public school children will learn if they will return. 42% will learn only from home. new york city about to start that challenge. thanks for joining us. hope to see you tomorrow as well. very busy news day. brianna keilar picks up our coverage, right now. have a great day. hello. i'm brianna keilar and i want to welcome viewers here in the united states and around the world. beginning with hurricane sally roaring onshore near gulf shores, alabama. the national weather services issued a flash flood emergency including parts of coastal alabama and includes the florida panhandle. sally already you dumped about two feet of rain on that area. two feet. sally is moving at such a slow pace, some parts may be seeing up to three feet of rain. the storm is now a category 1 and forecast to follow this track throughout the day as it is turning to the north and then

the northeast. bring in cnn national correspondent gary tuchman who is on pensacola beach, florida. gary, you were close to the three-file bridge connecting pensacola to gulf breeze, florida, which was certainly badly damaged during the store. can y storm. 's can you tell us what happened? >> reporter: first, this is still bad. this rain has been torrential for 22 hours now. since 2:00 central time yesterday and it's now noon. still continuing. very unusual for a hurricane. tell you about this three-mile bridge on a barrier island outside of pensacola. take a small bridge and then the bridge you mentioned connecting gulf breeze to the bigger city of pensacola. population 53,000. that bridge suffered damage during this hurricane apparently a crane or a runaway barge hit the bridge. you can now no longer go over the bridge. so normally the ten-minute drive from here to the city of pensacola, you can't do it now.

instead, no one's driving right now. make that clear. to this direction and this direction, roads are flooded. can't get anywhere. it's not dangerous but we're stuck now. once you're able to drive, if the bridge isn't able to be opened, instead of a ten-minute drive you have to drive 30 miles to the east, 10 miles to the north, 30 miles to the west, that's 70 miles to get to pensacola. not sure how significant the damage is. find out soon i imagine, but not until the tropical force winds stop. a lot of flooding. this road in this direction completely flooded. you cannot drive that way. your car will float away. not as bad in this direction but also flooding's that wa considered the danger all along. the same event three weeks ago, 140 mile-an-hour winds came into southwestern louisiana. the upper gulf coast of texas. these are 105 mile-an-hour winds. significantly less, however, it's continuing much longer and

that's creating a lot of confusion and concern, because people didn't expect it to be lasting that long and a lot of residents wondering whether they'll be able to get out of their hopes. the fa homes. a voluntary evacuation. main reason haven't experienced this, the covid pandemic. many don't want to be in shelters with lots of other people. if you have relatives in higher ground, go there. otherwise, stay in your homes. don't leave. most abiding by that. people are surprised it's lasting this long and so far we know of no casualties. hope it stays that way. >> we certainly do. gary tuchman live from pensacola beach, florida. and for more on the hurricane, check in with jennifer gray our meteorologist. when will the pass of this pick up? >> what we talk and yesterday. remember when we talked.

we said tomorrow this time radar will look exactly like this, because the storm is sitting over this area. finally has picked up to only 5 mile-per-hour forward movement. yesterday 2 miles per hour and finally picked up to 3. now 5 and still considered extremely slow paced for these storms. yes, the rain is still dumping on all the florida panhandle, southern alabama, portions of georgia now. we've seen an area with more than two feet of rain. panama city beach, received more than a foot of rain. pensacola received more than two feet and those totals will go up and more data is released. here's a flash flood warning across the, say, florida p panhand panhandle, into georgia and lasting into this evening and tonight while the rain continues. this rain is going to slowly head to the north and east. so central alabama, northern alabama, even into atlanta is going to get possibly four to five inches of rain from this.

