>> reporter: that's right, bianna. the president has been adamantly and vociferously denying this report in "the atlantic" about comments that he made while he was visiting france and when he was supposed to attend this ceremony at a cemetery for world war i veterans. now cnn has also learned according to one person familiar with the president's remarks that the president has repeatedly questioned why vietnam veterans ended up serving in that war and why they were not able to get out of service like the president himself did. according to one source familiar with the remarks, the president has suggested that vietnam veterans didn't know how to exploit the system to get out of serving. and beyond the question of vietnam veterans, this source also told cnn that the president has also questioned what veterans of the iraq and afghanistan wars got out of serving in those wars, particularly because the president himself has voiced skepticism about why the u.s. entered those wars in the first place. so it appears to be more e

>> well, for some unfortunately, bianna, it's going to continue. other states are going to get a break, but just imagine this, three of the four largest fires in california history are burning and the heat in triple digits off the charts for even september and we are not even close to the peak of the wildfire season. let me show you a couple of things that will back up what paul was saying, this pyrocumulus cloud, they had blue skies all day, in a matter of hours everything changed, this rapid growth, in fact, a 600% rapid growth in this fire alone at ma moth pool reservoir growing from 5,000 acres to over 36,000. we believe once they update the website it will be closer to 47,000. the view from space, i mean, it changed the view of all of california as you notice the spoke billowing, the poor air quality as paul mentioned will be in effect not just high terra terrain, this is down at lower elevations, too. when you look at the temperatures and what we've got going on, the red flag warnings all the way to the west to montana, nebraska, parts of kan

we see eye to eye on this, bianna. i have a box behind me that has 253 cards on it with pictures from soldiers i served with who made the ultimate sacrifice. i don't have a box of all the soldiers who were wounded, lost limbs, who were burned but i do have a memory. it was the toughest day i ever spent. a young soldier when i was in europe was shipped back with 80% of his body burned and a triple amputee. his family and the doctors knew he was going to die. i had a discussion with his wife to request that she dedicate his organs, basically giving the organs to others. it was the toughest conversation i ever had and the hardest memory i can remember. those are the kinds of people that mr. trump is insulting, and it's vile and disgusting in my view. so i feel the same way about it as you do. and god bless all those that are wounded. i receive many messages from wounded veterans after speaking on cnn the other night and they feel the same way. >> not only physical wounds and they are heroes. thank you so much for your ser

bianna. >> jason carroll, thank you so much.ou'll be covering this for us today. >>> amid all of this unrest, the trump administration is now barring agencies from engaging in training sessions on race relations. the president tweeting about this order this morning. a memo released by the white house calls the training sessions divisive, unamerican propaganda. cnn's kevin liptack is looking into this. what's striking about this, there don't seem to be many details in this. >> reporter: the memo only cites press reports without specifying what the president is going after. the memo went under the radar when it was released yesterday afternoon. what it does is basically codifies the president's largely dismissive views of systemic racism into federal policy. now, in the memo the president's budget chief is advising federal agencies to drastically change their structural racism training programs. in the memo the budget chief writes it has come to the president's attention that executive branch agencies have spent millions of taxpay

cnn's bianna golodryga joins us now with more. so what happened, bianna?er: alisyn, you can imagine, this is not sitting very well with many new york city parents and the local media. just three days before new york city schools were set to reopen schools for monday, the mayor announced there would be a two-week delay, that they would be slowly integrating students back in as opposed to all k-12 students returning. so on monday, pre-k and special needs students will be returning back to school. then next week, september 29th, you'll have elementary school students returning. then october 1st, two days later, middle school and high school students will be returning. and here's why. there has been a ton of pressure from the teacher's unions, from the principal's unions, saying they need more testing, they need more buildings to be better equipped for ventilation properly. they need more ppe and they need more teachers. the mayor initially said they would hire 2,000 more teachers. now he said in addition to those 2,000, another 2,500 teachers will be required

and bianna joins us now. good morning. >> good morning, alisyn.e on an issue. but given that education is her area of expertise, she has taken the initiative in launching a two-week back-to-school tour. needless to say, she hasn't been a fan of how the trump administration has handled this crisis, so i began this interview by asking her as a teacher how she feels about other teachers and parents being so nervous about going back to school. >> as a teacher and as a mother and as a grandmother, i mean, i just feel that, you know, we are in donald trump's america. and there's just so much chaos. and i feel that, you know, educators don't know what to do, students don't know what to do. >> the education secretary has been asked time and time again whether there's a plan. what is the plan about reopening schools. and there doesn't seem to be one. >> no. >> does that surprise you? and what would a plan look like in a biden administration? >> you know, no, it doesn't surprise me coming from betsy devos. i mean, i don't think she ever felt invested in ame

