when we would normally be on the carpet. >> maybe all the money saved could be donated to the people who lost their homes. >> first stoppeders. >> yes. >> thanks, everyone. have a great weekend. i'm poppy harlow. >> and i'm jim sciutto. "newsroom" with our colleague john king starts right now. hello, everybody. i'm john king in washington. thank you so much for sharing your day with us. today, both the president and the democratic nominee campaign in minnesota. last night at a cnn town hall joe biden borrowing from his biography to frame the november choice. >> i really do view this campaign as a campaign between scranton and park avenue. all that trump could see from park avenue is wall street. all he thinks about is the stock market. >> much more on the state of the 2020 race ahead but we begin this hour with a numbing global milestone. the worldwide coronavirus case count crossing 30 million

infections. the united states tops the global charts in both cases and deaths which will soon number 200,000 american lives lost. the nation's top infectious disease expert, dr. anthony fauci, says it is possible to avoid what he calls a fall double whammy. that is good news. this though more worrisome. the u.s. added 44,000 plus new cases yesterday on thursday, and the seven-day average of new cases is creeping back up. yet the president says we have rounded are the final corner. new reporting today proves sadly it isn't just the president's words that put politics over the coronavirus reality. politics, not science, we are told, was behind changes to critical cdc guidelines about who should get tested. a source telling cnn's dr. sgupta the guidelines posted last month came from political officials inside the department of health and human services, not cdc scientists. the recommendations also did not go through the normal review process which includes cdc scientists and fact-checkers. those changes were uploaded to the agency's website in the dead

of night. let's take a closer look now at some of the trends and we'll bring in dr. gupta to talk about some of the news. if you look at the map. we'll take the paper down. this paper has taken a decided turn for the worse, the president says we've rounded are the final corner. this is a turn for the worse. 30 states now reporting, you see them in red and orange, 30 of the 50 states reporting more now infections this week compared to the data last week. that is not turning the final corner. this is turning in the wrong direction. 30 states trending in the wrong direction, and we know when cases go up deaths follow. right now 23 states, you see them there again. orange and red. some in the deep red. the deeper the red, that means 50% more deaths this week than last week. 23 states trending in the wrong way when it comes to the coronavirus death counts. that's not turning the final corner so here's the big question. where are we headed? summer surge, started to come down, got below 40. thursday, yesterday, almost 45,000 new infections just

yesterday. we're starting now to get the sense what have happened on labor day. will we have another post-holiday spike? next week we'll know more, but look at that line, red line heading back up. plateaued around 40,000 and dipped below it and now heading back up. a dangerous turn. let's watch it to see if it's a blip or if it continues. but, if you look here, when cases go up, deaths tend to follow. finally we've gotten, the blue line, the seven-day average of deaths. finally had it shoved down below 1,000 and you're seeing it's trickling back up. still in the ballpark. 870,000 americans died yesterday from the coronavirus. still in the ballpark of 1,000. at the moment it appears to be trending back up, and here's the problem match. on this map the lighter the better. see all this dark blue. that means double digit positivity and we know how this, would. we've been two it for several months. higher positive rate leads to more cases tomorrow and wait for three weeks and the death total goes up. double digit boss toughity, florida, south carolina,

alabama, kansas at 15 and out here in south dakota, 14% iowa, 16% idaho, 15% utah, double-digit positivity. we know where that takes you. higher positivity today is more cases tomorrow. because of this map, the cdc despite what the president says now increasing its projected death total. it says 218,000 americans will die of coronavirus by october 10th. we're approaching 200,000 already. that number, they say, by the middle of october, by the middle of october. you can see that number right there. i don't want to repeat it. more than 197,000. show what you have right now is bad numbers in the late weeks of a campaign. last night on the trail the president in wisconsin, joe biden in pennsylvania, trying to frame how you should vote when you think about this pandemic. >> we're doing great. we're doing great with vaccines and therapeutics. remdesivir, all sorts of other things that are bringing the rates down like at numbers that

