my first guest this afternoon is robert redfield, cdc director. thank you so much for joining us again. i enjoyed our last conversation and i've been telling people today several times in that last conversation, i could feel you simmering when we talked before about the lack of investment over decades in our public health infrastructure and why that is so consequential today. will you share with our audience what you have in mind? >> thank you very much. i think it's really important for us to just be honest and transparent about the fact that decades,y [indiscernible] . and i think we've seen the complexity that has caused us as we confronted the covid outbreak. i would argue now it's the time to make that investment, begin our nation on a sustained path to have the public health solution that this nation not only needs, but this nation deserves. with several elements of that. the ability to do predictive data analysis. this is fundamentally critical to have real-time, actionable effectiveto have an bubble. the recipients in the laboratory of som

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why director robert redfield has a new message on masks. if everyone wore them for the next four to eight weeks, we could drive this pandemic into the ground. the new epicenter. florida sees its deadliest day yet. hundreds in intensive care. why the florida governor says he needs 3,000 nurses from out of state to help covid 19 patients. a cbs news news cliewfs, closing schools. on the confederate flag. on why african-americans are dying at the hands of police. >> and so are white people. >> o'donnell: breaking news, superior court justice ruth bader ginsburg is in the hospital. we'll have the latest on her condition. biden's new attack, the formish vice president rid calls president trump's coronavirus response. >> please listen to your public health experts instead of denigrating them. >> o'donnell: and the message behind his new campaign ads. come of antibodies in all the patients who received the shop. a lot of reporting tonight cbs's manuel bojorquez will lead off coverage from miami. good evening, manny. >> reporter: good evening. the

robert redfield warned the risk redfield warned the risk of n of not wearing masks over the next few weeks could be dire. and think the fall and the winter of 2020 and 2021 will be probably the most difficult times we've experienced in american public health. >> reporter: in texas where hospitalizations have surged to nearly 60% in the last t nearly 60% in the last two weeks, some smaller hospitals are having to turn away covid patients. in the rio grande valley, ambulances are waiting five to twelve hours to deliver patients. in arizona, moises ramirez loza dow been on a ventilator more than a week, his first floor room a saving grace allowing his children to keep vigil. >> we speak through the window as loud as we can. sometimes you can see tears falling down. >> reporter: new york pressed ahead today to require visitors from 22 states to self- quarantine or face up to a $10,000 fine. and with the republican national and with the republican national convention in jacksonville just over a month away, organizers are planning to move events to outdoor venues, given florida's covid 19

robert redfield, urging the president as we played earlier, to wear a mask.nd also said universal mask wearing over the next four to eight weeks could help stem, bring the epidemic under control. what effects are we seeing lawmakers, specifically, to spread the outbreak, we saw the vice president wearing the mask and florida governor ron desantis for the first time as well. what are you seeing? >> right, it's interesting, speaking of florida because i've been reporting from here for the past couple of months, ron desantis has been very slow to issue a statewide response to this pandemic. it took him a while to issue that first stay-at-home earlier in the spring. and he's yet to issue a statewide mask order and leaving it to the counties. and by law, you see that in miami-dade county as well. it's interesting, though, in texas with republican governor greg abbott there's a statewide mask mandate there. so there's definitely some push among some republicans among the rise in cases to definitely wear a mask because it shows that wearing a mask could definitely s

anthony fauci and cdc director robert redfield. got some disturbing news. >> they gave us a pretty detailed outline of what they felt was happening with this virus. and what they thought what might happen in the country. when i left the briefing, we knew this was going to be a serious crisis. >> it was exactly the opposite of what president trump was saying publicly. >> looks like by april, you know, in theory when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away. >> the president's cdc director contradicted him later that week in an interview with dr. sanjay gupta. >> i think this virus is probably with us beyond this season, or beyond this year, and i think eventually the virus will find a foothold. and you can think of it a sense like seasonal flu. and the only difference is we don't understand the virus. >> a very small number of people in the country right now with it. it's like around 12. many of them are getting better. some are fully recovered already. so we're in very good shape. >> he was still of the view that you coul

why director robert redfield has a new message on masks.eryone wore them for the next four to eight weeks, we could drive this pandemic into the ground. the newaeests deadliest day yet. hundreds in intensive care. why the florida governor says he needs 3,000 nurses from out of state to help covid 19 patients. on why afran-amerins are closin. dying at the hands of police. >> and so are white people.

