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Agency is suggesting that schools in areas where more than 5 of coronavirus cases are coming back positive, they should consider staying closed. The food and Drug Administration says its giving emergency use authorization to the first coronavirus test for cases without symptoms. The fda calls this possibly a game changer in helping reopen schools and businesses and to keep them open. Weve got this covered from all angles for you this morning. Were going to start with cnns poll low sandoval who is in new york and natasha chen is tracking the numbers back in georgia. Lets go to polo for the nationwide outlook. Are there any cases, any states rather, making progress in slowing the spread of infections, polo . Reporter well, abby to that point, we heard from Health Officials in the state of texas who say in some of the larger cities they are seeing somewhat of a plateau. These numbers that are leveling out, even though they are relatively high, but at the same time, there are other parts of texas, including one particular region, where Health Officials there are having to make critical and potentially life and death situations right now. Six months into the pandemic and some of the nations coronavirus stats are going from bad to worse. As the nation surpassed 4 million covid cases and over 145,000 deaths this week, california beat out new york as the state with the most infections to date. When we began to reopen our economy, we focussed so much on when but we didnt focus enough on how. To not only do it but to educate individuals. Reporter on friday, california recorded its highest number of covid deaths in hardhit l. A. County, Health Officials are warning the virus may soon become a leading cause of death among residents. Covid cases seem to be plateauing in some of texass largest cities, but in one small south texas border county, patients may be sent home to die hospital ethics and Triage Committee deems them too sick to recover. The local county judge says their hospital is at capacity. Thats a common struggle for Health Facilities in florida saw 84 increase since july 4th as statistics hit recordbreaking highs in the south and west, parts of the northeast are experiencing lows not seen since march. On friday, new york recorded its lowest number of hospitalizations in nearly four months. And with the approaching School Year Just weeks away, parents and teachers facing uncertainty about when and if classes resume amid a push to ereopen schools. Kids ought to have the option to learn in person and virtually. They ought to have choices. If teachers have vulnerable immune systems, they ought to have options as well, but we have to get our kids back into a school in a safe way. If you are going to bring the children back the nations leading Infectious Disease expert, dr. Anthony fauci, urging schools not to rush to decisions. When you talk about forcing teachers to come back to school, you better be careful about that and make sure you Pay Attention to, a, keeping them safe and, b, keeping them healthy. Reporter fauci not ruling out outdoor teaching as a way to get students back to school. I wear this all the time. Reporter and recommending face coverings be worn in the classroom. Back here in new york state the rates of hospitalizations of deaths also most recently icu rates, those are some of the lowest that weve seen in a long time here. But what is concerning right now is what authorities here describing as a significant increase over a short period of time in covid cases for some of those people in their 20s up to 30 years old. The concern here, victor and abby, according to governor andrew cuomo, many of these younger people are gathering in crowds outside of restaurants and bars. Thats something authorities are looking to crack down on. Polo sandoval in new york. Thanks. Lets go to georgia where another coronavirus showdown is taking place. Parents in one county with one of the states highest coronavirus rates are protesting to get their kids back into schools. Cnns natasha chen is with us live from atlanta with the details. Some big headlines coming out of atlanta and different type of protest for some parents there. Reporter yeah, victor and abby. This protest happened yesterday just as the state recorded its highest number of covid cases since the pandemic began, breaking a record from just a week ago, more than 4,800 cases yesterday. Now, this district is no different from many of the districts around the Atlanta Metro area and frankly around the country, trying to make a difficult decision here about what is the safest way to start educating the kids this fall. This district gri net county decided recently instead of giving the parents the option of both inclassroom and virtual to go all virtual starting august 12th and thats why y,200th anda couple hundred parents out there yesterday who really wanted a face to face type of instruction for their kids. This district back in june had done a survey with the parents. And that survey results showed that the parents of about 43 of them wanted to send their kids back into a classroom. The same survey showed, though, that just over half