Experienced in the week before. Were seeing about 50,000 new cases a day. Now, Health Officials and municipalities are bracing for the numbers to rise, after many skipped masks and social distancing to celebrate 4th of july. And the president is lying over the weekend saying 99 of cases are, quote, totally harmless. New yorks governor, andrew cuomo, says by denying the problem, the president is helping its spread. Its going to continue until we admit it and each of us stands up to do our part. If he does not acknowledge that, then he is facilitating the virus. He is enabling the virus. How did this become a political statement . This is commonsense. Cnns jason feral has been following where the virus is surging. And floridas breaking records on the number of cases that its seeing in a single day. Right. Reporter and as a result of that, miamidades mayor has had to roll back on reopening efforts there, closing restaurants for indoor dining, closing gyms again as well. And this is what a
necessarily a bad thing. you can see there is rain next to us, but a little weather disturbance at the bottom of the screen. that s what is kind of edging in our direction. although, there are a few showers showing up west of us. but there are some in the mountains. today looks safe. for tonight and tomorrow, with that weather system getting closer, if you want to do something outside, barbecue, cut the grass, play a game of tennis, we can doo that. tomorrow will be a little different. our big story this morning, a notorious local sex offender will be free decades before his life sentence is complete. a federal judge cleared the way for former catholic school teacher john merzbacher to be released from prison. he threatened me with a gun. she was 11 years old when her teacher began sexually and fizzly and emotionally molesting her. he forced male students to have sex with me and other students. gang bangs. he was tried, convicted, and sentenced for his crimes in