He calls the guidelines impractical, very tough and expensive. The president wants schools open starting next month so parents can go back to their jobs. A necessary step to fully reopen the economy. Vice president mike pence reinforcing that message but with a different tone. The president said today we just dont want the guidance to be too tough. Thats the reason why next week cdcs going to be issuing a new set of tools. More now from White House Correspondent jeremy diamond. Reporter pushing for schools to reopen, President Trump is already turning to heavyhanded tactics threatening to cut funding to reluctant schools and dismissing some of his administrations own Public Health experts. Falsely accusing democrats of opposing School Reopenings across the board, the president tweeting, may cut off funding if not open. What you heard from the president is just his determination to provide the kind of leadership from the federal level that says were going to get our kids back to school
We are still knee deep in the first wave of this. We went up, never came down to baseline, and now were surging back up. So its a serious situation that we have to address immediately. Now a series of circumstances associated with various states and cities trying to open up in the sense of getting back to some form of normality has led to a situation where we have recordbreaking cases. Right now 31 states are headed in the wrong direction with case numbers up from last week. 31 states. Nearly half the states are now rolling back or pausing their plans to reopen and icu beds in hardhit florida and texas are quickly filling up. Cnns nick watt has the latest. Reporter on Independence Day florida suffered more new cases than any state has ever. Still, the governor seems sanguine. Thiss no reason to be fearful of it. Reporter but some mayors are. Whats happening is whats happened across the country. When we opened, people began to socialize as if the coronavirus didnt exist. Reporter miamid
Fall. Weve gotten a lot of feedback from you all online about the reopening debate and well get to your responses later this hour and well talk to u. S. Education secretary, former u. S. Education secretary arne duncan. Our reporters are live over the map, covering the Coronavirus Crisis for us. Well start the hour with Polo Sandoval in new york. Polo, whats the latest . Reporter well, abby, the latest is you have multiple local officials across the country that are essentially not just pausing reopening but rolling it back. One example, in atlanta yesterday where the mayor announced that in atlanta, theyre going right back to phase one. That will mean a stay at home order. The mayor saying the state essentially opened in a reckless way, in a reckless manner to use the words she used. But the response shes getting from officials at the state level is certainly quite different here. The governor saying that that is really an unenforceable action. You look at other states, though, i can
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,
May need to press pause on reopening plans. I would hope we dont have to resort to shutdown. I think that would be something that is obviously an extreme. I think it would not be viewed very favorably even by the states and the cities involved. So rather than think in terms of reverting back down to a complete shutdown, i would think we need to get the states pausing in their opening process. Heres why hes saying that. Another single day record of more than 63,000 new cases in the u. S. With new daily records for deaths set in at least three different states. Our coverage begins this morning with cnns martin savidge. Reporter three states set new grim records for number of deaths in a 24hour period due to coronavirus. California, 149. Texas, 105. And florida, with 120. Also in florida, the department of Health Reporting an additional 8,935 new cases. As well as their highest possibilities and now we have a higher blip than may and begin the june. The almost daily surge in numbers, its