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our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm kim brunhuber. this is "cnn newsroom." more than 30 million people worldwide have now been infected with the coronavirus since the disease first appeared in china back in december. according to johns hopkins university, the staggering figure is triple what it was just 12 weeks ago and the global death toll is climbing rapidly to the 1 million mark. europe is now experiencing what some fear is a second wave. cases have been rising sharply in recent weeks, especially among people under age 50. but just three countries account for more than half of all the world cases. u.s., india, and brazil. the u.s. surpasses all others with more than 6.6 million cases

and close to 200,000 deaths and the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention now forecasts up to 20,000 more americans will lose their lives to covid-19 by october 10th. the start of a new school year is bringing its own challenges in relation to the pandemic. a new study has found more than 40% of all school employees in the u.s. are at an increased risk of contracting the virus. for more of what's happening at schools in the u.s., here's cnn's nick watt. teachers on the march in manhattan. the nation's largest district was supposed to open in person monday. >> we made a move here of a few days to get it right. >> reporter: meanwhile, in massachusetts, nearly 30 high schoolers are forced to quarantine after parents september their covid-19 positive kids to class. >> parents knew they shouldn't

have done that. the student knew he shouldn't have done that. >> reporter: covid-19 cases rising in parts of the country. more than 1600 confirmed at the university of wisconsin madison since early august. >> obviously i don't want to have covid but it seems inevitable being at uws. the hunt for a vaccine rolls on. moderna hopes to see if its plan works. >> that's our biggest plan. i think it's unlikely. >> pfizer will submit their vaccine for approval by the end of october. the president has a date in mind. wants a vaccine by election day. many experts say that's dangerous. >> it makes people who are not by any means vaccine skeptics normally, it makes them skeptical of the vaccine. >> if you have a vaccine that is highly effective but very few

people get vaccinated, you're not going to realize the full important effect of having a vaccine. >> reporter: the former cdc director now weighing in from the current director's assertion masks might be more effective than a vaccine which started the brutal presidential push back. >> an apple versus a theoretical orange. masks are really important, vaccines we don't know what the effectiveness is. no one knows. >> reporter: good news, there are about half the people in the hospital compared to mid july. 23 states are now seeing their average daily case counts rise. perhaps the best indicator of where we are is the number of tests coming back positive. under 5% is the aim. two weeks ago we were there averaging 4.7%. now 5.79. >> what science says is if you give the virus the opportunity to spread, it will.

>> reporter: many officials here in the u.s. urging people to get their flu vaccine so there isn't the covid flu double whammy this winter. dr. fauci says we may not even have a bad flu season partly because of the covid restrictions in place. look at australia. they barely had a flu season this year. nick watt, cnn, los angeles. meanwhile, former top aide to u.s. vice president mike pence is slamming president trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic. olivia troy is accusing the president of failing to protect the american people. you can see her there sitting behind pence. she was the vice president's lead aide on the coronavirus task force before resigning in july. here's how she now describes president trump's handling of the crisis. >> towards the middle of february we knew it wasn't a

matter of if covid would become a big pandemic here in the united states but when. the president didn't want to hear that because his biggest concern was that he were in an election year and how is this going to affect what he naut was his record of success. it was shocking to see the president saying the virus is a hoax. the truth is, he doesn't actually care about anyone else but himself. >> she says she now supports the president's democratic rival, joe biden. despite what she now says about president trump, she in her resignation letter describes it as an absolute honor. they describe her as a disgruntled employee. >> i think olivia's comments are egregious. i have a copy of it. when she left the organization in the end of july she talked

how valiantly everybody was working and we were an inspiration to her and everything we had done. the simple fact is what she's saying is not true. i've been through every single task force coronavirus meeting, i've been with the president when we met with fauci, redfield, steven behinheine. the president has said we're trying to get it right for america and we're trying to get it right for people. >> the former pence aide said maybe covid is a good thing because he didn't like shaking hands with what he called disgusting people. democratic white house hopeful said president trump should step down because of his handling of covid-19.

