especially from many of our republican friends, back it with some action. protect that second right to vote that he's willing to die for. >> reporter: abby phillip, cnn, washington. >> thanks so much to abby and thanks to you for joining us. anderson starts now. good evening. more than 150,000 american haves now died in this country's reckoning with covid-19 and though it a milestone, a terrible one to be sure it's neither just a number or statistic. it is one parent, one grandparent, a lost child and absent friend. one less measure of love in the world and many more tears, that times 150,000. i wish i could tell you the president of those 150,000 dead and their families and all of us said something about those deaths today, about the grief that so many families are feeling, but he did not. today crossing that miserable milestone of 150,000 deaths, the president ignored it. nothing about the 197 lives lost in california or the 216 in

florida. when confronted with the civilian casualties of his so-called whole of government approach to the pandemic, this self-proclaimed wartime president has little to say. visiting an oil rig in texas, a state that reported 313 deaths today, the president didn't speak of that nor did he wear a mask, nor did most people at the event. the president did not acknowledge the lives lost in midland, texas where he was nor speak of the rio grande valley, which a woman there you will meet in a moment that lost both parents to the virus calls hell on earth. this is the extent of what he said in texas, a state that reported 313 fatalities today alone. >> our hearts are with the people of texas. we love our people. we love our country. together we will end the plague from china. we will defeat the virus. i want to thank everyone at double eagle energy. >> the president also had nothing to say about the texas

congressman that was slated to fly with him on air force one today. the congressman who rarely wears a mask testing positive for the virus and telling a local texas news outlet this today. >> i can't help wonder if by keeping a mask on and keeping it in place that if i might have put some germs, some of the virus onto the mask and breathed it in. >> the congressman walking yesterday with attorney general barr were mask free. i guess we don't have the video. the congress says mask wearing should be a matter of individual choice, two republican aids in proximity telling jeff zeleny they are only now in line to get tested. one said it has taken all day for reasons unknown adding it been frustrating and a waste of a day.

this is is congress, not the country at large. the president said anyone that needs a test can get one. not true now and not true then. he had nothing to say about whether people can get one and get results back in time to be useful. two weeks is meaningless. however, once again, today, he did have plenty to say about this woman who he has praised for her public embrace of hydroxychloroquine. she is a doctor who also preaches about alien dna and the sperm of demons. >> what we call astral sex. this means this person is not a demon, it's a human being that's a witch and they project and sleep with people. >> so that is dr. stella immanuel, when she's not preaching about demon sperm and alien dna, she's a group of doctors talking about potentially dangerous covid treatments. >> i came here to washington

d.c. to tell america, nobody needs to get sick. this virus has a cure. it is called hydroxychloroquine, zinc and zithromax. we want to talk about a mask. hello, you don't need a mask. there is a cure. you don't need people to be locked down. there is prevention and there is a cure. >> well, the president retweeted that video of her as have many covid deniers and conspiracy theorists and pro clclaiming to know nothing about her and when kaitlan collins pressed him, he ended the press conference and fled the briefing room. the support of this person he knows nolithing about and todaye made no mention of demon sex but like a man possessed, he was still praising her. >> i was very impressed with her and other doctors that stood with her. i think she made sense, but i

know nothing about her. i just saw her making a statement with very respected doctors. she was not alone. she was making the statement about hydroxychloroquine with other doctors that swear by it. they think it great. she was not alone. i was very impressed by her. i know nothing about her. i have never seen her before, but certainly, you can put her up and let her have a voice and with hydroxy, i don't care if it's that or anything else, all i want to do is save lives. if we can save lives, that's great. >> i'm impressed with her he says, i know nothing about her he says. it been 24 hours and if the president did want to know something about this person that he is now promoting on a global stage, he's had plenty of time to google her or have someone else do it and tell him about her and the demon sex and astral sex. hard to imagine this president's ears wouldn't perk up with those topics. what doesn't interest him is medical studies and the action of the fda removing

