the school closures - these numbers are greater among kids. what you also find is loneliness affects on our mental health and our society and heart disease and dementia and premature deaths. who would predicted this? the lingering effects of shutting kids out of education, sports and social in interactions without other kids have been horrific. we could not go to our first homecoming. i could not have an eighth grade graduation. you felt if your son were still in school, he would still be alive. do you still feel that way? had he not gone into lockdown, he would still be here. he would have gone into lacrosse practice. he said, mom, i just don t know what to do, that s the last thing he said. it is heartbreaking. we human beings are social beings. we naturally want to be communicating and collaborating with each other. the place that used to bring people together whether churches and synagogue or whether it was volunteer organizations in your community or whet
what a story to start our day. thanks, andy. thanks for joining us. i m john avlon. cnn this morning starts right now. good morning, everyone. so glad you re with us. i m poppy harlow with phil mattingly in new york. there s a lot going on on this monday, december 18th. happening right now defense secretary lloyd austin is back in israel, his visit part of the international pressure campaign for israel to change its tactics in gaza and restart the truce talks, pressure growing after the killing of three hostages by soldiers. republican front runner donald trump using darker more extreme rhetoric in that final sprint, the white house slamming trump for what it calls fascist rhetoric. right now storms gusting up the east coast and the travel delays it could cause this holiday week. cnn this morning starts right now. we begin with defense secretary lloyd austin meeting right now with israel s defense min minister. pressure is growing on israel to change its tactics
guy? a fully police force could be out here connected to people and trying the get them connected to service. we need those partners out here, too. right. that s the thing, they say we get this money of these billion dollars organization, where do you soo e the boots on tp ground from the community organizations out here trying to help that man or that man across the street, trying to help that lady in the door way or rot in a blanket. where are they? see, that s my problem. they have to be off the streets. your point is off the streets, your choice is jail or treatment. that s it. now, what happens? you get none of that. you can live out here and do as much drugs as you want. the injunction of about clearing tents and encamencampment you can t clear that.
no 2012 and 08. it is a state that democrats have been looking for a while saying there maybe a future for us. and did not think this is the year for that. we are seeing a number of states like that, democrats shave been looking at the past five or ten years. these are states that maybe trending in the election in the long-term. there was a poll out of texas that put the trump lead up to only three. when you soo e thee that hillar clinton inch close to ten points what that means is if you want to call the red wall if you are the trump s campaign, you say, that s our base. well, that 206, that red wall, you are seeing cracks in it right now. arizona and georgia and utah and north carolina, and maybe even a state like alaska. hillary clinton may not win all of those but the fact that we