athena: i'm athena. rachel: nice to meet you. athena: nice to meet you, too. rachel: this is david. hello. athena: hi, david. lemonis: the goal here was to have athena take rachel through the commercial baking process, for her to see the efficiency and how the cost could be lower. but instead of rachel having an open mind and learning... rachel: i use fresh eggs, so i don't know if you -- athena: eggs come pasteurized in boxes. rachel: oh, oh, no. so, we use the fresh, and we have a machine that cracks them all. lemonis: ...she's arguing about the eggs... rachel: i have tried those eggs, and they don't taste as good. athena: no one will taste the difference. rachel: all right. we'll see. we'll see. lemonis: ...and the butter... rachel: i use salted butter, by the way. athena: you do salted butter? we're gonna get rid of that. rachel: no, it makes it so good, i'm telling you. athena: but you don't want to add that to -- you can control it. rachel: i know! i add it, too. i add salt, too. lemonis: ...which doesn't sound very constructive to me. athena: we're gonna do two versions of th

more now from cnn's athena jones in new york. >> bottom line is, i'm not happy with how things are going. >> reporter: dr. fauci raising concerns. >> this is the thing that is concerning to me. we're starting to see the inkling of the upticks in the percent of the positives which we know now from sad past experience that that's a predictor that you're going to have more surges. >> reporter: this warning comes as the u.s. confronts the deadliest day of the summer. 1499 people lost to covid-19 wednesday and as cdc director robert red field makes this blunt admission. >> this is the greatest public health crisis to hit the nation in a century that we were under prepared for and we need to owe it to our children and grandchildren that this nation is never unprepared again for a public health crisis. >> reporter: redfield warning if 95% of americans don't follow public recommendations like mask wearing, hand washing and social distancing -- >> this could be the worst fall from a public health perspective we've ever had. i'm not asking some of america to do it, i'm asking all. >> reporter: dea

cnn's athena jones has more from new york. >> reporter: good morning, christine and laura. public health experts warned we would see more covid-19 in places where they're not bringing coronavirus under control. that's what's happening in georgia. many schools have not required masks or social distancing. the georgia high school that was made famous from a video is now closed. they're holding classes remotely while it undergoes a deep cleaning. 16 schools in cherokee county have held in person classes. the trouble with schools coming is the american academy of pediatrics and the children's hospital association say there's been a 90% increase in u.s. children over the last four weeks. there's more reason to be concerned about covid-19 in children. cdc shows hispanic children are eight times more likely to be hospitalized than white children. black children are five times more likely to be hospitalized. the cdc reports higher rates of the deadly covid related multi-inflammatory syndrome among black children. one expert saying testing and prevention resources must be focused in

anderson. >> athena, dr. fauci said last week that reopening schools was essentially going to be an experiment. that's how he described it. can we say how that experiment is going, so far? >> well, it's not going well, sanjay. you know, this is an experiment in trying to return to normal, when covid has made that impossible. and so, we are seeing students and employees testing positive. leading to quarantines, in places like georgia. i want to show you a picture that went viral. shared on social media. it's of a hallway in -- in a town in georgia. where you see a jam-packed hallway. not a lot of social distancing. and that's the issue. how much can students social distance in hallways, in classrooms, on buses? are they wearing masks? that is why you have something like over 60 people quarantined in one georgia county because of people testing positive. and over 100 students and staff quarantined in mississippi where several students and employees tested positive. so it's a real gamble here. >> that picture. w

athena, thank you very much. >>> now to president trump. he's warming up for the republican convention, which begins on monday, with new slams at joe biden and the democrats and more attacks on mail-in voting. let's go to our chief white house correspondent jim acosta. jim, biden's big convention speech last night of course isn't sitting well with the president. >> reporter: no, that's right, wolf. president trump is ratcheting up his attacks on joe biden in response to the democratic nominee's speech at the convention last night. but the president and his team, they're back on their heels this evening as the trump administration is struggling to explain big delays at the u.s. postal service. leaders at the postal service are insisting there's no cause for alarm about the upcoming election when millions of americans will be voting by mail. the president is warning, though, he'll be sending out law enforcement to polling places to make sure there's a fair vote. eager to get back on the attack, the president too aim at the theme running throu

new york. >> athena, thank you very much. i great that. i want to bring in john beaking jr., the former education secretary in the obama administration. he is also president and ceo of the education trust. john, good to see you. thank you so much. good evening to you. >> good evening, thanks for having me on. >> more than 300 students in georgia's cherokee county school district have quarantined in just the last week. more than a dozen letters sent to parents after 38 students tested positive. are the worst fears of many parents and health experts coming true right now? >> sadly, yes. this was all avoidable. this is a product of mismanagement of this pandemic from the beginning by the current administration. our international peers have been able to open schools safely but that's because they have the pandemic under control. we still don't have rapid response testing. we still don't have contact tracing. we don't have good systems of compliance with public health guidance around masks and many places around the country, and t

