>> before we go, i want to share with everybody this great "atlanta journal-constitution" cartoon by mike lucavic. this is the tribute he published for congressman john lewis showing lewis making one final walk on a bridge holding a sign that says simply "vote." with coronavirus on the rise, they want to see something. also, lawmakers are nowhere reaching an agreement on coronavirus relief measures. and a historic and successful splashdown off the coast of florida as the american astronauts onboard the spacex mission return to earth.

good morning, everybody. it is monday, august 3rd, and i'm yasmin vossoughian. we've investigate a lot to cover this morning. we're going to begin with the wave of new coronavirus cases spreading across the country. from coast to coast, the number of confirmed cases jumped by about 2 million during the month of july. the u.s. ended the month with about 4.5 million infections, up from 2 million at the end of june. the previous high was april when 880,000 new cases were recorded. data shows cases of the virus are picking up. illinois is reimposing restrictions and issuing warnings about a rise in hospitalizations. california recorded 214 deaths on friday, a record total for the state it. marked the fifth time in july that california broke its single-day record for deaths. and florida is nearly half a million cases on friday.

the state recorded 257 deaths, another grim record for that state. nearly 100 of those victims were in miami-dade county. also white house's dr. birx warned we're in a new phase of this pandemic and urged americans to take precautions. >> what we're seeing today is different from march and april. it's extraordinarily widespread. it's into the rural as equal suburban areas. those in the rural areas, you're not immune or protected from this virus. that's why we keep saying, no matter where you live in americaing you need to wear a mask and socially distance. >> and dr. birx strongly defended her record yesterday following claims by house speaker nancy pelosi that she and president trump are spreading disinformation about the deadly virus. >> politico reported in a closed

meeting on friday you accused dr. birx of the coronavirus task force of spreading disinformation about the pandemic. is that true, and you do have confidence about her? >> i think the president is spreading disinformation about the virus, and she is his appointee, so i don't have confidence there, no. >> i have tremendous respect for the speaker, and i have tremendous respect for her long dedication to the american people, and i think it was unfortunate that "new york times" wrote this article without speaking to me. i could have brought forth the data. i provide data every single day about the analysis. the day i brought the data and i was called pollyanna, i've never been called pollyanna. and i'll stake my principles on utilizing data to really implement better programs to save more lives. >> so the new postmaster

general's procedural changes at the u.s. postal service, they're reportedly creating backlogs of delivery that may threaten mail-in ballots for the upcoming election. he's ordered cost-cutting measures that prohibit on time delivery and requires mail carriers to leave mail behind to avoid extra trips or leave deliveries and routes. there have been delays of at least two days in many parts of this country coupled with the president's repeated claims that mail-in voting is inaccurate and unreliable. critics believe the changes are critically motivated and they're designed to undercut the post at service ahead of the election. postal workers telling the "washington post" the backlogs are becoming so dire if things

continue, they'll not be able to locate the ballots in time for them to be processed. if they keep this up, there's no telling how many days worth of delays there could be, a postal worker from california has said. also the president's re-election campaign will reportedly start running new attack ads today against joe biden in key early voting states such as michigan and south carolina. more than half the ballots in 2020 will be cast before election day. in battle ground state such as minnesota and michigan, voting begins as early as next month. there are 39 states that offer some form of early voting. trump's campaign has all but disappeared from the airways as it undertook a strategic review under new campaign manager bill stepien. on wednesday and thursday, the trump campaign spent virtually nothing on radio and tv advertising while biden spent

just under $4 million in just those two days. he in anticipation, president trump tweeted in part this, we're doing a new ad campaign on sleepy joe biden that will be out on monday. he has been brought even further left than crazy bernie sanders ever. joining us is msnbc legal analyst danny lippman left. 's talk about the strategy campaign to run new attack ads against joe biden in key voting states. what do you think of the move? >> well, it's -- you know, oftentimes you see ads in the last few weeks of the campaign, but it's only early august that they're under a lot of pressure to define joe biden as some type of scary figure that women in the suburbs will not, you know, roy tonight be president. but it offseason too late because joe biden has been

