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not been published or have its recommendations been published publicly by coronavirus task force perhaps because they run counter to the president's demands for full speed ahead on reopening. it's clear though that you at home across america don't like what you're seeing in our president. look at these new numbers. six in ten americans disapprove of how the president is handling the coronavirus. that's up 20 points from march. this novel thought today from the presidential adviser who coined the phrase alternative facts. solve the president's polling problems but bringing back the white house coronavirus briefings? my own view which is different than some people here is three things, one, president's numbers were much higher when he was out there briefing everybody on a day-by-day basis about the coronavirus, just giving people the information. i think the president should be doing that. >> a silent president at a moment of national governors leaving mayors and governors on their own and sometimes as you see they disagree. georgia's governor says wear a mask and won't man tate it and is suing the mayor of atlanta because she is ignoring the governor and requiring masks to be worn in public places. >> mayor bottoms' mask mandate cannot be enforced, but her decision to shutter businesses and undermine economic growth is devastating. i refuse to sit back and watch as disastrous policies threaten the lives and livelihoods of our citizens. >> the marin keisha lance bottoms calls the governor's take propaganda and she says, governor, we'll see you in court. georgia is heading in the wrong direction. it the has way too much company on our map. let's take a look at the latest trends. 38 states, the orange and the red heading in the wrong direction. that means more cases this week than last week. 38 states, you can see them pretty much across the country. eight states, that's the beige yellowish looking color holding steady and four states heading down. just four states heading down. we're five-plus months into this and 38 states heading up as you see the summer coronavirus surge going from coast to coast. let's take a closer look. sadly the death count also going up. this is a new map for us here. you can see 25 states, 25 states, 17 of them 50% more deaths this week than last week and 25 states in all reporting more deaths this week than they did last week. you get the case count and then you get hospitalizations, deaths usually a lagging indicator, 25 states, a sad map. 12 states holding steady and 13 states a lower death count than last week. remember, we knew it was inevitable as the economy reopened that there would be more cases but the question was would that overwhelm the hospitalizations? it was dropping as we went pay into june and now hospitalizations approaching 60,000. that's where they were at peak back in the middle of april. we'll watch this as it plays out. that's not the trend that you want. hospitalizations going up as you go through the summer being is. some people say well, it is what it is. it's not what it has to be. look at this. we've used this a lot. european union, the united states is green. up the coronavirus hill about the same time, late march, early april but look at difference, look at the difference, the european union comes down and stays down, the united states flattens, drops a little bit and now the summer spike, the summer surge going back up. a different way to handle, it a different way, you can see what's happening here and just what happened here. that's the state of florida, hottest of the hot spots. florida, the green line early on as other states, new york and new england were going through this. florida was down here, but now it is experiencing the summer surge. you can see the european union spiked in march and has stayed down here. florida alone now reporting more cases on a daily basis than the entire european union. it keeps breaking the records this week for the number of new cases and the number of people dying reported in a single day. cnn's rosa fleres as she does many days starts us live with the latest from miami. rosa? >> reporter: john, the florida department of health just release the new numbers. those numbers are nearly 12,000, 12,000 new more cases in just the past 24 hours. all this as we learn that 12 employees from the florida eoc, the office of emergency management, have tested positive for covid-19. this is an office in tallahassee. they have been testing these employees, four of them tested positive just yesterday. this triggered the closure of the main office of the eoc, of course, all of this from the communications director in the florida division of emergency management who also says that the covid response has not stopped because all of these employees, of course, are still working from home here. here in miami-dade county, the 14-day average positivity rate is at 27%. icus are functioning at 107%. that's according to data released by miami-dade county. the good news is that the county has more than 400 beds that they can convert to icus but here's the deal. the main goal, the official goal from the county was to operate at 70%. well, now they are at 107%. now, of course, what does all this data mean and what are politicians and leaders doing with it depends on who you ask. just yesterday city of miami mayor photographsis suarez telling cnn saying that this meant that there were a few days or perhaps a few weeks from shutting down. i just asked miami mayor carlos gimenez what this data means to him, how close is he? and he says under these numbers he still has more room. it will can still sustain the county for a while, so these, john, are two mayors looking at same data coming out with two paths forward and just days having a meeting, as roundtable with governor ron desantis about the need for one unified message. john? >> disagreement makes a complicated situation all the more so. rosa flores, grateful for your live reporting, the hottest of the hot spots in florida. romania 18 states described as a hot zone. you can see is the 18 states there. the document was obtained by the nonprofit center for public integrity and recommends those 18 states roll back their reopenings until they get the virus under control. florida is also one of 11 states on a second list. rosa just talked about the numbers. florida in the red zone on that second list for high positivity rates in the coronavirus test results. the document though is not public and its recommendations we know run counter to the president's wishes. joining me now are cnn's chief medical correspondent dr. sgupt a. i want to start there. you just heard rosa talk about the florida governor and some of the mayors disagree. you live in georgia. the governor disagrees with the mayor of atlanta and some of the other mayors. at a sometime when we have a summer surge in cases, the president has not had a public event specifically designated to the coronavirus in ten days. we know this document exists. they get it. they get it. now we know what we're going to say. we get lots of documents and lots of recommendations but they have documents saying 18 states should prol back their reopening because we have a problem. where's the president? >> you know, the president is absent on this, and i think that the problem has been that there's a desire to minimize this prock. that has been the problem since the very start. i think what strikes me about this document now that the center for public integrity sort of was able to get their hands on is that it is reflective in many ways of the criteria that were put out from the white house itself about how states should put open and as part of the gating citeiat they did include these triggers for when states should go back into an earlier phase, so, for example, you needed 14 days of downward numbers to graduate, if you will, to the next phase, as part of one criteria, but if you had five days of increasing numbers of community spread, you might have to go back to an earlier phase. there were a few different triggers there, john, but those are sort of the basic ones so that the broad strokes of that not only were they out there, but they came from the white house itself. it was publicly announced, you know, at a press briefing, so generally speaking it's out there. the other thing, john, you listen to rosa flores describe what's happening in florida. we tend to think of these things linearly. we're seeing a two-dimensional graph and numbers go up day after day. what a lot of public health officials and i got off the phone with one of them earlier this morning. what they look at is the pace these numbers are growing, not just that they are growing but the pace. think of it lying a big steamship moving through the ocean. the as it gains more and more speed it's going to be harder and harder to stop. you can hit the brakes now, but that thing is going to keep moving for a while, it's harder to steer and harder to stop. that's the analogy a lot of people are thinking about, and that's why you've got to act now. you've got to hit the brakes now if you want this thing to stop a few weeks from now. >> we'll watch as that plays out. sanjay, another dominant conversation around the country is parents can my kids go back to school and if they go back to school how is it safe? we're learning more about how the virus behaves in kids. tell us what we know and connect is to the school conversation. >> yeah, john, as you might imagine, i mean, this is topic number one in my house hold. i've got a tent, sixth greater in my house. i spend a lot of time reading the data and talking to authors of recent journal articles that have come out. first of all, i think we can reasonably and reliable to say at this point kids are less likely to get sick. let me show the numbers. this data held up from wuian. if you look at the percentage of kids that are actually representing cases in the united states, about 6 president 5% roughly are in kids 17 and upped, but 1% only of hospitalizations and smaller and then going to deaths .3%. that's encouraging, right. it does suggest is that these young people are far less likely to die certainly and even less likely to get infected than the general population and that's been september data. what we still don't know clearly, john, and as a major question is how much are they likely to spread the virus? we know they can contain the virus in their mouth and noses at the same similar levels as adults but it doesn't mean they will spread it as much. hard to study, john. i've looked at large data trials, thousands of patients and sometimes they only include 40 or 50 kids. why, because kids have mostly been at home since mid-march in this country so they have been harder to study. but let me show you one cautionary tale that came out of israel. israel, you know, they sort of had a significant downward trajectory of cases may 17th. schools fully reopened, and lock what happened. the case numbers went significantly higher. i think the bottom line is this, john. i think kids are probably likely to be lower spreaders than adult, but if you're living in a community where the virus is already spreading rapidly going back to that steamship analogy, opening the schools is going to add more speed to that ship instead of slowing it down. >> dr. gupta, one of the many conversations we'll continue to have as we go through this summer surge. sanjay, appreciate your insights, appreciate your data. data and the facts should drive this, not the politics. up next the legal showdown in florida over the big question of wearing a mark of, and should it be a mandate? 