and not to mention the wind gusts. i think that is what's so troubling. normally we get the storms in and out. with one that's sitting over an area say 24 hours with gusts, to 62 miles per hour, 56 to the north. that is going to create damage and in itself just for the longevity of how long these winds, rather, are sticking around over the same area. so 75 mile-per-hour winds now. slowly starting to die down. gusts of 100 moving to the north-northeast at five miles per hour. so on the track it is going to continue to move ever so chloe sl move ever so slowly. then it picks up speed tonight and pushes through atlanta throughout the day on thursday, and then into the carolinas by friday as a 30 mile-per-hour storm. still dumping a lot of rain. so brianna, yes, this is a long duration storm. not a storm that's gotten in and

out. troubling part is, this is the sixth storm to make landfall this season for the u.s. one in bother in bermuda. it's troubling. >> jennifer gray, thank you for taking us through that. turn now to the pandemic and stop to show you the federal government's response in a nutshell. first you hear the cdc director testifying in front of congress followed by the president last night. >> -- cdc director that face masks, these face masks are "the" most important powerful public tool we have and i will continue to appeal for all americans, all individuals in our country, to embrace these face covering and said if we did it for 6, 8, 10, 12 weeks we'd bring this pandemic under control. these actually, we have clear

scientific evidence they work, and they are our best defense. i might even go so far as to say that this face mask is more guaranteed to protect me against covid than when i take a covid vaccine, because the image magnicity may be 75%. if i don't get an immune vaccine it woe protect me. this face mask will. take the responsibility, americans, particularly 18 to 25 year olds where we see the outbreak continue to go like this because we haven't got the acceptance, personal responsibility we need for all americans to embrace this face mask. >> a lot of people think the masks are not good and a lot of people as an example -- >> who are those people? >> tell you who those people are. waiters. they're saying -- >> saying it's going to disappear? >> what? >> you you were saying it was going to disappear? >> it is going to disappear.

>> this is a big reason why we are where we are. six months later now. the u.s. seeing its bigge one-d spike in deaths. take a look. 52,000 new cases added just yesterday and 1,422 more americans dieing from the virus's you see right side of the screen the nation is nearing the tragic milestone of 200,000 americans dead to this virus. yet a big reversal coming now from the big ten conference saying it will play football as early as next month. president trump was among those pressuring the universities after its leaders said the pandemic made it too risky to play this fall. in the race for a vaccine the trump administration saying today once a vaccine receives emergency use authorization or approval from the fda, "operation warp speed" aims to have vaccines moving to administration sites within 24 hours. cdc director dr. robert redfield saying the vaccination for the general public likely will not

be available until next summer. bring in cnn senior medical correspondent liz deaelizabeth . what was your take awei watching the congressional testimony today? >> as i watched it and i heard what dr. redfield said, director of the cdc. thought, hmm. seems to be a bit of a turn. instead of getting out the word, when the president tries to get the word out, oh, we'll have a vaccine by elaeection day. seems to be, hey, guys, let's be realistic. take a listen. >> i think there will be vaccine initially available sometime between november are and december, but very limited supply and will have to be prioritized. asking when is it going to be generally available to the american public, so we can begin to take advantage of vaccine, to get back to our regular life, i think we're probably looking at third -- late second quarter,

third quarter 2021. >> so we really have to look at this vaccine as a process, brianna. not as a sort of on/off switch. even once there is a vaccine authorized by the fda to go on the market, it's not like you and i can get it the next day. it's going to be given out slowly to different groups with higher risks and front line workers getting it first. others will have to wait months. remember, 300 million americans. also remember, likely getting two doses of this vaccine, not one. also slows down the process. brianna? >> a process, not an on/off switch. a very good thing to remember. elizabeth cohen, thank you. next we fact check the president's other claims made at that town hall, including one about herd immunity. plus the president share as manipulated video of joe biden and nwas anti-pli antholice ant. what will social media police do

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for 45 days. the president faced voters last night at a town hall and he lied over and over again. he lied about everything from health care and isis to the protests and the stock market, but alternate reality again focused on his response to the coronavirus. >> well, i didn't downplay it. i actually in many ways upplayed it in terms of action. >> upplayed it? someone he admires disagrees. >> i wanted to always play it

down. >> yes. >> because i don't want to create a panic. >> not only did he downplay it publicly despite knowing it was "killer" behind the scenes the president is still doing it to this day. >> we're going to be okay and it is going away probably a lot faster because of the vaccine. had would go away without the vaccine. >> it would go away without the vaccine? >> sure. over a period of time. >> this virus may become another endemic virus in our communities and this virus may never go away. >> the president says it's going away. over the past 24 hours the u.s. saw the most cases that it has seen in a month, and speaking of a vaccine -- >> we're within weeks of guesting it. could be three weeks, four weeks, but we think we have it. >> no true. earlier that same day, yesterday morning, that three to four weeks by his on account as four to eight weeks. both timelines next to

