irrelevant and sad but will let the voters decide. >> interesting look at it. thank you so much. thank you all so much for joining us today and this week. our coverage continues now with brianna keilar. hello, i'm brianna keilar and welcoming viewers here in the u.s. and the around the world. the toppen feck shouse disease doctor is sounding the alarm. dr. anthony fauci who's restricted by the white house from going on television has not briefed the president in two months as america's pandemic is only getting worse. the country just saw more cases in a single day than ever before. with 63,247 new infections on thursday alone. today dr. fauci told a world aids conference that the situation is quote a true

historic pandemic. >> it seemed that whatever we did in different parts of the world there's responses that were sometimes favorable in that countries got it under control but as you can see from this slide here my own country the united states as i'm sure we can discuss a little bit more is in the middle right now even as we speak in a very serious problem. >> thursday's case count is second time this week the u.s. has broken its daily record and the figures from the states experiencing case surges are really just disturbing. florida, california and texas all reporting their largest daily numbers yet of people dying from covid. plus the increases in daily case averages are off the charts up more than 1,200% in florida. early may the state was averaging about 680 cases a day and now it is averaging 9,000 cases a day. in south carolina, the average

of daily new cases is up 942%. in arizona and texas, it's up more than 800%. and now a cdc forecast which is based on 23 separate projections from varying experts predicts the u.s. to reach more than 147,000 deaths by the beginning of next month. right now the u.s. reports more than 133,000 people in the u.s. have died from coronavirus. and despite all of this moments ago the president just landed in one of the nation's hotbeds for the pandemic and once again he was not wearing a mask greeting people getting off of air force one. miami-dade is florida's hardest hit county where 1 in 3 of those tested is positive for covid-19. cnn's kristen holmes is traveling with the president and the tension between the president and dr. fauci is more present by the day. tell us about this. >> reporter: it really is and it's striking to watch because so much of this is playing out

publicly and in the media. this is within of tone of the n health advisers and yet we haven't seen dr. fauci at the white house advising the president at all. he hadn't been there giving a briefing in person for two months. we actually did see him there today so we'll get a readout from that meeting but the president himself is not there at that time so something to note here. we have really watched this back and forth as president trump has tried to separate himself from the virus, tried to down play the virus, talking about how strong the government's response is, how the only reason there's so many high case numbers is because there's so much testing and fauci obviously taken a different route. he isn't appearing on a major network but getting the voice out there doing any interview, anyone who asks to talk to him saying he slammed florida's

opening. he said they singled out the state and he is talking to president trump directly at one point responding in an interview saying that 99% of covid cases were totally harmless. he responded saying he doesn't know where the president got that number from and now president trump last night on fox news saying that fauci is a nice man but made a lot of m mistakes. it is a surge here in america. there are enormous amount of people scared right now suffering from this and we have this quibble playing out as president trump undermines his top health officials. >> he should be listening to him. thank you for the report. and as florida's continuing to push ahead with its reopening today the state is recording more than 11,000 new coronavirus cases. that is the second time this month the state has surpassed the 11,000 mark in a single day. rosa flores is in miami for us.

rosa, what is the latest here? >> reporter: brianna, the reality is that here in miami-dade this is the epicenter of this crisis, it accounts for about 24% of the more than 240,000 cases in florida. and it doesn't look like it's getting any better. earlier this week experts were concerned because the positivity rate here in miami-dade was 27%, 28%. now 33.5% and the goal for this county not to exceed 10% and the hospital system is getting tested. the infrastructure is getting tested. take a look at these numbers. past 14 days hospitalization of covid-19 patients has increased 76%. icu beds 86%. ventilator use 124%. yesterday the governor acknowledging another problem

seeing around the state and that is that they're getting delayed test results. if you don't know you have covid and out in the community you are spreading this virus. according to the governor the way to solve this is next week having specific lanes for symptomatic individuals so hopefully they can route those tests first and get those results quicker. brianna? >> even though we know so many people are asymptomatic and a challenge posed by that. thank you so much for that report. it is excellent from florida this week. thank you. i want to talk with the medical expert, the dean of the nae national director. dr. hotez, what is your reaction to the president traveling to florida and there not for an issue relatted to coronavirus as

