rosters. the nfl is spending a lot of money and pick up their season right towards the end. just trying to make it through the playoffs. with some of the other leagues that are looking at the potential for a full season it becomes much more expensive and difficult to execute. >> we'll see what happens. carolyn, great reporting. thanks so much and thanks to all of you for reporting today. jim and i will see you back here tomorrow morning. "newsroom" with john king starts right now. hello, everybody. i'm john king in washington. thanks so much for sharing this day for us. it's an important day because it opens a workweek trying to slow the coronavirus summer surge and it's an important day that we're reminded yet again the country cannot trust the words of its president in this important fight. in a weekend interview the president got the facts wrong about coronavirus tetting it and about the coronavirus death toll. he did say he'll some day be right and that the virus he told us would disappear back in april after just a few cases. he says, well, it will be

eventually be gone. >> i'll be right eventually. i will be right eventually. i said it's going to disappear. i'll sht here in the here and nourishing the numbers are simply staggering. the united states will hit 3.8 million coronavirus cases can by the end of this day. the country added nearly 500,000 cases in the last week alone. the virus has killed more than 140,000 americans, deaths trending up in 20 states this morning. the map tells us the south is speeding towards a crisis point as hospital bed crunch there continues to grow worse. in addition to the rising case counts and credit hospitals, there are testing delays again and supply shortages. the president's deputies say they are on it. >> we are approaching this extreme seriousness. it really is all hands on deck. this is serious but we know how to stop this. >> one proven way to slow the spread is to wear a sk ma. the president opposes a national

mask mandate saying it restrict vital freedoms. hur surgeon general agrees with the president on the mandate part but adds this urgent appeal for help. >> if you're going to have a mandate those work best at the local and state levels. i'm pleading with your viewers, i'm begging you, please understand that we're not trying to take away your freedoms when we say wear a face c away your ability to go out when we see keep restaurant capacity under 50%. we're saying if we do these things, we can actually open and stay open. >> let's look at the numbers now and look ahead to see whether this could be a week to perhaps slow the surge and let's just start with the national trends. 50 states with 50 plans, 3 of is them, as high as 38 this week. 38 states trending in the wrong direction reporting more and more new cases right now than we did a week ago. most of this is orange. only two states in red. that's an alarming increase in cases, the red, but you still have 31 states heading in the wrong direction. 14 states, that's the yellow or

the beige spread across the country including california which had been up. five states heading down, meaning fewer cases this week than last week. that's the direction you want to be going. let's just remind you. june 1st, thought we were making progress, 19 states heading up on june 1st, 19 states steady and 14 states going down. on june 1st you have a lot of green and beige and come back today there's more red. the case count in more states heading up at the moment. that is the summer surge that we try to deal with this week. here's what it looks like if you average out seven-day moving average of new cases, thursday of last week was an all-time high. we'll see if we can get this down. you see it trending up. starts to flatten a little bit. the challenge in this week ahead, can you flatten that out and start to come down? three states leading the summer surge, florida, california and texas. you see june, the end of june into july going up, again, here's what you look for, the seven-day moving average. are they starting to come down? it's monday.

let's watch those through this week. dangerously high. can you start to push it down? that would be key right here. because of this and another state as well, because of that first map, 27 states at the moment doing something the president does not want them to do, rolling back at least some of the reopening, imposing new restrictions going back to stay at home or doing some things to get people to stop gathering in large groups. 27 states at least as we begin this workweek. this tells you we have a problem. so does this if you look at the map. but listen to the president of the united states, he says the country's top experts is too quick to put alarm. >> dr. fauci has made some mistakes and he's a little bit of an alarmist, that's okay. a little bit of alarmist. cases are up. cases are up. many of those cases shouldn't even be case. cases are up because we have the best testing in the world and we have the most testing. no country has ever done what we've done in terms of testing. we are the envy of the world.

