before being flown to berlin he is now being treated at berlin's charity hospital let's bring in alexandra sojanowicz gone from who joins joins us from moscow alexandra russian doctors had said now bonnie wasn't poisoned but now german. doctors said he was and the german government spokesman saying that he was poisoned with a nerve agent from the novacek group how is this going to go down in russia. well yes exactly as you said that the russian doctors said they tested and tested and they didn't find any poisons or toxins in his blood or urine samples and that's the russian authorities were saying that there is no basis for opening a criminal investigation and now we see that germany identity not only finds poison but actually identifies it as a group of poison from a not a jock group which is a nerve agent which exactly is inhibiting the synthesis of cotton as to rise which was actually the diagnosis of a german doctor is now we have the 1st reaction it's coming from the press secretary of russian president vladimir putin said that russia is not yet informed about this finding and this nerve

filed that report she's standing by near the site of the morea refugee camp on lesbos hello to you alexandra so we've heard it's already been nearly 4 days since the fire destroyed the camp describe the situation there now. so at the moment it's quite quiet here compared to yesterday people are getting ready for what is going to be another hot day here i cleaning their make shift a tense and actually i was struck by by that that they were able to put them up. so quickly while we are still waiting for the greek government to live up to its promise to provide housing for the refugees but of course the conditions here are grim sanitary conditions there is only little running water no toilets and people really think that they have been abandoned by by the european union and they are getting increasingly frustrated as we saw in the reports we saw protestan yesterday and of course i can assume that we are going to see them protesting today again now xander out what have you been hearing from the local authorities what is their plan to provide food and shelter to the refugees how are they going to do

on the with their influence in in this in this region or i will leave it there thanks so much alexandra so you know which. take a look at minsk process alexander was alluding to world powers have of course been trying to resolve the conflict for decades you may remember in 1902 the organization for security and cooperation in europe set up the minsk group with the goal of finding a peaceful solution it's co-chaired by france russia and the united states with permanent members from right across the region its work known as the minsk process has 3 main objectives conflict resolution peacekeeping and working toward a final settlement of the nagorno-karabakh dispute it's provided a forum for dialogue between the 2 sides who regularly agreed to lower tension along the line of contact despite this been several flare ups over the years and the rivalry remains unresolved thomas de wall is a senior fellow at carnegie europe specializing on the caucasus region he says that despite the region's international importance the outside community remains disengaged from the dispute. unfortunately this roun

region all right thanks so much problem for us to walk in there on russia has again weighed in calling on all parties to show restraint for more on the comments let's go to alexandra steele janowicz in moscow so is moscow trying to intensify the mediation effort and roll. well russia is in position but also in a position to actually help negotiate this deal having good relations with both their meaning and john and what the russia is doing at this moment is exactly trying to do dead to so of the deputy minister of foreign affairs and that he would incorporate all the on all 3rd parties to show restraint regarding the armed conflict in the going out at a bar and not only restraining action but also in what they're saying he also said that such restraint should be shown by the parties involved and that the everybody should be very careful what they're saying and we should be very accurate so that ceasefire could be possible as as soon as possible and parties should go back to the negotiating table he also said and this is the official position of russia that this conflict you know going to get about is very dangerous and that 'd the 1st time in a long while heavy ar

steve: so that extra room will include what? alexandra: we are in the middle of collecting objects around covid-19 and we have done a lot of thinking about which are most iconic and will tell the most powerful stories about this event. the ventilator is something we have been thinking a great deal about. americans hear about the ventilators but they don't know what they look like or how it works. that is something we might think about putting and the exhibits. we also know that masks are a central part of this story, every american is making a mask or thinking about a mask or living in a place where they asked to use a mask. it is a story that represents all americans. that is an object we might include. we also think about test kits. the faulty ones as well as those that have been more effective. very something that we are much in flux right now with, depending on how long it takes to create a vaccine. we also thought about leaving an empty space in the exhibit that demonstrates that a vaccine is coming. it depends on when the exhibit is

peoples in this area to do the same rebel and and basically these barrel of gunpowder exploding alexandra thank you so much we'll talk to you soon i'm sure. well as we've been mentioning the information war is already key in this conflict both sides immediately blaming each other for starting the fighting that broke out early on sunday morning then there are conflicting reports of casualties by. military and civilian coming from both sides as a vision as an opposition military casualties numbers which on media has not confirmed and has dismissed armenia's claims that its dealt heavy losses to their troops as a johnny authorities have restricted internet use in the country access to a number of communications and social media platforms has been cut entirely let's get more on this joining us here on the news. in london she's a lecturer in security and development at the department of war studies at king's college london. is it any big surprise that the beginning of this conflict is kind of defined in a way the very 1st few hours by they fired 1st you know the other side fired 1st and then they go to war

