varon on his rounds at united memorial in north houston. in florida hospital capacity is starting to teeter as well. the state says it's going to surge a hundred extra nurses and dozens more beds into jackson memorial hospital in miami. there are now dozens of hospitals across florida that are reporting zero icu beds available. after weeks of refusing to release this kind of data statewide florida is now just starting to release information on utilization rates at hospitals across the state. of the 306 florida hospitals listed in the state database 41 report they have 0% of their icu beds available. 41 hospitals in florida say they have 0% availability in their icus, icus totally full. 41 out of 306. perhaps even more worrying there are 18 florida hospitals where it's not just the icu that's full, it's the whole hospital. 18 florida hospitals today reporting 0% of their regular hospital beds are available. they are just absolutely full. if you nudge one state up from the florida panhandle you find that in the great state of alabama here's t

stories, the sun belt hit hard, military doctors preparing to take over a wing of the hospital in north houston to treat covid-19 patients. >> reporter: several states report record coronavirus numbers the deaths are starting to rise. according to the 7-day average of daily deaths nationwide that number is up 34% two weeks ago and the number of cases is up 34%. >> houston has one of the biggest medical centers in the world and even they are stretching. >> reporter: in houston and army medical team of doctors, nurses and support staff have taken over a wing to treat covid-19 patients as coronavirus cases surgeon texas. refrigerated trucks used for bodies are standing by of depth rose to 3700 statewide including death friday, the highest single the increase and the pandemic started, texas hospitalizations rising to a record high of 10,600, many hospitals running out of space. >> so many months into this pandemic and testing ppe, nursing shortages still an issue we are battling every day. >> california confirmed the largest number of cases, 20,000, the u.s. air force and get team to san joaquin co

the big question that a number of them are asking, we're here in north houston at a testing site. it opened up about an hour ago. you can see this line is slowly moving. when we got here hours before opening, cars were already lined up more than a mile down the road waiting to get these tests. people tell us they basically camped out here in order to be able to get tested. this comes as we're beginning to see surges -- continuing to see surges in cases in texas. the governor had said tefs open to opening the economy as long as the amount of testing continued to go up, but, you know, officials here tell me it simply has not been enough. it's not enough each day. people here are being turned away. i want you to take a listen to some of the folks i spoke with in line this morning said about their experience trying to get tested. listen in. >> we heard that previous people, family members that went and took the test, they said come around 11:30 or midnight and there will be already cars. this is not the first time this happens. >> this is not my first time i stay here. i try to come t

united memorial medical center, a 117-bed hospital serving a mostly working class community in north houstonsome things we've seen elsewhere on a ventilator, a patient's chance for survival goes down. way down. >> the problem is once you intubate them, the chances of them leaving the hospital are less than 20%. >> reporter: unlike other hospitals we've seen, this facility is transforming itself into a sort of covid specialty center. >> last three weeks i've seen more admissions and sicker patients than on the previous ten weeks. so it's been an exponential increase on the severity of illness and in the number of cases. >> reporter: its covid unit expanding way beyond its intensive care unit by turning whole sections of the hospital into temporary air-tight chambers. creating negative pressure zones to keep the airborne virus moving up and out. and strict protocols are in place for moving in and out of these zones. everyone must have a test for coronavirus before entering. even journalists and protective gear now so abundance that everyone triples up. some employees getting through eight sets

basis, we actually have more cases than they do in harris county, which is our neighbor to the north where houstonor dallas or austin or san antonio. with that we're also seeing an increased rate of hospitalizations. we now have over 100 people in hospital beds. the icus have not filled but we are reporting more deaths. five deaths this week. >> in florida, more new cases every day than any other state. your hospital admitted a record number of cases of patients with coronavirus just today. do you anticipate that trend turning around anytime soon? >> no, we don't. we definitely have concerns. right now we have 62 covid patients in the hospital, and i heard we have four more on their way by ems to come in just today that will probably be there at the end of this show. we've gone from six patients covid positive at the beginning of june to 62 today, so just in 30 days, you can see that climb. >> you really can. and it is scary what that means, if things don't turn around, what that climb will mean, give it a another couple of weeks. we saw, dr. kizer, with memorial day, market, and you see two weeks

united memorial medical center is a relatively small hospital on the north side of houston, texas.ospital has i believe 117 beds. right now 88 of those 117 beds are devoted to covid patients. so the reporter and e ,

