host: there is an organization called the florida education association that is suing the government of florida over the reopening of schools. what do you know about the lawsuit? affiliatey are our and we have been engaged in the lawsuit. what happened is the lawsuit is about letting the different jurisdictions in florida make their own decisions rather than actually force without safety standards or anything else the having five day a week school was september 2 -- as if this was september 2019 pandemic. so as of yesterday the florida education association sued d santos and -- d santos and the state educational commissioner mayore miami-dade county because he has been making all sorts of health decisions in defiance of the science. what we are saying is let science and safety rule, because that way we can get back as quickly as possible to a normal where we can engage kids in school safely. that is what that is about, and it says let local districts make decisions based upon what is safe in their community. i was honored to be a part of the lawsuit, as is corporation. host: this is l

and the florida education association has called the increase alarming.aking plans to bring students back into the classroom later this month in spite of those numbers. joining me now is carla hernandez, the president of united teachers of dade and a former middle schoolteacher herself. it's so good of you to join us. tell me just boughten line what's the number one concern you have, your members have about returning students and staff to classrooms this fall? >> our biggest concern is honestly the transmission. we know that the health of all, you know, the students, the faculty, the staff, even the community members because these children will go back to their home is extremely important to us. and, you know, we are concerned about the long-term impact this will have on children. we know that as an urban school district many of our students are minority that live in multigenerational homes. that means they live with their grandparents, sometimes their uncles and aunts, and it's multiple generations living in one home. and so, you know, because we don't h

educate our students moving forward than less money. and in florida, we have historically underfunded our schools. >> all right. fedrick ingram from the florida education associationfor joining us. appreciate that. >>> colleges and universities also grappling with what the fall semester will look like for their students. for more, i'm joined by the president of rice university in houston. harris county, texas, that is the home to houston, and it is at its highest coronavirus threat level right now. it's urging people to stay home, the public officials are right now. david lebron, our last guest was saying, look, if you've got pretty significant community spread going on, he doesn't feel -- the teachers he represents feel should not be going back into school. you've got a situation like that where you are right now. if that is still happening when your fall semester is scheduled to start, do you think you can still start? >> well, we'll have to take a very close look at frankly every step of the way shortly before certainly we begin the fall and anytime during the fall. we've adopted a great basic posture of being, as we call it, flexible, agile, and adaptable, and

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. >> reporter: it's not a risk the florida education association is willing to take. >> teachers are scared. we can be reckless with bars, we can be reckless with restaurants, but we esimply cannot be reckless and endanger our kids. >> reporter: the association is suing to stop the governor's order for schools to reopen five days a week next month, but cases keep rising in the state's nursing homes. up 153% among residents and 126% for staff since june. today, governor ron desantis touted the state's only adult care centers intended to keep seniors from infecting each other. >> we cannot allow a contagious patient to be sent back into a long-term care facility. >> reporter: this afternoon the governor said state emergency managers are deploying 1300 nurses across the state. here in miami-dade counties, nearly 60% of hospitals reporting having one or no adult i.c.u. beds available. norah. >> o'donnell: that's incredible. manuel bojorquez tonight in miami, thank you. the first votes in the 2020 presidential election will be cast in six weekss absent ots are mailed in s states and, toda

we welcome the president of the florida education association which is comprised of 100 different teachers unions. thank you for joining us. schools are locally funded and governed. when the president talks about funding, he could hurt ppe funding, some funding for poor kids, but schools have traditionally been a local deal. what do you and your folks need? what are you demanding between now and your determination that it's safe to bring kids back into the classroom? >> thank you for having me. it's important we talk about florida tonight because we are the epicenter of what is going on in our country. we are ground zero as it relates to the coronavirus, frankly, in the world. almost 10,000 cases reported today. 223,000 total. we have 48 deaths reported from this virus today. and we have 3,089 deaths reported. we are a state that is regressing. in a state where you have beaches where you cannot go, restaurants where you cannot congregate. we have serious issues. our governor says we have schools ready to go. they are not because we know it will cost more money for us to go to these schools

