birx has had an impact. we follow the cdc guidelines, impacts on deployments into host nations and doing all those things but i am ready for that vaccine to come from project warp speed. let's get that going. i don't know if i want to do with the chinese have done but we should get that out and get it done as quick as we can. >> a question from one of your incoming congressional fellows who wonders if there is a specific set of priorities for the upcoming or ongoing budget season especially next year. as we were discussing there is a potential big budget debate next year but beyond that if there are specific priorities on your mind. >> considerations have always been readiness, that is my entire tenure. build a more you leave full force. we asked for additional full-time support, it changes our business model every time we talk about it. we look at our business model, it comes down to we have value to the department of defense. i make the assessment the value is determined by how good are you and how big are

birx briefed me before coming out here. >> reporter: at times birx herself has taken the podium wearingrf and a mask to match. >> i just want to mask and be a fashion statement. >> reporter: she spearheaded administration's recent decision to have hospitals send covid-19 information to a new federal database. by passing the centers for disease control and prevention. an agency birx often complained about to colleagues sources say. she is also a forceful advocate for the president's push to reopen schools. tasked with creating new reopening guidelines after trump called the cdc's plan too tough and expensive and works closely with the president's son-in-law jared kushner that praised her to cnn saying she's an outside the box thinker and not afraid to get dirt under her fingernails. kushner credits birx for comiei up with an idea to speed supplies to hospitals, many of which complained they didn't have what they needed. birx work in two previous administrations and one of the rare political appointees held over from the obama administration. >> i'm particularly grateful to president obam

birx's comments. i will go first to the ambassador for most really a on the comments you just heard on china -- i will go first to the ambassador from australia on the comments you just heard on china. trying to launch a world health assembly to call for an international investigation on -- origins and whether this and where does this take our relationship with china going forward? >> always good to be with the atlantic council. thank you to dr. birx for the work she is doing. on the matter of china and the who, my government took a critical stance early on that, given the chatter that was going communityaustralian and the way this pandemic spread so quickly through the developed world as well as developing countries, we had to learn the lessons of what happened. why did it happen, how did it get out, what were we likely to see in terms of how this would develop going forward, and what are the lessons from that for the world? be view was this should not seen as just a cross-examination of china. i can

birx? when will she feel the urge to speak up and share some of this information as is her responsibility on the coronavirus task force? >> that's an interesting question. it transportationed from a pandemic to political narrative. trying to figure out how a desperate, dishonest president is going to pivot to some story that will -- he is hoping will convince the public he handled this with competency. the very fact that he is not afraid to admit he is keeping one of the top health experts in the hallway while he is blaberribla blaberring on is a preposterous idea. i think we're looking at something that will end up badly for the president, even among voters, so we have a crisis that's a political and obviously pandemic emergency that he is not handling well. his focus on how to get reelected, he has a heck of a pass in front of him. >> speaking of hallways, the door opened behind you. i did not see dr. birx, may have had a cameo from someone, guessing perhaps a grandchild, someone related

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birx this morning. dr.ore coming out here. >> reporter: at times birx herself has tashken the podium wearing her signature scarf and mask. she spearheaded the administration' recent decision to send covid-19 decision to a new federal database, bypassing centers for disease control and prevention an agency birx complained about often to colleagues, sources say, and a forceful advocate for the president's push to reopen schools. tasked with creating new reopening guidelines after trump called the cdc's plan, "too tough and expensive." she also works closely with the president's son-in-law and senior adviser jared kushner who praised her to cnn saying she's an outside the box thinker, but also not afraid to get dirt under her fingernails and credit it's birx for coming up with an idea to speed delivery supplies directly to hospitals. many complaining they didn't have what they needed. birx worked in two previous administrations and one of the rare political appointees held over from the obama administration. >

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birx, secretary azar, and dr. redfield with this, is we need to make sure there's daily data that is being given to dr. birx and others who are running point on a lot of our actions with remdesivir and identifying hotspots, and i would point out, and i want to explain this, there's been some confusion in the past. there are two methods of data collection. the one is a national healthcare safety network and this this is where hospitals voluntarily report their data and about 81% of hospitals were reporting their data. we need 100% of hospitals reporting data because it is critical that dr. birx and admissions,ve daily i see you use and ppe numbers. when you are getting 81% of hospital data, you have 90% of hospitals that we are unaware of their needs. we have a second method of tracking this data and it is the teletrack or data, and hhs system. this is for the purposes of provider really funding that we ask hospitals to tell us about their covid admissions to tell us about hotspots. this data ended up being more co

