students to, for kwids-oids to home. bat f bad for them and opening up the economy. >> the only clear thing, one thing that won't help, less funding, that the president is threatening trying to pull funding. very clear that was coming out of that. thank for being with us. i'm brooke baldwin. cnn's brianna keilar picks up our coverage, right here. kate, thank you so much. continuing this special coverage i'm brianna keilar. coronavirus cases in the u.s. have now surpassed 3 million as the nation experiences the highest daily case count since the pandemic started. just over 60,000 reported in a single day, yet a short time ago the vice president, the man who leads the white house coronavirus task force said this -- >> we are actually seeing early

indications of a percent of positive testing flattening in arizona, florida and texas. governors in each of those states have taken strong steps to flatten the curve and, again, as dr. birx will describe, we're beginning to see early indications that positivity is flattening, and in arizona and florida, we are beginning to see declining numbers of emergency room visit as well. we believe the takeaway from this for every american, particularly in those states impacted is, keep doing what you're doing. >> he mentioned arizona. he did not mention only 145 icu beds left for the entire state of arizona. he brought up florida. 56 hospital there's say their icus are full. in fact, 35 states are now experiencing more cases in the past week than the week before.

a mere three states are green. which is what they want to be. just three of them. the national mortality rate is down, the states the vice president just mentioned are breaking records when it comes to their case counts. texas just reported in a single day 10,000 new infections, and what's more, the pandemic sickens even more americans than before, there's new pressure from the president, who tweeted a threat today he may cut funding if schools don't reopen this coming term. mentioning it's been done in germany, denmark and elsewhere. pointing out here that there's a reason why those countries were able to do it. they're in a very different situation than the u.s. yesterday germany had 279 cases. denmark had 10. norway 11. sweden, 283. again, the u.s., 60,021. in the middle of a global pandemic, when the situation is deteriorating in the united

states, the president is politicizing schools. politicizing science. statistics, reopenings, and, of course, masks, which according to a new model could save 45,000 lives this year. the vice president held the briefing at the u.s. department of education where he emphasized the president's point that schools need to reopen despite some states experiencing more infections than ever before. >> what we heard, again, yesterday from education officials and what we heard from the american academy of pediatrics. it's absolutely essential that we get our kids back into classroom, for in-person learning. we can't let our kids fall behind academically. >> lily es xa lynn garcia, press of the education association, teachers union, important to note, endorsed joe biden for president and also here with us, internist and viral specialist dr. jorge rodriguez.

lily, first to you. sure you watched the coronavirus task force briefing at the department of education with a lot of questions on your mind. wondering what your reaction was and if those questions were answered? >> well, let's answer the question you introduced me, is there any doubt in anyone's mind why we're endorsing joe biden? we are absolutely frightened with the lack of leadership. i'm speechless, and i give a lot of speeches, with what we are seeing coming out of this white house. it's chaotic. it's dangerous. and we can't say this enough. please, parents, governors, news reporters, do not under any circumstances take medical advice from donald trump. that is never going to end well. and we have seen what happens when people are cavalier with this dangerous pandemic. we saw governors opening bars and we saw those bars packed

with young -- young people who should have known better. we're not talking about bars here. we're talking about second graders. we're talking about putting children, their families and their teachers at risk. we know how to do this right, and they are ignoring the science, and the -- and the intentional plan that you would have to do. it's not impossible, but it's complicated, and it takes some resources to do what you need to do, and we're willing to sit down and help with those plans. but we don't see a plan here. i have no question. it is unquestionable to -- i don't look to the white house for anything but chaos. we need to go around donald trump. parents, and that includes republican parents, democratic parents, socialist parents, tea party parents, of course they want their kids back in school. we want our students back in

school. and we are going to do it in a safe, responsible way, and nothing, nothing that donald trump has said in the last 48 hours has been safe or responsible. >> dr. rodriguez, one of the things we heard coming out of this was, because, look, a lot of educators, a lot of administrators, will be looking at the government guidance that's out there right now about reopening schools and they'll say, wait a second. we're not meeting these requirements that we should be reopening, and so we cannot actually follow what is government guidance. interesting about this briefing was the vice president was kind of backing away from the guidance, and he said that there would be other guidelines soon to come out about reopening schools. what did you think about that? >> well, i agree with you, brianna. first of all, and i agree with ms. garcia.

