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in iowa. florida 24%. pennsylvania 24% pro-choice voters who voted for donald trump and, of course, we see what's happening in pennsylvania. but let's go to ohio. in this ohio poll by fox news that was taken days after ruth bader ginsburg's death. donald trump now down five points in ohio, that's a state where 20% of voters that voted for donald trump in 2016 considered themselves, pro-choice voters. and the prospect. the very real prospect now that donald trump is going to ensure that roe v. wade is overturned, i've seen it. voters won't make that the top issue if -- for the most part on the democratic side some do. but if you're really at that point where donald trump is going to be responsible for the overturning of a 50-year pro-choice precedence, that's going to have an impact. and look at the bidpolls where biden is moving ahead, seems to be the case. >> a cutchouple ways to look at this, if you talk to strategists on both sides, both saying there's a chance to win but only one can win i

kay henderson is the news director at radio iowa and she appears regularly on iowa pbs. she joins me now from des moines. twelcome bathe newshour. let's jump in because the numbers are worth highlighting areas statewide, iowa has more than 66,000 cases, more than 1100 deaths. it inot the infection volumetr bling experts, it is the per capita numbers. the average in iowa is triple the national average. kay: there was -- amna: there w a pre conference about this earlier today. how would you describe the e response to test troubling figures? kay: the white house coronavirus task force has been advising states on ways to mitigate the spread of the virus. the taskhi forcepast week recommended iowa close bars in 61 of its counties and have a statewidete man for face coverings in public places. the governor has resisted both of those things, but last week she did close bars in six of iowa's counties. three of those are in the populous places,an pokdallas counties. glynn county, where cedar rapids is. and then in the college communities where the big state universities are locat

iowa city and des moines. and soon it will spread to congregate work areas, food processing areas, waterloo, storm lake, from east to west, and this thing -- we already have 1,800 cases in buena vista county and this thing is going to take off like wildfire again. >> so you wrote in the spring i was reading about how you were feeling in the earlier stages of the pandemic. what about now? how safe do you feel? >> well, the fact that i'm here at home talking to you, i don't leave the house generally. and except to go into the office a couple of times a week to lay out pages in the mornings. but, you know, it's -- i'm very paranoid about this because there are 3,000 meat packing employees here in storm lake working shoulder to shoulder and they're only testing 5% of them per week. so we have really -- and those reports aren't made public. so we really have no idea how many cases there are in storm lake because the state was reporting faulty data up through july so we don't know what the infection rate is in storm

i went to school in stanton iowa which is adjacent toread a . i was raised on a farm northeast of red oak and it was just such a tremendous experience and there is such a sense of community in rural iowa. we're all very proud of where we come from. we call it being iowa nice where you're reaching out and helping a neighbor that might be in need. so it was a great place to be raised and i had truly a wonderfulchildhood growing up on the farm . it was a lot of hard work. there was a lot expected of us. but at the same time growing and developing in that type of community was really important. >> host: back to your book quote, life on the farm was a constant battle for survival. >> guest: yeah, and my parents experienced thatfirst hand and many of our neighbors did . i was raised on the farm during the 70 and80 and my father still lives on that farm today . northeast of red oak, north of stanton and what they went through in the 80s was very difficult with the farm economy comingdown around them . really having to make ends meet in such a constrain

kay henderson is the news director at radio iowa, and appears regularly on iowa pbs. e joins me from des moines. kay, welcome back to the newshour, the numbers are worth highlighting statewide we shoulo meiowa currently has more than 66,000 con furthermored cases, more than 1100 deaths, but it's not the infection volume that is troubng experts t is the per capita numbers. the average in iowa ise tri the national average over the last week. conference about this earliers today. how would you describe her response to the latest troubling legures? >> well, many penow the white house coronavirus task force has been advg isates on steps to take to sort of mitigate the spread of the virus and the task force this paswet recommended iowa close bars in 61 of its 99 cunties and have a statewide mandate for face coverings in public place the governor's resisted both of those things but last week she did act, closed bars in six of iowa's counties, three of them are in the populist places in iowa, poke, theo desnes metro, lynn countwitcedar rapids is, the other major metro in iowa

iowa state, 51 yards. >> reporter: iowa state is planning to kick off the football stadium to a stadium of 25,000 fans in less than two weeks. the university says they'll be social distancing, but the announcement comes as the white house coronavirus task force warns iowa is the nation's latest hot spot. with an average positivity rate above 10% for the past 13 days, the task force strongly encourages iowans to wear masks statewide, close bars, restrict indoor dining, and limit gatherings to ten people or fewer within the state's red zones. >> i know it's outside, but think of all of the parties that will go on before and after. and so all of those people together, you can be sure that the coronavirus will also be attending and also be spreading during those circumstances. >> as the upcoming labor day weekend threatens to fuel another surge, dr. deborah birx sending this warning about attending large gatherings, especially to college students. >> if you have been at a party or you've been at an event or you had a large gathering, potential exposure did occur. and you need to assume that