>> dr. wilinski joins us now from massachusetts general hospital. is the united states the envy of the world as far as testing goes? >> i think we're in deep trouble. can you see our appropriate to us rise in case counts. certainly we're not permitted to travel in many places around the many other places around the world asking if there's anything people can do to help. i don't think we're the envy of the world in terms of covid right now. >> let me ask you about something potentially encouraging news. "the lancet" has an article about the university of oxford vaccine candidate in the uk. it says you get an antibody response within 28 days and a t-cell response within 40 days.

the people behind the study say they need more research but they do believe the positive, the questions he cannot answer. yes, they are seeing a triggering, the question is they don't know how long it's going to last. what's your take on this? >> this is fresh out in the last hour or so. only about 500 people in that trial actually got the covid vaccine, and indeed the results are encouraging. as you know, they only enrolled people 18 to 55 so that's not the high-risk people we worry the most about in terms of poor outcomes with covid. after 56 days 90% people are shown they have neutralizing antibody in the cohort of 500 people. there were also side effects, generally mild, malaise, fatigue, headaches and some sight reactions so i think, yes, we're super excited that we may go into the next phase of trials, the next phase we'll start enrolling the next month or so. 30,000 people is my hundredsing

for a large-scale phase three trial. this will be one of three i know of that will start in this summer and early fall for large-scale vaccine trials, so caution optimism. again, certainly this would be wonderful news, but we still have a lot of reasons to -- to be cautious, both with regard to the side effects and also with regard to the durability of this protection and then to ensure that this protection will actually be the same in people who need it the most. >> so as we wait the challenge especially here in the united states as florida is above 10,000 cases a day in that ballpark and california in the 8s and texas in the 8s is how do you stop? how do you stop this surge because the numbers when they get that high on a daily basis, math kicks in and exponentially you keep having more and more and more and the stress on hospitalization. the president says he opposes a national mask mandate and that it restrict some freedoms.

i want you to listen to his explanation. >> no, i want people to have a certain freedom it, and i don't believe in that, no, and i don't agree with the statement that if everybody wear a mask everybody disappears. all of a sudden everybody has to wear a mask. masks cause problems, too. with that being said. i'm a believer in masks. i think masks are good. >> i want to ask you about this part of it. we can have a debate about whether there should be a mask mandate. the president of the united states saying as you know masks cause problems, too. is there any evidence masks cause problems? >> i think as you look at the big picture, i mean, there are a lot of things that cause problems. the biggest problem right now is we have hundreds of people, thousands of people dying every day. thousands and thousands of people, tens of thousands of people being hospital sized for covid, and i think when you look at the big picture of the problems that masks cause versus the problems that covid causes, covid is winning a lot. i want to just look at the

numbers now. when you look at at states florida, california, arizona, texas that you said were the states that were beginning the surges in june, what we're starting to see as we expected four weeks later as of july 1, mid-july, now those places are all seeing surges in deaths, so we see now deaths in a lot of those places. huge limitations in hospital capacity. when we were limited in hospital capacity in new york and boston, we had the country behind us. everybody was staying at home. these folks who are on the frontlines in these places, they just haven't turned off the faucet yet. there are more and more people coming in, and the only way to stop that is masks, stay home and do everything in your power to prevent this. we are all in this together. they are taking care of all of our loved ones. >> dr. walensky, we appreciate your time especially at this busy time. thank you so much. >> thank you so much.

let's carry on the conversation with john harwood from the white house. the president is meeting with top republicans behind closed doors. this is the part of the chris wallace interview that i know i don't get. we know the president cares about himself and we know the election is 15 weeks from tomorrow it. i'm going to put up a map here that shows the ten states that are considered most at risk for covid right now. they are all trump states when you look at these ten states. another way to look at it, john, if you look at the coronavirus pandemic. seven-day moving average of new cases, the green line you're going to see here are states that voted for the president in 2016 going up the highest here. if you can't get him to study the science or speak factually about testing it and the death toll, can no one on his staff get his attention about the politics here?

