hi there. i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me. the new number of coronavirus cases in the united states, second highest single day total since the pandemic began and the latest sign dr. anthony fauci told congress the u.s. is going in the wrong direction. put it in perspective for all of us. what things look like today on this first day of july and compare it to a month ago.

june 1st, 24 states showing double-digit declines in new cases compared to the prior week. now -- almost the entire country is the exact opposite. look at that. the explosion is forcing 19 states to now pause or roll back reopening plans. one of them is california where the governor is said to announce new restrictions a little later today. in california, leading states with the number of new cases, just over 7,500. texas, florida, arizona and georgia rounding out the top five. and as the nation begins the sixth full month of dealing with this crisis, president trump remains largely silent. even as a growing number of republicans are now breaking with him and urging americans to wearing a masks. even as dr. fauci warns we could see 100,000 new cases a day in this country. new york governor andrew cuomo blasting trump saying the president "denied reality of this situation from day one." and now one health expert says it will be cuomo along with

other state and local officials who will have to be the ones turning this thing around. >> we're now reaping what was se sew sown. we didn't do what we needed to do and i believe this situation is so grim and getting worse by the day, that everybody is going to begin to understand it's their responsibility, and we don't have the national leadership. we're going to have local leadership and i think you'll see the mayors and the governing singing a very different tune from now on. they know it's in their backyard and their job to take care of it if no one else does. >> start with florida. florida, the department of health there is reporting just over 6,500 new cases bring the state total to nearly 159,000. despite the surge, governor ron desantis refuses to issue a

state-wide mask mandate, and when it comes to hitting the pause button on reopening, desantis says florida in his words is not going back. cnn's randi kaye is live in palm beach county and obviously the governor there, randi, defiant, but there will be some closures for this fourth of july holiday weekend. what are some of those changes? >> reporter: absolutely. because the governor says he's not going to shut the state down again, many local lead verse to take it into their own hands. a lot of them are closing beaches here in palm beach county. beaches closed holiday wreekend miami-dade and broward county and marone count where the florida keys are. have a volusia county, keeping their beach open monitoring using drones. going to monitor crowds. we'll see how well that works out, but the governor has been defiant. blaming young people for the increased number of cases that we're seeing. certainly not saying that florida did anything wrong. he's basically saying that everything is well here, but

that certainly is not the case. we learned today jackson memorial hospital, the largest hospital in miami, is now once again going to stop elective surgeries saying that the covid numbers have doubled in their hospital in the last two weeks, and they just cannot afford the hospital beds for elective surgery. i caught up with the governor yesterday to ask him what he thinks about how florida is doing. did he make any mistakes and why with numbers spiking, does he get so angry when the media suggests florida is like new york? listen to what he said. >> may and early june were our best testing numbers, very low. test results in terms of percent positive. obviously you've seen a higher percentage test positive now, just understand some of those states were testing at 60% 70%. we've been 10% to 15% and want to get it down into the single digits. comparing us what we're doing with that. >> if i could follow-up? if i could just follow-up quickly --

>> reporter: his handler shut me down before i could follow-up. quickly the governor says 15% 10% positively rate. not true. yesterday a 22.24% positivity rate. the numbers just don't square. >> randi, good for you for trying for the follow-up. so many questions about what's going on. thank you at the beach in palm beach county. talk about california. many beaches there already being close and fireworks canceled ahead of this weekend's fourth of july celebrations and folks bracing for more restrictions that could be coming today from the governor. gavin newsom. cnn's dan simon is live in pacific palisades, california, and dan, what's the plan? >> reporter: well, governor newsom says he has a toggle switch and it can go up or down. we don't know what he is going to announce today but there's a sense it needs to be significant, because california did flatten the curve, but things have clearly gotten out

of control. yesterday we saw the second highest tally since the pandemic began. when it comes to cases. as you said, brooke, the beaches will be closed over the fourth of july weekend. normally the beaches here would be packed. they will be closed to avoid large gatherings, no fireworks either. might the governor extend that throughout the entire state? we have to wait and see. could it impact restaurants? who knows. a lot of speculation in terms of what the governor will do. i can tell you one leading doctor in the state, dr. robert walker chairs the ucsf department of medicine says the california miracle is clearly over. he says basically when things began to open up during memorial day weekend people got complacent. stopped wearing masks and now we're seeing large spread community spread throughout the state of california and obviously los angeles is right at the epicenter. >> listening for all the word to come down from governor newsom. meantime, dan, thank you. now to texas with nearly