nobody can believe. >> we have to make sure that we lay out to the american people the truth. tell them the truth. he doesn't want to see anything happen. it's all about his re-election. it should be about the american people, and they are in trouble. this president should step down. >> the let's turn for more on that damning revelation about the controversial guidelines who should get tested for the coronavirus. a source confirming cdc scientists did not write the recommendations nor did the recommendations go through the normal vetting process. here to discuss what this means our chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. sanjay, this is politics, forgive the word, trumping science. >> no question about it. i mean, you know, we've been sort of talking to sources within the cdc and task force for some time now, and it's just as you laid out, john. let me just remind people. we can show on august 24th there was a change that showed up on the cdc's website, and it specifically had to do with people who have had close

contact with someone subsequently diagnosed with covid. we can put that up and show you what the guideline change was. basically said you do not necessarily need a test unless you are a vulnerable individual or your health care provider recommends you take one. that was a significant change, john, because we've known for some time now that people without symptoms can spread this virus and they do, according to some studies. the about half the spread in this country is coming from people who don't have symptoms at the time they spread the virus. we asked the cdc about it at the time and asked them again yesterday and quickly want to put up their response to this, the response that the guidance on the site did not follow the data and what they basically said the guidelines were coordinated in conjunction with the coronavirus task force and received appropriate attention and consultation and input from task force experts. that's what they say. john, here's what we know happened. there was guidance that was sent over to the cdc that did not originate from the cdc.

it was supposed to go through a vetting process that involved an assistant director of science, fact checkers and cross-checkers. it's quite an extensive vetting process. the documents started to go through that process. my source says the next morning woke up and basically the unaltered document that was all of all these -- this incorrect guidance just showed up on the website. it did not go through the vetting process, did not originate from the cdc and this person who called me was very alarmed by this and says it's happened before, not only with the asymptomatic testing issue but also with many so of the school guidance issue that came out okay, you know, several weeks earlier. >> dr. sanjay gupta, appreciate that very important news and i'll just say it right here. that guidance suggested fewer people get tested. fewer people get tested you have fewer positive results and the numbers are lower. it doesn't mean they are really lower. means what we know. the coronavirus is out there but we don't know it. very important reporting, thank

you very much. let's continue the conversation now. margaret are, i just want to start with you because as sanjay noted this is not the first time the cdc or other agencies in the government where science normally carries the day where you have processes in place to run things two times, three times, four times past the scientists and past the fact checkers have been twisted in this administration because the calendar and the pandemic in the president's minds are not in sync because of the election. >> john, that's right, and in retrospect now we know this has been true since late january when peter navarro was privately telling the president you could have a couple million people in terms of casualties here, and i think that's what we're seeing now with olivia troy coming forward is a recognition and some level of a speaking out from folks who have been behind the scenes and understand what has actually been going on. >> and so let's listen to olivia

troy, lisa. she's a former aide to vice president pens who worked on the coronavirus task force. her republican lineage goes back to working for defense secretary donald rumsfeld so no question she's a republican policy aide. she's left the administration, and she says, listen to her in her own voice other, that the coronavirus task force was trying to do its job, that the vice president was trying to do his job, that they were trying to take this seriously, but -- >> towards the middle of february we knew it wasn't a matter of if code of would become a big pandemic in the united states it was a matter of when, but the president didn't want to hear that because his biggest concern was we were in an election here and how was this going to affect what he considered to be his record of success. the truth is he doesn't actually care about anyone else but himself. >> from the white house now, lisa, you get disgruntled employees. she left. her resignation letter was quite complimentary.

what is the power of that, a republican who worked inside the coronavirus task force saying we were trying to do our job and the president just wanted to win re-election? >> there's been a big push from republicans unhappy with the president to come out and say that they don't believe he should be re-elected. most often we've seen people in the white house come out through anonymous quotes or through tell-all books. they try to monetize their experience in some way or protect themselves so what she's doing is fairly brave. she will get attacked for this. there's no question about that. now whether it moves the president's base is a very different question. it's hard to see that happening given how much of a hold the president has on his base, but it is another headwind for president as he tries to win over or win back independent votersers, win people who maybe didn't vote in 2016 or voted third party. this isn't the kind of thing a president running for re-election wants to come out less than two months before election day. >> and so we're just told the president now plans a 2:00 press

