. hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. you are watching "cnn newsroom" and i'm he rosemary church. donald trump promised a positive and optimistic republican national convention, but on night one of the rnc, speaker after speaker painted a dark and ominous picture of america if mr. trump doesn't get another four years in the white house. the u.s. president made two taped appearances alongside front line workers and former american hostages freed during his administration. he looked to cast himself as an empathetic leader as other

republicans slammed his democratic rival joe biden. >> obama and biden let north carolina -- north korea threaten america. president trump passed the toughest legislation in history on them. they got away with murder and obama and biden sent them a plane full of cash. president trump did the right thing and ripped up the iran nuclear deal. obama and biden led the united nations to denounce our friend and ally israel. president trump moved our embassy to jerusalem and when the u.n. tried to condemn us, i was proud to cast the american veto. >> the night's speakers, which included the president's son, tried to fire up the base. this as they praised mr. trump and offered a negative view of democrats. >> they want to destroy this

country and everything that we have fought for and hold dear. they want to steal your liberty, your freedom. they want to control what you see and think and believe so that they can control how you live. they want to enslave you to the weak, dependent, liberal victim ideology to the point that you will not recognize this country or yourself. >> in order to improve in the future we must learn from our past, not erase it. so we're not going to tear down monuments and forget the people who built our great nation. instead, we will learn from our past so we don't repeat any mistakes and we will work tirelessly to improve the lives of all-americans. joe biden and the radical left are now coming for our freedom of speech. they want to bully us into submission. if they get their way, it will no longer be the silent majority, it will be the

silenced majority. >> but in the midst of that harsh rhetoric came several speakers discussing the american dream. on a night that looked to focus on the united states being the land of promise. >> i am the proud daughter of indian emigrants. they came to america and settled in a small southern town. my father wore a turban. my mother wore a sari. i was a brown girl in a black and white world and the people of south carolina chose me as their first minority and first female governor. >> i am 100% american. this is the greatest country in the world, and i said this before, if i gave away everything that i have today, it

would not equal 1% of what i was given when i came to this great country of ours, the gift of freedom. right now it is up to us to decide our fate and to choose freedom over oppression. >> our family went from cotton to congress in one lifetime, and that's why i believe the next american century can be better than the last. there are millions of families just like mine all across this nation full of potential seeking to live the american dream, and i'm here tonight to tell you that supporting the republican ticket gives you the best chance of making that dream a reality. cnn's senior political

analyst mark preston joins us from washington. good to see you. >> good to see you, rosemary. >> how did the first night of the rnc go? and how did it compare to the dnc last week? >> well, it certainly was a success in terms of reaching out to donald trump's base. if you looked at the themes tonight, fear. the idea of the suburbs being taken over. this whole sense of donald trump being one who can protect you. so for the base it worked well. i think for folks in the middle, i think that they were probably a little bit scared from some of the speeches that could take some people back. i do think though there were some very big speeches, including tim scott's. we'll talk a little bit about that shortly. that actually resonated and did very well. if you're donald trump, i think that he feels very good about how his convention went, but i only think that it's going to

become even more and more amped up heading into tonight, heading into tomorrow, heading into the final night. >> yeah, because, mark, you know, most of those speakers tried to paint a pretty bleak, dark, and scary picture of american life under a possible biden presidency even after promising to deliver a more optimistic and hopeful convention. so how did that go over? and which speakers do you think stood out? >> there's no doubt. let's go with the highs first for donald trump. i think that tim scott did a really good job talking about opportunity and trying to compare and contrast what he thinks is a better way for african-americans to pull themselves out of poverty through the donald trump republican policies as opposed to the joe biden democratic policies. so he was the anchor tonight. he did a very good job. i think nikki hailey did a very good job at establishing herself here in the united states, specifically amongst republicans all across the nation that she's still in the game and she's

loyal enough to donald trump but don't count her out for the future. and then i think if you go back into the first hour of the convention where you had a father who lost a daughter during the terrible shooting down at parkland in florida back in 2018, i thought that was very effective. now the scary ones, the mcclo mccloskey family seen brandishing weapons as a black lives matter protest was protesting march beiing up thei street. so did kimberly guilfoyle as did her boyfriend donald trump jr. as well. there was a little taste of everything, but i do think that the discussion for the next few hours heading into tonight is going to all be about fear and how donald trump is trying to rile his base up. >> mark preston, many thanks. >> many thanks. and donald trump has been working to court black voters as

