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take a look at the right side of your screen. america will watch the total cases cross another devastateding threshold. 4 million. the most of any nation in the world. hospitalizations are hitting record numbers. deaths are trending upward and the testing delays are so long that the results are basically worthless. as they top 60,000 new cases a day for 17 consecutive days. january 21st, cdc reported the first u.s. covid infection. it was 99 days after that, that we hit 1 million. only took 43 to hit 2 million, 28 days to hit 3 million and now we're expected to cross this 4 million mark. and still no national plan. the president is down playing the need for testing, sharing misleading details at newly

realized coronavirus briefings where no health experts are present. take a listen to this audio. coordinator, dr. deborah burks. instead of seeing her on television. we'll hear her warnings. state and local health officials in private. but when you first see that increased test positivity, that's a increase in mitigation efforts. >> and athena, the numbers are dire, but health experts say the

nation does have solution to these problems. >> basic tools. low tech but high impact tools that can stop the spread. wearing a mask, frequently washing your hands, keeping your distance from others. study after study, doctor after doctor and the experience of the countries who have managed to get their infection rates down have proven those basic steps work. in perhaps the strongest signal yet, the coronavirus is still raging out of control across much of america. the country is on track to reach 4 million infections nationwide today. a jump of a million new cases in just over two weeks. deaths across the country topping 1,000 for the second straight day, while total hospitalizations back up to april levels. with 15 states setting new records. >> in the united states, probably by the end of the year, we could have upwards of 300,000

if we continue on the current trajectory. >> reporter: and a new study reinforcing the effectiveness to stopping the spread of the virus. authorities in miami increasing the penalty for not wearing a mask from 50 to $100 for the first offense. and assigning a dedicated police unitoot enforce the mandate. the mayor touting the efforts, while acknowledging the challenge delayed covid test results present. >> obviously when they get home, they're not wearing their mask inside and they've been exposed and don't know it. with the test lag that there are, we're eight days in of exposure to the entire family. >> reporter: in california, covid-19 is swiftly becoming a leading cause of death in los angeles county. >> covid-19 is on track to claim more lives in l.a. county than any disease, except coronary heart disease. it's killing more people than alzheimer's, other types of heart disease, stroke, and copd.

>> reporter: texas also set a record for new covid-19-related deaths. one doctor calling for the government to send a navy hospital ship, mercy, to help. >> we're 9:00 in the morning central time. we're already ready to report another 30 deaths and it's 9:00 in the morning. our numbers konlcontinue to escalation. >> reporter: and in arizona still mulling whether to open schools, while facing pressure from parents and teachers. >> we want to go back to work, supporteding our kids and keep doing what we love doing but we want to keep kids safe and we have family to worry about. >> reporter: the nba is set to begin practice games at disney world and major league baseball is back. an abbreviated season beginning today with teams planning to pipe in crowd noise and other

sound effects as they face off in empty stadiums. and one more bit of interesting news from florida. you heard the miami mayor talk about how covid is spreading within households. he is now suggest eszing people who live, particularly in a multigenerational household, consider wearing a mask and keeping distance from others just to stop the spread of this virus. >> it's a stunning warning. thank you so much. thank you, athena. so, as you heard, miami's mayor is cracking down on his mask mandate. he's assigned 39 officers to enforce it. so far they've issued 115 tickets. 59 have been warnings and they have also closed 15 businesses for up to 24 hours. ron is the deputy chief of the miami police department. thank you so much for being here, deputy chief. frrmgs explain what these officers are going to be doing.

>> thank you. so, our officers are out, we're going around in the community and we initially started giving out warnings as well as masks. we've given out thousands of masks in the community. at this point the violation is a civil citation, which is $100 fine. so, we do come across people not wearing the mask, our officers are issuing a civil citation for $100 and giving them a mask as well so they can put it on immediately. >> we've seen enough videos to know tempers flair when it comes to asking people to wear a mask when they don't want to. so, how ophorine you running into confrontations? >> well, lucky so far everybody we've come in contact with have been cooperative. they're not necessarily happy about it. these are difficult times. and it's become no choice that we have to give out the citations. it is the legislative mandate. >> are you noticing a trend with

who is not wearing masks at this point? is it mostly young people? >> it's kind of all across the board. but yes, i would say mostly young people. >> okay. all across the board, mostly young people. how busy are your officers here? >> they're pretty busy. they're going around and they're doing a lot of other things. we're also inspecting businesses to make sure they're complying. as you noticed, there are not a lot of citations so far. we did a big warning. we have signs up advising people to stop the spread of covid and wear a mask. it is it the law now. >> do you think the city is will consider shutting down? >> i really couldn't answer that right now. >> thank you so much. it's interesting to hear about what your officers are doing. we appreciate it. thank you. >> thank you very much.

