a grand slam in the last half century. amazing work by all of them. congrats, ladies. thanks so much for joining us today. we'll see you back here tomorrow. i'm poppy harlow. >> tweet us who you think those three moms are, because we think we have the answer and we'll tweet them back. i'm jim schutteo. "news room" with john king starts right now. hello, everybody. i'm john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. today is back-to-school day for millions of american students and also a stark reminder that most everything is still disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. just a snapshot here of the 16 largest school districts starting school today, 14 are doing it fully online. more than 7.3 million students beginning the academic year not in a classroom but on a computer at home. when it will be safe to return remains a big open question. the speed of the vaccine race, well, that's one factor. the trajectory of the new case

count is another and some positive signs today, but it's going to take us a week, a little bit more to know if labor day weekend like holidays before it contributes to a spike in new infections. today is is also eight weeks to election day. the president is the traveling to two big battleground states. the environment his focus in florida and an evening airport rally in north carolina. the second presidential visit to north carolina in a week. that a reminder that the president's trials include states that are absolutely essential to his re-election math and while many of you were testing the sool's school log-in the president was attacking joe biden, black lives matter protesters and taking aim at democratic governors saying, quote, the democrats will open up their states on november 4th, the day after the election, that's his complaint. he says shutdowns are ridiculous and only being done in the president's view to hurt the economy prior to the most important election perhaps in our history. a constant refrain from the president in recent days is that a vaccine should be ready by election day.

well, today, nine biopharmaceutical companies that are rivals signed a remarkably unusual joint pledge to uphold high ethical standards and be certain they say science alone dictates any vaccine approval requests. fooirds's ceo says it's absolutely critical that you, the people who need these vaccines, trust the process. >> with increasing public concerns about the processes that we're used to go develop these vaccines and even more importantly the processes that will be used to evaluate these vaccines we saw this critical to come out and reiterate our commitment. we will develop our products, our vaccines use the highest ethical standards and the most scientific review process. >> there are positive trend lines when we look at the numbers but question is is it just a blip coming out of a holiday weekend, or are we getting better control of the virus? let's take a being loop. look at the 50-state trend

ma'am. 11 states reporting new infections now than a week ago. you see them in the orange and the red. florida and arizona back trending up. the numbers not as high as they were in the summer surge and trending up in those two states but 24 holding steady and 15 states trending down. not fantastic but better than the map a few weeks ago. five states in terms of in infections yesterday, california, florida, illinois, michigan, north carolina, the midwest one the current problem zones as we look at it. the top five states in terms of reporting new deaths yesterday, texas, california, florida, pennsylvania and south carolina. every one of these numbers is horrible, but these numbers are a little bit lower than they have been in recent days. again, does that continue? let's hope so in that regard. if you look at the overall case trend, very important to note this h.below 25,000 new innecks reported yesterday but it was a holiday. the question is can it go down you? see sometimes the drops. the drops tend to come right out of a weekend and then things go back up, the baseline, about

40,000 new infections on average in the united states. it was 20,000, just below that, to start the summer so you had the summer surge, come down to labor day. the question is can you push it down more as we head to fall in the experts tell you that's critical or is this just a blip? stay with us throughout the week. we'll see what the numbers do there. the positivity rate is something that looks a little bit better. looking for signs of progress. on money the report was just shy of 5% of coronavirus tests nationally came back positive. all the public health experts say get it below 5 and try to shove it lower. it's at 5 at the moment but the question is can you keep it there and shut it down? here's where people get worried labor day weekend. were they out and in close crowd especially in states with a way higher 5% positivity. 20% in north dakota and 19% in south dakota and is a% iowa, 18% kansas and 13% florida and 17% in mississippi. do those states, can they push it down? does the holiday weekend bring it back up? that's one of the problems. look at new jersey on the map

right here. its positivity rate right now is 1%, remember back at the beginning, march and april, new york was driving everything, but it's in much better shape. 3 million coronavirus tests since the beginning in new jersey and 6% have come back positive and 94% negative it. the positivity rate at the moment down to 1%. governor of new jersey says we're in a good place but we won't let up. >> at this point we don't see any hot spots. we don't see any specific reason, but this is a virus that is still among us. it ebbs and flows. we'll do everything that we can to obviously monitor it and also put the policy in place that will keep it in a box, and that's what we're trying to do every day. let's continue the conversation. with me the center of public education at duke and dr. mcclellan. where are we? you see below 25,000 new