polls show a majority support joe biden ahead of november's election. and on night one of the convention, several republican speakers laid out their case as to why those voters should, instead, back mr. trump. >> in 1994 biden led the charge on the crime bill that put millions of black americans behind bars. president trump's criminal justice reform law fixed many of the disparities biden created and made our system more fair and just for all-americans. >> this is no time for sleeping in the basement. joe biden has had 47 years to produce results, but he's been all talk and no action just like so many of the democrats who have been making promises to the black voters for decades. >> sadly the same cycle of decay remains and yet democrats assume black people will vote for them,

no matter how much they let us down and take us for granted. we're sick of it. we're not going to take it anymore. the days of blindly supporting the democrats are coming to an ent. >> respect the flying of the national anthem in our country doesn't mean they don't care about social justice. i care about all of those things. so does donald trump. he shows how much he cares about social justice in the black community through his actions and his actions speaks louder than stickers or slogans on a jersey. >> evan c. creed is a republican strategist and author of "gop gps." he joins me now from new york. good to have you with us. >> thank you for having me. >> what was your thoughts about the first night of the rnc compared to the dnc and what did the lineup of speakers tell you about where they're heading and what it stands for? >> with the exception of tim scott and nikki hailey's

1350e67 speeches, i found they were speaking to the base. it wasn't trying to broaden the appeal of the republican party in donald trump, it was trying to defend donald trump and also say that he was the greatest president ever and that is something they really can't afford to be doing right now when they need to be bringing in new voters in the fold. >> and as a republican strategist, i have to ask you where did all the hope and optimism go that the gop promised? instead we heard messages of fear and division. how successful in negative messages do they work? >> they work for certain audiences, but the problem that the trump campaign faces right now, the audience it works for is already going to be voting for him. they're going to use this as proof positive to say, see, we already have this enthusiasm from this exact night and what has been happening but it's not going to reach out to the suburban housewives who have been fleeing the gop or white

college educated voters or older americans who are 65 years and older who have been fleeing the party much more so over the past 3 1/2 years. if i'm the trump campaign, i don't know why they're doing this and i think they need to change course fast. >> well, president trump again repeated monday that the only way he can lose the election is if it's rigged. he continued his false claims about mail-in voting and grim warnings about stolen elections. what is the president trying to do there, do you think? >> he's delegit miedsing the election within the eyes of his own followers. if he doesn't win, it's somehow cheated. he's saving up to his legacy, he's in the a loser, he was cheated. he doesn't like to be seen as a loser. it's embarrassing to him and it's the ultimate insult. even though he might not contest an election, he says i was cheated, it allows him to do a pr strategy. >> and the gop and president trump has initially struggled to settle on one attack message for

joe biden and kamala harris. did they find it during the first night of the rnc do you think? >> no, they haven't found it at all. in fact, they're offering conflicting messages. they say joe biden is weak and senile and is completely a puppet but at the same time he has an intricate plan to introduce marksism and socialism into the country. either he's competent or he's not. it cancels one another out. i don't understand what the line of attack is and the coherent message that the republicans are putting out there. we talk about how we need to have a lot of candidates going out and giving signaling, not noise. we're hearing a lot of noise and no real signal and coherence. >> right. just hours before the rnc kicked off president trump said there would be a vaccine for covid-19 very soon, he said, and his campaign told us to expect surprises during the rnc. what do you think this means? did they deathly avoid talking

about the 177,000 americans who would die from covid-19 so far? >> first of all, the president has to address covid-19 but he is absolutely not doing it the right way. they had a revisionist history video play saying he had this amazing response. 177,000 americans are dead because of a bad response that this administration had and at the same time they trotted out a doctor who was a surgeon to say donald trump did everything right, but if you go and look at this doctor's credentials, he's a dentist. that's the best my party could do? i'm not an anti-dentite, but i'm absolutely offended. then with the vaccine, i'm very worried that they will trot out a vaccine before it's ready. there's a reason why we have trials and that this has to go through a process, and we're moving at very fast speed in general and there is no doctor trying to put the brakes on a vaccine saying let's kill more

americans and keep people at risk throughout the world just so we can stop donald trump. the president said over the weekend that there's a deep state conspiracy against him, and this is absolutely reckless, dangerous and irresponsible. if we get a vaccine out there that isn't proven and it turns out there are serious health side effects or even its efficacy isn't where it was supposed to be, we're set back even further and it's just not appropriate. >> evan siegfried, thank you so much. appreciate it. >> thank you. well, the republicans saluted america's health care workers monday night but ignored the coronavirus death toll as the country nears 180,000 killed by the virus. still, praise for the president. just ahead. ♪ love them, hate their laundry, protection. lysol laundry sanitizer kills 99.9% of bacteria. detergent alone can't. lysol. what it takes to protect. ®

