Up to another Record Number of covid19 cases, just one of the states doing that. The World Health Organization says, it has seen a record rise in cases globally in the past 24 hours. We will have the latest from florida and talk to an e. R. Doctor about what he is seeing on the front lines right now. Later in our sunday spotlight, with professional sports ready to return, College Football confronts coronavirus on campus. Will those powerhouse schools play their games this fall . Will those passionate fans be there to see them . In our sunday closer, the exceptional Youth Theater Group that is getting resourceful to put on shakespeare during a pandemic. Later, braa sitdown with charlize shetheron, her thought about this moment in america and the stress of solo home schooling her two children. We had one kid downtestairs d the other upstairs. The other one could have burnt the house down. The other one upstairs was complaining about what a terrible math teacher i was. A sunday sitdown with Charlize Theron. Plus another life well lived later. Lets begin with the 244th birthday of america. A 4th of july weekend unlike any other. Cases of coronavirus are surging in many states again this weekend with some setting new records. Florida is at the top of the dubious list. Sam brock is in miami beach for us. Good morning. Reporter willie, good morning. Its a dubious list. Florida recorded 11,400 cases in a single day. To find a number that high in the country, you have to go to new york back in april. Here in south florida, beaches are closed for the holiday. Leather gathering are a nonstarter. They try to prevent the catastrophic. Some familiar sights captured americas imagination this july 4th, from the macys fire wofir display to a virtual boston pops performance. The orchestra saluting First Responders as they face their greatest challenge yet. Coronavirus cases are exploding across the country with popular vacation spots like myrtle beach, south carolina, continuing to draw crowds, even with a reality check on the up in numbers. South carolina with 1,800 new cases. Florida smashed its own, 11,400 cases on saturday. After shutting down beaches on its southeastern shores. Do you find the numbers unnerving . Absolutely. Reporter miamis Largest Health care provider experiencing a 40 jump in Covid Patients in a week. How close are we on the brink of catastrophe . Pretty close. Reporter the median age of those testing positive, 37. Some of the younger ones are getting quite as sick. Some are requiring ventilators. Reporter in texas, 8,200 cases. Houstons icu capacity breaches 100 . Nearly 40 states are looking at a rise in cases. The nationwide surge affecting the sports world, too. Baseballs al mvp mike trout expressing reservations about returning. We are risking our lives to go out here and play for everyone. Reporter this is newly acquired dodgers pitcher david price. He is sitting 2020 out. Nascar reeling this weekend after Jimmie Johnson became the first driver to announce a positive test. Will miss the brickyard 400 today at indianapolis. In miami, several sports teams have been impacted by the virus. A third miami heat player now testing positive. The nba is scheduled to resume its season in orlando, florida, later this month. Back to you. Those numbers in florida are staggering. Sam brock, thanks so much. Dr. Ramirez was acting director of length and Human Services pandemic and emerging Threats Office in the obama administration. He is an Emergency Room Physician in nashville, who has been treating covid19 patients and just finished an overnight shift. I know how busy it is in an e. R. On fourth of july. We appreciate you spending time with us. What are your concerns as you look at these celebrations . I can say, a lot of people were out treating the fourth of july like any other fourth of july, having big parties and Everything Else. As we see the spikes across the country, including in your state, what are your concerns about the Holiday Weekend . You are right, willie. Having worked overnight, people are out celebrating as i just experienced. It was a busy night here. I think were in an Inflection Point for the country. People are looking around and realizing that were at a different place than we were whether we were co when we came off memorial day. We were coming off lockdowns and case counts were coming down. The message was we moved past this. States were starting to reopen aggressively. I think as a result, people started to socialize too aggressively. Now i think more and more particularly over the last week, people are really realizing the case counts are accelerating. I think thats giving people cause for concern. I think there are some bright spots. In the last week, we have seen states start to implement mask ordinances. I think we are up to 23 states. In addition, i think anecdotally, im hearing from patients that they are starting to take the social distancing a little more seriously this week after seeing what is happening. What i think people have learned is that this isnt just a northeast phenomenon or a red state or blue state phenomenon. It can spread anywhere. If you are out and you are socializing, you are vulnerable. My hope is that all of the things that have been put in place are going to pay dividends that we didnt see after memorial day. To put it in perspective in the last ten days, our country has seen nearly half a million new cases of coronavirus. As you say, we certainly have not turned a corner. I want to ask you as you focus on some of the promising news about the possibility of a vaccine, i think it is becoming more clear that we will never quite be through this until there is a vaccine for everyone. Where are we in that process . The president yesterday and the day before again just touting that theres something coming soon on the horizon. Dr. Fauci has shown optimism, perhaps by the end of the year or early next year. That feels like a long way away. Where are we there that process . We are making progress, willie. I thi you have to look at this sort of pandemic in two parts. The first is whats happening with the immediate disease outbreak. Like you pointed out, theres a lot of bad news and news thats not encouraging as the cases accelerate upward. I think we are making better progress on the therapeutic and vaccine front. Just to put things in context, what i want people to really realize is that all of this work were doing around masks and social distancing is about trying to keep case counts as low as possible until we can bring these things online. I think they will come online as we approach the fall. From the therapeutic standpoint, i know folks have heard about remdesivir. They are starting to hear about another medicine thats shown improvement. As we get into the fall, we will see antibodies and frozen plasma going through trials and should be available for use. On the vaccine front, theres a lot of good movement. Globally, we have about 140 vaccines that are currently in development. Of those, about 18 are in phase one and phase two, which are early clinical stage trials. There are three vaccines moved into phase three, which is promising. From the u. S. Perspective, they are managing all of that through something called operation warp speed, run out of the department of health and Human Services. Their goal is 300 