nights flouting advice from health officials. he delivered a divisive speech at mt. rushmore. former vice president joe biden offering a different message today laying out his vision to wreck tile america's racial died. another high-profile person in the president's orbit testing positive for coronavirus. we start in florida, which is seeing another record breaking day. more people diagnosed with covid-19 in the last 24 hours than at any point during this pandemic. more than 11,000 new cases reported today. let's bring in nbc's chris palone in florida. where does florida now rank nationally with these numbers? >> hi alicia. yeah, with these new numbers, the more than 11,000 -- approximately 11,500 that you mentioned, florida has now become third in the list of u.s.

states in the number of positive coronavirus cases at about 190,000 confirmed cases. behind only california and new york. of course california has a bigger population. but new york and florida are both very similar sized states. when texas reports later today, that could change. right now, florida, as this state has three of the metropolitan markets that are the fastest-growing coronavirus case markets in the nation, according to johns hopkins -- jacksonville, florida, orlando, and tampa metro areas, all seeing huge increases in cases. >> chris, of course, very anecdot anecdotally, as you are out and about on this holiday weekend are you seeing people adhering to social distancing? are you seeing people there using masks? >> that's a great question. i have been in florida in this general area for about five weeks now.

and it was stark coming from new york to see how many people were not wearing masks, frankly. and the governor has resisted calls even just yesterday from some democrats to institute a statewide mask order. but yes, local municipalities, business, counties here in so many knoll county the county instituted its own mask ordinanorder naps, so i was out in the retail area here in the sanford area. everybody going into businesses, one guy getting out of his vehicle to into a gas station stopped, turned around, reached in the car, found his mask and put it on. people are starting to comply. of course there are protests. people are saying it is against their constitutional rights. there is a stage legislator who is suing individual counties the try to overturn their mask orders. >> running back to the car to

get your mask. relatable. understandable. chris, thank you so much. i am going to be talking to florida congresswoman donna shalala about who is and isn't taking responsibility for residents in the sunshine state. now to north carolina. the influx of beach-goers is raising concerns about the potential spread of coronavirus. amanda davis is in the beachtown of corolla. what kinds of crowds are you seeing there in north carolina? >> alicia, the beach here has been packed throughout the morning. more and more folks trickling in. that could be consistent here on the outer banks of north carolina for the past several weeks. main will he over the fourth of july holiday the outer banks chamber of commerce told me they are expecting 300,000 people each week come out here that bumpers the fourth of july holiday. really, they are expecting to see massive amounts of people

coming in here. corolla is known for beach rentals houses and cottages that draw families or small groups. as they come out to the beach, you can see it is quite packed. there is some social distancing. it is not entirely spread out. here in north carolina there is a mask mandate from the governor, but it doesn't apply for the beach. that's in public space where is social distancing is not as possible. speaking to businesses here, they are excited about having this many people coming out, especially after the past few months not seeing this kind of activity. they opened the outer banks back up around mohamed weekend and now are starting to see the usual tourism crowd trickeing back in. and some are expecting it to be their best year on record. i spoke to one business owner. listen to what he told me. >> there is obviously a little worry and we are starting to see a spike in cases. we haven't necessarily seen it here, which i think is a good sign. but, i mean, there is people

everywhere right now. again, this is the busiest in all of my years here -- it was a really internal struggle going how do we survive, especially as a seasonal business, a seasonal community, without a season? and i think that was a really scary scary thing. it is good the see people back here. super exciting to have folks back here. that's what we wanted all along. >> reporter: here in north carolina, the numbers are going up throughout the state of covid. in the area of the outer banks it hasn't been that extreme. there are concerns among county officials and locals that could see the numbers spike after the fourth of july holiday based on the number of tourists coming in. when i spoke commissioner about the plans they have, what they could implement if they see the numbers spike like we have seen in other communities they told me they don't have a next step so they would have to reevaluate and go from there. >> thank you. seeing you on the beach is the closest a lot of us are going to

