at the moment, we know they have had test flights in westport, connecticut with the westport police over there, but like you mentioned, ashley, there are a lot of concerns about privacy so the police force over there scrapped the plan. however, westport police did say the nypd, that's new york police department, is looking into them. we reached out to the nypd and they didn't deny it. they provided us with this statement. quote, the nypd regularly reaches out to various police departments and law enforcement agencies to discuss and exchange information regarding best practices and the use of various forms of technology. there are no plans at this time to purchase this particular product. i reached out to a contact at the federal aviation association or faa, i should say, sorry, and they said so far, the nypd hasn't put an authorization request to start flying it around new york and when i asked the faa again, a government agency, about privacy, they said they monitor security, not privacy and these drones, although they use biometrics to determine your heart rate, breathing rate, et cete

but westport police did confirm that the nypd reached out to them to find out more about these dronesdeny it, but they said they isn't purchased any of these -- haven't purchased any of these drones. i spoke to an attorney who said it's a fine balance between public health and maintaining one's privacy. listen in. >> with any new technology, there the stands to be privacy concerns and, of course, some of those concerns are well-founded. it's always a test of weighing the risks, weighing the potential invasion against the public good. >> reporter: despite the fact that these drones use biometrics to check your temperature, the company ceo of dragonfly says as it stands now the drones are not designed to identify people. melissa? melissa: kristina, thank you. connell, what do you think about this? i don't understand. how -- [laughter] so if they're over your head and they decide that someone in a crew down below them has a fever, then what? i mean, what do they do, land on that person's head, take pictures? send the police out to swat around them? how is that actionable information? cop

rob joins us from westport, connecticut, with more. good morning, rob. >> reporter: good morning, eva. we had widespread summer thunderstorms really across two-thirds of the eastern part of the country. many of which came severe and had flash flooding of it. this is a video overnight out of indiana, where they had some water rescues. they had heavy rainfall there. eastern pennsylvania, new jersey, had winds gusting to 60 miles an hour. look at this, the shelfie cloud structure. mothership coming in there with damaging winds. all right, flash flood watches posted with this next cluster of thunderstorms going. we got three, four pockets of severe weather potential. northern plains to the carolinas and to the northeast again. new england, i think will see storms fire in the afternoon which will have large hail, damaging winds, a brief tornado or two i think more to the south and west towards charlotte overnight tonight. fires south of salt lake city, this is a brush fire that erupted about 200 acres, at least 30 homes evacuated by this. t

scott gottlieb, in westport connecticut.ctor: good morning. >> john: i want to start with just your basic assessment. what is happening right now with this pandemic? >> doctor: well, these are major epidemics under way in the south and southeast right now. you look at texas, with almost 6,000 cases, california, almost 6,000 cases. georgia is getting hot with 2,000 cases. florida with 10,000 cases, and texas with about 5500 people hospitalized. this is community spread that has been under way for some time. it will be hard to extinguish. we'll have many weeks ahead of us of tses even ifressive actions right now, which across the board we're not doing. a lot of the discussion is are coming down, but that is not likely to stay that way. we're likely to see tot daily deaths start to go back up again. >> john: so your point is, this can't be changed or turned off with a switch that while we're seeing big numbers, we should expect them for a while and more bad news? >> doctor: well, look at new york. new york implemented the stay-

. >> we turn now to former fd commissioner scott gottlieb who is in westport, connecticut this morningorning to you, dr. gottlieb. >> good morning. >> brennan: we heard that the number of covid-19 cases exceeded 30,000 a day for the first time in about seven weeks. what is happening? >> well, we are seeing resurgence in the south and southeast, they really not got rid of their epidemics and we are seeing spread that is quite high as theyreopeat s continued toncreasso, ychallee at was fiontry iowcingyon in thh worris that a int exonential growth coming this week. because the cases are building quite quickly in texas, florida, alabama, south carolina, north carolina, the arizona, and the challenge with exponential growth everything looks okay until suddenly it doesn't so this is something that has to be a concern of everyone that has been watching this. >> brennan: when you say exponential growth, are you saying that hospitals are about to get overwhelmed in places like arizona and texas? >> that's the concern. so if you look at places like arizona the hospitals now are getting pressed.