robert redfield. >> dr. redfield, i want to go back in time a little bit. the cdc was warned that more needed to be done from almost the start. dr. jeffrey engle, epidemiologist, told cnn on many conference calls in january the cdc was being told that testing needed to be expanded and the virus was probably already circulating in early january. that seems like a significant issue. why wasn't the cdc listening to these warnings and doing more at that time? >> well, you know, sanjay, i think it's important. we looked from a variety of different evidence lines to see if, in fact, that was true. you know, we had the first case reported in january, i think 22. and we've gone back and looked both in the flu surveillance studies in seattle. we looked at antibody testing in the region back then. we looked at genomic evolution of the virus, claims data with cms, and we published this in our mmwr. there was not evidence of significant circulation of the virus prior to the mid to end of february. after that, we had substantial seeding of the virus, particularly coming

robert redfield. dr. redfield, thank you for joining us again this morning. vice president pence said quite clearly yesterday the cdc is revising school guidelines because the president thinks they are too tough. should the doctors and scientists at the cdc be taking that kind of political direction from the president? >> well, thank you, george. i want to clarify. really what we're providing is different reference documents, so our guidelines are our guidelines but we are going to provide additional reference documents to aid, basically communities that are trying to re-open k through 12s. we'll do guidance for parents and/or reference documents for parents and caregivers, reference documents for schools to understand better how to monitor for symptoms, reference documents for how to use face masks in the school setting and reference documents for how to evaluate and monitor so i think it's really important. it's not a revision of the guidelines. it's just to provide additional information to help the schools be able to use the guidance that we put forward.

robert redfield. with any luck, they'll have more specifics than this. >> you said you're in the process of developing a strategy against the coronavirus that's very powerful. where is that strategy? >> you're seeing it. one of the things we're getting, it hasn't been utilized, we're all set to march when it comes to the vaccine. >> so the plan is wait for a vaccine. that will be little comfort to the more than 1200 people who lost family members. >> staggering when you think of that. it was the third straight day of record deaths in florida where ironically the state government starts meetings today on reopening bars. there's also a hurricane coming this weekend making matters worse. we'll have an update on that in just a moment. the president also heads to florida today. he's set to meet with sheriffs in tampa and join a roundtable discussion on covid-19. a topic that may or may not be addressed today. testing delays. leaving people out in public spreading the virus because they don't know they need

anthony fauci, cdc director robert redfield, and hhs assistant secretary theral brett, testify on national strategy against covid-19. that gets underway at 9:00 a.m. eastern in front of the house select subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis. at 10:40 5 a.m. eastern, house speaker nancy pelosi talks with reporters at her weekly news conference. >> president trump and members of the white house coronavirus task force are encouraging people who have recovered from covid-19 to donate plasma to help health officials find an effective treatment for patients who are critically ill from the virus. this roundtable discussion from the american red cross headquarters is 40 minutes. ladies and gentlemen, the 45th president of the united states, donald j. trump. [applause] pres. trump: thank you very much, everyone. it is a great honor. ands a magnificent building they do a magnificent job at the red cross. i am delighted to be here to discuss the remarkable progress being made in the development of plasma. so important. transfuseapies antibodies from the blood of thosered patients to help battling th

yesterday the governor and i met with the coronavirus task force coordinator and cdc director robert redfield. we have conversations about a wide range of covid-19 topics but none more timely than getting our children back to school. throughout the last two weeks i have spent countless hours talking with educational leaders around the state. everyone agrees for the future of our children we must do everything we can to have them back in a learning environment again this fall. working with states school superintendent woods, educational administrators and school boards around the state we have guidelines for schools that i am very proud of because it took the assumption we would open schools what do it very safely and ensure that schools have the tools they need to protect students, staff, teachers as well as the community as a whole. we fully expect some cases of covid-19 among students and teachers and we are doing what we can to provide the resources that need it to protect everyone in the setting. working with fema, schools receive less in the coming days. to go back to school, we know sch