defined by his own record and his career for decades, and so it's much harder to make him someone that the american people don't think he is. they don't see him as a radical leftist when he is your kind of, you know, crazy uncle from pennsylvania. >> it will also be interesting to see the type of momentum joe biden builds when he announces who his vice presidential pick will be as we anticipate will happen this week, as he said, the first week in august. let's talk about these issues at the u.s. postal service ahead of the november election. how concerned if at all is congress right now? >> the congress is, you know, very concerned, at least the democratic members, congressmen, senators the this new guy louis dejoy is a big trump guy and

trying to destroy the postal service. he's only been there a month or two. i'm sure they're going to have hearings and look into what can be done to reverse those procedural changes to have a smooth election campaign that many people are relying on the postal service to get their ballots and to get them back in time or otherwise we might have chaos on election day. i would note that if it turned out to be a blowout for biden, then some of these issues might not matter if he's just way ahead in many of the -- you know, the early results. you would hope that election officials are starting to count ballots as they get them instead of just waiting until the -- you know, until the day of the balloting. >> you would hope. daniel lippman, thank you. stay close. i'm going to talk to you again in just a little bit. so reuters is reporting the president has agreed to give the company that owns tiktok 45 days to reach a deal with microsoft,

according three people familiar with this matter. microsoft said over the weekend it would continue discussions with chinese internet giant bytedance. trump has threatened to ban tiktok and even use his executive power, citing security concerns, that it poses risks because of the personal data it handles. the president said he's willing to allow the transfer if they completely separate from china. it will transfer to and remain in the united states and anything external outside the united states will, in fact, be deleted. still ahead, everybody, the president calls for the death penalty against one of the boston marathon bombers after an appeals court tossed his sentence. also isaias is moving up the east coast after hitting florida's coast with heavy rain. we're tracking the path of that storm. those stories and more when we come back. more when we come back.

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welcome back. the president yesterday called for the courts to seek the death penalty for boston marathon bam bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev. rarely does a person deserve the death penalty more, he tweeted. they must seek a do-over of that. our country cannot let the appellate decision stand. tsarnaev and his older brother killed some and injured hundreds. his brother was killed by police. they agree that the jurors in boston were not screened for impartiali

impartiality. tsarnaev's attorney said it's up to the government to decide whether to put victims through this. joining me now, msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos. good morning, danny. >> good morning. >> a lot of folks following this case pretty closely. break down why the appeals court decision vacated the sentence and the possible next steps here in this case. >> ever since me decades ago the case that gave us the maneuver "fugitive," the supreme court has allowed a conviction to be overturned if there's too much pretrial publicity. several decades ago nobody imagined publicity would be what it is today with the internet, social media, and everything else. right off the bat, challenging

that is an uphill battle, and then appealing a district court's daerlgs etermination isr uphill battle. all of this pretrial information tainted his ability to have a fair trial and the district judge didn't allow him to inquire about it, however they may have been biased by it. so this case is going back down to the district court not for a new trial on the liability phase but for a new trial only on sentencing. and really the only issue is whether or not he gets the death penalty or he just gets life in prison, and the court tossed just a couple of convictions on the firearm statute. but for really or purposes, the main point that it's going back down to the district court for the retrial on the sentencing phase, death or life in prison.

>> what about the presidential tweets here? do they play any kind of role if the government fights to get the death penalty back? >> it's ironic, isn't it, that the challenge is there's too much pretrial publicity, and the president adds to that pretrial publicity by tweeting about the defendant. it's interesting, going back many decades to the charles manson trial, that case was almost upended because president nixon at the time publicly opined that manson was guilty, and that threatened the trial back then. now the president is tweeting the penalty outcome he wants to see in the new retrial penalty phase. the president may get his wish. it's really up to whichever new jury is impaneled to give or not give that ultimate sentence. >> all right. danny cevallos, thank you as always. great to see you this morning.

let's talk about retired lieutenant colonel alexander vinman who testified at president trump's impeachment hare. he offer and op-ed. he writes in part. this after 21 years, six months, an ten days of active mip tair service, i am now a civilian. i made the difficult decision to retire because a campaign of bullying, intimidation, and retaliation by president trump and his allies forever limited the progression of my military career. at no point in my career or life have i felt our nation's values under greater threat and in more peril than at this moment. our citizens are being subjected to the same types of attacks tyrants launch against their critics and political opponents. those who choose loyalty to american values and allegiance to the constitution over

