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>> announcer: live from krb center, this is "cnn newsroom" with robyn curnow. u.s. president donald trump's doctor has cleared him to travel to give speeches and to start campaigning again. this just little more than a week since he was diagnosed with covid. in the memo dr. sean conley says mr. trump is no longer a transmission risk and meets the cdc criteria to stop isolating. but it leaves many questions about the president's health unanswered. we still don't know if he's tested negative for the virus. and we don't know what kind of tests he's been given to show he's no longer contagious. here's jeremy diamond to break down the doctor's note for us and tell us what's coming next. >> reporter: the president's physician, dr. sean conley, is now clearing him for a return to public activities. dr. conley writing in a new memo released late saturday night that the president is no longer considered a risk of transmission for m coronavirus

to others. now, let me read you a part of this memo from dr. sean conley where he writes, "this evening i'm happy to report that in addition to the president meeting cdc criteria for the safe discontinuation of isolation this morning's cove pcr demonstrates by currently recognized standards he is no longer considered a transmission risk to others. now at day 10 from symptom onset, fever-free for well over 24 hours, and all symptoms improved, the assortment of advanced diagnosis tests obtained revealed there is no longer evidence of actively replicating virus." and dr. conley also goes on to say that he will continue to monitor the president's health as he returns to a more active schedule. now, president trump of course didn't wait for this memo before holding an event on the south lawn of the white house on saturday. the president did stay at quite a distance from the several hundred people who attended this event on the south lawn of the white house. but those folks, while they were mostly wearing masks, they were

also not observing any social distancing. packed quite closely together. just two weeks after that event in the rose garden of the white house that is now considered a super spreader event and perhaps the origin point for many of those positive coronavirus tests that we have since seen at the white house. president trump needed this memo, though, in order to get some more public confidence in his return to an active schedule. and that is exactly what he is going to be doing this coming week. the president hitting three battleground states, florida, pennsylvania, and iowa this coming week. jeremy diamond, cnn, the white house. >> thanks, jeremy. president trump's white house appearance saturday was his first public event since his coronavirus diagnosis. and he told the crowd he feels, quote, great. he's also been upbeat about the trajectory of the virus in the u.s. too upbeat according to some health experts. mr. trump is saying the virus is already starting to go away. while again using a name that many have found offensive. take a listen. >> through the power of the

american -- the american spirit i think more than anything else, science, medicine will eradicate the china virus once and for all. we'll get rid of it. all over the world. you see big flare-ups in europe. big flare-ups in canada. very big flare-up in canada. you saw that today. a lot of flare-ups. but it's going to disappear. it is disappearing. and vaccines are going to help and the therapeutics are going to help a lot. >> but a model that's often been looked at during this pandemic has painted quite a different picture. i want to show you this. the model is based on current conditions. here's a look at what those are right now. as you can see, most states are seeing an increase in cases compared to a week ago. at this hour johns hopkins university says the number of lives lost in the u.s. at slightly more than 214,000 people. the university of washington model projects a total of almost 400,000 covid deaths by february next year. now, the model also says that if

social distancing mandates are relaxed that number could easily surpass half a million deaths. but that same model predicts that if almost everyone in the u.s. wore masks tens of thousands of lives would be saved. dr. george rodriguez is an internal medicine and viral specialist. he joins me now from los angeles. doctor, lovely to see you again. i just want to get your take on these projections. i mean, they're stunning and they're desperately concerning. >> they are. but they're also right on the money. the university of washington's projections said that we would have approximately 214,000 cases by a few days ago. and we are there. i have no reason to doubt these projections. what i think is very important is that at the lowest, if we continue doing as we are, we're going to have 390 or so cases by the end of february. and if we do not act even more responsibly, it could go up as

high as half a million. and they're projecting that in the world at that time we could have a total of 4 million deaths, approximately 30,000 a day, which is really startling. and all we have to do to try to decrease that tremendously is to put on masks, to wash our hands and to respect social distancing. >> yeah, it's simple. but those numbers, again, as you say -- >> startling. >> startling. so i want to get your opinion as a doctor. as our colleague and correspondent was reporting from the white house, this letter from the president's physician. what are the key takeaways for you as you try and decode it? >> well, i agree with a lot of my colleagues that are calling this a master class in medical deception because of its ambiguity. there are so many things in it that is sort of like medical speak but don't really get down to the point, which is does the

