hello everybody. i'm john king in washington. thank you for sharing another busy news day with us. joe biden officially is the democratic nominee. real people getting a stark turn at the party's unconventional convention. [ applause ] >> all right! >> that -- a coronation moment. whenever you're in politics, a tribute to resilience. the first campaigns fizzled, fast. now he leads his party in a most consequential moment.

tonight the scene "a more perfect yoon union." the program is packed. senator kamala harris accepts the vice president nomination and former president barack obama, and speaking. calm, caring, steady and ready. the's consistent convention portrayals for former vice president biden. trt president trump on the other hand described as none of those things and worse at a time the country is anxious and screaming for leadership. >> with joe as president, these classrooms will ring out with laughter and possibility once again. 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.

>> jill biden, quite notable. empty classroom as american families grapple with the back-to-school dilemma. our new poll underscores the collision of the coronavirus and the campaign. look at the stuping numbers. 69% know someone infected. 67% embarrassed how the united states responded to this virus. 55% of you think the worst is yet to come. today, though, the medical numbers tell us the summer surge may finally, finally, be slowing. the united states added 44,000 new infections tuesday. that's down from this time last week. the seven-day average still way too high, but now below the 50,000 threshold. the scale of american deaths, though, sadly, not slowing. not yet, anyway. 1,324 deaths recorded on tuesday. take a closer look at some trends and go through the map. first look at the 50 states. familiar with these if you watch. 12 states trending up.

red and orange. reporting more cases than a week ago. 12 states trending up including california. also up in new england a bit, too. across the midwest. 12 states trending up. 18 states holding steady. 20 states reporting fewer cases now than a week ago. that includes a big stretch here. remember when we saw the summer surge? right across here when it started. those states in better shape today than they were, say, two weeks or a month ago. the death trends by math, again, a lot of pain and suffering still on this map. 15 states trending up including big texas and big california. among the states reporting more deaths now than a week ago. you see that up here in new england in the northeast as well. 18 states holding steady. the yellow or beige. 17 states reporting fewer deaths right now than a week ago. hope the map improves in the days ahead. the big question about the summer surge. here's the peak. where we are now. coming out of the weekend, below 40,000. yesterday back up to 44,091. the question, looking at the

map. are we coming down? is the line going to keep dropping or at a plateau like this? the challenge for the days and week or so ahead. does the red line keep coming down or flatten here? see how that goes. the death trend -- this one coming out of the weekend, frustrating doing this on a daily basis why you can't take one or two days. coming out of the weekend perhaps come down as well. a spike yesterday to more than 1,300,000 americans dieing. hoping it changes in the days ahead. stunning when you think about the seven months of this pandemic. back in april, low amount knew somebody. now two-thirds of america, 67% of americans personally know at least one person who had or has the coronavirus. that's a big number. not a good number for the president as we get closer to the election. at least eight states now have colleges open with covid cases. eight states at least.

eight. about 800 cases reported so far. you see these states opening. this is, had a lot of conversations about k-12. colleges are back or heading back. starting to see the cases. indiana. one place with a spike in cases, up here in south bend. the university of notre dame. the overall indiana picture. had been in a static case, trending up a bit now in part because of the college cases. president of university of notre dame says we'll deal with it best we can. >> the spike in cases is very serious, and we must take serious steps to address it. the objective of these temperature error restrictions, contain the spread of the virus to get to in-person instruction. y if they're not successful we will have to send students home as we did last spring. >> joining us now, dr. mark fox, deputy health officer for st. joseph county, indiana, advising notre dame at this moment. doctor, thanks for being with us.