>> athena jones, thank you for that. joining me is dr. shaw and william hazelton who is the chair and president of access health. dr. shaw, the cdc says this could be the, quote, worst fall we've ever had and dr. anthony fauci today said he is not pleased with how things are going. those are some very honest admissions from two of the country's top health officials. what did you think when you heard that? >> yeah, so thanks for having me on. dr. fauci's been pretty straightforward the whole time. it's nice to see dr. redfield admitting what many of us in the public health community have been very worried about which is, look, here's what's going to happen in the fall. people are going to start spending more time indoors because the weather gets colder. we know the virus spreads more easily indoors. the flu season is going to be upon us. covid is going to be nowhere near gone. pull the all of those three things together and i think we all can expect things are going to get worse unless we do a series of things to really try to prevent some

>> you know, athena, dr.ci said last week that reopening schools was essentially going to be an experiment, that's how he described it. can we say how that experiment is going so far? >> reporter: well, it's not going well, sanjay. this is an experiment trying to return to normal when covid has made that impossible. so we're seeing students and employees testing positive, leading to quarantines in places like georgia. i want to show you a picture that went viral on social media. it's in a hallway in a town in georgia, where you see a jam packed hallway. not a lot of social distancing, and that's the issue. how much can students social distance on buses, in hallways, are they wearing masks? you have over 60 people quarantined in one georgia county because of people testing positive and over a hundred students and staff quarantined in mississippi, where several students and employees tested positive. so it's a real gamble here. >> that picture, wow. thank you very much. >>> another 1.2 million americans filed f

athena, there is some breaking news out of georgia right now. isn't that right? >> reporter: hi, jim. that's right. this is what happens when you try to open schools in a community where you haven't brought the coronavirus infection rate way down. we're looking at cherokee county schools in georgia. at least 484 students and 21 staff members have been quarantined because that district is reporting some 25 positive cases among students and staff. and it's not just there. we are seeing this in other schools that have also opened in the state. >> if we just act like the virus isn't there and we kind of go for it and try to tough it out, it won't work. >> reporter: public health experts warned this would happen, and now it has. schools in states with high rates of covid-19 infections opening up too quickly without the proper precautions and suffering the consequences as new cases pile up. the georgia high school made famous in this viral photo now temporarily closed after nine students and employees tested positive. the school, where masks are not required, holding c

as athena jones reports, there may be hope on the horizon. >> reporter: tonight, new hopes for the coronavirus vaccine. results in the journal of the american medical association, indicating that early trials of a chinese vaccine shows it is safe. but more study is needed to see if it protects people from the virus. meanwhile -- >> we're in a bad place with this pandemic. >> reporter: the cdc is predicting america could see 22,000 covid-19 deaths in 3 weeks. 189,000 people would have died from coronavirus december 5th. a startling prediction made all the more concerning since deaths have passed the 165,000 the cdc predicted on saturday. >> the virus hasn't changed. it's doing damage to the country. >> reporter: new infections are steady or falling in 44 states, over the last week, the united states has added more than 365,000 cases. that's enough people to fill up atlanta's mercedes-benz stadium more than five times. california becoming the first state to report 600,000 covid-19 cases. and other states seeing higher positivity rates this week than last. georgia, where deaths are on the rise, i

cnn's athena jones explains. >> bottom line is, i'm not pleased with how things are going. >> reporter: dr. anthony fauci raising concerns. >> this is the thing that's disturbing to me, is that we're starting to see the inkling of the upticks in the percent of the tests that are positive which we know now from sad past experience that that's a predictor that you're going to have more surges. >> reporter: this warning comes as the u.s. faces the deadliest day of the summer. dr. robert redfield makes this blunt admission. >> this is the greatest public health crisis of the century. we were under prepared. we need to owe it to our children and grandchildren that this nation is never under prepared again. >> reporter: redfield warning if 95% of americans don't follow basic public health recommendations like mask wearing, hand washing and distancing -- >> this could be the worst fall than we've ever had. i'm not asking some of america to do it, we've all got to do it. >> reporter: while new cases are falling in 47 states, death counts are rising. texas is leading the nation at 24% even as t

