tonight and for this week. have a happy fourth of july. brian williams will be right back here on monday. on behalf of all of my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night. ♪ the united states hits another record for coronavirus infections reaching more than 56,000 cases in a single day. now, more states like texas are changing their policies to require face coverings. plus, a new warning from medical companies about the trump administration's coordination of critical supplies to covid-19 hot spots around this country. and joe biden hits back at president trump after he called yesterday's jobs report spectacul spectacular. biden argues that america is still in a deep hole because of trump's bungled response to the coronavirus pandemic.

hey there, good morning, everyone. it is friday, july 3rd. i'm alex witt, and we begin with the coronavirus as the number of cases continues to pile up. the u.s. recorded its most new cases in a single day for the third day in a row yesterday, more than 56,000. according to nbc news data, florida, georgia, and south carolina all broke records for the most new cases in a single day. texas, california, alabama, all recorded their second highest number of new cases. florida has now passed the 10,000 mark. as "the washington post" notes, it is the 25th consecutive day that florida has set a record high in its seven-day rolling average. in an interview with bbc radio, dr. anthony fauci blamed the surge on the push to reopen the economy. >> what we've seen over the last several days is a spike of cases that are well beyond the worst spikes that we've seen.

that is not good news. we've got to get that under control or we risk an even greater outbreak in the united states. when you look at the fact that we never got things down to baseline where so many countries in europe and the uk and other countries did, they closed down to the tune of about 97% lockdown. in the united states even in the most strict lockdown, only about 50% of the country locked down. that allowed the perpetuation of the outbreak that we never did get under very good control. >> you've been losing this battle, haven't you, recently? >> admittedly, yes, we have. we cannot give up because it appears that we're losing the battle. we've got to continue to try to educate people but not in a way where you look down on them, but to try to get them to understand the importance of evidence. >> as texas scrambles to get its coronavirus surge under control,

governor greg abbott issued an executive order requiring people to wear face coverings in public. the news marks a major reversal for abbott who in april -- the order which takes effect at noon requires anyone over age 10 to wear face coverings inside businesses and other buildings or spaces open to the public. it also requires masks outside in public spaces when it's not feasible to stay six feet apart from others. some exceptions include when people are eating, drinking, exercising, voting or worshipping. first time violators of that order will receive a warning followed by fines of up to $200 for any additional offense. the trump administration is once again sending mixed message about coronavirus testing. late last night, the president tweeted this. there's a rise in coronavirus cases because our testing is so massive and so good, far bigger and better than any other country. this is great news, but even better news is that death and

the death rate is down. also younger people who get better much easier and faster. but on capitol hill yesterday, add the health and human services official overseeing, told lawmakers the rise in cases is not a result of more testing. >> there is no question that the more testing you get, the more you will uncover, but we do believe this is a real increase in cases because of the percent positivities are going up. this is real increases in cases. we really do believe that the current outbreak is primarily due to under 35s with a lot of gatherings, not appropriate protection like masks. yes, it's important to reopen, and we believe in the guidelines, but i think the weight of the evidence is guidelines are not, you know, the personal responsibility is really a key right now. >> during an exchange with a reporter yesterday, treasury secretary steven mnuchin down

played the pandemic despite the spike in coronavirus cases nationwide. >> i think what dr. fauci said is that if people don't take these things seriously, okay, that the numbers could continue to spike. so. >> they're spiking right now. >> again, what i'd say is the numbers are up. we're obviously watching this very carefully. we think that there is the right balance, and we're working with the states on the health issues and the economic issues. we'll go to the next question. yes. >> mr. secretary, there is a record number of new infections every day. does the white house regret encouraging states to open as quickly as it did? >> absolutely not. i think we've had a very careful plan, again, working with the states. this is primarily the state's responsibility but working with the states. >> six of the nation's major medical equipment companies are warning of, quote, troubling concerns about the trump administration's coordination of critical personal protective supplies to virus hot spots.