of the parents said they were either uncomfortable or very uncomfortable sending their kids back. Here is a statement from the gwinnette county Schools Communications person saying that like those who are protesting, we had hoped and wanted to start the school year in person. We had planned to serve students in that manner as well as digitally. However, out of concern for our students, families and employees, we had to make the very difficult decision to start entirely digitally. Well continue to monitor the covid19 situation in Gwinnett County to use that information to pivot safely to inperson instruction. When we checked with them on when that might happen, they said theres no set date to pivot. So it really does depend on that health data. I actually spoke to special ed teacher in Gwinnett County said its very difficult to teach special ed students digitally she hoped to return to the classroom, however she does feel more confident with the way they are doing Virtual Learning this fall compared to when it suddenly happened in the spring. She said there is a lot more structure involved and the way theyre taking attendance and giving grades. She does feel like it is more of a traditional learning experience even though it is virtual. She did say that overwhelmingly as a Group Teachers do feel a sense of relief that this decision was made. Abby . Thank you, natasha. President trump, he is talking about the progress on covid19, but theres a Top White House doctor who says that almost dozen cities across the country are seeing troubling numbers as it relates to infections. These are the cities that have been singled out by dr. Deborah birx. Baltimore is on the list. There are more than 10,000 cases confirmed there, but the Health Department says it was given no advance warning about being such a focus of concern. With us now is a Baltimore City Health Commissioner dr. Letitia zaraza. Doctor, thank you for being with us today. You guys are on the list, according to dr. Birx. What are you seeing on the ground . Are you seeing a sign that you guys could be on the verge of an alarming rise in cases that could lead to an increase in the outbreak . Good morning. Thank you. Yes, on the ground we have seen an increase in our number of cases. When we look at the week of july 12th and then about a week later on july 19th, we did see some increase in that number of cases. But we werent aware that we were on this list created by dr. Birx. So, let me ask you, do you know what is causing this increase . Is it the return of young people to potentially less socially distant events . Or going into restaurants . Yeah. In general, i think when we lightened up restrictions, people wanted to go back to the normal way of life. We have specifically in the city seen some cases linked to restaurants and bars. And so we took the aggressive action this week to actually prestrict Indoor Dining at restaurants and bars. We additionally implemented a mandatory face mask order effective yesterday evening. You called that aggressive. Is that aggressive enough . There was a face mask order issued by the governor back in april. Theres now one in baltimore specifically. But that do enough to mitigate the cases that dr. Birks rx is seeing . I think well have to continue to watch the data as we always do. And see the difference that it makes. The difference between our order and the governors order is that it really is mandated not for just specific locations but essentially any time youre outdoors, any time youre in a public place and you could come within six feet of someone. In baltimore, schools are supposed to open in september with Virtual Learning. Do you see given the trends that youre seeing the possibility of inperson learning for students at any point this year . I think well certainly have to pay close attention to the positivity rate. But what is interesting about baltimore and this is similar in other major cities is that we have different positivity rates depending on the zip code and area of the city. Its important for our School District and every School District to work very closely with their local Health Officials to understand what the trends and the data are in their particular city so they can make the decisions that are right for their students, teachers and parents. We just put the numbers up on the screen here, 10,000 confirmed cases in Baltimore City alone. Did the city move to phase 2 too soon . So, we actually stayed in phase 1 a lot longer than the rest of the state and we tried to really think wisely and think carefully before transitioning into phase 2. I think hindsight is always 2020. We wanted to make sure, though, that we were doing things safely. So we presented very safe guidelines on how businesses can enter into phase 2. Its our job to continue to monitor the data. And if necessary, bring back and roll back restrictions so that we can keep the public safe. You know, doctor, we spent a lot of time talking about bars and restaurants, definitely a big area of concern, but interestingly this week ohios governor mike dwine said hes seeing a lot of transmission in peoples homes, house parties, hanging out with people without masks on. In florida a