Increasingly contentious. The road to reopening sports, schools, and the economy along with rising rates of infection in the community. The war were in against covid, wear a mask, social distance, wash your hands, and be smart about crowds. Reporter this is new day with Alisyn Camerota and john berman. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is new day. Its thursday, august 13th, 6 00 here in new york. Alisyn is off. Erica hill back here this morning. Good morning, friend. Good morning. Breaking this morning, the deadliest day of the entire summer. More new reported deaths from coronavirus than we have seen since may. Just under 1,500 deaths. 1,500. That is double the death rate from early june. We had 56,000 new cases. Again, thats a bad number, especially bad because until now, the last few days and weeks, weve seen a decline in the number of new cases, so that 56,000 jumps out. Well have to see if that trend continues. The cdc director warned in a new interview, in americans dont adhere to Public Health measures, the u. S. Could see, quote, the worst fall in history. Overnight, the white house issued vague new safety tips for schools, but still not requiring masks. By our count, more than 2,000 students and teachers are now quarantined across the country after returning to reopen schools. The newly minted democratic ticket bound to lead americans out of this pandemic. Making the case for President Trumps failed leadership, and offering a sharply different view for the countrys future. Mr. Trump and republicans launching a grab bag of attacks on Kamala Harris. The race for the white house now in full swing. Also ahead this morning, exclusive details on bob wo woodwa woodwards new book on President Trump entitled rage. Those books detail what we know about the quote love letters exchanged between President Trump and kim jongun. We begin with Arlette Saenz who is live in delaware. Good morning. Good morning, erica. This was a Vice President ial announcement like no other. There was no rally, with thousands of supporters or applause. It was basically the candidates, a handful of staff and secret service, and a group of reporters. But that didnt stop joe biden and Kamala Harris from calling out President Trump. And making the argument that a vote for the democratic ticket would restore leadership that they believe is missing in this current white house. Joe biden and Kamala Harris, making their debut as running mates. Immediately taking aim at President Trump and his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. But theres a reason it has hit america worse than any other advanced nation. Its because of trumps failure to take it seriously from the start. This is what happens when we elect a guy who just isnt up for the job. Our country ends up in tatters. Reporter once fierce rivals on the debate stage, Presumptive Democratic nominee biden and harris are now working together towards one common goal. Defeating President Trump in november. America is crying out for leadership. Yet we have a president who cares more about himself than the people who elected him. Reporter from the white house, the president wasting no time launching his own attack. I watched her poll numbers go, boom, boom, boom, down to almost nothing. And she left angry, she left mad. There was nobody more insulting to biden than she was. She said horrible things about him. Reporter earlier, biden already defending his Vice President ial pick from trumps insults. Donald trump has already started his attacks, calling kamala, quote, nasty. Is anyone surprised donald trump has a problem with a strong woman . Reporter the duo giving voters their first glance of the newly announced ticket. Kamala, as you all know, is smart, shes tough, shes experienced, shes a proven fighter for the backbone of this country. Reporter biden also noting the importance of standing beside the first woman of color Vice President ial nominee. Reporter a all across the nation, little girls woke up, especially little black and brown girls, who so often feel overlooked and undervalued in their communities, but today, today, just maybe, theyre seeing themselves for the first time in a new way, as the stuff of president and Vice President s. Reporter before leaving the socially distanced event, harris sending this message to the young girls of color watching her make history. Believe in the future of our country and this next president of the United States. Anything is possible. Reporter now, biden announced they raised 26 million in the first 24 hours after harris joined him, as his running mate. Today, we will see biden and harris together, attending a briefing on covid19 from Public Health experts, which comes one day after the deadliest day of the summer. I actually also asked biden whether we will see the two of them campaigning in person together on the campaign trail. He told me that they will, if the science allows it. Erica. Pointing to the science. Arlette, thank you. Meantime, President Trump is now touting the administrations