authorization of the drugs she's toting and doesn't interest the president is scientists and guidelines on social distancing or wearing masks. things that actually can save lives. which the president says is all he really cares about. in fact, it seems the only thing that does really interest the president about his scientists is how popular and respected dr. anthony fauci is. he brought it up again yesterday before fleeing from basic questions from kaitlan collins. he cares about fauci's popularity because it annoys him, not his expertise. he doesn't care about that and his advice and doesn't care for the fact that dr. fauci reminds the public of the facts about the very drug the president has been toting. >> if a study that's a good study comes out and shows effectiveness and safety for hydroxychloroquine or any other drug that we do, if you do it in the right way, you accept the scientific data, but right now, today, the cumulative scientific data that has been put together and done over a number of

different studies has shown no effectiveness. so when there is a video out there for a bunch of people spouting something that isn't true, the only recourse you have is to be very, very clear in presenting the scientific data that essentially conthere dirad that. >> not effective. doesn't work. that bunch of people, by the way, they got an audience yesterday with vice president pence. yeah. the vice president met with him. not sure if it was in person or they beamed in astral projection but there was a meeting. it part of the whole of government effort that the vice president always talks about under the strong and decisive leadership as the vice president always says of a self-proclaimed wartime president continuing his metaphor makes no mention of the 150,000 american lives lost in the battle field he himself is absent from. let get perspective from an organization that believes they need a better plan from the pandemic and developed one.

david is president, chief executive of the association of american medical colleges. doctor, appreciate your time tonight. your association laid out a road map today and you're saying that or you're predicting if strong measures are not put in place immediately, the death toll may reach well into the multiple hundreds of thousands and we passed 150,000 american deaths today. how much worse do you see this potentially getting on the course we're on? >> thanks for having me. anderson, how much worse it gets depends on us. depends on whether we have the courage to pull together and do the things that have to be done based on scientific evidence. so it's in our hands. we can suppress the growth of this virus or we can let it run wild. it really up to us. >> you're op ed in the post begins with the words we're failing. can you explain exactly how we are failing? >> well, as you noted tonight, and shows earlier today on cnn,

there is continuing growth in the number of cases, there is continuing growth in hospitalizations, continues growth in deaths. that's all you need to know to know that we are failing. and you noticed i said in the op ed we're failing, not a particular sector. all of us together are failing to face the scientific evidence and doing what needs to be done based on that scientific evidence. >> you write that it's no exaggeration to say that none of the goals that americans have for resuming some sort of normalcy can be achieved without establishing more testing and a stronger supply chain. we know testing is not where it needs to be, contact tracing certainly not. are hospitals equipped with what they need to fight this virus, the equipment, the ppe, the swabs, everything that we've been talking about now for four or five months? >> well, we've been talking about it for a long time and i'm sorry to say tonight at the end of july of this year, no, they are not ready to do the things

that they need to do because of lack of supplies. we're not ready to make decisions on such things as opening schools because we don't have the testing that we need and then the road map we layout some targets and some timelines. we need to get organized on these especially supplies as you mentioned, especially testing and having a national view on face coverings. >> so when you talk about -- you talk about this road map. how many -- what percentage of the population should be wearing masks right now and what are the other main steps on the road map? >> well, let me quickly tell you about the road map overall. so the first three things that need to happen urgently, you've already mentioned and that is a national policy on face coverings and it should be mandatory in areas where there is growing community spread. there is no room for a local decision if there is growing community spread, masks should be mandatory in those

situations. the supplies we talked about in testing, not only do we not have enough testing, we layout in the op ed and road map we believe we need 2.3 million tests per day and that's not arbitrary number, anderson, that the based on calculations i'm glad to share if you wish. other elements of the plan include a variety of things, but in the context of john lewis taking his final journey, i want to mention that one of the big ones is health inequities. the health inequities we've seen in people of color and vulnerable populations of a wide variety have been raised by the coronavirus pandemic. we have failed over again ragge to deal with the health inequities and that's one thing we need to do and we need to get more serious about it now. >> when you talk about the number of testing, it's not just of course the number of actual tests, it's how quickly they can get results.

