joining us now, mayor dan gelber.eard you say that only 17% of people testing positive are contact traced. can that possibly be right? >> it is right. you know, and it's really discouraging, because when you shelter in place, you lose an incredible amount of your economy, people, you know, lose their jocks, and the hope is that when you come out of it, you're going to be able to control the surge of the virus. that's why the cdc says that contact tracing is a, you know, a core state responsibility. and in fact, in florida, ironically, the county health departments aren't the counties or the cities. they work for the state of florida. they work for the governor. so, this was right in the responsibility of the governor and the surgeon general. and we watched our numbers just skyrocket. and we've learned that we didn't have enough people at all to sort of even call people up and say you need to quarantine. who else were you with? do all the things that a contact tracer is supposed to do. and then they're doing that in ot

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joining us now the mayor of miami beach, mayor dan gelber. thank you so much for joining us.anta issuing a stay-at-home order. and now the mayor of houston just said his city needs a two-week shutdown to get the virus under control. they obviously hope. is that something you think miami beach needs to do as well? >> well, i consider my city's efforts and my commission along with the county as a whole. today on a koul with a couple dozen mayors, nobody was saying let's rush into that because they are trying to do everything we can until we get to that point. we have a 10:00 p.m. curfew. we've stopped liquor sales after a certain time. but if we don't get a handle on this, then i think we all agree that that's where this is going to end up. and right now we're in a pretty serious territory of seemingly unconstrained spikes upward and all the bad metrics. >> the numbers are terrible. the california governor, gavin newsom, just ordered the closure of all indoor activity throughout the entire state. that affects 40 million people in california. should florida governor ron desantis

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now, the mayor of miami beach, dan gelber. who recently wrote to the governor criticizing his administration for the surge in cases in his area. quote, a large part of the blame, he writes, falls on an unprepared and understaffed operation. thanks for be with us. i'm sorry it's under these circumstances. governor desantis said to reporters back in may. about how florida was going to be just like new york. florida, now, sadly, has overtaken new york in the number of cases, nearly, surpassing california. do you point to the governor's decisions on this? >> well, i think, certainly, when it comes to the contact tracing, i do. because in dade county, miami-dade county in florida, the department of health who works for the governor does all the local health. there is -- there are no health departments in the county or city. they are all reporting to the governor. and the cdc said you don't open up unless you have very good contact tracing. it was a core state responsibility and it was the first thing they mentioned as the state res

with me, miami beach mayor dan gelber. mayor, thank you for jumping on tv with me and i mean, what you all are doing in miami, you're saying, anyone in a public area indoors or outdoors where they cannot social distance will have to wear a mask. how do you enforce that? >> well we create add $50 fine, because reverting to arrests seemed pretty impractical and not something we wanted to do. also we'll have ambassadors giving out tens of thousands of masks in public places especially our nom naiinateds w the idea to urge compliance. look, there's not a lot of stuff left in the tool kit and we're trying to do everything. restaurants closed at midnight. a curfew we start tonight at 12:30. liquor stores closed at 8:00 p.m. doing everything we can, because we don't want to end up sheltering in place again. >> what do you say to the folks who say, i don't want to wear a mask. you're infringing upon my freedom? what do you say to them? >> that's ridiculous. it's just -- secondhand smoke, it's the same thing. it's not your freedom.

the mayor of miami beach dan gelber is joining us. mayor, thanks so much for joining us. a major concern of florida right now is hospital capacity. we are told that dozens of hospitals in the state have no more room in the icus. give us an update first of all on hospitals in the miami area. >> well, miami-dade county still remains the largest. we have over 2,200 admitted patients. we have 513 in icus. almost 300 on ventilators, which is a hundred more than it was when we last sheltered in place. we've had about 1,300 deaths in just miami-dade county. our capacity is getting high. one of the things you got to think about though is we're getting better at increasing our capacity. but we also have to realize that the mere fact that we can increase our capacity just means that we are processing more human suffering because everybody who's hospitalized, a certain percent are going to go into the icus and a smaller group will go onto ventilators and succumb to the disease. we can't just focus how to stop people from catching this virus right now. >> miami beach, i know, has imp

