Responsibility with touchless pay and drive thru pick up, so you can keep your summer going. While Vice President pences challenge for not telling walgreens americans to wear masks, days after that packed trump event in arizona. How can you say that the campaign is not part of the for heroes proved, problem that dr. Fauci laid out . Freedom of speech and the right to peacefully assemble enshrined in the constitution of in liberating strife the United States. And even in a Health Crisis the American People dont forfeit our constitutional rights. Cons of theite and even in a Health America crisis the American People dont america forfeit our constitutional rights. Unfriending facebook. Over night. Cocacola, unilever and verizon join the Major Companies pulling their advertising, unhappy about facebooks efforts to control this information and hate speech. Those stories plus here comes we are back with a new godzilla. A giant does cloudy from the th normal. While many of the countries zoos godzilla cloud now hitting the and aquariums remain closed the u. S. This weekend. What it means for your Health People still have a jobs to do. And how long it will stick around. Today, saturday june 27, 2020. It takes quite a few workers to keep animals fed and happy especially because they havent had any visitors for months. From nbc news this is today reporter baltimores inner harbor. Home to one of the citys crown with peter alexander, kristen jewel, the national aquarium. Welker and dylan dreyer. Inside twenty thousand animals, welcome to todaytoday, sat. From sloths to tropical fish. And eleven different types of sharks. The aquarium usually seeing more from nbc news this is today with peter alexander, Kristen Welker and dylan dreyer. That 1. 2 million visitors a welcome to today. Year. Only in 2020 are now we now but now like the rest of the country has been eerily quiet dealing with the dust cloud. Since it closed in march because all we need is the locusts. Of coronavirus. First the major headline, our what have the past several top story, the latest on the weeks, months been like here . Cultural institutions coronavirus crisis. Here are the newest numbers. Couldnt lock the door, turn off the u. S. Now seeing the highest the lights and go home. Single day increase ever in the number of infections. Weve had to keep i think about that happened friday. 140 staff as critical employees. More than 45,000 cases in just the good news, the animals are great. The people, they are getting a 24 hours. Bringing t little lonely by now after 80plus days. 2. 4 million. The staff has been wearing more than 125,000 americans have masks and of course social distancing but keeping their now died. Focus on making sure the fish and in florida the mayor of and other animals are healthy miami dade is closing all beaches for the busy fourth of and happy. Our staff are coming to work july weekend and the u. S. Judge every day and providing incredible care to the animals. Ordered migrate children held in making sure they are thriving. The u. S. Detention facilities reporter and keeping them must be released pause of the well fed is essential work. I got to experience that threat of the pandemic. In certain cases their parents may be released as well. Firsthand. First all the australian fanned out across the country baramundi. Here she comes. Covering the pandemic. You can feel her strength. Sam brock is in miami. Reporter next up the archer fish who eating live crickets. Sam, good morning. Reporter peter, kristen. Good morning. Even a week ago it seems unlikely if not impossible that the governors of florida and oh my god. Texas would be rolling back reopenings. Okay. But given the alarming rise in you got that one. Cases in both states right now a reversal with bars closing. Right about. Reporter this aquarium is and just this morning beaches here in miami also closing over just 1 of 226 accredited zoos and aquariums that closed because of covid. At new yorks bronx zoo, animals the holiday. In florida, weeks of surging and staff are missing some of coronavirus cases just reached a the two million guests who visit new high water mark, almost each year. The staff has split into two 9,000 cases in one day. Teams, making meal, caring for leading Governor Ron Desantis to pull the plug on bars. The giraffes, penguins and there was wide spread non compliance and that led to bears. Closed since mid march. Some of the animals have even issues. In sunny miami dade, the mayor announcing beach wills noticed. Are there any animals that close for july 4th hald. Sense something a little different. When anyone shows up to look at them and see how they are, as and bracing for rollbacks they definitely take an down the road. Were in a hot spot. Interest. And remain. It is almost like they are trying to figure out where we dont have a lot in our tool everybody is. For this zoo, its been kit to stop this. Personal. 8 of their big cats tested positive for coronavirus. Closing down again would be im happy to report everybody unimaginable for one delray is doing really well. Back in baltimore they cant wait for this aquarium to be beach bartender. You cannot keep shutting down swimming with people again. A city or a state or a country it is so exciting to be able and expect things to just come to welcome guests back through back to normalcy. It is never going to happen. Our doors and get to hear children so excited to be able texas taking an even more to see these amazing animals. Aggressive stance. With governor greg abbot closing animals and people alike bars and reducing capacities in cant wait and the baltimore aquarium reopens july 1st. Restaurants on the heels of double digit infection rates. We find ourselves careening full disclosure i was terrified feeding the fish the live towards a catastrophic and unsustainable situation. Crickets. Producer