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our bianna golodryga has been following the story. good morning, bianna. >> this is a perfect follow-up to that conversation with the doctor. in the months leading up to the fall semester i spoke with school administrators who had planned to open. only 20% of u.s. cljolleges are offering in-person classes and they said we'll have low, attendance, we have ppe and testing. look at where we are now. tens of thousands of students now who are infected. >> just a few weeks into the school year, colleges and universities across all 50 states have reported more than 37,000 cases of covid-19. unc helpel hill among the first and largest schools to reopen for in-person classes was also one of the first to reverse course, sending students home to complete the semester online after just 130 covid cases were reported. >> several colleges including talson university have done the same. for schools who had plans, ppe and ample testing, the question quickly turned to what went wrong. the answer may be as simple as campus life getting in the way. despi

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our bianna golodryga joins us with more.ing because we spoke to the university of illinois last week who had the approach, you know, of the of of testing everyone twice a week with the spit test. this is random. >> random and something they felt they were forced to do. fsu lost their season opener over the weekend against georgia tech and the bigger headlines are the photos and pictures coming out of it. the partying that students continue to do on campus, not just fsu but across the country but in fsu's case with 7% positivity rate on campus they are going to crack down changing their approach in testing testing 5% to 2% of the student body there and 30% of the students who have returned to campus so that's a change for them. other news in schools across the country, michigan state said that all students will be in a two-week quarantine after they saw a spike in cases there. they have a little over 300 cases in michigan state and ohio state university, said we're in the fall semester. they are talking about the spring sayin

. >> our senior global affairs analyst bianna golodryga who has been covering education very closelyore on this. so, what have you learned, and i assume they can't go home because they don't want to spread it. >> reporter: that's what every leading doctor has said. if you have a case on campus you keep it on campus and that's why you have a new mandate from providence college. the 80 students tested positive and will move to online learning through at least next saturday and what that means for everybody else on campus they have to be on lockdown, students who live on campus can't leave their apartment and they will have access to testing. those that live off campus need to stay at home as well, and you've got to remind yourself that this is a population where they have seen a real decline in positivity. they have a positive rate about 1% and 4,400 students in providence, so they are clearly wanting to capture this and contain it as soon as possible but telling college students to stay home, you know, is wishful thinking in many cases as we've seen. >> so new york is delaying in pers

cnn's bianna golodryga has more on a tough choice for parents. >> i feel so happy that i want to explodeg back to school is a long-awaited return to some form of normalcy. >> it's like the schoolhouse -- i think i'll learn more. >> reporter: like millions of other students across the country, remote learning has been a struggle for the brooklyn, new york, siblings. >> i had so much stress getting my daughter to learn, remote learning. she cried most of the time. my son, he distracted himself by talking to his peers and playing on the computer. >> reporter: but returning to in-person instruction is not without risk. their mother suffered the improbable case of covid-19, and she said her asthma made her recovery much more different. >> it was very scary. i thought i was going to die. so i don't wish that on anybody. >> reporter: she worries about sending her children back to school, especially isabella who also has asthma, but says another semester on line would be even worse. >> i don't have a choice. it's either try to get her into this education so she is going to learn that is so essen

cnn's bianna golodryga joins us now with more. >> so we really wanted to take a big picture look. it's been six months since covid changed our lives. and obviously aside from the medical effects of covid-19, the biggest impact has been on education. some 50 million students have been at home, studying online. the majority of school districts in this country are starting the semester online, but some, including the largest here in new york city are starting in person and this is an experiment the entire country, the entire world, really, will be paying close attention to. >> i feel so happy that i want to explode. >> reporter: for 5-year-old isabella and her 13-year-old brother, kelvin, going back to school is a long-awaited return to some form of normalcy. >> if you check the schoolhouse, i think i'll learn more. >> reporter: like millions of other students across the country, remote learning has been a struggle for the brooklyn, new york, siblings. >> i had so much stress getting my daughter to learn in the remote learning and she cried most of the time. my son, he distracted him

bianna taylor's read aloud the written statement from her mother tamika palmer. >>never had faith that him the began when a i knew he was too inexperienced to do with the job of this caliber, i know he had already chosen to be on the wrong side of the the moment, he wanted to the grand jury to make the decision. what i hope is that he knew he had the power to do the right that he had the power to start the healing of this that he had the power to help me in over 400 years of oppression what he helped me realize it will always be the u.s. against them, >>brianna taylor was not a suspect in any crime and was killed by police in her own home in the middle of the night as they were acting on a warrant for someone else activists say protests will continue until the louisville police officers involved in her fatal shooting have been charged in her death. >>to our coronavirus coverage. now the cdc is projecting that up to 24,000 more americans could die between now and october 17th that would bring the u.s. death toll to 226,000 right now that number stands at just over