. >> i want to get to athena jones now with the very latest on the coronavirus. >> reporter: tonight new coronavirus infections holding steady or falling in 44 states. the u.s. averaging just under 53,000 new cases a day for the last seven days. an 11% drop from the previous week. but still far too high. >> we should not settle for having 50,000 new cases per day. cases anywhere really keep risk pretty high all across the entirety of the united states. >> reporter: with covid deaths nationwide still surging, averaging more than 1,000 a day for 16 straight days, florida and georgia hitting new records for daily deaths tuesday. those states also lead the country in new cases per capita over the past seven days. and surges in indiana and north dakota 27% more cases this week. another state where daily deaths are climbing show some of the risks associated with reopening the economy. 835 cases trace back to bars, restaurants or casinos. >> we are now going to be living with covid for a long time because of the sluggish response in the united states. >> reporter: there is new information a

cnn's athena jones has the story. >> when you have community spread, it's much more difficult to get your arms around that and contain it. >> reporter: in case you hadn't realized it yet, coronavirus is everywhere. >> there are people who are spreading it who have no symptoms at all and we know that definitely occurs. it's difficult to identify it and it's difficult to do identification, isolation, contact tracing. >> reporter: new covid-19 cases nationwide may be leveling off holding steady in hard-hit texas and falling in arizona and florida, mississippi has the highest number of cases at 21.1%. california is the first state to report half a million infections and daily death tolls across the country continue to climb. the cdc projecting the death toll surpass 173,000 people in the next three weeks. >> we need to look ahead and decide where we want to be in one, two, four, six months and figure out what we need to put in place in order to get to that point. >> reporter: parties presenting another challenge for communities trying to slow the spread. an indoor celebration at a bar to

athena jones has the latest. >> bottom line is, i'm not pleased with how things are going. >> reporteright, dr. anthony fauci raising concerns about disturbing trends in parts of the country. >> this is the thing that's disturbing to me, is that we're starting to see the inkling of the upticks in the percent of the tests that are positive. which we know now from sad past experience that that's a predictor that you're going the have more surges. >> reporter: this warning comes as the u.s. confronts the deadliest day of the summer. 1,499 people lost to covid-19 wednesday. and as cdc director dr. robert redfield makes this blunt admission. >> this is the greatest public health chris torisis to hit thin in a century, and we were underprepared. we owe it to our children and grandchildren that this nation is never underprepared again. >> reporter: redfield warning if at least 95% of americans don't follow basic public health recommendations -- >> this could be the worst fall from a public health perspective we've ever had. we've all got to do it. >> reporter: while new cases are steady or fa

not having fall sports this year and control thing virus would be the top priority. >> reporter: athena jones, cnn, new york. >>> in florida, one of the country's biggest hot spots, a county sheriff has issued a mask mandate, but it's not what you would think. he's mandating that they not wear masks. i'll ask a local official about it, next. you'd never wash dishes in this your dishwasher looks clean 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 so we collaborate ♪ ocean spray works with nature every day to farm in a sustainable way >>> coronavirus cases surging in florida. health officials are reporting more than 6,000 new cases just today. so why is a county sheriff in that state ordering his deputies and staff not to wear masks? you heard that right. he told over 900 people working in his department that masks will not be worn. joining me now is matthew wardell, city councilman in ocala, florida, and sponsored the ordinance to require masks

meantime the director for centers for disease control and prevention is sounding a new warning, athenaones has more. >> reporter: as college students head back to campus, coronavirus outbreaks at universities in at least 19 states, representing 1900 cases among students and staff leading to persons like this. a large gathering at penn state prompted the school's president asking those flouting the rules, do you want 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 fo

cnn's athena jones has more. >> we look forward to 2020 and winning and making america great again andin and again. >> reporter: resignation only adding to the drama following jerry falwell jr. and his wife as the prominent trump supporters confront a sex scandal. the board of the evangelical university meeting today to seal his fate after he waffled over what to do next in a series of phone calls with "the wall street journal," repeatedly insisting he had done nothing wrong, he's still due his full compensation and saying of the board, they put me on leave because of pressure from self-righteous people. the unflattering end of falwell's term as university president coming as a man giancarlo granda said he had a year long extramarital affair with falwell's wife. he told reuters jerry falwell enjoyed watching from the corner of the room while the pair had sex. in a lengthy statement that referred to the quote fatal attraction type of situation and included references to scripture, falwell admitted the wife's relationship, but denied being involved at all let alone having watched. becky

