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Uninformative and unethical. Basically, its treating people Like Laboratory animals. This is new day weekend with Victor Blackwell and christi paul. A new day, it is, indeed. Top of the hour now, looking across the hudson river. Thank you for being with us. And this morning, the Postal Service is caupausing one of several controversial changes that critics say endanger mail delivery across the country. The post office said its stopping the removal of mailboxes in several western states but this is only after removing the collection boxes in several other states and cutting the hours of retail operations. In washington, President Trump is refusing to distance himself from the republican candidate in congress. Shes from georgia who has pushed baseless conspiracy theories. The government is facing pushback on a vaccine challenge trial. A former Harvard School professor calls it unnecessary, uninformative and unethical. And the economic crisis is hurting families across the country. A lot of them are turning to food banks for the help they need. I want to go to cnn National Correspondent natasha chen at the side of a food bank set to open later this morning. These food banks have been critical for these families, i know. Reporter yeah, actually, were seeing about a dozen cars lining up waiting, and this doesnt actually start for another couple of hours. They will be waiting in their cars for three hours at that point. I talked to some of them. Their separations are pretty desperate right now, perhaps they were already struggling but the pandemic has made it worse. In georgia were looking at serious numbers as well with the state reporting its highest number of deaths last tuesday since the pandemic began. Heres a look at whats going on with the schools as well as kids are returning to class. Georgia is not doing enough to prevent the spread of covid19. Thats according to White House Coronavirus Task Force Recommendations from august 9th, a document obtained by the Atlanta Journalconstitution. It reads there is widespread and expanding community viral spread. And there is no significant improvement in the Atlanta Metro area with continues high levels of new cases at a plateau. Mitigation efforts must increase. Governor brian kemps office fired back sending cnn a list of its ongoing efforts to combat the spread of the virus saying in part, quote, the dph lab has been working around the clock and that Governor Kemp continues to rely on datas science and the Public Health service. Georgia should roll back. I definitely think georgia should roll back. Reporter the Atlanta Mayor says its too soon for students to be in classrooms. And were already in our state, as schools have reopened, kids are getting infected, and its in my opinion, this is my opinion, as a parent, its more disruptive to think youre sending your child into a situation. And then have to pull them all back out. Reporter Courtney Smith pulled her daughters out of the Public Schools in atlanta suburbs altogether. When they told her they saw 20 to 30 students with few people wearing masks. As parents, our number one task in life is to protect our babies i really felt i was dropping mine off at a death trap on monday. There were a lot of tears shed by me and my children last week. Reporter after two days in their Cherokee County school, smith transferred them to a Charter School which she says there are fewer of them in class and more wearing masks. It was 80 cases and nearly triple the count. Two high schools in the district had to temporarily pause inperson learning. If you want your kids in school, your schools have to stay open. And for the schools to stay open, you have to contain your numbers of covid cases. And the best way we know of to contain those indicatescases is implement masks and a program to introduce people in the building at one time. Reporter but theres no policy in the north Paulding School where they had to temporarily stop classes due to students and staff testing positive. Starting monday, that school will start hybrid learning with digital and online learning. You definitely see that when we opened businesses, we are seeing that opening schools. Weve given them guidance. Weve worked with them to give them the tools they need to ohm. Reporter those tools include shipments of masks that arent required by the state. Though kemp wasnt sued atlantas mayor for implementing masks he said the best school positions are the best to make decisions for the communities. This morning, were waiting on a new executive order to be issued by Governor Kemp, as the existing one expires tonight. He did withdraw the lawsuit against the mayor and council. And last night he tweeted he intends to remain with law and order. And just incredible for people to be there three hours before the food bank starts. Thank you so much. So add to the food insecurity, the eviction crisis. Theres a group in new orleans thats helping people with Legal Services that says that eviction intakes have tripled since the eviction courts reopened there in june. Thats compared to the same weeks last year. Now, that helps explain what were seeing here. The chairs and the mattresses and the clothes of a family just piled up on the curb. A