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Guard Stabbed At French Consulate In Saudi Arabia; Will.I.am Backs Biden, 12 Years After Obama Anthem "Yes, we can"; DOW Opened Higher Ahead Of Big Tech Earnings; U.S. Could Reach 100,000 Plus Daily Infections In Coming Weeks; Supreme Court Upholds Ballot Deadlines In Two Crucial States; Dozen Buried In Landslides After Typhoon Hits Vietnam. Aired 11a-12p ET
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BECKY ANDERSON, CNN HOST, CONNECT THE WORLD: Well, tonight it is very clear that France is under attack. That the warning from the French President as
he deploys a massive security contingent across the country. I'm Becky Anderson, welcome to "Connect the World."
Well, this hour three people confirmed dead in the City of Nice after a knife attack at its main church. A suspect was shot by police and
apprehended. It's been looked into as a terror incident. Just the last few moments French President Emanuel Macron setting out that he will deploy
4,000 military personnel to boost security at churches, at schools and other places of worship.
It's of course as we've been following for you here just the latest in a series of horrific attacks and separately today in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, a
suspect has been taken into custody after a guard was stabbed at the French Consulate there.
CNN's Arwa Damon in region tracking developments on the consulate attack but first CNN's Cyril Vanier is out in Paris with what are very disturbing
developments France under attack, the words of the French President, clearly, Cyril, very concerned.
CYRIL VANIER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Absolutely. And there's no longer any doubt that this is a terror attack. The French Counterterrorism prosecutor
is the person who is handling this case; Emmanuel Macron did not shy away from what happened this morning, a terror attack that attacked in Nice,
some four years after a jihadist attack that left almost 90 people dead.
You will remember, Becky, as you covered it that Bastille Day truck ramming attack. Well, this morning a different set of circumstances, around 9:00 am
local time an assailant entered the Notre Dame Basilica with sits in the heart of Nice's commercial district in the south of France wielding a knife
and killed three people slitting the throat of one victim, repeatedly stabbing another to death while the third victim actually managed to
survive the first moments of the attack, flee the church but then died sadly of her wounds short thereafter.
The Mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi who was on the scene of the attack shortly after it happened said that the assailant after he had been
neutralized by law enforcement who shot him did not kill him, but shot him and neutralized him, that the assailant as he was receiving medical care
was repeating the words Allahu Akbar, God is great, in Arabic that is pretty much the sum of what we know at the moment, Becky.
There is deep emotion in the country as we speak and there has also been strong reaction politically from all sides. I would like you to listen to
the Mayor of Nice where the attack took place Christian Estrosi.
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CHRISTIAN ESTROSI, MAYOR OF NICE: The investigators now start their work but I say it enough is enough. Now it is time to France to exempt itself
from the laws of peace time to definitely destroy Islamo fascism in our territory.
I gave instructions after having spoken with the bishop and all the religious leaders of our city that all the churches in the city be placed
under surveillance and closed as well as all the other places of worship in our city.
And naturally with the prefect of the Maritime Alps with national police we are taking all the necessary measures with our network of security cameras
to secure all points in the city.
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VANIER: So, Becky, it's a security issue and it's also a political issue. Security on the one hand because you heard the Mayor there calling for more
surveillance, that surveillance has since been decided and announced by the French President Emanuel Macron, you were referencing the 4,000 extra
troops on the ground to protect sensitive sites such as churches and schools.
But it's also a political issue with the opposition making hay of this now demanding that the president do more. Becky, I have to point out to our
viewers that France is now facing two time simultaneous emergencies.
We are in a sanitary health state of emergency with the national second stay-at-home order nationally expected to start tomorrow and the security
alert level of this country which has been raised once again to its maximum level.
ANDERSON: Yes, so Vanier is in Paris stand by, Cyril, for the moment. Arwa, a Saudi man has been arrested after a stabbing of a guard at the French
Consulate in Jeddah. What more do we know at this point?
ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Not a lot, Becky. Just that the guard was stabbed but was not in too critical condition, was
hospitalized and is believed to be able to recover.
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DAMON: But, of the of course, this underscores a growing fear and concern that we might perhaps be seeing more of these types of attacks.
Unfortunately what we do know only too well is that any number of terrorist organizations will capitalize, manipulate, take advantage of rising
tensions between the West and the Muslim world to try to push their followers to carry out these sorts of hideous attacks which it is well
worth noting over and over again Becky are not supported by the vast majority of the Muslim population no matter how angry Muslims may be with
France over its attitude towards its own Muslim population and comments being made about Islam or the re-showing of the caricatures of Prophet
Muhammad.
