Learning and life is pain management. Everybodys pain is personal. Everybody is going to have stuff, you know, all of the trite is true. All of the stereotypes are real and the cliches are real. It is all about our perspective on these things. You are brilliant at it when you do your analysis and how you balance life and work. This is perspective. Your life is hard. You are balancing a lot of different things. There are a lot of additional pressures. What you make of them is up to you. All of those challenges are very real. You may have more or less but we each have our own, and how we deal with them is a lens to our reality. And look at us right now. What is the lens . We have a president that tells us we are doing okay. I dont know what color the sky is in his world. You talk about perspective training, there is no metric that is good for us. But this is what he is doing to define his own reality because it is what benefits him. We have a choice as well about what our perspective will be. We know we are not doing well and we are in a hard way with our kids coming right now. Are you kidding. I have my kids looking at me asking when they can go back to school and see their grandparents and why cant we hug people. I didnt land yesterday in the gulf of mexico. We have been here. We have seen what happens. You are right about perspective, because we have to make sure that we have the perspective and hold people accountable. We cant just smell the gas and allow ourselves to be gassed. We have to actually do something. We have to make sure we are holding the feet to the fire because a lot is riding on it. I hate the phrase the new normal. Nothing about it is new or normal. All of it feels old in a sense that people that are in positions of power are not doing enough for the powerless. We have to be the voices. It all starts at the top, laura, and ill be watching. Thank you. This is cnn tonight. Our breaking news, hurricane isaias taking aim at the carolinas tonight. We have the brandnew forecast and will go there live in a moment. That as the president of the United States continues to down play the coronavirus as it storms across the country killing more and more americans every single day. Here is what he says tonight. I think we are doing very well. I think that we have done as well as any nation. If you really take a look at what is going on now with all of these flare ups. If you really look at what is going on. Well, you would see the truth is that we are not doing very well. We are not doing well at all. The United States has far more cases per 100,000 residents than italy, france, india, china, germany. The death toll in the country is well over 155,000 tonight as total cases surge past 4. 7 million. That is do not doing well by any stretch of the imagination or any measure. Take a look at the president s decidedly mixed message on masks tonight. In a Campaign Email the president asked the supporters to try to wear a mask. Just try. I am quoting this here, i dont love wearing them either. Masks may be good, just okay or they may be great. How about necessary . If you really want people to wear masks and every one of us should, that is not a convincing argument. Not with the art of persuasion here but the president wants to distract you with baseless claims that using mailin voting because remember, we are in the middle of a deadly pandemic will be a disaster. Never been a push like this for mailin ballots. If you look at the congressional race which is a disaster, it has been a total disaster. They are six weeks in to it now and they have no clue what is going on. I think i can say here and now you have to rerun the race because it is a mess. How are you going to do it for a nation. They are using covid to get the mailin ballots. Absentee ballots are great. They have to request them and go through a process. The universal mailin ballots have turned out to be a disaster. What nevada has been doing if you look over the last few days, you have to look at what they have done. If you couldnt make sense of that train of thought, nevadas governor is signing into law a plan to send absentee ballots to all active voters this november becoming the eighth state along with d. C. To adopt universal mail and experts tell cnn there is no difference between absentee ballots and voting by mail. What is the president s excuse for continuing to call mailin voting in to question and potentially forcing americans to choose between their health and vote. He tweeted about it way back in april saying doesnt work out well for republicans. Seems like he has one particular republican in mind. I want to bring in jim acosta and the director of the cardiac program at George Washington university hospital. Gentlemen, welcome to you both. Interesting night to converse with you. Jim, today the president went after his own official, dr. Birx and his own administrations postal service. He really is the heckler in his own administration as the New York Times put it recently, isnt he . I think he is also becoming increasingly a loner in his administration when it comes to the coronavirus. I think keep in mind he is going after dr. Deborah birx after she contradicted him over the weekend and now is the third member of the Coronavirus Task force to do that. The Testing Coordinator for the administration. He was saying over the weekend that hydroxchloroquine is not an effective treatment for the coronavirus and as we all know the president has been going after dr. Anthony fauci for weeks because dr. Fauci has been telling it like it is giving the straight scoop to the American People on covid19. It is remarkable to see three members of the task force publicly contradicting the president. You mentioned the distractions. He is obviously