right now on "america this morning," clashes in the capital. police and protesters facing off near the white house overnight. a crowd trying to topple a famous statue. police reportedly using pepper spray. president trump threatening severe punishments and now a top senator calls on the attorney general to bring charges against people tearing down statues. fighting hate. the powerful new message from bubba wallace as his fellow nascar drivers come together in a show of solidarity. the racer returning to the track one day after a noose was found in his garage. what he's saying to whomever is responsible as the fbi now joins the investigation. troubling trend. nearly half the nation now reporting coronavirus cases on

the rise as the nation's top doctors prepare to testify to congress. hospitals nearing capacity in arizona hours before president trump's visit. the message from the city leader ahead of today's rally. day care dilemma. how the covid-19 pandemic could spell more trouble for the child care industry. what parents need to know. consumer alert. why cheese prices are skyrocketing, now the highest in generations. plus, more than a movie. america's drive-in theaters are popular again. and now there's a new entertainment option at the drive-in. good tuesday morning, everyone. we begin with that breaking news overnight near the white house where clashes broke out between police and demonstrators. >> it happened after a group tried to pull down a statue of president andrew jackson in lafayette park. police in riot gear dispersed the crowd protecting the statue. >> president trump is

threatening serious prison time for those arrested for statue vandalism. abc's alex presha has more from washington. >> reporter: overnight protesters and police clashing in lafayette park across from the white house. >> hold the line. hold your line. >> reporter: a large group breaking through the fence surrounding the statue of former president andrew jackson trying to topple the monument with chains and ropes. [ crowd chanting ] >> reporter: the police moving in making a barrier around the statue. later demonstrators setting fire to two dumpsters. reporter jay korff with our washington station wjla was there. >> apresence. in fact just within the last few minutes police kind of pulled back a little into the middle of h street forming an arc and, you know, who is to say how much longer folks will be out here. we have a sense they'll be out here for quite some time. >> reporter: president trump threatened ten years in prison for the numerous arrests made calling efforts to topple the

statue disgraceful vandalism of a magnificent statue. critics saying jackson, the seventh president and on the $20 bill, has a legacy tied to slave ownership and military campaigns against native americans. >> public reminder of the native american holocaust and also of the black american holocaust of slavery. that's what andrew jackson represented. >> reporter: in florida someone defaced another statue of jackson in jacksonville, a city named after the former president. the statue covered in red paint with the words slave owner written on the base. senator tom cotton of arkansas is now calling on attorney general william barr to bring charges against people tearing down statues. cotton calling them mob vigilantes. ken internet and mona. >> alex, thank you. seattle's mayor says the occupied protest zone in her city will be dismantled due in part to a surge in violent crime. this protest zone was established two weeks ago after

police abandoned a precinct building. the mayor says officers will return to that after three shootings in the area over the weekend, one deadly along with burglary and assault cases. we turn to the coronavirus emergency. dr. anthony fauci will join the head of the cdc on capitol hill today testifying about the challenges ahead. it comes as we see cases climbing sharply in several states including texas, florida and arizona where president trump is visiting today. the mayor of phoenix overnight called on the president to wear a face mask. abc's zohreen shah has the latest. >> reporter: this morning a new warning coming from the country's top health officials as dr. anthony fauci heads to capitol hill. fauci set to testify in front of congress telling the country to brace for a long road to recovery writing in prepared testimony that the coronavirus will likely continue for some time adding, if there is covid-19 and flu activity at the same time, this could place a tremendous burden on the health care system. nearly half the country is now seeing a rise in covid cases

with 23 states and puerto rico showing increases. 12 of those states are reporting a record number of new cases. >> they're heading into big outbreaks that are going to continue for at least another couple weeks. >> reporter: in texas the infection rate doubling along with hospitalizations. >> we are moving very fast in the wrong direction. >> reporter: the governor saying face coverings are crucial. >> i know that some people feel that wearing a mask is inconvenient or that it is like an infringement of freedom, but i also know that wearing a mask will help us to keep texas open. >> reporter: and in florida. >> everyone will have to be wearing masks in public. >> this is a real trajectory. >> there is a real consequence to not following rules. >> reporter: more than a dozen mayors making masks mandatory after the state surpassed 100,000 cases. in utah a top health official warning a surge in cases could lead to a complete shutdown of the state and this morning

arizona reporting record high hospitalization rates just hours before president trump's campaign rally. we're cae as two more test positive bringing the total to eight. >> it kills 99.9% of covid within ten minutes. >> reporter: the megachurch hosting trump supporters in arizona today has claimed in a video online that it has a special air purifier that can protect everyone who attends. >> when you come into our auditorium, 99% of covid is gone, killed. >> reporter: but the church later taking down that video. the company behind the air purifier saying the church might have overstated its claims. overnight the mayor of phoenix saying the president's rally today is not sanctioned or permitted by the city of phoenix and called on the president to follow the city's policy and wear a mask. the church in phoenix has indicated it's going to hand out masks and take people's temperatures when they check into the event. meanwhile, news about another state. louisiana announced it will push back the next stage of