nbc news has obtained a copy of a memo outlining those company's discussions with the house oversight committee ahead of a coronavirus subcommittee hearing. the memo cautions that the supply of ppe for medical staff is not meeting demand and that prices for raw materials have increased dramatically. it reads in part despite months of efforts there are still severe shortages of ppe and critical medical equipment and the trump administration has no cohere coherent strategy to address these deficiencies. raw material for surgical gowns is unavailable at any price. there is some promising news for the economy and the month's along pandemic amid all of that as 4.3 million jobs were added in june. however, the labor market is still down 15 million jobs compared to where it was in february. the unemployment rate also dropped to 11.1%, but this

figure is still way higher than any unemployment rate during the great depression. job gains in leisure and hospitality were responsible for the largest area of growth in june, about 40% or so. president trump praised the positive jobs report numerous times on twitter and held a news conference to highlight the numbers. however, jobless claims for last week were also announced yesterday and revealed another 1.4 million americans applying for unemployment benefits bringing the 15-week total now to over 48 million. joining me now senior health care reporter, kimberly leonard. good morning to you. lots of mixed messaging from the trump administration, first of all on testing. how is that impacting the health experts? >> well, it makes it harder for people who work for the administration who are health experts who are doctors who are trying to get the message across that it's important for people to, you know, make sure that they're standing six feet away

from people, to make sure this their faces are covered and things like that. so the messaging is, you know, sort of clashing within the administration even to be able to tell people how they should stay safe from this virus, and that's making it harder for people to follow instructions. >> and when you've got brentger rar on capitol hill testifying that the current increase is not because of increased testing but rather because those under 35 are the ones whose numbers are ticking up significantly, what does that tell you about how we've reopened and the level to which young people are socializing from memorial day on? >> i think there was this impression that as states were reopening it meant that we had the virus under control s while there are certain parts of the country where that was true, there were other parts of the country that never really had seen very many cases, and then once the reopening happened, people probably kind of had the impression that we were past this, that they were safe, and so they started to really sort of flout a lot of the warnings

that were around protecting themselves and were gathering together in larger places, and so that's why now you're seeing a lot of states reverse and shut down again. >> i want to talk a bit more about the investigation into the pandemic failures which you discuss in one of your latest pieces. where would you say this administration went wrong? >> well, there were a number of things, probably not preparing early enough was probably one of them, not ramping up testing adequately was a big one. we spoke to a will tlot of expeo have served on past commissions who have done investigations from 9/11 to the bp oil spill, and they said if congress were to look at this more closely or appoint a panel to lack at this, there would be a number of things, it would probably take a very long time to review everything from looking at individual states to looking at the distribution of various treatments, the shortage of ventilators, the shortage of

ppe, ls so much to look back on. >> steven mnuchin, the fact that he says the trump administration has no regrets, what do you think of that? >> well, it's hard to view it ha w that way. i think obviously we're in an election year and the president was supposed to be running on a strong economy, and has coronavirus has really torpedoed that message. so i do think that looking forward perhaps the administration's going to start thinking differently about this. perhaps we'll have a larger coronavirus stimulus package in july to really be able to get a handle on this, to look at how to help states, to look at boosting testing, and to look at how to help businesses really protect their workers and their customers. >> there's a lot of perhaps in there, but kimberly leonard, thank you so much. still ahead, accused jeffrey epstein accomplice has been taken into custody by the fbi. and later, new reporting

