States see trends of steady or declining case numbers but the nation is currently averaging 38,000 cases a day which is lower than the summer surge but its higher than the Top Health Officials would like as they warn of the dual challenge only weeks away, a flu season in the middle of a pandemic. I will turn to biona golariga and there are a lot of students as we said starting today. It is a big day for them but a very different day. School is under way for several weeks in parts of the country. Tell us how many students started the year online. Millions are starting the school year online. We went to school on the first day and thought that was normal. Whats normal for at least the next few months for students to learn from home. More than a dozen of the Largest School districts began today online including chicago, houston and dallas. And as well as Fairfax County in virginia, baltimore county, as well. Some are starting with a hybrid program so charleston, south carolina, has students showing up online or in classrooms as well. Cyprus fair banks outside of houston students have that option and we know that Online Learning comes with its challenges. Remember what we heard about the cyber attack in miami last week, a 16yearold implicated from that and we have news of a hartford attack in connecticut cyber attack there for the 20,000 students and could not learn online with a hybrid program and some in school, some online. They have rescheduled the opening of school because of the attack and investigating that. Wow. All right. Bianna, thank you for that report. Latest stats show how much worse the United States is handling the pandemic compared to much of the world and the figures really blow up President Trumps repeated aterpts to down play the severity. W. H. O. Officials find that north and south america are the source for a disproportionate number of cases and deaths and in the americas the u. S. Is doing the worst with more than 6 million cases right now and nearly 190,000 deaths. Cnns tom foreman is covering this story for us. Tell us about this report, tom. Reporter all you have to do is look at this one graphic to see the picture very clearly. It is a look at the cases by region and total deaths. And the americas there in gold are way out front of earn else. The americas are leading by a long margin. Right below is Southeast Asia in purple and see like the americas they have been trending upward but at a much lower level and then in that lime green color thats europe down there. Europe is the one thats starting basically flattened out and not climbing through the roof and all the times that the president says we are making so much progress and other countries arent doing as well thats not the truth and these new numbers show that very clearly. Another way to look at it saying that the United States is a huge country by population and it is, the americas are a big region, look at this world map where basically theyre highlighting the hot spots in the past week and look at europe, asia, australia, africa. All of them have less intense color there showing the number of cases per 1 Million People and then look at the americas. Thats where all the hotspots are. South america huge problems all the way down there but look at the United States of america. Those colors alone tell you how intense its been here and how the problem remains very difficult here when compared to rest of the world and the claims to do somehow better you said it at the top, this is yet another piece of evidence that says that is simply not true, the u. S. Is trailing pretty much everyone in the world in terms of handling this virus. Tom, thank you so much for showing us that. There is an unprecedented pledge made, nine of the Worlds LargestBio Pharmaceutical Companies pledging to uphold high ethical standards and pledge to only submit for approval or emergency use authorization after demonstrating safety and efficacy through a phase three Clinical Study conducted to meet requirements of authorities such as fda. This all appears to be a response to the president s vaccine timeline which he once again laid out yesterday. We already it soon. Wait a minute. So now what theyre saying is, oh wow, this is bad news. President trump is getting this vaccine in record time. By the way, if this were the Obama Administration you wouldnt have that vaccine for three years and probably wouldnt have at it all so well have a vaccine very soon, maybe even before a very special date. You know what date im talking about. Election day. We know what he is talking about. Lets talk with professor and dean of tropical medicine, dr. Peter hotez with us. Dr. Hotez, this is unusual because it goes almost you would think without saying that pharmaceutical companies would be if they are seeking approval for a vaccine that they would be doing so with one thats safe so whats going on here with this pledge to reassure people . Yeah. Look. Brianna, the pharmacy ceos are smart. They dont want to put anything out there thats going to be either unsafe or doesnt work. One, it would undermine not only the Public Confidence in the u. S. Covid19 Vaccine Program operation warp speed and undermine the confidence in the companies and theyre publicly traded companies and affect the shareholders so it makes Good Business sense. They dont want to put anything out there thats unsafe or doesnt work. It would destroy their companies and careers and i think what you are seeing by issuing that statement. To be clear, they could submit a vaccine, right . Talk about the time line here. Sub mitt a vaccine for approval before the election but thats a different thing than having a vaccine by the election. Tell us the distinction. Actually, i dont think they really can really submit anything before the election. I dont see a path by which theyre going to have sufficient data to show that the vaccine actually works compared to the placebo controls or that we have enough Patients Enrolled for safety so im finding it very hard to understand some of the statements im hearing that we could have a vaccine before the election or you could submit the dossier to the fda by that time because it takes two doses for each of these vaccines. We have seen that from the phase one trials and when you start to add up the fact that the phase three trials didnt start until august, into september and takes two doses, a month apart and then you have to give it time to show that it works, compared to the controls and you have to show that its safe, when you add all that up, essentially if you try to get a vaccine released or approved before the election youre pretty much have to submit it around now and i just dont see a path by which thats happening. Really . Okay. Can you back time that for us in a way . You say there has to be two doses. Questions of whether they have enough people. That would be getting the first dose. Yeah. These are large studies and multiple Centers Across the country, possibly internationally. 