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 the majority of

states see trends of steady or declining case numbers but the nation is currently averaging 38,000 cases a day which is lower than the summer surge but it's higher than the top health officials would like as they warn of the dual challenge only weeks away, a flu season in the middle of a pandemic. i will turn to biona golariga and there are a lot of students as we said starting today. it is a big day for them but a very different day. school is under way for several weeks in parts of the country. tell us how many students started the year online. >> millions are starting the school year online. we went to school on the first day and thought that was normal. what's normal for at least the next few months for students to learn from home. more than a dozen of the largest school districts began today online including chicago, houston and dallas. and as well as fairfax county in

virginia, baltimore county, as well. some are starting with a hybrid program so charleston, south carolina, has students showing up online or in classrooms as well. cyprus fair banks outside of houston students have that option and we know that online learning comes with its challenges. remember what we heard about the cyber attack in miami last week, a 16-year-old implicated from that and we have news of a hartford attack in connecticut cyber attack there for the 20,000 students and could not learn online with a hybrid program and some in school, some online. they have rescheduled the opening of school because of the attack and investigating that. >> wow. all right. bianna, thank you for that report. latest stats show how much worse the united states is handling the pandemic compared to much of the world and the figures really blow up president trump's repeated aterpts to down play

the severity. w.h.o. officials find that north and south america are the source for a disproportionate number of cases and deaths and in the americas the u.s. is doing the worst with more than 6 million cases right now and nearly 190,000 deaths. cnn's tom foreman is covering this story for us. tell us about this report, tom. >> reporter: all you have to do is look at this one graphic to see the picture very clearly. it is a look at the cases by region and total deaths. and the americas there in gold are way out front of earn else. the americas are leading by a long margin. right below is southeast asia in purple and see like the americas they have been trending upward but at a much lower level and then in that lime green color that's europe down there. europe is the one that's starting basically flattened out and not climbing through the roof and all the times that the

president says we are making so much progress and other countries aren't doing as well that's not the truth and these new numbers show that very clearly. another way to look at it saying that the united states is a huge country by population and it is, the americas are a big region, look at this world map where basically they're highlighting the hot spots in the past week and look at europe, asia, australia, africa. all of them have less intense color there showing the number of cases per 1 million people and then look at the americas. that's where all the hotspots are. south america huge problems all the way down there but look at the united states of america. those colors alone tell you how intense it's been here and how the problem remains very difficult here when compared to rest of the world and the claims to do somehow better you said it at the top, this is yet another piece of evidence that says that is simply not true, the u.s. is

trailing pretty much everyone in the world in terms of handling this virus. >> tom, thank you so much for showing us that. there is an unprecedented pledge made, nine of the world's largest bio pharmaceutical companies pledging to uphold high ethical standards and pledge to only submit for approval or emergency use authorization after demonstrating safety and efficacy through a phase three clinical study conducted to meet requirements of authorities such as fda. this all appears to be a response to the president's vaccine timeline which he once again laid out yesterday. >> we already it soon. wait a minute. so now what they're saying is, oh wow, this is bad news. president trump is getting this vaccine in record time. by the way, if this were the obama administration you wouldn't have that vaccine for three years and probably

wouldn't have at it all so we'll have a vaccine very soon, maybe even before a very special date. you know what date i'm talking about. >> election day. we know what he is talking about. let's talk with professor and dean of tropical medicine, dr. peter hotez with us. dr. hotez, this is unusual because it goes almost you would think without saying that pharmaceutical companies would be if they are seeking approval for a vaccine that they would be doing so with one that's safe so what's going on here with this pledge to reassure people? >> yeah. look. brianna, the pharmacy ceos are smart. they don't want to put anything out there that's going to be either unsafe or doesn't work. one, it would undermine not only the public confidence in the u.s. covid-19 vaccine program "operation warp speed" and

undermine the confidence in the companies and they're publicly traded companies and affect the shareholders so it makes good business sense. they don't want to put anything out there that's unsafe or doesn't work. it would destroy their companies and careers and i think what you are seeing by issuing that statement. >> to be clear, they could submit a vaccine, right? talk about the time line here. sub mitt a vaccine for approval before the election but that's a different thing than having a vaccine by the election. tell us the distinction. >> actually, i don't think they really can really submit anything before the election. i don't see a path by which they're going to have sufficient data to show that the vaccine actually works compared to the placebo controls or that we have enough patients enrolled for safety so i'm finding it very hard to understand some of the

