Jim, a development in the white house today in the shadow of the coronavirus. Reporter thats right, wolf. President trump spent the day celebrating some big diplomatic agreements reached between israel and the United Arab Emirates and bahrain, but the coronavirus pandemic was stealing part of the spotlight in this deal. Like the president s rallies, the white house featured attendees sitting side by side, many without wearing any masks. The president and top officials continue to brush off concerns that they are actively encouraging americans to crowd into places where the virus can pick and choose its next victim. Bringing together the leaders of israel, the United Arab Emirates and bahrain to establish diplomatic relations, President Trump hailed the agreement as a breakthrough that would spread peace across the middle east. Were here this afternoon to change the course of history. Reporter the president pointed to the moment as a sign of his dealmaking skills bearing fruit in a troubled region. Together these agreements will serve as the foundation for a comprehensive peace across the entire region, something nobody thought was possible, certainly not in this day and age. Maybe in many decades from now. Reporter but the event may have been spreading the coronavirus, too. Top administration officials, members of the president s family and gop lawmakers took their seats side by side for the ceremony on the south lawn of the white house with no social distancing and mostly unmasked. I did wear it earlier. Reporter we saw you not wearing it earlier. Reporter a replay of how the president is tempting fate at his rallies. His latest Campaign Events in nevada and arizona were indoors and filled with supporters. All at a time when the use death toll from covid19 is approaching 200,000, approximately 20 of the deaths from the virus worldwide. Jared kushner, jared, thank you very much. Reporter President Trumps soninlaw, Jared Kushner, who got a pat on the back for the mideast, says trump can make his own decisions. Look, the president can make his own decisions. We printed guidance to follow. Most of the gatherings have been outdoors. Reporter joe biden wears a mask in public as he responds to the president s attacks. Everybody knows who trump is. People are going to show up and vote. Reporter the president continues to tease that a vaccine could be released before election day, even though his own Health Experts say thats unlikely. Its going to be soon. Will it be before the election . It could be in terms of if we have something and well start delivering it immediately upon getting it. Reporter and he is still responding to Bob Woodwards book who revealed the president potentially downplayed covid19, a book that the president now says is fine. I read it last nig. I read it last night, but it was very boring. Its okay, its fine. Reporter another author who got under president s skin, former National Security adviser john bolton is now facing a Justice Department investigation as to whether he revealed classified information, a move seen by critics as a warning to others in the administration. Bolton has blasted the president s handling of the virus. The president simply didnt want to hear about it. He didnt want anything in the way of the trade deal with china that he signed in january. Reporter as for the president s attempt at middle east peace, he still faces two big obstacles ju, just how he w bring the palestinians to the bargaining table with israel, and iran. If we win, well have a deal with iran. Reporter now, back on the pandemic. Cnn has confirmed that health and Human Services spokesman Michael Caputo has apologized to staffers at the department for comments he made on facebook accusing government scientists of sedition and being part of a resistance movement. Caputo said the Department Status is questionable. Caputo was already treading on thin ice even before these revelations on facebook, wolf. Lets get to more on this and the state of the pandemic as the u. S. Death toll gets closer and closer to 200,000. Cnns nick watt is in los angeles for us. Nick, Health Experts say the country needs to make critical choice and they need to do so right now. Reporter thats right, wolf. This was the director of the world health organization, and he said basically as we move into winter, either we can have kids in schools or we can have bars and nightclubs open, but we cant have both if we want to keep the vulnerable, the elderly safe. We have to make a choice. Something has got to give. The National Daily case count is falling. All rosy, right . Wrong. I cant relax with this thing. Its relentless. Reporter more daily cases now than before we started going on lockdowns. More cases now than even during those dark days in april. Its a war zone. A medical war zone. Reporter new york crushed its curve, but 55 School Staffers have now tested positive. The Teachers Union says theyre not ready to reopen. Remember, kids can get sick. Nineyearold eli litman and his dad jonathan both got sick in march, still suffering. Socalled longholers. It felt like the day after you got smashed into a wall. Like, youre achy, youre sore, youre tired, but like not the tired where you go