hello, everybody. i'm john king in washington. thank for sharing your day with us. we are again at a coronavirus crossroads. a back in time moment that should give us all pause. the nation's most populous state is reinstating stricter stop the spread restrictions, and its two largest school districts, los angeles and san diego, say the numbers are so bad the children will need to learn at home this fall. because of its size and diversity california is often a first alert and our state-by-state coronavirus tracking makes it clear right

now that a lot of places at this moment are trending in the wrong direction. the president won't acknowledge this. in fact, he flat out ignores it saying those talking about slowing the reopening or keeping students at home are trying to hurt his re-election chances by hyping the coronavirus risk. once again though as the president's own advisers making clear he is out of touch with reality. listen closely. >> we all know that kids need to be back in school physically for all the reasons we talk about, social, emotional, nutritional health, eye creek, discovery of child abuse. all those things that are very important, but we have to get the virus under control, and if we get the virus under better control, clearly kids can get back into school safely. >> the but and the if, right there, are quite telling. unlike his boss admiral giroir is willing to acknowledge the science and acknowledge the obvious. the virus is not under control today, and if things don't improve considerably, back to school in many places will just

not be safe. the admiral does say he does see some light at end of the tunnel. how far off is that light? well, the mayor of philadelphia just today making clear he sees a long road ahead. the city today, philadelphia again, says all large public events like festivals, parades are prohibited, get this, through february 202 is, seven months from now. the judge leading the coronavirus response in houston says if you want a better new normal any time soon, americans need to put on a mask, stay out of bars and think about others. >> we have to bring that curve down, and the more we buckle down the faster it will come down and the faster we'll be able to drop our kids off to school and ask them about their day and get on with the economy not fully open until there's a treatment or vaccine but a new normal. >> the numbers in our map tell us the children is as great as ever. let's take a look, and let's just start with a number, a number. look at this right now had. the seven-day average of new coronavirus base cases here in

the united states now above 60,000. that's never happened. this is the first time our seven-day average of new cases is above 60,000. i can see the current average just shy of 61,000. you go back in time in the middle of april when we thought we might be at the peak, it was 30,000 back on april 26th, the seven-day average of new cases. that's april, april. 30,000. here we are today, over 60,000. the summer surge is with us. let's look as we go through to the trend map right now. this map is just plain ugly. there's no other way to describe it. 37 states have their cases going up this week compared to last week. seven of those states, a 50% higher rate of growth than their cases this week. that's the darkest red. you can see it there. seven states, six going down. lighter green states out there. those are the six going down but 37 states heading in the wrong direction. this is also a warning sign here these states. look at the is potive rate, south carolina 17% plus and florida almost 19%, the same in

miss mix 17%. in texas more than 26%. that means, yes, there's a lot of testing. the people in those states taking the tests, high positivity rate turning back. that means they do not have the virus under control. if you look at arizona, perhaps, perhaps and let's hope a glimmer of hope here, seven-day moving average starting to trickle back down in the last couple of days. let's hope that continues. perhaps arizona is starting to reflatten the curve there. hospitalizations, too. you can see the rise in june and into july. some indication in recent days that that might be flattening so perhaps arizona starten to flatten. we'll keep an eye on that. florida has been a point of conversation for month, but especially in recent days as it sets daily, daily records. the seven-day moving average still trending up in nchlg a. yesterday's case numbers, not as high as the day before so we'll keep an eye on this, but the seven-day average which is how you track, it best to track averages heading up which is why we start with cnn's rosa flores live in miami. every day at the top of the program we've had some numbing numbers. where are we today?

>> you know, we're waiting for the florida department of health to post those numbers, but, john, we're also learning about a new concern in florida, the need for medical professionals. we're learning from jackson health this morning that 200 of their employees are out for covid-19 meaning they will be out tore so for 10 to 12 days. governor ron desantis will up the amount being deployed from 1,000 to 3,000. an infectious disease expert here in miami-dade county calling miami-dade the epicenter comparing it to wuhan, china. here's the reality on the ground. the positivity rate up to 28% yesterday, according to county data which also shows in the past 13 days the number of hospitalizations have increased by 68%. the number of icu units up by 69% and the number of ventilators up by 109% which begs the question how much time does miami-dade have?