statements i'm hearing that we could have a vaccine before the election or you could submit the dossier to the fda by that time because it takes two doses for each of these vaccines. we have seen that from the phase one trials and when you start to add up the fact that the phase three trials didn't start until august, into september and takes two doses, a month apart and then you have to give it time to show that it works, compared to the controls and you have to show that it's safe, when you add all that up, essentially if you try to get a vaccine released or approved before the election you're pretty much have to submit it around now and i just don't see a path by which that's happening. >> really? okay. can you back time that for us in a way? you say there has to be two doses. questions of whether they have enough people. that would be getting the first dose. >> yeah. these are large studies and multiple centers across the

country, possibly internationally. 30,000 individual trials. i think the clinical trial set's doing an amazing job trying to enroll their patients and doing this at an accelerated time frame without compromising the integrity of the study but even with all of those things to get two dozes in to allow time for the immune response to happen because it doesn't happen immediately after the second dose, it takes a week or so after that, and then to give it time for people going about the daily activities, to show a difference between controls and the placebo, when you -- the weeks add up pretty quickly. so we're hearing from dr. fauci that he thinks maybe by the end of the year we'll get an idea whether these vaccines are working and i think that's a much more realistic time frame. is it possible that if a vaccine is amazing and is protecting 90% like the ebola vaccine or

measles vaccine that we could get an answer faster? yes, it is, but it's really hard to see how the stars can align so that we could get something out before the election. i think that's a low probability. >> okay. cnn had the chance to interrvie a ceo about the research. >> it's an excellent profile and i consider this vaccine as a vaccine which is near perfect which has a near perfect profile. yeah? we have done preclinical experiments. we have shown that the vaccine is able to protect animals from infection in really tough challenged experiments. >> the vaccine that's in the works is near perfect. what do you say to that? >> yeah. i think that was a unfortunate statement. maybe it was language but at face value that's an irresponsible statement.

one, we know from the phase one trials that at the high doses it was reactive and the human volunteers could not tolerate a second dose and right off the bat it's not a perfect vaccine. it was not tolerated well. from the phase one trial, you get pretty good virus neutralizing which is an important component that we think is important for protection and we know that the pre-clinical animal studies look good and good antibody responses and phase one at the lower doses it seemed to be safe. and that's -- you know, you cannot make it this point any statement of efficacy or near perfect. this is the difference between ceo of a smaller bio tech versus a major farm suit call company. what the ceos are doing is not

talking to you or me but talking to the shareholders, very entrepreneurial and transactional and the problem is some of these ceos are tone deaf to the fact that when they make statements like that it's amplified all over the world and at a time when people are scared and upset and this disease is affecting homeland security so it was a bit tone deaf. i think it was well intentioned but he shouldn't have made that statement. >> and look. dr. hotez, i appreciate. you always say to us i don't want to read the press release. i want to see the data and i think it's so important to make that distinction so we appreciate you doing it here. dr. hotez, thank you. >> thank you. are there different strains of covid? can you get the flu and covid at the same time? we will have a doctor who will answer those questions. plus, the president launches a labor day parade of lies at the white house. we will fact check. a retired major general to respond to the president's new attack on the military, this one

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- [both] thank you. (giggling) now that school resumed mostly online across the country and concerns about the flu season's possible impact on coronavirus are mounting we want to get your answers to some of your questions in front of an expert. let's talk with dr. adrian burrows here with us. doctor, i want to start with a question of strains of coronavirus because like all viruses we know that it mutates regularly but what does that mean for us and how concerned should we be? >> so that's a great question. we have definitely seen that there have been some mutations

in the covid-19 virus and what that means for the viewers is there are those things that are amino acids and the sequence is how we determine the identity of a virus. what we have seen with covid-19 is that some of these amino acids are changing as time goes along and that has made some experts concerned that that might make it more infectious. >> that's alarming, right? people should be alarmed or they might need to be alarmed? what do you think? >> i think that there is some of the viewers, some of the american public that believe that covid-19 is not a real entity. my patients come in and ask me is this real? is this not real? it is real and i think everyone should be concerned about the mutations in the virus because that like i said is lending itself to potentially being more infectious and definitely a concern. >> okay. here's another question. can you have the flu and coronavirus at the same time?

