today. the "cnn newsroom" continues right now. you are live in the cnn news room. good afternoon, everyone. we begin with new records being shattered in the coronavirus pandemic. the united states reporting that for the fourth straight day more than 1,000 people are dying daily. florida now surpassing new york in total number of cases, with an additional 12,000 infections reported two days in a row. in all, more than 400,000 people are sick statewide. california has the most active cases in the nation this weekend, and this terrible figure. friday saw the highest number of patients die from the virus in a single day.

159 people. now t add to that another emergency for people in the coronavirus hot spot of texas, hurricane hanna is barreling toward the state, putting hospitals already stretched thin on high alert. and big news from the fda. it just authorized the first diagnostic test to screen people who may be asymptomatic. officials say the test may go a long way in helping schools and workplaces reopen. let's begin in florida where the numbers are devastating. 50 hospitals statewide have hit icu capacity. cnn's rosa flores is in miami. rosa, give us the latest. >> reporter: good afternoon. process the situation in florida with me. president donald trump has pulled the florida portion of the rnc out of the state because of the covid-19 situation. at the same time, governor ron desantis says that the situation has stabilized. let's look at the numbers, because, yes, for the past week there were about four days that

the number of cases were at or below 10,000. but for the past two days, the number of new coronavirus cases in this state have exceeded 12,000. i asked an infectious disease expert about this, and she said you have to look at the hospitalizations, you have to look at the icus. let's take a look. statewide, 79% increase in the number of hospitalizations of covid-19 patients in the past three weeks. there are also 50 icu hospitals across the state that are at capacity, that have zero icu beds. now, take a look here in miami-dade county where i am. this is the epicenter of the crisis in this state, accounting for 25% of now the more than 400,000 cases in the state. icus here in this county are operating at 137%. what that means is that there are more patients than there are icus. i can tell you that right now there are 556 icu patients and

only 407 beds. the good thing is that the county says that they have more than 400 beds that they can convert into icus. but then you look at ventilator use. those have increased by 62% in the past two weeks. right now there are 334 people in miami-dade on ventilators. the positivity rate is another thing that this infectious disease expert told me to look at. in miami-dade county it's 19.7%. the goal for the county is not to exceed 10%. you look at the 14-day average, it's 19.4%. the point of the matter here is that despite all these facts and figures, despite everything that we're seeing, these numbers that are being reported both by the county and by the state, the state of florida still pushing for reopening of schools next week. governor ron desantis says that parents have a choice. but the point is that he's still not backing down. >> a lot of statistics there, rosa, none of them good. the one that stood out to me is

the 79% increase in hospitalization. that is quite alarming. rosa flores, thank you so much. now to california where officials there reported a new record in covid-19 deaths in a single day. cnn's paul vercammen is in los angeles. what's the latest there? >> it's a mixed batch of numbers. let's look at the test site here in south los angeles. you can tell there is a long line of people coming up to be tested here by driving at the charles r. drew university of medicine and science. and then over on the other side they've allowed people to walk up. let's talk about the numbers. we finally have dipped below 2,000 people a day being hospitalized in l.a. county. that's the in news, it was up about 2,200. the positivity rate is steady right now, 10%.

what's interesting about this is that here at drew, at this test site, they were having a hard time getting through to many of the residents of this predominantly latino community to come in and get tested, so by walking up, they address the concerns of some people who are going by public transportation. and also they had a very, very active campaign to go on social media, tell everybody to get in here to get tested. la county also saying that if you're a latino, you are twice as likely to contract covid-19 than a white resident here in la county. back to you now. >> a lot of concern about the latino community. paul vercammen, thank you. joining me now, infectious disease specialist, epidemiologist, dr. celine gounder. thank you so much for joining us. so the u.s. coronavirus cases have doubled in just six weeks. more than 1,000 people have died every day for four days in a row. what is it going to take at this

point for things to get under control? >> i think the sad truth and one that many of us are still in continual about is we probably are looking at reinstituting shelter-in-place orders in these hot spots. it's going to be very difficult to reverse what is now a spiking exponential curve without really getting people to shelter in place and to minimize contact with others. >> i want to ask you about something you talked about on your podcast this week. i'm a fan. i listen every week. an epidemic, everyone else should listen as well. you talk about the work done by contact tracers. at this point is there a chance that solid contact tracing can help bring the rate of infection down, or is it too late without the u.s. having another full shutdown as you just mentioned? >> think of it like a messy bowl of spaghetti and you're trying to spot the end of one particular strand of spaghetti all the way to the other end. when you have this much

