miami-dade county history. in aved $2 billion refinancing costs and kept the tax rate flat for the last nine here. we haven't had any tax increases but we've increased our increased nd we've obviously our unemployment ituation here, it's much better, and we've grown here as a community during that time. into one of the hottest if not the hottest, and i'm not talking about just temperature, i'm talking about statewide and wide cities around the world and i'm very proud of record in miami-dade. the : is there anything president has done or anything would you like to see him do differently with respect to the coronavirus? mayor gimenez: the president is leading on the coronavirus, but know, it's such a diverse -- what this virus is parts of the rent country at different times, makes it that it's the governors have e local leaders that to respond. what we require of the federal kind of t for any emergency, is help when we need it. one of the things we have here in miami-dade, kind of sets us different a lot of area

o'clock at miami-dade county. we have what we call the places of assembly like theaters, movie theaters, casinos, museums, banquet halls, those things with large numbers of people gather. we also close the interior spaces of restaurants. you can have a restaurant open as long as it's outside. inside you can't. that is really a big industry here in miami-dade. so what am i looking at? i'm looking at trying to get the level of contagion down to a certain point. and then starting to reopen the county. but again, reemphasizing that it is not over. we all have to keep our masks on. we all have to maintain social distance. we ought to wash her hands. even in the home we have to watch out for one another because there could be a member of the household that is coving 19 positive break does not know their covid-19 positive and could spread it to marble normal members of the household. those are the things i'm looking at. hopefully, we have topped out on the positivity rate, topped out on hospitalizations and start to go d

. >> carlos gimenez is the mayor of miami-dade county in florida. he spoke with the "washington post" about his county's , stepse to the pandemic they are taking to mitigate the spread, and his views on reopening schools in the fall. this is 25 minutes. ♪ ♪ mayor gimenez: this is a balancing act. starting to shut down again could cause damage, irreparable harm to their livelihoods. there will not be a job for them to have. karen: good afternoon. i am a political columnist at the "washington post." please pardon the technical difficulties in my hand. i want to welcome you for our conversation with miami-dade mayor, carlos gimenez. thank you so much for giving us some of your time today, which i know is very, very precious. by asking youart how things look right now. florida has seen, within the last week, some of the biggest increases in coronavirus infections. and miami-dade area is the epicenter of florida. so, how are things looking at the moment? mayor gimenez: actually, today, the last week or so, we have actually slowed level, positivity ra

dade college one of the things that i saw is how the students you know miami they call it is probably the most diverse institutional learning in america and i was very proud 1 to see how different types of students immigrants non-immigrants blacks hispanics asians would come together and really grow and work together for the benefit awful of themselves and the community that they live in and when you are learning when you have only one learning that is the managed greatly and you know they should do all the problems that we're facing today you see most of our students how to work in order to go to school they do not have the fortune to be full time students most of the time because they don't have families who can afford a should so this is complicated now by the 5 that so many of them are on employed and it is a real challenging in more ways than one. well let me wrestle with you about one thing and again i'm not against higher education but but it does seem to me that the harvard university's the ivy league with a winner takes all view of education in america where getting into thos

we in miami-dade, i shot down schools in miami-dade prior to the executive order statewide of shutting down schools in miami because we were relying on health information that told us it was the right thing to do. i will not reopen our school system august 24th if the conditions are what they are today. our reopening plan contemplates a phase two reality. we are still in phase one, a phase one that has degraded since -- over the past few weeks. >> dr. gounder, so you hear that amazing feat of logistics. i can't wait to see the flowchart you come up with, supt superintendent, to make this work and then people get sick and will be readjusted constantly but my question, dr. gounder, when you consider how abysmal contact tracing is in florida and the governor is not dealing with the reality of that, he is saying that young people not coop rating with tracing, that's awful, but he also said people are asymptomatic and can't be traced. that they be true but we know that people that tested positive for coronavirus, the vast majority of them, have not been contacted by tracers. >> that is a pr

in miami-dade, a lot of the broward hospitalizations are people that .ive in miami-dade and they go across the border to be hospitalized there. let's go with the understanding that there is a lot of differences and a lot of diversity. you may see that first day of school look different than, say, northwest florida from miami-dade. i think that most floridians understand that. i think there is a consistent message when it comes to education. parents have the right to choose the appropriate environment for their child. and if they want to offer distance learning, than they should be able to do that. that option should be provided for them. thank you.

