the democrats decided to break from tradition and have a diverse group give messages on how they think biden will move america forward. for the first time in history the convention featured a virtual roll call vote. it showed delegation from all 57 states and territories cast

their votes. if you want a president that spend hours a night watching television he's your man. distracting works if you try to entertain or inflame but in a real crisis it collapses like a house of cards. >> when this president goes overseas it's not a goodwill mission it's a blooper real. he writes love letters to dictators. america deserves a president who is looked up to, not laughed at. >> from the moment president trump took office, he's used his position to benefit himself rather than our country. he's trampled the rule of law,

trying to weaponize our justice department to attack his enemies and protect his friend. he treats our country like it's his family business. this time bankrupting our nation's moral authority at home and abroad. and biden now has another key republican ally. former u.s. secretary of state colin powell. >> joe biden will be a president we'll all be proud to salute. with joe biden in the white house you'll never doubt that he will stand with our friends and stand up to our adversaries, never the other way around. he'll trust our diplomats and intelligence community not the flattery of dictators and despots. he'll make it his job know when anyone dares to threaten us. he'll stand up to our adversaries. they will know he means business. >> biden's wife jill put the focus on coronavirus and schools as she spoke from the delaware

classroom where she once taught. delivering a personal appeal for her husband. >> as an american, i am heartbroken by the magnitude of this loss, by the failure to protect our communities, by every precious and irreplaceable life gone. like so many of you, i'm left asking how do i keep my family safe. the burdens we carry are heavy. and we need someone with strong shoulders. i know that if we entrust this nation to joe, he will do for your family what he did for ours. bring us together and make us whole. >> cnn senior political analyst joins me now from washington, d.c. good to see you.

>> good morning, good morning, rosemary. >> joe biden accepted the democratic presidential nomination. no surprise there. his wife jill spoke and compared a broken family to a broken nation that could be fixed with love, understanding and compassion. what else did she say and will her message resonate with voters? >> it's interesting what she didn't say. she didn't talk about donald trump. we heard a lot about donald trump last night from speakers trying to set up the comparison of joe biden to donald trump. they set donald trump up last night as being somebody who is not relatable to people. somebody who only cares about himself. then we see today we saw the speakers really trying to focus on joe biden being a person, somebody with great morals. in this case we hear joe biden talk about how they actually met and how she, you know, came to become the mother to his two boys, you know, who had tragically lost their mother and joe biden lost his wife a few

years earlier. i think what we saw today from joe biden is a humanizing fact or. she tried to talk about her husband in just very simple terms. but also in terms that would try to connect with i think americans across the country. >> then cindy mccain participated in an eight minute convention video celebrating the unlikely friendship between her late husband senator john mccain and joe biden. what impact might a video like this have on those disgruntled republicans out there? >> i think it was interesting that this was the continued thread that we saw being woven last night from john kasich and others. we saw three prominence republican whom came out for joe biden. what we saw tonight to your point is we saw cindy mccain really connecting with joe biden to john mccain on a level of friendship, a level of, again, you're showing pictures there, this idea of honor, and service to the country. i think that was done rather

effectively and then, of course, we saw colin powell come out the former secretary of state a republican come out and endorse joe biden as well. this expectative thread we'll see throughout the next couple of nights where joe biden not only appealing to liberals in his party but trying appeal to d disaffected republicans. >> tough words from bill clinton who said the oval office should be a congressman center not a snowstorm center. what else did he say? will his message of trump chaos resonate beyond the traditional democratic voter? >> he's really trying i think appeal to those democrats, those die-hard democrats who might be out in the midwest who might be upset with the way that washington is running, but they liked the bill clinton policies of his time that bill clinton, you know, was a fairly steady hand at the presidency, even all the commotion he did create for it.

