The World Health Organization has seen over 53,000 in the last few hours. A new forecast from the centers for Disease Control and prevention now projects millions more in the next three weeks alone. Tonight the president is in the virus hot spot of florida as the state is reporting its deadliest day of the pandemic. The president ignoring social distancing guidelines, greeting crowds, without, repeat without wearing a mask. Lets start this hour with nick watt in los angeles. Nick, cases are rising and numbers of deaths projected in the weeks ahead. Reporter thats right, wolf. The cdc says 20,000 more americans can die in the next three weeks. Thats horrific but not surprising. In the past three days weve been losing more than a thousand a day. Weve surpassed 4 1 2 million cases. The last half million took about a week. Meanwhile a hearing on the hill discussing what weve done and what we need to do. The United States response stands out as among the worst of any country in the world. Reporter here in part is why. We really functionally only shut down about 50 in the sense of the totality of the country. Reporter and when we reopened there were some states that did it very well and some states that did not. Reporter what now . Were still working on testing. Turnaround times are definitely improving, but we cannot test our way out of this or any other pandemic. Testing does not replace personal responsibility. Reporter masks, distancing, hand washing, avoiding crowds and indoor bars and the like. If we did those five things, wed get the same bang for our buck as if we shut the economy down. By 2021 i think well have a safe and effective vaccine that americans will be able to get it. Reporter meanwhile remember the new cdc projection that another 20,000 might die in the next few weeks. Look whats happening now in oklahoma, montana, mississippi, missouri, all largely spared in the spring, now seeing more cases than ever. And illinois hit hard in the spring, surging once more. Sadly i just cant see the cost benefit ratio letting people sit in bars. Reporter meantime the country is still getting muddled messaging from the very top. No one is immune. No one is immune. Reporter 25 minutes later while pushing for schools to reopen. Young people are almost immune to this disease. The younger the better. Reporter not true. Meanwhile new york city just rolled out a blended plan to start back this the fall. Most kids in class two or three days a week along with online. Were going to have an extremely rigorous standard for opening schools or if necessary closing schools because we are putting health and safety first. Reporter and today was the first day back in the greenfield Central District in indiana, and one kid in junior high has already tested positive. Here in california, the state Just Announced the first death of a teenager with covid19, and a statement from the hospital reads in part this reaffirms that children are not immune. Wolf . Yes. Thats absolutely true. Nick watt in los angeles. Thank you. Also tonight the president is trying to detract from the pandemic and sow doubts about the election. Lets go to our Senior Correspondent pamela brown. Pamela, youre learning about pushback to the president s false claims. Thats right. Were hearing the president sepgd out an ominous warning that they could tamper with the election. But cnn has learned that intelligence officials are dismissing that concern behind closed doors. This is going to be the greatest election disaster in history. Reporter tonight just 95 days before the u. S. Election, President Trump is stoking fears of election interference, pushing an unfounded conspiracy on the use of mailin voting. Nobody wants that date more than me. I wish we would move it up, okay . Move it up. But youre not prepared for what theyre doing. Reporter and laying the groundwork for a contested election that theyre not prepared for an onslaught of millions of ballots pouring in. You watch. Theyre dmoingt to announce it on november 3rd or the 4th or the 5th or the 6th. It will go on forever. Reporter his advisers ramping up the assault with misinformation. Nobody on the ballot has their identity confirmed. Nobody checks to see if theyre a u. S. Citizen. Reporter factcheck. Theyre not allowed to vote in mailin elections. Cnn has learned during a closed door house hearing house intelligence dismissed the possibility of sending fake ballots to voters and election authorities despite this claim by the president. By the way, you guys like to talk about russia and china and other places, theyll forge blots, do whatevblot ballots, do whatever they have to do. Reporter President Trump also visiting the ground zero for coronavirus, florida, which is shattering its own daily records for new cases as trump continues to make false claims about testing for the virus, which has already claimed the lives of over 152,000 americans, tweeting today we do much more