>> reporter: john, i think this is about donald trump's psychological compulsions. we heard from matter trump and her book the other day that one of the consequences that she was describing, and she is a psychologist of the damaging upbringing the president had, was what she called toxic positivity, that the president for protection of his ego and his image cannot acknowledge bad news. that's what we saw with chris wallace. he could not acknowledge the mortality rate and could not acknowledge the seriousness of the spread and resurgence of the infection. he's got to say i'm doing a good job, and if the facts are negative towards that, he pushes them aside. the president has done this consistently on testing. take a listen to this montage. a way that he's dismissed the importance of testing as the situation has gotten worse. >> i do think it's important that not everybody be tested. not everybody believes we should do so much testing. we don't need so much. we're going to open up very big, and i call it a transition to

greatness. that's what it is. i have done a phenomenal job. testing is a double-edged sword. i said to my people slow the testing down, please. >> right, he wants to slow the testing down because in his mind testing reveals more cases and reveals more cases, reflects badly on him, and now that we are awash in cases, especially in the sunbelt, what the president says is, well, that is a reflection of how great our testing regime is. not acknowledging the seriousness of the situation, the seriousness of the situation in saying that 99% of the cases are harmless which, of course, we know that that's not true. >> we're having here late in july conversations about testing backlogs and supply chain problems on top of everything else. a little deja vu that we do not need. john harwood, appreciate the reporting from the white house. up next for us, a return to a bizarre case, a gunman opening fire at the home of a federal judge. when we started carvana, they told us

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a brazen crime in new jersey at the home of a federal judge. the fbi now searching for a gunman who killed the son of a local just and wounded her husband. authorities say a lone gunman opened fire and then fled. the judge was not harmed. our senior justice correspondent evan perez is with me now. evan, a brazen crime. certainly looks like an assassination attempt. what do we know? >> reporter: that's right, john, it does look like that but at this point authorities are searching for a motive. they don't know exactly who was the target of this gunman. here's what happened. quiet sunday afternoon in northern new jersey. the judge is in the basement. there is a knock on the door and the -- and the son daniel

answers the door with his father nearby. the gunman opens fire immediately. daniel apparently is killed in the gunfire. his father is seriously injured. the gunman gets away and right now the fbi and the u.s. marshalls are investigating and trying to figure out exactly why this crime occurred. they are also trying to figure out where this person would have gone. now, one of the first things that you -- obviously when you're doing this investigation, one of the first things you look for is whether there's anything that the judge was handling, any cases that would perhaps explain some of this, and we'll show you some of the cases that she's been handling more recently. there was a class action lawsuit filed against deutsche bank about monitoring its high-risk customers including jeffrey epstein, and a while back she handled the financial fraud cases "a real housewives of new jersey" character.

none of this immediately points to something controversial that a judge was handling. now the husband is a defense attorney so authorities are also looking at that. esther solace is the first latina on the federal bench in new jersey. obviously this is raising a lot of concern for judges not only in the new york and new jersey area but around the country and the u.s. marshals which is responsible for the judge's security is taking a look at everything to make sure that people are safe. >> evan perez, appreciate the reporting. stay on top of of it and with more on the investigation let's bring in retired supervisory special agent james gagiano. i want to start with the brazen nature of this, a knock on door, the guy opens fire and it plays out like something you would see on "the sopranos." >> reporter: you hundred%. you used two bs, bizarre and brazen. look, in the last 41 years there

were three federal judges targeted and killed, assassinated, essentially. it's not a -- it doesn't happen often, but i want to bring this into you. last year alone the united states marshal service which conducts the investigations here, they had about 4,500 threats or inappropriate communications with federal judges, so this is a real concern. they are working with the fbi, and, john, with you. things that i learned from working a murder investigation throughout my 25-year fbi career, it always comes down to four ls, love, lust, luker which is money or loathing. now, investigators have to be careful. they have to follow evidence where it takes them. there's a lot of leads here that they can go after, but this is a bizarre one, john. >> so you're hoping, this is a residential neighborhood where this happened. you're hoping whether somebody has whether it's a doorbell video or some street video of a vehicle but evan went through the high-profileness and the

