As long as we dont Work Together and im talking counties and the state, were going to find ourselves in this problem right now . Reporter nation wide predicting the u. S. Death count from the virus will be more than 150,000 americans within the next three weeks. All while the president continuously fails to acknowledge the lag in testing. Some waiting seven days or longer for test results. Were working to decrease the turn around times. One state was at five days average. Seven states were between four and five days. 18 states were between two and three days. A book that youre ready to share with the world . And the rest were between two get published now, and three days. We want to redusz that. Call for your free publisher kit it will be reduced. Today reporter california still seeing a resurgence in the number of coronavirus cases. Los angeless mayor says he is on the brink of reissuing a stayathome order. A florida mom is dealing i do agree those things happen too quickly. With the
Weeks. Los angeles county just reported a Record Number of Coronavirus Pressure on President Trump, who has been in denial about this hospitalizations for the fourth time in a week. Crisis. Tonight hes suddenly tweeting also, President Trump is now in support of masks after planning to resume white house minimizing their importance for coronavirus briefings. And after months of refusing to months, and he wear a mask and even mocking those who do, he just posted this photo of himself in a mask. And he tweeted many people say it is patriotic. Nick watt is joining us. A new Record Number of hospitalizations where you are in l. A. County. Reporter thats right, wolf. And governor gavin newsom just said that across this tate, the next few weeks are going to be critical. He called out one county up by lake tahoe, napa county also, wine country, saying they were having constraints in terms of icu beds and staff. And, wolf, as you mentioned, fourth day in a week, we have sat here in l. A. Count
Good evening everyone. Im kate bolduan in for erin burnett tonight. An urgent plea to the nations governors. People need to wear a mask. That is the clear and direct message from the Vice President , dr. Anthony fauci, and dr. Debra birx today in a call to governors. What then will we hear from the president who announced today he is resuming his version of the White House Task force briefing . As we speak, 31 states are heading in the wrong direction. The death rate also now increasing in 20 states. But is that why the briefings are returning . Youre left to wonder, because this is what the president said. I was doing them and we had a lot of people watching, record numbers watching. In the history of cable television, television theres never been anything like it. I think well start that probably starting tomorrow. Ill do it at 5 00 like we were doing. We had a good slot. And a lot of people were watching. Bring back the briefings. He mentioned the hot spots of florida and texas, but
Florida reporting more than 10,000 new cases, just today. At least 50 hospitals in florida have run out of icu space. In miamidade county, which has been especially hard hit by coronavirus, icu capacity is now at 131 . While President Trump is now encouraging americans to wear masks, after refusing to do so for months. The republican governor of maryland is taking a swipe at the administration tonight. Governor larry hogan saying, there are growing indications that covid19 funding is no longer a priority for the white house. And with novembers election now less than four months away, President Trump, doubling down, using race to appeal to his base. Especially, when it comes to the Confederate Flag. Will it work . Were going to talk about it in the hour ahead. Joining me now is cnn White House Correspondent john harwood. John, good evening to you. Thank you so much. Coronavirus cases are really spiking all over the u. S. But thats not why the president is changing his mind on masks and