little later this hour, were going to speak with an attorney who is helping struggling renters with some of their cases. Were going to talk about their stories. And the effort in new orleans to stop the econvictions. Evictions. And the cdc, listen to this, says, people who have recovered from coronavirus, you dont need to quarantine or get tested again for three months. The White House Coronavirus testing czar said the administration has done everything they can to increase testing capacity. Cnns Brynn Gingras is following the latest. The u. S. Is still struggling with testing and supply Chain Shortages so many months into this pandemic . Yeah, and it just angers you when you also look at the death toll that just continues to go up, christi and victor. More than 1,000 yesterday. The cdc projecting, as you can imagine, going way up just in the next few weeks. And as you guys just said, the White House Task force testing czar has said the country is doing all it can when it comes to testing. Said that right here on cnn. Also in that interview yesterday, he said that theres going to be an action announced next week under. Defense protection act about testing but wouldnt give any further details on how this is going to help americans and the testing issue that many still face. Reporter the u. S. Averaging more than 1,000 deaths a day, not for one week, or two, but for almost three weeks. And now, the cdc forecasting by september 5th, the country may reach a death toll of nearly 189,000. If theres a good idea, i want to hear it. Reporter the administrations testing czar appearing on friday after Health Experts challenged his earlier statements that the country is doing an appropriate amount of testing. Right now, were testing 700, 800,000 people. A fraction of the number we need. Reporter would you say enough has been done, enough has been done to make sure everyone who needs a test gets a test . Everything that possibly can be done has been done. I spend every day trying to increase testing but what i want people to under, testing is not the panacea. Its not the answer. Reporter and in states like georgia, the governor is praising his states testing efforts despite the Atlanta Journal constitution reporting that the infection rate has nearly doubled the National Average. Are you going to tell me that the data that the governor is looking at and examining is the right data . Because if it is, we wouldnt be in the top five with other states that are twice, three times, four times the state of georgia. Reporter california now at a disheartening milestone after taking a one two punch from the virus, the state recording more cases than any other state in the country. More than 600,000. Were not out of the woods. Reporter for 53 straight days, florida counting more cases daily. And there are concerns in illinois with the highest number of cases since may. One promising note, hospitalizations across the country are declining. This virus hasnt changed its the same as before. And its doing very substantial damage to the country. I think we really have to be very focused on mask use, avoiding large gatherings. Social distancing, hand hygiene. This plateau were in now, its fragile. It can go in the other direction if people begin to relax. Reporter this week, the cdc directors told americans to expect the worst fall weve ever had. Its why many parents and teachers are still grappling with tough decisions when it comes to schools. Ive had a member of my family that is, you know, at high risk. So, if im put in a classroom with 30 or more kids in a small room, theres one exit. The venation isnt all that great for schools. Reporter in georgia, one district saw 80 cases of covid19 just this week, resulting in the quarantine of more than 1100 teachers and students. Parents there calling on the governor to reevaluate the reopening of schools. And, the cdc director Robert Redfield telling cnn that this pandemic is going to change the way that teachers teach and students learn. Even when it is under control. Meaning facilities will have to likely change. Possibly classes will be offered during the day and also at night. This as the cdc is saying they are seeing more cases among children. You heard natasha chens report there in georgia. Well, also remember, guys, were going to see more schools opening. The cdc director says theyre actually going to be releasing guidelines for administrators, specifically for teachers and school staff, just to keep them safe as well. Guys. All right. Brynn gingras, good to see you. Thank you for the update. According to the Russian Health ministry, the country has started production of its Coronavirus Vaccine approved this week before beginning crucial phase three trials. It will actually be rolled out to highrisk people before mass production starts in october. Russia has not released any Scientific Data on its testing and cnn is unable to verify the vaccines claimed safety orrive pick case efficacy. The controversy over alleged mail in voter fraud is escalated. Last night, the post office agreed it would stop removing boxes in 16 states and parts of two others until after the election. Remember, President Trump said mailin ballots would lead to voting fraud. Election officials have consistently said that is