hello, everyone. i'm kate battalion. thanks so much for joining us for the next two hours. an all-time record ever daily cases. here's what 50,000 new coronavirus infections in one day means in comparison to the world. the united states now has had more cases reported in one day than many countries have reported in the entire pandemic, seriously, and this is what the nationwide spike looks like right now. right now 37 states are heading in the wrong direction as the country heads into another holiday weekend sparking this warning from an icu nurse in texas which, of course, is facing some of the worst of it right now. >> i don't think i have seen anything like this ever, and i would say that if you want to see august 1st then maybe you should stay indoors and isolate

on july 14th. >> president trump though has a very different view from the white house saying just this morning, meaning the administration's response is working out very well, literally saying that. listen. >> the crisis is being handled. there are some areas that are very hard hit are now doing well. some were doing very well and we thought it may be gone but they flare up, and we are putting out the fires. >> the numbers are hard to deny. vice president mike pence is heading to florida today which the data shows is heading into the wrong direct. the governor continues to downplay the urgency of the crisis. let's go there. cnn's boris sanchez is in sarasota, florida. boris, what are you seeing right there in florida? >> reporter: kate, we're just getting the latest numbers from the state of florida and they are unsettling to say the least. the state breaking a single-day

record for new coronavirus cases, more than so,100 new cases for the state just on -- within the last 24 hours. that's an uptick of 4,000 cases from what we saw in the last day alone after a very difficult weekend where we saw a large spike and a large surge in the number of covid cases. just to give you some idea the state of florida saw a rise in 100,000 new cases in the last month alone. here in sarasota, the first two days of june saw only a total of nine new covid cases and in the last 24 hours they have seen a rise of 220 which is part of the reason why there's a new face mask ruling in the public. wear one or face up to a $500 fine. say that to people who want to educate the public. they want people to take this seriously. governor ron desantis has

effectively said he does not see reinstalling the statewide stay-at-home order that was put in place a few months ago. he wants to leave it up to local officials to enforce their own restrictions and we're seeing that in places like sarasota and miami-dade county as well expanding their face mask mandate and installing a kur view on bars and restaurants and also closing down beaches for the holiday weekend but the situation here in florida is worsening and that's part of the reason why vice president mike pens is visiting tampa to meet with the governor. bore miss, that's are unsettling numbers for sure. appreciate it. hospitalization aytes are up in is a state for people sick enough with covid to require medical attention. let's go to texas where they are seeing a real spike at this moment, especially in hospitals being hit by capacity issues. take us inside the text has

hospital. what the did you see. >> texas is seeing spikes. we were in two hospitals, the small community hospital on the north end of town and a couple of days ago we went into san antonio's methodist hospital. very big, the biggest hospital group or chain in south texas. they are overwhelmed. doctor after doctor saying they are overwhelmed and what they are watching is the percentage of people testing positive, and in bexar county, for instance, they have gone in the last month, weekly average, so that rounds down the numbers because it's a weekly average but in the last four weeks they have gone from 3.6% to over 20% of the people being tested, testing positive. they know that there are more people coverage, for sick patients coming their way. they don't know how many or how long it's going to last, is and it's not just sick people. what we also discovered there,

there are moms, expectant mothers who are about to give birth who have the coronavirus and they have now cleared out one section of their nicu just for those moms and their newborns. so many infections increasingly. moms to be infected with the coronavirus. methodist hospital now has a dedicated unit in tips nicu for babies born to mothers who have it. >> reporter: that picture of every mom wants of the baby being born and holding the baby, does that happen with patients with covid? >> unfortunately, no. as soon as the baby is born, they do bring them right to us outside of the door so it's just a very brief moment that the mom might get a glimpse. >> reporter: so methodist hospital here in san antonio has three covid units, and an e.r. all three covid units are full up. the one where if you are the

sickest of the sick, it's a unit that has 14 beds. all 14 beds are taken up. one thing they have learned from the early days in new york and other places is they don't want to put people on a ventilator. they try not to do that at all costs. they do something called ecmo where they oxygen ate the blood. it's a brutal procedure to watch, put big tubes up your groin and to your heart basically and on the other side they circulate the blood out and oxygen ate it and that relieves the lungs from having to work so hard and gets oxygenated blood to all the body. they are having better success with that, but it is brutal. there are probably dozens of people that they are getting calls about in other parts of texas looking for that procedure, and the doctors there have to weigh who gets, it who doesn't, who is likely to survive and who is likely to benefit the most. it is a brutal process. kate? >> and an unimaginable decision that these doctors are having to