president currently have infectious droplets? they measure viral loads and things like that that disappear after six days. so we don't know whether he's infectious. but something that was interesting to me, the cdc says that if you have been ten days after your first symptoms and you've been isolated then it's probably safe for you to go out. well, this changes the timeline of the president having his first symptoms somewhere around the end of september or october 1st, which would be that wednesday. and we know that he did public speeches and such on that thursday. so it's all so ambiguous. if nothing else, the cdc also says that if you have a serious episode of this infection that maybe you should isolate for 20 days. the fact that we don't, you know, know specifics tend to tell us that this is becoming more of a political decision than a medical recommendation. >> but also, if you could give

us a sense, this president -- as you saw, the president gave a speech at the white house today. he's planning public rallies over the next few days after being hospitalized a week ago. so based on the president's weight, his age, what we know about the severity of his illness, is he out of the woods now? as a doctor would you recommend that he still stayed in bed? >> yeah, absolutely i would not recommend that he go out and do all of these rallies that he's doing. if nothing else, for his own speech. my patients sometimes are four to six weeks out and they're still feeling winded. you know, i think it's interesting that the president, who usually gives these fidel castro-type lengthy speeches only spoke for 18 minutes. and i think that is all, you know, that his body can really tolerate right now. the weaker he makes himself by stressing his body, by flying, by taking long hours, the more

likely he is to not only relapse but perhaps get very seriously ill. >> dr. jorge rodriguez there. thank you. despite the fact the u.s. president claims the coronavirus is disappearing from the united states, it's still a raging epidemic with deadly consequences. the former u.s. national security adviser says twisting the truth for a more flattering outcome is how mr. trump has always behaved. take a listen. >> he tries to shape the world to be the way he wants it through his own rhetoric, by intimidating people, by denying facts, by creating facts. and he's trying to do the same thing here. i think what is increasing the pressure is the proximity of the election because he can see the numbers like anybody can. he's in trouble and he doesn't have a strategy to turn it around. >> john bolton speaking to wolf blitzer there a little bit earlier. so democratic presidential nominee joe biden slammed president donald trump on saturday over mr. trump's

handling of the pandemic and his own illness. as he headed to campaign stops in pennsylvania, biden revealed his latest negative coronavirus test and he called on the president to listen to scientists. >> before i came out again today to go somewhere i had another test this morning. and i'm clear. i think it's important the president make sure two things. one, that he is clear, he is not a spreader. like dr. fauci says, the superspreader event he had for the supreme court announcement. and secondly, i think it's important that he make it clear to all the people that they should be socially distanced, they should be on the lawn, that's fine, but in fact they should be socially distanced and wearing masks. that's the only responsible thing to do. >> well, at his campaign events in pennsylvania mr. biden reached out to independents and disaffected republicans as jessica dean now reports.

jessica? >> reporter: former vice president joe biden campaigning in the critical battleground state of pennsylvania on saturday. he traveled here to erie, pennsylvania. it's in a county that president trump won narrowly back in 2016, and it is tailor made for mr. biden's economic message that he's been tailoring to white house voters in towns. biden touring a train facility at a union hall before giving remarks that could really be described as his bread and butter economic message. >> the top 100 billionaires in the middle of this pandemic they made 300 billion additional dollars. hear me now? 100 individuals made $300 billion. this year. and what did the bottom half get? they got to slide down. because the fact is the president can only see the world from park avenue.

i see it from scranton. i see it from claymont for real. you all know what i'm talking about. you all see it from erie. >> reporter: in the meantime vice president biden's campaign reported that he underwent pcr testing. that's the gold standard covid test. on saturday. and that test came back negative. the campaign has said that joe biden will continue to be tested regularly and always when he travels. jessica dean, cnn, erie, pennsylvania. cnn politics white house reporter stephen collinson joins me from washington. good to see you. talk us through this latest communique from the white house doctor. if you don't mind, can you read between the lines for us? because it's difficult to quite figure out what exactly they're trying to say. >> well, what it appears is at least by the letter of the law the president has now satisfied cdc recommendations for no

longer being contagious given the amount of time that's lapsed since his coronavirus diagnosis. but of course given the way that the white house has obscured the truth and real information throughout his illness i think there's grounds for doubt. the white house physician sean conley still doesn't confirm that the president has taken a negative covid test and most interestingly the white house is still refusing to tell us the last time the president tested negative before he got sick. that of course is not just important for knowing how long that he was likely to be contagious, he's right on that number of ten days if we believe the date when he was first -- tested positive for covid. but it's also very important to establish whether the president knew he was infected and carried on doing campaign events before we were told he got sick. and that is the reason perhaps that the white house is not telling us exactly when he last tested negative for coronavirus.

