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.

yesterday germany had 279 cases, denmark had 10. we had to squeeze this in to show how u.s. compared. sweden 283, america, 60,021. here's what vice president pence said. >> i think what the president was saying this morning is that if there are aspects of the cdc's recommendations that are prescriptive or serve as a barrier to kids getting back to school, we want governors and local officials and education leaders to know we're here to work with them to support the measures they're putting into place. i think every american, every american knows that you can safely reopen our schools. and we want, as the president said this morning too, make sure what we're doing doesn't stand

in the way of doing that. >> cnn pch's erica hill is join us. the city laid out its plans to start classes this upcoming school year. tell us about this. >> reporter: so, they're looking at a few different models. and parents have about a month to say they would like their kids to go online. what they're looking at is a hybrid model. because, based on physical distancing requirements, there's no way they say 100% of students are in the billing full time. they say those with disabilities are a priority and they're going to put up an online portel for staff to make accommodations for teachers and staff concerned about preexisting medical conditions and in-person learning. to give you a sense of the limitations in new york city. the ideal size would be nine to ten kids in a space, based on social distancing. it could range from 20 to 30 kids.

and this is something that school districts around the country are grappling with as some of them are looking at school starting in a matter of weeks. these classrooms need students, according to the white house. >> as the president made clear yesterday, it's time. it's time for us to get our kids back to school. >> reporter: the american academy of pediatrics says in-person learning is best. sglirlts n >> it's not a matter of if they should reopen, it's how. they must be fully operational. >> texas says parents can choose what's best. in georgia, which just topped 100,000 confirmed cases, the largest school district pushed the start date back for a week. >> decisions should be based on cdc recommendations. safety, commonsense and compassion. not on an economic or political agenda. >> reporter: harvard and mit

suing the federal government over plans to ban international students from getting visas if schools offer only online learning. forcing them to open in-person classes. cnn has reached out to ice and homeland security. >> we are in a much worse place than we were in march. because at that time there was one epicenter. now we have multiple epicenters all around the country. >> reporter: in less than a month the united states has added a million new cases. an average of more than 51,000 a day. in the past week 14 states posted their highest seven-day averages. >> they don't tell the true tragedy, that they're piling into hospitals, icus. >> 56 hospital icus are full, more than a dozen reaching capacity since yesterday. and more than 60% are used for

covid patients. and more than half hospitalized, also the virus. >> death lagged two or three weekz bhind the cases. i fear we're in for a lot of a tragedy in the weeks ahead. >> reporter: setting up new testing sites in baton rouge and jacksonville, florida. california and texas topping their own records for new cases. >> a lot of the spread is happening because people are tired of isolating. >> reporter: fatigue that can have dire consequences. >> these aren't 80-year-olds that should die or that were going to die next week. they are 80 year olds contralctd a virus because a group of people had to have fun. i had a mom and grandmother drive themselves into my hospital and only one drove home. >> reporter: that is the sobering reality that so many doctors on the frontlines are facing.

i want to update you on information we got out of florida. 56 icus were at full capacity. we just learned the numbers updated to 42 florida hospitals that have zero capacity for icu beds. now 54 hospitals around the state are at 10% capacity or less and we'll continue to bring those updates as we get them. >> thank you for that report from new york. vice president pence did say the cdc will be coming out with these new guidelines for schools soon. even the director of the cdc seems to down play the importance of his agency's own current recommendations. >> i want to make it very clear that what is not the intent of cdc's guidelines is to be used as a rational to keep schools closed. we're prepared to work with each school, each jurisdiction to help them use the different

strategies that we propose to help be safely so they come up with the optimal strategies for the schools. it would be critical and personally disappointing to me, and i know my agency, if we saw that individuals were using these guidelines as a rationale for not reopening our schools. >> carlo hernandez, is the president of united teachers of -- in the miami-dade area. and joining us is cnn medical analyst. he leads the school of ethics at nyu. this is on their minds. they want to know what's going to happen with schools. they want their kids to go back. they're also very worried about it. as you hear the cdc director down playing the own guidance, how closely has your district