Muslims will by and large go out as we have seen and demonstrate. They will call for boycotts. They most certainly do not condone this type of heinous
violence to be carried out in the name of Islam. And the organizations that tend to be behind these kinds of organizations are ones that have
manipulated Islam in ways that cause many Muslims to, quite frankly, shutter in horror.
ANDERSON: Yes. Arwa Damon on the story and as we get further details on the incident in Jeddah you will of course get them first here on CNN. And the
French President speaking in no uncertain terms that his country France is under attack we will be tracking every side of that story going forward for
you here on CNN. To both of you, thank you.
Two alarming figures from the United States now where the country has suffered its worst three days of the Coronavirus pandemic in the past week
alone. We are talking about an average of 74,000 new infections a day. Yes, a day. More than 40 states are seeing increases with the former Head of the
U.S. Food and Drug Administration predicting upwards of 100,000 cases a day, possibly even this week. This one of the many dire warnings from
health experts about what could lie ahead.
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DR. ANTHONY FAUCI, DIRECTOR, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES: We are not in a good place. As we continue into the cool months
of the fall and soon the cold months of the winter we're starting seeing something going in the wrong direction.
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ANDERSON: Well, yet despite the horrifying fast moving numbers the messaging from both sides of the aisle is staying the same.
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JOE BIDEN (D) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I'm not running on the false promise of being able to end this pandemic by flipping a switch, but what I can
promise you is this, we will start on day one doing the right things. We will let science drive our decisions.
DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A safe vaccine is coming very quickly. You're going to have it momentarily that eradicates the virus
and we're rounding the turn regardless. You know that. We've got the vaccine. I say regardless, they will say, well, maybe you don't. We have it
great companies. And quickly ends the pandemic.
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ANDERSON: Donald Trump speaking there and you also heard from Joe Biden. Quick fact, check, we are not round a corner and a vaccine will not be
available for every American momentarily. Dr. Fauci giving a reality check on the timeline. Have a listen.
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DR. FAUCI: If we get a vaccination campaign and by the second or third quarter of 2021 we have vaccinated a substantial proportion of the people,
I think it will be easily by the end of 2021 and perhaps even into the next year before we start having some semblances of normality.
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ANDERSON: Well, who will lead the U.S. into said normality? Well, that is all up in the air. Of course five days out from the U.S. election. More
than a third of registered voters have actually already cast their ballots. That is an astounding 78 million votes and counting. That is already more
than half of all votes cast in the 2016 election.
And the road to 270 electoral votes runs through Florida today where both Biden and Trump are headed in an election that's been as tweeted about and
as televised as this one more celebrities than ever are plugging in, speaking out to get people to vote.
12 years after providing the sound track to Barack Obama's Campaign with the theme "Yes, we can" will.I.am is back with a new song to back Joe
Biden. The love reworks the classic pop hit "Where is the love" by his band the black eyed peace giving it a more poignant take to reflect a United
States that can sometimes feel anything about.
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ANDERSON: Will.I.am joining us now. It's been a while since we last caught up. Welcome back. What motivated you to make that video, sir?
WILL.I.AM, MUSICIAN, ENTREPRENEUR & PHILANTHROPIST: Just the state of America, you know, nine months, however long, seems like two years of
handling the pandemic to the point where too many people have lost loved ones, too many people have lost their jobs and too many people are facing
eviction because they cannot pay their rent.
Just recklessness and carelessness and TV show antics, you know, the whole notion that this will go away when the heat comes around, summer, spring
and summer, when he knew how serious it was. That type of leadership, ignoring what the past four years have been, just the past nine months that
seem like two years just motivated to try to do - people to see the stakes that we are up against.
ANDERSON: You included Joe Biden's DNC speech in the song we're looking at images there. Were the Biden-Harris Campaign involved in the video?
WILL.I.AM: No, it was all independent, just like "Yes, we can" was independent. Me as a citizen doing what I can to inspire folks to get them
motivated to go out there and vote but this time go out and vote with one purpose and that is to unite with love. We've been divided for so long.
ANDERSON: Well, the love has - which has recovered nearly 30 million views since it was released last week, the song ends with this quote from the
American Philosopher Dr. Cornel West "Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public." I just wonder what the significance for you is
behind those words.
WILL.I.AM: Justice for Breonna Taylor and all the, you know, folks that have been killed by law enforcement and law enforcement has to, you know -
they get to walk free. You know, there's awesome police officers out there, you know, my aunt does her service, dispatched to the community that I come
from for law enforcement.
