Post reports Vice President pences trip to arizona this week had to be postponed from tuesday to wednesday after several secret Service Agents either tested positive for coronavirus or had shown symptoms of being infected. Were going to speak to one of the reporters from this breaking story just ahead. But despite all of this, President Trump, who is about to headline a july 4th event at mt. Rushmore, where the governor has specifically said social distancing will not be required, continues to put forward a very different reality across this country. The crisis is being handled. Something to think about, china was way early, and theyre getting under control just now. And europe was way early, and theyre getting under control. We are likewise getting under control. Some areas that were very hardhit are now doing very well. Some were doing very well, and we thought they may be gone, and they flare up, and were putting out the fires. But other places were long before us, and theyre now it
Out of control. Its so serious that today the governor of texas did a controversial 180. He declared that wearing a mask in the Lone Star State is now mandatory in texas. Today we learned that Trump Campaign surrogate and former president ial candidate herman cain, seen here attending the trump rally in tulsa less than two weeks ago, hes been hospitalized with covid19. And new tonight, the Washington Post reports that Vice President pences trip to arizona this week had to be postponed from tuesday to wednesday after several secret Service Agents either tested positive for coronavirus or had shown symptoms of being infected. Were going to speak to one of the reporters from this breaking story just ahead. But despite all of this, President Trump, who is about to headline a july 4th event at mt. Rushmore, where the governor has specifically said social distancing will not be required, continues to put forward a very different reality across this country. The crisis is being handled. Somet
Good place. Here are the facts though. California and texas both saw record days of new cases on tuesday, in florida at least 56 icus are now at full capacity. There are fewer than 200 intensive care beds left in the entire state of arizona. Now fears that the spike is dangerously coming back into the midwest. Ohios governor mandating masks in what he calls seven red hot counties warning people they should be quote frightened. Lets begin in california with my colleague, rosa flores. Tell us more about what the hospitals are facing again this morning. Poppy, good morning. Theres a lot of concern from local leaders and experts here in Miamidade County and across this state quite frankly. 56 icu hospitals across the state in 25 different counties have zero capacity. That means they do not have more icu beds. That includes eight right here in Miamidade County where i am. Another 35 icu hospitals have bed availability of 10 or less. Heres the reality here in Miamidade County. The Positivity
Tonight theyre reporting that this 117bed hospital at united memorial is considering just becoming a 100 covid facility because they mostly have Covid Patients now anyway, and their numbers in North Houston just keep rising and rising relentlessly. So i want to show you this footage from the ap tonight because its a rare scene that most of us dont usually get to see of how this all ends, of what the inevitable consequence is of these skyrocketing numbers. Over 3 million cases now in the United States. Regularly 50,000 new cases a day now. Record hospitalizations in arizona, florida, texas, california, all over. The inevitable consequence of all of that is what happens in hospital rooms like this one youre about to see in North Houston. And i frankly also wanted foosee this tonight specifically because the doctors at this hospital working with Covid Patients and trying to save these patients lives, they specifically want the country to see this. The doctors in this hospital invited the
Thank tuesday you at home for joining us this hour. Today an Associated Press reporter was able to shoot some remarkable footage inside united Memorial Medical Center. United Memorial Medical Center is a relatively small hospital on the north side of houston, texas. The whole hospital has i believe 117 beds. Right now 88 of those 117 beds are devoted to Covid Patients. So the reporter and the ap, tonight theyre reporting that this 117bed hospital at united memorial is considering just becoming a 100 covid facility because they mostly have Covid Patients now anyway, and their numbers in North Houston just keep rising and rising relentlessly. So i want to show you this footage from the ap tonight because its a rare scene that most of us dont usually get to see of how this all ends, of what the inevitable consequence is of these skyrocketing numbers. Over 3 million cases now in the United States. Regularly 50,000 new cases a day now. Record hospitalizations in arizona, florida, texas, cal