that who he reached out to. it's interesting that he was not necessarily put on the docket to speak tonight to try to reach out to young voters, we saw that from aoc who came in and ended up, alexandria occasio-cortez who came in and did speeches for bernie sanders. >> many thanks to you. appreciate it. now to a stunning reversal by the u.s. post master general. louis dejoy said all changes being made to the postal service will be suspended until after election day on november 3rd. this after weeks of criticism that those changes were being enforced to undermine mail in voting. it comments as 20 states have announced plans to file federal lawsuits over potential mail delays. the usps and louis dejoy say changes are meant to improve the agency's dire financial situation. for months president trump has been railing against mail in

vote i voting, asserting it will lead to voter fraud. he made that same claim on tuesday at the white house. >> it will end up being a rigged election where you will never have an outcome. have to do it again. nobody wants that. i don't want that. >> after that event the president flu to arizona to give a wide ranging speech to a crowd where many people were either not wearing masks or wearing them incorrectly and as you can see not social distancing. the president pushed for four more years in the white house and targeted his opponent. >> joe biden is the puppet of the radical left wing movement that seeks the complete elimination of america's boards and boundaries. they want to take the world down. they don't want to have borders. they want sanctuary cities. lots of bad things they want, following orders from his boss,

i guess his new boss is bernie sanders. can you believe that? crazy bernie. >> the president made no mention of a damning bipartisan report by the senate intelligence committee into russian election interference in 2016. it dates how the trump campaign welcomed russian help revealing new information about contacts between russian officials and associates of president trump during and after the campaign. cnn's jim sciutto takes us through the main points. >> reporter: paul manafort had repeated contacts with russians tied to intelligence that he repeatedly shared proprietary campaign information with those russian contacts. that in the word of this bipartisan committee created opportunities for russian intelligence to interfere and to go on and say this. taken as a whole manafort's high level access and willingness to

share information with individuals closely affiliated with the russian intelligence services particularly associates of oleg deripaska represent ad grave counter intelligence threat. it wasn't just manafort, but roger stone who was a middle man in sharing stolen information to get out of the public eye here. giving, according to the committee advance warning to the president about these releases and even. composing pro russian tweets for the president. roger stone there. >> despite the findings coming out of in that bipartisan report democrats and republicans have still drawn different conclusions with some republicans and the white house saying it reaffirms there was no collusion while the lead democrat in the committee urged

americans to read the report and judge for themselves. coronavirus cases in the u.s., and the director of the university of virginia center for politics joins me now from charlottesville, virginia. good to have you with us. >> thank you, rosemary. >> larry, of course the big political issue right now is president trump's undermining of the u.s. postal service and mail in voting. for now those change that were slowing down deliveries have been put on hold but many voters still wonder if their ballot will get counted. . there was a lot of concern. where do things stand and what are the political ramifications of this in. >> there's no way that the post master general and the trump people would have agreed to stop this process unless the heat had become unbearable. even republicans were coming on board with those opposed to these changes. at least before election day. so they have had to pull back. but you just noted the key

thing. they managed to get out there a message to a large majority probably of democrats who had planned to vote by mail. now they wonder what should they do? they are not going to vote on election day, most of them. they want to vote by mail. but the trump people and the post master general have undermine their confidence in the system. demonstrate have got to spend some time rebuilding that confidence and making sure that the changes they have pledged not to fulfill actually stay undone until after the election. >> right. and larry, a senate intelligence committee report just out details the security risks posed by donald trump's 2016 campaign with its russia contacts. what are the political ramifications of this and ultimately do voters care about this issue? >> i'm not sure that voters care

any more. they should care. but i don't think they are focused on it. we have had this intermittently for years now. but the facts coming out of the senate intelligence committee are pretty disturbing to have the campaign manager of one of the candidates, donald trump who won, working for years with someone who was a russian agent. you know, in the old days that would have been the end not just of the campaign manager but of the candidate. we live in a different era and i think probably it was difficult to manage this so that the truth came out in a way that would be powerful and would have an impact on trump. >> and larry, just finally how spurpd a surprised are you with the handle or mishandling of the pandemic, high unemployment, racism in this country that joe biden wouldn't be further ahead in the polls because we're seeing him really only a few point ahead of donald trump. >> yes.

