christine and boris, back to you. >> nick watt, thank you for that. there's no question that finances play a big role in the decisions to keep schools shuttered. san diego faced a $90 million price tag for support staff and disinfecting procedures to open schools. cnn has learned the white house wants to tie any new stimulus money for schools to their reopening. the administration has been told it can't withhold existing funding to bully schools into reopening. >> big cities like atlanta, nashville and las vegas are delaying the school year. cities like chicago, miami still weighing their options. in miami the medical indicators are bad. a staggering 28% of tests were positive. almost 200 employees from jackson health are currently out sick with covid-19. >> miami's now the epicenter of the pandemic. what we were seeing in wuhan six months ago, five months ago, now we are there. so we really need your help. >> there were more than 58,000 new cases reported in the u.s. on monday and this complicates things. a leading lab, quest diagnostics, says the su

nick watt, cnn, los angeles. >> nick, thank you for that. health officials believe arizona is days away from using crisis standards of care for treating could he video individual 19 patients. that means they have to decide who gets care and who doesn't because they don't have enough resources. we are bringing you the latest. >> reporter: i'm evan mcmorris santoro in phoenix. arizona passed a grim milestone on monday as authorities reported for the first time since the pandemic began the total number crossed 100,000. over half of the infected are between 20 and 44. the phoenix mayor says this could be due to reopening of bars and restaurants before being closed down last week. monday, another 3300 cases were reported. as the pandemic continues to grow here. >> reporter: i'm nick watt in santa monica, california. now since the beginning of this covid-19 pandemic, there has apparently been a huge spike in anti-asian racial incidents here in california. a group called the asian pacific policy and planning council has logged 800 such cases, among

in this case wa nick watt, appreciate it. as nick said, that is breaking news. the single today, the single highest day of covid infections. 55,274 cases reported that breaking just moments ago. joining us now, dr. peter hotez dean of the tropical medicine at houston's baylor college of medicine. dr. hotez, i mean, a grim record number more than 55,000 new covid infections today. president trump said we're in a good place. is this a good place? >> anderson, today we broke that record 55,000 in two days we're going to break that record again. and then in two days from then we'll break the record again. and then we'll break it again. this is -- there's nothing to stop this train. there is nothing to stop this steep acceleration in the number of cases. so next week we'll have this conversation we'll be over 60,000 cases. so we have to really reconcile with the fact that this is not going -- it's not even just a question not going well, this is a public health crisis and public health disaster. people are piling into hospitals and emergency rooms and multiple states

nick watt, thank you so much. appreciate it. >> i want to bring in cnn's chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. sanjay, we just heard from the nation's top infectious disease expert, dr. anthony fauci in the previous block. he described testing in the u.s. as patchy and not as uniform as he would like. he avoided saying so and i understand why. he has a job and he feels that he needs to stay in that job. and i think a lot of people want him to. but what will it take to improve the number of tests, the lag in testing, and the lack of contact tracing? >> well, you know, i think there's a fundamental problem here, which is that there is just so much widespread virus in this country because we ignored it for so long. it's very hard to catch up with testing. on one hand you can say we're doing more testing than any other country in the world. second thing you'd have to say is we need to do that much testing. and we're still of catching only maybe 10% of the infections out there. a lot of people are spreading hav

nick watt shows us where the virus is hitting hardest. >> reporter: florida, now, leading the nation in new cases every day, as the u.s. heads into the holiday weekend. >> the most important thing i would say to people, if you go out for a gathering, wear a face covering. >> reporter: beachers will be open for the fourth, but closing down in texas, southern california, the bay area, and south florida. off-limits in miami beach. and the mayor's message -- >> the hardest thing to deal with is the mixed messages coming from the state and the president and the federal government. there'sing in more person making a sacrifice staying home. >> reporter: yesterday, it happened again. the president says it's just more testing. it's not. what is it? >> it's difficult to say, this particular event did it. but something happened to make the spike go way up like that. >> reporter: and different states, different stories. in arizona, more people are being killed by covid-19 than ever before. vermont hasn't had a covid-19 patient in the icu for six weeks. in parts of texas, we're told there are wai

nick watt in los angeles. thank you. >>> also tonight the president is trying to detract from the pandemic and sow doubts about the election. let's go to our senior correspondent pamela brown. pamela, you're learning about pushback to the president's false claims. >> that's right. we're hearing the president sepgd out an ominous warning that they could tamper with the election. but cnn has learned that intelligence officials are dismissing that concern behind closed doors. >> this is going to be the greatest election disaster in history. >> reporter: tonight just 95 days before the u.s. election, president trump is stoking fears of election interference, pushing an unfounded conspiracy on the use of mail-in voting. >> nobody wants that date more than me. i wish we would move it up, okay? move it up. but you're not prepared for what they're doing. >> reporter: and laying the groundwork for a contested election that they're not prepared for an onslaught of millions of ballots pouring in. you watch. they're dmoin