new safety tips for schools. Those tips do not require masks. They are vague, to put it mildly. This morning, the florida education associations lawsuit to stop what it calls the governors reckless mandate to reopen schools heads to court. Cnns rosa flores is live in miami this morning. Rosa, good morning. Reporter erica, good morning. The white house issuing recommendations for the reopening of schools. The problem is, is that these recommendations are very vague. For example, it says that students and staff should understand the symptoms of covid19. It encourages social distancing, and it encourages the use of masks, but it does not require them. Now, President Donald Trump praising florida yesterday for its reopening of schools. Here in this state, just this week, 13 School Districts reopened for inperson instruction. Now, one of those School Districts is martin county, and one day after this School District reopened, one classroom and one bus route has been placed under quarantine. This is according to a spokesperson from that School District, after a student displayed symptoms of covid19. Now, Governor Ron Desantis had a live address yesterday on the reopening of schools and he mentioned martin county, but its unclear exactly what he meant. Take a listen. Martin county superintendent laur Laurie Gaylor today told me she said reopening the schools was akin to a navy s. E. A. L. S operation. They would find a way to provide parents with a meaningful choice of inperson instruction or continued distance learning, allin, all the time. Reporter the legal battle over the reopening of schools continues here in the state of florida, between the Teachers Union and Governor Ron Desantis. Theres actually a status hearing today in tallahassee later this morning. This as the state of florida sees a spike in the number of cases yesterday. The Florida Department of Health Reporting more than 8,000 cases. Well, Governor Ron Desantis blames a data dump from a lab here in miami for the spike. Youve got to look at these number of casesper day in the state of florida. And if you do so, they have been going down. But john, you also have to look at the Positivity Rate, because if you do, youll see that its been between 12 and 16 in the past two weeks. And that is very telling. Yeah, the Positivity Rate in florida is high. The Positivity Rate in texas is very high, rising in some cases. And we saw the largest single death toll for a day this summer, rosa. Were going to talk much more about why, why now are we seeing this many deaths. Dr. Peter hotez joins us in just a moment. Thank you so much for your reporting. We have a cnn exclusive this morning. Were learning now the first details about Bob Woodwards new book on the president entitled rage. The legendary watergate journalist sat down with the president for more than a dozen interviews, despite the president harshly criticizing woodwards last book. Cnns joe johns live at the white house for us this morning with the exclusive details. Look, whenever bob woodward comes out with a book, it is always news making. And this is the first glimpse as to whats inside of this, joe. Thats exactly right, joe. And this reporting comes from a colleague here at cnn, jamie gangel. This is being described as an explosive look at the president s views as well as his actions on everything from the coronavirus pandemic to the collapse of the economy to the racial unrest in the United States as well as National Security. You also mentioned that woodward apparently got 12 interviews with the president of the United States. Woodward is known to record his interviews, so in a normal factbased environment, that would make it very difficult for a president to deny the things he has said on the record. Moo among the things he got access to, emails, he got access to personal letters, diaries, calendars, including the personal letters between the president of the United States and north Korean Leader kim jongun. Those have sometimes been described as love letters. Kim describes the bond between the two leaders as something out of a fantasy film. Simon and shuster, the publisher of this book, calls it volatile and vivid. A look at the turmoil and the contradictions of the trump presidency. This book is expected to be out before election day, possibly the middle of september. So well all be looking to see what it is the president said to bob woodward. As some of us know, the last book woodward wrote on the president , the president claimed he didnt even get the interview request from bob woodward, apparently not this time. I would imagine were going to see more details leak out over the next few weeks, joe, that will be news making in and of itself. Thanks so much for delivering that this morning. As we noted, the u. S. Marked the deadliest day of the summer in the coronavirus pandemic. Nearly 1,500 new deaths. Why . More than 55,000 new cases. Why . What does that tell us about where we are . Where are we headed . Have we leveled off or not . Thats next. Some Companies Still have hr stuck between employeesentering data. A. Changing data. More and more sensitive, personal data. 