>> don't miss w. kamau bell. glad that show is back for us this year. thanks for joaning us today. brianna keilar picks up the coverage right now. i'm brianna keilar and welcome viewers here in the united states and around the world. the government is not being forthright about the challenges that the nation is facing. they are down playing the pandemic and now we are learning hiding data as they argue that state economies to push forward with reopening and kids should return to school in person and as the administration insists it has a handle on the situation consider that this was just one month ago today. >> if you look, the numbers are very minuscule compared to what it was. it is dying out. >> it wasn't and it is still not. the u.s. shattering the daily record of 77,000 new cases. now a month ago the single day

total was 23,000. multiply that by three today, just four weeks later. and since late june there have been nine days of record new cases. 38 states are showing a spike in new infections. while the number of americans hospitalized is near the highest levels of the pandemic. in florida with more cases per capita than any other state a spokesperson for the miami-dade mayor said that icu capacity is now over 100%, additionally the mayor of miami said the city could see a stay-at-home order within a week if things don't turn around and now learned that the white house is hiding key data of americans. the center for public integrity with a copy of the 359-page report prepared for the white house coronavirus task force. it says 18 states that are in the so-called red zone for new cases and positivity rates should roll back the reopenings. the white house task force led

by the president kept it secret hidden from states that so desperately need the information. as the president's top aides lie about what he has said and how americans think he is handling the crisis. >> that is so -- so false what you are saying, poppy. >> what is false? >> he never down playinged -- this president has taken decisive and bold actions from the beginning. >> we believe this president has great approval in this country, the historic covid response speaks for itself. >> 90 seconds ago we played the tape of the president down playing the virus, one of the times. that is not in dispute no matter how much trump campaign senior adviser says it is and the white house press secretary flat-out lying there. the approval rating is 36%, it is down 6 points in a month. only one third of americans believe that president trump is the best person to handle the

coronavirus response. a reminder that more than 3.5 million americans have been infected and more than 138,000 have died since the first confirmed u.s. case six months ago. there is still no plan, no plan for national testing. there is no federal mandate for masks. but amid the ballooning numbers across more than 38 states, the nation's top expert dr. fauci is striking an optimistic tone in the race to find a vaccine. >> got some pretty favorable results in early studies of vaccines. one of the candidates will be going into an advanced phase three trial by the end of this month, by the end of july. other candidates will be entering advanced clinical trials as we get into the mid-summer, late summer and early fall so we feel cautiously optimistic that we are on the

road, as bleak as it may sound right now that we are on the road of getting this under control. so you can tell your intern, yes, we will get back to normal with schools and will ultimately get back to normal with every other aspect of our lives. >> dr. peter hotez is a professor and dean of tropical medicine at baylor college of med sen. dr. hotez, you heard dr. fauci. you have been skeptd caical of timeline. are you encouraged by the early results? >> i share dr. fauci's cautious optimism that we will have a vaccine for covid-19. i think we will have multiple vaccines for covid-19. i hope ours is one of them. the tactical hurdle to develop a vaccine is not very high as we have discussed. it is just a matter of inducing neutralizing apt bodies against the spike protein. it is an old-school problem in virology. we know how to do this and i

think we will have multiple covid-19 vaccines so on that point, sure, i'm cautiously optimistic, as well. we both work on hard targets. he worked on aids vaccines forever. i work on parasitic disease vaccines. right now in terms of where we are with covid-19 in the nation, we are in an absolute dire public health crisis. we had 75,000 new cases per day. the numbers continue to accelerate. we'll be in the 80,000s by next week and the deaths are starting to surge up and it is not only deaths, it is hospital admissions, it is icu admissions, the fact that hospital staff are exhausted and many major hospitals now, the hospitals are sick and sending

replacements down. we are in an awful, awful situation. the southern half of the united states is now accounts for one quarter of all of the covid-19 casses globally. we are at the epicenter of the covid pandemic. there doesn't seem to be any cause for optimism on that front and last we intervened and no national appetite or any appetite in the white house to do anything about this. >> something we have learned that's happening at the white house that the task force had a report, this is a good idea. getting a report together with very clear scientific information about what's going on in different states and it warns that there are 18 states that are in a coronavirus red zone and need to roll back, reopening plans. but what we learned is that this information was kept hidden. what's your reaction to that? >> it is a bit ludicrous to even try to keep it hidden. you don't have to.