infections reported yesterday. let's hope that every infection is a bad thing but let's hope that trend line companies k.as you well know, sometimes out of a holiday weekend you get a bit of a blip in the data there, but if right now seven-day average, 40,000 new inforecasts, where does the united states of america need to push that baseline as we begin to go into the dangers of the fall? >> john, that was a great overview of some numbers that are still concerning in terms of their levels but for most part have been trending in the right direction. as you said, we won't really know of the consequences of what happened over labor day weekend, it takes a pile for the cases to to be identified. we want to get parents back to, would and if we can keep getting cases down, it makes it easier to reopen businesses successfully. these are trends we need to continue. it's challenging when we head

into the fall when people spend more time together. the good news in all of of this is we know steps that work, distancing it at work and wearing a mask personally and increased testing, especially for people who don't have symptoms and have to be in places together like in universitys and some essential workplaces. we do more of all of these things and keep trends going the right direction. >> among the many things you do is it advise the governor of texas, the summer surge with the biggest takes, arizona, texas, florida and california. we hope the numbers stay down. in the middle of the surge, that's when governor abbott got much more aggressive about max. i believe you're on the record that you thought bars opened too soon in texas. the governor did get very aggressive. we see now dr. birx of the coronavirus task force delivering reports to iowa, to missouri a few weeks back it was georgia urging the republican

governors there to impose a mask mandate, and they have resisted. would that help at this time. as you mentioned, kids going back to school, all the kids going back to campus. parents head willing back to work. should we develop a mask mandate at the moment? >> states that have ahospitaled mask mandates have had slower growth it's not only imposingps the mandate and what also mattered in tennias as accepts to enforce the public and it's not skrucht when you gather with people in your bloc yard and things on your open, these same distancing and mask rules are important to follow. i think the mask mandates at the state level can and do make a difference. arkansas has seen an impact as well but it needs to be backed

up with other steps, and that's hard for the national government to do by itself. it really needs to be, you know, as you said, we're all in this together. >> help me understand from your past experience as the fda commissioner, you have nine competitors coming together to sign a statement saying only science will dictate our decisions to ask for approval of a vaccine. they are trying to allay a lot of concerns that the president or others may have their thumb on the scale. imagine you're the fda commissioner and the president of the united states almost every day said this. >> we're going to have a vaccine very soon, maybe even before a very special date, you know what date i'm talking about. >> is that helpful? >> well, i think it's very unlikely that we're going to have a vaccine available even for emergency groups and high rfk workers, very unlikely that

that's going to happen before the election. lots of things have to go right and the concern is with ail the politics going on right now we need to remember that there's a strong regularity-based zins team who is watching very closely what's going on with the trials and laid out guidance what they expect to see and they expect to see real results on lowering the rate of infection and severity of infection in a vaccine before of it would even be used in an emergency limited situation. that's very unlikely to happen before the election. i think what you're seeing from industry, from public health experts, former fda commissioners like me is just a reminder to the american people that we have a good regulatory mechanism in place. we need to be sure to follow it. >> dr. mark mclellan, great for your insights and expertise. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. up next for us, the president at that press conference you saw a clip of there attacks his own military

leaders. more on that, but as we go to break. the president's former fixer michael cohen with a colorful choice of words to describe his longtime boss. >> i describe mr. trump as a cult leader, and i was in this cult. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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eight wreaks until election day and the president through his own words and tweets tellies he's more interested in grievances rather than selling you on his own next term agenda. 50 tweets attacking joe biden, the black lives matter movement and the media. he hits the road for two stops in battleground states, florida to promise to protect coastal waters from offshore drilling and later an evening rally in

north carolina. the president is trailing and top republicans say it's critical he reset voter perceptions about his coronavirus mismanagement. instead the president is use the country's most powerful stage just as he uses his tweets. yesterday you see him there. that's the north portico, the front door of the people's house. the president using that as a pulpit to tick through a series of grievances from rivals joe biden and kamala harris to his own military leaders. >> biden is a stupid person, you know that. you're not going to write it but you know that, biden and his very liberal running mate, the most liberal person in congress, by the way, not a competent person in my opinion. should immediately apologize for the reckless anti-vaccine rhetoric that they are talking right now. aim not saying the military is in love with me m.the soldiers are, the top people in the pentagon probably aren't because they want to do nothing but fight wars so that all of those

