on opening day. paul: it's all about the money, dan. remember, if you have your own hit or miss, be sure to tweet it to us@jer on fnc. thanks to my panel and to all of you for watching. i'm paul gigot, hope to see you all right here next week. arthel: coronavirus cases surging in parts of the u.s. johns hopkins university reporting more than 45,000 new infections yesterday. as the nation approaches 2.5 million cases with more than 125,000 americans having lost their lives to coronavirus. hello, everyone, this is a brand new hour of "america's news headquarters." i'm arthel neville. hi, eric. eric: hi, arthel. thank you for joining us this afternoon. you know, sources telling fox news that vice president mike pence will no longer participate, we're told, in the upcoming campaign events. and florida and arizona responding to the surge of

coronavirus cases in those states and several others. if now they are hitting pause on their reopening plans after seeing a spike in cases that are increasing. florida breaking another daily record, reporting nearly 10,000 new cases today. meanwhile in texas, governor greg abbott is closing bars and limiting the number of people who can eat at restaurants there. stier heir began is following -- steve harrigan is following all of this from atlanta. >> reporter: florida and texas very quick to reopen their economies, aggressively so, and now each of those states taking a slight step backwards after a spike in the number of new coronavirus cases. florida and texas both putting new restrictions on bars. the numbers of new cases in florida are not good, 9,585 new cases. that is a single-day record. the total in florida up 70% in just a week, up more than 3500% if you g500% if you go back to

memorial day. some officials claim part of the reason is increased testing. more than 40,000 tests a day now being carried out in florida. some cities within the state taking measures by themselves. pensacola now requiring masks, and the mayor of miami saying he'll shut down the beaches for the upcoming fourth of july holiday. the numbers across u.s. in multiple places are not good, 45,000 cases announced as of yesterday. new cases, that is a record. and six states also reaching single-day records. the governor of nebraska says when it comes to wearing a mask, he is relying on his is citizens to use their own good sense. >> so we're reinforcing the message that when you go out in public, wearing a mask is a really good idea. but i'm not one of those people who think government should mandate these types of things. >> reporter: finally, american airlines says as of july 1st it will now be selling full planes, they'll no longer block off middle seats to try and encourage social distancing.

arthel, eric, back to you. eric: a lot of warnings about the need to wear those masks. steve, thank you. arthel? arthel: eric, thank you. well, as we reported minutes ago, a surge of coronavirus cases is forcing the trump campaign to postpone some events that vice president mike pence was set to take part in. however, sources tell fox news the vice president will still travel to texas, arizona and florida to meet with governors and health officials. david spunt is live from the white house with the very latest. david. >> reporter: hi, arthel. an administration official confirms the vice president will no longer attend the campaign events specific create in arizona and sarasota, florida. however, he'll go to florida, texas and arizona to meet with those states' governors. also health care officials. but as you mentioned, this is all realitied to those spike -- related to those spikes in numbers, those surges that the southern half of the united states are seeing in some of those specific cases. speaking of vice president mike

pence, he held a coronavirus task force briefing with the media yesterday. this was the first time that we've had such a briefing in the last two months or so. he was joined by doctors fauci and by,, also health and human services secretary alex azar to brief the american people about the resurgence of cases especially in some of those southern states. >> you have an individual responsibility to yourself, but you have a societal responsibility. because if we want to end this outbreak, really end it and then hopefully when a vaccine comes and puts the nail in the coffin, we've got to realize that we are part of the process. >> reporter: trump administration officials pushing back against criticism for refusal to wear masks. the president does not wear a mask in public. he did for just a few short seconds on a trip to michigan last month when news cameras were not able to see video. the vice president has worn a mask in the past but not at

recent appearance. this is one week ago in tulsa, oklahoma, at the first trump rally in months. nobody really wearing a mask there for the most part. officials and other people on the ground including our fox news colleagues say about 90% of the people did not have masks on. the vice president responded to a question about this yesterday. >> the freedom of speech, the right to peacefully assemble is enshrined in the constitution of the united states, and we have an election coming up this fall, and president trump and i believe that taking proper steps as we've created screening at recent events and giving people the very best counsel that we have. >> reporter: recognize this man right here in well, that's former vice president dick cheney. his daughter, republican congresswoman liz cheney, tweeted a picture of her father with the words, dick cheney says real men wear a mask.

we have a tweet from former vice president joe biden encouraging people to wear masks. now also vice president biden is talking about possibly making it mandatory to wear masks. arthel, no question this mask wearing or not mask wearing, this has become a central issue, a central issue in the 20 campaign as we tick closer to november. arthel? arthel: but it is not a central issue with scientists. they say wear a mask. >> reporter: and the cdc. arthel: thanks, david. >> reporter: you bet. arthel: exactly. eric. eric: another shoe in the campaign, those protests. demonstrations continuing across the country over the death of african-americans in police custody. now in colorado hundreds of demonstrators there are calling for justice in the class of elijah mcclain. the 22-year-old died last august after a confrontation with police there, but now the case that come under renewed scrutiny

in the wake of george floyd's murder and others. aishah hasnie following that protest and others here in new york city. >> reporter: hi, eric, that's right. here in new york city time is running out to submit that 2021 city budget, and it could come at a big cost to the nypd. hundreds of protesters continue to occupy city hall downtown. they're going to stay there until the city defunds the nypd's budget by at least a billion dollars and then reinvests that money into education and social services. mayor bill de blasio, though, has not given his full support to that request. to give you some perspective, take a look at this. the nypd has a large budget, but it is much smaller than those for the department of education and social services. the deadline happening on tuesday. meanwhile, minneapolis getting one step closer to abolishing its police department. the city council tried to put a referendum on the november ballot that would replace the police department with a new department of community safety. it would have a more holistic

approach with licensed peace officers instead of police officers. according to local reports though, mayor jacob frey not fully onboard, still believes in reforming the current police department already there. listen. >> i believe that we need deep structural reform, deep structural changes. complete transformation. we have fallen short, and we need to make the necessary transor formation right now. transformation right now. >> reporter: and happening right now in a suburb just outside of minneapolis, the fbi is now investigating a piece of rope that resembles a noose that was found inside of a black firefighter's locker. they're investigating that now. the town's mayor calling it disgusting and promising that it is being dealt with. that's an additional event now happening as events unfold in minneapolis. eric? eric: all right, thank you. arthel? arthel: and, eric, thank you. a growing standoff in seattle as

