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Of time. Also today from the cdc, a new estimate of how many people may be infected with the coronavirus while experiencing no symptoms at all. The cdc says as many as 40 , 40 positive for the virus but not sick showing no symptoms. The cdc also estimates about half the covid19 transmissions happen between people before they get sick. Across the United States, look how many states are now reporting a rise in coronavirus cases. In some areas the rise is significant. Florida, georgia, south carolina, today were hearing texas all reporting record or near record high numbers of confirmed covid19 infections in a single day. This sharp upward trend of new coronavirus cases and soaring hospitalizations drawing this dire warning from one of the nations leading Public Health experts. What were looking at is what i think is going to be one of the most unstable times in the history of our country unless we figure out a way to do something, unless we implement a federal plan. We still can do this, but we need a president engaged. We need a white house engaged. Just days after the Texas Governor greg abbott told television station kriv that covid19 numbers would look worse going into next week, the latest numbers are backing up that ominous warning. The state today broke its alltime record for new cases in a single day. For the second time in this pandemic the number is crossing the 10,000 mark. Texas just topped a quarter of a million cases and the numbers have taken off since mid june. Joining us now the mayor of austin texas, steve adler. Mayor adler, thank you so much for joining us. We see things are bad. Apparently, you can correct me if im wrong, getting a whole lot worse in texas right now. Tell us, first of all, whats happening in austin, texas. Numbers are going up and it is precarious and were on the edge. Our icus are getting more stressed. Were looking at horizons that scare us, but were also now beginning to get calls from other parts of the state that are hit harder even than we are asking if we can take folks. Its a scary time. You know, we had a community here in austin that took this warning probably about three weeks ago, started more religiously wearing face coverings, really serious about distancing and we can see the impact on numbers. I mean, if anybody still wants to suggest that masks dont make a difference, they just have to come to austin and look and see whats happened in the last three weeks. The question for us is going to be did we do it soon enough to be able to avert whats going to be just what would be a horrible situation. Certainly horrible, indeed. I understand, mayor, that the Austin Convention center is now being set up to have a Field Hospital inside that can serve up to 1500 patients. It reminds me of what a couple of days ago they were doing in new york city. The javits Convention Center was turned into a Field Hospital as well. It wont open for, i understand, nine more days, is that right . Thats right. We had to make that its a fourweek startup to open up a facility like that and where we were four weeks ago is we were just on a trajectory that was just screaming upwards. We made the call then to open it. It will be available for us i think on july 20th, 22nd. My fingers are still crossed that were not going to need it, but, again, we are on the edge. What makes this hard is that you have to act now to impact numbers in two and three weeks. Its not anything you can impact overnight. Well, as of right now do you have enough hospital beds potentially to make it that long until the Convention Center Field Hospital is ready . We can make it until the Field Hospital is available, yes. And im okay tonight, but when i look at the trajectories, there are a lot of scenarios that have us immediately in the situation where we cant and thats why the discipline that the community began to show about 2 1 2 weeks ago with respect to masking and distancing is critical. Im watching whats happening in cities around the country that have gotten their numbers low and now theyre relaxing. It looks like too many of them are going to try to redo what we did in texas when we opened. Austin, again, is a cautionary tale. Cities cannot open in any way that looks like what they used to do before the pandemic. Weve seen people waiting outside in long lines for covid19 testing in austin. Were showing our viewers some video of that. I understand it topped 100 degrees there today. Are people still waiting in those long lines even on these very hot days . Sometimes they have to wait for hours and hours and hours. People are waiting because they have to take the tests. Ill tell you right now, there are so many people that want to take tests, we dont have the number of tests we want. The labs are not returning the tests quickly enough to make the information as usable as it should be. Were not finding out that someones affected early enough so they can isolate so we can better contact trace. We, again, are in such a precarious place here right now in texas. Governor abbott, the Texas Governor, is ordering most texans to wear a mask finally. It was long ago you and other mayors were begging for that authority and he said no. Does this mask rule of his come too late right now . I dont think we know the answer to that question. I mean, im real happy that it came. You know, we were going to our community and saying, dont Pay Attention to what the governors