robert redfield, the 18th director of the centers anddisease control prevention. thank you for joining us today. >> glad to be here, god bless. >> thank you. hello, and welcome back. i'm steve clemons. we are delighted to have you join us for the second hour of the future of the health care summit. i would like to thank the their support of today's great program. we are going to expand our lens in the session to look at policymaking breakthroughs and innovation in the face of seen and unseen challenges. before we get underway, a few housekeeping notes. you can tweet us at #thehillhealth. we are taking questions there. you can see i have a bunch here that have already come in. speakers, beware. if you experience a problem with the livestream, refresh. it should be a quick fix. i don't believe them, but that's what they say. let's get started. i'm least introduce my first -- thethe health of secretary of health and human services. alex azar has a breadth of experience of both the public and private sectors. his key focuses on health care and innovation, all assuming

cdc director robert redfield defending but also downplaying those guidelines. >> i want to make it very clear that it was not the intent of cdc's guidelines is to be used as a rationale to keep schools closed. remember, it's guidance. it's not requirements. >> reporter: and with the cdc preparing to release new guidelines next week, redfield decline to go say if pressure from the president is overriding the science. >> we will continue to develop and evolve our guidance to meet the needs of the schools and the states. >> reporter: also in the president's cross hairs -- >> the current state is really not good. we are still knee deep in the first wave of this. >> reporter: -- dr. anthony fauci. >> i think we are in a good place. i disagree with him. >> reporter: it was the latest sign of tensions between the president and the doctor americans trust most amid this pandemic. the fallout at the coronavirus task force briefing, dr. fauci notably absent. and while dr. fauci didn't attend the task force briefing, we are told he did attend the task force meeting before hand. he didn't join from

robert redfield. thank you for joining us today. >> glad to be here, god bless. >> thank you. >> hello, and welcome back. i'm steve clemons. we are delighted to have you join us for the second hour of the future of the health care summit. i would like to thank the support for today's great program. we are going to expand our lens in the session to look at policymaking breakthroughs and innovation in the face of seen and unseen challenges. before we get underway, a few housekeeping notes. at #an tweet us thehillhealth. if you experience a problem with the livestream, refresh. it should be a quick fix. i don't believe them, but that's what they say. has a breath of experience of both the public and private sectors. focuses on health care and innovation, all assuming added significance. had a really fantastic forum and it wouldn't be what it would be without you. let me start off and ask you, we have had various discussions of coronavirus challenges from the frontline, what is going on in communities, th

robert redfield. >> if you look at the south, everything happened around june 12th to june 16th.neously kind of popped. so independent of whether you reopened, didn't reopen and when you reopen, so we're of the view that there was something else that was the driver. maybe the memorial day -- not week end, but memorial day week where northlanders decided to go south for vacations. >> the director of the harvard health institute. good to see you, my friend. >> you had a very animated twitter thread after watching the cdc director about this because god forbid, you actually rely on data and context. i want to put up on the screen the south versus the south trend line. dr. redfield is right and there's been and we've been showing every day a spike in cases across the south. his point is aha, look at late june when it really starts to jump. no, sir, it doesn't work that way. go to the left, june 8th and it starts to go up right around memorial day and immediately after and it doesn't percolate that quickly. this was already under way, correct? >> that's right, john. thanks for having

robert redfield. that's going to be a very important program that starts at 8:00 eastern. >>> breaking news, michael cohen has been taken back into custody. just weeks after leaving prison on house arrest, i mean, i wonder if it's the reason we'd seen he went out doing what a lot of people aren't doing, which is to dine at a restaurant. >> so, there was that. and let's remind folks he was released from prison in upstate new york because of the epidemic. they made a case that he should be released. and they went ahead and released him in may. may 21st he was released. he was supposed to stay in prison until around november of 2021. so, he got out about 18 months early. what we don't know is why the burrow of prisons probation department decided he should be detained again. what his lawyer tells us is he was ordered to appear at the federal court house in lower manhattan to meet with the probation department. and they wanted him to sign an agreement not to speak to the media, not do any kind of social m

