hello, welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world, i'm michael holmes. you are watching cnn "newsroom" just ahead on the program. more backlash from president trump's comments about fallen soldiers. now we are hearing he made controversial remarks about americans who served in vietnam. as if one typhoon isn't bad enough, this hour japan facing its second storm in less than a week. the kentucky derby like no other, no fans in the stands, a

res suit call for change. a report from louisville coming up. new insights at this hour on a story that infuriated veterans and riled the white house. a former trump official confirmed to cnn the allegations made in the atlantic magazine that president trump made crude and remarks about u.s. troops in 2018. other news including fox news and "the washington post" corroborated parts of the atlantic report. but the president and several current and former members of his administration continue to strongly deny the accusations. and now there is a new wrinkle. another source says mr. trump

has repeatedly questioned the service of the vietnam veterans. cnn jeremy dimon with details. >> reporter: well, the white house is still reeling from this report in the atlantic magazine that president trump referred to american soldiers who lost their lives in a critical battle in world war i as losers and suckers as he was deciding to not attend a ceremony at a cemetery where some of those warheads were buried. now a senior official is confirming jim acosta that the president did, indeed, refer to those american war dead in crude and derogatory terms. of course, president trump and the white house vehemently denied the story, insisting the president has the outmost respect for service members. the president saying what kind of animal would refer to dead american service members in such a fashion. nonetheless, now a senior administration official confirming the president did, indeed, make those comments.

in addition, another source familiar with some of the president's remarks told cnn the president repeatedly questioned why vietnam war veterans would have served in that war, suggesting those service members did not know how to get out of the draft, how to work the system much in the way the president, himself, did. we know president trump received multiple educational deferments to avoid serving in the vietnam war and he ultimately receives a medical deferment after he got a doctor's note claiming the president had bone spurs making him ineligible for military service. >> mr. trump has also publicly disparaged public veterans, jim mattis and former chief of staff john kelly and the late senator john mccain, general markt mark

hurtling says the president does not understand the military's function. >> every time he talks about how he helps the military, it's usually related to transactional events. i've given them more pay. i've given them more money for their budget. all of which is true, but there are some things you can debate, getting military force out of the countries because they're not paying enough. it all has to do with mon they' monetary transactions. how do we insure we take care of each other, not guarantee a monetary return but care for one another so there's a lack of understanding him to the military, the military to him. black lives matter protesters are out again in portland, oregon. they're making 100nates now of demonstrations there. and this comes a night after authorities declared an unlawful

assembly outside a police building where crowds scuffled with officers. 27 people arrested there. portland, of course, has become an epicenter for the movement and the protests have become violent at times. protesters also took to the streets calling for justice in another high profile police killing. demonstrators marched outside saturday's kentucky kerby in louisville where brianna taylor was killed. >> reporter: well, the demonstration ended where it began at a park just about a mile away from churchill downs. at one point the numbers were in the thousands as they got to the churchill downs, marched around the perimeter. and just has the race got up to date way, they stood, shouted, voiced all of their concerns, voiced their message which is trying to get justice for brianna taylor.

there were some concerns whether or not this protest would be peace. whether or not it would be non-violent. we spoke to one of the organizers that said this was a protest that went off just the way it should have. >> we talking to you right now was a part of our plan. we wanted the world to see. we wanted everyone to see and understand that we're not happy. we're not satisfied with what the attorney general was doing, what the mayor is doing. we want justice for brianna taylor. who ill that race was going on, people were forced to pay attention to what was going on outside of churchill downs. and we did so non-violently. but we will continent to do that. >> you didn't have the thousands upon thousands of fans who would normally be there as they were leaving. no matter to the demonstrators out their today who feel their point got across, which is to make sure they will not let up on the demonstrations until they seek justice for brianna taylor. jason carroll, cnn, louisville,

