Mary trump, to block her tellall book. Plus, that roger stone sentencing bombshell. Before congress about facing heavy political pressure to cut the president s close friend a break. Turn of events. The fbi saying nascars only elite black driver, bubba wallace, was not the target of a hate crime after that noose was discovered hanging in his garage. What nascar and bubba are saying this morning. Abc news exclusive. Restaurant confrontation caught on camera. A black mother and her 9yearold son denied service. The manager claiming it was the dress code. The mom is saying it was only enforced because her son is black, pointing out another child in a similar outfit at the same restaurant. Marsia grant and her son dallas join us live. Breaking her silence, bill cosbys wife speaking out in her first major interview in six years hours after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court agreed to hear the disgraced comedians appeal. What Camille Cosby is saying about me too, the black lives Matter Movement and racism in america right now. Firework boom. Tht local officials launching sting operations to find where theyre coming from. This morning, what is behind the explosion. Good morning, america. Good to be with you on this busy wednesday morning. As we like to say, hump day. Hump day. Youre right. It is a very busy morning. We have a lot of news to get to starting with the latest on the coronavirus emergency. Big surge in cases across the sun belt. Take a look at this latest map from fema. L crthcountry. Ot s, flor there will be, quote, no tolerance for crowded bars. Theres also been a record rise in arizona. President trump there for a rally yesterday as the state reports its highest single day increase in coronavirus cases. Yeah, the nations top doctors testifying on capitol hill with a wakeup call for the country. Dr. Fauci delivering that concerning warning of a, quote, disturbing surge of coronavirus cases in some parts of the country, and he contradicted the president , telling congress that we do not have the virus under control. Matt gutman joins us from phoenix, arizona, where we said one of the cases are on the rise. Good morning, matt. Reporter hey, good morning, cecilia. So many parts of the sun belt currently in the midst of that surge with the peak still a few weeks away. I want to give you a sense of what that looks like. One of the Major Hospital systems here in arizona notched a near 20 increase in Covid Patients in just a 24hour period and hospitals are running out of staff. One reason theyre calling for volunteers from all over the country. This morning, a wakeup call from the nations top Infectious Disease doctor about a disturbing surge in covid19. The next couple of weeks are going to be critical in our ability to address those surgings that were seeing in florida, in texas, in arizona and in other states. Reporter as cases climb in more than half the u. S. , dr. Anthony fauci testifying on capitol hill warning the first wave isnt over. And that Community Spread is on the rise. Scenes like this raising concerns and prompting states like texas to crack down. Fema reporting in michigan, north carolina, florida and texas, a majority of their covid19 patients are between 20 and 30 years old. Floridas governor acknowledging the covid surge in his state means theres been an escalation in transmission over the last 7 to 10 days. If you go in and its like mayhem like dance party usa and packed to the rafters, no tolerance for that. Suspend the license and people hopefully get the message. Reporter texasarng a gr record. Hospital in houston now taking Adult Patients as Health Care Workers warn theyre nearing the Tipping Point. Over this last week is when weve seen the Fastest Growing number of covid positive patients that were seeing through our houston methodist doors. Reporter houston Methodist Hospital says its last shipment of donated remdesivir is expected today, and in arizona where President Trump visited tuesday, a packed crowd at a students for trump event in phoenix. No social distancing and few masks in sight. And in yuma, arizona, patients airlifted to other hospitals for acute care. Sa us Hospital System saw a near 20 rise in Covid Patients in a 24hour period. What does that mean for hospitals like yours . Youll get to the point where you have overflow. Reporter and Washington State governor jay inslee now instituting a mandatory mask rule as that state sees an increase both in covid hospitalizations and in deaths. The Health Care System is so stressed that there is no room at the hospital. Repeat, there are no rooms available to people for this treatment in yakima county. Reporter so many of the young people we spoke to at that trump rally said theyre not concerned about covid and Public Health officials see to those young people are not likely to die from it but its not them theyre concerned about. Theyre concerned the young people will bring the virus back to their parents, their grandparents and that those are the people who will be filling the icu wards. George . Lets bring in dr. Marc boom. Dr. Boom, thanks for joining us. Weve seen hospital admissions in houston triple since memorial day. Are you at the Tipping Point . No, were not at a Tipping Point. We have seen hospitalizations triple across the board, across all hospitals, our Hospital System, houston methodist, has seen that as well. We are large, sophisticated institutions. We are able to care for the patients who are coming to us but, of course, were concerned with the trend lines were seeing and its critically important that the citizens of houston really all rally together to do all of the right things so we can contain the spread of this virus and the increases were seeing. What kind of cases are you seeing in the hospital . Who is coming in . You