Correspondent elizabeth cohen. Elizabeth, youve got big picture. Youve got Good Progress on a vaccine, no question. Youve got multiple paths here, and they seem to be seeing good data in these early trials. You know, the question is are they getting a thumb on the scale right to push this out before they have enough data, so whats happening . Reporter all right. So, jim, theres no question but huge progress has been made. I mean to go from, you know, having heard of this for the first time in january, that we need to get a vaccine to having trials started in july in the u. S. , thats amazing. I dont know that we have good data. That has not been announced yet. Thats kept very quiet. There may be no data. You can start these trials and not get anywhere, so when pfizer and bio entech say they will have sufficient data to apply for, you know, permission from the fda to market it next month, we have no idea if thats true or not. We have no idea what that is based on, and so its interesting that these companies now have taken a pledge that they are not going to, you know, apply to the fda for permission to market unless they have a vaccine that is safe and effective and they are doing that because theres so much hesitation about this vaccine in the u. S. Let take a look at some polling numbers from a cbs poll that was recently done when asked would you take the vaccine. Only 21 would say they would get it as soon as they could and another 58 said they would consider it and wait, and 21, is one out of five said they would never get it. Those numbers arent great. Obviously we want people to take a safe and effective vaccine as quickly as possible to get out of this pandemic, but those numbers just show the hesitation. Yeah. Its really scary how many people already dont trust this, and in terms of building trust, you need to sample the correct proportion of the population, right, and they have had a huge challenge in getting enough minorities, especially black americans, to sign on to these tests, but theres a new ad campaign out today trying to change that is correct right . Thats right. So this is an ad campaign that will be on Major Tv Networks as well as univision, b. E. T. And other networks that are specifically focused on the latino and black communities, and lets take a look at take a look at why they need to have more minorities in these trials. So dr. Fauci has said that he wants to see about 64 of the participants be from minority communities. When you look at modernas numbers its only 26 and pfizer is only 19 . You need minorities, as you said, pope, because you need to see how it works in a diverse population, but also you need minorities because in your trials you need people who are likely to come in contact with the virus or else youll never know if the vaccine works. Youve got to test, it and so minorities, unfortunately, are more than twice as likely to get coronavirus than white people are, so these ads are aimed at encouraging minorities to join the trials. Lets take a listen to a clip from one of them. We know that someone somewhere is full of hope and strength and wants to take action and will take a step forward to hug their grandkids. Walking the walk and rolling up their sleeves. Reporter so, again, were expecting to see these ads today on Major Television networks. Pop be, jim . Elizabeth cohen, its an important message, thanks very much. Thanks. Lets go down to berlin and more on a Biotech Company there, and their announcement that a vaccine could be ready for approval by midoctober. Fred, youve been covering this for a long time. Are we confident that this company, have they gone through all the phase three trials where they have been able to test this across thousands of people to get a sense both of safety and effectiveness . Reporter hi there, jim. They said they are in the middle of the fades three trial right now. They said so far they have 25,000 participants taking part in some of these trials, including in the united states, including argentina and including here in europe and also in asia as well, so they are saying they are getting that data in. Its interesting, one of the things that elizabeth said is something that this company is very well aware of as well. They told me right now their aim is to have something ready for approval to have this vaccine ready for approval by the middleofoctober, but they also say, of course, all of this depends how many people who are taking part in the studies or in the trials are actually exposed to the virus, so there is still a little bit of unknown. They say it could get pushed back to the end of october, possibly to the beginning of november, but they also say the things that they are seeing so far make them very, very confident, both in the safety and the efficacy of their vaccine candidate. Heres what the ceo told me. I consider this vaccine as a vaccine that is near perfect, which has a near perfect profile, yeah. We have done preclinical experimentsch they have shown that this vaccine is able to protect animals from infection in really tough challenge experiments, and they have, of course, done much more testing than we have published so far and this provides us a lot of confidence in combination with the understanding of the mode of action in combination with the safety data coming in from the trial. Yes, we believe that we have a safe product, and we believe that it will be able to show efficacy. So as you can see there, a very confident ceo of bion tech, and he went out of his way in the interview to say, look, they didnt cut any corners as far as safety is concerned, and they have the regulators along with them the entire time checking their data to make sure they are adhering very closely to everything, and there, of course, bion tech and pfizer, of course, signed that pledge to do all of this according to the highest standards. They say if everything goes according to plan, guys, that they plan to have 100 million doses ready by the end of this year, and they say by 2021 or in 2021 they could have as many as 1. 