protesters in the occupied zone known as c.h.o.p. refuse to leave. there are reports that the city could try to make changes to the area tomorrow. senior correspondent claudia cowan is there and what more can you tell us? >> reporter: well, hi, arthel. you know, it's a great day, so protesters and capitol hill's neighbors alike wait for any kind of direction from city leaders. no one seems to know when this occupation will end or when police will return to a precinct building that they abandoned 19 days ago. the city says it wants to phase out the three block protest area but found found out yesterday tt won't be easy. when work crews showed up to remove some of the barricades, they were met with armed reis sis dance including one agitator who pulled out a gun. a lot of people saw that. police pulled the plug and nothing was removed. well, that devastated a lot of people who live and work in the capitol hill neighborhood

including some who initially supported the protest. many said they hoped it would be over by today and they'd get their streets back, their police back and their customers back. more than a dozen tenants are taking legal action, i suing seattle's mayor in a class action lawsuit, and now a u.s. senator has introduced a bill that would deny federal tax dollars to cities and states that allow autonomous zones like this one after a similar measure was announced in the house. >> those mayors and those governors that are abdicating their constitutional duties to protect and provide law enforcement, emergency medical services, fire services to these autonomous zones should lose their federal funding. if they truly want to be autonomous, then they can exist without our federal money. >> reporter: mayor jenny durkan met behind closed doors yesterday with prominent activists and and c.h.o.p. leaders, no news crews allowed inside, just one local citizen journalist who said the only thing to come out of it was an

agreement to allow the city to remove some of the barricades -- [inaudible] we'll see how that goes over with some of the more aggressive protesters who faced off against city crews yesterday and who were not part of that meeting yesterday with the mayor. arthel? arthel: claudia i cowan, thank you very much. eric. eric: president trump is reacting and taking action to preserve historic statues. as the protests continue to target controversial monuments in our nation's capital. should they take them down, or are they part of our history that should be preserved? we'll have a reaction with both sides next. ♪ ♪ m time for action. so, for a second time we're giving members a credit on their auto insurance. because it's the right thing to do. we're also giving payment relief options to eligible members so they can take care of things like groceries before they worry about their insurance or credit card bills.

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♪ ♪ eric: fencing has gone up around the emancipation memorial in washington's lincoln park amid growing calls for the statue's there removal. this as president trump signed an executive order to protect monuments and statues by imposing stiffer penalties on vandals. lucas tomlinson is live of in front of that statue of abraham lincoln that has touched off such controversy. hi, lucas. >> reporter: all is calm here on capitol hill, but as you mentioned, there were attempts to tear down that statue, but it

still stands. president trump says he wants to give ten years in jail for would-be vandals who try to deface or destroy any of these monuments, and the interior secretary says he wants to end the mob violence. >> you don't get to go up and start self-executing to tear down a monument. most of these monuments were placed with acts of congress, with deliberation, and they are not just simply torn down because some person thinks that that would be a good idea. >> reporter: the commanding general of d.c.'s national guard had this message for would-be vandals: >> they won't be successful. the united states park police, the metropolitan police department and the men and women of the district of columbia national guard will protect these monuments and statues. >> reporter: while all is calm here, in a few hours south of here in richmond, virginia, rioters and vandals launched fireworks against the officers.

richmond pd says at 10:30 last night a mob was ordered to leave the robert e. lee monument due to paintballs being fired at officers. at least one officer was struck. back here in the nation's capital, d.c.'s non-voting member of congress, eleanor holmes norton, has her way, this statue will also be coming down soon. even though freed slaves paid for the statue in 1876, she says it was done without their input. yesterday the democratic-controlled house of representatives voted in favor of d.c. becomes a state for the first time in history. and a new jersey prison university says the board of trustees has voted to get rid of the name woodrow wilson citing racist views. eric: all right, lucas, thanks so much. >> very specific statue and monument act that puts people in jail for ten years if they do anything to even try to deface one of our monuments or statues.

so we have numerous people in prison right now, others are going there, and we're going to look at that from a standpoint of retroactivity. we can go back and look at some of the damage they've done. arthel: president trump in arizona this week talking about his executive order aimed at protecting america's monuments, statues from vandalism. for more on this, let's bring in jeff lacy, white house correspondent for reuters. so, jeff, is the executive order, if it's easy to enforce, how easy is it to make it retroactive, you know, able to prosecute offenders from before the executive order was signed? >> yeah, that's a good question, arthel. i'm not so sure about the legal way of doing the retroactive enforcement that's perhaps something the president has or will talk to his attorneys about. it may also just have been something that he said and sort of an off the cuff comment

because he's upset about what he's seen so far prior to that executive order being signed. but i think it's also worth noting that order is largely symbolic. it underscores or sort of underlines already existing law that provides penalties for the desecration of monuments. and he did it i think largely, as i said, symbolically to show he's upset about this and also to reach out to his base which continues to be a very important political group of people for him going into the 2020 presidential election. arthel: okay. so from the law and order perspective, true, we can't have people randomly vanned -- vandalizing or tearing down statues. however, is prosecution the best way to stop that, or might the president be better served to, say, formulate a comprehensive plan to work with congress and cities to systematically and properly remove the statues in

dispute, maybe destroy them or put them in a museum? >> few seem. yeah, i think that's a good question too. that hasn't been his style so far in terms of his broad reactions to the protests that were sparked after the death of george floyd and have continued since then including with regard to monuments and statues. it's certainly a time for a national conversation, but president trump -- and, in fairness, probably some people on the other side of this debate have not been necessarily looking for that conversation, and he has not, it's not gone that way. he's really followed the law and order sort of momentum and has used that a phrase in particular in addition to the executive, this executive order and others in response to those protests. arthel: so let's try a multiple choice question. >> okay. arthel: is this executive order -- okay -- [laughter] a way to, a, expand the president's voting base; b, a

way to quell the vision and tensions in the country; or, c, none of the above? >> well, it's not b, and as far as a is concerned, you know, i think it's certainly something to show to his voter base that this is an eshoo that he cares about -- issue that he cares about s. and no doubt many within his normal political base and the people who voted for him in 2016 see that and agree with that. whether or not it expands that base is hard for me to say. my guess would be no, but i think right now he's as focused on just keeping the base that was there for him in 2016 ginned up. but at some point in this, in the ensuing months, he will also have to appeal to independents and appeal to some of the people who are not necessarily on his side or not trump supporters, but people who swing, you know, swing voters between democrat

and republican. he's going to need them in some of those swing states. and right now the polling shows him not doing very well in many of those states including states that he won in 2016 like arizona and wisconsin. so that, it's early and it's always, i think, important to note that when we talk about polls. but right now joe biden, the presumptive democratic nominee, is doing better. arthel: and you're right, it's fair to say that it's still early, there's a lot of time in the world of politics. >> yeah. arthel: until the election, you know? and, listen, even though all americans don't wear, are not adorned, you know, with the same political stripes, if you will, that's fine. that's what makes us great. but i think as a whole people are starting to come together and say enough of this division, you know? we're bigger than that, we're better than that as americans. so, you know, does president trump need to get onboard more and more with that aspect of the

perspective of most americans? or does he maybe just doesn't care and is concerned about what his base thinks? >> yeah, well, i can't answer that in terms of where he is thinking, but i think your question is a good one and the point is a good one, and it's certainly something that you've seen the democratic, the presumptive democratic nominee, former vice president joe biden, talking about unifying. president trump doesn't talk about unifying as much, and it is a very, very divided country right now, there's no question about that. and the monuments and the statues have become another flashpoint in that debate. arthel: jeff mason, i always appreciate your reporting and your -- i don't want to say perspective because you're just a reporter, and you stick with the facts, and that's why we love you. jeff mason, good to have you with as always. >> thanks, arthel. arthel: white house correspondent for reuters. thank you so much, jeff. >> thank you, arthel.