officials in the us have repossessed the chinese consulate in houston, saying it was a hub for intellectual property theft. the bbc‘s northllis reports. at the houston consulate chinese staff cleared the building of documents and other materials as anti—communist protesters gathered outside. us officials maintained the mission had become a leading hubof chinese espionage. —— hubfor. the action to direct the closure of the consulate in houston was taken to protect american intellectual property and america ns' private information. china, in a tit—for—tat move ordered the closure of the us consulate in chengdu. it called allegations of spying on behalf of staff at the houston consulate malicious slander, and accused members of the trump administration of trying to stoke conflict with beijing. translation: their purpose is to smear and suppress china, divert the attention of american public and seek gains in us domestic politics. the tricks of these us politicians will not fool american people and the international community. whilst relations between the two leaders have always seemed cordial, diplomatic tensions between the

north carolina. >> and i'm from houston texas. >> we go to the school for ethics and global leadership here in d.c., which is a semester program. i know firsthand even as a 17-year-old the reality of racial segregation in neighborhoods in my city of thence in salem and i know my state of north carolina has a long history of racial discrimination through neighborhoods and especially through voter laws. i'm wondering what you think the role of state governments, especially in north carolina and restricting voting rights for african americans in perpetuating the problems for neighborhood segregation and naomi has in addition to that. >> i also wanted to know how would you describe the current issues of white flight in suburbia in your city community's and what role do [laughter]ies play >> i thought we were going to do this together. >> jump in when i feel like it. >> oh. >> i did not read the book. >> but you have. >> well, white flight. this is a typical excuse for segregation. this is a private action. but white flight was possible only because there were all-white places to flee too. -- to flee to

north carolina. >> i am from houston, texas. school foro to the ethics and global leadership here in washington, d.c., which is a semester program. i know even as a 17-year-old the reality of racial segregation in the neighborhoods of my city, winston-salem. has ate, north carolina, long history of racial discrimination through neighborhoods and especially through voter laws. thinkwondering what you the role of state governments, inecially north carolina, restricting the voting rights of african-americans has in the problems with neighborhood segregation. naomi has in addition to that. >> how would you describe the current issues of white flight into suburbia, and what role do white families play in the continuation of segregated suburbia? >> i thought we would do this together. [laughter] life flight is a -- white flight is a typical excuse for segregation, a private action. white flight was possible because there were white places to flee to. if we had not imposed residential segregation in suburbs, there could not have been w

no worries once you get say to the north of corpus cristi, houston you'll be fine a few showers but everything is really isolated towards that south texas area, louisiana, new orleans absolutely fine. david: rick reichmuth, great to see you have a great weekend appreciate it. rick: you too. david: well the cdc releasing new guidelines for reopening schools so how do we keep kids safe in the classroom? a top doctor is here to tell us, coming next. david: the cdc releasing new guidelines for reopening schools saying it's critically important for our public health to get kids back in school this fall. joining me now is critical care doctor at the big ham women's hospital, dr. danielle llamas. good to see you doctor thank you for being here. what do you make of these new cdc guidelines? >> yeah, so i think we're viewing the cdc guidelines in a very helpful way. first, layout the immense importance of having in-school education for education and learning but also for social growth and to try not to further the inequities that already have existed as a result of this virus. kids who don't have as mu

and that new cases in the state of texas, particularly here in hard-hit houston and up to the north in dallas, have started to drop off. now, all that said, city leaders and local agencies are stressing to everyone now is the time to keep doing what we're doing. in fact, i passed a billboard on the way to this testing site in houston that said too soon to stop. keep your mask on. and that is certainly the message from those we have spoken to, including houston mayor sylvester turner who had this to say about his city's current plight. take a listen. >> we still have a long way to go. okay. though we're seeing some slight improvement in hospital admissions and in the positivity rate, some slight improvement, we still have a long way to go. and we're needing people to be very focused in keeping their masks on and engaging in social distancing. >> reporter: and the mayor mentioned that positivity rate, katy. right now for houston, it's sitting at around 25%. compare that to new york city, sitting at 5% or lower right now. they want to see that number starting to trend downward. that's why

to lift the controversial north 2 pipeline boss through its waters washington is an outspoken opponent also coming up. firefighters' of course to the chinese consulate in houston texas that's as a front but ministration for visit too close citing concerns over u.s. intellectual property what the diplomats burning sensitive documents. while u.s. secretary of state might bump aoe has been visiting denmark on the agenda bus waiting copenhagen to backtrack on the controversial nord stream to pipeline denmark has just given the go ahead for construction work to resume but from pale hopes to get the danes to change their minds the u.s. believes the pipeline will make germany too dependent on russian gas. last week on paper want companies working on the project they would be subject to u.s. penalties if they didn't and that involvement. in the baltic sea gas pipeline north stream 2 is still moving forward albeit slowly the u.s. has threatened sanctions for companies participating in the project so right now there is just one russian ship laying the pipes for the remaining 160 kilometers. the pipeline runs parallel to the north stream one pipeline from russia to germa

