Seeing a lot of treatment claims. Getting the streets attention. This company appeared virtually out of nowhere. Progress to likes of regeneron, becton dickinson, benefiting from the 1. 6 billion u. S. Government commitment. You have makings of something down the pike that could treat the virus, maybe as soon as the end of this year, in the case of some of these phase 3 advanced trials, maybe as soon as the fall of this year. But being coast to coast were all over the place on all these other developments including out in california where they are extending shutdown provisions now expanding to include virtually all businesses, indoor dining, barbershops, salons, tattoo parlors, you name it. Also focusing on whats going on in florida right now a big spike in cases but as stuart was just telling you some confusion about how many of those cases are indeed positive. Weve got the the latest going on in texas, where the spike in cases is so severe theyre looking at crowded hospital beds. Reexamining the need for some, well, noncovid19 treatments. Lets get the latest right now from casey seeing gal stegall following all of. That. Reporter lets take you to california, that is the big announcement of roll backs, with the surge of covid19 cases. Average number of new infections in that state nearly doubled between june and july, when you look at health data. Covid hospitalizations are up 28 in just the last two weeks across california. Those are some key metrics that the governor says he used when it came to making that big announcement on ordering all of the nonessential businesses to close down once again. Across the whole state, indoor restaurants, bars, wineries, movie theaters, museums ordered to shut their doors again. In about 32 counties currently seeing the highest numbers restrictions went a step further. As you said, salons, barbershops, malls, worship centers. Those counties make up 80 of californias total population. Major announcement were also made about some schools. Listen. L. A. Unified School District as well as san diego announced that theyre going to enter into the fall School Season the way they ended last school year. That is, by utilizing Distance Learning and until we deal with the background rate of infections. Reporter more than 700 medical military personnel have now been deployed to california and right here in texas, to assist civilian medical staff own the ground. The bulk of those troops here in the Lone Star State were more than 10,000 patients are now hospitalized with covid. Multiple teams with the army and navy working with some of the hardest hit areas like houston, san antonio, for instance. Meantime Florida Governor ron desantis says he too has applied for additional medical help from the federal government. The Sunshine State is reported nearly 37,000 new infections. 37,000 in the last three days. A top Infectious Disease doctor has now called miami specifically the new pandemic epicenter, making parallels between that city and wuhan china, the original city where this virus started. Meantime later today, a lot going on here. But Vice President mike pence, the head of the White House Coronavirus task force will be in louis. He will be meeting with the governor and state Health Officials on the ground to discuss this ongoing crisis, neil. Neil casey stegall, thank you very much, my friend. To add to that, this is in the newsroom right now, new jersey looking to reopen schools this fall but with some caveats here, monitoring the progress of the virus in the garden state but new Jersey Governor Phil Murphy is optimistic schools will be able to reopen this fall. We dont have any word that different municipalities might combine that with Virtual Learning as well. But it seems to be, all inPerson Learning. Well keep you posted on that. Remember when we used to have a budget for this country less than a trillion dollars . Wasnt all that long ago. That right now is looking at our deficit, not for the year, for the month. In the latest month of june, 864 billion added to our debt. That is the deficit in one month. Obviously the virus and expenses around that stimulus for that, a big reason but blake burman, no matter how you look at it, even for a young guy like you, that has to be eyepopping. Reporter neil im old enough to remember when we ran surpluses in this country. Wasnt that long ago. 864 billion in one month, to put that in perspective, that is more in one month than other fiscal years in recent memory as well. We reached out to the white house, neil, to get a sense whether or not that number will have impact about the phase 4 negotiations Going Forward for the next relief package. We have yet to hear back from the white house. When you survey the landscape here in washington, neil, tough to envision how any next step measures will be small, however you want to define small. Start over here at the white house. For example, President Trump says he wants a payroll tax holiday and he told me earlier this month he does support another round of direct payments to individuals and to families. Move on over up to capitol hill, the Top Republican there, Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell is open to direct payments as well. Mcconnells position has been that a package, a next package should not exceed more than one trillion dollars. However, the top democrat up on the hill, nancy pelosi, and members of her caucus have already passed a package three times that amount. To the tune of 3 trillion. They are pushing hard, for example, for another round of funding for state and local governments. To that end today, a