joe biden was at a baseball stadium. biden reminded people the president knew about the coronavirus but admitted to hiding it. >> the idea you didn't tell people what you knew, 7 times more contagious than the flu. you breathe the air, you get it sucked into your lungs. he knew it and did nothing. it's close to criminal. >> biden said when mr. trump attacks him, the president seems confused about who's actually running the country right now. listen to this. >> kellyanne conway said, i'm paraphrasing, chaos and violence are good for our administration. they're good for us. the president talks about in joe biden's america. i've got to remind him, he may be losing it. he's president. i'm not the president.

this is donald trump's america. do you feel safer in donald trump's america when he incites these kinds of things? the idea is, it's wrong no matter what the source is, where it comes from. i condemn it all and people should be held accountable but, folks, i've waited for the day when he says i condemn all those white supremacists. i condemn those militia guys as much as i do every other organization and structure. cnn's arlitt saenz was at biden's town hall event and has this report. >> reporter: in his first cnn town hall since becoming the democratic nominee, joe biden took on the president's handling of the coronavirus pandemic saying it is close to criminal the way he has handled the virus and calling him thoroughly irresponsible. biden says it was the

president's inaction that has jeopardized american's freedom. take a listen. >> you lost your freedom because he didn't act. the freedom to go to that ball game. the freedom to go to school. the freedom to see your mom and dad in the hospital. the freedom to walk around your neighborhood because of failure to act responsibly. >> reporter: biden also talked about the need for an effective vaccine saying he will trust what scientists have to say and not listen to just president trump's words alone. biden made an appeal to working class voters. he frames this as one between scranton and park avenue. he said president trump only cares about the stock market over voters. this offered the most extensive in person questions biden has faced in the past of the campaign offering a preview of what the key bates could look

like in two months. biden is looking forward to president trump and offering a different vision of what he can offer the country. biden traveled here to one of the critical states. on friday he is campaigning in florida as he looks to take on the president. while biden was in pennsylvania, president trump focused his attention on a different battleground state. there were raucous and enthusiastic scenes in the american midwest. the president painted a bleak picture for the country if biden wins the election. >> if biden wins, very simple, china wins. if biden wins, the mob wins. if biden wins, the rioters, anarchists, arsonists and flag burners win. we're not into flag burners.

>> mr. trump called the rally a friendly protest, something he claims allows him to get around the crowd size. >> reporter: president donald trump continuing his very busy campaign schedule with a trip here to wwisconsin. two hours north of madison. he delivered a speech to a county where he won by big margins in 2016. the president has a special focus on wisconsin. he believes this is a state that he needs in the win column. former congressman shaun duffy in the crowd here. potential candidate for gover r governor. this is one state he put a heavy emphasis on the president being here. he said wisconsin is a retail politics state. this stands in stark contrast to how joe biden is campaigning. he's not holding rallies because

of the risk of coronavirus. the president not paying much attention to the risks. they continue to be filled with people shoulder to shoulder and very few, if any, masks are being worn by the president. this is a calculated risk the trump campaign is making. a close election could be the difference between winning and losing. brian nobles, cnn, wisconsin. joining me now from los angeles, political analyst michael genowese, author of the book ou how trump governs" and president of the global policy institute at loyola merry mount university. thank you very much for joining us. first, your thoughts on the biden town hall. very unusual format, but we'll put that to the side. what did you make of this performance? >> i think he needed to do three things tonight. i think he accomplished one and we'll see about the other two.

the things that he had to do was number one, demonstrate that he's fit for the job because president trump has been making all kinds of accusations saying he's feeble, et cetera. i think he was fine tonight. second thing he needs to do is differentiate himself from trump. that's the easy part. he is almost perfectly the untrump. the third thing he had to do, which i'm not sure he's done very well, is give me a reason, give me some reason why i should be voting for you instead of trump. he's had a hard time of selling the case and making the sale. >> well, one of the ways he's trying to do that, i suppose, is to emphasize his working class roots. we saw him pivoting from a question of white privilege to how he was disadvantaged by his own working class past. do you think that will work? >> joe biden's personal story is compelling and he likes to tell it. and it resonates.

