north carolina wins the championship! >> it's won 7 national championships, 6 ncaa championships, 18 acc championships, coach of the year, olympians, and a lot of great nba players have come out of the universityf north carolina. 52 former tar heels have been drafted in the first round of the nba. there's great history on the college and professional level. we're standing in the kaur carry basketball museum which is in the building immediately adjacent to the center where the carolina basketball team plays home games. the purpose is to tell the story of north carolina basketball. dean smith donated his entire collection of basketball memorabilia, which was quite extensive, to the university. and this basketball museum is sort of the one place that houses all of that history. >> we decided we wanted to start off with how the uniforms have evolved through the years. one of the things that people get a kick out of when they see the museum is the number 10 jersey. that's lenny rosenbluth who was the national player of the year in 1957 when we won the national championship. people are stunned to see there's red in the carolina basketball jersey. frank mcguire was a fashion plate out in new york cit

the national player of the year. he won the national championship in 2009. of course michael jordan, for many people believe and we think here at the university of north carolina is the greatest basketball player of all-time. michael was good enough to have necessary items for his collection. we also found some great artifacts here from our collection. our own files. of letters that coach smith sent to michael. things that he wanted him to work on, a recruiting card that coach smith kept on every player that he ever recruited, and one of the great things from that cart is first of all on the cart as mike, not michael. on the second is magic jordan. his nickname, magic like magic johnson. until people saw that, a lot of people did not know that high school, michaels nickname was magic jordan. >> on the other side of the case, we were very fortunate that michael let us go to his home in chicago and pick out several items to put here in the museum. whether it was nba all-star game trophies, mvp of the all-star game, national awards that he wanted north carolina, one of the items that gets a lot of mention is the recruiting letter that the coach sent michael. it's

. >>> also, new this morning, the university of north carolina chapel hill, one of the largest universities in the country, it had just reopened to in-person classes, and now today it is reversing course. it is going entirely remote after more than 130 students test positive for coronavirus. unc's student newspaper summing up the school's coronavirus policy with an "f" bomb, calling it a cluster-blank. >> charlie foxtrot. >> we will talk with an editor from that paper in just a few minutes about why she felt so strongly. >>> but first, the democrats' opening night. joining us now to discuss it, we have cnn political analyst david gregory and cnn political commentators angelarye and bacarri sellers. good to see you! first, the "it is what it is" moment from michelle obama. tell us your thoughts and what you thought when you heard her speech. >> well, good morning. i was so happy to see michelle obama yesterday. and per usual, the closer closed, right? she did everything she needed to do in that speech. i think more importantly than the "it is what it is" moment that everyone's speaking about

are having to figure out how to educate students at the beginning of the fall semester while keeping those kids safe. at the university of north carolina chapel hill this weekend they reported at least four coronavirus clusters here in the metro atlanta area we're seeing k-12 public school districts temporarily closing some schools because of positive test cases. for example, in cherokee county they have closed temporarily

the southeastern united states, including the carolinas, as one of the major areas, is the epicenter of the epicenter. and so, now everybody's surprised when students start getting sick when you open up the university of north carolina. of course, this was going to happen, and it's going to happen in any university and college that opens up in the southern united states, going from texas to florida and then up into mississippi and north carolina. we know this is what's going to happen. and again, it all comes back to leadership at the white house, that they were unwilling to implement that national program to get the whole country into containment mode, especially the southern united states. so they want everything. they don't want to do the hard work to bring the country back down to containment, especially the southern united states, and then they want to open up schools and colleges and have college football. and it was guaranteed to fail from the very beginning. anyone who has taken an epidemiology course could have figured this one out. >> i want to have you reiterate what you just said. i mean, the reason i keep using the phrase clusterfork isn't just because it makes you uncomfortable -- which it doe

