setting a national record florida is breaking a sitate record for single-day deaths. the mayor of miami beach vows to do what he can to keep his citizens safe. >> i suspect within a week or two, this is not changed in any way, that we're all going to do it. whether or not the governor wants us to do it or not, we'll do it, the county will do it. lots of city also do it. it will be a shelter in place again. >> cnn's erica hill is monitoring all the developments across the country. tell us what you're seeing. >> reporter: yeah, we're hearing more of what we just heard from the mayor there. across the country, brianna, 20 states monday posting their highest seven-day average for new cases. and it is just a reminder that this virus is spreading, and it does not look at any lines, whether they be for a state, city or county. across the country, reality

setting in. >> we should have known this was coming and planned ahead of time. this is the problem. there is no road map, no plan for the country. >> california, the first state to shut down, doing it again, closing indoor activities statewide. restaurants, bars, movie theaters and some of the hardest-hit counties, houses of worships, gyms and salons, too. >> we've never had as many people infected or infectious. we've never had as many recorded positive cases each day. and we've never had as many people in the hospital. >> similar records in florida, miami, now the nation's new epicenter for the virus. >> people aren't respecting this virus, especially younger people. >> reporter: positivity rate in miami-dade county, which counts for nearly a quarter of the state's cases getting closer to 30%. nearly 200 employees at jackson health, the largest hospital system in the state, are out sick with covid-19. in texas, houston's mayor wants a new two-week stay-at-home

order. >> we have to slow down this virus. right now, we're chasing it. the virus is in control. >> reporter: the governor hasn't yet responded. nationwide, the u.s. is averaging more than 60,000 new cases a day. reopening is paused or in reverse in more than half of all states. philadelphia just canceled all large events through the end of february 2021. walmart, mulling over a mask mandate in all of its stores as an expert admits that early mask messaging was amiss. >> what got misrepresented in that message was not just that we wanted to preserve them, but they don't really work that well anyway. so, that was the mistake. because, in fact, there's no doubt that wearing a mask is better than not having a mask for the general public. >> reporter: back to school will be virtual.

>> pandemic has affected more than 3 million americans. it has cost more than 135,000 lives and climbing, and it shows no signs of slowi days, 19 states, 19 states reported record cases, including florida, which saw more than 15,000 new cases in a single day. hospitalizations and deaths, two of the most indicators of trump's failed response are unacceptably high and they are rising. it's gotten bad enough that even donald trump finally decided to wear a mask in public. i'm glad he made the shift. mr. president, it's not enough. we won't be able to turn the corner and get american people back to work safely without presidential leadership.

mr. president, open everything now isn't a strategy to success. it's barely a slogan. quit pushing the false choice between protecting our health and protecting our economy. all it does is endanger our recovery on both fronts. mr. president, please listen. to your public health experts instead of denegrading them. do your job, mr. president, because if we can't deal with the public health crisis, we can't deal with the economic crisis ordeal with almost 18 million americans who are out of wo work, our communities of color, can't deal with the permanent

shadow that will loom over the country of the world for a long time. come back stronger than ever before with the tough and gritness that determines who we are. that's what i want to talk about today. last week, i shared the outlines of my plan to build back better. a bold plan to build an economy of the future, not an economy of the past. in the first plank of that plan rejects the defeatis view that automation, made in america with good paying jobs, making it at home here in america. we clearly can. today i'm here at williamington to talk about a second plank.

how we can create millions of high-paying union jobs by building a modern infrastructure and a clean energy future. these are the most critical investments we can make for the long-term health and vitality of both the american economy and the physical health and safety of the american people. even if we weren't facing a pandemic and an economic crisis, we should be making these investments anyway. one in five miles of our highways are still in, quote, poor condition, according to the american engineers. 10,000s -- actually tens of thousands of bridges are in disrepair and some on the verge of collapse, presenting a clear and present danger to people's lives. tens of millions of americans lack access to high-speed broadband tochlt get our people to work and our kids to school safely, to get our kids to

market swiftly, to power clean energy revolution in this country, we need to modernize mern america's infrastructure. despite this overwhelming need, this president and republican congress have simply failed to act. there's no other way of saying it. to continue to break the promises they've made to the american people, donald trump promised a big infrastructure bill when he ran in 2016. he promised it again in 2017, and then in 2018, and again in 2019. and now he's promising one again. seems like every few weeks, when he needs draistraction from the latest charges of corruption in his staff or high-ranking members of his staff or political apparatus the white

