miguel times is one of the most active inhabitants of the island for years he's fought for also to be recognized in its own right since 2018 it's now officially the 8th inhabitant canary island and now a little famous because the island has so far remained to produce virus free. product yet we always say the island has protected us. february we were going to celebrate our new status as the 8th canary island with a big event which it would have brought large crowds of people here very much but we had to cancel it because the kalima the sand winds from africa were so strong in greece was then the people also believe that the salty water doesn't tax and kills the virus not they really do not. want. any shop miguel also sells a little of the island's history his family is why. of the 4 or 5 who came to 140 years ago fisherman from lands around until around 2030 years ago they had hardly any outside contact the bigger want that is to just have a built huts with no water or light. main character has said they had an incredible will to survive here although the island really has its limits.

manny haro was miguel quiroz's long-time friend.ed together in the pizza business and in the drug business. and if the last name haro sounds familiar, it should. manny's sister, claudia, is garrett warren's ex-wife. prosecutor chun says that explains mr. haro's involvement. >> manuel haro was doing this for his sister claudia. >> who was married to garrett. >> who was once married to garrett was at the time was going through a very contentious divorce. on a scale of 1 to 10 this was about an 11. >> this was over custody of their daughter. >> exactly. and she had a lot of antipathy she expressed toward garrett warren. >> she said you're going bleed, right? >> yep. >> generally when one spouse says to the other you're going to bleed it's a sign there are bad times to come. >> you're right. >> prosecutors believed they were beginning to understand the outlines of the plot to kill garrett warren. infuriated by a bitter custody battle they believed claudia haro had set it all in motion. but proving that wouldn't be easy. investigators be

lester >> time running out. miguel almaguer, thanks. >>> another major story, the desperate search for the missing after the massive explosion in beirut, at least one u.s. citizen among more than 130 people killed, some 5,000 injured. our richard engel on the many questions still unanswered. >> reporter: new videos tonight show how the powerful blast changed this city in an instant a church service was under way when -- the roof begins caving in. a bride posed for a wedding video. you can hear the first blast, and then -- a reporter in the upper corner doing a live television interview in arabic. she survived tonight we learned at least one american is among the more than 100 people who died. at least 5,000 were injured. and hundreds are missing. hospitals already struggling with covid are beyond capacity. >> we have a small hospital it's a 60-bed hospital and it's not equipped to receive this number of casualties. i've never seen something like this. >> reporter: lebanese officials say the blast was caused by a fire y

many without masks and miguel, i think it's notable because our viewers have watched you so many times inside a hospital, in the most hard-hit, dire hospitals inside covid wards where people -- too many people were dying every day and are you telling us that you felt safer there than you did yesterday? >> i at least -- so four hospitals total. two in new york, two in texas and i have spoken to many people who had or have had the disease and are recently getting over it. never have i felt so -- the level of exposure that we saw here. in tulsa, when the president had his rally there, there were reports that maybe several hundred people got sick after that. herman cain recently died. he may have picked up the virus there. i certainly felt safer being in a hospital ward, an icu ward or a covid only ward in some of the hospitals with full ppe on, knowing that i was taking every precaution possible as opposed to at an event that was basically a nightclub for several hours, you know, with people who i had no idea what their history was and might get sick. and now, we can just wait and see wha

miguel almaguer is in napa county tonight. >> reporter: overnight in the san francisco bay area hell on earth, neighborhoods up in flames firefighters losing ground and for some no time to escape. >> elderly subjects are saying they have fire all around, they can't evacuate. >> time to go. >> reporter: this, the race to save lives, as flames rip through rural neighborhoods turning country roads into deadly drives with dozens of structures incinerated, residents forced to flee by the thousands. >> i could see the red glow and i was hearing explosions. >> reporter: after thousands of lightning strikes over three days fires are burning from napa's wine country to the santa cruz mountains more than 30 major fires are ravaging the state. dry brush and high winds fueling the spread the fires burning unchecked in many neighborhoods are moving faster than crews can. here, residents say they've called for help but so far, no one has shown up crews battling so many dynamic blazes within close proximity, the raging infernos are now grouped together, so called complex fires. california is under a state of emergency these historic fires amid a record heat wave causing rolling bla

