erica?> those numbers are tough, even if they're stabilized, as you point out, it's such a high number. matthew where you are in the bahamas, the bahamas are still recovering from the hurricane dorian. how much of a concern is that at the moment as this next storm comes through? >> reporter: right, erica. as you know, they are still reeling from the category 5 hurricane dorian that ravaged our islands last year. many residents feared what storm isaias would have brought to the bahamas. forecasters told us it would have brought a lot of heavy rain. as you know, some low-lying areas in the bahamas are prone to flooding. so that was some concerns of many. last year forecasters also told us that hurricane dorian was not a storm that we should have worried about and then it turned out to be a catastrophic event. so some people still are reeling from the effects of what happened last year. so they are concerned. residents to this hour still at the grocery stores making their final preparations. we

>> well, thanks, erica. you know what's happening here in texas is the number of new cases has reached a plateau, but it's reached a plateau at a screaming level. you know, we're looking at, for instance, in houston around 1,800, 1,500 confirmed new cases a day which really means around 5,000 to 6,000 new cases a day. so even though it doesn't seem to be accelerating and going up, you cannot live a normal life with 6,000 new cases a day in houston and similar numbers across the metro areas of texas and suburban areas, so the quality of life here really goes downhill. it means that you simply cannot open schools safely, you cannot open colleges safely. and we need to go those next steps to start bringing it back down in texas. this is also true across the southern states. things are accelerating in mississippi, louisiana. it's really bad. >> it is really bad. you said we may need to lock down again in some areas, but not every area. i wonder, though, as we look at this virus, we all know very well it certainl

>> yeah, erica. good to see you. and yes, the indoor gatherings, these large gatherings, this is a no-brainer to kind of summarize what the governor had said. and i feel like many of these people are kind of like my patients. i give them a ten-day course for an infection, they feel better after day three and stop taking the antibiotics. a lot of counties that had gotten covid under control, people are going about their lives as if covid didn't exist. we can't do that. on a ten-day course of antibiotics, we're at day three. >> there's also concern about young people and that's something we're hearing from a lot of officials, it's large gatherings and it's young people, specifically people in their 20s and their 30s. what is it about the message that is not getting through? we just saw the first teen-related death in california. >> yeah, i think it's two things. i think young people think they're not going to be affected by it and you're dealing in general with younger people who tend to be healthy and have not lost a

erica groshen, former commissioner of the u.s.ureau of labor statistics and senior extension faculty member at cornell university. we want to. to some breaking news. this on tiktok. a new bid said to be made for tiktok asset in the u.s., india, australia, and new zealand. centric as asset management, a firm out of london that was formed by a couple of alumni of goldman a few years ago. and the u.s.-based app triller, another video app, said to put in a bid here. caroline: we've got microsoft, oracle, also making a bid, then you've got a bit of private equity and a competitor to add to the excitement. we knew this was going to be a hot ticket, but it is going to be interesting. romaine: it was formed by a goldman partner and a former deutsche bank partner. we will be back in a moment. this is bloomberg. ♪ today we are focused on the nerves that remain about this economy, whether it be inability to borrow, the fact that your job might be on the line, and to support the economy. it has been amazing, the amount of ok's on monetary pol

and erica? >> i think i'm here. >> okay, great. >> yep. >> great. >> all righty, go ahead. >> all right. erica, i'm going to kick it over to you for a reading. >> great. thanks, claire. it's really -- it's such an honor that you agreed to do this and that you're going to be my interlocutor tonight. i'm such a big fan of yours as well. this is a reading from my first book, "quitter: a memoir of drinking, relapse and recovery." let me tell you what it's like to be sober, really sober, for the first time in years. it feels like seeing color for the first time. it feels like you've been looking at the world through someone else's glasses and suddenly you can make out every individual blade of grass. it feels like you have a secret superpower that nobody can see, a claire few of mind that allows you to leech insights. your body feels stronger than it's the ever been. food tastes better. desire returns. at the same time, everything has an intensity that scares you a little. when you feel the feeling,

. >> reporter: erica, good morning. many parts of the country are moving forward with their reopening plans, especially the reopening of schools. here in the state of florida, there is a legal showdown of whether or not to reopen for in-person instruction, this as top health experts across the country sound the alarm that america is not where it needs to be. the nation's top health officials admitting they're disappointed with the u.s. response to the coronavirus pandemic. >> bottom line is, i'm not pleased with how things are going. >> this is the greatest public health crisis of the century. we were underprepared. >> reporter: this as the president calls for pleas for the schools to reopen. >> we don't want schools shut down, we want schools open. especially the young children will handle it very well, so we want schools open. >> reporter: the cdc says there shouldn't be a rush for children to return to the classroom, especially in areas with high infection. >> this is going to have to be decided one school at a time.