kentuc kentucky. it is now the labor day weekend in the u.s. we've had public health officials pretty worried. that's because previously holiday weekends they had linked to more coronavirus infections. the nation's top coronavirus expert, dr. anthony fauci is urging caution. that means wearing masks, social distancing and avoiding large crowds, but we are expecting big crowds at beaching all around the u.s., especially parts of california likely to get a heat wave. cnn's tom foreman reports. >> reporter: brace yourself for more super spreader events. that's message from official who's feel traveling over the holiday the pandemic could spike. just as we enter fall and the flu and other illnesses must come into play. >> we use labor day to take the

day off. unfortunately, the virus doesn't. >> we don't want to go into that with another surge, it is an important weekend. >> infections shot up after memorial day and the fourth of july, too, despite warnings against big social gatherings, like that motorcycle rally in south dakota, which produced dozens of cases, private parties and numerous family events, like the wedding reception earlier this year that left a new jersey woman and three of her children dead, all that, president trump keeps mocking joe biden for wear ac mask. >> did you ever see a man that likes a macas much as him? >> reporter: still, health experts say imagine an outdoor barbecue, they created this chart show nothing attend an event like that, your risk could be relatively low, depending on whether people are shouting and singing. stay longer, it gets worse. take off your mask a while, worse still and without a mask

for a long time, the risk explodes. especially if the party moves endoors. so images like these are raise eight harm bells. hundreds of students at iowa state seemingly ignoring safety precautions. >> are you worried about coronavirus or not? >> no, really. >> i personally think it's a hoax. >> i don't think it's a hoax. but i think if i were to get it, i'd survive. >> that is the attitude driving yet another warning this holiday from health experts, watching college students on campuses everywhere. >> putting them on airplanes and you know sending them home to their parents doesn't make sense. >> if people listen, the reward could be huge. a new projection from the university of washington says with universal masking, the u.s. could see 300,000 deaths by the end of the year. but if restrictions are eased too soon, that number could be doubled by the new year's

holiday. tom foreman, cnn, washington. the "wall street journal" reporting that some coronavirus vaccine-makers are promising not to seek out premature fda approval. at least three companies joined this unusual pledge, but this might not be enough to insure many americans about a potential vaccine at record speed and politicized by the u.s. president. democratic vice president nominee kamela harris shared her own concerns with cnn's dana bash. have a listen if past is pro logged, they will be muzzled, suppressed, side lined. >> let's say there is a vaccine that is approved and even distributed before the election, would you get it? >> well, i think that's going to be an issue for all of us.

i will say that i would not trust donald trump and it would have to be a credible source of information that talks about the efficacy and the reliability of whatever he's talking about. i will not take his word for it. >> and you can watch the full interview with vice presidential candidate kamela harris on "state of the union" sunday 2:00 p.m. london 9:00 p.m. in hong kong right here on cnn. let's turning our attention now to india, where health officials are alarmed as the number of covid-19 cases there passes 4 million. saturday marked the third consecutive day where india reported more than 80,000 new coronavirus infections. we have more on this disturbing surge from new delhi. >> reporter: congested streets, crowded markets. india's exponential agrees with covid-19 numbers has done little to deter people from venturing

out. >> people thought that once the numbers started to go down, this was it. they had won the war and everybody was out and everybody was you know out there, without wearing a mask, without any social distancing. without sanitizer. >> reporter: it took india five-and-a-half months to surpass the cases, it's added more than 3 million infections. medicaler, perts say one of the reasons for the big surge is testing. india will soon reach more than a million a day. >> now twice when we set our target to do one tests much before the targeted date. >> reporter: a significant increase in case load has been reported in rural areas, where the public health system is

extremely poor. >> it's spreading in the rural area. it is mainly affecting the seven states of this country, which are responsible for almost 75% of the cases. >> reporter: india's low fatality and high recovery rates to explain its numbers. the medical experts say this has made people complacent. >> i think it's because of the mixed messages that we are putting out. we're not telling people exact lip what is going on. we are giving them half -- recovery dates and not telling the exact gravity of the situation. >> reporter: forced repeated lockdowns have left the government to relax restrictions. the malls, restaurants and temples already reopened. subway trains will be back on track for monday. another possible hazard in the times of covid. the fastest-growing case load in the world india is on track to

