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 students

beginning the academic year at home on a computer. it's still a big unknown when they might be able to return to the classroom. today also eight weeks to election day. the president traveling to two big battleground states. the focus is environment and then the second presidential visit to north carolina in a week and they're states essential to the re-election path. the morning tweets tell us what matters most to him. while you test the school's zoom log-in, the president attacking joe biden and black lives matter and governors keeping the states closed until the election to hurt him and a constant refrain is a vaccine by election day. today nine bio pharmaceutical companies signed a joint pledge for high ethical standard and be certain they promise that science alone deck tats any

approval request. as we continue to wait for that vaccine, testing is absolutely key as people go back to work, students go back to campus. listen here, this is the president of the university of illinois system speaking here last hour. >> we have about probably 1,400 students who have tested positive. but what i want to remind you all is we're testing everybody, twice a week, so we're not interested in the iceberg but the whole iceberg so that the positivity is 1.2, still very low like a south korea kind of number. and so our testing approach is doing just what we hoped it would do, identifying early trends that could be disturbing, allowing us to take rapid action. >> let's bring in dr. tom inglesbee. i'll be able to show the trends in a moment. we come out of the holiday weekend and university of illinois president talking about

the testing challenge. we are now at a baseline of about 40,000 new infections a day. went under 25,000 yesterday and we question if the holiday is a blip. back to school, back to campus, some parents back to work as the children go back to school and we turn the page to the fall. where are we? >> as you say we are moves in the right direction in terms of overall daily numbers, we are slowly moving downward, downward in hospitalizations, in numbers of deaths but we are beginning to do things we haven't done since the girning of pandemic. k-12 schools are going back. colleges are going back. we'll have to move things indoors some places where it's colder so there are a lot of risks that we could move in a different direction and it's going to be more important than ever to physically distance,

moving testing forward, moving tracing forward, isolating people and more important than ever. >> help me walk through the numbers. just look at the state trend. this map looks better than it has. 11 states trending up, reporting more new infections now than a week ago. 24 holding steady. 15 trending down. if you look at the case trend, doctor, this is why i think this moment is so critical. going back to memorial day, 20,000 new infections. summer spike. a plateau at about 40,000 now. let's hope the number is right. and you see the drops, some anomalies out of the weekend. here's the question. nationally we are down to about a 5% positivity rate, 5% yesterday, higher than that coming in. seven-day trend between 5% and

6%. how critical is that to get that down and everyone mon more with point about the change of seasons? >> really important. if you look at a state by state breakdown, a majority of states above 5% so while the country is below 5% a lot of the country is still above 5%. we saw in europe where schools were openly successfully and the percent positivity lower than 5% and that their daily issue dents was a lot lower than it is in many parts of the u.s. and we have a lot of work to do to open the large institutions more safely. >> and we're at a point, i often tell you i don't want to drag you into the politics with these conversations, nine farm suit call companies are rivals issue a joint statement to address the fears of the public. the issue of this remarkable statement saying science will

dictate and i want to show you the polling, what they're trying to get at here. if there's a vaccine this year, your first thought is 35% of the americans say that's a great scientific achievement. 65% worry it's rushed through. 21% said they'd get the vaccine as soon as possible. 6 in 10 americans say they're going to consider it but wait for more information. 21% said they would never get one. the ceo of pfizer trying to explain why the companies came together to get people to trust their work. >> with increasing public concerns about the processes that we are using to develop this vaccine and even more importantly the processes used to evaluate the vaccines we saw it as critical to come out and reiterate our commitment that we will develop our products, our vaccines using the highest ethical standards and the most

scientific rigor processes. >> how significant is the concern, number one, that politics might be at play trying to speed things up and the level of trust or level of distrust among the consumers you would think rushing to get one but yet you see skepticism. >> really important. we have to do everything we can between now and the time the vaccine is authorized for use to get people to have confidence in the system, to provide people the assurety to follow the usual rules that scientific institutions are isolated from politics and that pledge is important from the vaccine manufacturers, the pharmaceutical companies. we need similar levels of assurance from government and scientists that review the data as it comes out or people will be skeptical and that's a terrible thing for the country. we should be using it if it's

safe and effective. >> as we talked a lot of students go back to school today. many of them are at home. for undetermined period of time. i want you to listen here because we had this conversation for months now, are kids safer, less likely to be infected? or do they get infected but maybe they don't get as sick and carry the virus and that's a threat? this is a doctor trying to explain the latest of the coronavirus and children. >> when children get exposed we are learned this they do get infected but the great majority of them don't get sick. some can get sick and die and it is not totally benoign in children and some children can infect others. right? while the rate of infection appears to be lower than in the flu they can still transmit. >> to help understand the

