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 reflected the

country's diversity. instead of balloons, fireworks, instead of a crowded convention hall, there was a parking lot packed with socially distanced democrats. now officially the democratic presidential nominee drove home a stark message the u.s. now faces a fundamental choice about its future. >> america is at an inflection point, a time of peril, real possibilities. we can choose a path of becoming angrier, less hopeful, more divided, or we can choose a different path and together take this chance to heal, to reform, to unite, the path of hope and light. this is a life-changing election. this will determine what america's going to look like for a long, long time. character is on the ballot.

compassion is on the ballot. decency. science. democracy. they're all on the ballot. this is our moment. this is our mission. the history of american darkness began here and tonight as love, hope joined in the battle to resolve the nation and this is a battle we will win and we'll do it together. >> joining me now is john phillips, a radio talk host at kabc and political columnist for the orange county register and also is caroline helpman. she's at occidental college. thank you very much, both, for being here. first, super quick take on joe biden's speech billed by some of the speeches he's been waiting 50 years to give. how did he do? >> i would think that joe biden

did exactly what he need today do. he delivered a solid speech. he had a quiet race. he is's a great orator like president obama and ronald regan. the expectations were so low, he had to come in and show empathy and show he's a normal politician and he did that. the gop shares a burden in him doing so well and they created a false narrative that joe biden isn't able to deliver, has some cognitive deficit. he is a fine politician. he showed up, delivered the speech. there was a collective sigh. there were no faux pas. >> sigh of relief presumably. john, he wasn't sleepy. >> somebody clearly picked him up and wiped the spit off his

mouth and dragged him to the podium so he could give a speech tonight. he should have woke up yesterday because we have american major cities that are in unrest. we have people dragged out of cars, we have unrest in seattle, we have violence in the streets of new york, chicago, major american cities and there was zero mention of any of this. >> this is all under donald trump's presidency. it should be pointed out. i'm not sure that joe biden can be pinned with that. sorry. go ahead. >> joe biden is trying to become the president of the united states and he literally didn't mention any of this. it was a speech filled with democratic party platitudes. if you want to know what joe biden's agenda is for america, i'm clueless to it. he certainly didn't articulate that message tonight. i guess we have to wait until next week. >> the aim here for this

convention presumably for democrats was three fold. introduce their nominees to the country, unify the wings of the party and energize the voters in the run up to the election. did they accomplish any or all of these? >> i think if you look at polling, poll after poll shows that democrats are energized in the selection because they want donald trump gone. they want him gone because of the sort of made up stories that john just shared about violence when in fact violence is down. juan williams, 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. all the democrats needed to do at this convention is show that they are normal. people, decent people are exhausted from a presidency that is self aggrandizing, self

enriching. the largest number of indictments of any president's council. we are a national or international embarrassment. trump can't run on the economy. he can't run on his anti-science response. 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 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 on this? >> the violence is real. we're talking about the statistics and the video being shown on the news tonight. juan williams is a republican. poll after poll shows republicans would walk across glass to go vote for donald trump and for whatever reason, i'm willing to acknowledge it's a shame that covid-19 has been politicized, democrats are more

fearful of covid-19 than republicans. if you are trying to get people to turn out to polls, 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 reason to be enthused to go to polls to pull the lever for joe biden. >> all right. so in the shopping list of the aims for the dnc, i left out sway undecideds or con vips moderates. do you think that's possible? did kasich help? >> when john says republicans will walk across glass for this many, we have never seen the number of people on the opposing political party appear the way we just saw in the last four days. more republicans showing up saying they will not be voting for donald trump. did the democrats do a good job of speaking to republicans and independents? i think they did.

i'm in the left wing of the party. how much did we hear about faith and god? how much did we hear about military families? that's not appealing to me. that's appealing to independents and republicans who are exhausted with the republican party. >> with the time left i want to make sure we talk about the republican convention coming up. i'll start with john on this. shifting to that. president trump has criticized the democrats, citing the lack of energy. the rnc will be more live. if there's one thing donald trump knows, it's how to make compelling television. what can we expect from a republican national convention? >> donald trump is going to juxtapose his agenda, the agenda of the white house to that of democrats. mayors in portland, seattle, new york city and what results in democratic sflul it is people

being shot in the streets, dragged out of their cars, beaten mercilessly, mayors incapable of controlling the 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 as moderate uncle joe but he wouldn't be the guy who would be pulling the levers in power. it would be the radicals in the cities and the radicals supporting them. >> i appreciate both of your decisions, john and caroline. thank you both for joining me. appreciate it. >> thanks. and u.s. president donald trump appeared in pennsylvania thursday afternoon hours ahead of biden's acceptance speech. mr. trump made his remarks in old forge in scranton where biden was born but president