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that was nasa astronaut doug hurley aboard the international space station on saturday. yesterday marked the first water landing by an american space crew in nearly 45 years. spacex's "crew dragon" capsule splashed down. what a moment it was to see. they transported astronauts bob behnken and hurley. it's considered a first step in a new era of commercial space flight and tourism. also, almost two weeks into the baseball season, coronavirus cases are continuing rise. the st. louis cardinals are bracing for additional positive test results today after confirming saturday that one player and three staff members tested positive. the team's three-game series in milwaukee over the weekend was postponed, and it is unclear the

teams will play their game against the tigers starting tomorrow. but the miami marlins outbreak still appears to be the biggest in baseball with 18 players and two coaches testing positive last week. commissioner rob manfred has warned the players union the season could be shut down if the coronavirus is not better managed. all right. let's get a fit look at your forecast with msnbc meteorologist bill karins. good morning. i know we're tracking a tropical storm, but headed toward being a hurricane once again as it touches down on the coast. >> yeah. good morning you do, yasmin. yeah, isaias has been bordering between hurricane strength and a strong tropical storm over the past two or three days. it spared florida yesterday, but we're watching the impact starting to rise later today and landfall tonight in the north carolina and south carolina border around myrtle beach.

here's what's new from the hurricane center. we now have tropical storm warnings in orange from the florida coast all the way up to new york city. this is all the way up the entire eastern seaboard that's going to have to deal with this storm. if you notice the little area in red there, this is new. a new hurricane warning has been issued for georgetown, charleston, wilmington. that will be approximately 10:00 to midnight later on this evening. you still have the day today, especially in the morning hours to prepare in that region. once we get to the afternoon, that's when the heavy rains will move in. it's barely raining in florida right now. all of the heavy rain and thunderstorms are shown in the red. the yellow to the right and north of center. that's what's going to come onshore later today and into tonight in areas of south carolina and north carolina. winds are at 70 miles an hour. remember, to become a hurricane, it only has to increase at 5 miles an hour.

from savannah to jacksonville, you will not get a direct impact from the storm. you're spared once again from this tropical system. then here's the path from the hurricane center. it becomes a hurricane this afternoon and then that landfall position which i paused it right there, that's at 11:00 p.m. this evening right over the top of the myrtle beach area and the border between north carolina and south carolina, and then it slides northward as we go throughout the overnight hours. it's going to be one of those rare occurrences. we should have a tropical storm over the top of philadelphia and new york city as we go throughout tuesday afternoon. notice the 65-mile-per-hour maximum winds for the jersey shore, maryland and delaware shores. you will get possible isolated flash flooding and it races over northern portions of new england. one of my biggest concerns, when you deal with a tropical storm or low end hurricane, you're going to get scattered storms.

up to 7 inches is possible. that stripe there, the orange-ish color, washington, areas outside of new york city, 5 to 7 inches of rain in a short period of time, and we'll get flash flooding because of that. the other issue especially as we go throughout tonight during the landfall period, the storm surge forecast could be 2 to 4 feet. ite note a big powerful major hurricane, but it's taking the worst possible path up the east coast. millions will be affected by the storms over the next two days. there will be a lot of canceled beach days, and we'll also have to deal with power outages throw the middle of the week. >> let's hope there's minimal damage and minimal evacuations. when it happens on a normal year, that's not good, but when it happens in a year when we're dealing with a pandemic, it's especially dire.

>> that's the good thing about this being only a tropical storm or low end hurricane. we don't have evacuations. so we don't have to worry about people being in shelters with the covid angle. people can stay where they are. >> let's keep it that way. thank you, bill. i' ee'll check in with you once again. just ahead, the president was tweeting on hydroxychloroquine. but now his testing czar says it's time to move on. also public health experts are raising red flags about the potential influence for the race for a coronavirus vaccine. we're back in a moment. a corona. we're back in a moment worry me?. new sensodyne sensitivity & gum gives us the dual action effect that really takes care of both our teeth sensitivity as well as our gum issues. there's no question it's something that i would recommend. well, here's to first dates! you look amazing. and you look amazingly comfortable.