what is a reasonable time frame that those 2. -- i think you said 2.3 million tests a day would get results? because obviously two weeks is -- makes the tests almost meaningless. >> exactly. just what you said is absolutely correct. if the test takes ten days to two weeks, it's not useful for things like contact tracing or anything else. so there is multiple kinds of tests and bear with me for a moment. the kind of tests we're thinking about that take awhile are called pcr test, preliminary chain reaction and they take awhile to come back. they are very accurate tests. there is also another test that can be called a point of contact test. it's called an antegen test and you might think of a strep test that you can get results within an hour. those are useful if they are positive. there is about a 15, 1-5% false negative rate. utilize these tests perhaps at

home and then, and then utilize academic medical center labs as a backup. if the test is negative, the academic medical center lab can perform the full pcr and do it quicker than the labs taking tests from all over the country. >> doctor, appreciate your expertise and being with us tonight. thank you. >> thank you for having me on. more breaking news for louie gohmert testing positive for covid-19 and nancy pelosi mandating masks on the house floor. she joins us live. later, my conversation with phil mak film maker tyler perry to stoke racial fear in the suburbs and john lewis and more. (door bell rings) it's open! hey. this is amazing. with moderate to severe ulcerative colitis, are you okay? even when i was there, i never knew when my symptoms would keep us apart. so i talked to my doctor about humira. i learned humira can help get,

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mask rule. their faces are covering and following the rules and modelling healthy behavior. the mandate covers so much. the problem of testing, of course, remains very real. joining us, the speaker herself nancy pelosi of california. mad d madam speaker, thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> the mandatory mask mandate, my understanding it doesn't apply to the house office buildings or hallways, would you like it to and do you think it should extend to both chambers, frankly or the entire capital complex? >> well, yes, what the proclamation i made today applies to the whole of the house. the members can't come to the floor of the house unless they have a mask and i the speaker directed the sergeant at arms, the capitol police to refuse entry into the hall if people don't have on a mask, a mask and we have masks there for them. the sergeant of arms will issue the regulations and the rest probably tomorrow and with it

what goes with it for the other rooms in the capital, other what happens in the other office buildings that are on capitol hill. so that expanded announcement won't probably happen tomorrow. >> the minority leader mccarthy said today quote testing would be critical at the capitol quote because people can be here and have it and would not know. obviously, that is factually correct and applies to the entire rest of the country who still cannot get easily tested. i don't know if it's ironic he's saying this but the problem of testing, i mean, it's extraordinary to me that we're still in this situation where people can't get tests and it takes two weeks for people to get results. >> well, when the white house originally suggested that they had enough tests to send us, i consulted with a capitol physician and really, we're not,

it's just not the members of congress. it's the members of congress and support staff and that's very many people. we can't say well, as members we should get tested but the other people shouldn't. but it points to the challenge that we have in the country. we have the tools at our disposal. testing, tracing, treatment, isolation, mask wearing, sanitation to hold this virus in check. to try to beat it. hopefully, we will have a vaccine or some therapies that will be helpful, but we don't have them to a full extent now, certainly not a vaccine. and until we do, we have to do what we can. other countries have done it. it works. in order for us to do it in the capital with everybody there as well as in the country, we need more equipment. and the reason everybody isn't tested, because there isn't enough equipment to test

everyone and then we don't have enough equipment to get the results of the test. sometimes it takes a week to get results, almost useless by then and then we need the ppe, the personal protective equipment for the people administering the test and health care providers and teachers and others to have that equipment. so we've asked the president to have the defense production act going into action to insist our businesses produce this equipment. this equipment he just won't do it. he hasn't done it. we have this plan in our heroes act, this is a way for us to open our economy, facile knit op -- facilitate opening our schools to reduce infection in our communities. to do that we have to know what it is and that requires testing, tracing, treatment, et cetera. again, i want to come back to us. i will leave the judgment up to

the capital physician whether we have the equipment and the rest to just test members that doesn't seem enough, but it is -- there is great cause for alarm in the capitol when people found out that congressman gohmert had been tested the way he had and participated in two hearings yesterday largely without a mask. very irresponsible on his part. and members were very unhappy because he interacted with other members but other staff, as well. >> yeah, is there any progress on any kind of further steps toward coming to a consensus on what happens next in terms of helping working people, helping people on unemployment and helping people in desperate straights right now? >> essential to that is to get rid of this virus and that's why i keep coming back to the fact

