and wifi coverage you need. plus, xfi customers can add xfi complete for only $11 a month. call or visit a store today. so for all the talk of the president's change of attitude about the pandemic, more than 145,000 american lives into it, the president's spokesperson, now, says change? what change? he's been totally consistent. john berman here in for anderson. there is a lot to get to tonight, after a week that saw the 4 millionth confirmed coronavirus infection. we start with a spin that would be comical except to anyone grieving the loss of a loved one. except for doctors making agonizing decisions about who gets treated. except for parents worried about sending their kids to school.

except for laid-off workers, about to see their unemployment checks shrink. to them, what you are about to hear must sound far different from spin, and close to, perhaps, contempt for the reality we're all now facing. >> there has been no change. he hasn't changed, in fact, in just speaking about covid generally. the way i heard him talk in the oval office is the way he's talking out here. he felt the best way to get information to the american people was for him to be out here, answering your questions and providing this directly. >> no change, she says. and in fairness, perhaps she's right. just not how she intended. you can make a case the president has consistently failed to take the pandemic seriously, and the only thing that's changed is he's now saying words, out loud, from a prepared script at the podium. these words, now, conveniently and deliberately ignore everything else he's said and done month after month, and

death after death. for example, here is the president last night talking about cancelling the republican convention in jacksonville. >> we have to be vimg lagilant. we have to be careful. and we also have to settle an example. i think setting the example is very important. it's hard for us to say we're going to have a lot of people packed in a room. and then, other people shouldn't do it. well, there's nothing more crowded than a convention. i mean, a convention, you've seen them. and even though you try and keep people away from each other, it's just not that kind of a thing. they probably can't do that. it just doesn't work for them. it's very hard. so i think we are setting an example by doing it. it's very important. >> the president also said, and i am quoting here, quote, i have to protect the american people. that is what i have always done. that is what i will always do. that is what i am about. mr. president, if that's, in fact, so, there's someone i'd like you to meet. >> i've been watching.

i've been watching the fake news for weeks now, and everything is negative. don't go. don't come. don't do anything. we saved hundreds of thousands of lives, and all we do is get hit on like we're terrible. they test and they test. we got tests. people don't know what's going on. it's a disease, without question, has more names than any disease in history. i can name kung flu. we got tests. we got another one over here. many call it a virus, which it is. many call it a flu. so i said to my people, slow the testing down, please. >> the president, indoors, with thousands of people at a rally in tulsa. no social distancing. only a few covered faces. that was about four weeks and nearly 2 million cases ago. four weeks and about 25,000 lost american lives ago. now, the president says that the very same type of event just isn't safe. and his press secretary suggests he has always thought that.

even though he moved the convention to jacksonville, in the first place, because officials in north carolina would not permit the kind of no-mask, non-socially-distanced event that he was demanding. which he now says just isn't safe. which raises the obvious question. >> why is it not safe to hold the republican convention? but it is safe to reopen schools? >> yeah. the schools are a different situation, when you have children who, as the cdc guidelines, clearly note, are not affected in the same way as adults. >> these guidelines, you will recall, were loosened, on orders of the president. we'll talk more about them in a moment. but in a nutshell, they lean strongly toward kids returning to the classroom. even though, the science on the safety of it is unclear. notably, the cdc makes no mention of a large study, recently out of south korea, which found that kids ages 10 and up spread the virus just as easily as adults. this morning on "the today show" task force member dr. deborah birx alluded to it, even as she

admitted that evidence on younger children is thin. >> what i can't tell you for sure, despite the south korea study, is whether children under 10, in the united states, don't spread the viruses the same as children over 10. i think that is still an open question that needs to be studied in the united states. we certainly know, from other studies, that children under 10 do get infected. it's just unclear how rapidly they spread the virus. >> it's unclear, she says. the evidence is mixed, say the new cdc guidelines. to sum that up in plain english, yikes. especially, since the loudest voice in the room, with no scientific training, keeps saying things like this. >> but when you look at the statistics, i just read having to do with children and -- and safety. they're very impressive. they have very strong immune systems. >> but you would understand children go to school, then, go back to home.