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welcome back, evening. i'm yasmin vossoughian. we're going to begin this half hour with several claims tweeted by the president over the weekend that do not hold up to scrutiny. first a reference to a new coronavirus outbreak and australia. trump tweeted this. the fake news doesn't report this. while the state of victoria is the site of a deadly outbreak, a new outbreak, it bears repeating australia's is well below that of the u stachlts one in 1,364 people are infected in australia while in the u.s. it is one in 70. think about that comparison. next up, quote this. when you see the drug companies taking massive television ads against me, for get what they

say, which is false, in parentheses he puts, you know that drug prices are coming down big. favored nations clause means usa will pay the lowest price of any nation in the world. never done before. watch. so according to a fact-check brought to you by the "associated press," drug prices are not expected to drop any time soon. in fact, the president's efforts to drive down costs are going to take some time and are notably less ambitious than proposals by house democrats. the president tested u.s. cases. he says, we have more cases than any other country, 60 million. if we tested less, there would be less cases. how did italy, france, and spain do? now europe sadly has flare-ups. italy has 47, spain, 13, france, 73. the u.s. reported 8,000 just in the past week. so despite the president's repeated promotion of

hydroxychloroquine, admiral brett injugiroir said this. >> at this point in time we don't recommend that as a treatment. there's no evidence to show evidence there is. i think most fictions and prescribes are evidence-based and they're not swayed by what's on twig orer anything else. and the evidence doesn't show that hydroxychloroquine is effective right now. i think we need to move on to what is effect tirr. >> so giroir stressed the performance of public mitigation efforts over conflict testing strategy at this point in the pandemic. >> the public health message is we've got to have mask wearing. if you have mask wearing, you

can reduce the r below 1 by this simple measure and stamp this out. if we don't do that and limit the outdoor spaces, the virus will continue to run. in the very early parts of the outbreak or the late waning parts or at meet packing plants, contact tracing can be very effective. whee when you have a widespread multi-focal outbreak where many are asymptomatic, testing is limited. you have mask wearing, like closing indoor crowded spaces. so, yes, contact tracing is important, but it's much less important right now than the public policy mitigation measures. once the virus gets down to very low levels again, then testing and contact tracing become much more important. where we are right now with the widespread multi-focal across many states, just like many other countries, the solution was the mitigation steps, not the contact tracing.

>> all right. so we're extractly three months away from the presidential election. public health experts are raising the concern about the potential of political pressure affecting the race for a vaccine for the coronavirus. in recent appearances, the president has touted his administration's push to develop a vaccine in record time, aiming to have hundreds of millions of doses available by the end of the year or early next year. "the new york times" speaking with administration officials, federal officials and outside experts say the government researchers are fear. of political intervention in the coming months and are struggling to ensure that the government maintains the right balance between speed and rigorous regulation. experts inside and outside of the government are telling the "times" they fear the white house will push the fda to overlook insufficient end data and give at least limited

approval for a vaccine before the vote on november 3rd. and as unemployment relief for 30 million americans ran out on friday, democratic and republican lawmakers are and a standstill in negotiations ott the coronavirus aid package. both sides said saturday talks are heading in the right direction but there's still no movement on one one of the biggest issues, addings $600 a week in unemployment benefits. lawmakers will continue to meet, but chief of staff mark meadows said yesterday on face the nation he's not optimistic for an immediate compromise from either side. >> i can tell you we've spent if last three days, four days, to get some kind of consensus to at least start negotiatings. yesterday was a step in the right direction. our staffs are actually working today, will be meeting again tomorrow. but i'm not optimistic that

there will be a solution in the very near term. >> joining me once again, white house and washington reporter daniel lippman. that's not great news saying he's narrowly optimistic. the fact is, danny, there are folks out there that have relied on this unploit benefit, to keep the lights on, put food on the table, stay in their homes. now that that's run out, they're going to lose the roof over their heads if congress can't get the act together. >> they will, and it will further hurt the economy, which president trump and democrats claim to care about a lot because without that money from the government, they can't do all of those things to, you know, keep themselves afloat. so that will hurt consumer