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nick watt, cnn, los angeles. >> nick watt, thank you very much for that. i want to bring in a senior scholar at johns hopkins university center for health security. doctor, it's a pleasure. thank you for joining me. >> thank you for having me. >> this week we have seen president trump at events where he is not wearing a mask. here he is in midland, texas, at a fund-raiser where people weren't social distancing. several people gathered around the president, no mask. there was a similar scene and crowds gathered before he spoke in pennsylvania. minimal distancing there. is it a good idea to be having these kinds of events right now? >> if you're not doing the social distancing, if you're not being an example how you should act right now, i don't think you should have the events. you can have an event but you have to put in place certain measures that decrease transmission. that is something that is not happening in many of these political rallies and that sends a message. we are in the middle of a pandemic and there are simple measures we can take to reduce

we begin with nick watt in los angeles right now. nick, masks are required in public in california and now in texas, too. >> absolutely, jim. the governor just making has announce me announcement saying any county with more than 20 cases, you've got to wear a mask. he's doing this to stem the spread of the virus while also keeping businesses open. he's also working to limit the number of people who can gather together and also to enforce social distancing whenever people do gather. texas is dealing with a problem. hospitals in texas are filling up. >> i don't think i've seen anything like this ever. we aren't overrun yet but it's overwhelming. >> that's san antonio. in austin -- >> one thing we may have to go to is go back to stay at home. >> to ease the pain. >> would they do it if they knew it was for 35 days. >> in arizona, the biggest testing site in the state struggling to cope. that's now a nationwide view. >> we're seeing steady and significant increases in demand for testing. we're concerned that that demand is going to excee

cnn, nick watt. >>> coming in from london, we have the medical director from the fleet street clinic. thank you for being with us. >> hi. >> so we are seeing europe fight off a second wave of coronavirus infections. hong kong is dealing with its third wave. the united states is still drowning in the first wave along with latin america and the global number of cases just surpassed 17 million. so, doctor, five months into this pandemic, where are we right now? can we ever get on top of this virus without a vaccine? >> that's a very difficult question. ultimately it will have to take a vaccine for widespread immunity to definitively bring it under control. the measures that are needed to control the virus are very clear. this is a virus that spreads from person to person. without a vaccine we require social distancing, an inability for one person to spread the virus to the max and this requires very well-coordinated measures and then acceptance to reduce person-to-person spread whether that's by legislation, lockdown, widespread adoption of masks and hygiene measures, whatever. those are

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nick watt, cnn. >> i want to bring in dr. amos, a senior scholar at johns hopkins university center. doctor, it's a pleasure. thank you for joining. >> thank you. >> this week, we have seen president trump in events where we is not wearing a mask. here he is in midland, texas, and a fund riser, people in the crowd were not distancing, and several officials gathered around the president. no masks. it was a similar scene today. and crowds gathered before he spoke in pennsylvania. minimal distancing there. is it a good idea to have these events right now? >> if you're not doing social distancing, if you are not, i don't think should you have these events. you can have an event but you have to put in place certain measures that are going to decrease transmission. i think that is something that is simply thought happening in many of the political rallies and it sends a mixed message. we are in the middle of a pandemic, and there are simple measures we can take. only physical we take them. >> there are still so much we don't know a

let's go to cnn's nick watt joining us from los angeles right now. nick, more disturbing numbers tonight from california, from texas, and elsewhere. >> wolf, yeah. record numbers in texas. you know, we just heard from our cnn team in florida that miami-dade county has now run out of icu beds, record numbers here in california. pasadena has just canceled the world famous rose parade, which was for new year's day 2021 and here in los angeles we have just been told that returning to a stay-at-home order is now a possibility. that we are right now in an alarming and dangerous phase of this pandemic. we're not alone. more theme parks opened up today in florida just as the state passed 300,000 cases and icus are already full in 54 florida hospitals. >> the biggest issue is we have a lot of aggressive, noncompliant people. a lot of the young people are saying so what if i get it? it doesn't mean anything. >> reporter: more americans are being infected now six months in than ever before. why? >> as we try to open up, pictures and photos and films of people a

