♪ . hello, and welcome to you, our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. we are live at cnn center, i'm kim brunhuber, thank you for joining us. it's a major event in american politics, a key moment of the 2020 presidential cases and the biggest day of joe biden's half century of public service, he

has accepted the democratic nomination for president. he capped off a political convention that looked like none before it. it was reinvented because of the deadly global pandemic that is now a major election issue. in his haccept is answe-- accep speech talked on many topics. >> this is our moment to make hope and history rhyme. with passion, and purpose. let us begin, you and i, together. one nation, under god, united in our love for america and each other. for love is more powerful than hate. hope is more powerful than fear. and light is more powerful than dark. this is our moment, this is our mission. history may be able to say, that the end of this chapter of american darkness began here

tonight. as love and hope and light join in the battle for the souls of the nation. and this is about a battle we will win and we will do it together. >> biden and his wife jill and along with kamala harris, walked outside the chase center for a post speech fireworks show, and waved to the cars parked outside. now, earlier, several of biden's democratic rivals spoke on his behalf and ripped in to president trump. joe biden is right. this is a contest for the soul of the nation. and to me, that contest is, not between good americans and evil americans. it's the struggle to call out what is good in every american. >> last week, donald trump said and i quote, our economy is doing good. while 40 million americans are at rick of losing their homes. 30 million are not getting

enough to eat and 5.4 million people have lost their health care because of this crisis. he has failed us. >> would you rehire or work for someone who ran your business in to the ground? and who always does what is best for him or her? even when it hurts the company. and who's reckless decisions put you in danger and spends more time tweeting than working. if the answer is no, why the hell would we ever rehire donald trump for another four years? >> cmn's senior political can list joins me from washington, d.c., thanks for doing this. the republicans unintentionally lowered the bar for joe biden. did he meet expectations? >> i certainly think so. i think that, if you look back at the beginning of of the week, the democratic convention, did not get off to a big boom until

we got the speech from michelle obama, however, i think joe biden as we are heading in to thursday night, there was a lot of pressure on joe biden. could he deliver a speech that could instill confidence in the american people, who might have doubts, specifically about his age, kim, and i think he did it. he did it effectively on thursday evening. >> you have been covering the convention all week. it was a unique challenge for them to generate enthusiasm without the usual trappings. did the democrats achieve their goals this week, energize the base and maybe convince a few undecided if there are any out there? >> i certainly think that we cannot compare them from past conventions because there was an unbelievable amount of electricity that was generated during those events. having covered so many of them. but i do think that democrats were successful in trying to get their message out in reestablishing their candidate as their flag bearer heading in

to november. a lot of people know about joe biden, but they don't know about joe biden. that's the big mist behind him. people think they know everything about him. they do or can learn something new every day about him, and certainly about his character. so, i think that the democrats were successful in doing that. and i think that republicans heading in to this week, certainly will have learned some lessons from the democrats about what didn't work and what will work. but i think kim, we know that donald trump is certainly going to be a showman of his own and it will be a convention as we head in to the next one like none other, i believe. >> yeah, i wanted to ask you specifically about that. the republicans have the advantage of seeing how all of this unfolded and are able to react and tweak both their medium and the message. so, do you think there's specific things that they will take to their convention or is, you know, donald trump just such a wild card that it will be its completely own thing with no

relevance to what happened this week. >> so i think it will be a bit of both. if it makes that. that his adviser and they are all smart individuals that they are crafting a convention that is, you know, as conventional as possible. a convention that is as conventional as possible. understanding there candidate is not a conventional person. right? he is somebody who marches to the beat of his own drum. so i think you are going to see elements of successful things that we saw this past week from democrats. i think you are going to start hearing voices from the republicans, pushing back against issues such as the cancel culture, and what have you. so, i think you will have those kinds of voices. at the same time, i think you will see donald trump is going to have a lot of surprises that he is just going to pull out of his sleeve, i believe, each night. so, i do think he is going to relish in the opportunity, he loves the spotlight and he will have it for a full week. >> we will see whether that will

happen, thank you so much, mark preston, appreciate your insight. >> all right. take care. >> now, president trump was quick to lash out at joe biden as he accepted the democratic presidential nomination. and mr. trump tweeted, in 47 years, joe did none of the things which he now speaks. he will never change just words. meanwhile, sources say the president is working in overdrive to produce an extravagent national convention. hours before biden spoke, the president delivered a scathing speech outside of biden's hometown of scranton, pennsylvania, he accused biden of abandoning the state and painting a dark picture of what will happen if biden is elected. >> if you want a vision of your life under biden presidency, think of the smoulderring ruins in minneapolis.