doing or not doing. We have to do it here anyhow, but its a huge difference when the state leader or when the president conveys to their jurisdictions that its not only something thats advisable but its necessary and its mandatory. Theres a huge difference in the messaging. Right now the messaging coming out of d. C. , the messaging that we had in texas that while it was good, it wasnt required, is one of the hardest things that youre dealing with locally because masks make a difference. You just have to look and see whats happened in our city in the last two weeks. And the cdc now says, 80 of the people who have coronavirus are totally asymptomatic. They dont know they have it but they can certainly spread the disease to their parents, grandparents, friends, neighbors and it potentially could be very deadly. Mayor adler, thank you so much for joining us. Good luck to everyone in austin. Wolf, thank you. Be safe. You too. In arizona right now Health Officials are reporting a critical shortage of in patient hospital beds as doctors there are fighting the coronavirus pandemic. Cnns Evan Mcmorris santoro is in arizona near the grand canyon. I understand the Public Health emergency there is ongoing. Definitely far, far from over. What are people telling you as the states Tourist Attractions are now open for visitors . Reporter well, thats right, wolf. The situation in arizona is pretty dire. The sevenday average per capita new caseload has been the highest in the country since june 7th. Its a very serious time in arizona. Places like the grand canyon, south rim are very important tourist destinations is open. Park officials tell me theyre seeing a lower crowd than they usually see, half what they usually see. Weve been here all day. Weve seen people all day. Vacation is happening. This is the kind of place you can do it if you can get out off the rim and into the park. I want to talk to people who i met who have left new york and been traveling around the country and theyre traveling during the pandemic. This is devin and zach. Hello. How are you . Hello. Tell me, what is the secret to traveling during this pandemic . Stick to the forest. Dont go to any other sites. Be by yourself. Its a different kind of trip. Youre not going to the places people gather, youre sticking to yourselves. Yeah, as little as we can. Still got to see the canyon when youre here, i guess. Youve been around the country and seen a bunch of places. What do you see about people who are traveling, maybe some people are Wearing Masks, some not Wearing Masks. Whats your take on how people are adapting to the social distancing around the country . Its kind of like 5050 between people Wearing Masks and entire people being uncovered. Depend where you go. Some people are higher cases, deer park, bring your gear. Youve got to. Mask and sanitizer. Thats it. Great. Wolf, here at the grand canyon there are mask rules when youre inside the buildings here. If youre in the park walking around, they say use your best judgment. Weve been out today. Some people are wearing them, some arent. Best judgment is to wear a mask. Very easy to do. Evan mcmorris santoro. Thank you. Long lines of cars at Dodger Stadium today. Two reasons for that. Some signs of light for Major League Baseball but a Critical Health care mission is happening right outside dodgers stadium. Paul bercamen is joining us. Reporter it was an intersection of two big stories today, wolf. If you look behind me at dodgers stadium, we had this testing site that the city of l. A. Says is the largest in the nation. A capacity of 6500 people per day. Six lanes of cars. This after l. A. County announced 57 new deaths and more than 2900 new cases of coronavirus. So this testing was going along swimmingly and then inside the stadium, call it a dress rehearsal. Theyre getting ready to start Major League Baseball in less than two weeks. The dodgers held an intersquad game and you could see evidently all the rules are being put in place. One of them, we didnt see anybody spitting. Youre not supposed to spit tobacco anymore or sun flower seeds. The players have their temperatures taken twice a day. If they exceed 104. They will be fed in individual containers. No more going to the buffet style lines. We understand one of the players who wasnt here today, david price, has opted out for the season. Now developing news here. The new york yankees pitcher, chapman, the closer, he has tested positive for covid19. Heres what his manager had to say. Obviously this virus does not discriminate. It can get to anyone at any point so its obviously just another reminder that we have to be vigilant as far as wearing our masks when possible, the distance, the decisions were making away from the field to as best we can stay out of harms way. Those are all just constant reminders and, by the way, not that anyone that has been in here hasnt done that, including chappy, but its just important that, you know, it can strike at any time. Reporter and also at dodgers stadium, one of the new rules, dont go up to an umpire and start arguing in his face. Its a great way to get ejected or even more. Back to you, wolf. Paul, thank you. Washington nationals will do great again this shortened season. Appreciate it very much. With cases surging across many states like texas, arizona, florida, the new studies by the centers for Disease Control says, get this, 40 of those infected with coronavirus show absolutely no symptoms. Well have details on how that complicates the fight against this deadly virus. Well be right back. About your financial plan. Og so are we. Prudential helps 1 in 7 americans with their financial needs. Thats over 25 million people. 