But then there's also some pretty wicked ones and they're protected and we need to weed out those wicked, you know, law enforcement that are
patrolling communities where they have hate in their heart. You shouldn't patrol communities with hate for the people that you're trying to protect.
ANDERSON: Will.I.am, law and order a central if not - we were told some weeks ago the most important pillar of Donald Trump's Campaign. What do you
think of Donald Trump?
WILL.I.AM: I try not to think about Donald Trump because that brings the anxiety. And it's nothing personal, but it is when it comes to people's
lives and how careless it seems that he is about the everyday person, not the Wall Street, but just people, you know - not - not the Wall Street
marketplace but people on the neighborhood block.
People that are out there struggling, you know, people that are out there trying to make ends meet. I don't think he really has them in mind when he
speaks, when he - if he would, if he did, he would have a kinder heart. If he did he would be more mindful. If he did he would try to unite America.
If he did it wouldn't be about Republicans and Democrats, it would be about Americans. If he did it wouldn't always be politics and Wall Street and
money, money, money. It would be like education and preparation.
He would be talking about like how when I leave this job if he's to get reelected, I hope to God that he's not, but what I'm going to do to make
sure that we are on a better course and prepare the youth for this technological tomorrow. Look at all the businesses--
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ANDERSON: I want to talk about - I want to talk about the youngsters. I just want to stop you there, it occurs to me as you're speaking that there
will be people watching this who say, look, it was - it was - you know, the average man and woman on the street that Donald Trump pitched as supporters
last time.
And there are millions and millions of hard working Americans who support him and vote for him and are likely to vote for him again this time around.
WILL.I.AM: Yes, that's true, and everyone has their point of view and their perspective and a lot of times that point of view is, you know, not a
collective point of view, it's an isolated point of view and what it means to me and my tax dollar, but collectively is that what's best for the whole
United States of America?
I have yet to see his plan on how to educate the folks that are in underdeveloped communities? I have yet to see like how are we going to
bring people up to speed and up-skill? Not the plans for what he's going to do the next four years but what just happened this past four years?
We have not seen that type of leadership around preparation for the future. If you just - like I said before you interrupted me, like all the companies
that are booming during COVID-19 are technological companies.
What that means is they have an abundance of money to make sure that their technology continues to grow and become more intelligence. What that means
is more people will lose jobs like Uber drivers and truck drivers. Where is the up-scaling and preparation for those people, you know, that are in the
workplace now? Where is the - the rescaling and up-scaling?
ANDERSON: And Will.I.am I'm sorry I interrupted you, sir.
WILL.I.AM: I didn't mean it that way it's all good.
ANDERSON: No, no I get it. Listen, I want to talk to you about youngsters because we are seeing record early voting from youngsters. Your platform is
important in politics; I know you're passionate about it. We've talked about it before. How important is it to you to encourage those youngsters
to get out and vote, particularly for minority communities when I use that term loosely?
WILL.I.AM: When I was 20 years old I thought my vote didn't matter. I was one of those kids from the inner city that was like, this is all rigged,
it's not real, you know, they're going to do what they're going to do, but that's what they wanted me to think.
They made sure I thought that. They made sure I thought that because there's not reinforcement on why my voice and the collective voice is
important? They would rather me not vote, but they would rather me - like we make sure that we have like a Black Friday where they clear out the
calendar so we can go out and buy stuff.
But they don't clear out the calendar to make sure that we could like, you know, make sure that our communities are taken care of by voting. They make
it very hard to vote. Don't be duped.
ANDERSON: That's a great line. And I want to just give you an opportunity to pitch what you want to see in the next four, eight, 12 years. We have
Andrew Yang on next, I'm going to talk to him about technology and specifically what you have just discussed and raised as well. But what's
your pitch four, eight, 12 years out? What do you want to see?
WILL.I.AM: So where we are right now is a very turbulent reality and it's either going to get more turbulent or an easier path to make sure that
people are protected and prepared for this technological tomorrow.
Like what does 2030 look like? Do we want to wake up in 2024 like what the F that do we do in 2020 when we know that these jobs are going to be taken
away just by technology? It's not immigrants that are taking the jobs, it's that freaking device, it's that new upgrade that are going to take jobs
away.
And then in order for that to - so we can see the better side of that is we need to prepare so the folks that have these skill sets can create new
jobs. New jobs are going to come. But where are they going to come from?
