Of time. Also today from the cdc, a new estimate of how many people may be infected with the coronavirus while experiencing no symptoms at all. The cdc says as many as 40 , 40 positive for the virus but not sick showing no symptoms. The cdc also estimates about half the covid19 transmissions happen between people before they get sick. Across the United States, look how many states are now reporting a rise in coronavirus cases. In some areas the rise is significant. Florida, georgia, south carolina, today were hearing texas all reporting record or near record high numbers of confirmed covid19 infections in a single day. This sharp upward trend of new coronavirus cases and soaring hospitalizations drawing this dire warning from one of the nations leading Public Health experts. What were looking at is what i think is going to be one of the most unstable times in the history of our country unless we figure out a way to do something, unless we implement a federal plan. We still can do this, but we need a president engaged. We need a white house engaged. Just days after the Texas Governor greg abbott told television station kriv that covid19 numbers would look worse going into next week, the latest numbers are backing up that ominous warning. The state today broke its alltime record for new cases in a single day. For the second time in this pandemic the number is crossing the 10,000 mark. Texas just topped a quarter of a million cases and the numbers have taken off since mid june. Joining us now the mayor of austin texas, steve adler. Mayor adler, thank you so much for joining us. We see things are bad. Apparently, you can correct me if im wrong, getting a whole lot worse in texas right now. Tell us, first of all, whats happening in austin, texas. Numbers are going up and it is precarious and were on the edge. Our icus are getting more stressed. Were looking at horizons that scare us, but were also now beginning to get calls from other parts of the state that are hit harder even than we are asking if we can take folks. Its a scary time. You know, we had a community here in austin that took this warning probably about three weeks ago, started more religiously wearing face coverings, really serious about distancing and we can see the impact on numbers. I mean, if anybody still wants to suggest that masks dont make a difference, they just have to come to austin and look and see whats happened in the last three weeks. The question for us is going to be did we do it soon enough to be able to avert whats going to be just what would be a horrible situation. Certainly horrible, indeed. I understand, mayor, that the Austin Convention center is now being set up to have a Field Hospital inside that can serve up to 1500 patients. It reminds me of what a couple of days ago they were doing in new york city. The javits Convention Center was turned into a Field Hospital as well. It wont open for, i understand, nine more days, is that right . Thats right. We had to make that its a fourweek startup to open up a facility like that and where we were four weeks ago is we were just on a trajectory that was just screaming upwards. We made the call then to open it. It will be available for us i think on july 20th, 22nd. My fingers are still crossed that were not going to need it, but, again, we are on the edge. What makes this hard is that you have to act now to impact numbers in two and three weeks. Its not anything you can impact overnight. Well, as of right now do you have enough hospital beds potentially to make it that long until the Convention CenterField Hospital is ready . We can make it until the Field Hospital is available, yes. And im okay tonight, but when i look at the trajectories, there are a lot of scenarios that have us immediately in the situation where we cant and thats why the discipline that the community began to show about 2 1 2 weeks ago with respect to masking and distancing is critical. Im watching whats happening in cities around the country that have gotten their numbers low and now theyre relaxing. It looks like too many of them are going to try to redo what we did in texas when we opened. Austin, again, is a cautionary tale. Cities cannot open in any way that looks like what they used to do before the pandemic. Weve seen people waiting outside in long lines for covid19 testing in austin. Were showing our viewers some video of that. I understand it topped 100 degrees there today. Are people still waiting in those long lines even on these very hot days . Sometimes they have to wait for hours and hours and hours. People are waiting because they have to take the tests. Ill tell you right now, there are so many people that want to take tests, we dont have the number of tests we want. The labs are not returning the tests quickly enough to make the information as usable as it should be. Were not finding out that someones affected early enough so they can isolate so we can better contact trace. We, again, are in such a precarious place here right now in texas. Governor abbott, the Texas Governor, is ordering most texans to wear a mask finally. It was long ago you and