maga-style celebration at mt. rushmore, south dakota, right now. social distancing not enforced. very few masks. they are optional. and the backdrop is the virus cases are soaring. 52,000 today. 38 states with increasing case loads. and we are learning eight to ten secret service agents on the pence detail have contracted coronavirus just this week. that s altered the vice president s travel schedule. secret service agents also contracting covid during donald trump s maga rally in tulsa last month. something of a theme. this is a big holiday weekend. this is the middle of summer. people celebrating, obviously. people want to honor the holiday in many different ways. but, we are being told by experts, be careful about how you congregate. the last big holiday weekend was, of course, memorial day. many states saw cases and another metric, hospitalizations rise over that period. younger people also engaging in very risky behavior. while people are dying, others are partying.
it. we ll have later in this hour. in any normal year, we d be covering the presidential campaign in full swing heading into memorial day. this year is different. as donald trump is struggling on his coronavirus response and overall standing, some arguing democrats must learn from donald trump s scorched earth playbook for biden to win this time. we have that story with a special veteran politico later this hour. but we begin with the state of america during this pandemic. you know, many nights he come out to you, whichever anchor you watch, whichever different hour, and we all do something similar. we report the grim picture, the case, the death toll, and those challenges, of course, grind on. tonight is something a little different. tonight is a marker in how far we ve gotten and where the policy response to coronavirus is. because i can tell you tonight, all 50 states are operating partially reopened 6789. now if this works over time, this week, this moment will be the
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