nick watt, thank you so much from l.a. for us. while the president may still be pushing for schools to reopen in the fall, i want you to hear from someone on the ground. katy o'connor is a fifth grade teacher in colorado springs. she returned to the classroom recently to try to prepare for socially-distanced learning. >> i'm on the mission of social distancing my classroom. my district is going back full time, we'll be back in about two and a half week pmzs so, i have to remove all personal items from my classroom and set up desks so they're all three feet apart. so, these pods circle up nicely. they're not three feet apart yet. so, we still have to figure out how to get these to be three peat apart. as you can see it's really close. like, this is -- they're really close. front table, her document table. and then she has stuff to take out, a teacher desk and she's allowed those two things. we're all struggling because in what world is this an elementary school classroom? we have to be walking around wearing our masks. for eight ho

nick watt has the latest on the health crisis. >>florida now leading the nation in new cases every day as the u.s. heads into the holiday weekend. >>the most important thing i would say to people if you do go out to a gathering or in public. please wear a face covering beaches will be open again in new york city for the 4th but closing down again in parts of texas across much of southern california, the bay area. >>and south florida off limits in miami beach. >>and the mayor's message, the hardest thing to deal with these mixed messages coming from the state and the federal government and the president are telling people that they're nothing more american than making a sacrifice by staying home wednesday more than 50,000 new cases across this country for the first time. yesterday. >>it happened again i'd like to just wasn't says it's just more testing is it's not from so what is it was very difficult to say that this particular demonstration or that particular rally that particular holiday at the beach did it. but something happen

let's start our kfrj with nick watt in los angeles. a truly staggering death toll over the past five months. experts are clearly sounding the alarm. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. just as we passed the horrific 150,000 dead milestone this really scathing report from scholars at john hopkins university. let me read you this. unlike many countries in the world the united states is not on course to get control of this epidemic. it is time to reset. they recommend universal mask orders on a federal level. they urge the federal government to lead the charge to improve testing and they say in hot spots people must be ordered once again to stay home. the u.s. just suffered the deadliest day of the summer so far. 1244 lives reported lost to covid-19 tuesday. >> if we don't do something to change our course we will have multiple hundreds of thousands of deaths in this country. >> reporter: the association of american medical colleges wants decisive, coordinated action releasing a detailed road map calling for increased testing, enforcement of

>> all right, nick watt, thank you so much. >>> a mayor at the epicenter of the current covid explosion says that his trump-supporting governor has forgotten his city. this mayor is a republican. he'll join me next. at cancer treatment centers of america, treating cancer isn't just what we do, it's all we do. and now, we're able to treat more patients because we're in-network with even more major insurance plans. so, if you've been turned down before, call us now. with even more majwelcome to campans. tonsafun on xfinity! it's summer camp, but in your living room. learn how to draw with a minions expert... how to build an indoor obstacle course! plus... whatever she's doing. and me, jade catta-preta. the host of e's the soup! camp tonsafun. it's like summer camp, but minus the poison ivy. unless you own poison ivy. in which case, why? just say "summer camp" into your xfinity voice remote to join. >>> the national lead now in a new scathing letter, the mayor of miami beach is calling out florida governor ron desantis saying he has been unprepared and has failed florida's contact tracing.

nick watt, thanks very much. joining us now, cnn chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. sanjay, you know, we've talked a lot through these last weeks here. and i've measured your rising exasperation in recent days, with some of the comments and lack of leadership, frankly, coming from washington. so the president says today, again, the coronavirus is going to disappear. you heard the lieutenant governor of texas saying he's not going to listen to dr. fauci anymore. what does that mean for the country, when you still have that kind of resistance to the facts before us? >> well, it -- it's -- it makes you feel like you're going backwards, jim. i mean, at a time when we need to go forward more than we've ever had to go forward in our country, we're going backward because of this sort of stuff. and let me give you a little peek behind the curtain, jim. you know, the president says the virus is going to go away. let me concede this point. nobody knew anything about this virus at the beginning. that's the nature of a novel coronavirus. there is a lot that we've learned, and th

nick watt, thank you very much. let's go to the white house where the administration has been taking direct aim at dr. anthony fauci, as the renowned infectious disease expert has been publicly disagreeing with president trump. our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta, is joining us. jim, we saw evidence of a campaign to try to discredit to undermine dr. fauci. now the president says there's nothing to see here. >> that's exactly right, wolf. white house officials appear to be backing off after taking some jabs at dr. anthony fauci over his comments about the coronavirus pandemic. the president and other officials are now saying on the record that mr. trump and dr. fauci have a good working relationship. that's notable, given the fact that some aides to the president have been spending the last couple of days trashing fauci, even sending out opposition research about the doctor, anonymously, to reporters. after spending days railing against dr. anthony fauci, president trump and his top aides seem to be pulli