go on the johns hopkins web side, "the new york times" website, the kaiser foundation website. you can get this information just about anywhere and see that we are in absolute freefall. the numbers are there. this very steep rise in cases, hospitalizations. icu admissions and deaths and yet from the white house we're not hearing any of that. all we hear is this kind of what i call a disinformation campaign, this attempt to try to minimize the extent of the epidemic even though it's so obvious that we are in this crisis and also the deflections. first the chinese communist party, the world health organization and then the scientists including dr. fauci and others so this is -- this is now an issue because we are going to continue to accelerate. the new projections are 224,000 deaths by the end of october. by the end of the year we will have 300,000 deaths and so we

are approaching numbers that sound more and more like the 1918 pandemic influenza disaster which is even dr. fauci said that. so we have got to figure out a way to get some national leadership in place now because the states cannot figure this out on their own and we know that. >> dr. hotez, thank you so much. have a great weekend as much as you can. i know you're working very hard. in georgia, there's a clash of two prominent politicians playing out in public. after the governor filed a lawsuit against atlanta mayor. the issue is a mask mandate from the mayor that kemp claims violates his emergency orders. >> while we all agree that wearing a mask is effective, i'm confident that georgians don't need a mandate to do the right thing. >> so moments ago -- >> this lawsuit was filed the

day after donald trump visited atlanta and i pointed out that he did not have on a mask at atlanta's hartsfield/jackson airport and in violation of state law and what i see is the governor is putting politics over people. >> mayor bottoms' mask mandate cannot be enforced but the decision to undermine economic growth is devastating. i refuse to sit back and watch as disastrous policies threaten the lives and livelihoods of our citizens. >> for him to say that we are closing businesses in the city of atlanta and costing people money is a blatant lie. these are voluntary recommendations. we have not closed any businesses. and it's unfortunate that in the midst of this pandemic that the governor of our state who didn't know that this virus could be spread by asymptomatic means is

continuing to spread misinformation. >> moments ago dr. anthony fauci talked about the critical role that states and cities can play on this issue. >> i can say as a public health official that i would urge the leaders, local political and other leaders in states and cities and towns to be as forceful as possible in getting your citizenry to wear masks. >> and in a new op-ed for cnn.com titled "georgia governor kemp shows that he doesn't care about black people" my next guest writes in part kemp ought to listen to black women and men and in this particular instance the black woman covid-19 victim who happens to be the mayor of atlanta. while we all face risks from covid-19, the risks black americans face is even higher. dorothy brown is a law professor

of emory. thank you for coming on to talk to us about this. what actions do you want the governor to take now? >> i had a producer, an editor reach out to me. i did op-eds for cnn before and i definitely wanted to speak up. i'm an atlantan, mayor bottoms is my mayor, and she is doing everything she can to keep atlantans safe and it seems like the governor is doing everything he can to put us at risk. >> so in a tweet georgia's attorney general says that this lawsuit is about the rule of law but the mayor of athens and savannah both of whom said that the mask mandates will continue despite the order were not named. what did you think about that? >> he once again is targeting a black woman. we saw how he handled stacy abrams and now another black woman doing everything right and he's doing everything wrong.

you make an excellent point. there are other mayors that are not black women who are doing exactly what she's doing but she is being -- in the city council is singled out. >> mayor bottoms said she is not concerned. she says that she will prevail in court. legally who do you think has the upper hand here? >> that's an excellent question. i'm not sure that it's clear but if i were mayor bottoms i would be doing exactly the right thing. i want my citizens safe, 52% black citizens safe which means i want them wearing a mask and until a court orders me that i can't do that i will do it because i think it saves lives. >> professor, thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you. is florida fudging its coronavirus numbers? hear from one expert who says that they're minimizing the

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rosa flores joins me with more. >> reporter: brianna, the florida eoc has been testing employees for covid twice a week. in the past two weeks, 12 employees have tested positive including 4 just yesterday. all this is according to the communications director, the florida division of emergency management who also says that this, of course, prompted the closure of the main floor of the eoc in tallahassee for cleaning and now that office is scheduled to reopen on monday. ndou the communications director said because employees continue to work from home this has not stopped the response to the covid-19 crisis. >> florida leads the nation and some entire european countries in the number of new coronavirus cases. more than 11,000 new cases and 128 deaths, that is in a single day but those aren't the only significant numbers. for five days in a row florida