steve: so before mid march, what were your job duties and how has it changed over the past couple of months? alexandra: we had been planning a division of medicine for the museum and we started that were years ago. when the pandemic was getting, we were very deep into the planning part of it and we begin to think about now we're going to have to change the exhibit to include covid-19 and that meant we needed to collect objects related to covid-19. anyway but nowat it became imperative especially in regards to the exhibit we were planning. we went to the designers and asked them, can you find extra room in your designs so we can have a section on covid-19. that has become the center point of our exhibit. know that our visitors are going to try to understand the past before covid-19 in terms of medicine. in many ways it has reshaped the exhibit. up on your line a harry potter shed addition -- exhibition, what do you mean by that? alexandra: we had already planned it out and needed an additional section to deal with covid-19. we had to go to our designers and say, can you find extra room in your plans an

so i have been surprised. steve: are you getting oral histories and will that be included in this? alexandra: we have asked americans to contact us with their story or objects they may have. we are collecting those stories in the emails. that has been very interesting for us. we are also planning to do oral histories in the long run. we would like to do them with practitioners and also ordinary americans. that is a long-range project for us, because we historians always like to have hindsight whatever -- whenever we do a story. we do not believe we will be doing oral history for about two years. we are also looking to budget for that and so we will need to plan ahead. that is a major part of the project we would like to do. steve: and what is your background? why do you decide to pursue this area in history? i went to the university of wisconsin. we had a separate department in the history of medicine. i became really fascinated by this when i was an undergraduate and i was studying not american history, but italian history, inking at the medici family 15th century, 16th century florence. i

to get the view from moscow alexandra this has all happened i know just over the last hour or so but i see we are already getting some pushback from the kremlin. yes exactly whilst the germany action was safe here the reactions are of course and restrained in a way so minister of foreign affairs responded by saying that russia is still waiting for german prosecutor general office to respond to their request and their request was to send all the results of the analysis that were danton of irony all sorts or state for instance what was the level of his pollen as to rise in the plane so before he arrived into germany and german colony wanting all these details and a member of the russian parliament he was actually ahead of the russian a committee for foreign affairs. in the parliament he said that russia is very willing to cooperate but this statements coming from germany have to be followed with some solid and concrete proof so the situation now is that from the oath or it is the reaction is still restrained of but we heard before. the russian doctors found not poisoned they actually a

so they say they are making that push even if it slows down trial enrollments here. pamela? >> all right, alexandra, thank you so much. i want to bring in cnn chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. so, sanjay, let's start with this dire projection. researchers estimating there will be 3,000 people dying every day in december, triple the current rate, higher than we've seen? what's behind that projection and how likely is it? >> yeah. that's pretty sobering to look at, no question. i think there's a few things. when you sort of dig down into the model, mask usage sort of peaked in early august and it's sort of been tailing off since then. the sense from a lot of people is that there are people who think this thing's over. we've gotten into the fall and we're sort of through this, it's that sort of sense that the worst is behind us, which, as these models suggest, may not be. increased mobility as alexandra was just mentioning going to schools, colleges, things like that. and then people go back to their homes potentially in the late fall, early winter for holidays. that could be fueling it as

migration package that is due to be introduced next week for example alexander thanks so much we'll be getting back to alexandra later after the speeches coming up live in about 10 minutes we think so will be joining us live in brussels we're going to japan now where your shahid asuka has been formally elected as the country's new prime minister's comes after a vote in parliament he replaces the outgoing prime minister shinzo. who resigned earlier this month for health reasons souk is expected to see closely the policies championed by his predecessor. so what can japan and the world expect of suger the man now at the helm of the world's biggest 3rd biggest economy here's a brief look. yoshida sukar may look like a traditional politician in a suit but there's more to him than meets the eye. for the last 8 years he occupied the powerful position of chief cabinet secretary. as such he was diffract to number 2 there are they and a key enforcer of government policy. as part of his effort to secure the top job he vowed to stick to those policies presenting himself as a safe pair of hands at a time of upheaval when no