some live with their fwra grandparents. there's a real risk. >> well, they do say that they don't transmit very easily. and a lot of people are saying they don't transmit. and we're looking at that. we're studying, john, very hard, that particular subject. that 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. we are looking at that fact. that is a factor and we're looking at that very strongly. we'll be reporting about that over the next week. >> the president also says the administration is, quote, in the process of developing a strategy that's going to be very, very powerful, unquote for addressing the pandemic. he said it, by the way, on tuesday. more than 3,000 lost american lives ago. we should, also, mention that, at no point this week, did the president mention the 4 million case milestone or the number of americans who have died. perspective now, joining us dr. celine gounder, epidemiologist and medical analyst. also, cnn political commentator

and former adviser to president obama, david axelrod. and gloria borger. david, the bottom line here, why does the white house think it is not safe to hold the republican national convention in florida, yet, it is safe to reopen schools? >> yeah, i'm not sure. i mean, there is some logic to it, in the sense that there is a desperation, i think, on the part of a lot of parents to kid their kids back in school. kids are suffering. there is a really strong impetus to get them back but you want to do it safely. and public health experts are of one mind that, particularly in these hot spot areas, it's very hard to guarantee that. and it's hard to guarantee that they won't be spreading -- spreading the virus. but, you know, i'm also -- i can't help but remember that, just sunday, the president was, literally, whining in his interview with chris wallace about how the mean, democratic governors were keeping him from

holding public rallies. so he's had a very rapid epiphany on this subject of what is safe and what is not. >> look, it's a confused message, at best. when you are trying to say both things at once, from both sides of your mouth. and, gloria, i'm one who happens to think this changed tone is a bit of hooey. however, i do think it's clear that the white house is trying to present a different image of the president. they are trying to. the question on that is, why? what do they want to get out of it? and are they? >> well, they want to stop the bleeding of their poll numbers. they have an election they want to win in november. they want to show that donald trump is a leader. and what they're also trying to show is that he hasn't become completely irrelevant, which i believe he almost has, in -- in the managing of the pandemic. if you take a step back, this is a president who was late to the game cancelling the jacksonville convention. has been saying we don't need more tests. we need fewer tests.

suddenly, seemed to change his mind on that. and then, wept bant back and fo. now, after demanding that all schools open. saying, well, wait a minute. maybe there are some school districts in some of those hot spots that shouldn't open that quickly. so he's--you now,and onthe mask, of course. suddenly, we see him donning a mask. so he is trying to appear as if knows what he's doing. he's out front. he is leading. and he's not irrelevant. and the american public, 60% of whom say he's done a lousy job managing the pandemic, are scratching their heads. and saying, well, where were you four months ago? >> dr. gounder, deborah birx, dr. fauci, have not been allowed to speak at these briefings and i think we know why. i think the most surprising thing said out loud today was from dr. birx in the today show interview where she made clear the science on opening schools is unclear. the science on children

transmitting the disease, she says, is unclear. so how much do we really know, at this point, about how rapidly children under 10 can spread coronavirus? >> look, john. i think the number one message here is reopening schools, in the middle of widespread community transmission, is dangerous. that should be a nonstarter. now, is it possible, based on some of the science that we have, laboratory science, clinical science with patients, as well as what we have seen in other countries, like denmark and norway. that have reopened schools, just for the youngest kids. based on those experiences, if you have suppressed community transmission, in a place like, say, new york city. you could look at a phased-in approach to reopening schools, starting with the youngest kids, under 10. see how that goes. assess as you go. and then, maybe see if you want to open more widely. but that's really how that information should be used. not as a justification for throwing school doors wide open