messiness, this much widespread community transmission, it's very difficult to do that. contact tracing is much more feasible and very important where you have contained community spread. so in places like new york city, and that was the program i was highlighting in the podcast episode, and that really does help because it helps you, one, identify chains of transmission and block those, but it also tells you where the transmission is currently occurring. that can be a moving target. >> like you said, this is a huge bowl of spaghetti we're dealing this at this point so i want to get your response to how the federal government has been acting. the white house is denying that the president has reversed course on matters related to the virus. but i want you to listen no what he said just last month, applauding people for attending a rally in the middle of a pandemic. >> you are warriors. i've been watching. i've been watching the fake news for weeks now and everything is

negative. don't go, don't come, don't do anything. today it was like -- i've never seen anything like it. >> so that was last month. i want you to listen to what he said just this week. >> we ask all americans to exercise vigilance, practice social distancing, wear a mask, do whatever is necessary so we get rid of this horrible situation, this horrible disease. >> you might have whiplash watching that right now. what does this do to public trust in the country when the white house lies will changing the message, when clearly they have? at this point, what should americans be thinking? >> this is very difficult for us as scientists doctors and public health officials to be messaging about this. because we really like to stick to the facts, to the evidence, and not engage in the politics of this. and in a sense, we have no choice but to make what are essentially political statements when we are having to debunk what political officials are

saying, whether it's the president or various governors across the country. i think, unfortunately, the messaging has been led by politicians and really needs to be turned back over to folks like dr. fauci who really should be the one leading the white house coronavirus task force briefings. >> and one could only wonder where we would be in this country if we actually started wearing masks months ago as opposed to just hearing the president finally say that americans should and it would be patriotic just a few days ago. let's move on to new cdc guidelines that are coming down hard on having schools reopen brick and mortar. everybody wants schools to reopen and obviously we want our children back with their peers and teachers, but we want to keep them safe as well. let's listen to the education secretary, betsy devos. >> more and more studies show that kids are actually stoppers of the disease and they don't get it and transmit it

themselves. so we should be in a posture of -- the default should be getting back to school, kids in person in the classroom. >> last i checked, secretary devos is not a doctor. and i do know that dr. birx said that we do not have that much information and data on how children are affected by coronavirus in terms of being vectors. what is your take on the new cdc guidelines and should schools reopen, particularly those in hot spots right now? >> i think the number one message here is that schools should absolutely not reopen. that should be a nonstarter, at least from a public health scientific perspective where you have widespread community transmission. so places like florida and texas and many other states in the south. that said, if you have your local transmission under control, so places like in the northeast, that's where this data on children under the age of 10 versus over the age of 10 may be helpful, just as we've

taken a very step-by-step phased-in approach to reopening the economy, you can look at a step-by-step approach to reopening schools in those settings, probably starting with the youngest of kids, those under 10, who are the least risky in terms of transmitting onto adults in that context, again without widespread community transmission and who are also standing to benefit the most from in-person teaching. >> trust me, my fingers are crossed that my kids can go back to school here in new york come september. they are under the age of 10 and they do much better in school. we'll have to leave it there. i appreciate it. everybody listen to the podcast as well. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. and coming up, as cases surge in texas, we'll take you inside one hospital where the situation is growing more dire by the date. >> i have never had to sign this many death certificates that i have been signing in the last couple of weeks.

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hurricane hanna will make landfall today in parts of texas already hard-hit by a surge in coronavirus cases. that includes the city of mcalan where doctors say they're not handling just a wave, but a tsunami of patients every day. cnn's ed lavandera reports. >> reporter: this is the daily routine for this doctor, a critical care pulmonologist. when he gets dressed, it looks like he's getting ready to be launched into another world. that's exactly what it's like to work in the covid-19 unit of a south texas hospital. >> it's overwhelming. it's a tsunami. >> reporter: coronavirus patients have filled the hospital where the doctor works. on most says he says he's treating about 70 different patients. four to five times more than he usually seeness a single day. >> i have never had to sign this many death certificates that i have been signing in the last

couple of weeks. talking to these families has been very, very difficult. >> can you describe the suffering you've seen? >> they will have trouble with their breathing and when it happens, it's heartbreaking. it's so difficult to watch them say goodbye to their relatives by picking up the phone and saying i'm having more trouble, i don't know what's going to happen next. i see this all the time. i see doctors breaking down all the time. but then again, that is what we do. >> reporter: south texas is the covid-19 hot spot inside the texas hot spot. health officials are warning that hospital bed and icu space are running out. nursing and doctor teams are stretched to the limit. >> do you feel when you walk into these covid units that it's like a parallel universe? >> it's definitely a parallel universe. if they only knew what lurked behind those walls, if they could only have x-ray vision and see the pain and the suffering.