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let's go to dan gelber right now because, for people who want to swim in the miami area, good luck.ajor beaches are closed, certainly in miami-dade, also in broward county. the mayor had to make a tough call in his own neck of the woods to do that, and it was concern about people, you know, flay grantly ignoring distancing and other restrictions. mayor, very good to have you back with us. how long will the beaches be closed? do they reopen next week? what's the latest? >> well, the county mayor has closed the beaches through the weekend. we've closed liquor stores, this is a curfew countywide at 10 p.m. we've had enormous spikes in south florida and miami, and the result has been if we don't take really substantial action right now, i think it's prosecutor pretty clear the trajectory's going to be something we can't control in a week or two. neil: i'm getting the sense, and some people are, that maybe things are getting out of control in florida. the spike in new cases, it's hit a daily record i think for three days running. i'm just wondering what you think is going on. >> people a

joining me is miami beach mayor dan gelber.nt to talk about the icu capacity in another moment, but another statistic that jumped out to me this morning, this is very concerning and it has to do with the elderly. jackson health reports that the number of people 80 years old and older who have been admitted over the last two weeks has basically doubled. that's a 100% increase in over just two weeks and yes, this recent surge fueled by young people but it does appear that now we are seeing an impact on the elderly. what are your concerns here? >> well, it's pretty obvious what's happening and that is that people aren't respecting this virus, especially younger people. their going out, they're having parties. they are not exercising social distancing and of course they have family members who are older. we have too much virus in our community. we had over 3 thousand cases in one day earlier this week which is enormous in just our county. so we just have too much virus. the positivity percentage is something like 25%, so there's to

here to discuss is miami beach mayor dan gelber. i'm glad to speak with you this morning. miami dade florida is a major hot spot. there's now a 10 p.m. curfew in place across the county, masks that are mandatory, liquor stores are closing at 8 p.m. is there a point where you might have to consider to what i was just talking to the austin mayor adler about that stay-at-home orders need to come back into place? >> well, certainly if our hospitals are so overwhelmed, by that we cannot give people the care we need, that's not even a choice at that point, you've got to do it. the problem with this virus is because it sort of bakes in two weeks before you actually see it, you've got to try to find these metrics early so you can make your decisions. if you wait for it to present itself with all of its sort of flurry of hospitalizations and folks on ventilators, you end up too late. the thing has lapped you once or twice and you haven't really left the starting gate. so we're moving pretty quickly and we're really thinking about rolling up that carpet with all those new measures y

here is miami beach mayor dan gelber. >> i suspect if in a week or two this is not changed in any way then we're all going to do it, an whether or not the governor wants us to do it or not. we'll do it, the county will do it and lots of the cities will do it. it will just be a shelter in place again. >> reporter: and, john, we checked across the state. 48 icu hospitals are at capacity. that means there are no more icu beds. eight of those are right here in miami-dade county. john? >> rosa flores, again, important reporting on the ground for us in florida. rosa, thanks so much, and when you listen the mayor saying a week or so. he may not have that long. >> an infectious disease specialist and epidemiologist joins us now had. i want to start with the headline number we were showing. we thought back in march when we were doing 30,000 plus cases a day we were at the top of the hill. we're going up a new hill, at about 6 a,000 cases a day. what does that tell you? i don't know how to describe it. if you're on a racetrack, give me the best indicator that a lay person can understand. where

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joining us now, the mayor of miami beach, mayor dan gelber. thank you so much for joining us.governor continues to say the situation is the result simply of more testing and that these younger people won't see as high a fatality rate. how can you keep floridians safe when the governor keeps downplaying the reality? >> well, i mean, the problem is that it's not obviously positive tests, because there are 343 people in intensive care today. that was less than half that number 14 days ago. there are 175 people on the extreme remedy of ventilators. and there are less than half that amount 14 days ago. i know those people and their families obviously would disagree that this is just about more testing. we are in the midst of a very, very vicious spike in our community in miami-dade county. and one thing you can't have is for a governor or a president trying to downplay it as if it's not an urgent thing we need to pay attention to. i sort of feel like everybody's become the mayor in jaws where it's fine, the water's fine, just go on and swim. and that's not healthy right now because