how long is it going to take before leaders here shut down? here is miami beach mayor dan gelber. >> i suspect if in a week or two this is not changed in any way then we're all going to do it, an whether or not the governor wants us to do it or not. we'll do it, the county will do it and lots of the cities will do it. it will just be a shelter in place again. >> reporter: and, john, we checked across the state. 48 icu hospitals are at capacity. that means there are no more icu beds. eight of those are right here in miami-dade county. john? >> rosa flores, again, important reporting on the ground for us in florida. rosa, thanks so much, and when you listen the mayor saying a week or so. he may not have that long. >> an infectious disease specialist and epidemiologist joins us now had. i want to start with the headline number we were showing. we thought back in march when we were doing 30,000 plus cases a

day we were at the top of the hill. we're going up a new hill, at about 6 a,000 cases a day. what does that tell you? i don't know how to describe it. if you're on a racetrack, give me the best indicator that a lay person can understand. where are we in terms of controlling the spread of this virus? >> el with, right now, john, we're losing the race. the epidemic is accelerating in many parts of the united states. if you look at some of those curves, they are very much curves spiking up, not flattening or going down and i think big picture if we really want to go back to life as normal, if we want kids to go back to school, we need to do the work to get there. we've been putzing around for months now, not scaling up testing, not scaling up contact tracing, not wearing masks, not doing the work that we needed to do. you know, where is that american toughness and resolve? it's been missing for months now. >> well, part of the missing, i would suspect you would agree, is the department of mixed messages as i call it that until he finally wore a mask this weekend, the president was

saying i don't think they are all that effective and a lot of his supporters it was saying by some effort by the government to tell them what to do, not about public health. dr. anthony fauci said this this morning. it's almost as if we should say everybody should assume that you're asymptomatic infected person and that's the reason why you should wear a mask. dr. fauci says that, but as you're well aware, not to mix politics and health care, dr. fauci is under attack from his own colleagues in the trump administration. they say he's too candid and too alarmist. >> well, unfortunately, public health in particular tends to be very political because it's about how do you prioritize and allocate resources, so there's really no way to steer clear of that. unfortunately, we're dealing with an administration that is making this even more partisan and political than it needs to be, but the science is very clear. you know, it's just kind of like universal precautions in the hospital. i wear gloves when i draw blood or do anything involving bodily fluids on every single patient because i have to assume every single patient might have hiv or

other blood-borne disease. similarly we out in public with other people should assume that everyone else including ourselves could have asymptomatic covid infection and we need to behave accordingly. >> admiral giroir in an interview, thought it was quite candid, he says we have to get the virus under control and if we get the virus under control, under better control, you're not going to completely contain it. listen to his take where we are with the troubling numbers. >> but we're still very concerned because as hospitalizations go up, we would expect deaths to also go up even though we're turning the corner on the current outbreak, and it looks all indications are that we have that. we won't see the benefit in hospitalizations and deaths for at least another couple of weeks. >> sadly we've had these conversations for months, that there are lagging indicators. hospitalizations follow cases. deaths follow hospitalizations. when you hear the admiral lay it out there, do you share his

optimism? he says he does see -- he's very candid about the current threat today and we don't have it under control, but he says he can see some light at end of the tunnel. the can you? >> frankly, john, i am not quite sure what he's reading into those numbers. to me they are still very alarming, and i don't really see a sustained decrease of 14 days plus in any of the indicators which is really what we need to be looking for, so, yeah, you might see little blips up and down and that to me is white noise. that's not really a strong signal of improve president and we really need to commit to doing what needs to be done if we want to get this under control. >> doctor, it as always, grateful for your time and insights. grateful for your work every day. thank you. up next. the president wants the kids back in school. a new poll tells us whether most parents agree or disagree.

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three of the nation's largest school districts say the new academic year will begin with remote learning. los angeles, san diego and atlanta say it's simply not safe to bring students back into the classroom just yet, that despite president trump's wish that all schools open and despite talk in the white house about trying to tie some federal aid to whether classes are back in session or not. the mixed messages can leave parents confused and frustrated. carrie rodriguez is co-founder and president of the national parents union. thanks for being with us today. i want you to start by letting you listen to the president of the united states and he says anyone who says let's be careful, let's not open schools or let's leave the question open are trying to hurt his re-election chances. listen. >> the schools should be opened. schools should be opened. kids want to go to school. you're losing a lot of lives by

