Feelings about racism and privilege. Do you think youve benefited by being white in america. Our revealing conversation and why it is still so difficult for Many Americans to talk about race. And beyond satire. Jon stewart talks about his brandnew comedy and what he thinks about the steady stream of partisanship and division in america. I know what he thinks. But first, here is todays eye opener, your world if 90 seconds. We start resocializing and coming back together and fuel the virus and it is reminding us that it never left us. Hot zone states are under reel pressure as the cdc estimated cases may be ten times higher than reported. Were still in the first wave of this pandemic. We are not in the second wave. It will be even before the end of the year. Well have a vaccine. There are no miracles coming. President trump talking about the 2020 election and his opinion challenger joe biden. I dont want to be nice or unnice, okay. But i mean, the man cant speak. And hes going to be a president for some people dont love me maybe. A massive cloud of dust is headed for the united states. All of that disney is giving splash munnon a rezpien. Drawn from the princess and the frog, the companys first movie featuring a black princess. All that matters. President trump is set to visit mt. Rushmore to celebrate independent day with a bang. Featuring a fly over from fighter jets and fireworks. To be safe, the guys will be socially distancing. On cbs this morning. All i need is someone yeah somebody knows where im going im going to make with little help from my friends i keep on trying im going to keep on trying with a little help from my friends this mornings eye opener is presented by today. Welcome to cbs this morning. And brava to james corden. That is outstanding. That is very, very well done, Tony Dokoupil. I like it. We could all use a friend these days. Whether it is muppet or man. It may be better. Ill take either one. We begin this with an alarming escalation of the correspondent pandemic after a period of decline. Weve hit another daily record with 40,000 reported new cases. That is the second day in a row that weve hit a record high forcing reopening plans to pause. Weve also had the most deaths yesterday in more than seven weeks. California, florida and texas have all had major spikes with between 28 and around 34,000 new cases in the last week. We are in all three states this morning. And we begin with janet shanlian in houston, texas, where officials warn hospitals may be overwhelmed as they were in new york this year. Janet, how pke are the hospitals there . Reporter anthony, good morning. The Texas Medical Center is the largest cluster of hospitals in the world. Late last night it reported its icu beds were 100 full. The Texas Governor has now issued an executive order banning elective procedures in four of the states largest counties, coming after record high covid hospitalizations each of the last 14 days. This is houstons Methodist Hospital where almost a third of the patients in the icu have covid. The remaining have other illnesses. With hospitals at capacity, they have to turn regular beds into Critical Care ones. We want to reassure the public that this pandemic is not eclipsing our capabilities. Reporter videos show the busy scene. Doctors and nurses wrapped in personal protective equipment on the front lines of the fight against covid. How long could you keep going at this pace . If this continues for the next 10, 15 days, no matter which hospital, well be stretched to the limit. Reporter some exerts say reopenings may need to be role rolled back entirely. It is clear reporter dr. Peter hotez is from the Baylor College of medicine and the latest models show houston reaching 4,000 daily cases of coronavirus by the july fourth weekend. It is already a tragedy for ron barbosa in north texas after a gettogether a few weeks ago 18 relatives now have coronavirus and his parents and sister who has cancer are in the hospital. I hear from so many young people now that are like i could get the flu before the virus kills me. Well, guess what . Is it happened to my family. Youre going to carry and youre going to give it some somebody and when it hits that person that needs chemo, that is trying to stay alive, now youre trying to kill them. Reporter and here in houston, Harris County has now banned all gatherings of more than ten people to try to slow the spread of the virus. But it is proving to be very challenging. Tony, back to you. Janet, thank you very much. Now lets go to florida why cases are up more than 140 since the state opened or began reopening rather on may 18th. It is now exceeded 5,000 new infections for two days in a row. Manu bojorquez has more. Reporter long lines push covid 19 Testing Center tooz capacity on thursday. The number of younger people infected is growing. And they are less at risk. There is no doubt about it. They obviously want to be out there and be for social. But the governor warns they could threaten floridas older population. It is important for folks in the Upper Age Group though understand that is out there and continue to take the proper steps and maintain the appropriate social distance. Florida reopened last month without a statewide mark mandate. But last night miami became the latest city to require them in public. Violators could face fines. Miamidade county now accounts for a quarter of all the state infections. Based on the latest batch of testing more than 10 of people tested in the county are positive. We take employee temperatureser day. Reporter in miami beach code enforc enforcement is making sure theyre following guidelines. Does your job have a new sense of urgency. Yes, it does. We have to make sure more businesses are in compliance until all of them are in compliance to minimize the spread of the virus. Reporter Governor Desantis said as of now there is no plans for the state to enter the next phase of reopening. At this Testing Center along miami beach some people waited more than four hours for a test yesterday. This morning a line of cars is already formed on the other side. The city said it will increase the Testing Capacity today to try to meet that demand. Tony and gale. Thank you, manuel. Ill take it. California was one of the first states to suffer an outbreak of the coronavirus. Under lockdown, the numbers went down but now they are back up with the hospitalizations of the carter evans has that part of the story from santa monica. Were still in the first wave of this pandemic. Reporter California Governor Gavin Newsom said a Record Number of people in the state tested positive this week for coronavirus. Richard goodeye is from south los angeles. You feel like youre going to die. Reporter the virus spread to nearly 30 members of his extended family. Including children, that are like my kids that are 5 and 2, my nephew is 2. Reporter richard believes his father brought the virus home from a routine medical visit. He thinks other relatives became infected after some visited his home and brought the virus back to their families. Rifd was hospitalized when he found out his father was taken to the icu where he died. Did you ever get to talk to him again . No. None of us