miguel fernandez warsi inauguration ceremony in the capital colombo. and mahinda rajapaksa is prime minister of sri lanka once again his 4th time around in the job obviously he swept the general elections concluded on the 5th of august with one of the highest number of preferential votes for a candidate ever over 5000000 votes now this paves the way for the s.l.p. be led by the rajapaksa to carry on with the work programme set out by president gautami rajapaksa in his election bid in 2019 it's called the stars for prosperity and aims to take sri lanka forward dealing with some of the pressing issues that this country faces now obviously the consolidation of the rajapaksa hold on power has been confirmed with the swearing in of my in the rajapaksa as we saw here at the calorie temple a little while ago but it also shows the kind of dynamic the family is now in charge and even when we saw the swearing in of the prime minister you had the president go to a beer or park say his younger brother who went around the table and actually worshiped his brother once he saw him in as prime minister these are some of the kind of ways the family operates obviously a num

miguel in phoenix for us. really important reporting there. wanting to turn to our money lead for the first time pandemic started. weekly unemployment claims dipped below the 1 million mark, 963,000 americans filed for benefits for the first time last week. that is the lowest number in 20 straight weeks since the shutdowns began in mid march. despite the dip weekly claims are still at an all-time high. for perspective even at the peak of the financial crisis in 2009 it took five years for claims to drop to levels before the crisis started. >>> one quick programming note for you here, be sure to tune into cnn's special live coverage of the 2020 democratic national convention. we'll be bringing you all of the important speeches and the biggest moments and it starts monday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern. i'm pamela brown in for jake tapper. our coverage on cnn continues right now. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i'm jim acosta in the situation room and we're following breaking news. we're standing

miguel marquez is in phoenix, cnn's ed lavandera in dallas. cases coming down in arizona. why? >> they are down, have been coming down for quite some time. mainly because most of the state, even though the state is not under a mandatory mask order, most localities and counties, the governor has finally allowed them to put those into place and you have seen those numbers, the hospitalizations, the number of cases, the percent positivity even coming down. the problem in arizona is there's still a lot of virus out there. that percent of positivity, while it's come down, is still quite high. testing is still a problem out here. they can't get enough testing done, can't get the results back fast enough to do any sort of contact tracing or make it meaningful in any way. that's also very difficult. then you have individual cases like the u.s. representative from southern arizona. he was at the hearing last week on capitol hill where gohmert, the republican from texas, he was walking around the hearing, defiantly not wearing the mask. turns out he tested positive. he's not sure he got it at that hearing, but that is certainly one thing they are

miguel's package showing the white suburbanites moving from trump into biden's column. >> with the expanding the map, hillary clinton talked about expanding the map so should we trust the numbers this time >> this is always a great question. after 2016, there's all the question of, can we trust the state polling but in fact, in arizona, the polls actually been really, really accurate. if you look back at 2016, for example, showed that donald trump was ahead by 3 points in the final average. and kerstin ended up winning by 2 and that senate race gives you an illustration, that not just in 2020, we saw it in 2018 as well and it's a continuation of the trend. >> right after the situation room, coming up at 10:00 p.m. eastern, later tonight, harry, we have a special report on the electoral college's role in all of this. decisively impressively won the national popular vote but lost the e lk tomorrow college. could joe biden be the third? >> he could be. and i hope everyone tunes in on john berman. if you look right now, the five closest that donald trump won in 2016 you see that joe biden are ahead and you see the lead in the swing states less than the national lead right now and that's a s

miguel marquez shows us how the next major milestones on the calendar are only adding to the fear. >> reporter: cases decreasing but a lot out there, in time. >> we've got to get our act in order now to prepare for the fall. when the winter visitors return when the cold and flu season returns, in addition, some 70,000 students soon return to arizona state university. tens of thousands more to universities statewide and many k- k-10. >> to say this is contained is a mistake. >> reporter: dropped 20% in july to 16% now. guidelines for fully reopening schools here say the positivity among other factors should be at 5% or lower on the 2 week rolling average. >> when governor ducey decided to open up the state, we were at 18 cases per day. in pima county. yesterda yesterday. >> reporter: two officials were barred from issuing mask orders. reversed himself on june 17th. reimposed restrictions on businesses and allowed localities to require masks in public. >> we saw in arizona, a good example. they started to clamp down and do things right. cases came down. >> reporter: arizona has a long way to go. before reopening, it was in the hundreds. july