impossible even according to the most optimistic of experts. here the dr. fauci's response whether this will be available by election day, which is now seven weeks away. >> it's unlikely that we'll have a definitive answer at that time. more likely by the end of the year. >> and the president's cdc chief just said it won't be available to the general public until next summer. summer, 2021. but the president goes on trying to rewrite his response to this crisis. >> my action was very strong. >> saying that -- >> what i did with china put a ban on it, with europe put a ban on it and we would have lost thousands more people had i not put the ban on. >> there was no ban. he never put complete bans on anything. in fact, the travel restrictions from china still allowed thousands of travelers to enter the u.s. and the virus that hit new york was from europe, where restrictions came too late. but the u.s. could have saved

36,000 lives if the president acted just one week earlier to implement social distancing measures, according to a columbia university study. had he acted two weeks earlier that number rises to 54,000 lives saved. here he is on masks. >> they said at the democrat convention they're going to do a national mandate. they never did it because they've checked out and didn't do it. a good question is, you ask, like, joe biden. they said, we're going to do a national mandate on masks. >> called on all governors. it's the state's responsibility. >> no, but he didn't do it. >> didn't do it? joe biden is not president. he's a private citizen. next -- >> there are a lot of people think the masks are not good. and there are a lot of people as an example. >> who are those people? >> i'll tell you. waiters. >> now, if anyone wore masks waiters included, the simple action would save more than

115,000 american lives over the next few months and that's straight from a model that the white house uses. >> it is going away. and it's probably going to go away now a lot faster because of the vaccine. it would go away without the vaccine, george, butt it's going to go away a lot faster -- >> it would go away without the vaccine? >> sure. over a period of time. sure, with time. >> many deaths. >> and ural develop like a herd mentality. it's going to be it's going to be herd developed and that's going to happen. that will all happen. >> it's the herd immunity concept, which would deliberately allow the virus to spread to build up population resistance. but that strategy would kill more than 2 million americans according to a "washington post" analysis. it's a concept that his controversial new task force member dr. scott atlas floated in the past. even though he's recently denied it. >> it's not just the lie, it's an overt lie. i have never advised the president to push a herd

immunity strategy. i have never told the task force that i advocated a herd immunity strategy. never told anyone. >> there are past clips and columns from dr. atlas talking about this, but his boss has also fact checked this. >> you look at scott atlas, look at some of the other doctors, from stanford, look at some other doctors who think maybe we could have done that from the beginning. >> but didn't the white house try to tell us that the herd immunity you, that that theory isn't even a thing there? >> herd immunity xaurso-called theory made up in the fanciful minds of the media. never something that was ever considered here at the white house. >> so she lied. even with nearly 200,000 americans dead from the virus and still no national strategy, the president is touting some imaginary report card.

>> we're starting to get very good marks if you look at what we've done compared to other countries, with exercise mortality, excess mortality rate. >> all of that is just not true. we have the most cases and the most deaths of any country in the world. and a new survey shows that the president ranks lower than president vladimir putin and president xi jinping when it comes to being trustworthy in the wake of this pandemic. speaking of china. when trump is asked why he con studently phrase china? >> no. didn't say one way or the other. not saying one way or the other. >> once again, let the president fact check himself. >> now we're friends with china. in fact, maybe never had a better relationship, and we're working with them very closely on the coronavirus. >> are you concerned that china is covering up the full extent of -- >> no. china's working very hard. >> he is working very hard. he is very capable. the country is very capable.

