Guideposts have been met and then still expect to have nice things and by nice things i really only mean getting back to something that looks like normal. Its clear you cant just beat this virus by hoping for the best. Take a look at the process of reopening schools and universities in multiple places around the country. Covid outbreaks are forcing School Officials to reverse course and suspend inperson learning. The latest and most glaring example the university of North Carolina chapel hill which announced that is up 130 students and undergrads tested positive in one week. This wasnt a surprise to people on campus. I talked to a professor who way back then told me that this is exactly what he feared so where is the failure there. The schools leaders blaming students. Are they really the only ones to blame. A prominent member of the White House Coronavirus task force dr. Deborah birx, she now appears to be placing blame, blaming the American People for dropping the ball at the outset of the pandemic. Listen to what she said yesterday. I wish that when we went into lockdown we looked like italy, but when italy locked down, i mean, people werent allowed out of their house. Americans dont react well to that kind of prohibition. She doesnt think america was up to this challenge or something . I mean, countrys failure has nothing to do with the failure in leadership here . Regardless, heres a look at big picture of where the country is right now. The virus has killed more than 170,000 people and for the 22nd consecutive day the u. S. Has averaged more than 1,000 deaths a day. The number of americans infected with covid is now approaching 5. 5 million, but in a bit of positive news, lets take it where we can get it at the moment we can get, it monday marked the lowest day for new reported cases in the United States since june 24th and the daily average for new cases is down nearly 10 from a week ago. What that means well have to see, and this is also just in. Researchers in europe have found possible evidence of the spread of coronavirus on a commercial flight. This is one of several new studies out this morning that has some really interesting information that you will want to know. Cnns Elizabeth Cohen is all over this for us. Elizabeth, what are you seeing in this research. You know for months, of course as someone has had covid on a flight, you can do it, too. But the german team has done a great job. A flight from tel aviv to frankfurt, fourandahalf to five hours, seven infected passengers sitting near two uninfected passengers who became infected likely on the flight itself. The researchers say, but it could have been before or after. The two uninfected passengers who became infect, they were sitting across the aisle in the back of the plane. Kate, i thought it was actually interesting, you know. The researchers reached out and actually could talk to almost everyone who was on that flight. I was surprised that actually more people did not get sick. This was back in march before anyone was Wearing Masks on flights so the fact that you had seven infected passengers and they only infected two out of other, you know, 90 something passengers, actually i thought that was interesting, but it does show you that when youre on a plane you never know who youre sitting across the aisle from. Wear your mask. Absolutely. And what are you also hearing about the study of how the virus can travel on dust particles. Yeah, so this was a study that was done of the flu, karkts and if you look up how is the flu transmitted, the cdc and others will say sneezes, coughs, talking to someone somewhat spits at you a little bit. Thats how you get infected and this is something that shows you how you get infected a little more easily. They find the flu virus on materials and live animals and this is really important onary zolized dust particles. The dust touches itself to dust particles flying around so what this shows is dust particles, animal dander, that kind of thing, that can also spread it. Someone doesnt have to spit or sneeze on you, maybe just running into the dust particles would be enough to get the flu. Yet more reason to get a flu shot. Yeah. If you werent a germaphobe before. Thanks, elizabeth, really great to see you. Lets get back to the sudden reversal on unc chapel hill as they are shifting all undergrad classes to Remote Learning tomorrow. That wasnt the original plan and this is happening just one week after the campus reopened for the fall semester with a hybrid learning model. The reason for the change is the virus, about 130 students have tested positive in the first week. The unc chancellor was asked yesterday if they had made a mistake bringing students back in for inperson learning. He said no, and here is what he then said and who he blames. When things started, activities began to happen of a campus and then bring some of that back into the residence halls, thats where we began to seat positive cases and we were surprised to see the velocity and mogitude of the spread and we made the right decision for the health and safety of our campus community. Joining me right now is the faculty chair at unc chapel hill. Thank you so much for being here. You have been calling for the school to start the School Year Online only, and this was well before we saw what happened in the last week. The what do you say now about this situation before you . Well, actually i wasnt calling for the campus to go online only. I was calling for our campus to have local control over decisionmaking. Like a number of other public universitiess, were part of a big 17campus system that has a governing body call the board of governors and they are ultimately responsible for making these sorts of decisions and for giving our campus the local authority to make those decisions so i wanted us to be able to make any decision that we needed to make, any modifications that we needed to make in response to changing conditions. Im not trying to misinterpret your position. Everything that i saw suggested though that you saw the best way to start in the first five weeks was to start online only at unc chapel hill. So that was our local Health Department recommendation that did come out and give that advice and i certainly want our campus to be able to follow such advice when it comes out. You heard who the chancellor what the chancellor said there. He says that this is all because of students and activities that started, that happened of a campus and weve heard some on campus even. Do you think that is where the failure the failure is, that is where blame should lie, with students . You know, these organizations that are off campus that are outside of the universitys control do bear a lot of responsibility in this situation. Our campus though