concept, as some parents send children back into a classroom, full-time or a hybrid program, what do we know more? what do we know now we didn't before on this question? >> we have seen some studies showing that younger kids look like they have a lower chance of spreading infection than older kids. kids overall do better with the virus than adults do. especially older adults but there are some terrible outcomes with children, relatively rare but not a benign virus and so in schools we should do everything we can to try to prevent the spread of disease, use masks, physical distancing, bring in outdoor air as much as we can and other businesses and that should be uniform across the country. >> grateful for your time and your insights. >> thank you. >> thank you.

president trump and joe biden ramp up personal attacks against each other. eight weeks until election day.

a minute away from hearing from the president of the united states on the way to florida speaking to reporters at joint andrews base. the tape is feeding in. let's get to cnn's kaitlan collins live at the white house. it is interesting the president is more active, past labor day now, eight weeks from tonight counting votes. florida and north carolina critical to the math. four years ago we rate at toss-ups right now and the democrats feel that they're in play here and the president, his actions tell you he's nervous. >> reporter: yeah. certainly. that's why you're starting to see them ramp up the president's travel starting with today because he did not travel anywhere yesterday even though you saw the vice president, former vice president and senator kamala harris all out on the road yesterday making

campaign stops and so the president will be going to florida first and then going to north carolina. and it's notable -- >> i'm sorry. the president of the feed. i'm sorry. >> you see what's happening with respect to the economy. vaccine is looking very good for pretty soon. we'll be talking about that a little bit later on. we're going to florida. we are going to north carolina. we are doing a double stop. we'll be doing some triples along the way but right now we are in the earlier stages. the poll numbers are getting good despite the disinformation campaigns that the democrats run, pure disinformation. so we are doing very well. we'll have a good trip today and see you during the trip. any questions? >> mr. president, when you talk -- >> in your own campaign? >> if i have to i would but we're doing well. we needed to spend more money up front because of the pandemic and the statements being made by democrats which were again disinformation. we have done a great job with

covid. we have done a great job with the china virus. a great job. whether it's ventilators or vaccines and which you'll be seeing very soon or therapeutics we have done a great job but the press was fake and we have to sper spend a lot of money. if we did need but we have much more money than the last time going into the last two months, i think double or triple. i would put it up personally like in the primaries last time. in the 2016 primaries i put up a lot of money. we don't have to because we have double and maybe even triple what we had a number of years ago, four years ago. >> mr. president, you spent $60 million in that primary. how much are you -- >> whatever it takes. this is the most important election in the history of our country. we have a radical left group going -- these people, there's something wrong with them.

there really is. joe doesn't have the strength. he durant have the mental capability to control these people and you take a look at what's going on and i looked at pittsburgh, rochester, l.a. last night, these democrat-run cities, you look at portland every night. they don't have the strength. they don't have the -- i don't think the democrats have the courage to control these people. they're afraid to even talk about law and order. they can't issue the words law and order. all we want is law and order. and i just put out something, the suburbs are coming to us because the suburbs are next. if you elected this guy, the suburbs would be overwhelmed with violence and crime. so that's where we are. this is the most important election in the history of our country so that's it. we'll see you in florida. thank you very much. >> the president of the united states boarding air force one, a

short time ago outside of washington. on the way to florida and then north carolina. a challenge is in our business listening to the president of the united states is that so much of what he says is simply not true. kaitlan collins is still with us at the white house as the president gives the wave there at air force. he said that we'll have a vaccine pretty soon. we have no reason to believe unless you defirn december, january maybe next year as pretty soon. he says the poll numbers are pretty good. they are not. he is the president of the united states that routinely lies and says things that are not true and said we are doing a great job on covid. kaitlan, he said there have been reports he may because of what many believe to be misspending may have to pour the personal money into the campaign. believe it when you see it but the president says it is possible, it is possible if necessary he would put some of his own money into the campaign.