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And hospitalizations, we need to look at, too. Weve always talked about the focus on positivity and hospitalizations as opposed to just the number of tests. But it doesnt seem to be adding up the way it used to. Yeah, thats right. There is a little bit of confusion. The Positivity Rate is alarmingly high and the number of tests have dropped off. One possibility is that its because were focusing testing more on symptomatic individuals, which may which may help promote that. So we dont really quite understand whats going on at this point. Ive been getting calls from a number of journalists. There seem to be some inconsistencies. But the bottom line hasnt really changed. The bottom line is theres still a very aggressive covid epidemic in texas. And even though overall the number of cases has plateaued, its plateaued at a thousand miles an hour, meaning were seeing, for instance, in houston, well over a thousand confirmed cases a day, which we know probably means between 5,000 and 10,000 cases a day. And it still means that we cant have anything resembling a normal life in houston and many other texas areas or even in south texas, where its especially bad. And it means we cant hope schools and do all the things we want to do, until we can fix this. The data is a mess right now. And the testing the fact that the testing has dropped that much, when the level of new cases, we know, is where it is, its not supposed to be that way. Youre supposed to test more to try to control the outbreak, if you can. And clearly were not able to do that right now. And im struck by daily death numbers nationally, dr. Hotez. Were back up to nearly 1500. I know death is a lagging indicator, but when were seeing the case rate plateau, as you said, at nearly 1,000 miles per hour, one has to assume were going to see, perhaps, a death toll like this for some time to come. Every day. Yeah, thats right. And remember, john, this is not really new. Its part of a consistent trend. Remember, we were talking in late june, early july how the number of cases was going up and the president is saying, yeah, but look at the deaths, its no deaths, its all due to testing, and then the next week it went from 500 to 600 deaths per day, then 800 to 900 deaths per day, then a 1,000 deaths per day and 1,100 deaths per day the week after that and 1,200 deaths per day, what do they think is going to happen . Now were at the highest daily death toll. And after this week, were going to reach 170,000 deaths. This is the way its been for most of the summer, that every week, we have another 10,000 deaths. And theres still no interest or ability to want to create that National Program that weve been talking about that we can make a huge difference in the lives of americans if we just had that National Strategy to bring every state down to containment mode and we could do this by october, but we wont. I love that youre still optimistic and holding out for that october 1st date that youve talked so much about it. But to your point about there being a lack of strategy. I mean, we look at these guidelines from the white house that were put outovernig overni calling them vague is almost an understatement. Saying people in school should be able to recognize the symptoms, but not laying out what the symptoms are. Theres no mask mandate there. Try to minimize indoor gatherings. Open the windows. When you see this as the president continues to push for kids to go back to school, as cnn has counted a couple thousand teachers, students, and staff that are now quarantined across the country in schools that are open for inperson learning, i just wonder your reaction about this being the guidance that we are getting from the top. Well, the incredible thing is, they forgot the most important guideline of all, which is you have to bring down Community Transmission if you want to safely open schools. Theres just no way right now where this epidemic is raging across the south in florida and georgia and alabama and mississippi and louisiana and in much of texas, that you can open up schools safely. They will not own the most important piece that has to be done. And this is what theyre doing. Theyre basically implying or even explicitly stating that its the teachers fault, that its the principals fault, that its the School Superintendents fault, they have to fix this when they will not take ownership and do the single most important thing we can do to keep our schools safe, which is bring down Community Transmission. It is beyond infuriating. And here we are, our greatest national treasure, our schoolteachers, and were setting them up to fail. Its it makes me beyond mad. I imagine that the cdc director, robert redfield, will be in some trouble today. Why . Because he has once again painted a dire picture of what could happen in the fall. I want you to listen to what he said. Im asking you to do four