birx has been in nine states. she does a lot of extraordinary work on the front with an chloride as we reopen we would see embers and sometimes fires but we encourage when you look at case that the differences we're below the european union, below the average of the world and i think that speaks to our incredible work with therapeutics an incredible work with testing, 46 my tests, . -- million test. >> do you still see the main problem as the media trying to scare the american people over coronavirus? >> in many cases been beattie has tried to scare the american people. i think there's been a deficit in reporting about the cost testing shutdown for instance, when you have the fact the american cancer society saying during the pandemic we saw an 80% drop in cancer case of being identified. there are real costs to a draconian extended shutdown and you know hurt the other side of the health equation. you never heard that mammograms were down by age 7% and colonoscopies at down by 90% and drug overdoses going up month

deborah birx raising the red flag this morning in an exclusive interview. meanwhile, santa clara county leaders are questioning her recent comments about the surge in cases. a live report straight ahead for you. >>> reaction to the new cdc guidelines for kids returning to the classroom. why some local leaders are not taking any chances. >>> and tgif, oh, yes, we have your weekend weather breakdown straight ahead for you. it is friday and "today in the bay" starts right now. >>> and a good morning to you on this friday. thanks for joining us. i'm marcus washington. >> and i'm laura garcia. how many times have we said friday and we're like 30 seconds into the show? >> friday, friday, maybe six. >> good morning to you. i'm laura garcia. we'll get to that morning commute -- friday morning commute with mike. but first the friday morning forecast with kari. >>> happy friday! we are going to see more sunshine as we go into the afternoon but we're starting out with some drizzle here and some cooler temperatures and this is part of the reason why, a thicker layer of

birx and others receive the daily admissions. icu used and ppe numbers and when you are only getting 81% of hospital data that means you've got 90% of hospitals that were unaware of their needs so what has happened is we also have a second method of tracking this data and is the tele- tracker database and hhs system and this was initially used for purposes of provider relief funding and we ask hospitals to tell us about their covid admission so we could identify possible hotspots and as it turns out this data ended up being more complete, more up-to-date with information and so ensuring that hospitals are reporting it to the system where we are getting more complete data and what is the reason that hhs has had this transition where they have asked hospitals to transition reporting to the tele- tracker system and its importance especially with remesdivir tester patient that we know exactly so we can search them. >> i did confirm that that this is an open source data available to the cdc. secretary lazar said we insist they use it

birx, which it was, we will send a surge site. and that's what we're doing, we're contracting that this afternoon. thank you. >> thank you, admiral giroir. as we said, the focus today is on safely reopening our schools. and as we discussed yesterday at the white house summit, from very early in this process the centers for disease control has been issuing guidance for schools and for childcare services in early march, march 12 to be specific. and when we first published 15 days to slow the spread and encouraged people to engage in schooling from home wherever possible, from that point forward, cdc has published decision trees about how schools can begin to develop reopening plans, and just last week published new guidance for k-12 schools. next week, as dr. redfield can elaborate, in a few moments, they'll be issuing five new documents that will range from preparing communities to return to school safely to decision making tools for parents and caregivers to create symptom screening considerations as children and teachers return t

birx. in a private meeting with local and state health leaders dr. birx says the coronavirus task force is tracking rising cases in 12 cities, among those 12 cities san jose. audio of the meeting was obtained by the center for public integrity which is a journalism nonprofit. an hour ago santa clara county responded to dr. birx. county health leaders said even though there's an increase in cases, it's less than most metropolitan cities. santa clara county says, quote, we are concerned about the increase in cases nationally and believe this highlights the need for a coordinated national approach to address this pandemic, something the president has failed to put into effect. we call upon the trump administration to finally implement the national strategy our inflation needs to contain covid-19. >>> a bay area lawmaker wants governor newsom to shut down california. he says the state is quickly losing the fight against coronavirus. state senator steve glazier who

birx?there are some people in the building, nicole, who feel that, of course, this response to the pandemic has gone poorly, as you know, in this west wing in particular, there's always a search for scapegoats and always a search for people to blame, particularly when the president has so often said he won't accept responsibility for what's happened he made a passing reference of that this weekend, but we remember when he was asked a few months ago about the testing failures, he said, it wasn't his fault at all but you're right, "the times" laid out reporting that backs up what we've been hearing, as well that dr. birx certainly took a s sunnier approach to the response here while dr. fauci was more airing on the side of caution with how things were progressing, dr. birx, some feel in the white house now was telling the president what he wanted to hear it will be interesting to see if indeed these coronavirus task force briefings do start up again, will we see either of them dr. fauci has b

