>> all right, kyra phillips, who was in the briefing room as this played out. thank you. >>> and of course this all happened at the president was just beginning his coronavirus briefing, railing against mail-in ballots and praising a good day on the markets. it, of course, comes amid a new milestone. america passing 5 million cases of the virus and the american academy of pediatrics now reporting nearly 100,000 children testing positive with the virus in just the last two weeks of july, just before parents decide whether to send their children back to school. tonight here, my interview with dr. anthony fauci. is he comfortable with children going back to school here in the u.s.? what he says about masks tonight. first, abc's victor oquendo. >> reporter: across florida today, thousands of students were back in the classroom in some rural counties. masks encouraged but not required. >> we're encouraging if possible the face-to-face because we know that that's the best that our children can receive. >> reporter: in this hard-hit state, the biggest school districts

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here's kyra phillips. >> reporter: jerry falwell jr. fought to stay at the helm of liberty university, the nation's largest christian college, founded by his famous father. but the board had had enough, announcing, "it would not be in the best interest of the university" for falwell to stay on. overnight, he resigned, telling me, "it's time to move on. i've done all that i can." >> today, we will confer nearly 19,000 degrees and will make history. >> reporter: his fall from grace was swift and steep. a one-time miami pool attendant, giancarlo granda, claimed he'd had a seven-year affair with falwell's wife, becki, and that falwell watched when they were intimate. i spoke with jerry and becki falwell. they admit becki did have the affair, but they deny jerry falwell jr. was involved. they tell me granda, who became a business partner, is trying to extort them. the falwells were among the top evangelical supporters of president trump. >> i truly believe mr. trump is america's blue collar billionaire. >> reporter: becki falwell seen here s

here's kyra phillips. >> reporter: tonight, socially distanced and signing the documents, joe biden and kamala harris are officially on the ballot as the democratic ticket. >> that's it. >> reporter: since the day she was picked, president trump has relentlessly hammering harris with personal attacks. >> she was very, very nasty. she was extraordinarily nasty to kavanaugh. she was the meanest, the most horrible, most disrespectful. >> reporter: just 24 hours ago, saying this about the first black woman on a major party presidential ticket. >> now you have, sort of a mad woman, i call her, because she was so angry and such hatred with justice kavanaugh. >> reporter: today i asked the president directly -- do you have an issue with a strong woman of color being in this presidential race? >> none whatsoever. >> reporter: you don't see her as a threat? >> as you know. none whatsoever. nope. not at all. >> reporter: harris today saying biden deserves credit for picking a black woman. >> joe biden had the audacity to choose a black woman to be his running mate. how incredible is that? >> repo

kyra, thank you. >>> sticking in washington, president trump tonight attempting to sow seeds of doubt over election day. now a little more than three months away, faced with plunging poll numbers and one day after suggesting possibly delaying the election, the president without evidence now suggesting the results could be, quote, rigged. here's abc's senior national correspondent terry moran. >> reporter: at the white house today, president trump -- behind in the polls and seeming more and more frustrated about it -- making an apocalyptic prediction. >> this is going to be the greatest election disaster in history. >> reporter: after his idea of delaying the election was immediately shot down by republicans and democrats alike, trump now claims because of mail-in voting, the results may never be known. >> it'll be fixed, it'll be rigged. it'll go on forever. >> reporter: the postal service expects a huge surge in mail-in ballots -- a huge challenge. postal worker leaders say if they have sufficient resources, americans can trust them to do the job. >> they have to insist that the mail

>> kyra, thank you. a programming note, abc news will provide gavel to gavel coverage of the democratic convention beginning at 7:00 p.m. eastern on abc news live and at 10:00 p.m. eastern right here on abc, monday through thursday. we hope you'll join us. >>> also tonight, a former fbi lawyer is expected to plead guilty of making false statements after admitting he altered an email from the cia in an effort to renew a wiretap of former trump adviser carter page. kevin kleinsmith resigned last year after an internal investigation revealed his action. this is the first criminal charge brought by u.s. attorney john durham, tapped by the attorney general to probe the origins of the russia investigation. >>> in the west tonight, dozens of wildfires are burning with triple-digit temperatures heading into the weekend. the fire we told you about last night in california burned right up to homes, forcing evacuations. the evacuation order lifted tonight. and new video from the lake fire. firefighters saving an am