3 billion. Guys. They are going to need it. Fret kt pleitgen, fascinating reporting. Another official said despite the president s repeated predictions that there will be a vaccine at the end of next month or before the election theres hardly any chance that one will be red re, widely available to americans by election day so the president is repeating his optimism for this quick timeline. Cnns john harwood joins us from the white house. John, you, of course, have the Coronavirus Task force and folks like dr. Fauci on this broadcast says that science is going to rule here. Who is the president listening to on this . Well, the president i think is listening to his own internal dynamics and understanding of what he need for this election. He needs a moodlifter in this country. Hes trailing joe biden in the polls. A large majority of the American People say things are going in the wrong direction in this country, so its not surprising that the president at his News Conference yesterday was holding had out the possibility of breakthrough news on a vaccine sometime before the election. Take a listen. Were going to have a vaccine very soon, maybe even before a very special date, you know what date im talking about. Reporter now, heres the problem with that if you talk to officials close to operation warp speed. One of them said yesterday i dont know of any scientist involved in this effort who thinks were going to get shots in arms any time before election day. Emergency use authorization, perhaps for health care workers, thats one thing, but broad availability to the american public, i dont know of any Public Health expert who is predicting that on any substantial scale before 2021 after the election, guys. Thank you, john. That matters what those experts say to most. Thanks so much. Joining us now a senior scholar at Johns Hopkins university for health security. Good morning. Thanks for being here, doctor. Thanks for having me. The fact that you have are the biggest names in pharmaceuticaled, right merck, pfizer, glaxosmithkline, is at zenica and others signing this pledge they will not seek fda approval until they are really through phase three, how remarkable is it that they feel like they have to do that for the public . I think its a sign of the time, that weve had this degeneration from Pandemic Response from the very beginning an companies have to be really mindful about getting sucked into the politics of this and not being used as some sort of tool to increase confidence when there isnt a reason to have an increase in confidence so this is something that i think is really important, and i do think these companies have made us vaccines for decades and decades and i think we can trust them to do the right thing despite the pressure that they may be getting from politicians to speed things along or to go along with ideas that are not necessarily scientifically based. Doctor, how will we know though, right . Will the data be published in such a way that the doctors like yourself who are looking at the science, not the politics, can be confident that thats whats driven the decision . When i spoke to dr. Fauci last week he made that point. He said well need to see that data, i assume we will see that data with confidence. Is there going to be, you know, a an ability for a public appraisal of these decisions . I think its going to have to be that way, and were going to get our medical journals publishing these articles. Well see other regulatory agencies in the eu and uk, for example, as well as professional societies like the Infectious Disease society of america, American Academy of pediatrics, all weighing in on this evidence so it will help the general public have more confidence and it wont be Something Like what we saw with hydroxychloroquine or convalescent plasma where theres a question looming over the whole decisionmaking process and well be as transparent as process. We want a vaccine people are willing to take and want the data to support that decision so people know the risks and benefits and we dont want a vaccine that doesnt get into peoples arms will be worthless so we need to make sure that we do this correctly. Youre so right. I mean, that is the key difference between a vaccine and vaccination and for it to be effective you need a broad swath of the population to be vaccinated. How do you how do you do that when that cbs news poll just a few weeks ago showed only 21 of americans polled said they would actually get this vaccine right away. I mean, is it too late to turn the tide on that and to really boost confidence . I already think theres been a lot of damage done to the whole vaccination effort by the politics being injected into it. We also have a Vaccine Hesitancy that will capitalize on any false step so theres already going to be people undermining and only 23 of people got the h1n1 vaccine so this will be very challenging, and we have to speak very frankly and honestly to the American People about what the risks and benefits are and what those risks and benefits, where they lie inside different risk groups, if youre old other, if youre pregnant, all of that has to be very transparent. Its a very daunting challenge, Something Like weve never done before. Being o. Lets talk about the good news here because there is good news. The progress on this has been remarkabling right, and the