erica. >> thankfully.ou. >> yes. >>> russia now claiming to have developed and approved the world's first coronavirus vaccine. but is it safe? is it even really there? and will president trump try to rush a u.s. vaccine to market in time for the november election? whether it's bribes to roll over. ...or an overdue makeover. get all your pet essentials right when you need them, with curbside pickup at petsmart. just order online, drive up, check-in, and pick up. for bathroom odors that linger try febreze small spaces. just press firmly and it continuously eliminates odors in the air and on soft surfaces. for 45 days. >>> breaking overnight, vladimir putin claims that russia has developed and now approved the world's first coronavirus vaccine. it comes as two phase three coronavirus vaccine trials are under way in the united states. now, some doctors here have expressed concerns that president trump will prematurely deem the trials a success and rush a vaccine to market before we know if they really work or

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i'm erica hill in for fredricka whit field. we begin with a grim new prediction of just how devastating the coronavirus pandemic may become. the cdc now projecting another 20,000 lives in this country could be lost in just the next three weeks because of the virus. 30 states have now paused or are rolling back their plans to reopen. the death toll in this country has topped 153,000. look at that. july saw ten days of daily reported deaths topping a thousand. all of this is a critical lifeline for millions of struggling americans has now expired. a $600 unemployment benefit gone. top democratic leaders and white house officials are meeting today to try to hammer out a deal. meantime, there's a new problem emerging. hurricane isaias is threatening coastlines and not just in florida. this is threatening coastlines from florida all the way on up into maine. the potential impact, some 70 million americans. we want to start in washington this hour where those negotiations for an important relief package have just wrapped up for the d

erica hill in on this friday morning. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> this morning, generally alarming new predictions that project just how devastating the coronavirus pandemic could become. pan influential model from the university of washington now predicts deaths could hit nearly 300,000 by december. that's nearly double where we are today. and it's worth noting that this model projects that the number could be lower by 70,000 if everybody wore a mask. so where we are this morning, the nationwide death toll surpassed 160,000 overnight. 1,200 new deaths reported. that's another day with more than 1,000 des. think about that. >> and as pandemic surges, the economic pain is growing. talks between the white house and democrats over the next round of stimulus relief are on the brink of collapse. a three-hour meeting ending with both sides very far apart. at this point, it's unclear if negotiations will even continue today. all of this as we will get an indication on just what the u.s. economic recovery looks like,

erica hill back here this morning. good morning, friend. >> good morning. >>> breaking this morning, the deadliest day of the entire summer. more new reported deaths from coronavirus than we have seen since may. just under 1,500 deaths. 1,500. that is double the death rate from early june. we had 56,000 new cases. again, that's a bad number, especially bad because until now, the last few days and weeks, we've seen a decline in the number of new cases, so that 56,000 jumps out. we'll have to see if that trend continues. the cdc director warned in a new interview, in americans don't adhere to public health measures, the u.s. could see, quote, the worst fall in history. overnight, the white house issued vague new safety tips for schools, but still not requiring masks. by our count, more than 2,000 students and teachers are now quarantined across the country after returning to reopen schools. >>> the newly minted democratic ticket bound to lead americans out of this pandemic. making the case for president trump's failed le

i'm erica hill in for fredricka whitfield. a grim new prediction of how devastating the coronavirus pandemic may still become. the cdc forecasting another 20,000 lives in this country will be lost to the virus in just the next three weeks. this despite 30 states now pausing or rolling back their plans to reopen. the u.s. death toll today stands at more than 153,000. in july alone, ten days where reported deaths topped 1,000. reported daily deaths over 1,000 on ten days this month. a critical lifeline for millions of struggling americans has now expired. that $600 supplemental unemployment benefit now gone. top democratic leaders and white house officials have been meeting for hours to work out a deal, but all of this, of course, in the background as there's a new problem emerging for much of this country. some 70 million americans threatened by hurricane isaias which is threatening coastlines from florida up into maine. potentially impacting 70 million people. cnn's rosa flores is in miami, florida, as we know. of course, alre