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parts of southwestern japan. this was a scene on the island earlier. winds have topped 120 miles per hour, equivalent to a haji 3 hurricane. officials are concerned residents won't evacuate due to the threat of the coronavirus. this is the third storm to hit the region in less than two weeks. let's bring in meteorologist derek van dam. what are you seeing? >> yeah. good day, michael. this storm is a beast. this is what all the preparation has been about. the storm now lashing the islands. you saw the island getting battered with that strong winds and the heavy rain. the preparations have been rushed to completion economy in the kyushu island, that is where the storm will edge closer and closer. this is the latest. 175 kilometers per hour. this makes it equivalent to a

category 2 atlantic hurricane. there is a bit of silver lining here. as we saw yesterday at this time, a weakening trend started. it commenced and continued over the past day. on the satellite image, it's very clear what is happening. so the center of the storm, the strongest part of the typhoon or hurricane is known as the eyewall. that's on the periphery of the center void of cloud cover is located. that has become more ragged. it indicated to me as a meteorologist that the storm continued to weaken and the cloudtops have cooled as well so again another seen it's breaking down. there is the island. it's just moved to the north and east. we saw some video footage coming out of that area. they were on the western flank or portions of this part of the storm. now, the official forecast draft from the joint typhoon warning center still has a weakening

storm within the next 12 hours. 130 kilometer per hour sustained winds, that's a hurricane equivalent as it reaches south korea. so let's time it out for perhaps anyone watching overseas in japan or throughout the korean peninsula you have family or friends located in this region. we do expect this to move away from the air force base. so conditions will be improving there. some of the west-facing bays and inlets getting a surge of water, storm sturgeon, potential high across this region. very heavy rain, tropical storm to hurricane force wednesday. then as we head into monday, a mid-day rain tropical system into south korea just lightly to the west and by the way this is a very similar location to a typhoon that made landfall not one week ago. so this area is very saturated.

it been battered and to make matters worse, they got another system coming in. rainfall will lead to flash flooding certainly. lots of hazarded on the ground. >> absolutely. thank you very much. now, we've got on the line james reynolds who is a storm chaser. he took the videos that we were seeing just earlier and we'll play again as he speaks. good to have you, my friend, what are conditions like where you are? >> it's been pretty rough, michael. the storm is starting to pull away from me. it's a large system and it's packing these really heavy rain bands and there are strong wind ripping off the ocean and i think that's going to continue for the next few hours. >> compared to other typhoons you are covered and you've covered a few, how seriously have people been taking this storm? >> well, the local people here have been taking this storm

seriously. other typhoons on the japanese islands, i've never seen so many precautions taken ahead of this storm. most of the buildings are boarded up. most of the homes are filled with local people evacuating from their homes. so the flash flooding and i think the sheer size of this typhoon is just in the middle of the heavy rain, people have been taking extra precautions with this one, michael. >> and, you know, as i said, you have covered a lot of these. what is your sense on how bad this one is compared to others you have seen up close? >> well, i think it will be okay. my main worry is the japanese island of kyushu. this is an island that is exceptionally vulnerable to flash flooding, mudslides. we've seen that earlier this year. you get a big typhoon like this dumping huge amounts of rain. it's a recipe for desert.

of course, our friends in south korea are getting another hit of a typhoon that will hit this country. >> what's your sense of how far the island is through this? i mean, are they mostly the way through it? halfway through? what's your feeling? >> well, the good news is i think within the next four or five hours the worst of it should be most cleared or hopefully by this evening, it should be a case of clearing up and getting back to normal as quickly as possible. >> thank you for spending time with us in japan. all right. british police have arrested more than a dozen climate activists, this after they've blocked several rupert murdock-owned newspapers. these are members of the distinction rebellion group. particularly known in the uk. they claim that right wing media are not reporting on the climate

