Vietnam and korean wars combined. Plus a separate internal document objecttained by the n york times shows the Trump Administration is expecting an acceleration, predicting up to 3,000 people in the u. S. Dying every day by june, in a new document from the centers for Disease Control. As isntcnns Kaitlan Collins rs for us now, some states are still not reopening fast enough. Reporter as states ease restrictions and start to reopen, the administration privately estimates the number of daily deaths from coronavirus could sharply increase over the next month. The New York Times obtained an internal document that projection the daily death rate would continue to increase to as many as 3,000 per day by early june. The same document also estimates the number of new cases could jump from 25,000 a day to 200,000 by then. The white house didnt deny the documents authenticity but said it didnt come from the west wing and the data is not reflective of any modeling done by the task force. The task
Projection, and that is that 147,000 americans will die as a result of covid19 by august 4th. This is 10,000 more projected deaths from just this past weekend, and its double what was projected two weeks ago. Here in washington, d. C. , today extending its stayathome order until june, so well be breaking down these maps for you in just a moment. But first, lets talk about that warning, that new warning from the former head of the governments vaccine efforts. Cnns Kaitlan Collins is live for us at the white house. Im also joined by cnn medical analyst, dr. Seema yasmin. What more is rick bright planning to Tell Congress . Reporter well, we know about the allegations of retaliation that rick bright has made. He did it in a formal statement. He did it in that complaint that he filed last week. But whats new in this Opening Statement that we got a hold of ahead of his testimony tomorrow is basically his warning about just how unprepared the u. S. Was going into this pandemic and how unprep
Been infected while well over 88,000 americans have died. Former president obama made those comments at an online commencement address to graduates of historically black colleges and universities, not holding back as he talked about what he see as wrong with the trump administrations response to this pandemic. Watch this. More than anything, this pandemic is fully finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what theyre doing. A lot of them arent even pretending to be in charge. If the worlds going to get better its going to be up to you. Everything suddenly feeling like its up for grabs. This is your time to seize the initiative. Change requires strategy, action, action, organizing, marching and voting. In the real world like never before. President obama didnt leave it there. Two hours ago in the graduate together special that was broadcast here on cnn and the other Major Television networks, he said this. Doing what feels good, whats convenient,
First we begin the president s effort to deceive and distract the staggering of lives in this country and his Administration Response to this crisis. Hes floating baseless conspiracy like he made against president obama and his challenger. He lied in his fight against the world of his health organization. He included a claim of the medical journals warning that the medical journal says does not exist. He fired the government watchdogs bringing a total to fiver. Three of them is just april. The president slams the media and endorsing Violent Attacks against reporters. He continue to tout unproven drugs. He says hes taking hydroxychloroquine himself to help to prevent the virus. I have taken it for a week and a half now. I am still here. Lets go to Kaitlan Collins and dana bash. Our chief correspondent, dana, you covered the white house a capitol hill for years and you cover crisis of the administrati administration. Have you seen a situation where a white house is flat out screwed up so
Seeing a rise without a mask himself and most folks in the crowd not Wearing Masks either. Remember, just days ago, he said the virus is dying out. Right. Its not dying out, clearly. And in texas, governor greg abott, a key ally of the president is urging people to stay home. The northern part of the state is seeing more young people fill hospital beds who seem less sick, but are still contracting this. Lets begin in texas and our correspondent Lucy Cavanaugh is live in dallas. Good morning, lucy. Reporter good morning, poppy. Texas is just one of 26 states seeing a surge in these coronavirus cases this as President Donald Trump said this epidemic, this pandemic has america to its knees and dr. Anthony fauci describing this as a disturbing rise and disturbing surge in cases warning about this concern about this plan to economically reopen states that have been championed by the president. He is also saying that its going to be critical how we operate over the next few weeks in terms of