hello, i'm brianna keilar and welcome viewers here in the united states and around the world: second day in the row the u.s. is reporting more than 1,000 people dying from coronavirus in a day. more than 1,000 families have just lost a mother, brother, grandparent, someone they love to the pandemic. which is now cut short more than 186,000 lives across the nation. right now the u.s. is averaging about 41,000 new cases a day and that is lower than the summer peak of 70,000 but it's still too high with the compounding problem of a flu season that is rapidly approaching. dr. fauci, the country's top infectious disease expert, is warning of gathering this labor

day weekend, as well. he is pleading for people to wear masks and socially distant. >> we don't want to see a repeat of the surges that we have seen following other holiday weekends. we don't want to see a surge under any circumstances but particularly as we go on the other side of labor day and enter boo the fall. we want go into that with a running start in the right direction and not with another surge that we have to turn around again. >> dr. fauci also says that americans can feel quote confident in the vaccine process after cdc documents revealed it was directing states to prepare to distribute a coronavirus vaccine as soon as late october. he also though expressed doubt over that time line saying it was unlikely but not impossible. >> these are all guesstimates. if you look at the projection of the enrollment and the kinds of things you need to get a

decision about whether the vaccine is safe and effective, most of us project that that's going to be by november, december, by the end of the year. could this will be earlier? sure. if someone says, you know, i will shoot for the possibility that i'll get it by october, you can't argue strongly against that, that's unlikely not impossible. i think most of the people feel it's going to be november, december. >> cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is joining us now to discuss this. i know that you have been carefully following this race for a vaccine. tell us what your sources are saying about this potential fall timeline. >> the experts i'm talking to would say what dr. fauci said but add an adverb, not just unlikely but that it is extremely unlikely. and here's the reason why. first vaccine trials in the u.s. started in late july. you've got to give shots to all those people, you then have to wait three to four weeks for another second round of shots

and wait for them to kick in and this is the part that can really take a while, you have to wait for those people to get into the path of the virus and get infected and get sick. i can't emphasize this enough. booilg has to do its thing. if you have enrolled people who tend to work from home, tend to wear masks a lot, they may never run into the virus and never know if the shot you gave them is working or not. that is what could take a long time. a lot of this depends on how good the pharmaceutical companies were enrolling sort of risky kinds of people. if they weren't so great at that this trial is going to take a while. now, you were talking about how the cdc telling states prepare to do a vaccine campaign even as early as lat october. part of that is really just good sense. you want to be prepared, early in the planning, not lat. dr. collins direct or the of

national institutes of health just talked about this. >> i think that's unlikely but i defend the cdc in their effort to try to be sure people are prepared. this is like the boy scout model, be prepared. even if it's low likelihood, if everything happened to come together beautifully and had an answer by then and had a vaccine that was safe and effective wouldn't you want people to be figuring out the distribution? that's all that cdc is saying. >> so a key phrase that he just said is if everything happens to come together really beautifully, what he means is what i said earlier. if you gave shots to a whole bunch of people putting themselves in the path of the virus, sounds perverse, you are lucky. you can test whether the vaccine worked. if however people volunteered for this trial who are care. who are working from home,

wearing masks it takes much longer to get to the end of this. brianna? >> all right. elizabeth cohen, thank you for that report. iowa right now turning into the new epicenter for covid. looking at the seven-day moving average you can see the strike. we have omar jimenez in des moines and the white house coronavirus task force weighed in. what did the report say? >> reporter: white house coronavirus task force report puts iowa at the highest new case rate in the country and with that recommending that a statewide mask mandate put in place and the governor said no that so far saying they get the case rate down earlier in the year without one and knows where the cases are coming from, specifically pointing to social activity among young people and when you look at the counting of university of iowa is where we have seen the numbers explode since students bag in class, specifically she cites 74% of

the cases in that county are in the ages 19 to 24 years old. brianna? >> thank you. doctors in iowa are worried about the surge there. they want the governor to take action and petitioning her for a shelter in place order writing this, one must choose life over livelihood in the historic difficult times. we need your help. by imposing a shelter in place order now you can help save the lives of countless iowans. doctor, thank you for being with us. as you're well aware, the governor rejected a mask mandate and closing the bars, considered a vector spreading coronavirus. why do you think this is? >> why is she resisting these evidence-based measures? i don't know. i don't know how it makes public health sense, i don't know how it makes political sense.