. >> we are on the campus of the university of north carolina chapel hill. i'm standing in front of the morehead building. home of the morehead planetarium, which is now the morehead planetarium and science center. john motley morehead iii, from a famous north carolina family, the moreheads, his grandfather was governor of north carolina. john motley morehead iii, attended carolina as undergraduate student in chemist chemistry. made an accidental discovery in a chemistry lab that led to the founding of union carbide and from that, he became an extremely wealthy man. and in the '30s when he conceived of this idea, what you did as a leading edge science education contribution would be building a planetarium. when we opened in 1949, the morehead planetarium was the first in the south. so his contribution was significant. we were also the first planetarium anywhere in the world on a university campus. so he visited the planetarium in chicago. the hayden planetarium. he also visited zeis, the leading lens manufacturer in the world. they arguably still are. in germ

the number of confirmed cases in the u.s. now more than 5.4 million and the number of lives lost now more than 170,000 american lives. the major reversal tonight at the university of north carolina at chapel hill, just one week into classes, because of an outbreak there already. scenes like this at an offcampus party at north carolina state in raleigh. and the concern for younger students, as well. los angeles tonight launching a massive test and trace program for all of its students. and what dr. deborah birx said late today, what she wishes the u.s. had done, pointing to another country that was hit hard. here's abc's tom llamas. >> reporter: tonight, a stunning reversal at one of the country's top universities. unc chapel hill announcing after just one week of school, a covid outbreak is forcing them to cancel in-person classes. >> there's a lot of college students here who, you know, choose not to wear their mask and who choose to go to parties and i think we kind of knew that ahead of the game that that was something that was going to happen. however, unc chose to reopen anyway. >> reporter: the apparent challenge facing some universities, when students return to campus, so

universal mail-in ballots are very dangerous. >>> coronavirus is the third leading cause of death in the united states. and as cases rise, the university of north carolina at chapel hill is sending all students home after one week >>> the break in the cold case murder of a music legend, after 18 years the arrest just announ announced. "early today" starts right now >>> good tuesday morning i'm phillip mena. >> i'm frances rivera. the democratic national convention has begun with much of the first night focused on racial justice in america. >> now more than ever we need a president who will unite this country. we need a president who in george floyd's memory, instead of using the bible as a prop, will heed its words, to act justly >> george should be alive today. it is up to us to carry on the fight for justice. he was always finding ourselves in what john louis called good trouble. >> together we must build a nation that is more equitable, more compassionate, and more inclusive. i know that joe biden will begin that fight. >> the major theme for the evening seemed to be unity our capitol hill correspondent tracie potts joins us withmore of the night's b

the head of the postal service to testify next week, and some democrats are asking the f.b.i. to investigate. and as we come on the air tonight there is also breaking news about the pandemic. the university of north carolinas its sending its students back home and going virtual just weeks after reopening. 130 students there have tested positive for coronavirus in the last week. amid growing alarm nationwide that college students are being social without distancing and leading to skyrocketing infections. there is a lot of new reporting to get to tonight and our team of correspondents has all of the latest news. cbs' ed o'keefe will lead off our coverage with a preview of the big night ahead. good evening, ed. >> reporter: norah, tonight democrats are supposed to be gathering for the first night of their convention in the battleground state of wisconsin. instead they will beipatg virtu. you'll hear from party leaders all across the country. instead of thousands of cheering democrats, balloon drops and rousing speeches, democrats will kick things off virtually tonight showcasing one of its biggest stars, michelle obama. >> i know joe. >> reporter: in prerecorded remarks the former first lady said biden has w

students are scheduled to return to the classroom next month but there are several schools, the university of north carolinae university of tennessee, cedarville university in ohio are all reporting new clusters of covid-19 cases on campus. >> more than a thousand americans die from the virus against yesterday. that means that the death toll since the start of the pandemic is near 170,000 now. >> let's go to brynn gingras following these headlines and more. let's start with the new coronavirus diagnostic test now approved by the fda. >> reporter: yeah, good morning. just 24 hours ago we were talking about the need for more testing. well hopefully this is promising news. the fda giving emergency use authorization to five saliva-based covid tests. these are different than the tests that we know with the nasal swab and health officials are hoping that they'll cut down because of the saliva base, cut down on the reagent which has caused backlogs in the past and as you meng as you mentioned before the break, they are being used in the nba. but meanwhile we're learning about more new cases not only on college cam

