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KGO Good Morning America July 12, 2024

Sharing videos of Rayshard Brooks final moments after that Deadly Police shooting in the wendys parking lot. What one of the officers is saying about that fatal encounter as the 27yearold is laid to rest and hundreds of mourners pay their respects. Tensions high in the sky. A passenger kicked off a flight for refusing to wear a mask. This as we take you inside the new Pilot Program at Los Angeles International airport. Nio passengers temperatures. The new technology that could help keep travelers safe. Taking a stand. All in all we won the day. The emotional moment on the track. Nascar drivers coming together to support Bubba Wallace and pushing his car down the track before the big race. Alr is saying her son endured as the fbi joins the investigation into the noose found in his garage. This morning the first black woman to join the nascar pit crew joins us live. I can see a new horizon and celebrating the life of a hollywood legend. The director behind dozens of iconic films like st. Elmos fire. This morning starstudded tributes pouring in for Joel Schumacher. St. Elmos fire good morning, america. You may not have known Joel Schumacher but we all knew his movies. Were going to celebrate him and celebrate welcoming cecilia vega back to times square. Thank you. I have not worn real shoes or gotten dressed for real from this tv shot down in 102 days. I am so glad to be back with you guys. Great to be back with you. Its a busy morning. Lets get right to the very latest on the coronavirus emergency. Anthuci, theead of t the cdc, dr. Robert redfield and the head of the fda, dr. Stephen hahn, will testify about the countrys response to the coronavirus outbreak. This as cases climb in at least 23 states including arizona. The state emerging as a hot spot. Cases spiking as President Trump prepares for his rally there today and matt gutman has more in yuma, arizona. Good morning, matt. Reporter good morning, michael. Yuma has one of the Fastest Growing outbreaks. In fact, the hospital behind me has run out of nurses. Theyve actually begun to call for volunteers from out of state just like new york did a few months ago. While t uled to visit, he is not scheduled to visit hospitals like this one. This morning as President Trump prepares to hit the campaign trail in arizona, the number of cases and hospitalizations there hitting a record high. If you think about any single patient situation longer than five seconds, youre going to have like a mini meltdown internally. Reporter from tucson to yuma, the countys only hospital is now calling on every available nurse in the region and for volunteers from out of state. We are having a situation where we dont have enough nursing staff. Reporter in utah a state Public Health official warning that this surge in new cases is quickly getting to a point where the only viable option to manage spread and deaths will be a complete shutdown. The governor there saying he will work to stem the tide but has no plans to shut down utahs economy. As the death toll across the u. S. Climbs past 120,000, 23 states including arizona, florida, texas and california seeing a rise in new cases. Riinsantanespiratofornia, therapist, desperate to keep her patients alive. Every day its hard, you know. Eing people die, seeing pee suffer, seeing people, you know, just having a hard time breathing. Reporter dr. Andrew lafree and his team are preparing to put a chest tube into one of their covid patients. Basically this patient developed some air around their lung and were going to put in a needle and decompress that. Reporter hospitalizations in texas have doubled since may. Governor greg abbott there calling the rate of covid19 cases unacceptable, finally asking people to wear masks. I know that some people feel that wearing a mask is inconvenient or that it is like an infringement of freedom, but i also know that wearing a mask will help us to keep texas open. Reporter this after scenes like this over the weekend, prompting the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission to suspend g shutdown notices on twitter. Across the south as more young people test positive concerns growing about other family members also becoming infected. All six members of the cordova family from texas have come down with the virus. I didnt think it was going to happen that quickly because i mean once it started it was like every day until we got to the sixth one and then everybody had it. Reporter now, states like texas, arizona and florida have instituted new maskwearing rules but doctors tell us it could be a couple of weeks before the impact of that is actually felt in hospitals and they see a reduced number of patients. Now, there is rising concern about the president s rally in phoenix today partly because the mayor said she will not enforce maskwearing rules there. George. Thank you, matt. Were joined now by dr. Ashish jha. Hes the director of the Harvard Global health institute. Thank you for joining us this morning. We heard matt report cases rising now in 23 states, steep spikes in several of those states. What does this tell you right now about where the pandemic is heading . Yeah, good morning. So thanks for having me on. Its very concerning, though not completely surprising. We know that a lot of states opened up before the number of cases had really declined and opened up too quickly without good safeguards in and so we are seeing the spike in cases and its worth remembering that were still quite early in the pandemic. We have a long way to go and we really have to put in the kind of measures that will keep us safe over the next 12 or 18 months before the pandemic is over. So to put a point