the florida education association has filed a lawsuit.n new york, many teachers are looking for medical exemption. delaney,ng in larry president of the washington education association. larry, how are washington's educators feeling about returning this fall, when is the baseline plan? they are nervous and anxious, fearful. washington, like in much of the country, a spike in cases. many of our schools are supposed to be starting in weeks. we don't see a change in the direction of this virus in that time period. florida is taking the legal route, many other states likely as well. new york looking for medical exemptions in the thousands. what will your teachers do if they don't want to go back into the classroom? larry: what we are doing in washington is working to develop robust distance learning plans. , ourcognized last spring educators had to literally flip the switch, and in a matter of days, going from teaching in person to move into some sort of online or distance platform. that was a challenge for many. we need to take this time betw

host: there is an organization called the florida education association that is suing the government florida over the reopening of schools. what do you know about the lawsuit? affiliatey are our and we have been engaged in the lawsuit. what happened is the lawsuit is about letting the different jurisdictions in florida make their own decisions rather than actually force without safety standards or anything else the having five day a week school was september 2 -- as if this was september 2019 pandemic. so as of yesterday the florida education association sued d santos and -- d santos and the state educational commissioner mayore miami-dade county because he has been making all sorts of health decisions in defiance of the science. what we are saying is let science and safety rule, because that way we can get back as quickly as possible to a normal where we can engage kids in school safely. that is what that is about, and it says let local districts make decisions based upon what is safe in their community. i was honored to be a part of the lawsuit, as is corporation. host: this is lee

president of the florida education association.nk you for being with me, welcome. >> thank you for having me. >> we just heard from betsy devos a little bit ago delivering this message to the governors, and i quote, it is not a matter of if schools open, it is a matter of how schools must fully open and must be fully operational. when you hear that, what do you think? >> so, right now it is irresponsible to talk about how -- if schools will reopen in the fall for florida. right now we need to be talking about how we get this virus under control. how do we keep schools and our communities safe. how do we ensure that our teachers and our educational support professionals who love the kids and in fact miss the kids more than anybody else in this state, they want to be in school. but we need to be ensured that we have a plan that is robust, that is comprehensive and led by the science and that is led by health and safety of everyone concerned. >> and i heard you say led by science. do you think science is guiding your state's governor

joining us now is fedrick ingram, president of the florida education association. of the thing that confuses me about your lawsuit is within the so-called executive order, there is also a line just below the line that i just read about the order that says, quote, the day-to-day decision to open or close a school must always rest locally with the board or executive most closely associated with a school in your reading of the order, who really does make the decision about reopening schools? >> so it's unfortunate, lawrence, and first of all, thank you for having me. but it's unfortunate that this is shameful, reckless behavior from our commissioner and our governor because what they're trying to do is shift the blame but still take control in a backdrop of 360,000 cases of covid, 5,000, like you said, deaths here in the state of florida, and a positivity rate that's over 13%. eve got a problem here, and so what we're simply asking to do is give the local control directly to our counties and our superintendents and our principals and our teachers unions and let them d

the president of the florida education association calls the executive order reckless, unconscionableey point to article 9, section 1 that you have to have a safe environment for the public schools. do you support that lawsuit and do you believe the eo is unconstitutional? >> i can't opine on whether it's unconstitutional but using common sense and florida looks like the epicenter now and it continues to spread here in south florida. we have over 40,000 cases, probably another 1,200 each day. over 500 deaths and an infection rate that exceeds 16%. you cannot open schools in that type of environment. if you do, you'll have to close your doors shortly thereafter and you're going to spread infection throughout your community. so i think it's a wise thing to do to re-evaluate these executive orders. you know, things change rapidly in a week. >> yes. >> we're in a whole different place than last week and i think it's time to take a look at that again. i believe that using common sense and doing what's in the best interest of our kids, our teachers and our community that we will be able to

the state to provide a, quote, safe, secure, and high-quality public school system the florida education associationd a lot of individuals teaching in miami-dade county are asking the court to keep state officials from, quote, unconstitutionally forcing millions of public school students and employees to report to unsafe schools fea president fedrick ingram telling the "miami herald" this. we should be preparing our lesson plans but unfortunately reopening of the state of florida has been reckless. danny cevallos, good to see you on this tuesday morning. this seems like a slam-dunk to me, does it not, because this suit cites the state's constitution as a reason. >> it is true that florida's constitution requires that schools be operating safely, and i use that in quotes because after all the state cannot possibly be the gary an tore of all safety at its own schools, and because we're in a moment in our nation's history where we're not exactly sure what is the perfectly safe thing to do, the governor may have an argument that he is operating -- he's planning to operate schools safely but it doesn't s

