vetting for four of the women on the list and once they have narrowed that list they will have personal discussions with the women on the final short list. john? >> big speech today and big decision soon. appreciate the live reporting. thank you. see you back here tomorrow. brianna keilar picks up our coverage right now. have a good day. ♪ hello, i'm brianna keilar and welcome viewers here in the united states and the world. in a few hours president trump will hold the first coronavirus briefing since april and it looks like spin not science to lead the event since none of the members of the white house task force are expected to attend. as u.s. cases near 4 million, as deaths just surpassed 141,000, states report more than 56,000 new cases, and 25 of those states are experiencing a rise in infections, as it takes up to 2 weeks to get test results

thwarting any attempt by this country to contact trace and stop the virus not one of the task force doctors has said they will be there at the briefing. here are the voices to hear from, the task force coordinator, the surgeon general, the heads of the cdc or the fda and leading infectious disease authority dr. fauci saying this to npr this morning. >> will you be there? >> you know, i don't know. i can't guarantee that. that's up to the white house. i would imagine that i would be at least in on some of them but we have not heard anything definitive yet. i would be more than happy to be there and if not that's okay, too, as long as we get the message across. >> you will only be seeing the president who we just learned is getting tested for coronavirus multiple times a day even as his administration fails to produce a national testing strategy and as he ignores guidance to stay

safe. let's get now to white house correspondent kaitlan collins for us. if no members of the task force are attending who will be talking about the pandemic then? >> reporter: kayleigh mcenany said the president is the best authority and bringing back the briefings and we heard the president say that the ratings played a factor in this and we know that that is a driving part in why he is bringing back the briefings because you will remember back in april scrapped them said they weren't worth the time and the effort. that was after he got so much blowback about the comments of bleach to possibly treat coronavirus and so now they're coming back and right now as of this morning the plan was not to have any of the task force officials join the president at these briefings but the question is, does the white house change their calculation on that given all the questions and criticism

they have gotten today about whether or not the actual experts are going to be there to be joining the president and talk about what's going on? one thing that the president might get asked about is yesterday he tweeted for the first time encouraging people to wear a mask and posting a photo of himself wearing one but hours later attending a fund-raiser at his hotel he was seen on video not wearing a mask interacting with supporters. the press secretary was asked just hours after he said it was patriotic to wear one why he wasn't and this is what she said. >> the president is the most tested man in america. he is tested more than anyone, multiple times a day, tested often. i won't read out how many times a day but sometimes more than one time a day. >> reporter: that's new. we didn't know before the president was tested multiple times a day. we had been told before that it was daily and raises questions

of whether or not the white house trusts that rapid test that the president is getting, that's that abbott labs one with results in 15 minutes or less but known not to have a 100% accuracy rate so clearly there have been a few occasions where they feel the president needs to be tested multiple times. >> she also seems to think as long as he's tested he can't contract coronavirus. >> reporter: that's the thing. what they so often say for why he is not wearing one in meetings here at the white house is the people around him have been tested but you saw that video of him at the trump hotel, around multiple people and the winner in that north carolina primary recently and several other people and it is not clear that all of those people tested since the president went up and briefly interacted with them so that's the question and why health experts said that the president should wear one not only to keep him safe and seasoned a message to the broader public that this is a good thing, that it can be helpful and that it is something

that people should be doing like his own experts have been warning. >> yeah. most people are not getting tested multiple times a day but waiting two weeks or longer for tests. despite what we might hear from the president latter today, the coronavirus crisis is far from over. two of the nation's hotspots hospitals struggle to keep up with admissions. we have correspondents in miami and los angeles. let's begin with stephanie elam. >> reporter: here in los angeles county, another record number of hospitalizations. up above 2,200, the fourth time in a week broken this record and also worth noting that is the sixth time in a row that this number has been above 2,100. also, state of california overall the positivity rate 7.4% over the last 14 days and trending higher. as are the icu beds and hospitalizations.

