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Flooding was also reported in the area and a severe storm system caused flooding in the new orleans area. Drivers were urged to stay off flooded roads. A heat wave is coming to parts of the northeast and midwest this weekend. Temps will reach 97 in hartford, connecticut, on sunday, and 100 degrees in the nations capital, washington, d. C. Its going to be a hot one. Here in new york city, one worker is dead and three others injured after a terrifying scaffolding collapse outside an Apartment Building. It was a building safety project that turned deadly. Wabcs josh einiger was on the scene with this report. Reporter what started like so many others, as a routine building project, has become a construction crime scene as inspectors spent hours poring over every inch of the wreckage to explain the carnage below. Things have been falling onto my air conditioner all morning. Little noises. I was kind of jumpy. Reporter aubrey lynch lives on the fourth floor of this coop Apartment Building at 36th and lexington, working from home, finishing up a call, when a rigging platform gave way and plunged in a heap of jagged metal and crumbling bricks to the sidewalk shed. I just heard this crash, this huge boom, boom, boom. Right . And i went to looked out the window, and these men are hanging from the thing. Reporter one worker died on the spot. Three others delicately pulled to safety and hospitalized as the Buildings Department began to figure out what went wrong. They had filed the required reporting to repair and restore portions of the facade that needed it. Reporter the city mandates maintenance of building facades to prevent catastrophe. In this case, it was the work itself that was the danger. Officials say the contractor is edris Group Corporation of belleville, new jersey, which has no open violations but has been cited 43 times for safety violations in the past decade. Its under the microscope again after a workplace tragedy that almost certainly could have been prevented. The Building Department would not say or could not say exactly how this happened. Theyre still trying to figure out how the scaffolding gave way, or perhaps if debris from above sent it crashing down. But one thing to note about that sidewalk shed, you see them all over the city. They are eyesores, and you wonder what they do. Thats what they do. It caught the brunt of all that debris and protected anyone under it from getting hurt. Josh einiger, channel 7, eyewitness news. Fortunately no one else was hurt. All four involved were employees. Our thanks to josh. Coming up, why right now is a great time to be a shopper. So many retailers are already offering some of their biggest savings of the summer. Well go shopping when we get back, mona. Shopping e get back, mona. No coverup spray here. Its the irresistibly fresh scent of febreze air effects. 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Barry hurt says the film doesnt quite provoke as much as it thinks it does, ouch. Then theres maud. I dont know, thats not bea arthur, thats not the maud i know. Limited release in the box office. This one streaming, a Hedge Fund Drama starring liev schreiber, marisa tomei, and peter sarsgaard. The lives of two families intersect amidst an impulsive business deal and a tragic hitandrun accident. Did you drive drunk last night . I dont know. How did your car get here . Someone drove me back from the party. Who . Everybody saw you with him at the party. Arguing about his car keys. The question is, whos going to get in trouble for it now, you or him . Your investment in the fund has gone down. Im not built for this. Im not like you. I need that money back. It doesnt work like a game. It is to you, it is a game, you make that money in a week clearly jamie was driving the wrangler. Critics are less than impressed with Human Capital giving it only 67 on Rotten Tomatoes. The overlapping narratives drag the simple story out, making a relatively short 97minute film feel like a bit of a slog. And, even in movies, hedge funds are still boring. Ouch. Unless you got one. Yeah, exactly. Its the music for me, though. Like, whos going to jump out of the corner . I think i saw kenneth, though, werent you the reporter . Asking questions . That was not me. Oh, sorry. I do need some royalties, though. Cash that check, better get your check. Thats it for this half hour. Check us out on our facebook page. W this morning on world news now, a new Record Number of coronavirus cases in one day. For the first time, more than 70,000 americans test positive in a single day. The pandemic is out of control, but the debate over masks is raging. Floridas biggest county will start fining people for not wearing facial coverings. In georgia, the governor is now suing the city of atlanta over its mask policy. Plus dozens of nfl players testing positive. The white house still pushing for schools to fully reopen in the fall, and now its response to the pandemic is coming under attack from another republican. Days after announcing its changing its name, washingtons nfl team is facing allegations of Sexual Harassment. According to a new report, more than a dozen former employees say they were harassed on the job. And police hopping to it when they got the call that there was a kangaroo on the loose in a residential neighborhood. How the bouncy alleged law breaker was finally brought in. Its friday, july 17th. Hes accused, alleged lawbreaker. Until hes been convicted. Before you get in trouble, you better put that in there. I dont want that kangaroo suing us. When i first saw that i was like, aww, youve got to love australia. Oh, thats in the states. Oh, yeah. We got some crazy animals here in the states that you wouldnt think. Right, like a kangaroo in florida. Is it florida . Yeah, ft. Lauderdale. They said it on the top part. I just we always go after florida. Always talking about florida. Florida, i try to give you the benefit of the doubt. We say that i tried. Rush down there, especially new yorkers rush down there when it gets cold out here, so you guys better be careful what you say about florida. Were going to talk about florida on a much more serious note now, the latest developments and a grim milestone. July is now the worst month yet for new coronavirus cases and we still have two weeks to go. Another dire statistic, the u. S. Now reports 71,000 new cases of the virus in just 24 hours, crushing the singleday record for infections. A new study from the cdc shows