we are setting records of the type you don't want to set. >> educators across the country are trying to find a way to get students back until classrooms safely. >> there is nothing in the data that would suggest that kids being back in school is dangerous to them. >> we all want our children to go back to school, but they must go back safely. >> announcer: this is "new day" with alisyn camerota and john berman. >> welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. this is "new day." it's monday, july 13th, 6:00 here in new york. hope you all had a wonderful weekend. this morning, we are seeing alarming new records in the coronavirus pandemic. seriously startling figures, but instead of attacking the crisis, the president is attacking the most trusted expert on the science of the virus. he also went golfing, twice. florida just shattered the single-day record for positive cases. more than 15,000. no state has had that many cases on a single day since this all began. and this is a uniquely american failure. it did not have to be this way. the 15,000 cases reported in florida in a single day, it's more than south korea has reported since the start of the pandemic, in total, the whole country, over six months, combined. this morning, 35 states are seeing increases in new cases. all the states there you are seeing in red. many hospitals in texas nearing capacity. some counties there are asking for refrigeration trucks, as morgues begin to fill up. top officials in houston are now calling for a new lockdown. >> and john, as the pandemic worsens, the trump administration is attempting to damage the reputation of the top infectious disease expert in the united states. they're putting out a list of negative research on dr. anthony fauci. in other words, they're using oppo research against their top expert as if he were a political opponent. the white house says some of his allies don't think dr. fauci has president trump's best interests in minds. you remember, the president suggested ingesting plaech ini cure the virus. and the president's education secretary cannot answer a simple question about whether schools should follow the cdc's guidelines to reopen. let's start with rosa flores live in miami with our top story. rosa? >> reporter: alisyn, good morning. florida shattering its daily record, recording more than 15,000 cases, accounting for a quarter of the total new daily cases in the united states. now, here where i am in miami-dade county, this is the epicenter of the covid-19 pandemic in this state, accounting for 24% of the state's nearly 270,000 cases. now, as the numbers continue to surge, officials here warn that some hospitals are hitting capacity. florida coronavirus cases surging. more than 15,000 cases announced on sunday alone, marking the highest daily number of confirmed cases in the state, ever. the test positivity rate in florida has not dipped below 15% since june 25th. governor ron desantis suggested over the weekend that florida will not proceed to the next phase of reopening. >> right now, we're not making any changes. status quo, we want to get this positivity rate down. and as we get in a more stable situation, then we'll take a look at it. >> reporter: hospitals in miami beach are nearing full capacity. >> we'll have to start moving regular beds into icu beds, so we're clearly being strained at this point. and there's obviously an impact on non-covid cases, which also need to be taken care of. so this is really straining our health care system dramatically. >> reporter: walt disney world reopening some parks despite the surge, making masks mandatory and barring anyone displaying covid symptoms. georgia seeing an increase in new cases over the past two weeks, after being one of the first states to start reopening. atlanta mayor keisha lance bottoms said she was moving the city's reopening back to phase i, telling residents to stay home, except for essential needs. governor brian kemp calling this merely guidance and says the mayor could not issue her own restrictions. and in northwest michigan, this fourth of july event with hundreds packing the beach causing the health department to issue a possible public exposure advisory, after some partygoers tested positive. and in texas, many hospitals are nearing capacity and governor greg abbott warns that things will get worse in the coming week. 35 states across the country are experiencing an increase in weekly coronavirus cases, but administration officials continue to downplay the surge. >> we are all very concerned about the rise in cases. no doubt about that. and that's why we're meeting regularly. we're surging in assistance, but we are in a much better place. this is not out of control. >> reporter: and despite warnings from health experts and school officials, education secretary betsy devos brushing off the risks of reopening schools. >> there is nothing in the data that would suggest that kids being back in school is dangerous to them. in fact, it's more a matter of their health and well-being that they be back in school. >> reporter: house speaker nancy pelosi firing back, saying devos is putting children and teachers at risk and ignoring the science. >> i think what we