>> dr. ivan melendez says the covid units of filled with the sound of patients gasping for air, many needing ventilators and gut-wrenching conversations. >> so you have people telling you, you know, doc, please don't put me on that. and you struggle because that's what they need. and then finally they just give up and they say, go ahead, but you know, you may be the last person that i ever talk to. so please, tell my family, tell my parents, tell my kids that i love them and that i faut hard. >> it's a necklace with his ashes. >> reporter: jessica ortiz says her twin brother fought the virus for almost two weeks. the 27-year-old worked as a security at a jewelry store. >> it hurts. >> he died on july 3rd. >> he fought long and hard. we honor you.

>> reporter: at the funeral, friends and family paid their respects through a plastic shield over the casket. there was a fear his body still might be contagious. >> i just wish it wasn't him. i wish i had him with me because he didn't live his life yet. >> reporter: jessica is left with this last image of her brother, a screen recording of one of their last conversations. waving good-bye. you saw the shield over the casket. we should point out that medical experts have told cnn there is no evidence that people are still contagious after they've passed away. but it really speaks to the fear and uncertainty that so many people have. and one of the other themes that stuck out as we interviewed the people for the story is that they're all dealing with a sense of frustration and anger as they're living the nightmare of this pandemic and say what bothers them most is looking around and seeing so many people living their lives as if everything were normal and they're urging people to take

this far more seriously. ed lavandera, cnn, dallas. >> just so heartbreaking to watch that. joining me now is chief of staff at united memorial medical center in houston, texas. doctor, i want to ask you your response as a doctor, as somebody who is there and witnessing all of this suffering, and you've spent 100 straight days working there. you've got nurses surrounding you. what kind of a toll does this take on you emotionally? >> i mean, clearly we're going to have a very emotional situation. i have been working today 128 continues days, 16-20 hours a day. i mean, people say how can your body do that. and i guess we're running on adrenaline. just like you saw earlier today on his unit, we see the same. last week i had to sign the largest number of death certificates that i have ever signed in my entire life.

and i've been practicing medicine for quite a bit. it is a toll. you see the nurses, they break down, they start crying. they say, i cannot do this anymore. i mean, you see a patient that is doing fantastic and then two minutes later they're not here anymore. it is very tough. this disease has caused the most stress in my entire life. >> what is the saddetatus at th hospital right now? what share of your patients are co visit related? >> we have about 85% of the hospital is for covid. we even have the u.s. army send a series of clinicians and nurses to come and open up a wing so we could accommodate all the people that were in the houston metropolitan area that don't have a hospital to go to, but need to be cared for. >> asfrom houston myself, heari

from 85% are covid and you know there are other people with health conditions that can't get to a hospital in time and are fearful of that. i want to ask you about a report in the houston chronicle this week talking about a $300 million contact tracing program launched back in may which the governor cited as a reason he felt comfortable with reopening the economy sooner because of this program. it turned out to be a complete bust. the software was faulty. i want to quote for you something from the piece. a lead epidemiologist spent five weeks and only completed one call and later oversaw an 11-member team that had zero calls for days. are we currently seeing the consequences of not being able to track and trace? >> i mean, we clearly opened before we should have opened. the problem is if you are going to close something down, you need to have a component that goes with that. it's not a matter of let's close the state and open it again. by the time you get to the end of the closure, everybody has

cabin fever, everybody wants to get out. and if you don't do this gradually, for example, like new york did, we get in trouble. and we are seeing that. we were not ready on may 1st when we reopened the state. i can tell you that in a frustrated way because i ended up taking care of all of those very sick patients that didn't listen, did not listen when they said the state is open, they forgot the coronavirus was still around. >> yeah, and many cities had closed earlier in march, only to reopen and obviously seeing the devastation that they're seeing now and that you're witnessing firsthand. meantime, you've got to prepare for something else, and that is the gulf coast is now bracing for hurricane hanna. we are in hurricane season. houston knows hurricanes all too well. how concerned are you that resources will be stretched perhaps even more thin than they are right now? >> there is no question about it. we will have an issue. we're going to have an issue because we're dealing with covid

