ashish jha,s thao much for those encouraging words. dr. jha: thank you.aura: let's turno how the pandemic is affecting iraq come where the health system was adalworn down by years of war and foreign investment. the surge in coronavirusd by infections. soldiers fighting the islamic state are now very baghd's dead. viewers may find images in this port disturbing. reporter: on the cusp of life and death. like many iraqis, she has endured much in her lifetime. her son has been by her side for the last 10 days. he is risking his own life to care for her. ayand he will st until she recovers or until she passes. reporter: in this battle, the doctors are heavily outnumbered. th doctor says he only has half the meds he needs. they are dealing with the double trauma of nursing the sick and putting their families in danger. reporter: outside, helping someone find the remains of a velo one. the four the outbreak-- before the outbreakrom he was a taxi driver. now he drives bodies to the cemetery. reporter: none of the usual burialcc sites wouldt the bodies of covid-19

jha: those are just risky things.large gathering where people are not social distancing and not wearing a mask is risky. outdoors is better than indoors, so i was happy to see that, but my take is, the president should stick with the science here, encourage people to wear masks, can they build in some social distancing. it would have made that safer. it's just about risk management and i'm perplexed why we are not doing the things we can do pretty easily to lower the risk. >> mike: every parent in america wants to know about schools reopening in the fall. you talk about restricting bars, gyms, maybe even restaurants. is that really the trade-off immunities across the country must make? >> dr. jha: look, i am deeply worried about this, i have three kids who go to school and you know, the last four months of them being out of school was pretty tough. i'm sure parents around the country are feeling that. in my point on this is if you -- if we see large outbreaks happening across communities, it's going to be very hard to

jha, always a pleasure. thanks for being with us this morning. >> thank you. >>> new cases in florida just hit a level not seen since new york back in april. the mayor of miami, florida, joins us next. ta-da! did you know liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need? given my unique lifestyle, that'd be perfect! let me grab a pen and some paper. know what? i'm gonna switch now. just need my desk... my chair... and my phone. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ >>> the state of florida now reporting more than 200,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus. this comes as the state broke the u.s. single day record over the weekend with 11,445 new cases. joining us now is miami mayor frances suarez. thank you very much. we appreciate you being here. let me just put up some other really staggering numbers. this is what's happening in miami-dade county. hospitalizations are up 88%. icu patients are up 114%, and then i mean really the most disturbing, patient

ashish jha. dr.el, before we get to viewer-submitted questions, what should we make about this new study of remdesivir? how significant is this? we heard matt bradley caveat it by saying this is a study done by the company gilead that produces the drug. yet it seems to be showing promising results for severely ill patients. >> you're right, kristen. it's very interesting and very hopeful, about 7.6% of severely ill patients who receive that drug die versus 12.5% of patients who did not receive the drug. there should be some control data coming out of the nih that can give us better insight. i would kind of echo that this could be an incredibly promising first step of many possible treatments we have in trials under way. it makes all the more important, kristen, about how the united states government is allocating this drug. as i've already heard about shortages in several large hospital systems that don't even have the drug. so incredibly hopeful. but we need to also be patient to try to see what els

ashish jha. great to have back wiyou back w. >> i believe for the most part you can trust respected medical authorities. you know, i believe i'm one of them. i think you can trust me. but i would stick respected medical authorities who have a track record of telling the truth. >> there jha, what does this tell you that four months into this pandemic, staggering numbers, our top health expert has to still go out there in public and try to convince americans to trust him and other medical officials in this country. what implication does that have on our response and what does it say about our society that he is still having to do that? >> good morning, ayman. thank you for having me on. first of all, i think most americans trust dr. fauci. and rightly so. he's got a 40-year track record of telling the truth, telling it as it is. and, you know what is interesting is that the things that the administration is attacking dr. fauci for are things that the entire medical community agrees with. dr. fauci

jha, your reading of dr. testimony and the numbers where so many states are now seeing rises in cases and some seeing real surges? >> yeah, lawrence, thank you for having me on. dr. fauci, i think, was voicing clearly what many of us have been feeling, which is we have a problem in this country. we have a dozen or so states where is things are looking really bad. they're starting to look pretty out of control. and we know what happens when you get into this kind of exponential growth. the only thing that can ultimately stop it is a full lockdown, a shelter in place. and i think we want to avoid that. so i think dr. fauci was saying we have to get much more serious. beyond those dozen or so states, there are a lot of others where the number of cases is rising. so the whole country is seeing a surge in cases, and i believe we have to act much more aggressively than we are doing right now. >> laurie garrett, where are we in the chart of this thing, in the chart of america's experience with this coronavirus? >> w