the third leading cause of death in the united states. we are also learning about the university of north carolina at chapel hill. just one week after the new semester began after about 130 students tested positive for the virus. jonathan serrie is live in atlanta. jonathan, they gave it a shot and showed up for in-person classes and it isn't happening anymore. >> they did indeed. zoom cases identified four clusters. two on-campus residence, one off-campus and one at a fraternity house. the school has designated a campus dorm to house students with suspected cases as they await test results. there were reports of students gathering without masks or social distancing as they returned to town for school. videos on social media show long lines and crowded bars in another college town, this one being stillwater, oklahoma. the oklahoma state university student who posted these videos says he wasn't surprised at what he saw but wanted to draw attention to the problem. although young people are at lower risk for complications and death, they do pose a risk of unwittingly spreading the virus to others. >> pandemic is chan

in new zealand, the virus returned on a measured basis, but at chapel hill, the university of north carolinaade an abrupt shift because the virus just simply won't go away. i don't want to talk about a second or third wave, but is it delusional to believe that you can get social again once you get control of cases and deaths? guest: good morning. that weit is vital don't let ourselves be controlled by the fear of this virus. certainly, the virus is still with us. there is no doubt about that. we see spikes of cases were ever locked down been relaxed. i think what we have to do is learn to live with the virus. we have to learn out of take measures for ourselves, keep ourselves in each other safe. can live int we lockdown forever just can't happen. >> -- tom: are we asking too much? are we trying to find a medical perfection that doesn't exist? is vallely: i think there something in that, yeah. we are definitely going to see some spikes. and the idea that young people don't get the virus is just not true. young people certainly get the virus and they pass it on. and some of them get sick with

. >>> coming up, some campus staff at the university of north carolina are filing a lawsuit over thes reopening plans. some faculty have a message for students as well. stay at home, don't come back yet. one of those professors joins me next. ♪ come on in, we're open. ♪ all we do is hand you the bag. simple. done. we adapt and we change. you know, you just figure it out. we've just been finding a way to keep on pushing. ♪ >> techand your car., we're committed to taking care of you >> tech: we'll fix it right with no-contact service you can trust. >> tech: so if you have auto glass damage, stay safe with safelite. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ they get that no two people are alike and customize your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. what do you think? i don't see it. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ here's a choice you don't have to make.ses are always making choices. the largest 5g network... award-winning customer satisfaction... or insanely great value. now, with t-mobile for business, there's no compromise. net

is part of the civil rights oral history project initiate in 2009, the american folk life center of the library of congress and the southern oral history program at the university of north carolina. >> i'll go back to my grandparents, if i may. because, in a way, it was a civil rights type activity. my grandfather, these were stories that were told to me and i asked my cousin about it because he is older than i and he says it is true. my grandfather had 500 dollars invested in the stock market. and, of course, he lost it, this is one people were jumping out of the window and so forth. and my grandparents were teachers. but they move from virginia to philadelphia. that's with the family because my grandparents and did not hire. they had black children going to schools, and they refused to do that type of work. they actually split and work together physically but not together. the older kids went to college in the family and they were teachers, the two oldest ones. the youngest one was went to school with the little one. they have to work and help a small, again, there we go about the color line thing. i was born in d.c., my mother was born in virginia, my dad was born in maryland

the university of alabama have been ordered closed for two weeks. >> fall in tuscaloosa is in serious jeopardy. >> reporter: five colleges alone are reporting more than 2,100 cases since the end of july. at the university of north carolina, last week's positivity rate was more than 32%. ohio state university has suspended 228 students so far vir violating covid rules. but remote learning for the oving ngin too.tudents is how many computers short are you? >> at least probably between 1,000 and 2,000. >> reporter: tom baumgarten, superintendent of california's morongo unified school district east of los angeles says this affects lower-income students. >> it's almost like i'm taking the pencils and paper away from them, and i don't have a computer for them. >> reporter: an associated press investigation found computer companies may be five million laptops short, in part due to trade restrictions with china. in the meantime, new york city it looking at outdoor classes, arst like it did during outbreaks in the early 1900s. >> we can close off streets for a period of time. in certain cases we can make space available in local parks. >> reporter: here in florida, the battle continues between the state and the largest teachers'

