Incredible video shows a former College Football wide receiver making an incredible catch in phoenix. Wow. Thats philip blank snatching a 3yearold out of midair after the boys mom dropped him out of the top floor of a burning threestory building. The boy is in critical condition. His mom, unfortunately, did not survive this. Another child was saved in a nearby building when neighbors caught him in a blanket after his mom dropped him to safety. Incredible. Wow, to see those videos. Turning now to the grim reality check from hundreds of scientists that the coronavirus can linger in the air for much longer than wed initially thought. It now has a growing number of us taking a second look at air purifiers and filtration systems. Heres abcs bec w reporter its in the air. Thats what a group of 239 scientists representing 32 countries reported to the World Health Organization, asking for a revision to the w. H. O. s recommendations for covid19 due to evidence showing the disease is airborne. Early case studies strongly suggest that airborne transmission of this disease is happening. Reporter and though social distancing is heavily advised, how did you distance from a cloud of undetectable particles in the air . This video shows how far those droplets can travel without a mask. A cloud of particles can spread as far as eight feet. And weve seen how, according to a chinese study, that a woman with no symptoms in a windowless indoor restaurant spread the virus to nine people up to 15 feet away. Droplets in her breath potential carried from the air conditioner. Most air Conditioning Systems bring in very little outside air. So theres very little dilution of the particles that are generated that transmit this infection. Reporter so could air purifiers be the key to cleaning the air in our homes, especially if were living with someone whos sick or a Frontline Worker whos selfquarantining . Experts say yes. While scientists are still learning how many particles you can be exposed to before getting infected, if someone in your household is sick with covid19, Consumer Reports suggests that running an air purifier in their quarantine room may help protect other family members or caregivers. The same for Health Care Workers who are selfquarantining when they come home. Consumer reports listing their top picks for purifiers, that while not tested specifically on covid19 particles, Consumer Reports suggests they can filter out other germ and virus particles in similar tiny sizes. I bought the Honeywell Hpa model because it was the highestrated air purifier on Consumer Reports for under 250. These things can be pricey. So even if you dont buy a standalone filtration device, experts say one of the best things you can do to improve your Indoor Air Quality is open the windows or screen doors to circulate more fresh air. Our thanks to becky worley. Coming up, preventing another run on toilet paper. 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Reporter as cases coinue wegoro t cntry, a pa t kpers oo arhotheyp theres a lot different from what people were seeing at the stores, empty shelves. Its all here. Well, were getting it out as fast as we can. Reporter box elder, utah, a town with just over 55,000 residents, producing toilet paper for millions at this Procter Gamble factory. We hit the factory floor in may, where Frontline Workers are cranking out rolls of toilet paper and paper towels 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Weve got different zones throughout the plant keeping people separated. Reporter here is where it starts. Toilet paper begins as a dry paper pulp. So this is the beginning of the process, really, right . Yes. Think of it as basically a big blender. The job is going to be to turn it into pulp water. Reporter feels like wet toilet paper. Exactly. Reporter the pulp is pressed and dried into supersized rolls that look like giant movie props. Looking at these rolls, a feel like antman. Oh, yeah, theyre huge. Well unroll the big rolls and cut them into bounty or charmin. We convert the big rolls into finished products. Reporter all that paper has gone from giant rolls to finally now being cut into something we recognize. Kay demow is a technician here. Shes made product for p g for 20 years. But the lockdown lifestyle looks and feels completely different. Its a whole different process just for getting in the building. I say that process makes me feel safe at work. You know, it is a process to go through, but i feel we spend the time sanitizing, we spend the time out from each other, were distancing. So that in itself is a good thing. Reporter the pace to produce is nonstop. This machine here is our butler reporter jared kent helps keep everything planning. Twoply product, right . Well take two of those rolls and by them together, mate them together, and that makes it our twoply product. Thats how you make twoply toilet paper . Yes, exactly. I never knew. 