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some students are calling on penn state to go virtual.d conducting randomized testing to track asymptomatic carriers. zachary mccay is the penn state student body president. they want the school to go virtual. they both join me. thanks for being with us. have you talked to university officials about their concerns and do you think they'll listen? >> thank you veer much for having us today, anderson and i hope you and the family are doing well. we've been in a lot of conversations with administrators and i've been very hopeful. yrb have trusted a lot of the plans that we looked at over the summer and they would be carried out effectively as possible. i'll be completely honest. you have to wonder did the university know students were going to act like this and were going to fue going to follow human nature? and the answer is yes. 20% of students responded they would not want to wear masks in class. you have to ask yourself if they're not ready to wear one in clas, can you imagine what they're going to do out of class. but then to shift the

penn state university is revising a compact students must sign to attend classes. in the original document students assumed all virus-related risk. now the document saying even with mitigation, penn state can't prevent exposure risks. coronavirus also forcing school sports to make big adjustments. the ncaa president announcing there won't be any fall championships this year because there aren't enough schools participating. kenneth, mona. >> andrea, thank you. >>> to washington now. republicans and democrats are blaming each other after lawmakers left d.c. for the august recess without reaching a deal on a coronavirus relief package. the stalemate could drag on for weeks leaving the second round of $1,200 stimulus checks and other economic aid up in the air. >>> the battle over voting by mail is taking center stage in the race for 2020 with new details overnight about possible delays in sending out ballots. meanwhile, amid the post office funding fight, president trump is hitting back at the biden campaign for suggesting that governors require people to wear a mask

the penn state team will not allow any fans at the football games.hey did leave it open later if things improve. penn state has the second biggest stadium in the country with capacity of over 106,000. pennsylvania currently limits capacity to 250 people for outdoor events right now. >>> major league baseball announcing changes to its schedule after many games postponed because of covid-19 outbreak. marlins, phillies, cardinals have multiple series to make up. major league baseball is adding 14 double headers involving ten teams. the double headers now seven inning games. in the meantime, braves outfielder reversed his decision to opt out. he had a walk off home run. you can't mob them, you have to dance around and socially distance to celebrate a walk off home run. >>> tiger woods had his best first round at a majors since 2012. tiger's short game saved him at one point making three birdies in four holes. two under three off the lead held by jason day and brendan todd. bryson dechambeau is so strong he broke his driver. after hissing his shot on the

. >> penn state professor lee ann banaszak reflects on the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage and talks about the tactics women used to get the 19th amendment passed and ratified. this interview was recorded at the meeting in philadelphia. and what was it that triggered off the movement? >> an interesting question. the traditional date we look at is 1848, the seneca falls convention for women's rights. in truth, it started a little bit earlier than that with women who were interested in the abolitionist movement that were excluded from inventions in london and elsewhere deciding that they also thought it was important for women to talk about their own rights. and in fact, the question of the right to vote in 1848 was probably of the many items on the agenda was the most controversial. it was a very close vote. people were women at the convention were more focused on other aspects of women's rights at the time but that really is the date that we highlight as the start of the women's movement. >> what is happening in other countries at this time? >> to start i would say it is import

. >>> video shows a large outdoor gathering at penn state university. many not wearing masks. inuniversity's president saying, quote, do you want to be the person responsible for sending everyone home? >> right now the key to penn state staying open is the behavior of every single one of us. >> reporter: at ohio state university, more than 200 students were temporarily suspended for breaking the rules on socializing. and nc state announced it's reducing the on-campus housing because of the number of cases there. in georgia and mississippi, hundreds of teachers have been recently been asked to quarantine because of exposure coronavirus. they say the increase in child cases could be a result of more children being tested in recent months. the new report says despite climbing numbers, severe illness is still rare among children. but the cdc says the rate of a hospitalizations among children is increasing. >> the bad news is when a child gets sick and winds up in the hospital, one in three of the children needs the icu because of how severely ill they get with the disease, especia