the shadow of the valley of death to get here. apple might have that coming >>> next up, the university of north carolina chapel hill is moving online reporting 135 new covid-19 cases and four clusters after just a week of in-person classes. eric, what's interesting about this is not only all the colleges and other types of schools trying to figure out what they're going to do with covid if they face similar outbreaks, but plenty of questions have been asked about why, i think, football and other sports are reportedly still continuing >> they're part of the acc conference they're going ahead with fall football, so if you can't get through a few days of normal students without getting covid cases to a few digits, what are you going to do when you have sports on the field playing with kids from other schools? it's kind of a mess, but you knew it was going to happen. i don't think anyone thought we would send all these students back to college and we'll get through the cases. you expect it would happen, now it's just how are they going to deal with it >> is there some policy that the football team has about, okay, this happened on camp

the news was, you know, how many of our pad to read the e-edition? >> garrett: penelope abernathy researches the decline of newspapers and the rise of digital media at the university of north carolinaalism. >> cutting back on the printing and distribution of a newspaper on certain days makes a lot of economic sense for newspapers. what it often doesn't take into account is the dependence that people in outlying areas that do not have access to digital alternatives. >> garrett: wyoming ranks near the bottom nationally in internet access, meaning on days it does not print a paper, the the "star-tribune's" local and excretional news coverage will be invisible in one-fifth of the state. and what does a local community lose when this type of community journalism disappears? >> what you typically lose is coverage of the major issues in both the region and the state. >> garrett: in wyoming, a six-hour commute is not uncommon. knitting the state together is a now someew partsf lrinevery le d america, will fall through the cracks in the internet. and that's the "cbs weekend news" for this saturday. i'm major garrett in washington. good night. >>> coming up, the reaction and morning softball

the first week of classes at the university of north carolina chapel hill has had its problems. deos surfaced of students at parties on and off campus. now cases there are spiking. in-person classes will be canceled. >> i am -- i can't even say disappointed or sad. i'm mostly angry. >> reporter: collinyn smith has spent months lobbying against the full return. he believes the administration acted too late. >> some of your peers have been reckless. >> there's ways to hold each other accountable but this accountable system wouldn't have to be in place if the administration would have made the right decisions from the jump. >> reporter: to oklahoma state university now. this entire sorority house is under quarantine after 23 members of the organization tested positive for coronavirus. and off campus, video apparently shows crowds of oklahoma state students packed into a bar with more students crowding together on the main strip. and there are now 58 confirmed cases at notre dame. that's an increase of 15 cases in 24 hours. dr. anthony fauci said monday there are really troublesome s

crisis shakes up learning the university of notre dame becoming the second in two days to reverse course on in-person classes. our morgan radford is at the university of north carolinat chapel hill. >> reporter: tonight notre dame going virtual for at least two weeks after 19% of students tested were positive for covid-19. the surge, attributed to at least two off campus parties according to university officials, who say they might be forced to send students home. that is what's already happening at unc chapel hill after just a week of classes. >> i knew it was going to happen. it was just a matter of time. >> reporter: unc becoming the first university to reverse course after reopening. now offering classes on line only is this what you thought college would be >> not at all. >> not at all. >> reporter: the decision comes after 135 new covid cases were reported including a cluster at this fraternity house. now 500 students are in quarantine or isolation. >> i plan on going back home to pennsylvania >> reporter: this junior, eric groves, says the university should never have allowed students to come back. how due feel you just unpacked your bags and now you are bein

also this morning, a huge turn of events in the debate over whether, how, when to reopen the schools. the university of north carolina chapel hill has reversed course and is going entirely remote just one week after reopening. more than 130 students there have now tested positive. the student newspaper and when just talked to a reporter from the newspaper summed it up calling it a cluster blank. what does this all say about the ability of schools around the country to open at all? much more on that ahead. but first, the opening night and what to expect tonight. joining us now is cnn's john harwood and the president has responded to michelle obama, which tells you it stung. the president responded. why do you think it stung what she had to say, it is what it is? >> well, she was so effective and personal in detailing the personal qualities that are absent in donald trump that have manifested themselves in the coronavirus crisis. and as a matter of fact, in the response that the president has done on twitter this morning, most of which is a series of tweets that are nonsensical, he underscored that critique. he talked