the violent anarchy of portland and imagine the mayhem coming to your town and every single town in america. >> joining me now, john phillips is a radio talk show host at kabc, and political columnist for the orange county register. joining me also is carolyn heldman, democratic strategic. she joins me from l.a. so, thank you very much both for being here. first, super quick take on joe biden's speech. billed by some, the speech that he has been waiting 50 years to give, how did he do? >> i would think that joe biden did exactly what he needed to do. he delivered a solid speech. he had a quiet grace, i would not say, he is a great orater like president obama or reagan. but the expectations for this speech were so low. right? he just had to come in and show empathy and show that he is a

normal politician and he did exactly that. i think the gop really shares a burden here in him doing so well in that they lowered expectations by promoting a false narrative that he is somehow not able to deliver or has a cognitive deficit. he showed that he is a fine politician politician, he showed up and delivered the speech of and i think there was a collective sigh because nothing, there was no faux pas, he delivered what he needed to do. >> sigh of relief, presumably. he was not sleepy. >> so somebody woke him up, and they should have woke him up yesterday. we have major american cities that are currently in unrest. we have people being dragged out of cars in portland and beaten senselessly. couples. and we have unrest in seattle

where parts are ungovernable. we have violence in new york, chicago, and major american cities and there was zero mention of any of this. >> yeah -- this is all under donald trump's presidency, it should be pointed on out. i'm not sure that joe biden can be pinned with that. go ahead. >> joe biden is trying to be the president of the united states, and he literally did not mention any of it. it was a speech filled with democratic party platitudes and if you want to know his agenda for america, i'm clueless to that. i guess we have to wait until next week for that message. >> so the aim here for the convention presumably was three fold, introduce the nominees to the country can. unify the wing of the party and energize the party in the run up to the election. did they accomplish any or all of these? >> well, i think if you look at polling, poll after poll shows that democrats are energized in

in election, because they want trump gone. they want him gone because of the sort of you know made up stories of he just shared, good violence, and when violence is down. a republican actually clarified that today. so, this idea of fear, and racism that donald trump has been promoting for the past 3-1/2 years, that's the playbook of the republican party. so all the democrats needed to do at this convention is show they are normal. because people, decent people are exhausted from the presidency that is self agrandizing and self enriching, andthe largest number of indictments in any constituesit president. 25% of the covid cases of the world, and we are a failure. trump cannot run on the economy. he cannot run on the anti-science covid response. he cannot run on foreign

affairs. what is he running on? the things coming out of john's mouth. made up ideas that we are suddenly in a state of crisis in american cities when in fact, violent crime is down. >> it should be pointed out, murders in major cities are up. john, what do you have to say? >> the violence is down, if you talk about the statistics or video that is being shown on the news at night. juan williams is a republican. if you are talking about enthusiasm. poll after poll shows that republicans would walk across glass to vote for donald trump. and for whatever reason, i am willing to acknowledge that it's a shame that covid-19 has been politicalized, democrats are more fearful of covid-19, than republicans. if you are trying to speak turn out, you need to give them a reason to go out besides orange man bad. this was the convention of orange man bad. they did not give their voters a reason to be excited to go to the polls and pull the lever for joe biden.

>> all right, so, in the shopping list of the aims for the dnc, i left out sway undecides, or convince moderates. is that even possible? do you think by having kasich or cindy mccain supporting biden in some way, did that help? start with john. >> when john says republicans will walk across glass for this man. we have never seen a number of people from the opposing political party appear in a national convention the way we saw in the last four days. more republicans showing up and saying they will not vote for donald trump. did the democrats do a good job speaking to republicans and independents? i think they did. i think they did because i'm in the left wing, and how much did we hear about god and faith? that is not appealing to me, that is appealing to republicans and independents who are exhausted from the trump presidency. >> actually, let me cut in here, i want to, with the time left, i want to make sure that we talk