kyra phillips, abc news, the white house. >> our thanks to kyra there.na and i have worked at the white house complex, and we know when there have been lockdowns or any type of threat, secret service, very professional, they move pretty fast. >>> turning to the very latest developments on the coronavirus, there are more than 20 million confirmed cases of covid-19 across the globe, one-quarter of those infections are right here in the u.s. reopesidenushes for schools to harmfutohildren, despi a recent surge in cases among kids. he said children don't catch it or transfer it to other people very easily and don't get very sick. abc's victor oquendo has more. >> reporter: across florida, thousands of students were back in the has room in some rural counties. masks encouraged but not required. >> we're encouraging if possible the face-to-face because we know that that's the best that our children can receive. >> reporter: in this hard-hit state, the biggest school district month, and teachers are suing the state. >> we've been reckless with bars and beaches a

the funny part kyra is happy to at least get $1000000.00 baht per elephant from china its foundation. our situation has been dire since the start of the pandemic that we had to close the camp from. before but regardless of whether we're open or closed we still have to take care of the elephants and we need to feed them every day. we were allowed to reopen on july 1st but there are simply no visitors. that might make it. the convoy sets off in the early afternoon. unless things love them they love the game. as well as the feeling. that i'm hungry and no one. believes in them i think the journey old kids are. the next morning after a nearly 20 hour drive the convoy reaches its destination the elephant nature from north to change the team is exhausted lecture i learned has hardly slept but nothing can dampen her mood. all the happy because the journey is. elephant angry so yeah. i feel believe. that once the restraining bars have been removed it's time for the elephants to take their 1st cautious steps into a new life. for. good the newcomers will have to be isolated from the rest of the

board for iranian tankers batting for venezuela disrupting a key supply line for both terror ron and kyra costs asleep to fight u.s. sanctions the u.s. justice department says the cargo amounts to over a 1000000 barrels of petroleum making it the largest ever u.s. seizure of the brain in fuel. for turkish lira has fallen to a new no against the u.s. dollar after years of declining value it's now worth just over $0.13 making it one of the worst performing currencies among emerging markets rising inflation a result of a cheap loan policy has added to pressure on the lira. google says it will no longer respond to data requests from hong kong the move follows beijing's introduction of a new national security law in the territory critics say the legislation is designed to target protesters and free speech. the united states and china are jus to resume trade talks this weekend 8 months after agreeing to phase one of a trade deal the contentions couldn't be any more tense the world is in the grips of a pandemic which u.s. president donald trump blames on beijing and washington is in the middle o

well that's your news update at this hour i'm kyra churton in berlin for me and the team expect much for watching. a new mayor has become. a fire going. business in. our midst. plays in some. places. the flames that consumed forests and entire residential areas. blazing temperature water shortages lem's clearance there's an abundance of flammable material once again to. stop the fires. going look i'm still. looking conflagration the world on fire starts august 12th on g.w. . the thing. this week on story. china cracking down on buddhism. nigeria bringing ballet to low income areas but we'll be getting believe you are especially in the city of parts more and more people are falling victim to coronavirus and hospitals are dangerously close to being overloaded. in this car a 68 year old man has died as a result of cope at 19 he never made it to hospital just a few hours earlier a friend and family members had tried to get him help at 5 medical centers but they were denied little because all the hospitals are full we were sent to the hospitals in la porte tada and in court to whom he sto

i'm kyra phillips and my colleague brian thomas will join us with more news at the top the hour. and beyond. that. we're all about the steamers that. come through. whatever it takes. you are running low cut enough that. you made 4 minds.