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ghislai . jeffrey epstein confidant ghislaine maxwell is behind bars after federal authorities arrested her on thursday on charges related to child sex trafficking. maxwell accused of recruiting young girls for sexual abuse and trafficking by epstein was taken into custody in bradford, new hampshire, where she'd been living on estate purchased last year. she was charged with four counts related to transporting minors for sexual activity between 1994 and 1997 as well as two counts of perjury for lying in a deposition in 2016. >> maxwell played a critical role in helping epstein to

identify, befriend and groom minor victims for abuse. in some cases, maxwell participated in the abuse herself. >> the indictment lists three unnamed victims who were minors when allegedly recruited by maxwell in the 1990s. prosecutors are asking that maxwell be held without bail arguing she poses an extreme flight risk. maxwell has previously denied any wrongdoing but did not enter a plea thursday declining to comment. >> joining us now danny ceval s cevallos. good morning, my friend. here's something to start with. how can maxwell be charged at all for acts allegedly committed more than 20 years ago, and then talk about why her conspiracy charges are for a different time period than epstein. she's just being looked at from '94 to '97. >> generally speaking, federal crimes have a five-year statute of limitations, but there are some exceptions and we're all familiar with murder having no

statute of limitations and congress has also said that certain acts of terrorism have no statute of limitations, and then in 2006 congress passed the adam wol shack which extended the statute of limitations for certain child sex crimes forever. that means that they can charge her anytime, and they have, many decades later, and as to your second question, it was the -- what was your second question now, i'm sorry? >> it's okay. i threw a lot at you. why are they different with this time period? i mean they're only going from '94 to '97. let me throw in another one while i'm with you, why is it if she's alleged to have participated in sex acts on these minors, why is that not part of anything? >> everything comes down to when you're reading the nuances of an indictment and what it doesn't contain as well as what it contai

contains, it's about what the government thinking they can establish. now, keep in mind that maxwell's conduct is somewhat different than epstein's, and you're going to have a different set of child victim witnesses, and the prosecutors have to weigh issues unfortunately of credibility. for example, a lot of these things may have happened with no other witnesses, and unfortunately prosecutors can't bring every single case that they want to bring. keep in mind also that they're contending with a non-prosecution agreement that has been hotly contested, and it may be that the government in this case wants to try and avoid any issues of that non-prosecution agreement possibly hampering their prosecution. when it comes to maxwell, her conduct, although it was allegedly in concert with epstein was somewhat different, and you're going to have different victims who had different degrees of encounters. now, when you have the conspiracy charges, those conspiracy charges make it a lot easier for the government to prove their case because all they have to show is that she

intended something bad to happen and agreed with epstein to do it. that makes it a lot simpler for the government. >> okay. so what's she facing, and how do you think this is going to play out? >> she's facing potentially life, if you add up all of her charges end to end, but realistically, that's never an accurate number because she's a first time offender, first time offenders are always going to get less than the statutory maximum. >> wait, wait, but first time offender over a long period of time? i mean, how does that apply when it's more than one individual incident? they just couple it all together? >> right, the federal -- well, not necessarily. a judge has a couple of options. he or she can consecutive the defendant, line up all the sentences end to end to end, that's pretty rare. more likely they will concurrent at least part of the sentence so you run it at the same time. secondly, the federal sentencing guidelines specifically treat first-time offenders differently

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and that bridgngs the total numr of infections among the 351 players tested to 25. at least ten members of the teams staff have tested positive for covid-19. any player, coach, or team staff member who tested positive will remain in self-isolation until they satisfy protocols for discontinuing isolation and have been cleared by a physician. the pressure is growing for the washington redskins to rename their team. fedex, which has naming rights to washington stadium requested yesterday that the team change its controversial name. according to espn, fedex paid 20 20$5 million to the redskins for naming rights to the stadium. fedex, nike and pepsi co. had each received letters signed by 87 investment firms and shareholders worth a combined $620 billion asking those

companies to sever ties with the team unless it changes its name. last night nike appeared to remove all merchandise bearing the name or logo of the washington franchise from nike.com. wow. for a first look at your forecast, let's go to meteorologist janessa webb. it's a holiday weekend, so happy holiday to you, my friend, and what's it look like out there? >> good to see you. happy holidays everyone. hopefully you're enjoying the start of your holiday weekend. we're going to see very warm temperatures. i have really good news this morning, no heat alerts are in place, finally have expired across oklahoma city into texas, but still very warm this morning, 79 degrees currently in new york city. chicago you're in the lower 70s, but expect that warmth to be heating up by mid-afternoon. we're also watching a few showers, right now it will be dry for the northeast, but that's going to pick up later on this evening. i expect around 8:00 you're