people can feel what he went through. he clearly positioned himself tonight and repeated it over and over again, i'm the middle class guy. i'm the working class guy. i'm the guy that's the average joe. my name is joe and i'm from pennsylvania and i'm with you. trump has been able to get that group, sort of the middle class working man and woman. biden is making a strong bid to steal some of those votes away. if he does that, he could win one or two of the midwest central states back. >> it's fair to say perhaps biden faced a friendlier, less confrontational crowd i suppose than president trump's town hall, but compare their performances. >> well, you know, the biden drive-in town hall almost looked

artificial. contrast that with tonight's trump rally which was wild and woolly and full of insults being thrown about, no social distancing, very few people wearing masks. it was outside thankfully. but that contrast is important. biden is very clearly trying to draw the contrast between i'm the grownup, i'm responsible, i can get us out of the virus. trump is trying to get you not even to look at the virus by distracting you with all kinds of accusations against everyone and the fear tactics. the striking contrast has been really made and beautifully shown tonight. >> all right. so what is it 1, 1 days from now the two candidates will meet in the first presidential debates. there's a school of thought that says debates don't influence outcomes. this election might be different. do you think it will be? and how important do you think

the debate is? >> historically debates matter little. where they've mattered is not with someone winning the debate as much as someone losing the debate. so the kind of conventional wisdom which is true this time as well, the first rule is don't make some huge gaffe. biden makes gaffes sometimes. that's what's so endearing about him. if he does that on the debate stage, that will hurt him. don't worry about winning. make sure you don't say something that's too controversial to get you in trouble. >> that rule doesn't apply to president trump. >> no. in fact, it's the opposite for him because donald trump is so unique, is different than anyone else and with his base, he could say anything.

his base would forgive him orlov him even more. biden is on thinner ice. he's known for being a little bit loose of tongue and so that -- if he does say something, that will play into one of his weaknesses. trump shoots from the hip and lets the guns fly and let the bodies land where they do. he's done well by that. that doesn't win him the majority of votes, that only appeals to his base. >> all right. we'll have to leave it there. thank you so much. michael genevese. >> thank you, kim. president trump's attorney general is in the hot seat for comments he made comparing coronavirus lockdowns to slavery, but that's not all he said. and many on the u.s. gulf coast are having to navigate the flooded roads and piles of debris. what's left of hurricane sally and the threat of even more flooding, that's next. stay with us. ok. it was an accident. he was tickling me and...

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slavery. jessica snider explains. >> reporter: the attorney general ramping up his increasingly provocative candidates. in a speech to a conservative college wednesday night comparing covid restrictions to slavery. >> putting a national lockdown stay at home orders is like house arrest. it's -- you know, other than slavery, which was a different kind of restraint, this is the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in history. >> reporter: the highest ranking member of the house aghast. >> that statement by mr. barr was the most ridiculous, tone deaf god awful things i have ever heard. it is incredible. the chief law enforcement officer in this country, to equate human bondage to expert advice to save lives. >> bill barr used the speech to assert his authority as attorney general and slam the hundreds of doj prosecutors working under

him. >> name one successful organization or institution where the lowest level employees decisions of deemed sacrosanct. they aren't. there aren't any. letting the most junior members set the agenda might be a good idea for a montessori preschool, but it's no way to run a federal agency. >> reporter: bar criticized people about the roger stone. >> all of these matters that trouble barr touch the president's personal interests. >> reporter: the attorney general is increasingly parenting the president. >> wait a minute. we just discovered 100,000 ballots. every vote must be counted. no, we don't know where these freaking votes came from. >> reporter: hinting at a rigged election without any proof. >> i don't have empirical

evidence on this scale they were materialized. >> reporter: barr bashed democrats about the covid response. >> they treat free citizens as babies that can take responsibility for themselves and others. >> reporter: this comes as a source tells cnn the attorney general is frustrated with local prosecutors who are handling riot-related crimes across the country and pushing them to use a rarely used sedition charge. >> they're not interested in black lives. they're interested in props. a small number of blacks were killed by police during conflict with police, usually less than a dozen a year, who they can use as props to achieve a much broader political agenda. >> reporter: we've learned the department of justice considered charging local officials in portland, oregon, for not doing enough to stop the violence that unfolded when federal officers were brought in to protect the

federal court house. the department of justice has charged more than 250 people associated with the protests that began earlier this summer. jessica schneider, cnn, washington. hurricane sally is just a remnant. look at the damage it left behind when it left alabama. the area is still dealing with major flooding and almost 350,000 customers are still without electricity in alabama, florida, and georgia. sally is now a post tropical cyclone and is moving across the carolinas towards the mid-atlantic states still bringing heavy rain. israel and england are dealing with sharp spikes in coronavirus cases. just ahead, we'll go to london and jerusalem to see the very different ways the two countries are imposing new restrictions. please stay with us. dishes? residue? spots? it's not your dishwashers fault.

