That is the second highest daily total ever. Here in washington the president and most advisers say things are getting better, turning the corner. Local leaders in florida disagree saying that the facts are on their side. You cant keep telling people that everything is just fine and not to worry because this is not a virus that responds to political speaking points. Its a virus thats going to do what it wants to and we have to do what we need to. Florida sadly hardly alone. Our state by state Coronavirus Tracking makes clear a lot of places at the moment anyway more than 30 states, 37 states trending in the wrong direction. Thats why many states starting to debate rolling back reopening. Look at california, a state where remember early on hailed for the initial response now the governor saying it is time to roll back and reimpose the restrictions. These are the new confirmed cases. Sevenday moving average. Remember late march, april, may . The national model. Now see the upward, a little bit down in the last couple of days. Hope that holds and see the numbers skyrocketing here. California has a problem. Will it keep growing or are they beginning to get control . When you have more cases, wait a week and tend to have more hospitalizations and thats what we have seen, a flat line in may to june and june into july the hospitalization rate in the wrong direction heading up. New cases time line remember you go back to the reopenings, how aggressive were they and then track through it. Home order in march. Still flat here. Bars and gyms reopen. June 18th, a statewide mask order. July 13th just this week yesterday, the governor deciding to roll back some of the reopening because of this, because the case count heading up. To look at a hospitalization timeline, again, flat here in the first stage of reopening. Going okay as the bars and gyms start to reopen, june 12th, a little bit of a lag. Giant state of california, Diverse People and economy and terrain. Stephanie elam from day one tracking it for us live in california. It is a back to the beginning moment almost or backwards moment for california with the rising case count. Reporter completely. A lot of people here especially in Los Angeles County which is the epicenter of the outbreak in the state wondering when we would see the numbers require to have the stayathome orders put back into place. If you take a look at the Positivity Rate, over the last seven days it is standing at 7. 7 . On june 29th, it was at 6. 1 . You are seeing for the Covid Patients that are in icu beds in the state, theres a 20 increase over the last 2 weeks. And the governor here has been saying that this is something that he was planning to do if we needed to to toggle back or to use his term a dimmer switch to bring back the rules so that we can see this peak in this number start to come back down but obviously this is just part of it here. Another part of it is is Wearing Masks and talked to an epidemiologist saying we need people to wear a mask. Full stop. Thats what we need. Everything else after that is frosting saying we can watch the economy go to hell as he put it or we can wear a mask and start getting people back on the feet but people are not taking it as seriously when they need to distance themselves. On top of that you see that theres these 30 states and im sorry, 30 counties in the state and likely more expected to be added today according to governor they would have been watching and required to intensify the lockdown orders for fitness centers, houses of worship, personal Care Services closed once again here in these hotbed counties like Los Angeles County and so this is what were watchingstayathome orders if o not start to change. Ominous words all the way back and continuing to track it. Thank you for the live reporting. Lets continue the conversation now. The author of the book the great influenza said it might be time for a larger nationwide lockdown and said that social distancing and masks may not be enough. He insists more aggressive restrictions are needed and fast. He joins us now. You just heard Stephanie Elam there in california which is often the tip of the spear if you will because it is so big, the most populous state and diverse in every way. When trends happen in california they often later come to the rest of the country. Do you think thats going to happen here, that other states will have to say, you know what . We have to go back to the beginning. Unfortunately, it could be. It depends on [ inaudible ] determine it. Obviously in the northeast theyve done pretty well and there is no reason to think that would stop, that progress. Other places prevalent, especially california [ inaudible ] a bit of a delay. Im sorry. A bit of a delay in the technology. You wrote this morning, a sober analysis and people should read it. Had we done it right the first time we would be at near 100 now. Schools would be preparing for a near Normal School year. Tens of thousands of americans would not have died. This is our second chance. We wont get a third. Why will we not get a third if we dont get it right right now . Well, hot weather probably does affect the virus and it does make it most likely harder to transmit and yet we are seeing pretty good transmission by the virus. When the weather turns colder and more people are inside it will get considerably worse. It is very likely. You know,ex we all remember wha italy was like. Italy now has 200 cases a day because they did do it right. And as did most of europe. And much of the rest of the world. We could have been in the situation italy is now, 200 cases a day, 3 times the population of florida. Florida has 15,000 cases on sunday. It is out of control in some places. I assume, sir, you take some solace that you are not alone reading the very sober essay today, a lot of it tracks especially in terms of the federal government response with this. With the four former cdc