birx, dr. yasmin, also announced they would like these hot spot states to essentially go back to phase one now, which is shutting back down. how do you open schools when you want them to shut back down? >> right. it's so confusing. actually, what cdc has previously produced is this nine-page checklist with details how to clean schools, do physical distancing but also different guidelines for different contacts. for example, a school in dallas county, texas, see ag massive surge, versus a school somewhere in massachusetts, the state broadly seeing decline in casas. also what we saw, she didn't give a clear answer to that question. the reason for that probably is because we just don't know. mih right now is doing a really big study called the h.e.r.o.e.s. study trying to understand the role of children in the spread of this virus. it's too soon to say exactly what role they play, and almost i want, have to listen again, if the vice president misspoke a tiny bit, because he almost made it sound as

>>i don't speak the doctor birx is speculating i think that if he's making that list. he's coming off of data there's no arguing with that this map from the santa clara county health department shows a higher rate of coronavirus cases in san jose compared to some of the other cities in the county we checked in the san jose mayor sam liccardo and why he thinks doctor birx is concerned with san jose i can speculate as to why the white house liked a particular what we know is that certainly we're all concerned about rising transmission rates we're all concerned about. >>rising. races is a son of our hospitals by covid positive patients people are getting. shake more frequently here and that is a problem. >>now we asked mayor sam liccardo he says just like the other mayors of the cities on that list he was not a part of the conversation with doctor burkes in san jose, michelle kingston kron 4 news. >>santa clara county is also responding to doctor birx saying quote we're concerned about the increasing cases nationally and believe that this highlights the need for a coordin

>>i don't think that doctor birx is speculating i think that if he's making that list. he's coming off of data there's no arguing with that this map from the santa clara county health department shows a higher rate of coronavirus cases in san jose compared to some of the other cities in the county we checked in the san jose mayor sam liccardo and why he thinks doctor birx is concerned with san jose i can speculate as to why the white house liked a particular what we know is that certainly we're all concerned about rising transmission rates we're all concerned about. >>rising. races is a son of our hospitals by covid positive patients people are getting. shake more frequently here and that is a problem. >>now we asked mayor sam liccardo he says just like the other mayors of the cities on that list he was not a part of the conversation with doctor burkes in san jose, michelle kingston kron 4 news. >>santa clara county is also responding to doctor burke saying quote we are concerned about the increase in cases nationally and believe that this highlights the need for a coor

deborah birx has been seen inside the white house. >> dr. patel, two health headlines before we go one, a giant study, i think 65,000 participants in south korea that showed that middle-age kids are as effective at transmitting the disease as adults that sort of lingers over all the debates that have become political over back to school. news today about some progress on a vaccine your thoughts? >> on the south korean study, you're correct, nicolle, it shines a light on number one the fact that younger people can transmit this virus, something that we've been wondering about and it has implications for the college students that are going back to school as well as for high school, middle-age students that are thinking about physical re-entry back into the classrooms the second point which is some good news, is that this study that's published in the lancet around the vaccine was incredibly promising because it showed response. we think of a vaccine response primarily being about the antibody response, this showed a positive antibody response

birx and dr. crist at 1:30 today. i want to thank dr. birx for the time she's been in arizona. i want to thank her -- she spent in arizona. i want to thank her for what she shared on the model she is working on. and the actions we are going to take today, she found encouraging as well. know thatt people to i hear the criticism. and i know that there are differing opinions out there on how arizona has handled this virus. i want to make a commitment to the people of arizona. my decisions are not going to be influenced by any attempt to please the press. and they will not be influenced by politics in any way. everything we will do going forward will be to protect and promote public health in arizona. i have talked about protecting lives and protecting livelihoods. and when in doubt, we will err on the side of protecting lives and proceed with caution. so, let's look over the last two weeks how the cases have changed in arizona and across the country. and again, the more color, the more trouble. the more bright red or fire engine red, the more dire the circumstances. over the last