we're joined now by the mayor dan gelber. thank you as usual for joining us. what's the message to the president as he visits your state today without acknowledging at least hardly at all the record-breaking surge in cases in miami beach and miami-dade county through much of the state right now and the significant loss of life? >> well, if you look at my community, dade county, we have 1,800 people and covid patients now. that's the highest by many multiples. we have almost 400 people in intensive care and we're about to hit an all-time high in ventilators. so we're a community that's getting really stressed by this and strained by it, and we could use some leadership. unfortunately, the president hasn't been really helping a whole lot. he keeps telling people not to worry, that this is going to go away. and, frankly, he's not even listening to the doctors whose words we hang on when they speak. i wish he gave us good advice and good leadership. but i don't have any expectation that that's going to happen because it hasn't as of yet. >> i want to get your reac

according to miami beach mayor dan gelber, things aren't looking great. >> we don't have a handle on it at all. i think it's got a handle on us. two weeks ago there were 60 covid patients on ventilators. there are 160 in our county. two weeks ago, there were 121 patients in icu. there are now 330, which is the highest. i don't think it's a good idea now to tell people this is just a sort of normal. >> for more, we welcome to our broadcast dr. aileen marty, she happens to be a professor of infectious diseases at florida international university down in miami. she also works with the w.h.o. and in the past has worked with teams responding to outbreaks across the globe. doctor, i know -- i try to keep all of our physicians away from politics, but what do you think the governor is talking about there, that people need not be fearful and that, in effect, this has hung around longer than people thought? >> i can't get into his head and try and guess what he's talking about. what i can say is that the situation in miami-dade is very serious, and we had several emergency meetings about what

to convert regular beds to icu beds and in a scathing letter to the governor miami beach mayor dan gelber called out desantis for the unprepared and failed contact tracing response to covid-19 which the mayor says led to the un constrain growth of the virus. >>and the problems don't stop there in florida. the miami marlins have now put their season on hold after more players tested positive for covid now you're talking more than half the team. yeah prime for sports director jason dumas stones us now live in studio with more on this. >>that's right. it's a story with a lot of moving parts in major league baseball seems to be figuring out solutions as they go but essentially there was a covid-19 breakout within the miami marlins clubhouse over the weekend and they continue to play their series with the phillies in shocking news, everyone that was a pretty bad idea. but monday by monday, 17 players and members of the staff had tested positive for covid it wasn't until then that they decided to consult with major league baseball and shut things down but this didn't just affect this didn't jus

. >> dan gelber is the mayor of miami beach. thank you very much.ing up, we're going to go back to the studio for breaking news from the supreme court. that's coming up on msnbc. g up . >>> all right. some breaking news this morning coming out of the supreme court. this is regarding grand jury documents from the russian investigation and whether or not congress can have access to them. we have more on this story. ken, what do we know? >> ahman, the supreme court has announced they will hear this case, but in the fall term. so as a practical matter, what that seems to mean is we will not see these documents if at all before the election, and what's at issue are the small percentage of documents in the mueller report that were redacted for the reasons of grand jury secrecy. normally it's secret if there's not an indictment. the house committee has argued they're entitled to the material and there's precedent for this during watergate. a grand jury report was turned over to the house judiciary committee during the nixon impeachment inquiry, but the sup

and let's bring in dan gelber, the mayor of miami beach, florida. thank you for joining us i'm wondering how you feel about this hodgepodge of restrictions, this 8:00 p.m. curfew only applies to south beach, but not everybody is only going to dinner in south beach. it might be a hot spot is it effective if you're seeing one area have stricter rules than another >> well, in our county, i think we're even if we're a little different, we're on the same page all the mayors meet pretty regularly and talk about all these different things the reason we had to do that is we have famous promenades which tend to attract a lot of folks we felt that given the difficulty in getting compliance, that was the only way we were going to do it we're sort of on the same page in our county. i don't know that the state and federal government is on the same page with us, but that's a whole other issue. >> would you consider a full lockdown again if things do not start to bend down, the curve doesn't start to bend down >> well, if it doesn't start to bend down, then the de

