The situation is particularly bleak in florida despite the governor there saying the outbreak has stabilize. 43 hospitals in 2 is counties have now hit capacity with zero icu beds available and this is also likely an incomplete picture since the state has yet to release specific covid hospitalization data, data that many other states have been putting out for months. Even with the pandemic raging in florida, President Trump has announced that he will be heading to the states hardest hit county miamidade later this week not to talk about the coronavirus. He said hell be holding an event on drug trafficking. All this as the overall picture in the United States does not appear to be getting any better. Cases are up in 31 states. 15 are Holding Steady and just four states, all in new york, are trending down. Dr. Anthony fauci is helping to explain all of this as he did a new interview. Thank you. We are still knee deep in the first wave of this, and i would say this would not be considered a wave. It was a surge or a resurgence of infections super imposed a blaine. We went up and never came down to blaine and are not surging back up. Its a serious situation that we have to address immediately. Lets start with cnns rosa flores in miami where new restrictions will be going back into effect tomorrow. Rows, a, whats the latest where you had . Reporter you know, kate, there is a lot of concern, both experts and local officials because of the surge in cases and because of hospitalizations. Lets look at at facts statewide. 43 icu hospitals across the straight in 2 is counties are at capacity. That means that there are zero icu beds in these facilities. Now, five of those are right there where i am in miamidade county. Now the county released the number of patients with covid19 that are hospitalized actively, and so if you look at those numbers in the past 13 days theres been an increase of 90 of the number of covid19 patients hospitalized right here in montgomery county. Icu beds up 86 and number of ventilators are up 127 . Lets talk about theums in statewide because the Florida Department of health just released them today. 7,347 new cases. The Positivity Rate is key. About a month ago that was around 5 . Now its been closer in the past few days, closer to 14 and 15 . Now despite all of this that were reporting right now, just yesterday the florida education commissioner announcing that hes issued an emergency order requiring all stores to reopen at heat brick and mortgagean stale five days a week. The commissioner says there is a need to open schools to fully ensure the quality and continuity of the education process. The comprehensive wellbeing of students and families and a return to florida hitting its full economic stride. Now teachers are fighting back including in Orange County saying the following. The governor and secretary are pushing a political and economic agenda over the safety and wellbeing of students, teachers and school employ eds, and while we no facetoface is optional, cta will not implement a reopening problem that will exposh teachers and children to danger. The course subjects can be made up. Someones life cannot. Well bring another report to you live later today. Interesting to hear how the governor answers the questions. Schools is just the hardest, most complicated question in this whole equation of how to get back and how to be safe. Thanks, rossa, back to you in a little bi. Lets go to texas now, number of poem needing military care is jumping and support personnel is being sent to the san antonio area for help. Ryan, what is the cases from there . Cases nearly 200,000 people here have tested positive. Thats nrg stadium. Whats no know there are doing shiva test instress of the nostril. One of the reasons we want to do that here is its hot here in textad and poem are waiting in lines up to six, seven hours to get this test. They say this has been a little bit easier for them. We talked about this before. Its the whole idea of getting people to be tested. What have you guys experienced so far with people first of all in coming here to get tested. What have they been telling you guys . Ive seen a big lev. Just the option to have this type of a test, just a simpler testing method on the patient side. I can really relate to where mashts have gone to. Reporter even if you in the testing process, very frustratesing to through the process . Ive been related to these patients. I went two the presses if. Were all in this together and interwas doing my part. I actually feltcism testimonies throw days baiter and got tests again. You come here and you fill it up to about the five mark and they are able to test it over and over again. When you think about the state and think about all the kids who have been involved, 1,300 of them in day caress who have tested positive for covid, you can really follow the impact, so these two folks here have worked together to create this Testing Center to make it easier. Like our boss was telling us earlier, one of the reasons why they like this test so much and certain people have been bringing their kids here and you can understand kids will most likely spit than have something stuck in their nose. This is all part of the process, Something Else that has happened. Youve got minimum wage workers who are trying to make people wear their mask, and thats something you dont want people to have in terms of coming to a door and seeing that, can. Weve seen it over and over again. These two people have been telling them at the Testing Center at 5 00 of poem are going home. The lines are super long and some people will have to get tested before returning to work so financially they have to get tested, and that is really creating a situation here in this area. A lot of conversation especially with all the military troops coming into san diego. This state needs some help and theres people asking piece. Kate . Getting the test results back in a timely perspective, this is actually an important point that ryan is hitting on. Arizona is joining florida and texas in the same bra jectry and cases can, and as the case numbers jump, you just heard it from ryan, so are concerns once again around the availability of testing in any state, but especially in arizona right now. The mayor of phoenix is speaking out about it that they need help from the federal government. My top request is more aid from the federal government or testing. We are only testing the sickest. This weekend i was out at a testing site where people were waiting eight hours to get a test in is sodegree weather. They are sick and watching the face tank goes towards empty, it was a terrible situation. I were love to seat federal government step up and help up. People are routinely having to wait more than a week for results. One person waited 27 days it isolating from his own family to be safe during that to imas he waited only to find out that he tested negative, thankfully negative. Joining me right now is the mayor of tuesday op. Mayor, thank you. That reporting from the lobel rall. One man waited 27 days to get their test results because. At thy point do you have any kins of getting around voyeurs and surge right now. Oufrl, whats interesting in is a microcosm of the direction that President