governor newsom saying barbershops and hair salons to open up with business outside with masks when social distancing as much as possible. >> reporter: rosa flores in miami, intensive care units across the state are at capacity and learning from the state 39 hospitals have asked the state of florida for help providing nurses. this as the legal battle looms over whether or not to reopen schools in the state of florida in just a few weeks. this as we learn that the positivity rate in floridian children 13.4%, for a total number of floridian children infected of 23,000. brianna? >> thank you so much. as rosa just mentioned 39 hospitals an i cro hospitals across the state of florida asking for help and miami is the epicenter of the

coronavirus pandemic. martha baker president of the union that represents 5,000 registered nurses, physicians and other medical professionals at jackson health system in miami and also a registered nurse. thank you so much for being with us because you said in one interview that nurses are going into a second battle and we're limping so tell us what's happening. >> yeah. we thought perhaps that we had dampened the curve and then obviously these last month we have done nothing but continue to break records day after day. embarrassingly enough. it is hard. it is hard on the nurses, the caregovernors insi ca caregivers inside the hospital. they need a break. it's been since march. we are running out of beds and nurses and caregivers and the trend is in the wrong direction. it continues to go up. we probably are balancing yesterday i heard it was 120%

capacity of icus. we are opening up icus and thank god we have 100 nurses from across the country come down and asking for another 100. we're barely -- i'd say dancing on the head of a pin right now. we haven't affected the curve yet and still going up instead of dampening or hopefully going down and that's the real fear is that each day is another challenge as we break yesterday's record and continue to go up. >> look. i think it is like anything that's taxing. right? at least if you see a light at the end of the tunnel perhaps that's something in order to push yourself forward because we are talking about real exhaustion with the nursing staffs at the hospitals. tell us about that, the toll physically and mentally that they're experiencing.

>> right. it's hard to separate covid from non covids today. i was talking to a physician and he was saying, he goes, they're everywhere. you come from for abdominal pain thinking it's the appendix and you're covid positive. the patients in the hallways covid positive everywhere. it is hard to stay safe when you can't shut a door behind you in an emergency room and go to another patient. you are constantly donning and doffing your ppe and your patients are coming in. we are holding perhaps from 50 to 75% of the patients in the emergency department waiting to go upstairs to a bed so our e.r. staff is stressed to the max. patients coming in and we don't know until we get the testing. the reagent is skinny. running out of the fast rapid test so it's taking days so you have to treat everyone as if

they have it. even if they don't think -- the patient doesn't think they have it. sprained ankle. they have covid. so the e.r. is extremely stressed and 45, 50, 75 patients waiting to go up to a bed because the beds are full. yesterday we created, converted holding areas in recovery rooms and radiology to icu beds to stay i think today at 93% capacity with all the creativity but, you know, at some point you run out of space and you run out of nurses and caregivers and it's -- the scary thing is we are not affecting this trend and that goes outside the hospital. this is the public to take this seriously. elected leaders need to take it seriously. we have a governor that thinks things are fine. >> tell me about what thathat.

what does the governor need to do? >> the miami beach mayor is doing a great job. wake up. smell the coffee. shut things down. need to wear masks. our governor is like i don't want to mandate people to wear masks. so this is like the opposite ends of the spectrum and it's just crazy. this week disney reopened. this is crazy the things we are allowing. we don't have to perhaps shut down 100% like last time if they want to try to balance it somehow but i heard listening to the footage before this about barbershops if they're outside and social distancing. creative ways to maintain but it's -- i don't know how desantis or other leaders in florida or outside of florida can ignore the science of this and it's really unfair to the --

not only the patients in the community but caregivers inside of the hospital. doctors and nurses and others are dealing every day with the brunt of this. i say caregivers aren't 12 hours a day and go home and relax. they go home and worry they give it to their kids, mothers, husbands. they rent hotel rooms to quarantine themselves. one -- sent their husband and child to the hotel to isolate. it's a 24-hour stressor. you don't know if you have it. you don't know if you bring it home. you know? we need to feel -- the community needs to stand up for the folks. they said thank you. you are the heroes. we need people to start putting that into action and respecting the mask and the science and the hand washing and the social distancing. this collection of people laughing at this like it's a hoax is really disheartening and our caregivers are wearing out and kind of getting angry at the

leaders not standing up for them. >> i think you are driving it home so hopefully there are ears open to what you are saying. we have talked about how this can be very traumatic of people on the front lines in this day in, day out stress drives it home why it is and thank you. >> thank you. appreciate it. the search for a coronavirus vaccine is taking center stage before congress right now. the heads of five farm suit call giants are testifying today. it is remote and there is a stark of merck's executive vice president. >> i believe this pandemic won't be the last or the worst we will face so we have to preserve a vibrant, innovative and economically sustainable bio pharmaceutical business as the front line of the health protection. >> i want to bring in dr.