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>> we had had about 60% of our state including den per, layer per county and boulder county that had municipal or mandatory mask mandates for several weeks or months now and what we found that changed my opinion very clear. the areas with mask requirements had is a% to 20% more people who wore masks and even more importantly they had substantially recused spread in the areas where the mask requirements were, so i decided it's pretty obvious, you know, what the other 40% of our state needs that level of economy. we care about our economy and savings livings and we need to learn from our cities and counties that led the way and mask-wearing economy. >> so you saw data and you changed your mind, shocking. >> it's all too rare these days but i try to be data driven. >> it is -- well, it's rare in some places. i shouldn't say it's rare everywhere, but it's rare in some places. i just want to put the case count up in colorado because we're watching this. this is 38 states now with more cases this week than last week. it's not just cased. we shouldn't obsess about cases. the question is how much is the growth and can your hospitals handle it and the like, but you see the colorado case count, the seven-day moving average starting to go up there. what's happening? if you look at the middle of june, a month ago, you were down into a better place and now you're heading back up. what do you see is at main causes here? >> so the modeling which is certainly getting better by the week, there's better modeling of this disease now than there were several months ago show that if coloradoans didn't change their behavior we would risk overwhelming our hospitals in early september. we have a brief moment of opportunity, need to not just wear a mask, masks isn't enough and reinforce the need for social distancing. coloradoans and americans -- colorado is son a better trajectory, we need to live like we were in may, everything was open and people were more careful with social distancing and avoiding large groups. we need to go back to that way of living if we care about keeping our businesses open and savings living. >> and we're watching the 50-state experiment playing out. i'm talking to you after we had the conversation about what's happening in georgia where the governor, to his credit, wears a mask and tells people to wear masks but he says, he's a conservative republican saying i'm not going to mandate it. i don't think it's enforceable or necessary. he's in a court fight with the mayor there, so you have -- you're listening to mayors following what's happening in your city. we learned "today," because of this reporting from the center of public integrity, there's a white house coronavirus task force that lists 18 states in a red zone and says they need to roll back their reopenings because of the rising case count. that document has not been made public. the president of the united states has not had an official coronavirus event in ten days. what does that tell you? >> well, it -- what i know as governor is that we have not been able to rehigh on the federal government to rise to the occasion battling this pandemic. every country that's battled this successfully and i do say this successfully, european nations have been successful, other nations have opinion successful. america has the highest case count and highest per capita death count of almost any nation in the world, and this is pathetic because we're a wealthy industrialized nation. the reason for that is clear. we've lacked a coordinated national response, national testing is still in disarray, and i understand -- it was in digs array in may and maybe took us unaware and they should have figuresed it by now. doing whatever we can at the state level, republican and democratic governors and at the end of the day we're a nation happened need to work better together so that our country can get through this quickly. >> and you -- you are reticent about the mask mandate because you thought it would be difficult to ennorse, and, you know, you've got a lot to do right now. professional health officials are busy and law enforcement professionals are business but you watched these other cities and see that it's working and decided to mandate it. talk through the enforcement part. does the business have to call for help, a citizen call for help if someone is wandering around without a mask? >> the enforcement is not a big factor in the increased mask-wearing. cities have had this for a couple of month and a couple of counties have had this for a couple of months. they have had nelg jabal enforcement and generally speaking the reason the mask orders lead to greater mask wearing and it's moral clarity, it's messaging clarity rather than bickering over the legal words of what's mandatory where we say just wear a mask. it's a much more clearer message when the ars calls say why isn't mandatory here or there? we're seeing it's the pofn public officials. in our state i was joined by the republican mayor, democratic mayor saying this is for this mandate, broad bipartisan support. some of the counties that have it have republican leaders, some are democratic. it's not a political thing. the virus doesn't care about party. masks stop the spread of the virus and this is a simple thing we can do about asking people to wear masks in public. >> masks do help candor today. best of luck in the days ahead. >> thank you. up next for us, very important news out of the pentagon putting out new guidance on whether the confederate flag can nye on military installations. chicago! 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so-called freedom of speech arguments about the confederate flag or any other legal arguments that someone may make. esper already endorsing the marine corps move to ban the flag. he's well aware, of course, that the entire joint chiefs want to see that flag off of military bases and the secretary is not owe mowsing that, but he wants to have a policy that are much forward looking that will stand the test of time. let me read more of what he says about it. he says, quote, i'm committed to fielding the most powerful military force the world has known by strengthening the bonds of our most valuable resource, our people. that is why we honor the american flag which is the principal flag that we're authorized and the encouraged to display. flags we fly must accord with the military imperatives of good order and discipline treating all our people with dignity and respect and rejecting divisive symbols, so what the secretary is doing here is speaking to american military history in the years to come. he is putting into the military record why this is so important. what he's trying to do is to stay out of the trump world of political fire and a the president's crosshairs. still to be decide, of course, what will happen with those military bases named after comfort generals. john. >> as you say stay out of trump world but the president the other day say a lot of people like that flag. we shall see if the commander in chief rekts a. stopping words from the defense secretary. barbara, appreciate the important reporting from the pentagon. up next, president trump had a press conference about deregulation yesterday and he wanted to talk about joe biden and the suburbs. this is my new shaq-a-roni pizza. extra cheese, extra pepperoni right to the edge and the biggest slices in papa john's history. but it's bigger than pizza because $1 from each sale is donated to support communities. because $1 from each sale is donated i but what i do count on...ts anis boost high protein...rs, 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not while i'm here. >> with me now the senior editor at "the atlantic" ron brown teen and correspondent abby thrill in. ron, you're more of a cookie geek than me. this is not a new argument for reapins can a. the willie horton ad pack in 1988 george w. bush going after them by scaring them about crime. but suburban voters have revolted against this president. this is why nancy pelosi is speaker and why the electoral map tilts in joe biden's favor. is that going to get them back? >> right, look, first of all, these are not richard nixon suburbs, and these are not ronald reagan's suburbs. they are a lot more racially diverse than they were 30 and 40 and 50 years ago this. are a lot more college graduates than there were decades ago in the suburbs and the pattern is unmistakable under trump n.2016 he lost 87 out of the 100 largest counties in america by a combined margin of is a million votes, including not only the center cities but many of the big suburban counties around the country. 2018 those people moved further away from the republicans, not only in the places that had already been trending to the democrats like northern virginia and new jersey, but new terrain, richmond, houston, dallas, atlanta, charleston, salt lake city, and i think all evidence, john, is that 2020 is looking even worse at the moment for the president in the suburbs. his numbers among college-educated white voters, his deficit is larger i think in most polls than in any data source that you can look at for 2016, and to me one of the key findings is that many of these white collar voters in the suburbs who might have believed that richard nixon could have delivered law and order to them as he promised are looking at trump and saying he is making the situation worse. one quinnipiac poll, college educated whites by 2-1 said they feel less safe rather than more with trump as president. >> abby, the challenge of the moment for many americans, if not most americans is the coronavirus. we know particularly apockets suburban women a lot of them are the driving force in their house hole. they have to get their kids to school if they can get them to school and run the finances. the president giving the argument, he has 108 days. this is the "washington post"/abc poll disapprove the president's handling of the coronavirus. 