states that, you know, are having a serious problems, keep in mind that a major university like penn statever the world so it's a great deal of attention being paid to that, so that's been done. when the students arrive, the university will be testing every day a sample of students and the university as i said has prepared corridors for quarantining and done just about everything that you can do in my opinion to, you know, to -- if you're going -- the decision to open was the big decision, they decided to open although a lot of the classes, perhaps the majority of classes will be on line but students will be here and that doesn't change much for the town. the town is the same whether or not courses are online or face to face. gillian: yeah. john, quick last word for you, we only have a few second left here, how are you feeling of cancellation of college football? john: you know, i'm really disappointed for the student athletes, they will have a difficult time. fall athletes watching peers compete, who better than the university of illinois and the big ten with cutting research to provide a

penn state is still prepping for its fall start ordering staggering amounts of ppe, 1.5 million surgical masks, 33,000 bottles of hand sanitizer. but the university is under fire for asking its nearly 100,000 students to sign what critics are calling a liability agreement, reading in part, quote, i assume any and all risk of exposure to covid-19 that may result from attending penn state and i acknowledge that exposure or infection may result in personal injury, illness, permanent disability or death. penn state says that document was only meant to acknowledge the school's guidelines and has since changed the language telling abc news, it is not a legal agreement and was never intended as such. at other schools where the move-in has already started -- >> oh, man, wow. >> reporter: for students like selaya young, it's not quite like what she imagined. >> i thought there would be lots of people everywhere and the time you got to meet a lot of different people and it was like way different. >> reporter: as a freshman at north carolina a&t state she'll have four virtual classes and only one i

penn state university is revising a compact that students must sign to attend classes.nt, penn state is saying they cannot prevent exposure risks. sports are adjusting. the ncaa president announcing there will not be fall championships this year, because there's not enough schools participating. keneth, mona. >> thank you. >>> and we are tracking major fires burning in southern california. the lake fire has scorched 11,000 acres and hundreds of firefighters are battling the inferno from the ground and air trying to save threatened homes. the ranch fire erupted yesterday afternoon and quickly grew to 3,000 acres, prompting the evacuation of an entire neighborhood. and the skyline fire that was threatening homes is now under control. >>> we are learning overnight, that president trump has requested a mail-in ballot in florida. this comes as he rails against voting by mail and suggests blocking of the funding for the postal service that would help with the mail-in voting. joe biden is taking him on over the pandemic. here is mary bruce. >> reporter: president trump bluntly

you know, penn state says they're going to play without fans.ugh in terms of safety precautions? what are you and the committee advising just to keep these players safe? >> right. so in general we are an advisory task force. we're not implementing any of these guidelines and we're actually -- we cannot enforce them in any way. the main part of the task force is really to be a think tank that actually twice a week we get together and we talk about the actual crucial issues that are occurring that week. you used the word "flux" in your introduction. that is exactly what's happening. what's the best testing going on right now? what is safe? what are we learning clinically that's going on? and so there's a nice group of individuals with this type of expertise and also in policy and decisionmaking. but i think ultimately what we want to do is keep players safe. we want to keep all their support services safe, coaches, other individuals, and then obviously fans, keep fans safe. >> what about youth sports? i'm thinking of all the parents whose children

. >> my name is jared frederick, i am an instructor of history at penn state, and i am a reenactor with the furious fourth world war ii history group. we are here at the u.s. army heritage education center in pennsylvania. it is a major complex on the army heritage trail. ranging from the 17th century up to the present. my group is here this weekend to discuss the 75th anniversary of the normandy invasion, which is taking place this summer. we thought it certainly fitting to commemorate that event. us putting on these old uniforms, wearing old equipment, it certainly gives us a better perspective and appreciation of what the greatest generation went through. if we can impart even a small inkling of that to the passersby, then we feel like we have done a good job. the unit we portray is the fourth infantry division. it is a unit overshadowed in the world war ii history. it was one of the spearhead units involved in the normandy invasion. it was some of the first amphibious troops who were ashore. they waded ashore on utah beach. unbeknownst to many of them, they had landed on the wrong s

. >> reporter: 82 penn state football players' parents demanding answers wanting to know specifics about why the 2020 season was postponed. starting a petition to have football reink stated getting over 200,000 signatures so far. it comes as nine football players at the university of oklahoma test positive after returning from a week off. the team saying the season will go on as planned. >> how does it feel to be a free man? >> reporter: but one survivor in michigan has spent months fighting to get back hold. zahid raza got sick in march and is finally leaving the hospital after 137 days. >> it's a miracle that i came back. i appreciate every minute of my life now. >> reporter: when it comes to online learning school officials are taking virtual learning just as seriously as in-person classes. in massachusetts school officials say they've reported dozens of families to state social workers whose kids are not logging in regularly. will, mona. >> all right, megan, thank you. >>> the other big headline, this morning, house speaker nancy pelosi ending summer break early for lawmakers to addr

