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Think about that. The cdc puts together guidelines, based on science, to protect kids and teachers. Things like having air flow in rooms, washing hands. And because the president thinks theyre too specific, too difficult, the cdc is just going to weaken them. And its not me just saying that. The Vice President , actually, said it out loud today. The president said today we just dont want the guidance to be too tough. Thats the reason why, next week, cdcs going to be issuing a new set of tools. O...

Doing right now . Like, just, if youre looking across the world, what are your feelings about how we are doing right now . As a country, when you compare us to other countries, i dont think you can say we are doing great. I mean, were just not. The president fired back with a direct shot at fauci when asked about the state of the country. What do you make of these hot spots as we call them in florida and texas and other states, and dr. Faucis comments . Well first of all, dr. Fauci is a nice man...

And as the president pushes towards reopening schools in the fall, nbc news has just learned that the white house plans to issue its own guidelines for the reopening of schools, because Officials Say the ones released by the cdc are too restrictive. We have a lot to cover this entire hour. Im going to be joined by joe fryer. He is live at a Coronavirus Testing Center in los angeles. Were going to check in with him in just a moment. But we want to begin at the white house and that White House Cor...

He calls the guidelines impractical, very tough and expensive. The president wants schools open starting next month so parents can go back to their jobs. A necessary step to fully reopen the economy. Vice president mike pence reinforcing that message but with a different tone. The president said today we just dont want the guidance to be too tough. Thats the reason why next week cdcs going to be issuing a new set of tools. More now from White House Correspondent jeremy diamond. Reporter pushing ...

Democrats worry about calls to completely defund the police. Good thursday morning everyone, im sandra smith. Hello john. Good morning sandra and good morning to you, im jon scott. The Presumptive Democratic nominee has said before that he does not believe in defending the police. Surplus for Law Enforcement, they dont need that. The last thing you need is an up armored humvee coming into a neighborhood like the military invading. They dont know anybody. We agreed that we can redirect some of th...

Plans. Fema ships those every week. Now thats along with esper, assistant secretary for response at hhs. We announced yesterday, what we talked about a little bit last week and that is federal surge sites. We opened these in three communities. There was a list of communities identified by dr. Birx and her team that had certain characteristics of their infection trend but also met certain characteristics of numerical numbers in isolation that surge testing might have an impact over a short period...

Country. Vice president pence announced the cdc will be revising its guidelines for schools after President Trump complained on twitter that those guidelines were very tough and expensive. Lets begin our coverage this hour with cnns erica hill with more on todays coronavirus developments. Los angeles county for example is now warning residents the coronavirus is surging to levels not seen there since the initial peak of the pandemic back in april. Update our viewers. Thats right. Hospitalization...

The last seven days have been particularly bad. At least two dozen states had their worst week yet in terms of new cases. Yesterday, states like missouri, texas, tennessee, utah and West Virginia broke records for new infections. And those new infections have led to new restrictions. The governor of new jersey says people will now have to wear masks outdoors when they cannot stay six feet apart. Same thing in atlanta and seven hardhit counties in ohio, including the cities of columbus and cincin...

Tonight, more than four months and 135,000 lives into this growing, not shrinking pandemic and two brutal weeks of cases spiking and hospitals filling up and icus overflowing, the president of the United States does not have a plan to turn this around. What he does have as shown by statements and actions not taken is a plan for down plays, a plan for ignoring, a plan for sometimes even mocking the single greatest preventable lost of life in this countrys peacetime history. If he is as his niece ...

Increasing pressure on schools all across the United States to reopen with the president tweeting that he may actually cut off funding to schools that dont reopen. Vice president pence says the cdc will be changing its School Reopening guidelines after the president publicly criticized them as too tough and too expensive. Lets begin with the breaking news out of california right now. Cnns nick watt is in los angeles for us. Nick, i understand the governor Just Announced some very disturbing new ...