Changes now. More on what dr. Bright is expected to Tell Congress tomorrow in just a moment. But here is where the numbers stand right now. The National Death toll in the u. S. Now tops 83,000 people. 1. 4 million americans have been infected but the picture on ground looks different depending on where you live. You could see nine states there on your screen are trending in the wrong direction with increased cases this week. With the biggest jumps in south dakota, arkansas and delaware did you 22 states are trending in the right direction with decreased cases this week. So some good news for the moment. But again this is only a snapshot in time. What youre seeing here. And that means even more americans are asking key questions about every day life like when will children be able to go back to school. There are big moves on this front today too. But lets start at the white house, Kaitlan Collins is there and joining me now. You got your hands on dr. Brights Opening Statement. What else is he going to say to congress and is the white house preparing . Reporter well two things. We knew he would say it was retaliation and that is why he believed he was pushed out of the job and we saw that in the detailed complaint filed this week but hes talking about what is to come and the warnings about whether or not the u. S. Is prepared for that. Something he makes pretty clear in this Opening Statement that hes prepared to deliver tomorrow to lawmakers that is not happening right now. And he lays out a series of steps talking about things that he thinks need to happen. The ramping up of supplies and they need to be coordinated and equally distribute add mong states instead of the way that it is being done now, a patch work as some of the governors have described it. And he also said, kate, there needs to be a National Testing strategy. But hes basically warning what is going to happen if this advice that hes offered and that other experts have offered doesnt happen and he says, quote, our window of opportunity is closing. He said without clear planning and implementation of steps that i and other experts have outlined, 2020 will be the darkest winter in modern history. So he has a pretty dark warning there at the end about what this could look like and of course he is also we should know he is trying to be reinstated to his job. Hes not coming out and offering this critique or analysis of what is going on. He wants to be put back in that position. Now weve heard that it is unlikely, it is unclear how that is going to be resolved and weve heard from hhs issues pushing back saying he had other issues during his tenure. Brights team pushed back on that by giving us his reviews and showing one of the top hhs officials that he feuded with gave him really good reviews during his time at the head of the vaccine agency. So tomorrow is going to be interesting because it is a look from someone inside of the administration who apparently based on his statement does not have an issue offering this unfiltered view of exactly what he believes what went wrong in the early days of this outbreak. Absolutely. Good work, kaitlan, thank you. So another focus for the white house today for sure is that key model that the white house has leaned on so heavily through the crisis just shifted yet again now projecting 147,000 people will die from the virus by early august. That is up nearly 10,000 from the last projection. But looking at the numbers from the last seven days tells a different story. When you look. These are from Johns Hopkins in the last seven days. Nationally the rates of new cases are going down. And nationally the rates of new deaths on average per day are going down too. And if you look at the average of new cases among states compared to a week ago, more states are on the way down than up. That is looking back. Now lets get to this new projection which is looking forward. Joining me now is ali mcnaught, a professor from the health and metrics and evaluation which develop this is model. Thank you, professor, for being here. And now you project 147,000 deaths by august. What is driving the new projections. Simply it is increases mobility and relaxation of social distancing in some states. So states are at different phases right now when it comes to how much the virus is spreading and some are relaxing measures prematurely and were seeing increase in mobility and the virus is circulating which means more cases unfortunately and more deaths. And when you look at the model, and you break it down by state, some states are looking at higher death projections right now and then i want to look at the lower in a second. But if you look at new york, massachusetts and North Carolina, theyre looking at higher death projections than in the last report. People might be surprised by North Carolina as it really hasnt been seen as a hot spot, if you will. What is going on in North Carolina in particular . So North Carolina, what youre seeing right now is the effect of increased detection of cases going on in North Carolina and the relaxation of some of the social distancing. So they are relaxing the social distancing at a time where the case of numbers are going up. So that would lead to expectation, of course, they will have more cases and unfortunately more deaths in North Carolina. Yeah. And now on the other hand you have states like georgia and fli and indiana looking at a decrease in projects deathed. What is going on there. So georgia, a very good example, the projection between North Carolina and georgia is different. Georgia has seen a steady number of cases on a regular basis. Remember they opened up about two weeks ago so we see the impact of that increase in mobility