conference today, press briefing at the white house. this is part of his strategy. he knows, and we're going to talk about this later in the program. if you look at the battleground states he's trailing in the polls. six weeks to go, six plus weeks, right now the elect and map is tilted heavily in favor of joe biden's favor so the president is trying to do something every day doing something which means he has to answer questions about olivia troy and uptick in innecks even though he says we've turned the final question and the vice president last night in pennsylvania, just talked about the cdc guidelines donrelletively recently her, the vice president says listen to the woodward recordings, what the president was telling bob woodward at the time he was telling the americans something different, vice president biden make the case that the president has put his interests ahead of yours. >> back in march i was calling for the need for us to have masks, have the president stand and tell us what's going on, but he knew it. he knew it and did nothing. it's close to criminal. >> at the moment if you look,

especially when you go through the battleground state polling, a majority of voters tend to agree with the former vice president. may not choose that word but president's handling of the coronavirus is the biggest source of his problem right now. >> well, yeah. i mean, and that's what biden is driving into. if you look at the contours of this race though, the president's message on the economy, which is what biden is trying to say like he cares more about the economy than he does about your he will, but there are also many voters who think that the economy is a more pressing concern than the pandemic and it tends to be because of their proximity or lack of proximity to the impacts of the pandemic, so in the key state, i mean, every state matters. every state is key and every vote matters but in the states as we think of as the most key this really is fundamentally a question, a referendum on president trump? do you think he's prioritizing public safety and concern for the american people above his own kind of base political needs, or do you think that he is prioritizing the economy

because he cares the most about the american people? and this is the very nuanced question where biden has to drive hard into what we're seeing with the politicization of science and all of this, but he also has to acknowledge that he cares about the care and in pennsylvania in particular, on some of these issues like fracking, some of these issues like working class mentality, he has to get his messaging straight and you can see him working on this in terms of trying to say i'm common man. president trump, is you know, park avenue, but more complicated than it looks, and we saw some threads of that in this town hall last night. >> it is more -- coalition-building is very complicated and the vice president trying to thread a needle in some ways. we call out the president sometimes and call out the president when he says things that simply aren't true and if you're the former vice president joe biden the democratic nominee you're trying to make the case that the president can't get his facts straight when it comes to the pandemic he has a responsibility to get his straight, too. this was the case of the former vice president being off.

listen. >> his own cdc director contradicted him recently saying if in fact you just wore this mask, nothing else but this mask, you would save between now and january another 100,000 lives and so we have to be honest with the american people. they are tough. >> redfield did not use a number. he did hold up his mask at a congressional hearing and said it was by far the best weapon right now without a vaccine. he said it would be just as good a weapon if we d have a vaccine and did not use the number. the biden campaign said the former vice president was confusing things that the ihme that if more people wore masks they would save around around 100,000 lives. if we're going to call out the president, he has to be careful as well. >> that's our job and we want all candidates to say things that are truthful and factual and if they don't we're going to hold them accountable, but i do think there's a dynamic here where the president lowered

expectations for biden so much over the summer, i mean, listening to the president you would think that joe biden couldn't even string a sentence together and it was a strategy that was confusing to democrats but also to some republicans who want to see trump re-elected because if you lower expectations so much for your opponent, if they get up there and can just answer a question with some fluency, they are exceeding the bar has set. joe biden is exceeding the bar that it the president has set so i think we saw some of that dynamic at play last night where voters that are just tuning in now, which is, let's be honest. most voters expect to see a joe biden that can't quite keep it together and instead they see someone who has some policy fluency. >> we are heading into the final weeks, you're right. most people who are business and extra busy and stressed in the pandemic starting to tune. in a prevuflt debate last night. grateful for the reporting and the insights. thank you so much. up next we continue the conversation. joe biden's new effort to win over working class voters.

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own stocks. >> but coalitions are complicated and biden must also be aware that democrats need enthusiastic support from african-americans. >> do you see ways that you've benefited from white privilege. >> i've benefited because i don't have to go through what my black brothers and sisters have had to go through, number one and number two, grow up here in scranton. we're used to guys who look down their nose at us and we look to people who look at us and think that we're suckers. look at us and they think that we don't -- we were not equivalent to them. >> cnn political commentator democratic commentator angela rye joins us now. coalitions are complicated, the point i made at the top and everybody looks at things from a different perspective. you know the conversation among some democrats is the biden campaign doing enough to motivate african-american turnout and is the biden campaign doing enough especially with african-american american? if you look at 2016 you can see why democrats would be concerned about that.

