You're down the middle explanation of world events.

I wish I could start off this show by saying coronavirus was finally going away.

I can't because it's not.

In fact, cases from Europe to the United States appear to be on the rise.

Overall, European health officials say the continent is seeing a second wave of co vid 19 infections.

Austria, France, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom are among the nations that air having an apparent surge.

The UK says the number of new coronavirus cases there is doubling every seven days.

There are several theories about why some say it's because the summer vacation season is over.

Workers are returning to city offices.

Students are returning to school.

The World Health Organization says people are dropping their guard, young people are being blamed for spreading it and gatherings and parties, and the amount of testing has increased.

Also, accounting firm or cases being diagnosed?

There's still a lot Health officials don't know about this disease.

On Friday, the U.

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Centers for Disease Control appeared to suggest that Cove in 19 was more contagious than previously thought.

It's guidance temporarily said there was evidence that when an infected person coughs, sneezes, talks, sings or breeds infectious droplets and airborne particles could stay in the air and travel distances beyond 6 ft.

But on Monday, the organization said that was posted by Mist Ake and changed back to previous guidance, which said the disease spreads mainly between people in close contact.

Yesterday, the U.

S was approaching a new coronavirus milestone, with 200,000 deaths blamed on the disease.

That number 200,000 will stand alone for being catastrophic.

But all of the other numbers that we're looking at this morning show that this crisis is not behind us, not by a long stretch and certainly appearing to get worse If you take a look at the average for new cases nationwide, what we're seeing over the last week is that the metrics are steadily ticking upward over the last seven days were averaging more than 41,000 new cases across the country every day.

When you see how that looks on a map, well, it looks like this.

The majority of states across the nation seeing an increase in cases, some 28 states seeing an increase in new cases of more than 10% in just the last week.

Yes, those numbers are alarming.

You point out the fact that former FDA Commissioner Dr Scott Gottlieb is calling it what it is, an unmistakable spike.

The question now is whether we're seeing the kind of bump that we saw following Labor Day.

If this is a similar, bumped what we saw after July 4th Memorial Day, or if we're seeing a really resurgence going into the fall and winter months, something that public health officials have been expressing deep concern about.

So is there a silver lining to this well in Europe, at least, health officials say the death rate from coronavirus has been stable for months, so it doesn't appear to be getting worse in that way.

The World Health Organization recently said global cases are on a plateau, and there are some areas, including several US states, where the number of cases is holding steady or decreasing.

But while some college campuses have said Cove in 19 hasn't been a major problem, that case numbers have been relatively low.

Others have canceled events like spring break to try to keep students from traveling, catching cove it and returning to campus.

This is where students here at the University of Wisconsin Madison get taken when they test positive for Cove in 19 toe isolation housing.

Nobody goes in.

Nobody comes out.

It's all part of the university's effort to try and get a handle on the outbreak here on campus, where it took just five days to go from the first day of classes.

The students restricted to essential activities only Since movin started at Wisconsin in late August, more than 2000 students have tested positive for Cova.

19.

They sent me an email, pack your bags and be out of their students.

Possible freshman Kier matter is one of them.

Why do you think it's so difficult to contain Kobe?

19 outbreaks on college campuses?

You could say, like, Don't do this, don't do that But it's very difficult to enforce all that.

That's probably why they can't send everyone home.

That's what I think, because we're just gonna spread it all across the country if we dio.

Metter says he's had mild to no symptoms so far, and he's been in isolation housing for days as he waits out his two week period.

In total, more than 350 students are in isolation at the university, with another 100 plus quarantining.

The rest of the undergraduate campus has been restricted to essential activities, only a move.

Students say they only learned about last minute rushing to grocery stores.

As cases continue to climb, you're standing in the elevator with people that might have it.

Of course, you know you have your mask on and you're like, Well, that does something, but not 100% of you know, everything across his dorm and another roughly 20% of the students have been infected, according to the school.

Residents in those dorms have been told they can leave the building for 30 minutes three times a day to secure meals and get a breath of fresh air.

We're almost certainly going to see significant case numbers continue over this coming week.

We're identifying people who test positive and moving them into isolation, The school says.

They're investigating more than 380 student violations and reviewing 12 students for emergency suspension, a step that's been taken at other schools.

The University of Missouri, expelling two students for disregarding Covic rules Okay, 12th Trivia.

What position does Mitch McConnell hold in the U.

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Senate Speaker, Senate Majority leader, Senate minority leader or president of the Senate?

Since 2015 Mitch McConnell has served as the Senate majority leader.

Later this week, US President Donald Trump is expected to nominate a new associate justice to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court.

It's up to the Senate to confirm or reject the president's nominee.

And here's MAWR on why it's timing is politically controversial.

In 2016 Associate Justice Antonin Scalia died.

Then President Barack Obama nominated a replacement justice in March, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to hold a hearing on the nominee.

He said, because it was an election year, the Senate should wait until the next president took office and nominated Scalia's replacement.

And that's what happened in 2017 with President Trump.

Now, in this election year, another associate justice has died, but Senate Majority Leader McConnell says the president's nominee will get a Senate vote.

So what's changed this year?

President Trump is a first term Republican who could be reelected, and the Senate is controlled by his Republican Party in 2016.

President Obama was a second term Democrat who could not be reelected, and the Senate was controlled by Republicans.

The opposite party, Senator McConnell, said no Senate had confirmed an election year nominee from an opposite party president since the 18 eighties.

But he also said in 2016 that the American people should have a voice through the election on who should get to pick the next Supreme Court justice.

Democrats want McConnell to stick to his rule from 2016 to not hold a vote in an election year.

And Democrats say, because McConnell denied former President Obama a Supreme Court appointment in 2016 they'll do all they can to block President Trump from one in 2020 Republicans do control the Senate, but it's not clear if all of them are on board with a vote this fall.

And we have no idea how any of this is gonna play out for the time being.

There are eight members of the U.

S Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court is designed to operate with nine justices with eight justices.

There are possibilities for tie votes, which can create a significant amount of confusion in the law it.

If the court is operating with eight justices and there are tie votes as they're sometimes have been.

What that means is the lower court decision is affirmed, but it doesn't count as a precedent for the whole country.

What that means is significant legal issues can remain unresolved when the court doesn't have a full complement of nine justices.

On rare occasions, the Supreme Court does look at a case again.

But certainly when the issue is an equally divided court, it often happens that the same issue comes to the justices again in a different lawsuit.

Today's 10 out of 10 segment is air raising, told you Joseph Grissom, or has had long hair all his life, according to Guinness World Records.

Now he has the title for World's tallest Mohawk.

But Carl, you're asking, How tall is it?

42 a half inches.

That's 3.5 ft.

And add that to his 6 ft one inch frame.

That's high.

Ah, good hairdresser in a strong hairspray help low ceilings and cars do not.

Of course, he could always mo walk or take a mo hike or star in the last of the Mohawk ins, and that's not a bald faced lie.

Everywhere he goes, he finds he has fans of the fan and his record will stand like his Mohawk, even if its hair today gone tomorrow.

Terrible.

Andrew Jackson High School.

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I'm Carl Jesus for CNN.