lot of household transmission of this virus. What are you seeing in baltimore . What is the message to the public about how to conduct yourselves even when you are not in a, quote unquote, public place . Sure. Sure. So we certainly are seeing large gatherings, but we had direct linkages to bars and restaurants. But i think the message to the public is that coronavirus is still very much present and we have to make every effort to avoid the large gathering, to socially distance while were out and always have our mask on just in case we cant socially distance. Thank you so much for joining us this morning. Absolutely. Thank you, doctor. Still to come, the debate over Virtual Learning. We had a bit of the conversation with dr. Dzrasa versus inperson instruction. Well talk to an Arizona School superintendent about how they are preparing to reopen. Plus, saying goodbye to a civil rights icon. Congressman john lewis returns to selma, alabama, for one final visit and one final crossing of the Edmund Pettis bridge we shall overcome we shall overcome some day [narrator] the shark vacmop combines powerful suction with spray mopping to lock away debris and absorb wet messes, all in one disposable pad. Just vacuum, spray mop, and toss. The shark vacmop, a complete clean all in one pad. To give you the protein you need with less of the sugar you dont. [grunting noise] ill take that. Woohoo 30 grams of protein and 1 gram of sugar. Ensure max protein. With nutrients to support immune health. Ensure max protein. Walk to end alzheimers alzheis everywhere. 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He was born on the outskirts of troy, to sharecropper parents and very quickly growing up in the rural south came to know the injustice of segregation. So, in essence, hes going home one last time today. And there is still a lot of family members that live in troy. So that community and his family want to embrace him, want to celebrate his life. So theres a service about to begin at the top of the hour and there will of course be hymns and readings and family members who will be speaking. The problem with all of these events that are planned over the next couple days is that there will be far more people who want to attend than can under the conditions of this pandemic. So, for instance, at Troy University the arena, only 080 people will be allowed to get in even though its a really large facility, thats for safety reasons because of coronavirus. And everywhere the family is encouraging people to wear masks and social distance. At the ent here tonight that will be held at selma at this church, there again going to ask people limit who can show up. So the family is pointing out that everywhere, all these events will be streamed live. So he comes to selma this afternoon, another service, another public viewing and then tomorrow the remarkable day where he will make one last trip over the Edmund Pettus bridge on the way to montgomery. Reliving a trip he has done so many times in his life. Abby and victor. Yeah and has taken so many members of congress back to selma to really help them understand that moment back in 1965. Martin savidge for us there outside brown chapel. Thanks so much. With us now to talk about the late congressman is civil rights it says activist, i should say icon, a longtime friend of the congressman, also the founder and ceo of the trumpet awards and so many other things here at turner for so long as well. Ms. Clayton, good morning to you. First, you met john lewis more than 50 years ago, back in 1963. Tell me about the man you met then. Well, first thing i can say is that the john miles lewis, john miles is his son, the john lewis i met many, many years ago is the same john lewis i know when i last saw him last week. He never changed. He was committed to bringing equity and justice in this country. And he was willing to lose his life, if necessary, to do it. He was relentless in fighting the dragons of prejudice. And i found him to be such a consistently wonderful person that i just enjoyed being around him. I saw him almost everyday for all those years. We are on the verge of six days of memorials and remembrances of him, you know, in black culture we call it a home going. Its a celebration of life in many ways. I wonder when you think about john lewis and you think about the memories of him that bring a smile to your face, what is that . Well, right away when youre describing that hes home in troy, i chuckle inside because he used to tell me with such joy how he used to preach to the chickens. And i have a picture of him just sitting there gathering those chickens on the back of their house and hes trying to preach to them. And i kind of wish i were there right now to see if hes doing that. Well, we know hes not. But, john lewis had such a varied background and wonderful life. Theres so many facets to him, but theres one thing that was good about john is he was constant. He loved everybody everyday. It did not matter who they were. And he truly practiced what he preached. He preached love and he practiced it. As evidenced by so many cities in these next few days that want to honor him in troy, in selma, in atlanta, in washington as