Morning in the race for a vaccine. Russias president , Vladimir Putin, claims his country now has one without providing any evidence. Russia approving its version without completing a phase three trial as well. Well get some perspective on that headline from our doctor on duty in just a moment. Here at home, College Football is in flux because of the pandemic. Multiple conferences are meeting to decide whether they will go ahead with the fall season. President trump now jumping into the fray, calling a cancellation a tragic mistake. We start, though, in florida. That state shattering its record for weekly hospitalizations. The state recorded more than 3,000 hospital admissions from sunday, august 2nd, through monday. That makes florida one of the biggest coronavirus hot spots in our country. Right now it is also making decisions about schooling even tougher for some parents. As states remain open schools remain open in the state, many parents feel they have to choose between the qualit
Combined. Thats whats on fire on the west coast. Californias governor says the air quality, so bad its, quote, the equivalent to smoking 20 packs of cigarettes. In a matter of hours, President Trump will meet with fire officials in california. Joe biden will be giving a speech of his own about the Climate Crisis gripping our country. In a few moments, ill talk with speaker of the house nancy pelosi about the devastation in her home state and district. First, nbcs Erin Mclaughlin is in barry creek, california, one of the areas just leveled by these wildfires. Vaughn hilliard is in phoenix, arizona. President trump will be holding a Campaign Event there after the visit to california. And mike memoli is in wilmington, delaware, covering the Biden Campaign. Erin, ill start with you in california. What are you seeing on the ground now . Reporter hey, craig. Here in california, scenes of complete devastation. The community of berry creek totally destroyed. The firehouse burned out. A school
Serious things that the american public, unfortunately, is going to have to get used to seeing. What were doing with the mitigation is try and blunt that, but no matter what we do, even with the i believe positive effects that were seeing with the mitigation, its going to be a tough couple of weeks coming up. The projections come as federal Health Experts consider recommending that everybody wear masks in public to help stop people who may not know they are infected from spreading the virus. This comes as the surgeon general, dr. Jerome adams says social distancing could remain in place past the end of this month. What weve always said is that everyone is on a different place on their curve. Some places arent going to hit their peak until after 30 day, and theyre going to need to continue social distancing. Other places that leaned in early may be able to relax involvement of the recommendations earlier. Meantime, the irs and the Treasury Department both say americans can start receivi
Heres whats happening. America now on the verge of one of its most difficult darkest periods, a stretch of weeks that could see more americans die from the coronavirus than in the vietnam and korean wars c combined. The administration predicting between 100,000 and 240,000 deaths in this country by midjune. Even if you take the middle number, thats like losing the entire population of a efforts currently in place. Heres President Trump and his team on tuesday. I want every american to be prepared for the hard days that lie ahead. Were going to go through a very tough two week. Were seeing whats happening in new york. That is really, really tough. If you extrapolate that to the nation, well have to be prepared for that. Theres no magic bullet. Theres no magic vaccine other therapy. Its just behaviors. Each of our behaviors tran translating into something that changes the court of this viral pandemic over the next 30 days. As we speak, the numbers are growing, and they are growing fast.
Now, the numbers in those models have led governors and mayors across the country to issue orders for people to stay at home, orders that affect roughly three quarters of all americans. In florida, which has a limited staytoat home order, the Broward County commission is meeting to decide whether two cruise ships with coronavirus cases onboard should be allowed to dock in ft. Lauderdale. Governor ron desantis says hes opposed to the move, despite social distancing and lawsuits, wisconsin says its going to hold its president ial primary on april 7th. Thats a week from today. The state is encouraging voters to use absentee ballots and warns that there could be a delay in counting those votes. And even though its been only four days since President Trump signed the 2 trillion domestic pandemic relief package, House Speaker nancy pelosi said on morning joe that lawmakers are working on yet another bill. This third bill, fourth bill fourth bill but third face will be about recovery. Again,