going to really notice a squall line make its way through central new york to philadelphia where we're going to see damaging winds, also a little bit of hail, very low tornado risk, but the timing goes like this. this is that cold front that has really been bothering us all week, and this is around 7:00, 8:00, you're going to really notice that moisture. it should fade well offshore pretty quickly. then all attention really goes to the south and southeast as we go into your 4th of july drying out for the ohio valley, but it's going to be pretty wet watching for the potential of minor flooding in that area. new orleans to the florida panhandle, one to two inches possible, so watching that for your 4th of july. so your forecast long awaited, there's that stifling heat we're going to see across the south, gusty storms for the upper midwest, high and dry for southern california. if you're going to be out and about for your sunday, we're still watching those scattered storms, but you know, alex, it's

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welcome back, everyone, i'm alex witt, and we begin this half hour with the coronavirus as the u.s. recorded its most new cases in a single day for the third day in a row yesterday, more than 56,000. nbc news national correspondent miguel almaguer has more. >> reporter: as our nation hit another staggering single-day record for confirmed covid cases, the summer spike in infections is accelerating in states like florida. 10,000 in 24 hours. in arizona, ventilators and icu beds are scarce as the number of people testing positive climbs to 30%. >> we don't have enough staff to staff our icus. we're about to completely max out our hospital capacity. >> reporter: with more than a dozen states setting covid records, texas, one of the last to implement restrictions now going further than in others issuing a mandatory statewide facemask policy, kansas seeing a 35% increase in cases from a

month ago. shakel avery will spend his summer recovering from the virus that nearly killed him. >> the first thing i immediately thought of my son. >> reporter: young people are driving the surge, and authorities in alabama are investigating reports college students may have thrown parties inviting someone known to be infected, then awarding the next pen to catch the virus a cash payout, according to a local council woman. >> it makes me mad as hell. >> reporter: as the nation's top doctors plead for americans to protect their health. >> i'm begging you, wear a face covering. >> reporter: it's the economy that could flat line again, nearly half the country reimplementing restrictions. >> it's pretty devastating. we just opened up. we've been open for about two weeks now since the last shutdown, and now we'll have to shut down again. >> reporter: and in states like california where some businesses have closed for good, one local sheriff is handing out $300

tickets to anyone not wearing a mask. the measures all in place to protect lives, before passing away from covid, greg pappadake delivered medication to sick neighbors and frentds friends, but his most important job was husband and father. >> he wanted to do right by everyone. that was always his thing. he would always put himself in other people's shoes. >> for some families, the true cost of covid too much to bear. >> yeah, our thanks to nbc's miguel al mamaguer for that rep. the president says that the crisis is under control. take a look. >> and the crisis is being handled, you know, if you look, we're talking this morning something to think about, china was way early, and they're getting under control just now, and europe was way early, and they're getting under control.

we followed them with this terrible china virus, and we are like wise getting under control. some areas that were very hard hit are now doing very well. some were doing very well, and we thought they may be gone and they flare-up, and we're putting out the fires. but other places were long before us, and they're now -- it's a life. it's got a life, and we're putting out that life because that's a bad life that we're talking about. >> in remarks made from his home in wilmington, delaware, yesterday, joe biden once again criticized the president's handling of this pandemic and argued that the american economy remains at risk. >> for the people in states where covid-19 is spiking, you received record high numbers of infections. do you feel like this crisis is under control? of course not. just like last month, president trump has spiked the ball and made this about him.

