Coronavirus cases confirmed and this pandemic has become the deadliest this planet has seen in more than a century. More than half a Million People now dead. President Trumps Health secretary is warning that the window is closing for the u. S. To get this pandemic under contr control. The top Infectious Disease specialist says its unlikely to achieve herd immunity without the vaccine. First we go to randi kaye in palm beach county, florida. Cases continuing to rise in florida after state officials declared victory there. Next step, closing beaches july 4th. Reporter absolutely. Palm beach county gym the beaches will be closed for the july 4th holiday weekend, not good news for folks enjoying the beach, enjoying the water. Of course the beaches are a big draw for many who come to florida and many who live here. Miamidade beach is closing for the july 4th whole day weekend and broward county. Officials dont want to see a spike on top of the pike. Broward county officials held a press conference expressing their plans. The mayor of Hallandale Beach had a hard time telling what the plan is over the hecklers. Listen to this. You should stay at home, celebrate with your families, be fwratful f grateful for the wonderful america that we have. Were all in this together now and we will get through it if everyone cooperates and continues to social distance, wear a mask, wash your hands and make sure we care for one another. They came to heckle because many people see it as an infringement on their freedom to not be age to go ble to go to t july 4th weekend. We hit a record high in the state of more than 9,500 cases on saturday and on sunday more than 8,500 cases which the miami herald says is 144 increase from the previous sunday high. Those are larging numbers and hitting young people, not the el it earl in florida, 182044, mainly 25 to 34 which is very concerning. Back to you. A group that the feeling had been were almost immune to it. To texas, hospitalizations are spiking there at alarming rates. Miguel marquez is live outside a houston area hospital, this is key. This means folks are not only getting infected but getting sick, really sick. Tell us what youre hearing from inside the hospital. Reporter we saw hospitals in new york a couple months ago and many of the exact same things here, just hospitals being overwhelmed with the number of patients. Ill show you one thing right now. This is not parked cars. The first car in line got here at 1 00 a. M. , sitting here waiting for a coronavirus test. This hospital that we visited, United Memorial Medical Center do about 85,000 total tests so far. The positive rate is 13 on those tests. The doctor we spoke to, joseph varoane here is how he see this is pandemic playing out. There are two types of patients, those who have covid and will get covid. My concern as a health care provider, when they get sick they dont all come at the same time which is what is happening at the present time and that is going to kill patients because we dont have enough resources. Thats what we saw in new york, what they were so worried about in new york, when everything clamped down in new york and texas is grappling with all of this. They started opening up in may and reversed some of the things they opened up like closing down bars. The doctor thinks it was a mix of thing, mothers day, memorial day, it was the reopening of the state and the bars and the restaurants that people were going into, where it was now and the protests they had here, all of that adding to what they are seeing. One more terrifying statistic for you, this hospital is still seeing about 80 capacity right now. Still seeing regular patients and whether you come in with a hangnail or a heart attack, they test you for covid right now 47 of people coming into this hospital for other things are positive for the coronavirus. Thats how much is out there, but they dont know about. Jim . Thats a remarkable measure, miguel. Thanks very much for being on top of it. To arizona now where the state just reported its own highest single day spike in new coronavirus cases. Lets get to Stephanie Elam in phoenix. Stephanie, Health Officials there are sounding the alarm, warning that the Health Care System could be overwhelmed soon and this is really the concern, right, is that you have such a surge of cases you cant treat those who are most ill. Reporter right. We saw this play out already, jim, in new york city when they were going through the thick of it and now were seeing these other states following along with the same pattern. Youre talking about 3,858 cases that they reported, a jump of over 5 from saturday, whats also really alarming here is the number of icu beds that are filled. Its nearle 90 and this is why Health Officials here are very concerned about that. Theyve seen this rise in cases spike up in june, after arizonas state at home order ended in may. At this point the governor doug ducey said people should wear masks and socially distance and stay home as much as possible but he did not go further to indicate that he would make a mandate. He left it up to the individual counties and cities to do that, so youve seen maricopa county, where we are right now, they have said that masks are mandatory. We are out and about, he also tweeted at bars and people gathering there and saying that some have voluntarily closed but going to go after the bad actors. Overall the state, the Health Officials very concerned with these numbers going up and the spike and making sure that they dont have a system where their surnl compa Surge Capacity which they enacted the process for the hospitals to have more room for people who need it, but theyre very concerned theyre going to hit capacity and then youre in a very difficult place of trying to move people around where there arent enough beds. Its a scary situation here what theyre fighting in arizona, jim. And we saw it play out in a place like new york. Its not like this comes out of the blue. Stephanie elam, thanks very much. With cases now on the rise, perhaps more now than ever, it is critical we hear from the experts