For the Third Straight day running, around the 40,000 mark, something weve not seen throughout this process. But again, more cases does not necessarily mean more trouble. For example, the death counts at this point are actually subsiding rather dramatically. Were going to get into that anomaly in just a second. In the meantime, i do want to pick apart the significance of whats happening in these states right now. Here to do that, steve harrigan. Hey, steve. Reporter neil, you singled out texas and florida, both those states taking steps backwards after initially being very aggressive in reopening their economies. Putting new restrictions on bars and serving alcohol indoors. In florida they have seen more than a 70 increase in new cases of the coronavirus in just the past week. Florida has seen more than a 500 jump in new cases since memorial day. The governor of texas saying now he regrets reopening bars as early as he did. And as you pointed out, the problems not just in texas and florida, but six states reaching singleday records for new cases of the virus on friday including idaho, kansas, south carolina, oregon, utah as well as florida. And the big number is 45,000 new cases on friday across the u. S. As a whole. That was a record friday. It topped thursdays record which in turn topped wednesdays record. So three record days in a row for new cases of this virus. Vice president pence said though he was encouraged by some of the data. Roughly half of the new cases are americans under the age of 35. Which is at a certain level very encouraging news, as the experts tell us. Reporter some cities also beginning to take measures on their own. Pensacola, florida, now making wearing a mask in public mandatory, and miamidade mayor now shutting down the beaches ahead of the fourth of july holiday. Neil, back to you. Neil all right, steve, thank you very much, my friend. Steve harrigan in atlanta, georgia, on that. In the meantime here, he did mention whats happening in florida with miami beaches closed for the big fourth of july weekend, that obviously put a damper on a lot of holiday plans, vacation plans. But at the very least, it is changing the way people think about the progress or the resurgence of these virus cases which are now running about 13 positive in the entire state of florida. Greg steube joins us right now, Florida Republican congressman, also house judiciary committee. Sir, very good to have you. What do you make of this and the spike in cases in your state . You know, this happens when we, obviously, get more testing, but the streak of positive cases is alarming some in the medical community. What do you know . Yeah. I mean, the first thing is theres 200,000 tests a week that were doing in florida so, obviously, youre going to see a spike in the number of positive cases. The Vice President had it right, youre seeing asymptomatic individuals between 1835 who are testing positive. They dont have symptoms, and so thats a good thing. We dont have an Elderly Population, you dont have people in Nursing Homes because Governor Desantis has put things in place to insure our Elderly Population is protected unlike new york. If you compare overall cases in florida to states like new york, we still have 3,300 deaths compared to 31,000 deaths in new york. Thats almost ten times the amount of death. So the amount of cases, obviously, is an indication of the amount of testing that were doing. If you drill down on the numbers of hospitalizations and those patients needing icu beds, that number has stayed flat. I get numbers in my district every day for each of the nine counties i represent, and those hospitalization numbers are about the same as theyd been a month ago. So im not too alarmed because we have so much testing going on in the state of florida, and we cant keep our economy shut down forever. So i think a gradual reopening is a good thing to get our economy back to work. Neil congressman, do you think floridians were just ignoring some of the distancing provisions and rules on capacity at restaurants to the point that they did this to themselves . Now they might be, you know, doing it so often thats going to compel the governor to order such restrictions, to order the wearing of face masks, that sort of thing . We just had all those protests, and youve seen them across the country. We had them here in the state of florida where young people between that 1835yearold age demographic are down in huge groups without face masks on protesting Different Things that are going on. So i certainly think theres some correlation there. Ive seen videos in tampa of the walmart being looted where all of the people running in didnt have face masks on, all congregated together. So most floridians are being smart and safe about this. If theyre in the high risk category, wear a face mask when you go out, socially distance. Dont even go out. I talked to a gentleman in my district yesterday that said hes high risk, and hes just not going out, and if he does for some reason, he wears a face mask. So i think the numbers youre seeing are because of the increase in testing, the demographic that youre seeing in increased amount is a dem graphic thats not at high risk to see hospitalization. So i think were in a good place here in florida right now. Neil you know, northeastern states are now not too keen on florida residents coming up to their states, among other states, arizona, texas. What do you think of that . Well, i certainly disagree with shutting that type of thing down because if you look at the percentage of the amount of people, again, that are testing, like i read something from Governor Cuomo that said they had such a low amount of those testing positive. Well, i can guarantee theyre not doing 200,000 tests a week in the state of new york, so obviously their numbers are going to be different. Again, people have personal responsibility and individual liberty to make up those decisions to insure that