Boat with 170 people defying social distancing orders. New hot spots emerging across new jersey. Cases soaring after weeks on the decline. A massive outbreak at a summer camp in georgia. Hundreds infected in just one week, now raising concerns as students prepare for the school year. Deadlock. With millions out of work and struggling to make ends meet, negotiations over a new coronavirus Economic Relief package at a stalemate. The latest on the battle over reinstating the 600 checks. Wildfires raging in california. Thousands forced to evacuate. Overnight, massive flames alongside a highway near los angeles, and the apple fire sparked by an arsonist scorching more than 20,000 acres. Tiktok trouble. Users of the social media giant fighting back after President Trump threatens to ban the app over security concerns about the chineseowned company. Race against time. The first murder hornet captured in Washington State. Experts now on the hunt trying to track down its nest before hundreds more hatch. And space dads splash down. Welcome back to planet earth. Thanks for flying spacex. A history making mission for the endeavor, the spacex capsule successfully returning to earth with the first water landing in 45 years. And we do say good morning, america, on this monday morning, a very busy monday morning. Its good to be with you. We want to get right to the latest. The entire east coast bracing for the strengthening Tropical Storm. Take a live look at the radar. The storm taking aim at the carolinas, george. Now you see jacksonville, florida right there. Winds already up to 40 miles an hour. Pretty powerful system set to batter seveeral states dealing with a surge of coronavirus cases and hospitalizations. Thats right. South carolina with more than 91,000 cases. North carolina ninth in the nation with 125,000. And then florida which has the second most confirmed cases in the country, more than 480,000. Lets go to jacksonvile. Rob marciano starts us off. Good morning, rob. Reporter good morning, george. Well, here we go again. Another storm hitting another coronavirus hot spot state. This is the third hurricane in less than two weeks to threaten the u. S. It ripped through the caribbean, puerto rico and the bahamas. Now you see the water being pushed by the storm surge onto the beach of jacksonville. The center of the storm 80 miles to our east. It is spinning in warm water. It is set so strengthen again after already lashing the southern part of this state. This morning, high winds and heavy rain in florida as isaias makes its way up the eastern coast line. The storm already wreaking havoc in the bahamas over the weekend snapping trees and knocking out power before heading to the u. S. Florida locals concerned about potential threat. The last couple years every single storm has been really close. Its been directly over us, and we still had a fair amount of damage. Reporter officials closing off several major areas including beaches, parks and testing sites for covid19. The storm battering the state as florida continues to deal with a surge in coronavirus cases. I can tell you from talking to Emergency Response teams, theyre already exhausted from dealing with the coronavirus. Now dealing with a hurricane. This is a record setting start to the hurricane season. Theyre happy to let this go to the north. Unfortunately theres more people in the way of this thing. Everybody along the east coast will feel the impacts of this. Robin . All right, rob. We want everybody to take care. As you know, the storm is expected to hit the carolinas particularly hard with flash flooding a very real possibility. Eva pilgrim joins from historic charleston, South Carolina, a state that we have seen an increase in coronavirus hospitalization. Good morning, eva. Reporter good morning, robin. Hospitals here are already dealing with covid, and now theyre preparing for a possible hurricane. This pandemic has in some part changed how they have to plan for these types of storms. Hospitals often evacuate inland during a hurricane. Hurricane matthew in 2016, irma in 2017, both caused major flooding and damage. This year is different. Limited space due to covid19, and the challenge of testing, social distancing and transporting has many hospitals planning to shelter in place if possible. These hospitals still have evacuation plans in place but the bar to move patients will be higher. A lot of Health Officials saying if this storm isnt too bad, its safer to stay put. This is a hospital by hospital decision, but all eyes watching as this storm tracks up the east coast to see where it goes and how it takes land. Amy . All right, eva pilgrim. Thank you so much. Lets turn now to ginger who has been tracking where the threat is heading next. Ginger, good morning. Reporter good morning to you, amy. The center of it will make its way to the South CarolinaNorth Carolina state line. It should become a hurricane later tonight. It should make landfall between myrtle beach and wilmington, North Carolina. The impacts tonight through tomorrow, right, so tuesday it moves through the midatlantic, as far north as philadelphia, baltimore, new york city will feel the impacts tuesday. Coastal flooding and storm surge, one to five feet. If you missed anything i said, this is what you need to know. Tropical rain, flash flooding in the essence of two to six inches. We could see inland flood events be even more impactful than some of the coastal stuff. Were keeping an eye on this and will be tracking it through mid week. Were going to keep everybody updated. Ginger, thank you. Now we have the latest on the coronavirus emergency and that message from dr. Deborah birx that we are in a, quote, new phase with the virus now extraordinarily widespread and urging people to take more precautions as the number of confirmed cases rises. California becoming the first state to surpass 500,000 cases. The u. S. Now reporting more than 4. 