birx was walking me through pooled testing. so leading in the world in testing means we're doing a pretty good job. >> is there any reaction about the washington redskins name change? >> i have talked to him, but not specifically on that. but last week, his tweet made it clear that these teams -- they name their teams out of strength, not weakness. he talked about the washington redskins and cleveland indians, looking at changing their names, and he says that he believes that the native american community would be very angry at this. he does have polling to back this up. there was "washington post" poll that 90% of native americans sa name. and "the washington post" notes many native americans voiced admiration for the name of the team. barbara bruce said i'm proud of being native americans and the redskins, i like that name. a 29-year-old from the navajo community, i don't mind it, i like it. and there were self-other comments like this in "the washington post." >> i have a question myself and then a question for my news organ

birx leaning into a plateau and i certainly hope we get there. in a movement we'll talk about that, but my worry is we're 102 days from the elections and are the president's political needs competing if you will with an honest scientific assessment because a president in the briefing room yesterday and this is overly optimistic. >> you'll also see a lot of the country has -- has no problem whatsoever. most of the country actually. the country is in very good shape over than if you look south and west, some problems. that will all work out and it goes away and goes away quickly. >> we know it doesn't go away quickly. we're having this conversation going on six months now. it doesn't if away quickly. what should the administration be saying right now, even if they do see some early evidence that perhaps arizona would be one exam. you might be seeing a plateau in some of these states that have had a horrible summer. what should the message be? >> they should be saying that we're having a four-alarm fire in this country right now, that if you're goal

birx notes the majority of young people are asymptomatic. so by the time hospitalizations start climbing like right now in mississippi, alabama and the carolinas community spread has escalated incredibly quickly. >> the clock is in thing for re-opening schools. the largest 101 districts in the united states, 53 are starting the year completely online. in philadelphia the superintendent there back tracking from a hybrid re-opening now proposing online learning only at least until november. dr. anthony fauci acknowledging students are in a tough spot. >> in many respects, unfortunately, though this may sound a little scary and harsh, i don't mean it to be that way, is that you're going to be actually part of the experiment of the learning curve of what we need to know. >> he's saying that because it's not clear how quickly younger children can spread this virus. studies show kids that are 10 to 19 years old can spread it just as easily as adults and heart experts are concerned if students do return to classrooms there could be outbreaks like t

deborah birx, and then we will get a report from admiral gerard before other reports. dr. birx. dr. birx: thank you, mr. vice president. first slide, please. i know some of you watch what i wear, so i'm wearing this specially today. this came from the salt river tribe. masks can be a fashion statement. i want to thank the salt river tribe. it was a pleasure to speak to individuals around the united states about the issues they are facing, to meet with communities, hospital personnel, african-american communities, that was a privilege last week. i want to start with arizona. just to pick up where the vice president left off. that orange line is the number of tests performed and the blue line is positivity. countiesoes have three that we are tracking closely. the largest one being phoenix and maricopa county. but this does show that the blue team,thank to the data the seven-day average is showing some flattening. encouraging, we know that the test positivity rate is the first thing to increase, and we are hoping that it heralds a stability in arizona of at least reaching a plateau in

deborah birx and then a iroir. from admiral g mr. vice thank you, president. i know some of you watch what i wear. this came from the salt river tribe. i want to -- masks can be a fashion statement. it was a real pleasure to be out and speaking to individuals the united states with issues they are facing, to meet with communities, hospital personnel, african-american communities, the pride tribal nations, that was a privilege last week. i want to start with arizona. to pick up where the vice president left off, the orange line is the number of tests report. counties wethree are tracking very closely. the largest one is maricopa county. this blue line which is the five day, seven-day average, thank you to the data team, the seven day average issuing some flattening. we find that encouraging. also equally encouraging at this point because we know that the test positivity rate is the first thing to increase and we are hoping it heralds a stability in arizona of at least reaching a plateau. the redline represents emergency room visits for covid like symptoms. this

birx was in fivre ahe rise d recommended that some states close bars and limit capacity. kentucky ordered all bars to close at 5:00 p.m., but the governor of tennessee refused to close bars. dr. birx also recommended that multigenerational families who live together wear masks inside their homes. the outbreak among want miami marlins has reportedly grown to as many as 17 players and staff, putting their season on hold until at least sunday. n.f.l. players reporting to camp this week will be subjected to a slew of testing, just to get practices going. r.j. anderson is a writer for cbs sports. >> if baseball camp can't pull this off, i'm not sure how football will pull it off. >> reporter: barry colvin is part of the vaccine trial. >> if this is a way i could help i wanted to try to do it. >> reporter: a vaccine can't come soon enough. outside miami there is this grim sign of the pandemic: an overwhelmed funeral home in hialeah is using a refrigerated container to store bodies. it's a sign of just how hard hit this working class community is. the funeral home will not confi