keeping things closed. i think there's a lot of politics going along. i think they think they will do better if they can keep the schools closed in the election. >> in your experience where you live in massachusetts and when you talk to your friends and associates around the country, are people engaged in this debate? do they want to keep schools closed to hurt the president or are they having the conversation to keep their kids safe? >> frankly, i think the president has nothing to do with it, and our national polling shows that. we have done constant polling across the country, thousands of parents, and frankly only 5% of american families trust donald trump to make the call on reopening schools, so even in a poll where 35% of folks identify themselves as republicans and trump supporters, only 5% of them want to hear from donald trump on this issue. parents are interested in hearing from public health officials. frankly, they are not even interested in hearing from superintendents and heads of school. they are not experts

anyonefectous disease. this is a deadly virus that's circulating throughout society, and frankly in schools where we have not been able to trust that there are functioning bathrooms, running water, soap to watch your air during pre-covid times the idea that now we're going to trust the same system is just frankly pretty ludicrous. >> you see that in numbers. this from an axios poll published this morning. do you feel safe? do you see risk? do you see risk in sending your children back to school? nearly nine in ten african parents and 86% of hispanic patients. more than seven in ten parents across the country say they see risk. now you're seeing risk and then accepting risk are two different things which is back to your point about trust. are we having the right conversation about whether kids should go back to school? >> absolutely not because we have so politicized this situation. we're not stupid. families understand the fact

that you can not reopen the economy without us. parents need to go to work for the economy to work. parents cannot go to work unless schools are open, unless we do a drastic accommodation for what is going to be expected of us at home if we even have the luxury of doing that. the majority of parents that i work with and we recognize -- we don't have the luxury, we're the front line workers out there doing the essential jobs every single day but the fact of the matter is we see donald trump coming a mile away. he wants to reopen the economy by any means necessary, and that means putting our kids at risk. the fact of the matter is just because you're poor, black and brown doesn't mean you're stupid and it doesn't mean our kids are not valuable. we are just as valuable, and our children are not going to be used as guinea pigs. >> carrie rodriguez, thank you for your insights and best of luck as the country goes through the next couple of weeks and beyond. that's a tough one. thank you so much, still ahead,

the white house giving mixed messages on the very point we were just talking about, opening schools.

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it is primary day today in three states, alabama, maine and texas. the most watched of the three states is alabama. we can show you some video just into us. look right there, wearing the mask. that's jeff sessions, the former alabama senator you can of course, the former attorney general voting just a short time ago in mobile. he's facing former auburn university football coach tommy tuberville who has a very important endorsement, the president of the united states who once employed jeff sessions. jeff zeleny is watching the race for us. as we watch jeff sessions today. that's the biggest test today, not to downplay the races in the other states. this is a grudge match, the president of the united states trying to keep jeff sessions from coming back to washington. >> no question, look, jeff sessions gave up that job as senator of alabama which he has successfully run four times before, often not having an opponent. gave it up to be an attorney and lost that job and is running for his old job back but president trump is heavily invested in this.

in fact, he wanted to go to alabama over the weekend in the final days of this campaign to a campaign rally for tommy tuberville. the state's republican governor kay ivy said, please, do not come. we have a rising spike of coronavirus cases here, but that's not kept the president out of this race. in fact, just last evening he held a phone call, a robo call, with tuberville and his supporters and made a promise here that if elected he would have his senator. let's listen. tommy tuberville is going to do a job like you haven't seen. he's going to take over and he's going to be representing you and representing you well. he's going to have -- he's going to a call and direct line into my office. >> so the president there promising that tommy tuberville if elected would have a direct line into the white house, into the oval office. i mean, the reality is most republican senators have a line to the white house, but the president has been deeply engaged in this. john, when you watch the advertising back and forth, tuberville spending more than $1 million in ads, outside groups

also are flooding in with advertising spending. president trump is at the center of this race, but jeff sessions is after voting just a few moments ago, he had this to say. >> the ultimate decision for the senate depends on the people of alabama, and the last three and a half weeks three congressional candidates that president trump supported did not win, and if you look at those three races, you'll see something common in all three. in all three the candidate who actually won was a stronger supporter of the trump agenda than the candidate who lost. >> reporter: sessions also accused huberville of hiding out saying he's simply not been campaigning, so when you talk to republican officials on the ground and here in washington, they do believe that sessions is the underdog for the first time in this race, but, john, let's wait until the votes are counted this evening because there are a lot of absentee votes as well as

people voting today, but in the middle of a summer in a pandemic in a gop runoff, we do not know what the turnout is going to be here, so a fascinating race and, of course, doug jones, the democrat is watching all of this with great interest. it's going to be a tough race for him in the fall as well. >> the most vulnerable democratic senate incumbent, doug jones, waiting to see whether it will be tischville or sessions. we'll stay up and count those votes. very much worth watching. fantastic race in alabama. we'll bring you the results when we get them. maybe the president isn't doing his homework or maybe he's betting you won't take the time to do yours. >> germany, norway, so many countries right now, they are open, the schools are open, and they are doing just fine and they are opening in the fall, so we have to get our schools open. denmark, sweden. we have to get our schools open and stop this political nonsense, and it's only political nonsense.

