On saturday alone. Now measures are being taken to slow the spread, with miami beach enacting a new curfew overnight. We will have the latest in a live report from south florida just ahead. Then in our sunday focus, a conversation about the life of john lewis, with historian john meacham who speak with the congressman in recent weeks while finishing a new book on the civil rights icon. Plus, in our sundays spotlight, with some promising news this week about a potential Coronavirus Vaccine, how soon could it be approved, and how long will it take to produce and distribute across the country . And later, a brand new virtual sunday sitdown with captain america himself, chris evans, on his hit series defending jacob. His new step into politics, and his oneman dance parties during this long lockdown. Im a big proponent of just you know, its sunny outside, i start jammin and looking like a lunatic really. A sunday sitdown with chris evans, plus another life well lived, all a bit later in the show. But lets begin this morning with the latest on the spread of coronavirus. Nbcs sam brock is in florida where hospitals are in crisis. Sam, good morning. Reporter willie, good morning. Curfews now have been coming down in cities all over the area. In miami beach where i am, its the earliest, 8 00, an acknowledgement that if something doesnt change soon south florida could be looking at lockdown as patients and Health Care Workers are feeling the strain. Floridas covid numbers paint the picture of a fivealarm five, more than 15 of tests still coming back positive. The human testimonies tell the story of health care frontline fatigue and increasingly sick. I could not get a breath in at all. Reporter this nurse contracted covid and so did her two kids. I was terrified. I felt like i just killed my daughter. Reporter all three have recovered. As communities continue to struggle under the crush of covid, some promising signs peek through. Every time i read about a vaccine thats doing well, i feel a little bit better. Reporter Heather Wiley recently participated in phase one of a vaccine trial that has since moved on to its next steps, all in record time. Its incredibly fast. Its unlike anything that ive ever seen. Reporter dr. Jeffrey rosens Clinical Research team in miami is conducting not only vaccine trials but tests for covid treatment. Inhaled through a nebulizer that could prevent the development of covid19 or treat its symptoms. If it works, its going to stop the flow of patients into the hospital and overwhelming the health care system. Reporter a system thats taxed from california to texas, where the state just learned 85 children under the age of 2 in one county were infected with covid19. These babies have not even had their first birthday yet. Please help us to stop the spread of this disease. Reporter urgent cries for help, as parts of the country try to restore some aspects of regular life. Teachers frustrated by the stop and start of trying to get back into the classroom. We miss our kids and we know that were most effective when were in front of them. Its not worth it to risk the lives of our kids. Reporter even on the baseball diamond, the mets and yankees were a sight for sports fans sore eyes, battling it out in exhibition, while the traoroo bluejays learned that crossborder travel is a nonstarter. Here in the miami area maybe nowhere is the strange juxtaposition more obvious. The marlins getting ready to play baseball games while a portion of their parking lot is being used for covid19 testing. In the state of florida, willie, six of the last seven days, there have been more than 10,000 new cases of covid19. Willie . Just astounding numbers. Sam brock in miami for us. Sam, thanks so much. Well have much more on a race for a vaccine coming up in our sunday spotlight. Meanwhile President Trump now admits he may not be able to hold the rallies that have been the life blood of his political campaign. On saturday the president tried to fire up his supporters over the telephone instead. Kelly odonnell is at the white house with more on that. And a new report that the Trump Administration is obstructing new congressional funding for coronavirus testing. Kelly, good morning. Reporter good morning, willie. Expect that negotiations will ramp up in the coming week over the next package of aid for coronavirus, and there are deep divides over what should be in it. Important to note, its likely the last relief package before the november election. Just as the president is finding new ways to talk to voters in battleground states. Grounded by the pandemic, a campaign alternative debuted. President donald j. Trump. Hello, arizona. Im thrilled to be with you and talk to you today. Reporter the trump telerally, a conversation posted online, connecting candidate trump with three battleground states, wisconsin, arizona and michigan this weekend. This is really replacing our rallies that we all love so much. Reporter a stark acknowledgement that his signature arena gatherings are unworkable because of covid dangers. The president laying blame on democrats too. Until the covid is gone, its a little bit tough and frankly some of the democrat governors make it impossible to do a rally anyway. Reporter top advisers concede Trumps Campaign must adapt. There are voters who will do anything for donald trump who may never come to a rally until they get a vaccine. Reporter the president spent hours on the golf course saturday with senator lindsey graham. Then teed off on joe biden using the politics of fear. He wants to do something that affects wisconsin. He wants to abolish the suburbs. Reporter making provocative accusations that sound a dog whistle. Bringing who knows into your suburbs. So your communities will be unsafe and your housing values will be go down. Reporter a new battle looms on capitol hill over the next coronavirus aid package. The Washington Post reports the Trump Administration is trying to block billions of dollars to states for testing and tracing. The white house says the administrations focus is on money for schools, incentives for businesses to reopen and a payroll tax cut. And as so many in the world are acknowledging the passing of john lewis, the congressman and civil rights icon, former president s, lots of officials, a more muted response from President Trump. He did tweet that he and melania are saddened by the passing of the civil rights icon and hero. The white house also put out a statement to announce the lowering of flags here at the white house and at all federal installations around the country and around the world to honor john lewis. There was a lot of tension between them. Lewis had not attended the inaugural. Willie. All right, Kelly Odonnell at the white house. Thank you very much as always. Chuck todd is nbcs political director and moderator of meet the press. Chuck, good morning, good to see you. Lets start right there with john lewis. I went back and yesterday was watching your interview with john lewis around the time of Donald Trumps election. You were asking him was he going to be able to work with donald trump. John lewis has been called the conscience of congress. You obviously covered him for a lot of years, kelly covered him a lot of years. What are we losing in congress . What role did he play in that body . Well, he was really i would say he was definitely congress spiritual leader because he had an ability to he had an ability to touch people on both sides of the aisle. It was interesting