>> yes. absolutely. one of the things we need to make sure of as we wait for the covid-19 vaccines to make sure we take advantage of what's available now which is the flu vaccine because you can get both flu and covid-19 at the same time which could be catastrophic to your immune system. >> geez. okay. can food be a source of covid-19 transmission? >> okay. so that's another good question. so as of right now there's been no evidence to show that food is a way of transmitting covid-19. one of the things to make sure of is we frequently wash and sanitize all food contact surfaces and utensils but there's no evidence to suggest to get it through food. >> okay. so we are -- this is school time. right? a lot of schools have been operating for a few weeks and

first day for so many people so are parents more likely to spread the virus to teachers than the children themselves? >> okay. so another wonderful question. we had the beginning thought that children were a low likelihood of spread of the virus because they were largely asymptomatic and even when they had the virus they had minimal symptoms. now we see the mini outbreaks, schools reopened which tell us that children have the ability to spread the virus. i would treat everyone the same and take social distancing precautions. >> okay. so then in light of that, here's the next question. how safe is it to allow children to play soccer or attend ballet classes? i would add in there other activities that kids are opening to get back to this school year. >> yeah. when we talk about ballet, you can socially distance and probably in the dance rooms and

to sanitize those areas and do that in a safe manner so that's probably something you could do. when you talk about sports and soccer especially, where you have high touch surfaces like the ball, right? kids are contacting, if they're not having the ability to test the children i would be more cautious of that. you are in close proximity with other athletes and then having a high touch surface as the ball so i i would take more precautions with that and not advise with that necessarily right now. >> a follow-up on ballet or dance classes, if you are in an enclosed space and there isn't a lot of air flow and then in addition to that, you know, when you have kids doing dance might be moving across the room and might not just staying in one place, when i think of the dance moves and the mobility. is that a concern? >> so that would be a concern,

especially if we're not able to utilize the masks and high impact activities it is not natural to have that mask on doing that so in those classes they probably are not using that on the dancers doing that and as you're coming into that proximity where you're less than six feet apart you would have a concern about transmission. >> dr. burrowes, thank you. we appreciate it. >> thank you so much. next, the president listed off really a litany of lies and falsehoods at the news conference. plus, new cnn reporting on how the claims that he disparaged members of the military are impacting him. and white supremacy is the most lethal threat to the u.s., that is according to a disturbing new assessment by homeland security. to deliver your packages. and the peace of mind of knowing that important things like your prescriptions, and ballots, are on their way. every day, all across america, we'll keep delivering for you.

while america was enjoying a three-day weekend yesterday the president held a news conference most deserving of a fact check including more comments that he made last hour so let's take a look here. while defending himself against reports of outlets that he

disparaged rank and file service members he disparaged military leaders. >> i'm not saying that the military is in love with me. the soldiers are. the top people in the pentagon probably aren't because they want to fight wars so that all of those wonderful companies that make the bombs and the planes and everything else stay happy. >> he is akccusing the top bras to line the pockets of the companies. >> we have some incredible equipment, military equipment on display, brand new and we're very proud of it. we are making a lot of new tanks right now. we had great people in the military but they weren't given the right equipment so now they are. $2.5 trillion. we have invested the $2.5 trillion in all of the greatest equipment in the world. and it's all made here right in

the usa. >> only one fifth of that $2.5 trillion still a lot but one fifth spent on equipment and on the report by "the atlantic" to call war dead losers and service members suckers, the president said this. >> who would say a thing like that? only an animal would say a thing look that. there's nobody that has more respect for not only our military but for people that gave their lives in the military, there's nobody. >> nobody has more respect for those that gave their lives? he's repeatedly disproven that going after their families including one over and over again attacking the khans, a gold star family whose son was killed by a suicide bomber in 2004. >> his wife, if you look at his wife, she was standing there, she had nothing to say. probably -- maybe she wasn't allowed to have anything to say. you tell me. >> the president lacks

credibility on this issue and so do the relative few defending him against this story. >> that story couldn't be further from the truth. this is a president that loves our country and will do anything to fight to protect it. >> sarah sanders' word means nothing and admits she knowingly lied as press secretary and we know the list of lies with her is long. just a few, wrongfully saying the fbi rank and file lost confidence in james comey and tweeting a doctored video saying president trump didn't know about hush money payments to a porn star he allegedly had an affair with, all of these shown to be untrue but the president claims he was so up set about the cemetery trip canceled that he called the first lady. >> i called home. i spoke to my wife. i said, i hate this. i came here to go to that ceremony. and to the one that was the following day which i did go to.