led the nation in highest per capita rate of infection. florida averaging just over 55 cases per 100,000 people which is according to a analysis by johns hopkins data. the states behind florida, louisiana and arizona. against this backdrop there are reports that florida is fudging its numbers and minimizing the crisis by underreporting positive numbers. dr. jason salami is joining me now a professor at the university of south florida. doctor, you did the research here. tell us how florida is skewing the results. >> so actually first it's important to understand that i'm not an insider but a scientist trying to make sense of the data like everybody else and so that's why i created a dashboard to make publicly available for people to access reliable data. but obviously covid-19 has been increasing dramatically in florida and the positivity rate is something that people pay attention to. you see the governor tweet out

about it so in this article there are two major issues that emerge with what's happening with the positivity rate. the first to me is more of a problem with the communication of the data so people should have access to data they understand and it is pretty simple. we want to know the case positivi positivity. what proportion test positive? florida reports the test positivity so in that simple number it is all of the people that test positive for the first time in the denominator it's all of the tests performed but here's the catch. if a person tests positive multiple times so you get the virus and you get tested repeatedly and test positive multiple times only the first positive test result is included in the numerator and just alluded about people at the florida department of the health they'll get tested multiple times and the negatives are included. this is a valid measure talking to the operation or the of communications because the people that continue to test

negative are still at risk of the virus. it's valid but it's hugely misleading and here's why. a simple example for the viewers. say you have ten people and those ten people are tested weekly for five weeks. and let's say five of those ten people ends up testing positive on the last week. what florida would report is 5 out of 50 tests positive or 10% positivity. when i just told you that 5 out of 1 people tested positive in 5 weeks or 50% so it's a valid measure but misleading. i think people deserve information to digest and so at a minimum the department of health should be reporting both. at the test level and the person level and the more egregious problem has to do with combining the results of two tests that are really very different so again for your viewers the two types of tests that detect the viruses, one is a molecular test and looks for the genetic material of the virus and when they swab you they get it in

minimal amounts they amplify that and as a result it's very accurate. if you get a positive or a negative test you can pretty much trust that and takes a while to get the results back and they have sot test of the antigen test that looks for proteins on the surface of the virus. it comes back in 15 to 30 minutes and doesn't amplify the small amount. a person might have the virus but they come back negative. and so again the problem with mixing these because, you know, 20 out of every 100 people who actually have the virus will return a negative result on this so, you know, as you try to calculate the case positivity, this puts people driving the number up in the denominator driving the number down and at a minimum they should report the results of the very different tests separately. >> thank you so much for -- i'll say i understood everything you said and i hope the viewers did, too. it makes it so clear why it's so important what florida is doing

here but explain to us what's it mean? what the impact of skewed data? what's the impact on our understanding of what's going on in florida with that? >> absolutely. look. i collaborated with people at the florida department of health since 2005. they have excellent capabilities. during a pandemic we've got to get certain decisions right because the decision should be made on the data, not on saying over or underestimating data so i'll give you another example. the current hospitalization data that was missing from florida so long, only 1 of 3 states that didn't report current hospitalizations for covid-19 and started to release that information last friday and increased 30% in 1 week but there's problems with that data in my opinion. we teach our students that you need to help people to understand the data you put out

there. there's not much guidance with the new information but one example why it's problematic. its's a primary diagnosis of covid-19 and an example of where that's problematic. if tomorrow a pregnant woman goes to the hospital because of covid-19 due to the coding guidelines of cdc she does not receive a diagnosis of covid-19 but a pregnancy related diagnosis and those women are not included in today's numbers. moreover with the primary diagnosis, talking to clinicians it doesn't matter. if they're hospitalized with covid-19 it complicates the hospitalization that much more. it uses ppe, hospital resources so again i think we need to just better define what i would recommend to the department of health to report it separately give me a list of the patients hospitalized with a principle diagnosis and then give me all patients hospitalized with covid-19 and how we can improve the data and then start to make

data driven decisions and at least be working from an accurate playing field and then people will put the spin they want to on the information. >> yeah. definitely. that is just crazy when you give us the example of a pregnant woman happening to have covid. thank you. we really appreciate you being on. >> thank you jirn. a beach in california reveals the legal consequence of not wearing a mask. a governor that down played masks tests public and then seen in public places without one. why some people are fainting as they await the covid tests. every bath fitter bath is installed quickly, safely, and beautifully, with a lifetime warranty. go from old to new. from worn to wow. the beautiful bath you've always wanted, done right, installed by one expert technician, all in one day. we've been creating moments like these for 35 years,