testing than any other country in the world. If we had no testing or bad testing, we would show very few cases. Soon after the nation leading the Infectious Disease specialist dr. Anthony fauci directly refuted that claim yet again. You see, if you do more testing, youre going to see more cases, but the increases that were seeing are real increasing in cases as also reflected by increasing in hospitalization and increasing in deaths. Reporter fauci and other key members of the Coronavirus Task force were on capitol hill today trying to determine a National Strategy going forward. All this as enhanced Unemployment Benefits for millions of americans are set to expire at midnight tonight with lawmakers and the white house in perpetual gridlock. There seems to be no agreement in sight as each side blames the other. Theyre going in the wrong direction because of partisan politics. It is very disappointing. They dont even have the votes for it in the senate. Lets get real about who says what. We passed a bill ten weeks ago. And, wolf, right now, President Trump is at a roundtable in the hot spot of florida with governor desantis. We saw earlier when he arrived in tampa, wolf, President Trump greeting Law Enforcement, a row of Law Enforcement without wearing a mask. This is a consistent theme with the president. Same earlier in texas. He was seen without wearing a mask, the president doing that despite cnn reporting that aides have been encouraging him to wear a mask to send a message to americans that its a way to protect themselves and others from this virus. Wolf . Pamela, thank you very much. Joining us now chief medical correspondent dr. Sanjay gupta. Sanjay, as we pass 4. 5 million cases, forecasts from the centers for Disease Control and prevention projects more than 73,000 people will die from the coronavirus by august 22nd. Thats about three weeks from now. Is there anything americans can and should be doing right now to ensure to try to ensure ta the next few weeks are less deadly . Well, you know, as you know, wolf, weve been talking about this for some time. Sadly these death rates that theyre talking about reflect exposure to the virus over the last several weeks. Theres always this lag time. So, you know, its sad to say. Were looking at roughly a thousand people dying every day, wolf. Thats how you get to the number in the next three weeks. That doesnt mean theres not things you shouldnt be doing. If you bring the rates down, eventually youll bring hospitalizations down and deaths down. The five things weve been talking about for months, wearing a mask, maintaining the physical distance, avoiding situations that are at highest risk, indoors, clusters together for long duration, not Wearing Masks in bars or restaurants, keeping away from large gatherings, wash your hands. People know this by now, wolf. If people did this honestly, diligently, and countrywide for a few weeks, we would bring the numbers down. We have real world evidence of that. Its not hard to do. Its not hard do any of those things. Youve got do it. Dr. Murray, your model looks ahead of the cdc. Youre predicting over 230,000. Thats an increase since your last model from a beak or so. Why has the number now increased . Well, the numbers are up because we have two sort of different trends. The good news that cases are peaking in florida and texas and florida, somewhat in arizona, thats actually bringing their numbers down a bit, but were seeing numbers going up faster in the midwest and thats driving up our numbers. Places like georgia, north carolina, are going up faster than expected. Very interesting. I want to get back to that. But, sanjay, Something Else thats just coming in its hard to believe but theres a new study out there. I want you to explain to us. It finds that people who never had the virus may actually have some immunity. How is that possible . Its really fascinating. They were looking at people who recovered from covid, coronavirus, looking at their blood to try to find the antibodies and they wanted to find those who had never been exposed. They went back in time and found blood samples as far back as 2015. In an interesting study, half of those previously never exposed blood samples had what is known as t cell reactivity. Whereas parents recently exposed had it. Why would someone have t cell reactivity if they were never exposed to the virus . Were not sure, but it has similarities to some of the other coronaviruses including the viruss that cause common coldlike symptoms. Could it be possible that the exposure to some of those common coronaviruses could be providing protection against this coronavirus . Thats the thinking. Its not out yet. Fascinating finding. People are going to keep learning about that. You and your staff are finding information every day. There would be fewer deaths if people did something very simple and wore a mask. Your latest model say 3 2,000 lives could be spared