Lets begin in florida. Our rosa flores joins us in miami. This is what exactly that everyone was praying would not happen. What are Health Officials saying about the hospitals that are at crisis levels . Why . Is it the majority of peds are filled with Covid Patients . You know, i talked to an expert yesterday who said its a stab in the heart for any medical professional thats watching these numbers and that is in these icu units. Because they know its not getting any better. Lets start with the facts here. 43 icu hospitals in 21 counties across this state are at capacity. That peoples that there are zero icu beds in those icu hospitals. Another 32 hospitals have a capacity of 10 or less. Now, i wish i could tell you just exactly how many covid19 patients are in hospitals right now in florida, but the state does not release that number. That does not stop, however, Miamidade County from releasing that data. Yesterday was the latest count. 1,657. Back on june 24th that number was 870. When it comes to icu beds being used theres an 86 increase. If you look at ventilators the use of ventilators during the same period, 127 increase. Despite the numbers you cannot dispute the numbers you put on the screen theres still no consideration of a mask mandate across the state from the for . Youre absolutely right. And then hear this. Just yesterday, the florida commissioner of education issued an emergency order requiring all schools in florida to reopen in brick and mortar style starting in the fall. Now, heres what he said. Quote, there is a need to open schools fully to ensure the quality and continuity of the education process. The comprehensive wellbeing of the students and families in florida hitting the full economic stride. As you might imagine, some teachers are already pushing back including in orange county. The teachers there saying quote the governor and the secretary are putting a political and economic agenda over the safety and wellbeing of students, teachers and school employees. Poppy, the governor is having a press Conference Today and were hoping that he can explain his rationale and the rationale of the state for pushing that agenda. Of course, well watch closely for that. Rosa, thanks very much. Also a dire situation growing rapidly across the state of the texas. Our ryan young is in houston. Ryan, you have a small contingent of military personnel that are going in to parts of texas to try to help out. Can you give us the reality of the situation on the ground because it was less than a week ago that the Lieutenant Governor of texas on another network said, look, this is nothing like what happened in new york. You know, this is the media blowing it out of proportion. What do the hard numbers tell us . You know, when you are talking to people who live in this community dont feel that way. There are 99 6 new cases yesterday. We came to the independent testing site. You can see the cars lining up. They have been here since this morning. Were just across from the nrg stadium about ten minutes outside of houston. A lot of people are having this conversation. You look at this graph from may 1st, you can see the lines steadily moving up. And especially every time there was another opening in terms of bar or a restaurant. You can see those numbers start to climb. So poppy, when you see like even in the june 3rd influx, thats what people are worried about. You decided to set up a Testing Center outside of this area. What was the reason that you felt like that you needed another Testing Center in this city . Sure. This is my home. Im from houston and we recognized that the city needed more testing. And in order to meet demand, we created our Testing Center. You said people have been emotional in this line. Absolutely. Tell me some of the emotions they have shared with you. Oh, my gosh, you know, i have had i had a gentleman earlier who was crying. He came to us, he was so happy that we had this option. He couldnt get in. Into the other testing facilities. He needed to get back to work. He couldnt believe we got him in and through the process so quickly. Really quickly, this is a private Testing Center. Absolutely. When they go to the other Testing Centers how long are they waiting sometimes . We heard from some of the people, theyre waiting four or five hours and they cut the testing because they met capacity at the other facilities and came to us right after. I appreciate you sharing that with us. Theres a long line. One of the things that stands out about this testing area, one of the reasons we came here this is a saliva test. So you get one of the tubes and then you fill it up to right about here. When you get up to the front then you also hand over your sample. A lot of people are also scared about that nose test. I dont know why. I have done it myself. But some people dont like it. Then the idea that some people are standing or waiting in line, in their cars in this heat and theyre running out of gas as they wait to get tested. So you understand that there are people who are frustrated at this point who want to return to work. The other thing that i have noticed, poppy, these right here, people are not wearing them. People do not want to do it. And businesses are struggling at the doors. Struggling to get people to put them on. Even though theres a statewide