Are they going to come from folks that are preparing their citizens for that? We can't say 100 percent that America's focus is on preparing our
youth to create jobs tomorrow. That's not the focus. We're bickering about race, we're bickering about how our leader prepared and handled COVID.
We are not talking about preparing for 2030. From world economic forum, you know, we know what's coming 2030. We know the advancements of AI. We know
the advancements of the autonomous world. Are we preparing kids in inner cities about that? Are we preparing people in Britain for that?
ANDERSON: Will.I.am, it's always a pleasure. You have made some really good points, as I said, Andrew Yang is up next and I'm going to put some these
points to him and see how he feels America is prepared or not going forward?
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ANDERSON: Up next, we will do more on that battle for the election, the strategy with just five days to go. How are the candidates honing in on 270
Electoral College votes? Those needed, of course, to take the White House.
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ANDERSON: Before the break we were connecting you to the state of America this hour, some very interesting takes from the artist and the futurist
will.i.am. We'll get to all of that in a moment. First the big picture here.
This is a pandemic election, make no mistake, it's been defined by it. The United States mired in Coronavirus concerns, it's now worse than ever
there, averaging out at just under 80,000 cases per day and more people hanging on by a financial thread with stimulus talks stalling.
My next guest and good friend of this show says he cannot fathom that a deal has not yet been passed. Former Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang
joining me now live from New York. Upwards of 100,000 COVID cases a day, possibly even this week, Andrew, you couldn't make this up, but that is the
warning from one health expert on what's going on at present? Joe Biden had this to say about how he would handle the pandemic. Have a listen.
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BIDEN: I'm not running on the false promise of being able to end this pandemic by flipping a switch, but what I can promise you is this, we will
start on day one doing the right things. We will let science drive our decisions.
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ANDERSON: Keeping in mind that day one will be next January, who knows how bad the situation could be by then? What is step one on day one, Andrew?
ANDREW YANG, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: Step one on day one is to tell the truth to the American people about where we are in the Coronavirus and what
they can do to help bring down the infection rates.
So that's wearing a mask uniformly, not arguing with the doctors and scientists, social distancing and shutting down environments that have a
high propensity for spreading the virus within communities so that would be many bars, restaurants, indoor establishments where people are spending
significant amounts of time with each other.
Unfortunately Donald Trump has been muddying the waters around taking these basic precautions for months and many Americans have been paying the price.
That is the first thing that I know Joe and Kamala will do in office and I expect them to win.
ANDERSON: OK. Because we've been reporting on what is going on around Europe which is quite frankly a disaster in some places and we are now
seeing in two of the biggest countries in Europe nationwide lockdowns once again.
No leader wants to shut the country down, we know what sort of impact that has on people's livelihoods. Are you telling me that you are confident that
should it be necessary, deemed necessary by the scientists, that Joe Biden would concede to a national lockdown? If needs be.
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YANG: We're a very big country with very different infection rates in different parts of the country. I'm very confident that if public health
experts were to advise Joe that a particular area or state or region would be well-served to have some kind of targeted lockdowns and the Governor of
that state was in agreement, that we would be pushing for it.
But a national lockdown in a country the scale of the United States may or may not make sense. Of course, if the scientists were to advocate for
something that widespread I'm sure Joe would consider it.
ANDERSON: The DOW dropping some 900 points yesterday, COVID concerns clearly, not just in the United States, but of course around the world but
in the U.S. stimulus talks still at a dead end, leaving so many people hanging on by a financial thread. Why?
YANG: Politics, Becky, and it breaks my heart. There are millions of Americans who have lost their livelihoods through no fault of their own.
We've seen a surge in food insecurity, people getting evicted, people dipping under the poverty line and it's preventable.
It's something that we can help with immediately. We should have helped with it months ago and the fact that we cannot do what 82 percent of
Americans know is the right thing, which is put economic relief into people's hands during this pandemic, is devastating for so many American
families.
I hear from them every day. I wish that our leaders had addressed this months ago and it's unconscionable to me that it is not getting addressed
before Election Day. We may be waiting until early next year and many Americans cannot wait that long.
ANDERSON: And this is both sides of the aisle, of course, where we are stuck with this stimulus plan. Big tech, I want to talk to you about big
tech. Hearings taking place right now. You tweeted these tech companies are in an impossible situation of making thousands of content moderation
choices only a few of which will be public and political, wherever they draw the line or fail to someone will have grounds to attack them. They
could actually use a hand. By which you mean what?
YANG: Well, the tweet that was right before that one, Becky, said that these companies are now the de facto biggest publishers in the world and
they are operating with essentially no standards, no oversight, no transparency.
