CDC forecasts 20,000 dead in the next 3 weeks as Coronavirus death toll passes 175,000.

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

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3.2 • 865 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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With 19 states reporting outbreaks on college campuses, the CDC offers new guidance to schools across the country in case of outbreaks among students and staff. In Florida, a 6 year old girl becomes the youngest to die from the virus in that state. As President Trump rails against mail-in voting, the Postmaster General proclaims that delivering ballots on time is the "number one priority". Biden campaign says it raised $70 million during the DNC; Trump pushes for the RNC to outshine the DNC. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is CNN breaking news.
0:09.7	We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world.
0:12.7	I'm Will Flitzer in the situation room.
0:14.4	We're following breaking news on the unrelenting loss of life in the coronavirus crisis.
0:19.5	This hour, the US death toll just surpassed 175,000 with more than 5.6 million cases now
0:27.7	confirmed. As the rate of new deaths rises in 23 states right now. The CDC forecasts roughly 20,000 more
0:36.2	Americans will die from coronavirus in the next three weeks alone. Also breaking
0:42.3	the CDC just issued new guidelines for
0:45.0	schools on reopening and how to keep children safe amid growing concerns about
0:50.0	the spread of the virus among students. We're also following the firestorm over mail and voting
0:55.3	and new testimony by the Postmaster General of the United States
0:59.0	in a heated hearing.
1:00.1	He told Senators his top priority
1:02.4	is delivering ballots on time, but he didn't reveal any plan to accomplish that or to counter President Trump's efforts to undermine confidence in voting my mail.
1:12.4	Let's go straight to our national correspondent. undermine confidence in voting my mail.
1:13.0	Let's go straight to our national correspondent Athena Jones.
1:15.5	She's working.
1:16.4	All of these stories for us, Athena.
1:18.0	As more Americans are now dying of coronavirus,
1:20.8	the CDC is now offering some major new guidance to schools across the country.
1:27.0	Hi Wolf, that's right, these are new more detailed guidelines from the CDC.
1:32.0	Among other things things they address what
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