. >> all right, cnn's alexandra field, thank you so much for that. let's get more on all of this with cnn chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta and the dr. ashish jha. some alarming comments from dr. anthony fauci. he is sounding off on the influence that dr. scott atlas has over the president. in this interview earlier this afternoon. how concerning is it that president trump is relying on advice from someone with zero expertise in infectious diseases and seems to be just telling the president what he wants to hear? >> it's very concerning, jim. if this were a sort of clinical world, it's called dr. shopping, essentially is what the president is doing. you go to a bunch of doctors. the they all tell you the reasonable thing that should be done. you keep shopping around until you find somebody that tells you what you want to hear, advise a treatment that's not really needed, do something that, you know, conventional medicine wouldn't do. it's not a bad idea to get a second opinion from time to time, but here it's what we're seeing is the overw

an immediate cease fire and dialogue on that note russia leading that mediation effort so we'll talk to alexandra steele in of it's called who's in moscow what position is russia taking at the moment. well russia is actually calling for everybody to calm down and to for immediate cease fire and the parties to be back to the negotiating table now the way that the former president then at the prime minister of russia and now the deputy head of the russian security council said that all the parties should calm down should drop the war retore x. that the going to cut about a problem can only be solved in a peaceful way and not with arms and that it does not have doesn't happen the consequences for this region will be catastrophic before that we heard the similar message from the deputy head of that beauty minister of foreign affairs and they would be in court who said that all 3rd parties should show restraint regarding the conflict in the garden or god about this query refers to turkey who are very openly sided with the debate john he also said that the parties involved sure the watch there retore a

view from there from alexandra stay out of its god who joins us live alexandra what have you been hearing from the kremlin. well so far from premarin actually from of the spokesperson of russian president vladimir putin we heard that they are not yet informed about this in the meantime the russian minister of foreign affairs said that they are still waiting for response from german general prosecutor's office on their request and the request was to inform them and to give them the results of the analysis so far that were done on alec's a number in the top 2 for instance inform them about what were the levels of colonists to rise in the plane and then in the hospital so to see i presume there is some a difference in the meantime these responses from the russian officials as i say were not there are not that many of them and they're very restrained we have head of the committee for foreign affairs learned slutsky saying that russia is willing to cooperate that russia is interested in finding out what happened to us a not by any that such statements have to be followed a with the substantial proof with concrete evide

could be impacted by a new supreme court justice i'm alexandra le mon in washington >>not clear yet whether we will have a new justice confirmed so i can't speculate on how the court's going to rule. >>in national news the supreme court's new session of begins in just a couple of weeks the republican controlled senate is racing to replace justice ruth bader ginsburg who died friday, our washington dc correspondent alexandra le mon reports on how that could affect the affordable care act abortion laws and possibly the presidential election itself. >>republican leader mitch mcconnell is promising the senate will vote on president trump's choice to replace justice ruth bader ginsburg possibly before election day the senate has more than california congresswoman judy chu says that would put a new conservative justice on the bench in time to consider whether to strike down the affordable care act. >>and it's all that will mean millions of americans will be left out healthcare arkansas republican senator tom cotton says it's too early to know not clear to me yet whether we will have a new justice confirmed so i can't speculate on how t

steve: as you go through this process so far, what has intrigued you the most or surprised you the most? alexandra: that is an interesting question because multiple things have surprised me. when we first began, we were somewhat uncertain as to whether or not this would emerge into a full-blown pandemic. as you know, there was a sars outbreak previously and the mers outbreak previously, so we were a little uncertain as to whether it could become quite as widespread and massive a pandemic in the way it has become. that was oddly surprising to us even though as historians, we all knew we were long overdue for a pandemic. we still were shocked by how quickly this escalated and how widespread it became and that is obviously the result of rapidity, the rapid nature of travel in the world today. so that was shocking for us to see that play out, even though we kind of expected to see it. it is one thing to think about something theoretically and another to see it play out. in terms of the surprise, i have been surprised by the vehemence and pushback that has happened over mask wearing. in 1918 and 1919 i

dumbartonshire, as well as renfrewshire and east renfrewhire. 0ur scotland correspondent alexandra mckenzie joins me now from glasgow. soarea, the highest rise today? yes, we have had the new figures out from the scottish governmentjust about figures out from the scottish government just about an hour figures out from the scottish governmentjust about an hour ago and the new figures show that there have been 221 new cases of coronavirus in the last 2a hours. that compares to 175 from the previous day. almost half of those, 106 of the new cases, are in the greater glasgow and clyde health board area, which is already under tighter restrictions than most of the rest of the country. and 48 of those new cases are in the lanarkshire health those new cases are in the la narkshire health board those new cases are in the lanarkshire health board area, where new restrictions came into place at midnight, in line with glasgow and the other areas you mentioned. people in lanarkshire from today will not be able to visit others in their homes and they will not be able to have people into their homes. hospital visits and care home vis