Under section 230 of a law that was written in 1996 before any of these companies even existed or operated. So we need a modern approach to these
tech platforms that treats them as the biggest broadcasters and publishers in the history of the world, which is what they are.
So if you look at it in that context, then saying to them, look, you figure out what is appropriate, what is not, what is information and
misinformation. We're putting a ridiculous burden on companies that have inherited essentially outsized possibility by virtue of the negligence of
our lawmakers to actually have a more modern regulatory framework.
ANDERSON: Do you agree that the lawmakers who have been cross-examining these tech titans are simply ill equipped or do not have the equipment,
intellectually or physically, to do anything about this at this point?
YANG: They're using legal frame works that have existed for a long time and many of those frame works do not make sense for the issues that we face
today, Becky. So the frame works they're using are antitrust and censorship.
But if you look at what's happening on Facebook, our data is getting sold and resold for tens of billions of dollars a year and no one is seeing a
dime. Our mental health is deteriorating. We are in information bubbles where we can't even agreeing on basic facts it makes it hard to have a
functioning democracy.
So if you look at those problems they don't fall neatly into an antitrust or censorship framework. We should be, again, modernizing our approach to
these companies that have grown into quasi governments unto themselves they touch billions of people in many cases and our government has been decades
behind the curve. It's gone from inconvenient to disastrous over the last number of years.
ANDERSON: It would help if these Senators actually sort of understood the technology perhaps a little better than some of them seem to do. Very
briefly, Will.I.am talking about where he sees the future for America and talking about America being ill prepared for the technology revolution. Do
you buy that? Do you agree with that?
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YANG: I 100 percent agree with Will.I.am. It's one reason I ran for President Becky. We have been so behind the curve on these technology
issues, in part because D.C. has not had any independent guidance on technology policy since 1995.
Think about everything that's changed since then. And we have to speed up. We have to help give a path forward for millions of Americans who are
losing their jobs right now in large part due to a pandemic-fueled automation wave.
You're seeing companies from Sam's Club to Tyson's Food all announce that they're automating away workers. And what are those workers going to do?
Where are they going to go? We're way behind the curve and I'd love to help us catch up. But it's getting late in the day.
ANDERSON: I want to talk to you more about that, pandemic-fueled automation wave coming your way, not just in the states but around the world. Thank
you, Mr. Yang. It is always a pleasure. We're taking a very short break back after this.
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ANDERSON: Well, the lockdown dominos are falling across Europe this hour several countries, now at breaking point. The W.H.O's Regional Director
recently told me that lockdowns are a last resort. Well, that last resort now here for Germany and for France skyrocketing cases over the past
several weeks sending both countries into their second lockdown.
That adds Ireland two in severe impositions on movement in the Czech Republic. And I want to take you there now to the Czech Republic, to go
inside some overloaded intensive care units. The country has the highest rate of new COVID infections and deaths per capita in the European Union.
They are really staggering, these numbers. But as CNN's Scott McLean went to find out, help is on the way.
SCOTT MCLEAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: At the main hospital in lean Czech Republic, 21 year old nursing student Marie Hanackova is getting a crash
course in the fight against the Coronavirus all the long days not for school credit, but because hospitals are bursting at the seams.
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MARIE HANACKOVA, NURSING STUDENT: There's an insane panic here. People are simply afraid. During my training here last year, they were calmer.
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MCLEAN: The number of people in this region hospitalized with the Coronavirus has doubled over the past two weeks, stretching ICUs to their
limits. This used to be a storage room. Now, it's being used to house patients. But even more than space, hospitals here are desperately lacking
in staff.
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DR. TOMAS GABRHELIK, HEAD DOCTOR, ZLIN ICU: We don't have enough nurses, doctors and technicians, as well.
MCLEAN: There's nothing the government can do for you?
GABRHELIK: No because every region has the same problem.
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DR. MILAN KUBEK, CZECH MEDICAL CHAMBER PRESIDENT: The situation is very serious. The Czech health system has never faced such a challenge before.
Every day, there is an increase of 1,000 sick health care workers. With 10 million people in the Czech Republic, this is a serious number.
MCLEAN: Why are so many health workers getting sick?
KUBEK: They are the same as the rest of the population.
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MCLEAN: The Czech infection rate is six-times higher than it is in the U.S. officially, one in every 63 people are currently infected. The nearby
hospital in the town of Kiev, more than 10 percent of the staff is out sick. High school students, some too young to vote or even drive, are
picking up the slack.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think it is our duty because we are future health workers. I don't feel bad about it. I'm happy to do this.
