Nearly half the nation rolled back reopening plans going back ward. And now Health Officials in municipalities bracing for the numbers to rise after many people skipped the masks and social distancing to celebrate the fourth of july and the president is feeding their public defiance by lying over the weekend saying that 99 of cases are quote totally harmless. New yorks governor said by denying the facts the president is enabling the virus. He wont wear a mask. Because he doesnt want to admit that there is a covid virus. Why . I have no idea. But his denial of the problem and his making statements like that, 99. 9 dont have to worry about it, okay, then theres no issue. Saying to the American People theres no problem and they dont wear a mask or take any precautionary behavior and the virus goes like this. He is, he is facilitating the virus. Cnns tom foreman taking an indepth look at where the states are surging with texas where the beaches on South Padre Island packed this weekend. Lets start with the big picture nationally. Reporter the big picture nationally is terrible. The United States is falling behind virtually every other nation in the world handling this virus. The only states that are in green and not the dark green that means really moving ahead but a little bitter are kentucky and a cluster in new england. Everything else is at best holding its own and by and large falling further down the hole indicating the problem is worse and not better. Texas hospitalizations in texas if you look at them is a ramp right up to the top of the roller coast i there and moving so faths that in places like san antonio and houston and in austin and other places texas officials are saying, look, we are somewhere between 10 and 14 days away from an absolute crisis in the hospitals where we wont have enough room. Much like what you saw there in new york early on when this started and of course the big states leading it all, look at the trend line here. Florida, texas, california. The most populous states in this country have the biggest number of cases, the biggest states. Forget about the absolute number. Look at the trend lines. Going up, going up, going up. That is the problem. Arizona with a smaller population going up, too. The numbers simply are terrible and here we are at the Halfway Point in the year when many people, absolutely, just think back a couple months ago and how many people would have said by fourth of july certainly it will be under control. All of the graphics, all of these numbers tell us were not everyone close to having this under control. Brianna . It is very much out of control looking at the pitch on the graphs. Thank you very much. Breaking news out of florida with now more than 200,000 ennexts there. This is in line with californias total case count. Go to cnns rosa flores in miami. This explosion of cases forcing local officials to change strategy. Tell us how theyre doing that. Reporter miamidade today announcing theyre rolling back reopening plan. They will shut down restaurants for dinein starting on wednesday and shut down Fitness Centers and also short term rentals. The problem is they were large parties, large gatherings at these private homes and that is how this virus spread so it created a huge concern. Governor ron desantis is hosting a press conference right now and given the fact that Miamidade County which is the epicenter of the crisis in the state of florida is rolling back the reopening plan because of the increase in cases now hear how he described what is going on in his state. Take a listen. Some of these things we have seen over the last eight days, the media say record case, basically been the same. When we do 85,000 tests we will have more. Doing 40,000 tests, we will have less positives but the percentage is consistent. Now this is we want to get back down in the 3 , 4 of may and early june. Psalm time the 15 , thats a far cry from what you were seeing in places like the northeast where they were 30 , 40 , 50 . Reporter Governor Desantis there said that basically its the same. If you look at the numbers, just look at the Positivity Rate in the state of florida, a month ago that was under 5 . Right now you look at those numbers of Positivity Rate of 15 and 20 . Here in Miamidade County the epicenter of this crisis, yesterday the county released the Positivity Rate 26 for the day. For past 14 days, exceeded the 10 limit. To say that everything is basically the same here in the state of florida is just not true. No. It is the equivalent of nothing to see here. Thank you so much for the report from miami. Once the epicenter of the coronavirus crisis, new york has managed to flatten the curve but pictures on social media of beach parties on fire island have many worried that work may be for nothing. The crowds so social distancing. It even gained the attention of new yorks governor. You look at the festivities over july fourth, you see gatherings that are not socially distanced, not wearing masks. You see it in manhattan. You see it on fire island. There are reports upstate of gatherings where people arent socially distanced and not wears masks. I dont know how else to say it. Actions have consequences. Suffolk county executive is joining me now to talk about this. Tell us your view of what we are seeing here and the kind of consequences that could come about because of these gatherings. The images that we saw this weekend over at fire island are disturbing and theyre unacceptable. We have come so far here on long island. We have lost thousands of people and thats the thing for us here. We have experienced this. We know what this is like and thats why what we saw on fire island this past weekend was so upsetting because of what has been sacrificed to flatten the curve here and get us into a position where were reopening our economy and this past week havent able to have more days for the first time in months where we have had no deaths from covid19. That we have been able to report. So what happened there is unacceptable. We are enhancing patrols, stepping up enforcement. Working with the local stakeholders in the community, particularly the Homeowners Association to prevent Something Like that from happening again. Police were called here and no one received a citation. Can you shed light on why that was the case . Police were called. The Suffolk County police department, the Marine Bureau did come to the scene and there was compliance when they did arrive. Crowds dispersed. It looked like honestly in some of those images that there were crowds that were intentionally going out of their