other mayors were begging for that authority and he said no. Does this mask rule of his come too late right now . I dont think we know the answer to that question. I mean, im real happy that it came. You know, we were going to our community and saying, dont Pay Attention to what the governors doing or not doing. We have to do it here anyhow, but its a huge difference when the state leader or when the president conveys to their jurisdictions that its not only something thats advisable but its necessary and its mandatory. Theres a huge difference in the messaging. Right now the messaging coming out of d. C. , the messaging that we had in texas that while it was good, it wasnt required, is one of the hardest things that youre dealing with locally because masks make a difference. You just have to look and see whats happened in our city in the last two weeks. And the cdc now says, 80 of the people who have coronavirus are totally asymptomatic. They dont know they have it but they can certainly spread the disease to their parents, grandparents, friends, neighbors and it potentially could be very deadly. Mayor adler, thank you so much for joining us. Good luck to everyone in austin. Wolf, thank you. Be safe. You too. In arizona right now Health Officials are reporting a critical shortage of in patient hospital beds as doctors there are fighting the coronavirus pandemic. Cnns Evan Mcmorris santoro is in arizona near the grand canyon. I understand the Public Health emergency there is ongoing. Definitely far, far from over. What are people telling you as the states Tourist Attractions are now open for visitors . Reporter well, thats right, wolf. The situation in arizona is pretty dire. The sevenday average per capita new caseload has been the highest in the country since june 7th. Its a very serious time in arizona. Places like the grand canyon, south rim are very important tourist destinations is open. Park officials tell me theyre seeing a lower crowd than they usually see, half what they usually see. Weve been here all day. Weve seen people all day. Vacation is happening. This is the kind of place you can do it if you can get out off the rim and into the park. I want to talk to people who i met who have left new york and been traveling around the country and theyre traveling during the pandemic. This is devin and zach. Hello. How are you . Hello. Tell me, what is the secret to traveling during this pandemic . Stick to the forest. Dont go to any other sites. Be by yourself. Its a different kind of trip. Youre not going to the places people gather, youre sticking to yourselves. Yeah, as little as we can. Still got to see the canyon when youre here, i guess. Youve been around the country and seen a bunch of places. What do you see about people who are traveling, maybe some people are Wearing Masks, some not Wearing Masks. Whats your take on how people are adapting to the social distancing around the country . Its kind of like 5050 between people Wearing Masks and entire people being uncovered. Depend where you go. Some people are higher cases, deer park, bring your gear. Youve got to. Mask and sanitizer. Thats it. Great. Wolf, here at the grand canyon there are mask rules when youre inside the buildings here. If youre in the park walking around, they say use your best judgment. Weve been out today. Some people are wearing them, some arent. Best judgment is to wear a mask. Very easy to do. Evan mcmorris santoro. Thank you. Long lines of cars at Dodger Stadium today. Two reasons for that. Some signs of light for Major League Baseball but a Critical Health care mission is happening right outside dodgers stadium. Paul bercamen is joining us. Reporter it was an intersection of two big stories today, wolf. If you look behind me at dodgers stadium, we had this testing site that the city of l. A. Says is the largest in the nation. A capacity of 6500 people per day. Six lanes of cars. This after l. A. County announced 57 new deaths and more than 2900 new cases of coronavirus. So this testing was going along swimmingly and then inside the stadium, call it a dress rehearsal. Theyre getting ready to start Major League Baseball in less than two weeks. The dodgers held an intersquad game and you could see evidently all the rules are being put in place. One of them, we didnt see anybody spitting. Youre not supposed to spit tobacco anymore or sun flower seeds. The players have their temperatures taken twice a day. If they exceed 104. They will be fed in individual containers. No more going to the buffet style lines. We understand one of the players who wasnt here today, david price, has opted out for the season. Now developing news here. The new york yankees pitcher, chapman, the closer, he has tested positive for covid19. Heres what his manager had to say. Obviously this virus does not discriminate. It can get to anyone at any point so its obviously just another reminder that we have to be vigilant as far as wearing our masks when possible, the distance, the decisions were making away from the field to as best we can stay out of harms way. Those are all just constant reminders and, by the