>> reporter: yeah. but he says currently he doesn't think they need to and would do it again. of course, whether or not that materializes is another question that even campaign aides aren't sure about, john, but it is notable because we know that the trump campaign is facing a cash crunch they didn't expect to right now. that's a perk of being the incumbent is easier for you to raise money and to have a lot more on hand given the opponent not going through a primary process like what you saw joe biden have to go through but that's the reality of where the trump campaign is at right now and the campaign has not released the august numbers and waiting the see those. you saw biden and the democratic national committee raised in august so the president saying that that's something that's tbd and these comments as part of the campaign schedule to put the president on saying today's may recollecting two stops, may be

making three stops in the coming weeks as they get closer to election day. >> and you have some new reporting, take us inside the curtain. the big, damning story on the president was the report of "the atlantic" and confirmed by others that the president said some horrific, disparaging things, suckers and losers his words allegedly to talk about fallen american heroes. you have some reporting on what went on behind the scenes there as the president and the aides tried to combat that story. >> reporter: yeah. so when this story first broke on thursday the president was f furious over it, telling aides to mobilize the denials that you saw start to roll in on thursday and friday from some aides on the trip and those who were not on the trip and something the white house pointed to and told that over the weekend the president was distressed and calling people, having a lot of conversations, denying that the

remarks were made and touting what he's done for the military but what you have seen is a president who's been concerned basically is what people took away from the conversations that this could hurt his support within the military and a quiet weekend at the white house until he decided yesterday to hold that labor day press conference and when aides thought that the story was quieting down that's when the president made the remark accusing top pentagon leaders of beholden to defense contractors how the president putt it and while the chief of staff is trying to do cleanup and said he wurnt referring the defense secretary who's a former top lobbyist for a defense contractor and said he wasn't referring the joint chief of staffs but then it's not clear who he was referring to but basically this is what the president is saying is they're worried about this story eroding his support within the military. the president is going after top military leaders and told that had to do with the fact that the president upset there's not more senior military leaders speaking

out on his behalf after that story on thursday. >> important reporting. appreciate that very much. the stakes in the campaign, alex, i want to start with you and something that the president said. he made this case before that a joe biden presidency to destroy america's suburbs, overrun, that they would be unsafe, that your property values would plummet. in the obama/biden administration the suburbs grew and diversified quite a bit. looking at crime statistics they were down and the change of the suburbs is a fascinating demographic under way in the united states of america and the reason nancy pelosi is speaker, when the president -- they will be overrun and trying to do there. >> right.

he is trying to speak to those voters who rejected him since the 2016 election to make them more afraid of what their lives would be like under a biden administration than displeased with the way the lives are right now under a trump administration and, john, i got to tell you, i think it's a heavy lift for him. this is one of the most consistent political features of the trump experience is suburban voters do not like the president. it is not just more educated affluent white voters but right of center, less educated but live in the suburbs that people who have chosen to make the lives in that kind of environment just reject this president on a visceral level and true before as you said the coronavirus pandemic. so the challenge i think for the president is that when you're speaking to the whole country and trying to project this very dubious idea if you re-elect me

things will quickly go back to the way they were last january before the virus hit, suburban voters weren't happy with this president last january. >> what they don't like is con sta constant tweets. attacking joe biden, criticizing the black lives matter movement. but it is interesting, you do have joe biden running an ad against any looting, violence and yesterday in pennsylvania antifa came up. listen. >> you contend that antifa? >> yes, i do. violence no matter who it is. >> and so, to alex's point, the democrats feel on safe footing in the suburbs but see evidence with that ad and that answer to make sure that they don't let the president if you will fill in the slate. >> that's right. you saw biden last week give that speech as you said it was turned into an ad. the president trying to say that

joe biden is essentially in bed with the looters, that he is encouraging looters but he is on the same side of those folks but what actually is happening is the president hasn't been able to condemn some of the violence that we have seen from his supporters so for joe biden i think this is easy to say that violence on both sides is bad, violence from antifa is bad and hear it from black lives matter protesters, the families involved, jacob blake's family for instance. that's an easy lift for joe biden to do and felt like he needed to do. you had the rnc basically for a week put out this idea that biden would be a dangerous figure, that he would encourage some of this violence we have seen and so he had to rebut it and this was easy for him to do. and what is interesting is that we don't see from donald trump a need to pivot at this point. he is trying everything he can

with these suburban voters he thinks are the '50s, '60s, '70s version of the suburban and white flight and not what the suburban community looks like anymore. so we'll see if he changes, he feels like this is a good staen strategy. he is watching fox news and getting this idea that the world is on fire and a good strategy for him but in the polling as alex talked about it doesn't seem like it's working but something to double down on we imagine now that it gets worse in this campaign. >> florida today. north carolina today. wisconsin was the big battleground yesterday. we are never going to have a na normal campaign. it was the vice presidential candidates yesterday. two different cities, two different messages.