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No, just like why is everyone making sourdough now. But yes, youre gonna want 5g. At t is building 5g on americas best network. Visit att. Com to learn more. Truly a very chilling statistic. The sentencse centers for die control and prevention say 40 of people show absolutely no symptoms. Thats a stunning number and only adds a lot of confusion to battling this pandemic. Joining us now with more, d dr. Esther chiu. Also with us, dr. Sima yasmine. Dr. Chiu, help us understand. If someone is asymptomatic, does that mean they could be as contagious as people with symptoms yet they never realize they have the virus at all . Yeah, thats been one of the really genius things about the virus. I mean, for a microorganism thats motivated to spread, one of the most devious things you can do is give people enough of a viral load to transmit it to other people while they barely feel anything or dont feel anything at all. And so when we first met this virus we were hoping that most people who spread it would look ill, you know, as they do in flu, would have fever, would be coughing, sneezing, but as time goes on, were finding that this virus is able to spread either when people have no symptoms or when the symptoms are so mild they dont really consider themselves to be too ill to go out. Thats why its so important to wear masks because we cannot judge for ourselves whether we are spreading the virus. We could be spreading it all around while we still feel well enough to be doing regular daily activities. Thats really so important. So confusing, dr. Yasmine. So many people including young people who dont seem to have contributing Health Factors have become seriously ill and even some of them have died from covid. Others dont know that they have it. Why does this virus hit some people so much harder than others . Is it a matter of age . If youre older you will have symptoms but if youre younger you wont . So i think we did a good job early on, wolf, of driving home this message that proportionately its older people and people with some chronic conditions who seem most at risk of developing severe disease and are most likely to die, but that may have given many younger people a false sense of security that they are invincible, that they are somehow immune to this infection. Thats certainly not the case. Weve seen people in their teens, 20s, 30s die from covid19. Just today, wolf, i learned that a 30yearold man in texas died from covid19 after attending a covid party. This is a party where party goers went there to purposefully get infected with covid19 believing that it would be a walk in the park for them because theyre young. We also have seen broadway star nick cordero die at the age of 41. When weve seen a disease do this and Different Levels of severity, we think about why some people are susceptible and i have a culprit that maybe its going into overdrive causing more harm than it is good. We are only seven months into studying this virus. A lot remains to be learned, wolf. For example, why are thousands of americans who became infected in march still suffering symptoms right now in july . We dont have an answer for that. We still dont understand why is it some young people die . In the meantime, we need everyone to assume they are susceptible. We need people not to go to covid parties which i keep hearing about. Even dr. Fauci says theres so much were still learning about this virus. Dr. Chiu, the New York Times reports have obtained a 69 page cdc document says fully reopening schools and universities remains the highest risk for the spread of coronavirus. Give us some perspective, dr. Chiu, on whats going on. Everyone wants their kids to go back to school. Yes. We all want our kids to go back to school, and i will tell you this fall i have four schoolaged children. I do not think theres anyone who wants their kids to go back to school more than i do, so im heavily invested in this question, but the truth is there really there are two main components. One is what are schools going to do to prepare for the return of their of the children . And there are a lot of things involved there. Making sure that they transform the physical space so kids can go back, have testing and isolation and Contact Tracing protocols. Making sure that they know exactly what theyre going to do if case numbers start to rise, have protocols for dismissing their students if that is the case, and also have provisions in place for the noneducational needs like nutrition, social support for children who can never make it back because of chronic illness. Also need to have strong support. And then also when school is dismissed, if they need to go back to a virtual setting, that we make sure that every student has the resources so that their education is not interrupted this year. Its a huge challenge. We need to support. They will need billions of dollars of support at the federal level, much more than theyve gotten to make this a reality. The other part is whats happening in the community. If we want schools to open in our neighborhoods, then we need to be acting now to lower our Community Transmission rates. I think everywhere if we are not doing the basic things we