about the republican convention coming up. i will start with john on this. shifting to that here, president trump has criticized the democrats, you know, the tape segments, saying they lacked energy. he said the rnc will be more live. if there's one thing that donald trump knows it's how to make compelling television. what does a successful convention look like? what can we kbeexpect? he will juxtapose his agenda to those of the democrats. what results in democratic rule. it's people being shot in the streets. dragged out of their cars, beaten, mayors that are incapable of controlling those cities. cities that are functionally bankrupt. and democrats who at their convention didn't even mention any of this going on in the country. that is their vision. joe biden would be controlled by

these people, these people would be the ones making decisions. he tries to portray himself had as moderate, uncle joe. but he would not be the guy who would be pulling the levers of power. it would be the radicals running the cities and the radicals that are supporting them. >> all right, i appreciate both of your takes, john phillips and carolyn heldman, both in california. thank you very much for joining me, appreciate it. >> thank you. >> well, that's it, the democratic convention is done. now, it's the republicans turn. so, tune in for our coverage of the republican national convention starting on monday night. russian opposition leader, is now in the middle of a fight between his family and colleagues on one side, and russian doctors on the other. his spokeswoman said he is in a coma after a suspected poisoning andthe intensive care chief is blocking had h ining him from gr

treatment from germany, what she calls a threat to his life. a flight had to make an emergency landing. >> this is how the kremlin's most prominent critic was struck down. the painful groans. they evacuated him from the commercial flight. forced to make an emergency landing when he was taken ill. a fellow passenger recorded him unconscious on the tarmac outside. supporters say they believe he was poisoned having drank tea before the flight. the doctors in the hospital where he is in intensive care say they cannot jet cyet confirt would be a disturbing diagnosis. >> there's multiple diagnosises that we are trying to eliminate

or confirm. naturally, poisoning is one of the possible reasons for the deterioration of his condition. >> here is another reason. he gets ordinary people out to protest. the kremlin said they are aware that he is in serious condition and wish him a speedy recovery. but his unrelenting campaign to highlight corruption and his broadcasts on social media have proved popular here and at times a real problem for the kremlin had. it would not be the first time that he has been attacked. in march, in april, 2017, he was pelted with green dye by unknown people, resulting in a serious chemical burn, and damaged vision in one eye. of course, it does not stop him. to work against the reign of putin the threat of violence is

the price you have to pay. >> have you accepted that you could be killed for this? >> translator: anyone who is engaged in opposition activities in russia can be arrested or killed. this thought gives me no pleasure or joy, i assure you. it's a simple choice, you can be silent or you can speak. taking in to account all the risks, i continue my work. >> reporter: in russia, speaking is not the easy path. matthew chance cnn moscow. >> coming up on cnn newsroom. as joe biden promises to reunite a divided america, he is also making a cases to conquer one of its biggest obstacles. the coronavirus pandemic. plus, yet another former member of trump'ses inner circle is facing federal charges. coming up, what the president has to say. stay with us. and it continuously eliminates odors in the air and on soft surfaces.

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one of joe bind's key messages is that, he is the right choice to fight the coronavirus in the u.s. it's killed more than 174,000 people in the country so far. biden said that the trump administration's response has led the u.s. in an exceptionally

fatal direction. >> the tragedy of where we are today, is it didn't have to be this bad. just look around. it's not this bad in canada, or europe, or japan. or almost anywhere else in the world. and the president keeps tells us the virus will disappear. he is waiting for a miracle. i have news for him. no miracle is coming. now, as college students across the united states return to campus, many are ready to party and play sports and get back to normal life. but some are bringing the virus with them. we explain. >> 15 student athletes now covid positive at ole miss, two new clusters identified at north carolina state sorority houses, five new collegiate outbreaks in

kansas. greek life in the spotlight. >> there needs to be a significant curtailment of the social activities they are not getting it quite honestly. >> outbreaks in colleges and universities in 17 states. >> they not only have to do testing, what we talk to every university about is being able to do surge testing. >> and mandating flu vaccines for students from kindergarten and college level. >> covid-19 vaccine, the warp speed chief estimates one will be widely available, spring or summer. and we may be back to normal, end of 2021. after claiming the first viable vaccine in the world, russia is just now planning phase 3 clinical trials. but details of their vaccine still a mystery. >> they don't hold themselves to any sort of standard and i worry

deeply about that. >> the rate of new cases nationwide is falling for now. but there's spikes in maine and wyoming and in 18 states the average daily death toll is climbing. nationally. >> deaths are the lagging indicator and deaths are now flat. they are not yet decreasing. >> we are told they will, but only if we are smart. and the population seeps to have divided itself in to two groups. there's the safe group, and then there's the other group that are more care free, rather tha alle tiktok star who owns this pad. they just cut the utilities. >> i'm a rat. what can i say. >> here in los angeles, schools started again on thursday had.