data das seem to be really good for many, if not all of these mainline these mainline vaccines here. Given that, what is the likely timeline that the three of us, our children, were not you may qualify as a Frontline Worker and you do not in terms of health care worker, that this vaccine will be wildly available to the american public. For wide available, i would say were going to be well into 202 is if that happens if everything goes perfect in phase three clinical trials. I think i might be able to get a vaccine by the end of the year if everything went well and we had an emergency use authorization for health care workers, but this is something well take some time to get into the arms of americans and well fighting this virus without a vaccine for several month at a minimum so we need to continue working on testing, tracing it and ice late because the vaccine isnt going to be a magic bullet that we have all of a sudden and everything disappears. Its going to take some time. Yeah. Do you believe, doctor, that when there is a vaccine that is effective and approved by the fda, schools and universities should mandate that every child and every College Student get the vaccine because thats a whole other level of, you know, of debate in the. I do think that this is going to be something that becomes a routine vaccination, and we know that schools mandate the measles vaccine, for example, as part of entry. We know that colleges mandate, for example, the meningitis vaccine as a can be entry soy do think if we have the data of supporting this vaccine is safe and effective and being able to blunt the damage this virus can cause, its something that schools and universities should mandate and i would be supportive of it if the data support it had. Listen this, country had difficulty mandating masks, right, a very simple step so the question is even if there is a push, would it happen practically . Doctor, great to have you on. We appreciate your help on all these questions. Thank you. Well, President Trump is attacking u. S. Military leaders, their motivations, suggesting that they start wars simply to fund defense contractors. Were going to discuss the fallout coming up. Plus, back to school during a pandemic. Some of the biggest districts in the u. S. Are reopening today but with most children still learning online at home. What do parents need to know, and Colgate Universitys president leading by example when it comes to mitigating the spread of covid19. He has spent the last 17 days quarantined in a dorm room right beside students adhering to his own mandatory quarantine. He got out of quarantine at 8 00 a. M. , and hell be here with us this hour. We made usaa insurance for veterans like liz and mike. An army family who is always at the ready. So when they got a little surprise. Two . They didnt panic. They got a bigger car for their soontobebigger family. 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But for most of the 1. 8 million u. S. Students doing that, it is online so its very different than what were used to. Complicating things, arance comeware attack is interrupting are first day for a lot of students. No more walks out the front door with the backpacks. Turned around and go back to the bedroom. Cnns Diane Gallagher is following this all. Something like this happened in florida. Now in connecticut. I mean, how many students is this disrupting now . Reporter were looking at the entire Hartford Public School district, they are dealing with this ransomware attack. This is affecting the tracking of the bus system there. They are working hard to get everything back online in hartford, but we saw this last month with students in Miamidade County schools, an attack there that interrupted their learning, and with so many kids going virtual, more than 7 million across the country are online only. 67 of the more than 100 Largest School districts in the country are online at least to start the school year and, you know, with all of them starting today, 14 of the 16 largest districts are starting strictly online. A lot of these districts have just made the decision that it is safer when it comes to the spread of covid19, but there are all sorts of complications that do come with it just from going off line, of course, and dealing with issues that the state of North Carolina dealt with last month. The portal went down on the first day of school. Simple stuff like that to more complex issues to parents having to continue to try to work and also attempt to help and educate their children at home. For sure. Its a huge challenge, diane. Thanks a lot for the reporting from there. Lets go to miami. Beaches were open for holiday weekend. Well have to see that that has led to another spike in covid cases just like we saw after memorial day and at fourth of july. Cnns rosa flores joins us now with more. Florida is on track to mark 12,000 coronavirus deaths, but we have seen some more positive trend lines. Tell us what the big picture is there and then also the concerns about fallout from the holiday. Reporter well, you know, jim, and weave talked about this before. Florida is very curious about how it reports its numbers. If you actually add the number of florida nonresidents and florida residents who have died from the coronavirus, the state of florida has already crossed the grim milestone of more than 12,000 cases, according to the Florida Department of health, 11,871 florida residents have died and 152 nonross dents, but if you look at the big picture, florida is trending in the right direction with the Florida Department of Health Reporting yesterday 1,838 cases. The state has not reported that low of a case count since june 15th. Officials believe some