6 million cases. Victor oquendo is tracking the situation from miami. Good morning, victor. Reporter good morning, robin. Florida is right on californias heels, set to top the 500,000 case mark within the coming days. Statewide less than 20 of icu space is available. Here at south miami hospital, the icu is at capacity, but we start with that warning from dr. Birx urging those who live in a home with people who might be more at risk to consider wearing a mask indoors. Urgent words from White House Task force dr. Birx saying the u. S. Has entered a new phase of its battle with the pem. I want to be clear. What were seeing 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 protected 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. Reporter the cdc predicting the number of lives lost to the virus in america could cross 180,000 in less than three weeks. In new jersey where transmission rates are soaring after weeks on the decline and new hot spots are emerging, officials are outraged. Everyone who walks around refusing to wear a mask or who hosts an indoor house party or who overstuffs a boat is directly contributing to these increases. This has to stop. It has to stop now. Reporter this weekend officials in new york arrested the owner and captains of a party boat called the liberty bell claiming they did not practice social distancing. As the battle over schools rages on, louisiana announcing that out of the nearly 3,500 new cases reported since friday 10 are children under the age of 18. 33 are between 18 and 29yearolds. This weekend 27yearold red sox pitcher Eduardo Rodriguez announced he was sitting out the rest of the baseball season. He was diagnosed with an inflammation of the heart which the team believes is a result of covid. 29yearold joshua elvaz lost his father to the virus last week. Now hes in a hospital bed in georgia trying to fight it off. You dont think its real . Look at me. Im in the hospital right now, you know, hooked on oxygen and my dad just died. Reporter covid19 also claiming the livelihoods of many americans. Lynette ran a daycare in colorado says covid cleared out her business and she can no longer afford her home. Im 47 years old and about to be on the street. What are you going to do . I dont know. Reporter new this morning Pharma Company eli lily announcing its in the final stages of testing antibodies, a drug that offers shortterm immunity to patients that could be used until a vaccine is approved. We know through preClinical Trials that the antibody has the potential to block transmission of the disease. If we give it to an individual were testing to see whether theyre now protected from getting infected with the virus. Reporter that eli lilly trial is unique. Its essentially a mobile Clinical Trial going door to door at nursing homes. Theyve already started administering the antibodies to senior as the one facility in illinois. George . Victor, thanks. As the virus continues to spread negotiations over a new Economic Relief package are at a stalemate. White house officials and the Top Democrats in congress set to meet today, still at odds over extending the 600 weekly Unemployment Benefits that expire at the end of july. Our senior White House Correspondent cecilia vega is tracking it all with the latest. Good morning, cecilia. Reporter good morning, george. There was a meeting this weekend. Both sides said they were making progress. Youre right, theyre at a stalemate this morning over how sweeping the relief package should be. The Sticking Point is the 600 weekly check. Democrats want that extended. Republicans want to see that trimmed down to about 200. They say in some cases this money is acting as a disincentive and people are being paid more to stay home. The white house wants to see the shortterm deal that could extend these benefits for another week. So far though Speaker Nancy Pelosi is rejecting that. Talks expected to resume today. The president s chief of staff said this weekend he is not optimistic about a solution in the near future. George, this clock is ticking. The senate is scheduled to leave for a monthlong recess at the end of the week. Right. Small businesses and state and local governments in trouble as well. Cecilia vega, thanks. Amy . Now to the wildfires raging in california. Firefighters are trying to gain the upper hand on the apple fire which has scorched more than 20,000 acres and forced thousands of people from their homes. Zohreen shah is in cherry valley, california with the latest on that. Good morning, zohreen. Reporter good morning, amy. Were learning overnight this fire is only 5 contained. This home burned to the ground. You can see it smoldering behind me. This fire forcing evacuations, threatening thousands. This morning at least 10 wildfires spreading in california including the apple fire now only 5 contained scorching more than 20,000 acres. More than 8,000 people forced to evacuate with little to no warning. We had a lot of trouble finding a place to stay last night because of so many people being evacuated at the same time. So me and the baby kind of stayed in the car last night. Reporter the fire adding another challenge for families