7,000 new coronavirus cases confirmed just yesterday. just yesterday. highest number of daily infections in the entire state. hospitalizations are also surging to troubling new highs. cnn lucy kafanov is near a testing site in houston. you htell me what you're seeing and what the plan is for folk there's? >> reporter: terms of the plan, we haven't seen anything new announcinged from the governor. yesterday he expanded restricting basically elective surgeries in four different counties but no new state-wide measures. actually saw the lieutenant governor go on fox news yesterday slamming dr. anthony fauci saying that the nation's top infectious disease expert doesn't know what he's talking about. shows you how politicized this issue has gone here. really been on local communities to try to enforce new measures to try to keep these cases from going up. here in houston, harris county, one of the hardest hit. so many cases. we are in pront offront of a te facility. the line of cars stretched miles

and this was hours before the facility opened. people afraid of the prospect what will happen to them. bun family worked with someone who got infected with covid and here to get a test. take a listen. >> this is scary to be honest. really scary. we all got family, and i mean, yeah. it's just real scary. you know? because we can't work either. you know? you got to be missing days, or we got to be always looking out for each other. so it's real scary. >> reporter: and the other scary thing here, brooke, is the people getting tested are not going to get results for another ten days. that means they'll go into fourth of july weekend, might potentially have this disease. going to be upon them, burden on them to choose to stay home in order not to spread it. all of this as texas continues to break records. >> if you think you're sick, right? stay kafanov, thank you, from

houston. and new steps take ton slow spread of infections including as we reported earlier many beaches closing for the fourth of july weekend. and masks made mandatory in many parts of the states. with me, miami beach mayor dan gelber. mayor, thank you for jumping on tv with me and i mean, what you all are doing in miami, you're saying, anyone in a public area indoors or outdoors where they cannot social distance will have to wear a mask. how do you enforce that? >> well we create add $50 fine, because reverting to arrests seemed pretty impractical and not something we wanted to do. also we'll have ambassadors giving out tens of thousands of masks in public places especially our nom naiinateds w the idea to urge compliance. look, there's not a lot of stuff left in the tool kit and we're trying to do everything. restaurants closed at midnight. a curfew we start tonight at

12:30. liquor stores closed at 8:00 p.m. doing everything we can, because we don't want to end up sheltering in place again. >> what do you say to the folks who say, i don't want to wear a mask. you're infringing upon my freedom? what do you say to them? >> that's ridiculous. it's just -- secondhand smoke, it's the same thing. it's not your freedom. it's the freedom of a loved one or somebody you don't know from getting sick and perhaps deathly sick. 1,000 people, or 1,000 deaths in our county. not our state. our county. that's today. so this is a pretty serious thing. it shouldn't be this hard to get people to wearing a masks. you know -- if the messaging from the state, and from the federal government was, we all are doing this together, it would be easier. we're trying to convince people to do something that other people tell them is somehow an insult to their family if they do it. of course, that's absurd. >> to the fine of $50. do you think that that is enough

of a deterrent? reading this morning that the mayor of savannah, georgia, will charge $500. would you, depending how this goes especially over the weekend, mayor, would you be willing to up the fine? >> i think whatever the fine is, the compliance is going to happen if it's actually imposed or people follow. the moment you make it mandatory. like seat belts. made it mandatory, people started to comply because thare people who follow rules, as we know. so we're trying to manage risk here by getting as many as possible. you know, not going to get absolute compliance. right now we have horrible compliance. especially from people going out to socialize, and my city gets a lot of those because we tend to be a destination for those folks. >> you have the governor, who has drawn this line in the sand on additional closures. here he was. >> and we're not going back closing things. i don't think that that really is what's driving it.