i'm kyra trades and welcome to the show world leaders have pledged more than 250000000 euros in emergency aid for lebanon following tuesday's devastating explosion in the capital beirut the city has been rocked by another day of unrest amid clashes between protesters and security forces several government ministers have stepped down in response to growing anger and demonstrators blame the country's a political elite for deep rooted corruption and for negligence that ended in tragedy. another evening at anger in beirut violent clashes with security forces as people protest for a 2nd day the sun raised was it off i choose days mass even devastating explosion these protestors lay the blame directly on what i say lebanon's corrupt leaders sunday saw a number of government officials quit over the crisis in the hunt that this is the point of no return the people are hungry the economy is collapsing the economic financial and monetary crisis is escalating how family children relatives and friends are homeless consumed by grief despair and frustration. authorities have had little involvement with

president actually has the executive kyra to ban the app in the u.s. but a national security review of tech talk is expected to be presented to him in the coming days. and we spoke to ina fried she's the chief technology correspondent fanny's platform access in san francisco we also even microsoft takeover talks u.s. operations would put an end to the security concerns the administration has indicated in the last 24 hours that it doesn't solve their concerns i'm not really sure what their concerns are that a deal wouldn't solve but microsoft has apparently and tick-tock have been in talks they thought they had a deal they thought they had a deal that would please the white house with by selling all of its stake perhaps some of its non china investors remaining investors and microsoft taking over which would seem to solve the security issues but that doesn't appear to be enough so it's unclear what the trumpet ministration once it's unclear what their main issue is if it's a national security issue with microsoft owning it's all that it's really puzzlin

kyra philips, abc news, washington. >>> and this morning a sobering forecast from the cdc warning up lost from the coronavirus by labor day. that is more than 30,000 deaths in less than a month. all of this as schools across the country grapple with how to open safely. abc reporter christine sloan has the story. >> reporter: the cdc out with a staggering new forecast predicting 200,000 american lives could be lost to covid-19 by labor day. >> we're starting to see the inkling of the upticks in the percent that tests positive. which we know now from sad past experience that that's a predictor that you're going to have more surges. >> reporter: the cdc telling people who have completely coreved they're okay for three months without quarantining or getting tested as long as they're symptom-free. and now evidence that there can be consequences in younger people. in georgia 1,600 students and staff quarantined after tests from some schools came back positive. even though the state's governor says the numbers a a calling fo rules to keep them safe from the virus after hallways jam-packed w

here kyra we are. really years a very accommodating jail where you go where you do whatever. i do or walk from i'm sorry shoulder to when they get the most anticipated moment of the day finally comes and i think yeah the teens are allowed a short moment on him about fun. they get one hour a day but only under strict conditions you. walk into the mother house a car call. them on the cell phone they don't call social media is this you. know our. 12 year old. is one of the youngest in the group like most of the participants he's an only child and whites die for the month when he can hope his mug shot online battery will go naturally and. she. was more than a little that. my mom my mom. your unique god. and i don't know how cool that you are young oh you're not an. evacuation are not. a mob you're not. a mark while. she was in there and then to watch. my national should teach the one that you. are we. could show you. here we're less than we are. so national cannot form a. warm or sure model will slay now i am sure usually on while i hear ya. intro ah that's all i would tell ya he

kyra phillips was in the briefing room and she has late reporting tonight. >>> also tonight, just asn schoolchildren head back to school, the american academy of pediatrics reporting nearly 100,000 children have tested positive for coronavirus in just the past two weeks. tonight, our one-on-one with dr. anthony fauci. is he comfortable with america's children going back to school?

so if i look at this kyra definitely get the word. this is the feel to pull. a huge car for a small prize. this be a team who does not feel the need to leave us you might assume it's build in poland and it's built for the eastern european markets this red car i would call it the flutes has been germans like. to see the cars quite big especially when you travel with a family or friends to. have enough space compared to the others. and the biggest difference in this car to the other ones the trunk. it's. the fits my bag. and even fits me. this year. people offers everything you could imagine in the car that has a big in for taman systems the steering wheel has a lot of functions automatic transmission but i have to say the quality lower than the others it's like blasting and rubber and. testing to keep. moving. steering and accuracy. sticks. to something. but it really pointed out expensive. that something in the city you would totally need and i see it as a mandatory tool because otherwise it's just someone annoying in the city like homburg turbo manually it's