know, thats a bit of better news, but of course, its still a larger number so we have to be concerned, but were seeing younger patients. You know, younger patients we know have done a little better throughout the course of this, but at least an average age of about five years plus were seeing in younger patients. The result is were seeing lower lengths of stay which allows us to care for more patients and handle higher volume and seeing a much lower proportion of icu beds needed. So even though were way above the peak we were at in april, were not even at the peak of icu beds in our system. Now, thats encouraging as well and consequently seeing less ventilator usage, less death and thats all obviously good news. Were watching that carefully and want to make sure thats not just an issue of being an indicator versus hospitalizations but it does look to be a real phenomenon. So thats the good news there. How do you explain the surge . Well, i think whats happened and were watching it around our Community People have completely let their guard down. Honestly as a Health Care Professional and physician myself its frustrating because weve all been saying for a long, long time we know how to conquer this virus. It is through all of those best practices of social distancing and all the other things we talk about, wearing a mask, et cetera, and somewhere around memorial day, people just sort of sighed a breath of relief and said hey, its summer, im going to act like its summer and im going to act like its not here. Were paying the price for that now so the flip side of that is the answer then we have to go back to the best practices that we have. Weve taken care of tens of thousands of patients that dont have covid. Weve had thousands and thousands and thousands of employees coming to work every day for months now and theyre safe and we know we can stay safe with the right practices in place. So if people do social distancing, you dont need lockdowns . I think we can avoid lockdown if people do social distancing appropriately. I mean, as i sai that for month Hospital System. That tells me we can do that in most walks of life. But were not doing that uniformly certainly. Many people are doing that, but clearly not enough. I think we can stop this. Im very hopeful we can do that if everybody rallies around together and focuses on how to do those things together. Dr. Boom, thank you for your time this morning. My pleasure. Thank you. Michael . Thank you, george. Now to a closer look at who is getting sick from covid19. As we saw in some states, people in their 20s are now making up a majority of the cases. The virus showing no signs of slowing down even with the summer here. Victor oquendo i some t stories of those getting sick now. Good morning, victor. Reporter good morning, michael. Its a trend were seeing here in florida as well. More young people testing positive and requiring hospitalization. The icu at Homestead Hospital just south of us, it is now at capacity and theyre transferring patients to other hospitals and doctors there also say its mostly due to Community Spread. Ni ccas rise across the sun belt states those now fighting the virus are telling their stories. In hard hit yakima, washington, where county hospitals are at capacity, amanda jacksons parents are both seriously ill. Her father in the er and her mother in the icu. They didnt even have a lot of energy to check up on each other. They knew that each other was sick but they were in different rooms of the house. It feels like a dream. I really cant believe that this is happening. Reporter cases of coronavirus surging in places like myrtle beach, south carolina, where 14 students from ohio have now tested positive after a trip there. Another 30 visitors diagnosed after returning to west virginia. And in florida, ellen lovehorn talking to gma over speakerphone hospitalized on the covid floor at Wellington Regional hospital. When i woke up this morning i couldnt even move. I couldnt lift my head up. I felt like i was hit by a truck. The coughing is so bad. Reporter 30yearold corinne townsend, mom of two from virginia, is sedated, receiving breathing support. Her story shared by more than 20,000. Corrine writing shes hooked up to a high flow breathing machine at 100 oxygen. Ive had every medicine known to man, more blood draws than i can count. I thought i was in the safe zone. I thought i was healthy. I would be exempt from this covid19 fear. I wasnt. Her husband hayden now holding out hope. She made a little bit more sizable gain in ground than the last few days, so its been positive. Every little plus is just a big victory for us to celebrate right now. Reporter there is no statewide mask mandate here in florida and that has led to real confusion. The rules can vary depending on zip code. In Palm Beach County they just made masks mandatory indoors and led to immediate backlash but the bottom line is every expert will tell you the masks make a difference, cecilia. Every expert indeed. Victor, thank you. As we said the number of cases in arizona did not stop President Trump from holding a rally in a megachurch there. Our Senior National correspondent terry moran has more from the white house and, terry, once again the president used that racist phrase to describe this virus. Reporter he did, cecilia. Good morning. He apparently thinks its funny. A lot of other people think its lame and hateful and pathetic. At any rate the president said something about comeback at that rally, and filled that megachurch with boisterous young people cheering him to the rafters. What he saw as a success many Public Health experts say is a potential superspreading event there, especially in a state, as youve said, with these sharply rising infections and hospitalizations. The president is clearly concerned about