trump was relatively low key thursday night. mr. trump addressed biden directly once writing in 47 years joe did none of the things of which he now speaks. never change, just words. an update on a story we're following out of russia concerning a prominent critic. alexey is said to be in a coma after a poisoning. he became ill on a flight to moscow which had to make an emergency landing in a siberian city. a chief physician said test results show no trace of toxic substances but the tests are continuing. let's bring in senior international correspondent matthew chance who is following this rapidly developing story. what's the latest? >> reporter: thanks very much. well, as you mentioned, doctors

who have been treating alexey navalny have decided even though his condition has improved over the past several hours, he's still not stable enough to be moved outside of the country because navalny's supporters and team around him have been trying to arrange a medivac to a clinic in germany. navalny's spokesperson said the decision not to move him is a direct threat to him. he's a prominent anticorruption campaigner. he drank tea in the airport campaign and he took ill. this is how the kremlin's most prominent critic was struck. painful groans from alexey navalny. medics evacuate him from this

commercial flight, forced to make an emergency landing when he was taken ill. a passenger captured this video. supporters say they believe he was poisoned having drank tea before the flight. russian doctors at the siberian hospital where he's now in care say they can't confirm what would be an extremely disturbing allegation. >> translator: the patient is in serious condition on a ventilator but he is stable. currently there are multiple diagnoses which we are trying to eliminator confirm. naturally poisoning is one of the possible reasons for the deterioration of his condition. >> reporter: more than any other opposition figure in russia, he gets ordinary people to protest. they're aware of his condition

and wishes him a speedy recovery, but his unrelenting campaign to highlight corruption has been proved immensely popular here and at times a real problem for the kremlin. >> [ bleep ]. >> reporter: it wouldn't be the first time alexey navalny's been attacked. in march 2018 he was pelted with green dye by unknown assail lands. he had a chemical burn and damaged vision in one eye. this is the work of putin. the threatened violence was the price you have to pay. >> have you accepted 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, but it is a simple choice.

you can be silent or you can speak. taking into account all the risks, i continue my work. >> reporter: and in russia speaking is not easy. well, the authorities say that a german charity has flown an aircraft to hansk and it's on the tarmac. it's fully equipped with a specialized medical team to evacuate alexey navalny to a clinic. that is not cleared. doctors say he's not stable enough to be moved at this stage. >> so, matthew, you know, those results we spoke of, you know, what then if we are do believe there are no traces of toxins,

what is the team suspecting then? >> reporter: look, the wife of alexey navalny has given a briefing to journalists and she says she has a theory that the police, the police in that siberian city have found an extremely dangerous toxin inside alexey navalny. the reason they don't want him released from the custody of the hospital is because, you know, they don't want that -- the nature of that toxin to be identified. the doctors who are treating alexey navalny have denied that. they say he's tested negative for all the toxins that they've sort of tested him for at this stage. so there's clearly a bit of a difference of opinion that's emerged. doctors saying they can't move him because he's not stable enough. the team around alexey navalny saying the russian authorities are merely preventing perhaps

the truth of this from coming out. >> very interesting. we'll keep following the story. thanks for all of your reporting on this. cnn's matthew chance in moscow. just ahead on "cnn newsroom," schools grapple with how to minimize coronavirus infections as democratic presidential candidate joe biden previews what he plans to do to contain the spread. >> i have a national mandate to wear a mask, not as a burden but as a patriotic duty to protect one another. in short, we'll do what we should have done from the very beginning. iends. find your sense of wander. find the world is new, again. at chevy we'd like to take you there. now during the chevy open road sales event, get up to 15% of msrp cash back on select 2020 models. that's over fifty-seven hundred dollars cash back on this equinox.

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the u.s. is reporting yet another milestone in the coronavirus pandemic. johns hopkins says the country has now passed 5.5 million confirmed cases of the virus. although new cases are trending downward overall, right now schools and colleges are reporting an uptick in new infections as they begin the new school year. cnn's erica hill has more. >> reporter: good news, hospitalizations and new cases continue to decline in most states. the bad news, that trend did not

last. >> it's not a sprint, it's a marath marathon. we have to maintain these mitigation efforts if we want to keep controlling this virus. >> reporter: the head of the white house's vaccine program, operation warp speed, said the country could get back to normal if people get vaccinated. he believes a vaccine may be widely available by next spring. while the nation waits, the white house coronavirus task force warning georgia in a report obtained by the at lynn particular journal constitution that its small gains are fragile. thousands of small k-12 students have been asked to quarantine, including 2,000 in mississippi. >> if we want to keep our kids in school. if we want to keep our colleges open, if we want to have an opportunity to have college football, we have to maintain.

