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with juju chang. >> good evening. thanks for joining us. tonight in the height of the summer tourist season, florida reporting more cases of the virus in one day than any state since the start of the outbreak. now, one area of concern, young people, throwing parties and caution to the wind. young people, throwing parties and caution to the wind. the race to contain the spread. but will parties turn to protests if officials threaten to stop the music? >> hey, turn the music down! >> i don't have to deal with this. and we're going to continue to fight this, because we can't live like this. >> reporter: benny diaz says he's sick and tired of the neighbors using their house like a night club. >> the scene is chaotic, irresponsible. i feel like i live in a hotel. every day, going home, turning the corner, who is my new neighbor now? >> reporter: he and other frustrated neighbors are scared these events are helping to

spread covid-19 through their florida community, and beyond. a reasonable fear, with florida recording more than 15,000 new cases on sunday. the highest one-day total of any state since the outbreak began. more than 11% of those tested in florida turned out positive. >> i was asked, what was my nightmare scenario a few weeks ago. my answer was to be new york. and the fact that we are heading there now seems like an avoidable tragedy. >> reporter: florida's cases skyrocketing over the past several mons.7,000 cases.st, 57. july 1st, nearly 159,000 cases. adding more than 100,000 cases in just 30 days. top was clear. this virus is not a threat to

florida. >> you have a lot of people in your profession who wax poetically for weeks and weeks, florida will be just like new york. wait two weeks, florida will be next. hell, we're eight weeks away from that and it hasn't happened. >> reporter: as cases kept escalating in june, the governor resisted a call for a statewide mask mandate. phed the sunshine state is reopening. this weekend, disney is reopening its parks for the first time in four months. with temperature checks, masks, and sanitation stations. but california is putting its reopening in reverse. shutting down indoor businesses, restaurants, bars, theaters, and museu museums. los angeles and san diego school districts announcing they will only reopen online this fall.

12 states hitting a record number of infections and hospitalizations this weekend. many cases traced back to large gatherings of people. including michigan, where hundreds were shoulder to shoulder at this party. what goes through your mind when you see these parties? >> it's sad. i'm all about partying, but right now is not the time. >> reporter: jared is a party promoter in south florida. he's been planning events since the state opened up, and is struggling with the need to balance safety with a paycheck. do you worry about one of these parties leading to someone's death? >> yes. i'm scared to party, i'm not going to the parties. if they want to party, they're going to party regardless. i'm trying to figure out safely

>> reporter: his parties are invite only, and asks guests to wear masks and social distance.. >> very few of us are eligible for unemployment or making money, and we need to survive. i'm not trying to do it to get people sick. i'm just trying to make some money. >> reporter: miami is a night life hot spot, an economy based on parties and large gatherings. fueled largely by young people. the mayor notes the irony. >> the faster and more disciplined we are, the faster we can go back, god willing, to some sense of normalcy. my message is please, please listen to authorities and stop having these parties. >> reporter: over the weekend, president trump wore a mask walter reed medical center. but this morning, the president

retweeting chuck woolery's rant accusing the cdc and doctors for lying about the virus. what would you say to the president if you were in the room with him? >> i would say the cdc works for him. when you say you shouldn't listen to the cdc, you're saying you shouldn't listen to the federal government, which he runs. i would ask the president to implement a federal mask in public rule. i think his cancelled new hampshire rally. >> we don't need a mask. it's a brainwashing. there's no reason to be scared. absolutely not. it's a joke. >> and there's not a pandemic anymore. >> reporter: president trump talking about his relationship with the government's leading expert on infectious diseases. >> i have a really good relationship with dr. fauci.

i don't always agree with him. >> we've been told that senior officials refer to dr. fauci as dr. gloom and doom. >> reporter: dr. fauci focussing instead on the raging public health crisis. still, the president plans to republican convention next month in florida. >> hospitalizations are at an all-time high. icu beds have twice the number of patients they have in april. ventilators, we just across the maximum number we had, over r: s'reci r a higher death rate?. orr:hi pple may have decreased riskf hospitalization, it's still a stress on the already taxed hospital system. >> the same young people, especially in rtgo see a