45% at the end of march and 60% now. six in ten americans, meaning a lot of republicans. this is more stung. do you trust what trump says about americans say yesterday. two-thirds, just shy of that, 67%, abby, say no. the question is will the voters who have turned on him now listen now? >> reporter: yeah. even within that disapproval number, the number of people who strongly disapprove of the president's handling of coronavirus is over 50% in this moll. it really suggests that the president has a very deep problem here with trust, a deep problem here with voters' perception of him as a competent leader, and -- and i -- one -- the interesting thing about this whole suburban appeal to me is that it is so explicit in its aim to -- to scare a certain segment of white suburban voters about the prospect. in this case what he's referring to in these clips are regulations aimed at desegregating the suburb, making them more equitable, a fair housing regulation but one of the things about the suburban voters as ron knows is they are very sensitive to these racial appeals on president's part. they have been sisified satisfied with his handling not just of the coronavirus over the summer but also of the issue of race in this country and so i have a lot of questions about this strategy because it is almost like taking a sledgehammer to this electoral problem that they have in the suburbs, and i'm not sure that it really is subtle enough to make some of these suburban voters feel like they are not actually being sold some kind of bigoted policy appeal. i think that's really a tricky strategy, and i'm not really sure it's going to work. >> subtle is not usually this president's thing and sometimes blunt has worked for him, let's be clear, but to the subtle part. bill steppien, helped. >> colin: g-- helped chris christie get elected in new jersey. the cook political report moving 20 house races towards the democrats, not owl in the suburbs, but a good number of them in the suburbs and the cook political race say never have we moved so many races in one way in one time the democrats away so the climate looks very good and we know this from the data. the focus groups after 20 is, the suburban voters see the president tweeting every day and see his grievances and his anger and focusing on things that they don't think are relevant issues. in the middle of the pandemic when the voters have to juggle life and school and everything else. this is part of the president yesterday, if he wants to focus in the final 100 days he has had a chance but you get this instead. >> my hair, i don't know about you, but it has to be perfect, perfect. our entire economy and our very way of life are threatened by biden's plans to transform our nation. the american dream would be sniffed out so quickly and replaced with a socialist disaster. they just want to destroy our country. >> it's -- it's a question. i mean it as an open question. the vice president today has a speech planned in wisconsin where he hits hard on the socialist thing. can they sell it? >> well, look, before the pandemic, you know, you looked at the suburbs and those voters were doing well economically, but trumpet was still underperforming, and he was underperforming at that point because so many of them felt that he offended their values the way he talked about minorities, the way he talked about women, the volatility, the belligerence. what's happened though this year is all of those -- all of the characteristics, ernl about characteristics about trump that they didn't like, now have an enormous and very tangible consequence, and, you know, the -- the core reality of this election, again in "the washington post" poll today as abby was alluding to, 60% of the country or more say he's failed on the coronavirus. 60% of the country or more says he's failed on handling race relations. those numbers are at least that high among college-educated whites and that high among suburban voters, and i think it's very hard for him to regain the ground that he's got by amplifying doubts about biarden. the polls that came out this week that showed biden with double digit leads, in both of them his personal favorability is net negative and that underscores the limits of the ability of the president to regain ground solely by trying to, you know, stick abilities on the former vice president. he has to change the perception of how he is handling his job and that requires him -- that's reality, john. i mean, ultimately his reality is he's running against the virus at this point and he's losing. >> and the psychology of an election when you're an incumbent for the voter is very, very different. the president sometimes hasn't quite grasped that. abby philip and ron brownstein, appreciate your insights. we'll continue the conversation. up next, georgia is among the top five states in the uncan try when it comes to new cases. a doctor there joins us live over masks and the virus. m an ar here at amazon. when you walk into an amazon fulfillment center, it's like walking into the chocolate factory and you won a golden ticket. it's an amazing feeling. my three-year-old, when we get a box delivered, he gets excited. he screams, "mommy's work!" when the pandemic started, we started shipping out all the safety stuff that would keep the associates safe to all the other amazons. all of these are face masks, we've sent well over 10 million gloves. and this may look like a bottle of vodka. when we first got these, we were like whoa! 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>> what's my take is that we are seeing consistent behavior of the governor. i would say at every step he's failed to show the kind of leadership that we need to appropriately respond to this pandemic. i think if you look at what's been going on in georgia candidly it is not differently from nationally. there's been a failure of both the political and the public health leadership to do what needs to be done to address this pandemic so in georgia we were slow to close the state back in the spring. we were the first to open. there was an opinion piece in "the wall street journal" touting the georgia model and public health people warned at that time if we do that we can reasonably predict that in two to three months we will be looking at surging cases, surging hospital saegizations a here we are. i think, you know, it's hard to fathom that something as straightforward as mandating masks has become a political issue when the public health data about the importance of that is compelling. >> i want you to listen. this is just this morning, kathleen toomey talking about kass, hospitalizations, death rate, she is saying the positivity rate is going up. listen. >> our test positivity rate on average is 13.6%. which reflects community spread at this time and hospitalizations have increased 39% over the past week. we continue to see outbreaks in workplaces, in businesses, in congregate settings, daycares, camps, fraternity houses, many churches. >> it's the list, it is the list there. this is not a meat packing plant, not one church, it is everything, everywhere. how do you bend that curve, sir? >> what's stunning, john, is that in the face of this surging pandemic there is a failure to adequately respond. i mean, you know, there was narrative both in georgia and across the country about, well, you know, we are doing more testing. that's why there are more cases, they're younger, not ending up in the hospital. now the hospitalizations surging but they're not dying. guess what. now they're dying so that there's in continued effort to change the narrative. again, the fact that our commissioner of public health can say unequivocally that this is out of control where their own containment strategy and contact tracing is only reaching about a third of cases is just unbelievable. the way you bend the curve is that you apply the policies that we know that work. number one, you walk back the reopening. you know? if you think about the settings they just talked about, churches, we have amusement parks, camps, we need to walk that back and in a meaningful way, mandate masks and support local leaders to do what they need to do to protect their population. the number one responsibility of government is to protect the safety and security of their population and we are utterly failing. >> doctor, appreciate your time today. georgia and the rest of the country goes through this summer surge and hope very much that the numbers change soon. appreciate your time. the troubling national trends and the white house response and first a moment to give you an update on our 2016 cnn hero of the year. he had to close his center for disabled youth in columbia but quickly reorganizing the efforts to ensure that children and families get the support they desperately need. >> this is their second home. and they really, really miss the foundation. we're su we're supporting the families and children first of all with food. we're providing in-home therapy. in-home medical attention. school via the internet. we provide virtual classes. the emotional and psychological part has really affected them. we have an entire team of professionals who give emotional support. 