a lack of leadership. local schools and districts need to take it into their own hands and jurisdiction and do what is right. you know, or maybe not, i am from miami. this is more near and dear to me. miami-dade, superintendent of schools, says no way they're going to open. that is a hot spot. in my opinion they don't meet the general criteria for adults to socialize and we don't know yet about children. my child? i would definitely not risk it. a lot of the things that the vice president was saying are sort of pseudotruths. this guise in a pretty, little bow. for example, he said that arizona and some states are flattening the curve, it's flattening. i'm so tired of that statement. it is flattening at approximately 19% to 20% positivity rate. that's nothing good. it needs to go down. take that with a grain of salt.

each community needs to assess individually and make decisions correct for that region. for me, miami-dade at this point should not open schools. >> you know, lily when we think about how do we send our children back to school? you wonder especially when we know sizes of classes in so many districts, and in so many states, how do you fit all of those kids in a room? or else you're talking about staggering, alternating or something. how are schools doing when it comes to this issue of social distancing? >> thank you for that question. because that is heavy on our minds. i am a sixth grade teacher. i had 39 kids one year that barely fit in that tiny, little classroom with one window that didn't open half way. so we've already told our principals, our administrators, the school nurse, the school board, we want to do this right. let's sit down. every one of the doctors that i

talked to has said, when we get the infection rate down to, what was it? 14 days of decline, we can start slowly opening this up, spacing the kids. started saying split shifts. half the kids in the morning. half the kids in the afternoon. running two buses so you don't have the buses packed with kids. wearing the masks, having stations to disinfect your hands. all of those things very expensive alternatives, but would take that step into saying, all right. we're going to distance these kids in the cafeteria and the hallways and we'll be creative. but that's not what i'm hearing. what i'm hearing is, you do it now. you put all of them in there. you stuff those 39 kids in that classroom. we don't care if it's unsafe for them and all the people they

could infect, ba i don't know. what is this about getting jobs numbers up, making the economy look good on paper? not at the expense of somebody's kid! this is life and death, and what doesn't this president understand? we are at an end of the rope here. >> dr. rodriguez, to one of the things we heard the vice president and other officials stress was, that kids do better when it comes to the ramifications of coronavirus. i think you just rolled your eyes. okay. you explain why? >> i did roll my eyes. first of all, we don't have all the information, that's why i'm a bad poker player. definitely you can tell what it is that i'm thinking. we don't know all ramifications of children and, sure, talking sticks, that's almost obscene, because if you lose your one child, you don't care about the statistics. we really have to think of it that way. what it brings to mind, to the point right now is, how we about

abandon education and the school system in this country. our people are its main resource, and if we don't educate our children from the, from kindergarten on up, then we have a problem, and schools are overcrowded. schools are unsafe. this is an opportunity in the future to start redesigning how we educate. maybe we don't have to give people free college, if we educate them enough so when they complete high school he really are high-school grade. i'm diverging. the point is, we don't know how this really affects children in the long term, and we don't know the infectivity of children to the adults, both their teemps, their parents and their grandparents which they go back home. >> we can all agree this pandemic is revealing bigger problems that we are seeing with very difficult challenges. lily, dr. rodriguez, thank you to you both. >> thank you.

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the government's top infection disease expert and member of the white house coronavirus task force dr. anthony fauci is sounding an alarm. in an interview he pointed to repeated remarks by the president downplaying the seriousness of coronavirus and touting a recent decrease in the death rate.

>> it's a false narrative to take comfort in a lower rate of death. there's so many other things that are very dangerous and bad about this virus. don't get yourself into false complacency. >> now, the u.s. just passed the 3 million case mark here in the last hour, and despite the rising numbers, the president has a very different view of the situation. >> i think we are in a good place. i disagree with him. you know, dr. fauci said don't wear masks. now says wear them. and then numerous things. don't close off china. don't ban china. did it anyway. i didn't listen to my experts and banned china. we would have been in much worst shape. >> clarifying the president's remarks what he said back in march. cdc recommended conserving face masks in short supply. for health care workers and coronavirus patients. fauci at the time was in line

with cdc guidelines, taken criticism as a lot of white house officials and coronavirus task force officials have for that guidance. i want to talk about this now. let's bring back dr. jorge rodriguez, and i think, you know, part of what's so important about what comes out of the white house, doctor, is just the sense of, is this an urgent situation or not? and we're getting the sense that it is not urgent. what kind of impact does the minimization of the dangers of coronavirus have on the general public? >> it has a huge impact. the impact is negative. because if you minimize it, a lot of people just follow what president trump says regardless of whether they give any thought to it. so to minimize the fact that this is still a huge pandemic, that is killing -- let's put it in terms. yesterday three jumbo jets full of people died. the equivalent of that, from

coronavirus. every day, at least one jumbo jet has died. yesterday was the highest in a month. if that were happening if we were to see that, we would be responding differently. so i have been associated with dr. fauci for almost 25 years with hiv research and such, and he's completely right. death is not the only thing even though it is obviously the most critical thing. we are seeing complications from people that get covid that are not just death. all right? which is obviously the worst thing, put things that are going to affect them their whole life. brain changes, lung changes. until we know more, we need to be cautious. it's very, pardon me for continuing -- disingenuous of the president to say he changes his mind one day. that doesn't mean what we said one day was not right for that day. this virus is humbling.