president trump lying again about testing in the u.s. he calls it overrated, even though it can save lives and stop the spread. and he can identify an elephant and tell you what day it is. and they're calling him miracle larry. i'll be speaking with a man who spent 128 days in the hospital battling coronavirus. hear about the moment that his family came to say goodbye. wayfair has everything outdoor from grills to play sets

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the president of the united states is yet again bragging about the results of the cognitive test he did last year. it's meant to detect cognitive impairment, like alzheimer's and other dementias.

trump detailed the questions asked, described how amazed the test administrators were by his ability to recall a simple string of words. >> so, the last time i was at the hospital, probably a year ago, i said to the doctor is there some kind of a test, an acuety test and he said there is. it was 30 or 35 questions. the first questions are easy and the last questions are much more difficult, like a memory question. it's like you'll go person, woman, man, camera, tv. so, they say can you repeat that? so, i said yeah. so, it's person, woman, man, camera, tv. okay. that's very good. if you get it in order, you get extra points. now he's asking you other questions, other questions.

and then ten minutes, 15/20 minutes later, you remember the 10th question? give us that again. can you do that again and you go person, woman, man, camera, tv. if you get it in order, you get extra points. they said nobody gets it in order. it's not that easy. but for me it was easy and that's not an easy question. in other words, they give you five names and you have to repeat them and that's okay. if you repeat them out of order, it's okay but, you know, not as good. but then when you go back about 25 minutes later and they say go back to that question -- they don't tell you this -- go back to that question and can you repeat it and you go person, woman, man, camera, tv. they say that's amazing. how did you do that? i do because i have, like, a good memory. because i'm cognitively there.

>> i want to bring in dr. art caplan, the head of medical ethics at the school of nyu medicine. this might be the most descriptive he's gotten when it comes to the easy cognitive test. but he brings tup over and over and over. what do you make of this fixation he has? >> he seems to be thinking he's taking an iq test. he's taking a test intended to diagnose whether we've had a stroke, alzheimer's disease or louie body syndrome or alzheimer's. this is to find out if you're mildly cognitively impaired due to disease. he's confused about the purpose and point of this particular quick examination. my belief is he is trying to establish himself as the stable genius, that he wants us all to

think he is. he's politicizing the issue of is joe biden able, because he keeps suggesting joe biden take this test, although we have no reason to think he has alzheimer's disease. and he's trying to address his own -- people who have concerns about his own mental capabilities and physical health by saying he's done wonderously on a test intended to prove that he's not demented. >> so, if someone were taking that test, and a doctor responded to correct answers with that's amazing, i mean, what would that mean? >> that would mean that's a doctor who hassen't given that test very much. it's not amazing to recognize an elephant or come up with words that begin with the letter "f"

and probably not amazing to know what date it is and where you are. those are the levels of questions you see on this quick cognitive assessment test. i'm going to say the doctors are currying favor with the president. but their astonishment? i don't buy that. >> so, after falsely blaming testing for the spike in u.s. coronavirus cases, let's look at how the president is approaching the issue. >> we are doing tremendous amount of testing. if the doctors and the professionals feel that, even though we're at a level nobody dreamt possible, they would like to do more, i'm okay with it. i personally think it's ov overrated. they t makes us look bad but it's good. i don't mind looking bad if it's are a good thing. >> we've fact checked this i don't know how many times. it's not true. it's a lie. >> it's a straight up lie.

we're not seeing more cases because we're doing more testing. we know that because the hospitalization rate ands are g up faster than the testing rate. so, look, the president, just as he is doing on his cognitive assessment test, he's really playing deceptively with numbers. we want to be sure that we have accurate numbers and part of the reason testing is crucial is that not only does it reveal cases but it then lets you contact trace and isolate people who have the disease or they've been exposed. we stink at that. the epidemic is raging out of control in the south and southeast and did in the northeast because we didn't have enough testing and contact tracing. the notion we should do less testing in the middle of a plague squares with no science. >> art, thank you so much, it's good to see you. they are calling him miracle

larry and for good reason. he spent 128 days inside the hospital fighting the coronavirus. he almost lost his battle. but there he is alive, surviving and he will join me next. usaa is made for what's next no matter what challenges life throws at you, we're always here to help with fast response and great service and it doesn't stop there we're also here to help look ahead that's why we're helping members catch up by spreading any missed usaa insurance payments over the next twelve months so you can keep more cash in your pockets for when it matters most and that's just one of the many ways we're here to help the military community find out more at usaa.com