that's probably the thing i'm personally struggling with the most. facts are clear. we know through science how to slow down this pandemic. and she isn't doing it. i don't know what will it will take. >> do you think it will take the petition? do you think the petition will work and sway her? >> so the petition i started i think about four months ago has not several thousand signatures. just started a petition for a statewide mask mandate. it has the signatures of hundreds of iowa's physicians. we have several different physician groups in the state and others calling for this and we have had a consensus and she is not listening to it. so no. i don't maintain hope that our voices are going to be heard. >> right now, we are seeing, look, school districts in iowa, some doing one thing coming to

reopening with disparity and so sioux city public schools are resuming in person learning next week. do you think that's safe? >> so the governor has actually enacted a statewide mandate to return to school, at least 50% of the time. those localities who are not are doing that in defiance of the governor and plays out in the court. you know, i think it depends on the local infection rates in each school district and i think it's okay to have local control on this. the cdc has talked about the balancing the risks of keeping kids out of school and not having a social interaction. we know going back to school will lead to more covid-19 infections, older kids 10 and over are shown to spread this as readily as adults. and things are bad now and i

think it might only get much, much worse from here. >> to your point, that idea of looking specifically, how's one county doing and another county because we know there's disparity. do you have confidence that when you look at some of these school districts in defiance and then the school districts that aren't that they are following a model of being realistic about the conditions in their counties or patchwork hodgepodge? >> not only do we have a difference in the test positivity rate in the various counties, we have a difference of opinion of the severity of the disease itself, the severity of the pandemic. and what is needed to get it done. we don't have a universal leadership that shows that when things are bad you should do this. such as, close down schools or wear masks.

it's anybody's guess what any of these school districts are going to do because it depends on the superintendent and the local officials. >> i want to ask you about something that one of your iowa senators has said. iowa senator ernst kind of backtracked on the coronavirus deaths overcounted and had also thrown out a very serious charge of medical practitioners essentially fraud inflating the numbers of coronavirus patients in order to make more money. as a health care provider, i just wonder what you think about that. >> first of all as you said it's false. physicians are not paid based on the diagnosis of the patient but the services they provide. secondly, it is insulting. my colleagues and i risk our lives every single day we come into the hospital to take care of the patients that we care

about. we have had colleagues who have gotten sick, colleagues across the country who have died. and while we are making these sacrifices, we are being accused of insurance fraud. i can't imagine a bigger insult. not only that, it's dangerous, down playing the severity of this pandemic and that gets room for the deniers to act recklessly so those who are down playing this have blood on their hands. >> dr. baeth, thank you so much and we appreciate what you and your colleagues are doing. you have been called to do something incredibly dangerous that you didn't sign up for and you answered the call and we appreciate it. >> thank you very much. a big university quarantining after an alarming

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six months into this pandemic, millions of americans are struggling to pay their bills, just today the labor department announced another 881,000 people filed for unemployment benefits first time last week. and all of this comes as congress is unable to reach a

deal on a second stimulus plan and is currently in recess. in houston, texas, where eviction moratoriums have been liftded some people are kicked out of their homes after falling behind on their rent payments. >> hello? constable! >> reporter: from one houston home -- to the next -- >> hello, constable. >> reporter: deputy gant with judge's orders to evict. >> hello? constable! >> we ain't got nowhere to go. >> reporter: he's not alone. 20-month-old israel his brother, 4-year-old fabian and their mother are some of the estimated 40 million americans facing eviction in the downward spiral of the covid economy. >> get everything you need. >> reporter: rodriguez hasn't been paying rent behind thousands of dollars. >> it's my fault on the eviction. it was a lot going on in the

corona. i lost my job and took a month to get another job. this is my check but i ain't making it with $300. literally $300. >> reporter: the stroller not carries their possessions. >> it's mainly the kids' clothes because we wear the same clothes almost every day. make sure we got toilet paper and snacks for the kids. >> reporter: what will you do with the stuff? >> trash. we don't have a car, we don't have help. nobody that can come and help us out right now. nobody. we have ourselves, me and the kids and her. that's it. >> reporter: how do you feel as law enforcement for that family to go? >> i have six kids, six children. and, you know? the kids see the mom and dad and desperate situation, it is tough. >> reporter: deputy gant an officer for 35 years is just starting his day. eight evictions on his list. >> codefendant is here. >> reporter: at each stop --