when you still have widespread community transmission. >> dr. gounder sticking with you for a second, there is the south korea which we have been talking about. dr. fauci today spoke about a study being done, here, in the u.s. by the national institutes of health. but the results aren't expected to be available until december. and that's halfway through the school year. so, in the absence of that information right now, how should parents navigate sending their children back to school? >> well, i think you really need to look at what makes sense for you and your family. and i think, for a lot of family, there are parents and extended family who do have underlying risk factors, that would put them at increased risk for severe covid disease. and i think that really does need to factor into the decision-making here. i do think another important point here, though, is this is why contact tracing is so important because it helps to inform some of these decisions, while we're waiting for that big nih study to come therough. in new york city, for example,

contact tracing data would indicate that children are more likely to be infected by adults, rather than adults infecting children. excuse me. children are more likely to be infected by adults, as opposed to children infecting the adults. so it's less likely that the children would be responsible for bringing disease home. but again, this is still preliminary data, and really should not be turned into policy. except for where you have suppressed community transmission. >> so, david, one of the things that the president has not done, in recent days. clearly, doesn't like to talk about. is the 145,000 lives lost in this country to coronavirus. you would think those would be on top of mind, of any president of the united states, who calls themselves a wartime president. what's the calculation there, do you think? >> look, from the beginning, there's been this attitude of denial that you can, somehow, spin a pandemic and you just can't. even at the press briefing yesterday, he made the case that we're doing fine. we're doing well. and he said, but even one death is too much.

one death? how about 145,000 deaths. and, you know, to gloria's point about him being almost irrelevant, he chose that role because he punted all the hard decisions to the governors, instead of leading the country as one. and we've had this peculiar paradox where you have a president leading a government, that is trying to fight the pandemic. while he is, also, leading the resistance to the guidance that his own government governmentis. and that's one of the reasons why we are in such worse shape than other countries around the world. >> so, gloria, today, dr. fauci praised the president for his, quote, short and crisp coronavirus briefings, which is a backhanded compliment, if you could ever hear one. what's great about them is they're short, dr. fauci says. do you think the president will be able to continue down this path? hundred days to go till the election. >> you know, it's hard for me to predict anything with donald trump. but if i had to guess, i'd say

the odds are that he can't because he loves the stage too much. and he changes his mind all the time. i mean, we just a it thit this . he came out and said maybe we do need more testing. and then, he changed his mind in another interview with a journalist saying, well, i'm not all for testing. some people are. some people aren't. so i think the president is likely to say what dms tcomes t mind, and i don't think he's changed his mind. and i do think he wants to kind of pay no attention to this and just move beyond it but he can't. and this is what's so frustrating for him. so it's hard to answer your question. but i talked to somebody who is in touch with some high-up people in the white house, and they're nervous about it because they don't know what's going to come out of his mouth the next time he speaks. >> one of the things you have is you have a lot of republicans patting him on the head this week, intentionally i think, to give him the positive reinforcement to keep doing it. dr. gounder, quickly, dr. fauci

says a vaccine likely won't be available until mid-2021. is that a realistic timeline? >> well, even if that's realistic, john, the other problem is will people accept the vaccine? and polls of americans right now would indicate that a third of americans would refuse to get vaccinated. so that has me and many other public health officials really concerned. >> dr. gounder, david axelrod, gloria borger, thanks so much. >> next, secretary of education goes even further than the president on the power, she claims, that kids have against the virus. her predecessor in the obama administration joins us, along with the doctor who once oversaw student health in baltimore city schools. and later, how baseball and other sports are adapting to a new world of social activism. you're clearly someone who takes care of yourself. so when it comes to screening for colon cancer, don't wait.