. >> penn state professor lee ann banaszak reflects on the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage andut the tactics women used to get the 19th amendment passed and ratified. this interview was recorded at the meeting in philadelphia.

we'll start with nbc's kathy park at new york's penn state. good morning >> reporter: hey, hoda good morning to you. as you know, new york city used to be the epicenter of the outbreak, and now the infection rate has dropped dramatically to about 1% officials hope to continue on this downward trend. that's why they're tracking down on people coming in from covid hot spots and screening them at critical entry points in the city starting today, that includes penn station planes, trains, and automobiles. no matter how people enter new york city, if they've been to one of the 34 states and puerto rico listed on the travel advisory, they could be stopped at a covid checkpoint. >> travelers coming in from those states will be given information about the quarantine they will be reminded that it is required, not optional >> reporter: the mayor warning violators, if caught, could face up to a $10,000 fine travelers at new york airports were required to fill out a form to help with contact tracing now, the city is expanding enforcement. sheriff's deputi

d reporter: defying covid guidelines, large, maskless parties last night at penn state university. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: and at syracuse, that university responding to these videos, saying, "the students who gathered on the quad last night may have done damage enough to shut down campus." today, north carolina state announcing 41 new covid cases. undergrads are now being sent home. cases of covid are now on college campuses in at least 17 states. as an alarming study published today in the "journal of pediatrics," children up to age 22 are much more likely to be silent spreaders than previously believed. and infected children had significantly higher levels of the virus than even adults hospitalized in i.c.u.s. this as schools across the country face challenges about reopening. ( cars honking ) in detroit, teachers protesting going back to the classroom and threatening to strike if forced to return. resistance from teachers in arizona. resistance from tea >> they know it's not safe for my kids to be in class. i trust them with my kid's life. >> reporter: now, new york city, the

i'm an instructor of history at penn state al tuna and also a reenactor with the living history group>> thanks for your patience and for logging into class. >> with most college campuses closed due to the coronavirus watch professors transfer to a virtual setting to gauge with their students. >> gorbachev did most of the work to change the soviet union but reagan met him halfway, reagan encourage him, regular supported him. >> freedom of the press, madison called it freedom of the use of the press, freedom to print and publish things, not a freedom for what we refer to institutionally as the press. >> lectures in history on american history tv on c-span3, every saturday 8:00 eastern. lectures an history is available as a podcast. find it where you listen to podcasts. >> my name is jared frederick.

i'm an instructor of history at penn state al tuna and also a reenactor with the living history groupand we are here at army heritage days at the u.s. army heritage and education center in carlisle, pennsylvania. and at this event, it is a major complex. we're here on the army heritage trail. one can find reenactors or living historians from all different time periods, ranging from the 17th century up to the present. my group, though, is here this weekend to discuss the 75th anniversary of the normandy invasion, which is taking place this summer, and we thought it certainly fitting to commemorate that event. and us putting on these old uniforms, wearing old equipment, it certainly gives us a better perspective and appreciation for what the greatest generation went through. and if we can impart even a small inkling of that to passersby and families who come visit this place, then we feel we've done a fairly good job. the unit we portray is the fourth infantry division. and it's a unit that's sometimes overshadowed in the realm of world war ii history. but nonetheless it was one of the

cape cacanaveral inn florida in the spring o of twenty twenty o one time of p penn state t thankou for being with u us it's great o have y you on from twenty four. right of first question to pretty simple one. he spent six and a half months in space- between november twenty seventeen in june. november twenty s sixteen and junune twey seseventeen are you excited to e going back- yes i'm excited i've i've misissed the t thrillf being- on board the international space station to view is braced taking the- and just- the general atmosphere- the teamwork. the camaraderie- and a feeling of belonging to you know say mission having the same goal- i've been missing all this over the last few years- so i've couldn't be more excited. to go back now if i'm not mistaken the first time round you had a seven year training program this time round seems to go a lot quicker how come it's so much faster now well what of hopefully because i've i've managed to retain some information from my first training for my first flight. also because there's a lot of skills you have to build from scratchch had to lear