people behind on rent are ordered to leave. possessions, pulled out. >> where are you guys going to go now? >> a hotel. >> reporter: go to a hotel? >> constable! >> reporter: wokking through the list, we get word that 200 eviction orders have come through the harris county courts for the week and double for an entire month before covid. 200 on monday? what does that -- >> a lot, yeah. >> reporter: what does that say to you? >> ready to start having people removed from properties. >> reporter: it is a backlog. but it's also just one precinct in one of america's hard es hit cities in evictions. the job takes its toll. >> i don't really want to put her out here. but i have to. under this judge's order. >> reporter: at this apartment, the tenant is an elderly woman who cannot afford the rent.

the landlord's mover works though he doesn't want to. >> i have a family. i have a sister. my mom. and we never know. maybe today her, tomorrow it is me. you know? >> reporter: midway through the eviction, deputy gant decides it's too dangerous to evict her in the houston summer heat and will call social services instead. >> tomorrow you leave. >> reporter: a one-day reprieve with an uncertain tomorrow. >> you have a situation where people aren't working, don't have money and desperate. >> reporter: the con stabstable office put a hold on evictions trying to sort what does the cdc nationwide eviction moratorium mean. locally there is quite a bit of confusion and questions about whether this will be effective at all. kyung lah, cnn, houston, texas. >> thank you for that powerful

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colleges and universities across the country are monitoring coronavirus cases on campus through testing and we are following the latest developments. today ohio state university reporting more than 250 new cases just in a 24-hour period. this as dr. fauci warned students not to go home if they get infected but to be on campus. cnn's evan mcmorris-santoro is tracking this for us. what's the situation starting with ohio? >> reporter: this is the story across the country. ohio state university's within of the nation's largest universities as you know and reporting a large outbreak of coronavirus. many schools posting online the

pandemic dashboard and it shows 882 cases since mid-august and 4.5% and 5% is what we consider a high positivity rate, brianna. >> certainly. one of the big concerns is students socializing off campus. the university of indiana reporting a sharp increase in the greek system. >> reporter: that's right. colleges administrators throughout this early days of the fall semester complaining of off campus parties and fraternity and so rrority house are a problem of that. 30 houses have been ordered to quarantine and all non resident activities suspended until september 14th. the school took that step after indiana university officials said there was an alarming increase in cases among people in the greek system. >> and let's tack a look at the

university of georgia because they have seen this staggering increase more than 800 new infections. >> reporter: that's right. what schools are trying to do about the rise in cases happening all over the country is essentially tell students to please behave and in georgia that's what's happening. the school with 821 cases reported last month and the president said, look, students need to take it seriously and need to social distant. we know that as long as there's been colleges there have been college administrators complaining that students party too much and dangerous to their health. it's not really totally taking hold it appears. tracking 25,000 coronavirus cases at colleges and universities in 37 states in the opening weeks of the fall semester. >> all right. thank you so much. the u.s. right now averaging

12.7 cases per 100,000 residents, one state with a rate of infection more than double the national average, alabama. but still the state is pressing ahead with reopening and this week all buffets, salad bars and self serve drink stations given the green light to open. there's an employee enforcing social distancing and providing and encouraging the use of hand sanitizer. the real question will be do people feel safe eating this way again? are they coming back? i'm joined by j.j. nelson, owner and general owner of barn yard cafeteria. thank you for being with us. what was in your decision to change the name obviously of your establishment? it was barn yard buffet. tell us why you did that. >> thank you for having me, ms. taylor. well, the word buffet is just like an albatross around your

neck right now. it is not safe. it's got a stigma. my business disappeared overnight so we had to do something, had to adapt somehow. it was a pretty easy transition for us to go to cafeteria style. we had to increase the labor costs a fair amount, hire extra people to make plates but still unlimited portions, they can go through the line as much as they want, people eat moderate portions and the food waste is way down and the food costs down is only thing that's getting me by right now. >> so the food costs are down making up for the increase cost of labor to transition but you, with this -- your restaurant is in alabama. you are joining us from tennessee but if you did, would you transition back to buffet since you can? would you do that?