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welcome back to you, our viewers, in the united states, canada, and around the world. i'm kim brunhuber and this is "cnn newsroom." england and israel are dealing with coronavirus spikes. it's forcing them to re-evaluate their openings. england has seen a 167% surge in cases since the end of august and as the government faces criticism on testing, it's imposing new restrictions in the coming hours in the northeast. on thursday israel closed schools as infections climbed past 4500 just a day before the entire country goes back into lockdown. so for more on this we're joined

by cnn's scott mcclain in london and/or ren lieberman in jerusalem. let's start with you, scott. local lockdowns set to expand. what's behind this surge? >> reporter: hey, kim. the government here in the u.k. is going to have to figure out that question in a hurry because it is really struggling to get a handle on this second wave of coronavirus cases. in fact, they're starting to translate into hospitalizations which are doubling every eight days or so. the government just announced 1.5 million people living in parts of northeast england will face severe new restrictions that took effect starting today which effectively ban all socializing with people outside of your own household. the health secretary is also promising more announcements of localize t izized restrictions lockdowns. the u.k. is facing tests. the health secretary said yesterday that it's setting aside more than 1/3 of all daily tests for people in care homes

alone because, again, they have to prioritize who gets one and who doesn't. so if all of these measures that they're putting in place, these local restrictions, these broader restrictions, this test and trace program, all of these things can't work, the government is going to have to figure out plan b. here's the health secretary earlier today. >> but a national lockdown is the last line of defense. it is, as we saw in the spring, it is the thing that we can do to keep people safe if that's needed. so we're watching vigilantly but we can see this number of cases accelerating, as you say, and we're prepared to do what it takes to -- both to protect lives and to protect livelihoods. both is so important. >> reporter: so national lockdowns certainly not off the table, but obviously not preferable by any stretch either. the preference would be to either have people simply follow the rules. for instance, the ban on gatherings of groups of more

than 6 people. the who says this trend we're seeing across europe, not just in the u.k. but particularly acutely in france and spain, is very serious. they said the latest numbers ought to serve as a wake-up call. context is important here. while the second wave of the virus is definitely eclipsed, the first wave, this is nothing like we saw in the spring. more testing is obviously picking up more cases. take this example, for instance, in spain they're seeing two or three times more daily cases than they were back in april and yet they only have 1/6 the number of people in hospitals. kim? >> all right. so very worrying situation in europe and in israel as well. let's turn now to oren. a second lockdown. lots of consternation and anger i imagine, right? >> frustration as well because of the way the lockdown was introduced and the apparently haphazard way the restrictions were communicated to the public

and changed at the last second. israel with 5,200 more cases according to the ministry of health data. the new daily cases continues this upward trend as does the number of serious cases and the number of patients on ventilators. all of that as the second general lockdown set to be imposed on 2 1/2 hours. the first in the world to reimpose a general closure. schools were closed, entertainment venues, leisure venues. people are restricted to within 1,000 meters of their home. even that was a last-second change. that was only 500 meters yesterday until it was changed at the last moment. that, again, raising fears because it's a loosening of restrictions. gatherings are limited to 20 people outdoors, 10 people indoors. health experts saying these

restrictions can begin to be eased when there's a sharp, perhaps very sharp decline in the number of new cases. prime menster benjamin netanyahu said after a meeting with health experts, that one of the keys to stopping the spread of coronavirus throughout the country is social distancing and wearing masks. that's noteworthy because those are two things he did not do at a packed white hauser money earlier in the week when he was signing the normalization agreements with bahrain and the united emirates. that's part of what's leading the confusion as the lockdown is set. >> a warning for other countries as well there. thank you so much, oren lieberman, in jerusalem. well, as university students across the u.s. get settled in, covid-19 cases are spiking. cnn's omar jimenez visited the university of wisconsin madison campus where more than 2,000 students have tested positive.