but online only. hundreds of thousands of kids. 10s of thousands of teachers. this is a massive undertaking but, the children will be missing. what my kids tell me they are missing most. contact with other kids. but according to the governor, we cannot open schools in los angeles, yet because there's still too many cases. >> nick watt, cnn, los angeles. >>. >> dr. raj kelsey is a board certified emergency physician, he is joining me from naperville, illinois, thank you for taking the time to join us tonight. i will start with you from the view of the er on the front lines. how are things looking right now in the hospitals you work at? >> i work in small and big hospitals. i finished a 10-hour shift and work is busy. we are busy with the stuff that we always see.

traumas, psych patients that are coming in in the droves these days unfortunately. people are having a hard time dealing with things like coping. and everything from heart malodies and in particular, covid, in the hispanic population in particular in my community. >> the number of cases in skp t -- and the positivity rates are on the decline and the infections in young people and in schools the cases are rising. i want to ask you about a study in a journal of pediatrics, that children have a significant higher level of virus in their airways than adults in icu for covid-19 treatment. in the words of one of the authors, they may be as vulnerable but not as visible as the adults. what is tyour thought sn though

>> it seems that based on the science and studies that have been done on pediatrics. this is out of harvard and mass general hospital. a well renowned institution. kids have less immunoreceptors to the virus, here's what it means. kids, children, under 18 are less likely to take the virus and turn it in to covid-19 the syndrome. which is the cytokine storm, the swelling of the lungs the clots and all of the terrible things you are hearing about. however, because of that, they are able to pro create and increase the amount of virus in their body, and when they breathe out, when they cough, when they touch other human being, they are just as likely to transmit the virus as an adult. so, the scariest thing is the little hadst people in our worle the most dangerous to us adults. >> well, well, that's certainly

worrying when we are talking about having so many kids go to school. and then, also, the fall, you know, we have covid the seasonal flu, so authorities are trying to step up efforts to get people to get their flu shot this year. they are letting pharmacists give the shots to kids 3-18. but the take up for the flu shot is so low and quite low for children. how important is it for young people to get the flu shot and how do you encourage people to get them? i know the state of massachusetts, for instance, is mandating them for students. is that the answer here? >> you know, this is had america. mandating anything is going to be a challenge, right? we are going to have two opinions on every topic. for years and decades people have been up in arms about debating vaccinations and it will not be any different. maybe with the insight that preventing one more fever-causing illness, that would cloud the situation when a parent has to face whether or not or not their kid m be

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♪ welcome back, to you, our viewers here in the u.s., and canada and around the world. i'm kim brunhuber, in the u.s., the democrats have gotten their official business out of the way and now they can focus on november. thursday, joe biden accepted the democratic national nomination. his speech captured the democratic national convention. he did not mention trump by name, but he drew a sharp contrast between himself and the current president, and likened a vote for trump, as a vote for anger and darkness. >> we know this about this president, if he is given four more years, he will be what he

has been for the last four years. refuses to lead, blames others. cozies up to dictators and fans the flames of hate and division. he will wake up every day, believing the job is all about him. never about you. is that the america that you want, for you, your family, your children? >> one of the convention speakers was illinois senator tammy duckworth. she is an army veteran that lost her leg serving in iraq. she said biden understands what military families endure, because his late son, beaux also served she had less flattering comments about the president. >> as president, joe biden would never let tyrants manipulate him like a puppet and pervert the military to stroke his ego or turn his back on troops or threaten them against americans who are peacefully exercising their constitutional rights.

joe biden will stand up for what is right, and stand tall for our troops and stand strong for our enemies. unlike trump, joe biden has common desensy. >> a man who helped president trump win the election in 2016, now faces federal charges. former chief white house strategist, steve ban on is accusedfrauding donors and pockets millions dollars. he and others had a border wall campaign, and said the money would be used on expenses but it was used for a lavish lifestyle. trump tried to distance himself from the former adviser. >> i feel very badly. i have not been dealing with him for a long period of time. as most of you know, he was of involved in our campaign. he worked for goldman sachs, he worked for a lot of companies.