including the nations top Infectious Disease expert dr. Anthony fauci. Cnn Elizabeth Cohen sat down with dr. Fauci for an interview. What was his message as we see these fires, as it were, i know hes used that image before, fires of infections spread . He is very concerned, jim, and his message is dont go out into a crowd. If you do, wear a mask. Always practice social distancing. Of course, a vaccine is our pathway out of this pandemic, and he said that theres human data that is going to be published soon, the first time well have published data on humans. He said that he has seen it. I asked him about it. Lets take a listen. I doubt seriously that any vaccine will ever be 100 protective. The best weve ever done is me see measles, 97 to 98 effective. That would be wonderful if we get there. I dont think we will. I would settle for 07 , 75 effective vaccine, it would bring you to the level of herd immunity level. Dr. Fauci told me something that is truly disconcerting. A third of americans are saying they are not going to try to get a vaccine when it comes out even if its inexpensive or even free. I said to dr. Fauci if we have a vaccine that is 70 , 75 effective and if 70 , 75 of americans wont get it, will we reach herd immunity, and he said no, that is unlikely. That is very scary. What that means if a vaccine comes out, and its 70 , 75 effective and people dont get it in those numbers, that say big, big problem. Okay, Contact Tracing essential to stemming the spread, someone gets it, you talked to them about who theyve had contact with, you could talk to the other people. Dr. Fauci, critical of those efforts so far, why, exactly . Well, i told him. I said dr. Fauci, i have spoken to so many people with vid in the United States. How do you think its going . Not one has been called to contact trace. Here is his answer i dont think were doing very well, not all of which is the fault in the system. I mentioned this over the past few days f you go into the community and call up and say how is the Contact Tracing going . The dots are not connected, because a lot of it is done by phone. You make a contact, 50 of the people, because youre coming from an authority, dont even want to talk to you, if youre in an area where there are a lot of brown people, people who are latinex at the border. Theyre concerned if you give them confidential information it will work against them. Those give you the contact but you dont exactly isolate them. They get lost in the shuffle. Thats very, very difficult situation. That weve got to do better on but whats even more confounding, elizabeth, whats even more confounding is that when you have a communitybased outbreak like is going on right now in several states, florida, california, texas, arizona, et cetera, what youre seeing is communitybased spread where 20 to 40 of the people who are infected dont have any symptoms. So the standard classic paradigm of identification, isolation, Contact Tracing doesnt work no matter how good you are, because you dont know who youre tracing. Dr. Fauci then went on to say he cant think of any other virus where so many people are asymptomatic, and on the other end of the spectrum, so many people die from that virus. This large percentage of people asymptomatic, makes it so difficult to get the virus under control, all the more reason we need to practice social distancing and wear masks. Jim . Thats a big revelation, given how central Contact Tracing has been described to us repeatedly in stemming of spread of this. Elizabeth cohen, thanks very much. John harwood for more on the president , what he is saying and not saying about the pandemic and john, it was interesting to see some pressure from unusual quotas, but someone like Vice President pence saying we should all be Wearing Masks now, starting to see more republican lawmakers doing that. The president though sticking to, you know, head in the sand kind of line. Any change . Reporter not yet. Its striking the very things that pence and deborah birx were doing in texas, greg abbott, the governor, accentuates what the president is not doing. He seems to be doing his best to affirm the portrait his former National Security adviser bonn bolton painted of a vacant chair in the oval office when it comes to the coronavirus. Weve got a crisis that is accelerating in the United States, threatens public health, threatens the economy and the president is not talking about it. Hes not setting an example on masks. Hes not urging others to wear masks. The impression thats being conveyed is that the grownups in the administration are trying to handle this themselves, as if hes not there, and the president is like a child in the sand box who is playing with sharp sticks. When i say sharp stings, i cks, talking about videos he retweeted of white people with guns, white people yelling white power wanted posters for people going after statues in public parks. He seems to be in a very dark place mentally right now. Protesters were by pointed weapons at them. John harwood, thanks very much. Still to come dr. Deborah birx saying wearing a mass lk not only prevent you from infecting others but may partially protect you from getting infected. The Washington Post reports that russian counties paid to taliban fightiers in afghanistan are believed to have resulted in the deaths of u. S. Servicemembers. President trump says he didnt know about it. So why . And shootings in new york city are up dramatically on the heels of an uptick in nypd retirements and growing tensions between the police and the community. Whats going on there, how widespread. Well have the latest just ahead. It cleans grease five times faster dawn powerwash. Spray, wipe, rinse. From grills to play setsutdoor and more one of a kind finds. It all ships free. And with new deals every day you can explore endless options at every price point. Get your Outdoor Oasis delivered fast so you can get the good times going. Wayfair. Youve got just what i need. Alex azar warns the u. S. Is running out of time to control the outbreak. Things are very different from two months ago. We