jha just made. you heard the president say this is about testing, however, man in charge of testing for the administration admiral brett giroir said this. >> there is no question that the more testing you get, the more you will uncover. we do believe this is a real increase in cases because of the percent positivities are going up. >> the percent positivities being the key. you're in the emergency room last night, you've seen this firsthand throughout the course of the last several months. i ask for your impression too. you look at the case numbers, see the percentage of positivity going up, when at is that telli you? >> two things that are concerning here. one, the percent positivity tells you of the group of people you're testing, a larger percent of them are positive. which means we're probably missing a lot of people out there. which makes this case a concern. it means there is a higher overall number of cases in the community. it is not just that we're testing more people. it is that there are

jha just said. it takes about three weeks from the time you have really strict measures to, you know, really break transmission and bring that peak down. unless we see more action, mask mandates everywhere, people being more careful, closing restaurants, closing bars, and some of those measures, it will just progressively get worse. >> nearly a thousand americans died just yesterday from coronavirus. you know, dr. jha, a new study from the centers for disease control finds 96% of coronavirus patients had either a fever, a cough, or shortness of breath, and about 45% experience all three of those symptoms. so how can this data help us? and we hope it can, slow down the transmission of this deadly virus. >> yes, so those data are really intriguing and interesting and reminds us that primarily this is a respiratory virus. it shows up in many ways the way the influenza virus does, other respiratory viruses do. what's critical out of that, wolf, it says to people if you have any of those symptoms, you do

ashish jha. the president is not addressing the record number of covid cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the state. he's also not wearing a mask. does it make sense to you that the president would travel to a hot spot only to ignore what's going on as far as the virus is concerned? >> yeah, so wolf, thank you for having me on. you know, the pandemic is raging across large parts of our country. and ignoring it and hoping it will go away won't work. and so if the president does go to florida, and i would be nervous if i were his physician and he was going to florida, i wish he would address it. i wish he would wear a mask, talk about social distancing and say the things that will make him part of the solution. unfortunately that's not what we saw today but i think we all need to keep working on getting this under control. >> dr. mcclellan, coronavirus cases in florida are way up over 1200% since the state started to reopen in may. just how alarming are these numbers and what's it going to take

ashish jha, garrett haake is back with me in dallas. dr.at do you think about this push to reopen schools? in your mind, what has to be in place to make it safe? >> yes, good morning, and thanks for having me on. look, i'm a parent of three kids. i desperately want them to go back to school this fall. i feel the pain of every parent in america. it's good for parents, it's great for the kids to be back in school. so the question isn't should we try to get kids back to school. the answer is of course we should try. the question is how do we do it in a way that is safe and how do we do it in a way that schools can stay open. and the single biggest thing that's going to prevent us from having schools open this fall is the large outbreaks we're seeing across the country. until we can get that under control, we're not going to be able to get kids back in safely and keep them there. >> cornell university says it's going to reopen and hold some in-person classes because their research showed that if they didn't reopen, a lot of kids would still com

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ashish jha and cnn political correspondent dana bash. dr. jha, a macabre way that dr. cannes described the national strategy, he called it the 1,000 deaths a day strategy. that somehow that's where we e are. that is what we seem to be accepting. i mean, john and i have talked about this so often. the numbers are so astronomical. sometimes it's harder to get your head and heart around 150,000 americans and more every day, we're setting the new death reports. what do you see in the strategy here? >> so good morning, and thank you for having me on. it is incredibly sad. it is incredibly frustrating. at times it makes me outraged because, you know, 1,000 people a day. we say it's another day, another 1,000 people. that's thousand families that are grieving that will not see their loved ones again and the fact that we accept it because we have no real federal leadership and often poor state leadership. this should not be acceptable for the wealthiest nation in the world. we have more than enough capability to bring this under control, to save most of those lives. and we're