demand if you can't, you know, buy much, if you don't have much spending power. but congress is locked in this fight which seems pretty in conceivable because most americans, they just want economic relief, and there isn't, you know, people in thes that are really pushing for these two sides to remain at lagerheads. i think this is more of a washington fight. >> so there has been this overwhelming concern when it comes to vaccine development that this "operation warp speed" that the trump administration had put in place to develop a vaccine for the coronavirus is going to overlook some of the safety precautions put in place there when it comes to vaccine development. what do you make of the concerns raised by health experts about this possible political pressure to create a vaccine ahead of the

november election. say, in fact, the trump administration to say, wouldn't it look great for trump to come out and say, wow, look, we have a vaccine, just a couple of days ahead of the vote? >> i think there are real concerns, but also we should keep in mind if he did that a few days before the election, many americans, potentially half, will have already voted. it won't affect their vote because of the mail-in ballots and early voting, so that's a limited utility. and i don't think there are too many people who would think, oh, he just announced a vaccine, so that means the 175,000, 180,000 people who have died of the virus, they're not going to come back. and so it's -- of course, it would be a step this the right direction if we have a safe vaccine, but that doesn't negate some of the trump administration's problematic

handling of this pandemic. >> really good points there. politico's daniel lippman. good to see you as always. thank you, my friend. >> thank you. still ahead, everybody, calming tensions in the city of portland where for the first time in months, demonstrations take place without protesters clashing with police. your first look at "morning joe" is back in a moment. g joe" is back in a moment. my name is janelle hendrickson, and i'm an area manager here at amazon.

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♪ ♪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♪ ♪we can do it ♪all strength, no sweat welcome back, everybody. the protests in portland may have reached a turning point after the trump administration pulled back federal enforcement officers. according to the "washington post" there was no tear gas or other things that have been taking place for the past few months. it was quiet for a third day in a role as state police backed down arc clear contrast from

last week when federal officers were using tear gas and pepper balls. it was announced on wednesday that federal agents would take a step back from policing the federal courthouse in the city arc deal that oregon officials hoped would ease friction between law enforcement officers and protesters who vowed to continue demonstrating until the agents actually had left. so let's switch gears and get a check once again on your forecast with nbc meteorologist bill karins. take us through it, bill. >> all right, yasmin. i think i'll dive a little deeper into the hurricane center's forecast. let me show you the path forecast first. we do think this will become a hurricane later on this afternoon. this will be heading up toward south carolina and the north carolina border as we go throughout this evening. it looks like if there's going to be a landfall it would be right around 10:00 p.m. or 1 178

p.m. this evening. it looks like most likely it would be a category 1 storm. the winds will cause some damage and we will get some power outages. as far as then tomorrow, we could see this tropical storm go right over the top of philadelphia and new york city, and we could have isolated power problems along the coastal areas along the delmarva and jersey shore. so let's talk about storm surge because this will be the concern later on tonight. there's the pause point at 8:00 or 9:00 p.m. this evening. that's where isaias will likely be a hurricane category 1. 3 to 5 foot surge possible. full moon tonight. that will add to the tide and the high tide will be two to three hour before the landfall. that's why we expect a storm surge of 3 to 5 feet. than could cause beach erosion from georgetown, myrtle beach along the south carolina and north carolina border. the other issue is a lot of

people are under flash flood watches from new york city to vermont. we're expecting heavy rain as the storm heads northward, yasmin, over the next 48 hours. >> thank you, bill. still ahead, e about, as the coronavirus continues to wreak havoc on the retail industry, the country's oldest store is filing for bankruptcy. your business is coming up. ban. your business is coming up back into the enamel, to keep the enamel strong. i know it works. and i hear nothing but great things from my patients that have switched to it. i know it works. and i hear nothing but great things for bathroom odors that linger try febreze small spaces. just press firmly and it continuously eliminates odors in the air and on soft surfaces. for 45 days. walk to end alzheimer's alzheis everywhere.tion all of us are raising funds for one goal: a world without alzheimer's and all other dementia. because this disease isn't waiting, neither are you.