directors writing today saying we ran the cdc. No president has politicized the science the way President Trump has and saying Public Health officials face covid19 and political leaders and others attempting to undermine the centers for Disease Control and prevention. We led the cdc more than 15 years spanning republican and democratic administrations alike. We cannot recall a single time when political pressure led to a change in the interpretation of scientific evidence. The current president of the United States either doesnt want to read or chooses to ignore the science many times. How much of that is a factor of today, the dim, troubling place we are today in your view . I think its an enormous part of the problem. Obviously the federal response was incoherent. It is still incoherent. Six months in. Its off the scale and the preparedness planning for a pandemic, no one ever anticipated anything like this happening. Everybody expected leadership and coordination from the federal government. We havent gotten it. What leadership we have gotten has has been negative. As that oped says, undermining science. It is not you cant create or reopen the economy fully if people arent fully. It is not either or. You know . In italy and germany, in europe, the economies are functioning almost fully because they got control of the virus. We are going backwards because we failed to get control of the virus and yes thats political leadership. John barry, very thoughtful essay today in the new york times. Whatever your position, read it as we go through this conversation. Im grateful for your time today. Thank you very much. Thank you. Up next, cases are surging, hospitals are strained and now add in this. 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We would like to get that within 48 hours and we are really exerting a lot of effort to do that. One of the major lab firms Quest Diagnostics sites the rapid spread as reason for long delays. The Company Hopes toen crease capacity from 125,000 tests a day to 150,000 by the end of the month it says saying right now for priority patients like those in acute care or hospital workers you can get the results in one day but for nonpriority cases people have to wait a week or more. Crystal collins is with johns hopkins. I get frustrated. I dont understand how fiveplus months into this we hear admiral giroir saying we have to ramp up. Why arent we ramped up . We ramped up quite a bit but unfortunately the demand is outpacing the supply now. Because we are having these large surges in cases that i think we got complacent and we werent ready for them so we still need to continue to ramp up demand. This is bad news for controlling the spread of the virus. It is bad news. I just want to show you this. Four places around the country, starting to see lines for testing with this surge in cases and explosions of cases and some of the states and people want to get tested. This is chief executive of the Public Health labs saying it is not shortages of any one thing but all of them. Clinical labs need swabs, reagents, media, test kits, machines to process the machines, staffing to run the machines. I get now 60,000 cases a day on average. Should whether its the state issue or the private labs or the federal government should not they have anticipated this demand or prepared for it just in case . We should have anticipated the demand but we should have not let these epidemics get so out of control in the first place. I think in some places we didnt take the measures needed to continue to limit spread after we lifted the stayathome orders and so its really hard to keep up with this sort of demand when you have this exponential growth in cases. Is there from your Public Health perspective potentially damaging domino effect . If people are waiting five, six, seven days for test results if they are positive that means youre waiting five, six, seven days to start the Contact Tracing and might have been exposed to. The cdc website says self quarantine. Stay at home. 14 days after the last exposure to the infected patient in case they become ill and even if you follow that advice you might not know youre supposed to follow it if youre waiting because somebody you know and coming in contact with is waiting for test results. Right, yeah. If we are doing Contact Tracing seven days later it many cases is too late and if contacts have gone out into the community and possibly spread it to others unknowingly and it is really detrimental to trying to break the chains of transmission and ublic Health Officials he virus. 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Can you mandate this behavior . Do you have the infrastructure . Does the state have the infrastructure to enforce it . Or is it just really a read you it and i better be good . I dont think you can keep a virus from any jurisdiction. Viruses dont respect political jurisdiction or the rules and regulations and theres lots of history especially in new york city that something that happens around the world comes to new york in very short time. I think the intention is good here from the governor. However, there are lots of loopholes and so people can drive in to the state. I dont think this applies to newark which is a major airport for the metropolitan area and so i think its well intended. However, its far from an airtight seal and i think realistically we have to be prepared for people coming in and dealing with that. And we all lived through this. You more closely than i. You are there. I remember remember back in february, march, april. First just the sevenday moving average of cases in new york a long hill to go up and a slow hill to come down and yes if you look at the far right of the screen new york now way down low and averaging neighally more than 60,000 cases and middle of april new york a half or a third of the National Cases sometimes. Now look at that just a sliver. The question