re-opening because of an increase in covid cases. kenneth, mona. >> zohreen shah, thank you. and in los angeles, an airline passenger has been removed from a plane for refusing to wear a mask. he was escorted off an l.a.x. frontier flight saying he would not comply with instructions to wear a face covering. starting today at l.a.x., fever detecting cameras will be checking passengers. they'll be advised not to fly if they regester a temperature of 104 degrees or higher. passengers won't be prevented from traveling. the screening is only optional for now and could be mandatory by the end of the summer. this afternoon is the final good-bye for rayshard brooks, the black man shot and killed by police in atlanta at a wendy's's parking lot. his funeral held at the ebenezer baptist church. dr. martin luther king's youngest daughter bernice is set to be one of the speakers. meanwhile a witness has come forward saying he saw one of the

former police officers trying to help brooks as he was dying. the witness shared this video with abc news. he says the man helping brooks appears to be garrett rolfe who is accused of firing the shots that killed brooks. >> and he was the one that jumped down on the ground to start, you know -- he was definitely trying to stop the bleeding because i did see blood on the guy itself. but you can tell that one officer was really concerned about rayshard while the other officer was analyzing the situation. >> in statements both rolfe officer devin brosnan say their actions that night were appropriate, but prosecutors say the officers did not provide immediate aid as required. back to washington, house democrats are preparing to subpoena attorney general william barr to testify next week. barr is facing renewed scrutiny after the firing of geoffrey berman, the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york, who was leading several investigations that involved president trump and his advisers. the house judiciary committee has been seeking barr's

testimony since march over concern about the justice department becoming politicized. time now for a look at your tuesday morning weather. strong storms move through the washington, d.c. area creating this powerful flash flood in a maryland suburb. at least one car was seen driving through the high water against recommendations. meanwhile, new video shows a reported tornado touching down in northwest kansas sunday. a separate line of severe storms moved into illinois reaching the chicago area yesterday. checking today's high temperatures, hot and humid from d.c. to boston, 89 in new orleans. phoenix gets to 110 degrees. 77 in los angeles. coming up, a new message from bubba wallace. >> what the nascar driver said as he returned to the track one day after a noose was found in his garage and what we learned about the investigation.

also ahead, the day care dilemma for parents. a new prediction about how many day cares could be closing for good. and later a concert with a very green audience.

we are back with a show of support for nascar's bubba wallace as investigators including the fbi try to find out who put a noose in his garage. fellow drivers pushed wallace's car along pit road before monday's race at talladega. the words "i stand with bubba wallace" were written on the ink field. wallace came in 14th place but told fans the show of support was a big victory for him. >> sorry i'm not wearing my mask but i wanted to show whoever it was that you're not going to take away my smile. the prerace deal was probably one of the hardest things i've ever had to witness in my life. >>n adrivvealr the be aart of t

"n" word and believes the noose was left inside the garage by a nascar insider. the top running back at mississippi state says he's done playing for the team unless the state changes its flag. kylin hill tweeted he won't represent the state anymore unless the confederate emblem is removed. the governor says that decision should be left up to voters. now to the day care dilemma across america. the coronavirus is pushing more child care facilities to the breaking point. the question now is should the government do more to help them? dinah couldn't hold back her emotions as she packed up her 3-year-old's daughters things from their now closed child care center. >> it's a beautiful space, and both my kids went here so i'm really said. >> reporter: she and many other working parents are learning firsthand a tough reality. the pandemic is pushing the nation's child care industry to the brink of collapse. >> there is no way that the economy will be able to open

completely without child care being fully supported and stable. >> reporter: new research shows nearly half of child care providers closed their facilities during the covid-19 shutdowns. of those that stayed open, 85% are now operating with less than half their usual child enrollment. the outlook for the industry is grim. one study warns roughly half of u.s. child care capacity is at risk of disappearing. >> people talk about the airlines industry. they talk about restaurants. they talk about meat processing plants, but they don't talk about all the people who go to work every day and need child care. >> reporter: the $2 trillion c.a.r.e.s. act of the federal covid-19 relief package included nearly $60 billion for the airline industry bus just 3.5 billion was set aside for child care supporters. senator patty murray says that's not good enough. >> most are saying we can't survive. we can't re-open. we can't keep going without additional funding. >> reporter: more than 90% of child care workers are women. some experts claim that's one reason the industry is undervalued.