to sleep. I cant go to sleep. Reporter many Michigan State sororities and fraternities now ordered to quarantine after cases in the county are up 50 in a month. All students at the university of arizona are ordered to shelter in place until the end of this month. And pastor joel olstein having public services. Even if its effective, its going to take a year or two before everyone is protected. Reporter and the fda has to greenlight the vaccine. We saw the plasma statements that when you start pressuring people to say optimistic things, they go completely off the rails. And so the fda lost a lot of credibility there. Reporter gates just told stat, this has been a mismanaged situation every step of the way. Its shocking, its unbelievable. Reporter and, wolf, as you mentioned earlier, the president again today saying that we might get a vaccine within weeks, four to eight weeks. Most experts strongly disagree with that. And you know what . Even if we had a vaccine, right now we do not have a federal plan in place to distribute it. Wolf . Distribution is so critical. Nick watt in l. A. , thank you. Lets discuss with cnn medical analyst dr. Leana wen. Shes a former university of Baltimore Health commissioner. What goes through your mind when you see the president hold yet another event with little regard to face masks, little regard to social distancing . Wolf, if i were to customdesign a super spreader event, thats what it would look like. It would look like many people, thousands of people, gathering together, not Wearing Masks and, in fact, flaunting in many cases these Public Health guidance. That makes me wonder not only what theyre doing at this event, but what people are going good once they return home. Theyre not going to abide by the guidelines when it comes to selfquarantine and testing, and we could be looking at many more infections resulting in the middle of a pandemic. The president continues to suggest that a vaccine could be just four to eight weeks away. Does it concern you to hear the president tout a vaccine timeline like that that doesnt appear to be doesnt appear to be what his own top science and medical advisers are telling him, more than likely by the end of the year early next year something might emerge . Right now trust is in such short supply. There is already so much doubt about political interference with a scientific process, many americans, a growing number of americans who are not by any means antivaxers are now wondering if the vaccine will be safe and effective because of that kind of interference. So the less the president can say about a date certain, the better it will be. We really need to let science lead and not aim for speed but rather aim for safety and efficacy. The former cdc director dr. Tom frieden said today, its easi easier to figure out if a vaccine actually works than to determine if its actually safe. What exactly is he concerned about . So it may be that we find out about efficacy very quickly if it turns out that we have a really good vaccine, which i really hope that we do. So you give this vaccine to people or you give the placebo to people, you give the vaccine to people, you compare. If there is a lot of virus in the community, and if its a very effective vaccine, you can theoretically tell pretty quickly if individuals are relatively protected against coronavirus if they get the vaccine. But you still have to look for safety as well, and it may be that there are very rare side effects, 1 in 10,000, lets say, which if you give it to hundreds of millions of people, that makes a big difference. But that 1 in 10,000 case or that 1 in 50,000 case, you may not see until you give it to a lot of individuals. Thats why having base trials is so important. You need to test it on a lot of people. Youre giving this vaccine to otherwise healthy individuals and determining that safety is going to be so important. Thats another reason why we cant rush this process. Vaccine development is highly complex and its not the end point. We also have to talk about distribution, manufacturing, how were going to coordinate hundreds of millions of people getting not one, but potentially two, doses of this vaccine. There is a long road ahead of us and we need to talk about Pandemic Management and living with this virus in the meantime. Yeah, thats absolutely true. Dr. Leana wen, as usual, thanks so much for joining us. Are new York City Schools ready to open next week . Ill ask the mayor of new york bill de blasio about a lot of concerns that are currently being raised. Also were about to go live to the National Hurricane center for the latest on Hurricane Sally and the danger to the gulf coast right now. Woman my reputation was trashed online. I felt completely helpless. My entire career and business were in jeopardy. I called reputation defender. Vo take control of your online reputation. Get your free reputation report card at reputationdefender. Com. 