Seen. Globally 750,000 people have died. Yesterday alone almost 1500 people in the United States died from coronavirus. To put that in perspective, thats the highest number of deaths in one day since may. In diswar with telaware with th campaign, they called for nationwide mandate but this time they put the onus on the governor to do so. Thats exactly right. In the past back in June Joe Biden expressed he would be willing to use federal power to put a mask mandate in place. Remember, right now joe biden does not have any federal power, so hes using essentially the bully pulpit of being the democratic nominee to really turn up the heat and put the pressure on the Trump Administration and governors in states where a mask mandate is currently not in place. Listen to him and Kamala Harris today. Every single american should be wearing a mask when they are outside for the next three months at a minimum. Every governor should mandate every governor should mandate mandatory mask wearing. So what real leadership looks like is joe biden. To speak up, sometimes telling us the stuff we dont necessarily want to hear but we need to know. Biden really framed this as nonpartisan issue. He said its not about republican, democrat or independent, but a patriotic choice to protect fellow americans and yourself by wearing a mask, calling for that mask mandate for three months. He said that could save 40,000 lives if a mask mandate was put in place across the country. Kamala harris adding after her remarks as well that the other things the biden and Harris Administration would do regarding covid pandemic if they were in power that included testing kits. They have an extensive plan to get testing kits across the country to millions of americans and also contact tracing. They want to hire 100,000 americans to take part in contact tracing. But pam, the key question here is, too, will governors do this, how would this work. Biden and harris did not take questions at the endoftheir remarks. We dont have details on that. Just calling for mandate to be put in place and calling on governors to make it so. Interesting the change. He in the past said there should be a federal mandate. Now hes saying, yeah, a nationwide mandate but what the governors implement. Jessica, thanks for breaking that down. We appreciate it. For many u. S. Schools welcoming students back to the building classes were halted after new coronavirus cases were reported. By cnns count, more than 2,000 students, teachers and staff have had to quarantine so far. Now cnns athena jones reports, the dilemma has forced districts to navigate what to do if inperson learning proves dangerous. The gravest Public Health crisis to hit the nation. The blount admission from dr. Redfield. We need to owe it to our children and grandchildren this nation is never underprepared again. The rare candid remarks as the u. S. Confront deadliest day of the summer, 1499 lost to covid19 sunday. If 99 of americans dont follow basic guidelines, mask wearing, handwashing and social distancing this could be the worst fall from a Public Health perspective weve ever had. Im not asking some of america to do it, weve all got to do it. While new cases are falling in 43 states, deaths have averaged 1,000 a day for 17 days now. Covid Positivity Rates are on the rise in 35 states with texas leading the nation at nearly 24 . Even as the number of tests being conducted nationwide continues to decline. Bottom line is im not pleased with how things are going. This the thing thats disturbing to me is that were starting to see the inkling in the upparticulars of the percent of tests positive. In miami beach an entire classroom and bus route were placed in quarantine one days after open for inperson instruction and a student began exhibiting symptoms. Students, teachers, staff across five states are under quarantine due to covid concerns. There is just no way right now where this epidemic is ranling across the south in florida, georgia, alabama, mississippi, louisiana, and much of texas that you can open up schools safely. Still its game on in utah tonight. A state with a Positivity Rate of almost 9 . Two high schools facing off in the first football match of the season. I feel like the titanic, weve hit the iceberg, and were making decisions when the ban will play. Not controlling this virus would be the number one priority. At the college level, more caution with big east joining big ten, pac west and midamerican conferences in postponing the fall sports season. We started talking about return to sports in april. We were envisions that there would be a continued downward trajectory of covid19 new infections and deaths and that hasnt happened. Were moving into very troubled waters now. Its a very narrow path to get fall sports right. And were getting more insight into the impact on americans. A new cdc survey finding 41 of respondents are struggling with anxiety, depression, increased Substance Use or suicidal thoughts. People age 18 to 24 and preexisting Mental Health conditions were most likely to worth symptoms while selfreported unpaid caregivers were most like to say they suffered suicide in the last 40 days. That is extremely troubling. To think what dr. Redfield is saying we could see the worst fall weve seen. Thank you for bringing us that. I want to analyze and go in deeper with cnn medical analyst and chief of in fedex diseases at massachusetts general hospital. Thanks for coming on dr. Wolinski. I first want to start with this news coming out today. Your reaction to joe biden saying every governor across the country would mandate mask wearing for every american. Good afternoon, pamela, thanks for having me. I dont particularly care where the mandate comes from, from the federal government, governors or personal mandate. I actually think it should come from a personal mandate. The answer is we need masks. We know what we need to do over the next we could do this in the next eight weeks. We as a