eric: and this guy looks like the brandenburg gate hanging in his living room and a nice man. did you hear about the massive explosion near tehran? it's fueling new suspicions about the weapons program. why this could lead to a new showdown between the west and tehran which has some asking is, are they lying again? surance so you only pay for what you need? i should get a quote. do it. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪

♪ ♪ arthel: sources telling fox news that the trump administration is hoping to cut down the number of u.s. troops in afghanistan to about 5,000 by the fall. that as "the new york times" -- this as "the new york times" publishes a disturbing new report saying russian spies secretly paid taliban militants to attack american soldiers. mark meredith has the full story. >> reporter: there's growing outrage over a new york times report that says u.s. intelligence officials believe a

russian military unit offered taliban militants on the ground in afghanistan money in exchange for targeting u.s. troops. the bombshell report says the financial bounties offered to taliban fighters has been around for several months. the times reports president trump and white house officials were briefed about this earlier this year. the president has repeatedly claimed he has taken a tougher stance on russia than his predecessor, but critics claim the opposite. among those, virginia senator tim cane tweeted quote: president trump was cozying up to putin and inviting him to the g7 all while his administration reportedly knew russia was trying to kill u.s. troops in afghanistan and derail peace talks with the taliban. russia's embassy in war called the times' story baseless. the former u.s. ambassador to russia tweeted he wants to know more writing, quote: i hope we get to hear from pompeo, esper and o'brien regarding this dereliction of duty. i hope there's an explanation, i

really do. now these latest developments come as the trump administration works to draw down the number of u.s. forces in afghanistan. sources tell fox news' jennifer griffin they hope to bring the total number of u.s. troops in the country down to 5,000 by this fall. president trump has repeatedly called for the military to end its involvement in afghanistan. he says troops are being used as a police force, not as a fighting force. arthel? arthel: mark meredith, thank you. eric. eric: arthel, new information is now being reviewed about that explosion that rattled iran's capital yesterday. the government claimed that huge blast came from an industrial gas tank. but some newly-released satellite images show that it came from the same area where it's believed that iran has an extensive underground tunnel system and secret missile sites at the par chin military base complex. how do we find out what really happened? dr. rebecca grant, military

analyst, president of the independent research. doctor, your betting odds, gas tank, ballistic missile fuel or a ballistic missile warhead? which one? >> i'll take option two, eric, ballistic missile fuel of some kind. that was a huge fireball, and it could very well have been caused by iran trying to strap together separate missile components to make a longer-range missile which we know they want to do. it could have caused that fireball. but absolutely a lot of fuel involved, and it just shows that they are working on dangerous, lethal weapons that we don't want them to have. eric: we know they have ballistic missiles. they've always denied they want a nuclear warhead, if you believe that. walk us through parchin and those underground, the mountainside, deeply-buried industrial complex. it was off limits to the uae axe

axe -- iaea inspectors for a long time, we really don't know what's going on there. >> right, we don't. but you can tell just from the size of that complex and how long it's been around that it was set up to do exactly this kind of highly dangerous test where you either are testing an engine on a test stand, you're trying a different fuel mix, you may be trying something with the warheads. and the reason they've set it up this way is partly for safety on the ground and then also mainly to prevent other countries from seeing what they're doing. other countries do weapons tests, they just go out and do that in a desert area, for example. but iran's mode of operation is to be sneaky about it, and that's what we see going on at a parchin. so, of course, they're denying anything. but we know, for example, they had a failed test back in august of last year on the pad. we know that they are trying to do these long-range missile

tests. they want a long-range missile that can reach more of europe, reach nato allies, maybe even reach the u.s. x that's what they're working on. sadly, we don't have any good missile control regime with iran, and that's what the administration wants, to bring them to the table, get a new iran deal and talk also including good controls on their missile development. eric: do you think the administration will be successful on that in light of the nuclear deal and how some of our e.u. allies are operating? >> well, this is a good question. the offer is out there for iran to negotiate anytime. they haven't taken us up on it. diplomatically, we did see a big win when britain, france and germany who are partners in that deal helped bring a resolution to the international atomic agency inspectors to urge iran to allow inspectors back in because they're really in violation in letting inspectors in to look at their nuclear activities. they also a, as you know, eric,

they really violated the deal and are storing far more enriched your rain yam than -- uranium than they're allowed to have. eric: yeah, and violations seen time and time and time again. they don't come clean. they're trying to hide this, according to experts, violating u.n. security council resolutions. these are the largest opposition group, the national council of resistance of iran says about that exemotion in a exmotion, quote: the iranian regime is lying. the explosion took place in the section designated for ammunition, in particular warheads for ballistic missiles. parchin complex is comprised of hundreds of warehouses and storage buildings. besides, it include dozens of tunnels and underground facilities. so, dr. grant, do you think that, you know, absent the allies or u.n. inspectors going in there, will we ever actually find out what happened?