listen. >> and this violence against civilians, against property and against law enforcement must stop and it must stop now. >> really wonderful. i mean, they're an incredible family and what they have endured and they just do it with such dignity and grace and carrying the weight of a lot of voices on their shoulders. >> senator harris there talking about the meeting with the blake family, jacob blake that black man shot seven times in the back. there's battlegrounds within the battleground. lacrosse and milwaukee, speaking to very different audiences. >> i do think it's a thing that can tend to get flattened or the nuance removed looking back at the 2016 election with donald trump squeaking out these tiny victories in these traditionally democratic mid western states that, yes, it is true there's white working class voters that

voted republican for the first time, also true african-american voters who voted in 2012 and 2008 and did not show up or did not vote for hillary clinton in 2016 and if you are the trump campaign you are trying to max out every last vote you can from the more rural and outer, outer suburban parts of wisconsin because it is not too much better for you in the suburbs and the cities and if you are the biden/harris ticket you're trying to hold down trump's margins in the rest of the state and make sure you talk to black voters in milwaukee about why your ticket is in touch with them and has plans for their lives and is in touch with this moment, this moment in milwaukee and with the jacob blake family to make sure that you're not just sort of playing defense with white folks outside the city and taking black voters for granted. >> the race within the race can be kind of fascinating.

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tuesday after labor day, the first day of school for millions of american children and take it from this parent of a forurth

grader it can be stressful. some parents are going to pod learning. definitions of a pod can vary among families but the common theme is for families to group together in pods so they can learn or play together. jennifer and jeffrey henry are trying that with son jackson starting a pod with three families and join us now from texas. it is great to see you. i appreciate your time to walk through this. i have a fourth grader, started this morning with everything he needs and i'm still nervous. tell us about your pod. how you define pod and why you thought it was so important for your son. >> so, well, first of all we want to say thank you for having us. it is an honor to be here. >> the honor is mine. >> thank you. we just wanted to make sure that our families were getting a well-rounded experience for our children. we see this as an opportunity to build back better and to improve the things that we have always wanted to see present in our

children's education and so this was our opportunity to do that not only for our children but collectively with a family group and that's what we're calling our pod. >> so you're focused more if i read previous interviews and the research read more on the social activities than children have all lost in the isolation, not so much sitting down for nuts and bolts of learning but maybe tutoring and can be kids which is stripped away from so many. >> yes. we saw this to be the safest way for our children to maintain the socialization that is so important for their neural development and we support their socialization and enrich the education they get in the virtual platforms. >> jeffrey, what's the most interesting question your son asked you about this time of transition and testing?

>> well, with respected to schooling, one of his biggest concerns is consistency in friends, consistency in -- he's not as much concerned with the learning as the social experience and he's more worried, asked will we be home forever? will we be quarantining forever? so it's -- i wouldn't say that's a difficult question but we're constantly retooling and discussing and how to make it best for him. i'll add especially in the racial environment that we're in, those questions get more and more difficult every day. >> that's true. >> to that point, send me an email with the answers because i get asked the same questions and never sure what the right answers are. you want them to be confident and upbeat and they're aware of what's going on around them and can't deny it. with the racial situation we are

in, i assume a challenge is when your child is home more, they're just exposed to more, everything now anyway because they have the ipads and the phones and access to technology i didn't have when i was younger but what is that like trying to deal with a pandemic, keep your family safe but if you turn on the news and you have young children, especially young, black children in the time of the racial reckoning, how do you hand that will? >> we focus on creating a deliberate environment for our children and the families we know and so because of that, we structure what they're expositived to deliberately and prepare them to understand where they come from, who they belong to, who they have in their village and to recognize the strengths that are already inside of them so they're not rattled by things that are temporary and focus on who they are. >> yeah. i would say that, you know, bringing our community to them has been key so, you know, the

howard university alumni network especially down here in dallas has brought a lot of although we can't see each other face to face we do a lot virtually and then with the pod we are able to keep the -- sorry. i'm freezing. arab able to keep the social aspect going for us and super important. >> jennifer and jeffrey henry, appreciate your time. best of luck and grateful for your time and the photograph of a beautiful family and appreciate learning from you going through this experience. >> yes. >> thank you. we appreciate it. >> thank you. i appreciate it very mump. wildfires raging in california next.