new numbers out from the united nations. 222 cases now on the campus. just heard from the president of the united states who wanted to send students home and advisers including you convinced him, let's give it a chance. let's keep everybody put. put in short-term safety measures and maybe we can manage this. are you confident you can pull that off? >> there are a number of features of the cases that have been identified in the notre dame community that give me some hope in our ability to control the transmission of the virus. several features, the vast majority of cases thus far have been tied to a couple of large off-campus gatherings. certainly the first wave of infections had predominantly affected students living off-camp off-campus. not to disregard those students, but it speaks to the fact that the mitigation strategies implemented on campus have seemed to have been effective. so there -- to this point,

little evidence of transmission from on-campus activities in the classrooms, in the dorms. certainly we -- in the dorms, an element we have to keep an eye on. >> keep an eye on. reading the local reporting where it says that neither you nor the university expected this many infections this soon. what did you miss? >> john, the university had been really proactive in that they, i believe, were one of the first universities to advocate forp pripr pripr prima triculation testing. weren't allowed on campus until medically cleared. had they been admitted to the dorms and classrooms the number would look frankly even worse. probably the thing, a couple

things may have been missed is human nature gathering with friends you haven't sooner in six months because the university closed prematurely in the spring. and while a lot of the gatherings were outside, i think they were large groups, and probably not as attentive to masking or physical distancing guidelines. the other is, it's clearly put stress on both the campus testing capability, and the timeliness of university contact tracing procedures. the university has committed a lot of resources to shore those up and part of why so many cases have been identified in the last few days is that they have, you know, effectively, more than tripled, the number of cases being done on campus each day. >> parents are watching around the country. either, maybe just dropped off their children at dredge, maybe going to do so in the days and weeks ahead. so what is the trigger now? the university president based on advice from you and other experts said, okay. not sending everybody home. give it a chance, try to manage

it. what's the threshold or trigger where you would say, you know what, mr. president, it's not working. we need to send them home. positivity rate? specific number, percentage of cases? >> positivity rate is kind of a fickle metric depending on your testing strategy. we've talked with the university about what the kind of next layer of testing should be and really launching a campus-wide surveillance strategy for testing. i think one of the biggest indicators is the vast majority of case whose have turned positive thus far were already on the list as close contacts of people who had previously been diagnosed as covid positive. so to some extent, that transition from close contact to positive is not unexpected. when we begin to see a vast majority of new cases coming from people that weren't on anyone's radar as close contacts, certainly pointing to more widespread community transmission, that would be a

very worrisome indicator, and that might prompt the university leaders to choose a different course of action. >> doctor, appreciate your expertise and insights today especially at this very busy time in the notre dame community. we'll check back. appreciate your time today. joining me, cnn medical commentator, health commissioner, doctor, good to see you. i want a second opinion. listening there to this conversation. parents all around the country are having this conversation. many about k through 12, many also university, higher education setting. from what you heard from dr. fox, is notre dame making the right call? keep the students on campus? something that can be managed? where is your trigger to say, this is a failed experiment? >> yeah. this is really difficult, and very complex, because there are so many different factors here. you have the factor, what is the level of community transmission in that, around that institution? but you also have to take into account people are coming from

all over the country. and that these students are not just going to be able to stay in their bubble. maybe the students who are living in the dorms are able to keep to a bubble in some way but also associated with those living off-campus and with those living off-campus, going to other events and potentially getting infected and infecting other people in the community as well. so i think, i don't have an answer for this particular instance, except to say every institution needs to think about these situations. because it's not, "if," it is "when" there is an outbreak. needs to be very good testing and testing available in the event there are outbreaks. everyone needs to stay nimble and quickly pivot when needed. >> to that point, inconsistency when it comes to testing. put up a map of testing trends. green is good. states are testing more and 16 of them testing more this week

than last. 20 holding steady. 14 states fewer tests contacted now as opposed to a week ago. just heard dr. fox talk how important it is on campus. the inconsistency, some places doing great. ship places not. some places different week to week. is that part of the problem here? >> absolutely. we need two types of testing. one for individuals who have symptoms or have exposure. absolutely need testing and need it to be fast. imagine if the students, if somebody has a fever, and the test is taking five, seven days to come back. how do you do contact tracing at that point? also surveillance and screening testing as well. ideally, two times a week for all of those students and staff and teachers and professors who are coming on the campus. of course, we know we are nowhere able to do that. not only in indiana, really, across the country. >> a vaccine, interim waiting for a vaccine, good, reliable therapeutics would help. "new york times" reporting plasma they're they put on hold.