he doesn't seem to realize he's not even on the 50 yard line. trump wants to declare his health crisis over and unemployment solved. unfortunately he's deadly wrong on both fronts. we've already had more than 128,000 dead, and the number keeps climbing. that's a direct consequence of donald trump's bungled leadership and the total mismanagement of this crisis from the start. yesterday he was once more claiming that coronavirus would, quote, just disappear i hope, quote. just disappear i hope is what he said. it's lie deja vu all over again. we're months into this crisis, and that's still his best answer? quit hoping for the best, mr. president. quitclaiming victory with almost 15 million americans out of work because of the crisis.

quit ignoring the reality of this pandemic and the horrifying loss of american life. act, lead, lead, or get out of the way so others can, mr. president. >> joining me now again is senior health care reporter for business insider, kimberly leonard. wow, talk about diametrically opposed statements there, one from the president, one from joe biden. who believes the president and what he's saying? when you have kansas up 35% over this last month, 56,000 cases a record in a single day across this country, hospitals running out of beds potentially, and it's happening in some states. you know, the surge in 35 and under. who believes what the president is saying about everything being under control? we're getting it there? >> well, former vice president biden is trying to work very hard to make sure that the public, you know, doesn't believe what the president is sayi

saying. he's definitely using this as a way to attack president trump heading up to the 2020 elections. it is true that deaths are down, ask that's good news, but the problem is we have so many young people who are infected right now, and just because that is circulating around young people right now doesn't mean it's going to stay that way. it's going to spread to other people, so in the coming weeks, one of the most worrisome trends that everyone's watching for is are we going to start seeing more deaths? are we going to start seeing spikes in people who are older and more vulnerable? >> to what extent is the fact that deaths are down because health care officials, those on the front lines, they know how to better deal with this. they have learned since february, march what covid-19 looks like and what it brings? >> that definitely is playing a role because people are just learning, you know, how you're supposed to handle this virus. they're learning how to better treat patients. there are some, you know, promising treatments that seem to be working, and that is good news, and so we have learned a

lot since the start of this virus, but again, we don't have those spikes so much in vulnerable populations and older people right now, and so just how much of a handle we have on this, we won't really know until a couple of weeks. we don't have a handle in terms of containing infections, i think that's carelear. >> texas is going to make it mandatory to wear face masks in public. talk about a 180 on that. do you think we're going to see more and more states follow suit and implement similar measures? >> i do. often when one state sort of begins and lays the groundwork, particularly a state like texas, which is very, you know, which people don't -- a place where people don't really like the government to tell them what to do, you're going to see that sort of opens the door to other governors following suit saying, okay, they're doing this. particularly if texas ends up being successful containing this r virus. >> there's something that keeps

you up at night when you think about covid-19 and the way it has ravaged this country is t? s >> definitely the time line, when you hear officials talk about that there will be another surge coming up. it's obviously had devastating effects not just on people's health but on the economy, and there is a sense to me as to when i, you know, report these stories how much are readers going to keep paying attention. are they going to become fatigued by everything that's going on. because if that happens you have fewer people sort of following a lot of the different public health instructions, and that can make it even harder to get a handle on this virus. >> and to get out and lift ourselves out of the malaise of the economy, right? you've got to deal with the virus completely before we can get this economy back up and running full speed. >> definitely and a lot of the positive numbers we're seeing from the economy seem to only be temporary because they don't reflect all the new closures that we've had. >> okay.

kimberly leonard, thanks for the chat. i appreciate it. nancy pelosi turned one of president trump's favorite forms of denial against him yesterday when she called the president himself a hoax. here's the house speaker being asked by my colleague nbc's stephanie ruhle about the president's handling of russian bounties on american soldiers. >> the president himself keeps calling all of this a hoax and has said nothing about vladimir putin or russia or possible sanctions if the president even learns more about it. just hoax town. >> well, his hoax, he uses hoax, he'll say this is a hoax or it's a hoax that they are 24/7 trying to disrupt our election as they did in 2016. he says coronavirus is a hoax. the fact is the president himself is a hoax. >> still ahead, the new signs pointing to trouble for president trump and his chances at re-election. your first look at "morning joe" is back in a moment.