>> reporter: a considerable number of college students in that state have tested positive including more than a dozen athletes at ole miss. notre dame which has announced hundreds of cases now says five of those are football players. 17 states now reporting positive cases. >> we have to do entrance testing. when we talk to the university about it to do surge testing, we're probably going to do 5,000 or 10,000 samples in one day. >> reporter: several university of connecticut students evicted from their dorms after an on campus party where students were not wearing masks, endangering their own health and well-being but that of others. >> they're used to doing things like partying, gathering on and off campus and to ask them not to do that is to ask too much of those young adults who consider themselves to be invulnerable. >> reporter: massachusetts will

consider flu shots for all students from kindergarten up through college. a teacher's union in detroit approved a safety strike as new york city warns its schools aren't ready for a return. the mayor pledging more detailed safety measures in response to mounting pressure. >> we are going to make sure these schools are safe and ready and if we don't think they're safe and ready, they won't be open. >> as many areas wonder what will happen with the fall season in mississippi, the governor announcing new measures and restrictions for outdoor stadiums in his state. there will be social distancing. 25% allowed in the stadium. 6 and older need to wear masks. tailgating will be prohibited. in new york, i'm erica hill. cnn. dr. raj kelsey is a board certified emergency medicine physician. thank you for taking the time to join us tonight. i'd like to start with a view

from the e.r. how are things looking at the hospital you work at? >> i worked at small hospitals and big hospitals. today i finished a 10 hour shift. work is extremely busy. traumas, south korea papsych pa. people coming in in droves. everything from heart maladies and cancer and covid. in particular in the hispanic population in my community. >> from a national perspective, the number of cases seems to be on a slight decline. that's the good news. infections seem to be rising in young people in general and i'd like to ask you about a study in the journal of pediatrics. young children have a significantly higher level of virus in their airways than

adults in the hospital in the airways. children may be asus septemberible as adults but just not as visible. what due make of the growing claim that children may be silent spreaders? >> it's scary. one of the most important take aways from the article is it seems like based on all the sciences and studies done on pediatrics, this is out of harvard, mass. general hospital, a well renowned institution kids have less immunoreceptors to the virus. kids, children under 18 are less likely to take the virus and turn it into covid-19 syndrome, which is the cytokine storm, the swelling of the lungs, the clots, all of the terrible things you're hearing about. however, because of that, they're able to procreate and increase the amount of virus in their body and when they breathe

out, when they cough, when they touch other human beings, they are just as likely to transmit the virus as an adult. so the scariest thing is the littlest people in the world are the ones that are most dangerous to us adults. >> wow. that's certainly worrying when we're talking about having so many kids go to school and then also the fall, you know, we have to cope with the seasonal flu. authorities are trying to step up efforts to get people to get their flu shots. they're letting pharmacists give shots to kids 3 to 18. the take up for the flu shot is so low, quite low for children. how important is it for young people to get the flu shot? 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 america. mandating anything is going to be a challenge, right? we're going to have two opinions on every single topic. for years and decades people

have been up in arms about debating vaccinations. this is no different. preventing one more fever-causing illness that would cloud the situation when a parent has to face whether or not their kid has covid, maybe that's going to encourage more people to get this vaccination, which is very safe. something us in health care are required to get it and we welcome it. i will go on the lines and say everybody should get it who is not allergic to it. as far as a mandate, i can't play politics here, but it would save more lives and it would help the health care industry. >> i really appreciate all of your time, dr. kelsey. thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you, kim. take care.

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welcome back to you our viewers in the united states, canada, and around the world. i'm kim brunhuber and you're watching "cnn newsroom." joe biden accepted the democratic nomination thursday night. it was a party convention unlike any seen before. in his address biden not only discussed the ways he's different from president trump, he also tried to lay out an affirmative vision to lead the nation forward. >> in america everyone, i mean everyone, should be given an opportunity to go as far as their dreams and god given ability can take them. we can never lose that. in times as challenging as these, i believe there's only one way forward. as a united america.