we can open our economy, we can improve the situation if we follow science but if you don't believe in science and you don't believe in governance as they don't seem to, then that makes it more problematic. so in terms of our conversations, we have to fun mentally agree that central to solving our problem is solving the virus to the extent that we can. we have three main pillars that are state and local government to honor heroes, health care provide providers, our first responders, sanitation, transportation, food, all of the services that people need that are provided by state and local. they have said zero. zero. it can't be. it can't be. and by the way, it much less than they spent to give tax cuts to the top 1% in our country,

83% of the benefits going to the top 1%. all of a sudden, it the money. in addition to that, we have the testing, which i described and then put money in the pockets of the american people while they have a destain or sort of a condetenti condensation to how they might use the $600. they have money to pay the rent. they are just not paying the rent. well, that, we cannot operate if we're not even stipulating to basic set of facts. the people are hurting. the unemployment is high and that we have a way to address this in terms of honoring heroes, testing, tracing, treatment as well as money in the pockets of the american people. being respectful of them and understanding that people are hungry. millions of children are food insecure in our country and becan't get them to do food

stamps and women, infant and children food feeding programs and the rest of that. we have a -- we still have a long way to go. we're determined that we will try to find common ground and we need a public to weigh in about the need to support state and local government and all the people who serve the communities. you can't open schools, state and local government supply over 90% of the funding for schools. >> yeah. >> so this is all connected. it's all addressed in the heroes act and i hope that they would come closer to our thinking on it than some of the -- it's over ten weeks since we passed the bill. >> yeah. >> leader mcconnell said we need to pause and then came back this monday with a piecemeal. this is a plague that has an impact on the economy and it's about the lives of the american people, the livelihood of the american people and the life of

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president trump is under fire for a tweet he wrote. i'm happy to inform the people living their suburban lifestyle dream you'll no longer be bothered of financially hurt by

having low income housing built in your neighborhood. your housing prices will go up and crime will go down. i've rescinded the obama biden fair housing rule. enjoy. chris murphy said our president is a proud vocal segregationist. here with the latest, our white house correspondent kaitlan collins. the president is talking about ending the fair housing rule, is this an appeal to white suburban voters he's just trying to get? >> i mean, that's definitely what it looks like because the president has now been in office for this long and he has not rescinded this regulation yet, and if you look at this regulation anderson, basically, what it goes to do is try to combatdiscriminatory practices you've seen and if it's an yar that's getting any kind of grant or aid money, they have to assess the segregation in their area and deal with it if they do find that to be a practice. when the president rescinded this, the department of housing and urban development called it this unworkable rule but though

there is no evidence that it drove crime up in these areas, you saw what the president said there on twitter. you know, your housing prices will go up based on the market and crime will go down. of course, there is no evidence that crime went up so it's not clear where the president is making that statement from and that is why you've seen critics in response to this say they believe it a pretty clear play to his base. >> i mean, given the history of the trump organization and his father and the allegations against them, the lawsuits against them for discrimination and housing, this rule as you mentioned is from 2015, it's pretty clear why the president is just repealing it now. >> it also comes as internally the president's campaign has been talking and noticing that he is losing ground with suburban voters, mainly women suburban voters that helped carry him into the white house in 2016. that the why you've seen him lately try to say if joe biden gets elected, the suburbs will disappear.

he's been making comments like that trying to appeal to those kind of voters with this and the thing is, it's not clear this is going to work. aids have been saying his best reelection strategy is focussing on the coronavirus, making it look like he is in charge, he is the helm. we've seen the statements that he's made this week but instead, the president has gone back to these cultural battles that helped him in 2016 but what is unclear how this will work, we saw what happened in 2018 where the president used things like the caravan talking about that ahead of the midterm elections and democrats retook the house because it wasn't something that appealed to voters. a lot was suburban areas where you saw democrats in republican areas or not long standing democratic areas take office. is this going to be an effective tactic like the president thinks it is. >> kaitlan collins, appreciate it. the president tried to stoke fear among whites about black americans moving next door. i spoke with writer director, producer and actor tyler perry about the state of race in america. his views on confederate