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>> that's what he says. i do think it's interesting the president has been, it seems, grasping at ways to get at kamala harris too, find something to stick to her in terms of how he can attack her on the campaign trail. and one thing that he has bizarrely settled on is reprising this racist birther lie that he used against barack obama. you know, it is, as you said, othering and racist. but it's also cynical. in so many deferent ways. it suggest people are stupid enough to believe kamala harris, who ran for months for the presidency. she ran to be president of the united states, and we didn't hear anything about this from the president until now, until she is now going to be on the ballet for sure running against the him and mike pence. so, all of this is truly bizarre in a number of ways, but whether or not the president is aflad of strong, black women or what have you, it's clear he hasn't figured out what an above-board argument on kamala harris is that doesn't sink to the low depths of birther conspiracy and lies aimed at racist instincts of some people in this country. >> certainly we've seen that he reserves some of his most aggressive vit reall for women of color who challenge him. we've seen that time and again when it comes to the white house press core. this is jared kushner, the president's son in law on this birther lie. >> you accept that she's a qualified candidate? >> i personally have no reason to believe she's not. but again, my focus has been on the historic peace deal we've been able to achieve here. >> she was born in oakland, california. >> yeah. >> makes for a qualified candidate. why didn't the president take the opportunity to debunk that theory? >> i have not had a chance to discuss that with him. >> abbey, what do you think? >> i mean, it shouldn't come as a surprise that jared kushner or anybody in the white house is unwilling to simply assert facts, if they contradict what the president wants to say. they are not absolved from the consequences of that. i do think that it's the responsibility of every person, including people who work in the white house, republicans on capitol hill to decide on which side of the issue they're on. they're either on the side of the racist conspiracy theory or they're not and i think jared kushner made it clear what side he's on. >> before, abbey's right, it's not surprising, especially with the president's comments yesterday because we saw how he built his political career, in part, on the birther lie on president obama and that was before he worked in the white house and before jared kushner was a senior advisor to him in the white house. so, now he's making these comments from the briefing room and letting it float out there, instead of knocking it down. and jared kushner is answering the question from the front lawn and refusing to say it's not true and he knows senator kamala harris is qualified, legally, to be vice president of the united states. it's the back drop that makes it, not surprising, but all the more striking this is happening in 2020 with the president in the white house. >> it's despicable and history will not be kind to them in this moment as they conduct themselves like this. i want to ask about the president's comments on mail-in voting. because this as we're getting he headlines on how it is going to effect the election and they plan to remove several mail processing machines across it country. >> reporter: i mean, these developments are coming every day, it seems. but the big picture is we're watching what seems to be a complete restructuring and really slimming down of the services of the postal service that's cause dg lays across the country. they say these machines, almost 700, as you said, are responsible for sorting thousands of pieces of mail. we're expecting it to be oplot in november because of mail-in voting. you've got millions of americans using mail-in ballots for the first time and they'll go through the postal service. how much -- what is going on at that postal service and is president trump exerting political influence over that agency? he's appointed a top donor to be the post master general. luis dujoy is someone who, just last week, met in the oval office with the president. the president says it's a congratulatory meeting and came just days before the announcement of major restructuring and report of wide-spread delays across the country that we are tracking, brianna. so, it's a developing story but the president now is being very clear. he wants to -- or he is willing to hold up funding for the usps if it means holding up mail-in balloting. the question is will congress allow him to do that? >> he's talking about doing it out in the open. it's great to see both of you. the coronavirus crisis is still killing far too many americans. 1,076 lives lost just yesterday. deaths from coronavirus over the last month. too many days with hundreds and hundreds of americans dying. the deaths are devastating and voe the number of people still getting infected. california is leading the country in the number of infections, becoming the first state to surpass 600,000 covid cases. over the last week, the u.s. has reported more than 365,000 known coronavirus cases, which is enough to fill this atlanta stadium more than five times. and there's a new warning today for georgia from the white house, coronavirus task force. your policies are not enough. that was kept hidden and not followed. we'll have more on that ahead. plus. dr. anthony fauci says the consequences will be devastating if we do not get it under control. >> you will never get a good market back economically, unless you control the biologic. you have to be able to control. and one of the problems is in your understandable zeal to quickly get back to normal and revive the economy, you do it if you do it in a measured, prudent way. what we've seen is the jumping over the benchmarks and the guide posts that have been put forth. so too, think you can ignore the biologic and get the economy back, it's not going to happen. >> and yet the white house coronavirus testing say don't get hung up on the number. referring to the number of tests being done in the u.s., which is decreasing, not increasing. just over 700,000 for the entire country and county averaging more than 1,000 deaths per day for covid and says the number of tests being done is flattening the curve. >> you beat the virus by smart policies, supplemented by strategic testing. you do not beat the virus by shotgun testing everyone all the time. it is just a false narrative and i'm really tired of hearing it from people not involved in the system that we need millions of tests every day. >> i'm joined by cnn medical analyst and deputy physician and chief of quality and safety at memorial -- pardon me memorial sloan keterring. i'm just tripping over myself today, doctor. deyou tell us your reaction to admiral gerard's comments. is testing in the u.s. sufficient? >> absolutely not. it's not even close. it's very dispointing to hear him say that. because even a few weeks ago, his tone was very different. it was more compatible with public health thoughts. this does not bode well. the evidence is we have some areas with enough testing. a positive rate of 1% of all tests we do are positive. in contrast a positive test rate of 10 to 15%. that means there's a lot of cases out there still waiting to be found and until they're found, they'll spread to the next person. so, there's no way we're testing enough, not even close. >> so, you're disappointed by what he said. why do you think he said that? and i wonder, as an expert looking at public health officials connected to the white house, sometimes it seems like they're being honest in that ne'er hewing to what public health consengss is and sometimes you hear, like this, admiral jurarsaying something that is not what any expert outside of the white house is telling us. >> you know, i'm not sure what his motivation is. he suggests he and his buddies are the only ones who really know the secret truth and we're all outside the bubble there. this is not new stuff. i mean, testing, isolating, tracking. this is decades old. nobody's reinventing anything where you have to be in the cool club with him to know how to do this. it's hard to do but everyone knows how to do this and testing has been the key since we started talking in march. it's always been testing and they have failed every day. >> i want to ask you about an op-ed you wrote. do we know states are slowing them or that fewer people are going to get them? >> i know texas is claiming no one wants them now, which is peculiar to me. we don't know. it would strike me very unexpected. it's up to the public health community and encourage people to get tested for their own protection and protection of their loved ones. there's no other way to proceed. i would take it as a failing either way. if they deliberately suppress testing, that's a problem. if they suppress the urge to get the tested, that's a bigger problem because it's asking for trouble down later, where people have now brought it home and given it to grandma, given the infection to grandma. so, it's disastrous eekter way. >> it's almost like giving up to do those things. thank you. next the white house is warning officials in georgia that they're not doing enough to stop the spread of covid, but they didn't follow that warning and never made it public. plus president obama weighing in on senator kamala harris and his biggest concern about the 2020 election and i'll speak to the reporter who asked him this question. >> after three and a half years do you regret at all all the lying you've done to the american people? 