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none of the women you're about to meet wanted to share. seven black mothers opening up about the day their worlds shattered. their children killed, many after encounters with police. now these moms are coming together calling for justice. here's deborah roberts. >> i think we all hope and pray that when it's our child, you don't have to see it anymore. and every time you see another one, it takes you right back to the day that it happened to you. >> reporter: michelle kinney knows grief in a way few of us do. the kind that wracks your body, pierces your soul. in 2018, her son antoine was shot dead by a police officer as he ran unarmed from a traffic stop in their pittsburgh hometown. >> it brings about a bond that i can't begin to explain. and i think the reason that that

happens is because no one understands what this pain truly entails. >> reporter: but these other six black moms do. they all lost their children, they say, due to america's legacy of racism. it's rooted in pain, but marked by action. wanda and tameka are the members. ahmaud arbery and breonna taylor were both killed. you sent a message to breonna's mom on her birthday? >> yes, ma'am. >> reporter: what did you say? >> i wanted her to know that i knew that day would be very difficult. ahmaud had a birthday on may

8th, and it was days prior to the video being released. that was one of the most heartbreaking days that i've ever had. and i wanted her to know that i know her pain. and i was there to support her. >> reporter: miss palmer, tell me about what that meant to you. because this is so fresh. >> it was nice to get the message, just to know that somebody feels the way that i feel. you have so much anger inside of you, so much disbelief over what happened to your child. to know that she talked about, you know, having the best day that day. going out to dinner with her boyfriend, and going home to watch movies. to know she was in her house, in her own bed, and someone kicked in her door and killed her. to know that she didn't deserve it.

>> reporter: sabrina fulton's pain hasn't d, her son le i wasg to be happy again. i went from 95% of the time being happy to 95% of the time being sad. when i first started out, the hoodie would make me sad. now i smile about it, because i've trained and reprogrammed myself to say that's a memory of my son. >> reporter: she went to his funeral. >> i was like, america did this to him. this is a result of the ugliness in america. i asked god, why did this have to happen? why am i looking at a man in this casket who should have been just arrested instead of killed?

>> reporter: and tamir rice was killed in 2014. police shot him as he played with a toy gun. when you see the growing protests, does that say to you that something feels different right now? >> i'm very happy that they're out there. we don't want the message to get lost with the vandalism and burning and things like that. the message should be a clear agenda. nobody should be comfortable in america sleeping at night with what is going on in this country right now. >> reporter: let me ask you about the protests. are you heartened by the protests? >> people need to protest to bring about a win. that's what protesting does. protesting is not the complete end. if we have to go from demonstration to registration. >> reporter: this woman is desperate for change after

son eric garner was killed by police officers in 2014. his last words, i can't breathe, has become a national rallying cry. >> we got to be about a movement. >> what has happened over the last, say, four months, this is different. the time has come for change. and i think that what has happened has implemented change. >> reporter: the only woman to see a conviction after her son was killed in his home. >> until the trial, i prayed and fasted and that's all i asked god for. to give her a murder conviction. because my son's life was taken away. i am not too happy about the ten

years. however, i believe god is in control. i am still fighting, i've reached a point where i was asking, when will it ever end? but i kept saying that i did not want to see another family suffer the fate that we did. and i am so sorry to tamikatamia wanda and to the other mothers who have lost ns. if america does not shake up after all these incidents, the tears that we all share as mothers will be the tears that will break america. >> i'm not normal. and i'm not really allowed to be normal, because of what america has done to my family. tamir, i'm his voice. that keeps me really busy with

the foundation and the platform that america has provided for me, because they murdered my son. >> none of us asked to beed to b into this world. none of us has a son out there. i'm willing to lead the way, push the movement. if i can do it, and i don't have a son out there, every black person should do it. i'm no longer trying to save the life of my son. that's gone. but if i can save the life of another mother's child, i'm going to do it every day of the week. and, i mean, i ain't stopping until i'm dead. and i pray somebody in my family picks up the fight then. >> reporter: i have to say, as a mother of a 17-year-old black son and a 21-year-old black daughter, i don't think i've ever felt more vulnerable, frightened, and exhausted. and all of you ladies, with your

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time, thank you for staying up with us, good night, america. from hollywood, it's "jimmy kimmel live." with special guest host, iliza shlesinger. tonight, laverne cox. and music from margo price. and now, iliza shlesinger. >> hello, and welcome to "jimmy kimmel live." i am your guest host tonight, iliza shlesinger. i'm so excited for this because i didn't have to wear spanx or shoes. do not pan down. with the world in crisis, and science being questioned in a violently divided country, i jumped at the chance to say something that potentially ends my career. having said that, let's talk about cancel culture. please don't cancel me. when the internet first started it was a whimsical way to chat with your friends, send your life savings to a nigerian prince, and limewire entire third eye blind albums. it came to your house on a cd and it was enjoyed sparingly. but then came twitter. and things got messy. people got messy. at first we were excited. we were like, "oh, wow, i can

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