first assumption was the judge was the target. you don't know that. her house husband is a high-profile defense attorney. you go through that and you look at the cases, anything jump out there, high-profile financial fraud case with one of the real house tifs and the racketeering sentencing related to jeffrey epstein and then the deutsche bank case. that goes to the loathing part or somebody is mad or worried but that's where you start. that doesn't tell you anything. >> that's all fair, and those are all concrete leads and things that need to be run down as we say. now, we know it was a white male. he was wearing a face covering. he was dressed in a fedex uniform but left in a vehicle, sedan, was not in a fedex vehicle so the fbi and marshal service are working with fedex on this. there's a lot to look down. you have to look at all of her cases. she's been threatened before. been on the federal bench for a

while and received a lot of threats. interesting side note. her husband is a defense attorney and you could look at this as a perspective could have be an angry neighbor or case of road rage from weeks before? now, it seems a little bizarre the level that this person went to show up unassuming in a fedex uniform, but the fbi and marshal service have to run dowel all the leads. if there was a pistol used there should be shell cases, frinlts, links like that and have to use forensic evidence and start asking questions, knocking on doors and conducting interviews. >> it is a bizarre and important case. we will keep our reporters on top. james gagiano, appreciate your important insights. up next, we head to the front lines of the coronavirus fight with an emergency room doctor in texas. ♪we ain't stoppin' believe me♪ ♪go straight till the morning look like we♪ ♪won't wait♪ ♪we're taking everything we wanted♪ ♪we can do it ♪all strength, no sweat

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bringing you up to speed on a couple of things we're waiting for. going to be moments away. the house of representatives when it comes in today will have a moment of silence for the civil rights legend john lewis who died friday night. we'll take you to capitol hill when that happens. and at the white house the

president of the united states meeting with the vice president and the republican leaders, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and chief of staff mark meadows. we'll bring you that. and meantime coronavirus hospitalizations now close to record highs which is one of the reasons this week we'll be watching it so closely of the right there you see the national numbers, right now rivaling the paeng back in april and here's a closer look at a rise in cases and hospitalizations. room. dr. alison haddock is assistant professor of medicine at baylor university. it's sad from my perspective in the chair from asking many of the questions i was asking emergency room doctors in march and in april, but i know that you had hoped to keep below is a% occupancy of icu beds, and that is way out the window, right? >> way out the window.

that had been our goal in the texas medical center. that the was a number we felt would be sustainable and allow us to continue to provide the care that other patient needed as well but, unfortunately, with a surge in cases that we're seeing. our icu beds are now 50% full with covid patients. >> help us. we've put up the graphs and the numbers. you've seen the people. you live in one of the fastest growing areas of the united states. you live in one of the most diverse areas of the united states. who, who is being hurt here? >> everyone is being hurt here. covid is not an illness that respects nationality or age. everyone at all ages is getting sick. older people are more often getting sicker, but we're seeing younger people who are very sick as well, and some of the folks that i'm the most worried about are the ones that don't have insurance because i'm worried that the lack of access to care will make their road to recovery even harder. >> so as this plays out, the texas governor, i don't want you to get into the politics it.

the governor was the earliest ones to reopen and did scale things back and now you're in the mess that our in now as you try to deal with this. what are you seeing? is this large groups, is this clusters, or is this widespread community spread which makes it a whole lot harder to track and stop? >> you're seeing quite a bit of community spread. i will say since the mask order went into place i have seen more people in my community who are wearing masks, doing more social distance. more people are use the curbside pickup at the grocery store instead of going in so some of the behavioral changes are driving some of the improvements we're seeing but it's hard without more state level restrictions. >> and we hear, as we do, i just want to show the total confirmed cases in texas, because, while the northeast was deal with this early on, a lot of the sunbelle was saying, okay, we're okay i guess but look march into april and may and june and july are stunning when you see the growth in texas there. so as you deal with this every