monuments and john lewis and police reform. tyler, you recently wrote about race in ""people magazine"" and you said it's my hope as we continue these hard conversations and come out of our respective corners to talk to each other but most of all, hear, we got to start hearing each other. this pain, grief, mourning in america will give away to mourning in america. i found that really powerful. i was i thinking about the attorney general in the quite bill -- united states doesn't believe there is systemic racism in police departments. if you have a conversation with barr, what would you want him to hear? >> wow, what a great question. there are many things i would want him to hear but more than anything, just to understand the journey of someone who is black in america. even me sitting here talking to you now at 50 years old, aull te things that i've accomplished and overcome, i still get pulled over by police. some recognize me, some don't because i'm in a nice car in a

neighborhood that they don't even know that i live in until they realize it's me. so i would want him to understand that there is bias. there are those things. and here is the greatest gift that i've been given is i've been able to live on both sides of the wealth gap. i've been extremely poor and managed to do very, very well and i understand how someone can come to that conclusion when you live in your own world, when you live in your own bubble and you're not even open to hearing or seeing it another way. so i understand how he got there. but his thinking is very wrong. >> are you optimistic now in a way that you haven't been before when you see these protests that are taking place, when you see the outpouring of people of all colors? >> i was very optimistic. i was very optimistic of the horror after what happened after the death of george floyd.

i saw so many people get it. it's the same as the civil rights movement when people saw on television what happened on the pettis bridge and these 340e78 moments when people saw it. when white people saw it they got engaged to help. when they saw george floyd's death, this horrific death played out as this man pleaded for his life and begged and said please many, many times, seeing it changes everything. so i became very, very optimistic when people galvanize and come together as one, that's when change happens. lately, i've been concerned the message is being hijacked by some other groups or political ads and parties that are trying to stop the message of what we're asking for here as police reform. right? so yeah, i was but i'm worried now because of what i'm seeing. >> you have -- your son is 5

years old and you know, obviously, having a child changes one's perspective on things and makes you see things with a fresh eyes in many senses. have you had, i mean, i know he's 5 years old, have you had a conversation with him about race? i know it's something you've written about, just the sort of the feeling of gosh, i'm going to have to have this conversation sometime soon. >> yeah, i don't want -- listen, i'm trying to push that as long as i can because there is something about the level of innocence that is ripped from a child when they have to face race. like i love watching him play with his friends or coming home from school and talk about his friends. never describing them by race at all ever not once in this years that he's been talking and smart enough to ask me all kinds of questions. so my hope is that i can keep it from him as long as i can, but i know that being his father, being a black man in america doing things i've done, i'm going to have to have that conversation with him and i know

it's coming soon and will be painful but i want to -- listen, if i can let him hold onto the innocence for another day, i'll give him that. >> your great, great grandfather was enslaved in this country. you were also the owner of the largest movie studio in the u.s., which happens to be built on what was a military base for the confederate army. the ark of that is just an extraordinary thing. the president is arguing that confederate statutes and monuments are part of heritage, somebody that is a story teller, what story do you think the statutes tell you and us and should they come down? >> for me, i grew up in new orleans and there is a circle that's called lee circle that takes you from where the streetcar actually goes around to take you into the french quarters and downtown and you see robert e lee up top and robert e lee high school. listen, as a kid, i loved the

dukes of harz sazard until i red what the flag represented as i got older, going back to holding onto the innocence. when i see these monuments, for me, i can look at them and realize i don't need to see them in the air to understand what happened. i have this. i wear this every day. i wake up with it every day and even in america in 2020 there is still racism that i deal with, even me, that i deal with on a constant basis in hollywood, in the business. you know, as much as i've been able to accomplish, if i -- if people would have given me the shot to just have a fair playing field, god knows where i could be at this point. so i've always had to find a way, how do i find a way to make it inside of this? that's what my mother told me who grew up in the jim crow south, you have to find a way. when i see the statutes and monuments to be on this land that was once a confederate -- i

