diane yentel thank you very much for joinings. much of a difference will this new moratorium make, do you think. >> thanks for having me, it could make a tremendous diff aence, it isn extraordinary and unprecedented action that the cdc has taken here. and if it is upheld by the courts, it will save lives and it could prevent tens of millions of people from losing their homes in the middle of a pandemic. >> we were-- i saw a number, something li0 20 to 3 million people are potg entially fac the brink of eviction, are all of them going to be helped. we just heard from that one couple who said they had a court date, they will be out in september, does there save everybody who is dealing with there? >> so it doesn't quite protect everybod and you are right, that we were predicting that as many as 30 to million people in about 17 million hoseholds are at risk of losing their homes by the end of the year if gress or the administration disnd act. so this eviction moratorium that the cdc is putting into place will protect the vast majorit

diane yentel,f presidentthe national low incomeng hou coalition, thank you so much. diana: thank you for having me. ♪ judy: now let's focus on a covid hotspot in the midwest. iowa is dealing with a surge of cases in recent weeks, along uch as arby states north dakota, south dakota and kansas. iowa has one of the fastest-growing rates in the country at the moment. amna nawaz has a report from there. amna: thanks, judy. that surge in iowa has been driven i school, including the state's major universities. o. kay henderson is the news director at radio iowa and she appears regularly on iowa pbs. she joins me now from des moines. twelcome bathe newshour. let's jump in because the numbers are worth highlighting areas statewide, iowa has more than 66,000 cases, more than 1100 deaths. it inot the infection volumetr bling experts, it is the per capita numbers. the average in iowa is triple the national average. kay: there was -- amna: there w a pre conference about this earlier today. how would you describe the e response to test troubling figures? kay: the white house coron