when you watch a town hall last night it's in blue collar scranton aimed primarily in that community at white working class voters, but did you see what you need to see on the broader coalition questions? >> i think the campaign still has a lot of work to do, and i think in the recent weeks they have made a number of strides. by the way, john, happy national black voter day. it is a new thing, but it is happening, and, you know, today is a great opportunity and great day for the campaign to do several things. i think the first thing that the campaign should do and really must do. there was an agenda released last year from black to the future. it's called the black agenda 2020. >> mm-hmm. >> and that agenda includes specific bills that should be passed, specific priorities from talking to 30,000 black people all over the country. it's the work of a co-creator of black lives matter. that's something they can immediately. do they should immediately be in conversation with the movement

for black lives. i understand there have been some conversations, but to talk about a path forward. when we start talking about an agenda for black people and what will move folks to the polls, it's always true that black people are issue voters, and you're not likely to just get energizing, invigoration around a ticket alone. there has to be policy that bolsters that. i'm a tremendous kamala harris fan and the reason for that is i know that we're in alignment on issues, and i think that this is the time for joe biden to bridge the gap from his past to the present and to the future. what are the bills that he will immediately sign into law when congress passes them as president? those are many so of the commitments that he can be making. at the town hall last night when talking about police violence, joe biden was just a hair shy of saying that he would sign justice in policing into law. justice in policing is a bill

that kamala harris champ yopd and led on the senate side. it did not pass the senate but it did pass the house. those are the types of substantive commitments he can make. it's not enough to say that he can empathize with his black brothers and sisters. i think it's more important that he says i know i've benefitted from white privilege. i know that policy-making tends to benefit those who look like me but here are the things that i know i need to do to shore up support from people who do not. >> let's listen to some of that then because you mentioned his past and for those old enough to remember or those who want to use the internet to the look it up joe biden gets skepticism in the african-american community because of his support back in 19949 for the crime bill but other things, too, and that's a big one hemp's also faced some resistance in the primaries, the trump campaign saying joe biden is for defunding police but he is not. here's both joe biden and the president on the issue of policing. >> i do feel that we also have to take into consideration that if you look at our police they do a phenomenal job.

you'll have people choke and make mistakes and it happens where they have to make a tough decision and bad things happen. >> very few white parents have to turn to say to their kid when they get their license make sure when you're pulled over to put both hands on top of the wheel, don't reach for the glove box or do whatever the police officer says. >> your take on that if i'm hearing that right, that's good but not good enough? >> i was actually referencing another part of the answer. i think that that part of the answer demonstrates that joe biden has certainly been in communication with folks in the black community. the talk is a very real thing, of course, it was referenced in the question. it's something that i have to talk to my god sons who are so and 16 about, 10 years old. my godson said -- i said are you afraid of the police, and he shade no, not yet, and i said when do you think you'll become afraid of the police? probably about 13.

that's a very dangerous thing, right, and i understand certainly that donald trump has no concept for what is problematic about police behavior, but we also have to get rid of this narrative that it's about a few bad apples that spoil the whole bunch. it's about bad systems and systems that have to be overhauled, so one recommendation i would give the joe biden campaign is that you can't continue to reference the 21st century council on policing as the path forward. it was great in 2014. now we need 2020 solutions. >> angela rye, appreciate your insights. continue the conversation in the final six weeks of a more than interesting campaign and to that point joe biden and donald trump face off. the first presidential debate is 11 days from now. you can watch, it should watch it all play out live right here on cnn. our special coverage starts tuesday night, september 29th at 7:00 p.m. eastern. coming up for us, live pictures and more states beginning to allow in-person early voting. look at that.

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today in the 2020 election process. early in-person voting begins in four more states today, minnesota, south dakota, virginia and wyoming. mail-in ballots are available now in several more states as well. key early pieces of this unprecedented pandemic election. mail-in and early voting are in record demand because of covid safety concerns. cnn's kristen holmes is outside a polling location in fairfax, virginia, and we can see over your shoulder, kristen, wow, that's a long line. >> reporter: yeah. john, this is incredible. i'm going to step out so you can actually see it. we've been here since before 8:00 a.m. when the polls actually opened. there was already a crowd but nothing like this. as you canny sao, hundred of people. about two football fields back. just to give you an idea of how long this process is taking. people that i spoke to around 8:45 this morning, they just voted, and keep this in mind. they did not have to wait in this long line outside. people are are being told that it's going to take them hours to be able to vote. but so many of the people i'm