been following cdc guidelines as it looks to reopen? >> you know, our district has br been a leader in the district. we were the first district in florida to close, eve beenfore there was an executive order to close our schools. we care very much about the safety and well being of our students, and of course, those who care for students. and it's unfortunate the cdc is having to play into the political agenda and the pressure at the tht white house is getting. i mean what teachers and parents ultimately want is reassurances there is no expense that's going to be spared so that the safety guidelines are being followed in every single classroom, in every county, in every zip code, so that our children can be safe. and it's unfortunate we're having this conversation and that we have leadership that is not showing a real plan, but

that is really trying to intimidate people to react a certain way. >> art, tell me what your reaction was to hearing the cdc director say that guidance, that his own agency has put out, really should not be the rationale for not reopening? >> outrage. it is unacceptable to put our children and young people into what is basically an unregulated experiment, meaning let's all go back to school in the middle of a pandemic. we never had anything like this. the buildings, the set up, the transportation isn't set up for this. i'm trying to figure out are we trying to do this to educate students? in which case there's home schooling, more internet to use. i'm doing it with my students at nyu. or is it so people can go back to work, in other words sending

people to delapidated buildings, they can't make the spacing requirements to have a place to keep them safe while the parents both work. that doesn't make any sense either. i think what we're seeing is a willi willingness to sacrifice our children in a risky situation. even though cdc guidelines came out this week, when many scientists have written to the who saying this virus looks airborne. that means it can hang around in a room, be in the atmosphere hours after somebody infected has left. that's not going to be handled by a six-foot spacing in your elementary or high school. more spacing, more masking, more filtering of air, that sort of thing, if it really is airborne, as opposed to something carried on sneezing and coughing and droplets. cdc ought to be paying attention to that too. >> that's the thing.

we just heard this idea that, look, you're not going to be able to have logicall the kids e classroom. and we know there are classrooms wth 37, 39 kids and now they're looking at nine or ten. so, that's down to a quarter of some classes, right? they're all stacked on top of each other anyway. so, if you're talking about spacing them out, but your going airborne. and what is your concern for teachers who are young. and maybe they have kids. and children to deal with at the same time. >> to have a robust plan. they understand this is creating a covid gap.

we're trying to mitigate that achievement gap. so, we understand how important it is to have the face-to-face interaction. we tried to develop a robust plan that has taken place over multiple weeks. and it's very complex. we're trying to give parents an option when they come to our school. all schools must reopen in terms of the surge of covid-19 cases. it's really ludicrous. it doesn't even make sense. it's not a conversation we can have because as educators, i would not want to put anyone's child at risk. their safety, well being. their education is extremely important. but we're not going to have them be guinea pigs either. it's unfortunate we're seeing

leaders from our country that are not basing anything on science. we talked about this being an airborne disease, social distancing, all the puramteres of protective equipment. they're saying they're not going to fund us. this is about science, not science fiction. we have leaders basing their reality on something that is science fiction. it is ludicrous. >> thank you so much. carla hernandez and art caplan. we appreciate it. a new crisis emerges. test results are taking longer and longer. i'll speak with the head of america's labs. plus, the virus is hitting firefighters in phoenix so hard, that they're asking people to show symptoms to not call 911. and harvard and mit suing the trump administration over threats to deport international

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>> well, thanks so much. it's a pleasure to be with you today. we've made tremendous strides in expanding testing capacity. in a period of only a few months, we've performed over 18.5 million tests. you're right there's been a significant surge in demand and for many laboratories across the country, it's exceeding their current capacity. >> is this a labor issue? is this a issue with supply of what it requires to do the test? where is this bottle neck? >> so, there are a variety of factors that influence testing capacity. first it is the availability of supplies. what's needed to actually perform the test and it's like our reagents and test kits. then it's the number and availability of the platforms and those are the machines used to actually perform the tests.