of the mitigation measures that they have implemented are, working, is things like a mask mandate, the curfews, but they also fear that during holidays lake labor day that people will put their guard down, that they will have large gatherings and not so much in public, like in public beaches, but in their homes. Heres miami beach mayor dan gilbert. Its not been the beaches that have been as much of the problem as the crowds that are often attendant at home parties and gettogether elsewhere during these kind of holiday weekends that have been the real challenge and concern. Now, jim and poppy, weve talked about this before. Of it will take a few weeks before the effects of holidays like labor day before they actually reflect in the numbers so officials and experts will be on the lookout in the come weeks to see if theres an actual effect. Rosa flores, thanks very much. The president has leveled serious accusations against serving u. S. Military leaders, accusing them of going to war purely to benefit defense contractors, in effect caring for more them than troops on the ground. Coming cup ill speak with a former Senior Commander for his response. Look limu someone out there needs help customizing their Car Insurance with Liberty Mutual, so they only pay for what they need. False alarm. Only pay for what you need. Liberty. 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Trump was not talking about them when the president talked about them and made this accusation against them yesterday. Im not saying the military is the in love with me. The soldiers are, the top people in the pentagon probably arent because they want to do nothing but fight wars so that all of those Wonderful Companies that make the bombs and make the planes and make Everything Else stay happy, but were getting out of the endless wars. You heard the president there accusing the top people at the pentagon today of going to war in effect to benefit military contractors. Joining me is wesley clark, a former nato allied commander and cnn military analyst. Thanks so much for taking the time this morning. Well, first of all, historical record shows that its the military that usually is advocating against the use of force. If you go back and look at all of the examples going back even into the vietnam war it was the military who always put the go slow on it, everything since the tet offensive so if you look in the 90s military always says use diplomacy first. Please dont put us in there. Do you understand what may happen if it doesnt work the way you think it does, so its the military that puts the brakes on, but more importantly top leaders in the military have to submit Financial Disclosure statements each year. This shows all their holdings of stocks and anybody associated with anything to do with procurement or any activities like that, you cant own any defense stocks so its actually impossible. Now, two comments, jim. Number one, wed like to see the Financial Disclosure of the president of the united states, where his taxes are, where he has holdings, but this is the kind thing that is characteristic of mr. Trumps statements. He puts ideas out there that may be crossed his own mind, maybe thats what he would be thinking about if he thought he was a senior general, maybe he would think how to make money out of it, but the last thing in the world our Senior Leaders think about. They think about the risks of not accomplishing the mission in accordance with what their political leaders want. They know the difficulties, the disruption of the other programs, and finally ask any of them who have been in conflict like i have to really, its an us pleasant experience, if things go wrong were hammered from every direction. So tell me the impact of this. This is the commander in chief standing there and saying top leader of the pentagon, they want to send you, in effect, right, serving members of the military into war purely to make money. What is is the impact of that on their leadership, on morale . Well, think, first, you know, the idea that most of the troops love trump, thats wrong. They are seeing him for what he is, but that statement is damaging to the integrity of the military chain of command because some people lower down dont understand how the Senior Leaders operate. Its not helpful. For the Senior Leaders themselves they have seen mr. Trump at close range and followed it more closely than people out on deployment and so they understand that this is characteristic. They are not going to put in their resignations. They are not happy, but this is one more thing that he says that drives a wedge between him and the military and veterans groups on which hes relying for his reelection. It appears hes trying to drive a wedge as well between though rank and file Service Members and their commanders, and i know you stay in touch though youre retired now with members of the military at every rank. Do you believe such a wedge exists, such a difference exists . Well, i dont think hes going to be successful in driving a wedge. I think he might like trying to do this, like with the military justice moves hes made, but what you find from the rank and file is they believe in the integrity of the military system. Most of them trust their commanders. Most of them believe that they will never be sent into conflict unless its absolutely the last resort. Most of them believe that the commanders will advocate and argue for the resources they need to succeed and to stay alive if they are committed, so this is not really going to have the kind of beneficial impact that the president thinks it might in terms of driving a wedge, but it will have an adverse impact on him. By the way, it also hurts the