Top of the hour. Good morning, everyone. Im poppy harlow. And im jim sciutto. History in the making. You want to take stock of moments like this. Hours from now, joe biden and Kamala Harris will appear for the first time together as running mates for the highest offices in the land. Senator harris will join biden for a speech this afternoon in his home state of delaware, and she will do so as the first black and south asian woman to be on a major partys president ial ticket. Two just released their first joint political ad. Have a look. All right. Hi. Hi. Hi. Sorry to keep you. Thats all right. Are you ready to go to work . Oh, my god. I am so ready to go to work. Well, this morning we are learning new details about why biden decided to pick senator harris. We are also seeing new attacks on her by the president. More on that, all in a moment. Lets go first to our Arlette Saenz who is in delaware this morning. Good morning, arlette. What are we going to see today . Reporter well, poppy,
Biden praising the california senator as ready to lead. The president wasting no time in taking on the new democratic ticket. Sandra team fox coverage for you this morning. John roberts at the white house with new reaction from President Trump. We begin with peter doocy in wilmington, delaware where the biden harris event is set to happen. It will mark a very big day in the race for the white house. Good morning. Good morning, sandra. On the campaign trail last year Kamala Harris did not always like talking about possibly being joe bidens running mate insisting when there were early reports she could someday be the Vice President ial candidate for joe biden. That it should be the other way around. I think joe biden would be a great running mate. He has proven he knows how to do the job. And if you zoom in on the zoom call biden made to harris to tell her he one the veep takes he had typed notes that included this line, i decided i would like you to join back the effort to be our nation
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Start heading back to school. So many questions remain how to do that safely in the middle of a Global Pandemic as an alarming new study finds there has been a 90 increase in coronavirus cases among u. S. Children over the last month. While children often do not get as sick as adults, Health Experts say covid19 in children is still a serious matter. Its not fair to say that this virus is completely benign in children. Weve had 90 deaths in children in the u. S. Already in just a few months, right . Every year we worry about influenza in children and there are roughly around 100 deaths in children from influenza every year. Reporter Health Experts say the sharp increase is likely due to mainly more activity among children, more covid testing, and an overall rise in cases in the general population. Cnns athena jones has more from new york. Reporter good morning, christine and laura. Public Health Experts warned we would see more covid19 in places where theyre not bringing coronavirus und
His daughter has already been vaccinated with it. Here at home, the virus continues its alarming spread with more than 5 million confirmed cases. That means the u. S. Now makes up more than 25 of total cases on the planet as the latest grim worldwide total now surpasses 20 million cases. Meanwhile, the nations top Infectious Disease expert, dr. Anthony fauci again making his case in the ongoing debate over reopening schools with a recommendation thats in stark contrast to what weve heard from the president and what weve seen from many governors. I feel that universal wearing of mask is one of five or six things that are very important in preventing the upsurge of infection. But we begin in washington where the Trump Administration has a new proposal to battle this harsh reality of growing cases. There are now new outbreaks in reportedly nearly 20 states. These new reports today that the Trump Administration is considering temporarily blocking americans from returning to the u. S. If th