Racist video showing a supporter shouting white power. This as the president also comes under fire over those bombshell reports that the white house was told russia was paying bounties to kill u. S. Troops in afghanistan and did nothing. Demanding justice. Thousands taking to the streets, shutting down a highway in colorado protesting the death of Elijah Mcclain as newly obtained Surveillance Footage shows the 23yearold shopping in a store right before the deadly encounter with police. Breaking news, deadly attack. Four gunmen stormed the pakistan Stock Exchange. The latest this morning. Unsafe skies . Ngdiancing rulesst airlines epe travel fothe holiday weekend. And the b. E. T. Awards. The fight for Racial Justice taking center stage from Jennifer Hudsons showstopping performance to a new anthem from alicia keys. Plus, Michelle Obama presenting beyonce with the humanitarian award. We have to vote like our life depends on it because it does. Queen bey dedicating her speech to protesters around the country raising their voices. Good morning, america. Its good to be with you on this busy monday morning. That was a showstopping night at the b. E. T. Awards but before we get into that, it is great to have robin back this morning. Robin, how was your vacation . Oh, michael. Thank you for asking. It was really special. It was so i appreciate the time to just be still and reflect on all thats happening. So im back, recharged and rested and raring to go, and speaking of raring to go, everybody was last night. How special was that with Michelle Obama and beyonce part of the b. E. T. Awards. Also Jennifer Hudsons powerful performance, just wowed the fans. Her rendition of Aretha Franklins young, gifted and black wasnt the only aretha moment last night. We also saw her in a clip from the upcoming movie, respect, respect, george. Welcome back, robin. We look forward to seeing that big night in a bit. We begin with the latest on the coronavirus crisis. The number of cases around the world has now topped 10 million. More than half a million deaths. At least one in four of the worlds cases here in the United States. More than 2. 5 million and the death toll now over 125,000. New cases surging in states across the sou awh teinsites kehuenveit lin. 31 states reporting increases in coronavirus cases. 23 states showing an increase in hospital admissions. Health and Human Services secretary Alexander Azar is standing by to talk about all of it with us. We begin with marcus moore who is in houston with more. Good morning, marcus. Reporter michael, good morning. Doctors here in houston have been sounding the alarm about the number of covid19 cases. Over the weekend a Record Number of people went to hospitals just like this one. This morning, as the number of coronavirus cases in the u. S. Passes 2. 5 million, hospitals are bracing and testing sites are overwhelmed. Seven states report a Record Number of new cases over the weekend including florida where families began lining up at the Orange CountyConvention Center at 12 30 saturday morning ahead of the testing sites 9 00 a. M. Opening. Arkansas governor saying increasing testing capability is the most important thing that can be done to fight covid19. Weve doubled the amount of our testing nationally. Weve got to double it again. Reporter new reported cases are steadily climbing across 31 states. Im afraid that the people of arizona dont really know whats anrd. Epte over the weekend arizona, california and texas seeing a Record Number of hospitalizations. Covid19 is taking a very swift and very dangerous turn in texas. Reporter Vice President mike t dlas ndayre h promoted wearing a mask to slow the spread. Wearing a mask is just a good idea. Reporter while a choir of more than 100 people performed without them. In tennessee where infections are surging, Country Musician chase rice facing criticism after posting this video from his concert saturday night, just one day after officials there reported the biggest daily increase in positive tests for the virus. Fans packed together seen singing along without masks. The venue telling abc news they are now reevaluating the series from top to bottom and implementing further safety the rising numbers prompting more governors to hit the pause button or even reverse reopenings. California governor gavin newsom ordering bars to shut down in at least seven counties sunday including los angeles. Texas and florida going a step further closing them across the state. This as we learn about new clusters of cases. 85 people testing positive for covid19 in an outbreak linked to a restaurant in michigan. 28 people in one California Family infected by the virus. I felt like i was going to die. Reporter 27yearold Richard Garay from los angeles says dozens of his family members were diagnosed and claimed the life of his 60yearold dad just before fathers day. So approximately 28 of my family members were infected with covid. Thats including my two children, ages 5 and 2, my brothers household, his pregnant wife, their 2yearold child, and then extended family, cousins, uncles, aunts, 28 in total. Reporter the virus also claiming the life of a pregnant 29yearold in louisiana. Doctors successfully delivering ali guidrys baby girl four months early before she passed away. Back here in houston, they are at the highest alert level warning of an uncontrolled spread of the virus. People have been urged to stay home and if they are out to wear a mask, and as we look at the days ahead, officials in south florida have closed the beaches for the fourth of july weekend. George. Marcus