country as a whole because it reduces the credibility of our military leadership and our chain of command in dealing with Foreign Policy around the world. Let me ask you before we go. Youre aware of the story in the atlantic that broke last week about the president s comments dismissing those who died in war as losers and then other accounts of comments by this president in multiple other outlets dismissing service by these members or even their loss of life plus the president s public comments, dismissing someone like john mccain or gold star families in 2016. Whats your reaction to that personally and professionally hearing comments like that coming from the commander in chief. Well, first of all, the comments carry a lot of credibility because, as you suggest, its consistent with his pattern of statements and behavior over the last four years. Its a sense of betrayal honestly because when when we raise our hand and take the oath to support and uphold constitution of the united states, we have implicit trust in the chain of command. When i was in vietnam, a lot of people didnt like Richard Nixon had. I was a Company Commander on the ground. I believed that Richard Nixon was going to do the right thing. If someone had told me, hey, Richard Nixon, just a cynic, he just wants to see you guys over there so nothing happens to him politically, doesnt care anything about you, youre a loser for having served, that would have really hurt, and these comments really hurt people who are in uniform today. Plus, they feel like a betrayal to those of us who have worn the uniform and have put our lives on the line for the country. A man who has the authority of the commander of chief and responsibilities for the leading nation shouldnt speak like that. He shouldnt be thinking like that. Yeah. Well, general clark, we appreciate you and others youve commanded on this broadcast for the service youve done to this country. Thank you very much. Thank had you, jim. We certainly do. Ahead to california where nearly two dozen wildfires are ravaging the state prompting hundred of evacuations an rescues. Well take you live on the ground there. 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Weve all seen these on instagram and tiktok and this family decided to come out here and do their own gender reveal using pyrotechnics but look what happened. I mean, this is scorched earth. Looks like a movie scene here. Of course, its a very beautiful area, people come to take pictures and when they did the Supreme Court next and started the fire and tried to use Water Bottles to knock the fire down. That family could face charges. Plenty of residents around here who are very upset about this, and then you talk about the camp fire, the one thats over 135,000 acres burning so far with zero percent contain. On top of it all of that the rescue effort that these brave fifth hers to go through in terms of using four different locations and helicopters to pull people out, they are still a part of this operation, still ongoing. Theres still people in danger. In fact, take a listen. I will tell you, its been quite a challenge. Weve been on fires for quite a while up on the lightning complex up in napa and also the butte complex up on the Upper East Side of the sacramento san joaquin valley. This one hit us by surprise, and we immediately alerted crews as soon as we knew that folks were stranded up in the mountains and ended up luckily getting them evacuating them out of the mammoth cools complex. Reporter jim and pope, this is just a beautiful area, the rolling mountains and the hills and everything that you see here. It kind of stood out to the entire crew as you look back this direction, and can you see where this fire sort of touched. The road actually was the fire line that helped break it it up, but you can see all the dry gas back this direction and you think about the fact here that already this year weve had more than 2 million acres burn so far. You add in the tripledigit heat. You add in the wind that are moving to this area. Firefighters have been dealing with so much already, that 2 million acres thats burned so far. People are definitely concerned. Fire season hasnt even started so people have to be careful. You cant come out and do things like this to start fires because you just dont know where they are going toned up, but beauty is still here but obviously you can see the pain just everywhere in terms of folks being worried about their structure, their horses and Everything Else. Dont do the fireworks, simple as there. The thanks very much. Two people were arrested following violent interactions between protrump supporters and others at a protrump rally where two sides started yelling and firing paint balls and other projectiles at each other. Things escalated when members of the protrump group began chasing and pushing counterprotesters. The two men who were arrested have been charged with assault. Both have been released from police custody. Wow. All right. Up next, a University President who just this morning completed his own mandatory twoweek quarantine in a dorm room. It is all part of the plan to keep his campus safe. The president of cocolgate univy joins us next. No sweat try it and love it or get your money back. Monitoring patients in hospitals around the world so that doctors and nurses can make sure you feel safe. As new challenges have arisen, weve grown to bring that same safety and support to the place that you want to be most. Together. Masimo. Together in hospital. Together at home. Tempurpedics mission truly transformative sleep. So, no more tossing and turning. Because only tempurpedics proprietary material adapts and responds to your body so you get