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>> well, that's a great question. i was completely stunned and shocked. i mean, four of the citizens of the state of georgia to find out about this white house task force report with regards to their and my great state of georgia through a leak and basically making this leak come to light was very problematic for me because we're talking about people's lives and this is not a political issue. this is a public health issue that every citizen in the state of georgia needs to know what needs to be done to stop the spread of covid-19 in the state of georgia. so, it was very problematic for me. >> and the task force, quote, strongly recommends that they adopt a state-wide mandate that citizens wear masks. the governor there, governor kemp, has recommended masks but refused so far to issue a state-wide order. he even sued the mayor of atlanta, which has been dropped. but i wonder what you think he might be doing going forward. what are you expecting? >> i think that is totally out of line for the governor. in the state of georgia, you have mayors, like mayor keisha lance bottoms in the city of atlanta and johnson in savannah, georgia, that are trying to do the right thing to protect their constituents. they're closest to their constituents and they know. my request to the governor would be if you're not going to mandate masks statewide, leave the local elected officials alone and let them enforce mask mandates on the local and county level. the governor wants to control mask mandates for cities. however, he's letting the school system pick and choose if they want to mandate masks. so, if you're going to let the school system mandate masks on the local levels, let the local municipalities and counties do the same thing in the state of georgia. >> i want to add we contacted the governor's office and, quote, governor kemp continues to rely on data, science and the public health advice of dr. kathleen toomey and her team in our state's ongoing battle against covid-19. as the governor has said many times before this fight is about protecting the lives and livelihoods of all georgians. >> what data is he looking at? i would say he's less than 15 minutes away from the cdc, from the univrsty, where you have global pandemics experts that are getting the data on a daily basis. and i will ask the governor just drive over to one of those facilities or both and sit down with the experts on the covid-19 virus and talk with them and analyze their data. because the data he's looking at, obviously, is not the right data. if you're a citizen of the state of georgia and we have 10.6 million people and we're with the other states twice that size, like the state of florida, texas and california, the state of florida has 22 million people. the state of texas has 30 million people. and the state of california has 40 million. so, you're going to tell me that the data the governor is looking at and examining is the right data? because if it was, we wouldn't be in the top five with other states four or five times the state of georgia, if he was looking at the right data. >> we appreciate it. >> thank you so much for having me. just in the cdc revealing what you can and cannot do if you recovered from coronavirus. stand by for that. plus, don lemon will join me on the president amplifying another birther lie. this time it's about kamala harris. president trump is turning back to one of his earliest chapters of racism. this time newly minted v.p. candidate, kamala harris. >> can you say whether or not kamala harris meets the legal requirements to run as vice president. >> so, i heard it today. that she doesn't meet the requirements. they're saying she doesn't qualify because she wasn't born in this country. >> she was born in this country. >> i don't know about it. >> she was born in this country, as you heard the reporter make very clear. very irsponseible for the president to suggest. and his senior advisor was asked about this last time on cnn. and this is something to do with race. president trump's actions have been consistent with trying to fight for unforgotten americans. he has an unimpeachable prak record but for whatever reason, media likes to chase down rabbit holes and create controversy where one doesn't exist. >> the host of cnn tonight. this has to do, of course w race and i wonder what your reaction is to what you heard from kushner. >> i don't think the media is insinuating anything. and he was asked about it and he responded to it and he didn't say i don't know anything about it. he responded. and if he doesn't know, he should say i don't know and let's move on because that's not important right now. i am happy to go up against her. and jared kushner should be more emphatic as well. he should know better than to insin ought or play footsy with this whole racist birther saga. he should understand how the president gained his political footing, by saying the former president of the united states was not born in this country and finding nothing. demanding his birth certificate. he should know this is not a winning strategy for him and quite frankly, it's bigoted, tired, old and, as i said on my rogram last night and i'm sure you struggle with this as well. how much oxygen do we give this bs just because they want to tar and smear and taint someone? how much do we elevate this? or if we don't talk about it, does it just fester? >> and that is the discussion. i remember when birtherism is was starting to take hold, i was covering congress. and it was at a time where what do republicans think about this? and you noticed that a lot of them -- and thought because i think they thought obama wasn't born in the u.s., but because they weren't sure where they should politically stand to be safe. they started with their milk toast answers, like you saw from kushner, giving life to this. it's become very clear, when it came to birtherism, there was this red sns to not give it life but it gets life. it's weed being watered somewhere else, right? and you actually reached out to all of kamala harris's republican colleagues in the senate. what did they say to you? >> we reached all 53 and only one responded and at the was senator john kennedy of louisiana. my show staff also reached out. they said he saidality the time they knew nothing about it and so, therefore, didn't have a response. jared kushner is responding if they have a response and will denounce it. and there is also a very prominent senator who has asked tusz go off the record with, i'll just say, their response, because i don't want to give a gender. not many in the senate, right? but there's one republican senator saying i want to go off the record. we have not agreed to that yet but when we figure it out, we will let you know. and as you know lindsey graham did put out a statement and say kamala harris is born in this country. that is not in question but he did not really have anything nice to say about the senator, except to say she is one of the most liberal people in the senate. but he did denounce it and that means a lot. >> he did state the fact about where she was born and her parents and everything. i want to ask you a larger question about things being politicized. what isn't? masks, the military, college football, kindergarten, and now snail mail. what is this election going to be all about, as you see it? >> obviously everything is politicized. but i feel and i know this is, at the very base of this, it's about race. it is about race, it's about race, it's about race. when you're looking at the postal service issue. what is at the bottom of that? it's about suppressing voters. people with means, who can go to a drop box or get their ballots early or just have means to be able to participate in this election in ways that poor people won't and disenfranchised people won't, that mostly means african-americans, right? they will be able to do it. look at who resuscitated joe biden's campaign. it was black folks. look whose on the vp side. black folks. look what comes out of the president's mouth every day. birtherism. some sort of racist dog whistle and sometimes not dog whistle. this election is about race. and that's why i said jared kushner, all the senators, all law makers and the president should be emphatic about denouncing racist strategy. this country is ready to move on. the the event of the summer of 2020 has shown us people are in a different place when it comes to race. we cannot let our foot off the gas. people with platforms like us, should hold people accountable for their racism, racial blind spots and juls plain out in the open bigotry. so, move only, come into 2020, get with the program. people are tired of the racist jargon and actions and bs. >> don, thank you so much for coming on. 10:00 p.m. eastern. we will be watching. >> don't forget my podcast. silence is not an option. we're talking about sports. and i think -- i know you have to go. but i think people should listen to it because we're talking sports and i'm talking to bill roaden, who is a prominent, legendary sports caster and writer. he wonders whether integration was good for sports, black people and black colleges. it's a very fascinating and provocative conversation. >> your podcast is excellent. you have such wonderful sgess. and i really appreciate it, don. so, thank you so much. >> be safe. just in the cdc revealing what you can and cannot do if you recovered from coronavirus. plus, two parents evacuate their 8-year-old daughter from wuhan, china, thinking the u.s. would be a safe place, only to have her contract it in tennessee. try wayfair. you got this! ♪ ♪ perfect. -you're welcome. i love it. how'd you do all this? told ya! wayfair. let's talk dining tables. yes! blow it up. ♪ wayfair you've got just what i need ♪ breaking news just in from cnn. new guide nsz from the cdc saying people who have had coronavirus and recover, do not need to get tested for three months. they say this only applies if you donot develop symptoms again. their risk of reinfection may be lower in the first few months. but that natural immunity will decline over time as antibodies decrease within months. a question at inpresident's white house coronavirus briefing yesterday got a whole lot of attention. >> mr. president, after all inyears, do you regret all of the lying you've done to the american people? >> what? >> all the lying and dishonesty. >> that who has done? >> that you have done. >> and he's the senior white house correspondent with "the huffington post." tell us why you asked this question and did you know that it would get a response like it has? >> um, on the response part, no, i had no idea it would be taking off like it has. i've been wanting to ask him about that since the very first event in 2019. and have not had the opportunity to do so until yesterday. and it seems to be the key question of his presidency. sometimes it's not important but sometimes, in the middle of a crisis, it is. and i wanted to see whether, given any reflection, given all this time, maybe he a had regrets about it. and apparently not. >> did you think he would answer it? >> i wasn't sure. sometimes he picks fights and will say you're fake news or you're lying. i diddent know what was going to happen but i thought there was a decent chance he would pick someone else and that's what happened. >>. >> there's a deep divide between people critical of the president. they feel very deeply their objections to the president's repeated 10s of thousands of lies. but when it comes to the white house press core, there's also, i think -- yeah, i guess i would say criticism of the question you asked. i spoke to a number of colleagues about that and what i learned is they respect you personally. they wondered, especially in your capacity of a print pooler, if that was an appropriate question or a stunt and i wonder, what do you say to folk whose say maybe that wasn't an appropriate question. >> and i get that. but i've been doing this for a long time. and i think i understand that when, when someone