right now in the coming days because the incubation period is 14 days. But the fact that they have declined mobility for a longer time were seeing a leveling of cases and hoping that will be maintained in one condition, if the people in georgia, when they go out right now and theyre increasing the mobility, that doing it safely by wearing a mask and by staying away from each other and keeping the safe distance. So in general as we have followed every update from your studies and your reports, it seems that the big change is that did you early on as a group expect the country, the nation, states and localities to stay home longer until there was more of a decrease or leveling off in deaths before they went out . Is that what were seeing here . Just earlier on you thought people would abide by the guidelines put forth by the cdc in a more strict way that what were really seeing happening. Exactly. That is a very good poin, kate. Early on when we projected mortality we assumed everybody would keep the social distancing measures until the end of may and that the states will not implement them will do so in one week and as you have seep our numbers were coming down. Then when states started relaxing measures prematurely and mobility started increasing even before the relaxation because people started anticipating a change in the stated policy and they started moving around. So we have seen right now an increase in cases in some places and we are projecting, unfortunately for the country, more mortality by august 4th. These projections, these death projections, theyre only through august. Why is that, professor . Reporte. Because right now we dont have the information past august 4th. Well up date our models in the long run but everybody else is expected unfortunately a second wave of the virus and we are concerned that the second wave will come at the same time as the flu season and you know from past the flu season overwhelmed our hospitals sometimes and now we have covid19 and flu season. And we have to be very careful right now. That is why the concern we need to bring the level of sick lation in every state very low so we dont have high level of virus circulating when it comes back for the second wave. And i think smsing th that something that is important. Your assumptions, youre not assuming that come august that is going to be the peak of deaths and it is all going to be gone. That is just the material that you have to work with right now so people need to understand 147,000, that is not all of 2020 or the life span of this virus at all. Indeed. This is not were not out of danger. Were estimated 147,000 by august 4th. This virus will be with us for a long time until we have a vaccine or a superdrug that will take care of it. Professor thank you for your work. Appreciate it. Thanks for coming on. My pleasure. A new warning just in fromland world Health Organization. The top official now saying the coronavirus may never go away. Elizabeth cohen is here and watching this and tracking this. Elizabeth, translate this, pars this for me, what is the Health Organization really saying here. This is so sobering that it makes sense when you think about it. Viruses typically dont just disappear, especially one like this one that has become so widespread. When you think about measles, didnt go away as we learned last year, it is still here that just most of us have been vaccinated against it. So this virus, until we get a vaccine, it appears it will hang around for a while. Lets take a listen to what this w. H. O. Official had to say. This virus may become just another endemic virus in our community and hiv has not gone away and im not comparing the two diseases but i think it is important to be realistic and i dont think anyone could predict if or whether this disease will disappear. Reporter i think that word realistic is important and if we decide as a society how much were going to go out and mix with other people, lets be realistic this virus is not going to disappear and well deal with this until we get a vaccine. Everybody needs to keep that in mind as we plan for life to be quite honest. You also have new reporting, elizabeth, on u. S. Vaccine makers considering a move that is considered really quite unprecedented. What are you hearing . Reporter well, so this is an unprecedented situation where we are trying to get not just a vaccine but several all at once very quickly and im told that vaccine makers and the governor are considering doing something that hasnt been done before in this country which is lets all get together and do one big trial. To Vaccine Companies that would compete would get together and do one big trial and have one controlled group because part of the trial is that youinock late or inject people with nothing with a placebo to see how that compares to those who have the vaccine and if you do it together you only have one group and that saves time and money. So this is being considered. It tells you how different thisvithi this this situation is from other situations. Thanks, elizabeth. One of the Largest University systems in the country and just canceled inperson classes for hundreds of thousands student this is fall. Why did they make this call and will others follow suit. 