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pandemic. the party glossed over the administration's failures. it never mentioned the virus has now killed nearly 180,000 people in the u.s. and it misrepresented mr. trump's handling of the pandemic. instead, mr. trump appeared at the white house to chat with a group of health care workers, some of them praised the president for his response to the crisis as did some speakers. >> as a health care professional, i can tell you without hesitation, donald trump's quick action and leadership saved thousands of lives during covid-19 and the benefits of that response extend far beyond coronavirus. >> as a physician, i've seen firsthand how these break throughs have saved countless lives. as a patient, i've benefitted from the expedited therapies made possible by the swift action of this administration. president trump truly moved mountains to save lives and he

deserves credit. >> for more i'm joined now by dr. jonathan ryman. he's a professor of medicine at george washington university. good to have you with us. >> my pleasure. >> now just hours before the republican national convention kicked off president trump said he believed a vaccine would be announced very soon and sources tell cnn that white house officials raise the possibility of emergency use of the vaccine before phase 3 human trials are completed. how concerned are you about the possibility of it happening to help the president's re-election prospects? >> i'm more concerned about a vaccine that is not ready for public use being released to the public. from the beginning i think the administration has set the wrong tone by calling this operation warp speed. what the administration really should have been calling this is operation safety. operation safe speed emphasizing safety. there's a lot of vaccine

distrust in the american public, and i think the notion that we might be rushing the vaccine into use does much to -- does not do a lot to reassure the public. in our best year we barrel ri vaccinate 60% of people for the flu. we have an anti-cancer vaccine for hpv and less than half of the people get that. we have a long way to go to educate people and the possibility that this administration might license it for use using an emergency use authorization before we have adequate safety and efficacy data is terrifying. >> but presumably the president thinks it's worth while going in this direction because he appears to be doing it purely for his election prospects, but as you say, it's only half of the american population that say they would take a vaccine like

this with it cutting corners. >> right. a lot of the president's motivations appear to be solely focused on re-election, his reluctance to wear a mask, acknowledgment that testing makes him look bad and his desire to slow testing down, desire to open states early. all of this policy is being made with an irresolvable conflict of interest which is that he is running for re-election. the inescapable conflict is what happens when a vaccine is not quite ready but the president demands its release. we saw yesterday with the sunday night release of the emergency use authorization for convalescent plasma, we saw how willing the leadership of the fda is to be coerced by the president. so i am concerned. >> right. as you mentioned, it isn't only the vaccine. on saturday president trump accused the fda of trying to hurt him politically by slow

walking approval for the covid convalescent treatment or therapy and then the very next day mr. trump commended the fda and announced it had approved this treatment for emergency use when days before the fda had made it very clear it wasn't ready for approval. what does that signal to you? >> it signals shameful political pressure on the part of this administration for only one purpose, that is to elect the president. but i hope convalescent therapy works. the problem is we don't have a randomized clinical trial anywhere that shows that it does. the largest study, which is not yet even in print, never compared plasma to placebo, compared it to -- essentially it was a registry comparing it to nothing. so we don't really have compelling data. the criteria that the fda uses

for emergency use authorization literally says may be effective. well, yes, it might be effective. we have no confidence that it works. >> and, doctor, during the first night of the rnc we saw very few masks and not a lot of social distancing in stark contrast to what the dnc was doing last week. so what is your reaction to that message being sent to the voting public? >> well, first of all, the stark difference is there are actually people in charlotte. what is the necessity for this? you know, north carolina is still in the midst of rather vigorous viral transmission to bring people all over the country to charlotte for the convention. a ton of people unmasked. i don't get the burning urgency to do this other than to create essentially props for the president. >> dr. jonathan reiner, thank