country could do this in the next eight weeks. Were in the fuzzy zone where we count thousands of deaths per day. Another 20,000 deaths before labor day and were not actually doing something about it. Were throwing stimulus packages at it, but were not fixing the root of the problem. We know how to fix the root of the problem. People need to stay home, distance, wear masks. If it takes the democratic president ial candidate to say it, great. I just think somebody needs to take Everyone Needs to take personal responsibility to make it happen. We have this small window of time where we could take concrete steps as mitigation efforts youve laid out where there wont be as many lives lost and it wont be as bad in the fall and the winter as dr. Redfield is sort of warning. This ominous warning saying the fall could be the worst this nation has ever seen. Why is that, and what do we need to do . What does this country need to do to prevent that . Well, i would venture to say this is one of the worst summers weve ever had, and i would say we are, you know, in many places about four weeks and counting until the beginning of fullfledged School Season. We have fall respiratory and then influenza. All that is going to cloud the picture and make it more and more difficult. That with winter coming, cooler weather, people needing to be outside, people no longer having the option to be inside, an i think we have a very tough time ahead unless we can acutely, rapidly take this problem seriously. You mentioned schools. Were not even in the fullfledged School Season as you pointed out yet were already seeing a number of positive covid cases in various schools across the country and the responses have been varied, if you look at them. There was one place in florida, floridas marin county that quarantined an entire Elementary School class after a test and one bus route after a student showed coronavirus symptoms, but it didnt shut down the entire school. From a medical perspective, what is the proper protocol about that since the white house hasnt really released any guidelines on what to do for that scenario . Yeah, its a really challenging problem right now, because the places that have opened schools have so Much Community spread that you could have anticipated they would never get the students in the door before this happened. In fact, what i think is really a problem is that there are places that can responsibly open schools, should should responsibly open schools, if not fully in person, at least a hybrid model. They can do so because theres limited quunt spread in their region, massachusetts, new york, maine, connecticut. Thats possible. What they are seeing is whats happening in georgia and florida and saying its no way safe to happen. In fact, thats not the message that should be sent. The the mental is its responsible in some cases where its limited Community Spread, its very possible. Its completely irresponsible in places opened already. President trump has said the federal government will provide up to 125 Million Masks to School Districts nationwide. Is that going to be enough, do you think . Wow, there are 4 million teachers and lots of students. I think its enough when every kid is masked. I dont think its nearly enough if theres Community Spread ongoing. Masks alone wont fix this when theres so Much Community spread in schools. People are going to be near each other. Not every child is able to wear a mask. First look to hospitals to make sure they arent overwhelmed, icus arent overwhelmed, then look at how Much Community spread ongoing. If its limited, then you can bring your kids safely back and then you need to mask them in the schools. All right. So help us understand these numbers. Cases of the coronavirus appear to be going down steady in most of the country, if you look at the states. Look at the numbers for percent positive. It is 33 states right now, at least check before the show, that have a Positivity Rate over 5 . In fact, texas is up to nearly 24 . 34 states have an increase in Positivity Rate. What does this mean . Its sort of like we have a mixed picture here. We know if your Positivity Rate is greater than 5 two things are true. One, you have too much disease in your community. Two, youre not testing enough. Both of those are simultaneously true. When you look at a place like texas, a 25 Positivity Rate, its a shame. Thats where we were in boston in march when we didnt know what this disease was. We didnt have tests, we didnt know what we were operating with. To have this be the case six months later in texas is just shameful in my mind. We recognize in texas they should be doing five fold more testing than they have been doing. They both have an extraordinary number of cases and not testing enough. You make an important point. You look at other countries. In europe were seeing spikes in several cases. What makes it unique in the United States, its really been sustained really since the beginning of this pandemic. Thank you so much, dr. Rochelle wal enski, we appreciate it. Thank you. President trump not trying to be discreet about it. Admitting on live tv why he wants to block funding for the post office and its raising red flags. 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Turning to world lead, israel agreed to temporarily pause annexation plans in the west bank and establish bilateral relationship with United Arab Emirates. All this announced earlier today but President Trump. After 49 years israel and United Arab Emirates will fully normalize their diplomatic relations. Now that the ice is broken, i expect more arab and muslim countries will follow United Arab Emirates lead, already discussing this with other nations. Cnn live from tel aviv. Elliot, the Trump Administration is calling this a significant step toward peace in the middle east. Put this in context for us. Just how significant is it . Reporter pamela, its hugely significant. President donald trump, of course, gives him a