we get more now from cnn's athena jones. >> reporter: good morning. new startling statistics about covid-19 among children and the elderly. covid cases among children jumped 90% over the last four weeks according to the american academy of pediatrics and children's hospital association, soaring 137% in the state of florida alone. florida department of health said total number of children hospitalized due to covid has more than doubled. new data on covid in children adding to concerns surrounding covid cases as schools in mississippi, georgia and indiana as covid deaths among children are fast approaching the yearly death toll from the flu. dr. anthony fauci pushing for the kind of simple but effective measures some state and local leader don't resist. >> i feel that universal wearing of masks is one of five or six things that are very important in preventing the upsurge of infection and in turning around the infections that we are seeing surging. >> reporter: that upsurge in cases led by the south while new cases are growing fastest in. hawaii. as new

>> cnn's athena jones, thanks for that. get more from cnn chief medical correspondent sanjay gupta and dr. leana wen. thanks so much to both of you. i want to begin with your reaction to claims made by admiral brett giroir. >> has the administration actually exhausted it to get more supplies like reagents and tips and other testing supplies to the labs, is that true everything's been done? >> i'm going to say definitively yes. >> there's nothing else the administration can do to get more testing? >> you'll hear a dpa action coming up early next week. >> would you say enough has been done to make sure that everyone who needs a test gets a test in this country? >> everything that can possibly be done has been done. >> sanjay, what did you think of that answer? >> i think anybody could look at that and say obviously not enough has been done. we have never gotten testing right in this country. it's sad to say. testing is a key component. i think what the admiral does is he says, look, we're not possibly going to test everyone e

here is cnn's athena jones. >> i'm going to vote for donald trump because i believe he's the best qualifiedbe president of the united states. >> jerry falwell jr. lending a helping hand. >> i am one of the 85% of evangelicals who supported him. >> one of trump's most prominent evangelic evangelical supporters stand big him again in 2018. tonight, the president of liberty university may be in need of his own defenders. a man confirming to cnn he had a years-long extramarital affair with falwell's wife after the couple met him on a trip to miami eight years ago. and that jerry falwell enjoyed watching from the corner of the room while the pair had sex. jerry falwell admitting his wife had an inappropriate personal relationship in a lengthy statement to cnn but denying being involved at all. let alone, having watched. becky had an inappropriate relationship with this person. something, in which i was not involved. in a statement that referred to a, quote, fatal attraction-type situation, and included multiple references to scripture, falwell said the affair led to stress, weight loss, and he s

athena jones, cnn, new york. >>> so let's talk now with dr. celine gounder, a medical expert. great to talk to you. >> great to be here. >> one day after dr. birx told americans the coronavirus was extraordinarily widespread, president trump called her pathetic and falsely claimed the virus is receding and the u.s. is doing very well with its fight against the virus. as a doctor, what would you say to the president about that and his handling overall of the pandemic? >> oh, wow, that's a loaded question, rosemary. you know, i think the president has frankly been very dishonest in his portrayals of the coronavirus pandemic, whether it's here in the united states or elsewhere. we have been saying as infectious disease experts and epidemiologists, we've been saying for months now that it was inevitable that the virus would eventually spread out sort of like falling like dominoes falling from the urban centers but eventually spreading to suburbs and rural areas, which is what we've seen. frankly, it didn't have to be quite such a rampant spread. we allowed that to happen by not im

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big story this morning more more children are getting covid as students are going back to school athena jones has more on how the schools are trying to deal with educating students in the middle of this pandemic. >>if we just act like the virus isn't there and we kind of go for it and try to tough it out public health experts warned this would happen and now it has schools in states with high rates of covid-19 infections opening up too quickly without the proper precautions and suffering the consequences as new cases pile up the georgia high school made famous in this viral photo now temporarily closed after 9 students or employees tested positive. the school where masks are not required. holding classes remotely while it undergoes a deep cleaning. at least 16 schools in cherokee county georgia have reported covid cases among students or staff, underlining the challenge of holding in person classes in the state with the highest number of covid cases per capita in the country. >>the reason all this is happening is because we have and control the virus spread in the community. >>the lack