mandate. Right. Youre working at a store, theyre not paying you enough to work at the store and then get someone to wear you. I hear you. Thats why some are pushing for the federal mandate across the board. Ryan young, thanks. Lets go to our evan mcmorrissantoro in phoenix. Reporting 100,000 coronavirus cases and a big concern there is young people being a big, big majority of them. Thats right, poppy. And when we talk about that 100,000 number, thats the first time that this state has passed that number during this whole pandemic. Sometimes these numbers you know, 3,300 cases reported yesterday, 100,000 in total its hard to put it in perspective. But weve crunched the numbers. Over the last seven days on average, arizona has added more cases per day than any other state. So thats a per capita average. Thats a big deal. Its a dire situation and when we talk about that demographic number that youre talking about, public Health Officials over 60 of the cases coming from people under the age of 44. The mayor of phoenix where im right now has attributed that and suggested that might be because of the state reopening early. For example, couple of months ago, this state did close things like Indoor Dining and then reopened them a couple months later. Indoor dining still open here. Things like bars and movie theaters they have reshut down and gyms have been reshut down but theres been some argument among the gym owners if they want to do that. And theyre not getting what they need to bring down the numbers. Thats so striking, per capita the biggest day to day increases in any state in arizona right now. Thanks a lot, evan. The government awarded 1. 6 milli 1. 6 million to novomax for a vaccine. Lets go to elizabeth cohen. Theyd lose the money if they didnt work, but how sure are they that this one works . You know, theres a lot of cautious optimism. I think thats sort of the watch word of the day. Cautious optimism that one or hopefully more of these vaccines will work. But hopefully, you know, we need to keep studying them. Novavax has only studied this in 131 patients. They need to move into phase three clinical trials. I asked the ceo of novavax, lets take a listen to his answer. I think in the Fourth Quarter. We dont have a date set yet, but hopefully as early as the Fourth Quarter as possible. Maybe if were lucky we can start phase three in late third quarter. Now, novavax is one of four companies that are getting big money from the federal government to do the phase three trials and several have said they hope to get the vaccine on the market end of this year, beginning of next year. Poppy . Thank you, elizabeth, on that. The government nearly giving nearly half a billion dollars to regeneron today. Can you talk about that money . Is that for a therapeutic, is that for a treatment or a vaccine . Thats for a treatment, actually. So its a treatment called the antibody cocktail and its really quite intriguing and a lot of hope for the treatment. They take the antibodies that are manufactured or made by the body and they call out the best ones and clone them into the drug that can be used for treatment or prevention. They are testing it both ways. Glad to hear the encouraging signs. Still to come, dr. Anthony fauci said that the United States in the United States is really not good, but this is a starkly different picture than what the president is painting on twitter. Plus, how much the coronavirus is impacting the major league courts as sports tries to get back on the court and the field. International students may have to leave the United States. Thats what i. C. E. Now says if the colleges and universities theyre attending go totally online in the fall. Thats ahead. As cases of covid continue to rise in the country, the president is determined to play down the pandemic. But the top member of his own task force, dr. Anthony fauci, says we as a nation are quote, still knee deep in the first wave. Lets do to our cnn correspondent, joe johns. Tell us more about what dr. Fauci said overnight. Well, you know, poppy, this is a very sobering message from dr. Anthony fauci and hes delivered some others like that during the course of the pandemic. Probably the most important thing he said is that we are knee deep in the first wave of the pandemic. And that there is a resurgence going on in the United States. Listen. A series of circumstances associated with various states and cities trying to open up in the sense of getting back to some form of normality has led to the situation where we now have record breaking cases. Contrast that with some of the things that the president of the United States said last night. How the virus is going to disappear, also as you know over the weekend said 99 of coronavirus cases are harmless. Both of which are misleading, false, whatever you want to say. It is essentially not supported by the data. Yeah. Now, the president has been trying to put all of this in the Rearview Mirror when it comes to the virus. We have another example of that just this morning here at the white house when it was announced that the president s flying down to doral in southern florida on friday and as you know, that part of florida is just slammed with coronavirus cases. The president is not going there for that. Hes going down to see the u. S. Southern