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as miracle larry walked out of a new york hospital just yesterday after spending 128 days as one of its sickest patients. larry kelly spent 61 of those days on a ventilator, suffered seizures and at one point, his wife had to stop doctors from pulling the plug on him, they say. we're pleased to have miracle larry and wife and daughter, jacky. your brother gave you this nickname, the miracle part too, larry. tell us about what happened. tell us about what you went through to gain that title? >> i was one of the early cases. and in many ways i was a guinea pig because they knew nothing about it. so, they threw everything at me. i was vented the day after i entered the hospital, much to the dismay of my family. because i had just gone in and

felt like i had a cold and i guess i deteriorated very quickly. and then while i was in the coma, i had pneumonia in both lungs. and i was agitated so they gave me fentanyl to calm me down. i got addicted to the fentanyl, so they had to wean me down on methadone and i had a massive brain bleed, which they say covered my entire brain. so, as you just said earlier, they called my family in, my brother, my daughter, my wife. pretty much against protocol too, come the glass to pay their last respects. and they were strongly suggesting taking me off life support and my daughterer and wife strongly opposed that and said he would want to live. and from that point on the

doctors at mt. sanai worked tirelessly to keep me alive. the last text message i sent to my wife right before i was vented. i said i promise i'll never stop fighting. i kept that promise. >> he did. >> and don, you kept that promise as well. but tell us about that call to the hospital. being called to the hospital. >> i -- my knees gave way. i grabbed the counter. i couldn't believe my ears. i was not accepting it. i said they're calling to help him. not that he was going anywhere. >> they brought my phone in. they only let us in one at a time. so we couldn't be together and experience it together. we all left recordings on the phone and played it by his ears

for him. because we wanted to make him feel we're there as much as possible for him. we wanted to be able to do that. >> >>o so, at this point he's still sedated? >> he was attached to a lot of monitors -- >> tubes everywhere. >> -- tubes everywhere, eeg on his brain. he looked awful. my sister didn't want to see him like that. so, that was our moment to see him, then that was the memory we were going to have of him and she didn't want to remember him like that. so t was the worst day. >> what did you sthay to the doctors? >> i said he would want to live. we all said that. >> yeah. >> and we were trying to find all those -- >> when i went up the stairs to where he was in the icu, the first person i saw was jessica mont narro and i saw her name

and i said your daughter's name is jessica. she said he's right over here in room 29. i said june 29, that's an omen. i'm looking for all these good g omens and i see he has the sports channel on and i'm like he'll love that. i wasn't accepting. and then jessica was telling me how she made a quick connection with him, which he does with many people. and she got attached to him quickly. and i said well, i can't give up hope and she said never give up hope. she was wonderful and asked what he was like and i said he's the best, absolutely the best. >> he's special. >> she said i knew that because i love his tattoos. >> larry, i look at you and i hear you're quite the funny guy, which is why i think the nursing staff took a liking to you. you're listening to your family who, while you were under, walked to the precipice of losing you.

what is it like to hear them talk about this? >> well, jacky played the phone conversations with the doctor with her crying and telling them all the gloom and doom. and jacky -- we're all listening to it and jacky and don were getting upset and they looked at me and i wasn't. and they were staring at me and i said to them i know how it ends. >> and we went from crying to cracking up. >> you know, i can't imagine what they went through that 51 days and i didn't even know it was 51 dis until i was told that after i woke up. i was in a very dark place. and you know, i didn't see any white light but i saw a lot of black and dark. and i thought i was heading the other direction, which is why i probably survived. i kept thinking let me explain

myself. you know? butted it wasn't easy. and-i listen to them this disease not only effects individuals -- and i'm very lucky. i open my eyes on easter sunday, which is why i believe the moncome miracle larry came from. but on easter sunday in new york, 527 people died. so, people were dying all around me and i didn't die. and is that a miracle? i don't know. you know, but this disease effects not only individuals but their entire families. and i feel so much for the people who lost loved ones. and it's on everybody to wear their mask. you know? you don't want this. you don't want this. it was not easy to get here.