on this, this is still the first wave . It is very much still the first wave. And, you know, for some states like new york and new jersey that were hit hard, theyre over that first wave. But for a large chunk of the country theyre really going through the first wave now. President trump is saying were seeing more cases because were doing more testing. Is that the explanation . That is absolutely not the explanation. We are doing more testing and thats part of the reason, but much of it is because we just have more infections. Theres lots of other data were looking at including the fact that hospitalization rates are going up. Moreospitazaons. We know there are many more cases happening because infection rates are rising. Across several states you have Public Health officials are warning lockdowns may be necessary. Governors seem to be resisting that in several states. Are more lockdowns needed right now . You know, it all depends on how quickly we act. Lockdowns are the measures of last resort. Thats basically if you wait too long and once your hospitals start getting full, then you dont really have very many choices. Many of us have been calling for weeks to slow things down, to get rid of things like nightclubs and large indoor gatherings, to ask people to wear masks. All of that prevents lockdowns, but if we dont do those things, yeah, at some point we will find ourselves with no other choice but a lockdown. None of us want that. What about sports . Dr. Fauci warned last week that its hard for him to see the nfl returning in the fall. We see baseball trying to come back, the nba trying to come back in florida where the cases are spiking. Is it advisable to have professional sports coming back right now . I dont see any chance we can have professional sports where we have fans in the stadium. Like that to me just seems completely implausible. But the question is can you create a bubble where some sports cou p maybe. It would definitely be tricky to do, but sports as weve always known it, george, that, i think, is not in the cards for the next year. Finally, we are seeing President Trump hold a pretty big event in arizona today where the cases have been spiking. There seems to be conflicts among local officials about whether or not people should attend these events. Whats your advice . So what we know is large gatherings that are indoors where people dont wear masks and theyre stationary for long periods of time, those are really, really risky. So my advice is right in the middle of a pandemic where youre seeing a large outbreak in the middle of a community, not the time to put together a really high risk event. I would advise against it. Dr. Jha, thanks for your time. Nd, hank you. Still in the mide the f wave. Hich is whthis n c in arizona are on the rise and that is where President Trump heads today for another rally but he says hes not worried about putting his supporters at risk. Senior National Correspondent terry moran has more from the white house. And, terry, this comes as two staffers who were at that weekend rally in tulsa have tested positive. Reporter thats right. Good morning, cecilia and that was in tulsa where cases arent rising anywhere near as fast as they are in arizona. No Second Thought from the president. Thats in part because one of his main arguments for reelection is under his leadership the virus is under control. As arizona battles that spike in covid19 cases, President Trump is forging ahead to the grand canyon state to make a campaignstyle address in a 3,000seat megachurch. Are you potentially putting the lives of americans at risk by continuing to hold these indoor events . Cases in arizona are spiking, sir. Yeah, no, i dont think so. I dont know how they have it set up, but im going to arizona. Its a great place, great state. Not worried at all then . Im not worried at all. We watch it. Were careful. Reporter in a video posted to facebook and later deleted by the church, officials claim to have installed an air purifying system aimed at killing the virus. Weve installed these units and it kills 99. 9 of covid within ten minutes. Thats with independent testing. Yeah. Reporter but doctors say that filtration system has not been proven effective against covid and that people still need to take precautions like Wearing Masks and keeping their distance. The president is still facing fallout from his saturday rally in tulsa. [ crowd chanting ] reporter the Trump Campaign handed out sanitizer and masks and conducted Temperature Checks there. But six members of the campaign advance team tested positive for coronavirus before the rally and now weve learned two more staffers who attended the rally have tested positive. We have a massive advance team and theyre all over the country and come from all over, all different parts of the country and some were temporary and et cetera, et cetera, but, fine, we reported that very early on and they were quarantined immediately. Reporter these big rallies are central to the trump brand. They are part of his political identity. Theyre essential to his ego and to the trump community. If he cant do big rallies he and his Campaign Staff are going to have to reinvent trumpism. Michael . All right, terry. Thank you so much for that. Now we turn to the funeral of Rayshard Brooks in atlanta. Many people are expected to pay their last respects after mondays emotional public viewing as another video of that deadly confrontation surfaced. Steve osunsami is in atlanta with more. Good morning, steve. Reporter good morning to you, michael. These have been difficult days for the family of Rayshard Brooks. They are burying their son today in a ceremony here closed to the public. They say they are pleased with the arrest of these two officers involved