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welcome back, everybody. america's oldest department store lord & taylor has now filed for bankruptcy making it the latest retailer to fall victim to the pandemic. cnbc's julianna tatelbaum is joining us live from london. julianna, what's going on here? >> as you said, the oldest retailer, nearly 200 years, this retail chain, it was closed to close all of is stores under the

lock jo lockdown, and it couldn't handle it. it's joined others. neiman marcus, jcpenney, as well as men's wearhouse company. since july 1wearhouse. the parent company has missed interest payments, slashed the workforce by 20%, announced plans to close up to 15 500 stores, not enough to keep it from filing bankruptcy protection. as of february 1st they had 1,400 stores in in the u.s. and canada and a workforce of more than 1,900 people. the shock waves no doubt will ripple through several households on the back of these two retail closures. >> i mentioned this earlier on in the show, but i want you to expand on it a bit. microsoft now moving forward with the plan to acquire the app

tiktok, what can you tell us about this? >> this story has so many different angles. so president trump on friday came out warning that he would ban the chinese-owned video app from the united states. well, subsequently we learned that microsoft is in talks to buy tiktok in the u.s. from bite dance, the video app's owner. microsoft is working with the u.s. government on this deal. they aim to get it finalized by the middle of september. president trump has reportedly agreed to give tiktok's owner 45 days to cut this deal with microsoft. president trump has claimed it brings security concern to have the chinese owned video app in the united states, microsoft could potentially alleviate those concerns by taking it off their hands but by no means do experts expect this to be the end of the road. could increase troubles in the

u.s. china relations if the president continues with the ban. certainly one to watch in the coming weeks. >> thank you, so much. good to see you this morning. >> coming up on "morning joe," after the president suggested delaying november's election, majority whip jim clyburn said he doesn't think trump plans to leave the white house. and major cities across the world are finding out that public transportation may not be as risky as thought. "morning joe" is moments away. "morning joe" is moments away.

welcome back, everybody, joining us from washington with a look at axios a.m., alexi mchammond. good to see you. >> hi. >> give us axios' 1 big thing today. >> i don't know if you've been playing attention to the election, i know you have been, a lot of people are anticipating

joe biden's vice president announcement, the former vp said he would make a decision this week but those close to the campaign tell us we shouldn't expect a decision until august 10th but my sources close to the campaign, several democratic officials and operatives suggest the way that biden is taking a methodical and careful approach to selecting his running mate shows another flaw between himself and president trump. which is biden is deliberative and president trump likes to go off the fly. that presents not just another difference in governing or leadership style between these two men but the way that biden is thinking through this process suggests there's a fear of the consequences, not just picking the wrong woman but using the wrong analytics to pick that

person. one person i talked to last week who has been on a number of calls with biden's search committee said that the way the people have been asking this person about the different women on the list remains unbiassed, methodical and fair as they're ticking through what is a larger than expected list of women in consideration. >> what does your reporting show about who exactly you think is at the top tier of this list? give me maybe the top three. what is the real calculus here? >> you know, yasmin, in conversations i had with folks over the last few months really, the common theme i've heard has suggested that senator kamala harris has been the front runner, basically this was hers

to lose. in the last few weeks we've seen carolyn bass really emerge to be a front runner. there's been internal lobbying for her from influential house members. she's the chairwoman of the black caucus. and i think the campaign is not just looking at who can meet the moment but they're looking at three different questions, we're told from a source familiar, whether they can do the job as president, whether or not joe biden can work with that woman and whether or not this person is considering a liability or asset under the glare of a presidential campaign. and heading into an election against someone like president trump, who wants to brand them as the radical left puppets, controlled by these radical ideas. >> i'm going to be reading axios in just a little bit.

you can sign up at signup.axios.com. what we're seeing today is different than march and april. it's into the rural as equal as urban areas. and those that live in a rural area, you are not protected from this virus. no matter where you live in america you need to wear a mask and socially distance. >> i tell you what, that's something we've been worried about for a long time. we're talking about it when so many people from places where i've lived throughout my life were thinking this was a new york city problem. it's not, as dr. birx said, it's extraordinarily widespread and it's just impacting all of america. that was white house coronavirus task force coordinator debor de

birx. the cases jumped by about 2 million in the month of july. the united states ended the month with about 4.5 million infections up 2.6 million at the end of june. the previous monthly high for infections was in april when more than 880,000 new cases were recorded and data shows the virus is picking up speed in the midwest. state and local leaders in many missouri, wisconsin and illinois are imposing restrictions, and they're issuing warnings about a rise in hospitalizations. california recorded 219 deaths on friday. a new record, daily total for that state. it marked the fifth time in july that california broke its single day record for deaths. and florida, florida is nearing half