what we saw in 2016 to 2020 is that there are many republicans that are coming forward not just saying they can't support donald trump but saying they're actually going to cast a ballot for joe biden. that is a big distinction between what we saw four years ago and saw this time around. whether or not that has any impact on rank and file republicans remains to be seen but the biggest development of what happened in 2016 and now. >> rye i can't an, thank you. john king picks up the coverage right now. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm john king in washington. thank you for sharing a very busy news day for us. the president closes the convention tonight and if the first three nights are a guide what you hear will not match the coronavirus or economic or back to school reality. the vice president last night's headliner and revisionist

historian, ignoring among other things the coronavirus testing debacle, the prediction to be over by april, the musing of ingesting bleach and a case surge with 57,000 plus to the world leading american death toll. >> we will make america great again. again. >> also today more unrest over a police shooting in wisconsin and now a black lives matter mess ablg fr and from athletes to the world. sports all refuse to play. now a question of how long this protest moment will last. back to those stories in a moment. we begin with texas and louisiana. hurricane laura in the two states in a middle of the pandemic that complicates everything. you can see right there destructive force. laura coming ashore overnight as a category 4 storm. we are getting views of the

damage. within person is dead in louisiana, a 14-year-old goiirla tree fell on the home. power outages impacting hundreds of thousands into the weekend. the governors say the build back effort takes weeks and this morning there is hope that this worst-case scenario didn't quite develop. >> people did heed the warnings to evacuate. we no doubt saved lives because of the evacuations. >> we are not out of the woods there. the storm surge half of what was forecasted and as you remember that storage surge characterized by the weather service as unsurvivable and looks like we got an assist there, as well. >> officials responding now urgently on the ground to find out what happened and the source of smoke right now hovering over west lake. get straight to gary tuchman in

louisiana. smoke clouds billowing up. what can you tell us? >> reporter: that's right. this plume, these are not clouds. this is a plume of smoke. we saw it and got an alert on the cell phones that says there's a plant fire northwest of this city. we have reached out to state and federal official calling it an incident. we don't know if it's dangerous. we don't know. when we get more information we'll bring it to you. we want to talk about what you were mentioning, there was great concern here in this city lake charles that storm surge up to 20 feet, decimate this town. that hasn't happened. there was flooding in the river. but the damage from the wind, we had 125-mile-per-hour winds for an hour and a half. this is the market basket food store. it looks like a combination of

an earthquake and a tornado that went through this business. i must make it clear that lots of businesses not touched. that's why i bring up the fact like a tornado. but you can see the aisles there. that's what it looks like an earthquake and see items that are tossed in the aisles. this sore is just decimated. dropping from the ceiling. destroyed. this is something i really don't see in an earth gawk or hurricanes. or tornadoes. this ice machine. how much do you think it weighs? must weigh 1,000 pounds and flipped over from the force of these winds. when we were in this city last night, i was in a hotel for part of the time with the winds. 12 stories up. about 120 feet. i can't tell you how much more the wind speed is that high but it was so loud it sounded like an airplane, like a train and felt like an earthquake because the room was shaking for two

hours. i thought the city would be destroyed. we're greatly relieved that though there's intense damage other places are unscathed. john? >> remarkable scenes. grateful for the live reporting on the ground. keep us posted. what's next for laura? jennifer gray is in the cnn weather center right now. >> john, we are going to continue to see this track to the north. it is still a hurricane in north louisiana if you can believe it with winds of 75 miles per hour. gusts of 90 moving to the north at 15 miles per hour. so this storm is still very much a threat with 75 miles per hour winds. the tornado threat is very real and had reports of flooding anywhere from say central louisiana and that's going to carry out to the north and even into arkansas as we go throughout the evening tonight so look at this radar.