moore, thanks very much. Were joined by the secretary of health and Human Services, alex azar. Secretary azar, thank you for joining us this morning. You said yesterday that the window is closing for the u. S. To get this virus under control. How much time do we have . What do we need to do . Thanks, george, for having me, and before i get to that, i just want to let you know about a really important announcement this morning, that President Trump has secured 500,000 courses of treatment of remdesivir, and this through september. This is the drug that if youre hospitalized can reduce the length of your stay by a third and were working with our states to make sure it gets to the hospitals most in need. Now, as you said, were experiencing in many of the counties in the southern parts of the United States very serious outbreaks. The governors are reporting that the average age of people testing positive is 35 or younger, many asymptomatic. This is a real call to action. We have all got to, as americans, act responsibly even as we reopen, get back to work, get back to school, get back to health care, weve got to practice social distancing. Weve got to use face coverings when we cant practice social distancing. We have a lot more tools now than we had two months ago but still there is a heavy burden on us in terms of our collective responsibility as individuals when we reopen. We are still facing a shortage of testing. I want to show some lines out of miami, live lines out of miami now at a testing facility. You see those cars lined up right there. I was speaking with governor hutchison of arkansas yesterday. He said we need to double our Testing Capacity again in the United States. Its time to use the defense production act, he said. Will the president invoke the defense production act to get more testing now . So well use any authorities needed to increase Testing Capacity. Right now were doing 3. 5 million tests per week, half a million per day, and were going to be asking our big national laboratories, the lab corps and, quest, to prioritize testing and collection for those states and the counties most impacted right now. For your listeners, if they want to get tested, i would encourage them go to coronavirus. Gov. Theres a testing part of that site that will show you the many places where you can get tested. The one place you go to might have a line or a backup, but there are many, many other thousands of places where you can get tested in these counties and local areas. I want to show a chart that compares whats happening here compared to whats happening in europe. The number here so much higher than what were seeing in the European Union where they have flattened the curve. The eu set to ban u. S. Travelers and Health Experts there look at whats happening here and say weve given up. What is your response . We most certainly have not and we are very aggressively pursuing this virus. Now, i would rather that we have no surge in cases and no new cases, but ill tell you what. I would rather have the historic and robust testing system that President Trump has delivered that is allowing us to identify all of these cases including asymptomatic cases than to be like many of our colleagues in other countries where theyre not testing asymptomatic individuals. So they may actually have spread of disease among asymptomatic people. As many as 40 can be asymptomatic or more and not know about it so id rather have this data so we can take the types of aggressive actions that our local state and federal leaders are taking to try to get it under control and we can do it. We have done it in just the last couple of weeks working in north carolina, Mecklenburg County where charlotte is and you get down to the Community Level and test everybody in the community because the traditional tools of Contact Tracing are important but not sufficient with this asymptomatic spread of disease. You mentioned the importance of Wearing Masks. Is it time to make it mandatory in the United States . Well, you know, were a very, very broad country with different circumstances so what is going on in vegas is different than what the circumstance is in montana is. Our advice remains the same for everybody. Social distancing under all circumstances and if you cant, wear facial coverings, but you dont need a national mandate. What you need are local leaders determining the circumstances in that community. Really importantly for us as individuals, assess your individual circumstance. Are you or household members at risk and vulnerable . Do you have anyone over 80 or people with three or more of these key co morbid conditions that put you at risk, hypertension, obesity, kidney failure, in which case you must be careful. Check out whats going on in your community and are you in a place with broad spread of disease or not . Whats the type of activity you want to engage in . Is it walking in the park or going to a crowded bar in a community thats got widespread disease . And if over the last couple of weeks youre in one of these hot zones and engaged in behavior where you havent social distanced, you havent worn facial coverings, get tested. Protect your household members and protect those around you and those in the coffee line in the morning who might be vulnerable and you dont know. Protect them from getting this disease from you. Secretary azar, thanks for your time this morning. Robin. Oh, my gosh. Great information from him. The surge in cases across the south and southwest has pushed many hospitals and Health Care Workers to the brink. Kaylee