throwing out distractions because he doesnt want to talk about the pandemic. But you know, why is it that the United States is so far ahead of so many other countries around the world when it comes to deaths from covid19 and the president after throwing some insults at us went on to say that the u. S. Is doing an amazing job in all of this. Reminds me of something i heard time and time again from sources inside the administration saying the president is in denial about the problem when he talks about things like mailin voting. He is not even keeping up with current events. The u. S. Postal service put out a statement saying they have the capacity to deal with the influx of mailin balloting that will occur around election time. The president doesnt want to deal with it. That would be dealing with reality. I want you to take a listen to what this is as. Check it out. Lockdowns do not prevent infection in the future. They just dont. It comes back many times. Comes back. The purpose of a lockdown is to buy time to build capacity especially with respect to hospitals, learn more about the disease and develop effective treatments as we did in the United States. Doctor, what do you think about what he is saying there . Well, he is wrong. The purpose of a lockdown he went on to say permanent lockdowns dont work. Nobody is talking about a permanent lockdown. A shutdown helps to prevent the further spread of the virus in the community. And when businesses are closed and nonessential people are staying home the virus cant spread from persontoperson in large venues or restaurants or bars. The virus dies. That is the purpose of a shutdown. That is what smart societies do when they see a surge. That is what countries around the world are reconstituting when they see a surge and that is what they should do in texas, florida, parts of california when the virus is out of control. Gentlemen, thank you. Easy as that if you are listening to the science and common sense, it is easy as that. Thank you both. I appreciate your time and i like listen to your perspective. Dr. Anthony fauci is warning about a new phase of coronavirus in the u. S. You have Community Spread it is much more difficult to get your arms around that and contain it. In case you had not realized it yet coronavirus is everywhere. There are people who are spreading it who have no symptoms at all and we know that definitely occurs. It is difficult to identify it. It is difficult to do identification, isolation and contact tracing. Reporter new cases may be leveling off Holding Steady in hardhit texas and falling in arizona and florida, mississippi has the highest percentage in the country at 21. 1 . California became the first state to report a half million infections and daily death tolls there and around the country continue to climb. The cdc projecting the death toll will surpass 173,000 people in the next three weeks. We need to look ahead and decide where we want to be in six months and figure out what we need to put in place in order to get to that point. Parties presenting another challenge for communicating trying to slow the spread. Indoor celebration at a bar causing alarm in los angeles and the new york Sheriffs Office intercepting a party boat and making an arrest after an illegal party. Rude, irresponsible and illegal. Reporter in new Jersey Governor Phil Murphy imposing new restrictions limiting indoor gatherings to 25 people, down from 100. The actions of a new knuckleheads leave us no other course. Reporter already causing problems in georgias Public School with 260 employees testing positive for the virus. They had been planning reopen next week with online only classes. Schools in mississippi and indiana that opened up for inperson learning reported students or staff testing positive for covid19 leaving officials scrambling to warn their contacts. Not the start we were looking for in that specific school. Athena, thank you. I want to get to the breaking news on hurricane isaias that is now taking aim at the carolinas tonight. Our cnn weather anchor is live on the scene. What is the latest on hurricane isaias and where is it now and headed and are you safe out there . Yeah. We are definitely safe here in our particular location. Isaias is doing exactly what we feared, strengthening into a hurricane directly before landfall. Within the hour we expect the center of the storm to move across southeastern carolina. Those areas are getting pounded right now with extremely strong winds. Just off of the coast of North Carolina had a wind gust reported over 90 miles per hour. That is category 1 strength. Six hours ago it was a mere Tropical Storm. We had third record high tides in myrtle beach. There was local coastal flooding in that region and flooding across portions of the South Carolina coast line. Where we are now, it is incredible because we were spared the worst from this storm but if you look at the radar you can see the eye wall starting to nudges it way on shore and it will take a lot of energy from an approaching cold front and it is picking up speed as it moves across carolina today and will race across the midatlantic and be across the Northern New England region by wednesday. This thing is going to pick up speed and actually maintain most of its intensity. We have the potential for Tropical Storm force winds. This is just incredible to be talking about Tropical Storm warnings up all the way to the border of canada. We are talking over 100 million americans under a tropical advisory or a warning. A ton to talk about with what is now hurricane isaias making landfall in the hour on the southeastern North Carolina coast. The last thing people need right now. Next, how the pandemic defeated america. A damning report from the atlantic exposed how the coronavirus exposed this countrys vulnerabilities and how our leaders failed us. I will talk to the reporter that wrote the stunning story. [ ] looking to repair dry, damaged hair without weighing it down . Try pantene daily moisture renewal conditioner. Its colorsafe formula uses smart conditioners to microtarget damage helping to repair hair without weighing it down. Try pantene. She always wanted her smile to shine. Now, she uses a capful of therabreath healthy smile oral rinse to give her the healthy, sparkly smile she always wanted. crowd cheering therabreath, its a better mouthwash. At walmart, target and other fine stores. Did yocould be signs that syour digestive systemwn isnt working at its best . 