every week we learn more and that is why recommendations change, and it is a wise man that changes along with the knowledge. as opposed to the man that just sticks to his intuition. >> dr. rodriguez, thank you, again, for being with us. and there's a sheriff who says he's refusing to enforce mandatory masks, because he's "not the mask police." he joins me live, next. plus, counties in arizona have run out of icu beds. what will happen to those patients who need one. and a fox host takes his outrageous attack against a purple heart recipient to a new level calling senator tammy duckworth and iraq war veteran a moron, and a coward. we will discuss. dors that lingr try febreze small spaces. just press firmly and it continuously eliminates odors in the air and on soft surfaces. for 45 days.

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coronavirus cases, deaths and hospitalizations are on the rise in ohio. the state reports more than 58,000 cases and nearly 3,000 deaths going into effect 6:00 p.m. tonight residents in seven counties will be required to wearing a masks. the ohio department of health identifying these regions as

having a very high risk of exposure and spread and one of these areas affected is butler county where there are currently more than 1,600 confirmed coronavirus cases, and at least 47 deaths. but the county sheriff says he won't be policing the governor's mask order. >> i am not the mask police. i am not going to enforce any mask wearing. that is not my responsibility. that is not my job. people should be able to make that choice themselves. >> and butler county sheriff richard jones joins me now to talk about this. sheriff, explain this to us pup s . you say it's not your job to enforce the mask order? >> yes, basically. our icus are less than 10%. not full. not overrun. people are getting tested, going home. it's an order that came down. it goes up, it goes down. and i'm not going to be the mask

police. i'm telling people, don't call 911. all the police have been decimated as far as being laid off, having their budgets cut. the hospitals are less staffed. it's -- it's -- and it changes as we watch tv and i am not going to enforce the mask wearing. we tell people, if you want to call the governor's office, or call the health department, and they can put a little yellow light on their car and they can stop people for it. i'm not going to do it. it's all we can do to enforce police as much as anyway. people are angry all over the country at the police for stopping them. we stopped doing citations for speeding. we just -- ease up. people are angry. they're fed up. this is in the heartland. they're tired, and confused that the messages are going back and forth. >> so you're saying, you're not citing people for speeding or not wearing seat belts or, let's say, smoking indoors? or --

>> we're giving them -- yes. giving them warnings if speeding. we're enforcing the law. but people -- >> not citing them? there's no tickets or anything? >> oh, no. >> you're saying that -- >> we are now. giving citations for speeding. we're giving still warning tickets. >> i wanted to be clear, because sort of sounded like you said you weren't. okay. so you -- you say it's a personal choice. will you be wearing a mask? >> i wear a mask all the time. i wear a mask, and i wash my hands, and -- but i -- i've been with that the whole time, but it should be a choice. you shouldn't have to wear a mask if you don't want to. it you're sick, that's one thing, but when our governor goes ahead -- he's a nice guy. and he's doing the best he can but he's not communicate wig the people in the communities. i believe there's more people dieing because they don't have enough money to go to the hospital to buy their medication, because of the two moss of non-work. the hospitals have laid people off before the pandemic. the insurance companies are

controlling the hospitals. you get sick, they don't want you there. it's people are confused. republicans and democrats. we don't have many leaders and in either party right now. they're busy with things that aren't important to the regular american. >> okay. i want to -- you say if -- i will say the data does not bear out what you say, killing more people than coronavirus but you said if someone is sick you understand how they should be wearing a mask, but there's a study that found silent spreaders. these are people who are asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic. right? contagious but haven't started showing they're sick. they could be responsible for half of coronavirus cases, and the studies show that so many lives are saved through masks. why does protecting americans from that not fall under your per vi purview of protecting people? >> listen, i protect people every day. the study you're talking about i don't have a copy of it.

there's probably 20 other studies that say -- >> no, no. sir, this is the study -- the data the white house relies on. this is good data. i promise you. >> well, i'm not trusting what you say. i don't know you that well, but listen, every week they change how you can catch this. how you can't. first wear a mask. then not to wear a mask. then there's a certain kind of mask. how it's spread, on a surface. then in the air ten days. people are confused. i'm confused. i wear a mask. but we shouldn't have our government demand we wear a mask that we can't work. the economy's shut down, and i believe that there's more people -- when this is all over and studies come out, they'll be more people that died from not being able to go to the hospital, without being able to get medication. this is my opinion. i wear a mask. i wash my hands. i encourage that. but i don't want the government to mandate that you wear a mask, pretty soon having to wear a mask in your car. in your house.