wonderful companies that make the bombs and make the planes and make everything else stay happy. >> with us to share their reporting and insight cnn's barbra starr and tamara keith, white house correspondent for npr rcmp the white house chief of staff trying to clean this up a bit today but that was the president directly attacking, questioning the integrity of his top pentagon officials now. mark meadows may be trying to say that's not what he meant but that's what he said. >> it is absolutely what he said, chief of staff meadows referencings saying he was talking about the military industrial complex, of course, a reference to general eisenhower's famous speech. not what president trump said directly attacking top officials saying they were going to war to benefit the defense companies. the military go to war because they are told to by the president of the united states, and he keeps them at war as he

so sees fit. right now, of course, troops are coming home. a lot of lessons to be learned from being in 19 years of continuous combat, but the president didn't address that. he just simply went after the top brass, and it is concerning to many wondering what the rank and fishlg troops out on the line are going to think about all of this. we don't really know yet, but it's unprecedented that anyone in the pentagon can remember that a commander in chief went of a his top officials that he in fact personally selected. >> john. >> and we see this when things get under the president's skip. he's upset by "the atlantic" report confirmed by many, even by fox news who has disparaged heroes in past wars so he can't let these things go. we did get a glimpse yesterday, republicans wish he would project more leadership on coronavirus and talk more about

joe biden and the economy. we did get a little bit of the joe biden and the economy part yesterday. >> yeah. >> joe biden, radical socialist democrats would immediately collapse the economy. if they got in, they will collapse it, you'll have a crash the likes of which you've never seen before, your stocks, your 401(k)s. the biden wants to surrender the country to the violence and surrender our families to the left wing mob and surrender our jobs to china. >> it's striking to me, tam race, number one, that is republicans would like him, we can fact check some of it, republicans would like for him to focus on the economy and coronavirus. it's always striking to me when you see the president reading his notes. that's what they want him to say. he doesn't often stick to it. >> and what was remarkable about yesterday is that, and i guess it's not that remarkable anymore because that keeps happening, that was essentially a campaign speech. that is what amounted to sort of a subdued version of one of his rally speeches with with the

same talking points and lines and criticisms of joe biden except it was happening from the white house option sensibly in a press conference. ultimately he did answer some questions, but that's been the president's argument. that was the president's argument in fact before the pandemic and before the economy crashed but that democrats would hurt your 401(k). that is something that president trump has opinion arcing for quite some time now. >> and park race, one. fascinating things is people defend the president when they are defending the president. this is john bolton, his form other national security adviser, these two men, of course, had a fall out but john bolton was questioning a specific when the president might have said something denigrating, might have said suckers or losers about fallen american heroes but listen to john bolton who said it didn't happen at this moment. listen. >> the president has a habit of disparaging people. he ends up denigrating almost everybody that he comes in

contact with whose last name is not trump, but at the critical point, saturday morning, when the decision was made not to go to the cemetery and he made the disparnling remarks, it is did not. >> as you well know, other reporters at other organizations have confirmed the gist, that the president has said disparaging things about fallen american heroes but it's striking to me someone in a national security people has a habit of disparaging people and den greats almost everyone that comes in contact with him. that is remarkable. >> it is, and it will be, you know, clearly up to the voters of this country to decide what they think about it but just go back for one second to yesterday. the president disparaged his own leadership in the united states basically accusing them of being war profiteers by supporting defense companies when it's very

much worth remembering that it's mr. trump who has touted increased military spending, that he's believes he's gotten for the military, touted overseas weapons contracts, billions of dollars of weapons contracts to saudi arabia that have benefited u.s. defense companies, words matter. facts matter. in this case the president clearly right on tape there, right in front of cameras, disparaging his own top leaders. there's really no question about it anymore. >> you say wards matter, facts matter. let's listen to poverty press conference yesterday where a lot of this is fact free. >> the united states has experimented among the lowest fatality rates of any major country in the world and we are an absolute leader in every way. i've taken in billions and billions of dollars from china. no other president has done what i've done. president obama and biden, sleepy joe, he knew everything that was happening. they were spying on my campaign and they got caught.