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evacuations under way right now as firefighters struggle to contain wildfires in california. 2 million acres have been scorched. the creek fire one of at least 22 wildfires burning across the state, officials calling it an unprecedented disaster. cnn's dan simon live in fresno county. what is the latest? >> reporter: hi, john. the fire's devastating the small mown t mown town communities in the area where i am. you can see this gas station right here. over here was a general store. every now and again you hear a bit of a pop because they sold some ammunition. let's give you a look at what it

looks like across the street and see just in charred landscape, the trees, the fire coming in late last night, about 145,000 acres have been charred with this fire and talking about 0% containment. my photographer jim and i just took a little bit of a drive in a residential area and pretty much everything is gone. john, the devastation toll in terms of the property loss will be smaller given the relative size in terms of the other fires we covered not a whole lot of people live in this area but if you do live here that doesn't matter. this is an utterly devastating fire and we should point out that evacuations took place last night, another three dozen or so people were rescued by military helicopter, people enjoying the labor day weekend, were camping near the lake and they simply got caught and military helicopters came in and got those people to safety. john? >> dan simon for us on the

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fred pleitgen, cnn, berlin. >> here in hong kong, the city is falling short of its goal to test its entire population of more than 7 million people for covid-19. this is one of the few places outside of mainland china to offer testing for the entire population. it's free and unlike china it's voluntary and a lot of people have been staying away, some have cited privacy concerns because chinese experts help set up the testing centers and overseeing the testing sides people are fearful that the information could be in the mainland and another reason is that people have to cue up for the testing which violates the social distancing guide loons. now 1.2 million people have been tested so far and there are just a few days left, the city had initially said they needed to test 5 million to effectively find hidden cases in the city, out of more than 1 million tests they have found 16 cases of covid-19 and the city says as

the numbers continue to go down they will continue to ease social distancing measures including allowing some video game parlors and other businesses that had been closed to reopen later this week. will ripley, cnn, hong kong. >> in chi, the president awarded medals to ndour people for contributions in the pandemic. among them, china's top respiratory disease expert. at the ceremony she said china behaved in an open way. now this is after china has been repeatedly criticized for down playing everyone covering up the severity of the virus of the at the start of the preponderance of the evidence and ignoring evidence it spread from person to person until it was too late. china denied the claims. xi said that china reported nrgs on the virus as the earliest time possible to the world health organization and relevant countries and added china helped save the lives of thousands of

people around the world with practical actions and more than 890,000 people around the world have died from covid-19. u.s. president donald trump has frequently blamed china for the global pandemic labeling it as quote the worst attack we have ever had on our country. the pandemic first e personaled in wuhan in china the first country for strict measures to control the spread, now it's a first major economy to reopen with xi saying at the ceremony that china is leading the world in economic recovery. cnn, hong kong. still ahead, congress back to work and big differences and internal republican differences about a potential covid stimulus package. uffed up wall. embarrassing you. that wall is your everest. but not any more. today let's paint. and right now, get incredible savings on behr premium paints and stains. exclusively at the home depot.

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congress is back to work this week and the senate majority leader mcconnell says he hopes to make progress on a new smaller coronavirus stimulus package but there are problems, mcconnell's having a hard time getting fellow republicans to seen on and then democrats view that republican proposal as way too little. will they stop talking at each other and maybe talk to each other? >> reporter: it is not likely right now. we know that republicans in the senate are expected to unveil their own slimmed down proposal at some point today. it will be about $500 billion. will include more money for the paycheck protection program as well as more money for

unemployed americans and more money to get kids back to school. but democrats already saying that it is not near enough. here's the statement from both the house speaker and the top democrat chuck schumer saying, quote, republicans appear dead set on another bill that doesn't come close to addressing the problems and is headed nowhere. if anyone doubts mcconnell's true intent is anything but political look at the bill, laden with poison pills republicans knew democrats would never support. that of course coming from top democrats and we expect there's going to continue to be division, we don't expect any movement this week other than republicans potentially voting on their own proposal but remember this is just about politics. republicans when they were home were hearing from constituents who wanted them to do something with the stimulus bill. now of course we expect that senate republicans will try to pass a bill later this week.

john? >> talk, talk and talk and see if it gets beyond that to compromise. lauren fox, appreciate the live reporting and you spernding time with us, too. hope to see you back here tomorrow. if you vote early, make a plan. brianna keilar picks up right now. john, thank you. i want to welcome viewers here in the united states and around the world. the first day of school most unprecedented in modern times as the nation waits to see another rise in coronavirus cases after the long holiday. at least 2 million children are heading back to class but nearly all of them are not heading back to a classroom. of the 16 largest public school districts starting today 14 are beginning the year fully online. the decision to keep students at home coming as