1 in 3 tests are coming back positive? >> you know, there seems to be a lack of understanding or awareness that we are in one of the most extraordinary public health crises that the nation ever faced, maybe the worst ever. and we are in the very worst part of this epidemic with no end in sight. we were at 40,000 i think when we spoke a couple weeks ago and then 50,000 per day. new cases. now 60,000 and will be 70,000 by next week and approaching the 100,000 cases per day apocalyptic prediction that dr. fauci and the hospitalizations are rising. admissions are up and the deaths are starting so there was this fake narrative out there saying this is the death rate down and doesn't cause death anymore and now the deaths rising in texas, arizona and florida. we knew this was happening and would be a delay so the problem

is one a massive public health crisis and failed response and no response from the federal government and now what seems to be this misinformation campaign being waged by the white house and trying to deflect and minimize the problem. and it's not going to work. we have to start a federal response pretty soon. otherwise this is already in danger of getting out of control. >> it's kind of crazy to hear you talking about talking a federal response soon considering this is going on for months but we are in the situation we are in and right now the conversation is centered what happens next month and september as kids are supposed to go back to school. right now the governor of florida desantis is pushing for schools to reopen next month with in-person instruction. he said that schools should be able to. what do you think about that

comparison? >> all you have to do is imagine what it's going to be like when the school year starts in places like florida and texas and arizona. kids will start going to school. forget about social distancing among kids. that's not what kids do. right? they hug each other, they cry, get upset, they throw up, they have accidents. this is what kids do and teachers have the hardest job on the planet. even under the best of circumstances. now to ask them to do this and expose them to covid-19 especially teachers who are older who have comorbid conditions you know it's going to fail. eventually some of the teachers will get sick. we saw that happen in new york city. this past spring. i think there were 21 teachers who passed away from covid-19. it will be lights out and

destabilize very quickly. we now need to have a national roadmap, a national strategy where we look at every state and instruct and direct each state to get into containment mode or close to it by october 1. we can do this. some states that are already there. other states we may have to do a full shutdown but by october 1 you start to reopen and make -- reopen school safely, colleges and universities safely and have sporting events, maybe college football and nfl by the fall if we do that and with the hope i think the american people buy into it but they need leadership. they need somebody at the top saying that we can do this. i know we can. but it's -- who's going to take that role? so far the white house coronavirus task force is not willing or unable to do so. the cdc is not willing to take

on this role. who are we going to find to do that? that's the big question for the next few weeks. >> dr. fauci who so many people have been looking to for sound advice is now receiving criticism from the president after he commented on coronavirus crisis in parts of the country. you know him personally, doctor. you have known him for years. when you hear his recent blunt warnin warnings and the tone here sort of just in the immediate past after he's walked a fine line for several months, what does that tell you? >> you know, i have known tony, dr. fauci for 40 years. he is a mentor. one of the things that not many people use to describe tony is that he is an incredible patriot, loves his country, and so he's walked that fine line for a number of months in order to stay engaged and keep the president focused and harder to

do and he like many of us feel the need to speak out because saying nothing now is allowing so many people to get exposed and remember who's getting hit the worst right now. it's those living in the low income neighbors and the big metro areas in miami and houston and austin, phoenix, most vulnerable because you can't do social distancing easily. people have to be in the workplace to support their families and high rates of underlyi underlying diabetes and hypertension among the poor and i think that's why you are starting to see scientists like myself and tony, dr. fauci, you know, have to take on that political role even though it's not in our comfort zone. because saying nothing in itself becomes immoral. i have this conversation with my wife. she said to me, you know, you