ashish jha. dr. reiner, the president goes from i'm not going to let anyone see me in a mask and give them the pleasure and wouldn't wear to now everyone needs to wear a mask. he went from we have it well under control, it's going away, it's miniscule, it's gone, it's leaving to it's a terrible disease. he said the former comments on these things for five and a half months and he's now saying the latter for a few days. but the press secretary says there's been no change in tone. what does that do to public trust? >> well, it erodes it. words matter. and the words of a president matter a lot. erin, when i see a patient after a heart attack, when i see them in clinic, i weigh my words very carefully because i know they're listening. and if i need the patient to lose weight and get their blood pressure under control and stop smoking, i say it explicitly. but for the first four to five months of this pandemic, the president said that testing was overrated, that masks weren't for him, that the virus was a

jha, grateful for your time.ll circle back, thank you both so much. >>> up next, the president replace his campaign manager and adapts to rallies by telephone. his poll numbers are horrible because voters remember his many coronavirus mistakes, like this one, five months ago today. >> i know president zhexi, i ge along with him very well. i think it is going to work out fine. i think when we get into april and the warmer weather that has a very negative effect on that. and that type of a virus. the economy is doing phenomenally well. our country is doing fantastic. no uh uh, no way come on, no no n-n-n-no-no only discover has no annual fee on any card. with spray mopping to lock away debris and absorb wet messes, all in one disposable pad. just vacuum, spray mop, and toss. the shark vacmop, a complete clean all in one pad. you've been avoiding. like people... and pants.ings but don't avoid taking care of your eyes, because we're here to safely serve you with new procedures that exceed cdc guidelines and value you

jha, i want to replay again that exchange. peter alexander asked the question about coronavirus hospitalizations and how they're up 50% since mid-june. i want to play again how the press secretary answered the question. >> hospitalizations in the country are up 50% since mid-june. how can the president say that the country is in good shape right now? >> so, with hospitalizations in a lot of these hospitals, i spoke with dr. birx this morning, about 10% to 40% in the hospitals reaching capacity are covid. a lot of hospitalizations aren't pertaining to covid. what i would also note -- >> the bulk of hospitalizations is not covid? >> a lot of it is elective surgeries and other surgeries that have opened up. >> of course the reality again, dr. jha is that covid hospitalizations have surged. the point about elective surgeries is separate. it's not what he asked. so what do you say to this? >> yeah, it's -- the bottom line here is people are -- more people are getting sick from covid. more people are getting hospitalized from covid.

jha, do you share that concern? you have the president saying i don't care basically what studies you put out there, what facts you put out there, what dr. fauci puts out there because they're all consistent on hydroxychloroquine in early stages. he says anyone who doesn't listen to me is just doing it because they don't like me. >> dr. reiner is completely right about this. look, we are in the middle of the worst pandemic in a century. this is really hard under good circumstances with clear leadership. if there's any way we are going to get through this without hundred of thousands of americans dying, i guess additional hundreds of thousands beyond the 150 already lost, it is going to be driven by science and the scientific method and scientific approach. things like who's got a higher approval, which doctor you like or don't like is irrelevant. what's relevant is what is the science telling us, what's the data telling us? if we use that, we have a shot getting through this. i can't believe we spend this much time

jha, briefly, we're approaching 3 million cases in the u.s. how concerned are you about what we're seeing in places like l.a., california, which led the way in trying to prevent the surge? >> so andrea, i'm very concerned about where we are as a country. large chunks of the country have large outbreaks happening right now. and it doesn't seem to me like we're doing nearly enough to get those outbreaks under control. and if we don't, they're going to continue and they're going to grow and they're going to grow into the fall and we're going to have a very difficult fall ahead. so i'm very worried about where we are as a country and i want clear leadership to bring this outbreak under control. >> dr. ashish jha, as always, thank you so much for your expertise. >>> coming up, the future of sports, taking center field. baseball, basketball, among the pro sports looking for a way to play while staying safe amid the coronavirus. >>> and next, we'll talk to jemele hill about what that means for athletes as they come under fire from the president, and

jha from tom bossert. we are in trouble, it's harder to extinguish the flare-up and it will take a while to put out the fires. we can top 500,000 u.s. deaths this year if this trend continues. this is from the man who was advising the president on all things homeland security. do you agree with that assessment, upwards of 500,000 deaths? >> i'm hopeful we won't get near that and i think we'll hit somewhere around 200,000 near the fall or 300,000. we'll have a lot more illness and a lot more death ahead of us if we don't turn this around. whether we hit 500,000 or not i'm not sure. but it's a bleak summer and fall ahead. >> we know the way to lower the number of deaths is through mask wearing. you cannot dispute that. people around the president are taking pictures and wearing masks but not the president. you have florida not mandating statewide masks and also the state's education commission saying they're going to reopen brick and mortar schools next month. what does that mean for the state of florida and