talking to say it is absolutely worth it. they wanted to be here on the first day. they wanted to make sure that their ballot counted. now, some told us that a lot of this had to do with the fact that they no longer trust the postal service. take a listen to this. >> i don't trust the mail right now so that's why. >> so that's why you're voting in person. >> if i have to stand here all day i'm standing here today. >> i made my mind up a long time ago? >> why not mail in your vote? >> i wanted the pleasure of doing it physically. >> reporter: and we've heard the line from both campaigns, that this is the most critical election of all times and seems to be resonating here in fairfax county. people saying they know how important this election is, they want to actually watch their ballot being counted. we spoke to one election official who said they had never seen anything like this in their 20 years of working at elections here in fairfax. just to give you and idea of how unexpected this was, they only

had one conference room open. they are currently trying to work on getting a third open now because of this incredible demand. >> it is remarkable day one in virginia, fairfax, once a republican-leaning suburb but not anymore. in my 30 years here in washington, kristen holmes, appreciate the live reporting outside of that important exercise of democracy and we'll continue to watch early voting an in person and otherwise. up next, back to theives crew. connecticut has a remarkably low positivity rate in its coronavirus test, but it is ticking up. governor ed lamont joins us with his plan to avoid another covid spiblg. apps are used everywhere...

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there's a turn for the worse when you look at the state-by-state coronavirus data and now governors have to make decisions about what to do, ease restrictions, tighten restrictions? let's take a look at the numbers. this map just has taken a sad turn in recent days. we now have 30 states trending up. that means more cases now than a week ago. 30 states. the president says we've turned the final corner. 30 states now reporting more new infections this week compared to last week. the ones in deep red is up by 50% this week over last week. 30 states trending in the wrong direction. 16 steady and four trending down. despite this texas and nevada in

the coming days will ease restrictions. nevada is reporting a decrease in cases can. the governor thinks i'm in a position to ease restrictions. texas is heading back up again. part of the big summer courage and trending back up, some restrictions to be eased in the coming days it. if you look at this map here, this is why you should be worried about the next couple of weeks. you want to be as light as possible, the northeast and new england is pretty light. see all this darker blue. that means double dajt positivity rates, 16% utah, is a% kansas and south dakota. 12% florida, 16% south carolina. those coronavirus tests are coming back at a high bossive itty rate. that means next week the case count will go up. higher positivity rate leads to more infections and there we vlastuin connecticut is one. states that went through this early, remember, pack in the spring? so far its total, more than 55,000 infections, nearly 4,500 deaths in the state of connecticut. now, most of this happened early on. remember, connecticut was part of the early pain, april into

may and down. it's been pretty remarkable and stayed low through june, july, august, up to september. see this, it a little bit of an uptick in recent days. that has the governor's attention. >> 220 positive cases is concerning. this is something we're watching carefully to see what degree it's seasonal and to what degree it is people coming back what, degree it is labor day weekend and, you know, a few weeks later, but all those folks who think we're out of the woods and it's time just to let it rip, this reminds you why we continue to be very cautious. >> governor lamont joins us now. governor, good to see you again. guess it's good we haven't talked in a long time, because your state has been in a much better place. but having lived the horror of the spring, if you look at the last few days, that's a relatively modest uptick in new infections but you remember 1,000 new infections a day. what are you going to do to keep it and push it back below 200?

>> nice to see you again, john. you're right. ever since we started reopening we've reopened cautiously going back to may, and the infection rate has gone down. it's been one of the lowest in the country for three and a half months now, but you're right. we started getting back to school and opened up our colleges and we've seen a slight uptick, still, one of the lowest in the country but it is earning k.like i said before. we watched this like a hawk because i saw arizona and texas and florida going back a month or so and it can go up like a being hoe stick. so far i think we've got things contained. we're being cautious, but probably a lot of kids coming back from all over the country and college has a little bit of an impact. >> as you know, we're all anxious because you count the days from labor day. you start to see many so of the evidence now. another week or so before we really know. are we going back through memorial day and jim 4th again, a number of beaches in your state? i know it's a concern and you