i pat myself on the back but i thank all my friends and family on social media just blew up. there was so much love sent that i know that god had a hand in it. and every time i talk about it i get emotional because i know where i came from and where i am now. it's remarkable. >> i think that's such an incredibly normal response, larry. when you know the odds that you beat and that there are other families. watching don and jacky, it's amazing to see them enjoying you and clutching to you and knowing they have this time with you as you're aware, there are other families that aren't. and you're putting this message out that people need to take this seriously. i'm sure that at some point during your battle in the hospital or maybe not, you tell me.

were you confronting the poshability that -- were you ever lucid in knowing i may not make this? >> i think my gift was that i remember a lot of the coma and i was able to keep my center. that's the way i explain it to people. i have moments of incredible lucidity. but more moments of extreme terror. and you know, there's so many commercials on that say we're all in this together. and that's the only message i can give people. is i was a stranger to those people in at mt. sinai and they worked tirelessly to keep me alive. and i was a stranger in a jewish home and they worked tirelessly to make me functional, for no other reason than that's what they do. i'm glad i'm in new york. we're at our best in moments of crisis.

and this disease is no joke. and if there's anybody out there thinking it's a big hoax, i'm so glad my family and a lot of my friends who know me are following protocol because i don't want to lose any of them. >> we know how bad it can get. >> you've seen it. >> yes. we've lived it. >> no matter how old you are, where you are. >> and you lived it with him, don and jacky. you were there confronting the reality 30 reality of losing him. one of the reasons, not just your sense of humor, that you're so beloved and you had so much love coming in as you worked through this is because you're a retired high school assistant principal. so, you have years and years of kids who knew you but that also brings me to the question as we look at the next phase of this crisis, which is when it comes to schools.

and you were 64, i believe. i think there are a number of teachers who were probably about that age as well. and they're -- right? so, you know. i wonder, larry, and don, what you have to say -- sorry, don, what? >> i'm not retired. >> so, what do you think of what is now being potentially asked of teachers going back into the classroom? >> we have to proceed with extreme caution. it has to be crystal clear that the kids aren't at risk and the teachers. i'm nervous about my wife going back into a crowd. hopefully she's old enough where she can choose whether she can go back. but i don't know. >> there's so many unknowns. >> the numbers are rising everywhere.

it's just -- >> frightening. >> we have to proceed slowly. >> no need to rush. >> i understand that this disease has disrupted so many people's lives. i was thinking if my kids were young, how do we do day care while this disease is going on? how do we watch our kids? and how do we sends them to school on a staggered schedule? and so i understand parents' total frustration and their needs. and plus so many of them have lost their jobs. this disease is devastating. and it is the moment of our lives, actually. and i doenlts know. >> proceed with caution. >> i don't know. >> i agree. >> miracle larry, kelly, i just want to say thank you so much for joining us.

and also for -- look, you're a miracle and you're here as a voice for many who couldn't make it as well and we appreciate hearing from you. dawn, jacky, thank you so much for joining us as well. it is great to see you, larry, it is great to see you. >> thank you, buh-bye. >> we'll be right back. (vo) the time is coming for us to get out and go again. to visit all the places we didn't know meant so much.

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america, but doesn't mean we should be disrespectful. having been married froivr years with two daughters, i'm cognizant of my language. the words were never spoken to my colleagues and if construed that way, i apologize for their misunderstanding. i cannot apologize for my passing or loving my god, my family, and my country. i yield back. >> this morning she responded. she said she's experienced this type of harassment before and it's not okay. >> i do not need representative yoho to apologize to me. clearly he does not want to. clearly when given the opportunity, he will not. and i will not stay up late at night waiting for an apology from a man who has no remorse over calling women and using abusive language towards women. but what i do have issue with is

using women, our wives, and daughters as shields and excuses. for poor behavior. mr. yoho mentioned he has a wife and two daughters. i am two years younger than mr. yoho's youngest daughter. i am someone's daughter too. my father, thankfully, is not alive to see how mr. yoho treated his daughter. my mother got to see mr. yoho's disrespect on the floor of this house towards me on television and i am here because i have to show my parents that i am their daughter and that they did not raise me to accept abuse from men. what i believe is that having a

daughter does not make a man decent. having a wife does not make a decent man. treating people with dignity and respect makes a decent man. >> yoho has not responded to those comments from the congresswoman. it's no secret the president wants schools to reopen. but he and his education secretary are making dubious claims about children and the virus. and news on the future of movies and movie theaters as the pandemic is predicted to drag on longer than previously thought. can it one up whatever they're doing? for sure. seriously? one up the power of liquid, one up the toughest stains. any further questions? uh uh! one up the power of liquid with new tide power pods.