command. Poppy, back to you. Thank you very much. Lets bring in dr. Jha and dr. Prynnes and dr. Jha, the president tweeted a Washington Times piece. Quote, we being the United States, have the lowest mortality rate in the world. And he says the media should be talking about that, but theyre not. What are the facts . Yeah, so thank you for having me on. I dont know what the president means by that. We dont have the lowest mortality rate. We certainly look at the number of people who died as a proportion of infected people were not the lowest. We obviously dont have the lowest number of people, but we have the highest in the world. But im not sure what the president is referring to but i cant see it in the data. His views are not supported by the data. 133,310 deaths in the United States this morning. Dr. Prynne from this, i was struck hearing from dr. Peter hotez at Baylor College of medicine telling Anderson Cooper last night because of the spread were seeing especially across the south that it is quote rising so rapidly we cannot even do Contact Tracing anymore. Do you agree with that assessment . Has the u. S. Missed its window to effectively mitigate this and Contact Trace . Yes, i think that we are in a really different situation at this point. We have seen such an incredible increase in cases and every one of the cases needs to be Contact Traced an then every one of the contacts needs to be contacted as well. When you think of this rise in cases and we dont have enough people on board, the number it takes to Contact Trace were falling behind there and that means were not talking to people, telling them they have been exposed and telling them to stay home. Listen to this, dr. Jha from tom bossert. We are in trouble, its harder to extinguish the flareup and it will take a while to put out the fires. We can top 500,000 u. S. Deaths this year if this trend continues. This is from the man who was advising the president on all things homeland security. Do you agree with that assessment, upwards of 500,000 deaths . Im hopeful we wont get near that and i think well hit somewhere around 200,000 near the fall or 300,000. Well have a lot more illness and a lot more death ahead of us if we dont turn this around. Whether we hit 500,000 or not im not sure. But its a bleak summer and fall ahead. We know the way to lower the number of deaths is through mask wearing. You cannot dispute that. People around the president are taking pictures and Wearing Masks but not the president. You have florida not mandating statewide masks and also the States Education commission saying theyre going to reopen brick and mortar schools next month. What does that mean for the state of florida and for the country . Number one, its a Critical Health message that Everyone Needs to be wearing a mask and that needs to come from on high. Needs to come from the highest administrative levels in this country that this is the way to prevent the spread of the virus and keep people safe. As far as the schools reopening its dependent on the level of cases within that particular area and on the school itself. I dont think you can reopen the way that, you know, they have been opened in the past. Certainly there are some students who dont benefit from being schooled at home and theyre falling behind and theyre vulnerable students who are falling behind. So there has to be some method of getting them back to school. And i understand the push and pull of that, youre so right, doctor, about the loss of not having inperson education, especially for children without access to broadband or whatever. The atlanta mayor, alicia bottoms shes tested positive for coronavirus and you couple this with the new study out of yale that finds that silent spreaders, people that are asymptomatic that could be responsible for half of the cases in the United States. And you couple that with the, you know, note from Quest Diagnostics and labcorp theyre having a hard time processing the tests quickly enough. Its taking longer. You have people waiting days to find out whats going on and they could be silent spreaders. Where does that put us . All of this makes it so much harder to manage the disease because were seeing the spreading of the disease, bigger outbreaks. A lot of is from asymptomatic people and this is why i think it is absolutely critical. Look, this is not rocket science. We have the message here its very clear. Everyone should be wearing a mask. Indoor gatherings are risky. You have to maintain social distance and then the government has do a better job of ramping up testing and tracing. If we do those things we can get a handle on these but we dont have the will to really prioritize those activities. Yeah. Seems like many people are throwing their hands up. Thank you very much. Set backs for some sports leagues. Well have that ahead. Well look at the u. S. Futures, for all three major indices, pointing down. Global markets down today after stocks finished sharply higher on monday. The nasdaq which is a tech heavy index closed at an alltime record yesterday. Investors shrugging off rising covid19 infections in the u. S. As to how theyll affect the recovery. Stay with us. First up is this exquisite bowl of french onion dip. Im going to start the bidding at 5. Thank you, sir. 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