JIRI VYHNAL, HEAD ER DOCTOR, KYJOV HOSPITAL: The health care system on the Czech Republic has already collapsed because hospitals with the few
exceptions are not able to provide long-term care for non-COVID patients.
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MCLEAN: Your team must be exhausted.
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VYHNAL: First doctors and nurses have been stretched to their maximum. The reason why we do it is, because we want to help and we know that it would
be impossible without us.
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MCLEAN: To stem the tide of infection, most stores are closed and movement is severely restricted. The military has set up a field hospital to help
hundreds of expectations just one problem.
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VYHNAL: We don't have enough medical staff, so we welcome very much at the health from abroad.
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MCLEAN: At the height of its outbreak in the spring, with hospitals overwhelmed, Italy put out a desperate appeal for help from abroad.
Military doctors and nurses from around the world answered the call. The Czech Republic did not.
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MCLEAN: I wonder, looking back, was that still the right choice?
JAN HAVRANEK, CZECH DEPUTY DEFENSE MINISTER: The military doctors were needed here, as well.
MCLEAN: But the Czech Republic never saw the kind of massive death toll that Italy saw.
HAVRANEK: That is true. That is true. I mean, the first wave of COVID was rather mild.
MCLEAN: But will the Czech Republic think a little harder next time when another European country is in need, about sending your personnel?
HAVRANEK: Definitely we will, as we realize that it's a two-way street. And we cannot just ask without giving back.
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MCLEAN: Foreign help is on the way dozens of medics from the U.S. National Guard and hundreds from Europe nice gesture, but not nearly enough to fix
the health care crisis that's only getting worse. Scott McLean, CNN in Eastern Czech Republic.
ANDERSON: Well, you can see for yourself, folks, in all of our reporting, just how bad the situation is in parts of Europe. We take you inside wards
in the Czech Republic. We've been in England, the South of France, and beyond. Even as this pandemic gets so much worse so fast in Europe, there
are more cases in the states than anywhere else.
In fact, the worst three days of the entire pandemic there happen the last week alone. And that is staggering. The man who has become something of an
America icon to many, Dr. Anthony Fauci, here, now, pointing out the scale and scope of the problem.
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FAUCI: There are more cases that are real cases. That's manifested by the numbers, the data are strong. It's also manifested by the fact that if you
look at the map of the country, where you're having uptick in cases, we're also having upticks in hospitalizations. So the cases are real, they're not
just as a result of testing.
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ANDERSON: Cases, cases, cases. It is a pretty generic word. Isn't it? Remember, every case is a person. Now, take a listen to a doctor over in
the states, who has been working with the sick, seeing the life slip out of people, day-in/day-out.
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DR. ANDREW PASTEWSKI, ICU PHYSICIAN, JACKSON SOUTH MEDICAL CENTER: One of the issues with the complacency in this country is that, people really
think it's just the old people in the nursing homes who are dying. And that's just crazy. It's not old people in nursing homes that are just
dying.
It's the 82-year-old grandma who lives in the house, who takes care of the grandkids, so that the people can go to school. So the mother can work, who
makes that special sauce. I have these people dying.
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ANDERSON: You heard him there. Dr. Andrew Pastewski. Joining us now live from Miami in Florida and you are so right, sir. Just if you will, just
describe some of the stories of your experience, your COVID patients.
PASTEWSKI: Well, at the worst, we were losing a patient in half a day. And it was, every day, a different phone call to a different family. Families
that you didn't get to meet, you didn't get to interact with, because they're not allowed to come visit.
And you don't have the ability to build a report with them that you would like. So they trust you and they understand, and you have to break this
news over the phone.
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PASTEWSKI: And it was every day, over and over. And it took its toll mentally, on everyone who had to do it.
ANDERSON: What keeps you going?
PASTEWSKI: I mean I've never walked away from a fight. And this is a job and the job is not done. And we have personnel to help. We have learned we
do have good cases. We do have success stories. So that helps a lot. I just saw a picture of one of my sick, sick patients in the nursing home. He was
a troche. But he is walking now with rehab.
He couldn't move the muscle when he left us. We have those positive cases that keep us going. And we're not done, COVID is not going anywhere. We're
going to be doing this for a very long time, unless we get the vaccine and we have to learn to continue to deal with it.
ANDERSON: Well, let's talk about that. Because of course, these numbers are getting worse than they have ever been in the United States. What is the
situation where you are, Jackson Health System Hospital currently as I understand has about 107 COVID patients. How many are in ICU? And how many
are you concerned about?
