America. In florida with cases surging a new crackdown on businesses and citizens flouting social distancing. The mayor of miami joins us live. Russia bounty outrage. The new report overnight now saying Top White House officials were aware early last year and President Trump got a written briefing in february about intelligence that russia was paying the taliban to target u. S. Troops. The white house still denying the president had any knowledge of the plot. The parents of Fallen Soldiers responding this morning. An abc news exclusive. The Golden State Killer, after terrorizing california for decades, admitting to his crimes in a room packed with his victims and survivors. His former brotherinlaw speaking out only on gma this morning. Wicked weather. New wildfires in the west, evacuations under way in colorado. Hundreds of families fleeing their homes. Flash flooding in the east. Dramatic water rescues in kentucky and severe storms striking new york city. This morning, ginger is tracking the latest on the holiday heat wave taking aim. And fourth of july sales. Retailers rolling out their hottest deals for the holiday weekend. What you should wait to buy and where you can find the biggest savings right now. Cannot believe the fourth of july is coming up this weekend. Good morning, america. Good to be with you on this Tuesday Morning, guys. Good morning, robin. It is a busy morning, indeed. Youre looking live at capitol hill where dr. Anthony fauci will testify this morning as Public Health officials plead with the public to take social distancing seriously. The warnings are getting more and more dire. It has been six months since we learned about the first cases in china. Now more than 10 Million People have been infected in every corner of the world. The death toll has climbed to more than 500,000. One in four right here in the united states, and the World Health Organization now warning the worst is yet to come. The cdc also with a stark reality check saying theres way too much virus as hospital admissions increase in at least 23 states across the country. We begin our coverage with marcus moore in houston. Good morning, marcus. Reporter michael, good morning. Some hospitals in texas are at or near capacity as they treat more and more covid19 patients. Across the globe Health Experts say theres every indication this situation is far from over. This morning a startling new warning from the World Health Organization. The hard reality is this is not even close to being over. The worst is yet to come. Reporter and a reality check from the cdc. I think there was a lot of Wishful Thinking around the country that, hey, summer everything is going to be fine. We have way too much virus across the country for that right now so its very discouraging. Reporter as cases of the coronavirus near 2. 6 million in the u. S. , 32 states are now reporting increases. 23 have seen hospitalizations go up. In california, Los Angeles County becoming the first in the country with more than 100,000 confirmed cases. Health officials blaming businesses and individuals for not following the rules. Now mayor Eric Garcetti says 1 in 140 current residents is infectious. Weve kind of begun to assume everybody around us isnt infectious. Covid19 is taking control and we need to take control back. So to young people, you are not immune. Reporter now beaches closed there for the fourth of ju cials fearinsces like these at delawares Rehoboth Beach on saturday. Now three life guards have tested positive for covid19. While in texas, hospitals are nearing the brink. First responders working around the clock. In houston, the fire chief says theyre now getting 1,100 calls per shift. Paramedics suiting up in ppe treating every call as a possible covid case. In the last couple of days weve doubled and tripled. Reporter while in arizona hospitals are reaching capacity and the death toll climbing. Abc news obtaining this graph from fema showing the average daily mortality rate rising. Now a major reversal. The governor shutting down bars, gyms and movie theaters. The virus is not going away at this point in time. Reporter the governor of new york signaling he may pump the brakes on the next phase of reopening, indoor dining, after seeing whats happening in other states. Our reopenings have worked very well. Were not going backwards. Were going forwards. It is time to wake up, america. The white house has been in denial on coronavirus from the getgo and the federal response has just been wrong. Thats not a political statement if you look at the facts. Reporter in florida where this testing site at tropicana field had to close an hour after opening because of demand, the states positive test rate increasing to 13. 5 . Now jacksonville, the site of the Gop Convention in august, mandating masks in Public Places along with miami beach. Back here in houston, the mayor unveiled his socalled wall of shame, calling out businesses that are not following the Covid Protocols as they try to stop the uncontrolled spread of this virus here in the countrys fourth largest city. George . Marcus moore, thanks very much. We are joined by the mayor of miami, Francis Suarez. Mayor, thank you for joining us. Your city has seen such a spike in cases over the last couple of weeks. Its now the hardest hit part of florida. Is the surge too strong to control . Were doing everything we can, george, to control it. You know, our hospitals, theyre starting to get stressed in terms of the number of people that are hospitalized. We just implemented last week a mask in public rule. We also passed fines associated with the mask in public rule and then yesterday i Just Announced for businesses that are not following the protocol and the rules that theyre going to be shut down for ten days for the first occurrence, 15 days the second occurrence, and 30 days a third occurrence to penalize businesses that are not following the rules. So were doing everything