way, not that anyone that has been in here hasnt done that, including chappy, but its just important that, you know, it can strike at any time. Reporter and also at dodgers stadium, one of the new rules, dont go up to an umpire and start arguing in his face. Its a great way to get ejected or even more. Back to you, wolf. Paul, thank you. Washington nationals will do great again this shortened season. Appreciate it very much. With cases surging across many states like texas, arizona, florida, the new studies by the centers for Disease Control says, get this, 40 of those infected with coronavirus show absolutely no symptoms. Well have details on how that complicates the fight against this deadly virus. Well be right back. About your financial plan. Og so are we. Prudential helps 1 in 7 americans with their financial needs. Thats over 25 million people. 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And so when we first met this virus we were hoping that most people who spread it would look ill, you know, as they do in flu, would have fever, would be coughing, sneezing, but as time goes on, were finding that this virus is able to spread either when people have no symptoms or when the symptoms are so mild they dont really consider themselves to be too ill to go out. Thats why its so important to wear masks because we cannot judge for ourselves whether we are spreading the virus. We could be spreading it all around while we still feel well enough to be doing regular daily activities. Thats really so important. So confusing, dr. Yasmine. So many people including young people who dont seem to have contributing Health Factors have become seriously ill and even some of them have died from covid. Others dont know that they have it. Why does this virus hit some people so much harder than others . Is it a matter of age . If youre older you will have symptoms but if youre younger you wont . So i think we did a good job early on, wolf, of driving home this message that proportionately its older people and people with some chronic conditions who seem most at risk of developing severe disease and are most likely to die, but that may have given many younger people a false sense of security that they are invincible, that they are somehow immune to this infection. Thats certainly not the case. Weve seen people in their teens, 20s, 30s die from covid19. Just today, wolf, i learned that a 30yearold man in texas died from covid19 after attending a covid party. This is a party where party goers went there to purposefully get infected with covid19 believing that it would be a walk in the park for them because theyre young. We also have seen broadway star nick cordero die at the age of 41. When weve seen a disease do this and Different Levels of severity, we think about why some people are susceptible and i have a culprit that maybe its going into overdrive causing more harm than it is good. We are only seven months into studying this virus. A lot remains to be learned, wolf. For example, why are thousands of americans who became infected in march still suffering symptoms right now in july . We dont have an answer for that. We still dont understand why is it some young people die . In the meantime, we need everyone to assume they are susceptible. We need people not to go to covid parties which i keep hearing about. Even dr. Fauci says theres so much were still learning about this virus. Dr. Chiu, the New York Times reports have obtained a 69 page cdc document says fully reopening schools and universities remains the highest risk for the spread of coronavirus. Give us some perspective, dr. Chiu, on whats going on. Everyone wants their kids to go back to school. Yes. We all want our kids to go back to school, and i will tell you this fall i have four schoolaged children. I do not think theres anyone who wants their kids to go back to school more than i do, so im heavily invested in this question, but the truth is there really there are two main components. One is what are schools going to do to prepare for the return of their of the children . And there are a lot of things involved there. Making sure that they transform the physical space so kids can go back, have testing and isolation and Contact Tracing protocols. Making sure that they know exactly what theyre going to do if case numbers start to rise, have protocols for dismissing their students if that is the case, and also have provisions in place for the noneducational needs like nutrition, social support for children who can never make it back because of chronic illness. Also need to have strong support. And then also when school is dismissed, if they need to go back to a virtual setting, that we make sure that every student has the resources so that their education is not interrupted this year. Its a huge challenge. We need to support. They will need billions of dollars of support at the federal level, much more than theyve gotten to make this a reality. The other part is whats happening in the community. If we want schools to open in our neighborhoods, then we need to be acting now to lower our Community Transmission rates.