million vaccines by january 2021. Theres encouraging signs as we see more vaccines moving into phase three trials we might be able to reach that goal. Its never a certain thing as we heard from dr. Fauci this week. We are lhopeful we will get there. I know its been a very long night for you. We are grateful you would spend time with us and talk us through this. Thanks so much. President trump celebrated fourth are a scaleddown gathering and a campaignstyle speech. Masks and social distancing were optional. Jeff bennett is at the white house with more. Good morning. Reporter good morning. President trump marked Independence Day by promising to defeat what he called the radical left and boasting of his handling was Coronavirus Crisis even as cases spike. The president , lagging in polling, used the ee havenvent y his supporters and blame china for the spread of the coronavirus. Fireworks and flyovers in the Nations Capital saturday night. President trump instead of striking a unifying tone on july 4th, again stoking the culture war. We will never allow an angry mob to tear down our statues, erase our history, indoctrinate our children or trample on our freedoms. Reporter with masks and social distancing optional, the president hosting a celebration that drew crowds to the national mall. And to the white house, including front line workers. America thanks you. Please stand. Please. Reporter President Trump touting success in the coronavirus battle. We have tested almost 40 million people. By so doing, we show cases 99 of which are totally harmless. Reporter Public Health experts dispute that. Washington, d. C. Mayor warned the administration about the obvious dangers of such a large crowd. We do not think that this is in keeping with the best cdc and department of health guidance. Reporter it comes as Administration Officials tell nbc news the white house is ready to roll out new messaging on the coronavirus pandemic, amid a surge in cases and polls showing a drop in the president s handling. The administration plans to say about the Coronavirus Crisis, we need to live with it. As if 2020 didnt have enough surprises, here is one more. Kanye west says he is running for president. West, who has been a vocal supporter of President Trump, announced in a tweet last night. Its not clear if he filed official paperwork or if there is just a publicity stunt. You know what . Why not . Jeff bennett at the white house, thanks. Andrea mitchell is in for chuck this morning on meet the press. Great to see you. I know you have former National Security adviser susan rice on the show this morning. You will be talking about that widely reported russia bounty story, where american intelligence Officials Say russias intel agency paid bounties to talibanlinked militants to kill american troops in afghanistan. White house says the president was not personally briefed on this. In your experience in washington covering administrations, does that sound credible . Number two, now that they are aware of the intelligence, what is the administration doing about it . Those are the issues exactly, willie. It was in his daily brief. He didnt read it. They say he was not orally briefed about it. Why not . Was that because the intelligence officials are afraid to tell him anything that is negative about Vladimir Putin because he blows up over that . Why isnt he doing anything . If it was important to put in the daily brief, daily intelligence, why didnt they act on it . Why didnt they brief him . Why did they let him have six phone call with Vladimir Putin and after the written briefing and not bring it up . Why was there no action taken . Why did they think it was credible enough to reinforce the troop protections, to tell allies, to put it in the brief, to hold a National Security interagency meeting but then not take any action . All of those are the Big Questions we will have for susan rice. We will be watching. Thank you very much. We will look for more this morning on meet the press when andrea is joined by susan rice. We have a clear start in San Francisco, 56 degrees, wind speeds about 17 Miles Per Hour. And through inland areas were expecting another day of warm temperatures for san jose. A beautiful start there, 59 degrees. Here is a closer look at your daytime highs for today. We will be once again in the 80s and the 90s throughout inland areas. San jose a high of 85. Concord, 90. Martinez, 88. An increase in onshore winds expected through the afternoon. Straight ahead, the highs and lows of the week, including the professional basketball star who took a leave in the prime of her career to work for the moment that finally came this week. The live tv moment that went viral around the world. A Public Health expert guided viewers through a pandemic while guiding her curious daughter through her own pressing questions. College football is scheduled to begin late next month. Can a contact sport that thrives on the energy of soldout stadiums really take the field this fall . Why is it worth the risk to have a football season in the middle of a pandemic . 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The 31yearold moore, who first met irons as part of a prison ministry, took last season off to fight for his release, launching a petition in his name and starting a foundation for criminal justice reform. In march, a judge vacated irons conviction. They declined a retrial allowing him to walk free. Moore was there for the moment of his release, joining jonathans family and supporters, moore dropping to her knees as she sees jonathan walk out. Moore posted video of the moment to instagram with a simple caption, freedom. Sgli feel li i feel like i can live life now. Im free. Im blessed. I thank everybody that supported me, maya, the family. Im so grateful. Welcome home, jonathan. Well done, maya. Our next high goes to a young buy in england inspiring the world with his Fundraising Efforts for the hospital that saved his life. A 5yearold is a double amputee who lost both of his legs as a result of abuse as a baby. He set out to raise 600 for the Childrens Hospital where he spent time as a newborn by walking six miles before the end of june. Tony just learned to walk on crutches. He was inspired by our good buddy, 100yearold captain tom, the world war ii veteran who raised more than 40 million for British Health care workers by walking laps in his garden. On tuesday, the last day of june, young tony reached his goal, completing the walk on his new prosthetics in front of a big hometown crowd. Remember, tonys goal was to raise 600 bucks. When the total came in, he did slightly better. Raising more than 1. 5 million. Tony earned praise from across the uk, including a tweet from the royal family and a message from captain tom himself. Well done, tony. Havent you done well . Tony, you are the man. America loves you, too. Our final high goes to a pair of women who became viral stars while working from home. Simultaneously displaying on Live Television their skills as experts and mothers. This woman say Public Health network who appeared to talk about coronavirus lockdowns. Her young daughter scarlet made a surprise appearance of her own to rearrange some artwork in the background. Whats your daughter . Shes scarlet. I think it looks better on the lower shelf. Whats his name . Do stop me if you i