house announces it's, quote, infrastructure week. how many times have you heard him say that? but he has never delivered. he has never really even tried. well, i know how to get it done. in 2009, president obama and i inherited an economy in freefall, and we prevented another great depression. we enacted the largest infrastructure plan since president eisenhower's interstate system. improving the safety and security of people on our roads. we made the largest investment in clean energy in the history of the united states of america, $90 billion. and it put us on a path toward a thriving, clean energy economy, powering new economic growth and reducing energy costs. here we are now, with an economy in crisis, but with an

incredible opportunity not just to build back to where we were before, but better, stronger, more resilient and better prepared for the challenges that lie ahead. and there's no more consequential challenge that we must meet in the next decade than the on-rushing climate crisis. left unchecked, it's literally an existential threat to the health of our planet and our very survival. that's not up for sfdispute, mr president. when donald trump thinks about climate change the only word he can muster is hoax. when i think about climate change, the word i think of is jobs. good-paying, union jobs that put americans to work, making the air cleaner for our kids to

breathe. restoring our crumbling roads, bridges and ports, making it faster, cheaper and cleaner. to transport american-made goods across the country and around the world. jobs. jobs to build and install a network of 500,000 charging stations along our existing and new highways we build across this country, which not only help america, american automobile industry lead the world in manufacturing with electric vehicles. it will also save americans billions of dollars over time in the cost of gasoline for their vehicles. jobs that lay the lines for the second great railroad revolution, which not only slash pollution, will slash commute times and open up invested areas connected to metropolitan centers for the first time. when donald trump thinks about renewable energy, he sees wind mills somehow causing cancer.

when i think about these wind mills, i see american manufacturing racing to dominate the american market. i see the steel that will be needed for those windmill platforms, ladders that can be made in small manufacturers like i saw in scranton last week. union trade certified men and women who will manufacture and install it all. i see the ports that will come back to life, the long shoremen, the ship builders, the communities they support. when donald trump talks about improving efficiency by retrofitting lighting systems with l.e.d. bulbs, do you remember what he said? he said he doesn't like l.e.d. because, quote, the light's no good. i always look orange, end of quote. the light's no good. i always look orange.

when i think about energy retrofitting for lighting, i see the incredible projects like the one right here at the jay center. i see small businesses like preferred electric that design and small award-winning conservation energy measures, reduce consumption of energy and save businesses hundreds of thousands of dollars in energy costs per year. i see master electricians, who start off with good wages and benefits and grow from there of. these investments are win, win, win for this country. creating jobs, cutting energy costs, protecting our climate. that's why today i'm releasing my plan to mobilize millions of jobs by building sustainable infrastructure and inequitable clean energy future n my first four years, we're going to give 4 million buildings all across

this country the same energy makeover that you get here at chase, the chase center. it's going to create at least 1 million jobs in construction, engineering and manufacturing in order to get it done. it's going to make places, the places where we work, we live, we learn healthier, improving indoor air quality, water quality. it's going to save tens of billions of dollars in energy costs over time. that's all real. we're not just going to focus on commercial spaces, though. we're going to give direct support to our families, do the same things for their homes. we're going to offer cash rebates, low-cost financing to upgrade energy efficient appliances and windows, improvements that will cut their monthly energy bills and over time save them thousands of

dollars a year. we're going to make a major investment to build 1.5 million new energy efficient homes and public housing units that will benefit the community, all communities three times over birks alleviating the affordable housing crisis, by increasing energy efficiency and increasing racial wealth gap linked to home ownership. last week i talked about using the power of the federal government to reinvigorate domestic manufacturing. that's what we're going to do for the american automobile industry as well. the united states owns and maintains an enormous convert these government fleets to electric vehicles made and sourced right here in the united states of america, with the government providing the demand and the grants to retool

factories that are struggling to compete the u.s. auto industry and deep bench of supplier also stand up so the united states, not china, leads the world in clean vehicle production. we're going to make it easier for american consumers to switch to electric vehicles as well. not only by building 500,000 charging stations, but by offering rebates and incentives to swap older fuel efficient vehicles, for a new clean made-in-america vehicle. saving hundreds of billions of barrels, millions of barrels of oil on an annual basis. together this will mean 1 million new good-paying jobs in the auto industry and supply chain and the associated infrastructure needed to get it done. we also know that transforming the american electrical sector,