all of this ran that's dumped across north louisiana, arkansas, the bands setting up across south louisiana, portions of mississippi. if they train we could see some flooding. we do have tornado threat, always a risk when you have these storms make landfall so here's the track, tracks into arkansas and then bend back to the north and east. as we go through the next couple of days so i do believe that floodling, t flooding, the wind is the biggest concern. 700,000 people without power. louisiana in august, it is hot. temperatures are going to be in the mid to upper 80s, low 90s. very humid. so that's a story moving forward. the heat with people, so many people without power. here's the forecast wind gusts, 80 in shreveport.

then traveling to the north the winds just carry along with it bringing that 60, 70 miles per hour gusts into arkansas. giving you a time by time outline of when this is going to strike. you can see those bands entering the little rock region 2:00 local time and will continue to track to the north but i want to mention where gary was 30 miles inland we haven't seen many pictures along the coast. cameron, louisiana, where the storm made landfall i believe there's much, much more destruction as the pictures come out today and tomorrow. >> very important point. sometimes it takes a day or so to get to the remote areas. appreciate the update there. gratitude is probably the best way to describe the mood on the ground today in port arthur, texas. today the mayor says the city dodged a direct hit.

the mayor jons us on the phone. you were very concerned yesterday. >> i thank you anyway. it's barti. okay in. >> you got it. >> okay. we are mighty grateful do god because what could have happened didn't happen. we are expensing some power outages and we are experiencing trees in roadways and debris in the roadways and different things, shingles off roof tops but what could have happened didn't happen and we are grateful for that and i'm just grateful to the citizens that complied with the order to actually evacuate. that was the best thing that could have happened and because we don't have any dead bodies. you know? because even if they all stayed i would drive here to my office in city hall, a trampoline, two

blocks away at a home. was wrapped around a pole on proctor street. so this thing traveled two blocks and then hit that pole. wrapped around that pole. so just, you know, this lets you know how severe this thing was and we just -- we're grateful today. our prayers to the neighbors in louisiana and what they suffer from this right now and grateful that we were spared. >> amen to that and i'm sure they appreciate your prayers. you said nobody died. are you certain about that? second question, mayor, you have the refinery and the other businesses there, sometimes a storm surge or power outage causes issues there. are you confident that everything is okay in that regard? >> they haven't reported anything to us. not that they have to.

but we would have been notified and we haven't been notified of anything at any of the industrial neighbors so thank god that they are probably operating and may be up to capacity or getting ready to get back to capacity because of the threat is over basically for us. >> mr. mayor, grateful for your time and glad for your community and i think your neighbors will appreciate the well wishes and the prayers you expressed there. very much grateful for your time today, sir. >> okay. thank you. thank you kindly. okay? for having us on. >> thank you. up next, new developments from wisconsin where an alleged 17-year-old vigilante now charged with homicide.

new details emerging from wisconsin today both on the police shooting of jacob blake and the clashes that followed. first to the protests that left two people dead o. officials. >> identified a suspect,

17-year-old kyle rittenhouse. you see his picture there. online he's portrayed as pro-police and a supporter of president and part of an armed militia to protect property. police have not confirmed whether this video tacken seconds after the video shows ritden house walking toward police guns and hands up in the air. the police end up driving right past him. we are getting a better understanding now of what led up to the shooting that sparked this. for that let's bring in shimon prokupecz on the ground. what do we know? >> reporter: yasuo the officers first time to learn his name is rusten, a 7-year veteran. authorities are also saying that they interviewed mr. blake and confirmed that he had a knife, and that the police on scene found a knife in his vehicle. but what's not clear is was this knife used in any threatening

way? which would then lead to police, this one officer shooting mr. blake in the back seven times. police did no provide information whether or not the officer felt threatened to use gun fire to try and bring this person down, to bring mr. blake down. we also learned that authorities, the police on scene, used nonlethal efforts to try to subdue him. taser saying that didn't work and then from there as we see, as we've seen in the video everything escalate but still very unclear, john, as to why police felt they needed to pull their guns out, point their guns at mr. blake and then one of them pulling on the shirt firing and shooting him seven times in the back. ultimately this investigation and whether or not any charges are going to be brought against the officer, that's going to be up to the district attorney here, the local district attorney. he said that he's going to make