students at the university of north carolina chapel hill are on high alert after the school reported clusters of covid-19 cases in two residence halls. white house coronavirus task force dr. anthony fauci is urging everybody to follow cdc guidelines. after the latest details on bay area schools reopening, head to cbssf.com /back to school. >>> still ahead on kpix 5, and attack in the east bay leaves the search right now for the suspect. >>> plus tourists left behind by tourists leaving locals fed up. their message to visitors. >> i don't blame them. everybody should pick up their trash. >>> and this is something we don't see every day. firefighters >>> and investigation is underway after a man died while in custody. it happened around 8:00 this morning on river road near the hacienda bridge. deputies are responding to a domestic violence call. authorities say an altercation started while the man was placed in handcuffs. shortly after the man had a medical emergency and died at the scene. >> while he was on the ground i came up to him and i said, hey, listen, relax. these guys are her

of the fall semester. that's because the ongoing coronavirus pandemic is now forcing some schools to shut their doors, sometimes just days after opening. it's the scene at the university of north carolinaat chapel hill is pausing in person classes for undergrads after multiple clusters of covid-19 cases started to emerge. more than 1600 miles away more than 150 students at colorado college or in quarantine because of possible exposure. one college cheerleaders now opening up about her long fight with covid-19 and says she's concerned that folks her age aren't taking it seriously. >>a lot of nightmares you know replaying all these awful things over and over in your head it was terrifying to go online and see all these pictures of people being so casual nonchalant about it in the middle of a global pandemic it's it's a big confusing. >>yes, she's now hoping that other college students realize just how sick that the virus can make them saying if it can happen to her. it can happen to anyone. next at 5 this tuesday night to come in connecticut man thought he was being robbed, turns out a pl >>this lifeguards in newport beach using their bare hands to handle a shark swimming in some shallow

incredible a difficult good talking to thank you for joining us professor min judd from the university of north carolina thank you. ok india's coronavirus caseload has topped $2000000.00 more than doubling in less than a month health experts fear the true numbers could be even higher especially in the country's densely packed megacities with its limited access to health care despite this restrictions are still being lifted. 2000000 cases of a deadly high you can see just why it is these are not the scenes you expect. yet india seems to have to conclude with 19 minutes trade. shopkeeper at the reader is keeping busy. the business is fos lower than what it once was he is just glad to be up and running once more secure life has to start again everyone knows that we need to take precautions people know that they have to maintain social distancing because things are going to stay this way. despite the high caseload people are still finding via shortens compile the numbers out of every trick over 1000 patients in india have recovered the official mortality rate is low as well and delhi has set an example. in

the face of coronavirus guidelines. east carolina university's opening weekend, police broke 20 parties, innicluding 1 attend by 400 people. >> someone else is going to have a party down the street. keep on going. >> reporter: the university of northa ses in. back home.at least five >> the level of anxiety i felt through that was nothing i felt before. >> reporter: an internal fema document says 151 cases are linked to outbreaks at four louisiana colleges. the university of notre dame recording 44 cases in its first week back. and an entire oklahoma state university sorority house in quarantine after 23 members tested positive. in arizona -- >> it feels like they're waiting for people to get hurt, people who seem to think that covids i. >> reporter: jake france, resigning from his teaching job, condemning his district's rush to return to the classroom, as the state logs the highest rate of pediatric cases and hospitalizations in the country. outside phoenix, parents applauding a mass sick-out, of more than 100 teachers cancelling the first day of school. >> teachers weren't being heard. >> reporter: the teachers showed up for work but school is closed after 3 teachers tested positive and 24 more are in quarantine. >> we knew it wo