already worried about their health amid the pandemic. I should be at home. I shouldnt have to be running the streets looking for somewhere to sleep. Reporter the apple fire sending a stream of smoke as far as tucson. A trio of fires in the northern part of the state visible from space. Multiple structures destroyed, including one home. 2,500 more now in danger. In the next few days, that will be critical for firefighters. Reporter overnight near los angeles, massive flames from the gorman fire seen along the freeway, causing officials to reroute some northbound vehicles off the highway. Arson investigators are on the scene. Theyre trying to figure out if the fire was intentionally set. Robin . People want to know. Zohreen, thank you so much. So much people are dealing with this monday morning. Were going to turn now to tiktok and tech giant microsoft is still in talks to buy the wildly popular social media app. This after President Trump threatened to ban the app over security concerns about the chineseowned company. Our chief Business CorrespondentRebecca Jarvis has more. Rebecca, overnight the president saying giving them 45 days to work out a deal . Reporter thats right, robin. The clock is ticking with the president giving microsoft those 45 days to get the deal done, to take tiktok over from its chinese owner and microsoft says this morning they believe they can get a deal done by september 15th. Its the app young people just cant get enough of. With nearly 100 million american users its known for its viral dances and addictive short videos. But this weekend tic tok is never coming back. Im going to miss it. Reporter tiktok users reacting to the news that it app could be banned. 36 million followers . I have made a lot of money from that. Its going to be way harder for me to support my family. Reporter recently the app has been used by more and more young people using it for political or social justice causes. This morning tech giant microsoft continues its talks to acquire the app, issuing a statement saying the Company Looks forward to continuing dialogue with the United States government, including with the president. President trump agreeing to give tiktok owner bite dance a 45day window to be sold. On friday the president sending shock waves through social media, making this comment. Were looking at tiktok. We may be banning tiktok. Reporter the app is already banned on government phones because of security concerns with the chineseowned company. Tiktok cannot stay in the current format. It risks sending back information on millions of americans. Reporter when asked if he would recommend downloading the app on personal phones secretary of state mike pompeo saying only if you want your information in the hands of the Chinese Communist party. Reporter tiktok writing in a statement, user data is stored in the u. S. With strict controls on employee usage. Were committed to protecting our users privacy and safety as we continue to broiing joy t families. Microsoft says the User Experience for tiktok users wouldnt change under the terms of a new deal. Security would be added and increased. Any user data, any american user data that was stored overseas would be returned here to the United States and stored here. George . A lot of teenagers rooting for the talks. Okay, rebecca. Thanks very much. Now to the successful splashdown for the spacex dragon. Two u. S. Astronauts are safely back on earth after their twomonth mission, the first splashdown for nasa in 40 years. Gio benitez has the story. Reporter that historic reentry. Welcome back to planet earth. Reporter the two socalled space dads, astronauts bob behnken and doug hurley, splashed down in pensacola sunday. As they entered earths atmosphere, extreme heat blocking all communications for four tense minutes. When you get that first acquisition of signal, its a time we can breathe a sigh of relief. Reporter soon the chutes deployed and the dragon splashed down with Tropical Storm isaias far enough away. A recovery boat loading up the dragon, the heat shield underneath it charred by that reentry. Locals defying coast guard restrictions, dangerously racing in their own boats to get a view. Maybe next time we shouldnt announce our landing zone. Reporter overnight bob and doug arriving in houston seeing their families. Its a little overwhelming to see everybody here considering the things that have gone on the last few months since we have been off planet. We came home safely to our families. It took a lot of people a lot of time to make that happen. Reporter so glad theyre back home. Now, remember this was a test mission. Nasa says its so important because it opens up space to private space travel and even more groundbreaking research, the kind of research you can only do in the microgravity of space. Thank you, gio. Were following a lot of other headlines this morning including a massive covid outbreak at a summer camp in georgia. What does it tell us about the Upcoming School year . Also this morning breaking news, the federal judge whose son and husband were shot by a man posing as a Fedex Delivery Driver speaking out now for the first time. First lets go back to ginger. Reporter you know, Tropical Storm warning from jacksonville, florida to the thunderstorm watch as far north as rockland, maine. All the east coast bracing. Really going to be 40 to 60mileperhour winds. Some coastal flooding. Again the flash flood threats from fredericksburg, virginia to baltimore, maryland. 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