Transcripts For CNNW CNN Newsroom With Poppy Harlow And Jim

Transcripts For CNNW CNN Newsroom With Poppy Harlow And Jim Sciutto 20200803

Good morning. Im jim sciutto. This morning tens of millions of americans waiting on Economic Relief during an ongoing pandemic. Sources tell cnn the white house and congress remain far apart on a new stimulus package. Millions of American Workers now without the 600 weekly socalled enhanced benefit after that expired on friday. The negotiations are expected to resume today on capitol hill. We should note speaker of the house nancy pelosi, she will join me on this broadcast in just a few minutes. And a new warning this morning as deaths rise in 30 u. S. States. White House Task Force coordinator dr. Deborah birx says the u. S. Has now reached, quote, a new phase in this pandemic saying the virus is now extraordinarily widespread with cases rising in both urban and an area thats been accepted so far, rural areas across country. Despite all this President Trump continues to spread disinformation about the pandemic, claiming that cases are going up only due to more testing. Its not true. The rate of positive results is also rising. Hes also claiming that the u. S. Is doing better than europe when it comes to the virus, also not true. Easily belied by the facts and the data. First, lets get to cnns Stephanie Elam in los angeles. Stephanie, california has now reported more than half a million cases since the pandemic began and rights since reopening began as well. Reporter yeah, thats right. We saw we surpassed that number on saturday, reporting a Record Number of deaths on saturday as well announced on one day although all those people may not have died in that day, 219 was the number, a new record there. As far as the numbers are concerned, were seeing hospitalizations and icu patients, those numbers have been going down, but when looking at the suspected numbers for people who may have covid, that number for people who are hospitalized, is trending higher, and thats what they are keeping their eyes on. This while in San Francisco those nine counties that touched the San Francisco bay, all of them now are on the monitoring limits. You may remember this was the first area San Francisco was the first area to shut down way back in march but now they are starting to see the numbers rise as people are getting complacent, they are saying. Its also being impacted by an outbreak of coronavirus in prisons like san quentin, were seeing that rise, also impacting that h. At the same time all of that have is hamming, here in Los Angeles County and hollywood, as a matter of fact on friday, there was a party held indoors for Law Enforcement. They are saying that there are people who were all there just for this reason, to get together to celebrate Law Enforcement personnel. The Los Angeles County department of Public Health saying that they are now investigating this party which was attended by dozens of people here, but this complacency is what people are concerned about, that people have been socially distancing and they are tired of it and want to get back together as if the virus is not there. But guess what, jim, it still very much is. Stephanie elam there, thanks very much. Cnns rosa forres is in miami this morning. Rosa we were worried, florida was worried as the Tropical Storm isaias was approaching the coast there. Its now passed. How did tim pact the response . Reporter you know, jim, theres no question that there is a gap in testing now and a disruption of information. Just think about it. Over the weekend the testing sites were closed because of ice yags, a ias and we do know the local sites will begin reopening tomorrow. As for Palm Beach County those are reopening today. As we look at state, the state of florida has surpassed the 7,000 death toll mark, and the Florida Department of health yesterday reporting more than 7,000 cases. Its important to note that the state had not reported that low of a number since early july. Now, as we look at Miamidade County here where i am, it accounts for 25 of the now nearly 490,000 cases. The number of hospitalizations, however, appears to have dropped a bit. Take a look. The number of hospital patients with covid19 here in this county has dropped under 2,000. The people in icus is still high though, still above 100 and people on ventilators is still above 300 this morning. Now, here is something that weve learned all new this morning. Floridas top business regulator has started meeting with bars and breweries to discuss the reopening across the state. We know, according to his director of communications, that is from friday through the weekend he has met with bar owners in jacksonville, tallahassee, pensacola. Today, hes meeting with bar owners in the tampast. Pete area and tomorrow hes going to fort myers. The media is not invited so we dont know whats going to be discussed. Could the key to a successful treatment for the coronavirus come from the people who have already been infected and since recovered . A new trial sunday way right now testing that antibody cocktail you might call it. The hope is now for the medicine to work alongside vaccines. Lets go to cnn senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen for more. A remarkable idea here. Go to folks who have already recovered and sort of use their immune response to help others. How would it work . Reporter and theres actually an added layer to that, jim. What they do is try to cull the most powerful antibodies so youre not all antibodies are not created eke watch. You cull the strongest ones, and right now what they are doing is they are testing out these drugs in thousands of people. Just four months after his wedding george caught coronavirus from his patient and then george infected his wife jennifer. The headache and the severe fatigue. I was sleeping about 16 hours a day. Reporter jennifer who is also a nurse heard from a colleague about an experimental drug for people with covid19. It contains neutralizing antibodies made by people who have recovered and hopefully those antibodies will block the virus from entering cells. Jennifer received an infuse like this. She might have received the drug or might have received a placebo which does nothing. Either way i did feel better within a couple of days, like wanted to go back to work within a couple of days. Reporter since the u. S. Is still at least months away from a vaccine, doctors are on hunt for an effective treatment to bridge the gap. Dr. Anthony fauci, the nations top Infectious Disease doctor, says hes cautiously optimistic about antibody drugs, especially since they worked well against ebola . I think theres a reasonably good chance that they will turn out to be very much valueadded to our arsenal. Reporter the federal government rewarded regener ron 450 million to fast track its development in manufacturing. They say they could up to 70 to 300,000 vials of this by the end of the summer or early fall. Reporter dr. Anita coley running the trial in arizona says they have been overwhelmed with calls from people who want to take part in the study. These trials will hopefully enroll quickly, and it will get this data, the data on these drugs to show whether they are effective or not. Reporter jennifer didnt hesitate to join the clinical trial. She takes care of patients with cancer, their immune systems weak from chemotherapy. Ive seen people sick from this virus. Ive had a friend struggle for his life with this virus. Ive had patients in the hospital who are scared because their family cant be there at a awful time in their life. Reporter it sounds like youre doing this for your patients. It seemed like an easy decision to me. Reporter an easy decision she hopes might change the outlook for this man democratic. Now youll notice that jennifer actually was sick. She actually had covid and was very ill. They are also trying out this drug, jim, for patients who are not yet infected or sick to see if it will prevent coronavirus. Jim . Some promise there, and its good to hear. Elizabeth cohen, thanks for staying on top of it. Thanks. Facetoface talks on a possible next round of stimulus start up again today, but both sides so far apart. Is there any hope of a deal . Im going to speak next to House Speaker nancy pelosi. Plus, Tropical Storm isaias could become a hurricane again by the time it reaches the carolinas. Were going to get a new forecast soon from the National Hurricane center. And who will joe biden pick for his running mate . That decision could just be days away. 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Com. A book that youre ready to share with the world . Get published now, call for your free publisher kit today welcome back. Later today white house negotiators will be on capitol hill to continue talks with lawmakers over a new coronavirus stimulus package. Sources tell cnn that both sides are still very far apart, particularly on that 600 federally enhanced employment benefit. So lets talk to someone who knows. Joining us now to discuss, House Speaker nancy pelosi. Thanks so much for taking the time this morning. Good morning. My pleasure. Thats the question of the day. Are you any closer to a deal on still plus package today than yesterday . Lets see when we meet today. Its absolutely essential that we reach agreement. The numbers are spiking in terms of the lives and the life and death as well as infections in terms of the virus, so my view is if you want to open the economy and the schools you just have to defeat the virus, and we havent done that. And then in terms of millions of children are hungry, are food insecure. Tens of millions of people are out at work and have filed for unemployment claims. Yeah. The state and local governments will have to fire people because of the expenses they are incurring because of the coronavirus, so we have to, again, honor our heroes and see what we can invest in our state and local governments. Okay. A big difference, of course testing, tracing and then putting money in the pockets of the American People. Speaking to that point, big differences it on the amount of this enhanced benefit, as you know. Yes. You and other democrats sticking to 600. White house 200. Steny hoyer has said its not 600 or nothing for democrats. I wonder if you agree. Are you willing to negotiate on that figure . No. I think that the number, the 600 is related more to the unemployment rate. If the unemployment goes down, then that number can go