get this holiday weekend. now, the president will display fireworks from the national mall despite objecti s objections. monica alba joins us. what can you tell us about the plans for tonight and the president's decision to ignore warn prosecution health officials? >> you really have the president and the white house here defying recommendations heading into this holiday weekend not the gather in large crowds. but they are making an attempt to have the people who come here later this evening socially distanced. they will be offering masks though they are not required. they will also be providing hand sanitizer. this is going to be largest event the white house complex has seen since the start of the pandemic. as many as several hundreds, maybe thousands will be here on the south lawn as the president and the first lady mark the salute to america. the mayor is answering as many as 300,000 people could be

coming to the national mall to observe a flyover and fireworks. though she warned those people to stay home if they could, she said she couldn't control that and conceded she doesn't have the ability to tell people not the gather. this is an even that's run by the department of the interior and national parks service that is being approved and put on by the president, who will be giving remarks before he comes out and sees those fireworks later tonight. it is significant after last night. we saw at mt. rushmore you had 7,000 people who weren't socially distanced. very few of them wearing masks. tonight we will see probably a bit more of an attempt to observe cdc guidelines which do come from the trump administration. as questions continues over how somebody in the president's inner circle tested positive, the girlfriend of donald trump jr. who is a campaign official. she had been at an event with the governor of south dakota and

then tested positive. she and trump jr. are going to be self isolating and driving back to the area so as not to infect others. >> as we watch the flare-ups across the country, it is my understanding the white house is rethinking their messaging and framing on coronavirus. what more can you tell us? >> that's right. we are preparing to see a new strategy rolled out here at the white house in the coming days. we are told by several administration officials it will be, the virus is with us, it will be with us through november, learn to live with it. after you saw months of the president trying to say the virus would go away, you had the vice president signaling it might be largely behind us by memorial day. you had the president's social saying the country might be rocking by july. here we are in july, and the virus obviously continues to spike. as you see now, 40 states seeing the numbers going up. what they will do in the coming days is paint a picture of what

things they believe are working. therapeutics, they are going to talk about operation warp speed and the vaccine trials and efforts. this comes during a week where you had dr. anthony fauci testifying on the hill that if these current trends continue you to key as many as 100,000 new daily cases of coronavirus. alicia. >> no way to deny we are far if, quote, rocking. monica, thank you. while today is the nation's independence day, for many americans matching in the streets in protest of systemic racism the fourth of july may not feel like a celebration. julia jester joins me from washington, d.c. where demonstrators with the black lives matter movement are gathering. julia, what are people there telling you about what today means to them? >> alicia, the black lives matter plaza has been sort of a gathering ground here today with groups of protesters and tourists coming through in solidarity with the movement

in & protesting police brutality. folks here told me a wide range of reasons why we are out here. the organizer of an overnight sit-in is calling on the mayor the defund the police in the budget hearing this week. for some folks, it is personal, they believe that it is america's independence day, but it's not their own as black people. and here is what one of the organizers told me just a little bit earlier about that. >> we already had our independence day, juneteenth. we weren't freed on the fourth of july. this is not our independence day. this is america's independence. when america became independence, we were still slaves. so our independence is juneteenth. we celebrated. this is not a holiday for me. this is not celebration for me. this is work for me. i come out here every day. this is what i do. i am at work right now.

>> reporter: while the protests here haven't been the largest crowds we have seen, this being the sixth weekend of demonstrations since the death of george floyd when the protests began, it has been a constant prns here. and as the organizer said, their work is not quite done yet. now back to the record breaking day of coronavirus cases in florida. let's bring in florida congresswoman donna shalala, a former secretary of health and human services under president clinton. these are not the numbers you want to see coming out of your state. how did we get here? >> we got here because we didn't have a governor that insisted that everybody wear a mask, that they social distance. i mean, we need a disciplined leader. and he's following president trump's directives. luckily, in south florida, we have some mayors that do have that kind of leadership skill,