iowa. first of all, the overall result here is a tie, 47-47. almost a ten-point trump win in 2016 now to a tie. iowa, by the way, as a state has more of those obama, obama, trump counties. a third of the county did that, voted for obama twice, switched to trump. this poll suggests biden might be making inroads here. you get to the question of the jepder gap. in 2016 in iowa this was the breckdown, men and women. donald trump still winning men in iowa by more than 20 points. the advantage for joe biden among women, basically in reverse, it mirrors that. it's a 41-point difference. trump is 21 points ahead in this poll among men in iowa and trump is 20 points behind among women in iowa. a 41-point swing between the two genders. that poquote from the poll director mentions that. georgia, 2016, traditionally red state, donald trump carried it by five points in 2016, that was down a bit from how how republicans like mitt romney did in georgia. this from the atlanta constitution, trump and biden.

iowa, you're in the red zone. the state now has highest coronavirus infection rate in the united states. take a look. first national trends. look at it you see iowa in the middle in red. what does it mean? deep red, reporting significantly higher. 50% higher case rate this week than last. new infections. 17 states trending up. 26 states half holding steady. 8 trending down. the white house coronavirus task force specifically dr. deborah birx looking at the states in red and orange, states trending in the wrong direction and giving them warnings and this is why. look at the new cases since june 1 isn't iowa. spike in recent days. going up there. no need to explain. graphic tells the story. hospitalizations, something people say, watch that, too. cases that are landing people in hospitals? yes. look at the hospitalization rate trending up. not what you want. positivity rate. look at this. 22% positivity rate yesterday. coronavirus tests in iowa coming back 22% of the people taking those tests positive. way up from w

iowa had a 22% positivity rate in testing yesterday. and you're thinking what does that mean? that means that more than one in five people have tested positive for the virus. the white house coronavirus task force is calling for iowa to make changes immediately in order to stop the spread. those recommendations include closing bars, and a statewide mask mandate, that is something the iowa governor still refuses to implement. is president trump concerned about this? it doesn't appear so. he was just over the border in wisconsin yesterday and did not mention coronavirus whatsoever, not a single word. and yet another sign of the federal government's chaotic response to coronavirus, a medical panel at the national i institute of health is contradicting president trump and the fda saying there is no evidence to support the use of convalescent plasma to treat covid patients. let's talk about that in a second. but new research does show that steroids may imapproval the survival rate. liz wed elizabeth cohen is standing by with that. what does the analysis show. >> they found that ste

kamela harris, iowa bus tour. >> laminated. you can hear it. oh. this msnbc one is cursed because i sprained my ankle at this event. i actually just landed in d.c. solely for the purpose to pack up my room. i have 24 hour fos figure my life out, which for folks is not that much time. this will be the last time i get to be in my home. >> that was a perfect squat, i just want you to know that. that's what you witnessed. but i'm clear-eyed of the fact that our life is in service to the trail right now it. ee in servi it's in service to the election and trying to find out who's going to be the next democratic nominee. that's the stage we're at right now. >> this morning the candidates are heading into the crucial final stretch of the iowa caucuses. >> it's crunch time for these presidential candidates who will racing across the nation to try to win over undecided voters. >> this is the first true test to see who can gain momentum. fehr democrats, this race remains as close as ever. [ cheers and applause ] >> it's so good to see all of you. it's good to

iowa is the newest hot spot with a white house coronavirus task force report saying that iowa has the highest new case rate in the country. now, when you look at how that's affected certain things here in the state. well, for starters, iowa state's football team was supposed to have its first dame in two weeks in front of 25,000 fans. the school announced they are going to go forward with the game, but without fans. and the county that holds university of iowa has seen its coronavirus numbers nearly double with 74% of those cases being in people ages 19 to 24. in iowa, a dangerous coronavirus surge. but even with an average positivity rate above 10% for the past two weeks, and warnings from the white house coronavirus task force, it's still not enough for the governor to issue a mask mandate to help reduce the spread. >> i still believe it's up to the governors in the various state to make those decisions. sometimes they don't have the entire picture of the things that we're doing. >> reporter: health experts here say college towns are seeing a rise in new cases, as students return to