nick watt, cnn, manhattan beach, california. >> and dr. joseph verone is the chief of staff in houston, texas. and a big thank you to you. i know you have been working day and night for months. so we thank you for giving a glimpse into what's happening in your hospital. and -- and i have to tell you, i've heard you, for the last couple days, warn people that the worst is still, yet, to come in your hospital. when you see these cases spiking right across the country but obviously, specifically in texas. do you believe it's time for another widespread lockdown? or are you comfortable with what's going on right now? more mask wearing. you know, the closures of some restaurants, some bars. what do you think? >> you see, the problem that we have is it seems we don't have true public awareness. if you were just to go ahead and close down, you're going to have a lot of protestors saying, oh, you cannot close. you know, it's our rights. all that kind of stuff. and, to be honest, i think it's a little too late. i have said before, we should have lo

so we're struggling. >> nick watt, cnn, los angeles. >> thank you very much. coronavirus cases are surging all across the country. we'll continue our update right after this break. >>> texas seeing a single day record of coronavirus deaths, 129 deaths today. two counties in the state starting to run out of room in morgues and bringing in refrigerated trailers to help with capacity. joining me now is dr. david purse of the houston public health authority. thank you so much for joining us, doctor. cases in texas still surging. houston is among the worst hit places. icu beds hovering at surge capacity. talk to us how serious the situation is there right now, please. >> the situation is serious. we judge it by our hospital situation, and our hospital partners are doing a really great job of coming up with extra space for patients, but quite honestly, what is forgotten in all of this is that the other illnesses like heart attacks and strokes and tumor resections and so on and so forth, those things are continuing at the same time. so it's not just all about covid d

nick watt, cnn, los angeles. >>> all right. nic, thank you so are much for that. dr. anthony fauci warning against a false sense of security after the president touted the falling covid-19 death rate in this tweet as somehow proof that the virus is under control. right now younger people are making up a larger percentage of cases, but the top covid-19 expert fauci cautioned against misleading metrics. >> it's a false narrative to take comfort in a lower rate of death. there's so many other things that are very dangerous and bad about this virus. don't get yourself into false complacency. >> president trump rejecting dr. fauci's assertion that the u.s. is still quote knee deep in the first wave of the pandemic. >> i think we are in a good place. i disagree with them. dr. fauci said don't wear masks now he said wear them. he said numerous things. don't close off china, don't ban china and i did it anyway. i sort ever didn't listen to my experts and i banned china. we would have been in much worse shape. >> fauci conceded the president's points that experts waffling earl

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we begin with cnn's nick watt in los angeles. nearly three-quarters of californians, life is about to look like it did during the lockdown. >> reporter: it is, jim. not quite. you will still be able to get a hair cut, which is one thing. but 19 counties in this state and they are big counties. talking l.a., orange county, ventura, santa barbara are all on the governor's watch list right now. he says he is sending strike teams into those counties and he is rolling back some reopening. california has got a problem. every state beach parking lot in southern california and the bay area is now closed for the 4th of july weekend. >> a weekend that has raised a lot of concern. >> reporter: bars, dine-in restaurants, and movie theaters will also now close again in 19 california counties for at least three weeks. today the daily death toll in the state like we haven't seen since april. >> do not take your guard down. please do not believe those that somehow want to manipulate the reality. >> reporter: and record numbers now hospitalized i

watt, cnn, los angeles. >> our thanks to nick for covering the reality. >>> now, we've been covering the extended reality in this country. pandemic is bad, but there's an epidemic of injustice as well. we've been covering the killing of ahmaud arbery extensively here on "prime time," as you know. even heard directly from one of the men charged with murder. now the prosecutor has some things to say about why all need to pay attention to cases like this. the prosecutor is here tonight to share her insights next. my bladder leak pad? i thought it had to be thick to protect. but new always discreet is made differently. with ultra-thin layers that turn liquid to gel and lock it inside. for protection i barely feel. new always discreet. >>> it's been 130 days since ahmaud arbery's life was stolen. it's taken four prosecutors, a video taken by one of the men charged in his death, and, of course, a national outcry by people like you to get the case attention. nevertheless, it will finally go to trial. when that happens, there will be a lot of attention on our next guest. cobb circuit distric