rosa florez in miami for us. let's go next door to miami beach where a new curfew begins in the famous south beach area in one hour. that's at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on the east coast. the mayor calls miami beach the epicenter of the epicenter for the virus. he's joining us live there. thank you for joining us. businesses in south beach, for example, they'll have to close by the top of the hour, 8:00 p.m. eastern. does this curfew, from your perspective go far enough in considering just how bad things are in your area right now? >> well, we're going to have to see because right now we do not have a handle on this at all. it has a handle on us really. so, an 8:00 p.m. curfew, we've got obviously a mask order. we stopped all short-term rentals because we thought there were a lot of parties going on there in the entire city. so, we've really, i think tried to take measures that we hope will work. but i'm not sure that they will. and we're looking at the data very carefully. all the mayors and commissions and manager

for now and effective immediately the mayor ordered miami residents and visitors to be fined $50.00 without a warning if they are caught not wearing a mask anywhere in public. you're watching news a quick reminder of our top story this hour leaders have struck a deal to implementing a multi-billion euro coronavirus recovery plan after 4 days of heated talks they finally agreed on the details of the loans and grants to be given to countries hardest hit by the pandemic. and don't forget you can always get more now website www dot com you can also follow us on twitter and instagram news i'm sarah kelly in our land thank you so much for joining us to take care and safe. combating the corona pandemic. where does research stand. what are scientists learning. background information and news. hour corona. from the 19 special next on d w.

covid is not the only disease in miami. many people have been deferred for too long and now have become emergency patients. this is a tough balance we are dealing with today. we focus every day on our employees and the employees are focusing on the patients the best they can do. but i will tell you, the mayor joined me in the 4:00 meeting today with all the hospital ceos from south florida. we are all going through the our balance of balancing census while bringing in more covid patients. we can do that for a certain time. we cannot do that forever. the message when you hear the governor and the mayor, we need to be wearing masks, that is absolute answer, it's not where we should shut everything down, the issue is enforcement. if we can get everyone to be socially distant and wear a mask, that's only way we will be able to reduce the number being in hospitals and being able to deal with the entire disease and reduce the death happening in our community. that is all i have to say, thank you very much and we will leave it up

you're the mayor of city of miami. there is miami beach mayor. mayor of miami-dade referenced in the report. his name is carlos jimenez. he reversed himself on fitness centers and gyms. look at a tweet. in terms of keeping the gyms open, here is the tweet. very productive virtual meeting with our medical experts we arrived at a compromise toe again gyms and fitness studios open. where are you what is happening? >> he actually closed down restaurants except for take-out an delivery. then reversed that later on in the day, opening up outdoor dining and closing just indoor dining. same thing with gyms. he closed gyms on monday. met with gym owners. then opened them on tuesday. i think, there needs to be a little better communication between not only the county mayor but county and cities. multiple cities were upset with the order on monday. there needs to be better communication with the industry. not after the fact but before the fact. so we don't have to change a order that impacts business. connell: should they be open though? >> i'm sorry? conne

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figures what's the situation like on the ground there in miami. there describe the situation absolutely accurate it is horrible situation florida is a so-called red state red states there are 18 in the united states and this terminology stems from a report which was prepared for the coronavirus task force in washington d.c. in the white house which the white house has not made public yet but it is true florida has tremendous new infection cases numbers here yesterday 13000 today 11000 in the days not over here in miami dade county and in miami so doctors we talked to from the jackson memorial hospital they do not expect any good news for the next following days or today in terms of infection rates and death rates remember effects and rates is one thing death rates is another important number and hospital hospitalization rates the problem in miami is that the hospitals do not have enough i.c.u. beds anymore they're actually over capacity that means they have to create more beds as i.c.u. beds that they actually have planned for originally so were t