is you made the point, the virus does not respect borders. Can you keep it there . As you see the spikes in florida, california, texas and elsewhere, is it inevitable that the virus circles back . I think the virus will circle back. The question is can we damp it down sort to speak . We are going to have to be really good at our testing. And really reduce the turn around times which are lengthening in new york city. We are going to be very mindful of the Contact Tracing part so that we got to be really aggressive there in order to keep the infection rate down. And also, ask people to quarantine themselves if they come from one of these high risk areas to help a bit. And so lets talk a bit but lets tack about the governor saying coming into new york you have to follow certain rules. You must give officials at the airport your form as to where you came from and where youre going before you leave the airport. If you leave the airport, without filling out the information, not only can you have a 2,000 fine you can then be brought to a hearing and ordered to complete mandatory quarantine. Okay . None of this is pleasant but we have gone through this before. You can see number one, i think the governor would concede this is hard to enforce and so its aspirational as much as regulation and you can see his face at the end of this. If youre the governor living through march and april you must be horrified seeing the case coming up around the country and knowing how Central New York is to global and national travel. Yeah. I agree. We having gone through it in new york city know how horrible the outbreak is with many, many people hospitalized and many, many people dying. So thats the last thing we want to get back into. So i think its a very well intentioned issue, very well intentioned order. I just think that were going to our hands full if we think that there are always is going to happen that way. People dont travel by plane always and many, many states out there that are having bad outbracks nou outbreaks now and we have to be i appreciate your time. Trouble with the technology. See how new york does going through this. Flat at the moment. Another state worrying about the very same issue, maryland leader telling leaders to do better with compliance laws in bars and restaurants. Larry hogan tweeting we kanlt allow a small segment of violators to squander the efforts and jeopardize our states recovery and in a letter to county leaders, he is threatening to close bars and restaurants again if enforcement of mask regulations does not improve. The former attorney general Jeff Sessions, primary day in alabama, trying to win the senate seat back as President Trump tries to keep him from coming back to washington. Hike Simon Pagenaud takes the lead at the indy 500 coming to the green flag, racing at daytona. Theyre off. In the kentucky derby. Rory mcllroy is a two time champion at east lake. Touchdown only mahomes. The big events are back and xfinity is your home for the return of live sports. It is runoff day in alabama. Jeff sessions trying to claim his former senate seat. This is sessions message this morning as he voted. I would suggest to you that the multiple comments and statements tommy has made of immigration, theyre weak. They are not strong. Theyre not trumpian. Theyre not Jeff Sessions. You heard him say not trumpian. He said hes trumpian. That feeling is not multiple. This is the president of the United States. You know, we had the Jeff Sessions thing. We gave it a shot. I had no idea it could be as bad as it was. Cnn White House CorrespondentKaitlan Collins is with us and alana plott. Tuberville is a colorful figure but the trump factor gives it national attention. Sessions was the president s attorney general. This is up to the Republican Voters of alabama. You know, it is interesting, john. I think this race really does stand to lay bare the extent to which trumps most ardent supporters are drawn to him with an ideology or a cult of personality i should say. You know, it is interesting. Jeff sessions is in ways the most trumpian candidate in the race and a true believer of the ideals of trumpism, whether it relates to immigration or trade or china more broadly and, of course, he is loathed by donald trump. Tommy tuberville has been on record several times saying things like Donald Trumps trade policies have put a noose around the neck of American Farmers and yet he is the one beloved in this race by donald trump. So depending on who voters ultimately pick this evening i think its a signal as to why the president supporters are drawn to him. Kaitlan collins i know you are jealous of elaina in alabama. These two republicans dont like each other and the ads show it. You cant fake it. You are either strong or you are not. Jeff sessions, he is not. Sessions has the courage to stand up to the mob. Dont bow to washington. Stand up for alabama and sessions. We dont know the results, katd la kaitlan, but this is home for you. If Jeff Sessions is the republican nominee i assume the president knows he wants that seat back in republican hands but how will he handle that . Reporter i think he obviously wants the seat back in republican hands but does he want Jeff Sessions in that seat . It is really a tossup if you talk to people close to the president because it doesnt matter who Jeff Sessions is running against. Most people figured the president was going to endorse the opponent because that is just how much he never forgiven Jeff Sessions for recusing himself from overseeing the russia investigation. Its just so notable how you have seen sessions try to navigate this because it is something that alabama voters do bring up and if the president is successful with this endorsement of tuberville to beat sessions tonight it shows the power of the president to completely alter someones reputation because Jeff Sessions safely held the senate seat for two decades, a very strong