>> all right, nick watt in manhattan beach, thank you so much. joining us now to discuss, william haseltine, school professor. what do you make of the fact that today the surgeon general said everybody should wear masks in public but refused to say whether americans should or should not attend large gatherings when others, like dr. fauci, have been saying clearly you should avoid large gatherings? what do you make of this mixed message? >> i think from the very beginning in this epidemic there have been mixed messages. what you need in a crisis is you need clear, consistent, compassionate and credible messaging from our leaders. and we in this country haven't had that. we've had mixed messages. in addition to that, the surgeon general has not appeared. we need an organization that has manpower on the ground that can take federal regulations and implement them systemically throughout the country. it is a big failing. i hope we are learning from it. but now that we're in this situation, it's up to each individual to make their determination. that's

all right, nick watt, thank you very much for that. let's get an update on the situation in florida which currently leads the nation in new cases of the coronavirus. cnn's randi kaye joins us. randi, what's the concern as we head into the holiday weekend? i suppose it's this spiking caseload. >> reporter: absolutely, jim. the concern is more spread and more spike. florida now averages more cases per day than any other state in the country. they certainly don't want to see the spike that they saw after memorial day. once again now on july 4th holiday. young people are the ones who are getting sick. you can expect them to be out and about this holiday weekend. 25 to 34-year-olds making up 20% of the state's cases, in fact. the median age in this state is 37 years old for those getting the virus. it used to be 65. in fact, there are 7,000 minors in the state of florida who have tested positive for the coronavirus. you're probably asking what's the governor doing about it, he is not putting out a statewide mask mandate. counties are taking

cnn's nick watt has more. >> reporter: in florida the governor was heckled today. florida's average death toll doubled these past two weeks. monique hiccovid-19. brian francis and michaela in the space of 11 days. >> i honestly can't say where they got the virus from because they basically was home bound. the only thing, we went to orlando for a vacation and all of a sudden they came home sick. wear your masks. if you don't have to come out, stay home. >> reporter: but the governor still won't mandate masks so in miami the city will fine those with uncovered faces. >> it's bizarre that we have turned mask wearing into something political. imagine you were an alien coming to planet earth, you would be totally astounded, puzzled, amazed wondering what is going on here. >> reporter: nationally we're seeing three times the number of cases every day compared to mid june and nearly 60,000 americans are hospitalized with covid-19 getting close to the grim record set back in april. >> there is no question that we're having a surge right now. it really is all hands on deck.

nick watt in los angeles. let's get more. william hazeltine, chairman of access health international. also with us former u.s. surgeon general, also by the way advising the biden campaign. doctor, what do you make of this head of operation warp speed elizabeth cohen speaking moments ago that he expects the vaccine, once it's ready, to be 90% effective? >> wolf, i certainly hope that's the case. the more effective the vaccine is, not only will it help more people but fewer people will need to vaccinate in the end to achieve herd immunity levels which require about 70% of the population be immune. here is the truth, we can't bank on that. we have to wait for the data to come in to see how effective this vaccine is. the history of vaccine research and development is a history of having twists and turns and having to deal with results when they come. but it's not always easy to predict where they will go. we have to hope for the best but prepare for the fact that we may not have that full level of efficacy we want. what that mean

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>> all right, nick watt in california, thank you so much. joining me now, former harvard medical school professor and author of the book "a family guide to covid." you say there are two different kinds of epidemics going on in the united states. explain what you mean by that. >> well, one of the epidemics is the one you were just speaking of, which is young people going out, having a good time. we all understand that. but then they come back and they infect the people who they live with. many of those are old and elderly. that is one epidemic. and that's very worrying because the demographic that they are in, maybe their 20s and their 30s is no different from the adolescent to teenagers who are about to go back to school. they may not have the effects of this virus as badly as the older generation. but they can infect the older generation, and we'll see that if they go back to school. so that's the first one. the second one is one we've also talked a lot about, which is in the minority communities, the latinos, the blacks, other minorities.