that sigh beebian town of north of anchorage, alaska and hit that before dallas and houston hit 100 degreesell, it's -- i don't want to -- it's less important that's happening in that one location and more important what's happening in the region probably. as if that region has been probably really hot, hot since january according to the nonprofit climate curve, that region averaged 11 degrees warmer from january to april this year. anchorage unusually hot. this is pretty much in line with climate predictions. so predictions are coming through. >> hearing perm ma frost is melting at alarming rates as well. bring it back here to america. what does it mean for average americans, for this summer and in the long-term, people out west, people on the coast. >> so the summer is kind of a really difficult situation, because the ways we usually deal with extreme heat involve getting people together. cooling centers, and all of these things and now we have covid. a lot of people are out of work, that means using your air conditioner. people are in their homes. the tragedy of the pan democrat ac ac --

records over the past week -- alabama, arizona, florida, mississippi, north carolina, south dakota, texas, and tennessee. in texasas houston mayor sylvesr turner proroposed shuttiting don the state for two weeks as hospitalizations surged to record highs but republican texas governor greg abbott has rected the calalls. on saturday, president trump was phphotogpheded wring a aask in publicor the fst time since e papandic began. trump put on the mask during a visit to the walter reed national military medical center. this comes as trump and the white house continue to attack the nation's top p infectious doctor dr. anthony fauci. over the weekendnd, the whwhite house e attempted to discrededim by distributina dodocument likened to an opposition research paper contataining papt comments made by fauci. dr. fauci's last briefing for the president came on june 2. they are not speakingng to each other. meanwhwhile, trump retweeted a message today in the former hoht of "love cononnection come proclaiming the cdcdc is lying about covid-19. in california, the coronavirus death toll at sasan quentin stae pron has reached 1 11 after t

it doesn't mean that it is good in houston, miami, georgia, north carolina. these are not embers. the fire is roaring in these states. miracles, we said many, many months ago and we can pull up the tape, the country just cannot afford to listen to his hunches any more, we have to listen to doctors with a strategy. dr. fauci saying we could be up to 100,000 cases a day if we're not careful here. the president showed again yesterday, joe, that he is not taking it seriously, he is still wishing for a miracle. >> we can go back, i think in april, where the president was saying that this is going to be gone by fall. it's going to look nothing like this by fall and dr. fauci had to get up and say no, we're going to have a second wave and it will come back in the fall. and you know, meeka, what we're experiencing right now, this is the first wave. the second wave comes in the fall. but the president's wishful thinking again. we can look at june the 1st. it was a devastating day for the president politically. devastating for a lot of sycophants that followed him in uniform. but this is gu

houston. >>> and north korean dictator kim jong un puts a town on lockdown over a possible coronavirus case.ore illegally crossing into the north last week. the rogue regime claims the person would be its first confirmed case of covid-19, but as always, we question the news coming out of there. jed? jedediah: thanks, griff. although it's believed young people are less likely to be severely impacted by coronavirus, the cdc reports they may still develop chronic illness. over 20% of young adults reported they weren't back to their normal health even 2-3 weeks after testing positive. could this impact schools reopening in the fall and outside life in general returning to normal? here to discuss, author of "make america healthy again," dr. nicole saphier. doctor, this new information is something i've heard from a lot of people. sometimes 2-3 months out they still are have lingering symptoms and had no pre-existing conditions. can you talk about a what might be happening here? >> absolutely. good morning, jedediah. and, you know, this is a very important conversation because often people are jus

to lift the controversial north 2 pipeline boss through its waters washington is an outspoken opponent also coming up. fire fighters of calls to the chinese consulate in houston texas that's as a front but ministration it too close citing concerns over u.s. intellectual property what the diplomats burning sensitive documents.