not true. Cnns Brianna Keilar spoke to two experts about how the mailin process works. Reporter President Donald Trump has made baseless claims, here one. We have a new nphenomena, its called mail in voting. Reporter not true. Many states actually had a majority of their votes cast by mail for decades. Reporter lets begin here, five states conduct elections almost entirely by mail. By cnns count 37 states and the district of columbia allow you to vote by mail without giving an excuse or using the pandemic as your reason. These remaining eight states like texas and new york do not allow voters to use the pandemic as an excuse to vote by mail. How you get your ballot depends on where you live, too. In light of the pandemic, vermont, california, the district of columbia and new jersey have joined the original five universal mailin voting states, sending ballots to every registered voter. Others send absentee ballot request forms to voters in the mail. But most americans must request a ballot be sent to them. What theyre going to do, blanket the state, anybody that ever walked will get one. Reporter nope, registered voters. Just registered voters get ballots. And noncitizens are not permitted to vote in peril elections. Next. You look at some of the corruption having to do with universe mailin voting. Absentee voting is okay. You have to apply. Absentee voting is done by mail. So its mail voting. Basically you have similar procedural checks in both cases. Reporter pause. And now lets rewind to President Trumps most dangerous claim about mailin voting. You look at some of the corruption having to do with universal mailin voting theres no way you can go through a mailin vote without massive cheating. What Election Officials will tell you of both parties is that voter fraud is extremely rare. It might be counted in dozens or hundreds of cases out of 150 million ballots cast. Its extremely rare. Mailin ballots, you talk about foreign countries, theyre printing their own ballots. If they try to flood the system with make mailin ballots they could be counted separately. They all use special different paper. Special ink. Theyre usually coded on the outside of the envelope to be matched to a particular voter they were sent to. These things are detected instantaneously. It would be one of the columb columbiaest tests. Reporter once the ballot arrives, filled out and signed and sealed its usually hand delivered to local Election Officials. And a Team Identifies verification envelopes and secures the ballot until its time to be counted. General, votes are counted by a voting machine while some are counted by hand. You have people from different parties doing the counting and checking each other. Its hard to commit fraud. Reporter and last but not least. I also dont want to wait for three months and find out the ballots are all missing and the election doesnt mean anything. Thats whats going to happen, steve. Thats common sense. No its not going to take three months to count the ballots. In fact, his term ends in january which is less than three months after the election. And by the constitution, our new president would have to take office on january 20th until President Trump is reelected. Reporter but President Trump is right about one thing, the volume of mailin ballots is going to be far higher than in any previous election in history. Many states havent seen more than 5 of their ballots cast by mail in past elections. Everything you hear on Election Night is unofficial. It is a partial count. It could take several days to count the ballots. That is normal. That means the process is working. Reporter Brianna Keilar, cnn, washington. Thanks to brianna there. Theres a real concern about the wave of evictions in new orleans. Attorneys are trying to help the people there keep their homes. Theyre sharing the stories and well give you an update on the push to stop that as well. Plus, the form that brought hurricaneforce winds to the midwest just ripped through iowa. Look what it left behind. Were going to bring you details of how this community recovered after this storm when new day continues. Weve always put safety first. And we always will. For people. For the future. And there has never been a summer when its mattered more. Wherever you go, summer safely. Get 0 apr financing for up to five years on select models and exclusive lease offers. Did you know Liberty Mutual customizes your Car Insurance tada so you only pay for what you need . Given my unique lifestyle, thatd be perfect let me grab a pen and some paper. Know what . Im gonna switch now. Just need my desk. My chair. And my phone. Only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. 