is recovering is going to lie to you most of the time. there's not a whole lot of point in asking what do you think of the payroll tax and this vaccine? a lot of the time, he doesn't know the answer and makes something up. the one key question that we all have, i think, is why does he do this? and we're entitled to an answer. it's fine in a democracy to disagree about policies. that's what we're about and why we have have debates and legislatures, this whole giant system. but it's not okay to not tell the truth. that is a problem. whether you voted for the president or didn't, you're entitled to accurate information about what's going on about what he sees as his policies and what the white house is saying about them ought to be accurate. they work for us, in the end. let's not forget that. i wrote a long piece about this in january and hipoths the what would happen and within weeks, there we were. >> i know this resonated with a lot of people and i appreciate you coming on to be with us and talk about it. >> it's been my pleasure. >> we've heard trump claim falsely on a number of indications that children are immune. our next guests know full well children can. they were living in china when the novel coronavirus broke out. dad, james, was working 200 miles away. they were able toboard one of the u.s. evacuation flights out of wuhan. and they were safe until their daughter caught the virus here in the u.s. in memphis, tennessee. thank you so much. your daughter, hermoine, just tested pausetive for coronavirus last week. and james, i know you tested positive, along with your parents. tell us, first, how everyone is doing. >> well, we're hanging in there. luckily, most of our symptoms have been mild so far and we're staying in quarantine and trying to ride it out right now. >> and when you were leaving, i imagine there was considerable relief getting out of wuhan. did you ever think the real risk for your family was going to be in the u.s.? >> no. never. i thought that we were getting out and when it all hit, i was like, oh, my gosh. yeah t was never something that came to mind when we were on that plane. >> did it feel like you were leaving the threat behind, that you were relieve snd. >> yeah. the build up to leaving, i thought wow, this -- we're able to get out. i can -- we can be safe. >> that's what everyone thought and you're both in this unique position because you saw how china handled the coronavirus and saw how the u.s. is doing. compare what you you saw there compared to the u.s. >> it's night and day, to be honest. you had to of course wear masks, get your temperature checked. and it got to a point where people were being block aided inside of their apartment, inside of their apartments. people were not outside and here, people are going out and doing what they want to do. and there doesn't seem to be much concern as to whether people are going to transmit this disease or not. >> and somewhere between drak ownian measures like you saw in china, and completely letting this thing fly free is this this discussion of what's done in the middle. so, i wonder what do you think about how seriously they're taking the virus, considering what you know as a mom? >> i have to say they're not taking it seriously enough. where i live right now is a small little town and they don't have a whole lot of cases. there's not a whole lot of fear for it. but at the same time, we have to be more cautious about how we're going out and what we're doing and school pflgs going to be starting. we have to think about how we want to get our kids back into school, if they're going to school. and just think about the community as a whole. >> well, i'm sorry you're dealing with this. i'm so glad to know your family is doing well and i want to thank you both for talking to us. >> thank you. we have breaking news. the postal service is warning several states may not be able to deliver ballots in time for the election, depending on current election rules. part of the reason, lags in mail delivery time. some of the states include, washington, california, north carolina. age is just a number. and mine's unlisted. try boost® high protein... -with 20 grams of protein for muscle health- -versus only 16 grams in ensure® high protein. and now enjoy boost® high protein in new café mocha flavor. an army family who is always at the ready. so when they got a little surprise... two!? 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all over the country and i want america to understand that. >> the prediction comes as the number of confirmed cases in the u.s. surges to over 321,000. more than 9,100 people have died so far with over 1,300 deaths reported on saturday alone. and states struggling. this morning louisiana's governor said his state could run out of ventilators by end of the week. in nuer leernew orleans, corone mortuaries reached limits. meanwhile, new york, hardest hit in the country accounts for nearly half of all deaths in the country and this morning governor andrew cuomo said while hospitalizations are beginning to drop, the challenge to save lives is proving to be more difficult. >> a number of people tested 18,000. positive cases are up 8,000. total 122,000 cases. number of patients discharged, total discharged is 12,000. 1,700 discharged in one day. number of deaths is up. that's the bad news. it's 44,159. and we pray for each and every one of them and their families. and that is up. and that is the worst news. but the number of deaths over the past few days has been dropping for the first time. what is the significance of that? it's too early to tell. >> cnn's jason carroll live in new york. javits kercenter popopening its tore for coronavirus patients? >> reporter: yes, and a top priority. going to be run by the feds, not from local officials here in new york city, but when it's up and fully operational, it will be able to handle, fredricka, 2,500 cove ed patientid able to handle, fredricka, 2,500 cove ed patienti patients. you imagine relieving the pressure hospitals here are facing and a lot of talk also about the apex of all of this. the governor talked about that as well. all projections show we still might be a few days away from that and why he says it's imperative to get ventilators into new york city as quickly as possible. he said he knows where all the ventilators are in the statened knows about the federal stockpile and says there were not enough ventilators in the federal stockpile and why he says it's essential to get ventilators here now. once there's no longer a need here, he says, then the ventilators can be redeployed to other states where they will also be needed. fredricka? >> hmm. already. jason carroll, thank you so much. right now turning to the white house. cnn's jeremy diamond is there and jeremy, hearing some very sobering warnings coming from the president and the surgeon general. elaborate on that. >> reporter: certainly are, fredricka. as we saw, the number of deaths in the united states from coronavirus hit a record high at more than 1,300 yesterday, we also heard from the president of the united states who is warning americans of the grim reality ahead. that reality is that, that death toll was going to only get worse as the, over the next couple of weeks. particularly over next week. the president warning a horrendous time and also saying there is going to be a lot of death. >> this will be probably the toughest week between this week and next week. then a lot of death unfortunately, but a lot less death than if this wasn't done, but there will be death. >> reporter: the top health officials on the president's task force weren't just warning of the death toll that will rise over the coming weeks. pointing to the next week, two weeks, really, as a crucial time for americans to do everything they can to slow the spread of the virus and why we saw the surgeon general jarome adams compare this to a pearl harbor or 9/11 moment. and those governors who didn't order stay-at-home orders, those to not do so, at least give us a week. a different tone from what we heard from the president yesterday. i asked specifically why he wouldn't urge those governors to take those steps. the president says he felt it wasn't his role to do so and believes those governors are doing a great job, despite the fact they are not urging those stricter measures. the president said if there was a significant outbreak in one of the those he might change his tune. what we know about this virus, once in is an outbreak sometimes it's already too late to slow the spread. fred? >> jeremy diamond at the white house. thank you so much for that. discuss all of this now. dr. patrice harris is president of the american medical association. also the former director of health services of fulton county, georgia. good to see you. thanks so much for being with me. hopefully you're well. >> yes. >> today the surgeon general described an upcoming week as a pearl harbor, 9/11 moment. as the president of the american medical association does your organization share that assessment? >> we do. we worry about that, and by the way, thank you for having me on, but based on the projections that we have seen, particularly in those areas that are hardest hit, next week is likely to be our worst week thus far, particularly regarding icu admittances and unfortunately the number of deaths. so that is why it is so important to be ready, and prepare to have those ventilators, to have adequate ppe. we definitely don't want to overwhelm our health system. we need to be on the front side of that, and that's also why it's so important for those who have not been in areas that have been hardest hit to begin to prepare and really practice social distancing and stay home. >> so, dr. harris, what makes this upcoming week potentially one of the worst in this crisis thus far? >> well, one of the things we have always recommended was to use the data. as we can see based on the data reported out of new york, each state is tracking their own data and, of course, we have the folks at the administration tracking national data, but if you look at the press conferences that governor cuomo has been presenting, he has been tracking the data and based on his data, they are just days away from an apex. so based on the data, which we should always use to make these predictions, next week does portend to be a very, very difficult week. >> so, dr. deborah birx, without coordinator had this to say in her view as well. listen. >> this is the moment not going to the grocery store, not