deborah birx.ris, this comes after her recent comments about san jose being one of those 12 cities under very close watch. >> reporter: right. so if you live in the city of san jose you might be thinking i thought things were starting to turn around. dr. birx says cities seeing small surges need to respond big in order to prevent a more widespread search. dr. birx explaining much of the spread among young people is asymptomatic and thus testing and hospitalization data may not show how much the virus is actually spreading. san jose is now one of 12 cities the white house coronavirus task force is tracking. dr. birx said this morning that subtle changes require big action from local leaders. >> until you can see that explosion it's hard for people to understand how deeply you have to clamp down. and that's why we called out the next set of cities where we see early warning signs because if you make changes now you won't become a phoenix. >> reporter: despite this concern santa clara county leaders a

>>kron four's michelle kingston is in san jose with more tonight on what doctor birx and. >>white house coronavirus task force coordinator doctor deborah birx privately told a group of state and local health officials that she's concerned about san jose >>i know think it's fair to say st. louis indianapolis baltimore. >>doctor birx his statement not concerning to san jose city councilor deb davis i think you know we have really good leadership here in the city and county and the state and we are all watching the numbers so i'm i'm not concerned about about that san jose city councilor lundy up says he trusts the doctor's statement. >>i don't think that doctor birx is speculating i think that if he's making that list is coming off of data there's no arguing with that this map from the santa clara county health department shows a higher rate of coronavirus cases in san jose compared to some of the other cities in the county we checked in the san jose mayor sam liccardo and why he thinks doctor birx is concerned with san jose i can speculate as to why the white house liked a

birx or dr. redfield. >> well, this is a president who wants this to be his show, doesn't want anyone else on the stage with him. and i think that what we know from the president being alone is that this is largely about his poll numbers and about his re-election. that there are people inside the white house and i've spoken with two republican sources about this who believe that the president's falling poll numbers are because he isn't seen to be in charge of handling the pandemic. so, as a result, they want to put him out there, they want him to seem like he is the one leading the charge against the coronavirus. however, you know, this could also turn the other way for him. the other briefings, which we saw for days and days after the president briefed on the virus, his poll numbers started heading south. so this is risky for them. but there are those who feel that they have no other choice but to put the president out there talking about the pandemic because that is what the election is going t

birx has left. the president there as the camera pulls out. >> now, i am hearing about goggles. i don't know, deborah, do you want to discuss this? >> so, i believe dr. fauci talked about this yesterday. we have in the hospital systems, they have had people using face shields. i think you have seen that. the president sent me to make sure that we were combating the virus well on the ground. tennessee has created special teacher packs to ensure that every teacher has a face mask, a face shield, gloves, and hand sanitizers. i think we are trying to bring these best practices back to ensure that teachers feel safe in the classroom in the same way that doctors and nurses feel safe in the hospitals. >> president trump: i think when you look at miami by the way or florida in particular, he looks like things are getting much better. arizona, getting much better. heading down, heading in the right direction. some other areas, getting much better. a couple of areas we don't know quite yet, but we will be abl

birx unemployment e has been positive. in general, the guidance came out quickly, but we have not seen anything about refusal of suitable work, protecting public health, and safety guidelines. at a hearing that i testified at at the senate finance committee, only side -- one citation have been issued in health and safety --response to goodpresident pence: morning. the white house coronavirus task force met at the department of education on our ongoing effort to save lives, meet the needs of our state and our healthcare workers, to protect the vulnerable and to safely reopen america and reopen america's schools. as you will hear today from admiral giroir, we have tested 39 million americans. among those, or than 3 million have tested positive and more than 1.3 million americans have recovered. 133,000re than americans have lost their lives and our sympathy is with all of the impacted families. because of what the american people have done, the extraordinary work of our healthcare workers around the country, we are encourage