>> so talk us through these pictures we're seeing now on the screen. the president speaking from the balcony at the white house to a largely african-american audience today. it was a pretty dark message. what was the reason for this? >> the president has been itching to get out on the campaign trail. originally he was even talking about going out on saturday. we now know that there are three rallies in pennsylvania, iowa and florida scheduled for next week. but it's all about getting pictures of the president back in the race. let's face it, there are three weeks and a couple of days left in this campaign. the president is behind. he needs to get himself on television. he needs to convince people that he's recovered and he's fit to campaign. the fact this was an event that was focusing on minority support is interesting. of course the president has been trial trying to peel away african-american male voters from the democrats, that traditionally vote for the democrats.

this could be important in some states like georgia, which is unexpectedly close. and biden needs -- former vice president joe biden, the democratic nominee, needs to get big african-american turnout in cities like cleveland and ohio and philadelphia and pennsylvania and some of these swing states to offset the president's popularity in more rural areas. and that was something that hillary clinton didn't do. you could say if you were a cynic that the real reason that he started campaigning again was -- with a minority event was to do a little bit of clear-up over that failure to immediately condemn white supremacy in the presidential debate. >> vice president biden, what's his messaging? it certainly seems like he is trying to pick up disaffected voerkts former trump supporters who might have changed their mind or are still wavering, independents. how successful has he been at that? >> well, if you look at the polls nationally and in swing states, he's doing pretty well.

you know, since that first debate in which the president behaved in an exceedingly belligerent manner biden appears to have stretched his lead in the polls. now, we don't know whether to trust the polls. some of the polls were wrong the last time around, especially in battleground states. but you have to say that the former vice president is ahead in this race. he's trying to lock in his gains. it's interesting that he was in pennsylvania twice this week. he's really concentrating on consolidating that path to 270 electoral votes. if he were to win pennsylvania, a state where he currently leads, and he has been doing well among independents and perhaps more moderate non-populist republican voters he would almost be assured of the white house. so that's what the former vice president is doing here. and the fact that he now doesn't have to debate against donald trump again this week takes another area of risk off the table for him, and i would expect him to carry on this path

of these visits to swing states over the next few days. >> okay. always good to speak ow to you. always good to get your analysis. stephen collinson live from d.c. thanks a lot. >> thanks. still to come, president trump tries to sow doubt over the integrity of the election. but he's just lost a big court challenge on early voting in a battleground state. plus global health experts say they're worried about covid cases in europe. more so in hot spots like the u.s. and brazil. we'll see what it's like in paris right now. olay faced expensive serums and won.

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physician with brown university emergency medicine, spoke to cnn about that. take a listen. >> myself, i'm an e.r. doc and my colleagues across the country, we are all seeing increasing numbers of covid-19 patients who are coming into our e.r.s who are getting really sick requiring hospitalization and even intensive care. we did see those spikes in numbers about a month ago that were largely younger people going back to college, but what we're seeing now is that it's starting to spread within the community and we are all deeply afraid that this is the beginning of that dreaded second wave. we still don't have adequate personal protective equipment for physicians and nurses on the front lines across the country. we still don't have adequate testing supplies. and as you and i have just discussed, we still don't have a cure. >> well, this cnn poll shows that only about half of americans say they would get a covid vaccine once one becomes available. and that number has actually dropped over the past few months.