>> yeah, we got more insight on that from the director of the cdc, robert redfield. the president tweeted that in his view the guidelines are problematic and expensive among other things. he said he'd like to see them change or at least he wanted to talk to the cdc about it in a meeting. now, robert redfield said, look, those guidelines have been around for a long time, they're not changing. he talked to cnn about it last night. listen. >> the guidance are there with a series of different strategies, which then each local jurisdiction can decide hue they want to use the strategies. so we stand by the guidance. we think it's an important strategy for helping these schools reopen. >> so they say they'll put out a little bit more information about the guidelines, but they're not going to change them. poppy? >> okay. joe, thanks a lot. that's important. >>> now to texas where this state saw sadly its highest number of coronavirus deaths in a single day. ed lavandera is with me again from dallas. the governor of texas even says, ed, this is not the worst of it. >> yeah, w

my main guess in that hour will be cdc director robert redfield, a guest previously on my coronavirus report at the hill. you will not want to miss any of the sessions. before we get underway, a few housekeeping notes. you can tweet us at #thehill health. if your question is short and great, i have asked my colleague katie to walk up and give them to me. we will be monitoring those. we are broadcasting live and we will be taking your questions come as i just mentioned. as with any livestream, you could experience occasional trouble. refresh the page and in most cases that fixes the problem. good luck with that. my first guest today, dr. anthony fauci has probably not had a good nights rest since the begin of the year. the country and the world continue to look to him for counsel, expertise, and hope in the fight against covid-19. we are honored to have you in our midst, dr. fauci. global500 thousand deaths, more than 100 30,000 are from the united states. as you the state of play see it, in the most candid terms, from the united states right now? dr. fauci: thank you for having me. we

my main guest in that hour will be cdc director robert redfield, who has been a guest previously.ou will not want to miss any sessions. before we get underway, housekeeping notes. you can tweet us at #the hill health. you can also tweet questions. if your question is short, i have asked my colleague to write them up and give that to me. we will be monitoring those. we are broadcasting live event will be taking your questions. as with any live stream, you could experience occasional trouble. they say, refresh the page and and mow cases that -- most cases that will fix the problem. guest, dr. anthony fauci, director of the national institute of health and infectious diseases,, has probably not had a good nights sleep in more than a year. we are honored to have you in our midst. of the 500,000 global deaths, more than 130,000 are from the u.s.. let me ask you, what is the -- state of play, in the most candid terms, for the u.s. right now? have aci we still significant problem. we have been heart -- we have been hit harder than any country in the world. we peaked and then we came down

robert redfield today. watch this. >> i do think the fall and the winter of 2020 and 2021 will be the most difficult times we have experienced in american public health. >> is the director right? he's made dire predictions before and then walked them back. i didn't say it was going to be worse. i said would be more difficult. and potentially more. but then he sort of walked those things back. >> yeah, sort of forced to parse his language a little bit. the intent of what he is saying is clear. he i guess he's been steadfast in that. i interviewed him in february. and he was echoing some of the same stuff back then. there's two things that really strike me. one is that we know that in the fall and winter, part of what he's referring to is the idea of a second wave of coronavirus. even though as we can tell by the graphs that we're not out of the first wave. we may never get out of the first wave. the fact that second wave maybe super-imposed on flu season. that's a concern. flu patients oftentimes take up a l

we had a great meeting of all the governors with the vice president, with robert redfield.p with a really good report from the cdc and the president stepped all over the message and started threatening people. >> and his education secretary went on television and refused to say what the plan would be to reopen schools. the president is still downplaying the pandemic, recently saying again that it would disappear. it's not part of his campaign messaging. can he afford to ignore the pandemic, given his reelection difficulties and the latest polls which we're going to be talking about with chuck todd in a moment? >> he certainly can't. we have these twin crises of the health crisis, the global pandemic which is not going away, which is by no means behind us. in fact we're seeing a huge outbreak in states across the country. we have the economic collapse we have to deal with as well. obviously these are going to be issues that are going to be critical to the campaign. but forget about the campaign, these are issues that are critical to the country and we just need the president