>>kron four's michelle kingston is in san jose with more on doctor birx a statement. >>white house coronavirus task force coordinator doctor deborah birx privately told a group of state and local health officials that she's concerned about san jose >>i know think it's fair to say st. louis indianapolis, >>doctor birx his statement not concerning to san jose city councilor debt davis i think you know we have really good leadership here in the city and county and the state and we are all watching the numbers so i'm i'm not concerned about about that san jose city councilor lundy up says he trusts the doctor's statement. >>i don't think that doctor birx is speculating i think that if he's making that list is coming off of data there's an argument that this map from the santa clara county health department shows a higher rate of coronavirus cases in san jose compared to some of the other cities in the county we checked in with san jose mayor sam liccardo and why he thinks doctor birx is concerned with san jose and i can speculate as to why the white house liked a particul

this morning doctor birx briefly on before coming out here and at times berks herself has taken the podium wearing her signature scarf and i'm asked to match i just want to mass can be a fashion statement. she spearheaded the administration's recent decision to have hospital son covid-19 information to a new federal database, bypassing the centers for disease control and prevention. an agency burks has often complained about the colleague sources say she is also a forceful advocate for the president's push to reopen schools tasked with creating new reopening guidelines after trump called the cdc's plan quote too tough and expensive she also works closely with the president's son-in-law and senior adviser jared kushner who praised her to cnn saying she's an outside the box thinker but also not afraid to get dirt under her fingernails kirschner credits birx for coming up with an idea earlier in the year to speed delivery of supplies directly to hospitals. many of which were complaining they didn't have what they need it now has worked in 2 previous administrations, and as one of the r

birx and cdc director dr. robert redfield to discuss school preparedness as we headed to the fall -- head into the fall. thater this week announced piedmont, atlanta will have 62 beds in the markets tower. i want to thank the team at piedmont as well as the vision of atlanta philanthropists for their forward thinking in planning this tower over five years ago. we will continue to add beds where needed. because of patient profile and options available, hospital stays are shorter than they were when he first started. we are confident in our plan which provides the best possible care without bankrupting our hospitals. rest assured, safeguarding surge capacity means a top priority of my administration. -- remains a top priority. we have witnessed record demand for testing as dr. toomey mentioned. while georgia is reporting nearly 20,000 tests every day, we know more is needed. 172 state-runhan testing sites open and we will continue to partner with local and private entities to expand access in targeted communitie

birx encouraged it when she was here. >> so when dr.x comes and warns you you could be in serious trouble, why open bars at all? it seems to me if you're sitting close to someone in a bar at 6:30 at night, it's just as dangerous at 11:30 at night. >> absolutely. it's something we seriously considered. we thought the greatest threat and where the most immediate action needed to take place is where we saw the complete lack of falloff and compliance and that's why we decided to go the route of closing bars and restaurants at 10:00 p.m. >> when you are the mayor of a terrific city like columbus and look south, you look at miami, you look at houston, what are your concerns? >> well, obviously, we have to continue with this very aggressive community testing and contact tracing and investigation efforts, so that we know more about how this -- this is community spread. this is completely within our control and power at this point. and one of the things we announced just yesterday when we decided that columbus city schools, the largest school di

birx said. hard to imagine running a school where you can't have more than ten people inside of a building. as long as those hot spots remain, it's going to be very, very hard to open schools and keep them open. now, as a parent of three kids, i find the idea that the kids don't go back to school to be awful. but here we are and we're just not taking the virus seriously. >> and certainly you point out a difficult situation that schools are facing right now. cdc did put out guidelines, the president has trashed those guidelines when it comes to how those schools should reopen, wearing masks, staying home when appropriate, staggering schedules, a backup staffing plan, modified seating to allow social distancing, and the closing of communal spaces. the president said this is too strict. do you agree with that? >> i do not agree with that. i think the cdc's recommendations are really basic. and, in fact, i think they should go further. you can open up schools anywhere you want. that's really not the

so, we need to see fauci and birx and redfield back on the podium. otherwise, it's just a political rally. it's just another presidential political rally. >> and i'm also just wondering, just real quick, what you actually -- what is gained and learned at the briefing. you know, he said at one point it's all going to work out. it is working out. i love the optimism that it is going to work out. i love being a can-do society. but you've got to put the processes in place and putting national strategy in place to actually get it to work out. >> right. this is something that i think docs deal with all the time. jonathan and i have talked about this. everybody wants to be hopeful, sure. but honesty has to lead the way. full transparency and frankly a plan. that's what patients want. that's what the country wants is a plan. here's the problem. here's the solution. here's how we're going to get to this and here's how we're going to implement that solution. that's what we're still not hearing. so, you know, sometimes you walk away from these briefings and i t