the. >> again, tamara, the best employment in the last four years has been as a fact checker in washington, d.c. when you watch him go through it, when he's falsely accusing biden and obama of spying on him, that's him, he's animated. reading the talking points, he's looking down and seems disinterested. >> yeah. when he reads from the script he doesn't have the energy. the when reriffs and he really riffs when he goes after former president obama, he perks up. you know, the fascinating thing about his focus on case fatality rates which has been something that has endured more months now is that epidemiologists and health officials is not the right thing to focus on and the sheer number of cases that continue to persist in the united states regardless of how many people are dying or not is holing the economy back which is one of the keys things that president trump wants to be able

to campaign on is the economic recovery that the fed chairman said in an interview that the's part of the recovery has happened and it's going to get harder from here. >> harder from here and you're so right. we went through a stretch in august two, three weeks, 1,000 americans were dying a day. there's nothing -- there's nothing, nothing to brag about or to compare to anybody else in that. tamara keith and barbara starr and the insights. the white house chief of star calling the post-master general louis dejoy an honorable man and ful wants him to fully cooperate with the house campaign finance activity. dejoy says he believes he followed the rules and the house oversight committee is launching an investigation after a damning "washington post" account that quoted employees of dejoy's former company saying they were asked to donate to republicans and then they were reimbursed for the donations. if the true, that is illegal.

the president's take, wait and see. i think let the investigations go. dwou think he should lose his job if he did something wrong? >> if something can be proven he did something wrong, always. >> cnn's manu raju tracking this for us. manu, somewhere this investigation going? >> we'll have to wait and see. carolyn maloney, the chairman of the committee, says she will have to go through the aftermath of that report when dejoy was heading the logistics company between 2003 and 2014 would reimburse employees for political donations that were made to republican candidates. north carolina doesn't have a statute of limitations and this

is illegal under federal law and north carolina law and democrats say they are going to investigate including claims that dejoy made to the house oversight committee in testimony last month where the democrats believe amounted to him essentially lying to their committee. this is what carol maloney said in her statement. she said if these allegations are true mr. dejoy could face criminal exposure for his actions in north carolina and for lying to a committee indoath. i believe the board of governors must take emergency action to immediately suspend mr. dejoy who they never should have selected in the first place. she's referring to that testimony in which he denied reimbursing contributions to the president's campaign so we'll see how that goes and plays out going forward but dejoy for his part issued his own statement from the u.s. postal service saying during his leadership of new breed logistics, a north carolina-based company, mr. dejoy sought and received

legal advice on elections law including the law of political contributions to ensure that he new breed logistics and any person affiliated with new breed fully complied with any and all laws. pllt dejoy believes that all campaign fund-raising laws and regulations should be complied with in all respects and, john, of course, hovering over all of this, the reason why this is so critical on the hishlg the focus object hill is because of questions over mail-in voting, whether or not ballots will be delayed in november. dejoy, of course, imposed policies that democrats believe could delay the elections. dejoy denied that and that's what's real driving all of this and we'll see if he does indeed cooperate with the investigation. his chief of staff mark meadows said he would this morning. >> not a great time to have leadership questions swirling around the head of the post office. eight weeks from today we count the votes. when we come back the

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colleges and universities that got off to a pretty good start now dealing with coronavirus headaches. the university of illinois, for example, began the school year with an innovative testing program and low positivity rate and urged students to stay on campus this holiday weekend and is asking them to stay away from large gatherings because of a spike in cases it attributes to irresponsible student behavior. this is a national dilemma. outbreaks at colleges and universities now in all 50 states with as many as 33,000 students infected that. number growing every day. timothy coline is the president of the university system which includes nearly 90,000 students. thanks for coming back to join us again. when we had the conversation a little bit back you were off to a strong start and your positivity rates were low. the one thing i will credit your school for, i read the e-mails, the transparency of the communications is very important at a time like this, but now you have a problem and this email says 95% of all new cases are

among undergraduate students. how many hand what happened? >> well, we have about -- probably 31,400 students who tested positive, but what i want to remind you all is we're testing everybody twice a week so we're not interested at parts at iceberg. we're looking at the whole iceberg. the number is still kind of low, .02, like a south korea number and our testing approach is doing what we hoped it would do, identifying early trends that could be disturbing, allowing us to take rapid action. >> listen here to one of your faculty members dr. martin burke and i read one of the e-mails at heat for some people instead of being tested twice a week, maybe we'll go to once a week and maybe we'll go to dr. burke today. >> as of today we're pivot our testing strategy a bit to focus even more on testing our undergraduates faster and potentially more frequently in some cases to follow the data and follow science and help make