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It has careened between inaction and inempty to do. The breadth is difficult to fathom. The writer of the story, interviewed more than 100 experts to help unravel those errors and he joins me now. Im glad youre here. This was really a thought provoking and phenomenally comprehensive piece. It didnt make me feel good but it needed to be read. You describe a perfect storm of factors that have contributed to how badly the pandemic has played out in this country. How in the world did we get this so wrong in. Two ways of looking at it. The short term, the abdication of responsibility from our federal government was clearly a massive problem. Donald trump and this administration have side lined expertise, the white house needed to know what to do and didnt liberty to warnings from the experts that actually existed. So instead of creating coordinated plans for the pandemic, the administration distracted people. It relied on measures like travel bans, rather than ones that would work like rolling out a solid testing am rat us. But you have to look at the long history. Its long history of racism that have left black and brown people more vulnerable to this virus. Things like, underfunding of Public Health which have left it unable to do the kinds of preventive maesheasures that ke people out of hospitals. And then its realliance on a system of insurance that ties health care to employment which is catastrophic at a time like this when so many people have lost their jobs. Not to mention that social distancing can be a luxury when talking about employment circumstances, housing insecurity and the like. You write this about the president. You write, trump is a comorbidity of the covid19 pandemic. He didnt solely responsible for managers fiasco but he is central to it. Tonight he says the u. S. Is doing very well and points to other countries with flareups trying to dodge responsibility. How is that part of what is undermining our bail to fight this entire pandemic in the u. S. . All of this was predictable i wrote a piece in 2016 after the election and before he was inaugurated, asking what he would do in a pandemic. I wrote that he would so sew disinformation, that he would tweet rashly, fail on liberty to experts, and all of these have come to pass. Donald trump has always shown us who he was and hes behaved in this crisis exactly as one would expect, beif itting of someone who is xenophobic, narcissistic, all of these have come to bear right now. I do want to remind everyone, while trump does bear responsibility for what has happened, he is not the only problem here. America did build up a large number of weakness thats this virus found, exploited and tore apart. And certainly, the election coming up is one way of addressing some of these problems. But we cant just go back to normal as many people longitude. Normal led to this. Normal was part of the problem that made a society more prone to pandemics. If we want to steel ourselves against the pandemic thats we know will hit us in the future, we need to take this opportunity to reimagine what our world can be. Things that are predictable should be preventible. Thank you for your time. Really thought provoking and points all the ways that covid19 has done this. There are 260 employees of georgias Largest School district testing positive, or that have been exposed to coronavirus. What this means for schools across the country as they attempt to reopen. Thats next. Hike Simon Pagenaud takes the lead at the indy 500 coming to the green flag, racing at daytona. Theyre off. In the kentucky derby. Rory mcllroy is a two time champion at east lake. He scores stanley cup champions touchdown only mahomes. The big events are back and xfinity is your home for the return of live sports. Dr. Anthony fauci is warning about the ifks are sending kids back to school. Children can get seriously ill. It is a rare event but it is not zero. I think we have to be very careful. The best thing to do is to try to avoid infection as opposed to wanting to get infection so that you can get herd immunity. So many people are grappling with the back to school decision. Parents, teachers, employees, were already seeing some of the consequences. In georgias Largest School district, i have a niece there, around 260 employees have either tested positive for covid19 or theyve already been exposed to covid19. Joining me now, lisa morgan, the president of the georgia educators, and we have joe allen, the assistant professor of assessle sigs at harvard cool of Public Health and the author of the book. Healthy buildings. Im glad youre both here. I need to talk about this on behalf of all educators. The plans to return have become a mess. What are you hearing from these school dwikt employees in i have heard the words, scared to death, more in the past month from educators than i have in my 20year career. Our educators realize that the Community Spread is so high. Not only in beginett county but throughout our state that it is simply n