that's true. some polls like cnn had biden up only four. but i believe in polling averages and the average for biden is actually around 8.5% which is remarkable. that's an obama level victory. now will it be the same in november? have no idea. we'll have to watch. look, we live in an era of really extreme polarization. it takes a lot to pull anybody away from trump or poll anybody away from biden. so we got to live with that and recognize that the old days when you had landslide of 60% or even for that matter 55% they are gone at least for the near future, the foreseeable future, they are gone. >> yes it will be a tight race for sure. always a pleasure to chat with you. many thanks. coronavirus cases in the u.s. are finally showing

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the nouvelle coronavirus has now infected 22 million people globally and has killed nearly 800,000. that's according to jone hopkins university. the u.s. has the world's highest number of coronavirus infection and deaths followed by brazil and the pan american health organization says the americas account for 64% of the world's covid-19 deaths. that's despite having only about 13% of the world's population. in the u.s. coronavirus cases are trending down with the current average dropping 10% from last week. monday marked the lowest day of new cases since june 24th. that's according to johns hopkins university. the country has averaged more than 1,000 deaths a day for the last three weeks. cnn's erica hill has the latest. >> reporter: masks and social distancing having an impact. new cases in the u.s. down 10%

over the past week. >> there are some states that have done the hard work to really bring this epidemic into what i call containment mode. >> reporter: new york state marking an 11th straight day with a positivity rate of less than 1%. the situation not as encouraging on college campuses. >> you would see for lack of a better phrase a guinea pig for this nationally and across state of north carolina. >> reporter: unc with quarantine dorms facing capacity undergrad class moved online one week into fall semester. the chancellor blames off campus activities. cool paper says unc has a cluster f on its hands. >> there will be an explosion of cases in young adults and adolescents as we re-open colleges, universities and schools. >> reporter: notre dame moving all classes online for the next two weeks citing a dramatic

increase in new cases. a climate change in upstate new york shifting to fully online learning. sec not making a decision on the fall football season. more quarantines at some florida grade schools after re-opening. miami-dade public cools which began remote learning august 31st announcing nearly 600 employees have tested positive for the virus. >> we want to keep schools from becoming a petrie test we need to test all. >> reporter: in many areas testing and the turn around time for results is still a hurdle. a new saliva test granted emergency use authorization by the fda could help. >> so it skips many steps upfront. it makes it much more amenable

to be using as a surveillance tool like in schools or universities and it also preserves some of the agents that are scarce. >> reporter: a new study in germany finds the virus was spread on a flight in march before most airlines mandated masks. travel stale concern especially in areas that are doing well. >> over the past month about 15% to 20% of all cases in new york city have occurred in people who recently traveled to somewhere outside of new york city. >> reporter: the city recommending families who have recently traveled to hot spots should quarantine before sending their kids to school. also here in new york city in terms of travel the mayor signing an executive order that requires hotels and short term rental companies have travellers fill out quarantine forms if they are coming from any of the 35 states or territories that is on that list for the tri-state area folks have to quarantine

for 14 days. on tuesday alaska and delaware were added to the list. dr. anthony fauci says the united states is collaborating with sign. activi -- scientists around the the world manage the pandemic. >> we have scientific collaborations with our colleagues in europe, european union, australia, canada, mexico. we have clinical trial networks in south africa, in brazil, in chile, in peru. there's an awful lot of international activity going on. >> our cnn medical analyst and former new york city commissioner of health and hosts the podcast epidemic and joins me from new york. always good to chat with you, doctor. >> my pleasure. >> we're seeing schools at all levels now battle covid-19

outbreaks, another college, notre dame just now taken its classes online due to intexass there. what's the best way for them to work out what to do in the absence of any real guidance out there? >> rosemary, i think the big picture is we need to look at this as a societal problem not a problem that's limited to certain businesses like bars or restaurants or limited to certain schools but rather something that's happening across the community. as long as you have spread throughout the community you are going to have spread on college campuses and other schools. you're going to have spread in bars and restaurants and other facilities. this is really a problem that need to be addressed as a community problem and that hasn't been done in a concerted fashion nationwide even once even now so we continue to play this game of whack-a-mole where we beat down the problem in one place and he see it pop up in another. >> while this is happening new