if anything, the reason to own companies like draft kings or penn, states will move pretty quickly toegalize gambling to make up tax shortfalls. look for some action on that end. vonnie: we will look to you for that. thank you. our stock of the hour. still ahead, robinhood leaves rivals in the dust. the no fee trading app is showing a shift in investing. this is bloomberg. ♪ vonnie: this is bloomberg markets. i'm vonnie quinn. the dopey trading robinhood is long past its rivals. it is showing their success as more investors trade online, partially as a result of working from home. here with more is sonali basak. we found out some more information to give us some insight into robinhood. >> the daily average revenue trades at robinhood. one of the remarkable things we found is that through june, a record month for many platforms, there number came in at 4.3 million. compared with td ameritrade, 3.8 million. e*trade was more than quadruple that. muchf those brokers are older than robin hood, which is only seven years old now. vonnie: exactly. others are still asking for fees, but most of

colleges, we kind of flagged you on this yesterday because there were rumors, we are talking about penn state, michigan state, ohio state, iowa, have made the decision to postpone all fall sports. in a statement, commissioner kevin warren said quote, everyone associated with the big ten conference and its member institutions is committed to getting everyone back to competition as soon as it is safe to do so. we are also waiting on the pac-10, like the pac-12, but we will be watching for that as well. right now, it looks like covid has killed the football season for the big ten. >>> all right. walmart's already announced this fall it is ending its tradition of opening stores the night before black friday. the traditional shop until you drop day after thanksgiving. what will holiday shopping look like this year of the coronavirus crisis? especially for kids stuck at home all these months? if mattel's numbers give any indication, one thing will not change. barbie and the mandalorian inspired plush baby yoda will be on kids' christmas lists. while the toy maker behind both saw a 15% drop in sales

nebraska, ohio state, penn state, they will not be playing football this college football season. there is debate if these teams could play in the spring, but a lot of elite players will most likely decide to go to the nfl draft and not play in the spring. the leaders meeting today may decide whether or not to follow suit and cancel its own season. the breaking news is at the big ten will not be playing college football this fall. >>> in chicago there's a special team of investigators to help identify looting suspects. they have arrested 100 people in connection with a night of violence on sunday. officials say they believe the looting was prompted by a police shooting that happened hours earlier. >>> we will not stand by as a beautiful downtown become someplace people fear. >> we have activated a neighborhood protection plan. these resources are being deployed throughout our city to protect our neighborhoods. >> business owners continued to clean up with a heavy police presence in the area. >>> more than 1 million people are without power after a rare storm struck the region. lau

several of the venn national big ten athletic workers are -- iowa, nebraska, ohio state and penn stateering ohio state says the michigan governor is blocking the wolverines from playing, and there are a lot of upset folks in the big ten. talk about traditional football, tough, hard-nosed football? well, not this fall. apparently. we'll see. >>> china joe biden trying to laugh off the idea that he's afraid to leave his basement. he tried to laugh it off. here he is talking with abc's david muir. >> when you hear the president say this guy's afraid to leave his basement -- >> guess what? [laughter] i have left my basement. but in the meantime, 500 million people have watched what i've done out of my basement. and guess what? people are listening. people are listening. lou: listening, he says. well, joining us now, former reagan white house political director, ed rollins are, new york post columnist michael goodwin. good to have you both with us. and let's start with that, that response to david muir and the tough follow-up questions that followed that. ed, your thoughts about what a gril

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penn state has suspended two universities. >>> all of this as americans are feeling the pain of a devastated economy. one food bank in new york is feeding at least 10,000 people a week with folks lining up for blocks to get food as you can see there, but new york has also come a long way in a short time. museums and other cultural institutions are set to reopen today with limited capacity. >>> the biggest question on the minds of millions of americans, when will things get back to normal? the back to normal index is comprised of state and national level. the economy was operating only 78% of normal on august 18th. south dakota has the highest index in the country of 93%. hawaii has the longest road back to normal operating at 61%. south dakota doesn't depend on industries devastated by the pandemic. the crisis is far from over. half the members expect gdp won't return to pre-pandemic levels until 2022. >> one person you won't see at the rnc this week, president trump's sister. new audio that went public this week end. we'll explain why. l'oréal's magic root cover up three seconds to flawless