simple things. Wear a mask, social distance, wash your hands, and be smart about crowds. If we dont do that, as i said last april, this could be the worst fall from a Public Health perspective weve ever had. The worst fall from a Public Health perspective weve ever had. And he calls on individuals to make it better. Yes, we all have personal responsibility, dr. Hotez. But on the other hand, if youre looking around the country right now, if youre at home looking around the country or even looking around your county or state, you see my schools open, but the one down the street is a hybrid model. The one across the state border is closed. The state Football Conference that plays in my state, thats open for games, but the one in the state next door is closed. Were all over the place. Were all over the place. So what are you supposed to take away from that if youre sitting at home . Yeah, this is this finger pointing, saying its the individuals fault. Its like a parody of a book. This is not how it has to be. If we had that federal strategy, that guidance, that leadership, we could completely fix this. But doing what were doing, first dumping it on the states, and then the states dumping it on the teachers, and now the individuals, its clear it has clearly failed. And the evidence where its failed is weve got 5 million cases of coronavirus, the worst in the world, and we have 170,000 deaths, the worst in the world. At what point do you wake up and say, hey, maybe we should try Something Different and they just wont do that. Dr. Peter hotez, thank for being with us this morning, trying to understand the very confusing numbers were seeing, especially from your home state. Thanks for being with us. Thank you. Erica . President trumps handling of the pandemic is a major focus now of the 2020 race. What the democratic ticket is offering as a way out of this crisis, next. Up at 2 00am again . Tonight, try pure zzzs all night. Unlike other sleep aids, our extended release melatonin helps you sleep longer. And longer. Zzzquil pure zzzs all night. Fall asleep. Stay asleep. 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Senator Kamala Harris in her first appearance as joe bidens running mate putting the president s handling of the coronavirus pandemic and the economic crisis at the center of the 2020 race. Joining us now, cnn political commentator, bakari sellers, and cnn political analyst, april ryan. Shes a White House Correspondent for american urban radio networks. There was a lot going on yesterday. There was a lot to see, but it was interesting to me how they both, in their own ways, tried to say, no matter what youre seeing here and all the firsts youre seeing here, this election is about a pandemic. A pandemic that is killing americans and affecting you. What do you think about that . Yeah. And what we saw was that this is going to be a referendum on the way that donald trump has been handling and reacting to covid19. When you think about this, you have over 100,000 americans who died. Many of which are black and brown. You have tens of millions of americans that are unemployed. You have an Unemployment Rate thats skyrocketing. And you have people, i mean, im from denmark, South Carolina. Im a big gamecock football fan. Throughout the country, people cant even prepare to go see College Football this year because of the ineptitude of donald trump. So, yes, weill Kamala Harris and joe biden represent the future of this great country, they also want to remind you very tangibly that this president has failed us on all fronts, by simply not taking this virus seriously, first. And second, just pure incompetence. April. The president said he didnt really see much of it, so when a reporter basically summed up for him what Kamala Harris had said about the case that she laid out for his lack of leadership, he didnt even really respond to that. Instead, he just pulled that nasty word out of the bag, which he uses with women on a regular basis, specifically any woman who he feels do not respect him in the way he believes that he deserves. Its interesting thats all hes coming with, right . Hes just going back to the nasty women, and oh, by the way, i need a white suburban housewife, which is also not really adding up. And thats where were at. Personal attacks and race is what this president always falls back on. At the end of the day, this president is limited. They are doing their Opposition Research on senator harris right now. Now the running mate to joe biden on this democratic ticket. But once again, as you said, erica, this president likes to go to the issue of nasty. He called me nasty. Strong, black women. Lets go there. Lets not just say strong women. Senator Kamala Harris is now in that group. Hes going to make more attacks. But when he has nothing to say and when he cant find anything in his limited approach to speak, what he will do is fall back on racism and sexism. So thats what we know. So we cant expect that throughout the rest of this campaign, these next 80plus days until the