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oklahoma is another state experiencing a sharp rise in coronavirus cases and it does not have a mask mandate. we told you earlier this week that oklahoma's republican governor stitt just contracted the virus, the first known u.s. governor to do so. and now cnn has learned in the days leading up to his diagnosis he was out and about in public without a mask even visiting a restaurant that's now closed down to deep clean and test its

employees. cnn's lucy kovanov is joining me now. the governor said he was pretty shocked to learn that he was infected and very outspoken against experts' health recommendations. >> reporter: yeah. it is interesting. there are simple steps according to health experts that all of us could take to limit the spread of coronavirus. within of those is wearing a mask. obviously it doesn't guarantee you wont get infected but reduces the risk to yourself and to those around you. something that the oklahoma governor has so far resisted in terms of statewide policy. and it turns out personal example. >> covid-19 is still in the united states. we know that. it's still in oklahoma. we need to take this virus very seriously. we need to come together and make sure each one of us is doing the best we can to slow the spread. >> reporter: oklahoma's republican governor kevin stitt seemingly not taking his own

advice. rarely seen wearing a mask in public even as cases continue to surge across his state. >> i got tested for covid-19 and the results came back positive. >> reporter: becoming the first american governor -- >> so help me god -- >> reporter: -- wednesday to announce he got coronavirus. the governor often been seen in public without a face covering. posting a photo of himself and his churn at -- children at a crowded restaurant in march. choosing not to wear a mask at president trump's tulsa rally on june 20th and seen here allegedly shopping at a mall mart sunday without a mask before he says he developed symptoms. another social media post showing him at a restaurant without a mask last week. the restaurant announcing it would be closing for a professional cleaning and to test all employees. cnn has reached out to walmart and the restaurant for comment.

did governor's office telling affiliate statement they don't comment on the governor's or first family's personal schedule or activities an i the white house directing americans to wear masks in public or social distancing is not possible. i am strongly encouraging oklahomans to follow this guidance and wear a mask in these situations. >> reporter: this month for the first time since the outbreak stitt encouraged oklahomans to wear a mask in public as he continues to resist a statewide mask mandate or other measures to slow the spread of the virus. >> not thinking about a mask mandate at all. i know that some businesses are mandating masks and that's great but you can't pick and choose the freedoms you give people. >> reporter: the state averages 640 new cases a day over the past week, more than any other point in the pandemic. more than 23,400 cases reported

as of thursday. the governor has pushed to aggressively reopen the state's economy despite a surge in cases, the city of tulsa seeing a surge following trump's rally. oklahoma officials are now doing contact tracing to see how and where the governor contracted the virus. according to the oklahoma health department, the governor became contagious as early as saturday and no earlier and also learning that for security personnel for the governor are now in quarantine and one with symptoms. the lieutenant governor under quarantine and all awaiting test results. >> thank you so much for that update from denver. we are more on the breaking news. dr. fauci speaking and warning the u.s. will see more pandemics like this one. churches are now suing california's governor over the ban on singing and anger e ruru at a public meeting forcing kids

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in utah to discuss the govern nor's mandate of masks in schools ended in chaos when at least 100 anti-mask parents crowded into the small room to protest the rule. the group ignored social distancing guide leans. see how packed they are not wearing a mask. the commissioners decided to shut down the meeting just three minutes into it. >> this is the exact opposite of what we need to be doing. we are supposed to be physically distancing, wearing masks and so -- all of our medical -- all of our medical experts -- >> let him talk! >> our department of health -- >> a decision. >> everyone is encouraging us to do that. this room is not complying with these health guide loons, creates a health crisis. we have a meeting and second to continue the meeting to another date. >> can we have discussion?

>> opposed? okay. the meeting is adjourned. >> conner richards is a government reporter for "the daily herald" who was in the room. thank you for coming on to tell us what this was like. i want to look at the video that you took using your phone as this meeting was scrapped. >> usa! usa! usa! usa! >> and, connor, it is worth pointing out protesters stuck around to speak. what did they say? >> yeah. so that meeting, the official meeting only lasted about a