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views here in the united states and all around the world. i am michael holmes. northeastern university in boston has suspended 11 first-year students for the fall semester. the school says those students report gathering together in one room not social distancing as the rules clearly laid out told them to do. the university had warned it would take a hard line on covid-19 violations and the students will not have their tuition refunded and that's not cheap $36,000 a semester. meanwhile, the university of wisconsin madison says nine off campus so roar tis and from tern tis must quarantine taken 14 days because 48 students tested positive for the coronavirus more on how the colleges are dealing with the virus. >> reporter: students across the country return to college campuses. >> this readjusting, trying to

feel normal. >> there is more on their minds thaern declaring a major. >> it doesn't feel real. >> like just about everything else in 2020, a day in the life of a college student looks and feels a whole lot different during a global pandemic. >> they're putting a lot of trust in us. right? we had put our best program in place to make this campus a safe place. >> reporter: at the university of georgia, dorm life is unconvention am as social distancing is enforce zpld we have social toilets, if you didn't know anybody, operations are rough. >> it's limited, economy with virtual learning. uxa is called professors sitting behind plexiglass. >> i am absolutely preaching this semester. >> what's it like? >> professor joe watson, jr.,

who teaches public affairs was elated to get back to what he called a sense of normalcy. >> it was comfortable when i saw the level of precautions a university was taking. >> that's not the impression for everyone, a column for the university's health policy called uga's plan inadequate and says it puts the campus in quote grave danger. >> we have students back on campus as well as our faculty and staff. >> professor of medical and uga medical campus dean is helping to lead the school's covid response smr we wanted to put in place something effective using a high level of testing. most importantly, we wanted a fast turn around. >> reporter: to make this happen, uxa set up their own coronavirus testing lab at their renowned vet school. >> i think we struck a nice

balance. >> right now it only has the ability to do about 500 free tests each day for asymptomatic students, staff and faculty. >> i had to go online, speak out and sign up. >> colleges have been getting a crash course in covid management, many aren't making the grade. university of alabama students had to have a negative test before coming back to campus. more than 1,200 students tested positive. after brief in-person classes, the university of north carolina and temple switched back to online courses following outbreaks. >> we have about 8400 in dorms here. 32,000 are here in athens off campus. so that is a challenge of every university. >> dianne gallagher, cnn, athens, georgia. >> and with me now to talk more about the coronavirus and college campuses is infectious

disease expert. thanks so much for being with us. the president very publicly pushed for schools including colleges to reopen and also sports like college football to resume. you know, as colleges, in particular, start the new semester, paint us a broad picture of what has happened in terms of spread around the country. >> thank you, michael, for having me on. first of all, i want to state that colleges reopening in the midst of a pandemic is completely irresponsible. we have seen what has happened with colleges reopening. university of north carolina at chapel hill had an outbreak and they sent their students home back to the communities where they came from. what i mean by that is that they went on planes. they went on trains. they took long road trips to get home and only spread the virus to the community they were at. they also spread their virus obviously to their loved ones. what we areeing is outbreaks

inevitably happening in college campuses. the university of alabama with over 2,000 cases over just the course of about three weeks and their quarantine area that they have set aside is already at over 50% capacity. >> wow. >> which you wonder, do they really, were they really prepared? >> yeah. and to the point you touched on earlier, the same with the disease control and prevention of the cdc warns that universities including dorms were high risks they said like cruiseships and nursing homes. you were saying it is completely irresponsible for colleges to open up at all because it is a playground for the virus. what should happen now they are opened and the virus seems to be spreading in a petri dish? >> these colleges need to have protocols in place. so there is colleges that have to reopen.