>> well, we used to have a lot more customers. i miss them so if it were safe for them then maybe but personally i just -- i don't feel comfortable sharing utensils with other people right now. my grandma is 95 and my son is 3 and immuno compromised. we were ranked number one in alabama before this and full every sunday, 500 covers just on sunday. we were fortunate enough to get the ppp loan. we were told at the time it was an eight-week parameter to spend it on payroll and overhead and did spend it at that rate hoping the sales would recover in that time but when they didn't there was no second ppp and extended the forgiveness period a little too late for most of us so the money was gone. we had no choice but to make layoffs. we have gone from more than 40 people down to less than 30. my managers are taken pay cuts.

my mom and i have foregone the salaries entirely the last few weeks, had to supplement the business account from the personal accounts now. a couple times and there's only so many times we can do that so 30 of us who are left could really, really used some more assistance. >> yeah. i mean, you must be looking towards washington and wondering what's going on, right? you need the help. they're not here. i can sense the toll this is taken on you, j.j. must be incredibly frustrating from running a successful business and here you now, adjusting but feeling like you're hung out to dry. >> a little bit. you know? president of the united states could save thousands of lives by leading by example and wearing a mask and won't keep it on most of the time. the cdc told us not to wear

masks at the beginning of this and now that numbers are actually recovering a little bit in a.labama it was my understanding they were bet we are the mandatory mask order and feels like we're taking a step back because here it's controversial. 70% of people still refuse to wear the mask despite the order and she is, the governor, trying to play both sides, make people feel safer and then restoring rights and i wish that the politicians would just lead and be honest with us about the shared sacrifice that we all need to be making right now. >> on this buffet order, people don't want to wear masks, not going to wear them even if there is a mandate and as they reopen buffets maybe if business owners decide they're going to go to a

buffet style, you are someone that isn't, but if you have these regulations in place like there's an employee who is in charge of enforcing social distancing and encouraging people to use hand sanitizer, do you have any concerns about whether that would be effective? >> absolutely. encourage is all you can do without alienating the customers. most of them won't wear masks but -- oh. i just -- like you say, doesn't make sense from a business perspective. with my labor costs up here, if i go back to a buffet style, my food cost jumps back up and margins is so slim it is business suicide right now. just feels like politics putting over people's lives. >> j.j. i thank you so much for coming on. >> been a pleasure. >> many, many business owners just like you, the especially

alarming part, you are not unique in the situation but a lot of people trying to navigate this and thank you so much for sharing your story with us. >> my pleasure. thank you so much again. next, the rock will reveal how he and his family were infected by coronavirus and his advice for getting through the infection. plus, should you wear masks during sex? canada's top doctor says, yes? she'll explain. and the president suggests voters in north carolina vote twice which is illegal. please don't do that. how he's trying to walk that back today. ♪

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things we have ever had to endure as a family and for me personally, too, as well. i have gone through some doozies in the past and had my [ bleep ] kicked but testing positive for covid-19 is much different than overcoming nasty injuries or being evicted or even being broke which i have been more than a few times. and the reason why i feel like this is different is because my number one priority is to always protect my family. and protect my children, my loved ones. by did way, i know i speak for all of you, it is our number one priority, all of you guys around the world and want to protect your family and babies. so -- i wish it was only me who tested positive but it wasn't, it was my entire family so it was a real kick in the gut. for our babies, jazzy and tia, they have a ltittle sore throat

and then bounced back and they -- it's been life as normal. happy babies running around and playing but we have isolated ourselves as a family, it's what we had to do but lauren and i, it was a little bit different, we got through it but a rough go and picked up covid-19 from very close family friends. and these are people who we love and trust, people who we still love and trust and devastated that they were the ones that picked it and no idea where they picked it up. they're devastated it led to them infecting our family with it. luckily we were able to control and mitigate it and didn't spread out of control. >> and the staggering new detail on how the coronavirus pandemic is walloping the nation's economy. the u.s. debt projected to overtake the entire deficit next year. the first time the federal debt

outsized the nation's economy since 1946 just after world war ii. now here are other coronavirus headlines that cnn correspondents are following. >> in miami, the miami-dade schools police department has made an arrest after the school district was cyber attacked three days in a row. according to the police, a 16-year-old has been arrested on two counts including one count of computer use in an attempt to defraud which is a third-degree felony. the police say the teenager admitted to eight other attacks and said there are other attackers out there and preliminary information shows that the sources of these attacks are both foreign and domestic. >> i'm kaitlan collins at the white house and watching today the second departure at the fda communications team within less than a week.