western us because of their vast numbers our washington correspondent alexandra le mon reports on a possible legislative solution why so far. >>it's been hard to make it a reality. >>in california wildfires have already burned 20 times more land than in a typical year and the fires that stretch into oregon and washington are sending a blanket of smoke across the country america can no longer afford to deny that connection between the climate crisis and the wildfires. the chief scientist at the national wildlife federation doctor bruce time says because of climate change the average wildfire season is now 78 days longer than 50 years ago rising temperatures. >>causing increased drying of the vegetation president trump blames poor forest management for the fires and scientists agree saying both climate change and forest management are to blame there's a lot more work we need to do to reduce the fuel load oregon republican congressman greg walden says the forest on federal lands do need better management you get forced back to what their natural state should be rather 1000 tons of trees per acre to be hundreds democratic

so much from thruster walk. russia is again weighing in calling on all parties to show restraint from all these comments let's go over to alexandra steele janowicz who joins us now live from moscow so is a cease fire proposal emerging here what exactly are the russians calling for. well of from day one russian russians have been saying that the media ceasefire is necessary and that the parties should go back to the negotiating table this is what we also heard from washington and from european capitals and from all the other organizations but what the minister of foreign affairs of the day it would include said today is that 3rd parties should show restraint regarding the conflict in the garden are also parties involved but this formulation of 3rd parties clearly it was referred to turkey now in court has been saying that the deterioration of the situation is going to cut about his very dangerous and especially since the 1st time since 2016 heavy artillery has been involved by both parties not actually saying that or everybody should refrain from harsh statements that should watch what they are saying because that is the way to re

citizen so it's very important that it's thoroughly investigated and that the answers are provided both to the russian public and to the international with more on the kremlin's response his alexandra steele out of it's gone form in moscow. so far from the official level there is no other theory offered what they're saying is basically we were not given any proof or substantial proof for these statements and what could possibly be the motive now the spokesperson of russian president vladimir putin. said that noted that no one is accusing russia directly but the he also said that such accusations are without any bases and the reason that the sanctions talkies unexceptable in general and he sees no reasons why there would be sanctions he also said that russia is very interested to get to the bottom of what happened with alex a now viney but has to have its own questions answered 1st then he was actually talking about that this official request for all the analysis results and data medical they 1000 a vial need to be given to russia from german hospital here get a notice that in russia all the tests show that there was no poisoning barreled through the x. we have some lower officials

because belarus is owing money to russia and they're going to refinance their dam so they can pay them back alexandra's story out of is called for and we appreciate it thanks very much for talking to us from moscow china's rejected a u.s. pentagon report which warns of plans by beijing to double its nuclear weapons over the next decade china is believed to have 200 warheads but that's a fraction of what the u.s. has in its arsenal particle him reports. every year the pentagon is required to paint a picture for congress of the potential threat posed by china this year is painted a military on the rise and gaining on the united states. some key statistics china's navy is the biggest in the world its army the largest by far the report alleges that china is looking to expand by building bases around the world and it says that it has 200 nuclear warheads and wants to double that number in a decade as a report notes within the next decade china is on course to expand its. ballistic submarine fleet into more capable one green sea launch ballistic missiles complete development of its nuclear capable airliners

gone home alexandra phenomena with the view from brussels thank you so much.let's look at some other stories making news around the world thousands have taken to the streets of bulgaria for and independence day march against the government people gathered outside of parliament in sofia to demand the resignation of prime minister oil coal barge soft and his cows that they accuse them of corruption and having links to all of our eggs. in rio de janeiro brazil flash floods have hit the city blocking roads and leaving cars stranded residents have been struggling to make their way from waterlogged streets after torrential rains hit neighborhoods to the south of the city. more than half of the pilot whales stuck in australia's biggest stranding on record are believed to have died rescuers have been struggling to free the nearly $500.00 mammals beached off of tasmania the stranded pod was 1st believed to be about half the size before further aerial searches spotted another group of around $200.00 nearby. you're watching t w news still to come on the program the un sa

so easy it can escalate further. i was you know your correspondent alexandra phenomena reporting. well that is your news update at this hour up next a reporter on the occasion looks at radical militias the u.s. of course you can always stay up to date with all the latest on our web site dot com i'm directed and by then for me and the entire team thanks for watching.