jha, thank you. appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> i know the numbers get numbing. and they don't capture the distress in places like arizona. when we come back, we'll go to a doctor on the front lines. you'll hear why she says she can't keep up, and as a result they may be forced to do something you can't believe would happen in this country, next. choose between a great network and the best prices. we give you both. switch your family from at&t or verizon to t-mobile and you will save up to 50% off your current service and smart phones.... 50% with three or more lines of essentials with unlimited talk, text and data. all on a network built with our best signals for coverage. and keep your current phones. we'll pay them off up to $450 bucks each. now get an amazing network for an amazing price. only at t-mobile. she said it was like someone else was controlling her mouth. her doctor said she has tardive dyskinesia, which may be related to important medication she takes for her depression. td can affect different parts of the body. - [narrator] in today's trying tim

ashish jha. what's so interesting, the rapid acceleration with how longer with now hitting these new astronomical milestones, so only two weeks we have gone from 3 million to 4 million and it took as you can see many months to get up to the 2 million cases. so explain this. how is this happening? >> sanjay, can you hear me? i'm -- >> can you hear me, sorry, can you hear me now? >> yes. could you hear my question? >> i got you, yeah. so it's really important to measure not only the growth but also the pace at which that growth is happening which is what you're alluding to there. again, when we do the calculations, it took almost 100 days to get to the first 1 million people sort of infected. it took 43 days to the get to the next 2 million. 15 days to get to the final million. it he's really important because you think of what do you need to do, what strategies will work. karl bergstrom a professor in washington uses this analogy of a big steamship, a cruise liner moving through the ocean. as it's

jha, we appreciate you and all you do. thanks for being here. >> thank you. >>> well, senate republicans have unveiled their new stimulus plan. we'll tell you what's in it, what it means for those who are unemployed and losing that extra $600 a week. what are they proposing instead and where did the money for the new fbi building come in this? >>> in less than an hour from now, an important hearing you'll want to see on capitol hill. the attorney general bill barr set to face a grilling from house democrats, but based on the opening statement he's ready to fight back. we'll speak to one of the democrats asking questions and that's next. >>> and major league baseball's commissioner trying to downplay coronavirus concerning following a big outbreak on the miami marlins team. is the season as a whole now in jeopardy? ♪ ♪all strength ♪we ain't stoppin' believe me♪ ♪go straight till the morning look like we♪ ♪won't wait♪ ♪we're taking everything we wanted♪ ♪we can do it ♪all strength, no sweat bibill assumed his mayo was the be

ashish jha, dr. jha, welcome to fox news sunday. doctor: thank you for having me on, good morning.rida, texas, california, arizona, georgia and north carolina tallying the highest number of new infections. where are we in this covid-19 fight and how do you explain the surge in new patients? doctor: yes, so we are -- you know, we are in a pretty tough spot right now. we have large outbreaks in large parts of our country. about two-thirds of the country are seeing increases in cases and we got here, mike, because of couple of reasons, one, is i think we opened up a little too early in some places, a lot of states didn't meet the white house's own guidelines for when to open up safely. we didn't have the kind of testing and treysing infrastructure that we needed and then last but not least a lot of mix-messaging on masks and social distancing and so all of that contributed to what i think is a perilous moment for our country. mike: according to new york times new cases are up 89%, people dying down 19%. doctor, is that what you're seeing and how do you explain it? doctor: yeah, what w

jha, always a pleasure to have you on. on days like this, when we're trying to make sense of what is the science behind this, the oxford university phase one trial seemingly significant, are you as optimistic as researchers there are and does this mean that we could possibly see a vaccine ready to go this year? >> certainly, ayman, thank you for having me on this is good news, unequivocally this is good news for two reasons. one is as the researchers pointed out pretty much everybody got an immune response from this vaccine. and then there are two arms of your immune system, we think of humoral antibodies and t cells i'm pleasantly surprised by this vaccine does seem to stimulate both and that gives us that much more hope that we're going to have a vaccine that will be really effective against this virus. the timeline, i'm not as optimistic we'll have it sometime this fall as i know some of the folks brought up i'm looking at early 2021. i would love to be wrong about that. >> how does something like this get scaled into p