PASTEWSKI: So we now have all of our COVID cases in one 14-bed ICU, all of them, including the med-serv. We have gotten better, as we've learned about
this disease, and when we can move a patient out from isolation.
So, we're getting much more aggressive with when did symptoms start? When did the fever break? OK, just not this patient although still suffering
from symptoms of COVID, is no longer infectious, so we move them out of the isolation area I have two in that 14-bed unit, that are extremely sick and
very likely not survive the hospitalization.
ANDERSON: The president, continuing to dismiss this virus, he slams experts like Anthony Fauci. Just have a listen to this bit of tape, the CNN
obtained us Mr. Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and he of course is an adviser to the president. And this is what he said back in April. Have a
listen.
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JARED KUSHNER, SENIOR ADVISER TO PRESIDENT TRUMP: The last thing was kind of doing the guidelines, which was interesting. And that, in my mind, was
almost like - it was almost like Trump getting the country back from the doctors, right? In the sense that, what he now did was, he is going to own
the open-up.
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ANDERSON: He's going to own the open up. What do you make of comments like those?
PASTEWSKI: You know one of the things that has been extremely disheartening to all of us is the fact that, this virus has been politicized. The virus
doesn't see red or blue. The virus sees people and people are dying.
And I've never appreciated from both sides that this has become a political thing. This is a fight for humanity. We need to be good humans, good people
and do what we can, and not try to, you know, make a big deal about it and not try to gain from it.
We all need to do our part, like we did in World War II. And simple things like wearing a mask, good hand hygiene distancing can allow us to try to
open up because we do have to learn to live with this virus. We can't stay locked down forever. We can't be shut down forever; we have to find a way
to live with this.
And we have some very simple tools, with masks and hand washing and distancing, that if we can just step up and do that, we can try to open up,
and we can stop politicizing this issue when just try to fix it.
ANDERSON: Finally, sir, you said that you have learned an awful lot since this pandemic began and since you first saw patients, you quite frankly
were symptoms that you wouldn't have seen before, because you hadn't seen COVID-19. You'd perhaps seen similar symptoms, but not these specifically
with COVID-19. Are you optimistic?
We see the health infrastructure creaking in so many places at this point. And as off times in the developed world, in the developing world where the
health infrastructure isn't anything like us good, there are clearly real issues. Are you optimistic that we can get a hold on this? We can get a
grip on this?
PASTEWSKI: I'm not particularly optimistic. I don't have much faith in a lot of people doing the right thing. And I think it's going to take some
strong-arming of mask mandating.
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PASTEWSKI: But I'm not particularly optimistic with the exception of a vaccine on the way. There are some potential therapies on the way. So
there's reason to be optimistic. But I am not optimistic at this point that we have anything that can really change the game right now.
ANDERSON: With that, we're going to leave it there. We thank you very much indeed for joining us. Keep doing what you do, sir. And keep your chin up.
It's a very British term, but I hope you understand it. Thank you.
Well, still to come, two critical rulings on ballot deadlines in key battleground U.S. states. We'll see how new Supreme Court decisions will
affect mail-in ballot counting after Election Day.
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ANDERSON: Well, just days before next Tuesday's election, the U.S. Supreme Court has issued major rulings that will affect ballot counting to crucial
battleground states. Now the bottom line here is that, Republicans' efforts to block extensions for receiving mail-in votes have failed in North
Carolina and in Pennsylvania.
The court declined to intervene for now, with deadlines set by the states. That means mail-in-ballots will be accepted, three days after Election Day
in Pennsylvania and nine days after in North Carolina. Well, the court's newest Justice, Amy Coney Barrett did not take part in either of those
cases.
Let's bring in CNN's Contributor and Republican and Election Lawyer. And I am glad that we've got you today Ben, because there is some good stuff to
discuss here. The president says he wants a winner declared on Election Day. Have a listen.
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TRUMP: It would be very, very proper and very nice if a winner were declared on November 3rd, instead of counting ballots for two weeks, which
is totally inappropriate. And I don't believe that's by our laws.
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ANDERSON: He wants a winner on Election Day wishful thinking, sir?
BEN GINSBERG, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: Perhaps, I think we all do. But the reality of the American elections is that winners, even if they're announced on
election night, are only projections. And the states have certification processes for the accuracy of their results. They usually take until the
end of the month.
