Happily both of them are covered with the care they got at Emory University hospital grade of course there are now thousands of people in west africa who are infected. Theres no practical way to move them out at the space where they currently are so the big effort now has to be to provide care for them they are in the country and that would apply also to Health Care Providers many of whom sadly have also been infected and hundreds of them have died as a result of ebola. But the big push has to be to get things on the ground in liberia and sierra leone to make it possible to treat those who become infected and reduce the number of new infections. Host waldorf maryland job is watching as their independent caller. Good morning. Caller good morning. What are they using to treat the people that came back and they ran out and also the troops they are sending are they going to get the vaccine before they go . So the vaccine is not ready yet to be delivered to anybody. Right now its just a pha
Has tested positive after traveling to europe without a mask. And in a different note, in a couple of hours, william barr will testify on capitol hill in this longawaited showdown with house democrats. But lets talk about where we are in the pandemic this morning in the headspinning developments overnight. Joining us now is dr. Jean maras sew, from the Infectious Diseases at the university of alabama at birmingham. Dr. Carlos del rio, the executive associate dean of emery university, school of medicine, at grady health system. We should note hes contributing to the Moderna Vaccine trial. Doctor, we played dr. Anthony fauci having to make a statement this morning saying i dont mislead the American People. Ever. He said. Why did he have to do that . Because President Trump last night in addition to sending out to the 84 million social media message that you dont have to wear a mask, he sent out a message which says that dr. Fauci is misleading people. So fauci had to respond this morning
Top of the hour. Good morning, everyone. Im poppy harlow. And im jim sciutto. We begin this morning with breaking news. The start of attorney general bill barrs hearing before the Judiciary Committee is now being delayed 45 minutes, this after the chairman of that Committee Jerry Nadler was involved in a car accident. We should note he was not injured in that accident. Thats right. Were glad hes okay. Our senior Congressional Correspondent manu raju joins us on the hill with more to update us as we wait for the hearing begin. We know it will be delayed at least 45 minutes. Jerry nadler was involved in the car accident. He was not injured according to his spokesman. We dont know other details about the accident, if anyone else was injured or not, but this will essentially delay the start of this hearing, much anticipated hearing that the democrats will have are the first time in the house Judiciary Committee to question bill barr after previous appearances that had been scrapped. Bill b
Here in new york. Alisyn camerota is off. Erica hill joins me this morning. Big morning. Yeah, it really is. And not the kind of big you want to see. 5 million cases. 5 million cases of coronavirus in the United States. More than 1 million new cases in the past 17 days alone. A new study finds nearly 100,000 children tested positive in the last two weeks of july. Reports this morning that the College Football season might be canceled this week. The impact is profound, sprawling, and deepening. 5 million cases. 5 million is more than the population of 27 entire states. Its also 4,999,999 more than the one person the president told us about in january. We have it totally under control, its one person coming in from china and we have it under control. Its going to be just fine. Its not just fine. 5 million is not just fine. And its 5 million more than the close to zero the president promised in march. When you have 15 people and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close
Facing a dangerous spike in cases. Today, joe and jill biden will visit kenosha, wisconsin. They will meet with jacob blakes family, President Trump went to kenosha, as you know, but did not meet with the family. In an exclusive interview with cnn, attorney general bill barr says he does not believe systemic racism exists in the United States justice system. But we just learned new details overnight of a different case of an unarmed black man dying in the custody of police in rochester, new york, and we have that shocking and very upsetting video. And this morning, a host of new polls on the state of the president ial race after both conventions, including a brandnew cnn poll, and they all tell a very interesting story about where the race is. But first, lets bring in dr. Sanjay gupta, hes cnns chief medical correspondent with our top story. Okay, sanjay, we have a lot to get through. Still, you know, more than a thousand people dying a day. And its just, you know, let me pull up the m