now have three therapeutics, we have hospital capacity, we have reserves of personal protective equipment. Were speeding our way towards having vaccines. So its a very different situation, but this is a very, very serious situation and the window is closing for us to take action and get this under control. Lets speak to michael osterholm, director of the center for Disease Research and policy at the university of minnesota and early warner about the seriousness of this outbreak. Michael, good to have you on. Thanks, jim. Tell us what he means there about, secretary azar, about the time running out to control this. Why and how . Well, im not sure i do understand what that means. Let me just say that you know, we know were at about 5 to 7 of our population has been infected with this virus to date. Thats something weve been talking about for the past several months about that number growing. But we also know that this virus is not going to slow down its transmission in people until we get to that 50 to 70 level, the thing called herd immunity so best were doing is riding this tiger, were not driving it. When he talks about control, were trying to dampen down these big increases in cases. Short of a total lockdown like they did in wuhan in january and february, we wont completely control this virus. We have to come to understand that, and the challenge i think we have right now is weve not figured out how to live with this virus and what we want to accomplish to get to that herd immunity level. Let me ask you this again, because i think so folks at home, and i ask you this periodically but just so we understand, the goal here in your view should it not be to prevent everyone from getting the infection, but slow down the rates so hospitals can handle it, if you know what i mean . Exactly. I mean, the reality is we cant stop all the infections. We just dont have that capability, short of a total complete lockdown, and we would recognize not just an economic hit of unimaginable proportions but wed kill society as we know it. So the other side of it is, then we cant let this uncontrolled transmission occur, like it has been occurring in a number of states over the past month, which is overrunning their icus. Were not having the discussion what have we do in the middle. You heard the secretary say we have to control it. What does that mean . One of the things were asking for is how do we keep it somewhere in a slow burn mode without being able to close down completely or without letting it run willynilly in our society. Thats the discussion we have to have and were not having it. Okay, so what do you need to do, to get to that sweet spot, if you could call it that, right . For instance you have july 4th coming up and theres already some data that shows folks going out to beaches and parties and socializing in the memorial day weekend were seeing the consequences of that right now. So what has to stop, right to keep it under control . We have to give better direction. If youre indoors at a bar that is inviting a catastrophe. Indoor air is a challenge, just as we saw with the protests, we had very few cases because outdoor air is a much better place to be in terms if youre around people. How do we accentuate those activities that decrease the krissing and at the same time minimize the ones that increase the risk. Were going to be learning more and more how do we do transportation . How do we office again . The bottom line instead of saying were going to control it and its like a light switch, this is not a light switch on or off. This is a real stat. I think the question you just asked is exactly what we need to do. Right now in the summer, weve got the outdoors. Use it. And no indoors events like bars are going to be major places of transmission. Okay, i want to show you and youre aware of these but just our viewers some graphics here that compare the state of the u. S. With regards to the outbreak versus other countries, and its just remarkable. Theres the u. S. In red there, higher and trending way higher than europe, canada, japan, other developed countries and i also want to show at the same time the deaths per i believe 100,000 people. So thats per million residents rather. Why is this, and when the president and the Vice President say well, this is really just about more testing or, well, its all fine or better than it looks, because the death rate is lower, is that true . No. First of all, its not about testing. One point that is being missed in all of this, were doing a lot of testing but we are the 26th highest country in terms of testing in the world. There are 25 other countries the per million population are testing more than we. Its not just about testing alone. The fact of the matter were seeing a higher rate of positives among those who test positive. We are doing a lot of testing but thats because we have a lot of cases. I think the second thing is the data are going to show clearly over the course of the next several weeks that the transmission that has occurred in the younger population will result in more serious ill people and deaths but not at the rate we saw with the older population or people who have otherwise serious illnesses, but thats going to change. In the next month well see the spillover from the younger age population, more into even the seniors who have been cocooning or trying to protect themselves and well see this kind of this happens and this happens and this happens and thats what we have to anticipate. Were playing like this as public war for the future we have to be planning for and were not. Its sobering. Im amazed all the day ta and advice from smart people like you, so many folks arent listening in positions of power. Michael osterholm thanks for speaking the truth. Look forward to having you back on thank you very much, thanks, jim. Well, President Trump claims that he was not briefed on reports intelligence assessments that russia paid taliban militants to kill u. S. Troops in afghanistan. If thats true, why wasnt the commander in chief briefed . Well discuss, next. When you start with a better tha