to produce power without producing carbon emission will be the greatest spurring of job creation and economic competitiveness in the 21st century. that's why we're going to achieve a carbon emission free electric sector in 2025. we need to get to work on it right away. we'll need the lab scientists of universities to improve and innovate technologies needed to generate, store and transmit this clean energy. we need the engineers to design them, the workers to manufacture them. we need iron workers and welders to install them. we'll become the world's largest exporter of these technologies, creating even more jobs. we know how to do this. our administration rescued the auto industry and helped it retool, made solar energy the

same cost as traditional energy, weatherized more than a million homes, and we'll do it again, but this time bigger and faster, and smarter. as we do this work, we need to remind everyone of the historical wrongs and the damage that american industries have done in the 20th century, inflicting environmental harm in the poor and vulnerable communities. so often black and brown and native american communities, polluted air, polluted water, toxins raining down from communities that bore environmental and health burdens, but share none of the profits. growing up, breathing that in every day is poison. it's partly why there's such incredible rates of childhood asthma in black and brown communities, why black americans, almost three times more likely to die of

asthma-related causes than white americans. it's cancer alley in st. james parish in louisiana. that's the cancer-causing clusters along route 9 right here in delaware. and that's why today i'm also releasing a state of the environment justice policies to build up my existing plan. this is an area of incredible opportunity for economic growth for our country, but we have to make sure that the first people who benefit from this are the people who are most hurt by it historically, in the last century by the structural disparities that exist. i'm setting a goal to make sure that these front line and fence line communities, whether in rural places or center of cities, receive 40% of the benefit from the investments we're making in housing, pollution reduction, in workforce development, in

transportation, across the board. we're also going to create jobs for people by cleaning up the environmental hazards that have now been abandoned. you saw the front page of "the times" two days ago. all these places that are going bankrupt except for the benefit that's going -- millions and millions of dollars going to the ceos. more than a quarter million jobs right away, plugging millions of abandoned oil and gas wells that exist all throughout the country, posing daily threats to the health and safety of our communities. we're going to hold accountable those ceos and corporations that benefit from decades of subsidies, then just walked away from their responsibilities to these communities, leaving the wells to leak, pollutants to continue to spew. greenhouse gases flowing in the air and the water.

we're not only going to repeal those subsidies, we're going to go after those golden parachutes that the ceos gave themselves before declaring bankruptcy, to make sure that the workers received the benefits and retirement they were promised. let's create new markets for our family farmers and our ranchers. a new modern-day civilian climate core, to make us less vulnerable to wildfires and floods. look, these aren't pie in the sky dreams. these are actionable policies that we can get to work on right away. we can live up to our responsibilities, meet the challenges of a world at risk, of a climate catastrophe, build more climate resilient communities, put millions of skilled workers on the job and make life markedly better and safer for the american people at once and benefit the world in the process.

the alternative? continue to ignore the facts, deny reality. focus only on technology the last century instead of inventing the technology that will define this century. it's just plain unamerican not to. this is all that donald trump and the republicans offer. backward-looking policies that will harm the environment, make communities less healthy, hold back economic promise, while other countries race ahead. it's a mind-set. it doesn't have any faith in the capacity of the american people to compete, to innovate, and to win. it's never been a good bet to bet against the american people. and when you do, you do so at a deadly cost. i know better. you do as well. i know what american people are

capable of. i know what american workers can accomplish when given the room to run. i know climate change is a challenge that's going to define our american future. i know meeting the challenge will be a once in a lifetime challenge. protect our planet for future generations. and if i have the honor of being elected president we won't just tinker around the edges. we're going to make historic investments that will seize the opportunity and meet this moment in history. we're going to get to work, deliver results right away on day one. we're going to reverse trump's rollbacks of 100 public health and environmental rules, and then forage a path to greater ambition. back into the paris agreement, back into the business of leading the world. we're going to lock in progress that no future president can

roll back or undercut, take us backward again. science requires a timetable for measuring climate that isn't a decade or two. scientists tell us we have nine years before the damage is irreversible. so my timetable results is in my first four years as president. the jobs it will create, the investments it will make and the irreversible steps it will take to mitigate and adapt to climate change and put our nation on the road to net zero emissions no later than 2050. so, let's not waste any more time. let's get to work now. now. thank you. >> mr. vice president, time for a few questions? >> all right. the former vice president there with one of his key policy