by november if masks are worn. Are you seeing signs that americans are increasingly embracing mask wearing . We are actually. Theres daily data that comes in on mask wearing in the u. S. , and thats showing a small bump, maybe about a fivepercentage point increase in mask wearing. Chose to 65 of the americans are Wearing Masks. Thats good news, but its a long way to go to be like singapore at 95 . If 95 of the American Public wore masks, tens of thousands of lives would be saved over the next month alone. Dr. Sanjay gupta, thank you. Dr. Murray, thank you very much as well. President trump trying to sow a doubt about the election months before the vote. Is he inviting for interference sunnyll talk with the mayor of miami about about the twin threats floridas facing with the coronavirus and the hurricane this weekend. 25 times in a row. Network y this network is one less thing i have to worry about. Then, give people more plans to mix and match, so you only pay for what you need. That is so cool include the best in entertainment, and offer it all starting at 35. With the iphone everyone wants. Iphone 11 pro on us, when you buy one. Because everyone deserves the best. This is unlimited built right. Only on verizon. The coronavirus is wrecking stif the senate doesnt act, it will mean painful cuts to essential Public Services across america. Fewer teachers and nurses, longer response times, dirtier streets. But some say our states should just go bankrupt. Text fund to 237263 to Tell Congress to fund our essential Public Services. Afscme is responsible for the content of this ad. You cant claim that because its inanimate people ask me what sort of a person should become a celebrity accountant. And, i tell them, nobody should. Hey, buddy. Whats the damage . I bought it the waterfall . Nope a new volkswagen. A volkswagen . I think were having a breakthrough here welcome to caesars palace. Thank you. A book that youre ready to share with the world . Get published now, call for your free publisher kit today were back with breaking news about President Trump and mailin voting. He warns the 2020 vote will be the greatest election disaster in history, and i quoted him. Lets bring in john harwood and jeffrey toobin. His book is coming out in the coming days, true crimes and misdemeanors the investigation of donald trump. I cant wait to read it. The president s distrust in the ee ooe electoral process could have pretty farreaching consequences, right . Absolutely, wolf. Look, the polls show its pretty clear the americans want to replace donald trump with joe biden. They want to replace republican control of congress with democratic control of congress, and so you have the president and his party going to Great Lengths to raise doubts about the legitimacy of the election. Anything that weakens and divides the United States internally and divides its alliance with the world, japan and others, strengthens the antidemocratic adversaries against the United States. That includes china and russia. Russia has gotten a spectacular return on its inexplicabvestmenn they impede the desire of voters. Jeffrey, we know theres no widespread evidence of voter fraud. Does he think hes going to receive any benefit of undermining that around the country . I think his plan appears to be to do just that. As you point out, there is absolutely no evidence that mailin voting, absentee voting has a fraud problem. The one point the president is correct about is that he is going to take a longer time than we are used to to count these ballots. There are certainly going to be a lot more mailin ballots than previously. New york has taken a very long time to count the ballots. So we need to be prepared for an Election Night that will last quite a few days, but that doesnt mean theres any sort of fraud involved. I know you were watching dr. Inferior chi, dr. Redfield, admiral brett giroir. They voted about the coronavirus pandemic. What did you take away from what was at times a pretty fiery hearing . Wolf, it was astonishing. The president the last couple of months has been demonstrating over and over again hes not up to the job of leading effectively against the coronavirus. Today the house made the same case for themselves. With regard to a solution to the pandemic that has wrecked the economy and caused people to lose their lives, they wanted to wreck phi the people they thought were unfair. You had jim jordan yelling at dr. Anthony fauci saying raci Racial Injustice needs to be stopped. Nobodys upset about playing football and finally you had a member from indiana pressing fauci saying arent the chinese inhibiting our Convenience Program by hacking into Research Researchers computers . Fauci said no because we publish it anyway. Its transparent. They said, well, the people in my district believe otherwise. That doesnt matter. Dr. Fauci knows what hes talking about. 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