we got to go back to work. there's more people that are dieing with the flu. people that are dieing in car crashes. there's people dieing in the big cities that are shot every day. hundreds and hundreds -- >> how do you go back to work if people aren't wearing masks to protect other people? this is what -- you know public health experts say you wearing a masks, want to go back to work, want to reopen the economy you need to wearing a masks. this is going to keep infection rates and deaths down. do you doubt that? >> i believe that the reason we're getting all of these tests, we have dry-through testing now. i believe people are getting more tests and going to test positive. and here in ohio -- >> that's not the case of positivity. sounds like you're very confused how this works and the facts about this. the positivity rate has been going up i. believe you and the media are confused and trying to put me in a hot spot, which i don't mind being. >> you literally are in a hot

spot. butler county is a hot spot. >> listen, i've been in a hot spot my whole career and i understand hot spots. this is -- a thing that we're going through right now. and the whole country is locked down. we had the news media such as yourself trying to pin people down like me for speaking up and saying what i believe is the truth. and we have our politicians that will not get together on either party. we have doctors and we have scientists that have different opinions. weekly. and we -- here in the trenches have to try to figure this out ourselves? >> okay, but we're talking masks. look, we're talking masks. >> sure. >> i understand you have a lot of grievances. let's talk masks because there is consensus. scientists don't disagree on masks. there is consensus in the scientific community about masks. what do you say about that? >> i wearing a mask. i'm good with that. i'm not going to be the mask police. period.

>> so you're not -- you're not going to be the mask police. but -- >> no. myself -- >> okay. but i know. but you're still, you still obviously see a role for your department in protecting people from other public health issues, right? like seat belts? >> sure. sure. we protect people with seat belts. we've tried to keep people from killing each other. we try to do all we can to police our community. and in ohio, there's 88 counties and 88 sheriffs and i'm not the only law enforcement person that says they're not going to enforce mask wearing. not going to be the mask police. i'm not the only one in the country. i'm just one here in butler county that's not going to do that. >> if the president had a federal mandate ta there should be masks, sheriff jones, would that change your mind? >> it may. it may not. i -- we'll see what happens. >> why would it may or may not?

>> well, i have to see what it says. just because you say, "if he had" i don't have that in front of me. i don't know he's going to do that. period. so we'll wait and we'll see, but right now, i'm not the mask police. it's all we can do to keep police on the street. >> but why would you reserve -- why would you reserve the pot of complying with the president but not complying with your governor with your republican governor? >> oh. i see where you're going. trying to make it -- a president thing against president trump. i -- i never mentioned the president's name. i support the president, but i am not enforcing this regulation, this mandate by the governor. >> you said if he -- okay. but you said if the president mandated you may or you may not follow it. >> i said i would look at it. >> the governor has the mandate, you will not follow it? giving more leeway, more consideration to a presidential decision to mandate masks?

>> i may, and i may not. pretty simple. >> well, covers all the bases. tell you that, sheriff. sheriff jones from butler county. thank you for being with us. >> yes, ma'am. thank you, too. just in, only 145 icu beds left in the entire state of arizona. we're going to take you there. plus, a big test for sports tonight as professional soccer comes back here in america, and more republican senators bowing out of the convention because they're concerned about the health risks. ♪ things are getting clearer, yeah i feel free ♪ ♪ to bare my skin ♪ yeah that's all me. ♪ nothing and me go hand in hand ♪ ♪ nothing on my skin ♪ that's my new plan. ♪ nothing is everything. keep your skin clearer with skyrizi. 3 out of 4 people achieved 90% clearer skin at 4 months. of those, nearly 9 out of 10

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mcmorris-santoro in tucson. arizona leads the nation still in average daily per capita new cases per day. it's put a strain on the hospital system here. icu beds have hovered around 90% capacity in the entire state with fewer than 200 beds being available over the course of the last few days. here in pima county where i am, that number has gotten as low as six icu beds. one of the struggles public health facials deal with as the pandemic continues to grow. >> reporter: i'm sara sidner burbank, california, where the number of covid-19 patients hospitalized is spiking. now about 6,000 patients in hospitals with coronavirus. those numbers spiking out of control, and health officials very worried that the numbers keep continuing that way, that they will run out of icu beds in the state. so they're trying to get that under control. also, the number of people coming back with positive covid-19 testing.