cases across the country are coming down slightly which, of course, is a good thing but still at around 40,000 a day and deaths are still averaging a thousand on a daily basis. how is this possible six months into this pandemic and do you think that the declining cases may be perhaps more people wearing masks? >> i do think masks have had an impact. i think people finally are hearing the message that masks work to protect yourself, to protect others of the transmission of the virus. that's helped here. we're scaling up testing. even now we still don't have nearly the level of testing we should have and in many parts of the country the rates of transmission, the rates of new cases are so high, options like pool testing where you combine different specimens into one and test it as a batch are not feasible because there are such high rates of transmission. there's a lot that needed to be

done that still hasn't been done. . >> there's a lot of hope on that saliva test. do you support that and see that as a possible game changer here? >> i do think the saliva test is a game changer. this allows us to spare ourselves using those nasal swab so the huge savings, it was a step where we were running out of those. to not need those or any special specimen collection kits, to be able to use the routine laboratory chemicals and machines that we already have on hand and not from cure anything special makes a big difference. >> doctor, new study shows immunity may last longer than previously thought, perhaps three months or more. we're learning the threshold for herd immunity could be lower around 50% of the population. how significant is all this for reaching some level of herd immunity given that masks is

about all we got plus that possibility of herd immunity or can that only happen once as a vaccine? >> i think the way to think about herd immunity is you're really layering different things, different protective interventions to reduce everybody's risk of spread. masks are a big part of that. but if you combine masks and social distancing and the fact that some people have had the virus and are at least in the short term probably immune to reinfection that can have a dramatic reduction in transmission of the virus which could buy us time until we have that vaccine. >> it always gets back to that mask. we just need to wear them. thank you as always. >> my pleasure. the u.s. stock market has just seen its first record since the pandemic began. that came when the s&p 500 closed at an all time high tuesday. the index is the broadest measure of wall street. it had been hovering near the

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nominee. this came on day two of the democratic national convention. he was endorsed by key members of his party, including former president bill clinton, and senate minority leader chuck schumer. before a roll call vote was taken across the country, representative alexandria occasio-cortez symbolically nominated senator bernie sanders to be the party's nominee. she did not mention biden and used her minute-and-a-half time slot to lay out the progressive movement that sanders championed during his campaign. >> infidelity and gratitude to amass people's movement working to establish 21st century social, economic and human rights including guaranteed health care, higher education, living wages and labor rights for all people in the united states. a movement that realizes the unsustainable brutality of an

economy that rewards explosive inequalities of wealth for the few at the expense of long term stability for the many. and who organized the historic grassroots campaign to reclaim our democracy. >> cnn political commentator angela wright joins me now from los angeles. she's also the former executive director of the congressional black caucus. also with us, cnn political commentator and biden supporter from miami in florida. good to see you both. >> good to see you. >> the dnc has already been criticized for lack of latino representation, only three have their own speaking slots over the whole of the four nights. what do you say to that and how can biden and the dnc reach out to encourage latinos to vote for a biden-harris ticket >> i'll tell you i was bothered by that and i brought it up to

joe biden myself. i spoke to him a few days ago and i brought it up to kamala harris and to many members of the campaign. that being said once i've actually seen the conventions, it doesn't feel that way. yesterday the dnc, a self-made woman, a woman from texas, a great activist and philanthropist and a woman who stands up for good causes. she was there the entire night. we heard from senator alexandria occasio-cortez. is more work to be done? absolutely. do numbers with latinos have to get better? absolutely. do latinos feel they should not be taken for granted and they want their votes to be earned and they want respect? absolutely. >> can i say something on this point and it's so important and i love being in discussion with anna because she knows very well we both love politics.