we can in miami to make sure that we can stop this spread. We had 6,900 new cases last week. Two days we had 1,500 new cases in one day which was three times the High Water Mark of april and then 2,100 cases later that week. Were doing everything we can to reverse the trend. Did you reopen too quickly . How do you explain so many people in your city flouting the rules . You know, the city of miami was actually the last city in the entire state of florida to open. I got criticized at the time for taking too long, some said. I think what happened was the minute we opened it was like it never had it was like covid didnt exist and people just forgot and in some cases are still forgetting. You know, theyre upset that ive implemented a mask in public rule. Theyre upset that were implementing some of these rules but were trying to do that in a surgical way so that we dont have to undo some of the openings that weve done and were doing it also so that we dont have to reimplement a stayathome order which was extremely effective in late march and early april but also crippled our economy in ways that only a stayathome order can do. So were trying to balance not going backwards with understanding that this disease is incredibly efficient at spreading. If youre going to avoid a stayathome order do you need masks mandatory for the entire state, not just the city of miami . Listen, if the governor asks me for my opinion, i would urge that. I dont see the difference in telling people that you should wear a mask from mandating it. To me its no different than telling people they have to wear a seat belt. If you get in a car accident, its not a guarantee youll make it out alive but a seat belt increases your chances tremendously of getting out alive. So for me wearing a mask in public is no different. It doesnt guarantee youre not going to get covid, but it increases your chances tremendously. So for me, as mayor of a city thats dealing with this crisis, its a nobrainer and i would hope that eventually it becomes a nobrainer in the state. Youve got a july 4th weekend coming up. A lot of people are going to want to be out partying. Yeah, no doubt about it and so, you know, we decided to close our beaches here in dade county. And we think thats the prudent decision because even though it is summer and maybe there are some claims that the virus doesnt spread as quickly in heat, we havent seen any evidence of that. In fact, quite the contrary. People are congregating and having a good time, theyre partying and spreading the disease incredibly efficiently and its starting to stress our hospital system. Mayor, thanks for your time this morning. I know you had covid earlier during the crisis. I hope youre feeling better now. I am. Thanks, george. Great, take care. Robin . George, now to the front lines of the covid19 crisis, some hospitals as we know are on the brink. Health care workers are being pushed to their limits. Kaylee hartung has more from arizona where cases are surging there. Good morning, kaylee. Reporter good morning, robin. Cases and hospitalizations really exploded here in the past month and paramedics, they are among those who are overworked. Doctors are telling me sometimes theyre leaving their hospitals in tears because the emotional toll of this is exhausting. Dr. Jennifer ohea is suiting up to save lives in one of the busiest intensive care units in the country. I will be in a patients room in full ppe doing an intubation and i am constantly getting calls about someone else who is in trouble. Reporter shes worked here at Banner UniversityMedical Center in phoenix for more than 20 years and has never seen the icu like this. That human factor that we love so much about our jobs is merely gone. Reporter in arizona icu beds are at 88 capacity. Hospitalizations have nearly doubled in the past two weeks. Tucson doctor, brad dreyfuss, believes the crisis this states facing could have been prevented. When you see someone not wearing a mask, when you see people not physically distancing, how does that make you feel . Frankly, it makes us angry. This is not a partisan issue. Do it for your community. Reporter hospitals here say they are saying 20, 30, 40yearold patients getting sick. People with no prior medical problems, theyre the ones on ventilators. One doctor telling me shes had patients beg her not to put them on those breathing machines because at that point theyre afraid that they wont make it. Michael . A lot of fear out there. Kaylee, thank you so much. Joining us now is abc news contributor tom bossert, former white House Homeland Security adviser. Tom, thank you for joining us this morning. I just want to start by asking you, what are you seeing as cases surge around the country . Good morning, michael. Its been a while since ive come out and commented on this and i think what im seeing is troubling because it looks now in the south like it looked in the northeast in february. And what does that mean . That means in february then we were trying to convince people without evidence that there was disease among them. Now we have the evidence in all of the states that weve seen on your graphs this morning, and yet people still are not listening or heeding the advice and our Public Health officials have adopted different standards. And so, remember what february led to, michael, it led to march and that was a terrible exponential growth in this disease. That was an awful growth in it, tom. Where do you see things heading over the next couple of months, and how high could the death toll rise . Yes, so you know we had this experience remember, way back in the beginning of this. We had the diamond princess cruise ship and saw what this disease would do. I have a Public Health official who advises me all the time who says we know the microbiology and know the math from this experience. We just dont know what people are going to do. And so, if we dont change the behaviors that were