so we're struggling. >> reporter: nick watt, cnn, los angeles. >>> coronavirus cases surging across the country. we'll continue our update right after this break. do i use a toothpaste that whitens my teeth? or one that's good for my teeth? now i don't have to choose. crest 3d white. it removes up to 95% of surface stains. and strengthens enamel. from the number one toothpaste brand in america. crest. >>> texas seeing a single day record of coronavirus deaths, reporting 129 deaths today. two counties in the states starting to run out of room in morgues and bringing in refrigerated trailers to help the capacity. joining me now, dr. david purse of the houston public health authority. thank you so much for joining us, doctor. cases in texas still surging. houston is among the worst hit places. icu beds hovering at surge capacity. talk to us about how serious the situation is there right now, please. >> well, the situation is serious. we judge it by, you know, our hospital situation. and our hospital partners are doing a really great job of coming one extra space for patients but quite hone

nick watt reporting for us, thank you very much. let's go to the white house right now, where officials are publicly in denial about the president's reversals, as his coronavirus missteps weigh in on his bid for re-election. let's go to our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta. jim, there was no briefing from the president today, after three in a row. we did get some new spin, though, from over at the white house. >> spin and denial, wolf. white house officials are demonstrating their tortured relationship with reality, insisting president trump hasn't changed on the coronavirus, one day after he scrapped his convention plan in florida. the misleading rhetoric is not doing much to mask the administration scrambling, though, to get a handle on a pandemic that is raging out of control tonight. just as the president is changing course in his response to the coronavirus, white house officials are trying to pull a fast one, falsely claiming mr. trump has been consistent all along. >> what changed this week? why did his tone change

cnn's nick watt has more. >> reporter: the president backed by new cdc guidelines, pushing hard for schools to reopen, brick and mortar. >> being at the school, being on the campus is very, very important. >> reporter: but is it safe? the cdc says scientific studies suggests that covid-19 transmission among children in schools may be low. emphasis on suggest and may. >> we certainly know from other studies that children under 10 do get infected. it's just unclear how rapidly they spread the virus. >> i think we still need to learn a lot about children, you know, elementary school children. getting infected and whether they either spread or not efficiently to adults. >> reporter: in hot spots, schools should figure out a plan with local health officials says the cdc. they define a hot spot with a county with more than 5% tests coming back positive. >> majority of the nation right now actually has positivity rates are less than 5%. >> reporter: across the country, average new case counts are right now steady or falling. that's good. case counts generally falling in arizona, after a very diffi

nick watt is "outfront." >> reporter: the sun belt surge is seeping north. >> so now we see the virus probably because of vacations and other reasons of travel moving up. >> reporter: michigan just closed a lot of bars again. when the percentage of tests coming back positive in the state climbs, that's the danger zone. >> we're starting to see that in some of the states now, kentucky, tennessee, ohio. >> reporter: ohio just reported the most cases in a day, illinois, the most cases since late may. miura ramirez, just years old, fell ill in april. she's one of the first covid-19 patients to receive a double lung transplant. >> i wasn't aware i had received a double lung transplant until i awoke it wasn't until weeks later that i was able to think there's a family out there that's grieving a loved one. i have that person's lungs and how lucky i was to have received it. >> reporter: yesterday across the country 1,403 lives reported lost to covid-19, highest number in nine weeks. >> it's really a travesty that we are where we are today. i'm worried about the future. i'm worried that unles

cnn's nick watt is in los angeles for us. nick, i understand the governor just announced some very disturbing new numbers. >> reporter: he did, wolf. and they are the number of people in the hospital with covid-19. you can't argue with it. it's a fact. you can't just say it was more testing. and in the past two weeks the number of people in the hospital here in california is up 44%. here in l.a. county they just told us they are concerned death rates will rise as well. and they are telling school districts here, listen, it's going to be prudent of you to get a learning distance plan in place just in case. and that's a very different tone than we're hearing coming out of washington d.c. >> it's absolutely essential that we get our kids back into classroom for in-person learning. >> reporter: absolutely essential, but is it safe? >> it's important to remember that some kids get very, very sick. >> we're talking about putting children, their families, and their teachers at risk. >> reporter: ultimately it's up to districts and l

nick watt, cnn, manhattan beach, california. >> thanks, nick, for that. a professor the of epidemiology and director of ucla center for global and immigrant health. she joins me now from l.a. good to see you. i just want to bring up these pictures that we've been seeing in the last hour or so of this rally and the speech that the president is -- has been giving in front of mt. rushmore. i mean, clearly, flouting his own government's advice and also, crucially, only mentioning coronavirus once. >> well, i can't see the -- the -- the photos. but -- but i did see them on -- on tv tonight. >> yeah. >> and it's -- can you hear -- it's -- the -- the photos of what -- what we saw tonight are -- are, clearly, just a complete disregard for public health. you know, the most patriotic thing that anybody can do is to wear a mask. and i would have loved to have seen masks being worn at that event tonight. and for the president to be standing in front of people, wearing a mask. i mean, really and truly, this is a very irresponsible event. >> i think there were 7, 8,000