face, and in moments having to make these decisions who gets a bed and who doesn't. who gets the ecmo and who doesn't. miguel, it's so important though to bring it to light as hard as it is to watch. thanks, buddy, really appreciate it. >> california is among the states hitting new highs there pushing the governor there to enact more restrictions in many parts of the state heading into the holiday weekend, and then there is this. usc, the university of southern california is now changing course announcing that they will be holding most classes online in the fall after announcing last month that it was going to be pushing forward with in-person classes. that just shows you how much things are changing quickly. dan simons in brentwood, california right now joining us now. what's happening there today, dan? >> well, high, kate. it's a little early for most of the restaurants to open in los angeles but when they do it will be outdoor seating only like the restaurant you see behind me. governor newsome had a toggle

switch and flipped it back in a very significant way yesterday imposing restrictions across a whole bunch of different sectors impacting 19 counties. let's talk about some of the indoor operations that are now suspends. bars, wineries, museums, zoos, movie theaters and anything that is considered family-oriented. this is an order that will last three weeks and impacts 19 counties, 72% of the state's population so this will have a huge economic impact once again for people who work across those industries, and, of course, california is seeing a surge of cases, hospitalizations way up. 56% in the past couple of weeks, a very accepter number. in terms of the fourth of july holiday i can tell you that some counties will close their beaches, los angeles counties

included. state beacheses will close their parking lots to help avoid large gatherings. >> joining me now is the policy director for the hospital lab at the university of philadelphia. thanks for coming back. your team just put out the latest coronavirus projection model. it's a fascinating one as it goes county by counter and paints another sobering picture for where much of the country is headed. you say in your latest analysis that it's fair to say that we're witnessing a second wave. that terrifies me. what are you seeing? how would you describe it? >> well, for weeks we've been watching patchy outbreaks in different locations that then converged into states. as we saw arizona, florida and texas really be consumed by what is clearly epidemic growth and widespread community transmission but it's become more and more distressing that areas that had been doing quiet

doing well. we're seeing the epidemic spread really lake a wave across the country and our team has been fairly conservative trying not a overestimate risk in areas, but we have to call it like it is right now. this is a substantial we have and while we're talking about the south and southwest and the pacific coast. we're already starting to see signs that the epidemic is creeping back into areas like the northeast and people are not talking about that and i'm sure their leaders aren't. you aren't likely surprised are when you just heard the latest one-day numbers from florida from my colleague who is in florida and it's jumped now to over 10,000 infections in florida, a new one-day record for that state. >> i think about dr. fauci's comment that it would grow to 100,000 cases a day. kind of shock and awe but i

think was being conservative. our estimates are very distressing and very quickly if we don't have bold action and i'm not just talking about mayors and governors, it's the time to really we think when the state specific strategy can work particularly for other states that are trying and being conferred risk from travelers. i think it's time to rethink, you know, what's possibly coming. if not, we'll be reduced to spectators in a very large stage and i worry about the capacity in many regions. are you in a place as you're looking at another wave already coming right now and this is well before when it was feared which was the fall which is what we were looking at which is a second phase. are you in a place to say that the state-by-state strategy has failed? >> i think it could have worked but i think we needed some

national standards, but i think at this point it's hard not to look at the data and think that a state-by-state strategy is going to succeed. you're seeing very bold action from certain governors, particularly in the northeast to try to prevent the risk from spreading north again, but, you know, short of putting up checkpoints at state boarders, i don't know how that is enforce ubl and states like georgia are really starting to be consumed by the risk in the south. you know, i think at this point the time for national action is pretty undebatable. >> let me ask you. it's very interesting to dive into your model and your blog posts about it are easy to divest to people who are not scientists or if i visions so i'm interested in it. your model is seeing real areas of concerns rp around college counties and we highlighted it. you're highlighting knox county,

likes knoxville, tennessee. what's going on around that area? what does it mean for the fall. what have you seen that concerns you that makes you highlight this? >> i don't know whether students are starting to return or campuses are starting to repopulate. they did not see the risk early on that we're seeing now in nashville and memphis, and they attributed that to a fair amount of vigilance, the fact that colleges have shut down but now collegedowns are very much a part of the increase, see it in lancing, michigan, philadelphia. already pittsburgh has had a significant outbreak this week, and, you know, everything we've done it, and i'm a pediatrician, has been focused on getting kids back to school in the fall and getting college students back to college, but that was always predicated on driving our case counts down sufficiently so that it could be safe. when i hear about usc's decision

i totally understand it this morning, and i think we have to kind of revisit our school reopenings if there's no way that anyone in their right mind should be reopening schools if places like like florida at the end of august. now is the time for bold action where we can get serious minded discussions where we can get all of our schools back into some resumption of normal activity. >> i have to tell you, doctor, often leaning on smart folks like you, i'm at a sense that we're at a moment of reckoning. it's not entirely clear how many people are -- that are in positions to make big decisions and -- and take this bold action, that they are even at a place of ready to face and accept at this moment which is a terrifying thought. >> well, i will say that i am encouraged by some of the bolder action of some of our governors. i think when you see governor cuomo talking about a gathering storm in new york or gathering