is a microcosm of the larger country, and there are you know, we have a situation in which many, many people are not willing to follow public held guidelines whether they are 18 to 24yearolds or whether they are you know 35 to 50yearolds, so we have lots of people that are in doubt of the science and that have been unwilling to to modify their behavior, so, yes, in our situation there have been a number of things that have been brought to the administrations attention about what has been going on off campus and among student gatherings and thats, you know, just a microcosm of whats happening elsewhere. You mentioned local control, board of governors versus local control over the campus being able to decide whats best for chapel hills campus. One thing that does strike me and you mentioned it the local county Health Department had represented that you start the year online only because of the level of infection in the community. That recommendation from what i saw was in late july and i also saw that the school didnt really alert anyone to that recommendation. Have you received a good reason why they didnt follow the countys recommendation. So when i heard about that letter i certainly reached out to our chancellor and our provost right away and asked hem to meet with us as faculty which they did that afternoon. You know, they they have been working with the Orange CountyHealth Department all along, and, you know, they they felt that for whatever reason they had resolved that matter to the best of their ability, again, having discussed it with the board of governors and the board of governors advising them to stay the course. 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It was not only taped but taped a long time ago because she had the wrong deaths. Didnt even mention the Vice President ial candidate in the speech and, you know, she gets these fawning reviews. If you gave a real review it wouldnt be so fawning. I thought it was extremely divisive speech. We have a tremendous amount of enthusiasm for my campaign. And this just into cnn. Former president bill clinton is set to deliver what is being described as his, quote, sharpest rebuke yet of President Trump in his speech which will be tonight at the Democratic National convention. Thats according to a source familiar. Before then lets talk more about the former first ladys speech last night. Joining me now is former Senior Adviser to president obama valerie jarrett, the author of the new book finding my voice, when the perfect plan crumbles, the adventure gibbs. Value risk thanks for coming on once again. I guess, can i ask what your reaction is to hearing the president s reaction this morning. It is what it is. Look, if he wants to try to take on the most popular person in our country i think that that is probably a mistake but you know, what bring it on. She certainly is far, far in a stronger position than her, and she just gave her forthright opinion about his leadership which is a perfect segue into tonights theme which is leadership matters. Yeah. So on the is what it is line, was that a direct reference to the president from that axios interview that weve all seen . Well, i think i think it summed it up in a way which every american knows what shes talking about. Its a common phrase and his record speaks for itself. It is what it is. We have lost 170,000 lives and wreaked havoc on so many more. Millions of people have lost their jobs. The hopeful sign is that the racial tensions have been responded to by people demonstrating, kate, in all 50 state, mostly peacefully and now the question is are they going to show up and vote and now one of the other points that Michelle Obama tried to make last night, and i should mention, shes now Michelle Obama, not just the spouse of the president. She has earned the respect and trust of people all around our country on our own two feet and the point she was making is, look, we have to show up and vote. 100 million eligible voters did not vote in the last president ial election, and so she doesnt want people to just be inspired by her words. She wants to motivate them to realize that we are all in this together and we all have a role to play. Who do you think the argument that audience was last night for her speech . I think it was a broad audience. I mean, look, one of her strengths is that she she rises above politics. She said last night she hates politics. I was actually going to ask about it. Said it in no uncertain words last time. Shes devoted her life for the nearly 30 years that ive known her to Public Service and on her book tour i had the privilege of traveling around the country red states, blue states and the reaction she received from people all across our country was dramatically supportive. Its respect and love and trust and so i think with her huge platform she hoped to reach as many people as possible yet she did say in the speech there may be people who dont listen to me. Im speaking at the democratic convention. Im a black woman, but she thought it was important because of people do trust her to say exactly what she thinks about the president and his leadership and why she thinks that Vice President bidens competency, his character and his empathy make him absolutely the right person for him to vote. I want to get your take. A Julian Castro has been vocal and hes not alone in saying that the Convention Program features too few latino speakers and is warning of a potential slide of latino support for democrats. Thats in a new interview with axios. Do you see that . I dont, and i actually think that were just now entering the next phase of the election cycle, the general election. I think that the momentum is growing by the moment. I think that there was broad support for the lineup last night that did reflect the diversity of not just the party but our country, and i think it was important to Vice President biden to include people who are republicans, people who have been in the business community, regular americans to tell their stories, and so im pretty confident that when we get down to the election that the Latino Community will come out in full support of Vice President biden and senator harris who is very popular with the Latino Community. Valuery, thanks for coming on. Appreciate it. Youre welcome. Youre welcome, kate. It is what it is. I will now end every segment. Thanks so much. Be sure to watch cnns special coverage of the Democratic National convention. It continues tonight. Jill biden, former president bill clinton, is congresswoman alexandria ocasiocortez and more. It starts, our coverage starts at 8 00 eastern. Coming up for us still, an unprecedented effort to test everyone in the nations second Largest School digs traffic. L. A. Schools working to test nearl