need to bring those numbers down and those rates down, we cannot look our teachers and staff in the eye and ask them to go back in. We will need to protect these front line workers before they can go in and feel comfortable teaching our children again. These are life and death decisions. So much at stake right now. Doctors, thank you for joining us. Thanks for all of the important work both of you are doing as well. Really appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Were going to have much more on the coronavirus pandemic just ahead, but were also covering another big story tonight. The former special Council Robert muller is makinga rare Public Statement strongly defending his prosecution of roger stone. Stones loyalty to the president may have saved him from a lengthy prison sentence. Well discuss that and much more when we come back. Ht. Start with americas most awarded network. Give people more plans to mix and match at a price built for everyone. With 700 off our best phones when you switch. Because everyone deserves the best. This is unlimited built right. Hold on one second. Sure. Okay. Okay safe drivers save 40 guys guys check it out. Safe drivers save 40 safe drivers save 40 safe drivers save 40 thats safe drivers save 40 . It is, thats safe drivers save 40 . Hes right there. Its him hes here. Hes right here. Hi hi. 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This afternoon the president doubled down in his defense of stone who was convicted of seven felonies contrasting with what his own attorney general bill barr said about the stone case just a few days ago. Watch this. Roger stone was treated horribly. Roger stone was treated very unfairly. Roger stone was brought into this witch hunt, this whole political witch hunt and the muller scam, its a scam because its been proven false and he was treated very unfairly. What i did what i did, i will tell you this, people are extremely happy because in this country they want justice and roger stone was not treated properly. Well, as you know, the stone case was prosecuted while i was attorney general and i supported it. I think it was established, he was convicted of obstructing congress and witness tampering, and i thought that was a righteous prosecution. And i was happy that he was convicted. Stone was only days away from starting a 40month prison sentence for crimes including witness tampering and lying to congress. Joining us now, cnns senior political reporter nia henderson. Tonight Robert Muller made a rare Public Statement reacting to this writing in the washington post, and im quoting him now, i feel compelled to respond to broad claims that our investigation was illegitimate and our motivation improper and roger stone was a villa maria of our office. The russia investigation was of paramount importance. He was convicted because he committed federal crimes. He remains a convicted felon and rightly so. Whats your reaction to all of these developments . Well, last night donald trump gave us an ugly abuse of power, and tonight robber muller stood up for the truth and law. The most powerful thing he does in his op ed is remind us of basic principles and truths. The russia investigation was legitimate and necessary. Russia, in fact, interfered in the 2016 election. The Trump Campaign knew about the interference, they welcomed it and they expected to benefit. Roger stone lied to congress to try to cover that up and protect the president. Wolf, there will be spin. There will be efforts to distract but those are the truths. Those are the facts. They will not change. Kudos to Robert Muller for reminding us. Fridays official white house statement downplayed stones crimes as what they call process based. What do you say to that distinction . Yeah, thats a meaningless distinction. Thats nonsense. Remember what roger stone did. He went into congress under oath and he lied. He lied about the Trumps Campaign efforts to connect through him to wikileaks. Key stuff. Ive worked in the Justice System, wolf. False statements, perjury, obstruction of justice. If those go unchecked, they will tear down our system. To try to dismiss them as process crimes i think is completely unwarranted. Nia, what do you make of the divergence we have now seen between the president and his own attorney general on this case . The attorney general, bill barr, when it comes to roger stone, seems to be on the same side as robert mueller. Thats right. Very, very surprising because, remember, bill barr is somebody who people will essentially say is somebody whos in place and protecting the president. The president didnt like jeff sessions, he brought in barr and so far theyve been in lock step in many instances. In this instance thats not the case. You heard barr there say this was a righteous prosecution and he was happy with the sentencing as well. Listen, we havent heard much from other republicans in terms of what they feel about this. We heard from mitt romney. He said this is evidence of corruption. Pat toomey also not pleased with what the president has done here. By and large, a lot of silence. We do know that inside the white house there is some disagreement about what the president did here, and i think we do know that the president doesnt necessarily think there is a great deal of a political up side to doing what he did by commuting this sentence because he did it on a friday, right . Its a news dump on a friday thats typically what administrations do