united america. united in our pursuit of a more perfect union. united in our dreams of a better future for us and for our children. united in our determination to make the coming years bright. are you ready? i believe we are. >> many of biden's formal rivals spoke on his behalf and they emphasized differences between the two candidates. >> and the two people running for president couldn't be more different. one believes in facts, one does not. one listens to experts, the other thinks he knows everything. one looks forward and sees strength in america's diversity, the other looks backwards and sees immigrants as enemies and white supremacists as allies. >> together with joe and kamala in the white house we'll raise

the minimum wage so no one who works a full-time job in america lives in poverty. >> 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. >> cnn presidential historian douglas brinkley joins me now from austin, texas. he's a history professor at rice university. thanks for joining me here. i want to go straight to joe biden's acceptance speech, virtual acceptance of the convention. without the applause breaks, without the emotion of the crowd, how did it land? can you compare it to any other similar speech given the format was so different. maybe more fire side chad? >> it is more like an address from the oval office or fireside

chat. with that said, and everybody understood that, joe biden did an excellent job. some people had low expectations for him, but instead he came off as what he wanted to, presidential. he was able to in his speech, i think, effectively talk about donald trump's failures without even mentioning the name donald trump and he rightfully put the covid crisis high on the agenda list of the country, talked about day one he will be ready for the job and then he had a lot of nice rhetoric about hope and history so it was a successful close for the democratic convention. it was a strong week. it all went without a hitch or a glitch really all week. for democrats, they're very joyous tonight. >> that's one of the benefits of having it pre-packaged like this, it can go without a hitch. i want to ask a question about

that a bit later on. i want to turn first to former president barack obama delivering a blistering attack on donald trump. i want to read here presidential historian michael veschloch, no former president has ever attacked the current president? is that true? how significant is that? >> it's absolutely true. it's extremely significant. barack obama had been as cautious as he could for about three and a half years, meaning criticizing donald trump by name, but he went after him, you know, with -- you know, with relish and wanted to make sure he dented the sitting president. there's probably a mythology about this ex-presidents don't criticize each other. truman used to criticize

eisenhower and ragan stiffed jimmy carter. i can go on and on. it was interesting to hear barack obama say democracy is on the line. if donald trump is re-elected, the country will fall apart. the highlight of the democratic suspension is the obama speech and giving red meat to them. >> the comment i saw and heard during the convention is this is the way it should be from now on. faster moving. short speeches. more entertaining. the other side of the argument is we would no longer see those little messy sides of party politics that remain given how scripted and less spontaneous conventions were becoming anyway. on which side do you sit? >> that's an easy one for me. i like live conventions.

i'm a presidential historian. conventions are like going to a super bowl, rose bowl and having to stay at home, having this sort of shutdown makes it too about technology, about video streaming. it loses some of its heart and soul, and also the great american gift is spon taen nata whether its that he jazz or walt whitman's poetry. to have no spontaneity, we lose something. with that said, given the circumstances, the democratic party pulled a coup by constantly doing great programming programming and there was amazing little video vignettes to make this a winning week for joe biden. >> douglas brinkley, thank you very much for joining me. i appreciate it. >> thank you. another former member of

donald trump's inner circle could be facing jail time. fired chief strategist steve bannon was arrested and pleaded not guilty on charges he defrauded investors and pocketed hundreds of billions of dollars. he becomes the latest of trump associates who have been charged and convicted of crimes since leaving office. we have more from new york. >> reporter: a significant development. steve bannon, donald trump's former campaign advisor, arrested thursday morning off a yacht of connecticut owned by a chinese dissident. prosecutors say the account was set up to build and construct a wall along the u.s. border. instead they saban nonand others had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on personal expenses. bannon was arraigned in court and he pled not guilty. when bannon left the courthouse

he said this to recorders, this entire fiasco is to stop people who want to build the wall. donald trump president was asked about these charges against bannon on thursday and he said he felt badly for bannon. he tried to distance himself from the project saying he knew nothing about it. kara scannell, copacabana beach, new york. taking on trump over coronavirus. she suggests her country is having a big outbreak. we'll explain. as we move forward, let's continue to practice these healthy habits, brought to you by lysol. wash your hands often with soap and water and monitor your health. always use the inside of your elbow to cough or sneeze. be sure to cover your mouth and nose with a cloth face cover around others. and keep about 6 ft distance from them. and remember to clean and disinfect frequently touched surfaces daily. the best way forward is together.

