Since the president was last in an indepth Task Force Briefing and still the president doesnt get it. You dont even have to trust a source familiar with the briefing. Just take a look at this morning. In a new interview on fox the president was trying to make the case for opening schools and he argued once again that the virus is going to disappear just using different words. My view is the schools should open. This things going away. It will go away like things go away and my view is that schools should be open. He is clearly focused on pushing all schools to reopen without offering a plan for how to do so safely, but despite his best efforts some of the nations Biggest School districts are not listening. Chicago Just Announced that its going to start the year completely online after initially saying that kids will be in classrooms a couple of days a week and in districts that had already started school this year in person like georgia, theyre quickly running into problems. Cnns Diane Gallagher is in at atlanta and the school year is just starting this week in some parts. What is going there . Yeah. In georgia, much like other states especially across the south where things tend to start earlier it is a mixed bag. Others are doing a hybrid version and then some are going back in person like in cherokee countiy and on monday when School Started in cherokee canty at the elementary school, most of them were Wearing Masks and some of these pictures dont really show social distancing, but masks arent required and at the elementary a second Grade Student tested positive for covid19. The district informed the parents on wednesday just a couple of days after they began and all 20 of the students in that second grade class and the teacher now have to quarantine at home for 14 days. That class isnt necessarily, we dont know if its one of those in the pictures there, but thats the situation while they deep clean the classroom and continue to do Contact Tracing to make sure that those students, if they were exposed dont also test positive. The teacher right now, we are told is not showing any symptoms so they will continue teaching virtually from their home and its not just the schools that have started in person that are starting to see problems. Marrietta, their school district, when they began preplanning, theyre starting the School Virtually and they did so yesterday, but they have five employees that tested positive for cover id 19 acovidd in gwinnett, so they cant work. School is starting virtually kate next week in that school district. We have no word on whether or not that will impact the start of school in the states Largest School district, but these districts are coming to terms with what going to school during the pandemic is going to mean for them. Its so complicated. Its wonderful to see those sweet, although theyre pixe pixelated as theyre trying to get back in class. Thank you so much, dianne. With me now is dr. Lina wen and the former Baltimore Health official. Let me play Something Else for you that the president said this morning about kids and coronavirus. Ill read it for you. Were having a technical issue with it. He says this, if you look at children, children are almost and i would say almost definitely, but almost immune from this disease. So theyve got it stronger. I think the technical issues worked itself out. Lets have the president say it in his own words. If you look at children, children are almost and i would almost say definitely, but almost immune from this disease. So few, theyve got stronger, hard to believe, and i dont know how you feel about it, but they have much stronger immune systems than we do somehow for this, and they do it. They dont have a problem. They just dont have a problem. We know that kids arent immune, doctor. We know this very well. They are getting it at a lower rate right now, but what do you say to that . Well, its not true, and i think its important for us as scientists and doctors to set the record straight that children do tend to get less ill than adults do, but some children get very ill. They end up getting hospitalized and they end up in the icu. Some children tragically have died because of coronavirus. Also children dont live in a bubble. They live with their parents and grandparents and we know their children can transmit the virus and can be at risk for transmission. I dont mean to interrupt, but its one thing that the president misses consistently and always is that its not just about getting sick. Its about as it has been from the beginning, spreading it and the children dont live alone, by definition. Please continue. Thats right. Children dont live alone. They can potentially indeed spread it to other people in their households and we also know that its not just children in the schools and its staff and teachers and their families and having so many people, whatever their age congregate in one setting when there is Community Spread thats ongoing and very high is just really dangerous and change the dynamics of the disease and furthers the spread as we have seen in our own country and in israel and other country, too. Weve seen cases of kids getting covid since schools opened in indiana and it happened in georgia, as well. What do you think parents need to understand about what we know and what we dont about kids and covid as they prepare to send them back to school. Think the risk of having severe illness from covid19 for children is low, but again, children can spread it. Say youre in a situation or youre in a community where the rate is one in a hundred. On day one, say the school has a thousand people. You have ten children what are actively infectious and able to spread it to others. Its a question of when there are outbreaks and parents have to be ready to have their kids home again and also when we have testing and the backlog of cases that we have. We can have a child be at home waiting for a test ten days and 14 days and i think there are a lot of contingencies to think through the logistics of what it would look like even if kids do go back for inperson instruction. I wonder how you felt when the president sat down for the first Coronavirus Briefing yesterday and that was since april. A source coming out of it says he doesnt get the severity of this crisis. He said again, that he thinks this thing is just going to go away. Its not going go away, and i think it should be abundantly clear by now that it could have gone away. Other countries have been successful in suppressing the infection, but we have not. We are less than 5 of the worlds population where 25 of the worlds cases and it doesnt have to be this way. There are actually steps that are within the president s control. For example, universal mask ordering or universal mask wearing order, having restrictions on indoor gatherings, making sure that theres a National Strategy for testing so that were not waiting two weeks for results to come back. These are all things that the president can do right now, but it begins with him recognizing the severity of the problem and theyre not powerless against the virus. We need his leadership, too. Were at a point when thats not going to happen and i dont know when it will, its great to see you, doc. Thank you. Coming up for us, douls county in texas, now record reporting one of the deadliest attacks and while the new cases are trending down. Mailin voting. Fine for florida, a disaster for nevada, a disaster for the president. What is motivating this for donald trump. 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Florida is different in the sense that it had been doing it and theyve had two very good governors, frankly, and they have an infrastructure thats taken years to build, but nevada. They start voting very soon and he just threw it out there and the other thing is the votes dont have to be counted or tabulated until seven days after november 3rd. Joining me right now is joshs doey, cnn political analyst for the washington post. Great to see you, josh. Youve done some great reporting on what is really going on here. What are you hearing . A number of political advisers, Ronny Mcdaniel and others are repeatedly pressing the president to stop his rhetoric against all mailin balloting and a lot of early polling is that democrats are embracing this practice far more than republicans and what his advisers fear is with his constant rhetoric about this it could hurt his chances to get those ballots that he needs for himself. And what are you hearing about the president also continuing, he did again this morning, to push this claim that results are going to be delayed potentially. This morning he said years, which is not going to happen. What is behind that portion of this . Well, the president is certainly raising lots of questions about mailin balloting and theyre pointing to new york as one of the key areas. There is a congressional primary there where six weeks after the ballots they were still counting and theyre pointing to cases here and there saying that the United States, its infrastructure is not ready to count mailin ballots after the election. A lot of them are saying we will be ready for election day and its pointing to some of these places where there have been issues and not years long delay and what the president is saying, but legitimate concerns, nonetheless. The point is getting the count correct, if it does take a week or two longer under the Health Crisis circumstances, okay, i kind of say. In nevada, especially, they did have an expanded mailin balloting, just in june when they were in a primary there. So they didnt have any issues there. How big of a problem could this become for the president and the Republican Party . Because as youve mentioned its not only democrats who are building out mailin voting, and one of the Republican Senate candidates and President Trumps campaign are pushing folks to vote by mail. Both democrats and republicans and the like and this will be an unprecedented election for mailin ballots and a lot of folks are fearful to go to the polls and a lot of people are dislocated and a lot of reasons people might vote by mail and theres concern on the republican side that with the president s rhetoric on mailin balloting saying that he thinks its fraudulent or rigged that some of his voters may be