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She was vicious. She was evil. Jeffrey was a sick pedophile. But she was the mastermind. What Virginia Giuffre is telling us. And twitter hacked. The messaging giant faces serious security questions after an attack took over dozens of highprofile accounts. Including former president obamas and elon musks. Yikes. But first, heres todays eye opener. Its your world in 90 seconds. Weve got to almost reset this and say, okay, lets stop this nonsense and figure out how can we get our control over this now. A new model predicts almost a quarter million americans will have died from covid19 by election day. If we do not change course, florida and arizona will be our future. Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro wrote an article claiming fauci has been wrong on everything regarding the coronavirus. He shouldnt be doing that. I have a very Good Relationship with anthony. A massive hack attack on twitter. The accounts include former president barack obama, Kim Kardashian and jeff bezos. They have filed a lawsuit against minneapolis and the four Police Officers charged in his deelts. Cities and companies only talk in dollar bills, sadly. President trump is replacing his Campaign Manager less than four months before the election. The president demoted Brad Parscale. Walmart is the latest retailer to require face coverings from all customers at all Stores Starting next week. All that forget about cat burglars. This one is a bear. Tearing down a screen at a home. Shoo. And all that matters. Mike tyson is gearing up for a new challenge in a couple of weeks and his next opponent . A massive shark. Its called tyson versus jaws all in the name of research. On cbs this morning. Coronavirus Hospital Data will now be sent to the Trump Administration instead of the cdc. And i believe we have some live video of the new Trump Administration covid Data Processing center. Welcome to cbs this morning. Laughing baby is always good but lets not miss Stephen Colberts point. This is serious if we may not have the access to the figures we need which will help us get to a conclusion to this. Its very frightening. We need the information out in the open. That kids laugh, one of the best laughs ive heard. We need some transparency. Were going to begin where weve always began for the last week or so. Unfortunately this story is not changing. Were seeing new evidence that americas Coronavirus Crisis is getting worse. 41 states report a growing number of new cases. Pennsylvanias governor is ordering nightdlubs and bars to close after a jump in infections there. Health Officials Say the outbreak in los angeles has hit an alarming and dangerous phase, and theres a Record Number of covid hospitalizations across the United States. Anthony . Were also seeing more pushback over Wearing Masks in public from those who insist on it and others who say they dont want any face coverings. Our lead National Correspondent David Begnaud is in miami. David, florida just topped 300,000 total cases. Are the hospitals there able to keep up . Well, anthony, take miamidade county, for example. The hottest of hot spots in south florida. The most populated county. Theyve reached their traditional icu capacity. What are they doing now . Seth up overflow beds, getting them ready. The good news is they had less people with covid being admitted to the icu. Look for the good news here. But the concern is, even the extra beds they are setting up are not going to be enough moving forward. Which beds can we turn into covid beds . Which beds can we create safe isolation for . Thats dr. Nicholas namias from Jackson Health system in miami. He says it may be too late to avoid bed shortages. We have gridlock. And we wont be able to take patients in. Theyll just be stacked in the e. R. S. I got tested yesterday for covid19, and the results came back positive. Reporter oklahomas Governor Kevin Stitt became the first governor to test positive for the virus on wednesday, the same day his state broke the single day record for cases. From home in quarantine, he says hes not thinking at all about issuing a statewide mask mandate. Stitt hosted President Trumps rally in tulsa last month where he was seen not wearing a mask. It was a different story in alabama. That states governor kay ivey says masks are now mandatory effective today. Increased cases every day are still occurring, and we are almost to the point where our hospital icus are overwhelmed. Reporter in the absence of a federal mask mandate, some National Chains like starbucks request all customers wear masks. Yesterday walmart, americas largest retailer, announced a mask mandate at all of its more than 5,000 stores. The nations largest Supermarket Chain kroger followed suit. Cbs news chief medical correspondent dr. Jon lapook. Theres been mixed messaging about the need to wear face masks. I think the default on a National Level should be to wear a face mask. You cant let your guard down. It takes that one slipup to not wear your mask, not wash your hands. Reporter Michelle Zymet says she and her four children and husband all tested positive for coronavirus. Her 21yearold son likely brought the virus home after getting together with some friends who were lax about Wearing Masks. Her husband john is now on a ventilator. I know your 21yearold son feels a lot of guilt. What do you tell him . I mean, his dad loves him very