way not to be in compliance with social distancing, gathered very tightly together but there was compliance. They did disperse. But there were later reports that when the patrols left they came back and again were flouting the orders. We are making this very clear. That that is unacceptable. And that we will make sure that the executive order here and the compliance with social distancing and wearing of Face Covering is that we do receive that because we cannot go back to where we were and backtrack because we literally have been through hell here on long island. Its scenes like this where people are not using common sense to get us back to the very bad place. So i mean, looking at the pictures that we are seeing, right, someone in common that a lot of the folks, almost all of them if not all of them are young people. Right . So these appear to be people who are in their maybe 20s. Certainly no more than their 30s in the pictures we have seen. Why do you think they are doing this . How does the change start . Because obviously its not just going to work with the marine unit pulling up and get six feet away, whatnot. Why are they doing this and how can you combat that . To a large extent you really do need people to comply. You need the community to be involved. And thats why we are working with the Homeowners Association. Most of the people on fire island who own homes want to be safe and be able to enjoy the summer even in the midst of this Global Pandemic and there are certain bad apples who we are going to make clear that that kind of behavior is unacceptable and will be enforced, coordinating with local Law Enforcement as well and putting in place progressive enforcement. There will be summons and if there are continued violations well take it further than that. So what would it look like working with the Homeowners Association and people out there on the beach . Are there fines . How are people identified . What would that be . We are going to have enhanced patrols out on the beaches moving forward over at fire island now so that theyre not responding to a call and then leaving again. We are going to have people who are there to make sure that there is compliance and working with the Homeowners Association where there are instances, where there are house parties not in compliance we will work to root out those bad apples because we do not want to go back to do you need to shut the beach . We are not at that point that we would make that decision. I think that what we need is people to use common sense and thats what we are talking about here. Keep a distance, wear a Face Covering if you can. Thats how well stay in a good place which is where we are today. All right. Steve, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you. 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It is not a secret among scientists and us regular folk, right, that coronavirus floats in air droplets and if you inhale it you can get sick. But one group of International Scientists say it is message about airborne transmission is not delivered to the public and pushing the World Health Organization and other agencies to talk more about this. Senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen is here. Tell us about this because, you know, i think people understand that this is airborne. Right . This is why theres social distancing. Perhaps it is a matter of how airborne it is and just getting the clear guidance on this. Why is the w. H. O. Reluctant to talk about this, elizabeth . You know, brianna, airborne is a very loaded word. Public Health People get very nervous about this word because it sounds theyre afraid it sounds hysterical. If you look at the w. H. O. Or the cdc website they really emphasize that droplets that you can see, if you sneeze or cough or sometimes when you talk you can see the droplets and they emphasize that so you need to be relatively near someone to get hit by a droplet and those droplets are heavy and fall and dont talk about little droplet that is float along in the air to get there just by breathing so not the big, wet droplet that is fall but little ones that stay in the air and someone can leave a space and then you can walk into it a while later and you can run into those little tiny pieces. So that is what the concern is about. It is not a secret that this virus can spread that way, the National Academy of sciences told the white house more than three months ago, they wrote the white house a letter saying this can happen and spread this disease just by breathing. You dont need the big heavy coughs or sneezes but that has not really been emphasized. This whole airborne thing is deemphasized and the Scientists Say be honest about this. Lets just call it what it is and be honest that this is a way it can spread. Can we talk more about masks . I was off this past week and i wanted to pick up something at a Food Establishment and i also went to a state park and both the person who would have been serving at the counter at the Food Establishment and the person taking cash to give tickets to go into the park has the mask only over their mouth and not over their nose. Ugh. Thats ridiculous. Why would you do that . What is the point of doing that . Youre breathing through both your mouth and your nose. It needs to cover both. This is super basic. I have seen this, as well and masks around your chin and looks like a mask beard. What is the point of that . A mask to be worn over the nose and over the mouth in order to work properly. Over the mouth, what is the point . Wear it over both. Do the right thing. These people coming in contact with the public. They were serving them food, taking money from them. This is so important. If we want to get this outbreak under control we need to wear masks and wear them properly. Thank you, elizabeth. Really appreciate the explainer. Weird that we need one still but it is certainly helpful. Thank you. Nick cordero losing his life to coronavirus after being in the hospital for months. What his wife says about his final moments. A 37yearold battling coronavirus symptoms for months. Hear what shes been going through. I know so Many Americans are suffering, suffering the loss of a loved one, suffering economic hardship. The country is crying out for leadership, leadership that can unite us, leadership that brings us together. Thats what the presidency is the duty to care, to care for all of us, not just those who vote for us, but all of us. I promise you this i wont traffic in fear and division. I wont fan the flames of hate. 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