the politics of all this, the virus. He once again not only blamed china, he blamed the testing for the United States sharply rising number of infections and he is looking forward to this election, really trying to delegitimize it already and said it is going to be one of the most corrupt the most corrupt election in history, without a single fact to back that up. So you can tell hes in political hot water when he is fighting like that. Cecilia . Thats been an unsubstantiated drumbeat from him. Theres one more headline out of the white house, that tellall book by the president s niece, and it seems the trump family is taking action to block its publication. Reporter thats right, cecilia. Abc news confirmed that Donald Trumps brother has filed for a temporary restraining order. He wants to block the family wants to block the publication of the president s nieces book. Its called too much and never enough how my family created the worlds most dangerous man. This is written by mary trump. Shes 55 years old but she did sign a nondisclosure agreement. Her branch of the family, the president s older brothers children, have been in loggerheads over money and other issues for years with the president s family. Simon schuster, publisher, and mary trumps lawyer says they cannot block the publication of a book that has so much Important Information for the public. Well see how the courts judge that. Cecilia . Big fight to come. Terry, thank you. George . We go to capitol hill now where one of the Justice Department attorneys who prosecuted President Trumps longtime political adviser roger stone is set to testify that he resigned from that post after receiving heavy pressure from the top of the Justice Department to go easy on stones sentencing. Our chief justice correspondent Pierre Thomas has the latest from washington. Good morning, pierre. Reporter george, good morning. In a damning statement to congress in just a little while, aaron zelinsky, a key prosecutor in the roger stone case, will say his bosses at the Justice Department were, quote, afraid of the president and that he felt pressured to give roger zelinskys recommendation for a long sentence was overturned by attorney general barr raising questions of favoritism for the president s political ally. Barr said that zelinskys recommendation was overzealous and points out the judge in the case agreed with his assessment and this morning doj is pushing back hard saying there was never any direct pressure on zelinsky and that he provides no specific evidence to back up that claim. Well see shortly what zelinsky has to say. A dramatic day ahead. George. Extraordinary situation, pierre, thanks very much. Will increase the pressure on the attorney general to testify as well. Thank you. Michael. George, now to the surprising result of that investigation into the apparent noose hanging in nascar driver Bubba Wallaces garage. Nascar and the fbi finding the driver was not the victim of a hate crime and that rope had been there since at least last year. Steve osunsami is in atlanta with more. Good morning, steve. Reporter good morning to you, michael. This is now a different story than it was a day ago, and the people who want to believe that this was a hoax and not some racist gesture are even farther down that road. Bubba wallels strongly that at was found in his garage at talladega this past weekend was a racially offensive symbol and not some accident. Its a straight up noose. The fbi has stated it was a noose over and over again. Nascar leadership has stated it was a noose. Reporter he went on cable news and agreed that the racist gesture wasnt meant for him. Whether it was tied in 2019 or whatever it was a noose so it wasnt directed at me but somebody tied a noose. Reporter you can see it here in video that federal investigators discovered from last october. A garage pulldoor rope that someone had made into a noose has been hanging in front of stall number 4 since as early as last fall. It was home to another teams car at the time. Authorities say no one will be charged. The department of justice and fbi put out a joint statement saying nobody could have known mr. Wallace would be assigned to garage number 4 last week. Nascar says its thankful to learn this was not an intentional racist act and promises to continue its own investigation. Were going to continue our process and our Due Diligence on this to understand how and why a noose was present in the garage at any point. Reporter the discovery of the rope on sunday by someone on wallaces team both divided and united the world of nascar. It was wallace who encouraged the sport to finally ban the confederate battle flag at its racetracks and the noose felt like payback. Theres no word this morning on who made the noose, whether it was purposeful or whether this was the result of the high tensions of the times. Guys. Okay, steve, thanks very much. We have a lot of other stories coming up including our exclusive interview with the mother who challenged a restaurant manager who refused to serve her 9yearold son because of their dress code. Well have what she says about race, marsia grant and her son dallas are live with us this morning. The crackdown on illegal fireworks exploding in neighborhoods across the country. But first, lets head over first you have to see how hot its going to be again today. 111 phoenix, up to 106 redding and heat advisory there is but look at this video. That is where at least 200 homes have been evacuated. Nearly 900 acres burning and this thing is small but contained and obviously we have lost some of the structures and homes. Theyre little gusty as far as winds but the overall pattern has been less windy, and unfortunately ive got bad news. Weve got more wind coming our way. So yes, its going to stay hot today into tomorrow. By