heard from the secretary was malfeasance and dereliction of duty. we all want our children to go back to school, teachers do, parents do, and children do. but they must go back safely. >> reporter: now, here's the reality on the ground here in miami-dade county. the 14-day average positivity rate is 26%. the goal for the county is not to exceed 10%. well, the county has exceeded 22% for the past 14 days. as for hospitalizations of covid-19 patients in the past 14 days, those are up 67%. icu beds, 65%, and ventilators, 129%. and alisyn, i just checked this morning, 35 hospitals in the state of florida are at capacity. seven of them are right here in miami-dade county. >> those numbers are just jaw dropping and so concerning. rosa, thank you. we'll check back with you. this morning, tensions appear to be growing between the white house and dr. taianthony fauci. the trump administration now openly trying to discredit him. joe johns is live with more. >> as coronavirus cases continue to surge around the country, the white house is taking aim at dr. fauci. he has been critical of the government's response to the pandemic. he's also contradicted the president's statements from time to time in his tv interviews. now, one of the things we do know that these two men, according to a source, have not spoken in months. and some here at the white house are suggesting that dr. fauci does not have the president's best interests at heart. some of the issues they raise is the number of times they say dr. fauci has been wrong on things, things like not needing to wear a mask or the virus does not spread asymptomatically. these are both incorrect. however, they are things we didn't know at the time. and now many doctors and scientists had said earlier. it's important, also, to say that the president himself has been wrong multiple times, including suggesting this virus was just going to go away magically. and downplaying it generally in his statements across the country. now, if you look at the poll from just last month, there are indications more americans trust dr. fauci than the president. 67% of americans said they trust dr. fauci. only 26% say they trust the president. and as an aside, as you know, the president was seen just this weekend, for the first time, at walter reed hospital wearing a mask. alisyn, back to you. >> joe, thank you very much for all the news from the white house. so florida breaking the record for new coronavirus cases. hospitalizations in texas and arizona are surging. can schools reopen under these conditions? we look at that, next. introducing new voltaren arthritis pain gel, the first and only full prescription strength non-steroidal anti-inflammatory gel 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if i were the governor, just bring things down, shut things down for the next couple of weeks, to take the energy away from this virus. >> joining us now, dr. joseph var varon and dr. isly marty, infectious disease professional at florida university. dr. varon, first to you. we're at the stage of this pandemic where county officials in texas are asking for refrigeration trucks because the morgues are getting so full. you heard the houston mayor calling for a new shutdown, a new stay-at-home order in your city. what are you seeing? what do you think needs to happen? >> right, i mean, to be honest with you, it's a good idea. however, if you shut down something, you have to have an educational program that goes with that. what i mean by that is you cannot just shut down and expect that we're going to go through the same thing again. you have to have education. you've got to plan ahead of time, so that when we reopen, we do it with a little bit more of a social conscience. so people go out and they go ahead and, you know, keep their safe distance, wear their masks. if we shut down, and we do exactly the same thing we did last time we shut down, we're going to have the same problem that we're having now, where people go out like, you know, there is no tomorrow and they forget about their social distancing, they forget about the fact that we're in the middle of a pandemic. >> dr. marty, it's not like there's not a model for this. there are successful models for this. new york, this weekend, yesterday, i believe, saw no deaths for the first time. new york state. connecticut reported not a single death on friday and tuesday of last week. their cases have come down. in connecticut, the positivity rate is 0.6 welcome as opposed to where we've heard of in florida and elsewhere, in the 20s. so when a harris county judge hidalgo in texas says, not only do we need a stay-at-home order now, but we need to stick with it this time until the hospitalization curve comes down, not just flattens, many communities that persevered in that way are reopening for the long haul. let's learn from that and not make the same mistake twice. there are successful models that could be followed right now. >> absolutely. there's no question that what needed to happen during the first lockdown was a buildup of all of those components, including appropriate contact tracing and testing and having everything up to par and getting the community to understand how serious the virus