to jonathan's point here, the list of those schools that had to have minor reversals from in-personvirtual or combination there off, not only the university of north carolinapel hill, oklahoma state, notre dame, where they had 58 cases reported. they're not changing anything but they're still working on a blend. university of tennessee at chattanooga. university of alabama. we've also seen outbreaks at fraternities at washington state, california, university of mississippi. again none much these have forced them to go all totally virtual but they're changing midstream. my next guest was on top of this trend or fearing this trend. wanted to make sure it was staying ahead of all of this before anyone else even realized impact would have. i'm talking about iona college, its president dr. seamus kerry with us right now. he was welcoming students back to in person classes monday after a week much remote learning. i think, doctor, right now, everything is copastetic, right? there haven't been any problems? >> no problems so far, neil. we're very fortunate the numbers in our community to begin with are extremely low. that is a huge benefit to us but on campus as

the university of notre dame recording 44 cases in its first week back. an entire sorority house at oklahoma state university quarantining after 23 members tested positive, and the university of north carolina now announcing a fourth cluster of at least five cases in just three days. >> the level of anxiety i felt through that was nothing i've felt before. >> reporter: social distancing measures at east carolina university being tested during its opening weekend. police breaking up 20 parties including 1 with 400 people. >> just like shut it down, we'll shut it down and go back home and someone else is going to have another party down the street. it's going to keep on going. >> reporter: despite troubles college athletes are pushing back on decisions could cancel seasons and conferences. >> we enter into the sports season without any planning like i think a lot of people hoped the pandemic would be over by now and it's not. >> reporter: 82 penn state football players' parents demanding answers wanting to know specifics about why the 2020 season was postponed. starting a petition to have football reink stated getting over 200,000 signatures so far. it comes as nine football players at the un

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the latest university to halt on-campus classes. for the next two weeks everything will be online only. the school now has at least 147 confirmed cases. confd also spiking at the university of north carolinaapel hill. more than 300 cases so far after video like this emerged. brandon stanley. >> the university is woefully under-in cavir cas. lee prg eptoo tou at,ha tedndye sgoing tour pgearty, and they l chose to bring people back anyways, which blows my mind. >> reporter: if you had to give your school a grade, what would it be? >> d-minus. >> reporter: another issue: long lines to get tested, like here at ohio state, and concerns growing about the wait for results. >> if it's 5-7 days, it almost obviates the purpose of contact tracing, because that means somebody was out there for 5-7 days potentially spreading the infection. >> reporter: today, the world health organization said they are seeing a spike among patients in their 20s, 30s, and 40s. nationwide there has also been a 24% increase in cases involving e endrenince the end of july. and right now, experts are telling us they are going to see another spike as more schools start to reopen in the next few weeks. norah. >> o'donnell: m

we brought you the coronavirus update, you can stay on top of it 24/7 by streaming us on other digital devices. he met the university of north carolina will move all classes online after another covid outbreak. today the university amounts to more students testing for coronavirus. four clusters popped up in dorms, apartments, a fraternity house. there are more than 300 positive cases since february. >>> more local news ahead at 5:30. we continue to follow breaking news, chopper five live over a lightning sparks fire burning out of control in napa county. an update on the evacuations and the firefight. >>> we talk to an expert about the mistakes that led to the states rolling blackouts and what needs to change to keep the lights on. >>> a horrific crime and a family demanding answers. solving the murder of a six- year-old on the fourth of july. >>> it was a creative solution to outdoor dining. well many people have such a misunderstanding as to how a reverse mortgage works. people think that the bank takes your home, but that is not true. that's absolutely 100% wrong. the home is ours. we can sell it if we want to at any time. i like

it's incredibly difficult to talk with you thank you for joining us professor judd from the university of north carolina thank you. ok india's coronavirus caseload has topped $2000000.00 more than doubling in less than a month health experts fear the true numbers could be even higher especially in the country's densely packed megacities where there's limited access to health care despite this restrictions are still being lifted. 2000000 cases of a deadly highly contagious virus these are not the scenes you expect yet india seems to have taken cool with 19 minutes trade. shopkeeper than the tour is keeping busy in. the business this fos lower than what it once was he is just glad to be up and running once more secure life has to start again everyone knows that we need to take precautions people know that they have to maintain social distancing because things are going to stay this way. despite the high caseload people are still finding via short and simple other numbers out of every tree quivered 1000 patients in india have recovered the official mortality is low as well and delhi has set an example. in