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ok and that is all your sport for now it's now back to merriam and london grey thanks very much kyra as if the news hour but i'll be back in a moment with a full bulletin of news for you including of course all the latest on developments in mali and of course the terrorists. jordan has one of the world's highest her base but many a take up the force against her military style white let's go to radical surgery one o one a student instigates as the chinese battle to get in shape on al-jazeera. we understand the differences. of cultures across the world so no matter how you take a. 0 percent of the news and current affairs that matter to. counter 0. stories of life. and inspiration. a series of short documentaries from around the world. that celebrate the human spirit. against the arts. al-jazeera selects palestinians. al-jazeera. after. the. defiance and dissent in bella ruse more factory workers join protest as challenging the president his fight warnings of a tough crackdown. oh i maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program mali's new military le

to stand on water if you will to no quarter throw so here kyra i want to go below i thought as i've gotten to come in the next you know i'm got to take my city since course of course or southern afghanistan there's kid on the corner of me. i don't like. and the deal not i know you did something nice you know that. goes. out to those who have to hang with you. the i'm the one just you know. since in 2000. and 10 or more to bring your p.t.s.d. this kingdom or the american or 13 the more needles on me just now your. are the minority in this day through. this kind of sort of old school yarn. stuff written. after the war the japanese constitution was changed by the americans and it's remained in place ever since including 9 which prohibits japan from having its own military. well the country can still protect itself with its self defense forces including its fleets which is partly based to the american naval base in your corsica. nowhere is the american incursion more evident brita streets all the haunch as it's known by the sailors is just a stone's throw from the naval base. any time baby i h

john apart kyra is happy to at least get $1000000.00 baht per elephant from china or its foundation.our situation has been dire since the start of a pandemic we had to close the camp for a month before but regardless of whether we're open or closed we still have to take care of the elephants and we need to feed them every day. we were allowed to reopen on july 1st but there are simply no visitors. that might make it. the camp owner and his elephant tamers don't want us to look too closely as the animals are loaded onto the trucks they say that fixing the reasons we must keep our distance. not really see the god of truck because what in the truck is mean that life would be 10 again. experience maybe. the previous. day might be a beautiful prayer. so now that. we would take them somewhere this is the not quite . before setting off the elephants must be fixed into place on the platforms each animal gets its own frame made of bamboo stocks. the elephants and their rescuers have a journey of about 800 kilometers ahead of them. the team has never transported so many animals that once over

how you not going to call me good you kyra. it's. this you see in a senate. there's been. so you must tell me. the light seemed to mature and then they were sure. to see me. i was happy to work we had been in a long war we had been attacked by the japanese the japanese people were not ice people and i was. the policy of the united states government at that time was to subdue the nation of japan. and i was willing to do anything i could do to help that. it was presidents harry s. truman who made the decision to drop the atomic bomb he'd only been in office for a little under 4 months. a short time ago an american arab buy in dropped one on hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy for this but we have added a new and revolutionary increase in destruction that has been done is the greatest achievement of organized science in history. here yet the grandson like of the president who decided to drop the bomb on hiroshima and nagasaki i think is going to see the legacy of. ronnie one thing to go into the ground us drop the bomb we still use the thousands of japanese pe

david kyra's farm is next to the wetland he's keen to make sure that the trees here can thrive. since the trees were planted in the place looks good in the past there was grazing and sometimes cows would get into the swamp and sink in the bog. and now there's no more grass harvesting either. another problem is that waste water from the greenhouse pollutes the area with toxins including heavy metals that serious because the wetland is the source of a tributary of the nairobi river on whose water is the capital depends. the friends of the on t.v. wetland have persuaded some farmers to give up this kind of intensive cultivation. and helping to undo the damage. we are planting trees along this wetland they are very good. trees when it comes to sippin in the meadows that are coming out of the greenhouse farming. for a long time the local authorities did little to protect the swamp but that too is changing. we're walking dead through their farmland because. india is. part of the allied so we. do keep digging them and creating awareness but then we also encourage them to do all the nic

our kyra phillips pressing the president late today. >> thank you, mr. president. first of all, you said that voting by mail is an invitation to fraud. could you lay out and tell us exactly where the evidence is right now that mail-in ballots in nevada and other states will lead to widespread fraud? >> you see them all over the internet, they've had some just horrible stories on mail-in ball lots. >> we called the secretary of state in nevada and a spok registration cards, it's evada done at the county level. >> okay, but that's not what they said when they approved it. they said they're not going to check signatures. >> reporter: and now trump is taking on the post office. >> and i don't believe the post office can be set up. they were given no notice. i mean, you are talking about millions of votes. >> reporter: but one of trump's donors is now the postmaster general and he's been cutting costs, leading to big delays. today, he was on the hill meeting with congressional leaders who are calling for additional funding to shore up the post office. hitting back today