called, hey do you some Restaurant Owners have any animal feeding clothes playing the long game. And you said i have a blazer. Im not worried that while we have to close our restaurant my animal feeding blazer. Well continue to do still do it was a great story. Lot of people look forward to curbside pick up. Seeing those animals geps seen. I am worried about the customers of ours becoming even more final czeheck of the forecast. Concerned and staying away. And bill karins look at the hospitalization rates are weather. Also triggering alarm bells. Good morning. That was the best pandemic story in houston icu bed capacity weve seen yet. Already hit 100 while if fantastic. Phoenix an er doctor described a lets get into this forecast for today. Weve had this drought set up in ticking time bomb. The northeast, especially a last this is tinder waiting to two months. We have a little rain coming through this morning but the explode but im thinking that some of that has already been real story is going to be the lit and that is concerning. Severe Weather Threat later this afternoon. Pay attention. The west coast california 3 00 to 5 00. New york city to philadelphia. Seeing a two week jump in cases, baltimore included. Some storms may get down to crosses 200,000 mark. Washington d. C. And tomorrow, sunday afternoon, severe Weather Threat from and Governor Newsom signaling out a county with a positivity Richmond South to charlotte, rate of 23 . Raleigh, myrtle beach, columbia asking them to reinstate a stay and charleston. At home order. New cases in the south and west rest of the country, concern to spread across the country. If you live inland youre also news about the nbas plan to return later the next month. What more do we know about that waking up to a lot of sunshine, 60 degrees. Today . If if youre anywhere around the there are two things going on right now. Coastline all the way to santa at the same time on july 30th play resumes in the nba for 22 cruz from santa rosa, expect the first half of our day. Different teams. And that starts with the laikz by the afternoon we start to see and clippers squaring off. Kers sunny skies and temperatures fairly warm into the interior and clippers squaring off. Valleys and 80s and 50s and 60s yers just tested for the first time on the coastline and windy this week. Temperatures tonight with 16 tested positive. Temperature des ceasing tomorrow. That is a 5. 3 Positivity Rate. Maybe not quite as high as some and that is a look at your would have expect fwud teams weekend forecast. Peter back to you. Still ahead, the epic live right now come into a state in music battles bringing inhoandsf florida with a struggling in coronavirus cases. Sam thanks. Vice president mike pence and the Coronavirus Task force will spend the next week visiting hard hit states to see whats being done to slow the spread of the coronavirus. The task force has been out of sight for months but finally held a News Conference on friday with the disease spiking in many states. Jeff bennett with more. Good morning. Reporter there were conflicting messages when the white house Coronavirus Task force addressed the nation for the first time in nearly two months yesterday. Vice president pence defended the administrations response and promoted improvement and recovery even though the outbreak are so severe some states delayed reopening. And dr. Future saying the country faces a serious problem. The white house Coronavirus Task forces first news briefing in nearly two months friday. This time at the department of health and human services. Not at the white house. And President Trump did not attend. Dr. Anthony fauci urged americans to take the virus more seriously. You have an individual responsibility to yourself, but you have a societal responsibility. The task force announcing a shift in the testing having. Thanks to the millennials who have been heeding our guidance, where as before we told them to stay home, now we are telling them to be tested. The Vice President while encouraging americans to take steps to keep themselves safe. Wash your hands. Avoid touching your face. Disinfect frequently. Skipped over one part of the cdc advice, to wear a face mask in public. Reporters. Is there a message that you would like to send to people about importance of Wearing Masks . Well we think that were the first principle is that people ought to listen to their state and local authorities. Challenged over recent rallies where Trump Supporters did not wear masks. A practice President Trump suggested is a political statement. How can you say that the campaign is not part of the with so many of us staying problem that dr. Fauci laid out . Inside and turning to the internet and social media to freedom of speech and right find new forms of entertainment to peaceably assemble is theres one place thats heating enshrined in the constitution of up. The United States. You may have seen or heard and even in a Health Crisis the about two music superstars American People dont forfeit our constitutional rights. All of it unfolding as the battle it out live on instagram. Trump administration filed a new racking up hundreds of thousands legal brief asking the supreme of views offering a glimpse for court to overturn the affordable live performances. Care act. Heres nbc Blaine Alexander with the move coming as the the latest. Government reported that nearly half a Million People who lost Health Insurance during the nothing is okay youre in new coronavirus shut down enrolled york in coverage through obamacare. Call it the ultimate quarantine concert. In the meantime President Trump said on twitter last night that ready to go right now he signed an executive order on reporter two artists. Protecting monuments and statues. He added a anyone that destroys hit songs and for hundreds of a monument would face thousands