penn state's president asking the question -- do you want to be the person responsible for sending everyone home? in neshg state, syracuse university has just imposed an interim suspension on 23 students after a gathering in a quad there. and in purdue, indiana, they have suspended 26 after a party. at purdue, they plan to test every week, all staff on campus and have random tests of students throughout the semester. nick watt, cnn, los angeles. >>> now, we turn to the race for the white house. democratic presidential nominee joe biden is looking to build on momentum coming off of his party's national convention this week. he and running mate kamala harris are highlighting what sets them apart from president trump. the two gave their joint interview on friday. biden says he would handle the coronavirus pandemic more effectively and says no measure is off the table. would you be prepared to shut this country down again? >> i would be prepared to do whatever it takes to save lives. we cannot get the country moving until we control the virus. that's the fundamental flaw of this administration'

bernie madoff, never understood who he was, the case of penn state, brock turner sexual assault case,munications and the one the book starts in ends with, the signature case is the sandra bland case, one of those high profile encounters between african-americans and law-enforcement that was so much in the news a few years ago which was a conversation between a young black woman and a police officer who pulled her over and the conversation goes off the rails and i wondered why is it we fail in these conversations with strangers and that is where the book comes from. >> each of your books as an aspect of communication, what is it about this topic that keeps coming back, why is it so important to you? >> i don't know. no one loves the transcript more than me and i'm keenly interested in how people express themselves and how they succeed and fail at that and i am one of those people who if someone is articulate i am all in. i find myself -- one of the people who interviewed me, i was interviewed by the actor russell brand, apart just in england, i knew him from the movies and he starts to

he is a moderate republican, but also in the backyard of penn state university.e's one of those lawmakers who is heavily influenced by the battles of higher education in rural communities. tom: this is absolutely critical. what is the urgency of glenn thompson now to go over to legal mcconnell and say -- to leader mcconnell and say, grow up and get this done? kevin: it is incredibly urgent because for rank-and-file members, for conor lamb specifically, who at one point was hailed as the future of the democratic party, and by all accounts, has a bright political future ahead of him, he has to be able to go back to these battleground districts and say that they are providing economic relief not for big businesses, not for wall street, but for the small businesses in their backyard. that is why you are seeing a shift in tone coming from leadership, as president trump has suggested he is going to use executive powder to go -- executive power to go around the halls of congress. jonathan: here's the line for you. if you look for total consensus among senate republicans

this was just last night at penn state. and now at least 19 states are reporting cases on campus.l of the outbreaks have been traced to off-campus gatherings and greek life. could these potential super spreader events wipe away all the progress that we've worked so hard to get this thing under control? dr. lina wen joins me now. those are definitely sturbidist pictures, doctor. no doubt we're going to see more schools that started in person switch to remote learning, but that's beginning another problem, right? kids have to scramble, have to travel to find new housing or go back home. how fearful is this -- are you that this is going to lead to more outbreaks? i can't talk because it's so late, but are you fearful this is going to lead to more outbreaks? >> absolutely. and we're seeing these outbreaks now. i mean, this is what happens when you have a lot of people gathering close together in places where community transmission is already ongoing, and i think these universities really need to have a plan. they need to have a plan for what happens when there are outbreaks and also w

>>host: the next example is from penn state and michigan state with the jerry sandusky scandal and mro me with concern because in his words somebody talk to him about inappropriate behavior in the shower. >> and you told him? >> i told him it didn't happen. and in my mind it wasn't an appropriate behavior. >> the court said differently now serving a long prison sentence so what do we take away from this and also michigan state? >> i had a chapter on the sandusky case. that is not sandusky himself but rather what the prosecutors did after they convicted sandusky they went after the leadership of penn state foronvi failure to act earlier to prevent his misbehavior which i think is absurd and i go through chapter and verse by the prosecution was asking people in positions of leadership to do things they should not do which essentially the president of penn state was forced to resign and still ten years later almost ten years later still fighting a legal battle to stay out of o jail. the director and vice were convicted and sent to jail as a result. in my mind they did nothing wrong excep