going to be pharmacy but doing everything you can to keep your family and your friends safe. that means everybody doing the six-feet distancing, washing your harnds. hands. >> so dr. harris, people need to still go to the grocery store, pharmacies. what are they supposed to do with that kind of advice? >> we know that physical distancing works, and i think that was the point that dr. birx was making. absolutely we know there will be a need to get groceries. we certainly have to eat and medicines, and those basics essential services. other than that, and that's why the ama sent a letter to the national governors association last week, really urging all states to immediately make sure that they act on emergency orders to close down any non-essential services, limiting non-essential activities, and prohibiting large gatherings. >> now, then there's the mental aspect to all of this. you're a practicing psychiatrist. people hear they shouldn't go out to the store that they need to stay at home, really, to help protect everybody's lives. i mean, how do people deal with that kind of mental anxieties that are now coming with these instructions, these warnings? these outlooks? >> first of all, that's a very important topic and i'm glad you raise it. of course, i am a psychiatrist and so i know that fear and anxiety are normal human emotions to any crisis. particularly a public health crisis such as this, but what we should do is use that fear and anxiety in action to bring us to action. there are things about this epidemic, pandemic, that we cannot control, but there are some things that we can control, and that is the physical distancing. staying in when we can. only going out for essential needs. so in that way we are taking some control and doing what we all can. as this epidemic evolved i have always said that individual actions lead to collective impact. i hope folks can take the worry and anxiety which are normal and bring that into action. >> there being eight states without stay-at-home orders in place. what are your concerns about that reality, and do you believe there should be a national, you know, stay-at-home order put in place by the white house? >> we believe that each state should make sure that they have these emergency stay-at-home orders. that was, again, the reason we sent the letter to the governors. everyone has to take action. this virus knows no borders, and so we encourage and we did in our letters all of the states and those remaining eight states, those governors, must -- must -- enact these orders. >> how big a setback these eight states have not put stay-at-home orders in place? >> again, following the evidence, and the evidence has shown us those areas who enacted social distancing and the other measures early are having less spread. and certainly if they are still having the same numbers, they have slowed the spread. so the evidence is clear. following the evidence, these measures work. >> dr. patrice harris, thank you so much for your time. stay well. appreciate it. >> thank you. all right. up next a closer look at one. most dangerous under reported aspects of this pandemic. the rapid spread of coronavirus in prisons. >> they are ultimately afraid everyone day they ask the officers, where are the cleaning supplies? 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it's everybody's problem for three reasons. one, jails and prisons could turn into morgues over the next couple of weeks. it's a moral tragedy. and also jails can become super sellerators of the virus. staff has to come in, guards come in. bringing that back out to the community. a big danger. if they all get sick and all have to go to the hospital, 2.4 million people could overwhelm our public health care system. barr is right we need to do a couple of things. getting as many out as we safely can, people who are well. churches should be opening up their doors and houses of worship opening this doors those without a place to go can at least get out of the death trap. we shouldn't be putting more people in for minor, petty stuff and surging in instead medical supplies and help. this is something that nobody's thinking about this right now but i guarantee you something. when you start seeing people dieing by the hundreds and thousands in these prisons and jails, they're going to realize we may have missed and opportunity to really knock this virus back by getting people out of harm's way. >> clearly, people don't have a choice and option of social distancing when, as inmates. so let's talk about some of the latest numbers of people, eight inmates, at federal prisons have died of coronavirus over the last week alone. what needs to happen to ensure that 100% of the incarcerated population along with guards, other people who work at these facilities, are kept safe? >> well, there's a couple things that can be done. you have a lot of people in jails and prisons elderly, sick, not of the virus, just old and sick. they should be able to come out. a lot of people sitting in jails and prisons now, especially jails, because they can't afford bail. they're not a flight risk. just can't afford bail. those bails should be dropped to zero for people to just go home. any arrest, or minor charge, can be a death sentence. you need for there to be leadership from the sheriffs to the governors to the president of the united states and barr to say, let's get as many people out as we safely can and it can be done. people who are a little more concerned about there are ankle bracelets. ways to get people out safely and people who may or may not be well, quarentine those people in houses are worship and other places. build outside of the jail. you cannot have people stacked on top of each other, four, five, six, seven in a set so one person gets sick and then they're all sickthat is inhue 0 main, unsacceptable and action needs to be taken now. the way we're doing, a pandemic in our prisons. you can't beat a plague when that until prison are superaccelerating the virus. >> and take a look at this individual glow a cry for help saying one of his cellmates is dieing of coronavirus. what's your organization, reform alliance, able to do to help address severe situations at facilities like this? >> listen, i'm very glad that attorney general barr has come out and said we have to do more. i want to encourage him to do even more and go even faster, because you do have this thing beginning to spread. reform alliance working with jay-z, meek mill and michael rubin and others 100,000 masks going into reikers island and prisons across the country. doinging what we can to surge medical supplies in but have to get people out who can come out safely and well to reduce the number behind who suffer. can you imagine a minor charge. maybe you ran a stop sign or maybe you sold drugs, non-violent and sitting jail, maybe did something serious but weren't sentenced to die in jail or prison. nobody sentenced to die sbi a virus in a prison. you cannot move. hear another person coughing. give me something, let me wash my hands, give me a mask, give me something, and nobody comes to help you. this is what's happening across the country. it is a tragedy, and it can be avoided. we can safely remove people from those circumstances, still hold them accountable but not kill them and make everyone else more safe including the guards. if we, you know, by taking prudent action. we have a safer plan at reform alliance dotcom. a safer plan to deal with this. the guards and staff are at risk, behind bars at risk and therefore all of us are at risk. we cannot allow a pandemic to tlun run through the prison system in america. >> and communities of color especially hit hard by coronavirus. the state of michigan african-americans account for 40% of coronavirus deaths but represent 14% of that state's population according to data from the state. why is this happening? what is not being addressed? >> one of the things i think happened early on that was a tragedy. you know this. people in the black community started saying, well, maybe we're immune to it. maybe black people just don't get it. everybody we see on television is an affluent white person who went overseas. maybe we'll be okay. also maybe just for old people. maybe if you're in a nursing home, something like that. what we're beginning to see is in the african-american community, people in their 50s, die aing. in their 40s, dieing. in their 30s, dieing, of a disease we thought was for older white people. just like hiv. people thought, this is for white guy, rich, white guys who are gay and it became a pandemic in the black community and destroyed african nations, put them on their hooeleels. a similar trajectory has begun, going from older affluent white to younger, browner and poor because in the black community you already have underlying health issues. hypertension. you have hypertension, as i do, and you get a virus, it is deadly. nobody's talking about that. it's not just older people. it's people with hypertension. >> existing conditions. >> existing condition. we don't say, sugar. diabetes as you call it. sugar in the black community. asthma. hypertension. obesity. those are diseases that we have at younger and younger ages, in black and brown communities. that's why our numbers are ngoig to be 70 and 80 years old. it's going to be 30s, 40s, 50s. you're seeing it already. the other thing, density. living in an urban environment, a housing project, a prison, you can't social distance as easily. so we can't do some of the things people are asked to do. all of this means there should be a special alert and a special alarm telling african-americans, native americans, latinos, you may be at special risk. don't look at your age. look at your underlying health and stay at home. >> uh-huh. great advice. all right. van jones, thank you so much. appreciate it. >> thank you. all right. in about 30 minutes from now, queen elizabeth ii, set to deliver a rare televised address to the uk on the coronavirus outbreak. a live report from windsor castle, next. you try to stay ahead of the mess. but scrubbing still takes time. now there's new powerwash dish spray. it's the faster way to clean as you go. just spray, wipe and rinse. it cleans grease five times faster. new dawn powerwash. spray, wipe, rinse. speaking volumes out of v s cities. the pope with a mass at a near ly empty city. the pope's message, clear. imploring the youth to step up even putting their lives on the line to help others during this pandemic. next hour, queen elizabeth ii expected