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good morning to you. i m victor blackwell. good saturday morning. i m abby phillip in for christi paul today. so this is another day when the numbers related to coronavirus are all headed in the wrong direction. the number of new cases setting a record across the u.s. more than 66,000 cases reported yesterday. the seventh time until 11 days that the u.s. has broken that record. florida is now the epicenter. and president trump was there yesterday, but not for events related to the coronavirus response. florida recorded more than 11,000 new cases, and 93 deaths on friday alone. and for the first time, the state is now releasing that coronavirus hospitalization data that people have been asking for. let s go to texas now where hospitals are filling. state data shows that more than 10,000 covid-19 patients are in hospitals right now. governor greg abbott says after rolling back reopening, the next step is a lockdown. and in georgia, the governor is reactivati ....
shocking numbers. more than 10,000 people tested positive in that state once again just today. and globally the number of new coronavirus infections, confirmed infections is also dramatically on the rise. the world health organization reporting today more than a quarter million new confirmed cases worldwide. as i just said, shocking lehigh numbers of new coronavirus cases being reported in texas. the mayor of san antonio is joining us right now. mayor, i know you ve got a lot going on. five straight days of 10,000 new cases or more statewide in texas. why are things so apparently out of control right now? well, wolf, thanks for having me. you know, the trend continues in texas where we re seeing a dramatic acceleration of cases, not just in the urban communities but also in the rural areas. and the combination is making for a lot of stress on our hospitals and every part of it from the beds on the floor to the icus to the ventilators and then, of course, end of life. ....
welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world, i m wolf blitzer in washington. this is a special edition of the situation room. we begin with breaking news tonight. amid a coronavirus pandemic that is surging in the state of florida right now, residents are dealing with a new threat tonight. a major tropical storm. tropical storm isaias. this hour it s setting its sites on florida s atlantic coast. it s expected to return to hurricane strength overnight. with a federal disaster declaration already issued. the state is reporting 9,000 new daily cases for a fifth straight day. also breaking tonight, another member of the u.s. congress, democratic represent at this point raul rihelva of arizona says he s tested positive for the coronavirus. this just days after he attended a committee hearing with republican congressman louie gomert who tested positive for the virus and who repeatedly refused to wear a mask on capitol him. a new grim projection ....
a great american city is unacceptable. i condemn this violence unequivocally. and he also said, the president tweeting about law and order may he believe make him strong, but his failure to call on supporters to stop the unrest just shows how weak he is. reporter: caravans of pickup trucks rolling into portland before they clashed with protesters and after a man who was identified as a supporter of a far-right group was shot and killed. tomorrow, president trump plans to visit with kenosha. the governor is pleading with him not to come. and the national intelligence decided to end in-person briefings on national security just two months before the presidential election. let s begin with cnn s lucy kavanaugh live in portland with our top story. what s the situation, lucy? reporter: alisyn, good morning. president trump and the portland mayor now a war of words over the deadly violence on saturday that saw one man lose his life. authorities still not releasing the nam ....
when it s an election year and especially when it s this close, you let the people decide. announcer: this is n 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 tuesday, september 22nd. it s 6:00 here in new york and an almost unimaginable day in u.s. history. this is the day we will pass 200,000 deaths from coronavirus. 200,000 mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, lives cut short, not just by the virus, but by the u.s. response. this country has suffered more death in the pandemic than the european union and the entire continents of asia and africa. 200,000 in just 227 days. 200,000. or as president trump referred to them overnight, nobody. now we know it. it affects elderly people. elderly people with heart problems and other problems. if they have other problems, that s what it really affects, that s it. you know, in some states, thousands of people, nobody young, below t ....