it's friday, september 4th, 2020. this is the "cbs morning news." >> it is a disgraceful situation by a magazine that's a terrible magazine. i don't read it. >> on the defense. a bombshell report accuses president trump of calling injured and fallen soldiers losers. what he's saying about it this morning. breaking overnight -- the man suspected of killing a right-wing activist in portland is killed by police moments vi cams.he the rising number of college the rising number of college since the pandemic started. captioning funded by cbs good friday morning to you.

it's really good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. this morning president trump is firing back at a report claiming that he called american soldiers who died in war suckers and losers. according to the article in "the atlantic," mr. trump did not want to support the 2018 funeral of senator john mccain, a decorated navy veteran, who spent years as a prisoner of war because he was a loser. "the atlantic" also reports mr. trump was furious flags were flown at half staff for mccain. last night the president was quick to refute those claims. >> i disagreed with john mccain, but i still respected him. i had to approve his funeral as president. we lowered the flags -- i had to approve that. nobody else. i had to approve it. >> the president did not take questions after making that statement. rkura podesta is here in new laura, the president didn't want to talk to reporters after that statement, but he still had

plenty to say on twitter. >> reporter: that's right. late last night, president trump sent out a barrage of tweets really doubling down on what you just heard in that brief interview. he said, "i was never a big fan of john mccain, disagreed with him on many issues, but the lowering of our nation's american flags and the first-class funeral that he was given by our country had to be approved by me as president, and i did so without hesitation or complaint. i felt it was well deserved." [ cheers ] >> we are going to win four more years in the white house -- >> reporter: president trump and democratic nominee joe biden campaigned in key battleground states yesterday. >> win or lose, i'm going to go down fighting. and i'm going to go down >> reporter: rallying in latrobe, pennsylvania, mr. trump suggested for the second time this week to vote twice. >> sign your mail-in ballot. you sign it and send it in. then you have to follow it. and if on election day or early

voting that is not tabulated and counted, you go vote. >> reporter: on his way back to washington, the president rejected a new article in "the atlantic." it claims in 2018 he canceled a visit to an american war cemetery in france because he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain. he referred to the dead soldiers as losers and suckers. >> and i would be willing to swear on anything that i never said that about our fallen heroes. there is nobody that respects them more. >> reporter: meanwhile, biden spent the day in kenosha, wisconsin, the site of recent protests following the police shooting of jacob blake. >> so regardless how angry you are, if you loot or burn, you should be held accountable as someone who does anything else. >> reporter: the former vice president spoke on the phone with blake, who is partially paralyzed after being shot in the back. >> he talked about how nothing was going to defeat him. >> reporter: biden is expected to deliver remarks on the economy later today.

i also want to mention the trump campaign put out a list of staffers it says can refute "the atlantic's" claims. it also said it was the secret service that made the call to cancel that cemetery trip because of bad weather. anne-marie? >> all right. laura podesta in new york. thank you so much. so breaking overnight, the suspect in the deadly shooting of a pro-trump demonstrator in portland has been shot and killed by officers. alleged gunman michael rinell previously said he acted in self-defense, saying that he believed that he was going to get stabbed. the 48-year-old was wanted in the shooting death of right-wing activist aaron j. danielson. he was shot by law enforcement yesterday in washington state after he allegedly pulled a gun on authorities as they tried to arrest him. on his social media post, rinell had described himself as 100%

antifa. in rochester, new york, a protest over the death of daniel prude almost got out of control. last night police fired several rounds of pepper balls at demonstrators in the downtown area. yesterday, seven officers were suspended for their involvement in prude's suffocation death in march. body camera video released this week showed prude with a spit hood as officers pressed his head into the ground. prude's 18-year-old daughter spoke about his character. >> i knew him as a caring, energetic, and happy-go-lucky man who enjoyed making everybody smile and who loved his kids. >> prude died seven days after the police encounter. his family said prude had been suffering mental health problems in his final months. now to the coronavirus and college campuses. an alarming new survey finds that there have been at least 51,000 cases of covid at

colleges in the u.s. since the pandemic began. at least 60 cases have been fatal. also this morning, there is cautious optimism about a potential vaccine. here's carter evans. >> reporter: major news from pfizer, the pharmaceutical company says it should know by the end of october whether its vaccine works. pfizer's vaccine is one of two now in late-stage testing. the cdc is already preparing for a massive vaccine distribution effort. cbs news obtained documents that were distributed to state public health officials that indicate some vaccines require sub-zero cold storage. it could be problematic because it requires equipment not usually found at doctor's offices and pharmacies. a bigger question -- once a vaccine is developed, are americans prepared to take it? a new survey shows 78% say they're worried the covid vaccine approval process is being driven more by politics than science.