are asking people to wear a mask. in fact, they are imposing mask requirements. and our county mayor in miami-dade county has actually imposed a curfew. so along with the requirement that we all wear masks inside and outside -- inside for outsi businesses, and outside, we now have a curfew and we have banned any kind of activity on our beaches. so locally, we are totally dependent on our mayors because our governor and the president has refused to provide the kind of leadership one would expect by leaders in our country. >> congresswoman, you look at other republican-led states like arizona and they are rolling back their reopening plans. what does it tell you that your governor refuses to do the same? >> it tells us that he's not up for the job. that he's following, again --

he's following trump leadership, and he he's following the president. he needs to step up. i don't know why people run for office if they are not willing to make hard decisions. our governor, we begged him to impose a mask ban. we begged him to provide proper equipment and provide the kind of clear, consistent leadership, and he just has not done that. he uses the words, but he doesn't impose the requirements. and we expect leaders in this country to bring us together. our governor has not done that. and the results, you can see. and by the way, what we do in miami, it doesn't stay in miami. what happens in phoenix doesn't stay in phoenix. we need national leadership. we americans care about individual lives. if the president intends to tell us we have to live with this, we don't want to live with one

friend who is dying because we haven't provided the proper leadership in this country. we care about individual human life. >> congresswoman, there is clearly the health crisis and the health crisis is inextricably tied to the economic crisis that is happening in this country. you talked about the fact that in miami-dade there is now going to be, you know, this -- people are going to have to go home, have a curfew at a certain point. that of course is going to have an impact on the hospitality industry. so is there then a role for congress to play in providing targeted relief to the industries that are going to be hit hardest economically by some of these realities. >> yes, my district has been devastated. i represent the beaches, the hotels, the cruise lines, and all the people that work for them, plus of course the port and the airport.

we have been devastated in miami-dade county. and we have already given a lot of help to small businesses and unemployment. but we need to do much more. and the hero's act, custwhich i senate has refused to even work on, provides some of that, we need to help state and local governments. at the end of the day, we probably should end up doing what the europeans are doing. and that is look at the first quarter, and buy out the payroll in this country. that's the only way worry going to have an investment that's deep enough to maintain our economy. what we want to do is to protect our employees no matter where they are working. so in addition to the safety measures, the squeezing down, the starving of this virus, we have to make deep investments in our economy and in our state and local governments or we are never going to be able to open our schools if state government

isn't able to provide for our teachers. >> your colleague debby powell was on in the last hour was talking about reaching capacity in icu beds. in your district i wonder how concerned you are about that and how you think it could possibly be mitigated as we move ahead and continue to see the numbers continue to rise? >> the only way to do it is do what many communities are doing. starve the virus. it requires social distancing, discipline, wearing masks washing your hands, everybody protecting each other. i can't think of anything more patriot i go on july 4th than everyone understanding what they need to do. i don't know how many times we need to repeat it, but the problem is the president of the united states and many of our governors are stepping all over these messages. we are in trouble in this country. we are not saving human lives.

and we need to save each other. and the only way we can do that is by taking personal responsibility. at the end of the day, that's what it means to be a patriot. >> right, congresswoman, thank you for your time today. up next we will take a closer look at the president's dark and devicive message from round rush more. what it means for the country and for his re-election bid. plus former vice president joenld has a message of his own for the country. what he has to say on the fourth of july. we have seen problems at the doors for the primaries. we will look at what the voting officials are anticipating in the run up to november. e antici the run up to november when our daughter and her kids moved in with us...

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we now have a clear idea of what will be a big part of the pregz's re-election message after a speech at mt. rushmore to mark the july 4th hochl it is a dark one. in the face of protests by

native americans who view the area as sacred the president delivered an address full of divisive rhetoric. >> make no mistake, this left wing cultural revolution is designed to overthrow the american revolution. >> for more, let's bring in "wall street journal" white house reporter cathy lucy. i don't think it is a surprise this was going to be some of the rhetoric the president would be using in the run-up to his re-election. what i find complicates that is when you look at polling he is on the wrong side of the american electorate. the electorate supports protesters in the street. they support the message they are hearing from those protesters. how do you square what we heard from the president with the reality of where the american public is? >> i think a couple of things are going on here. it was not surprising that he gave that message last night.

