Alarming new numbers showing covid rates rising faster in kids this summer. Overnight President Trump once again taking aim at the nations top Infectious Disease doctor. Is morning sex scdafa a wideranging independent investigation into ousted president Jerry Falwell jr. , a week after he was forced out at the nations most famous evangelical university. Major flash flooding. Overnight dramatic rescues in North Carolina. Houses underwater. Roads turned into rivers and now the new threat this morning. Three states on alert for dangerous new flash floods. Secret struggle. Wda fore the new details about Chadwick Bosemans extremely private battle with cancer all while filming several movies. Overnight black panther costar michael b. Jordan sharing a powerful message honoring his greatness and this morning how the superstar is still potentially saving lives. Scare in the sky. We just passed a guy on a jetpack. Dont hear that every day. The mysterious close call after multiple pilots reported the frightening hazard. The latest on this investigation this morning. And miracle rescue. A 1yearold taken from his mother at gunpoint in broad daylight outside her apartment. The dash cam as police track down the alleged kidnappers, a couple, and bring the baby home to his family. And good morning, america. Great to be with you this tuesday and also great to have tom and t. J. Here this morning. And good to be with you. Good to see you as well, tom. We are looking forward to, in just a few minutes, always good to hear from dr. Anthony fauci. He is standing by to talk to us this morning and he is going to be talking about that new warning were getting about kids and covid actually. Yeah, thats coming up. A lot of people so eager to hear what he has to say. So many more School Districts ready to reopen. We want to begin with President Trump heading to kenosha, wisconsin in the wake of the Police Shooting of jacob blake after being urged by the mayor and the governor not to visit. Senior White House Correspondent cecilia vega joins us now with the latest and, cecilia, the president has not spoken to the blake family yet . Reporter yeah, tom, they havent spoken. It doesnt look like they will any time soon. The president says he doesnt want lawyers involved in the situation. The family wants their attorney, ben crump, involved on the call. In a matter of hours President Trump heads to kenosha. With wisconsins governor and kenoshas mayor urging President Trump to cancel his trip, overnight the president said he still plans to go even against their wishes. I am a tremendous fan of Law Enforcement and i want to thank the Law Enforcement. Theyve done a good job. Reporter some local officials saying his visit would do little to heal the citys wounds in the wake of jacob blakes shooting. At the white house President Trump claimed his visit could actually help. It could also increase enthusiasm and it could increase love and respect for our country. Reporter the president also defended kyle rittenhouse, the teenager accused of fatally shooting two demonstrators in kenosha. He was trying to get away from them, i guess, it looks like, and he fell and then they very violently attacked him. He probably would have been killed. Its under investigation. Reporter he did say he does not believe private citizens should be taking up arms at protests. Id like to see law enforcen to give our cops back their dignity. Reporter on fox news the president also compared police use of force to a game of golf. The police are under siege. They can do 10,000 great acts which is what they do and one bad apple or a choker, you know, a choker, they choke. They choke. Just like in a Golf Tournament they miss a threefoot putt. Youre not comparing it to golf because thats what the media is saying. Im saying people choke. People panic. They choke. And people are bad people. You have both. Repr itthelection now just 63 days away, President Trump leaning in to his law and order message, zeroing in on the unrest in portland declining to condemn a caravan of his supporters who clashed with protestors demanding racial justice, witnesses say some of those supporters fired paint ball guns at demonstrators. Paint as a defensive mechanism. Paint is not bullets. Reporter later in the evening this shooting turning deadly. Police identifying the victim as 39yearold Aaron Danielson of portland seen wearing a blue fy a hat belonging to a right wing group. Now, democratic rival joe biden on the campaign trail and shrugging off the president s accusations that hes a soft on crime radical. Do i look like a radical socialist with a soft spot for rioters . Really . I want a safe america, safe from covid. Safe from crime and looting. Safe from racially motivated violence. Safe from bad cops. Let me be Crystal Clear, safe from four more years of donald trump. Reporter the former Vice President condemning violence at protests and placing the blame on President Trump. Fires are burning and we have a president who fans the flames. Reporter there was also this completely head scratching moment in that fox interview where the president was asked who was pulling joe bidens strings and he went on and gave an explanation that offered little evidence or little clarity. He said certain people got on a plane in a certain city wearing dark uniforms carrying gear, they wanted to do damage. He called them people in dark shadows that are calling the streets. Even the fox news host who is a supporter oed le a comple nsra we did just get a statement in from the biden campaign. They say that