joining me now is frederick ingram, the president of the florida education association. and i want to just jump in and ask you, is there a safe way to get students k-12 and teachers back in the classroom without jeopardizing or compromising their health and the health of their families who they'll go home to after school? >> well, thank you very much for having me this afternoon. and let me first say this. to answer your question, i don't think that our schools are ready to open right now given our circumstances. we have 23,000 kids under the age of 18 who have tested positive for covid-19, like you said, we had over 12,000 cases today. we had 10,000 cases yesterday and we are still on an incline trend here in the state of florida. we find ourselves in the epicenter of what's going on as relates to this virus. and so until we get control of the community spread, until we understand this, our schools will not be super spreader events. we have got to get rid of the hell or high water approach to opening up our brick and mortar schools. arthel: the governor said we'll leave

. >> reporoday, the florida education association-- the largest teachers union in the state-- sued desantis over that decision. meanwhile, at the white house, the continued virus surge is forcing an about-face ongy stra today, president trump said his covid-19 briefings with top health experts will likely resume tomorro >> we have had this big flare up in florida, texas-- a couple of other places. so i think what we're going to do is i'll get involved and we'll start doing briefings. >> reporter: the president met nawith republican congress leaders to begin talks on a fifth round of coronavirus relief. >> wre working on negotiatin with the democrats on trying to get a plan tt lps small business, helps people, helps this country. >> reporter: back in may, democrats in the house passed a bill to pride another $3 trillion. but senate republicans are eyeing a narrower, $1 trillion package expe ected tonalized tomorrow. >> we're looking for a theme here, think liability protections for those trying to deal with the pandemic. don't need an epidemic lawsuits on the heels of the pandemic we're alre

joining us now is frederick inning gram, president of the florida education association and a teacher county. mr. ingram, thank you very much for being here. you're suing the governor over his mandate to open schools. you say it's dangerous. but i'm sure that you've heard his logic, or at least the commissioner of education's logic, which is that it's also harmful to students in terms of psychologically, socially, you know, emotionally, and to their parents financially for them to be out of school. here's what the commissioner has put out in a statement -- "there is a need to reopen schools fully to ensure the quality and continuity of the educational process, the comprehensive well-being of students and families and return to florida hitting its full economic stride." so, that's their logic. what's your response? >> sure. and thank you very much for having me this morning. listen, i'm a high school band director, and nobody wants to be in front of kids in classrooms and back in our public schools more than our teachers. there are over 200,000 teachers that get giddy with zeal, start

fedrick ingram is with the florida education association and he joins me now. mr. ingram, welcome to the so your union rents thousands of teachers. you yourself are a teacher. what's your awe assessment?oo will the s be ready for students next month? at well, thank you for having me, and i apprebeing here. we represent 150,000 educators and school employees across thi, state rankly, i believe our governor and our enmmissioner of education have irresponsible. they put out a plan last week to say that we must have a brick d mortar option for five days a week, and i think being in the epicenter of this virus, with cases steadily rising every day -- in fact, in the next couple of days, our state will eclipse over 300,000 positive cases -- i think it's irresponsisce to think our ols, teachers, educational support professionals and first and most importantlyur r students ady to go back to school in the brick and mortar option. >> nawaz: in thent me, you have dozens of school districts in florida each with their ownth plan all seem to be in different stages. some have bee

. >> reporter: meanwhile, the florida education association is taking aim at the governor with a lawsuitng to halt his plan to reopen schools next month. carla hernandez-mats teaches middle school in miami-dade county. >> it is ludicrous to think that now, when the fire is even hotter, when the buildings are really burning, that we would take our children out of these protective bubbles that we've created. we can mitigate learning losses, but the reality is we cannot mitigate loss of life. >> reporter: the florida education foundation is the largest teachers union in the state. their lawsuit believe issed to be the first of its kind. it accuses the governor of violating his constitutional mandate to keep schools safe and secure. if you are a coronavirus survivor and you can donate that plasma go to oneblood.org. it will save lives. >> yes, yes, yes. that's very important information. thank you david. >>> u.s. surgeon general and vice admiral jerome adams joins us now. he's a member of the white house coronavirus task force. dr. adams, it's really good to see you. let's start where david