is and act accordingly once we entered, you know, the reopening phase. we had plans in place that counted on those things being done. however, what we do in our county to get things ready can be messed up by people at other levels. and that's exactly what happened. there was a lot of false information in some media, making people think the virus was either not important or not serious. and people protesting the use of masks, which is absurd and dangerous. and you know, you need to have the community behind you. and that community needs to understand what's going on. and they need to understand all the ways in which the virus is transmitted. otherwise, you waste the entire agony of having had the lockdown. and so, of course, that's -- we're having an emergency meeting today, with the mayor, and we are going to discuss these details, because the mayor knows that this is true. he wants the power to have more appropriate contact tracing and testing. he wants the community to understand what's going on. we've got to get that message and we had a major meeting with the league of cities just last -- on friday, to get -- make sure that all the cities in miami-dade are with us, as a unified front. because we haven't been a unified front, and that's a problem. >> it sounds like what you are both saying is what we need here is science. and what we need to do is listen to what the scientists and the experts are saying and have been saying for months now. and dr. varon, it is notable that we wake up this morning to the president of the united states. how is he responding to 135,000 deaths? how is he responding to the single highest case number in a state that this country has seen? he's attacking dr. anthony fauci, one of the most trusted experts in the country on coronavirus. what does that do to your efforts to get the facts out? >> well, i mean, again, my primary issue with all of this is that people are getting conflictive messages. i mean, the media says something, the president says something, world health care organization says something, dr. fauci says something, and your viewers are, you know, perplexed. they say, who do i believe? i believe that we need to physical the science. i believe we need to follow also the history of what we have done wrong, so we don't do it again. >> dr. varon, dr. marty, we thank you very much for giving us the status report of where where are states are this morning. we will speak to you again soon. so here's a quote from a "washington post" 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fauci's so-called mistakes to the media. of course, president trump has been wrong about virtually every aspect of the pandemic. >> by april, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away. the coronavirus, which is, you know, very well under control in our country, we have very few people with it. >> we're going down, not up. we're going very substantially down, not up. and again, when you have 15 people, and the 15, within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that's a pretty good job we've done. >> joining us now is cnn political commentator mitch landrieu, he's the former mayor of new orleans. mayor, great to have you here. let's not forget that president trump also suggested well after that that one way to get rid of the virus in humans is -- was to possibly ingest bleach. and then hot lines across the country, medical hot lines, doctor's, hospitals lit up with people wondering if they should be drinking bleach sp. so the idea that the trump administration is now sending out what is called oppo research, what it's called when it's against political opponent, against dr. anthony fauci, what are your reactions about what they're doing? >> first of all, it's stunning, yet predictable. think about this weekend, writ large. the president has roger stone on his shoulder, lifted him up and trying to indict anthony fauci, amazingly. the poll you put up tells the tale. 76% of americans have really quit listening to the president about coronavirus. ainl fau anthony fauci has been the gold standard from the beginning. of course he hasn't gotten everything right, how could you with this pandemic? but i think most americans know that dr. fauci has their best interests at heart, how to keep them safe based on the science. and it's clear what the president is thinking about is his re-election. but the answer is in the numbers. the president's approach has really made us less safe, hurt us, put people's lives at risk. you can see this now in the explosion of cases across the country, because we have not done the right thing based on what the president's words have been. and that's just a shame, it's too bad. >> it's more than a shame. the quote from "the washington post," trump is galled by fauci's approval rate. the president is dpgalled by fauci's approval rating. 