residence halls as much as possible and physically distance and it's just not realistic and we've seen penn statecast the blame on students and there is a quote that i love from a higher education professor at the university of north carolina, kevin mcfluor and it's like a pilot taking off into the hurricane and blaming the grounds crew for not keeping the plane safe. >> i see. you called on the university to move to all online classes. school is going ahead with the classes. are you saying that is simply an unrealistic way to handle this, that you've got to go online. >> yes. that's the stance that temple student government is currently taking. they've putting place a lot of wonderful measures to ensure public health on campus, but at the end of the day you can't police every decision that the students make and community members make and sooner or later, you know, cases are going to go up that could have been avoided if we went all online. >> yeah. >> do you think there's a balance, right? i mean, can you get -- just, listen, you're not kids anymore, right? but 18 to 22, you're adults. do you th

in another large gathering of students, this time at penn state, has asked the school's president asking those flouting the rules, do you want to be the one responsible for sending everyone home? scenes of crowded bars near the university of alabama's campus has sparked calls from the mayor. police issued violations and arrested four others for violating regulations. natasha chen joins us. we saw some developments out of fau today. fill us in. >> reporter: right, ana. the fau athletic spokesperson told us that they suspended football practice temporarily when three of their players tested positive for covid-19. that temporary pause is at least until monday when they can test the players again and review those results. these are the first positive test cases they have had since the beginning of preseason practice, according to this spokesperson who talked to us, and that's been since august 5th. so they typically, he said, test all the athletes every week. again, the first three positive test cases since august 5th. that being said, now is when all of the rest of the student body has been

penn state's president asking the question, do you want to be the person responsible for sending everyone home? nick watt, cnn, los angeles. >> all right, nick, thank you so much. the president still railing against mail-in voting but has the damage already been done? has he cast doubt on the outcome of the election? it's time for the biggest sale of the year on the sleep number 360 smart bed. can it help with snoring? i've never heard snoring. exactly. no problem. ...and done save 50% on the sleep number 360 limited edition smart bed. plus, free delivery when you add a base. ends monday. concentration - in we suppohectic times .oments, and focus to win the day. unlike ordinary memory supplements... neuriva's clinically proven ingredients fuel 5 indicators of brain performance. take the neuriva challenge with our money-back guarantee! youyour dishwasher looks cleans but when grease and limescale build up its not as hygenic as you think use finish dishwasher cleaner its dual action formula tackles grease and limescale finish clean dishwasher clean dishes they have businesses to grow custom

if you look at the rural counties with penn state and west virginia university, again you see a big spikethe summer and then comes down a little bit and then trickling out. this one here in west virginia is more of a bounce. is there a difference in the rural communities? >> center county which is happy valley in pennsylvania and morgantown did a terrific job to manage this through the summer but there's a difference, for example, in pennsylvania, if you're the university of pittsburgh with cases you have health care resources. happy valley doesn't have the resources and about to land thousands of students back into happy valley as they arrive with transmission and i know there are state foxes around the country who are worried about these rural college towns because they don't have the capacity if there's a huge outbreak that occurs there. >> so you have all these colleges and universities and the officials having to decide what to do. some said we'll go back online and others, this is franklin county, ohio, the ohio state university is there and see the jump in cases. this is the estima

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a large gathering at penn state prompted the school's president asking those flouting the rules, do youant to be the ones responsible for sending everyone home? mississippi colleges warned to be careful. since they make up the highest proportion of cases there. >> we know we've got a lost work there and something that we have to work on over the course of the next 12 months. >> reporter: while states face reopening like mississippi and new york, florida is in goo position to reopen schools. governor andrew cuomo saying he has questions to. >> they're still working out what the plan would be. i would have a lot of questions. parents do have a lot of questions. this is a risky proposition, no matter how you do it. >> reporter: and with u.s. death averaging more than 1,000 a day for 20 consecutive days, the cdc is projecting 195,000 deaths by september 12, three weeks away, suggesting that staggering death rate will continue, at least in the short term. >> we are beginning, i think, to turn the tietde. >> reporter: still cdc director robert redfield says 30 to 60 million who have already c

at those that are pushing against fraternities and sororities, ohio state, university of kansas, penn state, the problem is it's not just a matter of people wanting to go to school or schools wanting to have them back. think about all the schools out there, thousands and thousands of students, who were transported to school by their parents, they moved in, they rented property and now in many cases they're having to reverse that with no idea what comes next. >> tom, thanks very much. >>> the number of daily new cases are going down. our chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta joins me now to talk about it. what do you think is behind the numbers? why are the cases going down? what is working? >> well, what works is separating people out so that the virus has a hard time jumping from person to person, people wearing masks, doing all the things that you and i have been talking about since march and april. it's been really important to sort of have these measures in place. what we've seen around the country is that there's certain places where the numbers will go up, people weren't really