we knew it going into it. he signaled some of his tone already. he talked about left wing mobs and previewed some of this language before. and we have seen in the past that he is comfortable leaning into cultural divides since his campaign, throughout his presidency, obviously his american comment remarks at his inauguration are examples of one of those moments n. terms of where we are at now, we have seen the polling and we have seen there is a lot of support for the protest and some of these issues, we also know he is losing in national polls and trailing in a lot of state polls. the campaign knows this, he knows this. i talked to a number of campaign folks, white house people this morning, what i am hearing from them is they feel like this message, this sort of broad pro- -- they see it as a pro-america message supporting tradition, supporting history, not letting statuing be tore

down. they are comfortable there is a piece of the electorate going beyond just his base who are set up athletic to this. there are people who think that some of the movements are going too far and they are not comfortable with it. the question is if that theory is correct. we will see as this plays ow. when they are trying to do is use this message and banking on continued economic moves. they were bolstered last week by the jobs numbers. they are hoping those continues. obviously shadowing all of this is a massive pandemic. so it is not clear at all that the economic numbers will continue. because as a number of states that reopened are scaling back their reopenings. there is a lot of questions here. they do broadly -- sometimes when you make speeches people think oh, i wish he hadn't done

that. that's not what i heard today. they seemed comfortable with the message from yesterday. >> i want to loop back the your point about the pandemic. first i want to point out that former vice president joe biden had a message of his own for the american people. listen. >> this independence day let's not just celebrate the words. let's celebrate the promise, commit to work, the work that we must do to fulfill that promise and remain locked in the battle for the soul this nation. believe me, true lesion it is a battle we can and we will win if we act together. happy 4th. >> catherine, i wonder what you make of that message and how it fits into the biden team's larger strategy. >> contrasting messages. what you are hearing from biden is there is more to do here. we want to take this on. we want to improve this.

so he's really trying to provide a counter-weight to the president's message. i will say that the folks from the president will argue that even though the message last night focused on saving monuments they will argue he did things around this issues. they will say he is doing some things in the states. certainly the biden folks want to draw this contrast and feel good about the contrast they are making in terms of how they want to tackle this problem head on. >> earlier in the hour i was talking with monica alba who was outside of the white house about the fact that the administration is taking a slightly new messaging tack when it come to the coronavirus. they are now saying we are going to have to live with this for a while acknowledging in some ways the fact it is not going away despite prior messaging saying it would be gone by the summer which clearly as we watch cases spike across the country, not true. i wonder how the white house can both say in, we are going to

have to live with this for a while and then you have images in south dakota where you we people standing close to one another, don't see a ton of social distancing, don't see a lot of masks and that's not in touch with what living with this actually looks like. >> this is the pair dock. you have a rising awareness even within the white house that this isn't going anywhere. there are certainly people in the white house who agree that they have to kind of convey that americans are going to be living with this for some time. just because there is an agreement among aides doesn't mean that the president is going to change his messages or he is going to stop doing any of these thing. you saw with mt. rushmore there were i believe masks offered. very few people were wearing them. and it was a crowded space full of people. we will see whether there is outbreaks because of that. you also have events in d.c. today, and the remarkable scene of the president encouraging is

abrasion this is the d.c. and the mayor telling people to stay home. i think a telling thing that happened yesterday as well that must give people because among the president is the fact that a top aide to the campaign and girlfriend of the president's son tested positive ahead of the mt. rushmore even. this really underscores that the virus is everywhere. including in the president's inner circle, and it is not going anywhere. >> all right, catherine, thank you. up next, the presidential election is just four months away. forget about poll numbers. why our attention should be on voter suppression. voter suppression. i want... ♪ it's the easiest because it's the cheesiest. kraft. for the win win. ♪ ♪all strength ♪we ain't stoppin' believe me♪ ♪go straight till the morning look like we♪ ♪won't wait♪ ♪we're taking everything we wanted♪