think about the poet justice where people plant -- confederate soldiers planting strategy how to keep negros enslaved and now land is owned by a negro, that is beyond p poetic justice and there are street names when you talk about an ses t ancestors and great, great grandfather, i want to change them to that so they can be honored. >> i heard you donated kroger gift cards to people in the atlanta area and you got the atlanta police department to help distribute them around to people in need. when, you know, there is a large movement within protest movement of defunding police, republicans are focussing on that as saying that, you know, that democrats want to do away with police departments, which i don't think is what defund police means, but when you hear that slogan, what

do you think? >> well, when i first heard it, i was troubled by it and thought okay, this is going to be weaponized in this political year. i completely thought that was happening. that the exactly what happened. it been weaponized. but i did research. what i would challenge people to do is do research and find out what it means. you have to understand, i'm not for taking money from the police department. i think we need more police. my studio is in a neighborhood where i think we need police. we don't need police that have -- that are under trained. you got to understand, i have really close friends who are police officers that i love dearly, who are really good people, who have been very, very hurt by this, as well. here is what i want you to understand, anderson. where there is wrong, i'll stand up against it. when rashad brooks was murdered, wrong. when george floyd was murdered, i thought that was wrong like so many other people. when a police officer who is white in a suburb in atlanta was shot in the head by a shoplifter, i thought that was wrong, too, and i reached out to

do what i can to help his family. when an 8-year-old was shot near wendy's in her mother's backseat, that was wrong, too. anywhere there is wrong, i'm going to stand up against it. i believe most -- i don't believe that there are lots of people -- let me change that to understand there are a lot of people in america who feel the way that i do. right? i think we need the police. i know that i need the police. i have several that work for me here at the studio. we need them but we need them reformed and trained well and we need the right structure, right? but some of the things inside of defund the police, i really understand like having officers who are clinically trained to deal with certain situations. i think all of those things are helpful but taking money from the police department to make the police department smaller, that troubles me. >> i want to end on just mentioning john lewis, congressman lewis and c.t. vivian two extraordinary leaders who we've recently lost, there

is a story i read and if you could tell it of a connection you had to john lewis which is a house you owned was once owned by a racist segregation business and john lewis told you a story when he learned who owned that house, his connection to that person. >> yeah, we were having a lunch. all these black people, oprah and all of us and had a beautiful gospel brunch and john lewis was there and i started telling this story about this former s eer segregationist who heart of atlanta hotel who also owned the property i had just bought. he lost it in a malpractice suit and he started suing me over and over again and when he realized the blood drain from his face realizing i was a black man. i had him disbarred because he kept suing. we fought and fought and fought

because he had no rights because i bought the property free and clear, fair and square. i was telling the story as we're celebrating on this land he once owned and congressman lewis comes up to me with tears in his eyes said i sat in his hotel integrated. for me, what an incredible moment i'm standing here with this man who fought so that i could just live, be able toe li -- to a live that said in the deed you can't sell to blacks or jews. his fight and what he's accomplished and what he's done allowed me to be hear and this studio is in the district that elected him here all of those years. so i'm so moved by him, so proud of him and i'm just glad that i had an opportunity to know him, c.t. vivian as well as joseph lowry all within a matter of months they passed. >> that is such a story of america. the beauty of it and the horror of it and tragedy of it and the potential of it. tyler perry, thank you.

>> the potential of it, anderson, the potential of it. love that. got to stay positive. thank you. >> tyler perry. up next, back to the pandemic. 150,000 american lives lost and the story of the personal toll it's taking on texas.

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president trump spent most of his day in texas. 150,000 lives lost in this country to covid. tonight another milestone, texas passing new york state in total cases. the entire state has been hit badly but no place harder than the rio grande valley. ed lavendandera is there. >> reporter: the car sgarcias m kids in south texas and became high school sweet hearts and the rest is history. they rebelled in life's sweet moments. rolando's birthday, yolanda cutting her granddaughter's hair but in late june the coronavirus caught the couple by surprise. their daughter believed they got infected at the grocery store. as they got sicker, the 70-year-old grandparents were taken to different hospitals on the same day. it would be the last time they saw each other. >> it's heartbreaking because you never want to die alone. you want to die with your family around you. there is no one there to support you in your last moment.