following in the state, a ton of support, never even close to losing the seat before and now in the fight for the political life and people are questioning what will he do after this, after losing potentially where would he go and do next . That isnt clear and for the president it is personal here. Not that he is personally close to Tommy Tuberville but he isnt and said yesterday during that call last night calling the Coach Nick Saban by the wrong name repeatedly saying that tuberville would have a direct line to the oval office if he did win. We talk about this, the president maybe didnt read the brief closely and lou saban was the first coach of the boston patriots. Nick saban is the coach of the crimson tide and revered in alabama. You said the president repeatedly referred to nick saban as lou saban. He passed away more than a decade ago and nick saban may be a distant cousin but the president mixed up there. It is funny, too, john, because my first instinct is why is President Trump talking about nick saban in whatever garbled fashion with a coach and kaitlan knows this, too, but, you know, those two camps dont mesh well and even the context of trying to invoke sabans name is odd to me but i think it shows in a way just the fact that donald trump is not so much devoted to a particular element of the state of alabama but to defeat Jeff Sessions and i have been told by white house officials that donald trump has said to associates perhaps half kidding if Jeff Sessions wins he would campaign for the democratic candidate doug jones. Well count the votes tonight and see where it goes and i get your point of auburn and alabama, trust me. I have gotten the death glare for ms. Collins suggesting any other color than red in the state of alabama. Texas another big state had joe bidens attention. Showing that red state now in play and Biden Campaign trying to take advantage of that. Listen to this new ad targeting texans. Im thinking of all of you today across texas. And though the rising case numbers is causing fear and apprehension, i will not abandon you. Were all in this together. Well fight this together and together well emerge from this stronger than we were before we began. Im joe biden and i approve this message. Cnns reporter in delaware. To the speech in a moment but start with texas. Democrats say make the play, mr. Vice president. Hire a field staff. Invest seriously. Not only try to win the state yourself but help democrats running up and down the ballot there. The question for the Biden Campaign is do you look at the moment saying do it or the history saying maybe not worth it . Reporter joe biden is clearly showing today that they have their eyes on texas with that first general election tv ad that they are airing in the state it focuses on the pandemic at a time when coronavirus cases are spiking in the state. You will notice in that ad it makes no mention of President Trump but bidens advisers believe that the tone and message from that ad will present a stark contrast with how the president has handled the coronavirus pandemic. But look. Texas is an incredibly typically red state. They havent elected a democrat for president since carter back in 1976 but recent polling has shown that biden is competitive with the president in that state at this time. So now we see them testing the waters with this new ad that they have released today but back here in delaware in just a short while joe biden is going to talk about the second plank of his economic recovery agenda, what the campaign called the build back better plan in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and todays focus on clean energy and sustainable infrastructure. The highlights of the plan, biden calling for 2 trillion of investment in Clean Energy Projects over 4 years and vowing to end Carbon Emissions from power plants by 2035. Also an Environmental Justice component of the plan saying that about 40 of those Clean Energy Investments directed to disadvantaged communities. These proposals that the campaign is putting forth today represent a significant shift of where he was in the primary. If you just look at that 2035 standard when it comes to clean elect t electricity that is more ambitious than proposed and hearing more about how to use the stimulus spending for the economy after coronavirus. John . Arlette for us in wilmington and will have the speech later today. Thank you. It is the summer of covid and protests and now a summertime surge in crime. What happens in america when the police, the people both come under fire . Cnns don lemon tonight with a look at crime, policing and your safety. 10 00 p. M. Eastern here on cnn. The nfl with face masks to provide the players from covid. We have more towers, more engineers, and more coverage than ever before. This is not just a Bigger Network its a better one. And now you can get an Awesome Network at an amazing price. Welcome to tmobile. Americas largest 5g network. Were helping members catch up by spreading any missed usaa insurance payments over the next twelve months so they can keep more cash in your pockets for when it matters most find out more at usaa. Com a wrinkle today as the nfl tries to deal with a unique challenge, protecting players in a high contact sport. Lets bring in andy shoals. The nfl trying to protect the players with new head gear. Yeah, john. Nfls not in the bubble like the nba. Theyre practicing in the home cities, going home after practice and then going to be all over each other and nfls Players Association medical director said football is the perfect petrie dish for transmitting the virus. What will you do . Theyre teaming up with oakley and they came up with this new mouth shield. Its got airways and openings and does block direct transmission of droplets and help in preventing the transmission of the virus. A source tells cnn theyll give it out to select teams to continue trials with it. Theyre not