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that was a new ad released by joe biden's campaign slamming donald trump for not acting presidential. the ad comes on the heels of trump nearly doubling his facebook ad spending as polls continue to show bidden leen le the president nationally. president trump's re-election campaign may be in trouble as he continues to trail skrjoe biden. recent public polls show trump losing decisively in a number of battleground states. the internal polls in recent weeks also show the president in trouble in conservative states leading biden by less than five

points in montana and trailing him in georgia and even kansas. according to gop officials who have seen that data. dozens of republican lawmakers are sounding the alarm about president trump's dwindling re-election. why june was such a terrible month for trump. the report outlines how the president's outside allies are trying to come up with a strategic plan for his re-election. last week former new jersey governor chris christie sent trump a memo white house officials describe as a blunt warning that he could lose if he does not develop a clear vision for the next four years. last weekend republican senator lindsey graham went golfing with the president and reportedly urged him to run as more of a populist. trump's senior adviser jared kushner and campaign manager brad parscale with kushner blaming par scale for the fiasco of last month's rally in tulsa. for his part, the president has dismissed his son-in-law in meetings with advisers, especially on criminal justice reform.

as for his rifval joe biden, trump has reportedly resisted negative tv ads and would rather see positive ads touting his own accomplishments. he believes the race won't be decided until october as it was last time. president trump has weighed in on mental capability following joe biden's conference on tuesday when he was asked about whether he's been tested for cognitive decline. >> some have speculated -- >> you're a lying dog -- >> that you are subject to some degree of cognitive decline. i'm 65, i don't have word recollection that i used to have. i forget my train of thought from time to time. you've got 12 years on me, sir. have you been tested for some degree of cognitive decline? >> i've been testing, look, all you've got to do is watch me and i can hardly wait to compare my cognitive capability to the cognitive capability of the man i'm running against.

>> replooig last night to a breitbart article about biden's comments trump tweeted, quote, he cannot pass the test i aced. he should give it a try. asked if biden had undergone some form of cognitive test, biden tells nbc news he has not and biden was saying he has been tested in a figurative sense through the course of the campaign already via multiple events, interviews and primary debates. all right, let's move on to weather and get a check now with our nbc meteorologist janessa webb. once again, i know there's rain in parts of the country, but definitely we have a steamy forecast, right? it's july after all. >> yeah, so fairly quiet weather pattern that we're currently seeing. all those heat alerts we've been seeing the lats fst few days, t have expired. 90s across the board, pacific northwest to the east coast, well above average. that's not the only place that we're seeing temperatures above average. even in the north poll dee deal with the effects of climate

change from russia to siberia. temperatures this summer are 20 to 30 degrees above average, just about two weeks ago hitting 100 degrees in sections of that area so we continue to watch climate change really impacting parts of the arctic ocean into the north pole. now, excess i have heat is goino be in place as you kick off your holiday weekend all the way into saturday afternoon for your july 4th. it's the air temperature that's going to be sitting in the 90s, w a feel li with a feels like on your skin, little rock 100 degrees, houston nearing 105. make sure you have that water handy rk handy and even for the upper midwest, great lakes to northern new england, this is behind a cold front that's going to be sweeping through, but nothing cold about that front. 92 for pittsburgh for your july 4th. now sunday contending with a few raindrops from washington, d.c., to new york city. also that severe weather threat

is going to be picking up for southern communities. also, the southwest from nevada we're watching the elevated risk for fire danger really be decreased due to slightly cooler temperatures but still above average in the wings. that's really going to help the fire danger in that area. so your fireworks forecast, i know alex it's going to be looking a lot different this year with people social distancing, and people wanting to be out and about, but you're going to still deal with some rain from minneapolis all the way into new orleans. new york city watching the firewor fireworks, it's going to be a tough one with the cloud coverage in place. actually, the place to be if you want to see clear fireworks will be los angeles to san francisco and pretty quiet conditions. we'll still be in the mid-70s. >> can i just say officially i'm jealous of your tan line, i'm going to work on mine on sunday. what can i say it's summer, and i haven't gotten a chance yet.