the debate how to safely open schools rages on across many parts of the country and the florida education associationhers union has filed a lawsuit against the state's governor and the mayor of miami-dade attempting to stop the reckless and unsafe opening of public school campuses as coronavirus cases continue to search in florida. connell: thank you, casey siegel live in dallas with the update. let's shift gears, we're going to talk about college, so many discussions of going back to campus and inevitably at some point and those discussions you get around to whether or not it is worth it in the end, the tuition, does that add up to a college degree, that adds up to much for you. with that in mind, gerri willis has a story of some careers where you can make a decent amount of money and they don't necessarily require a college degree. >> that is right, with the price of college skyhigh, many institutions are doing virtual learning this year, more and more of college or high school seniors that is they can about skipping higher ed altogether. the prospects for employment, paid a pretty good according t

we're joined by frederick ingram, president of the florida education association. thank you for being with us. >> thank you for having me. >> you have a lot of parents that want kids back in school, you want your kid and teachers safely back in school. what are your concerns as you filed this lawsuit with school just a few weeks away for your adults in the building, teachers, custodian workers, bus drivers? what are you worried about? >> this is a nonsense call ar e argument that we're having. we have a 13.4% positivity rate. we have to get the positivity rate down and we don't know what the fallout is going to be when you start to cram hundreds of thousands of childrens in our schools. so that's going to create a problem for us. we don't want to be the petri dish for america. we need a survival kit. we need our state government to step up and lead in these issues. we have over 360,000 total people who have tested positive in the state of florida, 5,000 deaths statewide and we seem to be going backward as it relates to the cdc regulation. we have seen a 14-day decl

and in florida, the education association is actually suing some state and county leaders over the order that they must at least offer in-person teaching five days a week. these teachers call that reckless and unconscionable. wolf? >> nick watt in l.a. for us, thank you. let's go to the white house right now. our chief white house correspondent jim acosta is joining us. jim, after weeks and weeks of saying very little about the pandemic, the president now plans to resume those coronavirus media briefings. tell us about that. >> that's right, wolf. a white house official says discussions about bringing back these coronavirus briefings have been going on over the last couple of weeks and there is no final decision yet as to what these news conferences will look like or even if they'll be in the white house briefing room. the official says that these briefings are coming back to show americans that progress is being made in the pandemic. but it's also a change that comes as polls show the public is rejecting the president's handling of the pandemic. with more than 140,000 deaths from the co

in florida the education association is actually suing some county and state leaders over the order that at least offer five day in-person teaching. they say that would be reckless and unconscionable. >> thank you. >>> outfront with me now is the mayor of broward county, florida. broward is one of the hardest hit counties in the state. mayor, thank you so much for being here. really appreciate it. thank you for leading by example with your mask. that is something that i love to see. the latest that we're hearing is there are currently four hospitals in your county that are on 100% capacity for icu beds and four others just have one bed available in the icu. that is not a good sign. are you seeing any signs this is going to improve soon? >> it is definitely not a good sign. we saw large numbers today, 1700 new cases with a positivity rate of over 17%. where we stand today is we have 57 icu beds available. that's about 10.9% of the 521 beds we have available for icu. one of our hospitals, memorial health care system, has -- is pretty much under siege is what they told me today. they have h

the florida education association accusing the governor of failing to keep students safe.st from the judge overseeing michael flynn's case to rehear it. the department says it would suffer, quote: irreparable injury if it moves forward. judge emmet sullivan asking for the appeals court to weigh in decide dropping the charges. judge andrew napolitano joined us earlier with his prediction of what happens next. >> the full federal appeals court, all 11, will reverse the panel that ordered judge sullivan to dismiss the case immediately and give him the opportunity to look at the case. look at the facts and decide what to do. jillian: it's unclear if the full court will agree to rehear the case. the st. louis man who waived his gun at protesters is slamming the city's top prosecutor for issuing felony charges against he and his wife. >> i'm not going to be bullied. i'm not going to be intimidated. the left, the mob uses social intimidation and threats to get people to knuckle under and apologize for doing what's right. we are not going to apologize for doing what's right. we ar