ANDERSON: Got it. OK. Well, the Supreme Court has ruled in favor for Pennsylvania and North Carolina, but not for Wisconsin, as far as these
extending these deadlines. Effectively, what we're saying here is, if people - people put their ballot in the post box, as it were, and are
concerned about it not arriving, by Election Day; they've got a win in two states, but not in Wisconsin. Why that disconnect?
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GINSBERG: That gets down to a matter of the details of our laws. The Wisconsin ruling was from a Federal Court and the Supreme Court has
indicated that federal judges should not get in the way of state policymakers. Pennsylvania and North Carolina, the decisions to extend the
deadline were made by state officials. And the U.S. Supreme Court defers to the states on that.
ANDERSON: Why is this all happening so late? Why are these decisions by these high courts being made so late? And why are these cases even being
brought at this stage? Why not months ago?
GINSBERG: Well, we are a litigious society. And many of the cases were in fact filed months ago. But they take a while to went through the system.
And apparently the immediacy of the election is focusing some judicial minds. But the Supreme Court can only take up cases that are brought to it.
ANDERSON: All right. And well, it's had a number. How tight will this race have to be, to be contested?
GINSBERG: Well, the answer to that is actually a function of each state's law. And generally, if the two candidates are within 0.25 percent or in
some states, 0.5 percent of each other, then there are automatic recount provisions that kick in.
Remember those four years ago, Jill Stein brought recount cases in which the Clinton Campaign intervened at the end of November. So, we do have a
history of these things taking a few weeks to resolve them.
ANDERSON: You and I are likely to talk in those weeks after the election thank you sir for joining us for the time being. You are watching "Connect
the World". It's good to have you, Ben. Coming up, devastating scenes in Vietnam after a deadly typhoon slams villages on the central coast,
triggering flash flooding and landslides more on that after this.
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ANDERSON: Stunned on look is watching barge great news in Louisiana, as a category 2 hurricane slammed into the U.S. Gulf Coast. Zeta has now
weakened to a tropical storm, but it still bringing fierce winds and the heavy rains to several states as it tears a path Northwood's (ph). At least
two people have been killed more than two million without power across the region.
Well of a well the way and rescuers in Vietnam are frantically looking for survivors after one of the strongest storms in decades hit the central
coast. The typhoon tore through villages as it slammed ashore heavy rains, triggering landslides that buried at least 53 people some of them, still
missing. State media say 19 bodies have been pulled from the mud.
Well, CNN Meteorologist, Chad Myers, is tracking the severe weather for you today and good to see you. And stay safe there. I know, for many of our
colleagues, the storm is causing some havoc where you are. Are you OK?
CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST AND SCIENCE REPORTER: Yes, very good, thank you. I'm in a high-rise. I could see the power flashes all night power
lines going down. Transformers blowing out here and things were really rough for a while.
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MYERS: Winds were gusting to almost 100 KPH here in Atlanta, Georgia and even higher than that obviously with some of the pictures that you're
seeing. Let's turn our focus to Malawi, Malawi making landfall, 165 mile per hour storm, 165 KPH storm as it came onshore on Wednesday.
And it really did make some significant rainfall, in places that don't need any more rainfall because of the already existing landslides. This is the
fourth named storm to make landfall in literally the same area, within about 200 clicks. There you go. Here's the rainfall. It is expected in
October. Almost 750 millimeters of rainfall is expected here obviously, a wet season.
But power lines, trees down, all the way through here, most of central coastal Vietnam. And another storm is on the way Goni, right here. This is
the storm and it's developing. And guess where it's going. Make us first stop, will be Lausanne. But after that, then all of the sudden, this is
going to be right back into Vietnam again.
As it approaches the eastern shore here of Lausanne, just to the east of manila, 215 KPH there. And then getting back here into the South China Sea,
gathering strength again, gathering more moisture and it's going to dump more rainfall in the same place that you just showed pictures there m and
more rainfall, at least probably 150 to 250 more millimeters of rainfall to come.
It was just an ugly day. Some of these pictures that you're going to see on the screen, you can't tell what they are because there's just such a mist
in the air. So there's the storm, Malawi. That's what happened to it. Coming onshore, just making all of that rainfall and obviously those
mudslides and Becky, more to come.
ANDERSON: Yes, sadly. All right, Chad, thank you for that. Chad Myers there at his newly built CNN weather center. And from there to Paris, Istanbul,
to the Czech Republic, and we were in Michigan, Mexico City, London, New York, Miami, Washington.
We have taken you to them all and beyond connecting your world, the world that is moving at lightning speed. It's a difficult place, but it's an
incredible one. Remember to look after yourselves, look after one another. Stay safe and stay well.
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