theyre not infecting oh other people if theyre sick, stay home, do the things the cdcs recommending you do. Neil congressman, thank you for joining us on a saturday to cuts cuts to discuss it. Well be watching closely. Be well, be safe and be healthy. What do we do right now when these types of things happen . Whats the better part of valor . To shut down beaches as theyre doing in miami, to reverse capacity orders as theyre doing in places like texas, to shut down bars as theyre doing in both texas and florida . How do you move forwarden owl forward on all this . Dr. Marty mcharry joins us. Are those measures in those states enough . Well, neil, the thing is you cannot react at the time. Youve got to plan ahead because this is a three month lag between what you do and the effect of what you do. And some of these policies make sense, but some of them are a little erratic. For example, in texas you can get outpatient hair loss treatment or piercing at a piercing salon, but you cant get a hip replacement or elective surgery. So one of the common sense things that many states could adopt and, in my opinion, should adopt is mandatory masking indoors in public areas when social distancing cannot be achieved. I dont think it makes sense to close beaches, perhaps limit capacity at those places. As you know, the texas liquor board did some inspections and found at several bars people were packed in tight with no masks, and they actually closed about 14 bars for that reason. Neil it goes to your point about the whole mask issue, a point i raised with louisiana senator john kennedy. Heres what he had to say. I dont wear one max, i wear two when im on an airplane, and i wear one everywhere else. I think a mask, it does protect other people. I think it protects you. From day one neil you think it would be good that for those, including the president and they are, i get that but to wear one at least to kind of incentivize people, look, were going to make this worse if we dont do stuff like this . Look, thats up to the president. You know, i mean, i understand some would like me to say, well, the president ought to wear a mask. Its up to the president. Its up to every american. Neil doctor, what do you think of that . The president is famous for not wearing a mask, and some key people around him dont wear it either. People watching that might say, well, if he isnt, why should i . What do you think of that . Well, look, were on track to have a quarter million americans die from this virus. This virus wants to infect and penetrate about 60 of every locale in the world, it doesnt care about borders. Masking is one of the few tools we have. Its not perfect, and we can have debates, but we have a country of opinions, and i think we need to put those aside and say whatever the effectiveness of the mask is, if its a 30 mitigation or a 60 mitigation, its one of the few tools we have. Look at a asia, look at europe, look at many of the northern states in the United States. They have been able to manage the infection after initial spikes and surges because of universe almassinging. Neil so when we have a lot of people that are just loathe to put on a mask, and i can understand particularly down south, i get that. Im sure you do as well. But when people like dick cheney come forward and say its cool and very manly to wear a mask, we need to see more of that. Okay, okay, i dont flip over this, but now look at the spiking numbers, its probably not a bad idea. Look, masks do a lot of good, and i think one of the things is, is it takes away the stigma for those who really need to be wearing a mask, those with symptoms or those who are exposed and are out there and shouldnt be. Its good when public figures wear masks, in my opinion. Neil all right, doctor. Great seeing you again, thank you as always for updating us and helping us make sense of everything thats going on. To Doctors Point about a masks, this is an environment where there are a lot of protests going on, weve still not be able to link the latest spike in cases to what has been a lot of protests going on around the country since the tragic death of george floyd in minneapolis. What we know though is that they were sandwiched together across the country right now. Is it just coincidental that were seeing a spike in cases since . Were going to be exploring that. Also exploring the new wave of protests concerning statues and getting rid of them, forcibly. And with forcible response right now from no less than the president of the United States, sending in the troops. After this. Stock slices. For as little as 5, now anyone can own companies in the s p 500, even if their shares cost more. At 5 a slice, you could own Ten Companies for 50 instead of paying thousands. All Commission Free online. Schwab stock slices an easy way to start investing or to give the gift of stock ownership. Schwab. Own your tomorrow. For ralphies appointment. Whos his groomer . Carrie. Full groom for sure what . I just booked ralphies appointment online. That work . Wait you what . Its that easy download the app or book online at petsmart. Com neil you ready to do time for taking down a statue . That is the president s latest executive order to sort of rein in some of these bizarre attacks on statutes that have been there, in the case of a couple, centuries. Right now the president indicating enough enough. David spunt following that at the white house with what this could mean. Reporter neil, good morning. I was supposed to be coming to you from new jersey, but President Trump cancel ised his trip to bedminister, instead hes golfing at his Virginia Club but said he wants to stay in town to protect some of these federal statues and restore law and order. Yesterday he signed an executive order dealing with some of these monuments and threatening to take federal funding away from local cities and towns that do not protect these monuments. He announced that yesterday. Now, in some