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the presidential debates are set and fox news's chris wallace will monitor the first between president trump and joe biden. the debate commission giving the september 29th face-off to fox despite propaganda, dishonesty

and the fact that some fox hosts advise president trump. c-span and nbc's kristen welker for debates two and three. oliver darcy is joining me. oliver, you have a lot of fox news hosts accused of and on the other happened, you have chris wallace, who has certainly challenged the president on a number of issues. i know those are interviews i have appreciated as he's done them. >> chris wallace is a talented journalist and done a really good job in the past moderating debalts. this is a lot bigger than chris wallace. >> you have to keep in mind they have trafficked in lies. they've made discrediting other

news organizations and journalists a core tenant of their programs. you have hosts on the network, who are literally advising the president. so, when chris wallace is awarded the first debate by the commission on presidential debates, a nonpartisan group that selects the groups and operates them. it's a slap in the face 92 other news organizations and other journalists who have endured venomous attacks because of their insistence on telling the truth no matter how costly it is. chris wallace is a great journalist. but when he gets awarded this spot and when fox news is efelktively bolstered by this commission on presidential debates by giving them the first debates, it really -- it doesn't sit well i think with a lot of people wondering why they're being rewarded when they've caved and pedalled the president's lies on so many occasions. >> we've seen another

influential conservative figure, matt druj, turn against president trump, even though he supported trump in 2016. let's look at some of the headlines from the drudge report. and president trump took particular exception about one involving his particular visit to walter reed last fall. he called it fake news. what does it say when someone like mike drudge coming out like this? >> this is a total opposite of what his website was doing when he was questioning the hillary clinton and needling her. now, he's needling trump. drudge was one of trump's top supporters in 2016. he navigated him through the primaries,to the extent ted cruz was saying it's a mouth piece for the trump campaign.

so, to see drudge now turning on the president is remarkable. whether it has any effect, i'm not sure. i think it might have a few years ago when they were able to turn news sites towards their preferred narrative. and you haven't really seen other conservative talk show hosts, websites really follow the narrative that he's been setting on his own website. >> all right. thank you so much for bringing this report to us. we appreciate it. the dow falling more than 800 points after hitting record highs. is this a warning sign of what's to come? plus, a warning from dr. anthony fauci about the coming holiday weekend.

we have breaking news. markets plummeting after a record high just yesterday. you can see on the big board, just down a little over 780 points. the nasdaq and s&p also down. i want to go live to allison. tell us why we're seeing this. >> reporter: investors certainly making a mad dash for the commits after several weeks of record highs and that may be all that there is to why we're seeing this kind of sell off is we're seeing investors take profits off the table after this

record run. yesterday, as you mentioned, the s&p 500, nasdaq reached record highs and crossing 12,000 for the first time ever. this major u-turn happening just as we got those better than expected unemployment numbers. first-time unemployment claims fell below the 1 million mark and this could be the precursor to the august jobs report. there could be nervousness about what we could see with the jobs report. even if we see 1 million jobs added in august, it's a drop in the bucket. we learned 29 million americans are receiving some sort of unemployment assistance at this moment. there's uncertainty about how americans are fairing in this economy and uncertainty over what congress is doing. we're waiting for a relief package and everyone knows that is going to effect the economy directly. >> thank you so much for that.

top of the hour now. and for the second day in a row, the u.s. is reporting more than 1,000 people dying from coronavirus in a single day. more than 1,000 families have lost a mother, grandmother, someone they love to the pandemic. which has cut short over 186,000 livelies across the country. the u.s. is averaging 1,000 cases a day. still too high with a compounding problem of a flu season rapidly approaching. and for the labor day weekend ahead, dr. anthony fauci is warning people against gathering and pleading with them to wear mask and socially distance. after past holiday weekends have led to spikes in infections.