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one day after the president shared a vile and baseless tweet an joe biden being a pedophile he's at it again retweeting a manipulated video of biden playing the infamous nwa rap song at police. in reality he was playing a hispanic heritage month celebration in florida. business reporter donie o'sullivan joins me. donie, twitter slaps this manipulated label on this video.

what's the impact of that? >> reporter: brianna, yes, twitter placed a tiny, really tiny label underneath this video saying manipulated video doesn't explain how it's manipulated or even if it's false. twitter's policy with manipulated videos and doctored and editsed videos for the past few months. when we've seen president trump, his campaign and senior republicans sharing more and more doctored and altered videos. the trump campaign and supporters say that videos like this, the original video of joe biden was awkward as it was, but a video like this was clearly a joke, but that is sort of an excuse that we're seeing used over and over again, with videos posted in this way. all of which, of course, play into narratives, some of course, false, about joe biden, and in this case, about his attitude towards police. and the campaigns are doing it, because they know they can get away with it, because even

though this video has been labeled, it's still viewed millions of times on twitter. briann brianna? >> viewed 4.1 million times i believe, and the label certainly doesn't seem to stop people from sharing it. it doesn't. right? they can still share it? >> reporter: they can still share it and you know, twitter has been praised, because with some of the voter misinformation that trump shire ared, they pla more prominent labels and stopped from sharing the tweets. the doctored videos, a tiny label placed and them. speaking to people at these companies, they get it. they understand that they have a very serious role to play in this election. i mean, just in the past few days, twitter announced it was bringing in new rules to prohibit posts that could disrupt a peaceful transition of power after the election, if joe biden were to win.

obviously, with rules coming like that, technology making rules like that in the context of an election in the united states of america in 2020 is quite stark, surreal and bleak. brianna? >> i mean, what else can they do? i guess that's the question. what other recourse does twitter have? do other social media outlets have? >> reporter: yeah. i mean, i think the criticism we see time and time again with these companies is that if they catch the misinformation they either camp it too late, they don't catch it at all and when they do catch it they either don't take it down. they label it and sort of an insuffer way it's not clear that it is misinformation or else just leave it up there and it goes viral. comparedtively, i guess, twit hear been seen to be tougher on president trump than facebook. facebook, of course harks a policy of allowing politicians to lie in political ads. vice president nominee -- kamala

harris actually when a primary candidate called for twitter to ban president trump. i don't think any major technology company in the united states would like the idea of banning the leader of the free world from their platform, but you know, there are certainly those calls in democratic circles, but you know, i think the argument from facebook and twitter and others in silicon valley is they want more speech and even if the speech is full of false and misleading information. >> donie o'sullivan, thank you. breaking news. the spokesman for hhs will take a leave of absence after pushing conspiracy theories about the nation's doctors and scientists. we'll have that next. when i was in high school, this was the theater i came to quite often. the support we've had over the last few months has been amazing. it's not just a work environment. everyone here is family.

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keep in mind, this is the mouthpiece for the health and human services department. now a claim we've heard before from the president he will protect people with preexisting conditions. trump's action don't match his words. in july promised a health care plan within two weeks. it's now september we are -- haven't heard anything of this. just live. just listen. >> we're signing a health care plan within two weeks. a full and complete health care plan. that the supreme court decision on daca gave movie the rige the. we're going to solve, an immigration plan, health care plan and various other plans, and nobody will have done what i'm doing in the next four weeks. i do want to say we're going to be introducing a tremendous health care plan sometime prior, hopefully prior to the end of the month. it's just about completed now. over the next two weeks i'll be pursuing a major executive order requiring health insurance companies to cover all

preexisting conditions for all customers. that's a big thing. >> president trump claims joe biden will destroy protections for people with preexisting conditions. that is simply not true. the reality is this -- obamacare, created while biden was vice president protects these people. biden vowed to preserve and strengthen obamacare if elected. meantime, trump is still working to weaken the protections through multiple bills as well as lawsuits. trump continues to attack his opponent's plan but bottom line is we don't know what the president's plan looks like. today is september 16th and we still haven't seen the president's plan he promised back in july. a short time ago trump administration officials were asked about this time line. >> the president said repeatedly that he has a replacement plan for the affordable care act. as head of the agency's responsible for dealing with such public health undertaking, i would like to ask you, does a replacement plan exist that you are aware of?