>> well, and remember, eric, they used ballistic missiles to attack u.s. forces in iraq back in january. is so they have a range of these missiles. they're, obviously, trying to build more. what will it take for us to find out what's happening, you know, this is sort of a separate question of trying to get iran just to comply with its requirements under the non-proliferation treaty. what we see is no compliance because it's been going on now for several months. and the other big parts of this story is that china is backing them up on this. china is iran's big trade partner, and they've really given them a back door to continue this illegal activity by continuing to buy their oil and not pushing them to comply with what the u.n. is requesting. so china is at fault here as well. eric: you know, they're just lined up, it seems, against us. you've got the former head of the mossad warning that it

thinks iran will get a nuclear bomb. what's your sense of this? is it just a matter of time? >> we know that iran is close to doing it, that they can do it within a year or two. but here's u.s. policy. president trump has said this will not happen. and i think this explosion and the secrecy around it just points out again why iran cannot be trusted with advanced technology and with a nuclear weapon. we must never let them do that. and corollary to that, the conventional u.n. arms embargo e in iran expires, it runs out in october. we're trying to get the u.n. to extend that. if they don't, then china and russia are able to sell them even more conventional weapons, fighter jets and other things. so we're really at a dangerous point, and we need to keep the maximum pressure on and make sure iran cannot ever develop a nuclear war head and the missiles they want to go with

it. eric: and the maximum pressure from the trump administration is continuing. dr. rebecca grant, always good to see you. i'm sure we'll hear a lot more about this incident and potentially what happened in the future. thank you. arthel? >> thank you. arthel: yeah, eric, thank you. well, amid a spike in coronavirus infections across the south, leaders in new orleans are fighting to prevent a second outbreak. we'll discuss how the big easy got a handle on the pandemic and the steps they're taking to keep the virus contained. ♪ ♪ the patented blend is clinically shown to help manage blood sugar levels. it provides 60% more protein than the leading diabetes nutrition shake. try boost glucose control.

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♪ ♪ eric: one of the world's largest cosmetic companies will remove some controversial labeling from its skin care products. l'oreal put out a statement in response to protests against racism saying, quote: the loreal group has, therefore, decided to remove the words white, whitening, fair, fairness,

light, lightening from all its skin evening products. this comes after similar moves from competitors johnson & johnson and unilever. >> of course, the extraordinary progress in new york, new jersey, connecticut and new orleans, areas that just a matter of a month ago were struggling under the weight of this pandemic and now have arrived at a very, very different place. arthel: vice president mike pence highlighting parts of the u.s. making progress against coronavirus during yesterday's white house task force briefing. as you just heard, new orleans was once a high risk area, but that has since changed. it is the only jurisdiction in louisiana that put off its phase two reopening by a week and mandated that masks be worn in businesses. dr. susan hackett is here,

associate professor at at tulane university. good to have you here, doctor. i know mayor cantrell has really been very strict about this, so tell us what else is nola doing right, and how much depends on citizens' compliance? >> good day, arthel. it's great to see you again. mayor cantrell has done a really outstanding job, i think, from a public health perspective. she has been very clear in why she's taking the steps she has taken, and the restrictions that she has taken that are somewhat more intense than those contained in the statewide guidelines, i think, have really made a difference. particularly her designation about a masks being worn in indoor environments. arthel: any, any other restrictions that the mayor has

clamped down on or extended that is working? and, again, are the folks in nola, you know, complying? >> well, i think they are. i think the mayor has also limited gatherings to a smaller size than is contained in the broader statewide guidelines, and i think that has been advantageous. but it does seem that the citizens of new orleans have really taken to heart the importance of it. and i think to some extent that is influenced by our very severe experience in the early months of the epidemic experience here. and collectively the city brought down the infection rate here in the city to a very low level and has managed until very, very recently to keep it low. but it is still one of the lowest in the state. arthel: yeah. and i hear in your voice, i mean, right now you and people who live there, my family

included, you know, they're like, okay, let's just keep it, everything under control, guys. don't get too excited just yet. we're all hopeful, of course, but let's not let off the gas. dr. hasssig, let's zoom out to the entire nation. based on existing tools available to fight coronavirus, are we well protected, or are we on a collision course with covid-19 and will this pathogen continue to have its way with our country? >> the pathogen will do what the pathogen will do if people don't listen to the best infectious disease expert we have in the country, dr. fauci. what we have available -- physical distancing and masking -- if implemented by the majority of members of any given community and the entire country for that matter will slow the spread of the virus. it is what ultimately helped to slow the spread here and what worked in new york and in new jersey and connecticut.

and it is a fact, a mask blocks the virus that's being shed by someone who's infected. and we know that many, many people are infected without realizing that they are. because they don't know when they got it, they don't know that they have it. yes, they are able to spread it to others that they come in contact with. so i cannot emphasize enough how much masking and distancing are to help us maintain some semblance of normal until we have a very effective they are therapeutic and/or a vaccine available to us. arthel: and i want to go back to this, dr. hassig, focusing -- refocusing on new orleans at 10:45 central time this morning, my nola-ready text message said free testing in the seventh ward 11-3, this site is using oral swabs, and then there was a link to next week's schedule. so how helpful are alerts like

this? particularly about testing? you know, how helpful is testing just across the board, not just in new orleans? across the country. >> oh, testing is critical. and being able to do more than we are doing now, although louisiana as a whole and new orleans in particular have been very aggressive about getting testing into communities. i think that's also very important, to bring the testing options and opportunities into areas of the city or a community that might have the ability to visit a health care center with any ease. but knowing who is infected so that they can isolate themselves, first of all, so they are not continuing to spread the virus and then using those individuals who have been identified as infected as a point of contact to identify persons that they may have already been infected, come in contact with an infected, is what contact tracing combined

with testing is so critical to try and break the chains of transmission that we know this virus is able to establish. arthel: and finally, doctor, you know, absent precautions, no city is out of the woods. i want to know your major concerns not just about new orleans, but our nationwide community as a whole and also your thoughts on treatment and vaccines. >> well, arthel, i think it's really important for people to understand that the virus is here. it never went away, it's not gone from new york city, it's not gone from new orleans. every place in the united states has virus, and it's just a matter of whether communities realize it or not. and that's why it is so important. it's not to wait for the cases to get high, by then it's almost too late. i don't like to say that, but you will have a much, much harder time bringing down high level of virus than preventing the level of virus from getting

too high. that's what public health is all about, prevention rather than trying to deal with the aftermath. and so i can't stress enough how important it is for all members of the american community to be paying attention, to listen to the public health authorities and to do a relatively simple two acts; stay separate from individuals that you don't live with by at least 6-10 feet and wear a mask when you're out in public. and particularly when you're in an indoor space in a public setting. arthel: well, we will have you back again to talk about testing and vaccines. but for now we thank you very much, dr. susan hassig, and we'll talk to you again. really appreciate your expert advice. thank you. eric: the race for the white house, well, it's evolving in some of the key battleground states. coming up, we'll have a closer look at where joe biden is gaining ground and how the trump