much. We all love him. Its not that were blaming him. We could have caught it anywhere. Hes got to pull through. Theres no other way because im not going to tell his 6yearold daughter that her daddy is not coming home. Its just not going to happen. Reporter this is the 19th morning that john is in the icu fighting for his life. Florida remains a state where the governor refuses to institute a National Mandate for masks statewide. But north of here, overnight in georgia, the governor passed a law that overturns all local ordinances mandating masks including atlanta and savannah. The mayor tweeted, its officially official. Governor kemp does not give a damn about us. Every man and woman for himself, herself. Ignore the science and survive the best you can. Its dispiriting to see Public Health policy become a political battle, but there you have it. Thank you, david. A unique way of bringing it home for us. Lets go to south carolina. Thats another place theres a stark divide over mask wearing. Its a particularly sharp there, in fact. South carolina reported more than 1800 new cases. That was just yesterday. And who is getting the blame . Tourists are getting the blame for that increase. Mark strassmann is in charleston, south carolina, where the streets are full of visitors already. How serious is the outbreak there . Put it this way. They had to put up a sign in the heart of downtown to remind people, masks here are mandatory. This is upper king street, downtown charleston, an area known for its shops, bars and restaurants, Southern Charm and now the zip code with the highest covid rate in all of south carolina. Health officials estimate more than 1 in 3 residents would test positive. Summer heat, covid hot spot. And yet tourists often bare faced and shoulder to shoulder crowd downtown charleston streets. Youre not worried about it . No. Reporter blaze and David Jorgensen and their family left phoenix to vacation in charleston. Why would i be scared of it . Its like the flu so everyone is going to get infected. Everyones got it. Were humans. We live through this stuff. This is what our bodies are designed to do. Reporter epidemiologists disagree. South carolina has recorded more than 25,000 new cases over the last two weeks. Despite the threat, Governor Henry Mcmaster is pushing schools to reopen in september. We must reopen our economy. People must go to work. Schools must have inclass facetoface teaching so these children do not fall behind. Reporter by City Ordinance in charleston, masking is not a choice. Its mandatory for anyone over the age of 9. The city just doubled fines for violators. 100 for the first offense. Most people we saw wore one. Not Melissa Dickinson from southern illinois. We forgot them. Yeah. But you feel okay about it . Yeah. When we passed people, we just try not to breathe. Reporter another challenge, almost 140,000 american deaths into the crisis. Many people see the covid scare as overblown. I mean, people die of stuff all the time. I dont know why i would change my life to be afraid of this. Theres plenty of stuff to be afraid of. This is certainly not one of them. I talked to one clerk here on king street in an upper end clothing store. She had to tell a customer he had to put on a mask or leave the store. He got irate, stormed out. She saw the moment for what it probably was. An idle threat. Gayle, we live in strange, contentious times. We really do, mark. I dont know what more we can say to convince people. Its a matter of life and death. Its not politics when it ghsco to a mask. President trumps support has fallen while this pandemic rages on. And now hes shaking up his reelection campaign. The president says Campaign Manager Brad Parscale is taking on a new role. Hes been replaced by longtime republican operative bill stepien. A new poll shows Democrat Joe Biden leading the president 52 to 37 . Weijia jiang is at the white house with more on this story. Good morning to you. Do you think this is likely to change the president s Campaign Strategy . Good morning, gayle, and to everybody. Cbs news has learned that advisers have told President Trump he has to get more combative and political, which we have seen this week. But the president is not open to new ideas. And prefers to go off instinct. He also refuses to believe bad polling, even from his own team. Parscales demotion is just one of several recent Campaign Shakeups. And sources say it was a long time coming. And his name is Brad Parscale, and he is fantastic. Reporter Brad Parscale fell out of favor with President Trump after he bragged that more than 1 Million People had requested tickets to the president s june rally in tulsa. And just over 6,000 people showed up. We begin our campaign. Reporter the Campaign Turmoil comes as mr. Trump is trying to distance himself from criticism of dr. Anthony fauci. I get along very well with dr. Fauci. I have a very Good Relationship. Reporter President Trump insisted wednesday his relationship with fauci is fine. Even though last week he accused the doctor of making lots of mistakes during the pandemic. And despite economic adviser Peter Navarros scathing oped attacking fauchy in which navarro said he listens to faucis advice only with skepticism and caution. Its a bit bizarre. They realize now that was not a prudent thing to do because its only reflecting negatively on them. Reporter fauci also said he was not involved in the administrations