Trying to prepare for a safe return to school. Its all ahead this hour and we are live from cnn headquarters in atlanta. Welcome to our viewers, here, in the United States and all around the world. Im Natalie Allen and this is cnn newsroom. Thank you for joining us. It has been months since the coronavirus reached the United States. And instead of things calming down, several states are breaking records in numbers of cases and deaths. Overall, the country has recorded more than 4 million cases and rising. And more than 146,000 people have died. Florida is recording big, new numbers. It now has the secondmost infections in the country. It just passed new york, which was an early epicenter. Hospitals are getting overwhelmed, now. And positive test rates are rising. But as all that is happening, florida officials are thinking about when to reopen bars, of all things. The mayor of miami beach explains why that is the wrong foc focus, right now. Every day, in Miamidade County right now, abo
Has tested positive after traveling to europe without a mask. And in a different note, in a couple of hours, william barr will testify on capitol hill in this longawaited showdown with house democrats. But lets talk about where we are in the pandemic this morning in the headspinning developments overnight. Joining us now is dr. Jean maras sew, from the Infectious Diseases at the university of alabama at birmingham. Dr. Carlos del rio, the executive associate dean of emery university, school of medicine, at grady health system. We should note hes contributing to the Moderna Vaccine trial. Doctor, we played dr. Anthony fauci having to make a statement this morning saying i dont mislead the American People. Ever. He said. Why did he have to do that . Because President Trump last night in addition to sending out to the 84 million social media message that you dont have to wear a mask, he sent out a message which says that dr. Fauci is misleading people. So fauci had to respond this morning
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