richard horton, editor of "the lancet" and also the author of "the covid-19 catastrophe." dr. horton, thank you so much for being with us. there are several trials right now under way and they're showing promising results. that is not to mention the several more that are still under way, period. so there's one right now out of oxford getting a lot of headlines and seems to induce antibodies and t-cells to combat infection and also been hearing of an experimental vaccine by moderna and early stage trials in germany and china showing promising results. any of these stand out to you in particular? >> thanks. yes. there are something like over 200 candidate vaccines that are currently being studied around the world and 20 of those are currently in clinical human trials.

the results is a standout and a real scientific breakthrough because here was a study in over 1,000 people and we have got to first base for the first time. and that's to say that as you rightly point out this vaccine elicits antibodies which can attack the virus and kill the virus. also attacks cells infected with the virus so they are also eradicated so we now know that we have a vaccine that can induce a very strong immune response and what we need to do is to now test that in what we call phase three clinical trials and they are going on at the moment and i believe we will have results before the end of the year so we're in a good place. >> results one way or the other, you mean? knowing if this is going to clear more hurdles? >> yeah. we can't guarantee success right now but if this vaccine works

out then we could be ready to scale up production worldwide by the end of the year. >> okay. that is good news. the best-case scenario here is good, right? there's something there to have some hope for that even as we wait anxiously, right? i want to ask you about the chair of the house energy and commerce committee said he is worried about pressure from president trump to get a virus out before it's safe or before it's effective. here's this. let's listen. >> now that trump is president, i still think there's a real possibility that he will pressure the fda to lower the standards either by maybe putting out new guidelines to say the standards don't have to be -- i think right now the vaccine has to be 50% effective. >> all of the interactions with the regulators have given us no evidence that they're lowering the standards or thinking of lowering the standards. secondly, as a company, we

always think about safety and efficacy and making sure that we have an effective medicine and not trying to launch a med sen that's not effective. >> what's your reaction to that? are you concerned that there could be a rush to get the vaccine and that actually there might be a safety issue? >> let's get this into context for the way we produce vaccines. on average it takes seven years to produce a vaccine. and the very fastest time we have ever gone in history is about 18 months and that was when we had the zika epidemic. now, we are working as fast as we can around the world. if we get a vaccine by the end of 2021, that will be a world record. so i'm optimistic that we will have good signs by the end of this year but we need to manage public expectations. we are not going to have a vaccine available for everybody

to use by the end of this year but i think going into 2021 we should be optimistic and it's absolutely right, safety first. we cannot release a vaccine unless we are really sure that it is safe as well as effective. >> all right. dr. horton, thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you. the mask standoff between georgia's governor and atlanta's mayor heading to court. walmart workers reportedly terrified of enforcing masks. hear what customers are doing. the mayor of chicago is warning president trump to not send federal agents into her city as a standoff looms over law enforcement. this is cnn's special live coverage. and let me tell you something, i wouldn't be here if i thought reverse mortgages took advantage of any american senior, or worse, that it was some way to take your home.

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roun one in the legal battle brewing between georgia's governor kemp and the leader of the state's capital city atlanta mayor keisha lance bottoms, the judge over the case unexpectedly recusing herself. the two camps supposed to head to court today for an emergency injunction hearing after kemp brought a lawsuit against mayor bottoms. dianne gallagher explains what happens next. >> reporter: brianna, the first proceeding in the legal battle between georgia's governor and atlanta's mayor was supposed to happen this morning but the judge recused herself from the emergency injunction hearing. according to the georgia state attorney general's office, fulton county supreme court judge ellerbee disclosed a conversation she had with another judge about an opinion that may have weighed on this