and finally, it's the tens and thousands of lab professionals who have been working around the clock for months and doing everything they can to perform millions of tests for americans. >> so, there's not enough for all of these things to varying degrees. we heard dr. fauci say the task force is seriously considering pool testing. that's where they would mix several samples in a batch or pool. this is something discussed maybe at universities where you have 25 people in the same dorm or in certain class pods. so, that way you could test 25 people with one test. if it comes back negative, you've eliminated 25 with one test. a positive, then you test everybody individually but this clears up the capacity. what are your thoughts on that? >> there's been a lot of inovations since the pandemic began. when you look at other challenges we face, we've done

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she received a purple heart. tucker disagrees with her statement there should we be a national conversation about statues. this was carlson monday. >> we're not supposed to criticize tammy duckworth in any way because she once served in the military. but when she does speak in public, you're reminded what a deeply silly and unimpressive person she is. it's been out of bounds to question a person's patriotism. it's a strong charge but in the face of all this, these people actually hate america. >> duckworth responded on twitter. "does tucker carlson want to walk a mile in my legs and tell me whether or not i love america?" carlson, who never served in the military himself, doubled down last night and attacked the senator again for not accepting an invitation to come on the show. >> before even considering our

request, we must first issue a public apology for tammy duckworth. i won't debate you until you admit you're completely wrong. she's not a child. not technically. she's offden scribed as a hero. yet duckworth is too afried defend her own statements on a cable tv show. what a coward. >> i am joined by brandon freedman, a retired infantry officer who served in afghanistan and iraq and worked with senator duckworth at the u.s. department of veteran affairs. he's author of "the war i always wanted." so, you're listening to tucker carlson and see what he's said over the course of two days. bhauts your rea when you hear him questioning whether tammy duckworth loves her country, right? these people hate america and calls her a coward.

>> yeah. it's pretty astonishing to hear that from him. what's amazing about tammy is that her family goes all the way back the very beginning of america. she had two fifth grade grandfathers who fought along side her in the revolutionary war. she served in iraq and lost both her legs. you can dish gree with her on policy all you want, but to question her patriotism, i don't think that's a really valid critique here to say she doesn't love america. to question her love for america is quite outrageous. it's not something entirely surprising from someone who is cozied up to nazi sympathizers, as tucker has done. >> so, maybe consider the source with tucker carlson. tell us about tammy duckworth, who you have worked with. because she's in the running to

be joe biden's vice presidential pick. tell us what it's like to work with her. >> tammy's great. as a person, she's kind. she has great sense of humor, she's a mom, collaborative. she takes feedback from all of her employees. she's great to work with. when you couple that with her unique one-of-a-kind resume, she's a great person and did a lot of dynamic stuff when i work would her and we accomplished a lot and most of that was due to her readership. >> i want to go back to something you said about the criticism of tammy duckworth because one of the points he made was you're not supposed to criticize tammy duckworth in any way because she once served in the military. and look, he's setting up this false argument there because he's saying you're not supposed to criticize tammy duckworth in any way.

someone who's a member of a military family, i find myself sometimes explaining to civilians, you can criticize veterans and take issue with what this person believes if they're in the military or they served in the military. but when it comes to their service, you really can't. i mean, they're not inoculated against criticism. it's this general understanding of what their service is. i haven't served. you have. can you speak to me a little bit about what it means for you to put your life on the line in the service of your country, what that has meant for senator duckworth as well. >> yeah. tammy didn't deegs she didn't ask for the iraq war. she went when her country called her. as she has answered the call every step of her adult life. and that's what you do when you're a type of person like that, that tammy is.

military families know that. something we all did. and something apparently tucker carlson doesn't quite understand. >> look, military families do know that. i'm a relatively new military spouse, so i'll tell you i thought i knew. i had no idea until i saw it up close what it means to answer the call. it's an incredible thing. thank you so much for coming on. go on. >> you can question her on policy, her decisions all you want, but i think the to question tammy duck business worth's love of country is beyond the pale. >> brandon, thank you so much for coming on and your service as well. >> thanks for having me. >> and nex that trump administration says international college students should be deported if their schools move to all online classes. i'll be speaking to one of the students currently on edge. >> it is unbelievable.