speeches. this one, on clean energy. i want to bring in bill wier, our chief climate science reporter on this, and arlette saenz, who covers the biden campaign i want to start with you, arlette. this was a speech about clean energy but we heard joe biden talking about the trump administration coronavirus response there at the top. he was saying essentially you can't push a choice. don't push a choice, a false choice between health and the economy. this isn't a false choice. he was also very pointed in saying that the president finally wore a mask, but he said finally wearing a mask in public is not enough. arlette? >> that's right, brianna. you heard joe biden hammer away

at this message. biden arguing that you can't separate the public health and the economic portions of this coronavirus response. and you heard the former vice president talk about how the country is still in a moment of crisis. he acknowledged that president trump finally wore a mask in public over the weekend but biden said that's not enough that, there needs to be stronger presidential leadership. he specifically said that the president needs to listen to his public health experts instead of denegrading them. that being a reference to dr. anthony fauci. biden has said he would ask dr. fauci to serve under his administration, to continue serving at a time when the president and the white house have sought to discredit fauci. you really have heard biden trying to present this contrast with the president not just on coronavirus but on climate change.

joe biden said when he thinks about chiemt change, the only word he can muster is hoax. when i think about climate change, the word i think is jobs, good-paying, union jobs. that's at the heart of what joe biden is talking about, today, last week we heard him uncover his agenda. today he says that clean energy is what we need to -- the country needs to invest in to create good-paying jobs across the country. as americans, many unemployed people are grapple iing. biden's plan released today is that he would invest $2 million in infrastructure, transportation, building efficiencies over the course of four years. that is a timeline that's a bit sped up from what he had released during the primary. he is also pushing for eliminate

ing carbon emissions and this larger need for environmental justice, saying there should be environmental justice panel within the department of justice and also wanting to invest a lot of that clean energy benefits and investments into disadvantaged communities. so today you've had biden clearly outlying how he thinks investing in the clean energy sector could spur jobs across this country, as many americans are looking for ways to keep with the economic ramifications of the coronavirus pandemic. >> and i want to bring bill back into this conversation. bill wier, you are joining us from brazil, in the middle of its own challenges when it comes to coronavirus. but listening to the former vice president's clean energy policy speech here, what did you take away? what stood out to you? >> reporter: well, it's interesting. you know, anybody who cares about air, water, animals and

the state of the planet will probably vote for a loaf of bread over donald trump, but hillary clinton's biggest mistake, she admits, back in 2016, was saying we're going to put coal mines out of business. it gave trump an easy line to say it's a war on coal. he's pitting this under job, as under trump infrastructure week has become a punch line. imagine all the engineers, welders, fracers. it's not an i have a nightmare speech but i have a dream speech there. he was middle of the pack there early in the democratic primaries but now with the help of jay inslee, he brought in founder of the sun rise movement, bernie sanders supporters. they have upped his ambition and price tag on this. he isn't going to pay for it by taking away oil and gas

subsidies, golden parachutes to these energy executives and whatnot. 40% investment into communities of color. after george floyd "i can't breathe" is the cry of the day, a lot of these communities can't breathe because they live in the dirtiest parts of town, historically. that's a huge boom for them. a lot of people who thought he wouldn't be ambitious enough are saying this say really good plan. here in brazil, aside from the coronavirus pandemic, and the virus not only gets worse in a warmer world, president bolsonaro fired a woman at brazil's nasa for putting out data that showed 400 square miles of the amazon was destroyed just in june. and so it's not just a matter of convincing voters in ohio and pennsylvania to vote for him. if he get this is job, will he have to convince world leaders to join in this basically global fight against our own lifestyles in order to create a better

plane planet. >> it's so important for younger people, right, bill? we're in the middle of one existential crisis as we're going through this pandemic with coronavirus. we've heard a lot of public health officials who say they wish young people were doing more when it came to that. but in terms of climate change, this is truly the existential crisis that this generation feels. this is going to be so important in bringing them around to participate in the process in november for joe biden. >> reporter: absolutely. i mean, i think the one reason we saw all those friday climate school strikes led by greta thunberg, there's a lot of greta thunbergs across the country, pushing this issue into their parents' faces. the green new deal is derided because it's so big and includes

social justice and guaranteed income provisions and they say no, that's because the climate touches every aspect of life. it's not a menu item on a list of voter issues. it's the restaurants and everything from economy to foreign policy to daily life depends on a liveable planet. and no plan is ambitious enough for these young people. so, i don't know. we'll see if today is the first step in engaging those young voters. >> yes, we will see. they will be important for joe biden come november. bill, thank you so much for joining us from brazil. thank you so much to arlette, following the biden campaign. up next, the board of education in orange county, california, voting to return to school with no social distancing, no masks and full attendance. plus, four former cdc directors are speaking up, blasting the trump administration's dismissal of science. 21-year-old brings the virus