election. Its interesting to me that the Biden Harris Campaign was ready for that in a way that was a prebuttal from joe biden in his part of the speech, where he said we, meaning democrats, he was saying, have to have Kamala Harris back there. It was part of the to an extent, the emotional range in the speeches we heard from both of them, bakari. And for other, or one of the other truly notable moments came from senator harris, when she was talking about her relationship with the late beau biden, the former attorney general of general, obviously, joe bidens son. Listen to this. And let me just tell you about beau biden. I learned quickly thabo was the kind of guy who inspired people to be a better version of themselves. He really was the best of us. And when i would ask him, whered you get that . Whered this come from . Hed always talk about his dad. And i will tell you the love that they shared was incredible to watch. It was the most beautiful display of the love between a father and a son. You know, completely aside from politics, bakari, i was just watching joe bidens face that whole time, and you can see this is still something thats raw for him. He is still struggling with the loss of his son. Its a deeply emotional thing for him. Yeah, but what you also saw yesterday is not only that Human Connection that both of them have, you know, as analysts, people come on tv and they were talking about, oh, jowho joe bis going to pick for president. And one of the things i kept going back to is, there was great relationship between Kamala Harris and joe biden, one that dated back to his son, beau. And even more importantly, the level of empathy and compassion, the love you saw, the kindness you saw p. I mean, that is something that just purely without the politics is the antithesis to the white house. But those are also traits that are necessary for good leadership. To be able to have empathy during moments of crisis. To be able to have compassion. To be able to have love and kindness. Thats what was represented yesterday, as well as strength. So while the president is a very small person who attempts to project strength, you know, at all times, even if it is a false sense of self. You saw yesterday a more complete package that looked like our country, so i think that voters can be excited, which is why theyre raising so much money. When you talk about that complete package, too. I would say that they are presenting themselves as a package. More so than we have seen, april, from other tickets in the past. This was very clearly biden harris, not oh, joe biden and heres my running mate. Right. The optics i mean, i just watched the whole piece. And just how they were walking in lockstep. How they were speaking in lockstep. This was something that was put together intentionally. Before, you know, as weve seen, other president ial tickets, theyve got to know each other. Of theyve been through the gamut together. And now theyre going to try to save america together. And it was almost it was almost a reminder of how obama and biden walked together. They were in lockstep. They thought as one. And were starting to see that now. Theyre starting off understanding the magnitude, the gravity, of whats happening in this nation now, and theyve got to come at it from a unified force, from the moment they hit the ground. From the moment that joe biden reached out and said, do you want this . Are you ready to work . So they are starting to bring it together to work for the American Public and showing what can be done from day one, from the moment it started. Bakari, can i go back to ask you a followup on something you started before. You brought up College Football. And the president s really leading into the idea of let them play, let them play. I want them to go play. But theres an article in the New York Times today where they went to ohio and talked to ohio state fans and they heard from people right in the middle who are beginning to blame the president for the fact that theyre not playing. So looking forward, how do you think this will play politically . Its a thing. College football is a big deal to a lot of people in swing states. So how do you think this plays . First of all, i thought you were going to ask me about taylor swift, but i digress. So College Football is a thing. Like, im a huge gamecock fan. I like to sit in the cabooses on saturday morning before we go out and watch the game for four hours. 