don't want to wake up five weeks from now, six weeks from now and know that all of these people have perished, especially those who are vulnerable, and you realize you did nothing. that you didn't do all you could. that's why -- it is not fun for me to go out there and take on this political role. i have tried to stay very focused on the science for the last few months and now i realize that just only doing the science in this midst of this massive misinformation campaign would be an immoral position to take. i know how to go after empty science movements. i have done this my whole life because i'm an adult daughter of an autism and wrote a book of "vaccines did not cause rachel's autism." they called me the original gangster villain. i know what an anti-science movement looks like and this has

all the elements of it. people are dying and this is not what we do in america. >> you know, i have to say ur, peter, you are a patriot, too. you are sounding the alarm and we have been talking for months now and so clear how much you care about americans and their health so thank you for joining me. >> i deeply appreciate you giving me a voice. >> we do, too. thank you, sir. americans wait hours in line for covid tests and days to see the results. i'm going to speak live with a t testing site coordinator. a revelation of dr. fauci, nearly 50% of infected people are asymptomatic. there's a spike in cases after the president's rally in tulsa. the president said the new hampshire rally tomorrow night is postponed due to weather. hey there people eligible for medicare.

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squirks as the number of coronavirus cases goes up, so does the demand for tests but that demand has made states scrambling. this is texas. see how long the line is here for testing there. we are seeing similar scenes playing out across the u.s. in arizona cases are spiking, people wait several hours for a test and they're waiting one, two and even in some cases three weeks to get the results of the test. if you're in a state like california reporting a record number of deaths folks need to know if they have the virus and they need to know soon. fir finding out weeks latter can

exacerbate the spread as they roam around unaware they have been infected. the situation is hard all around and one group banded together, trying to provide a free testing side in arizona but they, too, have been frustrated by this process. jarvis reddick is the commander of the post 65 there a group organizing the effort. thank you for being with us. tell us what you are seeing on the ground. >> right on the ground we are having an extremely long lines. people been waiting probably got in line this morning around 12:30 a.m. and again we open up at 6:00 a.m. and we are getting through the line fast right now but we have to understand faster we can do this. >> okay. so how long does it take right now to get through the line? >> i would say probably three

hours. >> probably three hours and that is sort of -- that's moving pretty quickly. right? >> yes. we are actually on southbound community college campus and on campus takes three hours to get through testing. >> that is a long time for people waiting. what kind of help do you need right now? you said volunteers. anything else that you need? >> people have to understand the other cars that we have is averaging three to four people in it and slows the line down also. not just one person in the car. we run into situations we have like i say averaging four people in a car and ten people in a van slowing the line down a lot. >> okay. so in terms of the volunteers, you have enough? you don't have enough volunteers? is that really the sort of

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a nation's top infectious disease expert. here's a sampling of how dr. fauci contradicted the president's misinformation. >> you know, our mortality rate is right now at a level people don't talk about but it's down tenfold, so you look at deaths are way down. >> 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. >> testing is going very smooth. if you go to the right agency or area you get the test. >> the idea is we are not set up for that. it is a failing. >> we have to open our schools. young people are very little affected by this. >> i think we better be careful

if we are not cavalier to think that children are immune to the deleterious effects. >> he said he is not asked to brief the president directly in weeks but i want to bring in white house correspondent kaitlan collins. we did see fauci at the white house today. >> reporter: yeah. he was here but that was after the president had already left the white house to go to florida. he got here an hour i believe after the president had taken off headed for florida and you see him there on the executive -- to the left, dr. fauci, still coming here to the task force meetings and the issue and the reason not seen the president since june in person is because they're like ships in the night. the president does not attend the task force meetings, not attended one since april based on the latest reporting and just notable to see the president go to a coronavirus hotspot where the positivity rate is 33% today but it's not to talk about the