on the one hand and then if one of these hurricanes really hits hard, what's going to happen, people are going to have to get out, we're going to have to have shelters and we're going to be -- shelters are going to become giant petri dishes. it's going to be very difficult. i don't know how the state is going to do as far as money goes, but where are you going to select to send the resources to? that's the primary concern that i have. >> doshlgt doctor, we appreciate you coming on. 128 days straight for you. i don't know how you do it, but our hats off to you and all the work you like to do. as we like to say, houston strong. >> thanks to you. and coming up, the pandemic power dynamic over who can get a test and who can't. it's highlighting a real social divide in the united states. plus, w bell kamau digs into the truth on farming and how the people growing your food are fighting to keep their land. a brand new united shades of

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well, being rich and famous may help. while everyday americans face long lines and short supplies, some celebrities seem to have it easy, highlighting the divide between the haves and have notes. cnn's brian todd reports. >> reporter: for some people, coronavirus test results come quickly. >> you do a test, boom, and you have it in five minutes. >> reporter: but experts worry that during this horrific spike in coronavirus cases, the

effectiveness of testing is in some areas of the country a matter of the haves and have-nots. >> when you have resources, when you have power, when you have access, when your insurance is able to pay for it or you're able to pay out of pocket, it's much easier to get the testing that you need. >> reporter: early in the pandemic, it was reported that movie stars could dial up their so-called concierge doctors and get tested during a period when much of the country didn't have that access. in april, comedian and maa commentator joe roguen was criticized when he revealed he had been tested multiple times a week and got a friend tested, too. >> i got tested twice. i got tested yesterday and two days before that. >> reporter: months later, that same power dynamic is still at play, like with professional athletes. nfl, nba players and others are being tested every day, their results coming back within hours. while cnn has reported this week that some people, especially in

communities of color, are waiting as long as three weeks to get test results back. >> which means we're even farther behind in being able to minimize the impact with regard to disease and death in those communities. >> reporter: experts say blacks and latinos are not only more vulnerable to the virus, but also often have less insurance coverage, lower incomes and less testing availability in their neighborhoods. >> it does break my heart to see folks who are able to pay for these tests and pay to get them quickly have rapid access, rapid turnaround, and yet the most vulnerable communities who are the ones who are suffering are the ones waiting 14 days, and in fact may be the ones that are transmitting in the interim. >> good afternoon, everyone. >> reporter: dr. joel mullins case demonstrates it's not only a matter of who you know but where you go. her and her husband, both doctors, had to get tested recently in connecticut. she went to a prestigious

hospital and got her results back in eight hours. >> my husband went to a drive-through at one of our local pharmacies and it took him nine days to find out that his test was negative. >> reporter: experts say given the disparity, it's time for new guidelines from the federal government on down to move only symptomatic people and those most at risk to the front of the testing line. >> given the inequities that we're talking about, yes, we need to take into consideration who is most vulnerable and make sure that we prioritize the testing that's being done there. >> reporter: some cities and states are ramping up their testing for underserved communities. in boston, mobile testing labs will soon be moving throughout the city. and in philadelphia at the start of the pandemic, one doctor rented a van and moved through predominantly black neighborhoods giving free tests. but experts say even in areas where tests are being ramped up, there are still way too many delays in getting test results back. brian todd, cnn, washington. >> interestingly enough, the

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campaign to discredit the nation's top coronavirus expert, dr. anthony fauci. cnn has learned that tv stations owned by the sinclair broadcast group are set to air a segment with a baseless conspiracy theory that fauci was responsible for the creation of the coronavirus. this is hardly the first time fauci has faced attacks. cnn has previously reported that the white house had tried to discredit fauci with what amounted to opposition research. still, fauci says his relationship with the president is fine. >> the one thing that's interesting that i think people don't appreciate is that i do have a very good relationship with the president, in the sense

of no animosity at all. in fact, it's quite a good relationship. >> did you mention to him that maybe it isn't helpful when the white house sends out opposition research documents to try and write op eds talking about trying to -- >> if i sit here and tell you that's okay, it's not okay. i think it's bad news to do that. >> and have you mentioned that to the president? >> i think it's pretty clear on the white house step that that's the situation. i don't think in some respects the president is not happy about that either. i can tell you he's not personally happy about that. >> and joining me now, cnn politics reporter and editor at large and senior political reporter nia malika henderson. nia, let me begin with you. so the idea that our top coronavirus expert has to defend himself against conspiracy theories and attacks from his own administration, while also