ashish jha. dr. hotez, we're seeing a new level of urgency from local officials, the los angeles mayor eric garcetti, for example, says he's on the brink of issuing a new stay-at-home order for the city. and the republican governor of arkansas issued a mask mandate that goes into effect today. based on your analysis, are these steps necessary? will they do much good in the short term? >> well, you're absolutely right. the southern u.s. is in a bit of a freefall right now where this part of the country now accounts for 25% of the world's covid-19 cases. so, across the globe and the pandemic, one quarter of the cases are all in the southern united states going throughout the southeast and then los angeles and into arizona. this is crisis time and we've got to take steps nationally to come up with thisble to just have masks and social distancing. in others we may need a complete lockdown. this is what we're not getting from the federal government. they need to look at the nation as a whole to bring us w

jha, good to see you. talk to to me about testing and whether you think the white house now has a realistic plan for shortening that lag time. >> andrea, thank you for having me on. look, we now have the level of testing in our country that would have been helpful to have back on may 1. unfortunately we didn't have it then, and the level of testing we need now is much, much greater. i like admiral giroir of 65 million tests a month, 2 million a day. that would be really helpful now, or ideally a few weeks ago. it just feels like we keep achieving what we needed to have achieved three months prior. and we're constantly behind. and what seems to me that when you're constantly behind in a baseball game and falling further behind every inning, you need a new strategy. and we need a new strategy that brings in new types of testing and gets aggressive. i think the current approach will not get us where we need to be. >> now, he said that they were moving forward rapidly with antigen tests, with, he said, point o

open the school, jha. >> well, look. you can open the schools, and if you can run schools without adults, just have the kids teach themselves, that would be great. two points. first of all, kids do get sick. absolutely not as often as adults. but second, you do need adults to run schools. and without adults, it's very hard to run schools. >> help me understand. put up the full screen of the cdc guidelines on reopening schools. now, the president has pushed on them and they're going to put in ones out next week or something, but what here is too tough and too expensive? wearing masks can't be. staying home when appropriate, that's how it is now. staggered scheduling, backup staffing plan, modified seating, closing come unial spaces. there was a suggestion by the white house, well, they also want some kids to bring lunches to school. do you see any of that is onerous? >> i see all of that as basic. that's the minimum. i think the cdc should have gone further. where is the testing protocol? where is the real aggressive surv

jha. we're gone consider try to reconnect with him. are you back with us? >> oops. >> i think so. >> yeah. go ahead. you heard the question, right? >> yep, i did. very quickly what i was going to say, wolf, is that there are more days ahead of us before a vaccine than behind us. and if we don't want another 150,000 americans dying, then we have to get very serious. we have some of the leading public health scientists in the world and the idea that we would not listen to them and instead promote videos of people with, you know, really questionable credentials is mind-boggling. this is hard enough if we do everything well. and it feels to me like we are just trying to do everything poorly and the consequences are what we are seeing today. >> gloria, congressman louie gohmert of texas, a republican, he was supposed to be traveling with the president today to texas until he tested positive early this morning for the virus. he wasn't wearing a mask during that hearing yesterday. he doesn't like to wear a mask. we saw him close to the attorney general bill barr w

jha, thank you so much.really appreciate it. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> when we come back, the supreme court unanimously rejected the argument that the president of the united states is not subject to subpoenas from local district attorneys. i'm sure donald trump will lose this new argument, too, but i'm not sure how long the court process will take. we'll find out what joyce vance thinks, next. to build unlimited right. you start with america's most awarded network, the one with unbeatable reliability 13 times in a row. this network is one less thing i have to worry about. (vo) then you give people more plans to mix and match so you only pay for what you need verizon unlimited plan is so reasonable, they can stay on for the rest of their lives. awww... (vo) you include the best in entertainment and you offer it all starting at $35. because everyone deserves the best. this is unlimited built right. only on verizon. to visit all the places we didn't know meant so much.s to get out and go again. but we're

ashish jha, thank you for making time for us tonight.ze i gave you a lot of dark news to try to make sense of, but you speak with a lot of clarity. it's really helpful. thank you. >> thank you. >> all right. lots more to come tonight, including speaking of dark, coming up next, we're going to talk about a little eternal damnation in your news cycle. don't say i never gave you anything. we'll be right back. anything we'll be right back. the course structure the university of phoenix offers- it just suits my life perfectly because i am a mom, i'm a wife. and i was able to complete those short courses- five to six weeks- and then move onto the next until i reached my goal. sprinting past every leak in our softest, smoothest fabric. she's confident, protected, her strength respected. depend. the only thing stronger than us, is you. not actors, who've got their eczema under control. with less eczema you can show more skin. so roll up those sleeves. and help heal your skin from within with dupixent. dupixent is the first treatment of its kind

