Set glitch. Donald trumps ballyhooed reentry to twitter gets the Desantis Treatment if you have a big interview to do, but are on a tight schedule, it is something to consider breaking overnight. Russian president vladimir putin now vowing to respond to Ukraines Surprise Attack. As you Grants President says the war is coming home to russia and scorching Summer Heat is getting Turbo Charge. We experienced a second hottest july in history the american cities experiencing the most dangerous heat. Im Sara Sidner with John Berman and Kate Bolduan. This is cnn new central this morning, the glitch heard in the world. That is if you believe the new claim from elon musk of the rubin, a billion views of his interview with donald trump overnight. And then discussions about it. Its unclear how he got to that Number Book, whether it was dozens of people or quadrillions who did turn it tune in what they heard was a major technical delay followed by relative fawning. Then the normal Campaign Rhetoric
Good Morning And Welcome to cnn this morning it is sunday, august 4. Im Danny Freeman in for Victor Blackwell. Danny, good to be with you again this morning. Good to be with you all. Im Amara Walker. Heres what were working on for you this morning. The final round, vice president kamala harris is closing in on who will be her Running Mate on the democratic president Ial Ticket, who xi is meeting with today ahead of tuesdays reported reveal but we have to work hard to define her. I dont want to even define her. I just wanted to say who she is. Shes a Horror Show. Shell destroy our country and former President Donald Trump saying the quiet part out loud, his campaigns still trying to figure out how to define vice president kamala harris and slow the momentum building around her and stay its an emergency are in effect in georgia and florida this morning ahead of a tropical storm expected to strike on the south east, wed all just allison chinchar is tracking the storm that could drop up to
Theyre certainly in our Thoughts Today will do hello, thanks so much for joining us. And sciutto in washington, Fredricka Whitfield is off today. We are following several major moments on the Campaign Trail, starting in atlanta, where a short time for now, former President Trump Trump and his Running Mate, j. D. Vance will hold a rally there event comes just hours after trump announced that he was agreeing to he said a whole new Debate Plans and this one on Fox News in front of a live audience against his democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris Harris has not accepted that new invitation. Given shes sticking with what was the previously planned debate, agreed to by trump as well, hosted by abc News Trump now backing out of that plan, also this weekend can harris is meeting with her Beading Team for indepth presentations on each of the finalists to be her Running Mate, she is expected to meet with the top candidates as well this weekend an announcement of her final decision, t
Direction and continuing to hit levels we have not seen in months. The united states now averaging more than 108,000 new cases a day. As the delta variant spread as mong the unvaccinated. That is the highest level we ve seen in six months as schools across the country prepare to reopen. The number of people hospitalized with coronavirus now more than 66,000. Also at highest level since february. And even more tragically, the virus is killing an average of more than 500 americans per day. That is more than double the average from just three weeks ago. There is some good news. The rate of vaccines administers continues to increase. But there are still nine states where less than 40% of the population is fully vaccinated. Let s get straight to florida and cnn s natasha chen who is live in orlando. Natasha, florida now reporting an alltime high in cases. It is become one of the epicenters of covid19 in the united states. Reporter: boris, the trends are looking really troubling, especially
Vaccinated against covid19 have not had a breakthrough case resulting in hospitalization or death. If you give the virus a chance to continue to change, you re leading to a vulnerability that we might get a worse variant and then that will impact not only the unvaccinated, that will impact the vaccinated because that variant could evade the protection of the vaccine. The daily u. S. Case count is now the highest it has been in six months. Hospitalizations are doubled what they were two weeks ago and vaccination rates are not keeping up with the spread of this virus. All of this as schools across the nation reopen and are prepared to welcome back our kids and that is raising a lot of fears and questions as well. Are they safe? in florida, one in five kids tested is infected. Natasha is in orlando. You ve been seeing some really long lines for people trying to get tested today. Right, ana. And it can be for many reasons we re told from the health staff that some employers might be asking