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>> don't shoot. >> don't shoot. >> they're demanding justice for jacob blake, the black man police shot in the back several times on sunday, and this was the scene outside the kenosha county courthouse just a few hours ago. police lined up in riot gear to protect government buildings. the protesters set off fireworks and threw bottles. several city vehicles and at least three buildings were seen burning. police used tear gas to break up the crowds. cnn's omar jimenez is in kenosha with how events unfolded. we must warn you, some of the video is disturbing to watch. >> reporter: this is what parts of kenosha have become on a second night after jacob blake was shot seven times in the back by a police officer. these images come in stark contrast to what has largely

been peaceful demonstrations over the course of the afternoon and into the evening. it was in the nighttime when projectiles were going back and forth and things began to take a turn, but all of it coming as expressions of pain over what has become an all too familiar story. two police officers with guns drawn in kenosha, wisconsin, closely follow a black man, jacob blake, as he tries to get into the driver's side of his car door. one grabs at his tank top and then -- seven shots are fired as blake is hit multiple times in the back. >> [ bleep ]. >> three of his children ages 3, 5, and 8 were in the car as blake goes limp. shortly afterwards officers can be seen giving some sort of aid to blake. he was later flown to a nearby hospital in serious condition. police say they were responding to a domestic incident call but it remains unclear what sparked the shooting and the video doesn't show the events leading

up to it. there's no way to hear what is being said but blake family attorney benjamin crump says blake was leaving the scene after breaking up a fight between two women. it's not clear from the video if both officers opened fire. neither have been identified. the wisconsin department of justice's criminal investigation which is leading the probe into the incident says both are on administrative leave. all officers cooperating and in a statement to cnn the kenosha professional police association says as always the video currently circulating doesn't capture all of the intricacies of a highly dynamic incident. we ask that you hold judgment until all of the facts are known. overnight violent protests erupted with angry protests soeting fire to vehicles. that anger spilling over into early monday morning as dozens from the community confronted sheriff's deputies at the scene. blake's uncle said the shooting is outrageous. who was he threatening?

he had a tank top and shorts on. he had no weapon. he was going back to the car because the children needed to be checked on. police were called for a domestic disturbance but jacob had nothing to do with the fight. this has got to stop. wisconsin's lieutenant governor echoing that. >> let me be clear, this was not an accident, this wasn't bad police work, this felt like some sort of vendetta being taken out on a member of our community. >> reporter: there had been a curfew in place starting at 8 p.m. into the overnight hours but it didn't stop demonstrators from coming out and making their voices heard. while there's still a lot we don't know that led up to the shooting, what we do know is there is a lot of pain in this community over how this unfolded. rosemary. >> thanks so much for that, omar. cnn's sara sidner spoke with the uncle of jacob blake and here's part of what he had to say. >> we want justice and we're

going to get justice. we're going to demand justice, but we're going to do that without tearing up our own communities. >> reporter: what did he say to you when you first talked to him? >> that it was going to be all %-p. but what's all right? when someone's life was just totally changed. thank god he's alive. so we're just praying for a great recovery, that he may have a great quality of life and that his father, my brother, can enjoy him. >> the family of jacob blake is urging protestors to demonstrate peacefully. republicans slammed democrats and ignored president trump's failures with the coronavirus pandemic on the first night of their convention. speakers zeroed in on themes that would resonate with mr.

trump's base thanking the democrats as the radical left who wanted to destroy the country and the party stoked fear notably in a speech given by a st. louis couple who were charged with a felony after pointing guns at black lives matter protestors outside their mansion earlier this summer. >> it seems as if the democrats no longer view the government's job as protecting honest citizens from criminals but rather protecting criminals from honest citizens. >> these are the policies that are coming to a neighborhood near you so make no mistake, no matter where you live, your family will not be safe in the radical democrats america. >> democrats won't let you go to church, but they'll let you protest. they won't let you go to work, but they'll let you riot. they won't let you go to school, but you can go loot. >> they want to destroy this country and everything that we have fought for and hold dear.