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at the top of the program, you heard the president use one of his new coronavirus briefings to stray from the written script and return to what is, apparently, a deep-seeded belief about children and the coronavirus. he also said he would be, quote, comfortable with sending his son barron back to the classroom. but the school barron attends is still deciding whether to open for in-person instruction, at all. or his education secretary, betsy devos, who recently said this about the role children play in the pandemic. >> 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. >> stoppers of the disease. again, that is from the secretary of education. and no, there is no evidence, zero, to support what you just heard her say. joining us now, arnie duncan,

who had secretary devos's job in the obama administration. and also, former baltimore health commissioner, dr. leana wen. first, what goes through your mind? >> well, it's unbelievably disturbing and infuriating. obviously, she is lying. obviously, there's no science there. and not only is she fundamentally dishonest, she's dangerous. and fortunately, you know, parents, teachers, superintendents, children, aren't paying any attention to what she's saying. she's made herself irrelevant. the president's made himself irrelevant. we're going to be led out of this, by amazing local leadership who live in communities, who live around people, are going to make the right decisions for children. educationally, yes, but also for their health and safety. that's going to happen at the local level, the grassroots level. >> so, dr. wen, secretary devos, president trump don't seem to be

living in the same world as dr. birx and dr. fauci about how little we know about how this virus affects children. so how much does this add to confusion for parents, not to mention administrators, over schools? >> i think everyone is struggling with these questions. and at the end of the day, we need to be humble. and i would have loved for president trump and secretary devos to be honest about, here are the things that we know. and here's what we don't know. we do know that children tend to get much less severely ill than adults do. although, remembering that children don't live in a bubble. we're also talking about their parents and grandparents and teachers and staff and their families, too. we also, though, do have unclear research about the information about the transmission of virus by children. and there was this south korea study that was done, that found that children under the age of 10 are maybe about half as likely to transmit the virus as adults. but half of a lot is a lot. and the single-most important

thing we can still need to focus on is reducing that level of virus in the community, which s something that dr. fauci and dr. birx focus on. but that we have not heard nearly as much from the president. >> so, secretary duncan, the new cdc guidelines came out last night. and they're really a shell of the previous guidelines. the ones the president said were too tough. so these guidelines. are they more political? or medical, at this point? >> well, they are trying to have it both ways. so they're bending to the pressure, political pressure, that they're feeling from him. but if you actually read into it, they say in the fineprint, where you have an increase in cases, those decisions should be made at the local level. and again, let's just look at the numbers. if you going back to like march 23rd, march 24th, when schools were shutting down. we had about 10,000 cases a day. a month ago, june 23rd, we had 35 -- 35,000 cases a day. today, we're having 70,000 cases a day. a month ago, we had 11, 12, states with declining numbers. today, we only have a single state with declining numbers.

so as a country, we're going the wrong way. and it's just infuriating. had we done what we needed to do in march and april and may and june, we wouldn't be talking about can we open schools? this was a natural disaster that became a manmade catastrophe. had we locked things down. had we socially distanced. had we wore masks. had we had a white house that led a national plan, we wouldn't be jeopardizing our children's chance to go back to school in the next couple weeks. >> so, dr. wen, you hear secretary duncan say. would they be better off using the leaked cdc document that was obtained by "the new york times" a couple weeks ago that had, on its first page, that fully reopening schools remain one of the highest risks for the spread of the virus? >> you know, i compare that document, john, to the document that was released today about the guidance. and they are night-and-day difference. the document today was basically a justification of why in-person

schooling is important, which i think we can all agree that it's important. we got it. but what we need is the guidance on how to do so safely. and actually, that leaked document provided that guidance. they actually looked at many different examples of school protocols from around the country and critiqued them. and highlighted some innovative best practices. that's what we need the cdc to do. we need the rec mommendations t be based on science. not have political pressure determine their content. and what local leaders need, more than anything, is federal resources. they need the resources, now, in order to do the right thing for their communities. they need local flexibility and those resources need to be targeted to the communities that are the most disadvantaged. where there are the most vulnerable students, who are facing educational, as well as profound health disparities. >> they need to know how to do it and have the resources to do it right. secretary duncan, it's interesting because the new guidelines do have this backdoor. suggesting if the virus is out