particular case. according to emails that i have viewed it was the state that requested ellerbee recuse herself. this emergency injunction hearing has already been reassigned to another judge. there is not a date at this point. governor brian kemp would like to keep atlanta mayor bottoms from talking about any sort of covid-19 restrictions that exceed his order until the lawsuit can be heard in front of a judge, brianna. >> thank you for that. this week several major retailers to mandate masks for shoppers in the stores and that moons the employees tasked with enforcing the rules to the dismay and sometimes hostile dismay of hostile customers. some workers say they're terrified. kelly wile talked to many of these employees from places like target and walmart and they were extremely candid with you. their fear is real. some are quitting the jobs over

this. what else do they tell you? >> a lot of workers at walmart and target have told me that they've received really hostile abuse from customers when they ask them to masking up and some said it's not worth the low pay to deal with the customers. >> it is not worth it. what kinds of things are -- look. i know some of the things you cannot say on television but give us an idea of the things that people are saying to them or just blatantly disregarding their asking them to wear masks. >> some of the nicest things were saying nothing at all. workers ask people to mask up and the customers walk by like they hadn't said a thing, others swore at them. some spat at them. pretended to sneeze. i had a cashier said he didn't leave the line and loomed over the other customers so really

hostile and weird stuff. >> okay. so let's talk about some of the tactics that stores are using because walmart says it's employing the health ambassadors. how does that work? >> yeah. as far as i can tell health ambassador is just a regular employee who's working the door who now gets a black polo shirt designating them as a health ambassador and supposed to stop customers coming in and offer a mask, they can inform the customer that they have to mask up and this is an ad hoc policy implemented by employees who don't have a lot of training. >> is there any union involvement here trying to help out employees? >> walmart is pretty notoriously anti-union. they don't have one. there are retail and grocery worker unions that have sort of pseudoorganized in walmart in the past and not major players because it's very difficult to

organize within walmart. >> have they considered using normal security instead of just the standard employee? >> not to my knowledge. one thing that some customers -- some employees told me is that sometimes their managers were intervening in difficult customer conversations so that's a manager sort of acting like a defacto store security. >> okay. thank you for the piece. you pulled the curtain back at the major retailers. we thank you for sharing it with us. >> thank you so much. the governor of louisiana begins a three-day fast due to the outbreak. hear his reasons. plus, how disney world is changing its rules and cracking down on masks inside the park. illinois senator duckworth joins me next on the president's threat to send federal agents to chicago, something that the mayor says she will not allow to

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agents to chicago and other u.s. cities. they have got one thing in common. these cities. they're run by democrats which the president himself is even pointed out. >> one look at chicago, too. we'll look at it in new york. look at what's going on. all run by democrats. this is worse than afghanistan. by far. this is worse than anything anyone's ever seen. >> the president insists the move is necessary to crack down on rising violence and crime, a source telling cnn the dhs plans to send more than 150 homeland security investigation agents to chicago this week to be there through the summer. chicago mayor lightfoot is pushing back tweeting, mr. president, or not, i don't care one bit what your name is, i will not allow troops in chicago and i will do everything in my power to stop you. this is following some shocking images that we have seen coming out of portland where unidentified agents in camouflage sweeping the streets

taking protesters and tossing them in unmarked cars. illinois senator duckworth is joining me now. she is a former u.s. army lieutenant colonel, a combat veteran of the iraq war and i just wonder what's your reaction to the president threatening to send federal law enforcement to chicago and other cities like new york, philadelphia and detroit. >> my answer to him is don't even think about it. don't even think about it. it is disgusting and politicization of the institutions which should be nonpart son. he did it with the military with national guard troops against peaceful protesters and now he's done it in portland and coming to chicago. don't even think about it. to do something about gun violence, have a vote on the floor today on universal background checks and on straw purchases of guns. you want to do something? call mitch mcconnell. the vote would pass. this is wrong.