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Thats far below the 74 of students you had anticipated welcoming back in person this fall. What does that tell you, mayor, about confidence in the citys ability to keep the students, the teachers, the staff safe . Well, it tells me, wolf, that the families of well over half a million kids want their kids in school, that they see that weve gone to the most extensive precautions to keep the schools safe, and we really tried to create a global Gold Standard here. We looked at the best practices from around the globe, and we went farther. Testing is being provided for free to anyone who wants and needs it. Well be testing regularly. We have masks on all adults and children. Actually, very few countries in the world have required that. We are requiring that. Constant cleaning. A lot of social distancing. A typical new york city Public School classroom will have about 10 or 12 students. Unheard of to have so few kids in a room, but ill tell you something, wolf, there are so many families begging us to get school back because their kids lost a lot of last year. They need the support of educators, they need the Mental Health and physical Health Services available in schools, especially for less advantaged kids. Being back in school will allow them to get their education back on track, and parents need us to be there for them. I certainly appreciate what youre saying, but weve heard from teachers out there, as you know, mayor, who are very concerned about their health and that of their students. They have concerns about actual access to testing and the ability to properly ventilate classrooms, especially in a lot of those older school buildings. What do you say to those teachers who are so worried right now about what next week will bring . So we did a thorough ventilation check of all our classrooms. 96 came back ready to go. The additional classrooms that needed more work are getting more work. We were very thorough. We brought in outside engineers to check every classroom, make sure they were ready. Were making sure testing is there. Just last week, 17,000 School Personnel got tested. The number positive out of 17,000 was 55, 0. 23 tested positive. Thank god the vast majority of teachers in our schools will come in healthy, and well be able to keep people safe by all these precautions. So i listened to all the concerns. But the answer is, again, to have a Gold Standard. Use every health precaution, one layered on top of the other, to create a very safe environment and to make sure that people are constantly reminded that health and safety comes first. A lot of School Systems didnt do that. Thats the honest truth, wolf, and they experienced problems. Were not taking any chances here in new york city. You name the safety precaution, were doing it. What about, mayor, the more than 40 of the citys students who have opted for entirely Remote Learning this fall. How are you meeting the needs of those students who will not be returning to classrooms . Wolf, thats how the school year begins. Theyll have an opportunity in november if they want to come back into the blended learning and be part of the time in school. Theyll have a chance to do that as early as november. But we want to do the very best we can for kids who are all remote. Its hard, our educators are doing a really great job creating every possible way to make it work, but the truth is, remote teaching just isnt in any way as good for kids as inperson teaching. So you can make it better, but you cant make it as good as in person. Your city, as we all know, was hit incredibly hard by this virus, and understandably some residents in new york, theyve actually been very hesitant to return. You received a letter from 150 Business Leaders the other day warning of what they called deteriorating conditions in your city. Among other things, they write this. Let me read it to you. People will be slow to return to new york unless their concerns about security and the live ability of the community are addressed quickly and with respect and fairness for our citys diverse populations. So what concerns are you addressing for the people reluctant to come back to new york city. You know new york city. Working class new yorkers, middle class new yorkers are here fighting every day to bring the city back. Were now one of the safest places in america. We fought back this disease. Typically around here weve had less than a 1 infection rate in recent days. People have seen new york citys heart and soul in that. Now were fighting other challenges. We have budget challenges for sure, we have to deal with issues in our neighborhoods and keep bringing up the quality of life, but were turning out to be the epicenter of this crisis in the whole country, and weve gone from there you can see the economy is coming back, you can see more and more people coming in, you can see whats happening with outdoor dining. There is a lot happening. And now the biggest schools in the country reopening. The more progress new york city is making the more confident people will have that new york city is coming back strong. Good luck, mayor. I know there is a lot of pressure on you and everyone else to make sure new york city stays safe. Good luck. Thank you, wolf. Just ahead, as Hurricane Sallys winds begin to hit the gulf coast, well get an update on where and when the storm may unleash truly historic flooding. Getting a live look from new orleans right there. Thomas freedman is standing by live. 