of the fall semester, the ongoing pandemic forcing a lot of schools shut their doors in some cases just days after they've reopened john lawrence takes a closer look. >>the university of north carolina at chapel hill is hitting the brakes on in person classes for undergraduates moving online starting wednesday dialing and then last friday this decision comes after a rash of covid-19 cases are confirmed on campus. i think the right move from the university initially was to not open at all because back in july the chancellor sent out an e-mail saying the numbers weren't where they wanted them to be more than 1600 miles away over 150 students at colorado college or in quarantine due to possible exposure. the only thing that i think we don't know is at what point these this cool start to shut down again. >>the virus is still spreading i mean this is not the time to open up, i mean and i ended up they sound like a crazy person saying that or not but that that is the truth the number of known covid-19 cases in the u.s. doubles roughly every 2 months, according to johns hopkins university and health experts say the country needs to be proactive clearly we need new testing we need to be abl

of ignoring the precautions. >> reporter: and the university of north carolina chapel hill with now more than 1,000 cases, despite already cancelling in-person classes. >> it was just kind of a point where, what's going to happen? when are we going to get kicked out? and are we going to go home healthy? which, spoiler alert, we did not go home healthy. >> reporter: tonight, california expected to become the first state surpassing 700,000 infections. only four countries have more. but the virus remains a global problem. with americans still banned from traveling to much of europe, the highest case totals in months now being reported in spain, france, and germany. protesters there pushing back against restrictions. in south korea, the mayor of seoul now calling for a 10 million citizen standstill week, in response to 300 south korean infections reported today. >> trevor, as the whole world waits for a vaccine, we know several potential drugs are in phase three trials. but the head of the fda is outlining what would work for approval? >> reporter: the fda could grant emergency authorization before phase three testin

are having to figure out how to educate students at the beginning of the fall semester while keeping those kids safe. at the university of north carolina chapel hill this weekend they reported at least four coronavirus clusters here in the metro atlanta area we're seeing k-12 public school districts temporarily closing some schools because of positive test cases. for example, in cherokee county they have closed temporarily three schools and will have them closed until august 31st with at least 500 students at one school having to quarantine out of precautions. also another school starting a hybrid model on monday. these are similar to the tough decisions educators are having to make all across the country of how to educate students making them safe and healthy. >>> meantime, democrats launching this emergency effort to defend the u.s. postal service. they say they want to stop president trump from squeezing the postal service in what they warned is an effort to suppress mail-in votes against him in november. speaker nancy pelosi calling house members back to washington, a step unheard of during the presidential conventions. democrats a

decision to return to campus by staging a die-in and just one week after re-opening, the university of north carolina is backpedaling switching to remote learning after 130 students contracted the virus. >> we have always said that we would respond to the situation as it evolved. the situation has changed, and we believe that taking these actions are necessary at this point. >> reporter: elementary schools in the state are also seeing an uptick in cases. this school temporarily shutting down after a cluster was linked to a faculty member. and in new york, abc's tom llamas highlighted new precautions grade schoolers will face in the classroom. >> throughout the year, there's going to be at least two windows open. this is across the city and even in the winter. it's one easy and natural way they say they can circulate fresh air. >> reporter: tennessee is facing a severe shortage of teachers and support staff. 1,200 vacancies for educated related jobs. in south carolina there are nearly 1,100 vacancies and now teachers who quit over safety concerns could be slapped with thousands of dollars in fines for