that decision perhaps in the next 30 days when the independent investigation wraps up. >> awaiting for details on that. shimon prokupecz on the ground for us, grateful for the live reporting. the outrage over the shooting, a police shooting of a black man, is a crossroads moment for sports leagues. a boycott began yesterday when the bucks refused to play and then other games postponed and then the wnba, major league soccer and some baseball teams joined in. today nba players and league officials discuss whether to call off the playoffs as a protest. it's great to see you today and gradeful for your time at this important moment. as someone that knows the nba and spends time on social justice, help us putt this moment in context, this unprecedented boycott by the

players say wait a minute. >> well, i really believe that these young people are now understanding they are citizens of a world, they have a platform that is meaningful and it's too many for them to speak up. i'm sure just about every one of them, especially the black athletes, had some experience themselves or family with the issues and they feel it's incumbent upon themselves to speak up at this moment and thing i'm most impressed with is unity. the wnba, mlb, mls, there's some unity among players that are going to stand up and at least make this particular symbolic statement. now, the question is, will it sustain? go from a boycott to more of a demand of their owners and others to exercise their influence to help try to affect change. >> one of the difficult issues here is a lot of players want to be part of the movement, be part

of pushing for racial justice, be in the communities and at the moment they're in the bubble in orlando so my understanding is a conversation is if we continue to play and finish the playoffs, what can we do when we can't leave this bubble? what leverage do players, sports, athletes have? how should they maximize their leverage at this moment? >> i have been a believer since this started, obviously with covid and now the issues that we are confronted with, that sports has been a distraction and it is a distraction not only for society but also to the players themselves and many want to get bag to the communities to stand up and represent so i think it's vitally important for them to make a decision as to whether or not they're going to go back to their hometowns, go back to their communities and to be able to lead. that's a thing that sports does, develop leadership and i think we are seeing it right now and

they recognize their leverage. i think that their stepping up right now gets attention whether they agree with them or not. >> this is happening at a very important national conversation about race in policing and happening 68 days from a presidential election. you are well aware. the president of the united states whether it's colin kaepernick and nfl, simply calling for racial justice, he's said he won't watch, the president's views are quite clear. listen to son-in-law jared kushner this morning. >> the nba players are very fortunate that they have the financial position where they're able to take a night off of work without having to have the consequences to themselves financially so they have that luxury which is great. look. with the nba there's activism and i think they have put

slogans out but we need to turn that from slogans and signals to actual action that's going to solve the problem. >> i'm going to guess that doesn't sit very well with the players saying it's slogans and need action, et cetera. >> that's more than anything else going to be a motivator. power concedes nothing without a demand as frederick douglass said and the white house can ignore the players all they want but once they elongate this particular walkout if you will, it becomes a strike because the interests of management and labor are divergent. they don't want to pay if they're not working and puts pressure on the owners and the owners are pressured by the networks that won't get paid because there are no sports and pretty soon you will have them looking at their investments deciding maybe we need to put pressure on local politicians, local state politicians as well

as federal politicians, those who are most affected are going to speak up i think because if they miss their sports, if their investments are diminishing they will have a say in the matter and the white house can ignore the players but they may not ignore the millionaires and others that speak up in that fashion. >> len, grateful. as a nba fan who's old enough to remember, gradeful for your career, as well. >> my pleasure. we return to hurricane laura, an update from louisiana and a live look at damage in orange, texas. when we started carvana, they told us that selling cars 100% online wouldn't work. but we went to work.