Donald Trumps incomprehensible case for doing even more damage in a second term makes less and less sense every day. Cecilia vega for us, thank n latest. United states has now surpassed 6 million covid cases and california is now reporting august as their deadliest month of the pandemic. These are alarming numbers coming with new reports of covid rates rising faster in kids this summer as School Districts reopen across the country. Our eva pilgrim outside a high school in brooklyn with more. Good morning to you, eva. Reporter good morning, t. J. Yes, schools across the country are facing the same challenge this year, getting students safely back into the classroom and keeping them there. As the u. S. Reaches that new milestone, 6 Million People infected with coronavirus, President Trump taking aim at dr. Anthony fauci, the nations top Infectious Disease doctor, overnight. If you had to do it again, would you put dr. Fauci front and center every day . I disagree with a lot of what he said. He said keep it open for china. That was a big mistake and he admits it. Every once in a while he comes up with one that i say where did this come from . I inherited him. He was here. He was a part of this huge piece of machinery. I did put anybody in charge. Reporter this as families try to navigate going back to school with covid cases rising. New analysis fines while children remain less likely to have severe symptoms from the virus, covid rates this summer among children increased faster than they did for the general public. Though experts dont know why yet. I think that we should be concerned about this in the sense that we should be concerned about increasing rates of covid across the board. Similarly to adults, we do see that black and brown children are more significantly affected by Covid Infection and maybe more likely to have more severe illnesses. Reporter with back to School Anxiety at an alltime high teachers in volusia county, florida voicing outrage after they say they were told the School District wont tell staff and parents about covid cases, instead leaving it up to the health department. Parents have the right to know what kind of environment theyre sending their students into. Employees have the right to know what kind of working conditions theyre going into. Reporter meanwhile scenes like this near College Campuses infuriating local officials and raising concerns. Not a single mask in this packed pool near the university of South Carolina. And those local officials in South Carolina saying even if covid wasnt an issue, there were just too many people packed into that pool. Amy . All right, eva pilgrim, thank you. Were joined now live by the director of the National Institute of allergy and Infectious Diseases, dr. Anthony fauci. Dr. Fauci, thanks for being with us. Im sure you have heard the president just speaking about you to fox news saying that he doesnt always agree with you. He says he inherited you. Do you think the president trusts you and your advice . Yeah, you know, i think he does. I think when you get statements like that, that doesnt really reflect what actually goes on. I mean, i was at the white house yesterday at a Task Force Meeting and with the Vice President and everything that we discussed, including what you just spoke about regarding children, regarding whats going on, gets to the president. He understands that. So i think thats kind of a distraction to pit me against the president. Were all on the same team. Johns hopkins said that the u. S. Has 6 million covid cases, over 183,000 deaths in the united states. So can you explain why the president would retweet a theory that suggests only 9,000 people have died of covid19 here . Well, you know, when the cdc came out with a statement which really did reflect the reality that, in fact, if you look at the people who have been who died of covid disease, the point that the cdc was trying to make was that a certain percentage of them had nothing else but just covid. That does not mean that someone who has hypertension or diabetes who dies of covid didnt die of covid19. They did. So the numbers that youve been hearing, the 180,000 plus deaths, are real deaths from covid19. Let there not be any confusion about that. Its not 9,000 deaths from covid19. Its 180 plus thousand deaths. Now, dr. Fauci, the cdc changed its testing guidelines last week from recommending testing all close contacts of infected persons with covid19 to saying if youre asymptomatic you dont need to get tested. The white house testing czar said you were on board with that change. Is it true and if so, why that change . You know, that did create some confusion. The confusion has been straightened out now. The way that sentence was said, it gave the impression that theyre not concerned about Community Spread and that people who are asymptomatic should not be tested. Its very clear and there was an admission that caused some confusion. That has been straightened out right now. There is no doubt that theres asymptomatic infection and asymptomatic people can transmit and you can and should test asymptomatic people. What the guideline was trying to do was try to make the point that not everyone who wants to be tested should be tested. Only if you need to be tested. Understandably, that was confusing. Hopefully thats been straightened out now. All right. Also we had new reports of covid cases rising among kids and then we heard from the president s new pandemic adviser, dr. Scott atlas, who said yesterday schools should be open to inperson learning and College