raise all the right questions in the sound we played from your news conference yesterday. do you think it's mostly campuses, or do you think it's a mix of things? >> i think it's a mix of things. we have a town called danbury, and there they had a real flare-up related i think to folks who were returning out of the country, visiting family, coming back and all of a sudden it catches fire. so you've got to be very careful about these things. fortunately working with my fellow governors we've been able to work on a regional basis, and that's been very helpful. >> and so i just want to look. comparing you to the national average. the national average in terms of positivity is right around 5%. the public health experts tell you want to get it to 5% and then shove it down. connecticut is very markable, 1.3% but i think it was 1.1% a few days ago so that's the source of your concern. are considering at this moment adding new restrictions, or do you think just being out there telling people, hey, let's be doubly vigilant and make sure about your masks and keep your social distance? can you do this now talking to

people, or do you think you need to impose restrictions? >> no. i think we do it by talking to people. i've got protesters out there. let it rip, open it up. i remind people that our economy is 95% open, but it only works because people are wearing their masks and taking our protocols very seriously. we're not going to need new restrictions. i've been very careful that we never have to backtrack. i hope that's still the case. >> you've mentioned the protests. we're showing some of the pictures on television interest, a pretty modest number of people. people telling you we've got to open up. listen to the surgeon general who like you, and i know you may not agree on everything that the surgeon general has done, but like you this is pretty hard in an election year to try to get people to listen without being guided by their politics. >> when we were first learning about this pandemic, we literally had our country at each other's throats in an imimpeachment trial. there's no chapter in the pandemic playbook for a presidential election, highly

divisive presidential election, and there's no chapter in the playbook about a social justice movement, the likes of which we haven't seen since the 1960s sew it makes it hard to have these conversations. >> how hard to have the conversations? if you look at the experiences of your state, had a pretty good run for a couple of months. i know you're concerned about a blip. how hard is it to have these conversations in the midst of this polarized year? >> i would tell you going back to when we were hit hard, this state really united. i think you saw that around different regions. people were all in one direction. we were very strong, and we came to wearing the masks, probably best protocols there of any state in the country. it made an enormous difference. you're right. things are fraying a little bit. we've got a few weeks until the election. everybody is wearing their political colors, but i don't know about the pictures you showed of the protests, but i was struck that there were only like a dozen of them but

two-thirds of them were wearing a mask as they were protesting and having to wear a mask so maybe they don't like mandate, but they are still willing to do the right thing. >> and the in that case good for them in the sense that protest is a gift in our democracy but hopefully they are being safe as they do so. governor lamont, appreciate your time today, sir, and best of luck in the days ahead as you try to deal with the modest little blip in your state. thank you. >> good to see you, john. thanks. >> thank you, sir. coming up the house speaker nancy prosy gives her take on former aide to the vice president now slamming the administration's pandemic response. maas

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democratic presidential nominee joe biden received a classified security briefing on wednesday according to a campaign official, the first confirmation of a full classified intelligence briefing as he gets because he is the democratic nominee. nancy pelosi saying that skepticism of science is hurting the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. manu raju live on capitol hill with that. manu? >> reporter: that attack over science has been a theme of hers as of lat ae and i had a chanceo ask her about a development yesterday, the former aide to vice president mike pence on the coronavirus task force olivia troy criticizing the president's conduct saying essentially that he cares more about the reelection than saving americans' lives and i asked her directly about whether or not she should be called to testify.

olivia troy, come before the house, given that the white house's questioning her credibility. >> he is what he is and he has -- he is the president of the united states. but these enablers, they will have to tell their children and their grandchildren the responsibility they have for the fact that we are 200,000 people dead an enthat didn't have to happen. good for her, the young woman, who came forward and with her statement. of course, they're attacking her now. it's something very -- >> reporter: so she made -- didn't directly say whether or not they would call her to come testify and said it's a good idea that perhaps she should come and tell her story and left the ultimate decision to the house commit tee chairs. and address other key issues whether or not to compromise anymore to try to move forward on a stalled stimulus package

that's not seen -- been stuck here on capitol hill. she said her number is as it is, $2.2 trillion to move on that package, too high for the white house and for senate republicans. and she is indicating that he is current level and you can see that major issue still stuck even as she faces pressure to move forward and criticizing the white house for not listening to the science and raising concerns about the vaccine distributed to americans this fall. john? >> days to get that done dwindle closer to the election. appreciate the live reporting today. coming up, another college goes fully remote after more than 80 students test positive for coronavirus. but first, though, in california covid-19 threatening the lives of inmates and creating barriers for offenders released.

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