but for folks who look like both of us sitting at home they are very disenchanted with this process. that representation does matter. that could be the difference between, you know, winning a state or not winning a state. it isn't to say like oh, this is terrible. it's just to say hey we got a little more time to perfect this process let's get it right. let's not be in churches two weeks before the election telling people what they must do. let's not go on radio shows and say if you don't vote for me you ain't black. let's not do those thing. part of that is around sensitizing folks with cultural competency and that's why that representation is crucial especially to get across that finish line. >> anna, we watched and listened jill biden asked americans to vote for her husband. how will that message resonate

with female voters? >> i think it will resonate with all sorts of voters. i think the idea of a president and first lady showcase empathy, humanity, who are able to comfort other americans who are able to rise from challenges and obstacles and great grief and continue put one foot in front of the other as she said about joe biden. for me also the beginning of that package which was a video narrated by cindy mccain, the widow of john mccain and hearing john mccain in his own words. it brought back just the close friendship that there was between john mccain and joe biden for so many years and how much they believed in the institutions of government and in democracy and america being a shining beacon on the hill for the world, the entire world in comparison to what we have in donald trump who i think many including myself perceive as a

threat to american values, a threat to american security and a laughingstock internationally. so i thought it was emotional. i thought it was beautiful. i thought it brought joe biden the human, the family man, the father, the husband, the son into our homes. >> angela the last word goes to you on that. >> yeah. anna, you could make me cry but i don't know what's going on. all of a sudden there's bernie. but i would say, you know, one of the most -- one of the most important things to me throughout this process has been your voice. truly. because i know you're always speaking your truth and so i know that if things are resonating with you they did very well. again i was floored by her speech and i thought she was phenomenal. you brought up a word that michele obama used yesterday

empathy and action behind empathy and to see her in a classroom. they had her styled as a teacher and to hear joe biden about the strength she brought to their family and how she even said that the way you bring a broken country together is the same way you bring a broken family together and that's her own personal testimony was incredibly powerful. so can you identi so kudos to the speech writers. >> thank you. opposition figure calls on europe to act while the president of belarus turns to the kremlin. the latest on the political crisis. that's next. plus south korea is racing to contain new outbreaks of the coronavirus as the country records its highest numbers of new cases in months. the common link tying many of these cases together. that's next. lysol laundry sanitizer kills 99.9% of bacteria.

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leaders of tuesday's suspected military coup in mali addressed the nation. they promise ad political transition with elections within a reasonable time. the military announced all borders are closed until further notice as well as a nightly curfew. on tuesday mali's president dissolved the government and resigned abruptly after the military allegedly arrested him and the country's prime minister. the military takeover has been condemned by the african union, the united states, france and others. to belarus now the leader of the opposition is calling on europe to not recognize the results of the country's recent presidential election. he said the august 9th elections were neither fair or transparenter and results were

falsified. she said president lukashenko has lost legitimacy. he vowed to remain in power despite ten days of major anti-government demonstrations. cnn's melissa bell is in paris where eu leaders are meeting to discuss the situation in belarus. how will leaders respond to these calls not to recognize lukashenko as the leader of belarus? >> reporter: in a word very carefully. eu is treading a very difficult line in how it approaches this particular crisis. three of its member states, remember, are on the border of belarus. it is also keeping a very close eye on how its reaction can be perceived, how far does it play into lukashenko's narrative of foreign interference. we saw yesterday a series of phone calls between. vladimir putin and merkel and emanuel macron in which each of

them he expressed his concern of foreign interference. that's very much what those moscow and lukashenko are looking at, what will come out of today's meeting in terms of the message and how that plays into that particular narrative. that's on the mind of european leaders. it's rare for temp u to hold such an emergency summit on a single foreign policy issue. it tells you how important it is to it. it tells you also the pressure being brought on it by some of its member states the bordering ones but more specifically the baltic states who want the each u to come down firmly in favor of the opposition. the danger if they do that is how that might be perceived. on one hand they need to be clear in their message and just a holding of the summit which is due to begin in the next couple of hours is a strong show of support but needs to be a strong show of support for the bigger russian people not the opposition. remember also rosemary that at

the forefront at the mine of the eu leaders when they meet later on will be the lessons of the ukrainian crisis and europe has moved on so much since with so many leaders like emanuel macron calling for a thawing of the dialogue with moscow. that will play into the caution we are likely to hear expressed later today. >> melissa bell, many thanks. south korea is reporting its highest daily number of new coronavirus cases since early march. its centers for disease control and prevention reports 300 new infections today. this marks the sixth consecutive day of triple digit increases. the prime minister says all in person church services will be suspended after an outbreak linked to a church in seoul. the city's acting mayor is pursuing legal action to get compensation from that church. authorities say it's tied to more than 560 cases.