cnn national correspondent athena jones is in new york for us. schools there and indeed across the state, they will be re-opening. >> reporter: hi, wolf. that's right. one expert said this week that if new york can't safely reopen schools, i don't have hope for any part of the country. so this is good news for parents and teachers. but i want to stress that whether they open in-person classes will be decided district by district. here in new york city schools will be offering both remote and in-person learning options for the fall term. and the chancellor here says he will be watching the numbers like a hawk. and if the positivity rate for covid tests reaches 3%, they will be moving to remote learning for the entire system. it's back to the classroom for millions of students in new york. governor andrew cuomo clearing the way for all schools to reopen for in-person learning if they choose, including the country's largest school district, new york. >> today is the deadline to look at the infection rate and make a determination. by our infection ra

let's go to our national correspondent athena jones. we are standing by and we are seeing some very disturbing new numbers right now. what's going on? >> reporter: hi, wolf. just like dr. birx said, this virus is so widespread that it's now threatened to re-emerge in places that had gotten numbers way down like new jersey where there is an upward climb in covid-19 infections, some of them links to house parties. he's now reimposing restrictions limiting the maximum number of people allowed in indoor gathering to 25, down from a hundred. >> what we're seeing today is different from march and april. >> reporter: in case you hadn't realized it yet, coronavirus is everywhere. that's the latest warning from white house coronavirus task force coordinator dr. deborah birx. >> it is extraordinarily widespread. it's into the rural as equal urban areas. to everybody who lives in a rural area, you are not immune or protected from this virus. >> reporter: while new covid-19 cases nationwide may be leveling off holding steady in hard-hit texas and f

kate. >> athena, thank you so much. "outfront" now, dr. sanjay gupta and dr. reiner, advised the white house medical team under president george w. bush. sanjay, we played that exchange you had with the man leading the white house effort on testing. what did you take from that conversation this afternoon? >> i was confused by it because he almost directly said the opposite thing today as compared to what he said yesterday. it was a recorded conversation yesterday, in which he said, look, we've got the winning strategy is to focus on testing symptomatic people. and we're doing plenty of testing. today, it was a little bit of a different message, where he said no we do have to focus on people who don't have symptoms, acknowledging that they often are the one who is spread the virus unintentionally, unknowingly. i was so confused that i called him afterward because i wanted to understand. and we had this conversation. i took notes. what he said was yeah, clearly, we need to be doing more testing in this country. they're working on all sorts of strategies to do th

athena jones is outfront. >> i'm going to vote for donald trump because i believe he is the best qualifiednt of the united states. >> reporter: jerry falwell jr. lending a helping hand to then candidate donald trump in october, 2016, after the "new york times" reported allegations trump touched women inappropriately without their consent. a claim trump denied. >> i am one of the 85% or so of evangelicals who supported him. >> reporter: one of trump's more prominent evangelical supporters standing by him again in 2018. tonight the president of liberty university may be in need of his own defenders. a man confirming to cnn he had a years long extra marital affair with falwell's wife after the couple met him on a trip to miami eight years ago and that jerry falwell enjoyed watching from the corner of the room while the pair had sex. jerry falwell admitting his wife had an inappropriate personal relationship in a lengthy statement to cnn but denying being involved at all let alone having watched. becky had an interpersonal relationship with this person something in which i was not involved. in

and as cnn's athena jones reports, the u.s. just marked one of the deadliest days of the summer. >> i mean, the numbers don't lie. >> reporter: america's top infectious disease expert with a stark diagnosis six months into the pandemic. >> when you look at the number of infections and the number of deaths, it really is quite concerning. >> reporter: but dr. anthony fauci has some good news, especially for those who don't want to go back into quarantine. >> we can do much better without locking down. and i think that strange binary approach, that either you lock down or you let it all fly, there is some place in the middle when we can open the economy. >> reporter: that assessment coming as the state by state picture is mixed at best. new coronavirus infections, steady or falling in most states, but daily death counts still rising in 22 states. hitting 1,399 nationwide on tuesday. the second highest one-day tenth toll reported this summer. >> the virus is winning, and the american people are losing. and we need to focus on what'

"the athena project" was about an all-female delta force team. the theory is when you put beautiful women into the fuel and had to go up against men, even the toughest men, men often shut off the threat part of the brain because beauty was not perceived as a threat. there's a lot us that you can do it achieve through women not just tactically like kicking in doors but also at a bar, in the refugee camp, so it's half spy operative. this has been talked about very quietly and special operations community for a while about going to the female ironman competition in hawaii and tapping is one of the shoulder and saying how about giving up a sport and serving your country? they do exist and want to be the guy who wrote the book on it and planted that flag. i need to write another one because fans love it. it's a matter of that balance between doing, they tended to focus on candidate a quarter of one done before the end of the year and try to wrap it up. >> host: what is your approach to sex and bad language? >> guest: great question because they are se