. >> reporter: alexandra field, cnn, new york. >>> thank you so much for that report. >>> well, a former top staffer for vice president mike pence tells us the cdc was downplaying the worries about reopening the schools. she worked for months before resigning. she said the white house officials tried to work around the cdc. >> this was an effort, you know, at times where i would get blindsided where there would be chief of staffers tasked to find different data for charts that would show that the virus wasn't as bad for certain population, ages, demographics. >> reporter: the search for alternative data was coming at the same time that president trump was publicly saying things like this. >> we have to open our schools, open our schools. stop this nonsense. we open our schools. >> schools have to open. young people have to go to school and there's problems when you don't go to school, too. there's going to be a funding problem because we're not going to fund -- when they don't open their schools, we're not going to fund them. >> i think most governors want to see the schools open. they d

of like an internal stability, so those are the five pillars of career durability that everybody during this pandemic and after work should be focusing on. will: alexandraxternally, might be something you can't count on, the internal value, the ability to find a new job is what you can build to keep rebuilding. >> yes that's perfectly stated. that's what we're trying to recommend because we don't know what the next disruption is going to be. it could be another pandemic, it be a lasting economy and you as an individual have to be willing to pivot and have to be willing to take ownership of your own career to drive things forward for yourself. will: something i've personally experienced purpose and value are something that are defined internally and not externally. thanks so much. >> you're welcome thanks for having me. will: coming up, beto o'rourke couldn't flip his texas senate run but joe biden can do it in november. this state more than any other holds the key to defeating trump this is totally possible. will: radio host mike slater will join us to sound off on that, next. >> ♪ ♪ everyone is at risk for enamel loss. when you drink or eat something t

alexandra lebenthal. we will get to your new role in a second but we wanted to start with the market alix and -- market action. asset prices are sovated, what's happening in the corporate bond market? alexandra: if you look at the last six months, i think people have been predicting that for a long time. the amount of debt certainly has been issued since the pandemic hit has gone to extremely high levels. we are not out of this at all yet. i think there will be a lot of other shoes to fall, if you will. effect of a ripple some damage in the bond market? we have seen it in the worst places and bankruptcy. houlihan is an expert. what comes next? alexandra: we would like to get into the houlihan discussion. they do a lot in the restructuring and the bankruptcy space. we are not out of the woods in terms of the number of bankruptcies in retail on a daily basis. you are seeing fitness chains and retail stores like neiman marcus that are going into bankruptcy. i don't think we are done with that yet by any means. >> dear family, for many years we have credited you guys with developing the word munis. spent a lot of time with state and

so i think. i'm going to share this valid sound alexandra you didn't get off that night i got another wouldn't go right. one of them girls who are called you as well are calling on your campus which is the smallest to get one yes nice and well tentative. well for sure make a planned of oh and one of the projects i've been working on actually to alexander's point is getting some of the now m.b.a. stations that have set up their arenas for voting but we've also been working with some. sort of owners of the stadiums and large structures on college campuses as well and so we're making some really good progress and getting some of these colleges and universities to commit some bigger space than they traditionally do on campus so you know look at your options if you want to if you want more time to look over issues and vote vote at home you should definitely sign up because it is a safe and secure process election officials are working really hard across the country to make that happen that it just gives you more time and more days and you do it on your own time as opposed to being constrained to what

refugee camp unless 1st alexandra we are getting reports of tear gas being used on the protesters by police just how far is the situation escalating what have you been seeing. so we don't know exactly what while the police used tear gas on the refugees protesters we don't have any official statement and we are getting contradictory statements from the refugees some of them told us that they were protesting in a peaceful way and then out of the blue the police used tear gas on them others told us that the police was trying to push them to make their move to the new camp being built new york by they didn't want to go and that is what trigger the use of the tear gas so we are having as i said we are getting confirmed victory statements but tear gas was used here there are tear gas grenades here that the refugee brought and we also could smell it in the year and we also saw the police using tear gas again when they were detaining because several people there are scuffles between police and and the refugees we don't know why those people have been detained what's going to happen to them so this is quite tense situation here and people here are very upset and angry