health experts are worried that not enough people will choose to get vaccinated, which would help the virus spread. a former cdc director explained during cnn's town hall on saturday what the cdc can do to address any concerns. >> it is about regaining trust. and trust depends first and foremost on telling the truth. even when it's hard. one of the things i learned during my tenure, and jeff certainly saw during the 9/11 attacks is that americans can tolerate really tough truth but it has to come from reliable and credible sources. and i think the other thing is consistency. one of the reasons we have so much anxiety among americans is because they're hearing different things from different political leaders. we haven't consolidated and cascade the messages from reliable sources. we kind of have a free-for-all where everyone can invent their own interpretation of the truth. so if we want people to have trust in the vaccines we have to tell them what we're doing and

why. we have to explain how we're managing the safety and efficacy evaluation. we need to prepare them for whatever side effects we might realistically expect to occur. and then we have to keep them informed as we go forward. it's kind of the basics of risk communication, but it comes now while we're in the deficit of trust. so it is going to be very difficult to crawl back into a situation where people believe that we really do have their best interests at heart. the good news is that science is on our side. there are more than 700 products in pipelines for treatment and prevention of covid. so we have to be guardedly optimistic, as tom said, about what the future might hold. and at the same time that isn't a panacea. we've got a lot of work ahead of us. >> europe is struggling to keep the coronavirus under control. cases are surging again. even though the region had once appeared to have the virus largely contained. some countries are bringing back strict virus restrictions.

one of them is france. and it's once again hitting an all-time high in daily cases, beating a record that was set just a day earlier. as melissa bell now explains from paris. >> reporter: here in france another record set on friday in terms of the number of new coronavirus cases. more than 20,000 in a single 24-hour period. it comes as four extra french cities see fresh restrictions placed on them from this saturday. they've now joined that maximum alert category that paris and marseille were already in. and although those restrictions have now applied in paris for several days with bars and cafes, for instance, closed, the figures remain extremely worrying. an emergency plan has been triggered regionally here for the greater paris hospitals in order to help them deal with what authorities fear could be a flood of covid-19 patients over the coming days and weeks. and it's something we've seen reflected in several european countries overt course of this week. a number of them setting fresh records in terms of new coronavirus cases. and a number of them also introducing fresh restrictions

to try to bring those covid-19 figures down. it comes as the world health organization warns that the europe region is now further ahead than the united states, brazil, and india in terms of rises in coronavirus cases. melissa bell, cnn, paris. nepal is on the verge of a health care crisis there as the number of cases -- case infections pass the 100,000 mark on friday. this woman outside the crematorium in the capital is crying where bodies are being taken. nepal reported more than 2,000 cases on friday and so far the country has seen at least 600 deaths. on a per capita basis nepal's daily infections are rising faster than nearby india and bangladesh. >> translator: the situation is becoming scary because in a poor country like ours we don't have sufficient infrastructure. so the virus might be attacking us more. there is a lack of public awareness as well.

>> nepal eased its lockdown measures back in june. and experts say the government isn't enforcing health protocols like wearing masks and social distancing. and cnn has been following the story of an iraqi woman through years of hardship as she's endured sanctions, war, and corruption. and after all that she recently recovered from covid. and she did it with the help of her 19-year-old autistic son. and she tells arwa damon this pandemic has a lesson for all of us. here's arwa's piece. >> translator: didn't i tell you we shouldn't use black? it's sad. >> reporter: nala gently reminds her son. 19-year-old usayed is autistic. he uses colors, not words to communicate the depths of his anguish. nala can sit next to him now, reassure him that she's okay. after nahla and her husband contracted covid-19, usayed had to care for them, a reflection of just how dire the situation of hospitals is this iraq.

"my first thought was what if usayed also catches it," she says. "i was scared. i was shaken." i'll metaphor forget the first time i met nahla shortly after her first husband usayed's father was killed in a car bomb. how she spoke in gentle tones about having to identify the love of her life from a photograph of his teeth and a medal pinned to his knee. his body was so charred and melted along with nine others. how she felt as if she was wearing a cloak of death, that life lost its color, backing black and white. usayed was just 6 years old at the time. four years later nahla looked transformed. she spoke with pride about how usayed had just transferred out of the special needs school but that he still carried darkness inside because of the death of his father. a darkness that came out in his drawings. a cloud with rain painted over