well, there is a connection that you have more personally to how he met his late wife. Tell me about that. Well, lilian was my friend from los angeles. And i saw her everyday. And she then joined me in all the marches and everything we were doing fighting the dragons of prejudice. And i looked at her and i looked at john and i said, you know, they would be a good match. Well, lilian was a welltraveled individual. She studied in europe and had a great love and attention for art and literature. And i figured she could be conversant with john. She didnt have to talk about civil rights all the time. She had such a command of the language. I thought she would bring him a diversion to what he was accustom. So i invited them to dinner, but she saw john all the time because as we moved around we were with john all the time. But, i invited the two of them over for Christmas Eve dinner to see if i could make this match. And it didnt work at first. She enjoyed john, but she didnt see him as a mate for the future. And i talked him up and talked him up and said hes such a nice person. Hes better than some of these knuckle heads who are making approaches on you. Lilian was very approachable. I said i think i like john best of all. And then i said, i better find out if hes got somebody. I said, john, do you have a woman in your life that youre especially attached to . He said, well, not really. I said, john, i need a better answer than that because i have some plans in mind. Well, we kind of laughed it off. But we went to the hospital for a checkup. And i said, lilian, whats going on . Bring him some flowers. That will let him know youre interested in him. We got there to the hospital. There was a woman in there. And she was adjusting his pillows and his cover. And lilian said, oh, gee, hes got somebody. When we left, she said, see, that woman looks like shes very close to him. I said, dont worry about competition. We can always fight off the competition. And johns worth waiting for and planning for. He may end up in washington. Well, i didnt know at the time that he really did plus i had the white house in mind. But i said, look, hes going places. Ms. Clayton, let me interrupt for just a second to tell people what theyre seeing on the other side of their screen. We just lost that shot. But that was the arrival of the late congressman there at the trojan arena. This is just moments ago as he is brought in there with the honors befitting the late congressman, brought in by members of the military. And this will be a celebration, the boy from troy where were expecting to hear from several of his siblings. His sister ethel may tiner. Freddy lewis, rosa may tiner as well expected to speak at this event. Live pictures now. This is the first of several, as we discussed, and hopefully well clear up this stream of tributes to the late congressman. We are expecting that were going to start to see the family as well. Our thanks to ms. Clayton for being with us and my apologies for having to interrupt. As we see that members of the family and shes still with us, good. Shes still with us. And members of the family are coming in, you were talking about how he met his wife. And you know, i lived in his district when i first came here for four years. I said this last week after we first got the news of his death is that he was a figure that you just always expected would be here. He would always be around. Irrespective of age, he was just that much 17 terms a part of the atlanta community. Yes. But you know, he enjoyed being around people. And after he and lilian got married and by the way, they were married for 44 years. So that marriage was not all bad i want you to know. But she didnt like politics. But it was his life. And she joined him as his partner and served so well, so effectively as his mate for many, many years. Yeah. I saw him write in the beginning of 2013, right after she died at the very end of december in 2012 at an event. And obviously it was a somber time after being with someone so long, but he was just as committed, just as powerful in speech and recommitting people to the work that had to be done even in his moment of grief. Ms. Xernona clayton, thank you so much for being with us this morning and sharing some memories of your close friend. Thank you. Ill always value that friendship. Thank you so much. Stay with cnn. Were going to have live coverage of these events throughout the day. At the moment, the casket of congressman john lewis being brought in to the memorial service. His family will spend some time with him today. And we will be right back. My agerelated Macular Degeneration could lead to vision loss. So today i made a plan with my doctor, which includes preservision. Because he said a multi vitamin alone may not be enough. And its my vision, my morning walk, my sunday drive, my grandsons beautiful face. 