>> do you worry? do you worry how it would play out? if you have the mayor saying that she is not going to allow this and you have the president with his plan and somehow there's kind of a clash, are you worried about how this plays out? >> of course i'm worried but this is what this president does. he's overreached the authority and my understanding for what they plan on doing in chicago is sending dhs and also i.c.e. troops, folks, to come after so-called human trafficking -- so they're not coming to work on gun violence. you know? what do r they coming for? in portland it was for confederate statutes and they send troops without any designation on it to protect statues of people who were traitors for this nation? that's what he is standing up

for? not anywhere in this country. it is wrong and i'm going to work very hard to stop him. >> i'm not in any way trying to ask you to get inside the president's head but what do you think his objective is? is it politics? >> it is politics. he is trying to politicize federal agencies. anyone that would stand up to him he's fired so the only people he has in leadership at these federal agencies are lap dogs and folks to do whatever he wants and perverse the institutions of our nation. he tried to do with our military and now trying to do it with the federal forces. we are not going to stand up for it. this is wrong and i'm going to work very hard and working legislation right now to curb this but if you want to do something, mr. president, about gun violence, call mitch mcconnell today, today and let's have a vote on common sense gun

control legislation that 95% of americans support. that would reduce the number of guns in chicago and reduce the gun violence in the city. >> i want to ask you about what the president had to say about the military open to considering the names of base that is have been named after confederate leaders. fort bragg among them. here's what he said. >> military says they're for this. >> excuse me. excuse me. i don't care what the military says. i'm supposed to make the decision. >> what is your reaction to that? >> he's made nothing but bad decisions and it is shameful that he would defend statues and bases honoring dead traitors, people that raised arms against the nation to sell -- buy, sell and harm black americans. shameful that the commander in chief would actually support traitors. we have ten bases. they should be named for heroes of this nation. there are lots of wonderful

people of color who have been recipients of the medal of honor. he's threatening to veto the defense budget and to deny our troops in harm's way right now a pay raise to protect dead confederates. >> i want to ask you, turning now to something else that is happened since we last spoke, about the attacks on you by fox news host tucker carlson. we spoke a lot about them on this show and he made it a point to go after you when you said it was a discussion. there was a discussion to be had when it came to removing monuments of american leaders and asked specifically about george washington and did not agree to the idea of removing a monument but you said there is a national discussion. he called you a moron but i

think what was more significant was that he called a coward, he said that you among other democrats hate america. he questioned your patriotism as a combat veteran who lost your legs in iraq. and i just wonder what your reaction is not only to that but also the fact that we are hearing these kinds of attacks on people who are clearly patriots more and more and i wonder what you think about that. >> when you love the constitution and you love this country as much as i do, so much so that you lay down your life to protect and defend her then you must agree to defend the rights of the likes of tucker carlson to lie about you. i truly believe in freedom of speech, it is enshrined in the constitution. of course i don't want statues of george washington torn down anymore than the purple heart he founded ripped from my chest but i defend the right for tucker carlson to lie about me because that's what our country is all

about. and if you truly love america and truly love the constitution then you have to stand up for the people's right to express their opinions everyone loathsome ones that are lies you don't agree with. i'm to this day willing, if thank you want to call me back up and putt the uniform on and i'll go back to combat to defend his right to be odious. >> do you think he singled -- he did go fishing, it is true. fox said it was a previously planned trip. >> we all leave on a trip on tuesday to go fishing, yes. >> okay. you doubt, you doubt. do you think he singled you out because your name is in the vp mix and he's trying to cut down what is clearly a strength when it comes to your resume? >> i think he singled me out because i look different. asian-americans have been the other in the society and don't forget that he -- i wasn't

just -- not just my picture. i was not the only one he went after. this is going after people that he -- he doesn't want america to be as diverse as it should be and used i think ten words of the white supremacy statement on that and so this is what they do. they go after your strength but they also single others who try to -- folks who try to make them others and my family fought and defended this nation over 200 years. and i am to this day willing to defend his right to have his opinions. >> senator duckworth, thank you for being on. we appreciate it. >> thank you. the republican sheriff of jacksonville surrounding the alarm over security concerns that the republican convention in his city. the trump campaign will join me and ask them to respond. plus, the governor of missouri says kids will get infected at school and they'll just get over it. ♪