covering and seeing, we could see a death toll of 500,000, not the 120,000 where we are today. So it was a staggering exponential growth curve in march and into early april in new york. But new york state, the city and the entire state is 20 million were now talking about states showing this trend, alarming trend of growth, totaling almost 150 Million People in the country. And so when people say in this community that the worst is yet to come, they are not any longer making a prediction. Theyre making a guarantee. Remember that once a community sees 1 spread, in any community, its very difficult, if not impossible, to slow the spread of the virus with these changes in behavior and human interventions. And so we cant look at where the numbers are today. We have to speculate where they will be in two, three or four weeks based on how much of this disease were detecting, and were detecting it at levels that almost ensure some large exponential growth curve numbers in at least two or three states. When you hear the worst is yet to come, that is a scary statement to hear. Tom bossert, thank you so much. We appreciate your time this morning. George . Okay, michael, thanks. We go to the white house where President Trump is under fire over intelligence indicating that russia paid bounties for the killing of u. S. Troops. New reports overnight say the white house was aware of the intelligence in 2019 and in the president s daily brief this february as the families of killed americans express outrage and members of congress from both parties demand answers. Mary bruce is at the white house with the latest. Good morning, mary. Reporter good morning, george. There are new questions here about who knew what and when. Overnight this new report suggesting that the white house knew that russia was offering bounties for the lives of u. S. Forces a full year earlier than was previously reported. The president , though, insists he was never briefed and the white house now is giving no indication that he plans to be. This morning, the Associated Press reports Top White House officials were aware early last year of intelligence indicating russia was secretly offering bounties to the taliban for the deaths of americans. The New York Times reporting it was included in the president s Daily Briefing on february 27th and was published in a classified cia document for the Intelligence Community may 4th. That contradicts what the white house is saying. You say that he wasnt briefed. Does that mean it wasnt in the pdb either . He was not personally briefed on the matter. Thats all i can share with you today. Reporter reporters asking, why not . There was not a consensus among the Intelligence Community. In fact, there were dissenting opinions within the Intelligence Community and it would not be elevated to the president until it was verified. Unverified intelligence gets put in front of president s all the time. Its the nature of intelligence. Theres always going to be uncertainty. Doesnt mean its not important and doesnt mean it shouldnt be seen by the president. Reporter overnight the director of National Intelligence says the white house is still investigating this intelligence and slammed the leaks that led to these reports, saying unauthorized disclosures now jeopardize our ability to ever find out the full story, bullet he did not mention russia. But he did not mention russia. The timing of the intelligence is now raising questions about the loss of potential american life. The ap reports military officials are investigating whether a car bombing that killed three marines in april 2019 was connected to these alleged bounties. The father of one of those marines saying if this was kind of swept under the carpet as to not make it a bigger issue with russia and one ounce of blood was spilled when they knew this, i lost all respect for this administration. Democrats are now demanding all of congress be briefed. You would think that the minute the president heard of it he would want to know more instead of denying that he knew anything. Reporter republicans have questions too. Who knew what, when, and did the commander in chief know, and, if not, how the hell not . Reporter now a small group of democrats are being briefed here at the white house this morning. In an unusual move the parties are being briefed separately on this. A handful of republicans received a briefing yesterday and it is clear both sides of the aisle have a lot more questions. Yeah, that is surprising and congress is now demanding a briefing for every member of congress. Mary bruce, thanks very much. Robin . And, george, we are following a lot of other headlines this morning including news of the race for a vaccine, what dr. Fauci is hoping for. Our dr. Ashton here with the latest. Also the big fourth of july savings that you cannot miss. Sales you could score right now. Were going to tell you about that. But first lets go to ginger. Good morning, ginger. Reporter good morning, robin. Youve got drought plus a power pole falling down and a lot of wind. Thats why you get the chatridge fire. Hundreds of families had to be evacuated. Those evacuations have been lifted. This is south of denver in colorado. And, of course, thats not the only place that will get hot. The heat is going to build east. We have what we call an omega block in place. Heat advisories are up through eastern kansas, oklahoma city, tulsa and then the summer scorcher spreads east. Look what happens as we get into the holiday weekend. 94 by friday in philadelphia. Your local weather in 30 seconds. First the tuesday trivia sponsored by carmax. Good morning. Im mike nicco. Slightly warmer away from the coast today where well see more clouds and more clouds tonight and cool. Temperatures in the 50s. A break from the warmth br it gets toasty. 80s in the north bay with 90s in the east bay. Temperatures in low to we have a lot moto we have a lot more coming up. Stay with u