to me how, you know look, i think it was the cynical side of me, some of these republicans who would reach out to john lewis were looking to brandish their own credentials or try to improve their own image, hoping that sitting next to john lewis or walking across the bridge with john lewis would do that. And if john lewis he never cared what the motive was if somebody was going to march with him, if somebody wanted to be educated with him and needed the photo op to go with it. I guess thats what made him, i think, so beloved on both sides of the aisle. As cynical as we all are in washington, he never questioned the motives of others. Even if the motive was obvious right in your face, because at the end of the day i think he thought, you know what, its one more chance to educate one more person. Boy, as you say, is that rare in washington right now. Were going to talk much more about john lewis with john meacham. Chuck, lets talk about whats going on in the campaign. A new poll out overnight shows a 15point spread between joe biden and donald trump. An nbc wall street journal poll had it in double digits. We had the demotion of Brad Parscale and yesterday we saw telerallies where the president is on speakerphone talking to supporters, a far cry from those big soldout stadiums in 2016. What is the state of the Trump Campaign right now . I think its in dire straits right now. I think its in a rough situation, and the question is, is there does the president have the credibility to turn things around . Theres time to do this, willie. Its not an issue of time. But what is dragging him down are two issues that he just doesnt seem comfortable handling. One obviously is the virus. He continues to want to deflect leadershipthis, punt it to the states. The other has been race relations. The two of them in combo clearly are pushing a group of voters away from him. Weve noticed it. Its sort of rightleaning suburbanites, College Educated voters. Youre starting to see a split between republicans where those who count themselves as Trump Supporters and those who say theyre supporters of the party over the president. Theres a 40point gap between that group of republicans and trump republicans on the handling of the virus. That is whats dragging him down. Theres time to do this, but the president has to change course. Is he willing to do that . It would be hard to do at this point given the fact that he promised it would magically disappear, the coronavirus. People see in their open lives, republicans and democrats, thats not happening. Chuck, thank you very much. We will look for much more on a special edition of meet the press when chuck takes an indepth look at how the u. S. Has handled the covid crisis. And it is going to be very hot for millions of you were getting a bit of ocean air conditioning, even low clouds into parts of the trivalley and around san jose for the valley. 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John lewis was only 23 years old when in late august of 1963, he spoke on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at the march on washington he was 25 when he was beaten on the Edmund Pettus bridge in selma, alabama congressman lewis lived to see another movement in the streets of america more than a half century later. Jon meacham is a pulitzer prizewinning historian and the author of an upcoming book about lewis called his truth is marching on, john lewis and the power of hope. Jon, good morning. Good to see you, my friend thank you, willie. Ive been listening to you over the last couple of days, been reading what youre writing, and there is this amazing through line in john lewis life. His great grandfather was a slave. He obviously from a very young age participated in the Civil Rights Movement and did, as i mentioned, live to see the black lives Matter Movement right now. His life really, in many ways, john, is the story of america. Its the story of america at its best and a story of an america that always has to contend with its worst forces. N about john and, to me, the remarkable thing about John Robert Lewis is how clearly he embodied, how forcefully he embodied the christian gospel he was on that bridge, he was on those buses, he was in the streets, he was in the congress because he believed in the dictates and the implications of the sermon on the mount. He believed that we had to love one another as we love ourselves. And he took that theological idea and brought it straight to the american political and cultural battles that continue to unfold today. As we talk about john lewis, jon, as this healer, we were talking to chuck a minute ago about his being the conscience of congress. Its easy to forget that back in 1963, for example, he was considered a radical even by many members of the Civil Rights Movement in fact, his speech at the march on washington had to be toned down a bit could you talk about the role he played in those early days of the Civil Rights Movement . He was the radical. Ffcript. He was making and so at the march on washington when he was making the case for how important it was for segregation to end, for america to live up to the words that it said it believed in, the Kennedy Administration had stationed two people inside the memorial ready to cut the mic, ready to cut the mic if john lewis went too far and one of them had a record, an album of Mahalia Jackson singing hes got the whole world in his hands and they were going to blast that through the speakers to shut him down can already feel it happening. So i think to some people, you can already feel it happening. John lewis can seem like this distant figure, somehow part of, say, the past experience, part of an iconography of reform and power. Reform and he, to his dying day, as you just mentions, he believed he had to do everything he could to bring the force of love and justice to a world that was fallen and sinful. Yeah, i know you talked to john lewis a couple of weeks ago for the last time as youre writing this book thats coming out in a couple of months, jon what were his final hopes . What were his final dreams what was his final message for this country he said that he felt restless think about that for a second. Youre john lewis, you have helped change the arc of a powerful nation, the most powerful empire since rome you have achieved all of this and he said he felt restless because he wanted to do more he wanted to do more and the last words he said to me were keep the faith, keep the faith. We will take that on a sunday morning. Jon meacham, thank you so much jons upcoming book on john lewis is called his truth is marching on. Jon, great to see you, thank you. Still ahead on sunday today, a life well lived where we will honor a contemporary of john lewis and another titan of the american Civil Rights Movement. But up next, a new virtual sunday sitdown at home with actor chris evans on his turn from playing captain america in the highestgrossing film in Hollywood History to a dramatic role in the new hit series defending jacob. And as we head to break, our photo of the week, Queen Elizabeth knighting the british hero weve come to know and love as captain tom, the 100yearold veteran of world war ii raised more than 40 million youll remember for british Health Care Workers by walking 100 laps in his garden this was, of course, the firstever knighthood ceremony held at a safe social distance captain tom now officially is captain sir tom moore. 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