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florida lawmaker and concerned comments she made about rising crime and unemployment in new york. manu raju senior congressional correspondent there on the hill joining us with me or this. what happened, exactly? >> reporter: according to the account of the reporter of the hill mike willis who overheard the conversation there was an exchange and yoho told her, quote, she was disgusting and referring to her positions over unemployment and crime and she responded calling him rude and then as yoho walked away from the conversation he called her an f-'g "b" using the words i won't use here. and now she confirmed the exchange yesterday on the steps of the capitol saying i never

spoke to congressman yoho before he decided to accost me. believe it or not i usually get along fine with the gop colleagues. we check the legislative sparring at the door but hey, "bs" get stuff done. yoho denies calling her words and said a brief comment to himself walking away from the congression summarizing what he believes are policies calling bull "s" and they went on to deny making the remarks so, you know, underscores the tension that we are seeing here in the capitol between the two sides. two lawmakers -- one said she didn't do anything to provoke the conversation and why mr. yoho decided to approach her

that way, yoho, of course, as i mentioned a conservative congressman, someone when walks around the capitol, a few member that doesn't wear a mask in the capitol. i asked him about that about two months ago why doesn't he wear a mask. he said because he's trying to develop herd immunity and does not exist yet for the coronavirus. but nevertheless, this exchange very testy and what both sides certainly don't dispute is that this was a contentious exchange and the congresswoman came away thinking that he was rude to her. >> just to be clear, a reporter overheard this? >> reporter: yeah. a reporter for the hill newspaper covering the house for a long time overheard the conversation and reported what he heard. >> all right. okay. all right. manu, thank you so much. live for us from the hill. just in, new cdc data reveals many more people have had coronavirus than showing up in the official numbers.

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the state of louisiana is dealing with another surge in cases, and the added hospitalizations are pushing some hospitals to the brink of capacity. this is a graphic that shows the dramatic rise in cases. the governor of louisiana is expected to make a decision on whether or not to extend a statewide mask mandate. he's looking for a little divine help. kicking off our national coronavirus headlines, martin

savidge. >> i'm martin savidge. praying it away? in his second day of fasting and pray prayer, the idea given to the governor by the state leaders. in a tweet the governor said the people of louisiana need our prayers right now. i encourage and welcome people of all faiths and denominations to participate. the governor said he would be fasting for lunch each of the three days. >> reporter: i'm tom foremen in washington where officials are worried about the whole country being short changed, literally. consumers and businesses coast to coast have a shortage of nickels, dimes, pennies and quarters. the problem began when the pandemic kicked off and cash-based businesses had to shut down. now getting the flow of money started again has proved problematic. coast to coast, reaching in their pockets and jars in the kitchen counters and get that change out there again.

>> reporter: i'm laura jarrett in new york. downplaying the risks in a recent radio interview, the governor saying if kids go to school and get the virus, quote, which they will, they're going to go home and they're going to get over it. the governor's comments obviously coming in the midst of a national debate about school reopening plans, but what the governor failed to mention is that many public health experts warn that kids could carry the virus back to their older relatives at homes or give them to their teachers. as cnn has reported, even if kids don't get as sick as adults, some can become dangerously ill, especially if they have underlying health conditions. thus far over 1100 people have died from covid-19 across the state of missouri according to recent data. joe biden is speaking moments from now, laying out his economic recovery plan in the wake of the pandemic. plus, just in, new cdc data

that reveals many more people have had coronavirus than what's showing up in the official numbers. i wish i could shake your hand. granted. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪

we're coming up on the top of the hour here. i am brianna keilar. president trump will do something he has not done since late april, hold a coronavirus briefing amid plummeting poll numbers. none of the white house task force members are expected to join him. that means that as of this hour, we will not be hearing from these doctors and experts, including the coordinator of the task force, the surn general, the heads of the cdc and fda and leading infectious disease authority dr. anthony fauci. more than 131,000 people in the u.s. have now died from krfb and the number of new cases top 56,000 op monday. there are some signs of

improvement, and that is where i turn to cnn's nick watt. before we get to the national picture, we're getting new details op a cdc study that finds many more people are infected than the data shows. >> that's right, brianna. they are saying maybe ten times as many. so the official in the u.s. 8.3 million. maybe 38 million americans have been infected, still not enough for herd immunity, but that's a lot. brianna, on the national picture, many eyes are focused on florida. miami now closing all city summer camps after several kids tested positive. a teachers association now suing the state over an order to reopen brick and mortar schools in a few weeks. florida's seven-day average daily death toll is at an all-time high. >> the starting statistic that you all need to know is that