a second penn state fraternity just suspected after hosting a large social gathering over the weekendnow, after an up tick at university of alabama, tuscalusa closed every bar. new york area airports are offering tests to employees and incoming travelers. voluntary but encouraged and danbury, connecticut, reporting a serious outbreak, we are told is mostly the result of domestic and international travel. >> until there's an effective vaccine, this is what we are going to be dealing with. >> a brand new disinfectant has been commissioned to use on airplanes that can kill the virus on the surfaces for seven days. >> it's a major announcement. >> reporter: the fda announced a promising, but largely unproven, blood plasma treatment. >> the fundamental questions about this therapy are still unanswered. >> reporter: there was reportedly white house pressure on the fda to grant the authorization. could impact the main aim here. >> to see this agency distorted as it is, makes me worried about the safety and efficiency of any vaccine that may be approved, if you have political pressure, there'

this is at penn state university. students gathering in large groups, many not wearing masks. s in at least 19 states are seeing outbreaks on campus, leading to quarantines and a return to remote learning for some. joining us now is the executive associate dean of emory university school of medicine. dr. del rio, the cdc estimates as many as 60 million people nationwide may have already contracted the virus. what's going to happen as all these kids go back to school? >> well, i think what's going to happen is the kids are going to get infected because schools have made plans to control the infection but you could control what happens in the classroom, what happens maybe in dorms, but you cannot control what happens outside classroom and when people go to parties, they gather, they congregate, they go to bars. that's when infections are going to happen and unfortunately that's what we're seeing. we need to really get -- young people need to understand that getting infected is not without risk, and we really are at a time where unfortunately we need to give up on social life and

a large gathering of students at penn state that prompted the school's president to ask those flouting the rules, do you want to be the person responsible for sending everyone home? mississippi's governor urging college students to be careful since 18 to 29-year-olds make up the highest proportion of cases there. >> we know we've got a lot of work to do there. it's something we will have to be contactually working on over the course of the next few months. >> reporter: and while k through 12 schools have faced challenges reopening in states like mississippi, florida, and georgia, new york with its rock-bottom covid test positivity rate is in a good position to reopen schools. even so, parents have questions. governor andrew cuomo saying he'd have questions too. >> they're still working out what the plan would be. i would have a lot of questions. parents do have a lot of questions. this is a risky proposition no matter how you do it. >> reporter: and with u.s. deaths from covid-19 averaging more than 1,000 a day for 25 consecutive days, the cdc is now projecting nearly 195,000 covid dea

. >> reporter: for penn state's michael mann the first lesson is that science denial is deadly. >> ithink there's enough resilience in the system that we can withstand one term, one four-year term of donald trump. i'm not sure we can withstand two. >> reporter: every day new data shows how the countries rallying around clear messages of sound science have much lower body counts and more resilient economies. same rules apply when oceans rise, mountains burn, and economies shift. masks are teaching us that our personal choices can save or cost human lives. but individual behavior is not the ultimate cure. just like the way you parked your car during lockdown. you helped clear the air for a bit but did nothing for the centuries' worth of carbon dioxide already smothering the planet, which will only get worse until systems change. >> i testify before you as a practicing emergency medicine doctor who is both on the front lines of the climate crisis and the covid-19 pandemic. >> reporter: congress heard socially distant testimony this week from doctors forced to battle covid and heat strok

penn state's president asking the question, do you want to be the person responsible for sending everyoneome? >> and, wolf, horrific news out of florida. a 6-year-old girl in the tampa bay are has just died from covid-19. the youngest person to die in the state with this virus. and we also hear that a judge next week is going to rule on a lawsuit, a teacher's union is suing the governor over an executive order that states that schools must at least offer five days of in-person tuition every week. wolf? >> so sad indeed. our chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta is joining us. sanjay, what's your big takeaway from these updated school re-opening guidelines just released by the cdc? >> i think the big takeaway is that there's not been a lot of clarity in terms of what to do if you have people who are infected on campus. so far school districts have sort of been handling this on an ad hoc basis. so at least this is some guidance. and i think the big takeaway is that i think there's been this rush to say, look, just shut everything down immediately. everyone goes back home, go to virtu