one very good time. Prosecution to the fullest lets get this thing going. Extent of the law. Reporter welcome to versus the order is largely symbolic and directed the attorney general to enforce already existing law. But this has sparked a real the brainchild of tim baland and rethinking about confederate and controversial monuments on public hand and the president swiss beetz. Said he wants to proerve what he everybody is giving something called the nations heritage and back. Reporter they hopped on culture. To that end sources tell me that Instagram Live unannounced and faced off against each other President Trump personally called the interior secretary to playing their songs as the world ask that the park service put watched. Soon they started recruiting back up a confederate statue here in washington that other artists to battle all in good fun. Protesters last week tore down and setten fire. Lil john and t. Pain, ludacris and nelly and plenty more going kristen, peter. Another major flash point. Head to head live on instagram. Jeff bennett at the white house. Each battle trending across director of the harvard social media racking in as many as 800,000 live viewers with a Global Health institute. Steady stream of comments and it doctor, good to see you. Seems almost Everyone Wants in. Said we slowed the spread. Who in the building. Michelle obama. Flattened the curve. Why do you think this has let me put up a graphic that resonated with so many people . Tells a very different story. We did it with love, love ma the European Union, the black we the love. Graph. It is from a great place. The bell curve. For many, tapping into a and the blue is the united sense of nostalgia. States. 26 states in the u. S. Seeing a boost for artists whose increase in number of cases right now. Biggest hits came years ago. Over the last three days we had our three highest totals of is you cases. So help us diagnose the problem. You get to see a whole other why is this happening here right side of the artist that is not so polished. Now . Well, so good morning, thank and people in their home, they you for having me on. Are actually themselves. This is happening because in with many concert halls gone much of the country around memorial day and the weeks that dark as the new stage for music followed, we opened up while we fans everywhere. Still had a large number of cases. We didnt have the kind of i think it is here to stay. Testing and tracing infrastructure we needed that many europ countries have for today, nbc news built in. And then we opened up too fast. We opened up bars, we opened up atlanta. What a great piece by blaine nightclubs. Alexander. Also if i dont spend enough time on instagram already. And that its the combination in a normal concert about of all of that has led us to 50,000 people in arena or where we are today. And dr. Za weve spent the stadium. Here they have close to a tremfya® helps adults past four months largely on shut with moderate to Severe Plaque Psoriasis uncover clearer skin that can last. Down. I think the question a lot of in fact, tremfya® was proven superior to humira® people have this morning is, was in providing significantly clearer skin. That all for nothing . And are we going to have so shut tremfya® may increase your risk down again. Yeah, so this is so of infections and lower your ability to fight them. Frustrating because the shut down was so painful. Tell your doctor if you have an infection millions of americans lost jobs. Or symptoms or if you had a vaccine or plan to. Kids were at home. And many of us, most of us in serious allergic reactions may occur. The Public Health community were saying we have to use this time tremfya®. Uncover clearer skin that can last. Wisely. We have to get our number of cases down. We have to build up a testing janssen can help you explore cost support options. And tracing fracture we need. Weve got to get ready for nall dogs descend from wolves, or the age, opening up because if we dont were going to be forced with and for thousands of years theyve shared a love for meat. The kinds of decisions were seeing again. So im very worried we wasted that time as a country, blue wilderness is made to satisfy that desire. Feed the wolf that lives inside your dog political leaders didnt do what with blue wilderness. They need to be done and were finding ourselves in a difficult situation again. Mooeb announcing their plan to get their season started again. The nba in particular is going to be doing it in florida where just can yesterday they say nearly 9,000 new cases. Is it likely the season will take place . The nba reporting 16 players just tested positive. Are they gonna have to the reconsider . Nba, major league baseball, all the sports have been working hard to develop plans for how to play safely. And one of the points ive made to those officials and to the public is that they only can do this if they are in a community that is about having large outbreaks. If they are in a place like florida where there are large outbreaks happening, then it is going to be very, very hard to bubble off everybody and make sure no one is infected and we dont know the longterm consequences of these infection, even in young people. If im an nba player and i get infected id be very worried what that means for the longterm longevity of my health and i think what is happening uh, fifteen minutes could save you 15 ain . Right now is really risky for or more on car insurance. These sports teams. I think were gonna swap over to over seventyfive they really have to be thinking about whether they wont to be years of savings and service. What, were just gonna swap over . Located in a place with far less yep. Pump the breaks on this, swap it over to that. Cases than texas, florida and pump the breaks, and, uh, swap over . Elsewhere. Highest totals in the last