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new today, harvard and mit are suing the trump administration over its guidance that bans international students living in the u.s. from taking online only courses this fall semester. effectively leaves those students in a very vulnerable situation, vulnerable to deportation. visa requirements for students have always been strict. and now continuing in the u.s. in an online only course load is prohibited. and joining us is -- listen to how she reacted. >> you know how hard t is too get in an international program, and fly to another country and

not be able to see your family and travel during a case of emergency during this pandemic. the only thing constant in my life was my education. and now you're taking that away from me. what is going on? >> joining us now. and thank you so much for being with us. i understand your brother is a student at iowa state as well. tell us what you're hearing from the university about their plans. >> yes, my brother goes to iowa state as well. we've been receiving emails from our president, as well as the international scholars office saying they're doing everything they can to make sure they take one in-person class to stay in the country. and i'm not sure about logistics. they have to be politically correct. so, they usually just copy and paste regulations they receive. but i received a lot of emails from faculty and meant ors

saying they're here to support us. that's what's going on. but nothing is certain. >> so, you're feeling better because it sounds like they're looking for some kind of work around, even if it's just to be checking a box, shall we say? that's what it sounds like in your view, right? >> yeah. that's kind of what they're telling us at the moment. but definitely everything is uncertain. it's not the fact -- you just have to leave or stay, that's different. but there's a whole air full of uncertainty. it's a little weird at the moment. but yeah. >> so, you don't know. you don't know what's going to happen. you're in an interesting situation because you're raised in dubai. your family is in dubai. but that's not where you would go back to if you have to leave. >> no. so, i did hear that the visas have been suspended in uae.

not sure if that's still the situation. so, i have to go to india, where i haven't lived for more than ten days every year. i go for vacation but i don't live there. my family is in uae. so, i'm again separated from my family. not that i'm going anywhere closer to them. >> and one of the things you took particular issue with, and i know there's lot of international students in the same situation as you with this, is this idea of if your school is going to online only, then you should just trancefer to another school. >> that bothers me, because as a ph.d. student, and an international student, i know the process i have to take to get into a university, forget about transferring, right? there's a whole visa process, they have to process i-20 during the pandemic. everything gets delayed. if i email a person at my

university, they're probably working from home in the midst of taking care of kids and doing their meet gsz. i don't get a response for almost a week. and in the middle of all that, i have to transfer to another university. not i, but any student having to transfer within a span of less than one month seems impossible to me. and finding the right faculty, right assistantship, research, it's not -- i chose to come to iowa state. and if i have to move because of this one small problem, according to me, is not right. . >> pryankaa, tell us what kind of message does it send when the u.s. government says you have to go home if your university has determined for your health and for the public health of students everything has to be online? >> i mean, i agree.

i honestly agree everything should be online. there's nothing to say people should go back to classes because cases are increases. we just have to be cautious on our side. saying you have to leave the country, i don't get the point because there's a lot of travel, ticket cost. i've rented this apartment and my lease isn't up until august 2021. there are a lot of financial expenses, emotional distress and the whole fact i was not prepared to leeb. leave. i don't get an option to stay, when the school went up and -- off in spring semester, i remember international students living in the dorms were asked to leave the dorms. but i live in an apartment. i don't understand when i'm independent from the university why am i am being asked to

leaver or any international student being asked to leave. >> there are over a million students in your position in the united states. so, thank you for giving us a glimpse into what you're dealing with. and pushing schools to reopen as cases surpass 3 million. and the surge in phoenix has been so severe, the fire department is asking people to limit their calls to 911. their spokesman will join us live to explain. because heart and kidney disease