hartung is in one of those hot spots, tucson, arizona. Good morning, kaylee. Reporter good morning, robin. Health care workers here heard those stories coming out of new york and they saw those hospital tents popping up and the morgues overflowing. Now one tucson doctor says the situation they find themselves in, is terrifying. In the fight against coronavirus, the battle lines are shifting fast. Coast to coast, frontline workers bracing for the worst. Wear your masks. Please. We cant predict who this is going to happen to. We have no way. Reporter here in arizona this weekend a new record set for the number of cases reportel hospital beds are filling fast and Health Care Workers say theyre exhausted and frustrated. Houston overwhelmed. Er nurse lacy atmar tells us shes seeing too many covid19 patients and not enough icu beds. We have been forced to convert an old Conference Room to serve as a waiting holding area for these patients. Reporter nurse jesse gretchenco volunteered to fight the virus in new york. Now shes helping in texas. With what i have seen in the numbers and what my friends have seen, we are new york now. I mean it. Its already here. Reporter its attacking some Health Care Workers who are trying to save lives. California doctor juan battista, a normally healthy doctor who regularly posts his workouts, says he believes he caught covid in his own office. Unfortunately we had a case of someone that came in without a mask and coughing all over the place and was positive. Reporter one doctor writing a blistering oped in the New York Times, tucson dr. Bradley dreyfuss writing, i get angry when i see people refuse to wear a mask or physically distance. What you are saying to people like me and my team is, your life and the lives of your loved ones do not matter to us. You are disposable. There are about 1,600 icu beds across the state but this morning only around 200 are still empty. One doctor says even if they have enough beds for this surge, it wont matter if the hospital staff isnt physically and emotionally well enough to care for them. Michael. Puts a lot of stress on everyone. Kaylee, thank you so much. Were going to go to washington now and President Trump under fire after sharing a video that shows a supporter yelling, white power. Cecilia vega is at the white house with more on this. Good morning, cecilia. Reporter michael, good morning to you. This, of course, as the country is engulfed in this reckoning over racism and the president tweeted this message to his more than 82 million twitter followers. President trump once again fanning the flames just after 7 30 on sunday morning. He thanked a Florida Retirement Community for its support posting an edited video of an angry clash between residents and right at the beginning of the clip from a man with a trump 2020 sign, this. White power there you go. White power. White power, do you hear that . Reporter he says white power, not once, but twice. Despite the words being Crystal Clear and the president just in april saying he notices everything he tweets i notice everything. Reporter the white house claims President Trump did not hear the White Supremacists taunt. A spokesman saying in a statement, what he did see was tremendous enthusiasm from his many supporters. So far republicans largely silent, but the senates only black republican, tim scott, called on the president to take down the post. I think its indefensible. We should take it down. Reporter less than an hour after scotts comments, the president did take down the eeao more than three hours. And this morning, even in the face of widespread criticism, the president and the white house have yet to denounce the actual message of white power stoking the racial divide. Its hardly new for President Trump. In the wake of protests over George Floyds killing, hes labeled protesters thugs and invoked the racist saying, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. And of course, there was charlottesville. You also had people that were very fine people on both sides. Reporter former Vice President joe biden invoking charlottesville in his response saying, were in a battle for the soul of the nation and the president has picked a side. Now, last year was the deadliest for domestic violent extremism and, george, the department of Homeland Security has warned of an increase in white supremacist violence. Tense time. Cecilia, thanks very much. Overseas to breaking news from pakistan where four gunmen stormed the Stock Exchange opening fire and throwing grenades during trading, killing at least four people before all four gunmen were taken down by special Police Forces who secured the building. The militants had been prepared for a long siege with body armor and food supplies. Also from that region fallout from the news that russia paid bounties to taliban militants for the killing of u. S. Troops in afghanistan. Overnight, President Trump dismissed the intelligence, denied being briefed on it as new reports emerge saying those payments did, in fact, lead to the death of americans. Our chief Global Affairs anchor Martha Raddatz has the latest. Good morning, martha. Reporter good morning, george. President trump insists he was not briefed and did not know about any russian plot, doubling down on that late last night tweeting, intel just reported to me that they did not find this info credible and, therefore, did not report it to me or the Vice President , going on to call it a russian hoax. In previous tweets the president calling the reported russian bounty plan socalled attacks. A military official has