the situation like in miami. so duration is grim and as much as the figures to day and now there are 11000 new coronavirus infection cases that's massive yesterday 15000. florida as a state has 20 percent more new coronavirus cases then arizona 70 percent more than texas double the amount of california so this is the absolute red zone here this is the worst case scenario in the last 4 weeks and for florida remember just a few months ago and this is like around dog day here it was this governor and this state which came late to the game they closed down late and they opened early and people forgot to wear this or were complacent and didn't think it was necessary to wear this mess we're back to mask the basics wear a mask when you're outside when you're inside and tracing and testing testing testing testing none of this has happened here within the last few months and this explains why the numbers in florida are so staggeringly high dangerously high because now tracing is not even possible anymore because the infec

ere are fears miami could be the next new york. francis suarez is the mayor of miami. march.self contracted covid in thank you very much for joining me. i wonder if you could describe the situation in the hospitals in the city of miami. i imagine people are exhausted. they have been goingis for four months almost. mayor suarez: they are exhausted. the hospitalizations -- we have the highest number of covid patients pandemic began. the twice the number of people in icugh beds since the point in march. the highest number of people on ventilators from which is the indication that the death toll will begin to rise. 65% of people that are on ventilators don't make it. right now the situation is very, very complicated and very difficul, and we're doing everything we can to manage it katty: you gave a pressities. nference today and you raise the possibility of miami havingi to go bao lockdown. do you think that will have to happen? mayor suarez: i hope it won't, but i have always said from the inbegithat you cannot discount that option, you can't take ay that option. t we kno

knows a thing or 2 about running an institution of higher education dr drones president americas of miami dade college one of the country's biggest colleges that he led for more than 20 years and he's recognized as one of the most innovative leaders and education in the country he was presented america's highest civilian award the presidential medal of freedom by president barack obama for his contributions eduardo thank you so much for joining us let me just start out you know with a bottom line question which is what is covert one team doing to america's centers of learning today particularly in higher education. well it's a real significant impact steve. it's it's everyone's challenge for for office because. 'd we have 2 issues one the welfare of our stillest to be our 1st priority and it's very difficult to make decisions when we don't have a stable situation ladies. you know we've been going back and forth with 19 in florida for example where live we being right now in miami beginning this week we have grossed again all the restaurants all the teams and everything else they were open

we are seeing positivity in miami-dade. some other places maybe not as high but higher than they would be so time's the time to be very cautious and continue to limit that close contact so that you can avoid being infected while this virus is out. i know mayor jimenez and i were talking about -- i mean, this is driven by younger people and lo look. they're much less at risk. if you're under 40 and the fatality rate is incredibly low. which is a good thing. same time, you know, those folks interact with people who may be in vulnerable groups and definitely a concern not only with staff in a nursing home but just things like multi-generational living. visiting parents and grand parents. we have at the state advised from really march that if you are in those vulnerable groups to avoid crowds and limit the contact with people outside your household and now especially understanding that that 20 to 30-year-old cohort you're seeing more and more infections in that age group and probably always happening but the transmission rate i

more than 100,000 cases total now in miami-dade county and miami beach of course is in miami-dade county. we see that eight intensive care units there have now run out of icu beds. icus countywide are 137% capacity. so, how bad are things right now, mayor, from your vantage point? >> well, i think the problem is we talk about the processing of people in our hospitals like, you know, just because we can that just makes it fine if we're able to. every day miami-dade county right now about 200 people go into our hospitals because they're too sick. 20 to 30 of them will likely die. a good portion of them will end up two weeks in icu, and another portion will be on ventilators and survive. that's -- we're normalizing something that should never be normalized just because we're able to process this many doesn't mean we should. we have to focus on the reason they're coming in and the positivity rate because right now i can't imagine why anybody in tallahassee, our state capital, like the governor is declaring success about this. we are in a very bad position right now. >> extremely bad. miami b

rosa flores for us in miami. i want people to know, rosa is up before dawn every day pressing to get these numbers and statistics from all over the state of florida. and it's so important to hear the situation. we appreciate the reiner, he's a professor of medicine at george washington university and a cardiologist for former vice president dick cheney. also joining us, vice president for global biological policy and programs at the nuclear threat initiative. dr. reiner, the chart that i woke up to that alarmed me the most was the national hospitalization charge. you can see this graph. this is the people in the hospital. this isn't tests. this is people in beds in hospitals around the country. and you can see, we are right back where we were at the worst of it. and in a state like ohio, ohio is not a state we're talking about. mark dewine went on tv to warn people, we might be in trouble again. because hospitalizations there, even in ohio, back near that record number. so what does that mean, dr. reiner? when we