>> i just re- arrived. >> erica? >> i think i'm here. >> great. >> already, go ahead. >> erica, i will kick it over to you for a reading. >> and q, claire. it's such an honor that you agreed to do this and that you will be my interviewer tonight britt i'm such a big fan of yours as well. this is a reading from my first book, "quitter", and more of drinking, relapse and recovery. let me tell you what is like to be sober, really sober for the first time in years. it feels like seeing color for the first time that feels like you've been looking at the world through someone else's glasses and suddenly you can make out every individual light up grass. it feels like you have a secret superpower that no one can see in the clarity of mines allows you to reach insights out of the most moments and your body feel stronger that it has ever been and food taste better and desire returns. at the same time everything has an intensity that scares you a little. when you have a feeling, oh my god, how will i ever stay and pack my debt

erica hill with me this morning.good to be back with you. >> we do begin with breaking news. 5 million coronavirus cases in the united states. we have passed the 5 million mark and it is climbing. more than 1 million new cases in the past 17 days alone. the death toll, about to surpass 163,000. the united states now accounts for more than 25% of all confirmed cases and 2% of all fatalities in the world, yet the u.s. makes up only 4% of the world's population. the president claims that children are nearly immune from the virus, but a new study finds that nearly 100,000 children tested positive in the u.s. in the last two weeks of july alone. and this morning, there are reports that the college football season could be canceled completely or

erica, john. >> just awful. alexandra field with the latest there.u. >> that pain so real, so raw. heart goes out to that family. it's just heartbreaking. >>> other news this morning. august means that children are supposed to be going back to school, but some parents worried about safety are forming what they're calling pandemic pods. these are private classes with parents paying for tutors or retired teachers -- really an option only for those who can afford it. cnn's laura jarrett with the latest. >> reporter: with coronavirus resurging across the country and so much uncertainly about what school looks like this fall, many parents are now taking matters into their own hands. >> right now people are in panic mode. >> reporter: marney weinstein, an education consultant in washington, d.c. says parents are reaching out desperate for other options. >> how many parents would you say have reached out to you. >> my emails are overflowing. >> reporter: she's helping parents form what they're calling learning pods, small groups of young children paired wit

arwa, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, erica.most impossible, if not fully impossible to put into words exactly what this city has gone through, especially when it comes to those families who have been trying to piece together the clues as to where their missing loved ones may have been. here is one family story. michelle hasn't slept in three days neither has her sister-in-law with whom she shares the same name, for her husband and brother. she struggles to farm words and sentences in arabic, nevermind in english. joe is an electrician at the port. and this is the last video she got from him on tuesday night. minutes later, the entire building he was in would explode. jennifer, joe and michelle's oldest child, was in beirut. >> so she heard the explosion and she start crying and shouting. this is my dad's -- >> she knew where her dad were. >> reporter: the entire family was frantic, calling joe nonstop. >> at midnight, joe opened his phone for one second, her father heard voices, deep voices, that's what he said, and then nothin

erica reyes joins us from her parents' home in deerfield beach, florida, and erica, we've been talkingople taking advantage of folks during this crisis. whether it's through people who prey on people looking for love, or in your case individuals who have stimulus checks, and hope to use this as a lifeline as a result of being unemployed. so you spent two months calling and emailing, trying to figure out where your check was. when you finally received a phone call, what did they tell you? - the phone call was--says, "hello erica reyes, i'm with the social security administration. we are returning your call." that's when i was like, awesome! we are returning your call to help you with all of your issues. we know you haven't received your stimulus. we know you haven't received, like, any help, and this is why. - let me understand what happened here because you ended up sending them $8,000. so you go from waiting on your check to sending $8,000. how did they convince you to send them that money? - they continued to go on about-- this is why you haven't received your help. my "social securi

i'm erica hill. talks on capitol hill falling apart last night, discussing the next stimulus bill aimed at helping those people. the president promising to go it alone if there is nodeal. well, that press conference should start soon and we will bring it to you live. also happening, right now what is probably the biggest close gathering of people in this country since the deadly pandemic began, the annual sturgis motor rally. most of the people who live in that town of 7,000 said no, they really didn't want to hold it this year. a quarter of a million bikers are expected to come anyway. we are live in south dakota. we will take you there as well. >>> plus, as the coronavirus continues to spread, an estimated 250,000 bikers from around the country, as we mentioned, are making their way to sturgis. it's the 80th annual rally there. masks are not required, though attendees are encouraged to follow the cdc guidelines. cnn's ryan young is there now on the ground for us. ryan, masks are optional. i see yo

erica? >> i don't see either one of them crying about it either. >>> president trump is defending his executive orders aimed at addressing the growing jobs crisis. there are millions of struggling americans and they need help. a democratic senator joins us next. glucose control. the patented blend is clinically shown to help manage blood sugar levels. it provides 60% more protein than the leading diabetes nutrition shake. try boost glucose control. whatintroducing the new sleepld? number 360 smart bed... now temperature balancing, so you can sleep better together. can it help keep me asleep? absolutely, it intelligently senses your movements and automatically adjusts to keep you both effortlessly comfortable. can it help with snoring? i've never heard snoring. exactly. no problem ...and done. will it help me keep up with mom? you got this. so you can really promise better sleep? not promise... prove. it's the final days to receive no interest until january 2023 on all smart beds. ends wednes