read from the article. dr. h. clifford layne, deputy director. three of us, dr. fauci and dr. collins, aligned on importance of robust data it through ramdom trials and a pandemic doesn't change it. recommending slow down. don't give emergency use to this plasma treatment. how significant is that? >> this plasma treatment is one that has been hyped up a lot, and in theory makes sense. the idea somebody who recovered, have antibodies, can give it to somebody else and the antibodies could fight it. the problem is that we have to prove this. we have to do these randomize controlled trials to see, compared to placebo, is it effective? to understand more, too, a certain level of antibodies for the plasma to be effective? is it effective if you take it early on in illness or when you're very sick? we need to be able to get those answers. part of the problem is that everybody has been rushing to get this treatment and we haven't been able to enroll

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speeches. democrats are trying to make the case for biden and against the case of four more years of trump through words and images of people most don't know. >> in the short time i spent with joe biden i could tell he really saw me, that he actually cared that my life meant something to him. >> hello from paradise. northern mariana islands. may be far away but we're american citizens and don't get to vote for president. please, don't waste yours. >> we often say, [ speaking in foreign language ] "we are all represented e related ". >> with an intelligent and impassioned president. put on his bill that guarantees us all the health care we deserve. >> jonathan martin, national political correspondent for the "new york times," and a former member of the obama administration. none knew going in what it would be like. the most unconventional of conventions. i loved the roll call.

i miss traveling in the pandemic and in a campaign year. love the roll call. took us to different territories. people who don't know who joe biden met in his life get a very important role here. >> yes. they really are. i think you know, if they show, don't tell opportunity for democrats, trying to remind us, you know, as i say, the america that we love is still here. all of these great people, weird people, colorful people, people you don't really get a chance to see on television are a part of this party, they're passionate about change. it's not just an indictment of president trump in a direct sense. it's just showing people what it's like when you embrace everybody, let the diversity of the country sing for itself, and it was beautiful. look, i was worried. i thought this could be a big you know, train crash, but you just got more and more into it as the night went on and i think they made that point very well. >> at the halfway mark now. get to the closing business, including the speech from the

vice presidential nominee senator kamala harris. jonathan, listen here. this is what we expect some of tonight, part of it she has to introduce herself to people who didn't follow the democratic primaries, maybe. tell her personal story, but also help prosecute the case, something when picked made quite clear she's happy to do. >> the case against donald trump and mike pence is open and shut. this election isn't just about defeating donald trump or mike pence. it's about building this country back better. we need more than a victory on november 3rd. we need a mandate that proves that the past few years do not represent who we are, or who we aspire to be. >> said it 1,000 times. people pick presidents, not vice-presidents. but this is a very important moment for her, not just because of her future in the democratic party, but also because of turnout, enthusiasm, excitement, in the campaign ahead.

>> yeah, john. look, i think biden wants to introduce her tonight. this is going to be -- one of two opportunities for her to really be in the spotlight. the other being the debate this fall. besides that, you know, more about trump this election, but this is an opportunity, apolitical viewers out there, folks likely interested in campaigns and elections, to see joe biden's running mate, hear her story, and to hear her make the case against president trump. the good news for democrats, john, is that kamala harris, in my experience, covering her, much better when on script than off script. she can be very effective when she is prepped, going into a hearing, for example. going into a speech like this. a little more unsteady when on her feet. for democrats, this is probably the best opportunity that they have for kamala harris tonight, which she'll go in with days and days of prep knowing her speech and being able to stand and

deliver. >> all the things different about the convention, convention turn to stars forecloses closer. michelle obama closer on day one and president obama the closer tonight. i was when the world met the illinois state senator and u.s. state candidate barack obama. history, barack obama at conventions. >> there is not a liberal america and a conservative america. there is the united states of america! [ cheers and applause ] >> the change we need doesn't come from washington. the change comes to washington. >> the path we offer may be harder, but it leads to a better place, and i'm asking you to choose that future! >> america is already great. [ cheers and applause ] america is already strong. [ cheers and applause ] and i promise you, our strength, our greatness, does not depend on donald trump. >> what does joe biden need most