that one in miami-dade, a lot of the broward hospitalizations are people that live in miami-dade. they go across the border to be hospitalized there. a lot of differences and a lot of diversity and you may see that first day of school look say, northwest florida then you do in mining -- in miami-dade, but quite frankly, i think that's how most floridians would want it to be. i think they understand that, but there is a consistent message when it comes to education statewide, and that is parents have the right to choose the appropriate environment for their child, and if they want to offer distance learning, then they should absolutely be able to do that and that option should be provided for them. thank you. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> c-span's washington journal, every day we take your calls live on the air on the news of the day, and we discussed policy issues that impact you. coming up thursday morning, educatio

they have faced a similar epidemic like miami-dade county. i told the commissioner of education we will work with these districts collaboratively, understand we have a very diverse state, that has been my approach to almost all of the stuff, recognizing that the response here has got to be different than it would be in different parts of the state and i think there's other parts of the state for example with coronavirus but it's been effective for their area. i think the same thing should be true here. my fear on this is the amount of damage that will be done if kids have no options to give untrained get back to school. we put a lot of effort into virtual education in florida and we mitigated the damage better than a lot of the states. there is a gap that has developed, i think it's disproportionately hurt are low-income students from low-income families and i don't know what the in point would be if you say they are not going to go back to school. you have to look at what are the risks involved, it's very low and you can look at the adult an

i in miami. am i in coral gables? what are the rules there? the good news is that the vast majority of the cities and the towns do follow the county rules and we work together very closely, but there are some that don't and it is their right to do so under our charter. >> mr. mayor, thank you so much for taking the time. we're all rooting for all the folks in florida throughout the state. thank you so much. >>> let's go phoenix now where steve patterson is standing by. arizona is a state where one in every four coronavirus tests are now coming back positive. that is the highest percentage in the entire country. steve, what does that number tell us? >> reporter: chris, the official rate is 25.3%. that's higher than texas, it's higher than florida, it's higher than california, it's higher than anywhere else in the country. it means a few things according to health officials, none of them are good. first of all, when you have more testing, that rate is supposed to be much smaller. it's supposed to g

jackson memorial hospital in miami seeing a surge in covid patients. is your floor at capacity right now? >> yes. we're even opening up different units at this point to be able to meet the demands of the patients that are coming in. >> reporter: the wave of new patients leaving staff exhausted. >> the way i see it now, if things don't change and people don't take it a little more serious in the next two weeks, you know, who knows where we will be. >> reporter: the country hitting 50,000 new cases in one day this week. america's top infectious disease doctor warning america is losing the war against the virus. >> i think it's pretty obvious, howard, that we are not going in the right direction. right now, if you look at the number of cases, it's quite disturbing. we're setting records practically every day of new cases. that clearly is not the right direction. >> reporter: despite cases rising in 38 states and 19 pausing or reversing reopenings, president trump today suggested things are under control. >> we have some areas where we're putting out the f

i know your dad is running for miami-dade county mayor. this patchwork of restrictions has been confusing to a lot of resident. can you talk about your relationship working together and some of that confusion? mayor suarez: i think there is confusion. there is some philosophical difference sometimes. >> can you talk about those philosophical differences? opened 10 dayse later in terms of our restaurants than dade county, and even the state, which opened earlier. i think philosophically i felt that we needed to stay closed longer. obviously, when other segments of government start opening, you get the pressure to open. we held against the pressure and we were right to do that. we actually could have gone longer. i think we would have still been right. there's some philosophical differences. i think the county mayor has chosen to do more things. the governor has chosen to do more things with other counties. i have worked with mayors in dade county. myself, the mayor of miami from, and a representative the other cities in dade county, once --