even now when we're hearing about iowa, with skyrocketing cases and 77% of increases in iowa from one week to the next and the coronavirus task force issuing these recommendations to governor reynold, we still don't know whether the governor will mandate those exceptions and those counties are now suing her, but the task force reports you need to close bars in 61 counties and whether that happens because of how political it has become remains to be seen. >> so let's set that aside for a moment so that folks listening who want to take care of themselves and their family know what they've got to do. let's start with a vaccine. you've had a lot of claims about when this can be ready and fast tracking approval here. do you have any concerns about fast tracking it and going more quickly than getting through the phase three trials and the broad trials about this? should we have concerns about that? should folks be confident that if and when a vaccine is approved that it is safe? >> i have concerns about how the trials of vaccines are being communicated. if somebody on my scholarly work focu

i was born and raised in iowa northwest iowa is where i grew up and settle down in the greenville area. i taught school for soldiers, i was in middle school special education teacher and kindergarten teacher and then after that i went to were no regional medical center were held several different roles in that organization, emergency preparedness come safety, security, incident commander for any event that would occur and also public health. and we also had a day camp program which may be changed to my new career right now which is imd executive director of link grinnell, a nonprofit that was dreamed up on may 302019, and we knew that there was a huge demand and need for child care in rural iowa as well. so we have a study that have done four years ago that i identified that the were 500 children that did that have a designated home for child care and basically the need and demand was up there. we decided, i decided to leave the hospital in order to lead this venture. what we ended up doing was worked very hard and we are very distinct on the name link, so we are basically i cradle to

omar jimenez joins me from iowa. omar, health officials say they are powerless to do more. >> they go as the governor goes in this case. at least by white house coronavirus task force standards iowa is a place of concern. it's why they recommended a statewide mask mandate be put in place and bars be closed. while governor kim reynolds said some bars closed tied to locations with higher positivity rates, she has not taken that step to implement a statewide mask mandate. individual locations we've seen have taken that step including in des moines. they put in place that mandate last week. after that happened, people are now wondering when will that next step come. many medical experts are wondering the same. >> why you're resisting evidence-based measures, i don't know. we know through science how to slow down this pandemic, and she isn't doing it. i don't know what it's going to take. >> another reason reynolds has cited they were able to bring down the case rate earlier this year without a mask mandate and she feels

on the 11th they were in iowa. they left iowa city at 8:30 a.m., drove out to west branch, called on the hoover family. was taken to his house and met his wife and mother. drove around and saw different farms and points of interest arriving at the house in which bert was born. $1.96.ns of gas was arrived at dixon, illinois at 6:00 p.m. and drove 154 miles that day. had thought that this trip would be extremely educational for their son and she had hoped to take him along almost as a form of homeschooling in those days. she wrote in an letter to her son, "it always pays to tell people, especially your mother the real truth about everything. if i had unfortunately known that you had had your fill of long automobile journeys, i should have felt there was more educational value to we got out of a transcontinental trip than out of six weeks of school, then yo would have been in for it. " tothis trip was her way spend quality time with her father as they were both herving the passing of mother. although they don't leave

>> i really like iowa state. i'm a junior here, i've been going here for a few years and it's a fantastic place with fantastic people. the community of ames is one that's really tight-knit. the university and the city have a really great relationship, and i would just hate to see this place destroyed, to see the people here get sick and i think that we need to take action today, so that we don't look backwards and say what could we have done? >> can you tell us, before i let you go, a little bit about your life in quarantine? you were in a mandatory quarantine. iowa state has not announced a virtual or remote classes yet. what is your day to day like? >> a lot of it. of course, some of my classes were already online, about half of mine were, and then my three classes that i'm taking had an online component, and it's not completely supplemental, but it tries to be, so that's what i've been doing, trying to keep up with my classes, trying to enjoy my time in lockdown. >> and staying away from the college parties, i

>> well, iowa is seeing the worst of it. according to the white house task force report that cnn obtained, it's a dire situation in iowa. just over the last week, we have seen a 77% increase in cases and the test positivity rate is above 10% for the last 13 days with universities playing a major factor in spreading this virus. that's important to note because in less than two weeks, iowa state is planning to kick off the football season in front of 25,000 fans. and while the university says that in is going to be social distancing, the task force reports that gatherings should be limited to ten people or fewer that the state should institute a mask mandate which it shows no indication it is going to do. this is really an issue because we have labor day coming up as well which as you mentioned is threatening to fuel another surge and that can cause testing capacity and we saw that after the july 4th weekend. admiral giroir said that the trump administration is saying that $10 antigen states will be sent out in september, but

and yet iowa state is continuing in-person learning. and governor kim reynolds is bucking the advice of many doctors in her own state refusing to order a mask mandate or order bars closed. joining me now is a physician at unity point health des moines. he started a petition with other iowa physicians for the governor to put a shelter-in-place order. doctor, thanks for joining us. so you're treating covid patients as iowa has become a hot spot in the country. tell us what you've seen with the spike of cases. >> numbers are for sure going up. right now the spike is largely attributed to young adults. and as you said, most of them are likely in our college communities. so a lot of them remain relatively mild in terms of their symptoms. but we are seeing severe symptoms. and we have had a few young adults even die. >> so that's interesting because i think a lot of people when they hear that young adults have it they think 45% or so cases nationwide are asymptomatic. and you are saying that many of them might be asymptomatic. but some of the