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♪ muckeric: joe widen is taking pt in -- joe biden is taking part in a town hall as he continues to campaign virtually. he does not plan on any large campaign rallies ahead of election day. jacqui heinrich is following the race from here in new york city. >> reporter: hey there, eric. this is all coming on the heels of some pretty positive polls for the biden campaign. the polls show president trump trailing the former vice president in several states including battleground florida where biden has the greatest advantage. biden tops trump there by 9

points, 49-40 percent, up from a3-point edge in april. some groups key to his re-election is are split down the middle including men and voters age 65 and older. in georgia and north carolina, things are closer. biden's 2-point advantage within the margin of error. in north carolina trump leads on the economy, but biden has the advantage on race relations. trump predictably did well with white voters but not as well as expected with seniors. biden overwhelmingly got support from black people. and in georgia, which trump won by 5 points in 206, the shift away from trump almost entirely attributable to softer support among men. perhaps the most surprising events from texas, now considered a toss-up race. but both biden and trump supporters are cautioning not to read too much into the numbers. >> i think many of these polls are misleading. they can end up suppressing votes. people think their votes don't matter. >> we don't give these polls any

credibility because they did not pan out in 2016 either. we know internally on this campaign that when we look at the states we are tracking and we go against and actually define joe biden -- >> reporter: this morning president trump tweeted at the polls, do not believe the fake news media. oklahoma speech had the highest television ratings in fox news history, sean hannity dominated tv with my interview thursday night, more than cnn and msnbc combined. these are the real polls, the silent majority, not the fake polls. eric? eric: all right, jacqui, thanks so much. and we will be right back with more news in a is second. for as little as $5, now anyone can own companies in the s&p 500, even if their shares cost more. at $5 a slice, you could own ten companies for $50 instead of paying thousands. all commission free online.

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[grunting noise] i'll take that. woohoo! 30 grams of protein and 1 gram of sugar. ensure max protein. with nutrients to support immune health. eric: the virus is spreading and officials say is not just for testing. coronavirus infections in our country are approaching 2 and a half million with growing numbers especially affecting states in the south and west. florida, shattering daily record for new cases with more than 9,600 yesterday and it is not alone along with texas, california, georgia, utah and other states. some of those states are having to roll back their lockdowns because of the growing virus. hello, everyone, welcome to brand-new hour of america's news headquarters, i'm eric sean, hi, arthel. arthel: hi, eric, i'm arthel neville. well, now leaders in florida and

texas are reinstating some lockdown measures like shutting down bars while several big city-mayors close down beaches ahead of the fourth of july holiday. steve harrigan live in atlanta with more, hi, steve. steve: that's right, arthel, texas and florida were early to reopen their economies very aggressive in doing so and now each state due to new coronavirus cases has been forced to take a step backwards and place new restrictions initially on bars but we could see more ahead. florida had a record single day total for cases, 9,585. the statistics in florida are certainly worrisome, 70% increase in new cases in just a week, more than up 500% in new cases in florida since memorial day. the mayor of miami is shutting down the beaches ahead of the fourth of july weekend. he's encouraging people to wear masks including tourists and he is criticizing young people in the miami area saying they do not practice proper social

distancing. >> we are see light of the new cases 18 to 35-year-old range which are, you know, younger adults who seem to be for whatever reason not worried about the fact that this is a highly contagious disease and they can pass it along to their parents and grandparents and potentially put them at risk. steve: a number of states in different parts of the country reached single-day highs for new coronavirus cases including idaho, kansas, oregon, south carolina, utah and florida. europe could begin to ban travelers from the u.s. as early as tuesday due to high level of new cases in the u.s. arthel, eric, back to you. arthel: steve harrigan, thank you very much. eric. eric: arthel, this comes as fox news is now confirming that campaign events for vice president mike pence set to be held in arizona and florida, they have been postponed because

of the coronavirus numbers that continue to climb in those states and while campaign events are off, still planning to visit the state especially in texas, david spunt live at the white house with more on the vice president's itinerary. david: tomorrow he will meet with vice -- governor greg abbo. briefed the american people about resurgence of cases and other coronavirus task force briefing, the first one we have seen in a few months. now we are seeing cases especially in the southern half of the united states, florida, texas, arizona, those are a few states becoming the new hot

spots. trump administration officials pushing back against criticism for refusal to wear masks in public. the president does not wear a mask in public, same with the vice president. president trump did for a few seconds in trip to michigan last month. thousands packed into a tulsa arena one week ago today to see president trump for his first rally in months. our colleagues on the ground say 90% to have people there were not wearing masks, you can see them right there. the vice president responded to a question about wearing masks yesterday. listen to this. >> the freedom of speech, right to peaceably assemble is inshrined in constitution of the united states and we have an election coming up this fall and president trump and i believe that taking proper steps as we did screening at recent events and -- and giving people the very best counsel that we have.

>> you recognize the man right here, two vice presidents ago former vp dick cheney and daughter republican, wear a mask, republicans wear a mask. also former vice president joe biden who wants to live here at the white house starting in january tweeted today, wear a mask. no question, eric, wearing a mask, not wearing a mask, this is becoming part of the 2020 campaign though cdc officials insult, also dr. fauci and dr. birx says wearing a mask can only help. eric: that's true, thanks. arthel: president trump signed executive order to protect monomovements and statutes while also stiffer penalties to stop destruction. this as historic monuments and statutes nationwide have become targets of anger and vandalism amid on going protests. hundreds of people gathering in

lincoln park last night demonstrating against emancipation memorials, lucas thompson with the very latest, lucas. lucas: i think a thunderstorm is about to roll through. interior secretary said no more monuments are coming down on his watch. >> we-- they are not simply torn down because a person thinks it's good to rip out our history. we won't allow it. i can't allow it. the laws that we have for park service say that we need to conserve the monuments for future generations. lucas: the president's executive order strengths laws dealing with vandals and cutting funding for those who fail to protect them. he's also calling for a 10-year prison term for a vandal destroying monuments. the commanding general national guard says soldiers are on

standby if needed. >> we don't expect anything that we can't handle. we are in direct support of the united states park relief, metropolitan police department and together we will protect the monuments and statutes. lucas: dc's mayor says she doesn't want to see any more monuments torn down. >> we all need to do what to do with statutes is have a reasonable conversation around statutes and other references to historical figures, not have a mob decide that they want to pull it down and certainly not destroy anything in the district or set anything on fire. >> if dc nonvoting delegate to congress norton has way, the statute of abraham lincoln with slave on feet will be coming down soon. even though freed slaves paid for the statute she said it was done without their input.