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we are just under four months away from november's elections. and the kpun is facing a budding potential crisis at the polls in the midst of the covid-19 pandemic. while some states are racing to make accommodation force voting by mail, others are making it difficult for voters to cast

battle by closing polling locations and enacting other measures that could lead to longer wait times. with me, adam harris, a staff writer for "the atlantic". we have watched primaries across the country. most recently i watched the primary happening in kentucky where you had polls closing, people still wanting to vote. an injuchks was issued. the polls reopened. you were watching people absolutely race into polling places. there is at one time incredible enthusiasm and on the other hand issues about how to do it and do it right in the middle of a pandemic. what have we already learned from the primaries that have been held thus far? >> i think the major thing we have learned from the primaries is that it may be -- we may be screening to have a tumultuous november. where you have a situation where poll workers are over the age of 60, a population that's vulnerable to the coronavirus. in wisconsin during the

coronavirus you had 7,000 poll workers -- in a place like milwaukee that typically has 185 polling locations open they had five locations open during the primary. some of these issues will not be easy to fix. we will still be in a pandemic mode. we will still be in a pandemic by the time november rolls around. you are still going to have some of those issues with finding poll workers. some states as you said are making absentee ballots and mail-in voting easier. others are still restricting the number of absentee ballots. >> part of what that means is people are going to have to travel if they want to vote and don't want to vote by mail. how does that disenfranchise

voters. if you have to travel farther to get to your polling place why beyond the offense does that make voting harder. >> part of voting is habituation. when you can vote across the street, you will go to the poll. when that changes a survey found that that changes voting percent by 2%. for states that don't have mail-in balloting or mail-in voting, or make it more difficult to do mail-in voting you may see larger numbers of people who end up staying home because they are having to travel a further distance or they are not able to get to the new polling location or have

difficulty finding the new poll ing location. >> there are some basic realities that come with the pandemic and the moment we are living in. what can be fixed? what can be controlled? how much time do election officials have in order to get those thing done in time for november? >> we are getting close to the election. there is not a lot of people to do some of this. several experts who i spoke with know there aren't good solutions to some of the issues. you may not have enough poll workers by the time they goat to november. essentially, you have states that are kind of racing to put in these mail-in balloting systems. but then you have to also think about the mail-in battle that are rejected n. 2016, 316,000 mail-in ballots were rejected for one reason or another, ranging from the voter failed to sign the ballot or the signature didn't match a signature on file

or maybe somebody just misread the information. tlrl there are a lot of potential hurdles with mail-in balloting as well. one of the things that the attorney for the naacp's legal defense fund told me is that our system was unacceptable before. if you are not operating as we are still in a pandemic it becomes insult to injury, an additional layer on top of an already unacceptable system. >> we will be following this story until november. i hope you will come back and join us again. this fourth of july weekend many u.s. beaches are closed. across europe they are open, and different safety precautions are being take tony ensure the beaches are safe amid the coronavirus pandemic. nbc reports from brighton beach, glaegd. >> reporter: across europe where

beach life and tourism form an essential part of the economy states have stepping up their efforts to enforce social distancing. beach goers can use a system that reroute them to less populated beaches. in france you have to book a spot on some beaches using an on line system. much like booking a table at a restaurant in advance. that's not to say that resorts here aren't going to miss american visitors. industry experts say u.s. tourists were expected to contribute $80 billion to the economy this year. with the travel ban in place that figure will end up being much, much lower. brighton, england. >> thank you. up next, it was a big

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puerto rico has seen one disaster after another since the island was hit by hurricane maria in 2017, followed by deadly earthquakes and now nearly 8,000 puerto ricans with confirmed cases of covid-19.