in his killing but say thats just the beginning of justice. This is a day of mourning and painful grief for the family of 27yearold Rayshard Brooks, as hes laid to rest. People who witnessed his death are sharing videos that havent been widely seen showing the fatal shooting. Joel mack was sitting in his car at the wendys drivethrough where brooks was asleep at the wheel where what started off as a dui ended up in a Police Shooting when brooks refused arrest. You hear the three shots ring out. First thing that goes through your head is, is this really happening . Reporter he says afterwards he saw former officer Garrett Rolfe trying to help brooks. Whats different about these cell phone recordings are the voices of people who took sides. Some with the young man who was killed thats totally unnecessary reporter and some with the police officers. He had a right to shoot him. He took that mans taser. He was fighting the police. I seen the whole thing. The police didnt do nothing wrong. Reporter police are demoralized and calling in sick. Officers are working 12 1 2hour shifts and sometimes even more. Being out on the front line, being yelled at, spit upon, items thrown at them so at some point people get tired and physically exhausted. Reporter in a new interview with the Atlanta Journal constitution former officer Devin Brosnan admits that he did put his foot on Rayshard Brooks after he was shot but said once he realized brooks could not again get a hold of his taser he stopped stepping on the man. When i realized i was safe thats when i take it off. In no way, shape or form was i trying to hurt this man. The District Attorney who filed charges in this case says video that he saw of those officers stepping on and kicking this man while he was down steered his decision. A bond hearing for one of the officers scheduled today has been moved because of the funeral. Back to you. Steve osunsami, thank you. We move to politics now and several States Holding primary elections today in the wake of the black lives matter protests across the country. One high stakes contest is in kentucky and its become a Major Political test for the protest movement. Our senior Congressional Correspondent mary bruce is tracking the race. Good morning, mary. Reporter good morning, george. Well, across the country the pandemic and the push for racial equality are upending congressional races. Today we will see the first real test of that in these primaries in new york and kentucky where the race to take on the republican leader, mitch mcconnell, appeared to be settled. Now its anything but. [ crowd chanting ] reporter in kentucky the movement for Racial Justice is shaking up the race to take on the most powerful republican on capitol hill, giving a boost of momentum to the underdog, Democratic State representative charles booker, a fixture at the protests. I stand before you as your brhe reporr before it seemed the Democratic Party had all but decided on former marine Fighter Pilot amy mcgrath. Shes kentuckys best chance to move on from mitch mcconnell. Reporter but aboard bookers campaign bus, the 35yearold progressive tells us hes poised to shock the political world. This moment is helping to show that investing in people, standing up for regular folks is not radical. Its good public policy. Reporter the National Reckoning on racism has roared through this state sparked by the fatal Police Shooting of breonna taylor. For booker, this fight is deeply personal. My cousin t. J. Was murdered on Easter Sunday 2016, was really good friends with breonna taylor, and it hurts. Reporter now hes surging. Gaining endorsements from progressive powerhouses. Mcgrath still has the support of Top Party Leaders in washington and has raised a massive amount of cash, but shes struggled to respond to this moment. Have you been on the ground in louisville with the protesters the last three days or in lexington or elsewhere . Ms. Mcgrath . I have not. And why . Well, ive been with my family and ive had some family things going on this past weekend. Reporter she tells abc shes not worried about losing progressive support. Well, you know, im not part of the political establishment. Ive been an outsider my whole life. Reporter now because of covid19 in kentucky today there will be just one polling site per county regardless of size. That is a 95 reduction, and this morning it is already sparking concerns of possible voter suppression. George . Yeah, well have to look at that come november. Mary, thanks very much. We move on because this morning we are celebrating the life of a hollywood legend. Joel schumacher directed dozens of films that made a mark, st. Elmos fire, lost boys, Box Office Hits like batman forever. Tributes are pouring in from stars like Kiefer Sutherland of flatliners. He said this, ms. Mark on modern culture and film will live on forever. Matthew mcconaughey from a time to kill said, he fought for me. I dont know how my career could have gone to the wonderful places if it wasnt for Joel Schumacher believing in me back then. He passed away from a battle of cancer at the age of 80. Ali and i were lucky enough to be friends with joel. He was not only a great director, but a funny man, warm man and about the without a doubt. We have much more on the directors life and legacy coming up in our next tour and have a lot of other headlines including a powerful moment on the racetrack. Nascar drivers banding together to support Bubba Wallace. Driver Brad Keselowski and the first black woman on a nascar pit crew will both join us live. First, to ginger at home. Good morning, ginger. Reporter good morning, michael. Nebraska to maryland 60 plusmileperhour wind, the trees into homes

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