it's politics. >> politics, the president says, but just a little bit of study time, just a little bit offers an alternative theory. the european countries the president just mentioned, they are more free to reopen their schools because they have done a much, much, much better job controlling the virus. take a look, the european union and the united states started up the coronavirus hill at about the same time, but look at where things stand now. the eu is the pink line, down the hill and flat. the united states is the green line, still climbing, still not contained. >> we have to get the virus under control and if we get it under better control klayly kids can get back into school safely. there's no such thing as no danger or a free lunch, but risk to children are very, very small. >> olivier knox is with xm radio

and also joining us a reporter from the "washington post." >> does the president home people don't study this or not doing the homework? you can not compare the conversation about schools in the coronavirus and those in the european union. they have contained the coronavirus, we have not >> exactly. you can't compare the situations. i mean, we have heard a lot of comparisons between how, for example, how south korea has handled the drives and here in the united states it's night and day awe and you can't kind of transpose the situation from other countries and believe that you can open up again. but remember that the president just really wants things to go back to normal. clearly his -- the pandemic and clearly his handling of the pandemic has come under serious scrutiny as really -- has really damaged his cheap message for being re-elected this fall and that's the economy. that's why you saw -- that's partly why you saw this aggressive campaign led by the president, the vice president, education secretary betsy devos last week to re-open the

schools, but there is significant confusion on how that can happen. there are piece meal guide lines. we saw the conflicting guidelines from the -- from the president conflicting with the centers for disease control and prevention last week and also the question of funding. these schools are going to need a lot of extra help to get all those materials, to get the extra staff, the extra resources to be able to reopen up again if they do want to try to do that, and there's very little guidance from washington whether it's from the administration or dollars from congress at this point on how they will be able to do that. >> olivier, not the first time that we've had the conversation, but given where we are, 60,000 plus new cases a day on average for the first time, i think we just love him. at this time, 50,000-plus new cases can on average. we're above that average for seven days in a row. the administration, you heard admiral giroir in the intro we have to get the virus under

control. translation, it's not under control at the moment. that's one of the president's scientists. just yesterday the president's -- one of the president's top aide and social media director putting on facebook this cartoon mocking another one of the president's experts, dr. anthony fauci. at a critical moment you have the administration again in the circular firing squad or backstabbing. okay, we're got a problem. what the do we need to do about it? >> that's a chief problem right now. what the public needs right now at this moment is to be able to have that confidence, that information coming from public health experts in the administration, but that's really hard to do when you have top white house officials actively undermining the same public health officials. i mean, you're looking at that cartoon that was being spread by dan scavino, one of the top whd

been wrong in his previous assertions about the virus and to be clear, i mean, dr. fauci and his defenders have acknowledged that he was wrong in some points earlier on in the pandemic, for example, maybe saying that, you know, downplaying how helpful masks could be, for example, or downplaying the possibility of person-to-person contact earlier on, but the president has also been wrong at many points in the pandemic. he had declared that this would be eradicated by easter. it's obviously several months beyond easter by now, and there is very little control being taken by the administration to try to contain this pandemic. the numbers are growing, and there is still -- there's really kind of no -- kind of no talk about how this will be contained at a time when the president and the administration seems to want to be moving on to reopening of the economy, resuming campaign

events and reopening schools. >> olivier is back with us. i'm not going to ask you to repeat it but you know the old saying about karma. i want you to listen to mick mulvaney back in february when people in the news business were talking about the threat of this thing called about the coronavirus. mick mulvaney says -- the press was covering their hoax of the day because they thought it would bring down the president. the reason you're seeing so much attention to it today is that they think this is going to be what brings down this president. that's what this is all about. the. >> hoax of the day, it was back in february. mick mulvaney writing an essay for cnbc saying we have a testing problem in the united states, that one of his children, and we certainly hope his children and family are doing well, had to wait five toe seven days to get the result. if you need a test and you need it for your family, i guess it wasn't the hoax of the day. >> no, that's right. the united states obviously has ramped up testing enormously,