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With herbal ashwagandas help turn the stress life into your best life live like a stress baller with stressballs please tell us why please tell us why you had to hide away for so long a woman in maryland got just a little bit closer to mr. Blue sky in her quest to visit her mother locked down inside a nursing home. It was all thanks to a little help from the local fire department. Our will ganss back again with this story. Back and better than ever. Good morning, shirleen, kenneth, and all of you. The carmine family hasnt been able to see grandma shirley for months, and her hearing isnt as good as it used to be so talking on the phone hasnt been easy. Family would visit and wave from the yard, but shes on the second floor, so they havent had a great conversation with grandma for a while now, till now. My mom is my rock. Every week i would go to a nursing home, twice a week, to do her hair. Reporter Shirl Carmine says mom, 83yearold shirley taylor, is her best friend. With shirley in a nursing home, the motherdaughter duo havent seen each other in months. Just so it was depressing. Reporter the two tried keeping in touch electronically, but like anyone whos attempted facetiming a grandparent, it doesnt always go as smoothly as youd like. Shirl was looking for a way, hoping for a sign, until it hit her like a bright red fire truck. Shirl and daughter jess on the way to a store when they passed a gas station and saw a fire truck in the parking lot. Shirl said she knew she had to ask them for a lift, but not the kind you made be thinking. I said, jessica, stop were going to go ask them if theyll take me up there reporter jess thought mom was kidding. She wasnt. Shirl asking the firemen to take her up the trucks ladder to reach her mothers window in the nursing home. And to her surprise, they said yes. He asked me what day do you want to do it . Or we could do it now. I said, do it now i wasnt letting the chance go by. Reporter less than an hour later, the two were reunited facetoface. Shirl finally able to tell her mother what shes been wanting to for the past several weeks. I told her i love her so much and i miss her, and i cant wait to have coffee with her, and i want to see her. Reporter a quick visit, sure, but one that meant so much to a mother and her daughter. Firefighters lifting spirits, literally in this case. I spoke with jess and she says what the firemen did for her grandma is absolutely priceless. She said for that moment in a small town in maryland, all was well in the world, you guys. So emotional about that. I love that moment. Thanks, firefighters, for making that happen. Definitely. Will, thank you, we appreciate it so much. We love to see our family members, especially during this time. Its just been so tough. Yes. Im just so lucky to have shirle this morning on world news now, the coronavirus pandemic is accelerating. Thats according to the head of the World Health Organization, as more u. S. Hospitals are pushed to the brink. Beds filling up, plus the new forecast. How many deaths can be prevented in the coming months if americans wear masks . Breaking overnight, the Supreme Court says chief Justice John Roberts was hospitalized after falling and suffering a bloody head injury. The very latest on his condition. Also breaking overnight, a passing to note, mary kay letourneau. She married a former student who she was convicted of raping when he was in sixth grade. How shes being remembered. If youre a big fan of all things 80s, this is the house for you. But this totally rad pad comes with a hefty price tag. Does that rhyme . Details ahead on this wednesday, july 8th. Good morning, everyone. I have been waiting for this exact moment all of my life. In fact, really since 2011 when i met this very, very young woman. So i am so proud, so happy, cue the music, everybody. Shirleen allicot in, wabctv news anchor. The beautiful, the talented, the amazing, the gorgeous. She puts the sweet in the red, delicious big apple. New york citys own Shirleen Allicot, everybody. Welcome to world news now. Slow clap for you. How are you, friend . You gave me some jill scott. Yes, i did. Jilly from philly. That is because Shirleen Allicot and i met in philadelphia. We really are the best of friends. Please tell our insomniacs a little bit about you. Its wild, weve known each other for nine years. Yes, yeah. It doesnt seem like a very long time. But it has felt like an eternity for me. Yes, yes. Because since then theres been husbands, kids. A lot of life has happened. Yes, it has, it has. A lot of life. So again, shirleen is the morning noon anchor for wabctv, our flagship abc station. You just had to walk a few steps on over. A few steps, up a little earlier, a lot earlier, yes. Were going to have a lot of fun this morning but we also have serious news to get to as well. Youre really good at that, getting to the news, right . Thats kind of my thing. So lets do this. Fun is also her thing, so well get to that in just a moment. We have to get to the latest developments on