dealing with a raging pandemic, that's something that happens in banana republics or failed states. what does it say that it's happening here in the united states? >> well, it certainly says that this administration has failed in terms of their handling of the coronavirus and what they're trying to do in going after dr. fauci, even though he says the relationship with the president is good. what we're essentially trying to do is shift blame to him. you hear folks in the conservative chattering classes trying to undermine him and question his credibility. we do know that average americans, certainly the majority of americans see him as a credible figure, as well they should. he's essentially a living legend in terms of his work in medicine, in terms of his work in terms of infectious diseases, all around the world, which is a good thing, which is why he is in charge. but listen, this is an effort that we know the president backed, the president is a conspira

conspiracy theorist so it's not surprising a lot of his followers and the media that's sympathetic to him is following along the same path when it comes to dr. fauci. it's fortunate, because when you undermine the credibility of somebody like dr. fauci, not only now but later on down the line when dr. fauci ideally is going to be out front talking about vaccines and the need for people to get vaccines say a year or so from now, then people might not believe him then. so this is a real dangerous path of this administration, and it only underscores their overall failure in terms of the coronavirus. >> and yet, chris, it's pretty predictable, do. you go back to march when there was the visible tension, the disagreement between the president and dr. fauci on the use of hydroxychloroquine and dr. fauci is saying he doesn't believe it will be effective and the president is saying yes. that having been said, you heard dr. fauci say that they have a good relationship, that he has a good relationship and he speaks with the president. what do you make of that given that the president has said

things like this? take a listen. >> dr. fauci has made some mistakes, but i have a very good -- i spoke to him yesterday at length. i have a very good relationship with dr. fauci. >> sir, this week, this weekend your white house put out a series of statements, so-called mistakes that dr. fauci had made. one of your closest aides, one often your right-hand men put out this. have you seen this? it shows him as a leaker and an alarmist. >> he's a little bit of an alarmist. that's okay. >> he's a bit of an alarmist? >> a little bit of an alarmist. >> chris, it takes a lot of you know what to highlight fauci's mistakes and not identify mistakes, many mistakes that were made by this president and this administration. what is going on between these two? >> well, i mean, i think dr. fauci, this is survival for dr. fauci. he thinks it's very important, his voice is heard at least in part in this room, you know, on

this coronavirus task force, and he knows that the way in which that can happen is to not say, yeah, donald trump got a lot of things wrong, too. because donald trump will get rid of him and i think anthony fauci, hamilton is all the rage, but i will borrow the room where it happens. i think it's important, and fauci sees this as it's more important that my voice is in here, whether school openings or vaccines or what have you, it's more important that my voice be heard than that i worry about making sure i'm going tit-for-tat with donald trump. because you know how that story ends. and for donald trump he's knowing what nia said, he's doing what he always does. he's scapegoating and ignoring the past, which by the way multiple times in which he said it's one person, it's ten people, we've got it under control. because he doesn't take any blame. so that part i'm not surprised by. the fauci part i think there's a reason he served under six presidents and has been in that job since 1984, because he knows

the way washington works and he knows how to deal with politicians. >> yet i don't think in those six administrations he's dealt with anything quite like this. >> i don't think any of us have. >> there's a first for everything. the white house, nia, is denying that the president has made this about face on the severity of the coronavirus. here is press secretary kaly mcenemy. >> he has been consistent, he carries it around in his pocket and he's shown it to you multiple times. he hasn't changed. just speaking on covid generally, the way i've heard him talk privately in the oval office is the way he's talking out here. the only thing that changed is the president taking dozens and dozens of your questions each and every day because he felt the best way to get information to the american people was for him to be out here answering your questions and providing this directly. >> i mean, come on. nia, can you just do us all a favor and fact check what she said right there? >> he's serving a boss who is