i mean, people go into business, it's not what's driving it. you see the younger folks. a lot is more social interactions. so that's natural. >> so not going back on closures, meaning, despite the spike in cases, not reclosing businesses. do you think that's the right call? and if not, what can you even do about it? >> well, the truth of the matter is that if we end up getting to a point where a health care apparatus can't treat everybody we're not going to have a choice no matter what anybody says right now. that's a hard line in the sand obviously. but the other point is ee, though, when a hurricane is coming everybody's on the same page. tells you exactly what do did and they do it. so many other cross-currents of what you should be doing. if everybody said from the top down wearing a mask. it's okay. it's not a political statement. it's just a statement of caring

and help, we would be fine. we're going to do everything we can. by the way, we sheltered in place in my city before any other city in florida. we don't want to do that. nobody wants to do that, but obviously if we glet to the poit the spike is so spiked we won't have an option. >> you know hurricanes are in florida. you know how to jump, how to get on the same page and why should this be any different? mayor dan gelber, thank you very much. best of luck to you with all of this. >> thank you. we have breaking news today. a new study reports the death toll in the united states could actually be dramatically higher. we have those new details. and the president and thousands of spectators getting ready for a fourth of july celebration at mount rushmore this weekend. where there will be no requirement for masks or social distancing. we'll discuss. and the president also taking time this morning to rage tweet on a variety of issues,

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assistant professor at george washington university hospital. so doctor, thank you so much for being on and why do you think there's such a gap in the numbers? >> well, there's a number of reasons. initially it was about testing. also recognition of the different ways that the virus can kill people. initially thought a primarily respiratory disease, we sought patient whose came in with respiratory symptoms. flu-like illness, if you will and reserved a limited number of tests for them and why we had a very high positivity rate during those times. when we saw patients that died from respiratory illness during that time we assumed it was covid and in most cases were able to test for it. but we've long feared there were a number of patients dieing in the hospital and outside of the hospital particularly early on in this disease process that were dieing from covid but it wasn't attributed to that, because testing wasn't vibl. available. >> as i sit here talking to you itching my face, everyone to

know, hand sanitizer. we're all so aware. right? not wearing a mask, speaking of mas masks, health officials implored americans to wearing a masks. even a new study finding the design and material face masks can impact how effective they are. so what do we need to know when picking out a mask? >> the important thing is that people wear one. regardless of the material if you can put some form of a barrier between you and people you may be coughing on, anything is better than nothing, but certainly the material matters. in the health care setting, particularly, say, in a surgical setting, surgeons have been wearing masks over 100 years to prevent their droplets from getting into the bodies of their patients, the purpose of these masks, a standard surgical mask works very well. not everyone in the general public has access to that material. we saw a number of entrepreneur people developing cloth masks and it's become its own industry

at this point and there's variations in that. a well constructed well-fitted mask adhering tightly to your face, particularly with special filters that can be replaced, certainly has to be washable. i would pick up one of those and make sure it fits tightly. >> to see, you see so many walking around way bandanna pulled up. three feet away versus a person inches with a stitched mask. important for all of us to see. speaking of masks and the man who doesn't wear one, the president of the united states. so we know that president trump and the first lady will be traveling to mount rushmore for an early fourth of july celebration where thousands will gather. social distancing and masks we're told will not be mandatory. the south dakota governor said people should focus on personal responsibility. doctor, why is this a bad idea? >> it's simply passing the buck. we have lacked leadership from

the top throughout this entire event. president trump is the incident commander for this entire outbreak for the united states and he's failed at that leadership. how hard is it for the person in charge to encourage people to do the one simple thing that we know can really help prevent other people from getting sick? you know, i'm from tulsa. i went to medical school there and my wife is from there. so the rally there meant a lot to us, and we worked hard to keep our friends and family safe and encouraged mask wearing. what i can say is that 6,500 people showed up but tens of thousands did not. what i ask of the people who are considered going to an event like this, no social distancing and nor masking encouraged do what the people of tulsa and oklahoma did. don't show up. stay home. stay safe. enjoy your holiday in another way. do it next year or the year after. keep your family safe. doesn't seem the leaders are looking out for your best