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this just in to cnn, louisiana governor con frming there's a chemical fire at a plant in the southeastern part of the state near lake charles. residents urged to shelter in place and close call windows and doors and we look at damage in texas. let's go straight to cnn's ed lavandera. what are you seeing? >> reporter: good morning, john. we are in the town of orange, texas, which is just a few miles away from the state line between texas and louisiana. this is what is left of the first united pentecostal church here in orange, texas.

this is some of the most severe damage we have seen in this area since we rolled into town just a short while ago and it is really amazing to see as you look around the damage and the wind blowing away parts of this wall into the parking lot. we are about 60 miles away where the eye of this hurricane came ashore. this was the weaker side of the storm so it's incredible to see the difference in the impact it makes that distance away from the eye of the storm and on the weaker side of the storm because as we have driven around town here there's minimal structural damage that we have seen and noticed driving through the neighbors and talking to people that decided to ride this storm out here throughout the night saying that most people here in the town chose to evacuate ahead of this storm. there are a number of downed trees in the areas we have driven through, many residents say the storm came through here rather quickly, the wind started

to pick up violently by midnight and by 4:00 a.m. the storm moved over. the fact it moved so quickly is good news for the residents that chose to ride it out. areas i have seen here today throughout this area in southeast texas, john. and did governor of texas reporting no deaths and no words of major injuries, as well. >> ed lavandera on the road for us, appreciate the reporting. up next, president trump closes out the republican national convention tonight asking for four more years. here's a look at 2016 when he was asking for the first four. >> i have no patience for injustice. no tolerance of government incompetence. no similar think for leader that is fail the citizens.

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president trump closes out the republican convention tonight making his case for a second term against the backdrop of a pandemic, racial unrest and now a hurricane. the speech delivered from the white house south lawn, capping a norm busting campaign that used government property for political purposes. the white house says 1,000 to

1,500 guests will attend, that despite coronavirus guidelines frowning on large gatherings. last night was the vice president's big night. >> president trump is a doer. we rebuilt our military. and moved the american embassy to jerusalem. unemployment rates for african-americans and hispanic-americans hit the lowest level ever recorded. we also returned american astronauts to space on an american rocket for the first time in nearly ten years. >> the vice president mixing frequent praise of his boss with a dire law and order warning. >> joe biden would double down on the very policys that are leading to violence in america's cities. the hard truth is you won't be safe in joe biden's america. >> cnn's jeff zeleny joins us now. those are the vice president's words. what do we expect from the president tonight?

>> reporter: we do know that the president is going to deliver a long speech accepting the nomination and capping off this four-day republican national convention in a way we have never seen before, from the south lawn of the white house. it really is remarkable to be in the people's house and it is the new floor of the republican national convention. we are getting a look at some of the remarks that the president is going to be delivering this evening, take a look at this exempt this campaign released saying this. the republican party goes forward united and determined and ready to welcome millions of democrats, independents and anyone who believes in the greatness of america and the righteous heart of the american people. there's no question the republican party is united. that was not necessarily the case four years ago. republicans rank and file largely behind the president. if you were just arriving on planet earth today and listening to all the republican messaging of this week that might be true, independents may be more likely

to come out perhaps and moderate democrats but the record of this president that's going tock on the ballot, the referendum here is on the president so for all this talk about the america being scary and joe biden being a scary place, this is donald trump's america so impossible to rewrite the record of the last four years but it is true that some republicans who may be on the fence, he may have brought them home here with a call of safety and protecting americans, that's the question going out of this convention, john. >> to that point it is interesting to see what the president says about kenosha, the larger racial reckoning in the country right now. vice president is on the front page in wisconsin. see the protests and the vice president there but in wisconsin a big battleground state and blowback the right word for the vice president today? >> reporter: i think there is and we are just learning the vice president was scheduled to be in wisconsin again on saturday, that would be a second visit in as many weeks and

delivers a commencement address long been on the books, wisconsin lutheran college and disinvited from giving that speech because of the escalating events in kenosha, so the local pastor giving the remarks, an example of someone to essentially take down the rhetoric, some students and alumni concerned of mike pence's presence there and speaks to going forward in wisconsin, what have the events of kenosha done? we don't know. its's and tatded both sides politically speaking, riled up both sides but the sitting vice president cannot go to a lutheran college for a commencement address and give a unifying message says something going forward. the ten electoral votes in wisconsin some of the most important and not all, but going out of the convention has the president been able to reset the campaign? i think at least into one respect when you talk to