21 minutes past the hour right now. And more than 1 million people, do you believe, are still without power in iowa and parts of illinois. This is days after powerful storms moved through the midwest. The storm is called derecho, right, victor . Yeah, produced hurricaneforce winds of more than 100 Miles Per Hour up to 14 hours. The wind blew so hard the styil collapsed the bin were not full. The National Guard is helping to assess the damage and restore power. The state is preparing a disaster declaration. The president has refused to distance himself from a republican congressional candidate pushing conspiracy theories. We want to bring in Sarah Westwood right now. Sarah, talk to us about the can indicate . Reporter the candidate name is marjorie greene. Shes embraced qanon theories the president has focused on praising greene for her victory and popularity in the state. And when he was pressed by a reporter whether he would distance himself from those conspiracy theories he chose to move on and ask another question of a different reporter. I want you to take a listen to that exchange from yesterday. Well, shes doing very well in the election. She won by a lot. She was very popular. She comes from a great state. She had a tremendous victory. Absolute absolutely, i did congratulate her . Do you embrace that Conspiracy Theory . Reporter and greene has said the qanon theories are worth paying attention to, worth listening to. But i want to walk you through a couple of things that the qanon Group Promotes online. One is that highprofile people participate in child abuse. And deep state and spun conspiracies into shootings and elections and falsely spread spreadingch covid by 5g networks. The president has been a proponent of theories in the past from bertherism and that being enrolled in the administration. Over the summer, greene made racism comments and republican congressional leaders condemned that rhetoric. After she won her primary, republicans came out and said they look forward to her at the capitol. She could be a divisive figure if she ends up in congress, victor and christi. Sarah westwood, thanks so much. Millions of people are struggling and running out of time and options to stay in their homes. Next, we have an attorney who is helping people in new orleans and she will share how she is helping people as evictions start to increase. At university of phoenix, we know youre always there for them. Thats why our advisors are always here for you. Learn more at phoenix. Edu. We live with at t and we are well past the honeocupado tom. At t, whats this i hear about you advertising a 100 Fiber Network . Only like a fraction of my customers can get that. Thats it . . You have such a glass halfempty attitude. The glass is more than halfempty you need to relax tom. Oh tom, you need a little tom time. A little tt. Stop living with at t. Xfinity delivers gig speeds to more homes than anyone. Okay. We want to show you what was happening just a couple moments ago. This is in washington, d. C. The group youre looking at there is known as shut done d. C. Theyre protesting outside of postmaster general louis dejoys home. Yeah, hes coming under scrutiny after he made changes to the postal office. Like rolling back overtime for employees and postal leaders have raised a lot of concerns over the changes that the post office of the Inspector General is reviewing dejoys policy changes and potential ethics conflicts. So, youve read the headlines, youve read the statistics, millions of people are potentially facing eviction and homelessness with no solution in the future from the federal government. Were going to give you the numbers and look at that, the mattress and things outside of this home. This is from new orleans, louisiana, nola. Com. This is one evicted family and their belongings, things that they owned just dumped outside of their house. Theres a crib there, there were clothes there and more on the corner of the street. The evictions are just part of a growing wave of people being expelled from their homes in the midst of covid19 pandemic. And raising this concern for the eviction bluntly warning that thousands of people in the new orleans area have lost work and fallen behind on the act to pay rent in a city that already had a high eviction rate before covid. Joining me now is hannah adams, a Nonprofit Group that helps renters. Good morning, thank you for having me. Certainly. Give us an idea of the acceleration of evictions as were now in month five of this pandemic. Absolutely. Like you said, we entered the pandemic from a place having econvictions two times the National Average in new orleans. In some neighborhoods we had an eviction rate as much as 10 prior to the pandemic. I will note that a lot of those neighborhoods are black neighborhoods so this is always a Racial Injustice issue. The evictions are three times what they were this time last year. Were inundated with folks struggling to pay rent and not knowing when theyre going to receive a paycheck again. And on top of that, had their federal Unemployment Benefits cut overnight at the end of july. We have a lot of workers, hospitality workers, musicians, performers, all the people that make new orleans what it is, and why people come here to visit. All of those folks lost work. If they were lucky enough to get Unemployment Benefits, they just lost those. We have folks receiving 30, 50, 100 a week now which you simply cant live on or feed or family or pay your rent. We have one client who were aware of, shes a single mom. Mom of a 3yearold, she cleaned houses for a living until the pandemic started, and that work ended. And now that the additional Unemployment Benefits have expired, shes making 28 a week. Five months behind. And the landlord tried to take her to court to evict her but because the property was a c. A. R. E. S. Act covered property