jha, always a pleasure, we have a lot of ground to cover. let me begin with texas. we have been focusing a lot on texas but yesterday dr. fauci mentioned he was concerned about rising positivity rates in states like ohio, indiana, kentucky. tell us a little bit about why are those states ones to watch out for and why is the indicator of increasing positivity rate significant? >> thank you for having me on. i agree with dr. fauci. no surprise. look, we've focused a lot on the hot spots, the texas, arizona, florida, south carolina, louisiana. makes sense that's where the big outbreaks are. what we're seeing in large parts of the country is increase in cases and test positivity and the reason test positivity is important is the idea we are doing more testing and the more testing we do, if we're starting to find higher and higher proportion of people, that's a sign that we're missing a lot of people and it's a sign that the outbreak is getting much bigger and even our increasing testing isn't able to keep up with it. so i look at those data and i'm also getting concerne

jha, thank you. >>> joining me now is congressman hakeem jeffries of new york.bine the fact that donald trump is completely confused, there's complete confusion in the message coming out of the white house. the other piece of confusion that i see, you know, respectfully is out of what's happening in congress right now. you have mitch mcconnell wearing a mask in a video. but as far as we can tell, they have not agreed on even what would be in their version of a bill and they're rejecting the democrats' bill to try to alleviate the economic torture on americans right now. what is going on up there? >> first of all, good evening, joy. it's great to be on and congratulations on your show. >> thank you. >> we all are looking forward to great things that will come from you during the 7:00 hour. mitch mcconnell's response is consistent with president trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic. he's been stumbling, fumbling, and bumbling. and that is what thez done from the very beginning. we have a situation right now where you have more than 150,000 americans who ha

jha, this is priscilla thompson in houston, texas. i want to talk about what we're seeing on the ground here, hospitalizations hitting a record high last night, we learned, and the mayor saying if we don't get our hands around this virus, we're going to be in trouble. i'm curious if you think that more needs to be done at the state and federal level in order to contain the spread of this virus and also whether you feel that the mask mandates that we're seeing go far enough or if more needs to be done. >> yes, so those are great questions. i obviously don't think we're doing enough in places like houston. the reason is you can have mask mandates, you have to really enforce them vigorously. but beyond that, you got to have a communication strategy. for weeks and months, we have been hearing from political leaders in washington, and in state houses, that this is no big deal if you're a young person or somehow the virus is going to go away. and we need to start communicating with people in a way that makes it very clear that young people

jha as always, we appreciate your voice. thank you.. >>> we need to turn to tropical storm fay now. it's closing in on the east coast with winds hitting 50 miles an hour and our rob marciano tracking this tropical threat for us. good morning to you, rob. >> hey, good morning, t.j. already on to the name of fay as we get into not even the middle really of july. here's a look at what it's doing right now. ocean city, new jersey, ocean city, maryland, also getting waves and wind and this will be increasing throughout the day and asbury park, a typical spot we see storms coming in you see the waves acting up as well. the center, 50 miles southeast of ocean city, maryland with 50-mile-per-hour winds and now we have tropical storm warnings that are posted for the jersey coastline, long island and all the connecticut coastline and already have flash flood warnings for parts of delaware. here's the forecast track. line not that important. we don't expect a whole lot of strengthening with this. it will be windy and some coastal flooding and cer

jha said lots of places like phoenix near federal help.. george. >> okay, matt, thanks very much. to t.j. >>> turn to the latest on flooding from the midwest to the south and new tropical system brewing off the east coast, and rob marciano tracking this all for us. good morning, rob. >> good morning, t.j. we had 160 severe weather reports yesterday. a lot of flooding as you mentioned. let's go to ohio which saw four inches in a short period of time. new in philadelphia there where cars had it and tuscaloosa, alabama where five inches in a short period of time submerging some of the cars there. you mentioned propagate activity and national hurricane center now just updating this to a 70% chance of becoming a tropical cyclone. either a depression or named storm and spin its way up the carolina coast, mid-atlantic coast and northeast coast tomorrow, friday and into saturday. we will have heavy rain with this. some wind and have to see how it develops. we think it will stay inland. if it stays off shore it could likely become strength. it coul

