A number once unthinkable and now unavoidable. A model cited by the white house is now projecting an astronomical 410,000 americans dead by january. Thats more than double the current dead toll. Thats one american dead every 80 seconds of the rest of the year. 3,000 are dying a day. 1,000 died yesterday. A painful normal. The u. S. Seems all too unwilling to accept. This Holiday Weekend will be a pivotal determination whether they are willing to curb this crisis. Small Outdoor Events are generally okay. Big indoor events are a recipe for disaster. We dont want to see a repeat of the surges that we have seen following other Holiday Weekends, particularly as we go on the other side of labor day and enter into the fall, we want to go into that with a running start in the right direction. We dont want to go into that with another surge we have to turn around again. There are now 27,000 cases at colleges around the country 306789 at Indiana University have been ordered to quarantine because
Morning. Some in person, others remotely. That includes big city districts like chicago, houston, dallas, and baltimore. Over 7 million kids will start school online. As large labor day crowds trigger new fears of another surge in cases across the country. Cnns athena jones has more. I worry that any new surges will be potentially quite catastrophic. Reporter Labor Day Weekend seems like this dance party in San Francisco raising concerns among Health Experts and Public Officials that a surge in covid19 cases could soon follow just like they did after previous holiday weekends. We have seen, as we mentioned, spikes after long weekends, after spring break so thats certainly a concern. Reporter in fact, new Coronavirus Infections are averaging around 40,000 a day, double the daily average going into memorial day. With cases on the rise in the northeast and florida while states like north dakota, south dakota, iowa, missouri, tennessee lead the nation in a sevenday average of new cases per
Fully manmade is assault on science and altering cdc reports to fall in line with trumps rhetoric on the pandemic. Incorrect rhetoric. Trump putting supporters at risk with indoor rallies and now learning that the Washington Post that the president s new choice to lead is a known skeptic of Climate Crisis. We have much measure on all of this and we begin with the hurricane threat. The gulf coast is once again on edge bracing for a powerful storm. Tropical storm sally strengthened into a hurricane. Mississippi and alabamas entire coasts are under a hurricane warning. We have meteorologist Jennifer Gray whos tracking sally in the cnn Severe Weather center. Tell us about this path. It appears that it is shifting east. Yeah. A little bit east. Expected to make landfall between Southeast Louisiana and the alabama coastline. The biggest thing with this storm is going to be how long its going to sit over this coast. It is going to slow down tremendously before making landfall and dump rain al
Have americas attention for the president ial debate. One topic coming up, the growing fallout from the expose on the president s finances, huge losses, crushing debt. Tiny 750 tax bill during his first year in office and for 10 of the last 15 years he paid nothing at all. So one crucial question is who exactly does he owe . Theres new reporting from the times this morning as well. First cnns arlitt saenz sets the stage for tonights debate in cleveland. Reporter laura and christine, joichristin christine, joe biden and President Trump have sparred from afar. Tonight they will face off. Each of the candidates has intensely prepared for the debate in their own ways. Biden reading through briefing books and huddling with his top advisers as he prepares for what he believes will be personal attacks. For the president s part, hes been studying up on possible lines of attack. They have stood in for biden during his debate preparations. This debate will look very different from past debates d
Us. He will not be able to stop us at all. We are going to win mofour me great years in the white house. Tracking one of the biggest stories. Exclusion in early voting numbers. More than 87 million have already voted. If you havent sent in your ballot, walk it in and drop it off. You dont have an excuse at this point for not being able to vote. This is new day weekend with Victor Blackwell and christi paul. The chill is in the air in atlanta but the lights are on. It does look pretty nice, doesnt it . Were hoping you have a good saturday as youre waking up on this saturday morning which is just three days from election day. We know that millions of votes have already been cast. Didnt know if you were one who got out there early. Today we know both candidates are zeroing in on the rust belt states because these are key battleground states that pushed President Trump to victory back in 2016. We got the total overnight. The United States has set a new world record for coronavirus cases re