lou henry was born in waterloo, iowa march 29, 1874. she was very close to her father, who was a bookkeeper at the first national bank. for most of her young life, she was hoping she could go into banking as well. they were extremely close until he passed away in 1928. she had a younger sister who was born on june 30, 1882. her mother, florence, developed chronic bronchitis, which caused the family to move around, looking for an environment that was more conducive to her mother's health. first, they moved to shuttle rock, iowa. that did not work out and they moved back to waterloo. they tried texas. when that did not work out, they moved back to waterloo. they moved out to clearwater, kansas. when that one did not work out, instead of returning to waterloo, they kept going west until they hit whittier, california. her parents moved later to los angeles, where lou began her first academic college career at los angeles normal university, which is today ucla. her sophomore year, her parents moved to monterey. after her sophomore year, she

it has the signatures of hundreds of iowa's physicians. we have several different physician groups in the state and others calling for this and we have had a consensus and she is not listening to it. so no. i don't maintain hope that our voices are going to be heard. >> right now, we are seeing, look, school districts in iowa, some doing one thing coming to reopening with disparity and so sioux city public schools are resuming in person learning next week. do you think that's safe? >> so the governor has actually enacted a statewide mandate to return to school, at least 50% of the time. those localities who are not are doing that in defiance of the governor and plays out in the court. you know, i think it depends on the local infection rates in each school district and i think it's okay to have local control on this. the cdc has talked about the balancing the risks of keeping kids out of school and not having a social interaction. we know going back to school will lead to more covid-19 infections, older kids 10 and over are shown to spread

workers at the des moines iowa rb waterworks for temporary housi housing. as the chief of small springville iowa, i've seen this firsthand and experienced it and it is in our communities plan. with a dealer survey conducted issues 26% said the service was down 75% or more and compared to the level of business prior to the pandemic. another set of fixed obligations business .-full-stop 50 to 74%. 44% of dealers responded said that the sales volume was down 75% compared with pandemic levels and 21% said they were down 50 to 75%. with almost no revenue coming in, many were forced to furlough or lay off including ourselves. because of the crushing job losses throughout the country, this won't business administration loan initiative offered for business for small businesses. at the time of the survey, 92% of dealers responded and said they either had or planned to apply for the loan. why awhile my dealership didn'ty for the program it's been important to many of dealers across the country. since those uncertain days, americans have made it clear this increase of

iowa, this is a new york times/cnn poll out just this morning in iowa, biden up by three. why is that such a surprise? trump won iowa by ten points in 2016. the state of iowa, like one out of every three counties in iowa, more than any other state, when obama, obama trump, they voted twice for obama, they switched to trump and when you see a number like this, after trump did what he did in iowa in 2016, it suggests joe biden is making real headway demographically in iowa with the blue color white voters who in iowa more than any other state moved decisively in trump's direction in 2016. that's a very interesting poll number there in iowa. in georgia, a state trump won by five in 2016, "new york times"/cnn poll has it a dead even race, 45/45, and also texas again, a three-point advantage for trump over biden, in 2016 trump won texas by nine points so still work there for biden to do there if he wants to win texas, but that is a closer margin. one other we can tell you in pennsylvania, again, narrow trump victory in pennsylvania in 2016. the franklin and marshall poll out th

vaughn hillyard son the campus of iowa state university in ames, iowa, the number of covid cases there is on the rise too? viewers of this show will know i spoke with a student there last week who was in quarantine, he said he wanted the school to go ahead, close down campus, go virtual, bring us up to speed on where the school is now. >> reporter: hallie, there are now 800 students like that young man mason who you spoke with on friday who are in quarantine here in dorms. there is another 750 individuals affiliated with the university, faculty members and students, in isolation. what you've seen in week one of classes here, the percent positive rate for tests here on the campus of iowa state university was 13%. last week, the second week of school, it jumped all the way up to 28%. and what you're seeing is this percolate outside of the campus, in story county, iowa, here, where ames is set, you have seen this become a hot spot. iowa now is third in the country with per capita cases behind south dakota, in north dakota. that's why campuses across the country from north carolina, new yo