my main guest in that our will be robert redfield, who has been a guest previously.ou will not want to miss any of the sessions. before we get underway, a few housekeeping notes. you can tweet us at # thehillhelp. and if your question is short and great, i have asked my colleague, katie, to write them appear and give them to me. w'ell be monitoring those. we will be taking your questions. as with any live screen, you could experience trouble. i do all the time. they say we refresh the page and sometimes fix the problem. good luck with that. my first guest is dr. fauci. he has probably not had a good nights rest since the beginning of the year. the country and the world look to him for counsel, expertise, and hope in the fight against covid-19. we are honored to have you in our midst. more than 130,000 of the 500,000 deaths are from the united states. let the sq, what is the state of play as you see it -- in the most candid terms -- in the united states right now? dr. fauci: steve, thank you for having me. we're still in a significant problem. as you know, we have bee

fauci, robert redfield, through the top health experts on the coronavirus task force, what did you make the doctor said. >> it was quite the lively hearing, i don't know if you watched it but i watched all of it and a lot of times there is political talk going on, i did appreciate the updates that were provided coming of admiral gerard tellis at over 50 mind million took to been completed and we have about 10% positivity which by the world health organization, that tells us we have succeeded the capacity for capacity in terms of testing. the one thing i still have a concern with, we are not necessarily doing smart testing, we have far too many unnecessary testing runs which is a lag and lotta test results are being delayed, moving forward we need to be smart about it, he talked about point-of-care testing, he mentioned over 1 million point-of-care tests were delivered to nursing homes across the nation which is essential to keeping our elderly and vulnerable protected, those are very encouraging. dr. fauci and doctor redfield also discussed going back to school, they said it is not econ

robert redfield sought to defend the guidance. but hours after president trump publicly complained that it was too tough, vice president mike pence said that's why the cdc will issue new guidance next week. >> the president said today we just don't want the guidance to be too tough. and that's the reason why next week cdc's going to be issuing a new set of tools, five different documents that'll be giving even more clarity on the guidance going forward. >> reporter: the original guidelines include refitting classrooms so students can social distance, closing shared spaces, and updating ventilation systems. though it's not clear what trump disagreed with. asked if he was changing the guidance to appease the president, the cdc director said this. >> so, are you going to change that guidance because the president said that he does not like it? >> we will continue to develop and evolve our guidance to meet the needs of the schools and the states that we continue to provide that assistance to. >> reporter: the president has said public

doctors focused on the pandemic response which is why the white house is now blocking cdc director robert redfield from testifying before congress about how to re-open schools safely. >> much more coming up on the coronavirus. >>> we'll start here though with the breaking news overnight, the passing of longtime congressman john lewis. he was a pillar of the civil rights movement and he had been battling pancreatic cancer. we have team coverage right here this morning. we'll start with abc's byron pitts, "nightline" anchor. byron, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, dan. with courage and conviction john lewis helped change america. he's been described as one of the giants of the civil rights movement and that's true, but at just 5'6" tall, john lewis was an acorn who stood up to oak trees. john robert lewis didn't simply witness history, he shaped it. marched for it. bled for it. not once, not twice, but every time he was called upon. as lewis liked to put it, by just getting in the way. >> keep marching, keep sitting in. keep standing in. keep protesting until the sagging walls of segr

robert redfield said commit everyone's wearing masks for the next 4 to 6 weeks. the virus can spread through respiratory droplets that pass when an infected person coughs or sneezes. studies suggest facemasks are helpful barriers to spreading infection. >>> it is now 4:05. next week, walmart will require all customers to where masks at all its stores all across the country. it is the biggest retail store to do this so far. they are joining a growing list of companies making the change. >> we always have our masks on hand here in calvary. back at bay area walmart stores, stories, signs, greet customers about masks. >> we always have them in the glove box, in the purse, whenever we leave the house. matt walmart and sam's club, now joined best buy and starbucks, requiring masks on customers. kroger, kohl's, and apple too. as the national retail federation urges a mask standard among rising covid-19 rates. >> i walked in and didn't see anybody with masks. >> this shopper was startled in washington state. >> nobody gets near me like that because i care about myself a