i said i feel terribly. that was the end of it. >> a lie. and it durant take angela lansbury to figure this out. she was on the trip. on the pandemic -- >> we have done a great job with covid, with the china virus, a great job. whether it's ventilators or whether it's vaccines which you will be seeing very soon or therapeutics, we have done a great job. >> 190,000 americans have died in just 6 months and deaths are predicted to double by the first of the year. >> you're going to to have to take that off. how many feet are you away? >> i'll speak a lot louder. >> if you don't you're very muffled so if you would take it off it's easier. >> the sad irony is that the masks that president trump doesn't seem to see the value in

would mean fewer people with covid, fewer american deaths, maybe better re-election odds for him. then on a vaccine -- >> you have asserted repeatedly that a vaccine will be on the market by -- before the election. >> i didn't say they will. i said by the end of the year. you are not quoting me accurately. i said the vaccines will be on the market before the end of the year. >> not quoting him accurately? seconds later he said this. >> i said is by the end of the year but i think it could be sooner than that. it could be during the month of october, actually. before november. we'll have a vaccine very soon, maybe even before a very special date. you know what date i'm talking about. >> when asked about black lives matter demonstrations he talked about the federal crackdon on protesters who have destroyed monuments. >> we have now over 1,000 people federal in jail, we are

prosecuting many people. >> wrong. his own justice department reports that a total of 227 people have been federally charged in cities and of those just 5 have been charged with destruction of federal property. >> i signed the law putting people in jail if you knock down monuments three months ago. >> false. precisely because it's an executive order and not a law. and all it does is direct the attorney general to enforce already existing laws. then when asked about the 1619 project a "the new york times" effort named for the year that enslaved people first brought to the u.s. and how it's being used to teach students of america's history with racism -- >> i want everybody to know everything they can about our history. i'm not a believer in cancel culture. >> wrong, the believer in chief of cancel culture, a list of the people, groups and things that he's called to be canceled over the years from tv hosts,

networks, newspapers, companies, whiskey and the actress who played grace friend of will. >> just mueller spent alone i guess $48 million but whatever it was, many, many, millions of dollars. >> no. why lie? it was $32 million, a third of the cost of president trump's inauguration which was partially taxpayer funded though the government is expected to recoup millions from his former campaign chairman paul manafort convicted in the probe. >> biden's plan for the china virus to shut down the u.s. economy. >> one of his most of the repeated lies. or i should say that was wrong. biden said that he would be prepared to shut down. if scientists recommended it. worth noting a president can't single handedly shut down the economy. that is why when president trump implemented his own national

shutdown effort those 15 days to slow the spread in march he advised americans to follow directions of staite and local authorities as they shut down schools and so much economic activity across the country. then the president talked trade. >> we're looking at the world trade organization, they've become much better. never used to win anything. we'd lose every case and now winning the cases. >> that is wrong. the u.s. has won cases at the world trade organization, according to the president's council of economic advisers. they reported in february 2018 that the u.s. had been 86% of the cases that it has brought since 1995. the global average was 84%. speaking of trade -- >> there's been no country anywhere at any time that's ripped us off like china has. you see they're building up a

powerful military and it is very lucky i've been building ours up. china's been very bad. on top of which we had the china plague sent to us. >> experts will tell you china is a threat and it's getting larger as a threat and should not be ignored but there's a growing emphasis on china by the administration as it ignoreses are -- ignoring russia. >> what is the most avertive in this area? >> i believe it's china. >> which one? >> china. >> china more than russia right now? >> yes. >> why do you say that? >> i have seen the intelligence. that's what i concluded. >> the greatest power from the chinese communist power. not frankly a close call. >> on mail-in voting -- >> take a look at the races where they have sent ballots out. take a look at carolyn maloney

whose race should be redone and totally won unfairly to the opponent. that race should be re-run. >> there is no evidence of fraud in that race. it did take weeks to tally mail-in ballots. was it a poster child for a pandemic election in no. but it clearly gave the president of an idea of what he might do if there's time and the results don't go his way. next, a two-star general of the president accusing the leaders to wage war for profit. families sue two nursing homes after the bodies of loved ones who died from coronavirus were allegedly found in a tool shed. see what happened in oregon and why. i'm making sandwiches!

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those wonderful companies that make the bombs and make the planes and make everything else stay happy. but we're getting out of the endless wars. >> so that was just yesterday. again, at the white house. today mark meadows says he talked to joint chiefs chairman millie and secretary esper and others what he says trusted generals to reassure the president did not attack them when he publicly attacked them. meadows sayings of the the military industrial complex. i'm joined by retired major general paul eaton. he is now senior adviser to the progressive group vote vets. sir, thank you so much for being with us. >> brianna, thank you very much for having me. >> help us sort this out because you have mark meadows saying this was about the military industrial complex which the military is part of that but he is saying it's not about the

military so what's your reaction to the president attacking pentagon officials? >> we have all heard the attack that president trump levied against our general officers. four star generals and admirals are the interface between the developers policy and those who will execute that policy. it is simply absurd to imply that our general officers and admirals are involved in creating warfare or delaying peace, that they are absolutely focused on more material and to support the military industrial complex, the industrial component of it. president eisenhower's farewell speech unfortunately overshadowed by president kennedy's incoming speech where president eisenhower warned us of the military industrial