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What can you tell us about the storms trajectory and when it will actually make landfall . Wolf, im right here in the Operations Area of the hurricane center, and we were getting the latest information from the aircraft, and still we have winds at 80 miles an hour. You can see the eye right here but its only moving north at 2 miles an hour, and that is the problem. A slowmoving hurricane like this is longer to put all that rainfall on the ground, and its longer to push that storm surge in. In the next 24 hours, movement will still be right along the coast. Thats all its going to move over the next 24 hours. So where do you expect it to actually hit . Where are the most serious danger spots . The danger spot is really important not just to focus on that center, because look at this rain. Wolf, just a dangerous amount of rainfall here. The slow movement can cause anywhere from 15 to 20 inches of rain from the alabama coast over to the florida panhandle. Some places could get 25 inches of rain. The problem is its not just along the coast. With time that slow movement can produce anywhere from 6 to 10 inches, maybe even 10 to 15 in some areas of alabama, into georgia, and eventually some portions of north carolina. This is really going to be an awful situation. Whats your advice, ken, to everyone in the path of this hurricane . Its really to have that plan. Listen to the warnings. The Weather Forecast offices watching those radars and theyre going to issue those flash flood warnings. Just have a safe place to be. And most important, stay off the roads. Turn around, dont drown. Its so dangerous. Water is the leading cause of fatalities in these tropical systems. As a lot of us remember who covered hurricanes over the years. Ken graham, good luck to you. Were grateful for what you and your team are doing. Thank you. Lets get some more on this dangerous lifethreatening storm right now. Gary tucker is in pensacola, florida. Gary, tell us about the winds that youre experiencing right now and how much worse you expect it to get. Reporter yeah, its going to get a lot worse, wolf, because as we just heard, this is a slowmoving hurricane and the worst is yet to come. Along santa rosa island, its just south of pensacola. This is pensacola beach. The signs tell us please practice social distancing. Its not an issue right now. Theres no one on the beach. I feel like im skiing, and theres a snow squall and huge winds and whiteout conditions. Thats what it feels like right now aside from the temperature. But this is the beach. The waves are getting bigger and bigger as were standing here, and its already flooded quite a bit. Were hours away from the eye of the storm getting close to here. These are the lifeguard stations. They were abandoned earlier in the day, the beach is officially closed. Some people are coming by to look at it. Hurricane laura two weeks ago hit in charles, louisiana. I was in lake charles, the winds were scary and dangerous, the winds 80 miles an hour. But there was not a flooding problem. There was immense damage in lake charles, no question about it. This we already know theres already flooding here, and there will probably be a lot more, and as you just heard, there could be two feet of rain. Not inches, were talking two feet. Thats 24 inches. So its very concerning here at the as the roads start to flood here as people hope for the best and fear the worst. Have most of the people, gary, have they left or are they hunkering down where they are . Reporter so this Barrier Island has about 5,000 residents year round. Weve seen very few people. There are very few shelters. A lot of people dont want to leave because of covid and being around other people. If there is a voluntary evacuation, people are told stay in your house, stay in place. We see basically no one wandering around. As you say, as its building up speed, it could last in that area for quite a while, right . The rain is forecast to continue until thursday. This is tuesday. So, obviously, its a great concern. Like i said, the Barrier Island, there are bridges that go to pensacola. Were cleaning the lens. A population of 50,000 people, so its a goodsized metropolitan area, and theyll have a lot of problems with not just this Barrier Island but flooding to the north. Please be careful, your entire team over there. Well stay in close touch. Thank you very much for that report. Just ahead, the New York Times columnist and bestselling author Thomas Friedman is standing by. Ill get his reaction about what happened in washington today and also his reaction to my interview with Jared Kushner. A truly historic diplomatic agreement signed at the white house. Cnn has learned that a top hhs spokesman is apologizing as he worked for sedition and to undermine President Trump. 