Yesterday. If you want facts, if you want hard answers, tune in just two hours from now. Dr. Anthony fauci and other Top Health Officials will be on capitol hill to face questions from lawmakers about the need for a federal, a National Strategy, and the administrations optimistic prediction that a vaccine could be 90 effective. What does the data tell us . Dr. Fauci is urging caution about any hard predictions at this stage. Thats obviously a very optimistic estimate. We all hope its going to be that way. Im not sure if it will be 90 . But i think its going to be reasonably good. President trump heads to florida today where he will address the pandemic and the approaching hurricane. It comes as the president is drawing a rare rebuke not only from democrats, but republicans, even one of his predecessors, for raising the possibility, the threat perhaps, of delaying the november election as more states opt more mailin ballots due to the danger of voting during the pandemic, something only
Have these things in place. The National Hurricane center talking about this being potentially a category 1 hurricane within the next 24 hours. Im not too worried. We have generators. Storm surge is always the biggest threat. The heavy rainfall, the gusty winds that could be upwards of 70 miles per hour. Announcer this is new day with Alisyn Camerota and john berman. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is new day. Its monday, august 3rd, 6 00 here in new york. Alisyn is off, erica hill joins me today. I understand someone had a birthday. John berman, nothing gets past you. I know, because i just asked you, was it your birthday . You said yes. Happy birthday. Thank you, my friend. Belated. All right. This morning, the United States is in a new phase of the coronavirus pandemic, and new here does not mean good. Dr. Deborah birx tells cnn that this phase is different from march and april because the virus now is so extraordinarily widespread. Califor
Americans safe. Ominous warnings from a top member of the White House Coronavirus task force. She says the u. S. Has reached a new phase of the pandemic. I want to be very clear. What were seeing today is different from march and april. It is extraordinarily widespread. Its into the rural as equal urban areas. And to everybody who lives in a rural area, you are not immune or presented from this virus. And thats why we keep saying no matter where you live in america, you need to wear a mask and socially distance. Now while the number of infections in 27 states has plateaued, the overall figures are still very high. The u. S. Centers for Disease Control and prevention projects another 19,000 deaths in just the next three weeks. Now, we can often get overwhelmed by statistics, but listen to this. Covid19 has killed about 1,000 americans every day for almost a week. Florida and california in red remain the most dangerous hot spots. Theyre seeing a sharp and steady rise in new infections. A
To the virus. Yesterday alone, 1,133 lives were lost and the cdc is warning that another 20,000 people in the United States could die in the next three weeks. One thing we keep hearing from Top Health Experts is that mask wearing is key, key in stopping the spread of this virus. But the president is contradicting his own top medical experts suggestions to the american people. He held a maskless rally in florida, one of the hardesthit states right now even as his advisers are pleaing with him to start wearing one in public every single day. The president spent his second weekend in a row golfing. Again, even as more than 1,000 american lives have been lost each day for the past six days. While we continue to track those devastating coronavirus numbers, another threat is emerging, were talking about Tropical Storm isaias tracking near floridas east coast, bringing with it strong winds and heavy rain. The Tropical Storm is putting more strain on a state which is nearing 500,000 cases and
Americans were lost. The centers for Disease Control is now warning that another 20,000 americans could die in the next three weeks alone. We keep hearing from the Health Experts is key. This president is contradicting suggestions to the American People to start to immediately start Wearing Masks. Even as they are privately pleading to start Wearing Masks in public. One of the top doctors on the Coronavirus Task force went on tv to warn americans of a new phase in the pandemic. Once again even as more than a thousand american lives have been lost each day for the past six days. While we track the devastating coronavirus numbers, were also tracking a Tropical Storm. Meteorologist tom sader is joining us from the weather center. Tell us more about where the storm is heading right now, where its moving next. Its current position is 55 miles from cape canaveral. It looks like this is giving florida a big, big break today. We have been following this for days. It moves from the leeward isla