>> reporter: in 2019 this would have been a typical college saturday night but in 2020 it's a nightmare. universities across the country trying to gain control as coronavirus cases continue to increase on america's college campuses. >> this is where students here at the university of madison get taken if they test positive with covid-19. isolation housing. nobody goes in and nobody goes out. it's trying to get a handle on the outbreak at campus where it took five days to go from the first day of classes to students restricted to essential activities only. >> reporter: since move in started in late august, more than 2,000 students have tested positive for covid-19. >> they sent me an email, pack your bags, be out of there as soon as possible. >> reporter: freshman kie kier meddar is one of them. >> reporter: why is it so difficult to contain outbreaks?

>> you can say don't do this. don't do that. that's why they can't send everyone home. we're going to spread it all across the country if we do. >> reporter: he says he's had mild to no symptoms so far and he's been in isolation housing for days as he waits out the two-week period. 350 students are in isolation with 100 plus quarantining. the rest of the undergraduate campus has been stuck at emergency use only. >> you're standing in the elevator with people that might have it. you have your mask on but that does something, not 100% everything. >> reporter: roughly 20% of the students have been infected. residents have been told they can leave the building for 30 minutes three times a day to secure meals and get a breath of fresh air. >> we're almost certainly going to see significant case numbers continue over this coming week.

we're identifying people who test positive and moving them into isolation. >> reporter: the school says they're investigating more than 380 student violations and reviewing 12 students for emergency suspension, a step that's been taken at other schools. the university of missouri expelling two students for disregarding covid rules. at the university of kansas, large gatherings like these leading to public health bans at off campus residences according to a statement. concerns at schools across the country. >> we're in the middle of a pandemic and the fact that people think it's okay to party right now is the biggest mistake. >> reporter: it's all part of a reality. some students say they assumed would come with back to school. >> obviously i don't want to have covid, but it seemed kind of inevitable. >> reporter: at the university of wisconsin madison, one student has been hospitalized as a result of complications from

covid-19. campus as a whole, the positivity rate for students tested has been around 8%. the school's hope in trying to drive that number down is it's going to come from testing, which is required for everyone living in the dorms and for those living in fraternities and sororities and limiting student interaction. look at the entire country, we have seen more than 50,000 cases reported at colleges and universities spanning all 50 states. omar jimenez, cnn, chicago. joining me now from knoxville, tennessee, dr. scott miscovicz. he's a family consultant, pioneer pop-up testing in hawaii. i want to start where we left off here with covid and college campuses. i was reading at one university they were looking at how students were getting infected and it wasn't necessarily through the big gatherings and

frat parties and so on that we see in the news, it was the smaller gatherings of a couple of students, study groups, dinner with friends, board games. what have you seen? >> it's exactly the same. as you know, i'm traveling college campuses right now working on testing programs. it's exactly that because the smaller confined spaces where you're in a dorm room, playing video games, hanging out talking to your friends, there's not as much movement. respiratory droplets are easier to spread and a lot of times they take masks off. you're with friends. that's where it's occurring. it doesn't occur outside as much. it's not occurring in the big basketball arenas or, you know, open air dormitory -- or open air gymnasium, it's in small rooms. >> speaking of gymnasium and so on, you know, college sports, very controversial. just recently the big ten football conference went back on

its decision not to play after considering new medical information and testing possibilities. you're in charge of testing in the sec. some experts say we shouldn't be playing football given the likelihood of spread and potential of damage to the heart. we saw recently, you know, another study looking at the hearts of two dozen ohio state university players, found 15% of them had heart inflammation consistent with a rare but potentially fatal condition. i want to ask you, can this be done safely and from your perspective, how is it going so far? >> yes, i believe it can be done safely because i've been involved with many conferences and been involved in many of the medical advisory meetings, and i'm very proud to be involved with physicians who are really taking the time to look at all

of the evidence and the best practices and first and foremost, the safety of the student athletes. it can be done safely because of the fact that there are really strict testing protocols in play and the whole idea is to find this disease before it is becoming contagious. as we just talked about, it is much more common they're going to get this disease when they're with friends in a dorm versus the environments being in the locker rooms. those are so regulated. there is so much more control set in the universities that i feel very solid that across the country the programs will allow safe return of college athletics and as long as we continue the testing and -- >> how exactly are you going about it? give us a sense you're in a school now that you're visiting. what do you do? what's the protocol? >> well, again, the general protocols that are happening across the country are two -- there's two protocols i'll