yesterday democratic controlled favor voted in favor dc to becoming first state in history. arthel: nobody is condoning the destruction and defacing of the monuments, this maybe perhaps let's get together, leaders get together and come up with a systematic way i should say to take them down and put them in a museum or wherever they belong. lucas tomlinson, thank you very much. eric. eric: well, arthel, protests continuing this week in major cities across the country over police procedures all in response to the death of george floyd and other cases. the demonstrators are calling for action over several deadly episodes involving the police going back some time. aishah hasine, the demonstrators are calling for familiar refrain

of defunding the police, they want to chop off a huge section of the nypd budget, hi, aishah. aishah: some of the protests were postponed because of the rain, the weather, as you mentioned the occupied city hall movement that continues to grow. take a look. hundreds of people camping out inside the city defunds nypd's budget by at least a billion dollars, they want that money reinvested in education and social services. mayor bill de blasio, though, has not specified how much money he's willing to cut from the nypd. protests continue across the nation today, you can see hundreds of people are gathering in kentucky demanding justice for breonna taylor and also in colorado for elijah mcclain. one step closer to abolishing police department. the city council voted to fast track the process of putting referendum on the november ballot. that would replace the city's

police department with new department of community safety. it would have a more holistic approach with licensed peace officers, but mayor still wants to reform the current police department, something congressional democrats like representative dan of michigan agree with. listen. >> very often in reimagining public safety we can think of other ways to intervene on cases that are really not police matters but that we have defaulted in essential and required our police to be social workers, police and to protect us. aishah: fbi now in initial investigation into what appears to be a possible noose found in the locker of a black firefighter. the town's mayor calling it disgusting and says that it is being dealt with, eric. eric: yeah, aisha, others are

saying that crime has been increasing in some of the cities, in new york gun violence are up, murders are up, in chicago tragic shootings are happening while all of happening. arthel: president trump faces a pair of defeat on immigration this week. ahead how -- how are those losses tracking with voters after the president made immigration a key in his 2016 run so you can have a daily multivitamin free of stuff you don't want. one a day natural fruit bites. a new way to multivitamin.

♪ ♪ ♪ arthel: two major decisions on issue of immigration and border security. federal appeals court ruling against the trump administration's move to transfer $2.5 billion from the military to build the border wall and in a separate ruling a federal judge orders the release of migrant children from government-run family detention centers over coronavirus concerns. christina coleman live in los angeles with more. christina. christina: a federal judge ordered children to be released with parents or family sponsors by july 17th, the ruling applies for children held 20 days at

centers operated by ice in texas and pennsylvania. the judge issued the decision citing the recent spread of covid-19 in two of the three facilities. the court file negotiation this case indicate as of 2 days ago at least 11 people detained at the ice detention center in texas have been diagnosed with covid-19 and at least 4 employees at the billy texas facility tested positive for the virus. the u.s. judge cited within facilities saying in part, quote, the family residential centers are on fire and there's no more time for half measures. in another hit to the trump administration's immigration policy, the ninth u.s. circuit court of appeals it side-stepped congress to build parts of the wall in southern border. the court writing in its opinion, surely when congress held additional fund forking the border wall it intended to

withhold additional funding for the wall regardless of its source, no means no. latest turn in the ongoing legal fight between coalition of border states and environmental groups and the trump administration over the wall. last july the supreme court allowed $2.5 billion to be used for wall while litigation continued. on tuesday the president was in yuma, arizona to mark the completion of the 200th mile of the wall during his administration. trump has argued the wall is needed to prevent drug smuggling and other illegal activities, arthel. arthel: christina coleman, thank you. >> my administration has done more than any other administration in history to secure our southern border. our border has never been secure. i think doug can tell you that, anybody at this table can tell you that. it's never even been close. the numbers now including not only the wall, the wall is up a

lot. eric: president trump, of course, speaking at the round table in arizona in yuma earlier this week as christina reported the president was there to tour construction. the trump administration to suspend temporarily work visas and take another crack at ending the obama-era daca program. the president's recent actions underscoring how he wants to make immigration driving issue on bid for second term. how will this all play out with voters? joining us anita, white house correspondent and associate editor for politico. anita, you have the pandemic in the middle of the debate of police and racism, the president continuing to push one of the key issues, immigration, how is that resinating? >> well, you're right, he's been searching for a message, you know, he thought he would campaign for reelection on the economy, the strong economy and then the pandemic hit and so he's been struggling a little bit for a message because polls are showing that a lot of people are not happy with his response to the pandemic, so you're

exactly right, he's going back to some of his 2016 messages. if you'll remember that was one of -- immigration was one of the big issues he had in 2016. it's really credited for getting him elected. he's going back to that now just like so many other issues that. the response has been -- a lot of people who support him, conservative base are happy with the decisions, they have been waiting 3 and a half years for some of them quite frankly, some of these restrictions on foreign workers and other things and as you can imagine, joe biden and the democrats are saying, this is not the way to go and they want to show this is one of the key issues that these two men disagree on. eric: you're looking at the construction, the video on your screen right now and the president very proudly looking at 2020 miles of that wall now built. the design with those slats as he had wanted, is this something that we will see much more of

during the campaign? >> i do. i think he will continue to talk about it. he's clear that he's gone back to immigration. the president and his administration are pledging that they're going to have 420 miles done by election day, so, you know, it's possible he will go back there, arizona, where he went is one of the key states he's looking at for his reelection. he's already been twice to arizona even after the -- you know, things started opening up after the pandemic, i guess the pandemic isn't over but as things started opening up he has gone twice. it's obviously key for him. eric: in terms of the pandemic it's getting worse we are told in arizona. we will have more on that later on with one of the top arizona medical professionals to discuss the situation there. meanwhile you talked about the guest workers, h-1b workers suspended for highly-skilled workers. that's in a way related to the pandemic because that's hopefully to try to increase

jobs for americans but some businesses are squawking over that. >> that's exactly right. you know, unemployment as you know has been 13, 14, almost 15% and so what people are saying, look, there are a millions of americans out of work. this would free up those jobs for them, but you're right, big business, the chamber of commerce have been saying no, that's not the way to go, that the jobs that are available that a lot of americans don't want that -- want those jobs. sometimes in some cases unemployment, the unemployment that people receive, benefits that people received is higher than some of the wages so there's really, you know, the president was really hearing from both sides on this and even people in his administration were very split on what he should do but the president felt strongly that would send a message that he was strong and being tough on immigration before the election and that was very important to him to get that message out. eric: so as we continue to the next few months and head toward the fall, how do you see the

race playing out for -- from the issues that were part of his base, dealing with immigration, dealing with what he calls law and order versus obviously the pandemic that in some places the coronavirus cases, the infection rate going up and getting worse, not going away, the economy is certainly not back to its full steam to where it was before a coronavirus hit any time soon. the issues can be out of control and uncontrollable but that is why we have elections. >> right, you know joe biden and the democrats really want to make this election at this point about the president's response to the pandemic. they think it wasn't good that local and state officials were asking for things that they could not get. you see the death rates still going up. the president as i mentioned before is really searching for that message. he's gone back to exactly what he said, some of those traditional issues, some issues that would be -- would be supported by his base, so that's

what he is looking at. what's interesting about that is that for the last couple of years the trump campaign has really been looking at ways to try to appeal to african americans, asian americans, hispanic, demographics that don't traditionally do that well with republicans and this, you know, would fly in the face to that. the president is pushing policies that would not be generally supported by those demographic groups, so there's -- there's -- he's actually undercutting what his campaign has been working on, but i do think that this president always seems to go back and we have seen for the last 3 and a half years, goes back to what his base wants him to do and i think that's the message he will carry through the next few months. eric: thanks for the analysis and the incite for us on this saturday. good to see you. >> thank you. eric: arthel. arthel: well, eric, the united states seeing spikes in coronavirus cases as places start to hit pause on reopening,