nick watt joins us from los angeles. nick, as the death toll climbs and climbs, we're learning more about how many patients are getting infected. update our viewers. >> reporter: you know, wolf, the one question we all have is why is this virus still spreading. the chief medical officer in mississippi asked people who were in the hospital. he says 80% of them told him i think i got it at a social gathering where people have let their guard down. you know, a nurse here in california told my colleague something similar, she asked the young people where do you think you got it. they said parties. the governor of california has just called on everyone to wake up. the prick of a needle. a round of applause. phase three trials of moderna's vaccine. 30,000 volunteers expected to take part in 89 places across the country. >> trying to find a cure for what's troubling our whole world. >> reporter: more than 5,000 souls now lost to covid-19 in texas alone, a state now dealing with the virus and a hurricane. >> all these people hav

>>nick watt reports. >>the u.s. just suffered its deadliest day of the summer. so far 1244 lives reported lost to covid-19 tuesday. and if we don't do something to change or course we will have multiple hundreds of thousands of deaths in this country, the association of american medical colleges wants decisive coordinated action releasing a detailed road map calling for increased testing enforcement of reopening criteria as well as informing and educating the public. >>you can look at large portions of our country it said. it's corona free. >>that's not true in all the states concern is climbing as cases climb, they're dubbed red zone and the yellow zone states by the cdc. only vermont is green. no deaths nearly 6 weeks but even vermont just pushed reopening schools back a couple of weeks, a new study suggests that states that closed schools early in the spring. >>so significant declines in covid cases and deaths the trump administration, one schools open again, asap this may sound. >>a little scary and needed to be that way. is that you're going to be actually

>> all right, nick watt in california, thank you so much for that report, my friend. joining us now, cnn chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. sanjay, let's start with that. governor desantis' claim that the gyms don't need to be closed because if you're in good shape, you are less likely to suffer from covid-19. >> yeah, it sounds very reasonable, right, when you hear it like that? but, you know, the best way to not suffer with covid-19 is to not get it, jake. and we've talked a lot about the fact that indoor settings where people are expelling a lot of virus in the air and things like that are potentially sources of spread. we saw this even going back to sars days back in 2003, significant clusters associated with gyms. so, i think people should be as healthy as they can, boost their immune systems, do all the things they can to try and stay as healthy as possible during this time for sure. but i think putting yourself in situations, especially in a place like florida where there is so much viral spread and the likelihood that you're going to come in contact

and it makes me mad as hell. >> nick watt, cnn, los angeles. >> our thanks to nick for covering the reality. now, we've been covering the extended reality in this country. pandemic bad. but there's an epidemic of injustice, as well. we've been covering the killing of ahmaud arbery, extensively, here on "primetime" as you know. even heard from one of the men directly now charged with murder. now, the prosecutor has some things to say about why all need to pay attention to cases like this. the prosecutor is here, tonight, to share her insights. next. and because we don't know exactly when this crisis is going to be over and we don't know exactly when the stock market will reach its bottom, we've got to be prepared for this to last a long time. if you assume that you're out of work for nine months but you end up only being out of work for three, well that's great. but if you think you're going to be furloughed for three months and it lasts for nine, well that'll be emotionally devastating. so, we've got to prepare ourselves. tangibly and practically, as well as psychologically and emotionally.

but as cnn's nick watt reports, governor ron desantis still won't disclose how many coronavirus patients are hospitalized statewide. >> reporter: big tex taking a break from the first time since world war ii. the military is sending medical personnel to san antonio to help. >> the four days leading up to the fourth of july combined were the four deadliest days that we've had. my concern is that we may see greater fatalities going forward. >> reporter: in florida, icus in 43 hospitals are now full. >> especially we need to look at our younger population that we know had a tremendous spike in their positivity rate, which, in turn, has infected other people. >> reporter: florida still won't reveal how many covid-19 patients they have in hospitals. despite the governor's claims today. >> all the data that goes into this is all available. >> reporter: but miami-dade does. and it's up 90% in just two weeks. still, the state just issued an order for schools to reopen next month. >> we can't go on this path of putting our teachers in this petri dish of danger. >> i will not reopen our school sys

let's get a better sense of the reality of where we are and where we're headed from nick watt, right now. >> every state beach parking lot in southern california and the bay area will now be closed for the fourth of july weekend. >> on a weekend that has raised a lot of concern. >> bars, dine-in restaurants, and movie theaters will, also, now close again in 19 californian counties for at least three weeks. today, the daily death toll in this state, like we haven't seen since april. >> do not take your guard down. please, do not believe those that, somehow, want to manipulate the reality. >> and record numbers now hospitalized in arizona. >> i'm not sure what more we can do with -- short of a total shutdown. >> record-high hospitalizations, also, in texas and long lines to be tested. >> while we opened in phases, we went from one phase to the next phase to the next phase too quickly. so we weren't able to see the data. >> he's echoing dr. anthony fauci, one of the most respected voices on this virus. but no longer respected by all. >> he doesn't know what he's talking about. we haven'