was born in waterloo, iowa, 1874. . she was very close to her father, who was a bookkeeper at the first national bank. for most of her young life, she was hoping she could go into banking as well. they were extremely close until he passed away in 1928. she had a younger sister who was 1882.n june 30, her mother, florence, developed chronic bronchitis, which caused the family to move around, looking for an environment that was more conducive to her mother's health. first, they moved to shuttle rock, iowa. that did not work out and they moved back to waterloo. day -- they tried texas. when they did not -- one that did not work out, they moved back to waterloo. they moved out to clearwater, kansas. when that one did not work out, they kept going west until they hit whittier, california. her parents moved later to los herles where lou began atst academic college career los angeles normal university, which is today ucla. her sophomore year, her parents moved to monterey. after her sophomore year, she transferred to san jose

cnn is in iowa, the latest u.s. hot spot for the virus. we are also live this morning in wisconsin where joe and jill biden will head to kenosha today after the shooting of jacob blake and the shooting deaths of two protesters by an apparent vigilante that followed. the bidens will meet with blake's family, something president trump on his visit did not do. one

what's going wrong in iowa's response to the pandemic? >> reporter: chris, they're starting week number four here on the campus of iowa state university and if you look at the counties that are hotspots here in iowa, they're the ones with college campuses. here in ames, iowa, i want to bring in one student here who had a heck of a first day of school, if you could give me a rundown, gwen, tell me you're very first day of school, what happened? >> i moved in on august 4th. i then got my test done over at the health center and i tested positive for covid-19. without knowing that i had been exposed to it at all. >> so where do you go? >> i lived in farley. i traveled across campus to lyndon. >> how long were you in quarantine. >> i was from the 4th to 15th of august. >> there's concern about the future of this school year, what's your message to folks, because you've got out of quarantine and what did you see? >> i lot of partying going on. one of the traditions here at iowa state and then even after that we still see lots of partying going

iowa seeing dangerous spikes. number of people hospitalized nearing levels last seen in the spring. >>> iowa state has now reversed course. it will no longer allow 25,000 fans at the college football home opener. the national farmer's association saying they are at an elevated risk of exposure. the governor of iowa is still refusing to mandate masks. her critics call her covid kim. joni ernst was forced to backtrack after peddling a false coronavirus theory. she was suspicious of the coronavirus death toll. she suggested medical experts had been fraudulently inflating the numbers to make money. >> i can't actually look at that information, but i have heard it from health care providers, that they do get reimbursed higher amounts if it's a covid-related illness or death. >> she said she's heard it but there's no evidence for that claim. meanwhile, across the u.s. schools are still facing clusters. more than 1,000 students were diagnosed at the university of south carolina. dr. anthony fauci warning those students t

university of iowa, illinois state, university of missouri, iowa state, all have more than 600 cases since the beginning of the semester. jim? >> elizabeth cohen, thanks for bringing us the numbers. in just a minute, a few minutes, i'll speak with dr. anthony fauci about a whole host of topics. i'm sure you're interested as well including the search for a coronavirus vaccine and the timeline. >>> in iowa, as cases surge and as concerns grow from the white house coronavirus task force, the governor is not issuing a mask mandate. cnn's omar jimenez is in des moines with more. the science is showing more and more evidence that masks make a real difference here so what's holding the governor back? >> reporter: well, the governor at this point, the basic line of reasoning from her stabbed point is they were able to decrease the amount of numbers without the mask mandate earlier in the year and she's hoping to use some of the similar strategies but at that point they were putting safer at home orders and shelter in place. this time around she's pointing the blame to young adults, saying th

cnn's jeff zeleny takes it to voters in iowa and he's asking is it working? >>> neighborhoods hit hard by coronavirus, a look now in this week's impact your world. >> we're not seeing visual cues of a pandemic. turning the mural that people have been looking pat for the last few years into a statement saying, hey, put on your mask and stop the infection. it's just another form of visual messaging, and i feel like it's an underused tool. >> this is a 100% volunteer campaign. we have a series of murals across the city being outfitted with vinyl masks, and they are vinyl versus actually painting over various murals because the idea is there is not permanent. we're disproportionately seeing black and brown people being impacted by this disease. we very much wanted to target people who we knew were hourly workers and essential workers, people who we knew had to be out and about, and we've also put out about 500 masks in the communities. our #is big fat small acts and anything that you see that we put out from our yard signs to our murals to our promotional videos

and just talking about iowa for a second here, the situation is troubling. this new report straight from the white house coronavirus task force puts iowa in the so-called red zone with the highest rate of new cases in the entire country. now a key member of the task force, dr. fauci, is now insisting he does have a good working relationship with president trump. just hours after the president said that he -- this is the president word -- inherited dr. fauci and here is how he responded when he thinks the president trusts him. >> you know, i think he does. when you get statements like that, that doesn't really reflect what actually goes on. i was at white house yesterday at a task force meeting with the vice president and everything that we discussed including what you just spoke about regarding children, regarding what is going on, gets to the president and he understands that. so i don't -- i think that is kind of a distraction to pit me against the president. we're all on the same team. >> meantime, fda commissioner stephen hahn said it is possible that he