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>> reporter: well, erica, overnight the enhanced unemployment benefits for millions of americans expired and today you saw lawmakers and white house officials back at it trying to negotiate this phase four stimulus bill to help those americans who are out of work, as well as provide additional funds for testing and other funds to help address this coronavirus pandemic. of course yesterday we saw a lot of finger pointing between democrats and republicans. the white house chief of staff, mark meadows, accusing democrats rf playing politics. house speaker nancy pelosi doing very much the same in the other direction. but today the treasury secretary and mark meadows met with house speaker nancy pelosi and the senator minority leader chuck schumer.

erica. >> an important point, you're right.to see you today, thank you. >>> in an election year like we have never seen, get ready for political conventions like none before. first up, the democrats and joe biden starting august 17th. then the republicans and donald trump take the spotlight starting august 24th. cnn will have special live coverage every night of the conventions, starting at 8:00 eastern. >>> you are live in the cnn newsroom. i'm erica hill in new york in for ana cabrera. president trump putting his name on several executive orders just a short time ago aimed at

erica hill is with me this morning.on coronavirus and get some clarification from sanjay gupta in second. this is the news, reuters was first to report and cnn has confirmed that the u.s. government is now beginning the process of producing a strain of coronavirus that they can use in what's called challenge trials. they could use if they decided to in what's called a challenge trial. what does that mean? that means intentionally infecting someone with the coronavirus to test the vaccines to see if they're effective. so let's get much more on this and the implications. joining us now is cnn chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. sanjay, exactly what does this mean? producing a strain of the coronavirus to inject you intentionally, will it happen? >> well, i spoke to dr. fauci about that this morning. and this is a plan that they're keeping in their back pocket, sort of as a fail safe as he described. and the idea is that they're going to create a strain of the sars-cov-2 and they'll do it in the good manufacturin

erica hill here with me this morning. great to see you. >> good morning. >> history about to unfold in delaware. for the first time, joe biden and kamala harris will appear together as running mates. senator harris is the first black woman and the first asian american at all to appear on a major party ticket. the daughter of jamaican and indian immigrants, what does this choice say about the changing facing of america? we're getting new information just into cnn about how biden made this pick and just how many women he interviewed in the closing days. it's a big number. also, new information about the generous financial support provided to harris in the past by white house staffer ivanka trump and her father. >> her father, the president. >> exactly. >> okay. >>> we also have a series of developments related to the coronavirus pandemic this morning. espn reporting the big 12 conference will move forward with the fall football season. meantime, the big 10 and pac 12 conferences will not play this fall. on the vaccine front

>> good morning, erica. you know, i think we're going to have to have universal masking at the local level because we're not getting it at the federal level. i want to echo a bit of what sanjay has said, and also note that, you know, over time, we have commented about how kids have done comparably well when you look at adults. so, adults over 80 have mortality rates of this disease of 15%. children have mortality rates somewhere around 0.5%, 0.4%. but when you look at the numbers, the sheer numbers of children who are now reported to be infected or have been infected, 100,000, we're talking about deaths of like 500, 600 young kids. and so, i think when you start looking at the sheer volume of numbers, even very small death rates tally to a lot of children dying from this disease. >> and look, that's exactly what concerns me and what questions it raises for someone like me, without a medical degree, this morning. we know that this new spike in cases that we saw in june and july was fueled by younger adults, p

erica hill with me this morning. great to see you. >> good to be back with you. >> we do begin with breaking news. 5 million coronavirus cases in the united states. we have passed the 5 million mark and it is climbing. more than 1 million new cases in the past 17 days alone. the death toll, about to surpass 163,000. the united states now accounts for more than 25% of all confirmed cases and 2% of all fatalities in the world, yet the u.s. makes up only 4% of the world's population. the president claims that children are nearly immune from the virus, but a new study finds that nearly 100,000 children tested positive in the u.s. in the last two weeks of july alone. and this morning, there are reports that the college football season could be canceled completely or postponed indefinitely this week. >> also developing overnight, massive confusion and uncertainty for millions of unemployed americans and for businesses seeking help after critical aid lapsed. amid backlash, president trump now backtracking on the idea of he