and it's a must-have, a must-do in order to get through this. but i think mr. mulvaney also knew back then that it -- that it wasn't a exwho. remember, the white house has been testing people around the president for weeks and months, and so now that he's in a slightly different position, he can come forward and say we've got a testing problem something that we've heard from governors, again, for weeks and months and one of the dynamics in the political sphere in 2020 has been how the president has been separated from quite a number of republican governors. i mean, just go look at -- go look at tate reed, the mississippi governor, look at his twitter account of the you'll see a long thread about how to need a mask, how herd immunity is not a workable option, about who not wearing a mask could or would do to mississippi eeconomy and its health care system. you'll see a dramatically different message from folks like that. republican governor mike dewine of ohio and governor hogan in maryland, it's been very, very

striking. that goes hand in hand with the president and stains downplaying the cdc guidelines on reopening the schools and i read them. they aren't that binding and aren't that strict. >> they are fairly common sense actually if you go through and read the documents, it's an excellent point but the president doesn't want to acknowledge the reality and the facts and the science. appreciate your insights, up next for us global perspective that matters right here at home. the united states military now restricting movement of troops in okinawa because of dozens of new covid cases. new microban 24

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new spikes in covid-19 cases are prompting some governors around the world to reimpose restrictions. our reporting begins with david culver in beijing. >> reporter: here in china we have learned two experts from the world health organization are currently in beijing right here in china's capital taking part in a source tracing study of sorts. now they have flown into and are in quarantine as is procedure here, but we do expect them to meet with chinese counterparts during their time here, scientists, to better understand

the origins of the novel coronavirus which has become increasingly politicized over the past several months. this is an animal expert, one that focuses specifically on animal-human interface and an epidemiologist. one would expect them to ultimately go to wuhan. however, as of now, we're told they may not be doing much case study in the field. this is just going to be focused on listening and learning as one w.h.o. expert put it. going forward, however, this group is considered a preliminary advanced team so a larger group of experts would likely come in and take part in a more in-depth sturdy to better understand how this pandemic started. david culver, cnn, beijing. here in hong kong the city has reported 48 new covid-19 cases of which 40 are locally transmitted cases. last night hong kong's top leader carrie lam ordered

vehicle control saying people must provide a negative test before boarding. zapsing and no dining-in services at restaurants between 6:00 p.m. at night and 5:00 a.m. the next morning. it will be xultsry to wear masks on public transport and starting tomorrow, wednesday, hong kong disneyland will be closed for a week. hong kong has been a pandemic success story, but despite near universal use of masks the virus has resurfaced here in a serious way, and the city is yet again forced to take, a. kristie lu stout, cnn, hong kong. >> reporter: here in hock congress i'm watching how the u.s. military in asia is dealing with the threat of coronavirus. all masks all the time. those are the rules for more than 35,000 u.s. marines an their family members on a network of bases on the japanese island of okinawa. they are under virtual lockdown there after an outbreak within

their ranks of dozens of new cases of coronavirus. all the more dramatic because okinawa had not seen any confirmed cases of covid-19 for the entire months of may and june and the first week of july. now there are at least 99 cases across japan, across different branches of the u.s. military prompting the governor of okinawa to express shock and doubt about current infection protection measures employed by the u.s. against the pandemic. ivan watson, cnn, hong kong. coming up, many nursing homes beginning to allow visitors generation concerns about possible coronavirus trouble.

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the american health care association is now asking governors to think twice about how they plan to reopen nursing homes. of course, a well-known hot spot for covid-19 cases. in a letter to the national governors association the group is calling for additional resources saying, quote, nursing homes and assisted living communities cannot stop the virus by ourselves, not without testing, personal protective equipment, staff-supported funding and not without support from the public health sector. joining me is the co-author of that letter, the ceo and president of the american health care association, mark harkinson, head of the national, center for assisted living. mark, it's good toy sue again. as you're asking the governors for help, i want to put the map up on the screen. 28 states and the district of columbia are now at least on a imlooed basis a lot visitors back to nursing homes and long-term facilities. we've been talking for the past