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have a look at this as one driver tries to escape raging fires in california. those fires have killed at least four people. thousands are under evacuation orders as 660,000 acres or

270,000 hectares have burned across the state. much of the fires are uncontained. those northern california fires are so intense their smoke is blanketing the san francisco bay area and creating the worst air quality in the entire world. the coronavirus pandemic shows no sign of slowing around the world, even in places once applauded for their tough response. one of those places is south korea. despite a strict testing regimen, the capital, seoul, has reported at least 150 new cases in a 24-hour period. that's according to cnn affiliate kbs. it's the highest single day spike seen since the start of the pandemic. the world health organization says europe has seen a jump in cases following the easing of restrictions. the w.h.o. says 26,000 new cases are reported every day in europe and blames the jump on people

partly letting down their guard. russia says 40,000 people are expected to take part next week. new zealand reported 11 coronavirus cases today. in the united states, just to compare, more than 44,000 cases were reported thursday. despite the numbers, president trump claims new zealand is facing a big outbreak. let's go to will ripley joining us from hong kong. new zealand's prime minister returned fire. take us through this weird war of words. >> reporter: you know, they have a history, kim, of going back and forth. their latest issue is covid-19. before this it was gun control.

before it was the shootings and she moved quickly on gun control. now she's criticizing the united states for its failed covid-19 response because president trump at several different events has been talking about this big resurgence of the violence that new zealand is facing using it as an example of countries that thought they were doing better than the united states because pretty much every other country is, but, you know, he's trying to make the point that new zealand declared itself covid-19 free for 102 days and has a small number, around 100 or so sa sa said. >> new zealand is among a number of states with a low number of coronavirus cases. to give you just one example,

the united states has cases per million people. we have 269 cases per million people. and the reason we have been able to do this is in large part because you have all played a role. >> reporter: that has been key. early on they shut things down. as soon as the numbers started to uptick just a little bit, they locked down aukland. they canceled schools, closed nonessential businesses, have police checkpoints set up. you can't travel in and out without a special exemption. you've seen the new zealand numbers start to stabilize and

go down. they postponed their national elections by a month. the president is expected to say monday whether some of the lockdown measures can ease. everybody has to play along. you go through this tough period for a short amount of time, test tens of thousands of people. testing an extraordinary amount of people. as an end result, perhaps the lockdown measures can lift as soon as next week and life could return to normal in new zealand. >> this is a stark contrast with the situation you're facing in the u.s. >> yes, absolutely. president trump was trying to make a point with coronavirus. he's clearly picking on the wrong country here. will ripley, thank you very much. when we come back, the four day democratic national convention is coming to an end. we'll look at the highlights. do stay with us.

a few months ago i met him in new hampshire. he told me we were members of the same club. we stutter.

it was amazing to hear someone like me became vice president. >> what amazing courage there. that was one of thursday's most touching dnc moments. 13-year-old brayden harrington talking about meeting biden and how the presidential candidate made him feel about stuttering. biden talked with the 13-year-old about how he copes with his own stutter. biden revealed he's had the speech disorder since childhood. there were many defining moments during this unprecedented four-day virtual convention. here now let's see some highlights. >> every four years we come together to reaffirm our democracy. this year we've come to save it.

>> so many families experiencing loss in this pandemic. we need a president who understands both profound loss and what it takes to bounce back. >> my dad was a healthy 65-year-old. his only pre-existing condition was trusting donald trump and for that he paid with his life. >> covid is the symptom not the illness. our nation is in crisis. >> george should be alive today. breonna taylor should be alive today. awe med arbery should be alive of us are free. >> calling ourselves the united states of america feels like it's pretty wrong right now. >> at a time like this the oval office should be a command center. instead it's a storm center revolving in chaos. >> donald trump is the wrong president for our country. he is clearly in over his head. he cannot meet this moment.

>> with the existential threat of another four years of this president, we all have a profound obligation to act. >> joe and kamala can win by 3 million votes and still lose. take it from me, this can't be another woulda, coulda, shoulda election. >> how do you make a broken family whole? the same way you make a nation whole. >> we the people. >> one nation. >> one nation. >> one nation. >> one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> joe is a man who learned early on to treat every person he meets with respect and dignity. >> in the short time i spent with joe biden i could tell he really saw me, that he actually cared. that's why i nominate my friend, joe biden, as the next president of the united states. >> pennsylvania casts 34 votes for senator bernie sanders and

175 votes for the next president of the united states, scranton's own, joe biden. >> joe biden. >> joe biden. >> kala march ri come back state of joe biden casts one vote for bernie sanders and 34 votes for the next president, joe biden. >> joseph biden. >> joe biden. >> joe biden. >> joseph r. biden! >> i'll be proud to carry the banner of our party to the general election so it's a great honor and humility i accept this nomination for president of the united states of america. >> all right. that was the democrats. next up, the republicans so stay with cnn for our coverage of the republican national convention. that starts on monday. that's it. that wraps up this hour of "cnn

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make no mistake, united we can and will overcome this season of darkness in america. >> a hopeful message in an anxious time. how joe biden made his pitch to reclaim the soul of a nation. welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> i'm laura jarrett. friday