did. Reporter he worries people arent getting the message. In santa cruz, even though cases are rising, Health DepartmentOfficials Say it is impossible to keep people off the beaches. People are not willing to be governed any more in that regard. What do you want to tell the people about this disease . I really want to address the nonbelievers. I plead with you, i beg you to follow the protocols, please wear your mask. It is a real thing. And unfortunately in people arent going to learn until it hits home. Reporter well the governor said the surge in cases here in california could force 11 counties for half of the states population to pause their reopening plans. Hes lk declaring a financial budget emergency and pulling 8 billion from a reserve fund to pay for costs from the coronavirus. Anthony. Carter, thank you. Well the number of new coronavirus cases is at an ahistoric high, the Trump Administration is moving again to get rid of obamacare. It is top lawyer filed papers last night urging the Supreme Court to strike down the Affordable Care act. Weijia jiang is at the white house. The timing of this surprised a lot of people. Why is the administration doing this now . Reporter President Trump campaigned on a promise to repeal obamacare and this morning the white house said a Global Pandemic does not change the administrations belief that it is an unlawful failure and further shows the need to focus on patient care. But critics say the timing couldnt be worse. The brief filed to the Supreme Court supports a group of republican governors who want to overturn the Affordable Care act. In the last Enrollment Period 8. 3 Million People signed up for coverage. Recently some states reopened enrollment because of the virus. President trumps democratic challenger joe biden slammed the lawsuit earlier in the day. I cannot comprehend the cruelty that is driving him to inflict this pain on the very people hes supposed to serve. Reporter as coronavirus cases surge, the president struck an optimistic tone touring a shup yard in the battleground state of wisconsin. Our economy is coming back at a level that nobody ever imagined possible. Were doing great. Reporter and at a fox news town hall he insisted the worst is behind us. It is an artificial problem. We had to turn our country over to save millions of lives and now it is turned back on and it is coming back stronger. Reporter and he blames the spike in cases or more nationwide testing. So we have more cases because we do the greatest testing. If we didnt do testing, wed have no cases. Testing unequivocally saves lives and widespread testing is the key to opening our economy again. He thinks that finding out that more americans are sick will make him look bad. Reporter if obamacare is overturned, 20 million americans could lose coverage. The case is expected to be heard this fall. Today the Coronavirus Task force will hold the first briefing the first time in two months. Tony. And well be watching. Weijia, thank you very much. And the latest on nascar. Into another week of racing with no end of the controversy involving the only full time black driver. Steve phelps released this photo of a noose found in Bubba Wallaces garage at the Talladega Superspeedway last week. He said, quote, as you could see from the photo, the noose was real. Fbi investigators found the rope had been there for several months and concluded that wallace was not the target of a hate crime. Jericka dungeon spoke with his father in his only tv interview since the noose was found. Jericka, good morning. Reporter good morning. His father talked about how proud he is of his son. As for nascar, officials said that they checked all of the garages at their tracks and out of the nearly 1700 stalls they said only one of them, just one, the one assigned to Bubba Wallace had a fulldown rope that was clearly fashioned as a noose. I see how it is wearing down on him. Hes having sleepless nights. Reporter Darrell Wallace sr. Feels the weight that his 26yearold son is carrying. On thursday nascars president said that while they dont know who tied the rope into a noose, the ultimate conclusion for this investigation is to ensure that this never happens again. What conversations have you had with your son since the noose incident . Talked to him like a week before and just told him, you know, be aware of your surroundings. Know who is around you. Because there is some crazy people out there. Reporter and when you have that conversation, that is because of the move that nascar took in reference to the Confederate Flag and your sons push to try and make that happen, is that right . Yeah, thats correct. This is been a stressful couple of weeks. Reporter earlier this month, Bubba Wallace, the only fulltime black driver on racing top circuit, challenged nascar to remove Confederate Flags from events and they did. Are you surprised by the steps nascar has taken . No. Im not surprised. It is the right thing to do. There are people that are uncomfortable with the flag. And are you . Am i . Yeah, i am. And there is only one flag i stand for. And so, yeah, im uncomfortable with the flag. And if youre with me and youre uncomfortable with the flag then i am too. Reporter bubba discovered his love for racing as a young boy. We bought a gokart and went racing and it got in the way of basketball so he had to decide which one he wanted to do and he chose the racing. They we raced every weekend, sometimes three and four times a week all over the southeast. And here is Bubba Wallace walking out to salute the fans. Reporter Bubba Wallace, one of nascars biggest names now races all own the country and his father said hes proud to see the calls for change coming from car number 43. And that was just recently painted reporter and he was moved by the monday show of support at talladega. How did you feel when you saw that moment of solidarity. I send to to my family who was chopping onions, everybody was crying. What did it mean, what did it represent . That they had his back. Everybody there has his back. Its a proud moment. Weve had to jump through a lot of hurdles with a lot of stuff. From the time he was 9 years old up until today. We just have to keep going and keep racing and doing what we do. Reporter nascar president steve phelps said that he will now add cameras to all of the garages and all members of the association, the racing association, will be required to take sensitivity and unconscious bias training. Gayle. Jericka, im so touched by Bubba Wallaces dad. Hes a proud father concerned about his son. What i keep hearing from everybody who knows bubba is that he loves to drive, he and nascar want to move on and put this behind them. But i felt like Bubba Wallace, the father there, it was such a touching moment of solidarity the way they lined up behind him. Reporter yeah. And what it represented. It is funny because he said hes a very direct guy and he said a lot of he feels his sons directness comes from him but in that moment it just really broke him down. Hes a proud dad and now everybody is ready to move on and were cheering for Bubba Wallace this saturday. Pocono, i here. Thank you very much. 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