mandating that players use this right now. The doctors for the nfl encouraging players to wear it but might have a tough task to sign on for this. Jj watt said he tried to wear a visor once and suffocating and so, john, breathability, visibility the big issue with the sheeds bields but they hope keep innovating so the players are comfortable with Something Like this. Watching the safe te debate, how do you make the season work . Thats a back and forth between the league and the union. Where are we . A source tells us that the league and the union are holding more calls today discussing certain things like testing protocols, player optouts and the preseason. Some things to work out to get the season going. John, the players they want to be tested every day and dont want preseason games at all. The league wants according to espn testing every other day and two preseason games and those are the details to work out and they have come a long way and still just two weeks away from Training Camp and dont have a concrete plan in place. Clock is ticking there. We well see if it works out. Thank you so much. Coming up, if you notice stocks are surging despite the pandemic but be careful. Airlines and banks reporting big losses. When you shop for your home at wayfair, you get way more than free shipping. You get thousands items you need to your door fast the way it works best for you. Ill take that wait, honey, no. You get a delivery experience you can always count on. You get your perfect find at a price to match on your schedule. Yes you get free two day shipping on the things that make your home feel like you. Wayfair. Way more than furniture. Wayfair, youve got just what i need new perspective on the economic shock. Corporations beginning to report the Second Quarter earnings today and you getting a much clearer picture of how dire the picture is. Christine romans breaks down the numbers. Reporter the contrast between the pain on main street and the rally on wall street has been stark. Take a look at how stocks performed in the pandemic. The longest bull market ended march 23rd and since then stocks rallied more than 40 . The stock market is riding a wave of record stimulus from congress and the fed and the big test now is earnings season. Profits are forecast down more than 40 , the biggest drop since the great recession. Its even worse for banks. Jpmorgan chase just reported a 51 plunge in profit for the Second Quarter. Its Ceo Jamie Dimon is kouscaut. Jpmorgan built up a 8. 9 billion reserve to brace for loans that could go bust in the months ahead. Delta air lines reported the worst quarter in more than a decade, burning 43 million a day. Its ceo warned it will be more than two years before the industry recovers. Airlines have access to secured loans under the c. A. R. E. S act something that delta has not decided to take. All that emergency federal spending is leading to a record deficit. Brand new numbers show a 864 billion shortfall in june alone. As a share of the economy, the deficit is now the biggest since world war ii. John . 864 billion. Christine romans, thank you so much. Harvard university and mit expected to challenge President Trump in court over a directive to threaten to remove International College students. The Administration Says foreign students who plan to take online classes this fall cannot stay in the United States. That is a threat many states universities call cruel and especially in the middle of the pandemic. Lets get to Shimon Prokupecz for more. Reporter we will have obviously both sides there, the government there and harvard, mit and also joining in this lawsuit in briefs are attorney generals across the country, new york, los angeles, california, schools all across the country joining this because it affects so many schools, so many students who are here on student visas. Talking about hundreds of thousands of students like the ones here at Harvard University behind me, some 5,000 students are affected by this and some of the arguments you will hear from the school and others is that in some ways this is retribution against the schools because they are refusing to fully reopen like the president wants, harvard said they will be in full online classroom offering only and so therefore some of the 5,000 students could be affected and have to essentially leave the country. The, iss issue is obviously it dream to come to the United States, to harvard, to mit, other schools and that will be ripped away from them and economics. Schools rely on the money that a lot of foreign students bring and also the cultural experience for students from here and attending harvard and the students that are coming here so this is a really wide, sweeping rule here by the administration that they hope they can at least get an injunction for temporarily. Trying to stop it but as you know too well federal court cases can drag on for a long time. Theres a calendar about the school year. Any sense of when this will be decided . Reporter no. Theres no sense of this but think of this. As we know where this administration so much in court and we have seen the process unfold. If, if the federal court rules against the administration, there is then an appeals process and we could wind up seeing this before the Supreme Court as we have seen so many situations here with this administration, john. Well keep an eye on it. Thanks so much. Thank you for jonning us today. See you back here tomorrow. Brianna keilar picks up our coverage right now. Im Brianna Keilar and welcoming viewers here in the u. S. And around the world. More states and cities are shutting down once again responding to the reality of infections even as President Trump pressures the u. S. To stay open and reopen, including places where it would undermine Public Health. A damning statement in a the Washington Post oped by four men who used to run the cdc blasting the administrations attacks on doctors a