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>> you still believe so? >> well, i do, sure, at some point, and i think we'll have a vaccine very soon, too. >> this isn't the first time that you've heard that line from the president. in fact, a consistent message to him over the entire course of the pandemic. >> looks like by april in, theory, when it gets a little recall with aer it miraculously goes away. >> it's going to go away. >> this is going to be gone. eventually it's going to be gone. >> it's going away. >> this virus has done anything but go away. cases are spiking at dangerous levels across the country and still you have not just the president but even the administration downplaying the severity of the pandemic. >> we see embers around the country. we always knew that would come with reopening. we're aware that there's embers that need to be put out. >> the growth rate is only up a little bit. we're going to have hot spots, no question. >> the truth is we did slow the spread. we flattened the curve.

>> cnn correspondent john harwood joining us me now. what do you hear about the president's handling of all this going on right now? >> reporter: pretty well shut down, kate, but the new unemployment numbers showing 4.8 million jobs added. the unemployment rate is coming down. unequivocally good news for the economy, and that's puts the president right where we want to talk about. he came out and had a brief appearance in the white house briefing room, boasted about economic progress and did not subject himself to scrutiny from those of us in the room about what exactly he's doing about the brush fire in multiple states, especially the sun belt that threatens all the economic progress. that's one of the problems about data. the jobless rate that the

president was touting today was derived in mid-june before the virus resurged is. that now threatens to throw into reears a lot of economic gains that he was talking about, bub economic gains is what he wants to discuss. he was there with his treasury secretary and economic adviser larry kudlow. haven't seen the task force there recently. the president is on the topic today that he wants to be on, and he is willing to let the coronavirus be handled by governors and not be put front and center by him and neither the president for kudlow nor steve mnuchin were wearing a mask when they came out today. >> during the interview that the president did give, he talked about face conversation. the let's play that for folks. >> i'm all for masks. if i were in a group of people and i was close, i mean, people have seen me wearing one. i sort of liked the way i looked, okay, i thought it was

okay. it was a dark black mask and looked okay, like the lone ranger. >> what do you do with that, john? >> reporter: well, kate, you're too young to know this, but the lone ranger wore a mask over his eyes, not over his nose and mouth, and that is what president trump has been besearched to do by politicians across the spectrum. he's not willing to do it. he made a cursory reference to people following the guidance of local officials, best practices, face conversation and social distancing, but given the scale of the crisis we you're peerpsing right now. you have a lot of people who are waiting for the president to come out and wear one in public, urge his supporters to wear one and maybe even mandate them, but he's not exowed the admonitions of members of his task force like the surgeon general who the

other day said please, please, please wear a mask. >> good to see you, john. thank you. >> coming up, lines that stretch for miles. test results taking days to come back. now months into the pandemic why are testing facilities across the country struggling again to keep up with demand.

as coronavirus cases surge here in the united states, testing, which the white house task force has says has increased fivefold since april, testing could again become a major issue, but, folks, the medical testing stray are warning once again they might not be able to keep up with the coming demand and seens like this and what you're seeing on your screens in houston are playing out across the country. people waiting for long lines and some waiting for miles to get tested for the virus. joining me now is a member of the trade association that conduct and process these coronavirus tests, critical companies in the fight against the coronavirus right now. julie, thank you very much for being here.

talk to me about what you are hearing. how much has demand for tests increased in let's say just the past three weeks? >> well, good morning, and you're right. laboratories are critical and speaking for my members, they have dramatically expanded their testing capacity, it doubling that capacity just in a matter of weeks and even with those expansions we're seeing steady and significant increases in demand for testing. we're concerned that that demand will exceed our current capacity. we don't want that to happen. we're working around the clock to expand out testing resources to make sure that everyone who needs a test did get one. when and if testing demand does exceed testing what istition, what happens then, julie?