he was involved like weiwise ea on. i have not been dealing with him at all. >> bannon, pleaded not guilty and was released on bond. he joins a long list of trump associates charged or convicted of crimes since he took office. in the coming hours, u.s. senators will hold a virtual hearing on the united states postal service. then hear from post master general, lewis dejoy. postal workers and others have been watching him closely to see how much he will serve trump's interests in the elections. president trump said he opposes the much needed funding for the postal service, because he does not want to see it used for mail-in voting this november. he has raised unfounded concerns that mail-in voting would be somehow fraudulent. voters are taking extra

precautions because of the coronavirus pandemic. samantha heartwig is the head of branch 9 letter carriers. thank you for speaking with us. so, on thursday, in a briefing for democrats from a former postal service inspector general, who resigned in protest in april said the trump administration, appeared to want to turn the agency in to a political tool, he said that you represent letter carriers in minuneapolis area, what is it lining for your people to be in the middle of this issue. to have the service politicalized and your clients effectively taking sides? >> yeah, it's, it's tough for the terriera carriers, they don being in the middle of it. they would rather be getting every piece of mail to every

recipient, and get our jobs done. we don't want to be in the middle of some political agenda. our job is to get it done. and get it done every piece, every day. six days of the week. and we just want to get it done. >> so you just want to get the job done. have you seen any evidence on the ground about efforts to dismantle the service or slow things down for the election? >> yeah, the post office has removed some of our sorting machines. which has slowed the mail down. it's been taking longer to get a letter across town than it used to. our packages have been getting delayed for an extra day. so, if you are ordering your medication and you need it today, you may not get it until tomorrow. and that's a problem. and we are not okay with that at all. >> i heard in your area of herculean efforts carried out in the primary, despite the loss of

overtime hours and some sorts equipment, and you say, people running around trying get bill on thes to the right places. i'm curious, are ballots treated differently by workers even though they are bulk mail like junk mail, essentially in the same class. >> ballots are not the so-called junk mail. ballots are treated as if they were priority mail. they are handled special. they get special priority treatment. we had upper level postal management taking ballots and getting them to the destination to make sure that everything went through and got to the destination on time and smoothly. and so, the postal service is actually treating all ballots as a priority. and that's great. because the more people that can vote, the better it is for the american people to have their voices heard. it's a good thing and we can handle it. >> so, i want to delve back in the politics. the current post master general,

lewis dejoy backed down on the many changes. we are hearing there's long-term reforms in the works after the election. we have only heard reports on of of what they are. but they are meant to cut costs and could have a huge affect, dejoy testifying before a senate hearing today. what are you hoping to hear from him, and had what are you worried most about down the road? >> well, what i would hope to hear from him, is that, he was hearing what the american people have been saying. don't slow down the mail. we need our mail, stop removing those sorting machines that we need to effectively get our job done. and understand that slowing down the mail affects everybody, everybody demographic. rural america. anyone living in the metropolitan area. i hope he is listening to the american public. my concern is after the election. we temporarily have a hold on

the operational changes and removing equipment. my concern is that, after the election, they will go forward with continuing to remove all the equipment. and it will be detrimental going forward after the election also. it's, it's a short sighted solution to the problem. when prefunding in 2006 was mandating by congress. that we prefund future retiring health benefits for 75 years. that is actually the root of the postal services financial issues. >> hm-mm. >> covid-19 doesn't help. >> listen, we will have to leave it there. thank you for joining us, samantha hartwig with the national association of letter carriers, we appreciate it. >> yeah, thank you so much. >> all right, we will be right back. stay with us. lysol laundry sanitizer kills 99.9% of bacteria.

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the world health organization has a warning for europe now that it's reporting an average of more than 26,000 new covid-19 cases each day. the director of w.h.o. europe said that new clusters are becoming more common in closed settings. joining me for more is anna stewart in london. anna, tell us what countries are of greatest concern right now. >> yeah, we are seeing worrying numbers across the board. the w.h.o. is painting a dismalpicture. the big difference has been of course, the lifting of national lockdowns across the continent. now, each day, this week, we have been reporting on countries reporting their highest daily increase in cases since lockdown was lifted. today, that is the case for italy, once again, and france, france is reported over 4,700 new cases just in the last 24