76%, the president is at 26%. that's the number the president cares about? not the 135,000 deaths now suffered in this country? it's amazing. >> well, you can pick whatever adjective you want. i don't think you can find one that's bad enough for what the president is doing brown. i mean, in the nation right now, we're facing not only this pandemic, we have an economic crisis. for those of us that are in the thousandth south, we're in the middle of hurricane season. these numbers are spiking and going in the wrong direction bh what the president is doing is consistent with every day abusing his power for his own personal interests. and that's what this is about. and it is really just stunning in its da's audacity and it's j wrong and it's hurting the american people and he needs to stop. >> of course, all parents are wondering what's going to happen next month and in september with schools. so the education secretary, betsy devos was on some sunday shows and i'll read to you what she said. she said, there's nothing in the data that suggests that kids being back in school is dangerous to them. okay? the concern is dangerous to other people, to adults, to the teachers, to the parents, to the grandparents, to the lunch lady, to anybody else that they come in contact with. but she omitted that part. >> well, i saw that interview. and i was bowled over by it. it was amazing to watch someone who's supposed to be leading our educational systems not know what they're doing, not have a plan, and want to punt every difficult issue down to the local area. and she is stunningly ignorant about how this particular virus is transmitted. most of the doctors, everybody wants our kids to go pack to scho school, but you have to do it safely and in a thoughtful way. and in that interview, she was asked many times, what is her plan, and she doesn't have a plan. it was the same thing the president said in talking about getting ppe to the ground, and because he didn't have a plan, the governors had to compete against each other, rising the cost of ppe and compete against each other. there has to be clear command and control, clear communication, and make the decisions based on what the experts tell you. and they're doing the exact opposite. and people are getting hurt because of it. >> i think reading it out loud is a disservice to the verbal gymnastics that were committed on our air. i think we have a little clip here to play of the education secretary. listen. >> should schools in the united states follow the cdc recommendations or not? >> dr. redfield has clearly said these are recommendations and every situation is going to look slightly different. and the key for education leaders -- and these are smart people who can figure things out. the cdc guidelines are just that. meant to be flexible and meant to be applied as appropriate for the situation. >> yeah, no "yes," no "no," no advice on how -- all dana was asking was, if you want to open the schools, how? how do you do it? >> i saw the interview, it was unbelievable. the same thing is happening with president trump and fauci and betsy devos and the cdc. the trump administration is ignoring their own self-appointed experts. that's exactly what they're doing. that's stunning when you're trying to respond. at the least, you would hope to have coordination between the federal, state, and local officials. they can't coordinate among themselves. it's a prescription for failure, a prescription for getting people killed, a prescription for getting people sick. it's unfortunate. this nation has got to listen to common sense and to science in order for us to 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>> that's right. i think we were all anticipating that after the peak of cases that we saw in the northeast in new york and boston in april, that there would be a period of respite, as cases came down. but instead of that peak, we ended up seeing a plateau of cases over may and june, and now we're seeing an even larger peak in a lot of these southern states. and in some ways, the first rise in cases in may are foothills to this current outbreak that we're seeing. we flattened down the curve, we stayed at home in march and april to buy time for hospitals to catch up, for our test capacity to be ramped up. similarly, for a lot of these states, you need to do the same. but now it's not one national peak, one national narrative. we have 50 different states. it's important to really target these measures right where they're needed the most. >> and you note at the time of its greatest peak, we are seeing the greatest absence of the federal government. how so? >> that's deeply concerning. we've had a lack of consistent federal messaging around public health measures, about the importance for testing. we no longer have a testing czar position. and in this vacuum of federal leadership, especially with 50 different state curves, this is a vacuum that needs to be filled by our state and local leaders. and what's happened is that our local municipal leaders, our mayors, they understand what's going on. lots of cities across the south have instituted localized measures around mask wearing and social distancing, and what we need is that concerted, coordinated efforts across cities, across counties, and a lot of these tipping point states. and that's where the governors can play an important role. and one way forward is to have interstate compacts, where governors can work together regionally to develop testing capacity and implement a shared strategy around social distancing. >> one of the things