it's those outer bounds i'll be watching closely today for our friends in houston to galveston to victoria, and maybe even as far northas san antonio. one of the wild cards with tropical systems is tornadoes. more epic tornado producers than others. as those bands come onshore, we'll get an idea of the threat later on today, but a few tornados are possible with these bands from corpus christie up to victoria and we'll have some of those storms trying to head up to the north. the other concerns out there today, the flood threat inright. 57 degrees, wind speeds are calm and overall a cool koeft line. towards the afternoon, here's what you can expect. we've got clouds lingering for the first half of the day. by the afternoon, mostly clear conditions. temperatures will be warming up, especially compared to yesterday's highs. we'll be in the mid-80s for the south bay, upper 80s and low 90s for the interior valleys and we've got a couple of upper 80s expected up through the north bay. >> enjoy that beautiful weather today in the northeast. another heat wave coming your way the end of this weekend into next week. >> bill, th

north—western regions. more than 900 new cases have been reported they are in the last 2a others. —— last 24—hour is. us federal officials have repossessed the chinese consulate in houstonter president trump ordered its closure, as diplomatic relations between the world's two largest economies continue to deteriorate, china has retaliated by ordering the united states to close its consulate in the city of chongdu. daily black lives matter protests in brazil are continuing after the death of george floyd in police custody in the us. flu vaccine is to be offered to more than half of england's population this winter to prevent the health service being overwhelmed by another surge in coronavirus cases. 13 million three jabs will be provided to people over 50 and children under 11. catherine burns has the story. it is not the virus we have all been focusing on, but like covid—19 food can be serious, putting strain on the nhs and killing thousands and this year it could come on top of a possible surge in coronavirus cases. which is why this winter the government wants more than half the people in england to get the people in england to get the flu jab, or the nasal spray for

north—western regions. more than 900 new cases have been reported they are in the last 2a others. —— last 24—hour is. us federal officials have repossessed the chinese consulate in houston's two largest economies continue to deteriorate, china has retaliated by ordering the united states to close its consulate in the city of chongdu. daily black lives matter protests in brazil are continuing after the death of george floyd in police custody in the us.

they're waiting as long as 18 months in santa ana and houston and well over two years in north dakota, phoenix, miami, and seattle. worse still, they're not remotely on track to naturalize the next 315,000 people in line for naturalization who would normally be eligible to vote this november but still haven't had their interviews yet. these aspiring americans are young and old, republicans and democrats, living all across the country, an estimated 68,000 are in california, 3300 in colorado, 200 in north dakota, 800 in pennsylvania, and 6100 in washington state, all of whom are at risk of not being able to vote this year. this dereliction of duty is hiding in plain sight. unless they can immediately expudied their interviews, these 315,000 citizens, some of whom have been in line for nearly two years, will be disenfranchised. thank you for your time and i look forward to any questions you may have. >> thank you very much. the gentleman yields back and we will now hear from ms. vaughn for five minutes. >> thank you very much. the opportunity to testify today. the trump administration ha

houston was last seen two months ago. she had complained to friends and family about sexual harassment. >>> in north carolina, charges of racialt a hotel. a black woman says she was accused of trespassing while her children were playing in the pool. here's abc's adrienne bankert. >> reporter: a disturbing encounter at a hotel pool. >> i'm here on business. so they're harassing me. >> reporter: this woman accused by a hotel employee of trespassing at a north carolina hampton inn. >> she said, it's people like you that comes to the pool that's not authorized. who's people like me? black people? >> reporter: police say hotel staff found anita wright's two children swimming alone friday. when staff located wright in her car in the parking lot, she refused to give her name and room number. staff called police. >> i have a key to get in and i can show you that it work. >> reporter: wright accusing the employee and police for discrimination. >> i have no reason to tell who i am. i proved that i'm here. it was two white people sitting over there, she said nothing to them. >> reporter: officers later used her vehicle registration to co

houston in a game between astros and l.a. dodgers who they faced in the world series a couple of years ago and the in the sixth north carolina joe kelly threw a fastball behind alex's head. then kelly threw a pitch did not appear to be a fastball bull it is the nearly hitting astros shortstop carlos knocking him down. after he struck out to end the north carolina, kelly taunted him. then the benches cleared. not a great look amid a pandemic. no punches were thrown, though. last night was the first time the two teams met since the astros stole signs in 2017 that included their seven game world series win over the dodger. >>> let's take a look at markets around the world. markets in asia closed mixed. european opening mixed as well. on wall street futures basically unchanged. u.s. stocks closed lower tuesday as investors worried drama negotiations could threaten a new stimulus deal. consumer confidence fell in july threatening the prospect of an economic recovery. today wall street will get earnings from some big companies like boeing and gm. >>> niefrl and amp mc theaters striking a new deal for new movies to play at home soo