they want to steal your liberty, your freedom. they want to control what you see and think and believe so that they can control how you live. >> this has to stop. freedom of expression used to be a liberal value, at least before the radical left took over. now the republican party is the home of free speech, the place where anyone from any background can speak their mind and may the best ideas win. >> joining us now from long island, new york, via skype is michael dantonio. he is a cnn contributor and the author of "the truth about trump." thank you so much for being with us. >> great to be with you. >> now you watched the first night of the rnc and listened to the various speakers, including donald trump. what did you think overall? >> well, i thought that they were sounding many of the themes that candidate trump sounded

when he ran in 2015 and 2016, and it was very much a return to i imagine the 1960s when young donald trump was frightened by the protests in the american streets and the civil rights movement because he was right back at that law and order theme trying to scare the day lights out of americans suggesting, as george wallace, the infamous racist did in the 1960s, that somehow the likes of americans in the suburbs, by that he indicated white americans in the suburbs, were somehow in danger. and so that came through loud and clear to me. he wanted his base to be excited and frightened and thereby

motivated to somehow save themselves and save the country from this specter of joe biden. >> yeah. there was certainly a lot of language for fear. it wasn't there after the promise of hope and optimism. did i want to ask you because more people have died in the u.s. from covid-19 than anywhere else in the world. it's the biggest issue in this presidential race although the rnc side stepped the issue. how likely is it that president trump can turn his fortunes around with the sudden approval of covid plasma therapy on sunday and mr. trump promising a vaccine will come very soon, perhaps before the november elections? >> well, he certainly is trying to turn things around, and even the fda's approval of plasma therapy for people in the first stages of coronavirus disease, it's important to remember that

people must be given this within three days of having symptoms or it really doesn't work is a bit of a sleight of hand because that therapy has been available. 70,000 americans have received it, but president trump loves nothing more than a good show and i think he times this announcement to advertise this so-called new therapy in hopes that it would give him some momentum. and the vaccine issue is similar. ironically he's following vladimir putin down that trail with promoting a vaccine that may or may not be available. the russian people are not exactly flocking to receive the one in russia that's been tested in such a limited way. so he's obviously keenly aware of his difficulty in facing re-election. >> michael dantonio, thank you

so much. pleasure to talk with you. >> thank you. u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo will address the republican national convention tuesday in a pre-recorded message. pompeo filmed his address in jerusalem where he's been meeting with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. just last month pompeo stressed to state department employees they should not engage in campaign politics, but apparently it is okay for him to do so. the state department says he will make the remarks in his personal capacity at no cost to taxpayers. oren lieberman joins us now live from jerusalem. good to see you, oren. what are you learning about pompeo's pre-taped address to the convention tuesday night? >> reporter: not too surprised by the contents of the speech. mike pompeo and the trump administration to view his greatest hits on foreign policy

to jerusalem, moving the embassy and to, for example, we've learned being tough on china despite trump's positive rhetoric for china at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. in terms of the speech itself, that's when it becomes far more interesting. former secretaries of state and former employees of the department of state had scrutinized and criticized this decision for the secretary of state to deliver a speech while on an official visit. his offices said it's in a personal capacity and doesn't use taxpayer dollars, but listen to what pompeo wrote in a cable cnn obtained last month. he wrote presidential and political employees are subject to political restrictions. they may not engage in any partisan political activity, even on personal time and outside the federal workplace. it wasn't just pompeo who had that opinion. the deputy secretary of state in february said employees of the department must act as representation overseas to make

sure they're not received as partisan and the legal representation for the department of state said last december senate confirmed appointees may not even attend a political party convention or convention-related event. none of that has swayed the administration or pompeo from delivering the speech at the rnc. >> many thanks, oren. to see that speech by secretary pompeo along with first lady melania trump and others, you can tune in to cnn for continuing coverage of the republican national convention. that's at 8 p.m. tuesday in new york, 1 a.m. in london, and 8 a.m. in hong kong. so how much immunity to covid-19 do we have after recovering from it? that is one of the questions experts are asking for a study showing we could potentially get reinfected. we'll have the details for you on the other side of the break. stay with us. gillette proglide and proglide gel. five blades and a pivoting flexball designed to get virtually every hair on the first stroke,