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Joining me now to talk about all of this is christi wilson, the president of the American Association of School Administrators and the superintendent of the buckeye elementary School District in the state of arizona, one of the places weve been keeping our eye on over the last several weeks. Thanks for being with us today. You know, Arizona Governor doug duesy announced that he had a plan to reopen schools in some inperson formats on august 17th. The Arizona Department of education hasnt really release any specifics about what that will look like. What is your biggest concern with reopening . Well, thank you so much for and happy saturday. Yes, i think what is at stake right now is our individual Community Infection rate. And educators rely on medical experts to set these metrics in order to safely reopen schools before we open. And in arizona, we are being asked to do this ourselves now. And even just this week, as you mentioned, were told we dont have to abide by these. To me, thats not keeping in line with our duty to keep students and staff safe. We appreciate the wellmeaning politicians flexibility and we all agree theres no question we want to be back in person. And inperson learning is very important, but we have to do that in a safe manner. We just arent willing to take that risk without the defined metrics first. Which is a fair point considering all the uncertainty about what the risk actually is. We dont know very much about how the virus spreads among children and there are mixed messages coming from the administration about this but take a listen to what the White House Coronavirus Task Force Coordinator dr. Deborah birx said yesterday about this issue. We know that children under 18 are less sick, but there are some that suffer terrible consequences if they have underlying conditions. What i cant tell you for sure, despite the south korea study, is whether children under 10 in the United States dont spread the virus the same as children over 10. I think that is still an open question that needs to be studied in the United States. We certainly know from other studies that children under 10 do get infected. Its just unclear how rapidly they spread the virus. So lots of question marks there. I mean, what could be the plan . What would be the plan if a student gets sick . If a teacher tests positive for coronavirus . Does the entire School Quarantine . Does a class quarantine . Are there answers to those questions . Yeah. I think theres a couple things. One is we just dont know. Theres still so many Things Unknown about this. And one thing i would say is for a long time public School Administrators, folks, weve been tasked with being what i would call efficiency experts. Whether that be packing as many students as you in classrooms or as many student as you can in buses the cdc guidance hasnt changed. Social distancing is still going to be required. Whats more concerning to me is this becomes a mathematical issue for all of us across many specters of education, whether youre in a rural setting, whether youre in doesnt matter where you are. We just do not have enough stuff staff and we dont have enough spacing in our Public Schools to meet the cdc suggestions of social distancing. So your point is well taken. Its going to become logistically nearly impossible if parents show up in my district alone and want to be have that choice of inperson learning. For the longest time under the umbrella under efficiency weve been tasked in arizona alone some of the highest student to staff classroom ratios. So its going to be nearly impossible to meet that demand. Yeah. In arizona and really all across the country, these schools, especially Public Schools are full. 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My father my grandmother my brothers and sisters my friends for going back to school the bbq the lake the beach my place for my neighbors my community my people my country my home for him for her for them for you. A judge in michigan has refused to release a 15yearold jailed for not doing her Online School work. The girl, known as grace, has been at this juvenile facility since may and not doing her homework awas a violation of he probation after an assault charge for fight with her mother. During a hearing this week the judge said that the teenager was a danger to her mother and that staying in the Treatment Facility was best. With us now are the teenagers attorneys, jonathan and sima. We should mention that sima is running for mccomb county prosecutor there in michigan. Thank you both for being with us. Sima, let me start with you. She was sent to childrens village mid may for violating the probation. The Prosecutor Says it was the girls mother who reported the noncompliance to a caseworker but now the mother wants her back home. Why the change of decision here . It is not uncommon in these types of situations for parents that have limited resources to reach out for assistance. So, when the mother is reaching out to the probation officer, shes reaching out for help. Her child suffers from Mental Health issues. Mom has a history of doing the best that she can to get assistance, so this was just another instance of mom saying, hey, can you help me out . Theres no point at which mom is saying, yes, please take my child from me, throw her in handcuffs, detain her and place her and take her away from me. So, jonathan, judge brennan here, the Oakland County Circuit Court judge, she says she told grace she would follow the