alisyn is off, erica hill joins me today. i understand someone had a birthday. >> john berman, nothing gets past you. >> i know, because i just asked you, was it your birthday? you said yes. happy birthday. >> thank you, my friend. >> belated. >>> all right. this morning, the united states is in a new phase of the coronavirus pandemic, and new here does not mean good. dr. deborah birx tells cnn that this phase is different from march and april because the virus now is so extraordinarily widespread. california just became the first state to reach a half million cases. florida will likely hit that milestone this week. the daily death rate is rising in 30 states. the cdc now predicts 19,000 more americans will die in the next 20 days and that could be a conservative estimate. for millions of americans, enhanced unemployment benefits have expired. extra money that so many have depended on is gone. and leaders in washington have failed to reach a new deal on new measures. negotiations will continue this morning. and with more than

maybe in some ways that difference intrigued me. >> she was erica. as in the former student who showed up to professor lovelace's fateful class that valentine's morning. >> he's extremely charming. anything that i needed or wanted he could take care of and he did. >> at the time this interview took place, she asked us to alter her appearance some to protect her privacy. she began recounting she is a 33-year-old single woman, had bumped into her 37-year-old -- had bumped into her professor. >> i told him there's places he can go in town there is more people his age. i thought he was a lot older than he was. he just seemed. >> he stood out at that club in. >> he did, quite a bit. >> reporter: not long after, they pit their friendship and then love. they started dating about six months after corey's death. erica and her daughter from a previous relationship eventually moved in with curtis and his four children. >> it was nice my child kind of tucked in there with the rest of them. all of us fell into place. >> that's not the way curtis' daughter lindsay

erica hill here with me this morning.good morning. >> history about to unfold in delaware. for the first time, joe biden and kamala harris will appear together as running mates. senator harris is the first black woman and the first asian american at all to appear on a major party ticket. the daughter of jamaican and indian immigrants, what does this choice say about the changing facing of america? we're getting new information just into cnn about how biden made this pick and just how many women he interviewed in the closing days. it's a big number. also, new information about the generous financial support provided to harris in the past by white house staffer ivanka trump and her father. >> her father,

erica hill with me here this morning. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> breaking this morning, the most new reported deaths from coronavirus that we have seen since may. the most since may. the death toll moving in the wrong direction. just under 1,500 new deaths in a single day. that is double, double the rate from early june. we had 56,000 new cases in a single day. that's a bad number. again, particularly notable because you can see the amount of new cases has been going steadily down. a blunt warning from the cdc director, if americans don't adhere to public health measures, the u.s. could see the worst fall in its history. overnight, the white house issued vague new safety tips for schools, while still not requiring masks. by our count, more than 2,000 students and teachers are now quarantined across the country after returning to reopen schools. >> and that reality, front and center as the newly minted democratic ticket vows to lead americans out of this pandemic. laying the blame squarely on president trump'

>>. >> this is josh i can still hear you go ahead we can hear both of you but erica will respond. >> i started drinking when i was 13 and i did a lot of other drugs in high school like weed and acid pretty minor stuff. with the scale of things but i didn't drink heavily and tell my thirties. i really didn't do a lot of other drugs either. drinking was my main thing once i started and i have been sober five and half years. my sobriety date february 4, february 4, 2015. i basically been writing forever started writing professionally when i was about 19 in college with an internship back in the day he didn't get those paid and i have been doing it ever since. and then i then in weeklies ever since and then in 2009 went out completely to the online platforms that's been more than 20 years. >> i will step aside and let you to close this out. >> erica any final words? >> thank you so much for hosting this. i'm glad we can get past our technical difficulties. thank you everybody tuning in. >> again, thank you everybody our apologies for starting late. thank you for bearing with us and thank

erica? we want to remember some of the more than 154,000 lives lost to coronavirus. lieutenant eric lloyd was set to celebrate 30 years with the las vegas metro police department last month and planned to retire at the end of the year. before contracting the virus, lloyd served as the president of the injured officers police fund, where he raised money for colleagues hurt in the field. friends remember him as a man who dead indicated his life to helping others. >>> angie and eugene hunter were married for 35 years. they died from coronavirus just four days apart. their son, justin, a high school senior, plans to dedicate his final football season to his parents. angie and eugene will be remembered for their big hearts and their desire to give without thinking about getting back. we'll be right back. gillette proglide and proglide gel. five blades and a pivoting flexball designed to get virtually every hair on the first stroke, while washing away dirt and oil. so you're ready for the day with