but now the country is looking to coronavirus experts like cdc director doctor robert redfield for guidance on how to safely reopen schools in the fall. >>senate health committee chairman lamar alexander said it's an important step there is some health risk. >>but in my view the greater risk is not going back to school the nation's top infectious disease expert doctor anthony fauci told the committee it ultimately depends on the outbreak in each area. >>but he in redfield are both working on studies to see how likely kids are to infect their teachers and families the rate of infection is down. >>and they don't readily transmit to their parents and family members that's going to be very important senator bill cassidy wants universal guidelines from the cdc on how schools should conduct testing if you have this kind of community this is what you do we are now looking at the granular level the experts told senators treatments and vaccines will also give americans more confidence to return to the classroom, they still predict multiple treatments by the fall with a vaccine in the spring. >>senat

why director robert redfield has a new message on masks. for the next four to eight weeks, we could drive this pandemic into the ground. the new epicenter. florida sees its deadliest day yet. hundreds in intensive care. why the florida governor says he needs 3,000 nurses from out of state to help covid 19 patients. a cbs news news cliewfs, closing schools. on the confederate flag. on why african-americans a

robert redfield, made a dire prediction about the u.s. epidemic, which is already the worst in the world. winterink the fall and of 2020 and 2021 will probably one of the mosost difficult tims we have experienced inin americn public health. amamy: the cdc director's warnig came as the trump administration ordered u.s. hospitals to reroute where they usually send patients,vid-19 starting today instead of the usual process of sending the data to cdc, which then releases it to the public, states have been told to send it directly to the department of health and human services that "the new york times" reports is "not open to the public, which could affect the work of scores of researchers, modelers, and health officials who rely on cdc data to make projections and crucial decisions." meanwhile, four former heads of the cdc blasted president trump's handling of the pandemic in a "washington post" op-ed writing -- "willful disregard for public health guidelines is, unsurprisingly, leading to a sharp rise in infections and deaths. america now s

robert redfield that masks, if every american wore masks for the next 4 to 8 weeks, coronavirus coulduch better shape. the president rejecting that advice, and just the latest of the president butting heads with the science. >>> some say that florida is now the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic. officials reporting more than 12,000 new covid-19 cases on sunday. and in miami-dade county, there are no icu beds. cases have risen all month. florida with more than 350,000 cases. cnn spoke with miami's mayor, who explains one reason why florida is being hit so hard at the moment. >> the biggest factor is, since we got out of the stay at home order in april, we have seen just an incredible growth in terms of the virus. people have essentially behaved as if the virus didn't exist. one of the things that this virus has proven, it's incredibly efficient at spreading. >> texas, one of the biggest coronavirus crisis points in the u.s. right now as well. that state just reporting 7,300 new cases, at least 93 deaths on sunday. that is better than the daily case numbers for the past six days, wh

anthony fauci, cdc director robert redfield and u.s. testing czar admiral brett giroir are expected to face questions in just moments on the administration's response to this pandemic, on the race for a vaccine, on inadequate testing, mask mandates and school reopening plans. all of those key issues on the table today. now, this comes one day after dr. fauci said it is impossible to predict how much longer this crisis will last, especially if americans do not significantly change their behavior. and this could add to the pain in florida. hurricane isaias is barrelling to the state right now. that's forcing the testing sites to temporarily close. we'll get to that in a moment, but we begin with our lauren fox. she is joining us on capitol hill. good morning, it's an incredibly significant hearing. the democrats have been trying to secure for quite some time. what should we expect? >> reporter: well, you know this is a big deal in part because this is a subcommittee, this is a committee that is charged with looking over the trump administ

robert redfield, director of the centers for disease control and prevention.ou to all of our witnesses for being here today. will the witnesses please stand so i may swear them in. please raise your right hands. do you swear or affirm that the testimony you are about to give is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you god? you may be seated. let the record show that the witnesses all answered in the affirmative. without objection, your written statements will be made part of the record. dr. fauci, you are recognized for your opening statement. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. ranking member scalise, members of the committee. thank you for giving me the opportunity to discuss with you today the role of the national institutes of health in a research endeavor to address covid-19. our strategic plan, which we put together several months ago, embarks on four separate points. the first is to improve fundamental knowledge of the virus and the biology of the virus and the response to the virus. this has led to a delineation of the cryo-e