the church is accused of wasting the city's resources by complicating contact tracing efforts. lebanon is set to impose a countrywide lockdown starting friday after a surge in covid-19 cases. the shutdown will remain in effect until september 7th and include tourists and sport facilities, open markets, restaurants and clubs and cnn's ben wedeman joins us live from beirut. ben what are health authorities saying there about the likely cause of this surge in covid-19 cases? >> reporter: well it's widely believed, rosemary, that one of the factors in the increase in cases is the beirut blast that happened 15 days ago and rendered more than 300,000 people homeless. now we spent a lot of time in the areas worst affected and although many people were wearing masks, many people weren't and it was a very sort of crowded area.

but what we've seen in lebanon is from about 700 cases at the beginning of may, lebanon at this point as of yesterday recorded 9,758 cases. so initially the country dealt fairly well with the outbreak but certainly over the last few months we have seen a dramatic increase in cases, although it's worth noting at this point as of yesterday, 107 people had died from coronavirus as opposed to more than 170 from the beirut blast itself. so there are many things here that are going wrong. the economy is collapsing. you have a government that's basically bankrupt. but the health system is struggling to deal with this outbreak. it's also worth noting, rosemary, that several of the hospitals that were treating covid-19 patients prior to the

blast were severely damaged, so many of their patients had to be moved to other hospitals which are at this point at capacity. >> many thanks to ben wedeman, bringing us up to date on the situation there in beirut. australia has signed a deal with the uk based drug company for access to a potential covid-19 vaccine. under the deal australians would receive the vaccine for free should trials prove successful. the company astrazeneca is developing the vaccine in partnership with oxford university. meanwhile the covid-19 outbreak in australia's state of victoria is being blamed on quarantined hotels. officials say almost 99% of second wave cases can be traced back to two mobile hotels with international arrivals are being quarantined. coming up next, packing a political punch from a safe

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welcome back, everyone. pomp and ceremony may be different during the pandemic but the democratic national convenience managed to applause, music and streamers on the night joe biden was officially given his party's nomination for president. here are the highlights. >> this year we have a lot to say. >> let's get real. >> there's a lot riding on this election. >> america face triple threat. a public health catastrophe. an economic collapse. a reckoning with racial justice and inequality. >> when this president goes overseas it's not a goodwill mission it's a blooper reel. he breaks up with our allies, write love letters to dictators. >> rather than standing up to vladimir putin he falls over a dictator who is still trying to interfere with our elections.

>> with joe biden in the white house you'll never doubt he'll stand with our friends and stand up to our adversaries. neverer to way around. >> at a time like this the oval office should be a command center. instead it's a storm center. only chaos. just one thing never changes his determination to deny responsibility and shift the blame. >> yes, so many classrooms are quiet right now. the playgrounds are still. but if you listen closely, you can hear the sparks of change in the air. >> a government that realizes the unsustainable brutality of an economy that rewards explosive inequalities of wealth for the few at the expense of long term stability for the many. >> we need someone with strong shoulders. i know that if we entrust this nation to joe, he will do for

your family what he did for ours. bring us together and make us whole. >> vice president joe biden has officially been nominated by the democratic party as our candidate for president of the united states. >> from the bottom of my heart thank you all. it means the world to me and my family. and i'll see you on thursday. thank you, thank you, thank you. >> and thank you. i'm rosemary church. "early start" is up next. you're watching cnn. do have yourself a great day. we support memorable moments, concentration - in hectic times .

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