30,000 individual trials. I think the Clinical Trial sets doing an amazing job trying to enroll their patients and doing this at an accelerated time frame without compromising the integrity of the study but even with all of those things to get two dozes in to allow time for the immune response to happen because it doesnt happen immediately after the second dose, it takes a week or so after that, and then to give it time for people going about the daily activities, to show a difference between controls and the placebo, when you the weeks add up pretty quickly. So were hearing from dr. Fauci that he thinks maybe by the end of the year well get an idea whether these vaccines are working and i think thats a much more realistic time frame. Is it possible that if a vaccine is amazing and is protecting 90 like the ebola vaccine or measles vaccine that we could get an answer faster . Yes, it is, but its really hard to see how the stars can align so that we could get something out before the election. I think thats a low probability. Okay. Cnn had the chance to interrvie a ceo about the research. Its an excellent profile and i consider this vaccine as a vaccine which is near perfect which has a near perfect profile. Yeah . We have done preclinical experiments. We have shown that the vaccine is able to protect animals from infection in really tough challenged experiments. The vaccine thats in the works is near perfect. What do you say to that . Yeah. I think that was a unfortunate statement. Maybe it was language but at face value thats an irresponsible statement. One, we know from the phase one trials that at the high doses it was reactive and the human volunteers could not tolerate a second dose and right off the bat its not a perfect vaccine. It was not tolerated well. From the phase one trial, you get pretty good virus neutralizing which is an important component that we think is important for protection and we know that the preclinical Animal Studies look good and good antibody responses and phase one at the lower doses it seemed to be safe. And thats you know, you cannot make it this point any statement of efficacy or near perfect. This is the difference between ceo of a smaller bio tech versus a major farm suit call company. What the ceos are doing is not talking to you or me but talking to the shareholders, very entrepreneurial and transactional and the problem is some of these ceos are tone deaf to the fact that when they make statements like that its amplified all over the world and at a time when people are scared and upset and this disease is affecting Homeland Security so it was a bit tone deaf. I think it was well intentioned but he shouldnt have made that statement. And look. Dr. Hotez, i appreciate. You always say to us i dont want to read the press release. I want to see the data and i think its so important to make that distinction so we appreciate you doing it here. Dr. Hotez, thank you. Thank you. Are there different strains of covid . Can you get the flu and covid at the same time . We will have a doctor who will answer those questions. Plus, the president launches a labor day parade of lies at the white house. We will fact check. 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[both] thank you. giggling now that school resumed mostly online across the country and concerns about the flu seasons possible impact on coronavirus are mounting we want to get your answers to some of your questions in front of an expert. Lets talk with dr. Adrian burrows here with us. Doctor, i want to start with a question of strains of coronavirus because like all viruses we know that it mutates regularly but what does that mean for us and how concerned should we be . So thats a great question. We have definitely seen that there have been some mutations in the covid19 virus and what that means for the viewers is there are those things that are amino acids and the sequence is how we determine the identity of a virus. What we have seen with covid19 is that some of these amino acids are changing as time goes along and that has made some experts concerned that that might make it more infectious. Thats alarming, right . People should be alarmed or they might need to be alarmed . What do you think . I think that there is some of the viewers, some of the American Public that believe that covid19 is not a real entity. My patients come in and ask me is this real . Is this not real . It is real and i think everyone should be concerned about the mutations in the virus because that like i said is lending itself to potentially being more infectious and definitely a concern. Okay. Heres another question. Can you have the flu and coronavirus at the same time . Yes. Absolutely. One of the things we need to make sure of as we wait for the covid19 vaccines to make sure we take advantage of whats available now which is the flu vaccine because you can get both flu and covid19 at the same time which could be catastrophic to your immune system. Geez. Okay. Can food be a source of covid19 transmission . Okay. So thats another good question. So as of right now theres been no evidence to show that food is a way of transmitting covid19. One of the things to make sure of is we frequently wash and sanitize all food contact surfaces and utensils but theres no evidence to suggest to get it through food. Okay. So we are this is school time. Right . A lot of schools have been operating for a few weeks and first day for so many people so are parents more likely to spread the virus to teachers than the children themselves . Okay. So another wonderful question. We had the beginning thought that children were a low likelihood of spread of the virus because they were largely asymptomatic and even when they had the virus they had minimal symptoms. Now we see the mini outbreaks, schools reopened which tell us that children have the ability to spread the virus. I would treat everyone the same and take social distancing precautions. Okay. So then in light of that, heres the next question. How safe is it to allow children to play soccer or attend ballet classes . I would add in there other activities that kids are opening to get back to this school year. Yeah. When we talk about ballet, you can socially distance and probably in the dance rooms and to sanitize those areas and do that in a safe manner so thats probably something you could do. When you talk about sports and soccer especially, where you have high touch surfaces like the ball, right . Kids are contacting, if theyre not having the ability to test the children i would be more cautious of that. You are in close proximity with other athletes and then having a high touch surface as the ball so i i would take more precautions with that and not advise with that necessarily right now. A followup on ballet or dance classes, if you are in an enclosed space and there isnt a lot of air flow and then in addition to that, you know, when you have kids doing dance might be moving across the room and might not just staying in one place, when i think of the dance moves and the mobility. Is that a concern . So that would be a concern, especially if were not able to utilize the masks and high impact activities it is not natural to have that mask on doing that so in those classes they probably are not using that on the dancers doing that and as youre coming into that proximity where youre less than six feet apart you would have a concern about transmission. Dr. Burrowes, thank you. We appreciate it. Thank you so much. Next, the president listed off really a litany of lies and falsehoods at the News Conference. Plus, new cnn reporting on how the claims that he disparaged members of the military are impacting him. And White Supremacy is the most lethal threat to the u. S. , that is according to a disturbing new assessment by Homeland Security. To deliver your packages. And the peace of mind of knowing that important things like your prescriptions, and ballots, are on their way. Every day, all across america, well keep delivering for you. While america was enjoying a threeday weekend yesterday the president held a News Conference most deserving of a fact check including more comments that he made last hour so lets take a look here. While defending himself against reports of outlets that he disparaged rank and file Service Members he disparaged military leaders. Im not saying that the military is i