Athletes should take the field saying, quote, we are the only country of our peer nations in the western world who are this hysterical about opening schools. Do you agree with that . Well, no. I think its a little bit more complicated than that. Maybe it was taken a bit out of context and they didnt give dr. Atlas a chance to fully explain that. I mean, obviously when youre looking at opening schools, the country is a large country and there are parts of the country that we call green zones where you could without real impunity open schools as long as youre careful, Wearing Masks and things like that. But there are areas part of the yellow zone and certainly in the red zone, when theres a lot of viral activity in the community, you have to take a careful look about if and how you are going to open the schools. You may be able to do it with certain precautions. Physical separation, alternating of classes, hybrid approaches but there are some areas where there is such a high degree of infection that you really want to be careful if you do that. I might say, though, importantly the best way to get schools open is decrease the level and rate of infection in your community. So if youre in a red zone, get yourself into a yellow or green zone and then we wouldnt be having this discussion about whether or not to open the schools. So as a community, we need to pull together as communities instead of trying to determine should you go into school in this particular zone. Get out of the red zone. Get your community, your city, your state into a yellow or a green zone and then that would be much safer to get children to school. By Wearing Masks, social distancing and using good hand hygiene. Exactly. Right. Now, i wanted to talk about vaccines because a third potential vaccine has entered phase three trials in the united states. The fda commissioner has now said a vaccine could be approved for emergency use before phase 3 trials are completed if theres enough data to show its safe. Is that a safe and effective way to move forward with the vaccine . Well, ive always said and i think virtually all of my colleagues agree and i dont think thats so much different from what dr. Hahn said if you talk about what hes actually meaning. You dont want a vaccine to be available widely to the American Public unless its been shown to be safe and effective. Safe and effective. All right, dr. Anthony fauci, we appreciate certainly your time and expertise this morning. Thank you. Good to be with you. Thank you for having me. Tom . Amy, thank you. Turning now to that major flash flooding overnight in North Carolina. Turning roads into rivers and prompting dramatic rescues. Ginger is tracking the latest for us this morning. Ginger, good morning. Reporter tom, good morning. At least two children are missing in smithfield, North Carolina. They were rescuing them and their mother and they only got the mom out. Theyre still looking for them this morning. Theyve had nearly a foot of rain from there, back to four oaks. Thats less that an hour southeast of raleigh. Then central and northern North Carolina, big time rain, talking to six to eight inches that fell quickly just yesterday. You can see salisbury, North Carolina looks it. In oklahoma flash flooding too just in the last couple of hours, two to three inches an hour. Flash flood warnings in place from there right through ft. Smith into arkansas. Watch for training thunderstorms this morning. Lets go back to amy. All right, ginger. Thank you. Now to that new investigation into evangelical leader Jerry Falwell jr. Who was forced out as president of Liberty University amid a sex scandal. The university announcing it is launching an independent probe into all aspects of falwells tenure, including financial matters. Kyra phillips has the story. Reporter Liberty University announcing an independent investigation into its former president , Jerry Falwell jr. , after the embattled evangelical leader of the largest Christian College in the country resigned amid an alleged sex scandal. The board of trustees issuing a Statement Last night, now calling for a thorough investigation into all financial, real estate and legal matters while falwell was at the helm of the school, hiring a top Forensic Team to do the job. Falwells exit coming after a series of scandals. First this racy photo he posted on social media with his arm around his wifes assistant. He apologized and took it down, saying it was just in good fun from a costume party. Then the explosive news story about falwell, his wife becki and a pool attendant and former business partner, giancarlo granda. The 29yearold claiming he had a sevenyear affair with becki as falwell at times looked on. Falwell denies any involvement. Granda spoke exclusively with gma on friday about the affair. Jerry is lying. That was his game plan from the beginning to just throw her under the bus, which i think speaks a lot about who he is, about his character and he was aware from day one of our relationship. Reporter this morning, the falwells telling me not only do they welcome this investigation but that this process will vindicate them, and a source connected to Liberty University telling me this investigation was launched due to an increasing demand from Board Members and donors. The falwells again telling me they have nothing to hide. Amy . All right. Kyra phillips, we appreciate it. Following a lot of other headlines including new details on Chadwick Bosemans very private battle with colon cancer and the powerful new message from his black panther co