day, we hear national conversations about either it's taking five to seven days to get your test results back our have in some places a shortage of the swabs or the reagents. what is the situation on the ground? the texas medical center there in houston is one of the most remarkable places in the country. are you having those problems? >> you know, a few months ago it seemed like we did have adequate access to testing. people who needed it were able to get it pretty easily at the community sites and now we're seeing those resources are pretty swamped, that people are not as easily able to get the covid test when they need them which is unfortunate because you would think at this point in the progression of the disease around the country we would really have all those resources that we needed, the testing, the ppe. everything should be line by now and we're finding that that's not the case. >> and if you look again. again, this is running in cycles, the northeast, mid-atlantic and northeast were dealing with this early. if you look at the seven-day rolling cases of new cases, the green line is the northeast region and the pink line is the southern region and so the

south, the sunbelt, it's everywhere, 30 states heading in the wrong direction this week, but when you see this play out, again, in terms of the cases that you're dealing with, one of the lines we heard as the reopenings began, doctor, was, well, it's younger people getting it because they are going into bars. it's okay because younger people can handle it better. is the that what you're seeing, is there a demographic group that stands out, or is it across the community? >> i think the problem is that if a younger person gets it while they are out at a bar they then bring it back home and their grandmother becomes ill and their newborn becomes ill and this is not an illness that stays restricted to one person and it's the widespread community spread that may sometimes be driven by incidents like that but driven by essential workers. if you have to go to work at the grocery store and some of the patrons aren't wearing masks that's also a site of spread so just attributing it to young people are fair.

>> dr. alison haddick from the university of houston medical center. thank you for your help and your work. coming up next we attack the coronavirus to politics. joe biden as dumb-digit leads from the polls. more on that in a minute.

the numbers are just simply beyond clear. the summer coronavirus surge is taking an enormous political toll on the president. take a look at this new cnn poll of polls averaging out the five most recent 2020 polls. when you average them out, 52% of the registered voters support joe biden and only 40% the president. six in ten disapprove of how the of voters disapprove. joining us now is our polling including the polling director for abc news. ellis, i want to start with you, you've done a lot of campaigns and they come to you and they say here are some weaknesses and then you say, okay, what are our strengths so we can focus on our strengths while we deal with the resources? it lets look at trump versus biden in gary's washington/abc

news bol. overall biden plus is a, coronavirus biden plus 20, crime and safety, biden plus 7 and on the economy even and on race relations biden plus 23. the president is in a deep ditch. >> those numbers are certainly concerning and if the election were held tomorrow it would be a big concern but it's not. you also look at a recent poll that came out of the weekend and the top priorities for this election are coronavirus, the economy and race relations, and if i were advising this campaign, i would say focus, focus, focus on those issues, and i think he has a couple of things in his favor. donald trump, he has time and he has a track record. donald trump has been behind in the polls in the past leading up to elections, he was in 2016 and he has the time and he certainly has the resources to get things done, but he really needs to step up his efforts on combating coronavirus, really reinforce

the american people that he is working to -- with regard to finding a vaccine and encouraging people to wear a mask and really focusing on the priority for americans which is coronavirus, and that will go a long way to changing those numbers in his direction. >> well, again, to that point though, gary, and in your polling six in ten americans disapprove of how the president is handling this pandemic to. alison's point from the fox poll, but i think your numbers are pretty consistent, the top issues in the country, covid-19, the economy and race relations, president is underwater on the coronavirus and significantly on race relations and the perhaps breaking even on the economy. how do you turn something like that around when in your polling the number that jumped out at me is 64%, just shy of two-thirds of americans do not trust most or anything the president says when he's talking about the virus. >> yeah. that's a challenge for the president, of course, and it's a hard subject to change right now. an important point here are the trend lines, not only where the president stands but where these lines have been going.