in black. "we worked for years to get him away from the black of death," nahla says. "corona brought the black back into his drawings." that in so many ways is the story of iraq. a nation whose history is more defined by death and bloodshed than the beauty of its people. the beauty of people like nahla fighting for her country's soul. "i always say there is a positive side of any struggle," nahla tells us. "the positive side is that we discovered that my son has more capabilities than what we thought." she feels as if iraqis as a whole are discovering how strong they are when they come together. "we are saving each other by uniting during covid-19 and not looking toward the government," she explains. "we could possibly emerge from coronavirus with a great

lesson," she continues, "that we should all be united to find the beginning of a path of light." and that is a lesson for us all. arwa damon, cnn, istanbul. >> it most certainly is. so coming up on cnn, changing voting patterns among u.s. seniors. polls show they're switching from republicans to democrats across the country. we'll take a closer look after the break. stick around for that story. ♪ ♪dy-na-na-na, na-na, na-na, eh♪ ♪dy-na-na-na, na-na, na-na, eh♪ ♪dy-na-na-na, na-na, na-na, eh♪ ♪light it up, dynamite ♪shining through the city with a little funk and soul♪ ♪so i'ma light it up like dynamite♪ ♪'cause, ah-ah,♪ ♪shining through the city with a little funk and soul♪ ♪i'ma light it up like dynamite, whoa♪

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so a federal judge in pennsylvania has denied a trump campaign effort to make ballot boxes, dropboxes in the state unconstitutional. this comes as the president continues to spread more false claims about voter fraud and his campaign calls for supporters to be poll watchers. election day officials worry it will lead to voter intimidation as abby phillip explains. >> i'm not comfortable sending my ballot through the mail. i'll just come here and drop it off. >> reporter: as millions of voters begin casting their ballots in person or by mail the postal service acknowledging in court documents that there has been a significant drop in first class on-time mail delivery. the usps saying it will increase staffing and make other changes to fix the problem. in battleground michigan voting is ramping up and so are the worries from voters. >> i want to personally make sure it got handed in. with all the talk of problems with the mail and that sort of

thing i wanted to be sure. >> reporter: in texas governor greg abbott is facing at least two separate federal lawsuits after he issued an executive order restricting ballot drop boxes to one per county because he feels they'll be more secure. opponents say this is no less than voter suppression. >> to make it so that our voters who have disabilities, our elderly voters have to drive over an hour, more than 50 miles in some cases to drop off their mail ballot, it's unfair. it's prejudicial. and it's dangerous. >> reporter: millions of voters have just hours left to register to vote for the 2020 general election, including competitive states like arizona, florida, georgia and texas. voting rights groups in florida are scrambling to help some ex-felons get registered to vote before today's deadline by paying off their court fees and fines owed before they can register. already some 2.6 million general election ballots have been cast according to cnn and edison research's survey of election

officials in 24 states reporting voting data. and in six of those states where party data is available registered democrats make up more than half of the ballots returned. in pennsylvania ongoing disputes over the changing ballot rules, poll watchers, new voting machines, and the spread of disinformation are adding to the challenges facing that state ahead of november. some from the president himself. >> they had trump written on it and they were thrown in a garbage can. this is what's going to happen. >> reporter: today we are also learning about a new cybersecurity threat. cnn has obtained an e-mail from the democratic national committee warning campaigns about fraudulent team blue take action e-mails sent by a hacking group with malicious attachments. >> well, that was abby phillip there reporting. on saturday a federal appeals allowed governor greg abbott's directive for one location per county for ballot drop boxes to remain in place at least for now.

now, cnn was first to view a new biden campaign ad featuring cindy mccain. the widow of arizona republican senator john mccain. now, cindy mccain has endorsed biden for president. and the ad is called "like john did." and it makes the case that biden is a leader who can cross party lines and unite the country. take a look. >> in the senate they disagreed on almost everything. they'd fight like hell on the floor and then they'd go eat lunch together. because they always put their friendship and their country first. now more than ever we need a president who will put service before self. >> well, democratic presidential nominee joe biden is leading comfortably in the national polls, and that's in thanks part to scenes like this. senior citizens throwing their support behind the democrat rather than the republican. of course that is likely making president trump nervous, and with good reason. look at these numbers. a recent cnn poll conducted by ssrs finds that 60% of likely voters over the age of 65 plan

