Need to retool their ventilation systems. A violent weekend. At least five children killed in cities across the country including this eight Year Old Girl in atlanta. On the attack, the president goes after nascar and driver Bubba Wallace as he appears to defend the Confederate Flag. Breaking news on that white woman who called police on a black man bird watching in central park. The criminal charge she faces and does that mean jail time . And we end tonight with a story of inspiration, a mom beats covid19 then gives birth to triplets. This is the cbs evening news with Norah Odonnell, reporting from the nations capitol. Odonnell good evening to our viewers in the west. Thank you for joining us. We are going to begin tonight with a dangerous and growing surge of new coronavirus cases across 40 states. Pushing hospitals to test limits. Taxing Testing Capacity and forcing governors to close businesses that had just reopened. And tonight, the countrys top Infectious Disease doctor says mos
This weekend, which raises serious questions about what the nations top scientists are saying to the president , whether theyre willing to stand up to him. We will get into that in a moment. Joining us now is dr. Ashish jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute and cnn chief Political Correspondent dana bash. Great to see both of you. Dr. Jha, what is your biggest concern as we start this week . Yes, good morning and thank you for having me on. My biggest concern is the remark that dr. Fauci made last week about how we may get to 100,000 cases a day. We were in the 40s then, and much of the weekend we saw 50,000plus cases, and then some of the behavior we saw over the weekend, i think were just on an accelerated phase, where well see more and more increases in the days and weeks ahead, without a real plan for how to stop it and bring the numbers down. I want to put a couple more figures up on the screen so people can see them in terms of hospitalizations in texas. We have a
Types of pictures. Hospitals in states like arizona and texas are filling up and could soon be overwhelmed. If we dont get our hands around this virus quickly, in about two weeks, our Hospital System could be in serious, serious trouble. President trump claiming that 99 of coronavirus cases are totally harmless. That claim not only evidencefree, but defying reality. Im not going to get into whos right and whos wrong. Multiple epicenters and there are going to be more in two to three weeks. No doubt about it. Announcer this is new day with Alisyn Camerota and john berman. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is new day. It is monday, july 6th, 6 00 here in new york. Nice to have you back. Thank you, john. Great to see you. I told people we were on a break. I dont want to know what you did or with whom during that time, john. We have a lot of news to get to, because coronavirus cases are still spiking across the country. And packed crowds cel
Reportedly settling on a reelection message amid the death and misery brought on by the present pandemic. The message is, get used to it. The Washington Post reporting they hope americani ins will le to accept tens of thousands of new cases a day. They want you to grow numb, not just the death toll but also to their failure, to what you see on this chart. This national shame. The chart illustrates the fact the european union, canada, mexico, china, japan, they all brought their cases down, but not us. Our daily cases just keep rising. We are now around 50,000 new ones a day. This is the american exceptionalism that donald trump has achieved, and there is no plan to turn it around. No. There is just a plan to try to convince americans this is normal, this is fine. Thats what we get from a guy who inherited a bunch of money from his daddy and then spent decades of public life bsing and bullying and tieing people up in litigation and acting so shamelessly he was eventually able to get ove
Nearly half the nation rolled back reopening plans going back ward. And now Health Officials in municipalities bracing for the numbers to rise after many people skipped the masks and social distancing to celebrate the fourth of july and the president is feeding their public defiance by lying over the weekend saying that 99 of cases are quote totally harmless. New yorks governor said by denying the facts the president is enabling the virus. He wont wear a mask. Because he doesnt want to admit that there is a covid virus. Why . I have no idea. But his denial of the problem and his making statements like that, 99. 9 dont have to worry about it, okay, then theres no issue. Saying to the American People theres no problem and they dont wear a mask or take any precautionary behavior and the virus goes like this. He is, he is facilitating the virus. Cnns tom foreman taking an indepth look at where the states are surging with texas where the beaches on South Padre Island packed this weekend. Le