Friends . Why do they have to stay in the cooler temperatures force more people to spend more time house . Indoors. Now despite this bad news, how do you explain this to them to help them better deal with President Trump continues to say it . I think its really about that he is handling the pandemic focusing not on what we cant do well. Compared to whom . But saying we are helping others by staying home. This is the death rate in e. U. We are keeping teachers safe by in blue. Thats the United States in not opening schools. Orange. The e. U. Has 100 million more we are doing our part to keep our neighbors healthy by not going around and having big people than the United States. Parties. Thats the type of thing that but their death rate is half. Children can relate to more so the virus is not contained in than just heres what were not the United States. Testing is not available for most americans. Doing. But i think helping them label millions of children in this country cannot go to sch
Atlanta. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im Natalie Allen and this is cnn newsroom. Thank you for joining us this hour. This years fire season in the western u. S. Is already one of the worst ever recorded. More than 100 massive wildfires, 100 are now racing unchecked through one dozen states pushed by hot winds across bone dry landscapes. At least 26 people have been killed since the fires broke out in midaugust. And in an ominous sign, the death toll almost certainly will go much higher. Oregon officials are preparing for mass fatalities, as they search through burned out homes and communities. The governor says dozens of people currently are unaccounted for. And they issued this dire warning. I cant see this enough, if you are notified by emergency officials to evacuate, please do so immediately, you may not get a second chance. California, where at least 19 people have died is battling about two dozen major fires across the state. One San Francisco
Consequences firsthand perhaps. Cnns camilla is in salem, oregon. Officials in that state say that they are preparing for a mass fatality incident. What are you seeing . Yeah, they are, fred. Weve been trying to chase those flames all day. And we get to these road blocks like where we are right now. What happens is that not only is it about the flames but its about that smoke that you were just talking about. The air quality. Governor kate brown here says this is the worst in the world. You can see it just as were trying to enter this area. Officials are telling us that they dont want anybody to go through here because they cant see five or ten feet in front of them. So they say its dangerous not only for the firefighters but, of course, for anyone who is trying to walk around or trying to find their homes. Unfortunately, as weve been here throughout the week, wooe seen some of these homes completely devastated. Weve seen the flames and weve heard the heartbreak and the emotion from so
I was a College Student once, i get it. But, really . 100 large fires burning on 4. 5 million acres in 12 states. California infamous for its infernos, five of the largest fires ever recorded in the state are burning now. If you are notified by emergency officials to evacuate, please do so immediately. You may not get a second chance. This is new day weekend. With Victor Blackwell and christi paul. Beautiful blue skies there in new york. Good morning to all of you there. And wherever you might be this morning. We are always grateful to have your company on this saturday morning. And we do have some new, really sobering predictions to give you. This is by a model cited by the white house. It says the number of americans killed by the coronavirus will, quote, likely double, over the next four months. The ihne model says at worse, the u. S. Could reach 600,000 deaths by january. Doctors and workers still battling fires and first responders. Lets go out west where theyre battling fires. Mi
Allegations that trump employees altered cdc reports to not undermine the president. This is according to a federal Health Official who says Michael Caputo the venerable mmwr is the cdcs primary Public Health information. It has been around in some form since the 1870s. This after we learn the president has known the truth all along about just how deadly and dangerous this virus is. Hes been intentionally downplaying the severity of it. As his own voice revealed conversations he had with bob woodward. Lets go to minden, nevada, Boris Sanchez is standing by. Before we talk about what youre seeing on the ground. Lets start with this new report about altered cdc reports. What more are you hearing now from trump officials. Trump officials are trying to discredit this source that is in the administration that reported this to cnn. The allegation that Administration Officials appointed by President Trump were altering reports from the cdc in order to make sure they werent correcting the pres