athena jones has more. >> i'm going to vote for donald trump because i believe he's the best qualifiedsident of the united states. >> reporter: jerry falwell jr. lending a helping hand to then candidate donald trump in october 2016 after "the new york times" reported allegations that trump touched women inappropriately without their consent, a claim trump denied. >> i'm one of the 85% or so of evangelicals that supported him. >> reporter: a prominent evangelical supporter standing by him again in 2018. today the former president of liberty university might be in need of defenders. a man confirming to cnn of a year's long extramarital affair with falwell's wife. and that jerry falwell enjoyed watching from the corner of the room while they had sex. jerry falwell admitting she had an inappropriate relationship in a statement to cnn but denied being involved at all let alone having watched. becky had an inappropriate relationship with this person someone i was not involved n. a statement referring a fatal attraction-type situation and included multiple references to scripture, falwell sai

athena jones, cnn, new york. >>> president trump is making good on his threat to crack down on two popularhinese owned social media apps. he signed executive orders banning ticktock and we chat from operating in the u.s. unless they're sold. he says the apps are effectively spy wear. so many twists and turns, what's the latest. >> the two executive orders came out last night focusing on tiktok and we chat saying the u.s. will ban the apps within 45 days unless they are taken over by an american company. we know microsoft is currently in talks to buy some of tiktok's business. u.s. officials are worried about national security concerns, how they collect data. ironically also, they also cited that tiktok is used to spread disinformation around coronavirus which is a little bit ironic considering trump himself has had some posts on social media removed for spreading disinformation around coronavirus. tiktok has become one of the biggest hits of the last few years, but almost since the moment it launched it's had a rather bumpy ride. take a look. >> reporter: for many people around the world t

and they should have to compete for you. >> you mentioned the athena project, where did the idea come from. >> we talked about -- you brought up the concept of the beautiful talented women in my novels and i told you there is some people that i work with i'm surrounded by beautiful talented women and i'm a father of a beautiful talented young woman and i wanted to write a set of characters that would appeal to my daughter into the athena project was about the delta force team and is very interesting, the theory that we put beautiful women into the field and they have to go up against men even the toughest men and men often shut off the threat part of their brain because beauty is not perceived as a threat, there's a lot of stuff you can do and achieve not just tactically but kicking indoors and shooting bad guys but also at a bar, in a refugee camp and things like that, task fine half operative, this is been talked about very quietly in the spell to special operations about going to the ironman competition in tapping these women on the shoulder, the professional athletes and saying ho

. >>> athena, thank you. i want to get to the breaking news on hurricane isaias that is now taking aim at the carolinas tonight. our cnn weather anchor is live on the scene. what is the latest on hurricane isaias and where is it now and headed and are you safe out there? >> yeah. we are definitely safe here in our particular location. isaias is doing exactly what we feared, strengthening into a hurricane directly before landfall. within the hour we expect the center of the storm to move across southeastern carolina. those areas are getting pounded right now with extremely strong winds. just off of the coast of north carolina had a wind gust reported over 90 miles per hour. that is category 1 strength. six hours ago it was a mere tropical storm. we had third record high tides in myrtle beach. there was local coastal flooding in that region and flooding across portions of the south carolina coast line. where we are now, it is incredible because we were spared the worst from this storm but if you look at the rad

cnn national correspondent athena jones. falwell jr. the whole ordeal is due to blackmail. what are the facts? >> reporter: hi, jim, well, look. jerry falwell says this is about blackmail. the man in question is john carlo. others say it's a business dispute with falwells with whom he had invested a hotel type of property down in south florida, but let's rewind here. this affair that jerry falwell's wife, becky falwell had with this man began back in 2012 when the couple met this man while he was a pool attendant at the fountain bleu in miami. granadaing to reuters that he and becky falwell had a years long affair and that jerry falwell would -- enjoyed watching them have sex. this is something that jerry falwell deflies. he admits the affair happened but says he had no involvement. now, he had already been on an indefinite leave from his post as president of liberty university after he posted photographs on ingram earlier this month of his pants unzipped or unbuttoned, opened, revealing some of his underpants along with the assistance