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two of california's largest school districts will be holding classes online rather than in person when the school year begins, but orange county, which falls in between these two districts, is not following suit. the board of education in orange county voting to reopen district schools in the fall, without a mandate for social distancing, no mask requirements. i want to bring in now noah bishotti and dr. gandhi, primary

care medicine physician. for the tenth district in texas. noah, i want to start with you. this really caught my eye. i'm from orange county, california, and i come from a family of teachers who have taught in orange county. and so i was just wondering, tell us what exactly the board of education voted on here 4-1, and what they based this on, how they're justifying what they voted on. >> of course. thank you for having me on. so, the main thing that i want to make clear is that this vote only applies as guidelines to districts, as they're moving to reopen. there's no mandate behind these requirements of no masks, and no social distancing and different things like that. those are all just suggestions being put out by the board of education. now the way that they came to those was kind of an interesting process. they had a seven-person panel that met several weeks ago to

speak with people about what they felt were their concerns going into the next school year. that was made up of a few education experts, several doctors from the area. orange county's health care agency director, dr. clayton chia and don wagner. the final report, people felt it was very skewed in the anti-mask, anti-social distancing direction when multiple members of the panel came out and said they disagree with that and think that masks are something that should be implemented. >> noah, your reporting on this is excellent. you walk us through it so well, i have to say. as you mentioned, look, this isn't a mandate. the teachers' unions, teachers, parents, they're all going to have their say on this. it's hard to imagine that they're going to go along to the letter with the board of education there in orange county. but you talk about how there really was not a whole lot of time offered for public comment and also how the recommendations

were formed that they actually would cite examples of reopening in some places, but not mention that they were using the types of precautions that the board actually voted against. >> yeah. that was one of the things that really came up, was public comment. at this meeting, they had a massive response from the public. according to their secretary, they had over 2500 written comments get submitted and over 6,000 people were watching online during the meeting. it actually became a problem. they couldn't support everyone through zoom where they were streaming the meeting and had to move it to youtube to allow everyone who was trying to get on. that was a concern for a lot of people. those comments weren't actually read at the meeting. what they ended up doing was allowed in, i think it was, just over 20 or so people to come and speak about the issue. and most of those who spoke were all for the board's recommendations. they thought that was a great idea to return with the limited restrictions and different

things like that, to allow some room for the kids to interact with one another. and now there's been a huge debate over what's even going to happen with those 2500 comments. the board pushed their decision on sort of how they're going to handle that to their august meeting. so, people are really upset right now that they feel that their voices haven't been heard in this debate. >> and, dr. gandhi, the board was really leaning in favor of this idea that masks are actually unhealthy for kids to use, that social distancing is unhealthy for them. when you see a board of education that is supposed to be considering the health of children and teachers and everyone who works in a school, what's your reaction to this? >> i don't think those comments are rooted in science. i think that people feel pushed up against the wall because of the presidents comments to essentially force school districts to open. masks are not dangerous for children, but we've got to take a step back and look at the

bigger picture. in orange county you've had a significant increase in the number of percent positive cases. you've had a decrease or not enough contact tracers to actually handle the positive tests that come in and on top of that, one-fourth of all teachers nationwide are at risk from complications of this virus, based on a recent kaiser study. folks feel like their back is pushed up against the wall because there is no clear guidance from the federal authorities on how to move forward. >> yeah. it has a lot of teachers befuddled. i will tell you that, and parents as well. thank you very much, dr. gandhi, noah, thank you for joining us. dr. fauci will be speaking amid tensions with the white house and more voices are coming to his defense. fox news host tucker carlson responded to his lead writer

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in a scathing rebuke, in an op-ed in the washington four ex-cdc chiefs are accusing the president of undermining.