pandemic. it is instead where the drug trafficking briefing, a fund-raiser later on and just shows the discrepancy in the message that the president is portraying and dr. fauci seeing the president saying this is something to live with, nonsense to keep schools closed and dr. fauci saying we are still very much knee deep in the first wave. we are not worried of a second wave yet dealing with the first one and they have had these mixed messages all along and dr. fauci is not hesitant to break with the president or criticize him but to say he has not seen the president in person over a month and not briefed him in two months is just really striking given that he is one of the nation's top health officials and we are very much in the middle of the pandemic. >> it is stunning that the president is where he is. you wouldn't see a president going to a place that had been stricken to a tornado or a hurricane and lost a lot of lives and had people suffering and then not even go and address

that topping so it's a big deal. thank you so much live for us from the white house. the republican national convention is just over six weeks away in florida and president trump is expecting thousands of people to attend. that is despite florida right now as we told you being the global epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic. more than 11,000 new cases in just the past 24 hours. the white house insists it is still moving forward with the convention in jacksonville and will be a safe event. attorney w.c. gentry with us and filed a lawsuit against the city over -- against the city over the rnc plans there and joins me now from jacksonville. w.c. you are the lead con sell. tell us about the complaint you filed and why you were going to take this action. >> well, we have to take the action because if the republican national convention comes to

jacksonville and conducts itself the way it did in tulsa we will have a catastrophic super spreader again in the city that will cause immeasurable sickness and death to our community. under florida law, chapter 60 statute passed back in 1917, a citizen of the state of florida and the county can bring a cause of action to enjoin a public nuisance which is something that will injure the public and clearly will injure the public. >> so what you are asking for just to explain this to us, you are asking for attendees or convention organizers to follow cdc guidelines. walk us through what all you're asking for. >> that is correct. obviously it is foolish to have any convention, republican, democratic, tupperware in the midst of a pandemic. but the convention is coming. there will be a convention here

and what we are asking is that the rules be followed set down by the cdc and recognized worldwide to greatly minimize the risk of harm which is one best not to have it indoors, two, if you have it outdoors that people be distanced at least six feet apart and that they wear mask. the jaguars just released today that they are returning tickets and only play before a 25% capacity crowd which will be required to wear mask and must occur with this convention. >> okay. in effect, i'm asking you to think if you had -- this were an outdoor convention in late august, right, in jacksonville, is that something that you think is actually feasible? are you effectively asking them to stop having the convention or do you really think that those

types of conditions are feasible in august in jacksonville, florida? >> if they want to have a convention and not cause a lot of the attendees to be sick and die and the community to be severely damaged to do it outdoors or if they do it indoors with very small number of people, with social distancing, with mask. they made it clear they want to come here and have the convention so we say if you do it you have to do it safely to protect our community. and there will be protocols established to vet people before they get here. there's things that need to be done. if they talk to the scientists and the doctors to tell them how to do this in the safest way possible and still will be risk bringing people in from out of state. this is the numb burr went cdc highest risk for super spreader. people from out of state congregating together in a

closed space. >> all right. look. we are going to be watching your efforts and mayor of jacksonville is defending convention plans and the governor desantis offered to hold the conference there in florida and up against leadership odds and will see what the court says. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. the unexpected spike in coronavirus cases in texas has gotten so bad in one community that the medical examiner's office says they cannot take in anymore bodies of those that died of covid-19. plus, country group lady a who changed the name because of its connection to slavery is suing a black blues singer who says she has been known as lady a for years and lady a the original will join me next. woman: my reputation was trashed online.

