certain leagues and schools are going to try to play football. that might be the only sport they are trying to play. so again these decisions are going to continue to change on a rapid hourly basis. >> so, i'll ask you the money question that i have asked the doctor there. is so much of the willing ins to forge ahead, just the results of the amount of money tied to college sports? ro. the sho-- >> reporter: the short answer is question. after the pac 12 made their decisions, we started hearing from athletic directors at place like wisconsin one school could lose 100 million by not having one college football season. that is money that fund and props up the rest of the athletic department. it allows them to sponsor other sports, pay coaches, have great facilities. you know, have scholarship opportunity for college athletes. so those are the things that are

going to be restricted if and when more leaks continue to pull back on the fall season so there the a lot of money at stake in media right field. obviously, a lot of these places are probably saying, we're probably not going to get ticket revenue, but the media money is massive for these schools and how they operate and sponsor other sports. >> well, speaking of money, you know, the additional risks that the athletes are facing here as again raised questions about whether college athletes should be company st. west virginia have you been hearing? >> this is a hot topic right now. you had a number of student athletes speak up about not feeling safe. about certain elements of like you mentioned economic disparity, the power imbalances between coaches, administrators, conference commissioners. and the labor. which is being asked to play during a pandemic. they've never had this kind of leverage before. they've always had a power if they could be collective, they don't have a union. but they are now pushing for a players association, some sort

of representation. and they have that power. they know how much money is at stake. we just went through some of it, if there is no fall season. so they know what they're worth and they have this leverage collective live so with or without a fall season. i think that movement, the voices we are hearing from college athletes is something that will continue into next year and beyond. >> just speaking for myself. i love sport. i wish that they could you know carry on, but just so many unanswered questions and so many things up in thearity. thank you so much for your time, nicole auerbach, senior writer for the athletic. appreciate it. coming up, japan has been relying on voluntary restrictions to hand him the pandemic, but not everyone is willing to follow through. and the days old bush fire in california continues to sweep through part of the state so we'll have an update on the destruction coming up next. verizon knows how to build unlimited right. you start with the network jd power has named the most

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of mauritius has broken apart. they released this photo showing a large section detached. the japanese vessel still has an estimated 90 tons of oil on board. it struck a reef three weeks ago fwheer the island. salvage crews skranled to help save a nearby marine park home to mangrove forests and endangered species. in japan, officials are trying to mandate numbers, without imposing a lockdown. it seems that strategy is starting to backfire. we have the details from tokyo. >> reporter: the staff at monsoon cafe is thankful the customers are back. while it's hardly a full house, they know the bar will be opened until midnight. this is just the kind of scene the tokyo deposit wants gone, convinced that night life is a big reason since the surge in

mid-july. it has asked all restaurants and bars to stop serving alcohol at 10:00 p.m. until the end of the month. >> for what? it doesn't make any sense. that's why i declare that we don't follow them. we keep on operating as normal as possible. i don't like to obey. i didn't like the culture they expect you to play. >> reporter: he says it's more than a question of rifle is. >> are you putting the business on top of the people's life? of course not. the life is the most important. freedom. just like freedom. >> freedom to be out and about despite day after day of record new infections and there is a tinge of defiance among those venturing out. yes, we cannot always swallow what they say. >> the government should pay us if they want us to act with restraints. >> reporter: this shift in attitude presents a new challenge to a government

restricted in its ability to impose a lockdown. they have been overreach of authorities out of fear of killing memories during sacrifices in world war ii. instead, they have relied on the idea that one should hunker down for the collective good during challenging times. >> so the concept means self-restraint. kind of a sober reflex wion. not being so ostentatious. it's not like now it doesn't. what's happened in japan is people are gradually starting to accommodate this. >> reporter: the pub owner says he, too, is trying to adapt. profits are gone. what's left are piles of raw fish with nowhere to go. i've decided not the put 'up a fight, he says. a sign on his door signals that he has chose on the comply with government requests. by zapping this code on mobile phones, passer buys are encouraged to report stores not being cautious enough.

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♪ >> the song is called "peace" and couldn't we all use a little more of that in the stush latur times. and the musician is lissie.

and the video of ways of coping, the good, the bad, the ugly. it's all there, and it's a sound track to 2020. and lissie now from illinois. thank you so much for joining us. the song came out in 2018. but the video, the clolage, the snapshots of fans' lives in the pandemic, it's a hopeful video for challenging times. how did it come about? >> yeah, well, thanks for having me. in the very early days of quarantine, you know, as shows were getting canceled and i was talking to a lot of my creative friends and just adjusting with the rest of the world to the surreal new reality we are facing collectively, a good friend of mine, a bril yeliant director, and collaborators, though it was a beautiful thing

to encourage my friends and family and followers to submit honest videos of what lockdown was like for them in the beginning there, and we encourage them to send us the playful sweet things and maybe some of the more harrowing or challenging or painful parts of it too. and to round it out, a collective human experience we are going through together. ♪ ♪ take away by burden >> what struck me from that experience that i saw, there wasn't necessarily the emotional toll it was taking on people. it was the small ways we learn to make the unbearable bearable. but your song got me thinking, one hand, we are living through a communal shared experience, and the individualism, and the

lack of social cohesion that is highlighted by the pandemic. it's never been keenly apparent. after having gone through the process, gathering the unifying, uniting moments for the video, are you more hopeful now about the country than you were in 2018 when the song came out or less? >> yeah, well, i mean, i think what is so interesting about the times, i think we are all personally grieving and struggling and navigating and we are also on another level going it collectively. so the time i wrote the song, it's a general longing to just have my own presence and peace and surrender when i have a heavy heart. but in the context of this song, i think it's hopeful because i think one thing i witnessed through the video and just since covid has changed all of our lives is people really, you know, spending time with their families, spending time in

nature. remembering those simpler kind of really soul satisfying things we don't have the opportunity to do because of other obligations or the hectic pace of life. if there is a bright side, seeing people get outdoors and move their body and play with their kids and make art and maybe finding some time. so i think that everyone is really had to confront themselves in one way, shape or form. and i like to think we will have regrown and reconnect to parts of ourself. >> i think we will leave it on that optimistic note. thank you so much for talking to us. it's certainly has moments of calm and optimism that we need. we appreciate it. >> absolutely. thank you for this opportunity and i hope people enjoy the video, and stay strong out there. we're more -- i think we are more resilient than we realize.

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