letter of the order, the probation order and that she was required to stay out of trouble and do the homework. For people who are listening here says this was the consequence of not doing that, you would tell those people what . Well, she was actually in touch with her teacher working on completing all her online assignments. The issue was that the probation officer was not in touch with the teacher and she filed the violation prior to speaking to the teacher. We tried to get the teacher to testify on monday. The judge wouldnt allow her to do that. She was there at the building. She wasnt allowed in. And the teacher was doing her best during covid to provide services to grace. And grace was doing her best to get that work done. So it was really an issue of the school is closed. The teacher, the administration the students are all having issues completing their work. Nobody was immune to this issue. I mean, as you well know, everybody has been scrambling to figure out what to do with schoolwork. And were not even sure if were going to go back in the fall. So the issue that she didnt do her work was just, i think, a red herring. The judge should have found she did not violate her probation and should have left her in the home. From what i read the teacher said it wasnt as if she was any further behind than any other student. And now she says that she has been given a packet and not really helped while at childrens village to get the work done, the reason shes been put there in the first place. Saima, to you, the protesters across michigan and those on social media, those in detroit as well, believe that race is a factor here. Is that what you believe . You know, statistically speaking when we look at the number of people that are in detention, in custody, in jail, what have you, its disproportionately minorities that are in custody. Im not going to say that race played a role in the judges decision. I think that the judge acted in haste. The petition to violate her on the probation is literally that simple. It says that the child didnt do her school work and used social media. The public can draw the conclusion it wants to from this. From what im reading that this is five stages of a program. Shes in the second stage. And if shes not allowed to come out, even considering some of the governors orders to take into consideration because of covid, she could be there for another three and a half months. Our Interview Time was truncated because of the breaking news with john lewis arriving there in troy, alabama. So unfortunately i have to wrap it here, but jonathan and saima, thank you both for your time. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Okay. Abby . And the first hurricane of the atlantic season is here. Hurricane hanna is now a category 1 storm. It is headed for the texas coast and expected to make landfall later today. [narrator] the shark vacmop combines powerful suction with spray mopping to lock away debris and absorb wet messes, all in one disposable pad. Just vacuum, spray mop, and toss. 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This youre looking at is the white cap beach which youre going to see is the storm surge coming in and the unfortunate part is its now passed over the sand dunes and now crossing over on to the highway that is right there. And even though thats happening just here, this is around the Corpus Christi area, youre also seeing that elsewhere as the storm surge continues to push that water inland. Now overall for the storm, hurricane hanna still looking at winds now have increased just at the top of the hour big news, we are now at 80 Miles Per Hour. So those winds have jumped up about an additional 5 Miles Per Hour from where they were just the last hour. Forward movement is starting to slow at 7 Miles Per Hour. But look at those wind gusts, 100 Miles Per Hour. So you are definitely going to have some areas dealing with Power Outages today. We have hurricane warnings and Tropical Storm warnings in place for that very reason dealing with the gusty winds. But rain is also going to be a concern. Those outer bands starting to push in. Its going to continue to get heavier as we go throughout the day and that landfall becomes much more imminent. Widespread youre looking at about 3 to 5 inches of rain in most places, but there will be a few spots that could pick up 8, 9, even 10 inches of rain before this system finally moves out. We showed you that video earlier of the storm surge around Corpus Christi and rock port 3 to 5 feet of storm surge is expected but the surrounding areas victor and abby likely 1, 2, 3 feet of storm surge. All right, everybody in that area be careful. Allison chinchar, thank you so much. Thank you for spending your morning with us. Be sure to watch cnn for continuing coverage of congressman john lewis memorial service. Cnn newsroom continues after the break with fredricka whitfield. Shes up next. When i noticed my sister moving differently, she said it was like someone else was controlling her mouth. 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Thats where lewis helped lead a march to montgomery for Voting Rights in 1965 where he was beaten, skull cracked. Much mor