President trump today said the virus will just disappear. 22 states have paused or rolled back plans to reopen because of a surge in spread. Tonight the president is trying to save face. Now insisting he is behind masks 100 . I am all for masks. I think masks are good. If i were in a group of people and i were close. You would wear one . I have. People have seen me wearing one. What people . Certainly not the American People. He has gone out of his way to make sure the American People never see him in a mask. I dont see it for myself. I dont want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it. Now he says he is fine with masks. He said that and still didnt wear one. Not leading on this. Why is he not changing his verbal tune. 2 3 of americans believe he should wear a mask. And then there is this, his closest allies have desserted him. I think this is the right thing to do. We must have no stigma. None about Wearing Masks. My home state, i do believe in Wearing Masks. I think if the presid
It could be worse in the fall. And we are all continuing to increase everything we do. In louisiana, Governor John Bel Edwards is the latest to issue a mask mandate announcing everyone over the age of 8 must wear a Face Covering in public unless a Health Condition prevents them from doing so. And announcing all bars will be closing starting tomorrow. And in texas a patient in their 30s died from coronavirus after attending a covid19 party. A gathering held by someone hin fected with the virus to see if it is real. The doctor at the hospital tells nbc news the last words to the nurse were, i thought this was a hoax but its not. Weve got a team of reporters and contributors. Dr. Lipi roy will break down the latest developments but we gib wi with sam brock and the record breaking numbers out of florida. You could make sense of this . Reporter i cant make sense of it to say except there is more testing, alex. 15,300 cases today. The previous record in florida was about 11,500, so 4,000 mor
In los angeles, where the case total tops 150,000, the mayor is edging towards another shutdown how much worse does it have to get in los angeles before you feel compelled to issue another stayathome order sure, well, i think were on the brink of that. New york city, once beyond the brink, now entering phase four of reopening monday hoping not to slide back after scenes like these. A street party in astoria, queens, that looked like a playbook of what not to do in a global pandemic. Hundreds gathered in close quarters, partying with no masks. A fresh reminder americans should not be letting their guard down during this crisis. You talked about kids theres new information about older children and the spread of the virus. What do we know . A new study out of south korea that looked at 65,000 people, so a huge study, found that 10 to 19yearolds are just as likely if not more likely to transmit the virus as adults a scary thought with schools opening next month kate absolutely. Sam, thank
Pass suffrage back in the early 1900s here in the United States of america. Those were torn down. Just yesterday, a woman a social worker woteaches at a local school just outside madison was charged with beating a state senator. A democrat state senator. Her name is samantha hamer. Hopefully she will be given justice, but i want to emphasize to my colleagues on the left that if you think youre insulated from antifa which is supposedly a myth, you should really think about that because they and other radicals will not spare violence on anyone. Their anarchy is bent to destroy our country. If you want to contact formaler colleague state senator tim carpenter, a democrat, he will tell you he was beat to a pulp on that night at midnight when they were tearing down those statues. It is not a myth. So mr. Attorney general, i would ask mr. Burnell trammell, i dont know if our attorney general attorney general call in wisconsin or the mayor of milwaukee are going to pursue what appears to perh
Will address the pandemic and the hurricane. Approaching there. It comes as the president is drawing a rare rebuke from republicans even one of his predecessors for raising the alarming possibility of delaying the november election. This as more states opt for mailin ballots due to the danger of voting in the pandemic. We should note only congress can delay the election. That said, its part of a larger effort to delegitimize the election in advance. Randi kaye has the top story, that is the approaching hurricane in the midst of a pandemic storm. Reporter absolutely. We are awaiting for the hurricane to approach. 253 deaths yesterday. Florida still leads the nation in new cases, new daily cases. Nearly 10,000 yesterday. 9,956. 50 hospitals in the state are without icu beds at all. They have run out of them. So all of this as were waiting for this hurricane that is brewing out there to come to florida. It is supposed to get here on saturday and then work its way up the east coast. We are