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>> you get foreign countries, russia, china, especially china. especially china. are they going to print millions of ballots using the exact same paper, using the exact same machines and they have to print ballots and hand them in and all of a sudden it's the biggest risk we have, the mail-in ballot. eric: well, at that time president trump, of course, he was with sean hannity at the town hall thursday night in green bay warning about the security of voting by mail. that issue is now part of the presidential campaign. >> president trump is warning that a foreign government could try to steal the election by printing fake mail-in ballots,

but election officials across the country like here at the suffolk county board of elections say there are safeguards to prevent it. the president tweeted rig 2020 election, millions of mail-in ballots will be printed by foreign countries and others, it would be the scandal of our times. suffolk county republican election commissioner says theoretically it is possible. >> anybody including a foreign government could in some jurisdictions print, complete and send back paper ballots to county boards of elections. county boards of elections like mine have taken some precautions against such a scenario but i think it's incumbent upon state legislators to be aggressive and pass laws and create rules protecting voters from that sort of scam. eric: but election officials and experts cannot point to one case where a foreign government printing u.s. election ballots. they say mail-in and absentee ballots have numerous protections including being

printed on special paper, have bar codes that track them and voter signature would have to match what is on file. the biden campaign accused the president of, quote, pushing baseless conspiracy theories meant to discredit vote by mail. it is a well-worn play from the playbook. we will not standby while donald trump recklessly undermines democratic process. michael, president of center for justice says the president's claim is false and simply ridiculous. >> this sounds like something out of get smart rather than an actual spy story. the idea that some foreign government could print millions of ballots and sneak them into the country with invisible ink to cast people's vote for them is absurd. it's absurd to have a president of the united states trying to discourage people from voting.

eric: there are holes in the system that can be exploited. not every county in new york mandates bar codes on mail-in ballots. he says election fraud laws should be tighter. >> we should join the list of 35 states in the country that have voter id because not only does fraud possibly exist in our paper balloting but in-person ballots which is the safest and most secure way to exercise the franchise. eric: well, there have been absentee ballot fraud cases in new york state, west virginia and other states, local politicians and election officials that we've talked to insist that they are prepared during this election. you know, in the 2018 midterms about 31 million americans voted by mail. president trump himself voted absentee in presidential primary, he says there's a difference of security between mail-in and absentee ballots, that's when a voter request a specific ballot but mail-in voting, the whole issue would certainly be under scrutiny

during the whole presidential campaign. arthel. ♪ >> you are part of the process, so if you get infected, you will infect someone else who clearly will inflect someone else. we know that happens because the reproduction element of the virus is not less than 1. so people are infecting other people and then ultimately you will infect someone who is vulnerable. arthel: dr. anthony fauci at the coronavirus task force briefing yesterday as the u.s. reports more than 45,000 cases friday, setting another record for the biggest single-day jump in new infections. health officials warning that the numbers we are now seeing may not reflect the true gravity of the situation. let's bring in dr. ernst, senior attending physician of emergency medicine at hospital.

indeed, we are happy to do so. would the numbers dr. patty come back down or would the numbers continue to climb as more people start to venture outside, where are we going wrong? doctor: remember, arthel, i'm a practicing clinical physician. i worked yesterday a 12-hour shift and while i'm not seeing the high numbers of covid positive cases they are still coming in, we are still getting covid-infected patients and my fear is that we will see resurgence based on the fact that many people seem to be loosening up their social distancing practices and are, you know, thinking with the summer that we can go back to our old habit. arthel: and, you know, during the white house coronavirus brief -- i'm sorry, dr. patty, were you adding something to

that? doctor: no, no, just a delay. arthel: no, no, my apologizes, we will work through this. during the white house coronavirus briefing friday, yesterday, vice president pence would not mandate masks, so i ask if all of us are not wearing masks, can the country successfully contain coronavirus and curtail the death toll? doctor: arthel, i'm a physician and my advice as a medical professional is we need to wear masks. when i go out in public i wear masks. we had a very small celebration last week and i asked every family member to wear a mask. i think it's very important in the stages that we are in right now to prevent the spread of this virus any further and to keep, you know, our population healthy. arthel: you know, dr. patty, often times it takes bluntness to drive home a message of

critical importance, so, again, as the senior attending physician of emergency medicine at st. barbabus hospital, what would you tell the american people, young and old that could shock them into taking coronavirus seriously? doctor: what i'm going say first at my hospital alone, arthel, we lost 6 beloved members of our hospital family to coronavirus and these are all people that were working tirelessly to keep, you know, our population and our patients safe and healthy. this virus is real and unpredictable and this virus can be deadly especially to those who are at high risk and it spread quite easily as we are starting to see from folks who are acting, you know, without many symptoms or asin to -- asymptomatic as we say. we need to stay vigilant because

we want to keep as many people safe and healthy as possible, arthel. arthel: well, i'm very sorry for the loss of your work family, and finally, what keeps you up at night these days? doctor: what keeps me up at night? [laughter] doctor: worrying that we are going to have a round 2 of this pandemic. i have a lot of discussions with many colleagues, many of whom who are very, very knowledgeable in infectious diseases and a lot of them are worried that it's going to come around and we are keeping ourself prepared. i will give you an example, arthel. yesterday at work everyone is still wearing full ppe because we are taking this virus seriously and folks who are coming in even though they come in for other conditions, we still are vigilant and we still

evaluate them fully to make sure that if they do seem to be symptoms for covid we will treat them keep them. arthel: we were showing a figure of you in full gear so you are certainly being careful and cautious. dr. ernst patti, i apologize for technical difficulties, we go through it. doctor: always a pleasure to chat with you arthel, stay healthy, strong and be well. eric: look at the picture of the doctor. arthel: eric. yeah. eric: i was just saying looking at the picture of doctor that's what it takes to protect from coronavirus. one of the states that has seen big sometime happens to be arizona, some have said that the state has lost control of the pandemic. is that the case, the president of the medical association will be here to talk to us about that