. >> athena jones joins us. we've been talking about how covid affects kids. you have new information about how it's affecting kids of color? >> black and hispanic children are more likely to contract the virus. hispanic children are eight times more likely to be hospitalized with coronavirus complications than white children. black children are five times more likely. one expert saying the testing and prevention resources must be focused in these high risk communities. anderson? >> thanks very much. >>> as we mentioned at the top of the program, secret service took president trump out of his briefing minutes after it began, here's the moment. >> it looks like they're just about going to be topping records hopefully soon. >> excuse me, sir -- >> excuse me? >> what's going on, mr. president? >> what's happening? >> joining me now, cnn white house correspondent jeremy diamond. you were in the briefing room tonight. what did you see? >> it was a pretty chaotic and uncertain scene at first, when you see that secret service agent come over to the president and esco

here's cnn's athena jones. >> reporter: tonight, new coronavirus infections, the u.s. averaging just under 53,000 cases in the last 11 days. still, far too high. >> we should not settle for having 50,000 new cases per day. >> any cases anywhere, really keep risk pretty high. all across the united states. >> reporter: cases averaging 1,000 a day for 16 straight days. florida and georgia hitting new records for daily deaths tuesday. those states always lead the country in cases per capita over the last seven days. north dakota has 20% more cases this week. data from the health department in louisiana, another state where daily deaths are climbing show some of the risks associated with reopening the economy. 835 cases traced back to bars, restaurants or casinos. >> we are now going to be living with covid for a long time. because of the sluggish response in the united states. >> there is new information about the toll covid-19 is taking on health care workers. a database developed by kaiser health news showing more than 900 have reportedly died from the virus. and amid of

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and as cnn's athena jones reports, the u.s.the deadliest days of the summer. >> i mean, the numbers don't lie. >> reporter: america's top infectious disease expert with a stark diagnosis six months into the pandemic. >> when you look at the number of infections and the number of deaths, it really is quite concerning. >> reporter: but dr. anthony fauci has some good news, especially for those who don't want to go back into quarantine. >> we can do much better without locking down. and i think that strange binary approach, that eit

c cnn athena jones has the story. >> reporter: illegal and reckless is what andrew cuomo said announcing health investigation into a concert in south hampton over the weekend that he said violated social distancing regulations. >> the young people, this is not the time to fight for your right to party. >> reporter: headlined by the chain smokers and built as a socially distance drive in concert to benefit charities like no kid hungry, the vent was just the latest to draw large crowds that raised the concern of local leader whose are demanding better enforcement. in a statement issued monday, the organizers said they made best efforts to make sure new york social distancing guidelines were properly maintained throughout the event and collaborated with all state and local health officials to keep everyone safe. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: then there was this street party in queen as couple weeks ago. >> it's a problem in new york city. it's a problem places on long island. it's a problem in places upstate. >> reporter: it's not just a party here. witnesses say a recent house party outside philadelphi

now cnn's athena jones reports, the dilemma has forced districts to navigate what to do if in-person learning proves dangerous. >> the gravest public health crisis to hit the nation. >> the blount admission from dr. redfield. >> we need to owe it to our children and grandchildren this nation is never underprepared again. >> the rare candid remarks as the u.s. confront deadliest day of the summer, 1499 lost to covid-19 sunday. if 99% of americans don't follow basic guidelines, mask wearing, handwashing and social distancing -- >> this could be the worst fall from a public health perspective we've ever had. i'm not asking some of america to do it, we've all got to do it. >> while new cases are falling in 43 states, deaths have averaged 1,000 a day for 17 days now. covid positivity rates are on the rise in 35 states with texas leading the nation at nearly 24%. even as the number of tests being conducted nationwide continues to decline. >> bottom line is i'm not pleased with how things are going. this the thing that's disturbing to me is that we're starting to see the inkling in the uppa

athena jones, thank you for bringing us the latest there. i want to bring in dr. sanjay gupta. a group of researchers behind this influential modeling at the university of washington projecting that there could be 300,000 deaths by december 1st if things do not turn around. of course as we know, we've discussed models aren't always accurate. but what is the main takeaway for american people? that is an eye popping number. >> i think the main takeaway, this is a model the white house pays close attention to as well, pamela, the takeaway is the models take all the various data points, they say things aren't going to get better. if you do the math, talking about more than 1,000 people a day to die for the rest of the year, which is what we're at now. that's what this model is starting to say. it says what you see on the screen. if you have national mask mandates, you bring the number of people who die during this time period by 70,000 people. they are starting to put definition around projected impact of masks. we know it's helpful but they are saying here is how helpful it could