handful of Democratic Senators led by senator Elizabeth Warren written to jay powell and steve mnuchin, not only should congress jump in on that front, but the fed and treasury need to ramp up the municipal Lending Facility which loans state and local governments, loans those state and local governments can take. Those senators write in quote, expanding the mlf, making more accessible financing can help the fed insure were not turning a blind eye to a need for recovery that reaches all americans. Back over here at the white house, neil, im told no decisions have been made on a package but have become targeted. Keep in mind when we were told february and march when they were working on something here at white house. It would be targeted as well. Fast forward, we are 3 trillion down the line in relief funding and they are talking about a fourth package. Weve seen a number of states roll back their reopenings. Every single day that goes by we are another day closer, neil, as you know to november 3rd. Neil. Neil indeed. Im not too worried about the debt thing. It will be up to your generation to pay it not mine. Reporter pay for it. Neil sorry. That is the way it goes. You will be working a while. Thank you, blake burman on all of that. I want, i know you will. Youre the best. Kevin brady, the republican texas congressman on the house ways and means committee. This man singlehandedly responsible for tax cuts. Imagine where we would be without the tax cuts. He joins us right now. Congressman, always a pleasure and honor. Let me get first of all your take. That is a jawdropping number, no matter what your age. 864 billion of red ink in one month. Now well pile on to that with still more stimulus. The president seems to be open to stimulus checks and the like. I dont begrudge any of that. Im looking at deficits, piling debt, it is a slippery slope, dont you think . No, it definitely sis. We know that monthly number was sort of, grew bigger because allocate all the ppp program to one month. We delayed tax filings. Neil right. That number got big but your main point is still real. We are spending trillions of dollars. In fact, my estimate is that hundreds of billions of dollars congress allocated hasnt even spent yet. It will take the rest of the year to spend out. I think right now spending for spending sake will not create a healthy economy. Some smart targeted policies that help reconnect workers, help businesses reconfigure their work places so they are healthy and safe for consumers as well as their employees, targeted efforts like that, will help us rebound more strongly. Neil you know, just wondering, the big conundrum what to do about these very generous federal Unemployment Benefits of 600 a week. That is on top of what people get from their states. All that goes away in a couple of weeks. Now, the idea, try to find a way for those folks to incentivize them to come back to work. I take it from what youre saying, that youre not for extending that 600dollar a week program but you are open to some sort of a hiring bonus. I think something in the vicinity of 1200. What kind of reaction are you getting for that . So the short answer is pretty positive. Look, state unemployments are really benefits are the foundation of unemployment and in many states already extended it into next year. The federal benefit was really to help people who are forced home because their business or their industry was forced to shut down. As we reopen were seeing a whole different approach there. So, yeah, i think it is time for us to take that federal unemployment benefit, which in some states means that three out of four workers get paid more than they would at work. The Congressional Budget Office says, if we extend it five out of six workers would be paid. That is a recipe for disaster economic recovery. Neil would you be open, congressman, would you be open just to ending it, in other words, let it expire in two weeks, even if you dont have something in its place . That would further incentivize those losing 600 to reenter the job market . We know that when Unemployment Benefits end, people tend to look for work pretty aggressively. Right now we know main street businesses are having trouble getting their workers to come back. I do think a return to work bonus or some economic incentive to reconnect those workers is important for both them and that business. And in a key way. So i think that is where our focus needs to be. We ought to be open to borking with our democrat colleagues to get that done. Neil you know, congressman, you know the math far better than i do. But the rough back of the napkin numbers i was drawing up, is we have roughly 18 million presently out of a job, out of work. I dont know how many of those are trying right now. How many are hold overs from the soft economy, when all of this was just starting. Leaving that aside, i also know there are about five to six million available job openings. That is a moving target i grant you, but the math doesnt look good. 18 to 20 million out of work. Five to six million available job openings. What do you do about that . The key, youre exactly right, the key to make sure the 18 million temporarily unemployed are not permanently unemployed. That is why smart progrowth policies, that reconnect them to those businesses as we continue to reopen in a responsible way, were going to see more of that come back. I also think, some policies that are targeted, like employer retention credit can help businesses rehire their workers, knowing that their industry may not be recovering as quickly as some are. I think there are some smart