describe. number one is many of the schools are doing three time a week testing, that includes two of the deep pcr tests which are very sensitive and everyone is instituting the final test called the antigen test. remember the antigen test is available in 15 minutes. it can be something that you can immediately tell someone is contagious and pull them out right away so they don't go on a bus and travel, they don't go into the locker room, they don't go into the sideline. most teams are using the antigen testing at the very time of the game day or before people would enter a bus. >> we'll have to leave it there. thank you very much, dr. scott miscovicz. thank you very much. >> thanks for having me, kim. still ahead, it could have been contained in wuhan. that's what america's ambassador to china has told cnn. we'll hear from him in an excludsive interview next. do stay with us for that. want to brain better?

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cnn exclusive now. why is the u.s. ambassador to china losing his job when tensions are so high and right before the election? our david culver spoke to him in an exclusive interview and joins us from beijing. i understand he had some strong criticism of china's response in the early days of the covid pandemic. >> reporter: kim, we just wrapped up that interview within the past couple of hours. it was interesting hearing how he has aligned himself with some of the same rhetoric we heard from president trump. it was not all that surprising. he was appointed by trump for this position. part of the way he got this ambassador ship was because of his long time relationship with president xi jinping. it goes back to 1985. it seems he has shifted from what china saw him as an old friend of china and highly

critical of their handling of the coronavirus outbreak. take a listen to what he said about the coronavirus outbreak starting. >> do you see, mr. ambassador, the same way mr. trump sees it, as the chinese are to blame. >> yes. they covered enough and even penalized the doctors that were pointing it out at the very beginning so the result was what could have been contained in wuhan ended up becoming a worldwide pandemic and that's what's so sad. >> reporter: from here the a.m. bags is a do -- ambassador will retire from being ambassador. he's very specific. he doesn't say what he'll do next. he leaves it open as a campaign position for president trump.

overall what stands out from that interview is how highly critical he has become of the chinese handling of it, yet what we know is president trump has kind of gone back and forth in his characterization of president xi as a good friend, as a gentleman, as a good leader, even as this outbreak was playing out. i asked the ambassador about that. is that strategic? i didn't understand what the president's approach was. he said he believes the president, president trump, went into a relationship as a friendship with president xi jinpi jinping. he said ultimately he feels like perhaps the president of the u.s. was misled by china. kim? >> very good. very good get on your part. cnn's david culver in beijing. the coronavirus pandemic has drastically changed air travel and one result, a trip advertised as a flight to nowhere and it sold out in just

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pandemic started. that can cause people to go stir crazy sitting at home. qantas airlines has one unusual solution, jumping on a plane to a flight to nowhere. richard quest has the details. >> reporter: it may have been the fastest selling flight in gantas history. a 7 hour trip around australia where you don't get off the plane at all. demand is high. tickets sold out in ten minutes. one of the pilots is excited to get going. >> it's been a few months since i've been able to fly. i cannot wait to see excited, happy people flying. >> reporter: the date of this flight to nowhere and back is october 10th. the plane is a boeing 787 dreamliner one usually reserved for international travel. this time though it's a long,

local cruise. >> so we have a fantastic day plane which will see is depart from mid morning. we're going up the new south wales coast. at this point we'll follow the great barrier reef, about 90 minutes. we'll be doing flights over certain ridge marks at high and low altitudes. great viewing for 30 minutes. once we finish with that, we'll be setting back to sydney. upon arrival which will be getting close to sunset, we'll be doing a flyover of the harbor and finally back in sydney. >> reporter: flights like these have become more common as people who have been under stay at home orders are itching to get back on a plane. in june taipei had three flights to nowhere. they got on a plane and it never took off.

there was a dine and fly in august and singapore airlines is considering a new route to nowhere. for qantas the flight has additional perks. food, a gift bag, and an auction of memorabilia from qantas recently retired 747s. the beauty of these flights, as qantas says, there's no pass port or quarantine required. it's proving the travel adage as true, it's better to have traveled than to have arrived. richard quest, cnn, london. >> not sure if that's true. that wraps this hour of "cnn newsroom." i'm kim brunhuber. thanks for watching. another day, another chance to bounce forward.

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