to choose mr. biden. nora super is the senior director of the milken institute's center for the future of aging and joins me now from washington. she's also the executive director of the milken institute alliance to improve dementia care. thanks for joining us. you studied the politics of aging. so my question is how will pensioners and seniors impact this election? >> well, older voters have always had a significant impact on u.s. elections. they're reliable voters. they turn up for the polls. in 2016, 71% of voters over age 65 turned out to vote. >> and who did they vote for? because from what i understand the latest polls are showing that donald trump has lost a significant number of these older americans. >> that's right. we're seeing trends towards vice president biden now pretty

significantly in poll after poll. in the past it's been since al gore that a democrat has won the majority of voters over age 65 in the u.s. so nearly 20 years since older voters have gone for the democratic nominee. so this is a very significant shift that we're seeing in this election. >> and why? why are they shifting? >> well, i think the number one reason is covid. even prior to covid we saw some changing of folks as they were looking at donald trump. what we have here is the baby boomers that are turning 65. 10,000 of them every day in the u.s. so it's a huge number of people. 38 million that are what we call the leading edge of the baby boom. and another 38 million that are at the trail edge, as i am at age 56. and we're not the same as older voters of yesteryear. really the older baby boomers

came of age during vietnam, during the women's rights movement, civil rights. they've really been voters who've tried to test autonomy. watergate happened again. and now with younger boomers like myself the issues that we care about have stayed the same but changed a little bit with covid for sure. health has always been a major issue that older voters look to. and since people over 65 are at higher risk of getting infected from covid, in fact we see that people that are over 65 have five times higher risk of getting infected from covid. and 20% of them have died. and these numbers just increase dramatically the older you get. i think part of what's happening in the election is that people are looking at donald trump and don't see a real plan of how to move out of pandemic. they've seen people that they know die or people get infected. and it's really causing quite a

bit of anxiety among older voters. >> and is this split along racial lines? is it just white older voters that seem to be peeling away from the president? >> well, i mean, black americans didn't vote for donald trump in the last election, although they didn't turn out for hillary clinton either. so the expectations is that we'll see minority populations, since president trump really has pitted unfortunately some races against each other in the u.s. i think people are predicting that we'll see a much bigger turnout around minority americans. and just like populations all across the age span, our older population has become more diverse over time as well. i think we'll see these voters turn out more because they feel, and especially those in minority populations that have a higher risk of contracting covid and have had disparities and more

likely to see death of really wanting to turn out and vote for a new president. >> yeah. it would be interesting to see how that energizes them. so my next question is where will this impact be felt? and so could this -- could pensioners essentially tilt this election, flip this election? particularly if we think about it, florida is such a key state. >> absolutely. the three biggest states that have of course the largest older population are california, texas, and florida. texas is in play. nobody expected this. but florida we're certainly seeing polls trending that voters that went for donald trump are now saying that they'll vote for joe biden. this would be really significant. all it would take really for joe biden is to win florida, would be a significant gain on election night. also in some of the so-called rust belt states where president

trump won big we have much older populations there that have been seeing also increased risk for covid. so states like maine, pennsylvania, wisconsin. they're all continuing to see high infection rates. and then with winter coming on board in a typical flu season unfortunately the projections are it's just going to get worse before the election. >> and that's very much on the minds of voters as they make this decision on who to vote for. great to speak to you. it's fascinating. it's going to be very interesting to see how this is broken down in a few weeks' time after the voter count. nora super, thank you very, very much for joining us. >> thank you. north korea held a military parade showing off a new weapon. what experts are saying about this enormous missile and what it might be capable of doing. that's next. we want you to feee and we want you to see yourself in your new glasses and think, "ooh!" ed ushd,'s that's the visionworks difference.