>> reporter: rolondo died july 4th. >> my dad passed away and we didn't tell her. she ended up having a heart attack on her own and the last time that i spoke with her, i just told her that dad was waiting for her. >> reporter: the i told her that dad was waiting for her. >> the garcia's died four days apart. priscilla has covid-19, she's quarantined in her parents home. a small shrine in the living room. >> they didn't have to die, they still had another good 10, 15 years. >> what is it like in south texas right now? >> it's hell on earth. everyone's scared. everyone's anxious. >> 600 people have died of covid-19 in the rio valley. >> it's like living in a constant hurricane of patients

coming into the hospital. >> endless? >> endless and overwhelming. >> dr. mark schwartz works intensive care units filled with covid patients. medical teams are struggling to stay ahead of the fast spreading virus. >> we're always on the edge. am i going to have enough central lines today? >> it seems like this is taking its toll on a lot of you guys on the front lines. >> we're seeing entire families being ravaged by the virus. >> salvador and imelda celebrated their 60th anniversary in june. >> she suffered a heart attack while waiting. there was not enough staff to help. >> there was time for one last video call. >> what will you remember most

about that final conversation with your dad. >> all my brothers and sisters told him how good of a father he was and he could go rest if he needed to. letting him know that he did a good job and we love him and we'll never forget him. >> what did he say? >> he just nodded. he didn't cry. i could see the pain in his eyes, i could. >> on july 10th, marie says her father's eyes finally closed during his wife's funeral service. three days later, salvador and imelda were buried together. >> ed lavandera joins us. the president says things are

stabilizing in texas, is that accurate? >> the numbers are starting to show signs of slowing down. we're seeing just under 10,000 now for the last week or so, he touted the positive infection rate of those indications starting to stabilize at the end of may -- it reached 17% a couple weeks ago, now it's dropped to under 13%. it's still extremely high in the state. let's check in with chris for cuomo prime time. >> the reality is heart breaking, what the president did when he went to that state is it an outrage. and people need to be outraged. that state is breaking records all the wrong kinds of ways. they have unique challenges. he goes there and entertains the maskless masses.

he wants to know why people don't like him, that's the answer, right there what he did today. we're going to unpack the truth of the reality, what the inaction is doing to us, and what must be done if we want our kids in school and the economy to get back to normal any time soon. >> we'll see you in six minutes from now. we remember some of those lives lost. two students hoping to build a better life for themselves and their world. have. or sending corporate their expense reports. i'll let you in on a little secret. they don't. by empowering employees to manage their own tasks, paycom frees you to focus on the business of business. to learn more, visit paycom.com

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tonight with more than 150,000 people in america now dead from the virus, we remember some lives lost, darren adams worked as a custodian for six years at wayne state university. he always sat in the front row. when he spoke up in his class about his experience as a

janitor and how it felt to work at the same university where he studied and clean up after the students he went to class with. his kander prompted others to share their stories as well. he worked with the americorps safety program for two years. after his death, the sociology department created an annual scholarship in his name. jameela barber was a high school junior in lancaster texas. she had a smile as big as texas, she was known as a leader, a self-motivator. she was inducted into the national honor society this year. she was making plans for college. and wanted to study interior design. she had no underlying health conditions, it's unclear how she contracted the virus. she wasn't feeling well and they found her unconscious in the bathroom after taking a shower. they called 911, tried administering cpr, but she never

woke up. she was just 17 years old. that's it for us, i want to hand it over to chris for cuomo prime time. >> take a look at this, what the president did in texas today. you see this? this is why they don't like you, mr. president. nobody wants to see you entertaining the maskless masses, let alone in texas. the people in that state are getting sick in waves. they are setting all the wrong kinds of records. and you do this? i know you heard what i said last night, and i know you didn't like it, but someone has to be straight with you, this shameful inaction by you on this pandemic is making us sick and it is killing you politically. so you're wondering why people don't like you compared to tony fauci, and then you go to texas with no mask in a state