90,000 people in the South Carolina. But if you go through all of these places, but in some of these states like north carolina, georgia, even in florida, some of these states, this is going to be a problem, because now for a long period of time, while youre listening to like a to clay travis, or youre listening to whomever it might be on rightwing radio, it hasnt hit you, because youre not getting the news in a very truthful manner. But now it does, when you realize that you cannot go out on saturday morning and watch. We cant even have clemson play South Carolina this year. Theres no georgia versus georgia tech. Theres no florida versus florida state. Theres no alabama versus auburn, or maybe there will be, because theyre s. E. C. Schools, but theres no rivalry games. This is just taking and ripg pi at the heart and fabric of many of us who enjoy this sport. It will be interesting to see how it plays out and how these other conferences do. April ryan and bakari sellers, thanks so much for being with us this morning. Thanks. All right, overnight, you may have missed this. The president proposed the most radical change to Social Security in a generation. He called for the complete elimination of the payroll tax, which funds Social Security. And with the payroll tax, well be terminating the payroll tax, after i hopefully get elected. Well be terminating the payroll tax, so that will mean anywhere from 5,000 to even more per family. And also great for businesses and great for jobs. Look, to be clear, this is not a temporary deferral. Not the one he just signed an order on. Hes calling for a complete elimination of the tax, which generates about 1. 25 trillion a year. It funds Social Security and medicare. He says, instead, he wants to fund the program through general revenue, which is running trillions in new deficits. Theres a lot going on here. It also contradicts what the white house adviser larry kudlow claimed, but the president was unambiguous and persistent about this. Hes going to eliminate, he wants to, the payroll tax completely. The white house has to answer for this. They have to explain how it works. This is not a small thing. This is a radical change. Whether you approve of it or not, its a radical change and they have to explain this. They do. Whats interesting, the president keeps using, i think these words, very clearly. He wants to cut it, he wants to eliminate it. Were having officials come out and try to clean up every time and say, no, no, no, thats not really what he means. Hes talking about this deferral, its something else. They keep going back, saying, hes not proposing a permanent cut, but his own words tell us that he is. To your point, john. It is muddy, to put it mildly. Is it possible he doesnt understand what hes saying . Yeah. Its possible, but then, the white house has to explain that, as well. Yeah. A lot of explaining needed. Imagine that, on a thursday. 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And in france, there was the largest daily increase since may 6th. 2,524 new cases since about the time the authorities began to ease up on lockdown restrictions. And in both countries, authorities are noting an increase in the number of young people who are becoming infected with the coronavirus. Im al goodman in spain. Six weeks after lifting a nationwide lockdown that slowed down the coronavirus last spring, spain is now recording the highest number of new cases in western europe. Spain has more than 329,000 cases, even more than britain. There are about 600 outbreaks across spain, but a top Government Health official says its still too early to talk about a second wave. If the number of new coronavirus patients in hospitals and in icus is on the increase, even from earlier this month. Announcer im Shasta Darlington in sao paulo. 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Reporter businesswoman Marjory Taylor green is now the heavy favorite to win a seat representing a deeply conservative district in northwest georgia. Green has repeatedly praised the qanon theory. Q is a patriot, we know that for sure, but we do not know who q is. People believe that q is someone very close to President Trump. Reporter the movement sprung to life in early 2017, based on a belief that there is a highlevel government official, q, who sprinkles clues on internet Message Boards about a series of massive deep state conspiracies at work in the country. In 2019, the fbi raised concerns over the potential for violence linked to such fringe theories. She also won despite a history of racist and incendiary remarks against muslims. We have an islamic invasion into our government offices. They want to put their hand on the quaukoran be sworn in . No, you have to be sworn in on the bible. Reporter about the democrats. Theyre trying to keep the black people in a modernday form of slavery. Its a slavery system to keep their vote. Reporter about blacks and confederate statues. If i were black and i walked by one of those statues, i would be so proud, because i would say, look how far ive come in this country. Reporter and echoing an eroe erroneous antisemitic attack against a holocaust survivor that he collaborated with nazis. I will not apologize for standing up against george soros, even when they want to call me an antisemite. Reporter the houses gop arm refusing to endorse her on wednesday. When videos of her past comments were first unearthed by politico in june, Steve Scalise vowed to back her primary opponent and called her remarks disgusting. A spokesman for House Republican leader Kevin Mccarthy said they were appalling. But President Trump was quick