from his former boss tonight? >> i think three things. he needs somebody to reassure this party that we can win. i think he needs somebody to remind the party what it means when we're winning, when we're together. also, just needs to continue the process of re-birthing hope. i just think that for a lot of people, when you are dealing with this onlawsuit of racial injustice on your cell phone, can't send your kids to school, your job's threatened. sometimes the president does sfuf th stuff that drives you crazy. get smaller, and smaller into a little, tiny box. president obama uniquely gets it showing us american history, the future and the american people in a way through his words that connects us back to our best selves. i think he can set biden up for an alley-oop tonight just by reinvigorating the obama coalition and obama-biden spirit. >> the biden coalition, jonat n jonathan, if you watched the

convention, includes a lot of republicans. a fair amount of republicans, causing a little -- remarkable unity in the democratic party now but grumbling from progressives. why are we seeing john kasich and colin powell? a john mccain video. chuck hagel in a video. former republican governors, members of congress speaking here. alexandria ocasio-cortez put bernie sanders name into nomination, spoke just a little over a minute and social media, uh-huh! didn't say nice things about joe biden. she went on instagram later to say essentially, calm down, everybody. listen -- >> it's possible for us to make sure that we elect, that we elect joe biden. it's really important, and guess what? it's also really important that the moment joe biden is elected we continue our fight for guaranteed health care. we continue our fight for living wages, and tuition to public colleges. we can fight for all of these

things, hold our disagreements. >> i think the back half will be more democrat. maybe this will fade into the week. you can even see there. trying to tell everybody, calm down. rime nor joe biden, but not a hand stand i'm nor joe biden. donald trump is the bigger enemy. get him out of there and then pick up our conversations with joe biden. rate the tension for me. >> john, a great singular unifying force in democratic politics right now. his name is donald trump, and if and when he is defeated, that cohesive force is going to be gone, and democrats are not going to be as united as they are today, because they share a common overwhelming enemy. look, two fast points. first of all, this is joe biden's convention. this is not the left wing of the party's convention. it's not even the democratic convention. joe biden is the party standard b bearer. he decides who is going to speak. reflects who he is. chuck hagel.

sidney mccain, reflects politics of joe biden. second of all, john, we are seeing the first seeds of what the democrats are going to deal with. look, joe biden does not reflect a lot of their younger voters, who are much more progressive. no interest in sort of forging bipartisan consensus and returning the senate to its glory days from yesteryear. they want big, accomplishments done immediately and don't care how they're done, and who votes for them. they want them enacted. i think that's the class we're going to see come january, if democrats control the house and the white house, john. >> and it is. continue the conversation. put up a little of the story, jonathan martin, in the newspaper today, weigh in, both of you. nominating joe biden, delivering to the vice president a prize pursued intermittently before alexandria ocasio-cortez was

born. met him out in 33 years later, has the prize fought for. is he too centrist? has his time passed? if nothing else, i don't care what your politics are at home. a remarkable tribute to his resilience. >> listen, he's wanted this for a long time. worked for it a long time. willing to be the vice president when he wanted to be the president. remember, obama defeated him and he served ably as vice president. you know what? sometimes your time comes later than you thought. but he has shoulders that are broad enough and big enough now to be a bridge to bringing a lot of people back together. we've got a fight on the shoulders, a fight. but that's what politics really is. a governing coalition, can we talk about governing? a governing coalition, which means enough votes to pass something, has all kind of people in it. so you are seeing all kinds of people in the biden-harris

coalition. you need it to govern. messy, about trying to get things done on a daily basis as opposed to the usual kind of food fight we're involved in right now. i do think you've got to salute this guy. reagan also got there late. and people remembered him quite fondly. biden gets there even later than reagan but sure is needed now. >> policy fights instead of tweet storms. we'll see. up to the voters, i guess. thank you both. appreciate your insights on this bitty day. watch coverage tonight at the democratic national convention. unconvention convention means real people get at turn. the country has a new people. the calamari comeback. >> available in all 50 states. the calamari comeback state of rhode island casts one vote for bernie sanders and 34 votes for the next president, joe biden. e so you only pay for what you need? i should get a quote.