jha leading the news two white men are under arrest allegedly assaulting a black man they face federal criminal confinement and battery. the men were caught on video while holding the man. booker told police he was attacked by a group that threatened to lynch him. the hearing has been set friday >>> a st. louis couple has now been charged she's willing to recommend a diversion program for the couple, a deal that wot trial. they feared imminent harm and their attorney says he feels no crime was committed. >>> there are growing concerns about a cold war heating up between the u.s. and china we're joined now from beijing and tell us more about this back and forth. >> reporter: it seem like the u.s./china relationship is combative on all fronts. on hong kong it's about to take another downward turn. the u.s. says it will get out of its extradition term ping a visit to the u.k the u.k. was extending its extradition treaty this is a potent message on diplomatic relations that is being sent to china. officials here at beijing as well as the ambassador to the u.k. accused to dancing to the tun

jha, we're also grateful to you. thank you to both of us your joining us. >> thank you. >> we're going to get back to our coverage of the coronavirus in a moment. >>> there's breaking news out of southern california, live pictures coming in from san diego, at least 21 people, most of them u.s. sailors, were injured in a fire onboard the u.s.s. bonhomme richard docked in san diego. firefighters are working to try to put out the flames and remaining hotspots. cnn learned the injured including 17 sailors and 4 civilians are being treated for what's described as minor injuries. we're also told everyone else onboard has been accounted for. there's no immediate word on what caused the fire. u.s. defense department official says initial reports indicate it started in the weld deck but that's not confirmed. a quick personal note, i spent some time reporting onboard the "bonhomme richard" back in 2005. there's the picture. it was right after the gulf war. i was in iraq and kuwait. i was aboard the ship. it's a great ship. the

ashish jha of the harvard global health institute. let's once again set the table with what makes sense and what he can still do. good to see you, doc. >> thanks for having me on, chris. >> masks are a problem. you can put them on wrong. they can go over your eyes. you can't see, you fall down a flight of stairs. can't taste with them, hard to eat with them unless there's a hole in them. can't wear them. what are the real risks at all of wearing a mask? >> no. there are no real risks. i was going to say, theoretically, but for normal people, even people with lung disease, masks are very safe. >> what is he talking about? he talks to cats like you all the time theoretically, to use your word. he's got the task force. what could they have told him or is he just making this up? >> i think he's making it up because i know the people on the task force and they are saying to the american people, you should be wearing a mask. the evidence is overwhelmingly clear that people should be wearing a mask when they are outside their home. so i don'

ashish jha. doc, thank you very much. >> chris, thank you. >> just to make sure we're playing on the same page, the idea that there is a nationwide strategy for how to open schools and it's the same in keeping with the nationwide strategy on how to fight the pandemic and do testing, what nationwide strategy? >> yeah, chris, thanks. so, this is the issue. we don't have a national strategy. the strategy so far has been one of let every state figure it out on its own. we're essentially doing the same thing with schools. there was a bit of a threat, we started threatening schools that didn't open. now we're just saying to all the schools, figure it out on your own. and that's not helpful. we do need a federal government, a national strategy would be actually really useful at this moment. >> especially, as you mentioned many times, with testing. i had the superintendent from one of these big counties in the president's backyard that just said, listen, we're going to have to go pure virtual. i said why

ashish jha, the director of the harvard global health institute. sanjay, the country just surpassed 4.5 million confirmed cases. the cdc is now projecting that the death toll here in the u.s. will pass 173,000 in the next three weeks or so by august 22nd. what would you tell every person in this country to do over these next few weeks to try to keep that number as low as possible? these are real human beings, mothers and fathers, sons and daughters. they are dying. >> well, you know, wolf, i absolutely agree with you. and it's tough to think about these numbers and we recite these numbers on the side of the screen. it's just tough to think about all of the people that have been affected by this. but the answer in terms of what can start to bring down the numbers really has not fundamentally changed for the last several months that we're talking about this. yes, we talk about the vaccine and therapeutics and everyone's hopeful for those. but we see example after example around the world of basic things can start to bring down the number. so we can s

jha, thank you so much. always good to have you here to keep us up on this devastating pandemic. >>> i want to turn to breaking news overnight. the u.s. consulate in chengdu has officially been closed days after china ordered it shut down in retaliation for the united states closing the chinese consulate in houston. nbc's janis mackey frayer is outside the consulate. what are they saying about all of this? >> well, we saw the american flag being lowered here just after dawn this morning, ending 35 years of u.s. diplomacy here in southwestern china. the diplomats were given 72 hours to clear out the consulate. over the course of the weekend, there was a lot of activity. documents being carried out, plaques and insignia being removed from the walls. at 10:00 this morning, chinese officials and police and security walked through the front door and took the building back. this was retaliation, and these are china's words, for the u.s. closing down the chinese consulate in houston last week. this is the latest es