policies that dont cost trillions of dollars, that can help make sure those workers arent permanently left behind. Neil real quickly, sir, your state is now, sort of a virus hot spot to put it mildly. Do you think it opened too soon . No. Neil things got back a little too quickly . No . No, neil, i dont and heres why. The infection rate, hospitalizations went down in phase one and two of the reopening versus when we had a forced home confinement. Going back would be extreme and not helpful. Phase three, no question, we saw the flareup. Not unexpected. Weve seen this around the world as economies reopen but, right now the focus i think in a positive way, we saw a small dip in hospitalizations yesterday. Well see if we can make that a trend. I think there has been a new set of reality, we cant take this virus for granted. Businesses have become very serious about insuring mass ppe, social distancing. My sense is that the last several weeks weve seen pretty significant change in the attitude about how we need to keep focused on the virus. Hopefully, that allows us to turn this flareup, make it manageable again and allow us to continue to reopen. Neil well watch it closely. Congressman, thank you very much. Be well, healthy and safe. Congressman brady. Take care. Neil the beautiful state of texas. I want to bring dr. Nicole saphier to this, our fox contributor, crackerjack doctor, bestselling author. Doctor you heard us talking about what is going on in texas, whats happening in florida. What is going on in state after state. I believe 32 right now, that have seen doubledigit increases in cases now a lot of that, i know you mentioned this prior, better and swifter testing but many of these states are taking actions to wind back reopenings. Do you think thats a good idea . Well, first of all i dont think we are where we need to be in better and swifter testing. Yes, we have significantly more testing than we had a few months ago however there is significant lag time, time getting tested between five and seven days. A lot can happen between five and seven days, are you supposed to tell people getting a test theyre supposed to be selfisolating . Asymptomatic people getting tested, waiting for testing results they may be out living life spreading the vie us are. It doesnt really do us good to have a test that take several days to get results. You mentioned earlier on the show talking about different technologies that may have results in under an hour. Think about rapid flu tests pea treshshuns have, during the flu season. We need that for covid19 to effectively contain the viral infection. For cases having high infections, florida and texas, several counties with hospitals at max capacity or near max capacity, yes they have to take some firm measures to decrease viral transmission. Im really interested to see the age distribution of those being hospitalized. Are they seeing more severe cases in younger people . I dont really have all that information right now but im very interested to know that. Neil you know, doctor, youre a young mom, so you know what parents are wrestling with in these states. They want kids to go back to school. They heard and understand the risks not having them go back to school for inperson classes, thats understood. Theyre concerned enough even though the numbers are extremely low, with kids passing along the virus to anyone either at school or back home, it is enough of a concern in these locales for a lot of the parents to say, you know what . I dont want to chance it. What you do tell them . Well it is really not that easy to answer, neil. It is a very complex situation. You have to look at everything as a whole, not just keep children physically safe. So i have had three boys home Distance Learning for the last several months while i was still fulltime working. It is very difficult for those children. They range from 20 to six years old. It is very difficult for those children to do Distance Learning. As a mother, a physician, i want to do everything i possibly can to get them back in Person Learning as long Safety Measures are in place, as a responsible adult. I do need to do my part to decrease Community Transmission of the virus so schools can safely reopen and i need to support the Education System as much as i can to make sure they have what they can to open. That being said, neil, i do understand people that are concerned about going back. This is still a novel virus we still see people dying from. I worry about flu season where hundreds of thousands of people are hospitalized every year with the flu. We may be heading into a difficult winter, if people dont take responsibility right now do what they can to lessen community spread. Youre seeing house parties causing 20 to 40 cases positive in young people, specifically new jersey and michigan and florida. We have to hold those young adults accountable and responsible because they are contributing to the viral spread and that being said, new york and new jersey are doing great right now. We may be on track to get our kids back in School Coming in a few weeks. You know what . We have people who are in florida may be coming back to jersey to send their kids to school. That inner state travel allowed this virus to spread across our country. We saw that earlier on. It was people leaving the northeast, going to the southeast, going to the southwest, that increased their cases. Now theyre going to bring it all back. We need to be strict about interstate travel. Not say please selfisolate for 14 days coming back into our state. 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