The president s response, blame and demote his Campaign Manager. The candidate is the problem, but dont try to tell him that. News last house, the president did finally speak with his top Infectious Disease expert dr. Anthony fauci after more than a month of silence between the two men. Fauci says we need to hit the reset button on the pandemic response. The president keeps saying the coronavirus is under control and that fullspeed ahead is the only choice for opening schools and keeping the economy own, but the numbers, meaning the facts, tell us the country needs to be having a much more complicated, a much more nuanced conversation. Just wednesday the new number of confirmed coronavirus cases 66,000. More troubling, the death curve no longer trending down. The number of new deaths across the country yesterday 941. The some total of infections 3. 5 million. The pandemic death toll here in the United States, a sad 137,000 and counting. Now the president is right to say it is misleadin
Rico reporting record hospitalizations. Yesterday afternoon, floridas Miamidade County ran out of icu beds. Texas and two other states reporting their highest singleday death totals. Texas and florida, both reporting more than 10,000 new cases on wednesday. This morning, cases increasing in 39 states. School districts in houston and San Francisco announcing they will begin the new school year online, defying President Trumps call to get students back in the classroom. Alabama will now enforce a masked mandate, but highrisk states like georgia, florida, and arizona continue to resist a mask mandate. Its way, way more than just resist a mask mandate in georgia. The governor there justsigned an order preventing cities from issuing mandatory mask orders, so cities that want to make masks mandatory, they cant. And thats in a state reporting record hospitalizations. 137,000 deaths in america now, near record cases, near record hospitalizations. So whats the president s plan . We have a new
Officials at some of the Largest School districts in the country deciding to hold Classes Online this fall, listening to science instead of President Trump. The nations governors and mayors increasingly doing the same, every county in california ordered to stop indoor tif activities. The governor saying a surge in hospitalizations makes this action necessary. This virus is not going away any time soon. I hope all of us recognize that if we were still connected to some notion that somehow when it gets warm it is going to go away or somehow take summer months or weekends off this virus has done neither. In texas where cases exploded depyett the pause on reopening the governor there is resisting urgent calls for a second shutdown claiming that residents would not comply. The houston mayor telling cnn thats whats ed wrong direction. And so this is an opportunity where we have to kind of reassess andha we just need to hit the reset but on the. In florida, the state breaks its own record for
Camerota and john berman. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is new day, and this morning, new signs that states across the country are straining to meet the reality of the coronavirus pandemic in and no signs that the crisis is being addressed seriously at the National Level. At least 12 states in puerto rico reporting record hospitalizations, and there were states, by the way, including texas, florida, ohio, near records here. A state like ohio, we havent talked about in a while. This is a national issue. Floridas Miamidade County ran out of icu beds yesterday. Theyre converting other beds now to meet the needs. Texas and two other states reporting their single highestday death tolls. This morning, cases increasing in 39 states. Look at all the red on this map. That is where cases are going up almost everywhere. School districts in houston and San Francisco announced theyll begin the new school year online. Alabama will now enforce a mask manda
Decisions that fit our community, and for the selma community, this was the right decision and its the right course moving forward. And here is the Church Leader out of georgia who is shutting down sundays service, despite what the white house says. Were for our communities and we dont want to accidentally do something to our communities. And here is the local judge in texas whos taking over the county testing operation, because he cant wait any longer for the federal government to catch up. So it wasnt working at all. Were going to take it over. Were going to do those tests in two days or less. Turn around in two days or less, and we appreciate the federal offer but i politely decline. Theyre stepping up, because they are left with no other option. Clearly. Considering that the president continues to say, were in a good place, with taking on the virus. And continues to try to change the subject. Remember . He went to go talk about infrastructure . But you cant press, cannot press rele