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But the nations largest fouryear Public University system just made the call. And the answer is no. The california state University System announcing it will keep the majority of their classes off campus and online. That is almost half a Million Students across 23 campuses. This is the first major University System to make such a decision. Will more join . Joining me now is president of cal State University fullerton fram vergy, thank you for being here. Glad to be with you, kate. Thank you. Cal state fullerton made this call earlier back in april. And now the entire cal state system is with you. What was the determining factor . What did this come down to . Well, it comes down to health and safety of our faculty and our students and our staff. Our two north stars if you will are keeping our Community Safe and providing inclusive excellent education for our students and were looking for the balance to continue to do both. The safest thing to do would be just shut everything down but then students wouldnt progress to graduation, wouldnt get their education. So were looking for that balance. Was it one thing in particular, was it you just couldnt figure out a way to keep students socially distanced and in a classroom or in a residence hall, what was it that couldnt be overcome just because of the way that what is required and the way colleges are set up. Well, you have to imagine that cal state fullerton is the largest of the csus and we have 40,000 students and 5,000 faculty on campus. So we have a lot of people on campus in an urban setting so we have limited space. We want to make sure that we could practice social distancing, physical distancing for our students that they have the proper protective equipment to protect them and their health and safety. The density, if we were just to bring everybody back, would be unsafe from our perspective. And that is really important to be sure that we limit the access or the exposure to potentially to the virus. Why make the call in april and may . Do you not think i dont know, that there is a way that progress could be made in three months that would make you feel any differently . Well, ill answer that two ways. First of all, it is important to know that the university will be open. We will be serving our students. So we didnt make a call to achilles the university. We made a call to provide our courses virtually. Ch and if you look into the future and listen to the epidemiology and the experts in this area and as your last guest just mentioned were expecting a large wave in august and much larger wave in october, november. We just pivoted from facetoface instruction to virtual instruction literally on the dime. We want to make sure that we can be careful to protect our students and it is much easier to move from virtual to physical facetoface instruction if it becomes safe and to phase that in than it is start facetoface and have to move to virtual quickly. That is a potential for disaster. That is a great point. What do you need to see happen, what needs to happen for you, for cal state fullerton or the system, the entire system, to feel comfortable for more students to be back for inperson classrooms . Is it anything short of a vaccine . Well it wont surprise you that my what i need to see is reflective of what the cdc needs to see, our state department of health and our Health Experts which is a continuing reduction in the number of coronavirus cases that are reported in california and especially in southern california, those numbers are still increasing not decreasing. A decrease in the number of deaths as well. Hopefully none. And those numbers are still increasing in southern california. We would also have to have a much more vigorous ability to test and trace and when you have 40,000 students on campus and a very porous campus where there are thousands of entry points on to campus it is hard to test and trace. So short of a vaccine were going to be living with a virus for a long time to come. As our chancellor said, you cant change the biology so what were trying to do is work within that biology to provide the best protection for our students. And as things become better, as the number of cases drop, as we increase our expertise in being able to assure physical distancing and have the appropriate protective equipment and sanitation and sanitizing more and more students and more faculty will be brought back on to campus. I think everyone respects someone who is following the science. President vergy, that is for sure and letting science lead the way. In general, do you think what do you say to students who are concerned theyre not getting as good of an education, that College Experience is not the same if they cant be in classes together. Well, the first thing i would say to students is the same thing i would say to my faculty, staff and my community, which is i understand not only that Virtual Learning may not at first seem the equivalent to facetoface learning but more importantly that you are under stress in this pandemic right now. And i appreciate and feel for and empathize with the stress that you are under. I want to assure that you, as i said, we pivoted to virtual instruction in a matter of days so we went from all facetoface instruction to all virtual instruction in a matter of days. Weve work weve been working hard to make that instruction vibrant and engaging for the students and to measure the outcomes to make sure that we do provide what is appropriate. But we will continue to provide that equipment the best we can. I think i might have lost you. No, i think we still have. But president vergy, thank you so much. I appreciate your time. And thank you for what youre doing. Well check back in. Just into cnn, a new study raising questions about a coronavirus test used by the white house and touted by the white house. Cnn medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen is back with us. Elizabeth, what is this . So even before the study there were other studies that called into question the accuracy of this abbott test, the one that the white house is using on its staffers, so