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we are tracking some concerning news about how coronavirus spreads. researchers in hong kong say they have confirmed the first case of a patient that had covid-19 twice. his second infection came more than four months after the first one and for the latest, cnn's christi lu stout joins us now live from hong kong. great to see you, chrikristie. what does this show about reinfection and immunity? >> reporter: it is a landmark study. researchers in hong kong saying they have the first lab tested evidence of a infection of someone getting reinfected with the virus of covid-19. according to the team at the university of hong kong, they say a 33-year-old man was reinfected four months after he

first contracted the virus. he became sick in march, tested positive august 15th at the airport upon his return from spain with a completely different strain of the virus, strain that was circulating in europe. while he was infected the second time around he did not show any symptoms of the virus. up till now there have been several reports of presumed reinfections of the coronavirus but this reinfection was confirmed in a lab using genomic sequencing. i asked what the greatest take away was. take a listen. >> i think the most important message is even though you have recovered from an infection, doesn't mean you are immunized for life from that virus and also you can see this virus is very smart. it keeps on mutating. so that means that even though

you have recovered from an infection, you still need your vaccination and you still need to wear a mask and keep your social distancing. >> reporter: now according to ivan hung and his colleague, any potential vaccine may not be enough to provide lifelong immunity or protection. he says an annual vaccine may be needed. imagine that, we have to take a shot every year. back to you. >> christi lu stout joining us live from hong kong. thanks. doctors in germany are confirming what many already suspected. a major russian opposition figure was likely poisoned. alexey navalny is still in a medically induced coma after being moved to a berlin hospital. we have more. >> reporter: german doctors are confirming what many expected,

that alexey navalny, was poisoned. exact substance is not determined but the clinic where he remains in a coma, but said the substance was of the type that acts on the nervous system. he's been treating with atropin, it's an antidope to nerve agents and pesticides. long-term effects are still unclear. there's been a joint statement from the german chancellor and foreign minister calling on russia to, quote, clear up this crime to the last detail and to do so in full transparency. those responsible must be identified and held responsible. on a flight from moscow he fell sick and forced an emergency landing in minsk.

russian doctors say they found no evidence of poisoning. navalny's supporters say that was a coverup that yet another kremlin critic has been brutally attacked. matthew chance, cnn, moscow. still to come, u.s. gulf coast is bracing for a second storm in just days and it's expected to be a much more powerful storm than the first. we will check where tropical storm laura is headed next.

we are keeping our eye on two storms threatening the u.s. gulf coast. marco is now a tropical depression. it made landfall monday as a tropical storm, but a much more powerful system could be coming later this week. tropical storm laura is on track to hit the region and the hurricane. it's already killed at least nine people in the caribbean. so let's turn to meteorologist pedram javaheri joins us live. pedram, tropical storm laura posing the greatest threat here. what's the latest. >> absolutely. this storm is going to be here

within the next couple of days. it is moving out of western cuba. that is the last land mass it will interact with before it moves over the gulf of mexico and crosses into the united states within the next 48 hours. here's what we're looking at with this particular storm. a strong tropical storm around 65 miles an hour. the ingredients firmly in place to support the storm system rapidly intensifying in the coming several days. notice the area indicated in 80 degree range fiern heigahrenhei. the areas in the lower 90 degree fahrenheit, that is closer to 32 degrees celsius. that is where laura is slated to go. marco to the north in much cleaner water and wind sheer as well. the track of this particular storm does want to shift a little farther to the west. if that happens we think areas around houston, galveston bay certainly going to be a concern

and points to the east and southwestern louisiana as well. if you take a look at the storm, the national hurricane center already urging to not just be complacent seeing a category 2 on the map. that's the lower end of the potential for this particular storm and it could very easily intensify on approach to land. we think the strongest point of the storm would be right around or right before landfall. some of the models suggest it could be up to a category 4. a high end category 2 force the impacts of that storm even as that magnitude would be devastating. you notice storm surge forecast up to 11 feet or around 3.3 meters. you bring this water up essentially the first level of many homes, that's the water level we expect across some of these areas on the coast of louisiana and eastern texas. of course, a lot of rainfall across the area, rosemary, ten

inches down in this area from tuesday all the way to thursday. landfall forecast looks to be in the late evening hours of wednesday possibly even early thursday morning, the overnight hours there thursday. we'll watch this as the forecast evolves in the next few days. >> appreciate that. combined with the pandemic, it was a horrible combination. many thanks to you, pedram, for keeping a close eye on that. appreciate it. california is battling the second and third largest recorded wildfires in its history at the same time. at least seven people have died and more than a million acres have burned. many of the blazes were ignited by what's been called a lightning siege. earlier this month the affected area is larger than five new york cities. altogether more than 14,000 firefighters are battling just under 30 major fires. we'd like to thank you for your company. i'm rosemary church.

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