the midwest a major concern especially iowa. cases there have risen nearly 80% in a week pap white house coronavirus task force reports sent to iowa officials calls for more bar closures, comprehensive plans in college towns and a mask mandate. iowa is one of the few states that doesn't have a mask mandate. >> meantime new york city is delaying the first day for in person school from september 10th to the 21st. there will be some remote learning before then. nevada now added to the list of 37 states with cases at colleges. 25,000 cases have been reported on campuses and many more students and staff are now isolated. that include almost 300 utah state university students now quarantined after the virus was found in wastewater from four dorms. >> the mayor of philadelphiaizing after he was spotted dining indoors in maryland while restaurants in his city can't serve indoor. in detroit this park has been transformed into a temporary memorial for the more than 1500 residents who died during the pandemic. hundreds of large portraits l

iowa had a 22% positivity rate yesterday. that means, more than one in five people tested has the virus. the task force is calling for a mask mandate there and the closing of bars and a plan for reopening universities. but the governor in iowa has been reluctant to do those things. as of this morning, more than 25,000 coronavirus cases have been reported at colleges and universities across 37 states. iowa state university is not only allowing football, it plans to let 25,000 fans into the stadium to watch. >> this all comes after an extraordinary move from a medical panel at the national institutes of health. different branches of the same government medical establishment are at direct odds over the data on convalescent plasma. the nih now says there is no evidence to support the use of convalescent plasma to treat coronavirus patients, at least not yet. and that puts them at direct odds with president trump, who called ate breakthrough and the fda commissioner who day greagrh the president and misrepresented or made up data

i think that's something that iowa needs to do. they need stricter rules to keep the students safe. >> what about testing? because we just heard from the university of illinois in the last segment where they're doing universal saliva testing and it's proved really effective. there's not universal testing at the university of iowa, the university points us to the cdc. they say the cdc says that you don't have to universally test before kids come back to college. but one of your fellow students says it's profoundly irresponsible that the university didn't mandate universal testing and the white house task force recently said university towns need a comprehensive plan that scales immediately for testing and returning all students with routine surveillance testing. was it a mistake for the university not to implement universal testing? >> well, i think given -- i don't think they've adopted the saliva testing that the u of illinois has, and if there's one, i'm all for it. >> you think it would help? >> i think it would. because there a

>> all right, vaughn hillyard out there in ames, iowa. and joining us now a doctor, vice-chair of preventive medicine at the fienberg school of medicine at northwestern university. doctor, thank you for joining us. that report we just played where there's a quarantine dorm, anybody who's come in contact with a case goes there for the period of the quarantine. i just, when i think of the reality of what the in-person experience is at a college, all of the close contact with other people that's just invariably going to come with that, whether it's through a class, whether it's through eating, whether it's through a social event, realistically can you see a way where any of these schools can get through a semester? >> well, what we know is that these schools are not going to get through a semester or a quarter or a school year without having a case. and without having many cases. i think the marker that we should follow is how well do they contain the cases that occur in their midst and how well do they stop the spread out to the local commu

iowa state has a first football game here and announce nod fans are in attendance. they are looking at a $30 million deficit just this year alone. those are the con yenconsequenc and the question marks. >> all right, thank you for that and joining us now is the vice chair of preventative medicine at northwestern university. thank you for joining us. there is a quarantine dorm. anybody who has come in contact. when i think of the reality of an in-person experience in college, all the close contact with other people that is invariably going to come through that, through a class, eating, a social event. realistically, you can see a way where any of the schools can get through a semester? >> well, what we know is that these schools are not going to get through a semester or a quarter or a school year without having a case and without having many cases. the marker is how well do they contain the cases that occur in their midst and how well do they stop the spread out to the local community. it goes without saying the coronavirus is circulating in the population. we can e

two hours away is the university of iowa. there were 147 more students this weekend who tested positive there. when you look around the country, you're seeing college towns become hot spots. we're now in our third week here on campus at iowa state university, and the issue is trying to trace where these covid cases are coming from. right now, alicia, there are more than 800 individuals who are in quarantine here on campus, and i want to introduce you to one of them, blake mcgill, up there on the second floor of the -- which dorm are we in? what is your major? >> i'm an aerospace engineer. >> what day of quarantine? >> i'm on my fifth day of quarantine. >> there are a couple hundred of you in quarantine. what is a quarantine life like for a student right now? >> all classes are virtual, but the university has done a good job of making that very accessible to us and smooth transition to that lifestyle. >> blake, would you tell me, what would be your message to the rest of the campus here. this is just the start of week number 4