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president trump today joining the cancel culture, he and a lot of fellow republicans often condemn. rallying the base more important to the president than consistency. this flip by tweet is risky. call are for a boycott of a big american company headquartered in the state critical to his re-election. goodyear makes its home in ohio and the president wants you to

not buy their tires. workers are allowed to wear a black lives matter shirt or a hat or a gay pride slehirt or h but not allowed to wear make america great hats or clothing. the controversy spread across the internet at rabid speed tuesday. that image not created or distributed by corporate headquarters and incest not part of a diversity training class and did not say where the image came from and want employees to stay away from all forms of political expression, no mega hats, also no biden hats. goodyear response came 1 hour, 13 minutes after the tweet. get better tires for far less. borrowing boycott tactics from democrats. straight to the white house and cnn's kaitlan collins. kaitlan, the president and allies call it cancel culture. all-in today because he feels offended. >> reporter: yes.

the president always been at contradiction on this, someone radio rails against cancel culture. did it on mount rushmore, july 3rd. this is different. an american company headquartered in a swing state he needs to win come november. it's something that makes people wonder, because, of course, not only is the president going after this company for what happened at this training session in kansas, this visual that went viral where the president is now saying they're claiming they are banning maga hats, but the company, putting out a statement saying they're not against these statements. don't want people making political statements while at work, and what they intended to do with that statement. though they said it did not come from goodyear corporation. but the president doesn't seem to care about the details here. instead encouraging people not to buy these tires, going off on them despite how he and his supporters have gone off on

cancel culture in the last several years, especially during this election year. something the president talked about and intends to make a focus a part of his election pitch to voters. also there's even more irony here, john, because goodyear tires are the ones that get the president to and from the places he goes to. they are on the -- on the exclusive tire on the presidential limo several years. see them there. they're bullet-proof. do anything to those tires and meant to keep the president safer and the tires you see on cars of secret service vehicles. not just an american president going after this american company after someone who raided against cancel culture, uses these tires himself, yet telling his own supporters not to buy them. >> keep an eye on the driveway there. tell me if you see any jacks and tires changed between the white house and the eeob in the hours ahead. kaitlan collins live from the white house. stay on top of this one. appreciate it very much. the president today, this is not a laughing matter, praising

another extremist. laura loomer. a far-right activist banned from social media platforms because she spews hateful content. she's now won a republican primary. the president congratulated her on twitter writing, great going, laura. you have a great chance against a pelosi puppet. the president referring to congresswoman lois frankel, won her primary 86% of the vote in a very democratic district. the president of the united states praising a woman now a congressional candidate in his republican party who says she is a proud islamophobe. a proud islamophobe is a winner to the president of the united states. up next, boston's back-to-school plan very much up in the air. the city's mayor joins us, next. just over a year ago, i was drowning in credit card debt. sofi helped me pay off twenty-three thousand dollars of credit card debt. they helped me consolidate all of that into one low monthly payment.

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parents in boston still don't know the city's back-to-school plan. first day of classes about a month away. the mayor says he wants to hold off as long as possible and study the science before settling the back-to-class remote learning or hybrid question. boston mayor marty walsh is with us now. mr. mayor you know i'm a proud product of the boft aren public schools. every question i ask literally i'm asking for a friend, you might say, back home. i get your point. get your point. wait until the last, possible second. study the science. i want to get kids back in school so i'm going to wait, wait, wait. as you know, those with different views. a member of city council saying every day the district delays the decision we lose opportunity to prepare students for success and our community loses confidence this cool year will be safe and successful. your response to that is what?

>> i'm not going to respond to that comment but we postponed opening of school until september 21st right now in the city. we know there are only two viable options on the table for boston. all remote learning or hybrid. my hope, to have a hybrid model. looking at data and positive testing here in the city and last week at 2.6 positive rate as far as testing, really low. a decision will be made fairly soon. looking at how do we best prepare our kids for the future here in boston? by september 21st our kids six months out of a building. concerned about achievement gap, and black and latino achievement gap continuing to grow. no resources at home other families have, quite honestly to have alternative education in households. we're taking this very seriously. i want to make sure if our kids come back into a building it's