any of you? yes or no? admiral? >> um -- i'm not -- i'm not involved in the replacement plan. i don't know what that is. i supply public health advice much as i can for whatever that plan to be -- >> doctor, are you aware of such a plan? >> sir, it's not in my portfolio and so busy with other things i have i don't awareness of that. >> dr. redfield, are you aware of a replaceme menment plan. >> again, it's not in my main lane but i'm not aware of one. >> senator, thank you for being with us. aloha. this is going to be an issue here in the president's debates. >> sure. >> among many others. right now two weeks away from the first one. we've learned the moderators, of course, have already said

they're not going to fact check candidates. that is not their role in this. i wonder what you think joe biden should do when we hear the president making false claims about a number of issues? including this one. >> i came to the conclusion whatever comes out of the president's mouth cannot be trusted. he lies all the time. and, in fact, jared kushner provided in bob woodward's book a reason for lying so that is their moat is op predissal oper. we should live so long as to counter every single lie and i hope joe will put forward what he intends to do when he becomes president. but at the same time here we are. health care was always an issue

for our country, and the president, you know, is attacking the affordable care act. he wants the whole thing to go away. so now in the middle of a pandemic it's eveningen more crucial that people have health care and so he promises all kinds of things. you know what? basically they have nothing. they have zero. nada. nil. so that's where we are, and this is why it is so important in this election to, to make a decision based on who actually is going to tell us the truth. actually who will bring integrity and rule of law to the presidency and it certainly is not the president, because we've seen four years of him behaving the way he does. you know, people will have a choice come november. at the same time -- i'm sorry. >> i was going to say, sounds like you are saying that this is the challenge during the debate which is to try to quickly dispense with lies, if president trump tells them, but then for

former vice president joe biden to try to put out his own vision? right? to communicate his own ideas and to that end i wonder. considering this is, this is unique. president trump is a unique president. a unique candidate in his relationship with the truth. >> yes. none. >> do you think the rules of the debate should be different? >> i think that there should be fact checking. there should be some, some line going on the bottom like, this is a lie and all of that. i think that serves to provide the public with the factual information, but i'm really saddened and distressed, in fact, there will not be on-time fact checking. so the president will continue to lie to his heart's content. i would hope that, that the debate would not be mired in trying to counter the president's lies, because that's just, let's just say that everything -- i think we're safe saying everything that comes out of his mouth is either an

exaggeration or it's a lie. that's it. >> if i could ask you about this idea of they're being -- look, you've heard the former vice president say he would love for there to be kind of a ticker tape chyron of fact checking. >> yes. exactly. >> you know that would be seen as being, considers joe biden is there to defend himself, and the truth as he sees it stances he would want to challenge it. isn't it up to him 0 set the record straight? isn't that esthaessential se do that role? >> much time taken the president lying. to the extent he will portray the vice president as lying, joe biden should respond. not take his entire time correspondenting all of the lies the president will shell out. i think those are the things that can be objectively checked. much of what the president says can be objectively checked.

we're not talking about trying to put the thumb on one candidate's,ation weights. that's not going to happen. joe has to do the best he can to counter and defend himself and put forward his own vision of what an america would like like. as he said, one of the first things will be, he will be a president for all of america, not just for his small base of supporters, which is exactly what trump is doing. and even as we speak, of course, you know that his entire posture has been to talk to his base, scaring the heck out of them. it and all of those kinds of conspiracy theories, et cetera, that he is pushing out that certainly shores up his space but i don't think the president is expanding his base at all with this kind of lies and rhetoric and attacks. that is my hope that our country is smart enough to figure that out with regard to this president at this point. >> on the topic's election security, senator schumer and

sanders have written a letter asking for a bipartisan committee. some of your colleagues are concerned that the president could declare victory before votes can be tallied. >> yes. >> what are your specific concerns about how this election could go? >> first of all, i would want to make sure that the u.s. postal service is -- not in a situation where they are overtly engaging in delays so the delivery of mail, exactly what was happening with dejoy, where as my friend said, no joy. and we hope that he stopped removing post boxes, mailboxes and removing sorting machines but you never know. because frankly, it's hard to trust the veracity or truth coming out of any trump appointee, especially somebody like dejoy who's only claim to fame is that he's a big million dollar trump contributor. i would want to make sure first and foremost our postal as much as are able to deliver the mail, noth the mail, of course, but