we ran the cdc. no president ever politicized its science the way trump has. this public reprimanned is coming as the president and white house mountain effort to discredit dr. fauci on research of one of the experienced members of the president's coronavirus task force. still the president trying to downplay the friction. >> i have a very good relationship with dr. fauci. i have from the beginning. i don't always agree with him. i get along with him very well. i like him personally. >> today more than 12,000 infectious disease experts felt compelled to release a statement of support for dr. fauci saying, in part, reports of a campaign to discredit and diminish the role of dr. fauci at this perilous moment are disturbing, if we have any hope of ending this crisis, all of america must support public health experts

and stand with science. this all comes down to fauci having the courage to contradict the president. >> if he hadn't made a concerted decision to lie and deceive about the pandemic. one of the things he has been most deceptive about is the issue of testing. from the president over the past few weeks we've heard the increase in cases is simply the result of more testing and that testing has pros and cons, it's good and bad. that's not what we hear from experts. listen to what trump said and how dr. fauci corrected him. >> we do the testing and by doing the testing, we have tremendous numbers of cases. if we didn't do the -- we have 45 million tests. if we did half that number you would have half the cases, around that number. if we did another half of that, you would have half the numbers.

everyone would be saying we're doing so well on cases. >> even more widespread testing on a surveillance basis is absolutely essential for us until-to-get a full understanding of the penetrance of this, particularly among individuals who are asymptomatic. it's the opposite. we're going to be doing more testing, not less. >> now the president's dishonesty about testing, brianna goes all the way back to march when he went to the cdc headquarters in atlanta and said anyone whoasn't even close to c and it led to dr. fauci to do a must-needed correction. listen. >> anybody that needs a test gets a test. >> the idea of anybody getting it easily the way people in other countries are doing it, we're not set up for that. it is a failing. let's admit it. >> so again, this is just dr. fauci saying the obvious. that's it. >> certainly. and the president has spent a lot of time touting a drug for

coronavirus that health experts say is not effective. >> that's right. of course, this is hydroxychloroquine. the president was saying it would be a game changer, there was very strong evidence that it worked against coronavirus. dr. fauci said no, hold on. that evidence isn't as strong as the president claims. listen. >> it's shown very encouraging, very, very encouraging evidence. >> anecdotal evidence. it was not done in a control clinical trial. you can't make any definitive statement about it. >> so, brianna, this wasn't dr. fauci saying i hate hydroxychloroquine, it's horrible, he was just asking the president to cite his sources which he is always reluctant to do. >> thanks for walking us through that. appreciate it. tucker carlson started last

week calling a senator, purple heart recipient and iraq war veteran a coward who hates america. and start this is week with the defense of his lead writer who left the show after it turned out he was spending his free time anonymously posting racist and sexist comments online. this is how tucker carlson described the departure of him. he wasn't a writer as described, he was the show's lead writer. >> over the weekend you may have seen stories about a writer on this show called blake naff. for years since he was in college, he posted anonymously on an internet message board for law school studentsment on friday many of those posts became public. blake was horrified by the story and ashamed. friday afternoon, he resigned from his job. we want to say a couple of things aboutwant to say a coupl things about this. what blake wrote anonymously was wrong. we don't endorse those words. they have no connection to the show. it is wrong to attack people for qualifies they request not

control. in this country we judge people for what they do, not for how they were born. we often say that because we mean it. we'll continue to defend that principle often alone among national news programs because it is essential. blake fell short of that standard and paid a very heavy price for it. but we should point out to the ghouls beating their chest in triumph of the destruction of a young man that self-righteousness also has its cost. we are all human, when we pretend we are holy, we are lying and we are committing the gravest sin of all. and we'll be punished for it. there is no question. >> and that response was a joke. not even an acknowledgment that his lead writer blake ness postings were racist, homophobic and sexist. no apology that this was the man writing tucker carlson's copy and this wasn't just some

college impropriety, this is the last few weeks. he responded to a thread that was titled would you let a jet black congo n-word, which was not redacted, do lasik eye surgery on you for 50% off. that is what one response was titled that he responded i wouldn't get lasik from an asian for free. so no. this was just in recent days, right, that we wrote this. tucker carlson spending a third of his comments addressing the resignation, attacking reporters for bringing his lead writer's offensive post to light. and it makes no sense until you consider that the biggest topic was attacking one of the most prominent asian-americans in the u.s. government. senator tammy duckworth who is not immune from criticism but should be immune from tucker carlson questioning her patriotism even as she served in the military unlike him and lost both of her legs in the iraq war

when a rpg took down the helicopter she was in. and they have no connection to his opinion based show except verifiably they do. cnn's oliver darcy who broke this story found several examples of what blake wrote online overlapping with what came right out of tucker carlson's mouth including on june 25th when the writers post quoted a news story about coronavirus. interest in montana real estate to which carlson referred to that night. and then on june 15th, his words about a football coach wearing a t-shirt showed up in the script. again, no connection to the show. this writer once said, quote, anything carlson is reading off the teleprompter, the first draft was written by me. and he goes on, quote, we're very aware that we do have that power to sway the conversation so we try to use it responsibly. but don't take blake ness's word for it. how about tucker carlson's.