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Thank you for giving. Thank you for giving. [child] please call right now to give. If operators are busy with other caring donors, please hold patiently, or go to loveshriners. Org [child] your gift, no matter how small, shows you care. A truly historic day at the white house. President trump presiding over ceremonies as a diplomatic agreement gets signed between israel, uae and bahrain. Listen to what White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner told me last hour about these agreements. Today what we did was we shattered an amazing barrier, bringing the arab countries together with israel hopefully marks the beginning of the end of the arab conflict. Thomas friedman is also the bestseller from israel to jerusalem. No one better to discuss the middle east than you, tom. What do you think you just heard from Jared Kushner about these deals that were signed today . Wolf, i think this was a good day, because anything that, in my view, makes the middle east look and feel more like, say, the European Union where neighboring countries trade with one another, you know, do tourism with one another, invest with one another, sends students to one another, thats going to make for a more stable region. And so i think this was a good day. There were many reasons behind this deal. One of the things ive learned over the years is that in the middle east, if you get big change when the big players do big things for the wrong reasons. The uae wanted f35s from the united states, it wanted to be in the good graces with the Democratic Party should biden win, they wanted intelligence from iran as im sure the uae did. There are many good hardcore Strategic Interests at play here. But at the end of the day, wolf, youre going to see a lot of humantohuman contact, i believe, between israel, israeli jews and arabs, between these countries, and i believe it can break down barriers between jews and arabs that were born with this palestinian conflict. We have to solve the palestinian issue. Ill get to that in a moment, but you heard the president say maybe four, five or six additional arab countries will make the same deal with them, maybe seven, eight or nine. Do you see similar arab countries making deals with israel, especially, lets say, saudi arabia . I dont think youll see saudi arabia move, wolf, until after the u. S. Election. The saudi decision to normalize with israel would be a huge development. I think it would require much more advance on the israelipalestinian issue in particular. Thats a card the saudis wouldnt want to play except with the next president , whether its joe biden or donald trump. Its not something theyll want to play now. Thats too big a move. But the saudis blessed this deal because theyre letting alal, israels airline, fly over bahrain, the uae and back. Supposedly they gave permission to bahrain to sign this deal as well. No question. Its almost certain bahrain wouldnt have done it unless they got an okay from saudi arabia. What about oman, what about other countries in kuwait . Do you see them jumping aboard . I think the next one maybe would be oman, which the president of israel visited oman. They already have an open relationship. Morocco where you have a lot of moroccan jews and connections there. Sudan could be very near the next country. Sudan wants to get off the terrorism list. There are issues there with the united states. I could see other states definitely jumping in. A dam has been broken here, and as i said, i think the more theres trade and tourism between these countries, it makes for a better, more prosperous, more healthy region. So where does this leave the palestinians . Well, you know, i think theres a plan to forge a deal but also expose some things. It only came about because the core endeavor that Jared Kushner and President Trump were on, which was to forge an israelipalestinian deal, that was getting nowhere. It was getting nowhere in a way thats very important for us to understand. That deal basically said israel can own 37 of the west bank and the palestinians would get the other 73 . Netanyahu could not get his right wing cabinet to agree with a palestinian state, loosely connected, surrounded by the israeli army, he could not get his cabinet to approve that. We need to remember that. Its not only popular for what it did but what it revealed. Washington helped write this plan, and at the end of the day, b. B. Netanyahu could not accept b. B. Netanyahus plan. That will have longterm implications. Its not like its out there ripe, and you will see the implications of that in the coming months. But at least for the time being, he suspended any notion of annexing, and were talking about the Prime Minister of israel, annexing part of the west bank which leaves open the possibility, and a lot of us hope it will happen, for a twostate region lifving alongside palestine. Remember, netanyahu tried to annex his 30 without recognizing there would have to be a palestinian state on the other 70 . Trump and kushner actually stopped him from doing it, and that created the raw material for this deal because then the uae stepped in and said, well normalize relations with you if you stop annexation. This deal actually showed how unprepared the Israeli Government is for even the most proisraeli peace twostate deal on the west bank with the palestinians. The palestinians didnt sign up, either. This showed us how hard it is, wolf, not that its like right around the corner. Very quickly before i let you go, tom, historic event at the white