that the travel bans imposed by the government early in this outbreak came too late to stop widespread transmission. The agency also says it is extending the ban on cruise ships through september. In arizona, a small ray of hope where the governor says the number of newly confirmed cases has flattened. But he warns the number of patients hospitalized with the virus is rising. In miami, police are now ticketing people not wearing masks, and public violators will be fined 100. This as florida grapples with an astonishing surge of covid19 cases. Florida facing its deadliest day yet. The virus claiming 156 lives in just 24 hours. In miami, the epicenter, hospitals are now at 95 capacity. This plea from the front lines. As an icu nurse, i beg you to take this virus seriously. Reporter doctors say there is an urgent need for plasma. The governor says hes working with the white house to get more of the drug remdesivir. If something is not done to dramatically alter our course, we could be in a more dire situation than what were in. Reporter nearly 14,000 new cases reported. Lines for testing lasting hours. The wait for results, for some, taking weeks. Pull your mask a little bit forward. Reporter i went in for a test. The nurse telling me the labs are simply overwhelmed. Its so frustrating. On average now, how long does it take for the labs to get the results back . 14 days. Two weeks . Two weeks, and ive had patients up to 18 days, and it was very frustrating. Reporter these delays couldnt come at a worse time. A new study from the lancet shows the speed of testing is the most critical factor for success of Contact Tracing to slow the spread. In texas, long waits for test results, too, and hospital space is maxed out. The army opening up a new ward in houston. 24yearold Paola Castillo spent a month on a ventilator in texas. She almost didnt make it. Its just a miracle im alive. It was god speaking to me, and its like he gave me a Second Chance to live my life again. Reporter this week, after 79 days in the hospital fighting covid, paola was Strong Enough to go home. But for annalise long, the surge at texas hospitals created a worstcase scenario for her family. Thats the person to scratch your back, you know . You can trust them with anything. Reporter the 47yearold mother of triplets beat covid in march, but her kidneys and liver never recovered. Her husband says when doctors tried for a transplant, there were no open beds. Annalise losing her battle. Thats the hardest thing. Is that she she gave her all. Reporter in arizona, officials ordering refrigerated trucks as they run out of room in morgues. 600 nurses headed there to help. Deaths from the virus now climbing in 27 states, as nearly half the country either pauses or reverses reopening. In georgia, which reopened early, the governor signing an executive order banning cities from passing their own mask mandates. We shouldnt need a mask mandate for people to do the right thing. Reporter now theres a legal showdown in georgia. Governor brian kemp filing a lawsuit seeking to block the city of atlanta from rolling back any part of its reopening, including closing dining rooms and the mask mandate. He says hes doing this on behalf of struggling businesses. Victor, thank you. Kremlinlinked hackers are accused of trying to steal Coronavirus Vaccine research from the u. S. And two of its allies. The nsa says the group known as cozy bear sent customized malware to institutions in the united states, canada, and great britain. A spokesman for russian president Vladimir Putin denies any involvement by moscow. Cozy bear was named in the Mueller Report as one of the hacking groups involved in russias attack of the 2016 election. The white house says that science should not stand in the way of schools reopening this fall. That statement from press secretary Kayleigh Mcenany, who later added that the science is on our side amid this coronavirus pandemic. Presenumheheas little mention of the virus. Abcs Jonathan Karl has more. Reporter with the covid19 crisis getting even worse, President Trump staged an elaborate photo op on the south lawn of the white house on an entirely different issue. Red and blue pickups, a crane, and massive weights to symbolize government regulations. Also unfounded dire predictions of what will happen if he loses reelection. People have worked all their lives to get into a community, and now theyre going to watch it go to hell. Not going to happen, not while im here. Reporter the president made no mention whatsoever of the alarming increase in coronavirus cases, something he has rarely talked about for weeks. Larry hogan, the republican governor of maryland and the head of the National Governors association, offered a blistering critique, writing in the Washington Post, instead of listening to his own Public Health experts, the president was talking and tweeting like a man more concerned about boosting the stock market or his reelection plans. This is revisionist history by governor hogan. Reporter the president has also faced blowback for his administrations attacks on dr. Anthony fauci. I have concluded that he is like the man who refuses to ask for directions. All of the answers are there. The scientists have the answers. Reporter the president s attacks not just against fauci, but on sunday he retweeted former Game Show HostChuck Woolery who said, doctors and the cdc were lying. Woolery today revealed his own son has been diagnosed with covid19, and he deleted his twitter account. Now at the white house, damage control. Officials are insisting dr. Fauci remains an important adviser. Vice president pence posting a picture of him at a task force meeting. The president talked over the phone to dr. Fauci, their first conversation in weeks. But doubts about the president s handling of the virus are hurting him politically. A new poll shows him trailing joe biden by 15 points. The president suggesting hell be doing more Political Activities in the coming weeks, saying, quote, he has many exciting things to announce over the next weeks. He listed areas such as education, immigration, regulations, but he made no mention whatsoever of Public Health or of covid19. Jonathan karl, abc news, washington. Thank you, Jonathan Karl. Now to the crackdown on fake masks. 3m has investigated more than 4,000 reports of alleged fraud, counterfeiting, and price gouging around the world that has resulted in at least 18 lawsuits in north america. More than 7,000 websites with fraudulent products have been