the host said on air that ness is, quote, a wonderful writer and credit his assistance on the nightly scripts and acknowledged ness in his book. tucker carlson is showing us he's not ashamed by this racist talk. tucker carlson seems angrier about the exposure and appears to think it is something to be protected. a programming note, tucker carlson will not be on tv tonight. he has gone fishing. a fishing trip that was pre-planned, of course. and next i speak with the wife of a man on a ventilator after his 21-year-old son brought the virus home after going to a friend's house. ou ne? i should get a quote. do it. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪

a book that you're ready to share with the world? get published now, call for your free publisher kit today! a florida woman and her family are living a coronavirus nightmare. in a saga that began when their 21-year-old went to a friend's house and brought coronavirus home to the family. now his dad, john place, has been on a ventilator for two weeks. he's just 42 years old. john's wife michelle is joining me now. thank you so much for being with us. it is -- i mean, this ordeal that you're going through, i know a lot of families are going through it. but a lot of them aren't. and so they want to hear from you about what you're dealing with. first tell us just how everyone is doing? >> you know, we're hanging in there. it is been hard. especially on the children. and i've been doing the best

that i can to kind of keep the household going. i'm taking care of the kids, worrying about john in the hospital every single minute. not being able to work and just how po pay bills and do every day life as well as dealing with him being in the hospital so i'm blessed that i have my best friend to help me and get me through this and they set up a gofundme and they have people delivering us food every night because we're all covid positive. none of us could leave the house. we can't go anywhere. i can't see my husband. it is difficult. and it is scary that he's there all alone fighting for his life. >> and as you mentioned, your kids, they're ranging in age from 6 to 21, just like you they could not see their dad and dealing with that. tell us what happened here. because i understand your stepson went to a friend's house and was wearing a mask but decided to take off the mask. what happened next? >> you know, i mean, i pleaded with him every time he left the

house, please wear your mask, take sanitizer, make sure you're washing your hands, he assured me, don't worry mom, i'm doing everything right, relax and chill. you know how kids are. and i trusted in him and it is hard when you're surrounded by friends, he went to someone's home and there was a few people there and i'm sure they were eating, drinking and they felt it was time to take the mask off. no one seemed to be sick. everybody is fine. we're not going to get anything. just relax and enjoy the night. and pretty much just a couple of weeks after that he started feeling ill. and he thought it was just a cold, flu-like symptoms so he neglected to tell us anything at that time. he didn't think anything of it and a few days later my middle-aged son who is 14 started coughing. he was kind of shortness of breath, body aches, everything of that nature but i didn't associate it with the virus because he hasn't left the house in months. none of us go out and do anything and no one else was sick that i knew of at the time.

so, again, it sort of just fell apart from that point on. i took him to the doctor two days later and the doctor didn't think that he had covid either. she prescribed him amoxa sillin for a nasal infection. >> and then you realized what was going on and i look you must have a message -- you must have a message for young people, right, who are thinking they're invincible. what is it. >> you're not invincible. this is not a joke. this is a deadly devastating disease that is affecting millions of people across the world. you need to listen and understand that you've got to take the necessary precautions. just wear the mask, at least wear your mask, try to wash your hands aso often as you can and try to do the social distancing and not hang out in large groups and go to bars drinking. this is not the time. you need to take care of your family. you don't know at what point in time, let your guard one time and you come home and infect the

entire house. we're five people all infected with the virus and we're the lucky ones that didn't get affected the way my husband john is. but he's fighting for his life. literally every single minute in that hospital. >> michelle, thank you for talking to us. we have john on our minds and on our hearts and i will send you a prayer your way this evening. thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you very much as well. i appreciate it. >> our special coverage continues now with kate baldwin. hello, everyone, i'm kate baldwin, thank you for joining me. we're keeping a close eye on the white house right now. as the president just added a press conference in the rose garden to his schedule. you could imagine how many questions there are for him today about the administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic, it's plans for trying to stem the