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the country trio formerly known as lady antebellum apologized for blind spots they say they didn't know existed. they announced that they were changing the name to lady a to remove association with slavery but that name is actually already in use by this artist. ♪ anita white is a blues singer and released multiple albums

under the name lady a. the singer and the country trio were trying through talks but failed the agree on thank you they might both use the name. the group writing we are sad to share that the sincere hope to join together in unity and common purpose ended. she and her team demanded a $10 million payment and we have come to the conclusion that we need to ask a court to affirm our right to continue to use the name lady a, a trademark we have held for many years. i am joined now by lady a and drummer vocalist john oliver iii. lady a, walk us through this. it is true that the band i guess formerly known as lady antebellum has the trademark on lady a but you have been lady a performing as such since 1987 i believe when hillary scott of lady antebellum was 1 years old.

tell us about -- just tell us about this -- how when they decided to change their name to lady a you were having this discussion with >> well, i was blindsided by it, because i got a phone call from my sister. i work during the day, so my sister called and said you have looked at facebook? i said, no. when i got on facebook not ten minutes later "rolling stone" magazine called me to ask me about the story. i had to call them back because i was taken back by the whole thing. then after that i was just in shock. i didn't know what to do, and i was just trying to figure out what i was going to do. ultimately had the first lawyer that i had came on to just be on the call to talk with them.

after that, hillary reached out to me and said how sorry she was and didn't mean anything ill will, and i explained i understood that and they talked about coexistence and i said did not know how that would work, and i even asked what coexistence looked like, because we cannot both be lady a, and when i would do a search, lady a was at the top and lady antebellum was everywheron the and now they have erased me. i kept asking the question, what does that look like? the first agreement came back

where they would give their best effort to ensure i was not erased. the second agreement came back, they would give their best effort to see that i was not erased and their best effort erased me without a thought. whatever they said, they were not true to their word. >> i googled you, lady a, and i know what you mean, because now what comes up when you search is not you and your music, it's a disagreement that you are in the with the ban band formerly known as lady antebellum known now as lady a. i want to talk about the discussions you had before it led to the breakdown, but i wonder, you know, john, maybe you can shed some light as a member of the brand and of this group, what does this signify for you all when you are having a disagreement with the band?

>> it boils down to an independent artist, lady a, and lady antebellum is a machine, and so this is unfortunate because long term what we wanted to do was have transparent conversations with lady antebellum and to make sure lady a remains relevant. what they have done, like lady a said, they tried to erase her, which is not going to happen. which cannot happen. >> lady a, i think a lot of people have written about this. they have looked at what you are going through, and they said, wait, what is this group doing if they say they are trying to be anti-racists and now they're in this struggle for identity with a black performer as they say they are actually trying to be more an ally of the black

community. what do you think? >> i don't think that that was true from the beginning. i think it was a pr stunt on their part. the only reason i say that, and i could be wrong, but, you know, actions speak louder than words and their actions have shown that since the day they changed their name, their machine was already erasing me because it happened slowly at first, because i kept checking every day, because the conversations we were having, i was asking, how is this going to work if we co-exists. i never wanted to co-exists but nobody was listening to me. part of being an ally because i work in racial and social justice is that you listen, you learn and you put your words into action. they have -- their action benefited them. it had nothing to do with benefiting a black person or an

indigenous person of this land or person of color. they are trying to be anti-racists, and it's a pr stunt. because why are you trying to take the name? the name lady antebellum, it has a racist connotation, and you shorten it to lady a, and does that change what it means? that doesn't change what it means, not to you or your fans. i have worked hard to -- as an independent artist to be where i am. i will not be erased. we came up with suggestions for them as to how to co-exists, how that might -- what that possibly could look like. we really did try. myself, my mississippi producer, dexter allen, john, my producer here in seattle. we gave them ideas and suggestions. they never once gave us a suggestion on what co-existing looked like. >> i will say, lady a, this is,

you know, we will be watching this. we are curious to see how this turns out, as you are in this fight really for your identity. we will extend an invitation to the band formerly known as lady antebellum to see if they would want to come on as well. thank you both for the discussion. >> thank you, and god bless you. is it ethical for athletes to be getting these rapid result tests while americans are waiting for days and weeks in some cases? we will discuss that. the daughter that lost her dad to coronavirus calls out leaders for their response in his obituary. she'll join me live. with 2 unlimited lines for less than $30 each. call 1-800-t-mobile or go to t-mobile.com/55.

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