they needed a 30 days notice. How does one know if they are lived in a c. A. R. E. S. Actcovered property . That is a great question. It is very hard tour tenants to find out if theyre living at a c. A. R. E. S. Act covered property. For most living at larger apartment complexes, fannie mae and freddie mac have released rolls to search by address to find out if your property has a federally backed mortgage. There are a couple other tools online. But for tenants who live in Single Family properties, one to four units, theres really no way to find out that information. That information is only available to the landlord. So, you know, thankfully, weve seen our local courts, you know, make landlords essentially prove that theyre not covered by the c. A. R. E. S. Act in order to move forward with the eviction. However, a lot of people fall through the cracks in that process. So oftentimes, if theres no lawyer until court to raise these issues people may get evicted even though its illegal under federal law. With the client youre mentioning, her property is covered under the c. A. R. E. S. Act so the eviction was thrown out. But that protection is only going to last until the end of this month. So after the end of this month, she is facing a ticking time bomb. She doesnt know where her september rent is going to come from. Barely able to cover her august rent. And she has no unemployment in sight. As you know, down here, our pandemic our covid numbers are not looking very good, so its not like people are getting back to work. So, without something to assist her, shes really got nowhere to go. She cant afford rent. She cant afford moving expenses. She cant afford a security ghost. She can barely afford to feed her kid. I know the laws and the audiences are far broader than new orleans and vary by state, but the pictures that we were showing of peoples belongings just piled up on the curb, for people who are arent familiar with the eviction process, how much notice must typically a landlord give before they just throw your things out on the street . Well, our eviction laws in louisiana are very bad for tenants. There are very few protections for tenants and the process moves ex trially quickly. The process can be waived in a week. So the entire process can take less than five days from beginning to end. From literally court notice to your stuff is on street which is extremely accelerated. Also, once you receive a judgment in court, you can be given as little as 24 hours to get out of your house. And if youre not out by then, the constable is going to show up at your door and put all of your stuff on the street, and they can remove you from the property just like you saw in the pictures. What ends up happening, folks either face physical removal like that, or they have to leave and leave their stuff behind. So lowincome families are losing all of their belongings in addition to facing financial trying to find a new home in the middle of a pandemic. It is frustrating, its heartbreaking, enraging that these are working people. Just like that, jobs are gone, assistance is gone, and members of congress are at home. And theres no help for these families. I know the client we were talking about was waiting for some rental assistance that could last for three months. But who knows how long that line and process is. Hannah, thank you for being with us and explaining the process. Its just maddening that were seeing this happen in your city and across the country. Thank you so much. She gave such great information there. And when you really think about what this means to families if we put ourselves in the same positions, if you are facing eviction right now, especially during this pandemic, we want you to know that theres help. So, we want you to know what your protections are. First of all, organizations such as the federal Housing Administration have extended an evictions protections in situations for Single Family homeowners until august 31st. As a tenant, you may also be protected by a local moratorium. Be sure to check the laws in your state. That might help. Finally, if you are in need, you and your family of food assistance, there are places that can help. Starting today, we are going to highlight for you a local food bank in every state. And were going to continue to do this each saturday on new day weekend. First of all, we want to go to alabama. Take a look at your Contact Information on the screen there. If you live near birmingham, you can contact the food bang of Central Alabama for help. In alaska, the food bank is in anchorage and theyre ready to support you. And in tucson, the Community Food bank of Southern Arizona is assisting people in that area. You can see the Contact Information on the screen. Please be sure to call these banks prior to your visit just to make sure you have the hours and times correct and you can get what you need. Next saturday, well highlight three more states. We just want you to know youre not alone through this. We can and we will get through these times together. And we will do everything we can to make sure that you are okay. Well be right back. Gillette proglide and proglide gel. Five blades and a pivoting flexball designed to get virtually every hair on the first stroke, while washing away dirt and oil. So youre ready for the day with a clean shave and a clean face. Noticks and fleas . O simplifies protection. See ya heartworm disease . 