raquel willis. my grandson. my parents. miller coffey. [vo]: you are my pride. >>> welcome back. i'm robyn curnow. so iraq's health care system is struggling with a huge spike in coronavirus cases. on saturday officials reported more than 2,000 new cases bringing the total to more than 68,000. and the death toll rose by more than 100 to 300. the pandemic is sweeping across the whole country, but it is hitting the capital of baghdad especially hard. arwa damon reports. >> reporter: we went to verify the names of the dead. much like the enemy that claims those they love. he lost his parents and his sister to covid-19. one after the other. they underestimated the virus. they did not understand how to protect themselves from the threat. "we are terrified now. we are 100% convinced." the burials have been at night in iraq's largest cemetery. final prayers are carried out by strangers. the paramilitary force initially drawn to fight isis. we are getting around 70 to 80 bodies a day. and it's expected to get much worse across this country. whose

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raquel willis. my grandson. my parents. miller coffey. you are my pride. >>> we're in a big trade war. with the tariffs that the president put on china and then they retaliate and put them on our soybeans. >> you know what? you want to know something? we always win. >> china was our number one customer. they're not anymore. it's not just soybeans. it's all the commodities right now. wheat, corn, beans, cattle. there is no way to make up for that loss of. mark. it took us decades. they're buying from brazil. >> so they have no place to get it from. >> they've tried to throw some money at the problem through the market facilitation payments. they're tiny. >> they're giving a kickback. >> yeah. hush money. it helps a little bi. we've lost a lot of family farms and we're becoming extinct quickly. once we're gone and out of the way, you'll be totally dependent on they will. they're worldwide companies. and i think it is a food security issue. >> as politicians crow about a trade war in china that we look to be losing, a chunk of u.s. farmland

raquel willis. my grandson. my parents. miller coffey. [vo]: you are my pride.rus is testing all of us. and it's testing the people on the front lines of this fight most of all. so abbott is getting new tests into their hands, delivering the critical results they need. and until this fight is over, we...will...never...quit. because they never quit. flattening the curve of coronavirus and have gone reopen. mexico is trying the same but its on curve remains far from flat. cnn's matt rivers is in mexico city with the latest. >> reporter: from june 2 hnd to july 2an mexico city's cases jumped. also their market, crowd asked confined reopened. this woman invited us to see her stall. she says she and seven family members all had covid-19 back in april. when the government opens markets back up she jumped. she says the people that work here live day to day and we can't survive otherwise. people like her could presumably survive, though, without shopping for clothes. but there she was. she says, god willing, it stays open because it is really nice to have contact with p

raquel willis. my grandson. my parents. miller coffey. [vo]: you are my pride. >>> tonight dr.g a fine line in the white house while quietly ensuring scientist have the biggest seat at the table for the coronavirus task force but her silent service could come at a cost to her. pamela brown is "outfront". >> reporter: dr. debra birx quietly emerging as the most powerful person in the trump white house on the coronavirus and her path there an unlikely one. >> the common sense of washing your hands, not touching your face. >> reporter: as the relationship between dr. anthony fauci and president trump soured over the past few months. >> i find him to be a nice person. i don't always agree. >> it's a czabizarre. i don't understand it. >> reporter: she's effectively running the task force day to day and the on member to brief the vice president and white house officials daily. >> dr. birx briefed me before coming out here. >> reporter: at times birx herself has taken the podium wearing her signature scarf and a mask to match. >> i just want to mask and be a fashion statement. >> repo

raquel willis. my grandson. my parents. miller coffey. [vo]: you are my pride. >>> educators across the country are trying right now to find a way to get tunts bastudents bac class safely but how to do that and what it might look like are key questions that remain unanswered. cnn's bianna golodryga reports. >> i think there's commonality in the schools and the school leadership and the teachers and the administrators that we all want to protect the safety of the children that are in schools. >> reporter: the cdc director on cnn's coronavirus town hall attempting to clear up the mass confusion caused by the president's shocking threat to withhold federal funding for schools that do not fully reopen. something he does not have the legal authority to do on his own. as well as his rebuke of the cdc guidelines. >> we stand by our guidelines. we think it's an important strategy for helping these schools reopen. >> reporter: for months school districts nationwide have been scrambling, trying to figure out just how to reopen safely. as the acting

raquel willis. my grandson. my parents. miller coffey.vo]: you are my pride. >>> at the white house and across america, on saturday, u.s. flags lowered to half staff to honor the life and legacy of congressman john lewis. he died, friday, after battling pancreatic cancer. he was 80 years old. and joining me now to talk more about the impact of representative lewis is cnn political commentator and former obama administration official, van jones. good to have you on. sad reason for it but good to have your thoughts. and what are your thoughts about the life and the legacy of john lewis? the public figure, the activist but, also, the character of the man. >> he was a conscience of a nation. he would stand up for any any underdog, anybody who was being mistreated in this country. he'd go to the well of the house. he would go on the picket line and he would -- he would bring out the best, in both parties. he had universal respect, in an age where, you know, you have a lot of division. he was as close to universally respected, as exists in amer

raquel willis. my grandson. my parents. miller coffey. [vo]: you are my pride. a book that you're ready to share with the world? get published now, call for your free publisher kit today! >>> okay. here's the headline. russians are messing with the coronavirus vaccine. this is the latest warning coming from national security officials in the united states and from experts in england and canada. now, with that kind of consensus you would think the president would be furious, right? after all in the middle of a pandemic that is literally killing us, his only move seems to be to tell us how quickly a vaccine is coming. >> i think we are going to have a vaccine very soon. >> we are very close to a vaccine. we think we'll have a vaccine in the pretty near future. we think we'll have a vaccine by the end of this year. >> so wouldn't you care if the russians were trying to mess with that effort? the hacking group caught going after researchers goes by a few different names. one of them is cozy bear. remember that? one of the same groups that we

raquel willis. my grandson. my parents. miller coffey.vo]: you are my pride. >>> bats throughout human history have some image as evil, dark, and dangerous. they seem to have gotten this bad impression in our conscious. there is definitely something odd about them. just because they are odd does not mean they are bad. bats are fascinating animals. the more you get to know them the more social creatures that you see them become. it is actually really beautiful. but unfortunately here, right now it is very strange with the bat virus that is killing people. >>> when covid-19 first surfaced in 2019 scientists around the world wanted to know where it came from and how the deadly virus ended up in humans. the answers are not certain but it seems likely coronavirus originated in bats. bats are a diverse and ancient creature and have been on earth longer than we have. but still there is a lot we don't know. we look at this animal and dig into the mystery of covid-19. in the last 20 years some of the deadliest virus outbreaks came from bats. sars.