he's gone in -- in approval on handling the coronavirus from 51% in late march to 38%, down 13 points. disapproval up 15 points in three and a half months, and note, too, that the president's approval rating on handling this situation has dropped most deeply in rural areas which have been his heartland, down 23 points in these periods. in the may he had 990% approval among republicans for handling the virus and today it's 79%, so as you pointed out, where does this take us? in march the president and joe biden were -- were essentially even in trusted to handle situation and now it's biden plus 20 points on trust. what the president does have going for him, i would add to what alison mentioned, is enthusiasm. among his own supporters, is nearly seven in ten are very enthusiastic about backing him. biden falls badly on that measure, 39% enthusiastic. biden supporters are more enthusiastic about defeating donald trump than they are about supporting joe biden. >> and i'm going to call it a

conundrum and try to choose a polite word for republicans. as you see the rising case count, state after state saying we have to work on a more aggressive mail-in ballot plan because a lot of people will think it's not safe to vote come november unless there is a miracle turnaround in the coronavirus, but here's the president of the united states yesterday, even though republicans have been urging him in recent weeks to some. here he is in that interview with chris wallace dumping on mail-in voting. >> mail-in voting is -- is going to rig the election, i really do. >> are you suggesting that you might not accept the results of the election? >> i have to say, look -- can you give a direction answer that you willan the election? >> i have to say. >> the last part, i'll have to say. on the mail-in voting part republicans are nervous. the president is telling people not to trust the mail-in voting, it will be important in all the congressional races and all the state races. >> john, one thing that's perfectly clear is that each state handles their own elections, it's a state-by-state

race, and what we can do more than anything is assure all americans that we have free and fair elections. i have concerns about mail-in voting. there is certainly a lot of room for error and fraud, but we're in a new time. we're in a new era, and with coronavirus and the concerns about people coming out to public places, specifically older people and people that are vulnerable with regard to their health, we need to take another look at it, but we do need to make shower it's done in a fair way where the results are accurate, but i don't think we should count anything out with regard to the election at this point, but make sure that we work with all of the secretaries of state across this country and make sure that the elections are carried out in a way that are fair, not just to republicans but democrats as well because this is a turning point election. of course, every four years, john, this is a critical election but this really is because we have a pandemic and such a heightened awareness on race relations in this country, and i think more than anything we're going to have a lot of

enthusiasm, whether people are get begun out to vote for trump, for biden or for a change. it's important for people to know they have that opportunity. >> and gary, i want to close with this. normally i wouldn't talk about how you do your work on tv but the trump campaign attacking all of the polls, not just your polls saying all these public polls grossly undersample republicans, and that's why joe biden has this big lead because you are deliberately, they would seem to suggest, not calling enough republicans. could you address that straight up so that people understands. polls aren't perfect but these are good polls. >> we do random samples of americans around the country. 75% of our interviews are by cell phone. we're down the middle on med theology with full disclosure up on abcnews.com can. you're welcome to vet t.release our full data sets and full questionnaires. we play it right down the middle on these data. the real point here, just to go back to the substance of this if i may is the president of the united states has an overall job approval rating, probably more important than vote preference

at moment at 39%. that's dropped nine points in the last few months, 57% disapprove of his work in office overall. it's very near his career high disapproval. that's where he's got to be focused i would suggest in try to turn that number around. >> we'll see if he can do that. he's in a meeting with reporters saying he may bring back the coronavirus briefings. appreciate your insights. coming up, we'll take you live to the biggest hot spots in the country for drives, georgia, california, florida and arizona. look, this isn't my first rodeo

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mitch mcconnell, kevin mccarthy and steve mnuchin on a possible new stimulus package. the president said he plans to resume the coronavirus briefings. let's get straight to kaitlan come liste collins at the white house. what else? >> reporter: the aids is urging the president to bring back the briefings talking about the sinking poll numbers with 60% of americans didn't approve of the way he is handling it and the president said starting tomorrow around 5:00 p.m. he'll bring back the daily coronavirus briefings that he was doing before with the task force but, remember, he largely stopped those after there was that one briefing i believe i was in may where the president suggested disinfectants like bleach to treat coronavirus and so much backlash that aides tried to scrap the briefings altogether and notable that the president is going to bring those back and does seem that the president is