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And it really is almost impossible to put in words how courageous the folks are that youre seeing behind me who are coming out and who are continuing their very positive protest, very peaceful protest, despite the fact theres been extreme repression what what has always been a very extremely repressive state here in belarus. In fact, there are reports of people being detained. In fact, thousands being detained. People being beaten in detention. Women made to strip, made to kneel. People getting paraded and humiliated on state tv. And yet the folks are coming out because they say, theyve simply had it with what they call decades of it. Belarusians are rising up, protesting against what they say was a rigged election. A really rigged election. We want honest elections, this woman says, we want an honest count of votes, nothing else. I dont even want to say im against anything. I just want it to be honest. President trump has repeatedly claimed without any sort of evidence that mailin ballots will lead to the november election being rigged. I dont want to see a crooked election. This election will be most rigged election in history if that happens. Reporter but heres what an election looks like which parts of the International Community say was seriously flawed. Dictator Alexander Lukashenko has been in power in belarus for 26 years. He claims have won 80 of a vote until a recent election against opposition svetlana tikhanovskaya. Many russians are saying they voted against lukashenko. Opposition supporters folds their ballots in a special way, even from the outside, it was clear, they voted against the president. And theres images like these, appearing to show an election worker climbing out of a polling station window with sacks full of ballots. The government did not allow international observers, and the few people who tried to monitor the election are so afraid, we had to meet them in a secret location. We dont have observers and on the final days, the number of people who can enter in the station, so we dont have it anymore. Is it an election . No, its not. Reporter this has been the situation in belarus for the past 26 years. But now, despite a government crackdown, many people in this country are saying no more. Thats exactly what theyre doing today as well. Theyre obviously coming out protesting. Thousands of people here where we are. Certainly, yesterday there was a really big moment here in these antigovernment protests when a lot of the antigovernment protesters managed to march to the parliament of this country. Thats where we saw a really remarkable scene come out when riot police came up with shields up, obviously ready to crack down on the protesters. All of a sudden, the riot police decided to put their shields down instead and embraced by the protesters, which was an extremely emotional moment for the protests there for the country. Certainly giving the folks that youre seeing here more courage to appear on and continue to demand change which has been a repressive government here in this country. Also, theres a lot of people saying the elections here for a quarter of a century. Fred pleitgen there in minsk. Fred, thank you. Talk about the power of love. It say real thing for some newlyweds in texas. The groom, get this, started to improve when wedding plans started. Well take you to the hospital. Stay close. This year marks the 100th anniversary of american women securing their right to vote. The series represented celebrates the sufficienterette spirit. Being the first to represent the Olympic Games in hijab, i knew that my memory was bigger than me. I have minimum mothemories of bd in hijab or using racial epithets towards me. 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Listen, not even the coronavirus could stop a texas couple from getting married. Carlos muniz has been hospitalized for nearly a month with covid19. He and his fiancee, look at this. They were supposed to get married last month. He obviously got sick and tested negative for the virus but still in icu due to complications. A man full of faith. Hes a man very giving, very loving and loves unconditional with. So the staff at Methodist Hospital in san antonio, they helped to organize the ceremonies. Nurses say once carlos learned that his wedding plans were being revived. He started to improve. He wore a tuxedo tshirt. And grace wore a wedding dress. Our congratulations to the couple. More news straight ahead. Smerconish is straight ahead. Well see you back in one hour. It took this pandemic for us to get uncomfortable, to pivot. But weve risen to the occasion. I love to say that we have survived the great depression. We have survived the recession and we are survivors. 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The associated press, the Cable Networks like ours have not yet declared a winner because theyve learned the hard way how numbers can shift before the final official certification of the election results. They remember all too well the nightmare in year 2000 when al gore was declared the victor and florida results