of control in your county or district, then, maybe you should reconsider reopening. and the cdc director robert redfield clarified that today. he said communities with a positivity rate higher than 5%. perhaps, should consider not reopening. well, that's a lot of places. that's california. it's texas. it's arizona. it's mississippi. it's florida. it's a lot of places. >> well, naturally -- nationally, we're at about 8.8%. so we're significantly higher than that. and it just puts, you know, superintendents and principals, who are so thoughtful, in an unbelievably difficult position. and folks are now having to go hybrid. other folks that were in a hybrid mode are having to go only remote online because in far too many communities across the country, the rate of cases, number of cases, are going up every single day. schools aren't bubbles. they're not islands. the best way we can get kids back into a physical school is to beat down this virus, in our local communities. and i just want to, quickly,

says goal here is not to reopen schools. the goal is to stay open. so we need to move thoughtfully, carefully, start with those children most at risk, as dr. wen talked about. start with our babies. see if that works. and then, slowly, try and add students if we do the right thing. we've seen in other countries, israel opened too fast and had to shut everything down. south africa just opened too fast and had to shut everything down. we do not want to do that here, and we should not be in this situation, in the first place. >> look. there are places that can do it. the question is how to help them do it safely. and the confusion just gets in the way. former secretary arnie duncan and dr. leana wen, thank you both so much for being with us. i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> just ahead. a close look at the pandemic's toll in texas, with a frontline worker who has seen the worst of what this disease can do. that's when 360 returns. hey, kids!

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we want to focus now on the state of texas, which today recorded its second highest death count from the virus to date. 196. just one shy of the high set on wednesday. in starr county in the tip of the state, a county health board is having to make a truly awful decision. according to multiple reports from local media, the sole hospital has formed an ethics committee. guidelines that could force those close to death to go home, rather than spend their final hours with medical professionals. just a reminder, president trump said yesterday they have, quote, everything they need when it came to supplies. that's why we like to keep focus on the people seeing these events, firsthand. because they are our eyes and ears about the true toll this virus is taking.

joining us now, a medical worker who's seen tit up close, dr. joseph donnelley. doctor, you just came from mccallen, you were there during the peak of the surge. what was that like? >> it was devastating. it's hard to describe in words. the medical infrastructure this is not like a major metropolis like new york city or los angeles. so resources are already stretched thin. and it didn't take long to reach the breaking point down there. >> i understand you had to try and resuscitate a woman in the parking lot. how did that unfold? >> well, it was an 18-bed emergency room i was working in. and they had 32 covid patients in the department. so you can imagine, they're lined up in the hallways. there, literally, is no where to go. and so, we had to make the decision to go out and meet the ambulance, and resuscitate the

person there. >> what happened to her? >> that woman expired. just 40 years old. she had been treated, a week prior, with covid. and we can't admit everyone with covid. most people are able to go home. but some people are going to return and -- and not do well. >> just 40 years old. and i know how difficult it must be to be surrounded by that all day. and to work as hard as you are, all day. you said that you have to use the hallways for the overflow. how else are you accommodating the patients who don't have beds? >> well, we reuse beds upstairs. the pediatric icu is now an adult icu there. literally, everywhere you can put a patient, you'll put one. assuming you have a nurse and a physician to staff that area. and, as i said, the resources

are stretched very thin. and there's no way to -- to pre-position enough people to a surge that has occurred down there. >> do you think there are people who have died or could have been saved if you had had more resources? >> absolutely. there are people who don't seek care right now because they're afraid to even come to the hospital. and there are, also, people in the hospital who are receiving the best care we can give. but sometimes, it's not good enough. you've got some nurses taking care of six or eight people. icu-type patients, which would normally be staffed at two patients to one nurse. >> there is a positive side to this which, i think, you've learned a lesson a lot of doctors in new york learned as well. which is that after weeks of treating patients like this, you learn how to do it better. tell us about that. >> well, we learned, you know,

to treat aggressive and early when they come in sick. and we don't want that oxygen to drop low for too long. there is no fda-approved treatment for covid-19, but there are treatments available that are being used. the convalescent plasma, remdesivir, proning. those sorts of things are helping. so we're not reinventing the wheel. but this is a disease, unlike any other that i have seen in my 25 years. the -- where it can affect one person, who will have no symptoms when they have it. and another person will literally suffocate, in a matter of days. >> dr. donnelley, i have to say, first of all, thank you for the work you're doing. but you look like so many of the doctors that i've had a chance to speak to. you look spent. you look tired. you look like this is taking a toll on you. talk to me about that. >> it -- it wears you out. >> how so?