>> nick watt in l.a. for us, thank you. let's go to the white house right now. our chief white house correspondent jim acosta is joining us. jim, after weeks and weeks of saying very little about the pandemic, the president now plans to resume those coronavirus media briefings. tell us about that. >> that's right, wolf. a white house official says discussions about bringing back these coronavirus briefings have been going on over the last couple of weeks and there is no final decision yet as to what these news conferences will look like or even if they'll be in the white house briefing room. the official says that these briefings are coming back to show americans that progress is being made in the pandemic. but it's also a change that comes as polls show the public is rejecting the president's handling of the pandemic. with more than 140,000 deaths from the coronavirus in the u.s. and counting, president trump is offering up a new proposal to show he's dealing with the pandemic, resurrecting the briefing room news conferences on the administration's response to

nick watt with more on the surge. what's the latest in california, nick? >> anderson, right now, if you are asymptomatic but you really think there is a strong risk that you may have the virus, you can't get tested in california right now. and the reason is the overwhelming demand, the backlog in the labs, and the state wants to get the time between a test and a result down to 48 hours, or less. and right now, it is over that. so they are prioritizing the testing. the problem is, you know, the people have been taking a lot of the blame for the spread of the virus right now are the young, the asymptomatic, the out and about. so right now, if you are one of those people and you want to do the right thing, and come and get a test just in case. well, right now, in california, you can't. >> nick watt, appreciate it. thank you, nick. joining me now to talk about the surge of cases in california, san francisco mayor london breed, who issued one of the first shelter-in-place orders back in mid-march. thanks for being with us. the public health director is now sayi

cnn's nick watt is in los angeles for us. indoor activities will be closed for 19 counties in the state? >> that's right, jake. these are not 19 small counties. these are some of the big ones including los angeles, home to 10 million people, neighboring orange county, ventura, santa barbara, sacramento. this is big news. he is hitting polls and rolling back a little. he is also sending strike teams into those 19 counties where he sees a particular issue. jake, california has got a problem. >> nearly 10,000 new cases reported across california today, smashing the record. so every state beach parking lot in southern california and the bay area will now be closed for the 4th of july weekend. >> the weekend that has raised a lot of concern. >> reporter: bars, dine-in restaurants, and movie theaters will now also close again in 19 californian counties for at least three weeks. and today a daily death toll in the state like we haven't seen since april. >> do not take your guard down. please do not believe those that somehow want to

nick watt, cnn, los angeles. >>> a grieving daughter is lashing out at politicians after her father died from the coronavirus. kristin erkiza wrote an emotional owe bbituary that expressed her love for her father mark and her anger at what she says was his unnecessary death. she said arizona governor doug dousy failed the people of his state by opening up too early. take a listen to kristin reading part of what she wrote. >> mark, like so many others, should not have died from covid-19. his death is due to the carelessness of the politicians who continue to jeopardize the health of brown bodies through clear lack of leadership, refusal to acknowledge the severity of this crisis, inability to give direction on how to minimize risk. >> kristin says her father only left the house for work during the stay at home order, but he began going out more when the governor encouraged people to resume their normal lives. >> my father, i believe, was robbed of life, and i have endured a living nightmare over the course of the last three weeks that he was sick and passed. and i knew that if i didn't sp

as cnn's nick watt reports from the coronavirus hot spot of california. >> the u.s. response stands out among the worst of any country in the world. >> reporter: here in part is why. >> we really functionally shut down only about 50% in the sense of the totally of the country. >> reporter: and when we reopened. >> there are some states that did it very well and there are some states that did not. >> reporter: and the nationwide protests. >> should government limit the protesting? >> i don't think that's relevant to -- >> well, you just said if it increases the spread of the virus. i'm just asking should we limit it? >> well, i'm not in a position to determine what the government should do in a forceful way. >> people are not getting infected there as much because they are observing those rules. >> reporter: so what now? well, we're still working on testing. >> turnaround times are definitely improving. but we cannot test our way out of this or any other pandemic. testing does not replace personal responsibility. >> reporter: masks, distancing, hand washing, avoiding