going to be safe. at the same time, our teachers coming to a safe building that's safe for them. at the same time, whether we start remote or hybrid we're still working on the educational plan right now. in our district, working with teachers and working what the remote would look like and what hybrid would look like. we're not losing time as far as educational opportunity. i don't quite understand that statement by the counselor. we do all the work, same time. >> part of the question, if a parents needs to make unique childcare arrangement, hybrid, there a couple days, home a couple days. i get both points. >> a parent can opt out from the very beginning. any -- if we did hybrid, able to do hybrid, a parent can opt out of that. they don't have to send their children to school. something really important. a lot of parents, parents are all over the place and concerned. if i were a parent i'd be in the same boat. want to see my kids in the classroom and concerned what the safety is, and really have to be

explained clearly how safe schools are. we're working 0en that now in the city to be able to explain to parents and show parents and teachers and staff how safe our schools will be. >> there are so many layers to this. every time i walk to a mayor, school administrator or teacher, i say thank you. not my job to know whether you'll get it right or wrong. it's incredibly complicated, as a parent myself. 42.5% hispanic. 33% black, 14% white, 72% some economic disadvantage in the family. 45%, first language not english. students with disabilities. part of your contingency planning a lot get vital food. food and nutrition in the school. talk to me about, okay, a hybrid. some days getting it in class. other days at home. how do you make sure those wheels turn separate from the education piece of this. >> quite honestly had to shut down the districts in march set

up food sites around the city of boston. we had 62 food sites set up by the city and dozens of others set up in the private sector. about 2 million meals. many of those are to our boston public school kids. the issue, when you say 72% of the kids in our district are eligible for pre and reduced lunch, not all families took advantage of the system we set up, and we continually had set up. that's a concern of ours. getting kids into the school skews. we're making sure that equity is at the center of every single decision we make. it's really important that we do that. so if we decide to do hybrid what we actually, honestly, able to get more food to the home. kids come to school monday, tuesday, thursday, friday. children come in monday, tuesday, leave on tuesday with meals for rest of the week and same for the kids that come in end of the week. all of this has to be brought into account here as we move forward here. >> mr. mayor, as always,

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a look at the big global coronavirus headlines including advice from the pope.

>> reporter: i'm delia gallagher in rome. the pope hopes an eventual vaccine for covid-19 won't just be for the rich. speaking from the vatican wednesday morn saying the pandemic exposed a plight of the poor and great inequality in the world. it require as response, the pope said, not just in the form of a cure for the virus but also a greater attention and protection for the weakest and poorest in society. >> reporter: i'm's in new delhi, india reported over 2.76 million kwernled cases of covid-19. the death toll stands at almost 52,900. india remains the third most affected country after the us and brazil. a private lab in india tested over 235,000 samples between june 2nd and august 18 showed that over 21% of the samples tested were positive for

covid-19 antibodies. these tests were contacted based on corporations, individuals and residential areas. >> reporter: i'm paula an chanc in seoul. hitting another five-month high here. more than 600 cases confirmed related to just one church here in seoul. the cdc saying because of that one cluster contact tracing at well over 100 different places. work places, religious and medical facilities even schools. all in-person church services banned in the greater seoul area. only online services permitted. up next for us, a very, very convention week debut. ♪ come on in, we're open. ♪ all we do is hand you the bag. simple. done.

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we close today with good news in these times we could all use a reason to smile in addition to the cnn family, lillian james, or lj, true to political genes, ah, beautiful. making her debut. born tuesday afternoon. mom ashley producer on this show and doing great. so a dad andy. up in the air, we're told, sources say, boom, their dog. not quite sure how boom feels about this arrival. she's an eggplant baby. i know what that means because two of me three are red pepper babies.

congrats to ashley and andy, well, i could look at that all day. lj, welcome. you're beautiful. thanks for joining us. see you tomorrow and join us tonight at the cnn democratic convention. don't go anywhere. anderson cooper takes over right now. have a good day. i'm anderson cooper, welcoming viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. the u.s. health organization aweren't urgent message for young people as the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread, you are not invincible and your life depends on the decision us make right now, that as we see new spikes in cases at universities forcing administrators to change course days after welcoming students on campus. notre dame suspending in-person classes two weeks while michigan state switching to remote learning for all graduate students and other communities testing positive. the nation's top infection disease expert offering guidelines how the schools can

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