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much-needed rain to bring relief to thousands of firefighters out west working tirelessly to contain the biggest wildfires on record. fueled by reeks of dry weather but president trump is scoffing at the idea climate change is responsible instead insisting the unprecedented wildfire are happening because of exploding trees. listen. >> when trees fall down, after a short period of time, about 18 months, they become very dry. they become really, like a matchstick, and they get up, you know, there's no more water pouring through and they become very, very -- they just explode. i was talking to a head of a major country, and he said we're a forest nation. we consider ourselves a forest

nation. this was in europe. i said, that's a beautiful term. he said, we have trees that are far more explosive. he meant explosive in terms of fire, but we have trees that are far more explosive than they have in california, and we don't have any problem. because we manage our forests. so we have to do that in california, too. >> on monday during the president's briefing on the wildfires, california's secretary for natural resources urged we want to work with you to recognize the changing climate and work together with that science. that science is going to be key. if we ignore that science and mutt our head in the sand and think it's all about vegetation management, we're not going to succeed together protecting california. >> it will start getting cooler.

>> and secretary is with us now. secretary, what did you think of that response to what the president was saying? it's going to get cooler? >> does anyone in california know this last several years, we've seen increased catastrophic fire danger. we've seen increased summer temperatures and over parts of greater los angeles. we've seen parts of the state burn with massive fires that have never burned like that before. we've seen a fire so hot it's

causing smoke 50,000 feet high. all of the science points to the fact that this is becoming a bigger challenge. that's what we wanted to confront and share with the president this week. >> did you find him responsive at all to what you're saying? >> i appreciated the opportunity to be 10 or 15 feet from the president to be able to share what is -- what are the facts on the ground and i was appreciative that he listen said. but i can't say i expect it changed his perspective. >> thank you so much for talking with us. >> thank you so much. ahead of the cdc saying that the general public will not have access to the coronavirus vaccine until next summer.

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this week cnn has been bringing you average stories of people doing extraordinary things in our champions for change series. we went there before the pandemic to see how she grew succulent tomatoes and bright microgreens in the dead of winter. this change maker has figured

out how to do it successfully with a group of vertical farmers. >> jackson hole exists at 6200 feet. we're surrounded by yellow stone national park. there are not many farmers in this region. so, there's a real need for good, quality produce in our town. we came together to look for an out of the box solution. we wanted to grow as much food as possible, employ as many as possible and do most year round. and that's where the idea came from. vertical harvest is really an evolution. none of us set out to be vertical farmers. i'm an architect by trade and i've always believed in architecture to be a vehicle for social chask. on a 10th of an acre we grow the

equivalent of 10 acres worth of food, tomatoes, lettuces, microgreens. we serve four different grocery stores in our town. >> it poses a lot of problems for getting fresh produce. bringing something unique to those chefs that they can use and ficheler year round. >> creating a local source of produce was the inception of the project. as we came together, we realize there was also a big problem. people with physical and intellectual disabilities in our town who want to work, find consistent and meaningful work were not able to do so. i have a brother with disabilities and i think i've been an advocate before i noo understood what the word meant.

we're pairing with n an underserved population. we created amazing committed loyal crew of unexpected farmers. >> i'm a microgreen grower. i take some seeds and i lay them on the medium, one layer. no more, no less. >> johnny is a graduate of the university of wyoming and we count on him to accurately seed every type of microgreen. he's the person we trust most. >> i'm grateful for nona for hiring me so i can work at this job and help grow produce. >> reporter: sean washed dishes for most of his career and the thing is that sean never had an opportunity to really show, through his employer, what he can do. sean is incredibly unique in that he knows how to make this ecosystem run. and while before he had a job, now he has a purpose.

we can empower the most underserved in our communities. just by giving them a chance everybody here is a champion and everyone has shown their shown abilities in their community. >> be sure to watch the one-hour special this saturday 10:00 p.m. eastern and pacific. it is the top of the hour. i'm brianna keilar. and while hurricane sally made landfall early this morning, it's dumped up to two feet of water and is far from finished. we're also seeing some of the largest reported damage to date. part of the three-mile bridge which connects pensacola is missing. in alabama, there is widespread damage and flooding.