. >> reporter: in a scathing letter to the governor, miami beach mayor dan gelber called out desantisnprepared and failed contact tracing response to covid-19, which the mayor says led to the unconstrained growth of the virus. mayor gelber says he needed more than 800 contact tracers when the state reopened and had less than 200. he says tracers sometimes only tracked about 7% of those infected over a two-week period. with about 9,000 people hospitalized statewide and more than 432,000 cases, florida's governor is still resisting a statewide mask mandate, and tension is growing. >> shame on you! you are an embarrassment! >> reporter: the governor has long blamed the spike in cases on increased testing and younger people who he says are less likely to die. it's all part of the reason governor desantis has pushed to reopen schools. >> our kids are at the least risk from this virus and much lower risk than they are in seasonal influenza. our kids also play the smallest role in transmission of the virus. the cost of keeping schools closed are enormous. >> reporter: despite what the govern

. >>> i want to go south to south florida, dan gelber back with us this morning. good to see you. these latest numbers, they're not good. they show that one in three tests in your county are coming back positive. that is huge. hospital icus are now at 90%. what's the feeling in your community today? >> the headlines in our local newspaper, "the miami herald," talk about our health care system being strained. we have 1800 covid patients in the hospital which is all-time high by a lot. 400 in intensive care, an all-time high of folks on ventilators. and the current spikes have not even been felt in the system yet in all of these terrible data points. we're concerned and we realize that things are not looking great right now and traumatic action has to happen if we want to stop this. >> contact tracing was supposed to help us manage this situation and you have said that you're frustrated with the way contact tracing is working in your area. you say they're woe fully unprepared. >> as you reopen, people are going to get the virus. if you can call up their contacts, quarantine them,. i

. >> we've spoken to dan gelber, mayor of the beach. have told us in the next couple of weeks, if the situation doesn't improve and the hospitals fill up, they would have to consider stay-at-home orders. what would need to happen and how soon would it need to happen in hialeah for you to consider imposing new stay-at-home orders? >> that's a great question. listen, that's why we have to work together. and i've been working together with the mayor of miami beach, the mayor of miami, miami grn gardens. because one account cannot do something and the other one doesn't. because this virus doesn't know where miami ends and hialeah starts, when hialeah starts, we're all interrelated. the state is interrelated. we're very interrelated with miami-dade county and broward county. we went ahead and closed our restaurants this past week, and you know what happened this weekend? most people from miami-dade went to broward county, which is the next county up for dinner. so that's the message that i wanted to send and that's the message i want the gov

. >> reporter: back in miami beach, the mayor, dan gelber, says his city's economy depends on businessest draw people together. restaurants, hotels and entertainment venues. and he says the state's contact tracing program is not equipped to handle a reopening. >> 83% are not being called at all. there's no contact. they're not being told to quarantine. >> how does the lack of contact tracing affect you economically in miami beach? >> the contact tracing is, until we have a vaccine, the contact tracing is sort of a vaccine. >> the ongoing push between public health and economic concerns continue as many states see surges in cases. listen to what dr. deborah birx of the white house coronavirus task force said. >> we can see what is happening in the south moving north. there are states that do need to close their bars. to decrease indoor gatherings to less than 10. >> reporter: one of those states is tennessee and dr. birx met with the governor bill lee but he waved off her recommendation. >> i've said there's nothing off the table. i've also said we're not going to close the economy back d

so let's bring in dan gelber, mayor of miami beach. your honor, thank you for being here.s the question always becomes, how do you enforce this rule? >> well, that is a good question. you know most of the mask rules relate to emergency orders and those are typically criminal violations. so we didn't want to arrest people for failure to wear a mask. that is not just practical and frankly, we don't want to do that. so the actual crime is something we thought was little bit more -- [inaudible]. more than that, the moment you implement something, just like with seatbelts, the moment the legislature in florida, the moment we made seatbelts mandatory, people immediately begin to do it because of the law. so we'll get a lot of compliance because it is mandatory before we even -- [inaudible] there will be people who won't comply but more people complying. that is our point. to get more people following guidelines. ashley: who are the biggest offenders? is it the young folks as we like to say, congregating in areas around the beach, bars, so on? is that the audience you're trying t