cases, neil, monuments were taken down by city officials, but in many cases they were taken down with chains and set on fire as was the case, weve been playing the video all week, with the statue of confederate general albert pike in washington d. C. That happened on june 19th. Earlier this week people put chains on the famed statue of Andrew Jackson across the street from where im standing in Lafayette Park. Minutes later authorities were on scene and blocked off the park so theres no access to the statue. This poster put out by the fbi shows 15 people wanted for vandalizing that jackson statue. Destruction of federal property could bring up to ten years behind bars if convicted. Neil, yesterday i took a tour of the fbis strategic Information Operations center, the hub of all intelligence coming in to the fbi about vandalism across the country. I spoke to fbi director Christopher Wray about what hes doing to stop it. Listen. Equal justice is essential, but violence and destruction of property is not the way to insure it. And to the extent that theres a federal nexus involved in that conduct, people need to understand that the fbi will take steps to investigate and hold the wrongdoers accountable. Reporter neil, race is one of his wray says one of his Top Priorities is working with federal and local officials. I want to show you a picture i took this morning on my way in to the white house. You see those tall fences going up, thats near the executive Office Building on 17th street on the back side, on the south side of the white house. Officials not saying exactly what those are for, but this debate continues to rage on. We continue seeing these statues or, excuse me, these fences going up near these statues. Also, though, around the white house. And according to fbi officials, they could be up for the next several months into the going into the election. Neil. Neil thank you, david, very thorough report. David 13u7b9 at the white house. And as david was pointing out, the president was supposed to be in bedminster, new jersey, this weekend. He is at home at the white house sort of monitoring events and whether anything gets improved this weekend with the whole statue thing. It occurs at the time, postexecutive order, whether he has doubled up on existing laws that are in place including the Veterans Memorial preservation act which already has punishments and potential jail term for those who do attack historical landmarks. Lets get the red on all of the read on all of that from Major General william walker, d. C. National guard commanding general. There are 400 troops already deployed to protect monuments. General, thank you for taking the time, sir. Do you expect any trouble this weekend . Good morning, mr. Cavuto. We do not. First of all, let me just give a quick shoutout to the magnificent soldiers and airmen and civilians of the district of Columbia National guard. I simply could not be more proud of these amazing patriots. So, no, sir. We dont expect anything that we cant handle. We are in direct support of the United States park police, the metropolitan Police Department, and together we will protect these monuments and statues. Neil you know, general, i was mentioning the fact thats already on the books that, you know, punishing people for doing the kind of stuff thats happening right now, i raised it with the interior secretary, you know, under his purview these statues rest, and he was saying this kind of stuff is is necessary. I want you to e act to this, general. This kind of thing necessary i didnt hear the question. Theyre going to deal with us, and well deal with them severely, well deal with them with dispatch. And the president has neil what do you mean, what do you mean youll deal with them severely and with dispatch . Does that mean are there cars there . Are there Law Enforcement there to arrest them if they even take this on . Ive heard that a National Guard troops might be brought in, they may be there now. What . Thats absolutely the case. Neil all right. I apologize, general, but what he was saying, essentially, is we have the power to do this, we will do this. These are vital sorts of land a marks. You agree to disagree, violently taking them down isnt the answer. I guess im asking you, sir, if people try to do that, what do you do . They wont be successful. The United States park police, the metropolitan Police Department and the men and women of the district of Columbia National guard will protect these monuments and statues. Neil so across the country i think, you know, we have this issue where some are controversial, you know, confederate generals, soldiers, you know . As you know, general, even on capitol hill to remove the former speakers of the house because they were around the time of the confederacy and supportive of slavery. As an american patriot, do you think this is going too far . You know, i havent really given it any thought. Heres what i do know, were going to protect the statues until theyre either removed or they remain. But i havent given any thought about should they come down or should they stay. My job with, my mission is to protect. Neil all right. So that applies to some at first glance, thats an odd statue to want to take down, this emancipation memorial featuring Abraham Lincoln, you know, at his feet is a slave kneeling down. And yet it was Abraham Lincoln who freed the slaves. Im just wondering whether you fear this goes a little too far. I havent given any thought, mr. Cavuto. Heres what i know, is that were going to help the Police Protect it. Neil very good, sir. Thank you very, very much. General, be well, be safe, be healthy, you and your men and women. Well be monitoring that very closely and the legality of all this. As i said, with laws on the books, is this really more powerful message . Well explore that after this. You doing okay . Yeah. This moving thing never gets any easier. Well, xfinity makes moving super easy. I can transf