our rosa flores joins us in miami. how are officials there coping as some of those hospitals are now completely full? >> reporter: you know, officials are trying to do what they can, and medical professionals, too, on the frontlines. look the reality here this morning in miami-dade county. icus are operating at 132%. that means that there are more patients than there are icu beds. there are actually 527 icu covid-19 patients and only 400 icu beds available. the other issue in miami-dade county is the need for nurses. we know from the state, the miami-dade has asked for more than 7 up nurses. as we look at the number of hospitalizations, this is according to data released by the county, those have increased in the past two weeks by 27%. icus by 37% and the use of ventilators by the use of 71%. as for the positivity rate, the 14-day average 19.5% here in miami-dade county. as we look statewide, there are 55 icu hospitals across the state that are at capacity with zero icu beds available. this as florida yesterday shatter

people living in the town of hala to face frequent anti semitic provocations and the deserted beaches of miami rain is keeping them safe but the city's hospitals are full trying to cope with hope and 19 cases as the pandemic surges across the u.s. . i'm sara kelly welcome to the program european leaders have sealed the deal on an unprecedented 750000000000 euro coronavirus recovery fund after 4 days of heated talks almost a record for e.u. some of its lead. just finally agreed on the details of loans and grants to be given to countries hit hardest by the pandemic the loans include rule of law compliance measures meaning member states will have to show that they are up holding e.u. laws to receive the relief funds the european commission will also borrow money for the 1st time. well as the current president of the council of the e.u. germany's chancellor angela merkel worked closely with france's president emmanuel mock wrong to forge the deal merkel said that she was very relieved and described the deal as a good signal she praised european cooperation amid global challenges moment is screwed

i can speak to miami. i know our superintendent, and in miami-dade county they have not taken a good view of opening schools at this time. looking at today's environment, we were running at 25, 28% positivity rate on people tested. we're testing a lot of people. we're doing four to five times the number of tests we did months ago, but the positive test rates of 25, 28% are not indicative of being able to open the schools here in miami-dade county. >> thank you. best of luck to you, i hope you get the three things you need as you fight the pandemic. > >>>. >>> california is effectively back under lockdown there as cases continue to surge. yesterday governor gavin newsom ordered counties to close indoor restaurants, bars, theatres, and gyms. according to the san francisco chronicle, health officials have zero d in on bars with their lack of physical distancing, and customer face coverings, masks as a major potential source of spreading coronavirus. it notes that in addition, governor newsom ordered 30 counti

welcome to this opening presentation of the miami book fair international at miami-dade college. before we continue, i kindly ask that you turn off your cell phones are safely put them in a silent position. thank you. now, ladies and gentlemen, it is my pleasure and honor to introduce the cofounder and the president of miami-dade college. doctor. [cheering and applause] >> good afternoon, everyone. it is indeed a real pleasure for me to welcome all of you to miami-dade college and the 26th addition of miami book fair international. this is your official opening for the book fair. eight consecutive days and the street fair that will take place friday, saturday and sunday of next week. this is without question the finest and largest literary event in america. we are very proud of the college to be able to host these every year, now for 26 years. the community has been so responsive to visitors and residents of the community coming together. the book fair has been labeled in many different ways. my two favorite ones, the american author who said miami fair international is the liter

well currently miami dade county in the city of miami speaking of mass require people to wear masks and public and police are enforcing that rule issuing citations to those who are not wearing masks or in some cases wearing them incorrectly on a personal note i had a police officer roll up on me over the weekend and tell me to pull my mask up i had it down while i was talking on the phone i didn't get a ticket but we had a conversation about that there's been some debate about the fairness of requiring of giving people tickets if they're not wearing the mask appropriately or in the right way even reports of police setting up quote unquote mask traps in and around the city that's a whole another story for another time but speaking of mass a judge plans to hear the arguments on an emergency request by georgia's governor to block the city of atlanta from enforcing a public mask mandate there and other kovan 1000 safety restrictions while a lawsuit on the issue is pending now the atlanta journal constitution reports that state democrats are siding with atlanta mayor kitchell lance bottoms o

capacities are available in miami dade county so at several hospitals don't have i.c.u. beds so clearly there is a 'd there is an increase in this what about your hospital how many hospice i.c.u. units or beds are available now and how has that changed over the last week or so. it's we had significantly higher every ability in the last few weeks but now we're down to maybe a few days if you bet prosperity so i mean we're down to maybe 2 or 3 in you know in each of our hospitals but i know that the same situation is happening in all the hospitals in both miami dade and broward county where you know the amount of people that are sick is increasing to the point that it's really exhausting their ability 'd to to meet the demand do you also have to add to that the fact that the staff is getting sick they're not getting sick at the hospital or getting sick at home because you know because of the situation where they do the interacting at home or with loved ones or relatives they say they come in with you know they get infected and then that takes them out of circulation for 2