coronavirus pandemic have cast a shadow over this let's talk to alexandra steele one of which about this anyway coming out of today's elections so far i mean it's a it's a huge operation it's a huge country to hold these sorts of votes and. well yes it is indeed and that's why it is quite hard to monitor also for a book all 4 for the opposition and that because it's lost in 3 days what the independent observers are saying it opens a lot of possibilities for tampering with the votes and there are some regularities reported though we can all speak now how big they are about you know things like more votes on the protocol than actual voters showing up or on sealed ballot boxes but this all aside what these elections are actually very important both for the kremlin as well as for the opposition that they are sort of a dress rehearsal for do me like sions parliament elections coming next week where both sides will see where they stand most importantly kremlin has the opportunity to see how the regions are reacting to the economical crisis how they are reacting to the pandemic how they are reacting to the lower and lower approval rate

let's go to moscow and get more on that from our correspondent that alexandra steele janowicz golf well i think sondra good to talk to again so there is a meeting tomorrow mr lucas shank is going to talk to mr putin how do you think that conversation will shake down i mean how much support does mr lucas inka get from the kremlin now. well look at going to come to morrow to moscow was a person that left himself no wiggle room in any negotiation so he will be meet here friendly but it will be put to very clearly that all the cards as they are are in the hands of russia now russia recognized him as a president early on after the elections but they waited with their clear support for some time when you're waiting to see how the things are going to develop and once he asked for that support he got it he got it even in a form of a possible police forces being sent there if things get completely out of control as russian president vladimir putin put it if a certain red lines are crossed so this support that he got from moscow also on the international level siding with him and the warning everybody else off of what they are saying i

the group says it so far americans have little information or transparency on how that tax money was spent washington correspondent alexandra le mon reports. >>the american small business league is suing the trump administration for the exact amount of all the ppp loans given out to us businesses just had a range of the race are huge just between 5 10 million. so we want to know exactly how our tech stocks reached that lloyd chapman is the organizations president public comes off on the new york stock exchange and billionaires getting this money while corporations and celebrity own businesses got ppp loans may filling their who owns a fitness studio in petaluma california with 6 employees was denied it was. >>breaking for me as well as a true small business owner that is massive companies that i know you know their their name recognizable. you are getting millions meanwhile, a house subcommittee found that more than 1 billion dollars in ppp loans went to companies that had already received loans which violates the program's rules treasury secretary steven mnuchin said the loans will be audited every single loan that's 2 mil

belongs to and found none so instead of answering the questions they're asking new ones and wanting to be shown everything that germany in germany was founded on the about me alexandra god for reporting live from moscow an example many thanks indeed russia's prime minister is in belarus meeting with president alexander lukashenko who's faced weeks of protests against his rule russia has vowed to send police forces into battle reuss if requires demonstrators have been calling on local shanker to resign after he was accused of rigging last month's election in order to continue his 26 year rule he offered support to russia of a german accusations that it was behind the poisoning of alexey the value. president look at shanker used the meeting to offer support to russia. as as you heard over those accusations that it was behind the poisoning of alexina valmy . warsaw is a contact with the 2 opponents were of course carrying out counter intelligence against nato in our military radio intelligence intercepted an interesting conversation that clearly says that it was a philosopher cation not army was not poisoned. russia completely supports the sovereignty independence and

. >>> so president trump announcing a plan today to release 150 million covid rapid tests. more from cnn's alexandra field. >> it honestly looks like it's business as usual. >> reporter: precovid florida in a post covid world. packed bars and restaurants all weekend in south florida just days after republican governor ron desantis dropped virtually all coronavirus restrictions. >> i think it's going to have a huge impact. >> reporter: no morphines for people who refuse to wear a facemask. the positivity rate remains over 10%. across the country, new cases are on the rise in 21 states. in just the last few days at least seven states saw their highest weekly averages for new cases. with wisconsin reporting its highest single day increase over the weekend. >> one of the biggest challenges we have is some people don't believe this is a serious disease even to this day. >> reporter: in new york, more than 1,000 new cases even the most since june. they forced the city to decide whether to bring back restrictions in impacted neighborhoods. >> it is very targeted and very focused in those clusters. >> repor

alexandra strain which go far she joins us from the bureau there alexandra good to talk to you again what's coming out of the talks in sochi so far . well so far what we are hearing is that russian president vladimir putin is putting more emphasis on the financial part of this talk straight part of this talks whilst the russian president looks on the real question cohen is talking more force and military kind of help in the certain sense because what he was saying is that the situation should be discussed in the security collective security treaty organization which apart from russia involves also some other countries like armenia like it is done he's also saying that russia showed that the border about us with the western border so with the baltic states is a joint a border so that no one should be rattling the saber there or waving the with the arms and that hopefully so far no one crossed the red line so it's kind of like more militarized talk. what we're hearing from him on the other hand russian president vladimir putin repeated that the situation in us should be solved by the lot bill russians themselves without any hel