complex. there is no greater supporter of that evil notion that we are trying to create profits for the military industrial -- the industrial component than president trump. it is absurd that he tries to do to the most respected institution in the united states, the u.s. military, what he is actively doing with the fbi. separating the leaders from the troops. this is just -- this is a terrible thing that he's doing right now. >> so yeah. let me ask you about that. first, we know sometimes there's tensions of politicians and those in the military. the politicians, civilians, determine if the country is going to war. and a lot of times there is i think a tension as americans grow weary of something and the

military is in the middle of waging it, we see that tension play out, but this idea of the brass which is in charge of executing and having the strategy for carrying out those plans and the rank and file, what do you make of that? especially as the president seemed especially visibly concerned by that report disparaging rank and file military members calling war dead and injured suckers and losers? >> you've seen a pattern of this president shirking his duties as the commander in chief. let me use a historical example that clearly defines and shows civilian leadership, that the civilians are in charge of the prosecution of warfare. in the early days of world war ii, the senior leadership, military leadership of great britain and the united states wanted desperately to attack continental europe.

and we have president roosevelt and prime minister winston churchill basically say, no, we're going to north africa. you are not prepared for warfare with the biermach and by doing so our president and the prime minister of great britain saved countless allies' lives by taking charge and expressing and demonstrating the wisdom to lead in warfare. >> general, i want to play something that you put on social media after we heard that "atlantic" report about the president calling war dead and wounded suckers and losers. this was something widely shared and i want to share it with our viewers. >> you're no patriot. let me tell you about the patriot. my father was killed in vietnam.

he was shot down over a ho chi minh trail section outside of vietnam and laos. he dlifed ordinance to cut the trail and supplies and then he delivered close air support to special forces troops on the ground and his airplane blew up. he went down in 1969. 13 january 1969. this dog tag was recovered at the crash site. my father was a patriot. well educated. he was a wise man. >> you're not a fan of the president's but i think these comments in particular spurred you in a way that even other things haven't. why is that? >> well, it was a personal comment to me and to my entire family. my entire family, my wife, my sons, my daughter have served in the united states army. two are still active duty.

my father, my father-in-law career air force and career marine. his comments are provocative and vote vets put out another ad where we have a world war ii veteran, a man captured, a p.o.w. captured in the philippines when we lost that fight. he is very articulate in demonstrating that this president is unfit to serve as the commander in chief for our armed forces. >> general eaton, thank you so much for your service and thank you for coming on to talk to us. >> brianna, my pleasure. thank you very much. it is a big ad campaign encouraging minorities to sign up for coronavirus vaccine trials and it follows a warning by the drugmaker moderna that the trial may have to slow down because there aren't enough minority volunteers. the markets that were once

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>> it's another ugly today for stocks and the financial markets. dow is once again down. more than 300 points. just a few hours now before the closing bell. richard quest, cnn's business editor at large, is with us. richard, it's always a pleasure having you. not so much today. tell us what's behind this latest drop and should investors be worried about this trend going on? >> it is ugly, to be sure, brianna, but it's not

surprising. the dow and the nasdaq and the s&p 500 had a tremendous, unrealistic run-up in august as a result of a variety of technical factors. stocks like tesla were up more than 80%. guess what, it was too good to be true, and it was. the market is now pulling back, and doing so in a dramatic fashion because the underlying economics, brianna, are not good. that's really -- you know, we had this run-up in august that wasn't justified. you've now got a market that's falling back to reality. if we look ahead, you're going to have large job losses when the c.a.r.e.s. act provisions come to an end in october. you still don't have a stimulus plan or second or third for those who are out of work. i'm not suggesting economic doom and gloom but economic reality, and that is what the market is looking at. >> richard, we appreciate the

reality check. richard quest, thank you. just in, dr. anthony fauci contradicting the president's claims on a vaccine timetable. >> plus a new study shows what happened to the extent of the spread when the nation shut down in the spring.

it is the top of the hour. i'm brianna keilar. moments ago, dr. anthony fauci once again saying he does not expect a vaccine before election day but is encouraged by the milder flu season so far in the southern hemisphere. dr. fauci says the methods used to stop the coronavirus there show promising signs for our own flu season just weeks away. >> what happened in the southern hemisphere happens here, that would be a very good and favorable thing. so, what we think has happened, we think because people have done public health measures to avoid infection with the coronavirus, namely masks, distancing, avoiding crowds, washing hands, we've had the secondary effect that there are less influenza infections. in fact, in australia this year for their influenza season, which goes from april to september, they've had one of