>> if the public perceives that shortcuts have been taken, they are much less likely to take this vaccine. >> i wish it was only me who tested positive, but it was my entire family. >> reporter: even "the rock" can't avoid covid. he's recovering. he says his young girls were better in days. >> generally babies and little children can often have little to no symptoms at all. >> reporter: childhood cases continue to climb, rising 17% in the last two weeks. a study published in "the journal of pediatrics" shows that children can develop antibodies to covid-19 while they still have the virus. >> my suspicion is, you know, a couple weeks into infection that they're not still transmitting. >> reporter: dr. audrey odom john is the infectious disease chief at children's hospital at the university of philadelphia. that vaccine can't come soon enough. >> i do fear it's not going to prevent transmission altogether,

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they say the person was told to avoid the crowd but instead went through them after they surrounded the car. that driver has not yet been located. kanye west's presidential bid hits a new snag, and a possible deal to keep the government running. those are some of the headlines on the "morning newsstand." "politico" says house speaker nancy pelosi and treasury secretary steven mnuchin have tentatively agreed on a plan to avoid a government shutdown at the end of this month. aides say there is no consensus on how long the short-term spending bill would extend government funding. the agreement comes as the white house and democratic lawmakers have been unable to reach a deal on a new coronavirus relief package. the "arizona republic" reports a judge barred kanye west from appearing on the state's presidential election ballot in november. the judge ruled the voter who challenged west's candidacy would likely succeed in his argument that the state law bar

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bump yesterday. the worst day for wall street since june. the dow jones industrials plunged points. nasdaq skidded 591. the s&p 500 dropped 125. delta has added 270 people to its no-fly list for refusing to wear masks. the airline requires all passengers to wear face coverings to curb the spread of covid-19. delta says passengers that are asking for the for a mask exemption must undergo a medical screening by phone before being allowed to board. the airline said it would bar passengers making up fake male excuses to dodge the mask requirement. billionaire michael r orical black medical schools. the former new york city mayor and onetime presidential contender is taking the action to improve medical care for black and african-american the the donation will make it possible for about 800 medical students at four schools to get scholarships worth up to

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so whenever we find ourselves in a situation where there is no alcohol, we get quite inventive. we've been doing this for millenia. >> the curator says it challenges what some find normal and what some find unfamiliar. an interesting choice of words. like the word interesting. and we're getting a look at something that you don't get to see often -- a newborn baby sloth. the two-towed sloth named truffle was born last month at a london zoo. the baby caught the zoo's staff by surprise when its mother gave birth several weeks ahead of schedule. thought sloths were supposed to be slow. they spotted it clinging to its mom the next day. the gender of the baby will only be known after a dna analysis of its hair, though. it is cute. coming up on "cbs this morning," in our "school matters" series, growing concerns about the mental and emotional health of children as classes begin. i'm anne-marie green.

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of aaron j. danielson. officials say he was shot by law enforcement yesterday after he pulled a gun on authorities as they tried to arrest him. actor chadwick boseman continues to be mourned and celebrated in his hometown of anderson, south carolina. now we have learned about text messages that he sent just before he died revealing his true character. here's michelle miller. all of it's been personal -- >> reporter: back when chadwick boseman was promoting "black panther" he talked about two boys he knew with terminal cancer but were holding on to see the movie. >> i think back to being a kid, waiting for a toy or video game, i did live life awaiting those moments. >> reporter: it was an emotional moment because just like those two boys, boseman himself had been secretly fighting cancer, too. >> this is -- it means a lot. >> reporter: in a recently publicized text written just before his death, all the charity work he did for cancer

patients now takes on deeper meaning. they've been through hell battling disease, he wrote to his executive producer, as they worked to get toys to sick children. "if we were able to ease their suffering and bring joy for a moment and hopefully moments, as he goes through the bags, then we made a difference in his life." few knew of boseman's illness. not his co-workers or the young cancer patients he often visited in the hospital like zoe dale. >> everyone should take a lesson from him. to go what he was going through and still have a smile on your face. >> reporter: lending true credence to the notion that a real superhero never makes it about himself. michelle miller, cbs news, south orange, new jersey. >> the more we learn, the more amazing it is. coming up on "cbs this morning," in our "school matters" series, a look at growing concerns about the encl.

plus, gayle talks with criminal justice reform activist alice johnson about the black lives matter movement and backlash over her participation in the republican national convention. then in "the new normal," we're going to meet a theater group in massachusetts that's staging musicals under pandemic guidelines. that's the "cbs morning news" for this friday. thank you so much for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day, and have a great weekend. ♪

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