further, he will lower the eligibility age of medicare from 65 down to 60. >> erica? >> yeah, look, bernie has been saying the same thing for over 30 years, and will continue to say the same thing. we're trying to win these policies. maybe the road looks different now, we have somebody like biden running for a democratic president. but the goal is the same, the path to the goal will be different. the goal is the same for medicare for all, to end private detention centers, all the things that bernie mentioned. we're on the same team, to defeat donald trump, and then we're going to make sure we're getting to the point of having medicare for all, and all the policies that we as the bernie army made it into the democratic platform in so many ways. and through his campaign. >> a lot of what you're saying i'm sure will be music to the ears of many. others want donald trump defeated, because they can recall at the same point in hillary clinton's campaign, for a variety of reasons, things did not look quite as unified with some sanders supporters. you're smiling, but it was d

erica hill with me here on this friday. happy friday to you. >> and to you. >> nearly 300,000 americans could be dead from coronavirus by december. think of that. an influential model from the university of washington predicts that the death toll could nearly double from where we are today. now, the model does project the number could be lowered by 70,000 if everybody wore a mask. the nationwide death toll topped 160,000 overnight with 1,200 new deaths reported. that's, what, the fourth straight day we've had more than a thousand deaths reported in this country. >> and as we watch those numbers tick up, the economic pain is growing in this country. and now talks between the white house and democrats over the next round of stimulus relief appear to be collapsing. it's not even clear whether negotiations will continue today. we'll get an indication of what the recovery itself looks like coming up in our 8:00 hour when the july jobs report is released. president trump has said he'll use executive action if an agreement on his

. >> erica, bernie sanders is nothing if not blunt. we saw that same sanders tonight, getting into health care and other policies. take a look. >> we are the only industrialized nation not to guarantee health care for all people. while joe and i disagree on the best path to get universal coverage, he has a plan that will greatly expand health care and cut the cost of prescription drugs. further, he will lower the eligibility age of medicare from 65 down to 60. >> erica? >> yeah, look, bernie has been saying the same thing for over 30 years, and will continue to say the same thing. maybe the road looks different now, we have somebody like biden running for a democratic president. but the goal is the same, the path to the goal will be different. the goal is the same for medicare for all, to end private detention centers, all the things that bernie mentioned. we're on the same team, to defeat donald trump, and then we're going to make sure we're getting to the point of having medicare for all, and all the policies that we as the bernie ar

we don't even know if she knows who she is. >> the lloyd family hired an expert to help locate erica. sheriff department is also continuing a search. >> our original series project home, most of us are working from home, but one company is buying up houses and turning them into businesses in the east bay. >> a substance abuse treatment facility has purchased three homes the pa year and plans ed tes.neighbors broughtthe discov to susie, who found out that there is little thatcato fight >> when tessa first moved into this residential neighborhood in walnut creek 30 years ago, what she liked most about it was that it was residential. >> it is just so quiet. i run and bike every day. drug she's worried that a new neighbor could change that. they bought this five-bedroom home down the street and they will be running a mental health and hope substance abuse treatment center for teenagers inside. >> i was shocked. this is a residential neighborhood and i'm shocked that a for-profit business can buy a house and operate out of it in this quiet neighborhood. and not letting anyone know about it

erica, cases are trending down now in 25 states. but americans are still dying in big numbers from covid-19. this is a very troubling development. >> reporter: yeah, it is absolutely, wolf. the good news if you can even call it good news is that the average of daily deaths being reported has finally fallen below a thousand. it took nearly a month to get to that point. also an important development out of florida. the florida teachers union had actually sued the state over this order that required in-person learning begin this month, that those schools reopen or risk losing funding for students who were learning not online or not on campus. a judge has now just ruled that that order is in fact unconstitutional, that the judge writing that the issue here was that local school boards need to make the decision with respect to opening brick and mortar schools and that the conditions about funding on an approved re-opening plan with a start date in august. he said this was unconstitutional because it arbitrarily disregards safety and deni

were no it didn't look like any items were taken out of the vehicle ruth and way lloyd learned from erica's friends that she spoke of needing a little break from the stress related to the pandemic her business got shut down by because of covid says she had no income coming in to her you know she was home schooling. >>her child and. it was just you know getting to her. and you know after 3 months of being completely blocked off you know way from doing what she loves way lloyd says investigators with the san bernardino sheriff's department told him that they see no signs of foul play is reassuring and it gives us hope. >>you know that she's out there has a menu kron 4 news. >>we continue to track wildfires burning across the state in northern california evacuations are still in place for the site's fire. it's burning north of clear lake and colusa county. the fire started about 24 hours ago just after 5 yesterday evening and has burned more than 500 acres. there's also a big fire burning in southern california and there are new and back away tions in place for the apple fire. it's burning in