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4. million americans headed back to work but with many reopenings in question, the economy may not be making as strong of a comeback as perceived. let's go to cnbc's karen cho from london. good morning or good afternoon. what can you tell us about the status of the workforce? >> the u.s. nonfarm payroll soared past expectations. it was much high they were the 3 million jobs that the market thought would be added so certainly an encouraging sign. keeping to mind the unemployment rate plunged to 11.1%. that

that that's better than the 12.4% anticipated. the closure of the local communities as we see a spike in infections not taking into consideration this survey that was conducted in mid june so many are trying to read the tee leaves which is a more up to date series. what you saw on that data claims dipping to 1.43 million versus 1.48 million the previous week so it paints encouraging signs, but the jobs are coming back slowly. that's a concern. we saw that in continuing claims. other data points too do offer a point of caution here. we are seeing the solvency crisis coming to the fore now. 26% increase in the number of businesses filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy in the first half of this year. this is according to data that has crossed from the legal services firm epic systems, putting in the paperwork for the chapter 11. for june, we saw a spike of 46%

on the same time a year ago. so there's fears that the payroll protection and other protection you may see solvencies and that's a big concern. >> hey, let me ask you about the treasury department that reached the loan agreement with about five u.s. airlines. what do you know about that deal? >> this is the first major loans to be dished out to the airline sector which as you know has been hard hit as part of the $25 billion set aside by congress and the c.a.r.e.s. act and so far the u.s. treasury department has signed terms for the loan and letters of intent and for other smaller airlines from frontier, hawaiian, sky west and spirit airlines. so far, the other major carriers, delta, united and southwest have said that they have applied for government loans but haven't decided whether to tap them yet. but clearly very important assistance given the american airlines is bleeding through $35 million in cash a day.

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nearly two weeks after attending president trump's campaign rally, herman cain has been hospitalized with coronavirus. the former pizza chain check give who ran in the presidential primary in 2012 was hospitalized wednesday after testing positive on monday. according to his statement, his treatment does not require a ventilator at this time. while it is unclear how he contracted the deadly virus, cain was seen maskless and not socially distancing in tulsa at the rally. on the say day he was hospitalized he shamed mask requirements and praised trump's lack of one at tomorrow's 4th of july event. and vice president mike pence's trip to arizona this

week needed to be postponed by a day after several secret service agents who helped organize that visit either tested positive for covid-19 or at least were showing symptoms of infection. two senior administration officials tell "the washington post" that pence was scheduled to go to phoenix on tuesday but he went on wednesday instead in order for healthy agents and other personnel to replace those ones who were either sick or most likely sick. arizona of course has seen a spike in cases in recent weeks and pence scaled back that trip before the delay because of the growing amount of infections across that state. this is the second time in recent weeks that secret service agents preparing for a white house or trump campaign event outside washington have contracted the virus. in a statement to nbc news the secret service wrote in part, quote the health and safety of our workforce and their families remains the agency's highest priority. well, that's a wrap for me on this friday morning. i'm alex witt. stay tuned.

"morning joe" starts right now. have a good one. >> what we have seen over the last several days is a spike in cases that are well beyond the worst spikes that we have seen. that is not good news. we have got to get that under control or we risk an even greater outbreak in the united states. when you look at the fact that we never got things down to baseline, where so many countries in europe and the uk and other countries did, they closed down to the tune of about 97% lockdown. in the united states, even in the most strict lockdown, only about 50% of the country locked down. that allowed the perpetuation of the outbreak that we never did get under very good control. >> you have been losing this battle, haven't you? >> yeah. we can't give up. we have to continue to try to educate people, but not in a way

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