Im michael holmes. Youre watching cnn newsroom. Eight months after the Novel Coronavirus was officially identified, the global number of infections from covid19 now toppling 27 million. And despite International Efforts to contain the pandemic, the virus keeps spreading at an alarming rate. In europe some countries reporting their most infections in months. India, meanwhile, now passing brazil as the country with the second highest number of confirmed cases in the world. Only the u. S. Has more. But now theres growing concern americas numbers could rise even further as the country prepares to celebrate the Labor Day Holiday in the coming hours. Lets get started by getting more on the growing outbreak in india. Cnn is live for us in new delhi. Yeah, how concerning is this for the Indian Government . I mean, these numbers clearly going the wrong way. Well, michael, the worry is here to stay for a while at least because weve just seen that surge in new infections on a daily basis go above
Parts of california are dealing with their hottest weekend on record. Intensifying, devastating wildfires raging across the state. And the governor has now declared a state of emergency in five counties. Los angeles county just west of where the el dorado fire is burning recorded its highest ever temperature on sunday, 121 degrees fahrenheit. Thats close to 50 degrees celsius. San bernardinos cal fire unit says Law Enforcement has determined this fire was caused by smoke generating pyrotechnic device used during a gender reveal party. Wildfires have burned more than 2 million acres this year. Thats a state record and were only in september. Now, this video is from a lake in Central California are authorities there warned people on boats about the dangerous smoke and ash. And here this satellite imagery shows the smoke emergency facing much of the American West with several major fires still burning on the sun. On sunday. Now, the triple threat of heat, smoke and flames is a major chall
The reckless antivaccine rhetoric that they are talking right now, talking about endangering lives and it undermines science. Cnns Jeremy Diamond joins us live from the white house. So, jeremy, this was billed as a labor day press conference, but what was really the point of this . Reporter yeah, there is no doubt the president turned this into a political attack speech as he does during the news conferences. Going after joe biden in so many terms as to call him stupid and to suggest that china would own the United States if joe biden was elected president. But perhaps the most noteworthy comment was directed at the Vice President ial nominee Kamala Harris. The president suggesting that harris made, quote, reckless antivaccine comments and he called on her to apologize. But that is just a total mischaracterization of what senator harris said yesterday to our colleague dana bash on state of the union. Listen to what senator Harris Actually said. I think thats going to be an issue for al
6 00 here in new york. Alisyn is off. Erica hill with me here this morning. Happy dlalabor day. Happy labor day to you. Its exciting to be in a studio again, too. Its nice to be near real people. Yeah. If you consider me a real person. Well get into that. But its not a quiet holiday. And holiday weekends a big flashing danger signs for coronavirus. And this morning, we have pictures like this, beaches pretty packed over the holiday weekend. And celebrations like this one in San Francisco raising fears of a new spike in cases in what could ultimately lead to deaths. Were getting new information about colleges this morning, with some campuses the sites of runaway spread. Thousands of cases in all 50 states now linked to the reopening of colleges and universities. Meantime, there is new reporting that President Trump putting pressure on Health Officials for a Coronavirus Vaccine before election day. And now the wall street journal reports at least three of the Companies Working to develop
The day after the successor to a recently dead Adolph Hitler signed the surrender of nazi. Theyre holding looks like pots and pans. They got the nazis quit in one page and all three of them are wearing an ear to ear grin. Here is another shot from three months later, japan surrenders as well. The headline was even larger, that day was peace. The woman on the left, her name was Johnny Dexter and the man in the middle, the gi is robert ingram. Japan surrendered and the war is over. Here is another great one, 1952, the caption says american soldiers read the stars and stripes newspaper while eating a biscuit and jam in the field in korea. You can see his kit next to him there. Ten years after this photo. Thats 1952. Ten years later, we have the cuban missile crisis breaks out mid october, the whole world thinks the u. S. And the soviet union is going to have a nuclear war. I resolved on october 28th. This is from october 29th, 1962, four gis reading the stars and tri stripes. You can see