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no it didn't look like any items were taken out of the vehicle ruth and wayne lloyd learned from erica's friends that she spoke of needing a little break from the stress related to the pandemic her business got shut down by because of covid says she had no income coming in to her you know she was home schooling. >>her child and. it was just you know getting to her. and you know after 3 months of being completely locked up you know way from doing what she loves way lloyd says investigators with the san bernardino sheriff's department told him that they see no signs of foul play is reassuring and it gives us hope. >>you know that she's out there has a menu kron 4 news. >>and we continue to track wildfires burning across our state will start in northern california where evacuations are still in place for the site's fire. that's burning north of clear lake and colusa county. the fire started just after 5 o'clock yesterday evening and has now burned more than 500 acres and in southern california. there are new evacuations in place for the apple fire. it's burning in the san bernardino nationa

well that was erica hill reporting for us this morning. >>we're also monitoring the latest on the covid-19 pandemic and so far the state has recorded more than 676,000 cases and more than 12,000 deaths all across the bay area are more than 77,000 reported cases and more than 1000 deaths. you can always find a running list of these numbers broken down by city and county on our website. it's all available at kron 4 dot com. well it's a foe is now the first airport in the united states to launch rapid covid-19 testing for workers. the airport is teaming up with dignity health for this facility and it's located in the international terminal it launched late last month. officials say results are actually available in less than an hour, it's open for airport workers daily 08:00am to 06:00pm. >>coming up next on the kron 4 morning news as wildfires rage out of control california is now bracing for even more fires and the coming days, how the state is preparing to get ahead of the game. tensions protests set a curfew for one wisconsin city after p

were no it didn't look like any items were taken out of the vehicle ruth and way lloyd learned from erica's friends that she spoke of needing a little break from the stress related to the pandemic her business got shut down by because of covid says she had no income coming in to her you know she was home schooling. >>her child and. it was just you know getting to her. and you know after 3 months of being completely locked up you know way from doing what she loves way lloyd says investigators with the san bernardino sheriff's department told him that they see no signs of foul play is reassuring and it gives us hope. >>you know that she's out there has a menu kron 4 news. >>well the military has now identified all 9 people killed when a landing craft sank in hundreds of feet of water just off the southern california coast, 16 personnel were on board the vehicle when the crew reported taking on water. the incident happened during training operations just off san clemente island last thursday and intense days long search only turned up remains of one of the victims. officials confirmed one mari

>>ruth lloyd sheds a tear as one month goes by since her daughter erica lloyd disappeared thing like the but the. >>they locked down for you now almost 3 months. >>and she is also trying to home school her son it just was starting to get to her the pressure her 12 year-old son is also hoping that his mom returns are you calling about my mom and they're talking to people. we would say yeah we're trying to find your mom lloyd was traveling to joshua tree national park to camp when her family say they lost contact with her that was on june 16th. >>that same day california highway patrol found lloyd's car abandoned near highway 62 near 29 palms lloyd's family tells me they believe that erica's car was involved in a car accident. before it was abandoned on sheldon road. we don't so she had some memory loss when she got hit with the air bag and. >>she doesn't maybe know who she is we now know through my insurer mental her parents are now furthering their search efforts by working with doug billings, a cave in mine expert who helped find 90 year-old erin corwin. >>after extensive searching

that number now up to more than 450. >> erica, thank you very much. 31% just everyone knows the w.h.one is 5%. that is incredible and doubling. all right. erica, thank you very much. >>> i want to go straight to william hazel tin a groundbreaking hiv/aids researcher also a former professor at harvard medical school and school of public health. i appreciate your time as always. you heard the president say, his words, quote, we broke the log jam. then he said people at the fda were holding things up, quote, for political reasons. the director of the fda said in a statement to cnn that the decisions that scientists at the fda are making are done on data only. of course they didn't have the data a few days ago. the president was complaining. then suddenly they did give this authorization. do you think this was really about the data? >> this is not about the data. it was clear from my reading of the data as well as the national institutes of health and the statements from the fda that this was not ready for primetime. we're in a situation where we have a president who from -- wants to give

