In the United States from the coronavirus stands at nearly 135,000. That follows four Straight Days where the death toll in the u. S. Was over 800 each day. If you need another sign of how bad this has become, texas today broke its alltime record for new cases in a single day. And all of this is happening on a day when the president is trying to defend a decision that has absolutely nothing to do with the virus, his move to commute the sentence of his former adviser roger stone. Lets get straight to kristen homes at the white house for us. Kristen, the president telling reporters a little while ago there was a time and place to wear a mask. Today he finally wore one. What else did he have to say . Reporter he made it clear, wolf, that this might be the only time well see him in a mask. To take a few steps back here, as you said, President Trump has not worn a mask in almost any scenario. We have one picture of him that was not a public photo. It was taken by someone in a factory behind
Therapeutically i would like that better. Youll have a big surprise. A beautiful surprise. Sooner than anybody would think. We dont know what that means. The Vice President was on capitol hill in a mask for a closed door lunch. Giving republican senators an update on coronavirus. Washington post pence pointed to death rates not on the rise. The task force that pence heads up. It did meet in private tonight. No cameras to discuss those states with decreasing or stable case counts. The rise in new covid19 infections remains largely concentrated in the south skb west. California, florida, texas today reporting record numbers of new illness. California reporting 7,000 cases. North of the number in 24 hours. And while florida says it saw over 5,500 new infections, the governor says its mostly younger people. What were seeing in florida is really rapid transmission. In that 18 to 34 age group. And youre seeing a lot of cases come up. They werent being tested at this level a couple months ago