known for not falling a truth so she falls into that trap, too. the president has changed tactics. there were no coronavirus briefings for weeks and weeks and now he's doing that. he was very skeptical about mask wearing. he still is skeptical about mask wearing, the changes that he's carrying it in his pocket and shows it during this briefing. that's certainly a slight change. he backtracked on these large gatherings. he had one in tulsa and now he's canceling one in jacksonville next month. so he has changed. he hasn't fully changed because you hear him say something about masks in a press briefing, saying that masks are a good idea or testing is a good idea and then later on he might give a different interview and reverse course. this is a president looking at terrible poll numbers in the swing states, his handling of the coronavirus is clearly hurting him. it's hurting him nationally. so now with about 100 days before this election, it isn't

almost 150,000 deaths, it isn't the 4 million cases that have brought him to this moment, it really is those terrible poll numbers that shows him in deep, deep trouble in terms of getting re-elected because of his failed, failed handling of this terrible, terrible epidemic. >> chris, let me end with you because it wasn't that long ago that the president said he didn't want to give the press the satisfaction of seeing him in a mask. now he's calling it patriotic to wear one. i'm not sure how convinced i am that he will hold that line going forward. what are your thoughts? >> well, i mean, if past is prolong, brianna, that won't happen. he's never held the line on almost anything other than saying the news is fake because they report what he says. so i would say when it comes to masks, when it comes to the coronavirus, you don't have to believe us. just go and search what he said on masks. when he went to walter reed and wore the mask publicly the first time, he was asked when he got on marine one on the way there, he was asked are you going to

wear a mask. he said i think there are times and places to wear them, like most of the time in order to set an example for the public because we know the coronavirus is surging in places where mask wearing isn't common. so to me, with donald trump what he says on any given day is not predictive of what he will say tomorrow, nor is it reflective of what he said the previous day. he has changed positions on this for one reason, polls, all of them. like nia said, his polling is down, his advisers have begged him to take this more seriously. he has to figure out a way politically speaking to get the public to trust him on this again. i think that we're already way down that road. i don't know if he can turn it around. but that's his only course to re-election. as it goes with this issue will go his chances of winning. >> another reminder that actions do speak louder than words. great to see you. thanks so much for coming on. quick break right now and we'll be right back. pretty i t? wo could you pop the hood for us? there she is. -turbocharged, right?

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correspondent brian setter by phone. he was just shy of his 89th birthday and this was a man who was beloved by audiences, who invited them into their homes every single morning, myself included. >> myself included as well. regis defined the morning talk show tv format and brought joy to the lives of many people. so many people just think of him on a first-name basis. he was a name of the people, and also a man of new york city, the city he loved. he exuded warmth and energy and likability. and i think he did what so many on tv want to do and try so hard to do. he was just himself. he was just himself. he was comfortable and lively in front of the camera. whether you thought of him as a dad or grandpa or next door neighbor or that celebrity you want to meet someday, he was able to bring that joy to

people's lives by being easy and relaxed and conversational. he was also good at shining a light on his costars even though he was a star in his own right. he talked a lot about his wife, joy philbin. for many years he hosted with kelly ripa. it is an institution of american television, and regis deserves a lot of credit for that fact. >> you mentioned his family and his wife, joy. in the statement they say his family and friends are forever grateful for the time we got to spend with him for his warmth, his legendary sense of humor, and his ability to make every day into something worth talking about. we thank his fans and admirers for their incredible support over his 60-year career and ask for privacy as we mourn this loss. this is so heartbreaking for this family and the nation because he was the pioneer of

telling stories about his life, what happened the night before at the dinner party with their grandchildren, and everyone felted invited into his life by that kind of story telling. >> you know, that's the point my wife jamie made to me as well. he pioneered the idea of telling people what he was doing whether it was a broadway show the night before or dinner with friends. he made the ordinary seem extraordinary. you wanted to hear about his life and the life of his family. he started his career in san diego in 1958 and he holds the gen nis world record for the most hours on television because of live with kathie lee and regis and "millionaire" was a tremendous hit. the screen guilded actors call him a true icon of television and send condolences.

hugh downs passed away a few weeks ago, now regis philbin. tv is about companionship, and regis was a wonderful companion. >> a true legend, that voice, that laughter. we can all think of times we sat down and watched him with his wife and cathy lee and kelly ripa. again, regis philbin dies at the age of 88. brian stelter, thanks to you and we'll be right back. al shelters in need of a home. he found it in a boy with special needs, who also needed him. as part of our love promise, subaru and our retailers host adoption events and have donated 28 million dollars to support local animal shelters. we're proud to have helped over 230,000 pets so far... changing the lives of dogs like jack, and the families

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