Increased testing, it is not, because were seeing increased Positivity Rates, a greater percentage of people testing positive. We are live across the country. First lets go to Boris Sanchez in clearwater, florida. Boris, pivotal next couple of days there. I know folks love to go to the beach this weekend, and, boy, i would love to go to that beach right behind you. We all do. What is the state doing now to control that and keep people apart . Reporter well, jim, it really depends on where you are. We got the news within the last hour that the state of florida now leads the nation in the average number of new coronavirus cases per day. Yesterday reporting more than 10,100 cases in it the sunshine state, aard a obviously. It actually has only been eclipsed by one state and thats new york back in april when the wave of cases was cresting there, and Governor Ron Desantis is effectively leaving it up to local leaders to decide what restrictions they want to put on their municipalities. Case
Experienced in the week before. Were seeing about 50,000 new cases a day. Now, Health Officials and municipalities are bracing for the numbers to rise, after many skipped masks and social distancing to celebrate 4th of july. And the president is lying over the weekend saying 99 of cases are, quote, totally harmless. New yorks governor, andrew cuomo, says by denying the problem, the president is helping its spread. Its going to continue until we admit it and each of us stands up to do our part. If he does not acknowledge that, then he is facilitating the virus. He is enabling the virus. How did this become a political statement . This is commonsense. Cnns jason feral has been following where the virus is surging. And floridas breaking records on the number of cases that its seeing in a single day. Right. Reporter and as a result of that, miamidades mayor has had to roll back on reopening efforts there, closing restaurants for indoor dining, closing gyms again as well. And this is what a
Announced they will not send all of their students back to the campuses this fall. So what is he doing here exactly . Hes got the cdc now spinning and saying it will come out with new guidelines, relaxing guidelines around school. Theres always, with this president , an element of politics here. What are they . Thats right, willie. For weeks and even a couple of months, the sort of hot button political cultural wedge issue was use of masks. The president defying all Available Health data, the recommendation of his own medical team and Public Health professionals and not wear a mask. Even in the face of rising elements that a mask reduces the transmission of the virus. And weve seen fellow republicans break with the president and endorse them, other prominent elected officials. Seems the next battleground is going to be schools. In the last 48 hours a remarkable assault from the president making this political push suggesting without evidence that del democratic governors and mayors and
Course, elect a president , elect we did not shutdown entirely a president in the bipartisan thats why when we started to come up, we plateaued at a level tradition to understand were safer in the world when we have that was quite high, about friends and allies that work 20,000 infections a day. Then as we started to reopen, with us. This is going to take time and effort to repair. Were seeing the surges were god forbid if there were eight seeing today. Years of Donald Trumps dr. Anthony fauci yesterday amid the white houses campaign leadership, i dont think it can be repaired. To discredit him, continuing to next january if joe biden is our give his honest assessment of president , im confident we can do the hard work of beginning to whats gone wrong in this country in fighting the repair those relationships, but co we are hearing new were going to have to be patient and were going to have to recognize that a great deal warning from Health Officials that miami is quickly becoming of d
But a lower death rate than d. C. Or anyone up there, than the midwest, illinois, michigan, indiana, ohio, even mississippi, alabama, georgia, florida has the lower death rate. And i was the number one landing spot from people leaving the number one hot zone in the world to come to my state. We succeed and i think people dont want to recognize it because it challenges their knavety. Its worse than new york. Florida Governor Ron Desantis doing his best impression of donald trump in april and may, scolding the media. Over the weekend, florida hit the highest single day total of known cases in any state since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Theres also new reporting this morning that testing delays across the country are obligation efforts to contain the did disease. Amid the surging number of infections, the white house is reportedly seeking to discredit dr. Anthony fauci. The weekend also saw President Trump commuting the sentence of his longtime ally roger stone, despite warning