>> you kind of feel numb. and then, at the end of your shift, you're just -- you're done. >> look. we're lucky to have you and the people of texas are lucky to have you. what's your message to people who, still, may not be taking this seriously? who, still, may look at this and say it's just something like the flu? >> it's nothing like the flu. realize that you can make a difference. stay home. use your mask. wear it right. realize that, maybe, if you feel invincible, you may be the person that is choking on something and can't get an ambulance to come get you because they're all occupied for the surge. so you can make a difference. >> dr. donnelley, you're making a difference. and we're very grateful that you are. thank you for telling us what you are seeing. it makes such a difference for people around the country to know what's happening on the ground there.

and how hard people are working to try to turn this thing around. so thank you. >> thank you. >> we have more breaking news ahead. the center for disease control, today, reports covid-19 can be a prolonged illness, even among those recovering from the disease, weeks after they were discharged. just ahead, i am going to speak with a british professor who got it back in march and it lingered and lingered and lingered, until now.

breaking news from the centers for disease control. scientists there today reported even patients recovering from the pandemic, it can last for weeks. paul gardener is a case in point. an extreme case in point. he got covid in mid-march, and he still can't shake it. he is a professor of tropical diseases at the school of tropical medicine in liverpool, england. before he was diagnosed, he was healthy and fit. i spoke to him earlier. >> professor gardener, you call yourself a covid long hauler. you first became sick in mid-march. that's a long time ago. how are you doing now? >> so, i'm beginning to feel a little bit better. i am less sweaty. i have the -- the attacks that last for three or four days.

and receded. i have considerable fatigue. i'm exhausted the whole time. so it's quite debilitating. so i can't do much during the day. i have to go back to bed two or three times, just to keep my energy up. >> you're in the unique position of being someone who studies infectious diseases. but also, has covid. have you had a chance to step back and analyze why this is happening with coronavirus? >> this is a mystery to me. i -- some days, i feel as though this is a post-viral syndrome. and that's what it looks like. but there are so many -- there are new things happening, all the time. so -- but i do think, on balance, this is the long tile that you see in some viral infections. but the fatigue comes back, in very different ways.

so about three or four weeks ago, i had difficulty speaking. i had difficulty stringing words together. and that -- that, apparently, is recognized as occurs with people with fatigue. so it is really, quite frightening. and it's taken me away from all the things i enjoy, which is running and -- and being outside. and -- and i can't do any of those things. if i do any of them, it makes me feel quite unwell. >> well, you are an athlete. and you have tried to exercise some. can you tell people -- i mean, a real athlete. like somebody who does extreme sports. what happens when you try to do anything? >> i -- i can't. i walked six kilometers on sunday, and did ten minutes of yoga. and monday and tuesday, i've really been quite unwell. i went a little bit too far. so it's really disabled me.

my -- my -- my friend in australia said, paul, you are trying to dominate this disease. you are trying to beat it and go back to your levels of exercise. but what you should do is try and accommodate the virus. you need to accommodate it. the virus is still in charge. >> you know, people should know you, also, have had malaria. you're no shrinking violet here. you won't recently, quote, this stuff is real. people are ill. doctors need to stop diagnosing this as anxiety. we've messed up before. let's not do it again with long-term covid-19 illness. you know, what do you fear will happen if experts continue to misdiagnose long-term covid illnesses, such as yours? >> i think that doctors are not, yet, familiar with a huge, great spectrum of different conditions. i have fatigue. some of the people i know have