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suspension three times. and we turn now to the new warning about hand sanitizers that could be toxic. the fda says nine brands of hand sanitizers possibly contains methanol instead of ethanol. earlier i spoke with dr. alok patel. i also asked about a new study that found there's no evidence recent protests caused a spike in covid-19 cases. but we begin with that new warning from the fda. the fda is warning that nine brands of hand sanitizer could be toxic. all of the brands were manufactured by a mexican company called esk biochem and we're being told these products could be fatal. what do we need to know? >> the bottom line is methanol is not the same as ethanol. i know it's very tricky. there's an "m" on the front of it. methanol is highly toxic. it can be absorbed through the skin or could be particularly dangerous if you were to inhale it or absorb it or have any by mouth but can cause central nervous system problems, kidney failure.

especially toxic in kids. >> the new study found there's no evidence that street protests earlier this month led to any spikes in covid-19 infections. is this surprising to you especially considering that so many of those protesters were not wearing masks? >> this study looked at cell phone data to track movement. and what they found was even though there were so many congregations of protests, at the same time people were sheltering in place even more, not only because of rising cases but because of the protests themselves and in addition to that a lot of businesses that would normally be open were actually closed because of the fear of looters and violence. and so what the researchers postulate is that there was a balance of, you know, this increased amount of protest but others staying at home and almost countered each other. so far no clear evidence the protests were responsible for the spike in cases we're seeing right now. very interesting. >> researchers are now estimating that the u.s. may have had up to 8 million cases of covid-19 during the month of march, but the official case total was a small fraction of that. what does that tell us? >> the way the researchers

looked at this is they looked at influenza-like illnesses that were taking place in march and compared it to all the years in the past just to look to see how many were kind of out of the norm, and they basically saw there was a surge in these influenza-like illnesses that weren't attributed to testing coronavirus because at the time we didn't have enough tests. we already know that we failed when it came to testing and we allowed the outbreak to kind of spread uncontrolled but there's also a possibility that the virus was not as contagious as we thought, and it was more about the fact that it was spreading uncontrollably. so this is a very interesting development. >> our thanks to dr. patel. and it now appears that major league baseball will be playing a 60-game regular season. players and owners unable to agree on how to start so the commissioner is now set to impose a likely 60-game schedule starting in late july. players should begin workouts next week. coming up, a new kind of entertainment at drive-in movie theaters.

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>> you will get a lot more than just a free test. do you recognize this woman? police are releasing video of her. she's accused of purposely coughing on a toddler in the south bay. hundreds of protesters try to pull down a statue near the white house. president trump responding on twitter with the threat. good morning, everybody. it is tuesday, june 23rd. we'll get to all those stories in just a few minutes but first checking in with meteorologist mike nicco looking at our day ahead. good morning, friend. >> good morning. i'm looking at you and something looks different. >> a little something something. >> you look well rested, too. you look fantastic. welcome back, kumasi. >> thank you, mike.

>> i hope you had a good time away from us. so, let's talk about what is going on weather wise. look at those winds. 35 miles per hour sea breeze kicking in once again. see it fills the bay with clouds as we look at the exploratorium camera there. mostly cloudy. not hearing any reports and here's a look at our super wide summer spread from the mid 60s along the coast in san francisco and low to mid 70s richmond, oakland, san mateo and 678 in san rafael and 70s until you get to the east bay. look at 100s in lake port and ukiah. kumasi? >> thanks, mike. happening today you can get a covid-19 test for free at the sap center. you don't have to get an appointment and because this is home of the sharks, test as many people as possible.

good morning, julian. >> good morning to you, kumasi. the plan is to test 1,000 people a day at the new temporary testing site. it will open up today on tuesday and run through saturday. the idea is to get people who do not currently have symptoms to get tested so they can catch the virus before it continues to spread. santa clara county is teaming up with the san jose sharks to make this happen. even sharky, the hockey team's mascot was here monday to show that testing is quick and painless. no appointments needed to get tested and also 100% free and regardless of immigration status. they want everyone who comes in contact with people often to get tested and that's a lot more of us since the bay area is reopened. >> testing keeps everyone safe. if you are infecte, we want to d to do to keep you from infecting others. >> so, we want to show you the hours for the testing that will

be happening here at the sap center. testing starts today at 1:00 p.m. and run through 7:00 p.m. and those will be the hours through friday. they'll open back up on saturday and the hours then are 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. currently 57 covid-19 testing sites within santa clara and when you stop by this one at the sap center you'll get some sharks swag, too. look for juliangabc7 on twitter. i'm julian glover, abc7 news. >> thank you, julian. california has shattered its record for the most new coronavirus cases in a single day. "the chronicle" is reporting that the county health department reported more than 6,000 cases of last night and the previous record was 4,415. governor newsom warns the state could revert back to a strict stay-at-home order if there is a dramatic surge in coronavirus cases. california recorded more than a