to get bad news out that might be politically damaging. Its not clear that this president thinks theres necessarily anything to be gained with his base or his voters by making this decision, but we do know that this is a decision that is a long time in coming. Hes telegraphed it and talked about it for months and months as this case unfolded and the sentencing came down so he does it right before roger stone is supposed to report for this 40month sentence next week. What do you think, ellie, about the president clearly on a different page than his own attorney general when it comes to roger stone . Yeah, well, first of all its good to see william barr stand up for the rule of blaw. I dont think he did that earlier. I dont think hes doing that with respect to the Michael Flynn case but good that he took a stand. This shows you how far out on a limb the president is here. How willing he is to give roger stone a pass. You have to ask the question, whats at stake here. Remember, donald trump tweeted praising roger stone for staying quiet during the investigation. He said roger stone has guts and roger stone said yesterday that he could have turned on the president and thats one of the reasons he was expecting some sort of commutation or pardon. So lets keep that in mind as we try to figure out what the president s motivation might have been here. What do you think were four months away from the election in november. Is this going to have legs . Is this going to be an issue at all . Are people going to forget about it within a few days . You know, probably the over arching things that people will be thinking about when they go into the voting booth will be covid, which this president obviously isnt focusing on at this point even though he wore the mask today when he went to go see those veterans at walter reed. So i dont think this will necessarily have legs. I think it will underscore for a lot of voters who dont like this president a reason why they dont like this president. Hes essentially picking and choosing his friends and interfering in the Justice System to do his pals a favor. Somebody who was obviously acting to protect this president when he lied to congress and obstructed congress as well. Listen, i think voters by and large made their minds up about this president over the last 3 1 2 years and what theyve seen over these last many months was the way he has handled covid and handled it poorly according to most voters at this point. This is something we know the president wanted to do and well see going further does he do this with other people . Right . You think about paul than for the. Hes someone that the president has talked about, tweeted about saying he thinks Paul Manafort was treated unfairly. Is this Something Else that the president feels he wants to do in the way that he acted to protect his friend, roger stone . Does he do the same in the coming weeks or months with Paul Manafort . Nia, ellie, thank you very much. Well continue to follow this story. Meanwhile, tonight arizona is one of the epi centers for the coronavirus pandemic here in the United States. As the number of new cases continues to shoot up, hospitals there are getting overwhelmed. So what can be done to turn the tide . U. S. Congressman rubin gaiellego, live well discuss right after this. With 2 unlimited lines for less than 30 each. Call 1800tmobile or go to tmobile. Com 55. We all know customers can save big. 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Thank you for having me. You may have seen images of an icu nurse standing up to protesters who simply refused to wear a mask. This was back in april. She gave cnn an update this week in how bad things are. I want you to listen to this. After memorial day weekend we really felt things start to ramp up and now were kind of at the point where we are stretched so thin we are at the point of compromising patient safety. Were working with ventilators left with Single Digits of ventilators left. We have triple patient assignments now. We have three covid icus that are completely full. On top of that we have covid care patients, Critical Care patients in the e. R. Units waiting for a bed. Congressman, why is this happening . This is happening because of bad leadership, bad leadership at the white house and bad leadership at the governors office. The reason they were protesting, there was no reason to protest. They did not shut down to stop the spread of coronavirus and was taking the cues from the president. And then when we finally did, they did shut down. We shut down businesses. We turned around the spread of this infection. We opened up too early. The reason, we had a governor who wanted to appease the president. Were paying for it. We had thousands of young men and women crowding into clubs and bars as if there was no pandemic happening and this governor did nothing until it was too late. Even then he has not done much of anything. This governor has taken very little action. Trying to make excuses. We heard that nurses first have perspective. Congressman, what are you seeing in phoenix . What are you seeing around phoenix for that matter as well . How is this affecting you and your family . Well, you know, less than half a mile from my house is a community college. Right now theres averages of eight hour waits to get covid testing. And thats really, you know, obviously heartbreaking. These are largely working class latino families that have no insurance so