house today. Large crowds on the south lawn, people close together, very few people Wearing Masks. President netanyahu is under pressure at home because of how it was handled. What do you make of this . I could have gone, but i didnt go because i thought people wouldnt be wearing face masks. History, i dont think, will damn trump for what he didnt do early on in this crisis for when things were hard and unknown. But it will damn him on the coronavirus for what he hasnt done right now when the solutions are clear and theyre easy. Wear a mask, social distance, and its really a travesty that they wont do what is easy and known right now. Tom friedman, thank you very much for joining us. Once again, let me remind our viewers his classic book from beirut to jerusalem, something everyone should read. There is the cover right there. A quick programming note for our viewers. Later tonight the Journalist Bob Woodward will sit down with Anderson Cooper for the hour to talk about his new book rage. 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It came from the communications director. A man tasked with shaping the Trump Administrations message on the coronavirus pandemic made it even more jarring. Michael caputo, assistant secretary and top spokesperson for the department of health and Human Services on a rant on his Facebook Page watched by people. Committing, quote, sedition and harboring a Resistance Unit to prevent President Trump. He controls this flow of information and ultimately everybody works for the president. Caputos rant followed reporting that his Communications Arm at hhs had pushed to chang language in weekly cdc reports about the pandemic. But caputo wasnt done there, in remarks first reported by the New York Times and confirmed by cnn, caputo predicted in his facebook message that President Trump will win reelection, that joe biden wont concede, and that street violence will insue. If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, and because its going to be hard to get. This is someone who in a normal administration would never be let anywhere near a Top Administration job, let alone one of the most important roles in the most important Cabinet Department combatting a global pandemic. Before being appointed to his post in past april, Michael Caputo had no background in health care. Hes been primarily a political strategist, working for Russian Politicians like the late president boris yell seine before looking on with the Trump Campaign in 2016, which he called one of his toughest gigs. Politics a bean bag. Its a very, very difficult career. Ive been in it for 30 years. Ive been on dozens and dozens of campaigns all over the world, in places that didnt even have electricity. And this was the hardest campaign to work on in my entire career. Theres nothing even close. Caputo was caught up in Robert Muellers russia investigation when mueller investigated a meeting caputo may have been involved in between an operative and a russian who may have had dirt on hillary clinton. Caputo was never accuse of wrong dog. The mueller invest gators said they didnt feel they had gotten full cooperation from the parties involved. Observers say caputo has a reputation for trafficking conspiracy theories. Cnns k file reported this year he made racist and derogatory comments about chinese people, had accused democrats of wanting the coronavirus to kill millions and accused the media of intentionally creating panic to hurt trump in a series of nowdeleted tweets. It reflects all throughout the Trump Administration you have had various individuals, including caputo, who have been placed in these highprofile positions where theyre not particularly trained for it and their main provocation is a fierce loyalty to trump. Cnn reached out today but could not get Michael Caputo to comment for our story and respond to the observation that he has trafficked in conspiracy theories. But he had told jim acosta earlier he made the Facebook Comments as he was dealing with pressure from harassment from his family and himself including one he deemed a death threat. Hes facing Health Conditions that could prompt him to step aside. More news right after this. [ engine rumbling ] [ beeping ] [ engine revs ] uh, you know theres a 30minute limit, right . Tell that to the rain. [ beeping ] for those who were born to ride, theres progressive. Be sure to tune in to cnn thursday night for a live president ial town hall, democratic president ial nominee joe biden joins Anderson Cooper in scranton, pennsylvania, only on cnn. Erin Burnett Outfront starts erin Burnett Outfront starts right now. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com outfront, breaking news, the president telling abc news he did not down play the virus. He upplayed it. That is not true. Conditions deteriorating along the gulf coast as Hurricane Sally hours from land fall, growing fears of a devastating storm surge. New video tonight of the two l. A. Deputies who were ambushed. Are officials any closer to identifying the shooter . Lets go outfront. Good evening. Im erin burnett. Outfront this evening, the breaking news, President Trump says he never d
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