end the deserts of beaches of miami the rain is keeping them. cross the u.s. . welcome to the program european leaders have sealed a deal on an unprecedented 750000000000 euro. recovery fund after 4 days of heat to talks leaders finally agreed on the details of loans and grants to be given to countries hardest hit by the pandemic for the 1st time ever the aid will be financed by borrowing off the 750000000000 euros in question 390000000000 will be in the form of grants the remaining 360000000000 euros will be disbursed in the form of cheap loans. it's a compromise that satisfies the demands of fiscally conservative countries good morning everyone we did it europe is strong europe is united level for these were the words the delegates have been working towards a deal has been done and the wrangling can stop everyone can go home some kind of win or relief was visible on their faces despite the masks sharma shire council chief france's emanuel mccall and ursula funder line commission president plus standing tallest of the mole mark reiter from the netherlands. he h

we made that a rule in miami. the second thing is that you need to wash your hands continuously, or wear gloves, because things that you touch and then touch yourself, it makes it very easy for transmission, which is probably how i got it. distancing, is proximity is a tremendous influence or. it i also could have gotten from proximity, from having a conversation with somebody who was infected so those are the things that if you were to just think through those things, the chances that you could infected, with a mask alone it is an 85% reduction. interviewer: does that mean you are going to make a president where a mask miami? mayor suarez: yes, the mayor says that the president is expected to follow the rules just like everyone else. that is the expectation. that is what we would hope that he would do. but he is the president of the united states and i am not sure that he is subject. -- subject to a fine. he would get a warning for the first instance in miami, and then a fine for the second. i am not sure who wou

cnn's rosa flores joins us now from miami. rosa, what more can you tell us about what's going on down in florida? >> reporter: well, abby, according to city of miami francis suarez, these mask-wearing mandates are working and they're going straight to fining individuals $50 for a first offense. they were seeing about 125 cases a day. now it's more like 50 case as day here in the city of miami. they're attributing solve that decrease to this mask mandate. suarez just a few days ago was very close to shutting down the city of miami. now he says that that's not the case. take a listen. >> as of today we are not issuing a stay-at-home order. i know that was rumored but we are not. we are consulting with miami dade county and with all the cities so that if we ever have to issue something like that, it would be something that we do together. >> reporter: now take a look at the icu capacity in miami dade county. it is at 119%. the goal for the county is not to exceed 70%. the good news is that they do have about 400 beds that they ca

look, miami gardens is the third largest city in miami-dade county, 113,000 people. my residents work in other parts of the county and other parts of south florida. even if we said, hey, you know what? i'm going to close down miami gardens, everyone's staying home i'd be telling my residents not to go to work in other places. that's why you need strong regional, statewide and national leadership. >> mayor gilbert, before we let you go, we need to ask you, you have met congressman lewis many times, of course, this morning we are remembering and honoring him. what can you tell us? >> i can tell you that that selfie, it was a wonderful selfie. he was an extraordinary man and in times like this you're reminded of him and his spirit and his courage and how he stood in the face of adversity, and he said we will not blink, and he moved us forward as a country. we need courage like that now facing the latest health challenge of my lifetime, probably any of our lifetimes. >> he also was a very fashionable man. did he mentioned how much he respected your bow tie game there? >>

correspondent sent us this report on how the city of miami is dealing with the was an outbreak. the beaches of miami's south beach are largely deserted these days rain here to stay for at least a week according to the u.s. national weather service will probably keep floridians from gathering in large crowds at the beaches and that's a good thing because miami is the new epicenter of the coronavirus crisis in the u.s. breaking records of new covert 1000 infections on an almost daily basis. we meet up with dr gary daniel poost a trauma surgeon at jackson memorial hospital in miami he's treating more and more coronavirus patients every day is practically begging people to change their behavior the most important thing is everybody has to wear masks after we have mass there's no way around it. sort of distancing is very important 6 feet apart. frequent hand washing hand hygiene is very important we cannot have right now large gatherings of people the miami jackson memorial health system for hospitals in total had 167 covert positive patients if the 1st infections peak back in april