to address the public. the last time an address like this took place was 18 years ago 2002 following the death of the queen mother. five years before that gave a similar address before princess diana's funeral. cnn correspondent max foster is joining us outside windsor castle where the queen gave her address, or at least recorded it, right? so what can you tell us about all that happened? >> reporter: of course, a lot of people are very keen just to see how the queen is and also in her 90s. haven't been told whether or not she's been tested for coronavirus and want to see she's well. cheerily she delivered in a loo on -- room way cameraman and are very careful. we get to see top of the hour. interesting the government asked her to step in at this point. she's there to bring the country together at a time of crisis. as you described. it's a very rare thing for her to do but concern in the government at this point. we know she'll talk about how challenging it's been for the country and have empathy for the disruption that it's brought. some grief to some financial difficulty to others. how disrupted daily lives it's done. and how in years to come she hopes everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge. i think this speaks to what the government's concerned about. the fact people have started going out again on to the streets, creating a risk of spreading this virus. she will talk about thanking those who have been following the official guidance to stay at home and protect the vulnerable. she's very well-regarded in this country. very revered in this country. i think the government is hoping that she would step in and perhaps this weekend going forward people will abide lie-of-by the rules set by the government, fredricka. >> max, what about her health? what's been said about her health and what will just her imagery be able to say about how she's feeling? >> reporter: i think we do look to her in times of crisis, but this is also a message for the commonwealth as well, because this is a global problem. she's a global figure. speaking to the world on this issue. she's revered around the world. so i think we do look to her often. she's often there in times of crisis, and you look to her to sort of, for some sort of guidance when things become difficult. now it's becoming difficult as lockdowns are extended in europe and in the united states, of course, as well. i think we're looking to see how well she is. to see she hasn't been affected by the virus. we still haven't confirmed whether or not she's had the virus. it doesn't appear, though, she has. even though she's met people including the prime minister who have had it. >> even though you mentioned, reminded us, prince charles tested positive. he self-isolated about a week and as far as we know, he's feeling good. great. thank you so much, max foster. appreciate it. all right. the state of georgia is under a stay-at-home order, but that it doesn't seem to apply to the beaches and parks. those remain opened. now the mayor of one georgia coastal town is firing back, calling the move reckless. more on that straight ahead. here's a razor that works differently. the gillette skinguard it has a guard between the blades that helps protect skin. the gillette skinguard. and i recently had a heart attack. it changed my life. but i'm a survivor. after my heart attack, my doctor prescribed brilinta. it's for people who have been hospitalized for a heart attack. brilinta is taken with a low-dose aspirin. no more than 100 milligrams as it affects how well brilinta works. brilinta helps keep platelets from sticking together and forming a clot. in a clinical study, brilinta worked better than plavix. brilinta reduced the chance of having another heart attack... ...or dying from one. don't stop taking brilinta without talking to your doctor, since stopping it too soon increases your risk of clots in your stent, heart attack, stroke, and even death. brilinta may cause bruising or bleeding more easily, or serious, sometimes fatal bleeding. don't take brilinta if you have bleeding, like stomach ulcers, a history of bleeding in the brain, or severe liver problems. slow heart rhythm has been reported. tell your doctor about bleeding new or unexpected shortness of breath any planned surgery, and all medicines you take. if you recently had a heart attack, ask your doctor if brilinta is right for you. my heart is worth brilinta. if you can't afford your medication, astrazeneca may be able to help. no no no no no, there's no space there! maybe over here? 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>> reporter: fred, the reason may not be explicit. you can tell by the photos tweeted this weekends of relatively empty beaches his office currently doesn't believe this to be a problem. his office told me there were about 150 people on the beach at the island this weekend. frustrating a mayor there who earlier in a statement talked how the pentagon has had to order 150 body bags. calling the governor's reaction reckless but they would take legal recourse. here's what she said. >> asking our residents on tybee island to continue to comply with safety restrictions that we have put into place. they're not mandated anymore because the governor has rekrindrekrind rescinded that until april 15th. don't know what's going to happen after that. i want everyone to know the city of tybee island has not opened the beaches. our governor has mandated that the beaches in georgia be opened. >> reporter: she also said the city put up barricades that haven't been taken down yet and won't be able to do that until tomorrow. that might be one reason relatively fewer people were seen on the beach this weekend. the governor through a spokesperson sent, throughout this process governor kemp has been guided by recommendations of dr. kathleen toomey in the private officials and the government's office providing resources to patrol the area. wee we've reached out to businesses, shut down by the city before, now rescinded by the governor. there's a mixed react about that. some have already relisted their properties advertising that the beaches are open and applauding the governor, because they say families need a place to escape. quarantine somewhere besides they're homes. other vacation property owner and managers are telling me that they didn't even know that this was rescinded. now that they found out they feel that it's still the responsible thing to do to black out the date that people possibly aren't able to book because they say if they don't get a handle on this virus spreading through the community, that could be even more hurtful for their vacation business in the summer, fred. >> natasha chen, thank you for bringing that to us. appreciate it. while new york remains the epicenter for the nation's outbreak, other cities including detroit and los angeles have quickly become hot spots as their case count continues to rise. we'll have an update from both cities straight ahead. but first, does cabin fever have you going stir crazy during this pandemic? 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well, there was early, early awareness of this issue and a very health-conscious state. experts are crediting also in silicon valley, for example, they told a lot of workers early to go home and then the shelter in place orders out san francisco saying all of these things may be keeping california's numbers down at this point, but they do expect a surge. fredricka? >> all right. paul vercammen, thanks so much. michigan is showing signs that it could be the next hot spot. the state has more than 14,000 cases of coronavirus and 540 deaths. michigan now has the third highest number of cases in deaths and state leaders fear hospitals don't have the space or the supplies needed to deal with the growing crisis. cnn's ryan young is in detroit for us. so ryan, explain the situation there. >> fred, you know how tough this is because you hear it over and over from people. realizing how dangerous this is. especially going out with the community. everyone seeing someone who's died or gotten ill from coronavirus. look. you can see emergency operations army corps of engineer truck here. the reason, we're at the tcf center. a critical space. putting 1,000 beds on inside of here. the reason, the hospital spaces are in short supply. so this will come online sometime next week. you should look at something else. %-p. you see these face shields they're building. they're building 1 million of them. so far coming off the line one every ten seconds. that's the good news here. the governor of the state, governor whitmer says more needs to be done across the nation. take a listen. >> not having a national strategy where there is one policy for the country as opposeds to campwork based on whomever the governor is, i think is creating a more porous situation where covid-19 will go longer and more people will get sick and sadly more lives may get lost. >> reporter: fred, you know this is a critical need especially this phase wi th space with 1,000 extra beds. others called from around the country to help. doctors and nurses are stressed dealing with this. same time, they feel they're doing the right work right now. you can only imagine with that surge coming what next week may be like. fred? 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>> are you ready? >> reading a bedtime story online each week. >> good night! all right. hello again, everyone. thank you for joining me. i'm fredricka whitfield. we begin with a dire warning from the white house in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak. this morning the u.s. surgeon general compared this coming week to some of america's greatest tragedies. telling americans to be prepared as the death toll continues to rise. >> this is going to be the hardest and the saddest week of most americans' lives, quite frankly. this is going to berbor moment, localized but all over the country. >> the confirmed numbers surging to over 24,000,000. over 1,300 deaths were reported on saturday alone. new york continues to be one of the hardest hit. nearly half of all death in the country has happened there. this morning, governor andrew cuomo said hospitalizations are down, but saving lives continues to be a major challenge. >> the bad news is the number of beds doesn't really matter anymore. we have the beds. it's the ventilators. and then it's the staff. that's the problem. and after this breaking news, in the uk, queen

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