New daily cases are soaring at cases of 156,000 and higher. White house response coordinator, deborah burke, says shes seeing cases plateau in hot spots like arizona, t tx and florida. And dr. Fauci says states can get their outbreaks under control. Hes confident about finding a vaccine but adds distribution nationwide will take more time. I think, as we get into 2021, several months in that you would have vaccine that would be widely available to people in the United States. Cnns nick watt is in los angeles following everything here. So, nick, once again, the nation is seeing the daunting case increases but there are positive trends. Yeah. Thats right. Signs of hope. But listen, this is obviously a huge country and its a mixed bag. Well get to those details in a second. In the meantime, chipotle and mcda mcdonalds will require customers to wear them when they enter. And the schools debate rolls on. Houston and county just said everything has got to be Distance Learning until september
According to the nations top Infectious Disease expert dr. Anthony fauci who says at the moment, we are losing. We ultimately will get control of it. I dont really see us eradicating it. I think with a combination of Good Public Health measures, a degree of global many herd immunity and a good vaccine, which i do hope and feel cautiously optimistic that we will get, i think when you put all three of those together, i think we will get very good control of this. And dr. Fauci says hes not quite sure whether a vaccine will come this year or next and adds its impossible to know how long the vaccine would protect you against the virus. The u. S. Government investing in a big way today. Nearly 2 billion to obtain hundreds of millions of doses of a vaccine candidate. Until then, the mission, minimize the spread. A fight the president now admits likely to get worse before it gets better. Mapping out the cases now. Look at this week versus last week across the states, 26 states heading up in t
Correspondent Kristen Welker, pbs news Yamiche Alcindor, and the author of which country has the worlds best health care. Kristen, the Trump Administration is now going full speed ahead on opening schools while pumping the brakes on the Republican National convention, at least the public big rally in jacksonville. Jacksonville is no longer a starter. Where will he give the speech . More mixed messaging, as you point out. It was a remarkable retreat for President Trump to announce hes canceling the portion of the Republican National convention that was expected to take place in jacksonville. Theyre working on the details, andrea. The fact that there is so much back and forth means theres still a lot thats up in the air. President trump had been quite critical of democrats for saying they were going to hold a Virtual Convention several weeks ago. Then he decided to pull his convention from North Carolina, move it to jacksonville because officials in North Carolina wanted it to be a scale
Tedio hoe for calling her a sexist, derogatory name this week. She said its evidence of a larger systemic problem, not just in congress, but across america. And Michael Cohen will be released from prison again. The president s former fixer was sent back into federal custody two weeks ago after refusing to sign a gag order, which would prevent him from speaking about his case to the public. A judge overturned that decision, calling it retaliation for his tellall book. We have got a lot to cover this hour. So let us begin where a lot of the action is, over on capitol hill. Thats where republicans covid relief bill has yet to materialize. As of now, we believe the package contains incentives for schools to reopen, and some form of direct payments to families. But its clear Senate Republicans are not yet all on the same page. Steve mnuchin, who is representing the white house in the negotiations, admitted the president s desired payroll tax likely will not make the cut. The white house als
Despite the fact the president made a very rare appearance yesterday at a meeting of his coronavirus experts, and we heard the president again sow doubt about the ability to hold an election in the middle of a pandemic suggesting we might not know the president ial winner for a very, very long time. Youre not going to know the november election results. Talking for the country. It could be for months and months. I mean, actually, could be for years. Now, the president supporters call such remarks harmless hyperbole. Critics hear things like that and worry he is laying the groundwork to ignore the results if he loses. Casting in county votes much easier, of course, if the coronavirus is under control. The experts on the White House Task force concede it is not at this moment. Listen to the president. He disagrees. Its coming down. Some states are going up a little bit, but they will very shortly, theyre under control. Theyll be coming down. My view is theal skew aschools open. This thin