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president trump is lashing out at new york city's plans to paint black lives matter on fifth avenue right outside of his trump tower calling the phrase den grading and symbol of hate and suggested new york police should stop the sign from being painted and blasted new york mayor bill de blasio from slashing from the budget, responded calling it a symbol of truth and called the president's disparaging remarks the definition of racism. an organizer, one of the original members of black lives matter and a professor of pan-african studies at cal state

los angeles. so it is truly a pleasure to have you on. welcome. >> thank you so much for having me. >> so let's just begin with the words the president used about this street painting. a symbol of hate. your response to that? >> i think it's the height of hypocrisy for donald trump to call anything a symbol of hate. he is the embodiment of hate, and for him to say that affirming the value of black life is somehow hate, again, reminds us of who he is. >> hmm. well, he -- as he's tweeting this, she tripling down. if you just look at this week alone, the fact that he shared two videos on twitter, one of which showing, you know, this guy shouting "white power." other showing a couple in st. louis pointing gun s at

protesters and then this nypd tweet. it is only wednesday. he is stoking this. if the president wins again, how should the country respond? >> i think we need to remember who he is. that donald trump is the embodiment of white supremacist terrorism. when he is tweeting videos of people throwing up white power and really entrernlging himself within the white terrorist movement, right? he's done that not just only over the last week, but over the last four years, and you see that really manifest in terms of the surge in hate crimes, which are primarily meted out on black people and at the hands of white people. so it's really important to understand what donald trump has done to this country, and where he's chose tn to align himself.

for him, again, to call anything hate is really the height of hypocrisy, and, you know, we need as a country to be willing to point to him and say that he is actually the terrorist in chief. >> wow. those are strong, strong words. obviously the white house would dispute that, but you're allowed your freedom of opinion, and the fact is that the president is highly critical of black lives matter. you know, also critical of a notion tearing down our nation's monuments, confederate monuments because as he points out they a part of our nation's history, but isn't the part of the reason [ bleep ] w black lives matter was because of our nation's history? can you speak to that? take us back to the beginning. >> absolutely. black lives matter is working towards a world that no longer targets black people for demise. right? we recognize that the foundation of this country is really one that has been grounded in

racism. it's based on the stolen land of indigenous people and the stolen labor of black people, and if we're going to really kind of advance the cause of justice, we need to come to a place of reckoning where we recognize exactly what this country is based on and do all that we can to remedy those wrongs and move forward in a new way. so black lives matter was founded in order to affirm the value of black life and to protect black life, and so for the president of this country to call that affirmation a symbol of hate i think says much more about who he is than it does about who we are. we're also in a moment in this country where i think the entire nation is beginning to shift and recognize that they, too, black or not black, need to affirm the value of black life, and that's what the painting of these words

means, and we're also saying that beyond saying black lives matter, this country needs to also make black lives matter by shifting policy and practices in a way that is embracing and uplifting to black people in particular, and by extension, all people. >> and much of that can be decided, if people you know, exercise that first amendment right and show up on november 3rd n. that is up to americans across the board. appreciate you and appreciate your voice. one of the original members of black lives matter. this movement. thank you very much. the ban on american travel to the european union goes into affect today. why authorities say doing otherwise would be a public health hazard. and bars suing the government over forcing them to shut down. we'll talk to one of those bar owners a little bit later.

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outbreak of any virus. most rooted in chinese transparency or lack thereof following the novel coronavirus outbreak. >> reporter: i'm shasta darlington in sao paulo. rio da rio dade janeiro preparing to on gyms and restaurants tomorrow and private schools next week even though the number of new covid-19 infections in the state has not slowed, and the rate of contagion has gone up since allowing shopping malls and offices to reopen earlier this month. in fact, the pan-american health organization warned countries like brazil, argentina and peru aren't likely to peak until mid-august. the group of director said the death toll in latin america could quadruple by october. >> reporter: here in mexico city different parts of the economy are reopening all week long and today one of our most visual representations of that.

that will be at restaurants. they're allowed to reopen to diners with a 50% capacity. hotels are also being allowed to reopen tomorrow. it's going to be markets here and later in the week places like hair salons as cases and deaths in mexico continue to rise at an alarming rate making public health experts worried this reopening is coming too soon. meanwhile news out of the president's office, president obrador set to visit president trump in washington, d.c. for a bilateral meeting july 8th. >> reporter: i'm fred pleitgen in brussels with the european unions easing of traffic restrictions is in effect, however, americans continue to be banned from entering the european union's territory. now, all of this is despite the fact that american travelers usually bring billions of dollars here to the continent. however, authorities here in the european union believe letting americans in would be a public health hazard because of the