responding this criticism he is not the public face of the administration's response to coronavirus for the last several weeks because he's not doing that and not held a covid-19 dedicated event since the two weeks ago but then in this meeting that the president was having the reason they have it of course is to talk about another relief bill when it comes to coronavirus. and they're wokking on a really tight deadline and things have gotten off to a rough start and managed to pick off some republican leaders saying they did not want to give more funding to cdc, states for testing and pentagon and how is that resolved? the president was in there with the top aides and several republican leaders and when they get democrats involved where do the talks go? because the treasury secretary said he does want legislation passed by the end of the month likely to be the last bill before the november election

that's going to go through. but what was interesting is there at the end the president asked about something that he repeatedly pushed for that republicans are not behind, a payroll tax cut and something that the president floated for several months now as a response to the pandemic and something that republicans said they are not interested in. the president repeated again he does believe that it is something that he wants but of course the question is that going to make it in? republicans are very doubtful, john. >> and then they have to deal with the democrats unlikely. very important headlines out of the white house. coming up, states grappling with some of the nation's biggest coronavirus surges. ♪ come on in, we're open. ♪ all we do is hand you the bag. simple. done. we adapt and we change. you know, you just figure it out.

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coronavirus cases in a handful of states harder to handle. the kropcorrespondents in some the hardest hit areas. stephanie elam, reporting hospitalizations among the problems. >> reporter: that's right. more than 2,200 announced in one day of new hospitalizations. in fact, five days in a row los angeles has seen more than 2,100 new cases. this is why this is a concern to the mayor here who says that we are on the brink of going back into a stay-at-home order.

listen to what else he had to say on "state of the union." >> i think we are on the brink of that but as i told people over the last week, the discipline, mayors have no control over what opens or doesn't. i do agree that those things happen too quickly. >> reporter: now the other thing to keep in mind here in los angeles county, john, is that we are seeing that of these new cases that were announced here that 53% of them people under 41. this is spreading into a different part of the population here when you consider the fact that more than half of the deaths in california are here in los angeles county. obviously this is concerning. as far as the state is concerned, the positivity rate and the hospitalizations over the last 14-day period both trending upward and this is why people are saying that it's possible the mayor himself saying it is possible that we could go back into a stay-at-home order here in los angeles county. john? >> one of the many things to

watch in this important week ahead. miguel marquez is in arizona. a sunbelt state hammered in recent days. >> reporter: and it has been that way since the governor in a very sort of aggressive way reopened the state in mid-may unlike new york and other places with the staged reopenings, arizona just flipped a switch and everything went back on. they have retrenched from some of that and they're trying to put the genie back in the bottle basically but it is going to be very difficult. there is a lot of virus out there right now. the positivity rate across arizona, the seven-day average, about 24.5%, means a quarter of everybody who is tested, this is a pop-up testing site behind us, a quarter of everyone tested tests positive for the virus. the retransmission rate, if i have it, how many people i pass it on to, that's down slightly. hospital sae hospitalizations are down slightly and a massive amount of

virus out there and facing now reopening schools. they're meant to open, typically open august 1st. the governor put that back to august 17th but doctors want him to cancel it for the semester or at least until october so they can see if they can put this back but keep in mind when the governor shut down this state in march they were at about 1,000 cases a week. right now they're about 26,000 cases a week. john? >> miguel, when the governor says he'll reopen the schools he says he'll delay it. you say the pressure is on how much. he says just two weeks from now, 17 days? >> reporter: that's what he's saying, an aspirational date and coming days they're meant to make that decision. teachers are already protesting to some degree trying to raise awareness about this. the teachers are most concerned about it. the debate will be over whether

or not kids spread it and the rate and then to teachers and then ohs thers in households. you get it from going to work, bars, gyms or going to school. when you have this much virus already out there how you do that, it is beyond me. john? >> giant challenge. miguel marquez, appreciate the live report. top of the hour now. hello to the viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. possible progress in the vaccine race watching staggering coronavirus numbers globally and here in the united states. the preliminary results of two vaccines, one by the university of oxford, one by casino biologics