you note, as these states need to address this, and you call for stay-at-home orders, but you note that we've lost the collective energy, somehow, to battle this. what do you mean? and if we don't have that same energy that we had, how, then, do you stop these mountains in this graph? >> yeah, john, i'm deeply worried by that. in march and april, the country came together to support new york and boston. we had volunteers and supplies pouring in from all over the country. and i'm worried that we're not seeing that now. it's not about winning or losing against a pandemic. it's only about various degrees of loss in terms of lives and livelihoods. and houston is the new new york. and we need to refocus our collective action, not just in texas and in these southern states, but across the country and bring all of our resources to bear. and i think that's what's needed. the optimistic view for folks living in some of these eight red states in the south is that we can beat this. we've beaten this in new york, we've beaten this in massachusetts. there's a way forward, it just requires will in order to execute this game plan. >> we had no deaths reported yesterday in new york city. no deaths in new york city from covid yesterday. that's astounding, given where we were. so this can be fixed. look at south korea. i mean, south korea has had fewer cases reported in six months than florida reported just yesterday alone. so this can be fixed. one other thing you note, and i want to get your take on this. you say that the testing paradigm has changed. and i think this is important. it was that you would get tested and then sit at home with the doors shut until you got the results back in. now, people are waiting five, six, seven days, but they're not sitting at home. >> yeah, that's absolutely right. in some ways, people were guilty until proven innocent, because they wanted to wait for the test to come back and stay at home and not risk infecting others back in march, april, and may. now in some ways it's the opposite of innocent until proven guilty. that works for criminal justice, it doesn't work for pandemics. individuals need to stay home and minimize their social contacts and wear masks, even while awaiting the tests coming back. this is incredibly important, because the turnaround time for tests is only increasing, averaging six to eight days in a lot of these tipping point states. that's why we need to measure the key performance indicators of testing and contact tracing and our supply chain around tests. i feel like we're repeating the conversations we had in march, but we need to reinvigorate these conversations and make sure we have enough tests to gain control of the infection. and if we can't test widely enough and people are staying home, we have to reinforce social distancing. >> dr. thomas tsai at the brigham, we really appreciate your time this morning. thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you, john. so how safe is it at this point given the course of this pandemic to reopen schools? 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>> reporter: eve johnston, in theory, is one of the lucky ones. unlike some 40,000 out of work americans, the massachusetts mother of two has a full-time job as a nurse. but with her local day care closed since march due to covid-19, she's had to cut back her hours and shifts. >> so my husband's worked nights, i've tried to work weekends, so that one of us is available. i've worked nights, more nights than i have previously. >> reporter: with the rate of coronavirus cases in massachusetts trending down, the state has started to lift some restrictions for day care facilities. welcome news for johnston, but also a reminder that she's not alone, telling us the influx of parents desperate for child care has made it hard to find an available program. >> how are you holding up? and how sustainable is this? >> that's the thing, it's not sustainable. we are hoping that there'll be a world with school and day care at some point. but in the meantime, i accepted a position where i work that i'll work every saturday and sunday night from 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. >> reporter: this is a brand-new floor. i had the carpet ripped out. i put in a vinyl floor. >> reporter: nearby, sheryl recently reopened her home day care after receiving state approval. among the guidelines is limiting the number of children under her care, providing proper personal protective equipment, and implementing strict hygiene. >> all i did was i turned it so that the doorway is out here. there's windows that they can talk to each other, but they're just by the shape of the play space, i'm separating them. >> at 61, she worries about her own family's health and whether she can sustain a mandated smaller client base. >> my husband and i did have a serious discussion of, do i need to retire, which would mean downsizing the house, what would it look like? and i really didn't want this to put me into retirement. >> reporter: as parents of school-aged children anxiously await decisions on whether in-person classes will resume in the fall, those with younger children face an equally daunting dilemma. according to one