and while the rich get richer they know we're going to take to the streets with our moms moms now kyra replaced pitchforks. company you from washington d.c. hollywood for the ugliest people this is redacted so night. welcome to redact it's night i'm naomi care vonnie in philly this week now let's take the news from the. it's a personal preference i know it feels like the police state has robbed us of so many things our right to protest our right to free speech our right to joy i mean the feds arrested a guy in portland on roller skates near a protest his charge failure to obey a lawful order while also having a blissful dang for those of you who totally lost faith in the year bringing any good news 2020 does have its surprises like we got to witness an australian guy try the president as if he didn't do his 5th grade homework. that was the 1st time i saw a condescending australian he basically sounded british you should give 2020 another chance this week progressive candidates brought home wins that show the power of the underestimated progressive movement bernie sanders and doris kim

kyra let's turn to beirut now because citizens there wracked with rage and grief turned out again in angry protests exactly a week after the devastating explosions killed more than $200.00 and laid waste to parts of their city huge demonstrations against the authorities have been held daily on middle east correspondent for a slayer saw some of the latest overnight disturbances. but this is the 4th consecutive night that we've witnessed protests here in front of the parliament building the situation remains as tainted has been for the last few days as you can see behind me the protesters have started a fire and they throwing rocks and bits of pavement at the police officers and the army on the other side now the army has been responding with tear gas at which point the crowd this side surges back what people here are telling me is that they're not satisfied with just the basic nation of the lebanese prime minister. they want to hold hanumant should resign at the same time make one important independent investigation into what happened at the very last they say it's not enough for an i

our kyra phillips pressing the president. >> could you lay out and tell us exactly where the evidences right now that mail-in ballots in nevada and other states will lead to widespread fraud. >> you see them all over the internet. they've had horrible stories on mail-in ballots. they have the right to go seven days after the election for approval. so you're not even going to know who won the state of nevada. >> we did call nevada secretary of state's office election division and a spokeswoman there says that that simply isn't true, mr. president, and that nevada will continue to check ballot signatures against the voter registration cards. it's done at the county level. >> but that's not what they said when they approved it. they said they're not going to check signatures. >> reporter: now controversy at the post office. president trump claims the agency was given insufficient notice about the millions of expected ballots. >> it's a catastrophe waiting to happen. >> reporter: house democrats have now requested testimony from the new postmaster general, one of trump's top donors, amid

down the gauntlet i'm ready to lead the nation says opposition politicians to atlanta take on those kyra as she calls for new elections as more strikes get underway how long can i was under look i shan't go stand up to domestic and international pressure. also coming up as an unprecedented pedophile case comes to trial here in germany d.w. meets an abuse survivor who hopes to go into public with his experience can help bring justice to other victims. and a heat wave in the arctic visits the siberian town whose very foundations are threatened by ever harder and longer summers. i'm sumi so much gun that's good to have you with us bella racin president aleksander look i shan't go is refusing to hold new elections despite increasing pressure from demonstrators striking factory workers in the capital ments could join the protests on monday the protests have been growing after last week's election was widely seen to be rigged demonstrators have not been deterred by a brutal police crackdown. and let's get the latest on the story now with our correspondents in moscow we have your ear shuttle st

our kyra phillips who was in the room said she heard a shot fired and a senior official tells us the suspect opened fire on a non-white house employee, secret service then returned fire and the suspect an adult male is now in custody. he was transported to a hospital in critical condition with one gunshot wound to the upper body. the president as you heard him say was held in the oval office for roughly ten minutes before returning to the briefing room. he said he's mott sure if this actually had anything to do with him and, of course, he was quick to thank the secret service. >> mary bruce with us off the top, mary, thank you. this all played out as the president was beginning his coronavirus briefing railing against mail-in ballots then pointing to a good day in the markets. it, of course, comes amid a new milestone 5 million cases of the coronavirus and the american acade academy of pediatrics reporting nearly 100,000 children testing positive with the virus in juice the last two weeks of july just before american parents decide whether to send their children back to school. so to