republicans even though some officials and others are endorsing joe biden, the rank and file republicans may have come home in this convention. but we know this is a base election and still some voters in the middle. they process both sides here but this speech tonight from the white house complete with fireworks at the end over the national mall unlike anything we have ever seen. >> and then the convention turned the page and move on to debate season. jeff zeleny, thank you. the democrats want to draw a contrast. the vice presidential nominee kamala harris plans a speech casting the incumbent as a failed leader. what do we expect from senator harris? >> reporter: john, we are expecting a prebuttal of sorts from senator harris and we are told that senator harris wants to talk about what they call a profound failure of leadership that they see from president trump, particularly when it comes to the administration's

response to the coronavirus pandemic and really trying to draw that contrast between the biden/harris ticket and the trump administration and have been seeing for past several weeks and all of this comes on a day when the republican national convention is hardly the biggest news. we have seen hurricane laura obviously pummeling the gulf coast and cost lots of people the lively hoods and the homes and the pandemic is an ongoing crisis that the nation is facing and then of course the shooting of jacob blake that unleashed protests, this is something that a campaign aide confirms to cnn this morning, senator harris will address speaking here in washington, d.c. in a couple hours. we heard her address this a little bit yesterday. here's what she had to say. >> joe biden and i earlier today spoke with jacob blake's family, and his mother, his father, his sister.

what happened there is so tragic and still represents the two systems of justice in america. there are still two systems of justice in america and we need to fight again for that ideal that says all people are supposed to be treated equally which is still not happening. >> reporter: just the sign of the general election, the biden campaign is rolling out a two-minute ad ahead of the republican national convention this evening. this is something they help to highlight biden's leadership and an ad probably going to see across battleground states this weekend, as well. >> turning the page. mj lee, appreciate the live reporting there. stay with cnn. the final night of the republican national convention here. the administration defends the cdc sudden change to its coronavirus testing guidance. student loans don't have to take over

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a big change in federal coronavirus testing guidelines is alarming public health experts saying it's a bad idea and may be a deliberate effort to hide the level of new infections closer to the elections, the governors of new york, connecticut and new jersey joining that protest today but administration officials reject that argument insisting it's driven by data and not politics.

more on that controversy in a moment but let's take a look at where things stand right now. coming to cases, nine states trending up. more cases now than a week ago. 23 states holding steady. 17 states down. fewer cases now than a week ago. the states trending down are florida, texas, arizona, california. those were the big drivers of the summer surge. if you look at the death trend right now, this is the map lags the cases, still a lot of pain here. 18 states with more deaths this week than a week ago. 20 states trending down including california, texas and florida there. if you look at the overall case trend we thought perhaps we drop 40,000 an average on day but spiked up a bit yesterday to 44,000 plus cases. this is the peak of the summer surge. yes, we are coming down some. are we in a plateau?

states that are improving at the moment, they drove the summer surge numbers, 70,000 cases a day, arizona dropped considerably. california substantially. texas on the way down and why the case count dropped from the 70s and still around 40. one of the questions is testing, did big debate. the cdc easing guidelines saying if you're asymptomatic you probably don't need a test. the seven-day moving average of tests is down a bit and closer to 600,000 tests on average. many people that don't like this change think it's the administration's goal, fewer tests means fewer eyes on the coronavirus infections out there. marc short pushing back saying this is a smart policy, nothing to do with politics. >> doctors suggest a test, go do it. >> why isn't the cdc telling you to do that? >> the guidance updated is