cnn's erica hill is working this part of the story for us. erica, more than 179,000 americans, more than 179,000 americans have now died from covid-19. the u.s. is leading the world in cases with more than 5.8 million. >> reporter: yeah. and, wolf, that's definitely not where anyone wants to be as a country. you mentioned those deaths. we had just seen a couple of days ago the average reported daily deaths dipped below a thousand. but that changed yesterday as they again topped that number. and now there is new confusion, questions, and, frankly, exasperation from a number of state officials and health experts as they try to understand new guidance from the cdc. >> it doesn't even pass a common sense sniff test. >> reporter: the cdc's testing and travel guidance abruptly reversed without explanation. >> shame on the people in the cdc. these will be indefensible actions in the light of history. what possible rationale is there to say you're in close contact with a covid-positive person and you don't need a test? >> reporter: the agency now rec

in new york, i'm erica hill. cnn. >>> dr. raj kelsey is a board certified emergency medicine physician. thank you for taking the time to join us tonight. i'd like to start with a view from the e.r. how are things looking at the hospital you work at? >> i worked at small hospitals and big hospitals. today i finished a 10 hour shift. work is extremely busy. traumas, south korea papsych pa. people coming in in droves. everything from heart maladies and cancer and covid. in particular in the hispanic population in my community. >> from a national perspective, the number of cases seems to be on a slight decline. that's the good news. infections seem to be rising in young people in general and i'd like to ask you about a study in the journal of pediatrics. young children have a significantly higher level of virus in their airways than adults in the hospital in the airways. children may be asus septemberible as adults but just not as visible. what due make of the growing claim that children may be silent spreaders? >> it's scary. on

thank you so much forjoining us today, erica.elance people that you work with? it is very welcome. in an ordinary year we would work with hundreds and hundreds of freelance theatre workers and we have not been able to do that this yearand, have not been able to do that this year and, with most theatres up and down country. it is a really great scheme and it is great they have got more money to keep going. i would say it is still emergency funding and this is a crisis that for the whole of the performing arts will go on for a long time. i am worried it will not be enough, but it is making a difference to people's lives, absolutely. in terms of your employees, how many people do you have still working at the moment? well, on the freelance side, we have kept 33 people on, we have got 27 actors and six brilliant stage managers who are delivering shakespeare up and down the country on screens mainly, a little bit out in the gardens in stratford—upon—avon, but we have managed to keep the company on. but we have had to let many go, canc

taliban after tribal leaders agreed to the release of 400 of the islamist groups prisoners lawyers erica a traditional meeting that brings together the country's many communities agreed to the release in hopes of moving forward on talks taliban has made that a pre-condition intra afghan truce to the nearly 2 decades conflict follows a separate agreement the us made but the taliban in february. and football now and byron munich have sealed their passage into the champions league quarter finals after easily eliminating chelsea biron will face barcelona in a one legged game in the last 8 next friday in lisbon that's after the spanish side defeated napoli irons the rubble of a dusty converted in early penalty and netted late on in a 41 home when behind closed doors. was also among the scores as biron wrapped up a 71 aggregate victory having won the 1st leg way back in february before the coronavirus suspension. you're watching t w news here's a reminder of the top story we're following for you a lebanese government minister has resigned following an angry overnight protest and the whole cabi

so think about the situation, erica. you have young, healthy person, in fact, college athlete gets this virus. may have minimal or only moderate symptoms and then develops what's -- this post inflammatory heart situation in the heart muscle and the heart becomes weakens or fails. according to the espn reporting there's five big ten athletes who developed the cardiomyopathy and other athletes as well. and as mentioned in listening to the conversations among the athletic directors and talking to some of the folks myself, that was probably one of the biggest, you know, points that they made over the last few days or few weeks even. because the other stuff we have known for some time in terms of viral spread and people are trying to navigate those decisions but this cardiomyopathy, myocar die disis concerning. when we started to make decisions in this country to pull things back, there was some 5,000 people who were infected and several dozen who had died. at this point now where we're thinking about reopening, you can look

the latest from across the country, here is cnn's erica hill. >> i think there was such a diversity ofesponse in this country from different states that we really did not have a unified bringing everything down. >> reporter: there was not one national plan to get the virus under control. and despite guidelines from the white house there wasn't a unified plan to reopen, either. >> we should have been able to anticipate that these surges of infections would occur. and i think so much of our response has been reacting to what's happened, rather than anticipating what's ahead. >> reporter: those decisions now playing out in realtime. while things are looking better over the past week, even in the recent hot pots of arizona, california and florida, texas seeing a slight decline in new cases, infections are growing in the midwest. and deaths which lagged by at least two to four weeks are rising. the cdc now predicting fatalities could top 173,000 in the next three weeks. >> taking personal responsibility is the best way to keep this in check. and win the war against this invisible enemy. >>