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died from coronavirus becoming the state's youngest reported death from covid complications. records showed girl had no known contact with anyone who has tested positive, and it does not appear she had any underlying health conditions. according to health records, she is the fifth minor to die from the coronavirus in florida. as the debate heats up over how and if school should reopen in the fall education secretary betsy devos made this claim -- >> more and more studies show that kids are actually stoppers of the disease and they don't get it and transmit it themselves. so we should be in a posture of the -- the default should be getting back to school, kids in-person in the classroom. >> that is simply not true. kids are not stoppers of the coronavirus. a german study cited by the

department of education found a low infection rate in schools. one research saying "children may act as a break on the infection." here's the catch on that. that study is not peer reviewed. meaning, betsy devos should not hang her hat on it or used as guide for these kinds of decisions. president trump echoing this same false claim. >> they don't bring it home with them. now, they don't catch it easily. they don't bring it home easily and if they do catch it they get better fast that would be nice if it were true. here's the science. a's recent study from the korea centers for disease control and prevention found children between 10 and 19 years old transmit the virus just as easily as adults, and as recently as june 30th, the head of the american cdc, dr. robert redfield said, "we don't know the impact that children have yet on the transmission cycle." it's not a question of wanting to reopen schools. it's a question of how.

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the big events are back and xfinity is your home for the return of live sports. the u.s. chamber of commerce and over matsch business groups filed a lawsuit against the trump administration centered air banning veisa workers from entering the country. this is inflicting severe economic harm on a wide range of american businesses across all economic sectors. what these sectors are saying. i bring in neil bradley to talk about this, chief policy officer for the u.s. chamber of commerce. thanks for coming on to walk us

through this. tell us more about this lawsuit. tell us about the people affected here and the kinds of jobs that they would be coming in to fill. >> well, thanks, brianna. it's a really important topic. so every year hundreds of thousands of experts, we're talking about engineers, doctors, nurses, scientists, executives. people with skills come temporarily into the united states to help out with certain business operations. they're not permanent, legal immigrants. they're temporary workers who come in. the president's proclamation, if allowed to go into effect would bar remainder of this year and maybe even longer those experts from being able to come in to this country and help us build back our jobs and our recovery here in the united states. >> and you argue that hurts the u.s. economy? how so? >> for example, a manufacturer we heard from building an assembly line here in the united states. that assembly line will employ american workers.

part of the technology on line overseas. they want to bring in an engineer set that up. they won't be able to do that under the president's proclamation. a resort out in the rocky mountains. winter is a big time for skiing and winter sports out there. they have temporary workers who come in and help man the resorts and are hoping to reenter this winter. under the president's proclamation it won't be available. runs the gamut from the type of employers we're hearing from across the country who will be negatively affected by the president's proclamation. >> the president's point is eats into american jobs during a pandemic. what is your reaction you are expecting to get from the administration, having filed this lawsuit, knowing what his position is on this? >> well, we've been trying to

convince the administration that employment's not the zero sum game. take, for example, the manufacturing line i talked about. that person is not taking a job away from an american. they're helping create jobs here in america. so we think that the argument that this is a one-for-one displacement is not borne out by any tft economic studies or facts and the reality is that businesses struggling to reopen, who are trying to help our economy recover, they're the ones at the forefront of this litigation because they know this is going to hold them back. beyond that it's simply illegal for thinking proclamation to go into effect. no president has authority to turn off the legal immigration, legal visas created by congress. >> neil, thank you so much for coming on to talk to us about this. we really appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. >> all right. neil bradley with the chamber of commerce. our special coverage continues now with brooke

baldwin. thank you very much. hi there, i'm brooke baldwin. you're watching cnn. 4 million. that is how many confirmed cases of covid-19 the u.s. is set to surpass likely at some point today. just two weeks the nation crossed the 3 million mark. you can see on your screen increasingly the time to reach these milestones is shortening dramatically, and still president trump continues to tell you that this saall just a result of testing. >> to me, every time you test you find a case and it gets reported in the news. we found more cases. if instead of 50 we did 25, we'd have half the number of cases. so i personally think it's overrated. but i am totally willing to keep doing it. >> health experts including members of the white house coronavirus task force repeatedly said that the president's claims are not true. as the cases surge, so did

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