to herald her victory, saying in a tweet wednesday morning that shes a future republican star and a real winner. A couple hours later, a mccarthy spokesperson said, we look forward to green and other republicans winning in november. Asked on wednesday about greens victory in georgia and embrace of the fringe movement, House Speaker nancy pelosi told cnn that republicans seem comfortable with it. Now as Republican Leaders were mostly silent yesterday, one republican congressman spoke up, thats Adam Kinzinger of illinois. He tweeted that there is no place in the halls of congress for these conspiracies. He called it a fabrication, but that actually drew a rebuke from a top Trump Campaign official who went after kinzinger on twitter skpand said he should b focusing instead on democratic conspiracies. But just goes to show you that this debate who doesnt want anything to do with it, it could soon be coming to the halls of the capital if this candidate wins in november. I think that exchange with Adam Kinzinger is so telling. Not only is the Trump Campaign and the president backing a qanon candidate, theyre going after anyone who questions them now, as well. That is very significant. Thanks, manu, for that. So there will, we think, at least as of now, be part of a College Football season. Not for everyone. Whos playing, whos not . How are the players reacting . The Bleacher Report is next. I have the power to lower my blood sugar and a1c. Because i can still make my own insulin. And trulicity activates my body to release it like its supposed to. Onceweekly trulicity is for type 2 diabetes. Its not insulin. It starts acting from the first dose. And it lowers risk of heart attack, stroke, or death in people with known Heart Disease or multiple risk factors. Trulicity isnt for people with type 1 diabetes or diabetic ketoacidosis. Dont take trulicity if youre allergic to it, you or your family have medullary thyroid cancer, or have multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2. 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On one side, youve got the big 10 and the pack 12 who say their medical experts are advising them not to play football this fall. And on the other side, you have the big 12 s. E. C. And acc who say their experts are telling them they can play safely. This is where College Football stands right now. Who is playing, who is not. Big 12 commissioner said yesterday, their medical experts said that if it wasnt safe, they would stop immediately and he explained the reasoning to move forward. Reasonable people can disagree on it, but and, you know, the pack 12 and big 10 a seeing much of the same information that were seeing. But our board believes in our scientist and has come to a conclusion thats different. And so have the leadership of the s. E. C. And the acc. All right. Texas hosting the first fans at a major u. S. Team sporting event since march last night. Just under 3,000 fans were on hand to watch fc dallas play nashville. Fans had to not only wear masks and socially distance themselves but also had to sign a liability waiver as they entered the stadium. Both teams took a knee to protest Racial Injustice during the National Anthem and some of those fans were booing them. And reggie canon called those boos absolutely disgusting. Youve got fans booing you for people taking a stand for what they believe in when millions of other people support this cause and weve discussed with every other team and the league what were going to do and weve got fans booing us in our own stadium. How disgraceful for that. I want to say, for lack of a better word, it pissed me off. This is the first Team Sporting event in the u. S. That had fans in attendance and its the first one that transpired and the players heard boos. Good to hear from reggie as well. New day continues right now. Covid19 hot spots are only growing hotter. Mask wearing should be mandatory. You can have major outbreaks in one part of the country and you could have very few cases in another. We have to figure out how to deal with this. Kamala harris joining the Presumptive Democratic nominee joe biden, the first look at an historic ticket. I watched her poll numbers go, boom, boom, boom, down to almost nothing. There was nobody more insulting. The case against donald trump is open and shut. Just look where theyve gotten us. It didnt have to be this way. Reporter this is new day, with Alisyn Camerota and john berman. All right. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is new day. Alisyn is off. Erica hill with me here this morning. Good morning to you. Good morning. Breaking this morning, the most new reported deaths from coronavirus that we have seen since may. The most since may. The death toll moving in the wrong direction. Just under 1,500 new deaths in a single day. That is double, double the rate from early june. We had 56,000 new cases in a single day. Thats a bad number. Again, particularly notable because you can see the amount of new cases has been going steadily down. A blunt warning