alexandra le mon. >>we continue to track the coronavirus numbers across the state of california of course right here in the bay area check out the numbers on your screen so far the state has recorded more than 813,000 cases with more than 15,000 deaths and then right here in the bay area there are now more than a 100,000 reported cases and more than 1400 deaths. well the playoff stage is set for the oakland a's today, they will host the chicago white sox at the coliseum for the wild-card round first pitch of the game noon today it's going down returing this is the 3rd straight season. they will be playing in the postseason but they have not won a playoff game and quite some time since 2013, it's been a minute this year around bob melvin is starting pitcher schools are toll on the mound melvin believes that was our is ready for the test. >>as we saw last year we you know we use them in a different role. we brought him in the wild-card games and looked like a veteran on the mount you know it's really well he's compose he's got great stuff. i think you're is one of those guys that kind of relishes these type of games. >>well here's a little peek at the a's

so there is this parallel. kind of wave of seeding the seeds of that with on what is coming from. german officials ok that's the view from moscow alexandra thank you for that let's go to lawrence leigh in london. and lawrence the british government 2 years ago was in a similar position as the germans are in fact similar poisoning it seems how far did they get with this sort of challenging of the russians and other any lessons to learn. well the difference in the situation clearly was this in the us event. though there was a huge body of evidence directly linking it to the russians that there was the video of the 2 suspects coming into the country there was video of them walking around soles bre there was not a chalk all over the door of the of the scripture family households is crippling his daughter who were poisoned then there was another bottle if you remember of not a chop disguised as a perf you know which ended up in a bin and a poor woman picked it up thing it was a perfect human spade on a self and then died as a result so they had absolutely primary de facto empirical evidence linking this to the russians and still they didn't g

so bad. tempted by the european commission to to make sure that those country are on board and that finally and agreement can be found on this very sensitive issue. and alexandra just quickly what makes the commission think that they have the solution now because this has been one of most politically sensitive issues in the european union well when you talk to you or fish bowls or even german politicians they tell you that everyone now everyone now understands that something needs to be change and that is their argument to say that the chances for agreement right now are higher than before. our correspondent on sunday for norman reporting for us from brussels thank you so much. now for a roundup of some other stories making headlines around the world thousands have taken to the streets of bowl garia for an independence day march against the government people gathered outside parliament in sofia to demand the resignation of prime minister boyko but he sought and his cabinet they accused them of corruption and of having links to all of parks. in brazil flash floods have hit the city of rio de janeiro blocking roads and leaving cars stranded residents have been s

so that's. the tempted by the european commission to to make sure that those country are on board and that finally an agreement can be found on this very sensitive issue. and alexandra just quickly what to make the commission think that they have the solution now because this has been one of most politically sensitive issues in the european union. well when you talk to you or officials or even german political state tell you that everyone now everyone now understands that something needs to be change and that is their argument to say that the chances for agreement right now are higher than before. our correspondent on sunday for now been reporting for us from brussels thank you so much so what will this mean for migrants who are seeking shelter in europe let's get the perspective of karen matz from the ngo save the children in brussels hi karen thank you for joining us will this new proposal change anything for people who are in camps right now in greece or in italy. well we fear that this fact risk repeating some of the mistakes that we saw in greece right now the fact introduces a new prescreening and border procedure which would. allow member states to register a

alexandra mckenzie, thank you very much. it's not long since pupils returned to the classroom in england after lockdown — but rising covid cases means thousands of them are already isolating — sotops means some are unable to complete online lessons. head teachers say they urgently need more digital devices to prevent pupils falling further behind. fiona lamdin reports. how have you been finding staying at home? a bit difficult at the same time... yeah. have you been getting on with the work 0k? yeah. keriya is in year 9. she's one of 300 students who must stay at home after another pupil tested positive for coronavirus, but already is worried she's falling behind. what difference do you think having a tablet will make? a massive difference. honestly, it really will. it'll be a lot more easier. i'll be able to work well and be a lot more productive with the work. at the moment, we only have 15 ipads that we can issue to students at home, and it's really a crisis point at the moment because we just don't have any more to give out. if another year group then goes out — heaven forbid that happens — then we don't have any more devices to go around. this time keriya is one of the lu