they cannot send the students home. that i have to test. they have to have contact tracing in place in terms of having a gps system in place on the student's phones. but they can track the students not only on campus but out of campus. that's where the outbreaks are happening outside the dorm room setting, where they are socializing. they're partying. they're doing exactly what i would do, michael, when they were 18-to-22-years-old. they were socializing, that's where this virus thrive was. what these colleges need to do is they need to really take accountability for taking care of these students. >> you know, one thing i wanted to touch on was, you know, we talked a lot about lack of a national strategy when it comes to coronavirus across the board. there still is not a national strategy or guidance for schools in this country. so, that leaves them pretty ill

equipped, doesn't it? they are all going the right way. >> that is correct. there is often a national strategy for this virus since the beginning of the pandemic and in colleges, there has not been a national strategy. we have seen other countries have national stablgs put in place such as taiwan and they've succeeded very easily at opening up colleges and preventing outbreaks happening in this college setting. i want to take a step back in order to contain the virus, in a college setting, we have to contain the virus in the u.s. the u.s. is the number one hot spot for this pandemic. unless we have gotten a grasp of this virus in the u.s., there is no way we could expect 18-to-22-years-old children to actually follow these policies. >> you talked earlier, younger people, they generally speaking do better than older people,

particularly those with co-morbidities in dealing with the virus. the risk is when those young people head home and who they might give it to. >> correct. yes. that's where there is a risk. they go back to their community setting and it's just inevitable that they will cause an outbreak in that community setting that they came from. they're asymptomatic. they are harboring the virus. they may display science and symptoms five days after they've come back into that community. at that point they have come into contact with so many individuals. they've put their family members at risk. they will put their communities they are from at risk. it's just a bad situation. >> yeah, it is, it goes back to what we are talking about before, the lack of a national strategy. other colleges, they had many lockdowns like people staying in the dorm and all the rest of it, but again it speaks to this issue that there is no sort of

overview of recommendation. in a broader sense, what can colleges do to control an outbreak? or as you said, a imthe father of two college kids. how do you control the behaviors among a group of people that will do what they will do as college students? >> i think you have to create a safe zone for these students. these students want to feel they're in a safe place where they can be open about whether they have the virus and whether they have been exposed and not have measures put in place as you've seen at northeastern university which you highlighted earlier, where 11 first-year students had been having dismissed. there is tuition that they have to forfit and you know that's something first of all has to be put in place, a safe zone for these students. there has to be testing in place, contact tracing and those

measures to really quarantine the students. what i mean by that is that there has to be dorm-room settings set aside for those students which have tested covid positive and then those students which have been exposed to covid as well. >> quickly, how much political pressure do you think there was? as i said at the beginning of shinterview, the president pushed hard for colleges to be opened and he wants colleges to play football. do you think that is harmed from, you know, are you a medical professional from a medical professional's point of view, do you think that has impacted this? >> i think that definitely has and that's why you are seeing such a juxtaposition of what's happening in certain parts of the u.s. you see the south college football restarted, in other parts of the u.s., you do not see that happening. again it all goes back to there being a national uniform here

and in really handling this virus. there is political pressure and that has unfortunately put innocent students at rick and loved ones as well where they've sponsor ed the virus. college is a never ending festival of a super spreader event. that's what we're going to see. >> doctor, i really appreciate your time, thanks, so much. >> thank you. well, it has been a turbulent ride for the airlines this year. but maybe just maybe the covid clouds are starting to clear a little. what you will face as an airline passenger when we come back.

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welcome back. after thousands upon thousands of layoffs, furloughs and early retirements in the airline industry, not to mention the billions of dollars lost, finally a small glimmer of hope,

slowly, more people are taking to the skies. nn has the story. >> reporter: the lines here are pretty thin compared to a normal holiday weekend. air travel is a fraction of what it was a year ago. the tsa thinks a number of people passing security at america's airports will break a new record of the pandemic over the holiday weekend. the high point on thursday was ten times the low point seen back in april. the tsa thinks 9,000 people will have flown on friday. but that official number will not be out until tuesday. those flying are facing an entirely new security. they are asked to take anythingr everything out of your pockets, bypassing the typical trays. sa employees are blocked by acrylic screen. the goal is to protect you and workers about 1,800 of them have now tested positive for coronavirus since the pandemic began.