Trump has led us in. There is no coordinated effort for testing in this country, much less here in arizona. We dont we dont have the access to to testing from the federal government. We we need help. Were in crisis, and so we are seeing the same thing that test results are taking ten days to come back. We cant do Contact Tracing if the test results dont come back and thats why you see disjoint the, disorganized process because there is no statewide coordinated effort for testing and then Contact Tracing which is what what will what will help have this virus under control. The only way to get the virus under control as we wait for just a second. On the issue of testing what are you hearing back from the governor about this need for help. What cant you do . What do you need more of at this point immediately . Immediately i am absolutely concerned about icu bed capacity here in tucson,s as a. Tucson is located in peoplea county which peoplea county has the Health Department. What we hear from our Health Department is that days we have five to ten icu beds available. This is a county of is milli1 m people. Ive contacted governor duceys office several times but, unfortunately, ive not received a call back so what concerns me the most right now is the availability of testing and Contact Tracing is the icu bed capacity which is at the limit and any day well have to be accepting patients to other states because of our lack of capacity. Its very concertain, let me ask you about Contact Tracing. Dr. Peter hotez offered a plea bargain assessment of whats happening in your now. Weve seeinging this inny in and we cant even do could be tact tracing anymore. At this point can you not even do contact praising . It. People rarp county Health Department has been in the process of hiring at least 100 to is is a contact tracers for people rarks county. We are, like i said, a coupety of a Million People bow i think the concerns from our peoplea county Health Department is that the cases are rising so quickly and what i ask and what thousands of medical experts and Public Health experts have asking governor ducey here in arizona is to institute, at least institute, a statewide mandatory mask executive order. They are also asking for a stayathome order, but what would help tremendously is a statewide mandatory mask, and so its the lack of organizing the cities and counties throughout arizona. The patchwork of of actions that mayors have taken because the governor has refused to take additional action. Its concerning and we need the governor and the federal government to come and help organize our efforts so that we can take this under control. Yeah. Just so everyone know, have you ordered required face conversation in your city, but if that is not that is not statewide right now and thats what youre talking about. 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Hes not getting the kind of backup that he once could count on from republicans on capitol hill on these issues. Trumps white house aides then left with the task of trying to explain away and thread the needle on the division that the president continues to sow. Listen to his press secretary on the president s criticism of nascar for banning the Confederate Flag, for example. What is the president s position . Does they think national car made a mistake by ban being the Confederate Flag . I spoke to him this morning saying hes not making a judgment one way or the other. The point of the tweet was to stand up for men and women nascar and the fans and a rush to conclusion by the media saying that this was a hate crime when in fact it was not. A lot of republicans are privately shaking their head or starting to push back when asked about what the president said. Yesterday when he tweeted criticism to ban the Confederate Flag from its events, first lindsey graham, the senator from south carolina, said that nascar is trying to grow its business. You dont try to grow your business by having by allowing the Confederate Flag be visible. I talked to senator roger wicker who is a mississippi senior senator who is pushing for his state to remove the confederate emblem which it did for last week after standing more than a century. He told me this saying that the Confederate Flag is a symbol that more and more represents a day in the past that we dont want to celebrate. He told me the Confederate Flag, the move by nascar was absolutely the right thing to do. Now, this comes as a larger battle is heating up in congress after the president said that he would veto a major defense bill because it has a provision to require the removal of confederate leaders names from the property. A sizable number of republicans support that provision and are urging the president to back it ultimately when it ultimately comes to his desk so youre seeing here in 2020 this debate over Racial Injustice in the United States. Many republicans dont feel comfortable about the direction that the president is taking. Joining re right now is the democratic mayor of st. Louis, missouri. Thanks so much for being here. As you heard from the white house from kayleigh mcenany. Its clear they are saying that the president didnt mean what he was saying when you can just take him at at his word. Whats your opinion of the president continuing to push this Racial Division at this moment that were in . Were dealing with so much in america right now from covid19 to protests to the future of policing. I say as the mayor of a city who is in a red state we need somebody who brings us together. Sometimes i think of president bush in the los angeles riots in 1992 tried to heal different sides and knowing that theres a time to bring people together and a time to divide. By the way, that was an election year. We really need that sort of leadership from the white house. Were not getting it and it makes my job harder. I think it makes every Police Officer in americas job harder if were building more tension but we need to build trust in communities and thats not doing that on the slightest the thats what i wanted to drill down. His words and actions they have an impact and an effect on the tone and tenor and whats happening in this country. What is clear is that the president wants to focus on enflaming racial tension and not focus considering on the coronavirus pandemic. Theres no other way to no other way you can or any other conclusion that you can reach from what you hear from him. If that is where his focus he wants his focus to be and where hell be putting his focus, what does that choice mean for your city . It means our job is that much harder. It means that were every time were putting out a new order about a mask, for example, it becomes a significant political debate. I know ive received a death threat, racial slurs coming my way because the mask itself is so politicized. I know across the line over in kansas the governor of kansas had an editorial put out against her that compared an order to wear masks to the holocaust. I mean, youre seeing more of that because i think were getting from leadership some sign that its okay, and its incredibly unfortunate and im a mayor and proud to be a mayor of democrat and republicans and people who dont care. All we want is for people to be safe and i would lo