deborah birx of the coronavirus task force has a very different message. she's sounding the alarm about the rise in cases in the states that you see in yellow on this map. and there's a lot of them. all of this as presumptive democratic presidential nominee, joe biden, says he will choose his running mate next week. and there's this piece of paper that could hold a big clue. these were his notes yesterday, caught on camera during a speech in wilmington. they feature kamala harris' name at the top there. okay, let's begin our converage with cnn's joe johns. he's live at the white house. >> it was just last week that the president appeared to be adopting a more responsible approach to the way he talks about the pandemic, but then in his latest briefing, hep returned to the old, flawed misleading themes that have undermined his credibility as well as the administration's attempts to get out a clear and consistent message on covid-19. as the united states moves even closer to losing 150,000 people to the deadly disease, president trump used tuesday's coronavir

birx, dr. fauci, they're giving me everything they know and i come out and report, tell everyone what is going on. it is a very concise way he said of doing it. let me get dana bash into this conversation as well. he was very determined that he was going to be running the show and let the medical and scientific experts stay behind the scenes. >> reporter: that's right. look, that was an important question and the answer we got was that he wants to, you know, he has enough information. but the reality is, take for example what the president said about children. that children have strong immune systems and that they aren't as susceptible, which is why he continues to push children to go into school, for the schools to open. didn't answer the question specifically on what his strategy is. i should add that. but if dr. birx were there, if dr. fauci were there, the obvious follow would have been, well, medical professionals, what is your opinion based on your degrees and experience, not based on wha

birx is currently out there advising on testing. give them the supplies, but they've got to use them in the best way possible to get results as quickly as possible, but rest assured. we are totally engaged. emerald48 states and the distrif columbia. 55% of the sites are located in counties with moderate to high vulnerability. 201 additional sites will be going live, and that is on top of the 1300 federally qualified health centers that are out there testing in the commercial testing sites. >> more white people are killed as an answer to what black people are still being killed by the police. but by percentages, black people are about three times more likely than white people to die in a police encounter. if the president won't even acknowledge that, how can he fix the problem? >> secretary mcenany: the president has routinely acknowledged the absolute atrocity of the case of george floyd. our hearts go out to that family still. he was noting a fact that when you look at unarmed killings, police interactions in this country, that you

birx and i, we're shoulder to shoulder, dr. birx, dr. fauci, dr. redfield, steve hahn, and myself, the data seem to indicate that if you close the bars, if you limit restaurant capacity to 25 or maybe even 50%, somewhere in that range, you get 90 plus percent mask wearing in public, and you have good hand washing, it's essentially equivalent to shutting down the economy. now, if you don't do that, and people don't achieve those goals, particularly mask wearing, there may be no alternative. but what we're you do emphasize is places like phoenix that have done this so well, they had a really hot, terrible outbreak, and they're not over with this yet, but they turned that corner dramatically by having these steps. and we're starting to see this across the sun belt. so if you don't do that, there is no alternative. but i believe the american people would much rather do these simple measures and keep the economy going, avoid the emotional, social, mental consequences, the lack of cancer screening, the lack of vaccinations, all the things that go with a

birx. >> we were not aware that we're on this list created by dr. birx. help me. help me.ublican. forget 100 days to an election we're in the middle of a pandemic. the white house says it has this important data, baltimore is on the list and baltimore is not told? >> yeah, why is this a big secret, john? i mean, really, what we need to have is everyday we need to have a presentation by our federal officials, by the cdc, about what is happening, what is the state of the outbreak what are the areas that are of the most concern. we need to see this real time dashboard of metrics like what is the test positivity rate, how many tests are coming back, what percentage of tests are coming back within 48 hours. over 48 hours, the tests are essentially worthless. how many cases, what percentage of cases are actually being traced, so we know whether contact tracing is sufficient. we need to have those data at our fingertips so we can make decision. as parents, our administrators are deciding about schools reopening, we need that data available too. it shouldn't be a -- it shouldn't b

deborah birx raising the red flag this morning in an exclusive interview. >>> meanwhile, santa claranty leaders are questioning her recent comments. a live report straight ahead. >>> reaction to the new cdc guidelines for kids returning to the classroom. why some local school leaders are not taking any chances. >>> and if you've heard it once, you've heard it before and i'm going to say it again. tgif! we have made it to the weekend. a breakdown of that weekend forecast for you coming up in just seconds. it is friday and "today in the bay" continues right now. and a good morning to you on this friday am i'm marcus washington. >>> and i'm laura garcia. we all love what we do but we love fridays, don't we, team? >> saturday it pretty good, too. >> and we love the bay area weather. it usually always cooperates. i think it will again, kari. >>> it will. we'll have a beautiful weekend but warmer. we're enjoying a touch of a cooldown today as we start out with a live look outside in san jose. we'll see our temperatures gradually warming up as we normally reach 82 degrees, we're going to st