built a career on working with the best in star-studded collaborations with drake, jay-z, beyonce, biannal every time if you have to call drake or you want to call justin bieber? >> first of all, i love working with people that i'm a fan of musically, and the blessing is a lot of people that i'm a fan of are also my friends, meaning i have great relationships, and my track record, people know that khaled is going to hit a home run. is it easy? no. not because people don't want to do it, it's about making the right record. >> so what i'm seeing right now in the few minutes we've talked is what made you successful, right, this force of will, this passion, talent, of course. where does that come from? >> it definitely comes from my mother and father. my mother and father worked seven days a week and just real family vibes and praising god. you know what i'm saying? >> yeah. >> and now i'm a father. so it's like it's not about me, it's about my kids, so my ambition and my energy is even more powerful, you know what i mean? i'm glowing. i don't know if you see it, but i'm glowing. >> khaled's

bianna, thank you for that report. latest stats show how much worse the united states is handling the pandemic compared to much of the world and the figures really blow up president trump's repeated aterpts to down play the severity. w.h.o. officials find that north and south america are the source for a disproportionate number of cases and deaths and in the americas the u.s. is doing the worst with more than 6 million cases right now and nearly 190,000 deaths. cnn's tom foreman is covering this story for us. tell us about this report, tom. >> reporter: all you have to do is look at this one graphic to see the picture very clearly. it is a look at the cases by region and total deaths. and the americas there in gold are way out front of earn else. the americas are leading by a long margin. right below is southeast asia in purple and see like the americas they have been trending upward but at a much lower level and then in that lime green color that's europe down there. europe is the one that's starting basically flatten

cnn's bianna golodryga has more on the campus chaos. >> reporter: hi, good morning. most college students began the year online, about 20% of the colleges started some in-person lessons and classes and now as you see, we have seen tens of thousands of cases pop up. school officials say they were well prepared with testing and ppe so the big question now is what went wrong? just a few weeks into the new school year, colleges and universities across all 50 states have reported more than 37,000 cases of covid-19. unc-chapel hill among the first and largest to open for in-person classes was the first to reverse course, sending students home to complete the semester online after just 130 covid cases were reported. several colleges including towson university, east carolina university and others have done the same. for schools who had plans, ppe and ample testing, the question quickly turned to what went wrong? the answer may be as simple as campus life getting in the way. despite warnings, guidelines and pledges students continued to gather off campus, mostly for parties.

in mister bianna taylor's death. >>an explosive announcement from kentucky today as a grand jury brought no charges against the louisville police officers for the killing of brianna taylor. >>the only charges brought by the grand jury were 3 counts of wanton endangerment. those counts against fired officer brett hankinson for shooting into taylor's neighbors homes during the raid on her apartment. again the counts do not address taylor's death. >>on twitter benjamin crump a lawyer for taylor's family called the decision quote outrageous and offensive writing that x officer hankin son's actions should have been ruled wanton murder. as we look at. protest footage from around the country. this is providence, rhode island. where people scale the embankment there they shut down interstate 95 in providence. police officers were yelling get off the highway in response temen strangers were shouting brianna taylor as they blocked traffic on 95 there were warnings police say to get off and then. troopers started spraying prote

>>and by did we fall day to demonstrations and no avail after bianna taylor decision with protesters defy curfew leading to another round of arrests. >>from the city at the center of this unrest to right here in the bay area demonstrators showing support for brianna taylor for family and everyone asking for justice and equality. >>plus a significant change to how contra costa county will prosecute minor drug offenses. >>everybody thanks for being with us i'm grant lotus and i'm vicki liviakis about a 100 protesters have gathered on the streets of louisville tonight. >>as tensions continue for a second night in that city. police in riot gear blocking off roads during tonight's protests. >>plus we're hearing the dispatch call from when shots were fired and 2 officers were hit last night kron four's justine waldman joins us live in the newsroom. she's watching the developing story just seen. >>louisville citywide curfew is now under and forsman and it will be in place throughout the weekend. authorities are pleading for calm tonight while activists are vowing to fight on anchored over t

. >>> hi, everyone, thanks for joining me, i'm bianna golodryga in for fredricka whitfield.day edition of "cnn newsroom." a desperate situation is unfolding in california, wildfires burning out of control across the state and overnight in northern california rescuers saving hundreds from flames engulfing part of a national forest. officials fear many more could be trapped calling this a mass casualty event with a dozen people already injured. the fire exploding in size and cutting off the only road to safety. it is one of at least 15 burns right now in california. at fueled

cnn's bianna golodryga has more. what are they telling you?ll, the day is finally here, not after one, but two delays and a lot of parents are nervous. in fact, nearly half of all students won't be returning for in classes, they will be remotely and working online for first few months. but for those deciding to send their children back it's not easy and i spoke with one parent about why. six months after covid-19 shuttered the new york city schools, these two are finally putting on their backpacks. >> i was so thrilled to get my 2-year-old to wear her mask so vigilantly and to keep her hands so clean. >> reporter: vigilance is especially important for melody, given that melody a teacher herself suffering from autoimmune disorders. >> i live in a state of fear. >> reporter: she understands the concerns over keeping schools closed but she's not convinced that now is the time to reopen. >> forcing this very large school system to go back to normal as kind of forcing a square peg into a round hole. >> reporter: while most of the largest school dis