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together in hospital. together at home. arthel: princeton university says it will remove the name of former u.s. president woodrow wilson from its school of public policy. wilson barred black students from princeton while serving as university president. he also supported segregation while serving as the 28th

president from 1913 to 1921. the board of trustees voted to keep wilson's name in 2016, but revisited the issue in light of recent protests against racism. the university says the school will now be known as the princeton school of public and international affairs. ♪ ♪ >> time of getting hit is right now, june, july and august. i don't necessarily like to put these terms on what's happening here but these are common terms that are being used around the country. this is arizona's first wave, and this will not be our last wave. eric: that's arizona governor reacting as the state emerges as one of the hot spots in our nation. the arizona health department

reporting over 3500 new cases of coronavirus today, this springs the state's total number of confirmed cases to over 70,000 and so far coronavirus has taken the lives of nearly 1,500 arizonans. joining us now dr. ross goldberg, arizona medical association, vice chairman, medical director for valleywise health, doctor, how dire, how dire is the situation in arizona right now? doctor: well, firstoff, thank you for having me. we are in the first wave as the governor said. the case numbers are rising, we are definitely seeing a spike in cases. everyone is concerned. eric: hospital bed is at about

88%, icu facilities at 88% and fears that the state could run out of icu beds by next month. what do you see happening, is that possible, how bad can it get, are there steps that can be taken to alleviate that? >> first off, you have to realize, people can covid-19 are in bed more time than usual. the numbers are going up. as the rate of hospitalizations we have number of bed and number of staff to take care of people. every hospital has surge plan. we are ready to use it but, again, there's so much we can do with the amount of beds and staff available so really we are keeping a close eye on thing and being as flexible as possible but doesn't mean that we have infinite supply ready and we need everyone else to help spread the virus in arizona.

eric: what happens if you go over the surge, what do you do, transport patients to other states? are there emergency plans in case you get really stress and this becomes overwhelming? doctor: my hope, speaking with our leadership in the government, you know, they have extra plans available from what i understand. i will not speak on their behalf, but, you know, we don't turn to what happened in new york, think about staff from other state and are there other areas and things should be in play when we are considering what to do depending on the wise of numbers. if we can get ahead of things and maintain the numbers we don't need to go there but it's always good to be prepared for anything that may happen. eric: why do you think the numbers are increasing and becoming more crushing in arizona? look, we have had this for 3 months plus and as you know some people haven't taken it seriously or seriously enough.

they are flout wearing masks and they just have in other areas taken as seriously as many in new york have -- had to learn the hard way, and what is your advice to try and stop that, make sure that you're not at that point of crisis? doctor: well, you hit key points, right, the first thing i would say trust your physicians. this is an important one. of all the things you want to believe in, believe your doctor now. there's easy way to help stop the spread of the virus. the science and data have proven that. good hand hygiene. physical distancing, cloth-mask wearing. in combination of helping the spread. when we started to loosen things up, make no mistake and i understand and our economy, our

numbers were not bad in the beginning, they are bad now. i would argue that throughout our country's time when we have been taken to our knees as recently quoted i remember regarding the virus is one that we step up and help each other out. this is one of the moments where we have to have each other's back. doing those 3 things is patriotic thing you can do right now for this country to help stop the spread of the disease. eric: some criticize government officials, governor ducey, several republican governor who is have not made mask wearing mandatory as other governors have done. now in the past 7 days the officials have started to do that. here is the governor talking about this, what he thinks needs to be done. >> all of our citizens, all of our people, all of our young people can be helpful in slowing the spread of this and that's

what i'm hopeful to do today, is to enlist you in doing that by staying home, by wearing a mask and when you do have to go out, physically distancing. eric: for governor and other officials not to make wear mask if your officials in the state had taken a harder line? >> it's disappointing to talk about mandate or not to be honest with you and part of it is human nature. when someone tells you not to do something, your reaction is to go do the opposite. so while i appreciate the governor, what he said, the medical community has been pushing this for a while and, again, i'm wondering why our patients and the public aren't listening to us. this isn't the first time they've heard come from the medical community. of all the times you want to trust your doctors for medical advice this would be the time,

so i'm -- it's frustrating that we have to talk about this now because we've been asking for this for a while. we appreciate the governor agreeing with us because we think it's the right thing to do but i appeal to everyone to please do what you're being asked, you will not get hurt from it. i'm a surgeon and i've worn masks for any years, i've not had any injuries from it. the claims being made are not true regarding the damage, so i really plea everyone wearing a mask and listen to what we have to say. eric: someone said that it's easier to wear a mask than being on ventilator and also protecting other people, strangers by wearing a mask. dr. ross goldberg in arizona, we wish you and all arizonans the best of luck as you start to face this emergency in a way that many of us around the country would not want to see, doctor, thank you and we will be right back. my desk...

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arthel: with cities canceling fourth of july fireworks, many americans planning own displays. >> it's a sight you see twice a year. >> i think people will come and buy from local stands. >> opened stands in roundrock, fireworks won't be the only

thing going up. >> everyone has been cooped up at the house. everybody is really wanting, i feel, to get out and to have a good time, set off fireworks and to just, you know, we've all been trapped at home. >> it's this potential increase in sales which has the county fire marshal wanting people to be safe. >> that's part of the reason, not just strictly for that reason but that was some of us being more proactive this year. >> we met up with the county marshal inspecting firework stands as they want to avoid instant which happened near georgetown last year where a fireworks stand caught fire. >> materials that were stored too close to the building and discarded smoking material ignited the fire. >> jones isn't urging just safety for stands but the people who buy from them as well. >> know what you're pointing, the area that you're pointing your fireworks in. don't point fireworks at other

people, pets, or areas for potential grass fire. make sure you have water available to exting after you utilize your fireworks. >> most cities shooting fireworks is illegal incidents still happen. over new years there was an apartment in austin that got fire due to fireworks. >> potential for fire is much greater in an area that's condensed or rooftops or vehicles and you have the accidental misfires underneath them. >> created a map on where you can and can't shoot off fireworks in the county. the areas are highlighted where fireworks are restricted. eric: well, arthel and i are back tomorrow. ngstay safe. see you at noon. have a good night p3. because 3 is better than 1

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>> historic monuments across america facing vandalism and destruction in executive order protection. i'm jon scott and this is "the fox report." jon: demonstrators targeting the abraham lincoln emancipation memorial in washington d.c. saying the depiction of a black kneeling before the former president is racist and across the country at least nine other cities are seeing calls to remove statues of u.s. presidents by the mom and sweep seemed toppled in recent weeks to not -- so more abolitionists

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