down, but it doesnt go down you know, youre not saying to the American People we have more infections, more deaths, we have more unemployment, we have more hunger, and now were going to cut your benefit. Right. Thats just not going to happen. There had been discussion of a phase out over time. Senator mitt romney suggested this starting at a lower level. Would you sign on to legislation that might have 600 today but if the rate or the number of unemployed went down that you would reduce that benefit . Jim, thats something to talk about. Right now today we have an emergency. A building is on fire and they are deciding how much water they want to have in the bucket. They very important millions of people could have fallen into poverty without this 600. They are so fussy about any anecdotal information they may have about somebody not going to work because they make 600 on this, but they are so cavalier about big money to companies that really shouldnt be having, it so the 600 is very important in the lives of the American People. When you want to speculate about stabilization and this and that or if and when thats for another day. Right now we have an emergency. Is the president a very basic question. Is the president himself substantially involved in these negotiations . Your republican counterparts even want the president involved . Well, that that you have to ask republican negotiators. I assume thatty israel is. I trust that he is and that they represent his point of view and that they carry back our point of view to the president. I certainly hope he is. Okay. Lets move on, if we can, to a key question on the minds of many of your constituents, many parents around the country and thats school reopening. Yes. The president again tweeted this morning get those schools open again while repeating what is false information that cases are rising in the country only because of increased testing. What is your response to the president . The president has said that testing is overrated. The president said that the virus is a hoax. The president they dont even believe in tracing, and so if were going to open our schools and our economy, we have to have testing, tracing, treatment. Reducing the amount the level of infection in a community is central to whether you can open the schools. Now im a grandmother, i have children and grandchildren and private catholic, every version of school. I also have family members who are teachers, including in public school, so im very concerned about the safety of it all, not just for myself, but i know what it means as families discuss this across the country. And, again, it will vary from one location to another depending on the rate of infection in a particular community, but you can do it all if you have money, and thats where we have some difference. Yeah. You have to have understood. If youre going to distance you need more space, therefore more teachers and better ventilation. It masks, cleaning, washing down every day. Interest takes real money, and not money to say unless you open up youre not getting any money. No money to open up. Okay. You said this weekend that you dont have confidence in someone who is part of the administrations leading, helping lead the administrations response to this. Thats right. In white house adviser dr. Deborah birx. Thats right. I said that. She has differed with the president on a number of issues in which hes just flat out wrong based on over the weekend. With hydroxychloroquine, et cetera. Yeah. I just wonder why single her out given the president given what happened is we had a conversation about how we stop the virus, and when we did they were making contentions about how tracing isnt valuable thing, we shouldnt do it and thats not what most Scientists Say and well bring a scientist to say that and make make sure its not dr. Birx because i dont have confidence and anyone who stands there while the president says swallow lysol and its going to cure your virus. You know, it will kill you and you wont have the virus anymore. I dont have confidence when the president says its hope. Das magic, it will go away by magic, a miracle and all of those things. You say she hasnt challenged his disinformation or not. She stood there. I think that she has that she has enabled, but its not about her. Its about the American People. Its about the American People and how we have a real Strategic Plan. This administration has not had a Strategic Plan for the six months that we know about the coronavirus. We should have had a plan for testing, tracing, treating, separation, masks and the rest are. The president saying something about masks and and there has to be some responsibility. Okay. So if the president is saying these things, who is advising him that this is okay and enabling that to happen while millions of people have died. We passed our bill almost 11 weeks ago, and since that time 3 Million People have been added to the infection list. Nearly 70,000 people have died. Okay. And they still dont have a Strategic Plan on stopping the virus. Thats why i said i would like to have somebody else come in from the scientific point of view. I want to talk about Election Security, if i can. Y

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