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Another grim record, another grim milestone for the sunshine state. Nearly 100 of those victims were in miamidade county. Thats where things stand on this monday morning, august 3rd. With us we have contributor Mike Barnicle. White house reporter for Associated Press, jonathan lemire. Host of kasie dc on msnbc, the great kasie hunt. And politics and journalism professor, politics editor and msnbc political contributor, Jason Johnson will join us in a moment. Jonathan lemire, i want to start with you and then go to kasie and get her take on whats happening on capitol hill or whats not happening...

Exactly three months to the election, christine. America could have another opportunity to slow the pandemic in the meantime. Biggest question, will citizens get it right. New cases down or steady. The twoweek average is down about 8 . Cases only rising in a handful of states. The number of americans in hospital beds is trending lower. A big part of this is numbers heading down in states that desperately needed to turn a corner. Covidrelated deaths very much a lagging indicator. They are still up in 30 states. The cdc is now forecasting 173,000 deaths by august 22nd. Thats 1,000 deaths per day...

Good morning, everybody. It is monday, august 3rd, and im yasmin vossoughian. Weve investigate a lot to cover this morning. Were going to begin with the wave of new coronavirus cases spreading across the country. From coast to coast, the number of confirmed cases jumped by about 2 million during the month of july. The u. S. Ended the month with about 4. 5 million infections, up from 2 million at the end of june. The previous high was april when 880,000 new cases were recorded. Data shows cases of the virus are picking up. Illinois is reimposing restrictions and issuing warnings about a rise in...

Right, enthusiasm to defeat him. The headliner this evening is first Lady Michelle obama. What are we expecting her to say . Well, jake, this is a bit of a continuation im told from her 2016 speech. Youll remember of course she was the first lady at the time. And talking about all the attacks that her family withstood and endured. She famously said when they go low, we go high. So i am told she will expound upon that a bit. She is going to say what exactly going high means. She will talk about how getting involved in this summer of protests was so important. I am told she is going to be talkin...

Would begin here briefly with our meteorologist bill karins, who has the very latest from the National Hurricane center update. Hey, bill. Hey, brian. We are watching this storm closely as its bringing a tornado threat. Were getting high winds. Were hearing reports of water being overwashed onshore. Then were going to deal with this storm for the next 24 hours up the eastern seaboard. First off you can see the position of the category 1 hurricane right along the South Carolina georgia border where it meets the coast. Weve heard significant reports of damage near bald head island. The worst of ...