birx have any advice for you? >> she did. throughout this we haven't gotten clear advice from the white house, but i heard loud and clear that the recommendation was to shut down bar activity, to reduce restaurant capacity back to 25%. if we don't close bars, close them at 10:00 p.m. so there are fewer people on patios and institute mask requirements at all times. not just in doors as we have in kansas city. that would be different. currently our mask isn't under a mask order, but i think we are seeing we don't want to be in challenged areas like texas and the sunbelt. we are trying to listen to dr. birx advice. she has not called us every day. i am taking this seriously. >> i can't believe that bars are even open. anyway. you are one of a group of mayors calling on congress to block the trump administration from sending unwanted federal agents to your city. the president said this is about fighting crime. mayor, how do you see this? >> if it was about fighting crime, it would be in all cases a cooperative collaborative proce

birx said masks could be fashion statements. but the president has suggested that some wear masks only to protest him. was that a message to the president from his own task force there? >> reporter: maybe. how could it not be, i guess is the way you look at it. most importantly, it is a message to the american people. wear a mask. because that is the best way among other ways to mitigate this virus when and if you are trying to get as close as you can to normal daily life. and that was quite an image. that is quite an image to have every senior leader of the president's task force, including momentarily the vice president himself wear a mask and the fact that they all came out and gave little plugs for the people who made the masks. they are doing what everybody else is doing, which is incorporating these masks, i have one right here and i'm sure you do next to you and into their lives and safety and wardrobe, all of the above. >> and dr. birx said it could be fashionable but most of the point it keeps everyone safe. dana, thank

deborah birx comparing the outbreaks in texas, florida, and california, to the northeast early on in the pandemic. >> what we have right now are essentially three new >> reporter: california setting another record. a second day in a row. cases still skyrocketing in florida. more than 300,000 new infections in just the past month. more than 50 florida hospitals have no available icu beds. doctors suiting up in ppe, giving us look inside miami's jackson memorial hospital's expanded covid ward.

debra birx, dr. birx said the virus is traveling up into tennessee and the midwest and into ohio and indiana and that may reproduce what we have in the southern united states, which is probably the third worst epidemic just the southern u.s., third worst epidemic in globally. we've got teachers who are scared and now threatening to go on strike because they know their being placed in harm's way by being forced to go into schools in the middle of communities where there is lots of raging covid-19. the major league baseball season may be unraveling. nothing is going well and this has become a full fledged homeland security threat as we descend into chaos and the question is what puts the brakes on this and what prompts the reset and, you know, i'm of the opinion we have to take this out of the white house. there is no productive work getting done there. it's hydroxychloroquine and chinese communist party conspiracy theories and deflecting to the world health organization. every excuse on the planet exc

upon the white house to shutdown the coronavirus task force and get rid of tony fauci and deborah birx. meanwhile you had andrew cuomo, we've done a good job, but we're not going to let the following states send people our way because they have too much covid. we're acting more like 50 -- we should include guam and puerto rico and so on. 50-plus individual nations than we are like a single national response. >> the only, to me the only sort of moon shot here as far as i can tell is like a very fast 100% mask adoption, the data that's accrued the last several months has really suggested in terms of like effectiveness versus cost and hassle. it's the sort of easiest thing we have. you have abbott today issuing a mask order for any county in the state that has over 20 cases,

though birx pointed to some encouraging signs infections she said may be plateauing in those hot spots as well as arizona. this comes as the cdc is pushing for kids to go back to school in person. critics contend that the country's top public health agency may be being politicized to please president trump. even officials acknowledged that it is still an open question how much young peopler spread the disease. as cnn's nick watts explains for us now. >> reporter: the president backed by new cdc guidelines pushing hard for schools to reopen. brick and mortar. >> being at the school, being on the campus is very, very important. >> reporter: but is it safe? the cdc says scientific studies suggest that covid-19 transmission among children in schools may be low. emphasis on "suggest" and "may." >> i think we still need to learn a lot about children, elementary schoolchildren getting infected and whether they either spread or not efficiently to adults. >> reporter: in hot spots, schools should figure out a plan with local health officials, says the cdc. >> right now the virus is controlling