but there is yet another often less visible epidemic gripping the eyan la. a stunning new investigative report out this week documents that in the aftermath of hurricane maria the number of women kld by their partners has reportedly doubled and survivors say the response by local government agencies has put more lives in danger. with me, a woman who spent a year investigating domestic violence in puerto rico. she's the senior writer at jen magazine and a ida b. wells follow in type of investigations. i read this report top to bottom. you spent a year dedicated to this investigation. what did you find? >> yeah, i spent a year looking into this domestic violence epidemic in puerto rico. what i found is that in 2018, right on the heels of hurricane maria, the number of women who are kld by their intimate partners doubled. we are talking about the murder rate in puerto rico was 1.77, in the u.s. at large, in the entire

country the rate of women killed by their partners was .7. it was more than double that of the u.s. what we have seen for years now. >> okay -- >> sorry. >> go ahead. >> for years activists have called on the government and they say they are to the doing enough. the administration is failing and they are not taking this issue with the seriousness that it should. >> part of what is so shocking about your investigation is that it really details how there is a breakdown at every level of this system. walk us through it. how is the system that should be protecting these survivors actually not servicing them at all? >> a main problem that i found in my investigation was the way that police handle these cases. in 2012, the puerto rico police department was sued by the department of justice for a vast -- like a ton of issues. it was the way that they handle,

the use of excessive force to the way that they handle cases of intimate partner and sexual violence. in that lawsuit there came a concent decree. they have technically done that, implemented new protocols on how to handle domestic violence but survivors underground say they don't have far enough. police haven't been sufficiently trained. it takes forever for to show up after a 911 call. and even if the new policies are implemented, survivors say they are being criminalized on the spot even though they are the victims. that's one part. the other part is the way government has handled this. survivors and activists have been calling for a state of emergency to be declared since 2018. neither the governor who was ousted last summer decided to do this and the governor hasn't

done this either. she did a national alert which says government agencies are put on notice and need to take this issue seriously. but in reality not a lot has been done. she has a working group that was supposed to come up with a draft. we have not seen that. the national alert happened last september. and that working group hasn't issued a draft yet. sources told me that some of the suggestions that have been made is something like creating a location campaign against -- the popular music you are ban genre. this is a matter of life and death. a education campaign is not going to do anything. what will help is to look at the failures of the system. >> you began your investigation before the pandemic gripped the island. what has the pandemic -- what has the rise in covid-19 cases meant to this issue specifically? >> in the first month after wanda vazquez issued an island-wide lockdown there were

10% fewer calls to police reporting domestic violence incidents. but the police department says even though they are receiving less calls actually the cases could be increasing. it is just that survivors don't feel safe to call the police because they are stuck at home with their abusers. so we don't have any solid data yet. but what we saw after hurricane maria is that the spike in incidents and in murders didn't happen immediately after september 2017. it happened a full year after. it was a continuing crisis ask. the coronavirus pandemic is going to be the same, right? like the pandemic is not over yet. we are going to keep dealing with the next year or so. and survivors and activists are worried that, you know, the same increase in violence and leaguity is going to happen again. >> andrea, thank you for joining us. thank you for your reporting. up next, a new generation of activists will introduce to you the warriors in the garden, the young leaders of new york city's black lives matter protests. cleaning power of liquid.

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am gen z >> this is my 23rd day protesting physically and virtually. i'm tired, but i am more tired of white supremacy. >> my political ambitions are defunding the nypd, reallocating those funds back into education in the neighborhoods that they've distraught. i also want to tackle the housing crisis. >> and one of my concerns in terms of changing law enforcement is how judiciously the law is enforced and which communities because if we do change it, what's stopping an officer, probably the same way in the bronx as they do in soho. >> and recently anonymous accounts have been receiving death threats. it's just really scary. but we still won't stop.

we're still motivated. we're still going to coalesce and we're still goingmo to reac our goals. it's intimidating but because we're a group we're okay. >> my running for city council is a win-win situation. even if i don't win the election, i think i'm starting a conversation, and not only will the city hear, but the country will hearea what i have to say. and i think i'm vocalizing what needs to be vocalized. >> the warriors in the garden have a protest set for 5th avenue in new york again today. that wraps it up for this hour. i'm alysia menendez. my colleague takes over at the top of the hour. he'll talk to robert w. lee, a descendant of the civil war general. why he thinks all the monuments to his great, great, great uncle should be taken down. and i'll be back at 4:00 p.m. eastern, we'll talk about how america is changing opinions on everything from confederatein monuments to the names of sports

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