sure the program can be as effective as possible. >> at the top you said you think you're doing well and even people doing well can learn lessons. what is that? what changes are we talking about? >> we're talking about really focusing on undergraduates unsafe socializing and identifying the who and the where and taking action as appropriate to -- to minimize that. i have to say our students are behaving magnificently. our faculty are brilliant faculty. everything is really working well because we know what's happening and that's the key. we're not guessing. we're not extrapolating or estimating. we're actually observing the total system at the university of illinois so we can act on those data as marty said and what we're doing is we're increasing the cadence with which we test undergraduates. we've set up a new team that we call shield 30 which allows every time there's a positive confirmed positive case in an under graduate student we go

into immediate actions to isolate and minutes are important here to assess where there is a virus-carrying individual and make sure they go into a comfortable ice haitian so we're addressing the real problem and that allows us to relax on other areas where we know there's no transmission, for example, our classrooms and dining halls, our dorms are pretty well safe where you've not seen much happen there owe we're minimizing the outbreak where and as it occurs very rapidly and that i think is the strength. with 243,000 tests having been conducted in the last couple of weeks, i think we're on this and we're provide nothing place to hide for this virus. >> different systems have to decide, individual schools or large systems like yourself. what do you do when you do have issues and you're following the rules. northeastern university put out a statement, in boston, my hometown, northeaster has dismissed 11 first-year students after being discovered together at the westin hotel on wednesday

night. before departing they were required to undergo testing and let get to the point of dismissed. is that your plan? what is your discipline plan if you find students, one strike, two strikes, three strikes, what happens? >> we have disciplinary activities up to and including expulsion. we start typically with an interim suspension. there's an investigation, but i have to say by far a minority of students are littlefully non-complaint. those students had better find somewhere else to study. most of our students are performing really well, as i said. those who make mistakes, genuine mistakes as young people can, have to learn the assets and attributes of safe socialization on our campuses, and they are stepping up magnificently i think number ways to do that. since we know where the virus, is we can catch it quickly and be in direct contact with those individuals and facilities,

private homes, for example, where issues are occurring and act rapidly. that's the key for us. team is of the essence >> president, thanks ven and your willingness to come on and be quite transparent about this. good luck. >> thank you. coming up, we'll be live in california where crews just rescued dozens of campers after a fast-moving wildfire blocked their escape route. (announcer) carvana's had a lot of firsts.

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let's get you the latest on the dozens of fast moving wildfires ravaging the west. in california at least 22 wildfires score chipping wildfires score shing several acres of land across the state. let's bring in ryan young tracking the wildfires. ryan, it's absolutely stunning when you look at all these pictures. >> absolutely. when you look behind us, it looks like a moonscape. we're 45 minutes outside of l.a. you see this fire or what's left over. this is the el dorado fire, and this was started because of some pyrotechnics. people showed up to do a gender

reveal party, and this started a fire. look from above. can you see the scorched earth. 10,000 acres involved in this fire alone. 16% containment. firefighters are really working overtime, but then when you talk about the other fire, the creek fire. when you have over 100,000 acres that are currently in flames and also the fact that there's zero percent containment and then the idea that firefighters have had to think very quickly to save people in trouble using helicopters. had four different locations that they had to get the hikers out of. all of this going on right now as temperatures have been very hot, and the wind has been very strong. in fact, take a listen to some of the rescue efforts. >> this is a fire that's burning in a pretty remote area. a lot of camping and recreational cabins over the holiday weekend. a lot of people were there for vacation time. we have been doing sheltering operations meaning people are staying in place until the fire

passes areas and then shuttle operations to try and get them out by road. >> john, look, it's still very early in the morning so we've seen firefighters who are driving around. these guys have been battling non-stop to put owes these fires. some of them working more than 20 hours at a time. you have to think about the work that they are putting in. now, when you think about the conditions here and the fact that over 2 million acres have already burned and it's not fire season yet, you understand why people who live in this state are very worried. of course, when you look behind me and see the scorched earth, you know fire and this dry ground just don't mix. >> they just don't mix. ryan, thanks for pointing out the fantastic work of these first responders who work around the clock and are all exhausted making their best effort. appreciate that. chad, to ryan owes point. it's not each fire season yet. is the prognosis better when you look at other factors or getting