new order for hospitals to send their data on covid19 directly to the department of health and Human Services instead of the cdc. Hhs secretary alex azar argues the only difference is the platform that will be used to report information. There are concerns that the data will be politicized or kept from the public. How can you assure people thats not going to happen . Hhs is cdc and cdc is hhs. This is something we should be celebrating, which is were identifying a problem with our Public Health Data Infrastructure and we are solving it to get that information. Reporter in an interview for instyle magazine, dr. Fauci told cbs evening news anchor and managing editor Norah Odonnell he doesnt like being pitted against the president because hes an apolitical person. When asked how long he plans to stay on the Coronavirus Task force, he said he doesnt plan on going anywhere any time soon. Anthony . Thats good news. Weijia, thank you. Twitter has revealed new details about one of the biggest cyberattacks on the social network. It believes hackers accessed its internal systems after targeting twitter employees. Yesterday fake messages appeared on the twitter accounts of dozens of celebrities, politicians and billionaires, including barack obama, elon musk and kanye west. Twitters Ceo Jack Dorsey wrote, tough day for us at twitter. We all feel terrible this hand. Were diagnosing and will share everything we can when we have a more complete understanding of exactly what happened. Anna werner shows us how the scam worked. Reporter the tweet from tesla and spacex founder elon musk seemed too good to be true. Im feeling generous because of covid19 ill double any btc payment sent to my btc account for the next hour. Good luck and stay out there. The address posted right below. Similar tweets appeared on the accounts of celebrities kanye west and Kim Kardashian west. Politicians, former president obama and joe biden. And billionaires michael bloomberg, jeff bezos and bill gates. Companies like apple and uber were also targeted. Heres how it worked. The sophisticated scammers took over verified accounts and then convinced twitter users to send bitcoin, a Digital Currency that can be traded for dollars to a website and promised double the money back. Within hours, twitter limited functions for all verified accounts and acknowledged the hack saying we are investigating and taking steps to fix it. Its a terrifying moment for twitter. Reporter Nick Thompson is wireds editor in chief and says the way the scam was executed, hacking into twitter r itself and not individual accounts, makes it stand out from others. Normally, when you see the scam, its coming from the address of someone whose name you dont know. Its not coming from elon musk. Reporter Thompson Says hijacking verified accounts in an age when tweets make news could have disastrous consequences. Now that so much of life happens on twitter, getting access to the most popular verified accounts means you can do near infinite damage. Reporter twitter is still investigating this hack. The big question, of course, who was the hacker . Nobody knows that right now. But the company says it had locked most compromised accounts and would reopen them when it was safe to do so. Tony . The big question is, who was the hacker . Also what else may they have in the direct messages, for example, on the twitter accounts. Anna, thank you. Were learning new details about the death of george floyd from new body camera video that has not been released for viewing by the public. Its from the cameras of thomas lane and j. Alexander kueng. Those were the first two officers to arrive on the scene. Theyve been charged with aiding and abetting in the death of floyd. The footage has not been shown to the public for fear it could taint a jury. Jeff pegues is following the investigation for us, though. What more can you tell us about the video . Reporter good morning. I spoke to a reporter at our minneapolis station wccotv who saw that video. And she says when the officers tried to get floyd into the back of a squad car, thats when the situation there really deteriorated. Also, the body cam footage shows that one of the officers pulled a gun on floyd shortly after arriving on scene. Floyd sounds upset and distraught and you can hear him repeatedly pleading with the officers not to arrest him. He tells them hes claustrophobic. When they attempt to put him into the squad car, you can hear a fearful floyd saying, im not a bad guy. The floyd family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city of minneapolis and the four fired officers. Ben crump is one of their attorneys. We seek to set a precedent to make it financially prohibitive that the police wont wrongfully kill marginalized people. Reporter minneapolis city officials are reviewing that lawsuit, and they say that they plan to respond to it. Also, the attorneys representing the rookie officers lane and kueng, they say that they want that body camera footage out there because they believe it presents a more complete picture of what happened that day. Gayle . The picture we have so far is very painful and troubling. This just adds to that. Thank you very much, jeff. Ahead well hear from alleged Jeffrey Epstein victim, Virginia Roberts giuffre. Its her first interview since Ghislaine Maxwell was denied ahead well take you ahead well take you to sweden, a country that did not shutdown when the