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Coordinator dr. deborah birx privately warning leaders in 11 cities seeing surges in cases to take immediate action. in audio obtained by the center for public integrity. >> this is really critical that everybody is following this and making sure they're being aggressive about mitigation efforts. >> reporter: all this as the u.s. crosses that grim milestone, more than 4 million cases. and with hospitalizations rising in 41 states, back up to april levels, late today, the president said this about the state of the country. >> this is a copy of the map and this is -- you have it right behind me,...

Brian: let me follow up with that so here we are, we have done this for two and a half weeks now. dr. saphier. why isn't our curve bending? the people that were infected are infected. at the very least. wouldn't you think in theory the numbers should be going down? i don't think the going down yet. this virus itself has a long incubation period and prolonged space and you say we should be seeing numbers going down but we are seeing the numbers changing because of these mitigation efforts. you hear governor cuomo talk about all the time dr. birx talk about that the doubling time elongated. star...

Week long. as a result of that, two people have been killed and upwards of a billion dollars has been caused in damages there. so many iconic sites, st. mark's still closed, suffering from flooding. the italian government created a fund of $22 million so people can file damage claims. but on a personal scale, the people will only get about $5,000. when you look at this video, you can realize that's only a drop in the bucket as to the long road ahead that these people will have to face recoverywise. this flooding event doesn't want to really lessen there for the days ahead. we know that it's su...

Have access to cleaner water, if people see a value in it, they might buy into it. >> our most trusted institutions are the military these days, and it does seem as if since in the military there's been more experience with seeing it in realtime. >> well, the military tends to be very clear-eyed and pragmatic about threats and it's a planning culture and like to look way off into the future. what's interesting while the trump administration has been trying to take reference to the word climate change out of the national security strategy, out of the defense strategy, out of dod reports and to ...

Have access to cleaner water. if people see a value in it, they might buy into it. >> our most trusted institutions are the military these days. and it does seem as if, since in the military, there's been more experience with seeing it in real time. >> the military tends to be clear eyed and pragmatic about threats and it's a planning culture. they like to look way off into the future and what's interesting is while the trump administration has been trying to take reference to the word climate change out of the national security center out of the defense strategy, out of dod reports, and to cu...