jha. we always appreciate it. eva, over to you. >>> now to the violent protests breaking out overnight in cities across america. one of them turning deadly, and in another authorities firing off tear gas. abc's janai norman has more. >> reporter: overnight, chaos in the streets has multiple it ssh ring out in austin, texas. one man shot and killed during a black lives matter protest, an apparently peaceful march turning deadly. >> initial reports independent kite the victim may have been carrying a rifle and approached suspect vehicle. suspect was in the vehicle and shot at the victim. suspect was detained and is cooperating with officers. >> reporter: the mother of the shooting victim speaking exclusively with abc offering a different account. she said her son was pushing her girlfriend's wheelchair when the fatal incident happened. >> he was pushing whitney through an intersection, and this gentleman got out of his car and started firing shots, and my son was shot, three times. >> reporter: and the violence spre

ashish jha.ay they only have space for students to go into the classroom two days a week. >> yeah, so thanks for having me on. first of all, i think local districts really have the ideal sort of sense of knowledge about what they can and cannot pull off. obviously, if you are in a place with a lot of cases happening and you haven't invested the last couple of months, if we haven't spent the time getting schools ready to bring a lot of kids back in, criticizing them, i don't think, makes much of a difference. the goal here should be to help them figure out how to expand their capacity, if that's possible. >> on one hand, secretary devos said she's not going to give any prescriptions on how schools should reopen because she's not a medical expert. but she did say that there is no data suggesting children being back in school is dangerous to them. do you agree with that? >> i think she's going further than i'd be willing to go. let me tell you what the data is and everyone can decide whether getting

ashish jha. he's director of the harvard global health institute. thanks for joining us again this morning. there was so much concern as we head into the holiday weekend given what we saw after memorial day. what's your take on how the country did? >> i thought the country did reasonably well. a lot of places, people were out and i did see a good amount of people wearing masks. of course, it wasn't as universal, george, as i had hoped and wished it was, but, you know, i think july 4th weekend people need to -- wanted to get out and enjoy themselves a little bit and i thought overall the nation did pretty well but, of course, the number of cases continue to rise in many, many parts of the country so that's an ongoing concern. >> the president keeps repeating that claim, the false claim that the rise in cases is due to testing. but he's now adding that 99% of cases are totally harmless. what are the facts there? >> yeah, so the facts on this are really quite clear that the reason we're seeing an increase is because we're seeing an increase in infectio

jha, some are saying even if there's a vaccine i'm not sure about it. they rushed the process.y, we should have made substantial progress in bringing this outbreak under control by some time next year. >> and dr. jha, some are saying even if there's a vaccine i'm not sure about it. they rushed the process. they don't know if it's safe there are people that are going to be on the fence about getting it even if it does come out. what do you say to them? >> i completely understand where they're coming from. i do want to see the safety data for me it's important. my question is whether i get my kids vaccinated, my elderly parents vaccinated we're going to look at the safety data pretty hard. and i believe the safety data will come through, but we've got to look at the data and see where it is. i don't think we should be vaccinating people until we feel confident there is good safety data for the vaccine >> all right we'll keep our fingers crossed thank you. >>> and just ahead, the new plan to keep nfl players safe during the pandemic we'll hear from one whose whole family tested po

ashish jha joins us now. dr. jha, good morning to you. you see what's happening in florida.ow do you explain it? what do you make of this record daily surge of cases there? >> good morning. thank you for having me on. the situation in florida is pretty worrisome. there were more cases yesterday in florida than all of europe yesterday. and this is obviously a situation that's getting worse. i think we know how we got here, right? we -- florida along with other states opened up too early when they weren't quite ready. they didn't meet the white house's own guidelines. and they opened up too aggressively. they had bars and restaurants and other things to open when they weren't ready to do it. then i think the biggest problem recently is they've been too slow to react. still don't have a statewide mandate for masks. there are other things we still should be doing. i don't think florida has been as aggressive as it needs to be. >> what about those who say, look. it's a function of more testing. there has been a surge in testing in florida as well. and the governor there points ou