on thursday, after a video emerged of penn state students gathered in a group only a few wears masks the president of the school sent a stern message saying do you want to be the one responsible for sending everybody home? anderson? >>> the infection rate on the campuses could be in part to super spreaders. only takes one person infected with the virus to attend an event like a party and transmit to a group of people. we have a new study about super spreaders. tell us about the findings. >> reporter: anderson, a new study shows that super spreading plays a big role in this pandemic. especially in rural areas. the study looked at five counties across georgia, four metro counties and one was in rural georgia and the study found that the rural county had a disproportionately large outbreak compared to other more populous counties but overall, anderson, about 2% of covid-19 cases were directly responsible for 20% of all infections in that study and younger people under age 60 tended to be the main drivers of super spreading. the study also found that stay in place orders worked best to b

penn state's president asking the president, do you want to be the person responsible for sending everyone home? >> reporter: and the cdc has updated its guidelines for reopening k-12 and it's very clear that they want to have a situation where if you've got one case in a school you do not need to shut the whole place down. they are, as the administration is, very eager for schools to open brick and mortar. but i think you mentioned this, erin, earlier, a 6-year-old did just die in florida from covid-19. yes, kids generally do not get it as seriously, but they do get it. erin. >> all right. nick, thank you very much. i want to go straight to dr. william schaffner now, former cdc official and professor of infectious diseases at vanderbilt medical center. the florida education commissioner just spoke with jake tapper on cnn about florida's decision to mandate in-person classes in the fall. he said sending kids back to school is safe because they have less risk of catching coronavirus than they do seasonal flu. here's what he said. >> the risks that are known are certain, are profound on not

a large gathering of students at penn state that prompted the school's president to ask those floutingdo you want to be the person responsible for sending everyone home? mississippi's governor urging college students to be careful since 18 to 29-year-olds make up the highest proportion of cases there. >> we know that we've got a lot of work to do there. it's something that we will have to be constantly working on over the course of the next few months. >> reporter: and with u.s. deaths from covid-19 averaging more than a thousand a day for 25 consecutive days, the cdc is now projecting nearly 195,000 covid deaths by september 12th, about three weeks away, suggesting that staggering death rate will continue at least in the short term. >> we are beginning, i think, to turn the tide. >> reporter: still, cdc director robert redfield who estimates at many as 60 million people nationwide may have already infected the virus saysco

penn state fraternity just suspended after hosting a large social gathering over the weekend.han 400 cases since the beginning of august. and after an uptick at the university of alabama tuscaloosa just closed every bar in the city, outbreaks on college campuses in at least 19 states. meanwhile, the epa just authorized american airlines to use a brand new disinfectant on some flights that could kill this coronavirus on the surface for seven days. >> this is i believe a major game-changing announcement. >> reporter: and the fda just granted emergency use authorization for a promising but still largely unproven blood plasma treatment. >> the fundamental questions about this therapy are still unanswered. >> reporter: and after criticism over political pressure, the fda issued a statement defending its decision, saying it was based on the available scientific evidence. and, jake, we have just heard from minnesota, 27 cases there tied to that motorcycle rally in sturgis. and some very interesting news out of hong kong. a confirmed case of somebody being infected with covid-19 twice

was a professor of law at pepperdine university caruso school of law and a visiting professor at penn state law school. sox and derek, thank you much for joining. >> thank you. >> thank you. with alex'sgin book. friends, please consider getting -- homework, which i hope you will be inspired to read after today's discussion. in this important book, you argue that the right to vote has not been a steady bending of an towardsrds justice or universal suffrage. instead, it has been a bumpy ride with peaks and valleys and you note a series of cases about reversals of the right to vote. women in new jersey had the right to vote until 1807 and then lasted for nearly a century. african-americans in many northern states have the right to vote at the time of the founding and then lost that right in the 1820's, and people have the right to vote in the midwest and the southwest and then lasted in the 1900s to limit the power of immigrants. a broad question, but tell us about the unsteady progress of suffrage in the united states. >> thank you for the introduction and thank you for this question. be a is