minute but afterwards two of the commissioners stuck around for hours to listen to people opposed to this mask mandate so some of them were parents, teachers. and they really had a wide variety of concerns. some of them said that they thought that masks were harmful for children especially wearing them long hours at a time and kids should be allowed to play. other opposed to the idea of the government forcing people to do something in general. so a lot of different concerns expressed at that meeting. >> what are the commissioners saying now about mandatory masks for students there following this meeting meltdown? >> throughout this whole thing the commission -- throughout the pandemic the commission has been following both the state health department orders and those of utah's governor herbert and that's the position. of course, there was a commissioner who put something on the agenda saying that he wanted to ask that the governor exempt utah county from the k-12 public school mask mandate and

that's a commissioner's position. but really they're just adhering to state guidelines at this point. >> did you hear any parents say that they are worried about the health of their children not wearing masks? >> well, there was one woman who's going to be starting as a sophomore high school teacher in the fall and she said that she was really concerned that people were showing such a disregard for public safety and didn't seem to care about her health as a public schoolteacher and the health of her students and children and there were definitely people who did voice those concerns. and said that they really thought that it was up setting that people were showing such vitriole to a public health guideline. >> i wonder some anti-mask protesters, they're in the room, packed. do you think they represent how most folks in utah county, most

folks in utah overall feel? what do you think? >> so commissioner tanner ainge the chair said he didn't want this to be what people saw utah county as and didn't think it reflected the county. this does appear to be a pretty vocal opposition. so it doesn't seem to represent all of utah or all of utah county. there are a lot of those who are against statewide mask mandate and no state officials have said that they would implement such a thing and there's opposition but i would say it's a vocal minority both for utah county and the state as a whole. >> can i ask you? ask you talk to people there about how they feel about masks are people that against mask mandates for masks but don't want to be told to wear them or

generally against wearing masks? >> that was commissioner bill lee's position. he's the one who he told people who were opposed to the mask mandate to come to the meeting and beforehand he spoke to them in a rally outside the meeting and told them that he's supportive of masks but doesn't think it's something for the government to mandate and another commissioner said that. as far as people there i would say that some of them are for masks. they just don't think it should be mandated and others think that they pose serious health concerns and i would say it's really a mix. >> all right. connor, thank you so much for tells us what it was like in the room. we appreciate you being with us. >> thank you for having me. as the president pushes for schools to reopen, will he send his own son back to school? the game show host that said that doctors are lying about the virus which the president cited, reveals that his son tested

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california urging people to wear a mask or face a fine. other cities, like west hollywood, santa monica and beverly hills are finding mask abstainers. we have more from my colleagues across the country. >> i'm stephanie in los angeles.

the california bar exam for october will be online only. the state supreme court also deciding to permanently decrease the minimum packing score by 50 points to $13.90 out of a possible 2,000. the court says they understand recent law school graduates are being substantially impacted by the pandemic. they also noted the state has one of the highest minimum passing scores in the nation. >> i'm evan mcmorris san torro at a testing site in feinish. in arizona, the positivity rate has been relatively high, which could be an indication not enough testing is being done. the governor is federal officials are trying to change that with testing sites like this one. the challenge is the heat. triple digit temperatures are a norm and this testing site will shut down if the temperature gets too high. last night on cnn, one er doctor spoke about patients coming to

the er after fainting from the heat while waiting for a test. >> reporter: i'm in new york. former game show host chuck woevlry's son has coronavirus. he tweet in part, quote, everyone is lying about covid-19, a tweet which president donald trump reget toed. and it is here. i feel for those suffering and those who have lost loved ones. >> and you're in the move requiring customers to wear masks in all of its stores. >> so, they are both requiring masks nationwide, following a

cascade of corporate announcements over the last 48 hours. it's quite remarkable to see companies acting in the absence of a federal mandate. so, both home depots and lows are requiring customers to wear masks starting july 31st. home depot saying it will provide masks for people who do not have one, and lowe's has yet to say what it will provide with regards to masks. it's hard for these companies to enforce these policies. in fact, last night i got something from starbucks training modules where customers maintain and it really trains, so to deescalate the situation. and even still there's a risk if it gets ugly. and that's why companies wanted the federal government to act. and just a couple minutes before

coming on, i also reported a top business lobbying group renews called from the federal government and state's government to go ahead with mask mandates, reduce confusion about which localities and states have them and make it a more unified and uniform mask order but they're returning to the government for that leadership. and in the absence of that, these companies are force toads act on their own. ritsz rising coronavirus cases around the country. and this is an issue companies are struggling with, clearly from every angle i've got in my reporting. >> and we see why companies are calling you. 7 in 10 americans say mask wearing is very important to be mandated. thank you so much for your work

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