one other way of social distance is being tested here for the first time at reagan national airport. a new machine will scan your i.d. and also your face to prove that it's really you. you beliefly have to drop your mask in order for that to happen. airlines are starting a check-in all the way to your flight. delta says it has band about 270 passengers for refusing to wear one. that averages out to three a day since delta's policy went into place. it has been a strange here hasn't it to say the least? at churchill downs, the roofs tried to restore a little normalcy. fans were empty for this year's kentucky derby, where there would normally be 150,000 spectators, many with spectacular hats, there were none. a local newspaper stated, yes,

this is weird that vibe carried through to the horses. you saw there, a thousand words flipping in the paddock ahead of the race got spoofed. he did not take part in the run. this year's run for the roses longed to authentic. which pulled off an upset over the favorite 'tis the law. he freaked out too, in the winner's circle. world class athletes are used to having their pictures taken. for a select few, the pictures are literally out of this world him up next, how a visit to the outer space and the olympics are connected. you are watching cnn. we'll be right back.

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>> reporter: if we could introduce ourselves to an alien life form, what would we say? >> hello from the children of planet earth. >> what you're doing is something very important. you are trying to make contact with other civilization. >> both voyages carry a phonograph record, a message. >> i was look for aimages in 10 different topics, agriculture, family, medicine. sports is only one. if you choose one sporting event that is global and most

representative of humanity, it's the olympics, and one athletic that is basic to all sports that is running. >> and what if the athletes are never told and they didn't learn the truth until decades later. this will outlive our planet. i just wonder how you feel about that? >> well -- it's just not something you can wrap your mind around. but your heart can and your imagination can. >> and world sports anchor don riddell tells me. for space enthusiasts, the golden record is a well-known story. this is a new angle.

>> i sat in this very room a couple years an i go watching a documentary about the golden wrord, and i was absolutely captivated. and at some point it, they flashed the images on the screen and these are some of the 120 pictures they put on the screen to basically tell the whole story of humanity. there is clearly a picture of four sprinters at the olympics. and it was only on the screen for half a second. but i was just thinking, boy, that is interesting they picked that actage. and i started doing research and i quickly figured out, this is a story that was put on there for a number of reasons. but i didn't seem to me they told the runners they were even on it. so i began to research that, and realized they were never told. and when i thought about what the mission represents and why the photographs are on there, and i realize the images were going to outlast this planet, one day, the planet will not be

here and this spaceship will still be going and they will be the last remnants of humanity, and the idea of tracking them down was a really exciting adventure for me. >> were you able to find out why you were not told? and what was their reaction when you told them? >> well, they weren't told simply because the research team didn't think they had to. they only had six weeks to put this whole thing today, which is an extraordinary mission in itself. six weeks to tell the story of planet earth and humanity. they knew they had to get the clearance of the copyright holders. whoever owned the rights to the images. that was no easy task in itself. they are professional athletes, they are competing in public spaces. so they signed away their rights. i don't think the research team considered the ramification of asking these people. when i eventually found them,

some of them had found out laterally by accident they were on voyager. i don't think they ever understood why they were selected. some had no idea. three of them had want seen the photograph until i showed them, and said, do you know what it means and represents and they had no idea. ify their some of them, they just couldn't find the words to articulate it. it's so deep. it's so profound, and she had the worlds to put around it. she said, you know, it's not something you can put words around. but you are wrap your heart around it, you can wrap your imagination around it. and then she said, this is one of the most propoufound thing t can ever happen to you. behind having kids, being born and dying this is so profound to

be a representative of humanity. it doesn't get bigger than that. >> and quickly too. i mean, you have been around a while, and i think you said this was your favorite story in 25 years. is that right? and why? >> yeah, i think so. i mean, i can't think of thinking more important than this. i mean, especially now in a time when it's hard to find a story that don't have a political angle and we live in a divisive world. to be a part of a story that is really out of though world and to be responsible to imperforming the people they are a part of something to magnificent, that is a neat feeling. >> yeah, it is. great work and congratulations on the piece. people can check it out online. thanks. >> thank you. and you can check it out online. read more about this on cnn.com

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