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we're buying on the rumor that the economy is going to come roaring back. but the reality is with the escalation in covid cases we are far from roaring back, and very briefly i'll tell you. the s&p 500 represents 500 of the largest companies in the worlds. 200 of those 500 companies are no longer giving quarterly guidance into what their numbers look like. if that doesn't scare you, i don't get it. to me right now, when those second quarter results start coming out in the next couple of weeks we're going to have a reality check in the stock market, and we're going to begin to see the economy reflected tz in the stock market. >> i ask about jobs. say a number payroll company adp. added 2.4 million jobs in june but total unemployment below pre-pandemic levels. what about as it relates to jobs and seeing an uptick in covid

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some of you may know but i was pretty sick in early april. and i, like so many of you, had coronavirus. in the sickest moments, i imagined the day i would feel better and be able to turn this experience into good. and this week i have done exactly that with the red cross

and my antibodies. i wanted to take a cnn camera with me, as it was my first time doing anything like this and show you how easy it was and how you too can help. >> morning. >> reporter: three months since i test said positive for coronavirus, i finally get to do some good. hi, i'm brooke. >> here at an american red cross pop-up site in newark, new jersey, people, like me who have recovered from covid-19, can donate their plasma. >> so, the plasma has, other than nutrients, it has the antibodies in it too. >> that's amazing. so, they get my antibodies to fight the virus. >> reporter: but before i show you how it's done and how you too can help, let me remind you how i got here. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> our friend and colleague, brooke baldwin, who normally anchors at this time has, herself, been diagnosed with

coronavirus. >> on april 3rd, i found out i was sick. coronavirus took a full two-week beating on my body. >> i can feel i'm, like, fighting it all night and i had this golf-ball size gland yesterday. >> but still i was one of the lucky ones. eventually i got the all clear from my doctors and was able to get back on my feet. >> i feel so much better. >> i love that you're healthy now and you want to help people who are still sick. >> i want to be able to donate my plasma. >> flash forward to today, i finally get to do exactly that. >> you have very good platelets. >> reporter: this is a team supervisor with the american red cross. she lives in california but left her family behind for two weeks to help with the overwhelming case load in new york and new jersey. and now, as the curve flatens, she's heading back to the west coast where coronavirus cases

are once again on the rise. >> i knew there was a decrease before we kiem out. and now it's an increase. >> here's how this works. with the needle in my arm, blood is drawn. this machine then separates my plasma, the yellow liquid, from my blood and the blood gets pumped back into my body. but the best part, learning where the plasma will go. >> let's assume i have aern antibodies and good stuff in need, who else would need my blood? somebody else in the hospital who's really sick? >> somebody in the hospital sick with covid-19 who's having a hard time recovering. this is actually saving the life of mothers who can go back to their kids. >> i'm going to cry. ha-ha. >> you got a needle in your harm.

[ laughter] >> even a after 17 years on the job, this is emotional for her. she lost her sister to leukemia four years ago, but thanks to donor blood, platelets and plasma, her sister was able to live long enough to meet her baby boy. >> unfortunately she passed ten months after. so, blood donation is -- i'm more into it because of the mission itself. >> thanks to her and the red cross team, they made this prosacy first for me, pretty painless. and after about an hour, i was done. i'm a little woozy but so grateful to give. so, this goes to three people. >> it will get separated to these three bags. >> this little guy can save three people. that's amazing.

>> it is so amazing and nurse robeap for holding my hand, red cross amazing. go to red cross blood.org. and if you haven't had coronavirus but want to give a blood donation, you can totally do it. go to their website as well. we continue on. you are watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. 34,000. that is the staggering number of new coronavirus cases in the united states. it is the single -- second highest single-day total since the pandemic began and the latest sign, that as dr. anthony fauci told congress, the u.s. is going in the wrong direction. just a month ago, nearly half were showing declined and now reopening plans in