the trials. >> we know you'll stay on top of it. elizabeth cohen, thanks very much. >>> the university of north carolina chapel hill has now canceled in-person classes this after 130 students tested positive or the coronavirus. so the question were students following basic protocols? a lot of images show they were not. 349 are in quarantine. both on and off campus. >>> and in florida at least three school districts are reporting having to place students in quarantine. let's go to rosa flores, she joins us in miami. good morning, rosa. >> good morning, poppy. you're lot right. at least three school districts in three counties, bradford, baker and martin counties, have been impacted. most of the quarantines are in martin county where according to the public information officer there, more than 250 students are under quarantine. 15 teachers are impacted. but across all of the three counties they fall into the two different categories. someone who tested positive for coronavirus or exhibiting symptoms. all this after the ongoing legal battle over the reentering of schools enters mediation today. they're all allowed to mediate until midn

students at the university of north carolina at chapel hill packing up and going home after in-person classes were suspended for the entire semester just a week into the semester. and concern for school-aged children and teachers across the country. tonight in cherokee county, georgia, for one, now a third high school has shut down. more than 2,000 students ordered to self-quarantine. tonight here, dr. birx and the images that most alarm her and dr. anthony fauci and the key figure, the key number he wants parents to be aware of in their own communities in deciding how and when to send their children back. and so we'll carefully get to it all. abc's steve osunsami in atlanta tonight. >> reporter: at notre dame tonight, the school is blaming offcampus parties for the 89 new cases of covid-19 counted on monday alone. the fighting irish are now under two weeks of new restrictions, remote instruction for undergrads, closed public spaces and offcampus students have to stay off campus. >> if these steps are not successful, we will have to send students home as we did last spring. >> i think

. >> reporter: the university of north carolina now announcing a fourth cluster of at least five cases in just three days. enough for junior hallie phillips to move back home. >> the level of anxiety i felt through that was nothing i've felt before. >> reporter: an internal fema document says 151 cases are linked to outbreaks at four louisiana colleges. the university of notre dame recording 44 cases in its first week back. and an entire oklahoma state university sorority house in quarantine after 23 members tested positive. in arizona -- >> it feels like they are waiting for people to get hurt. people who seem to think covid is just a cult. >> reporter: jake frantz resigning from his teaching job, condemning his district's rush to return to the classroom as the state logs the highest rate of pediatric cases and hospitalizations in the country. at a district outside phoenix, some parents applauding a mass sick-out of more than 100 teachers, cancelling the first day of school. >> teachers are in a good position to give their voice. and they just weren't being heard. >> reporter: the tea

of covid-19 and clusters. but it affects people at university, as well. so less than a week into the fall semester at university of north carolina at chapel hill we are already seeing four clusters of covid-19. oklahoma state university an entire sorority house is quarantined an enth quarantined and then about 700 cases in the state with cases or clusters of covid-19 and challenging to manage this in the context of increasing numbers of hotspots. parents watching this with a difficult debate and decision whether to send you kid back to school, depends on local covid-19 transmission and if rates are high where you live that just increases the likelihood of there being covid-19 outbreaks when your kid returns to school. >> and so we are watching that play out and the pictures make you shake your head at knucklehead behavior. we wouldn't have worry as much and this is north georgia university on saturday night. a large crowd there. we wouldn't have to worry if we had a vaccine but we don't know where we are in that and explain why this is important, the recruiting for u.s. covid vaccine trials, 10% are black or latino and we know that about half of the cases, m

covid busters discovered at the university of north carolina and oklahoma state, notre dame reportingtive cases. >> so, we checked it out early on, like one party, one bar, and it didn't seem terribly safe. so we're kind of sticking to ourselves for the time being. >> reporter: and these outbreaks are causing other schools to add just their own plans. columbia university is one of the latest to announce it will only offer virtual classes this fall. major? >> garrett: tom hanson, thank you very much. pro sports as we have seen are trying to make a comeback during the pandemic. the game played at empty comeback during the pandemic. the game played at stadiums or arena, the athletes earning paychecks, but for the beer and food vendors these are tough times indeed with no apparent safety net. here is adriana diaz. >> reporter: joe alaman still can't get used to being outside wrigley field during baseball season. >> i have never stood here when i come to work. >> reporter: he's hauled cold beer for cub fans. >> cold beer, who is ready who is thirsty.>> iall endeinwh tono support the indust