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here's a look at what analysts say could be one of the world's largest ballistic missiles. north korea unveiled it at a parade celebrating the 75th anniversary of the workers' party. south korea reacted quickly saying it's holding an emergency national security meeting. and a senior u.s. administration official says it is disappointing that the north continues to prioritize its "prohibited nuclear and ballistic missile program." here's will ripley with more on all of that. will? >> reporter: it was back on new year's day, january 1st of this year when kim jong un promised to unveil a new strategic weapon. that of course was just before the covid-19 pandemic ground the world to a halt and left hermetically sealed hermit kingdom more isolated than ever. now we're getting our first look at what many nlts believe is that weapon. one of the world's largest ballistic missiles. look at this thing. look how tiny the people are next to it. it's massive. and it's carried by an 11-axle truck at the climax of an almost two-hour military parade in the

north korean capital pyongyang. i've covered these 35 raids many times over the last several years and they always seem to bring out the missiles at the very end and do it for the drama. it is incredibly dramatic. the ground is actually shaking beneath your feet as they pass by. experts are telling us this missile right here could potentially carry multiple warheads. only increasing the threat to the mainland united states. despite dozens of love letters exchanged by president trump and kim jong un. that's trump's words, by the way, not mine. this is the kind of thing that north korea typically would love to showcase to the foreign media including cnn. we get invited in almost every year. but this year things are much different. the borders are closed due to covid-19. essentially shutting down trade in an already struggling economy. an economy battered by international sanctions over its nuclear program. a widespread covid-19 pandemic inside north korea. and keep in mind they have very limited, outdated medical resources. that would be catastrophic. i mean, this year we barely saw kim jong un in number compared to previous years. he disappeared from public view for weeks on end several times, leading to widespread

speculation about his health. but kim appeared to be back in full form at this military parade, staged in the middle of the night with slick special effects including a drone flyby. it was certainly the most dramatic north korean military parade i've ever seen. perhaps the most drama, though, came from kim himself. you see him there dressed in a gray suit and he appeared to be almost crying, maybe even sobbing at times. tears rolling down his cheeks as he thanked the north korean people for their hard work during exceptionally hard times. north korea's been absolutely battered this year, essentially it faced a triple threat, crippling sanctions over their nuclear missile programs, the economic catastrophe of closing their borders for nearly all this year because of the pandemic. and natural disasters like a massive identify foon and widespread flooding. things have gotten so bad in north korea that kim did something his father and grandfather never would have. he admitted that his economic plans were a failure and his people, millions of them, already barely scraping by are suffering. that suffering was reflected in kim's face and it was echoed by the audience as many people could be heard crying right along with him. north korea may struggle to

produce food and electricity. but they did show the world that their missile program is only getting stronger. will ripley, cnn, hong kong. >> you're watching cnn. i'll be right back. "a good edu many different horizons" and that sticked to my mind. so, when $1 a day came out, i said, "why not"? why not just utilize that resource. and walmart made that path open for me. without the $1 a day program, i definitely don't think i'd be in school right now. each week for me in school is just an accomplishment. i feel proud every step of the way.

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here's a story, what's a hollywood soap opera without passionate kissing? but how do you passionately kiss someone on-set in the age of covid? well, i suppose you can always send in the mannequins, as jeanne moos now reports. >> reporter: a soap opera wouldn't be a soap opera without all that kissing. but in the age of covid, forget passionate 25-second deep dives. >> "the bold and the beautiful." >> reporter: still beautiful, but less bold. that's a mannequin he's kissing. the clip went viral, and the hilarity it inspired was contagious. normally after lawrence st. victor and his abs would be intimate with his love interest, zoe. zoe was replaced by the

mannequin. act was kiara barns tweeted, everyone was cracking up. "access hollywood" got exclusive access to actors emoting to mannequins on set. >> i hope you feel the same. >> reporter: whose mouth is that? actors being replaced by spouses in tight shots. that's denise richard's husband's head. no kissy-poo action for costar toresten kay. there's a lot of smooching in "riverdale." these days they link arms and swig mouthwash. their swishing is times. instead of staring romantically, they stare balefully until they crack up. >> 10 seconds to go! >> reporter: k.j. apa and camille melendez had to spit in

a baggy, which they mercifully didn't show. our new normal is washing our mouths before every take of a makeout scene. >> remember how i used to stroke your hair? >> reporter: "snl" invent ed soe covid soap opera precautions of its own. >> take me, blaise, please! >> reporter: precautions give new meaning to that old lament -- >> oh, what are we doing? >> reporter: lawrence st. victor was doing something right. the soulful way he looked that mannequin straight in the eyeballs and kissed her? give that man a daytime emmy now. >> you will never see her lips on another man. >> reporter: make that another mannequin. jeanne moos, cnn. >> this year is just getting so absurd, isn't it? wow. thanks to jeanne for that.

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