deep, uninterrupted sleep. Take advantage of our best offer of the year, with savings up to 500. Welcome back. So one u. S. College will soon find out if its unique approach to mitigating and containing the spread of covid on campus is actually going to pay off. Two weeks ago Colgate University welcomed students back to their dorms. The school tested their students again and again and then put them in a mandatory quarantine for two weeks and to put his plan where his mouth is the universitys president himself quarantined in a dorm the entire time. He joins me exclusively this morning for his first interview out of quarantine. Sir, thanks for being here. I know youre excited to be out and to be reunited with your dog later today and to be able to drink your beloved bourbon again because no one could drink in the dorms. We know you havent done that yet. Right. But in all seriousness what was this like for you to run a university from a dorm room for 17 days . Better than i thought. You forgot what its like to move into a tiny dorm room, old unair conditioned dormitory, whatever, when youre in your 50s and it was kind of joyful. I was with the students and we were going through something together. Yeah. And they knew where i was and they would talk into my window and would say hello and it was it was more joyful than i thought it was going to be. Wow. Well, im glad. Im glad. A big part of this exeither for you guys is testing, and as i understand it, you will have conducted three tests for every member of the faculty, the staff, the students in this threeweek period, is that right . Yes. We we sent tests home to every student before they showed up. We tested every student upon arrival and then eight days into the quarantine we tested them for a third time with the most sensitive test out there, so we just wanted to get them through a very rigorous testing regime while they were in quarantine. No joke, you guys are looking at and have spent a lot of money to sample the wastewater, basically the toilet water from your university, is that right . That is right. The rna, proteins from covid can reveal themselves in wastewater before it can be revealed in swab testing, so what we did during the first week of the quarantines, we established baselines for every residence hall, every how is that the University Puts students up in and now we begin wastewater testing and well see if theres any hot spots emerging anywhere on the campus, so, yes, we are testing wastewater all the time. So a big question is money and funding, and you guys are a private university. Youre not statefunded and its expensive, right . Youve spent north of 4 million bucks on all of this. Yes, yes. I guess whats your message to other schools and other University President s that dont have near that kind of, you know, extra capitalle . I think well, i think what this reveals is every institution has become its own little state and weve all become governors. Each one in our institutions is just making decisions about testing and safety and quarantining and and allocating resources in different ways. Theres no universal testing. Theres no universal support so, you know, were fortunate that were at an institution with resources that could do this. I would prefer if were abiding by guidelines but we did what we thought we needed to do. We reallocated resources and its hard, still is hard and we thought that we did what we needed to do. Will you suspend or expel students if they break protocol . We saw northeastern to that this week. We already have suspended students there. You know, on the second night a small party occurred literally on the floor of my dorm. Wow. So yeah. I thought that was interesting, and so they were asked to leave, and weve asked people to leave if they break their pledge to Public Health. They all had to sign a commitment to Public Health, and weve sent some people home. I assume they dont get their money back, their tuition. They dont get their tuition but we will reimburse them their room and board. Time question, big picture. Talk about universal sacrifice, right, because thats what drove you to live in the dorm, especially in a politically divisive moment like this. That is so northern, and i think in some ways this might be the most important lesson that colgate is conveying to its students and maybe the world which is we do not teach our students about common purpose and we do not talk we dont teach them how to subsume their personal needs for something larger. We dont talk about that anymore. Its not in our political realm. Its not in our everyday discourse, so now were saying we can only do this if we all do this together and the benefits will be remarkable, and in some ways thats the great lesson of a liberal arts college. Thats the great lesson of an academic community, and if we can convey, that i think well have done something remarkable. 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Tweet us who you think those three moms are, because we think we have the answer and well tweet them back. Im jim schutteo. News room with john king starts right now. Hello, everybody. Im john king in washington. Thank you for sharing your day with us. Today is backtoschool day for millions of American Students and also a stark reminder that most everything is still disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. Just a snapshot here of the 16 Largest School districts starting school today, 14 are doing it fully online. More than 7. 3 Million Students beginning the Academic Year not in a classroom but on a computer at home. When it will be safe to return remains a big open question. The speed of the vaccine race, well, thats one factor. The trajectory of the new case