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Hes also seeming much more irrelevant than weve seen perhaps throughout his presidency as hes backpedaling on a convention, backpedaling on reopening schools, saying its going to be up to governors. Giving up on his wishes for a payroll tax cut. Giving up on other items. So republicans can get more Coronavirus Relief money out there to the rest of the country. So this is a president , because he has downplayed and diminished the threat of this virus, who has put himself in this very precarious p...

Welcome to weekends with alex witt. Peaceful protesters clashed with federal agents as tensions boiled over in portland. Lots of fireworks were set off toward the federal courthouse downtown and that led to scenes just like this after tear gas was used on demonstrators. Marches against Racial Injustice have been taking place in portland for nearly two months now. They never really stopped after George Floyds death in minneapolis, police custody. Lets go to maura barrett. Maura has been up all ni...

This is Straight Talk from the disease doctor. What hes saying is that this virus does not respect borders. It doesnt respect state or city borders and he pointed to the rising rates in places like atlanta, baltimore, kansas city. He says we need to work to keep the numbers down. Unless everybody pulls together and gets the level way down of a baseline, were going to continue to see these kind of increases that dr. Birx was talking about in several of those cities. Thats what i mean by smolderin...

President trump is visiting ohio tonight. The governor tested positive for covid19 quarantining him rather than meeting the president. Another alarming forecast of the life and death consequences of the coronavirus. Reporter thats right. How out of control the coronavirus is. It is now predicted nearly 300,000 deaths from coronavirus by december 1. But they say consistent mask wearing starting today could save about 70,000 lives. This is a predictor of trouble ahead. A new warning for nine u. S....

Agency is suggesting that schools in areas where more than 5 of coronavirus cases are coming back positive, they should consider staying closed. The food and Drug Administration says its giving emergency use authorization to the first coronavirus test for cases without symptoms. The fda calls this possibly a game changer in helping reopen schools and businesses and to keep them open. Weve got this covered from all angles for you this morning. Were going to start with cnns poll low sandoval who i...

Rob marciano in the storm zone with the new track. The president moments ago on the coronavirus. It comes after a member of his own team, dr. Deborah birx, said what we are seeing today is different from march and april, adding, it is extraordinarily widespread, its into the rural as well as urban areas. The president lashing out at dr. Birx for the first time. And just as the first students return to school in this country, the one Georgia School district where nearly 300 teachers and staff are...

And the cities to be careful because this is a predictor of trouble ahead. Joining us now is cnn chief medical correspondent dr. Sanjay gupta. So sanjay, what does it mean that Positivity Rates, again, the percentage of people who test positive compared with the total number of tests given, significance of that have even as the total number of new infections is flattening out or plateauing in some states . Right, right. So when you have high Positivity Rates, that basically gives you an idea tha...

Coronavirus suggesting in a tweet just a little while ago that dr. Deborah birx, Coronavirus Task force coordinator is, quote, pathetic. While the president isnt explicit about what hes upset about here, you can assume the alarm dr. Birx raised on cnn yesterday is not something he wanted to hear. Lets listen to this. We are in a new phase, but i want to be very clear. What were seeing today is different from march and april. It is extraordinarily widespread. Its into the rural as equal urban are...

At we have the three percenters, a white militia. Swing back over here. On this zone, in the zone im in here you have black lives matter protesters and you have an armed, black left wing militia. So very different zones here in louisville. Obviously the police have put themselves between the two zones and it is completely separated from east to west. They are trying to keep these two groups separate for obvious reasons. The biggest concern here is that everybody has a gun. Everybody is armed nea...

Good morning, everybody. It is friday, august 7th, and im yasmin vossoughian. Were going to begin with grim new coronavirus numbers. With the United States now exceeding 160,000 deaths. Since the virus began, america has reported 4. 8 million cases. Texas has reported at least 300 new deaths for a third day in a row. Meanwhile california continuing grapple with a Technical Glitch in its tracking system. An official says its impacting its response efforts across the state. Meanwhile theres a new ...