florida is on fire. joining us now, two members of the association of texas professional educators.roup represents over 100,000 educators statewide. karen haynes is the vp. jennifer mitchell handles government relations. thank you for joining us on primetime. >> thank you, sir. >> karen, don't worry. you heard the president. kids are tough, resilient, most of them won't get sick, and if they do, they'll get better soon. let's get back to school. why isn't that good enough? >> well, because when they get sick, their teachers are going to get sick. teachers are very hands-on people. we care about our students. we have to be close proximity so we can teach better in one-on-one. so when they're ill, we're going to get ill. and we're not being given any good news as to how, if we get ill, how is that going to be covered by our insurance. >> jennifer, the cdc put out guidelines tonight that basically echos the president's sentiment that kids are more resilient than the rest of us and there's some other general guidelines in there about what kind of resourcing you need to do this the safe

education association has concerns about a lack of protective gear and cleaning sun pli-- supplies. >>> the catering fed 75 health professionals. >>> the surging cases in strikingly different ways. florida has become the poster child of the pandemic. t it's a state where masks are not required and has some of the worst numbers of any state since the pandemic started in california the governor reimposed statewide restrictions kerry sanders has the latest >> reporter: in california an about face what had reopened now closing again. it includes closing all bars and indoor establishments like restaurants after more than 60,000 cases statewide in the past week. in 80% of the states gyms and hair salons also ordered to again shut down. some business owners say a second shutdown will close them forever. >> a lot of really good people are going to lose their livelihoods and go bankrupt and it's all because people wouldn't wear a mask. >> florida which remains open for business, residents began lining up to get tested for covid. florida now the poster child for what's gone wrong. more than 12,000 positive tests reported here, this after florida broke the single day record in any state on sunday.

educators are divided on whether they're ready to restart classes in person. joining me now, president of the florida teachers association. i'm curious, can you chronicle your main concerns about reopening schools in the next month? what has you most worried? >> sure. we have a lot of concerns. we're the epicenter of this virus. we had 10,000 plus cases were reported just today. we do not have a handle on this from a public health stand poibt and leadership standpoint from our governor. the governor has, unfortunately, tied himself to the president and that means we're being driven by the economy and politics. we need to push that aside and put our kids first, and our teachers and educational professionals first. >> frederick, points well taken. let me go over what the cdc has done, releasing guidelines to consider before reopening. eliminating cafeterias, have kids eat lunch in their classroom classrooms, mandating face coverings for students and teachers. separating desks for social distance. have they implemented enough guidance in your opinion? >> no, they've not provided enough guidance and also leave out funding, m

the state of florida's department of education, it says, quote, the day-to-day decision to open or close a school must always rest locally with the board or executive most closely associated with a school. this republican order is nothing. it orders nothing. donald trump's campaign to corrupt the centers for disease control continues. he says he doesn't like the guidelines that they have issued for reopening schools. here's what donald trump doesn't like, promoting social distancing, wearing cloth face coverings, having children bring their own meals, discouraging sharing of items and disinfecting surfaces often. donald trump doesn't like that. so the mike pence white house team is going to come up with an even softer set of guidelines for opening schools, which everyone will ignore because, as nbc's jeff bennett exposed today, mike pence and donald trump have no plan. >> articulated the problem and areas of risk that students face if they stay out of school come the fall. but what is the plan? what is the administration's plan in terms of testing, contact tracing to support these schools? schools weren't built to socially distance, which is one of the reasons why fairfax

florida. at least you have actual leadership in your state. thank you very much. have a wonderful rest of your weekend. let's bring in the president of the national educational association and jamaal bowman a candidate for congressman from new york. he actually won his seat in new york and will be headed to congress this week and he's a principal of a middle school. thank you both for being here. i want to start with you. in europe they have gotten a handle on covid-19. they have done what they've needed to do in places like italy, even in england where they had some struggles. these countries can reopen the schools because they have done step one which is control the virus. new york has done a really good job of getting it under control. you saw the leadership by the new york governor but i think of a state like florida and think of liberty city, predominantly black and brown communities, where they don't even have enough books and resources and computers for kids. how on earth will schools like that be able to retrofit appropriately? if my team can put up the picture of the school classroom. kids are on top of each other. how do you get a third grader to socially dist