came from miami-da can i,an 3000 which means -- miami-dade county, which means more than 75,000 people there are infected, more than 1200 have dieds there are feami could be the next new york. francis suarez is the mayor of miami. he himself contracted covid in marc thank you very much for joining me. i wonder if you could describe theon situan the hospitals in the city of miami. i imagine people are exhausted. they have en going at this for four months almost. mayor suarez: they are exhausted. the hospitalizations -- we have the highest number of covid patients with had si be the pandeman. twice the number of people in icu beds nce the high point in march. the highest number ofeople on ventilators from which is the indication that the death toll will begin to 65% of people that are on ventilators don't make it. right now the situation is very, very complicated and very andifficultwe're doing everything we can to manage it to the best of our abilities. katty: you gave a press conference todaynd you raise the possibility of miami having to go back into lockdown do you think that will ha

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right now miami-dade county and miami beach, obviously miami-dade county, just received an additional 250 contact tracers. do you think that's enough? will that help? >> well, it's going to help if we get the numbers down. the problem is now we hit 3,000 positives today. 3,000 in just our county. so, contact tracing that, obviously we're not going to get -- we're not even going to be able to call those people. so, we need a lot more. we need them to be doing their job well. we need to get some transparencies to what they're doing. because we really have no idea what's going on is working which the cdc says it's supposed to do, which is by controlling the disease. i don't know whether they're being called, whether they're being isolated. like in new york they're being brought groceries which is what they do in new york. we have to do a better job or we're just going to keep this constant cycle of disease down, disease up, and our economy forever shut. >> those numbers in florida keep going up and up. so, mayor, if the test results are taking, what, five, six, seven days, sometimes ten

governor rhonda santas who while during a press conference this week in miami said he couldn't recall if there's even a case of kobe 19 back in early march was heckled by a protester. so i think they are. the santas coming under increasing pressure continues to deny any plans to roll back the state's reopening as which started back in may but some top florida officials are calling on the santas to impose a mandatory statewide stay at home order meanwhile this week the city of miami beach ordered all short term rentals to be shut down that's existing and future reservations and miami dade county passed an emergency ordinance increasing fines for people not wearing masks for the news with rick sanchez john hardy good stuff job but actually this is the news of those you're watching our special coverage when we come back ok we showed you how things in georgia things in florida there's a lot of frustration a lot of people are out of the. time coping what are the coping mechanisms for all of us especially those of us trying to maintain relationships or those trying to find relationships in

this one happening july 5th in miami. the cdc director saying the virus could be controlled in weeks if people followed the guidelines. >> if we really embrace masking, if we really embrace the social distancing and hand washing, we could bring this outbreak to its knees. >> reporter: across the country only two states, iowa and south dakota, have no mask mandate of any kind. walmart and sam's club today announcing customers beginning monday must wear face coverings, joining a growing list of companies including best buy, costco, and starbucks now requiring them in all stores. and david, at least two dozen states going further, not only requiring a mask when in a business but also asking residents to wear one whenever outside. david? >> all right, alex perez, thank you. >>> when we come back, news on supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg. >>> and the grisly scene here in new york city. the murder of a tech ceo followed into an elevator. >>> and the grisly scene here in new york city, the murder of a tech ceo followed

and not miami-dade? >> i'm going to contrast it. >> that you have brought up because -- >> it's a multiplicity of platforms. it's a wide variety of approaches but with the expectation that if you have to move to a remote instruction situation that you have full-time learning going on for all students at all times. >> okay. i don't want to get much into this, but -- >> is not a full-time learning plan. >> but they do have full-time virtual learning -- >> no. four days a week, either four days a week online and, you know, the fifth day not, or two days a week in person, these are not valid options and choices for families. it's not full-time instruction. >> okay. what you are saying is you want kids back in school. what he is saying is because they have almost 200,000 children in their school district, they would have to build the size of five pentagons in order to accommodate what you are asking for. they're a wealthy district, but even with money, it's just not feasible. so what is your recommendation gi