. >> well, we want to make sure that everyone is adhering to recommendations by public health officials to wear masks and to be socially distant. it's also important that we have clear testing guidelines to make sure that those who need the testing most can receive the testing. we're also calling upon congress to make sure that they designate funding. there's been the promise of free testing in this nation, but we have concerns about loosening of insurance requirements to cover some types of testing and congress needs to step up. we need to make sure that anyone who wants a test they can get one. >> when do you think that the industry will be hitting had the wall with testing capacity? >> the demand is very fluid. it depends on supplies, and we've heard a lot about supplies over the last three months and my member laboratories do done a

lot of things to expand out those resources, validating different types of swabs, earning to. you've seen laboratories offer at-home specimen collection which significantly reduces the need for ppe. you've also heard a lot about specimen pooling in recent weeks where -- where we're going to lead with the science, but we do think that there are opportunities there, particularly in areas of low prevalence, and that will assist in the effort to expand out testing supply. >> so you just can't estimate that? >> there's really no sort of one size fits all solution to testing. we can't guarantee a specific testing mark. certainly steady access to supply is important. what i can tell you is my member labs have performed over 16 million tests. in a matter of weeks, again, we double out the capacity, and we're going to keep doing everything that we can to continue to expand that capacity

and meet our nation's needs. >> do you see possible to process 50 million tests a month because that's what the white house says they will be capable of by the fall. >> so, again, speaking for my members, at this point we're performing about 300,000 tests per day. that's compared to about 100,000 tests in april. we're going to need everyone. every clinical lab who has the capabilities to perform this test needs to do so in addition to looking at other innovative ways, looking to things like pooling, point of care testing, antigen testing, and at this point we're certainly not at the point of hitting those numbers. we'll keep doing our part together. >> julie, thank you for your time. coming up next for us, stocks soar after the positive jobs report, but how much do the numbers reflect reality? i like liberty mutual.

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states opening up and people getting back to work. the unemployment rate then fell to 11.1%, better, but that is relative now, of course, and still 1.4 million people filed for unemployment insurance last week, the 15th straight week those numbers have been over 1 million. joining me right now is chief economist and moody's analytics mark zandi. good to see you. what do you think of this jobs report? >> a good report, better than i expect. i expected a job gain of 3 million, and we got 5 million. a lot of the job gains were in industries that got nailed by the pandemic, leisure, hospitality, retail, so all good news. however, you know, the pandemic pushed the economy into very deep holes, and even with the good news we've got a long way before we crawl out of the hole and given the reintensification of the virus across many parts of the country, obviously the risks are pretty high that we

might slip back, so good news but we've got a long way to go. >> that's what i was going to ask you. the report covers through june 12th which is just before these surges were really breaking out that we're seeing now. many states now slowing plans of reopening or reversing course. what impact do you think the new wave of spikes will have on whatever economic recovery was starting? >> well, not good. you know, clearly we've got businesses that will have to close again, and then we have a lot of other businesses that are going to remain very, very cautious. i mean, now they realize that this pandemic is a problem, and it's not going to go away until we get a vaccine or effective therapy, and the uncertainty of that i think makes businesses just very -- sit on their hands, be very cautious, so this is a real threat, a real risk. it the really does put pressure increase pressure on lawmakers, the trump administration and

congress to come together to provide more fiscal support because as you know, kate, all of the support that they have provided to date runs are out pretty soon, and given this reintensification of the virus and reclosings of businesses, and without that help the economy will be in trouble. >> yeah. you've told me before that a second wave that we're looking at fearing potentially in the fall could be could the traffic to the economy. would a second bump within the first wave do the same? >> yeah, potentially. i mean, this is feels like, you know, this is -- dr. fauci is right and we get 100,000 infections per day, i think that that would be significant and sufficient enough to real push this economy under. i mean, we're -- it's not only in the states that are feeling the infections rise. you know, floridas and texases and californias, they are clearly backtracking here, but it's other parts of the country are. i mean, i live in the northeast. i live in suburban philly. i just learned that new jersey is no longer going to allow

people to go into restaurants, indoor dining, so the nervousness is all across the country and the impacts will be broad-based. so, yeah, i think if the infections continue to rise like they have over the last couple or next couple of three weeks the rise is significant. >> no kidding. always great to have your perspective, mark. thank you so much. >> sure. coming up for us, top members of congress are getting briefed right now on the intelligence that russia offered bounties for killing u.s. troops in afghanistan, and a new report identifying a possible middle man in this plot. ♪ ♪ [ engines revving ] ♪ ♪