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controversy is surrounding the repeated comments by fox news host tucker carlson questioning senator tammy duckworth's love for her country. tammy duckworth is a combat

veteran who lost both of her legs in iraq after an respepg t down the chapper she was piloting in 2004 and she received a purple heart. tucker carlson disagrees with her comment there should be a national conversation about statues. this was carlson on monday. >> not supposed to criticize tammy duckworth in anyway because she once served in the military. most people ignore her, but when she speaks in public you're remind what a deeply silly person she is. out of bounds for question a person's patriotism a very strong charge and try never to make it. in the face of this conclusion can't be avoided. these people actually hate america. >> duckworth responded on twitter saying does tucker carlson want to walk a mile in my legs and then tell me whether or not i love america? carlson who it's worth pointing out never served himself, is

trying to capitalize on the attention that this moment has garnered for him and he doubled down on tuesday. >> george washington was a genuinely great man. but to morons like duckworth washington is some old white guy who needs to be erased. she's not a child, not techn technical technically. a sitting united states senator who's often described as a hero. yet duckworth is too afraid to defend her own statements on a cable tv show. what a coward. tammy duckworth is a callous hack. >> carlson is mad that tammy duckworth will not come on his show, but where, oh, where, did he get the idea this was a good strategy? a sound argument? when did conservatives start questioning the patriotism of someone who lost their limbs in service of the united states? because they disagree on an issue? huh? i don't know. maybe -- >> it hit me. he's not a war hero.

he's a war hero because he was captured. i like people who weren't captured. okay? i hate to tell you n. 2016, then candidate donald trump insulting john mccain a p.o.w. in vietnam, spent over five years in a and he normalized that rhetoric. but the purpling heart recipient ticker carlson most frequently goes after is a vice presidential pick. but there's something else and i couldn't quite put my finger on it. he put duckworth up on screen next to a liberal house freshman whom republicans have made into an effective boogieman for their constituents. she's a woman of color. so tucker carlson is going after the service that works to -- and

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a new facebook audit paints a troubling picture of hate speech. it concluded decisions represent significant setbacks for civil rights by continuing to carry hateful content on its site. this following a meeting with stop the hate for profit. to discuss the demands of a large advertiser boycott that includes hundreds of brands. i want to talk to someone at the meeting.

let's bring in the president of the naacp. derrick johnson. tell us what happened in the meeting. >> very little to nothing. we had some expectation that after two years of discussions, providing market with the requested three weeks prior to the meeting, that we would hear feedback and what we received was nothing. we are now positioned to continue to push for some level of corporate responsibility. it's important for our communities to be safe and our democracy to be protected. >> so, they issued a statement after the meeting, it says, quote, they want facebook to be free of hate speech and so do we. thatsz r that's why it's so important to get this right. adding we ban more than 250 white supremacist organizations and holding ourselves accountable by producing

reports -- i know you don't think that's enough. why? >> first of all, they banned them after the fact. they were alerted they were convening on their platform and convening in an environment to execute actions. that group killed a federal after. officer. and after the boycott, they banned them. we need reactive approaches. been over two years we called for an audit. they have not implemented the recommendation from the first two audits and now we have the third audit. they have the ability within their system, their corporate structure to do more. and they have not done more. >> so, you've been in conversations with them. we've heard from other people as well. and they feel, many of them, like this is a cultural problem. what's the hang up here with facebook? i mean, maybe it's not a

surprise they don't see eye to eye with you. but why do you think they're not understanding more where you're coming from? >> this is what you get when you have a corporation with no accountability. you have one person who owns 60% of the stock. so, shareholders. nor can the board hold the company accountable. there are no governmental regulations, no true competitors. this is a sovereign nation within the nation and no accountability. we have to stand in unison as society to say hate speech should not be provided as platform on facebook and that hate speech is actually carrying out activities that's harmful. this platform should not be used by foreign or domestic interests to subvert and mislead concerning our election process. we must protect people. we must protect our democracy. and we cannot have a sovereign

nation within the nation to think otherwise. >> thank you for coming on. president of the naacp. derrick johnson. thanks. >> thank you for the opportunity. it's the top of the hour now. i'm brianna keiler. and the u.s. just a surpassed 3 million cases of coronavirus. this as we reported the highest daily case count since this pandemic started. just over 60,000. so 35 states are experiencing more cases in the past week than the week before, and yet the president is taking this moment to threaten schools, tweeting he may cut federal funding if they don't reopen this coming term. pointing out countries like germany and denmark have been able to go back to class. we have to point out there's a reason those countries are able to do it and you can look at it here.