he joins us from westport, connecticut. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> brennan: dr.protests are a perfect setup for the spread of the virus. so even though these protesters are young and wearing masks, you believe this will ignite more of an outbreak. >> well, we're certainly going to see transmission coming out of these gatherings. the there's no question about that. the prevalence in the united states of infection right now is one in 200 people. you can estimate how many people probably have the infection in these gatherings. i think the idea of reducing the risk from these protests is a shared responsibility. there are steps that the protesters can take. and and you see many of them wearing masks in these protests and understanding the risks. there are also things authorities can do, i think, in terms of how they deescalate the situation. the best science we have is a recent study that came out of germany, where there were large gathering in germany, and they looked at what the spread was coming out of those gatherings. these were festive gathers, but they were la

scott gottlieb joins us from westport, connecticut.ing to you. >> good morning. >> brennan: do you set us straight here? the c.d.c. said this week that expanded testing is what accounts for this increase that we're seeing in covid-19 rates and that hospitalizations nationally are going down. but then dr. anthony fauci publicly said that what's happening is "something obviously that's disturbing." who is right? what's going on? >> well, hospitalizations nationally are flat. they're not going down. they're flat when you look at the total hospitalizations across the entire united states. what we're seeing is that parts of the country that had persistent spread that never crushed their epidemic now have flare-ups in surging cases as they reopen. that was expected, but the challenge is parts of the country, states like texas, florida, georgia, north carolina, south carolina, where you see those outbreaks right now, never really reduced the number of cases substantially. they had spread. it was persistent. now it's flaring up some in arizona

this is after westport police in connecticut were looking into the pandemic drones but citizens were very concerned about privacy. so they scrapped those plans. we know privately, neil, is a major concern and the company says these drones at this moment are not designed to identify people. so lots of information to take in. i will throw it back to you with a lot of city officials listening, trying to respond, take care and concerned about public health as a top priority. back to you. neil: all right. thank you very much as kristina pointed out here this, is occurring at a time, the backdrop in new york and five boroughs that make up the greater new york city area have been dealing with protests and in fact thousands of people have been crammed together in a lot of the protests. the governor himself acknowledging acknowledging that you can't stop that, they should be aware of wearing masks and the like. new concern afoot by cdc officials that these protests themselves going to trigger new cases of coronavirus in this country. too early to say but it's almost irrefutable now given the

plan is to let everybody into the football stadium anybody can come watch we had a situation in westport connecticut before this was an epidemic 50 people gots together for a birthday party one person had corona at the end of the party half of them had it and it was off and running on the east coast. it worries me that we are contemplating putting hundreds of thousands of adults and students into stadiums especially when the professional sports leagues are not entertaining that ideaea . what is your understanding today? we will have fans in the stadiums in your conference this fall? >> i cannot speak for others but we are not look at going beyond one fourth of the capacity of the stadium right now. this has mapped out just like classrooms and dorm rooms to measure distance and exceed the requirements we will be doing that so it comes out one fourth the way we've done it we know outdoors is very differente and very hard to spread this outdoors but we will take an abundance of caution approach. i cannot tell you about indoor sports i don't see a way we can proceed on the basis we have been

essential trip card, not to take a taxi all the way downtown, but, for example, to take a taxi to westportalor to the boulevard where they can transfer to a muni line to get them the rest of the way. we're trying to serve all san franciscans with significantly reduced resources while also making sure that we're shifting our resources in ways that are socially equitable. which means creating real tradeoffs in terms of geographic equity. >> commissioner yee: well, i think that is a good -- i mean, a general answer to give. but i get calls around these issues. and whatever we're doing, i know that we're doing the best we can with limited resources, but i think that it's incumbent upon me to point out that there is really a lack of services on the westside. >> there is a lack of services on the westside. >> commissioner yee: yeah. and you have to cut services by 30% as i think that we have discussed 30% of the service that was cut were on about 60% of the lines in which many of them are in my district. so i wanted to point out that we need to find better solutions. it's not really working out we

we had a situation in westport connecticut before this was an epidemic where 50 people got together for a birthday party, one person had coronavirus, one of the first in the northeast to have it. at the end of that party half of them had it and the virus was off and running on the east coast. it worries me that we are contemplating putting hundreds of thousands of adults and the students into stadiums, especially when the professional sports leagues don't seem to be entertaining that idea. what is your understanding today? will be have fans in stadiums for events in your conference this fall? >> can't speak for any others but we are not looking at going beyond one fourth of the capacity of our 57000 stadium right now. this has been mapped out just as we mapped out classrooms and dorm rooms to measure distance and exceed the requirements that we would do this. it comes to about one fourth on what we have done and we know outdoors is different and that is very hard to spread this outdoors but we will still take an abundance of caution approa approach. i cannot tell you about indoor sports

i am a native san franciscan who grew up in the sunset district and now live near westportal. i'm not a developer but i own my own remediation company and have been busy for the last 16 year. my objective is to increase the housing availability in the neighborhood which is in my opinion one of the most important things at this time, along with maybe creating a few jobs during these difficult times. during some of the planning commission hearings and many of the appeal documents, i have read -- i have heard from those opposing the project, many references to the porch being authentic. but this is invalid. if you look at the photos closely, that porch is complet completely an addition to the original. and i know that for firsthand because i had to rebuild that porch, okay, with some -- it's all made out of pine and back then they didn't use pine, they used redwood. so that is an addition. also i have heard from those opposing that the current tenants that are in the building will be displaced and evicted but those same tenants approved this project with a written statement to su