contesting the results in the election so who knows what they might do both campaigns are hiring lawyers to prepare for challenges of the election results. >>that was alexandra le mon reporting for us tonight, justice ginsburg will lie in repose at the u.s. supreme court. this wednesday and thursday to allow for social distancing her casket will lie under the portico at the top of the front steps of the supreme court building that's to allow for outdoor viewing. >>still to come on the they will talk more about the rush to replace justice ginsburg at 8.45 we'll hear from a democratic bay area congressman who is calling for this gop colleagues ruthless for moving so quickly. >>and the nation inches towards another grim milestone 200,000 covid related deaths at 8.30 why local doctors say getting covid and the flu at the same time is a death sentence. >>but first the governor says there will be no new unemployment claims for the next 2 weeks with being updated to cause this pause say new claims. and it may be hard to believe but fall is just hours aw >>the more than 2 million people out of work californians who have had to battle with the state's antiquated syst

contesting the results in the election so who knows what they might do both campaigns are hiring lawyers to prepare for challenges of the election results in washington, alexandra le mon. >>well there's speculation this morning. the judge amy coney barrett is the front-runner to be president trump's nominee to the supreme court. barrett is a former clerk to the late justice antonin scalia, she was also president trump's pick for a seat on the 7th circuit court of appeals. she's worked as a professor for of law at her alma mater notre dame. and sources say the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell actually spoke to the president about her suggesting that maybe her nomination might move a little quicker because they know her record better. president trump says he's expected to make his announcement on saturday. >>and senator kamala harris is on the committee she's a key democrat in this fight against president trump's supreme court pick. she is not just joe biden's running mate, but as a senator and member of the senate judiciary committee should be very important because they hold hearings on the nominees harris has pledged to honor. judge ginsburg's dying wish

so far this season and it was the home site who wins close early on. but under our data ‘s arsenal have a new—found belief and they soon had the lead with alexandra benefitingough, on hand for the easiest of finishes. that seemed to spur the champions on is just that seemed to spur the champions on isjust moments later, that seemed to spur the champions on is just moments later, the fullbacks combined and andy robinson making amends for his earlier mistake. what a finish. arsenal refused to give in, though. wasting a great opportunity to drown the gunners level. will that come back to haunt them? the level. will that come back to haunt them ? the answer was level. will that come back to haunt them? the answer was soon evident, new signing diego coming off the bench to seal the victory on his debut. 3—3 forjuergen klopp's site, and on this evidence, they may take some stopping. i'm completely happy with the performance, to be honest. we were flexible, we mixed it up, we played long, short, in between, behind. so football wise, it was... yeah, a bit trained, obviously. but of course it's more difficult in the premier league games, but the boys did it and they

contesting the results in the election so who knows what they might do both campaigns are hiring lawyers to prepare for challenges of the election results in washington, alexandra le mon. >>well there's speculation this morning that judge amy cohn coney barrett is the front-runner to be the president's nominee for the supreme court barrett is a former clerk to the late justice antonin scalia and she was also president trump's pick for a seat on the 7th. us circuit court of appeals. she has worked as a professor of law at her alma mater notre dame. sources say that senator senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has spoken to president trump and has suggested that bears nomination might move quicker because they know her record already president trump is expected to make his announcement perhaps on saturday. >>senator kamala harris is poised to be a key figure in the democrats fight against the president's supreme court pick the california democrat is both joe biden's running mate as you know, and a member of the senate judiciary committee that's the committee that would hear trump's nominee harris pledged to honor bader ginsburg, the dying justice to her wish as

alexandra le mon. >>now to a developing story out of san francisco where an arson investigation is underway after flames tore through an armenian church building so take a look at the damage this was done to st. gregory the illuminator armenian church, it's on commonwealth avenue. the fire ripped through the first and second floors of the church. members there are now going through the debris trying to save whatever they could find church leaders believe they were targeted. >>that has to be some kind of a hate crime involved in we had a similar situation of keys evie school. and we think this is somehow the continuation. no one was really a veteran the the lighting the vandalism was telling us exactly who they are. >>back in late july the nearby armenian school as he mentioned was vandalized with graffiti can think anti armenian messages. despite all the damage no one was injured in the fire the $25,000 reward now being offered for any information that will lead to an arrest. >>coming up on the kron 00:04am morning news and east bay mom is suing a fertility doctor for using his own to impregnate her not once but twice how did she find out he fath