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miguel marquez has more on what's been happening in arizona. >> reporter: arizona at a cross roads. cases decreasing but still a lot of virus out there. just in timeor high season in the desert. >> we have got to get our act in order now to prepare for the fall when the winter visitors return, when the cold and flu season returns. >> reporter: in addition, some 70,000 students will soon return to arizona state university, tens of thousands more to universities statewide and many k through 12 schools are expected to begin soon offering at least limited in-person instruction. arizona in a race to tame its outbreak. >> to think that this virus is in control i think is a mistake. i've heard people say that. >> reporter: the state's positivity rate has dropped for more than 27% in july to just over 16% now. guidelines for fully reopening schools here say the positivity rate among other factors should be at 5% or lower on a two-week rolling average. >> when governor duesy decided to open up the state, we were at 18 cases per day. >> reporter: in this -- >> in pima county. yesterday we had 283 cases. and that's a good day. >> reporter: like all local off

time but students won't be there in person. learning will be virtual at least at the beginning of the term. not every school in every state has made the decision. miguel marquez reports from arizona where parents are confused and concerned. >> reporter: four parents, one central phoenix school district, lots of question and confusion when it's safe for their kids to return to school. in this information environment, how difficult is it for parents to make a decision? >> it's very difficult. >> reporter: sean green quit his june to stay home with his kids. h >>> the reality, some kids get very sick from the coronavirus. >> i believe that he can get it and i do believe he can transmit it. >> reporter: do you think it could endanger his life? >> absolutely. >> there is no choice. i have to work. >> reporter: single mom, ky webber, has three kids and needs to work. she'd like in person school to start as soon as possible but how do you make the decision? >> it's terrible. i don't know day to day. you can't plan anything. >> reporter: after shutting down in march, arizona's governor aggressively reopened the state in may only to see cases, hospitalizations

miguel marquez reports, it doesn't mean the state is in the clear. >> reporter: arizona at a crossroads. cases decreasing but still a lot of virus out there. just in timeet our act in order now to prepare for the fall when the winter visitors return, when the cold and flu season returns. >> reporter: in addition, some 70,000 students will soon return to arizona state university. tens of thousands more to universities statewide. and many k-12 schools are expected to begin soon offering at least limited in-person instruction. arizona in a race to tame its outbreak. >> to think that this virus is in control, i think is a mistake and i've heard people say that. >> reporter: the state's positivity rate has dropped from more than 27% in july to just over 16% now. guidelines for fully re-opening schools here say the positivity rate, among other factors, should be at 5% or lower on a two-week rolling average. >> when governor ducey decided to open up the state, we were at 18 cases per day. >> in? >> in pima county. yesterday, we had 283 cases. and that's a good day. >> reporter: like all local officials, tucson's mayor was barred in may and early june from iss

time, but students will not be there in person. learning will be online, virtual at least at the beginning of the term. not every school in every state has made the decision, though. miguelarquez is in the virus hot-spot state of arizona where parents concerned. >> reporter: four parents, lots of questions and confusion about when is it safe for their kids to return to school. >> in this environment how difficult is it for parents to make a decision? >> it's very difficult. >> reporter: shawn green quit his job in june to stay home with his two kids. his son is asthmatic and has a suppressed immune system. >> they don't catch it easily, they don't bring it home easily. and if they do catch it, they get better fast. >> reporter: the reality, some kids get very sick from the coronavirus. >> i believe that he can definitely get it and i believe that he can transmit it. >> do you think it could endanger his life? >> it absolutely could. my son has been hospitalized on just normal asthma attacks. >> there is no choice, i have to work. >> reporter: she has three kids and needs to work. she'd like in-person school to start as soon as possible, but -- >> how tough is it to make

miguel almaguer >> reporter: a marquee moment in the college admissions scandal set for this week. actress lori loughlin and her husband mossimo giannulli appearing before a judge to find how much timerosecutors filing a memo ahead of the court date saying loughlin serve two months in prison and her husband five months back in may, the couple each pleaded guilty to one count to submit conspiracy admitting they rigged the system. falsely portraying their daughters as elite crew athletes to get into the university of southern california. >> i don't really care about school >> reporter: prosecutors now arguing giannulli was more active also recommends a $250,000 fine and 250 hours of community service for giannulli. plus a $150,000 fine and a hundred hours of community service for loughlin it also included advice the two parents gave their daughter to avoid raises suspicion from her high school guidance counselor who giannulli called nosy and loughlin called a weasel loughlin telling her, don't say too much to that man that counter later advising an admissions official he highly doubted she was involved in crew giannulli confronted him aggressively asking why he was trying to ruin or g