this alarming spread of the coronavirus. Covid19 has now claimed the lives of more than 131,000 americans. And the latest model from the university of washington is projecting the death toll could rise above 200,000 by november, far less than that if everyone, everyone, wears masks. The nationwide death rate has actually been dropping. But dr. Anthony fauci warned it was a false narrative to take comfort in that. He said there are many other things that are very dangerous and bad about this virus, as fauci and other Health Experts stress the importance of Wearing Masks in public. Some americans are still ignoring their advice, like this customer that flipped out at a costco in ft. Myers, florida. He was reportedly fired from his job after going on a profanitylaced tirade when someone asked him to wear a mask. As cases surge across the country, the texas state fair has been canceled. Organizers are citing concerns about covid19 at the event that attracts more than 2 Million People every year. Abcs matt gutman has more on the growing crisis. Reporter with the country closing in on 3 million covid cases, hospitalizations increasing in 28 states. Some pushed to the very brink. Our hospitals are very full. Every hospital in the county, theres many Covid Patients who are very sick. Reporter at the Ventura CountyMedical Center in california, icu patients spilling into the e. R. Across the country, more than 300,000 new cases in the past 6 days. The virus ripping through entire families, like the sanchezes of california. Five members infected. Daughter brenda didnt think she would survive. My thinking was, if i end up in the hospital, im going to go, too. Im going to die. Reporter the family matriarch died three days after testing positive. We rode along with the Phoenix Fire Department in the zip code with the most covid cases in all of arizona. We just learned this is a possible covid call. Everybodys got n95 masks on. 50 of all the calls this station does are covid calls. Martin molina tells paramedics hes had splitting headaches for two days. His girlfriend comes out. She had just given birth three days ago. Are you scared about whats going on inside your house . To be honest, yes, because were all together, yeah. Plus, my little boy. I just barely had him saturday. Reporter like so many here, three generations of the lopez Family Living under one roof. Ysenia has had symptoms, she says. One of her children has also had a fever. Scared, confused. Reporter i bet youre scared. Its terrifying. What are you going to do . As emotion wells up, she clutches that st. Jude pendant, the wrist bands from the hospital still there. Martin was finally taken to the hospital. Is this a typical call . Yeah, this is what we see. Theres a proud tradition of families living together. Unfortunately, thats the situation for affordability where theyre all under one roof. Reporter reinforcements are on the way. The u. S. Military sending nurses and respiratory specialists to san antonio. We are days away from overrunning our hospitals. Reporter in florida, 100 nurses headed to miami where ventilator use has more than doubled. 50plus hospitals across the state at icu capacity. At the same time, the state ordering schools to open next month for five days a week for all students. The president saying hell also push to reopen schools. Were very much going to put pressure on governors and everybody else to open the schools. Reporter with the virus raging, testing sites packed. Supplies are depleted. The labs are backed up. Robert had symptoms and was tested at an urgent care in tucson, isolating himself from his family, then waiting 27 days to learn he didnt have the virus. That specimen was sitting in a lab in phoenix, apparently, for maybe, what, three weeks . So is the test result even valid . Our thanks to matt gutman. As the number of coronavirus cases rise, the white house has followed through on President Trumps promise to withdraw from the World Health Organization. Congress received official notification yesterday. It would take effect next july. Some republicans backing the move saying the w. H. O. Needs major changes. Democrats, led by Presumptive Democratic nominee joe biden, called it irresponsible. He again promised to rejoin the organization if hes elected. The president of brazil has confirmed that he has tested positive for covid19. For months he has dismissed the severity of the virus, and he routinely mingled with crowds without wearing a mask, even as his countrys death toll topped 65,000. Heres abcs james longman. Reporter he played down the dangers of covid, but brazils president Jair Bolsonaro has tested positive for the illness, proclaiming translator we dont need to panic, life goes on. Reporter bolsonaro once called the pandemic a little flu and consistently ignored the advice of his own officials, going out on horseback and hugging children in huge crowds. The president started feeling ill on sunday with a small fever, but he said hes on the rebound,