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so, we're shifling the chairs on the deck to make sure we can completely deliver that service delivery model that we do every day. >> so, what has that meant for operations? have you had to extend shifts? what is going on there to cover those gaps? >> i would say the best way to put it is all hands on deck. they've been stepping up. they've been working around the clock. we have some of our firefighters working 72 hours, making sure they're fit for duty. but year going to make sure that does not impact our service delivery. we understand. we know the numbers. we know our community is effected by covid right now. we can do everything we can to protect our members. we wear the masks, glasses. we regularly clean our stations. but unfortunately we can't work in a bubble.

so, our folks are going to be exposed to it, we know we're going to be there and have those numbers. so, we've played out every scenario. all we know is doomshaving a st not in the cards for us. we keep delivering that and we've worked very well with our labor, the union which you talked about, again we knew in march that we are going to live in an area where firefighters, we live together and work in a house for 24 hours which means it is almost impossible to make sure that we don't cross contaminate. so we've played everything out and so far we could staff our trucks and keep running the calls when the light comes on. >> captain mcdade, thank you so much. i think there is a lot of departments dealing with what you are dealing with. so thanks for coming on. >> absolutely. a sitting senator and co-owner of atlanta wnba team is

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they tweeted this, enough out. with a picture of loeffler after she objected to honoring the black lives matter movement. she wrote in part, players, coaches and yes, team owners share differing opinions on many issues but to subscribe to a particular political agenda undermines the potential of the sport and sends a message of exclusion. those comments after -- those are comments after the wnba announced that it is planning to display black lives matter prominently on basketball courts. former atlanta dream player, lay sha clarendon is joining us. tell us, what you saw what loeffler written, saying this is about exclusion, tell us how you reacted to this. >> man, i was super hurt, honestly. her opinions have been public for the last couple of years

now, how she's felt running for senate seats and all of that. but to see her double down in this moment where we literally have videos of black people being murdered and particularly when we were using breonna taylor on the back of our jerseys to honor her in the moment for this season, it is hurtful to hear that having played for her and shared space with her and having dinner at her house and for her to do that was wow, shocking and surprising. >> tell us about how you are honoring the movement and for instance you talked about breonna taylor, tell us what all you're doing? >> so we came up with the social justice council for this season to adjust social justice initiatives that we wanted to honor throughout the season so that is league players, people and activists and organizers so a big part most recently is making sure we put breonna

taylor on the back of injuour jerseys. she was murdered in her own home. and we'll have podcasts, round table talks, breakout events and some initiatives to make sure we educate people and we have calls to action. and so we could just use this platform as women for social change and we wanted to be a united factor so it was hurtful and weird to hear kelly say we're using this as a divisive issue because we know sports un ietss people. >> what do you want the senator to do? >> that is a good question. i think we are surprised that she would want to be a part of this league given her feelings so we would love for her to not represent us any more because what she stands for is not a part of our league. >> and just real quick before i let you go, you tweeted happy to own us as long as we stay quiet and perform. tell us about that. >> i think people have been

asking the question of why would she own a wnba team if she believes black lives don't matter and we're a main black league and i'm talking about white people owning black bodies so it is not particularly sflierpts because we're comfortable with black people in this country as long as their entertaining us in sports and music and culure so toss not surprising sme would want to own a team if she has those views. >> thank you for joining us. we appreciate your perspective on this. >> thank you. our special coverage continues now with brooke baldwin. thank you so much. i'm brooke baldwin, you're watching cnn, thank you for being with me.

we begin with tpair grim pliel . the nation has 3 million confirmed cases. it is about a quarter of all cases worldwide. more than 60,000 of those cases are brand-new. that is the highest single day total since the crisis began in late january and during a briefing today dr. deborah birx urged americans living in states with urges to add lear to the guidelines initially offered by the white house. >> to all of the americans out there that are in these four states and the states that have in the report were in the red zone because there is a series of other states that we have in that zone, it is really asking the american people in those counties and those states to not only use the face coverings and not going to bars and indoor dining but really not gathering in homes either. and decreasing those gatherings back down to our phase one recommendation which was ten or less. >> dr. birx was speak