>>that was athena jones reporting there's been a 90% increase in the number of covid-19 cases among children over the last 4 weeks. >>happening today, the san francisco board of education is going to vote on approving a deal between the teachers and the union for distance learning, yeah and with online classes starting next week the russia's on right now to get students the tools they're going to need offers ella sogomonian explains. >>san francisco unified school district officials say so far they loaned 13,000 computers to students but more still must be distributed over the next few weeks families in need computers should contact their school not the district that number the 20,000 over the next few weeks and may actually be more than 2 weeks in order to get them to all of our students. >>that that's based on an estimate. based on surveys that we've done what art school sites have reported as far as broadband access. the district says 10,000 wi-fi hot spots are still needed. >>and also won't get to students in need by next monday. this shift toward digital learning format is new for kids

cnn's athena jones has the very latest on this. what is you learned? >> good morning, john.he in or out, this is prolonging the inevitable. liberty university said it wouldn't be at their best interest to have falwell continue to serve as president. it's hard to see how their position changes and the board members are meeting later today to discuss this matter. >> i'm going to vote for donald trump because i believe he's the best qualified to be president of the united states. >> reporter: jerry falwell jr. then lending a helping hand to donald trump in 2016 after allegations that trump touched women without their consent. >> i'm the 85% or so of evangelicals who supported him. >> standing by him again in 2018. the president of liberty university may be in need of his own defenders. a man giancarlo granda confirming he had a year long affair with falwell's wife eight years ago. and that falwell enjoyed watching from the corner of the room while the pair had sex. jerry falwell admitted his wife had an inappropriate relationship but denied being involved at all, let alone havi

athena jones is outfront. >> when you have community spread it is much more difficult to get your arms> reporter: in case you hadn't realized it yet coronavirus is everywhere. >> there are people who are spreading it who have no symptoms at all and we know that definitely occurs. it is difficult to identify it and it is difficult to do identification, isolation, and contact tracing. >> reporter: while new covid-19 cases nationwide may be leveling off, holding steady in hard hit texas, and falling in arizona and florida, mississippi has the highest percentage of positive covid cases in the country at 21.1%. california just became the first state to report half a million infections and daily death tolls there and across the country continue to climb. the cdc now projecting the death toll will pass 173,000 people in the next three weeks. >> we need to look ahead and decide where we want to be in one, two, four, six months and figure out what we need to put in place in order to get to that point. >> reporter: parties presenting another challenge. an indoor celebration at a bar to honor fir

let's go to our national correspondent athena jones. there is a new red flag tonight about the risk of allowing kids, students to return to school. what are you hearing? what is the latest? >> reporter: that is exactly right. we've been talking about how schools can reopen safely when coronavirus is so widespread and just got one more example of why this is going to be challenging. 116 students in one mississippi school district are now quarantined after six students and one staff member tested positive for covid-19. america is number one in the most dangerous of ways. more covid-19 cases and more deaths than any other country. the death toll topping 1,000 for the tenth time in two weeks. >> when you look at the number of infections and the number of deaths it is really quite concerning. the numbers don't lie. >> reporter: all this raising the stakes for school reopenings. students in chicago, the nation's third largest school district, will be learning remotely for at least the first quarter which ends in early november. >> combined wi

athena jones is out front. >> just act like the virus isn't there and we kind of go for it and tought, it won't work. >> reporter: public health experts warned this would happen. now it has. schools in states with high rates of covid-19 infections opening up too quickly without the proper precautions and suffering the consequences as new cases pile up. the georgia high school made famous in this viral photo now temporarily closed after nine students or employees tested positive. the school where masks are not required holding classes remotely while it undergoes deep cleaning. at least 16 schools in cherokee county, georgia, have reported covid cases among students or staff, underlining the challenge of holding in-person classes in a state with the highest number of covid cases per capita in the country. >> the reason all this is happening is because we haven't controlled the virus spread in the community. >> reporter: the lack of a mask mandate in most georgia schools and concerns about crowding prompting fear among teachers and families. >> i have over 200 e-mails over the course of

i'm going to tell one story about the debate athena distance that nobody remembers. how to and world war i with imperial germany. . this is going to be the most energetic ferocious result on the prerogatives of a president to lead a american foreign policy in the history of the republic. we're going to have a president who says at the end of world war one i'm in favor of entering this war by negotiating. we're going to have two republican leaders who go to the american people and say, the president is wrong. we have elections in four weeks. if you will vote republican, will force the president of the united states to adopt unconditional surrender, as a policy to end world war i. and the world. of course the story begins in part with the president's famous speech called the 14 point speech. now there's a lot of background to this and that's in part because there's a gigantic crisis among the allies because the bolsheviks have opened the sars secret foreign ministry archives and they are they found the secret treaties that promised this or that or the other thing to ea