study, the pandemic could ultimately lead to the loss of nearly 4.5 million child care slots. the combined result would leave 17.5 million americans or 11% of the workforce caring for their children themselves. and thus unlikely to return to full-time work until schools and day cares fully reopen. >> we all want our economy to open. i assure everyone, if people can't get child care, they cannot go back to work. >> reporter: congress has so far allocated $3.5 billion in child care aid as part of the c.a.r.e.s. act. democrats have recently introduced a new measure that would increase funding to $50 billion. >> i don't think it's an easy time for anyone. >> reporter: meredith smith is a front line health care worker in jacksonville, florida. she and her husband currently plan on sending their 6 and 7-year-old sons back to school next month. >> our children go to a small enough school with classroom sizes that would be within less than ten in most classes or -- and they have the facilities that are outdoors and open enough that they can accommodate and make accommodations. >> reporter: but she acknowledges that the recent surge in cases this the state could impact their thinking. >> i feel mixed about everything. i think that's the nature of this crisis, right? we're minute to minute, hearing different things about the virus itself, and whether or not schools will be open and how they will be reopening. >> so, alisyn, let's reiterate, we all want the same things. we all want our kids to go back to school. mine are in the other room, i'm afraid i'm going to wake them up because they're still asleep. this is not sustainable going forward. at the same time, it really is a life or death dilemma. there were three teachers in arizona teaching summer school class, sharing a classroom, they were doing all the right thing, they were wearing ppe, using masks, using hand sanitizer, they were socially distant. and guess what? they contracted coronavirus and one of them, unfortunately, at the age of 61 has passed away. this is the consideration the p teachers, that parents, that families all must make. and unfortunately, we're still not getting a concrete answer to what the plan is going forward. >> just saying "do it" is not a strategy. how to do it, that's a strategy. bianna golodryga, a terrific report. i'll whisper so i don't wake the kids. >> thank you, john. the mayor of atlanta is roll back that city's reopening. we have reporters all over the country covering these developments. >> i'm polo sandoval in new york, where health officials are closely observing three people who recently tested positive for the coronavirus. what's concerning is that these three individuals, according to authorities, had traveled aboard a delta flight from atlanta to albany back on july 6th. those passengers were not symptomatic at the time and health officials working with the airline right now are trying to do that contact tracing to make sure that nobody was actually exposed. governor cuomo over the weekend saying there's been a recent uptick in covid cases in upstate new york, though it's still unclear whether it's been directly tide to that delta flight. but this comes after health officials have expressed concern about people leaving the new york area, that is doing fairly well in terms of covid numbers, getting sick, and returning back to the region. i'm paul vercammen in los angeles, where officials are reporting that the covid-19 numbers are headed in the wrong direction. in los angeles county, more than 3,300 new cases and hospitalizations are way up. 2,093 at last count and about 25% of those people are in intensive care units. throughout the state, similar numbers that are not encouraging. we're seeing both a rise in hospitalizations and positivity, and now, more than 7,000 people have died in california since the outbreak of coronavirus. >> i'm natasha chen in atlanta. louisiana has become the latest state to limit business at bars. governor john bell edwards announced saturday that bars would be closed for on-site consumption and that goes into effect on monday. in south carolina, governor henry mcmaster says that restaurants and bars would be banned from selling alcohol after 11:00 p.m. every night. he said, that is to stem the spread of the virus among young people. florida had reopened its bars in early june, only to shut them down again a few weeks later, after health officials traced a few clusters of cases of coronavirus to people visiting bars. "new day" continues right now. >> florida continues to grapple with skyrocketing daily covid numbers and hospitalizations. >> numbers are going up and it is precarious and we're on the edge. our icus are getting more stressed. >> we're going to have to start moving regular beds into icu beds. this is really straining our health care system dramatically. >> we can turn this thing around in two to three weeks if we can get a critical mass of people wearing face coverings, practicing at least 6 feet of social distancing. >> i am urging all schools to open and providing their students a full-time education. >> i think everybody would like to get our kids back to school as quickly as we can. but we're not going to be rushed into