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montgomery county in maryland, fairfax and loudoun counties in virginia. they each initially rolled out a hybrid plan. you've heard the term. a few days in person. different shifts. combined with distance learning. now they're going all remote. interestingly, education secretary betsy devos called fairfax county's original hybrid plan a disaster. my question that we'll be able to get an answer to i think in a second is did she offer any better guidance to any of these counties? is there any resource offer? is there a guideline? is there a plan? is there even an extended offer? joining us now the superintendent for loudoun county public schools eric williams. mr. williams, thank you for joining "primetime." >> thank you. i appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. >> let's talk macro then get micro. am i unaware of this plan offered to you and other counties all over the country from the federal government with how you should reopen saufl and how you can get resources if you need them and good ideas to make it happen? >> so we have not received federal

all schools, "the washington post" is reporting tonight that the superintendents in fairfax county, loudounounty, and montgomery county all surrounding washington, d.c., are calling for all virtual classes to start the school year, scrapping earlier plans we reported on to do partial online, partial in school. what are these school districts putting ahead of the kids and their well-being here? >> this is 100% pure negative partisanship. this is politics. this is because president trump said to open the schools. theyt are sector biasing the education of to check up on badly needed classroom instruction. zero health rationale out of this. a study came out of u.k. today said that there is not a single confirmed case in the entire world of a student infecting a teacher. not one confirmed in thetu entie world. we know that students are at a far lower health risk, children are at a far lower health risk with covid than they are seasonal flu every single year. if this were about health, logically they could never open again for thiss is not based on health, this is based on politics. >> laura: thi

in virginia you have prince william, loudoun, arlington county, fairfax county, one of the largest school districts in the country all announcing they'll begin the school year with virtual learning. they are not going to send students to school in person yet, wolf. the rise in cases in the d.c. greater area very alarming tonight. >> indeed. you have to err on the side of caution especially dealing with kids. thanks very much, brian todd, for that. let's go to texas right now. coronavirus cases are clearly surging along with deaths and hospitalizations. we are joined by the mayor of houston, sylvester turner. mayor turner, thank you so much for joining us. as you know better than anyone texas just hit another new high for the number of deaths reported in a single day. nearly 200 in just one day. what does that say about how your state is handling this crisis? >> well, i'm not proud of those numbers, wolf. i want those numbers to be going in the opposite direction. today in the city of houston for example i reported eight deaths. we are reporting between seven and 11 per day. in june we rep

apparently, it's not possible in three of the biggest school districts in the country -- fairfax, loudoun, and montgomery counties. those are the three counties in virginia and maryland that surround washington, d.c., and president trump. today, superintendents from all three of those school systems call for an all-virtual start to the year, ditching their previous plans for part-time in-person learning the president's been on a campaign to force schools to reopen that kids need to go back to school, no matter the risk. subtle he's actually blocking the cdc from testifying before congress this week about reopening schools, and we're seeing the sentiment repeated by republican governors across the country here's what missouri's governor said in a radio interview last week >> these kids have got to get back to school they're at the lowest risk possible and if they do get covid-19, which they will, and they will when they go to school, they're not going to the hospitals they're not going to have to sit in doctor's offices. they're going to go home and they're going to get over it." >> they'r