hours, kim. now, w.h.o. yesterday was a -- was attributing it to relaxed measures and compliance with social distancing and the youm pee -- and the young people that are cropping up in the numbers. they are being urged to not attend large gatherings and go out partying and very much being honed in on here. there's growing alarm across the continent. we are seeing spikes that could develop in to a second wave of coronavirus if it's not curbed. there's glimmer of hope, in recent weeks we saw a huge surge in portugal, that has managed a curve of new cases spread. they had less than 300 cases yesterday. that means countries like the uk, say that travelers from portugal do not have to quarantine. it needs to be done in the

countries are we are seeing the surges. >> thank you so much, anna stewart in london. let's go to australia, new details emerging from that country about the links between the country's repeat coronavirus update and hotels used for quarantine. a number of hotel workers became infected and helped to spread the virus throughout their community. here to discuss it is angus watsonment there's been an ongoing inquiry of the links of the quarantining in the hotels and the outbreaks. the numbers are quite incredible. you have been following it, what is the latest? >> well, can kikim, this inquir heard of gross inadequcies for return travelers coming back. we heard from those return travelers and from staff who were to mind them while they were in a 14 day quarantine.

one staff member said he received no training in infection control. no training either in to how to properly put on, or take off husband ppe. he said that he just had to use his own intuition to figure out how to correctly do it. and as we know, it's an incredibly delicate process, particularly the removal of the ppe, to make sure that's not contamina contaminated. the jsh-- there's likely going be a reckoning with the premier. 92% of it can be traced back to breeches in that hotel waurn teen system. if that system had done its job, perhaps victoria, could have avoided a second wave. some good news today, the numbers are slightly down again. just 179 new cases of covid-19 in victoria. that's the lowest number in five

weeks. in new south wales where i am, we had just one case today. so the prime minister came out and said, he is hopeful that it's been a week filled with hope. let's hope it can continue. >> good news there. thank you so much, angus watson in sidney. appreciate it. >> a heat wave and lightning sparking massive wildfires in california, hundred-s of thousands of acres have burned so far. when will relief be coming, we will look at that coming up after the break achoo! ...do your sneezes turn heads? try zyrtec... ...it starts working hard at hour one... and works twice as hard when you take it again the next day. zyrtec muddle no more. it's kind of my quiet, alone time. audible is a routine for me. it's like a fun night school for adults. i could easily be seduced into locking myself into a place where i do nothing but listen to books.

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♪ wildfires in northern california sparked by lightning killed a utility worker helping first responders. a helicopter pilot making water drops on the fire has also died. there's been four people killed so far. more than 500,000 acres have burned as people in california not only deal with the most coronavirus cases in the u.s., but also heat and the smoke from the fires is creating the worst air quality in the world. we are joined by derek vandam, on the ground in the air, nor cal, really struggling here. >> yeah, that is right. and kim, this is what the worst

air quality in the world looked like. this is when it covers the entire golden gate bridge with that kind of hazy smokey look to the horizon. it was so prominent that it was visible from space. zoom out, it's a satellite image of the smoke. you can see the gray look to the map behind me. that is from the ongoing fires, over the central and western portions of california. degrading the quality of our air. that is why the national weather service has poor air quality alerts in place. across the san joaquin valley. now, this is a product from noah, it shows the dispertion of smoke and look how the plume of red and orange moves eastward, the smoke will travel over 1500 miles in the next several days. bringing that thick cloudy haze to the horizon, as far as the

great plains. it's hard to believe that over 10,000 lightning strikes sparked 350 wildfires. we have combined them in to what is known as the lightning complex fires across the greater bay area. they are largely uncontained and they are raging out of control. now, it's so on point for 2020, i would say. right as we near the peek of our atlantic hurricane season, we are monitoring several tropicalal waves. the tropical train we like to call it. it's near the gulf of mexico. >> trouble on both coasts. appreciate it. >> all right. >> i'm kim burnhuber, coverage will continue after this. stick with us. concentration - n hectic times . and focus to win the day. unlike ordinary memory supplements...

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great honor and humility i accept this nomination for president of united states of america. >> with those words, joe biden formally accepted the democratic presidential nomination and delivered perhaps the speech of his life. welcome to you, our viewers here in the you states, and around the world, i'm kim brunhuber and this is "cnn newsroom." well, it wasn't the party convention u.s. democrats imagined at the beginning of 2020, but despite the limitations imposed by the coronavirus pandemic, this year's democratic national

convention still