for our farmers that had a really rough time through covid and through the drought and the winds in iowa and they heard about childcare and getting back to school. all of those things are so important to moving on in our lives with challenging conditions so this is exactly why we need to be out there talking to iowans and formulating plans. iowans count on their elected officials and they count on them and expect them to show up and that is what i have been doing. showing up even in very difficult times. this is why we need to come together now and move forward on this strategic plan to help folks recover across the united states focusing on childcare, focusing on getting our schools back up and open safely and responsibly. make sure we are supporting our farmers and our small businesses through ppp and all of that is important but we need democrats to come back to the table. in earnest and in good faith to work with us on this recovery package. i am encouraging them to please come back and let sit down and see a strong vote tomorrow but we know we need to help provide relief. there are

cnn is in iowa, the latest u.s. hot spot for the virus. we are also live this morning in wisconsin where joe and jill biden will head to kenosha today after the shooting of jacob blake and the shooting deaths of two protesters by an apparent vigilante that followed. the bidens will meet with blake's family, something president trump on his visit did not do. one thing the president is looking to do is to cut funding now for several democratic led cities. his claim that their leaders are allowing anarchy, violence and destruction. we'll have more on that in a minute. i have been to new york, i don't see any anarchy, violence and destruction. first to senior medical correspondent, elizabeth cohen, on the cdc telling the states to prepare for the vaccine to distribute by november. what's happening here? are there concerns that the political time line is influencing the vaccine time line? >> yes, jim, certainly some people are very concerned about this. that there's sort of this push to get this vaccine out by election day or at least to make i

iowa city a hot spot, concern growing in ames, iowa, as we know, and from what i understand, dr. passion, initially you saw cases riding in young people. you saw it in athletes at iowa state but you also saw the progression of the virus being passed to older people and to different age groups. where do you stand now? what is your major concern as kids have been back for a little bit? >> well at this point, what we're the most concerned about is that while our greatest majority of cases in ames, iowa, which is the major population area in story county is in the age group of 18 to 25, but now we're starting to see an uptick in patients that are older than 25, which tells us that the disease is starting to leave the student population and go into the general population of the county. the last time we saw this same pattern was back around memorial day, where some student athletes came back, we had the memorial day holidays and that was when we had our first surge in the county. it took about three weeks before it spread into the general population and got into a local nursing home an

this fight over iowa schools opening, it's not a problem that started in iowa with governor reynolds i mean, this is what happens when leaders all the way up to the president himself bang the drums for schools to reopen and for kids to take off their masks while you're at it, right? promising that it will all just go away. the governor of iowa has been sort of following the president's lead on issues like this, but the des moines public school district is responsible for the kids in des moines public schools and so far they say they are not doing it joining us now is thomas ahart he is the superintendent of dimon public schools it's a real pleasure to have you with us tonight. thanks for your service in the schools and thanks for being here. >> it's nice to be here with you. >> so i've tried to put this in a little bit of a national context, but i'm sure that distorts it a little bit from the statewide perspective. can you just in your own words explain a little bit of the decision-making that you and your colleagues have made about what you decided to do here and the cover flikt thi

he's an internal medicine doctor at unitypoint health in des moines, iowa. doctor, thank you for joining us. we put some of the numbers out there. you're saying this is an historic crisis, your words there, an historic crisis for iowa. give us a sense of what you're seeing that leads you to say that. >> the numbers really concern me. we are experiencing something that i hope we're prepared for but i'm concerned we might not be. we don't know what happens next as quickly as these cases have been rising. and it's clear why. if you walk around town, you'll see that we have a dichotomy within our population. we have quite a large group of people who are taking this seriously and are wearing masks and are avoiding large gatherings. but there is a large contingent of people who feel confident that they're going to be okay and have gotten a sense from, i believe, the leadership of this state that we must be made of tougher stuff, and we must be immune from this disease. >> where are you seeing it? we mentioned some colleges and universities. is this spread out thro

iowa's not alone. ever since the virus hit, there has been this chorus of tv person nalts and sinnal grifters and right wing politicians who have pressed trump to ignore the public health experts and just let people die en masse and then we'll move on. in the words of texas lieutenant governor dan patrick there are, quote, more important things than living. the president in tern has of course ignored the science and public data and pressured government agencies to fall in line. last week the cdc quietly changed its guidance to state that you do not necessarily need a test, even if you have been in close contact with someone with the virus. that is not what most epidemiologists believe. in fact, the opposite. it was around the same time that the president trotted out his fda commissioner stephen hahn to hype an unproven coronavirus treatment and then hahn had to apologize for overselling the benefits and for misrepresenting the science. but he once again now seems to be bowing to pressure from the presi