several months about the coronavirus crisis in those facilities. is it safe? you obviously want to see your loved ones and family members, but is it safe? >> it's safe if it's done right, so, first of all, you have to have a community that's not hag a massive increase in covid which, unfortunately, does not describe most of the united states right now, but if you are in a state where the number of covid cases is declining and the virus is getting under control, then under limited circumstances it is safe, as long is at equipment is available. everybody has masks. everybody has gowns and they can keep six feet apart, it's fine. but it's not fine when there's a shortage of equipment or a shortage of testing and, unfortunately, that's what we're seeing in a large part of the country. >> well, that's -- it's sad that you say those words because those are the conversations we were having four or five months ago, shortages of equipment, shortages of urgency and attention to the supply chain, if you will. if you look at the numbers, they are depressing, but almost 12,000 of these facilities with known cases across 44 states. we don't have data from 50

states, but almost 12,000 facilities with known cases in 44 states, nearly 290,000, 283,000 cases, and 44% of the deaths. that last number is numbing. 44% of the deaths in the states in the facilities. you're writing a letter to the governors. do you have the attention to the issue that you need? are you worried that you're maybe losing focus to a big conversation like reopening schools? >> let me start out with good news. the numbers are sobering but we have demonstrated that when the long-term care facilities have the right equipment and testing the outcomes are much better. if you look at the numbers in june, the number of new covid cases in nursing homes dropped by more than 50%.

in fact, 83% of buildings reporting 0, no new cases, at the end of june. unfortunately we are at real risk of that progress being undone seeing the massive increase in covid in the south and the southeast and california. it's very hard for there to be a massive increase in the community without it showing up in nursing homes and then you compound this enormous demand for equipment not just in the health care sector but every part of the economy. now nursing homes have a shortage of equipment. we have a lack of testing availability so we have made a lot of progress, tens of thousands of people recovered in nursing homes but we are at risk of losing that progress. >> at risk of losing that progress so you write the governors for help. what do you need? >> we need point of site testing. there are the machines out there where you can get tested immediately and get a result. you know?

we now see them employed by sports leagues and other parts of the economy. the priority needs to be long-term homes. we should make them available to anybody until they're available in those facilities. we have had good talks with the administration. they're trying to source those machines right now but until we get them we have a real problem because it's still taking over five days in many facilities to get test results and can't beat the virus if we don't know who has it. >> excellent point there. appreciate your insights. now shifting to another big focus the military now dealing with spiking numbers of coronavirus cases. let's bring in pentagon correspondent barbara starr. it is not just okinawa. this is a problem. >> reporter: it is not. it is growing, john. the military thought for some months that it would be somewhat protected from my spike with a relatively young, relatively healthy population inside the ranks but right now they are

seeing a spike. so far, just halfway into july there's about a 60% increase in the ranks in positive covid cases, a 1,700 additional positive cases just since july 8th. right now 10,554 positive cases inside the u.s. military. good news if there is is that hospitalization still remains very low. why is this happening? they are seeing some spiking in the same places as civilian society across these southern hotspots, florida, texas, california, louisiana, arizona. these are the places where it's spiking in communities and, of course, u.s. military lives and works in communities across the country. the air force now has had to reinstitute in five bases largely across the south stricter health precaution

regulations. they had eased up somewhat. now they see the spike. they are clamping down again. this is not the only thing the military is having to deal with on coronavirus. now in the last couple of weeks there are about 760 military medical personnel called in to help with hospitals, civilian hospitals largely, across the country who need help. they did it in the new york spike. they're now back in the field doing it again trying to help civilian medical care. john? >> important perspective. appreciate the reporting from the pentagon. thank you so much. up next, communities call for more nationwide police reform. pennsylvania proving you can get things done. young man: thanks for having us this weekend mrs. garcy

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pennsylvania just moments ago the governor signing two new police reform bills into law, one requiring officers to have mental health screening and the other sets standards for job applicants. >> that will require a thorough pre-empt background check for law enforcement officials. this is going to help law enforcement officials or agencies that -- to identify potential problems in candidates, especially those that might be seeking a job in one agency when they were

terminated from another. >> that action in pennsylvania coming of course as many states pass or debate police reforms following the death of george floyd in minneapolis. it is the summer of covid, protests and now a surge in crime. what happens in america when the police and the people both come under fire? don lemon tonight hosting "cnn tonight" with a look at crime, policing and your safety 10:00 p.m. eastern here on cnn. top of the hour. hello to the viewers in the united states and around the world. thank you so much for sharing this day with us. philadelphia says big public events like parades and festivals off limits for at least another six months. california rolling back the coronavirus clock saying its spiking case count necessitates a return to stricter guidelines to stop the spread. florida is another case study in our troubling coronavirus summer

surge. the state repor