because there continue to be backlogs in the system with the testing particularly for people getting tested who are asymptomatic. >> because of the backlog? >> people -- no. it's not a matter of slowing down. over 800,000 tests conducted a day. >> joining us is dr. susan bailey. grateful to have you here today for expertise. so the cdc change it is guidelines. you have public health experts saying they view this as dangerous and just counter pruktdive, governors of states going through this early saying this is a bad idea. is this a good or horrible idea? >> john, thank you for having me. the ama emphasized all along during this pandemic that decisions need to be made by science and data and we would like to see the data behind this change. we know there's a lot of

asymptomatic spread in this disease, a reason that we advise people to wear masks and wash hands and keep distance. i saw a patient last week, hispanic teenager, father is an essential worker who brought home covid-19 to his family. everybody tested but didn't have symptoms. my patient was positive, quarantined for 14 days and was fine but that happened in june. what if that happened this week and the patient had gone to school later on in the week and expose who knows how many people? testing is an important control of the spread of asymptomatic spread. >> there are some people who question as we get closer to the question whether politics is part of this. if you have less testing the president himself said he warrants less testing to be fewer cases. do you think it's possible that politics is at play here, people in the administration who hope

if you drop the number of tests close to the election we'll see in the reported data fewer infections, doesn't mean there are fewer infections in america but won't see some of them? >> i'm not privy to what goes on inside the meeting rooms and i don't want to get involved in the politics to stay focused on the science. we need to know if there's evidence behind the decision and not just trying do get fewer tests for whatever reason. we need to see that evidence. transparency is incredibly important to make patients and physicians trust the public health authorities that they're making decisions in their behalf. >> i appreciate your perspective. i didn't mean to put you in a bad political spot. if you talk to different experts you get a different answer and public health experts when the administration says we have 800,000 tests a day now, around that, that that's enough. that's enough is a baseline and then surge testing if you have a

big cluster here or a breakout there and surge testing in. is that enough or are the experts saying you need two or three times that to have good eyes on the problem right? >> i can't putt a number on how many is the right number. the ama called for increased testing when appropriate throughout the pandemic. we know there is a shortage of supplies and need to be good stewards of our medical costs but when a patient needs a test they need to be able to get it and patients need to feel confident that their doctors are doing what is in their best interest. >> president of the american medical association, grateful for your insights today. thank you so much. >> thank you. up next for us, breaking news on the nba season. are alike and customize your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. what do you think? i don't see it. only pay for what you need.

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governors and players with separate meetings again and according to multiple reports saying that the players have decided to go forward with this season. and that the players are still having discussions amongst themselves and there's going to be a meeting with the owners how to move forward with the season because, john, the players we have heard it from many of them including lebron james, they thought coming to this bubble that they could shed light on the social justice issues and done that with messages on the jerseys, on the court, kneeling as peaceful protest in the national anthem and they continued to ask for justice in the post game conferences, by thank you just feel like the voices have not been heard and that why they almost decided to call it quits on this season and go back home and fighting for social justice in their hometowns but according to multiple reports they will have -- restart the season.

no games will be held today. three were scheduled for today and aiming to restart this weekend but we'll wait and see what the players have asking for because certainly they aren't going to resume under the circumstances they were under already playing. >> you mentioned that, circumstances they were already playing under, they're in the bubble for safety but saw lebron james tweeting yesterday in language not family friendly at the president of the united states and another shooting of another black man by police and frustration has been you mentioned the jerseys ian the like, the conversation among them has been how can we do a better job lending voices to this debate. correct? >> reporter: that's correct, john. they feel like what they're doing is not working because it happened again and the frustration boiled over and now

moving to what can we make ownership do? the owners are billionaires, in the room with politicians and maybe force change that way. >> andy, appreciate the breaking news. anderson cooper picks up right now. have a good afternoon. i'm anderson cooper. welcome viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. a historic call for change in america after another unarmed black man was shot seven times in the back by police in wisconsin. the nation's top sports leagues have stopped play to take a stand. the nba and wnba refusing to take the court. soccer games, baseball games and nfl practices with canceled. we continue with the breaking news, nba players resuming the playoffs after began a