very rapid heart rates. they can't -- a woman i know who's a boxer cannot walk up a flight of stairs, without getting a very fast heart rate. it's a very different syndrome. so people are going to their doctors, and the doctors don't recognize it. and if they're not confident, they will be dismissed. so it's -- it's really important that medics and people at home, all, believe what's happening to them. because it is a very strange illness. and it causes many, very strange, unexpected symptoms but they are real. >> strange. real. and, in some cases, just terrible. professor garner, you have been living with this for more than four months. we wish you the best. thank ts so much for being with us. >> thank you, sir. >> new reporting tonight about president trump's anger about the confederate flag. what he is upset about and who he is mad at when 360 continues.

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new reporting from cnn tonight. according to two people familiar with his reaction, president trump is fuming at mark esper, that he said banned confederate flags at military bases. as you know, president trump says it's a freedom of speech issue. a senior white house official tells cnn, quote, your story is inaccurate. with all of that as a backdrop, the boston red sox unveiled a huge sign painted on the tarp covering the seats in the stands. it reads black lives matter. significant among athlete, and in race relations in that city.

that wasn't by any means the only visible sign of changes in baseball. it's happening in all of professional sports. 360 ea 360's randi kaye has details. >> i want to continue to shine light on justy for breonna taylor. >> that is lebron james after returning to gt court. the lakers star is making it clear, basketball and breonna taylor are priorities. back in march, she with was killed in a barrage of gun fire after police used a no-knock warrant to storm her home. >> i want her family to know and i want the state of kentucky to know that we feel for her and we want justice. >> several teams made statements on the field. the l.a. dodgers home opener, dodgers coaching staff and the

giants squad wore black lives matter t-shirts for the warmup. blm was an the pitcher's mound, and both teams took a knee and held a ribbon orlando the field. >> to change the injustices. >> in washington, d.c., the nationals also used their pitcher's mound to support black lives matter and took a knee, along with the new york yankees before the opening pitch. some players wore league-approved patches that read black lives matter and united for change. and a black lives matter video produced by the players alliance played on screen. >> we will make your voices louder. >> for all of us who can. >> and all of those who could not. >> major league's baseball official twitter account highlighted players in black lives matter t-shirts, writing, equality is not just a word.

it's our right. and today, the tampa bay rays baseball team showed support for breonna taylor. tweeting today is opening day, means it's a great day to arrest the killers of breonna taylor. all of had is a far cry from 2016 when players in the wnba were fined 500 dollars for wearing black lives matter t-shirts to protest police brutality. the teams were fined 5,000 dollars. all of those fines were later dropped. soon of that, colin kaepernick, famously took a need leading to the derailment of his football career. in the wake of george florida and breonna taylor's death, they move forward. the washington red kiskins chang their name to the washington football team. and the cleveland indians

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tonight, with the death toll

topping 145,000, we remember those last in the pandemic. david was a coordinator in texas. he took his job seriously and was known as the radar because he was always on the lookout for how he can help his community. before he was appointed at the emergency management coordination, he sempbed at fire chief for more than 25 years. he was known as a person who could jump in problems feet first and confront situations head on. is when the pandemic hit, he worked to secure personal protective equipment for the first responders in his county. sometimes he could drive hundreds of miles personally to pick up the ppe and bring it back. during the crisis, he was diagnosed with leukemia, and then he came down with the vishs that he was fighting so hard to contain in his county. david was 58 years old. our heart goes out to him and

all those lost in this pandemic. we hand it over to chris. >> all right, j.b., thank you. i am chris cuomo. welcome to prime time. one thing is clear as we come to the end of the week and here it is. >> what changed this week? why did his tone change? >> he hasn't changed his tone. >> now, she is trying to get to you think that the president always said wear a mask. the president always said the pandemic was real and going to get worse. but she is right about tone. the president's tone hasn't changed. he is still tone deaf to this crisis. a million cases in two weeks. turn around times on test results. i don't need to tell you but it's true, what you know yourself. the results are getting longer and longer, over a week, even longer, in too many p