the fight over iowa school's opening, it is not a problem that started in iowa with governor reynolds. this is what happens when leaders bang the drums for schools to reopen and for kids to take off their masks while you're at it, right, promising it will all do away. the fwov nor of iowa has been following the president's lead but the des moines school district says they are not doing it joining us is the superintendent of des moines public schools it is a pleasure to have you with us tonight. thanks to your service to the schools. >> it is nice to be here with you. >> so i've tried to put this in a little bit of a national context, but i'm sure it distorts it a bit from the statewide perspective. can you explain the decision-making of what you decided to do here and the conflict this sets up with your governor. >> yeah. we had put a return to learn plan together early this summer. announced it to our community on july 1st and at that time we were closely monitoring the covid-19 situation in the county. we're trying to take our best guess as to what the decisions would be when we sta

this fight over iowa schools opening, it's not a problem that started in iowa with governor reynolds i mean this is what happens when leaders all the way up to the president himself bang the drums for schools to reopen and for kids to take off their masks while you're at it, right? promising that it will all just go away. the governor of iowa has been sort of following the president's lead on issues like this, but the des moines public school district is responsible for the kids in des moines public schools and so far they say they are not dog it joining us now is thomas ahart the superintendent of des moines public schools it's a real pleasure to have you with us tonight. thanks for your service in the schools and thanks for being here. >> it's nice to be here with you. >> so i've tried to put this in a little bit of a national context, but i'm sure that distorts it a little bit from the statewide perspective. can you just in your own words explain a little bit of the decision-making that you and your colleagues have made about what you decided to do heart and the conflict this sets

and then in iowa, ann selzer's poll, gold standard poll, also shows iowa is now tied. and in iowa, fascinating numbers, if you dig into the numbers. the gender gaps are astounding. and women support joe biden, 57% to 37%, and men support donald trump 57% to 36%. what a pronounced gender gap. >> it's amazing, right? and i mean, it's worth pointing out a couple things about those polls, joe, number one. georgia and iowa are not battleground states. and so, the fact that they are battleground states in terms of how close it is -- these are, as you say, consistently now for months we've seen these two states be statistical ties. and as i said, remember, always, six core battleground states where both campaigns are competing with money, with effort -- wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania, north carolina, florida, and arizona. georgia is the state that donald trump won easily, and iowa's a state that donald trump won easily in 2016. right now, both of those states are toss-ups, which tells you about how deep in his own -- on his own end of the field donald trump is fighting fro

hoeven: i'd like to thank the senator from iowa. again, she directly brings that experience from the farm, growing up in agriculture. and somebody else that not only is here representing the state of mississippi, so you can see we're going from north dakota to mississippi to iowa to nebraska. i mean, this is the whole country we're talking about, but also somebody who has a long background in agriculture. i'd like to turn to the good senator from mississippi. mrs. hyde-smith: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from mississippi. mrs. hyde-smith: as the former commissioner of agriculture in mississippi, this is so vital and so important. in mississippi, agriculture is the number one industry. one in every four jobs is related to agriculture, so this is very vital for my state. with the end of the fiscal year fast approaching, we must act to ensure important agriculture and conservation programs administered by the department of agriculture do not come to a screeching halt on october 1. the 2018 farm bill which was suppo

we're going to speak to a mayor of one iowa city seeing a surge. the mayor of rochester, new york, suspending seven police officers over the incident that led to the death of a black man. it was caught on police body cam and we have the disturbing video for you. and an update to tonight's heart breaking story -- americans being evicted during the covid-19 crisis. up to 40 million americans facing eviction. we are going to see how people are stepping in to try to help their neighbors. stay tuned for that. but i want to get now to our breaking news with cnn's white house correspondent john hardwood, cnn military analyst lieutenant general america hertling. so good to have you on. president trump is tweeting and talking to reporters about a report from "the atlantic" which says the president says americans who die in the wars are losers and suckers. let's listen. >> everyone knows it's totally false. general keith kellogg was a highly respected man. couldn't believe hen he heard and it he knows everything about all of it. to think i would make stateme

i was in the lives of 3 of the 3 week something the white house coronavirus task force report shows iowa has the largest case positivity rate in the country up 77% from last week we have a 30% positivity rate. just within a 24 hour period and so we have some major concerns that we must address and while the virus continues to wreak havoc. doctor anthony fauci stressed is concerned for another potential surge. >>after the labor day holiday and calls for a full court press on covid-19 ahead of flu season, when you have a holiday like late today we've seen after the 4th of july. we saw after memorial day a surge in cases but i would really like to see. >>is kind of a full court press to get us way down as a baseline so that when you get these cases in the fall, they wound sir job this as trials for a vaccine continue i believe that by the time we get to the end of this calendar year that we will feel comfortable that we do have a safe and effective vaccine darryl forges kron 4 news. >>channel to weather now around the bay area we're getting ready for a major heat wave as we head in toward t