houston. thank you. >>> we want to get to our yahoo! news medical contributor. good morning to you. we've been talking about increasing numbers, states like northarolina, florida. things have only been getting worse. doctor, what's happening right now or maybe not happening that maybe needs to be right now? >> what's not happening is probably a lockdown. it takes a while for masks to start working. we're probably not going to see any improvement in the numbers for quite a while. we need there not tonal be positive reopenings but a lockdown. these numbers are only going to get increasingly worse. >> in the meantime, encouraging, we have a number of states that are mandates that people actually wear masks. a report from yahoo! news writes that it's too late, though, for masks alone to turn the tide on covid-19, whoo the u.s. needs to lock down hot spots right away as you suggested. the question is what does the rest of that solution look like and the answer is probably more like europe's. what do you make of that, doctor? >> that's a great point. we know masks are only one part of the full strategy. the other measures are physical distancing and

north ofhe islands.weeping just the storm brought heavy rain to maui and piled up massive ways off of honolulu but no damagepo was ed. thison was retaliaor the u.s. shutting down china'sco ulate in houston. chinese authorities entered the now empty consulate in protective gear while onlookers lamented the rising tent is -- tensions with the u.s.. >> we are alles ordinary ch citizens. still pay great attention to the relationship between china and the u.s.. we need tolo and tra in the u.s. and our relatives need to study in the u.s.. ngthese twill all be greatly affected. thisill graally deteriorate and even break apart. >> u the. has four other consulates in china. civilian casislties in afghn are down 13%. the united nations reports of the total killed andas wounded just short of 3500 through june. back in this country, lawyers for president trump ying to block the release of his tax returns. they aed a federal court in new york to quash a subpoena fr the manhattan district attorney, arguing that it was overly broad. the u.s. supreme court rejected an e president is immune from there is word thagle will let employees work from home until at least next july. today's decision by the comp

houston consulate as a hub for espionage. just yesterday the department of justice accused chinese hackersp are working fsonal gain and the communist party. >> china has taken its place alon russia, iran and northin that shameful club nations that provide a safe haven for cyber criminals in exchange for those criminals being on-call call for the benefit of the state. nick:io but sofficials tell "pbs newshour" it was also about diplomatic reciprocity. in january, out of fears of covid, they evacuated their mulan consulate. erloerm, u.s. officials say they want to reduce their footprint in china. addition to the beijing embassy, the u.s. has five consulates on the china mainland and hong kong consulate. e chinficials say they intend to move the consulate elsewhere in asi a spokesman warned of the likely closure today. >> chinatrongly condemns the decision and request the u.s. recall the wrong decision, countermeasures.ll take sick: chinese diplomats emphasized respe and said u.s. policy was self-defeating. ere was a major speech on july 9. >> the current china policy of the u.s. is based on ill-informed strategic miscalculation and is fraught with emotions and whims with mccarthy bigotry. it has

north of the mexican border. right now they have construction crews building additional beds and wings overnight because they have patients waiting in ambulances with covid out front. meanwhile, the mayor of houston telling me another shutdown could be a possibility at this point in time if those cases continue to go up. back here at parkland hospital in dallas, they have kept adding floors to their covid unit. it's now five floors deep inside this hospital behind me. the head nurse of this program telling me, craig, that she's concerned that things could get worse before they get better. take a listen. >> it is a catastrophic disease, and we're seeing it more into a disease where more and more patients coming in sicker. i will never forget that feeling and watching that last heartbeat on a 27-year-old man. that should not have had that outcome. there was nothing you could do to stop it. >> reporter: you're hearing those ages trending younger. that's one of the things we've been seeing from a group standpoint. initially we thought covid-19 would impact the older population. as the summer months have progressed, we've seen statistics prove that this younger group, 40, 30 and below is also very muc

officials into its consulate in houston after being forced to shut down american staff are also leaving their consulate in chengdu after beijing retaliated by ordering its closure. north korea has placed the city of k. song under lockdown of the concerns of a corona virus outbreak state news agency says a defector who illegally cross the border from the south as shown symptoms of covert 19 north korean leader kim jong un has reportedly declared a state of emergency in the area it's the 1st time that north korea has officially reported a suspected corona virus infection poland's withdrawing from a european treaty aimed at preventing violence against women thousands protested against the plan in cities across the country the justice minister says the treaty violates parents' rights by requiring schools to teach children about gender. and the year's 1st up planted hurricane hanna has made landfall in the southern coast of texas the catch where one system arrived on saturday just south of corpus christi. those were the headlines and news continues on al-jazeera after head to head station tell us about it by foot. i'm near the house and i'm here in washington d.c. for a sp