theyre trying to get free tests. The essential workers of the state were forced to go back to work to feed the state. Now theyre suffering the consequences. My own personal life, ive taken my son out of day care. Hes not going back to day care. I dont want him to get sick. I dont want him also to bring the sickness back to my family or to his mothers family who has some of this immunocompromise. Im lucky. Im an american that has a good paying flexible job. Theres a lot of people that dont have that choice. More importantly, they dont see any real choices or leadership coming from their government. Thats a sad statement. Whats the most important thing that you and your fellow members of congress should be doing right now . Is it time for more stimulus money . Other kind of help . Well, we are, yes, on the federal side more stimulus money to encourage social distancing. Arizona has the worst Unemployment Benefits in the country. We dont want people to go out there and work to survive and accidentally spread the infection. We need to go back and expand on the pp program to keep our businesses open. We need to bring in more resources into arizona. Right now were asking for medical volunteers to come from all over the country. Id like to see the military come in and offer some of their professional medical services. Id ask the governor to actually make that ask to secretary esper. I think that would go a long way. And, you know, we as a delegation are asking this governor to take some leadership. Impose more issues im sorry, impose moorman dates when it comes to social distancing. Impose a statewide mandate when it comes to masks and start a true Contact Tracing program so we can actually contain the spread of this virus. Congressman gallego, good luck to you, everyone in arizona. Thank you. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you. 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The Brazilian Health agency says 1. 8 million and the death total is 71,000 people. You can see how steep the curve is right now. Bill weir is joiningist rig us central brazil. And the president hasnt routinely worn a mask after a judge there ordered him to do it. What are the brazilian people saying about where they are right now . Well, its interesting, wolf. We are in the Geographical Center of brazil, a small town here, that is really home toing a ra cultural communities and there are ininches now communities here, and we met a doctor who was in intensive care ten days. I asked him about the president s prescription of h h hydroxychloroquine. He gave it to his patients because what is the treatment . There is no treatment. It leads to social distancing and hand washing and mask wearing and the president defied a judges order in the capital state and would leave and go to a different state and hug crowds after 108 people in the president ial offices tested positive, he wanted to meet without masks, and without any sense of social distancing right there. And that set acetone. As we have seen in the United States and the tests we know about, the 1. 8 people we know about, its under reported because testing here, a point of comparison, a million americans, we are getting 120,000 tests here in brazil, so one six thd of the amount of testing and they are afraid the curve is going to getgo back up. He is urging the mayors, the governors throughout brazil to quickly reopen the economy. What has been the local response . Again, same question to the same doctor. He have said a lot of my patients, the alternative to covid19, the alternative is starvation. They feel they have no other choice. In this part of the country, it was brought in by a truck driver delivers c delivers soybeans and with no movement in the country, it becomes a political struggle in different places. Bars and gyms and beauty salons just opened in the capital where theyre seeing a spike. They among the first to lockdown. And the first in human nature we are seeing around the world. After 30, 60 days in quarantine, the virus doesnt care. It just spreads. It certainly does. What travel restrictions, bill, are in place for the people of brazil . Very similar to the u. S. , wolf. Theres no restriction internally. They did close the borders with the neighbors country. Almost all of them with the exception of uruguay in march. Its tough to travel, and an american passport will on the get you in a cousin dozen countries and its same already in brazil. It speaks to the difficulty of clamping down without a sense of unity and discipline, and a country of 2 million people, it pops up, it quiets down and pops up. Bill, be pairful. We appreciate your excellent, excellent reporting. Thank you very much. A quick prom. Kamel bell is taking on inequality, from farms to beaches and a new season of united shades of america starts sunday, july 19dth, 10e 00 p. M. Here on cnn. The the doing something Many Americans have done for months. Wearing a mask. Will it be the enough to get more americans to start Wearing Masks and saving lives . We discuss in the next hour of the situation room. vo audi etron. The next frontier of electric. I wondered. Could another come around the corner . Or could it play out differently . I wanted to help protect myself. My doctor recommended eliquis. Eliquis is proven to treat and help prevent another dvt or pe blood clot. Almost 98 percent of patients on eliquis didnt experience another. 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