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
5 00 in the morning. Four days from election day. Hard to believe. President trumps reset on the pandemic has been officially unmasked as the coronavirus dealt out some harsh realities. 27 states seeing an increase in deaths. The death toll now eclipsing 1,000 for the fifth time in a week. Partly because texas changed how it reports the numbers. Hospitalizations nationwide remain near the april peak. Unless we get our arms around this and get it suppressed, we are going to have further suffering and further death and thats the reason why, as ive often said many, many times, there are things we can do right now in the absence of a vaccine that can turn us around. Now there are some positive signs. New cases are up in just 22 states, and thats actually far fewer than two weeks ago when it was almost 40, but every time the country tries to return to normal, the virus fights back. Thats right. After a much anticipated return, there are now questions over whether Major League Baseball can s
Died. A new projection from the cdc suggests another 18,000 or more people could die in the next three weeks. Meanwhile, the test Positivity Rate which shows how fast the virus is spreading is going up. Its rising across 2 3 of the u. S. Compared to last week. U. N. Infection numbers are Holding Steady at half the country. Florida and california seen in red are the most dangerous hot spots. U. S. President donald trump spent sunday playing golf without a mask. Its his 284th visit to one of his own clubs since taking office. In the midst of mixed messages, mr. Trump has used much rosier terms to describe the outbreak than his top experts. Jeremy diamond has more on that. Reporter in recent days we have watched as President Trump has continued to downplay the severity of the coronavirus falsely claiming time and again that the rising cases we are seeing in the u. S. Is due to an increase in testing. The president also continuing to hawk hydroxychloroquine, the drug that has proven to be
Cnn. Com home front. Its the top of the hour now, i am Brianna Keilar and i thank you for joining me. Monthini there is no grand plan. That is the headline from the top Task Force Members on capitol hill. No plan to test more people, no plan to speed up results, no plan to step up contact tracing, no guidance on how to realistically reopen schools safely. The only take away is the rests of the world seems to understand what it takes to control the virus while the u. S. Is completely lost. When you look at the comparison between asia and europe, as shown by the chairmans poster up there, that when they shut down, they shut down at the tune of about 95 , getting their baseline down to tens or hundreds of cases per day, which is when we did it, we got it down, but unfortunately our baseline was 20,000 a day. I think there was such a diversity of response in this country from different states that we really did not have a unified bringing everything down. Cnns nick watt is joining me from
Impacted if his Newest Supreme Court nominee is approved. Reaction in this hours. You an explosive report on the u. S. President s finances rocks the Election Campaign and raises doubts about his image as a successful entrepreneur. The New York Times examined more than 20 years of tax return data for President Donald Trump and his businesses. Their report reveals he paid no federal income tax at all for years. Mr. Trump denies the allegation. Yeah, basically first of all, i paid a lot. I paid a lot of state income taxes too. The new york state charges a lot. I paid a lot of money in state. It will all be revealed. Its going to come out but after the audit im being theyre doing their assessment. Weve been negotiating for a long time. Things get settled like in the irs but right now when you are under audit you dont do it. You dont do that. So were under audit, but the story is a total fake and all of this, we had the same exact questions usually asked by the same people and that took pl