worse? >> certainly not better for the next 48 hours, john. we really have a problem in california where winds will be gusting to 20 to 30 miles per hour on top of the fires that aren't contained. we talked about this yesterday where salt lake city could have gusted to about 79 this morning. they were over 70, but the peaks and the valleys to the north and to the east of salt lake city, 99 miles per hour for the wind gusts. i know we talk about the 25 in california, but there are many other fires here affected by this wind, affected by what we've seen where temperatures in denver went from 94 to 37. this is a cold front of big wintertime proportions. each right now in salt lake city gusting to 67 miles per hour. vegas to 43. dust is in the arabs and we look out here towards redding, that's the area that we saw the lightning complex, the northern lightning complex so badly close to vacaville. this is going to fire up again today, i'm afraid and maybe not meche help for tomorrow, 15 to 20. that doesn't seem like a lot

when you're hoping for a 15-mile-per-hour gust to cool you off but when you have fire and embers and ash going in the direction of that wind, it is a problem. now farther to the east and colorado, snow, even wyoming and parts of utah, some spots could pick up 24 inches of snow with this system. that's how vigorous and big this storm s.snow on one side. 100-mile-per-hour winds on the other side and thunderstorms down across parts of texas. this really is almost a winter type storm coming when we still have tropical storms in the atlantic. john. >> talk about exteam weather. that's bizarre, just bizarre. chad myers, grateful for the update and the latest there. we'll stay in important in the days ahead. eight weeks to election day, and team trump taking a particular interest in north carolina.

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eight weeks from tonight we will be counting votes. election 2020 plays out. early voting beginning in some states. for the president to win he has a lot of work to do traveling today to change this map. you look at the path to 270 right now. we have joe biden solidly or leaning in state that is carry 268 electoral votes and needs 2 more. if nothing else changed on this map, needs two more and he is president of the united states. president trump on the road today to florida and then north carolina, toss-up states. the president has to wein them all and take some of the blue away. as the president goes first to florida and then north carolina, two states he carried pretty

comfortably. florida close, north carolina, but more republican leaning states. just look at what's happening. in the final weeks of the campaign, the ad dollars will pour into the battleground states in the yellow. florida, joe biden trying to keep the lead in pennsylvania, michigan. sway north carolina, sway arizona. traditionally more red states. north carolina here, north carolina there. donald trump absolutely needs it. if joe biden can win it he thinks there's no way the president can get to 270 so why if you live in north carolina there's a lot of this. >> we need to get control over the virus. donald trump failed. joe biden will get it done. we need to help working families. joe biden's plan rewards work and makes the wealthy and corporations pay the fair share. >> why would we let biden kill countless american businesses, jobs and the economic future

when president trump's great american comeback is now under way? >> cnn's jeff zeleny on the ground in winston-salem, north carolina. >> reporter: john, there's no question about it, that is just a small sampling of a deluge of advertisements just being on the ground here for a day or so i can tell you there's barely an advertisement on television not a political one. largely led by the joe biden campaign. donald trump, as well. also a competitive senate race. also an important governor's race and there's a reason that president trump is coming back to north carolina for the third time in three weeks. he'll be here in winston-salem and that is democratic city but a republican area. in the piedmont in northern part of north carolina, it is essential for the trump campaign, they know it. a lot changed since president

trump carried this state four years ago. by just about four percentage points over hillary clinton. 1.3 new registered voters in the last 4 years. this is a growing, changing, dynamic state and what is so important here. we can say voting is technically election day but it is already under way here. ballots went out last friday. you can drop them off any time as soon as you get them so we should say election season is well under way here. you can vote today if you wanted to, john. >> you can only vote once despite what the president urged his supporters to do. appreciate that. it's not only weight weeks to election day, today is back to school day for millions of young americans in the middle of a pandemic. ♪

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hello, everybody. i'm john king in washington. millions of children across the country start a new school year today and as if everything the coronavirus pandemic is a major disruption. of the 16 largest school districts that start today, 14 are doing it fully online. remote learning. more than 7.3 million