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behind closes doors on capitol hill right now the gang of eight is getting briefed -- getting a briefing on the intelligence report that has rocked washington and beyond. russia offering bounties to the taliban for attacking and killing u.s. troops serving in afghanistan. leading the briefing, cia director fina happens yell, the new director of national intelligence and the nsa director. while president trump continues to say that he doesn't believe the intelligence assessment and is also calling it a hoax, the "new york times" reports new and extremely specific details about what the intelligence included. an afghan businessman served as a taliban member passing reward money from russia to taliban fighters, up to $5,000 for every u.s. soldier killed. cnn reporter lauren knocks on capitol hill and cnn reporter ryan fox is also here.

what are you hearing about this briefing going on, lauren? >> reporter: this is one of the highest level briefings that anyone has received on capitol hill yet, and that's not just because of who is going to be in this briefing. the officials that are part of the gang of eight include nancy pelosi, the speaker of the house as well as majority leader mitch mcconnell and top officials on both the house and senate intelligence committees, but it also has to do with the briefers themselves. this is a wide array of intelligence agency officials, including cia director gina haspel that has been in front of lawmakers all week who have all sorts of questions. they are calling for who knew what went and why wasn't the president verbally briefed on this intelligence if that was the case. republicans, meanwhile, will be looking for any contradictory evidence or intelligence between the different agencies.

when i talked to senator ray blunt who is a member of the intelligence committee coming out of their briefing yesterday, he said he had seen contradictory evidence and intelligence, so those >> ryan, this "the new york times" report of the afghan man, who was named in the intelligence reports and confirmed by afghan officials according to "the new york times." tell us more about his role. >> reporter: kate, this is a "the new york times" that offers a very deep level of detail about exactly how this supposed bounty program worked. they identify this businessman, afghan businessman based in the country's north, who had connections to the black market, connections to various enterprises but apparently he was the middle man here in this program, russian agents paid him the money who he then would reach out to the militant

groups, many of them taliban connected offering reportedly bounties of $100,000 for u.s. or coalition soldier killed in these attacks. this is a very deep level of detail. we know from sources that much of the information in this intelligence report was gained from interrogations, from intercepts and "the new york times" laying out how this worked. one of the things the report did say is that the middleman, the afghan and u.s. government, attempted to capture him in raids and escaped reportedly to russia so he was unable to be detained. however, according to the report, cash and several associates captured in the raids. >> yeah. this is a really amazing reporting. ryan, thank you. lauren, thank you. much more to come potentially out of the briefing as it is ongoing. a quick programming note, don lemon and dana bash hosting

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the nba is on track to resume games at the end of this month but not all the players are on board. for one veteran the risks surrounding the covid crisis have him opting out of the season. koy, training camps i think are due to start next week in orlando. >> reporter: that's right, kate. i talked to player tabo recei sefolosha. s he says this was a tough skigs for him and made a commitment for a run at the title this year but he has two daughters, 11 and 12 years old and doesn't juan to leave his family in these times and his wife said you're putting yourself in harm's way and maybe it is not necessary. still though, kate, nba commissioner adam silver two days ago defending the plan

saying it could be a model for other businesses. sefolosha applauded the creativity and efforts and doesn't see how people won't get sick even in that bubble environment. major league soccer a week away from starting the month-long tournament in the bubble at disney in florida. six players tested positive for coronavirus. they're self isolating and the rest of the team's in quarantine. this could be a glimpse, kate, of what every league might face. >> it is tough. covid isn't the only reason, coy, that some athletes sit out the new aabelieved season. >> some athletes think sports might be a distraction from what they see at this small window of time to use the platforms to make change. a woman on a mission is skipping the wnba season to fight for social reform telling cnn that true activism has to go beyond

t-shirts and taking down statues. >> wearing a t-shirt is not enough. wearinging a t-shirt saying black lives matter is not enough for the nba who stole the wnba idea of putting black lives matter on the court is not enough. and so, not only with our leagues but america as a whole do not be distracted by the crumbs that people are throwing at you. t-shirts and things on the court are crumbs. taking down statues of racist slave owners is crumbs. >> she says the time is now, kate. maya moore, the greatest, four time champ, six-time all-star walked away last year in the prime to help a man convicted of a home invasion and shooting in 1998. he insisted he wasn't there and still set to serve a 50-year prison sentence and yesterday there he was walking out of

jefferson county correctional facility in missouri and maya moore was there in a mask helping him get the conviction overturned. new evidence was found in the case. irons is free after serving 22 years behind bars and moore called the moment worshipful and sitting out again this season to continue fighting for social justice and in the wake of george floyd's death athletes are choosing to not return to games just yet but instead to focus on creating chaung in the country. >> really impressive. coy, thank you. it is the top of the hour. i'm kate bolduan. for the first time the united states is crossing the 50,000 mark for new cases in a single day. spikes in several states, at least fooi states now setting their own new records. for new infecti