robert redfield. thank you for being with us.esterday, the president tweeted saying i disagree with cdc gov on their tough and expensive guidelines for opening schools. they're asking schools to do impractical things. i'll be meeting with them. shortly after the vice president announced with you standing by his side, he said this -- >> the president said today we just don't want the guidance to be too tough. that's the reason why next week, the cdc is going to be issuing a new set of tools. >> and kai want to give you another opportunity, because it sounds like the cdc is caving to the president's demands to essentially weaken guidelines to make them less tough. i know a lot of thought was put into those guidelines. now you're issuing new ones? >> thank you, anderson. first, i want to stress that the purpose of the cdc guidelines are to provide a variety of different strategies for schools to use to help facilitate the reopening of schools. i can tell you that those guidance that we put out, are out and they stand. we do continue

yesterday, robert redfield pointed out one of our best weapons in this fight. >> i think if we could get everybody to wear a mask right now, i do think in the next four, six, eight weeks we could bring this epidemic under control. >> so i take these wipes. >> small business owners like keith walker in virginia believe there's only one way to successfully stay in business right now. >> over here on mizatiy station have my super duty hefty mask. >> what we know is that this virus travels on respiratory droplets, and a mask prevents those respiratory droplets from infecting someone else. that's the basic reason why each and every person should be wearing a mask right now. >> despite the science, some americans have refused to wear a mask, saying they have a medical exemption or they are infective or infringe on their pfreedoms. >> masks aren't bad, mask mandates are. >> in this video posted on facebook last week, mccormick expressed his frustrations over new riglations. >> the constitution is being shredded. the liberty belongs to the individual, not the government. >> about half the st

robert redfield says he believes schools are safe enough to send his grandchildren. >> eight of them are school ageget back to school. >> reporter: with many districts raising concerns about how to pay for the necessary changes today the naacp filed a lawsuit against education secretary betsy devos claiming a new rule would effectively divert federal money from lower income schools to wealthy, private schools. >> to take money away from districts and give to families who have the means to provide virtual or social distancing educational opportunities in their private school setting is unconscionable. >> reporter: in a statement the department of education slams the lawsuit as political, writing this administration is committed to supporting all students get back tof color. back in tennessee -- how do you feel about that mask? >> not that good because it just makes me really hot. >> reporter: stopping the spread is now lesson number one. >> we're teaching the kids life skills they can use because this may not go away anytime soon. >> reporter: that he has plans are in place until labo

masks here and president trump recently wore one in public for the first time, and cdc director robert redfield said the key to opening is masks, and dpu think attitudes have changed and significantly in the last couple weeks? . >> very significantly. unfortunately, the thing that made it change, is the big outbreaks in states like texas and florida, it's kind of brought it home that this is a wreal risk and the governor in texas is wearing masks where there is a significant number of cases. more than 20, and donald trump, when there's an outbreak in the white house, he required everybody in the white house to wear them, and he is now, being a role model himself and being seen wearing a mask. >> as people start to wear masks more, and actually still debate whether or not they should, there is lots of confrontations in the streets, strangers sarks, should you be wearing one and someon don't need to wear one now. i'm not near people. you can tell us the scenarios that people know, so they don't need to confront each other? >> yeah, i mean, i don't confront people about masks. you know, we have be

but now the country is looking to coronavirus experts like cdc director doctor robert redfield for guidance on how to safely reopen schools in the fall. >>senate health committee chairman lamar alexander said it's an important step there is some health risk. >>but in my view the greater risk is not going back to school the nation's top infectious disease expert doctor anthony fauci told the committee it ultimately depends on the outbreak in each area. >>but he in redfield are both working on studies to see how likely kids are to infect their teachers and families the rate of infection is down. >>and they don't readily transmit to their parents and family members that's going to be very important senator bill cassidy wants universal guidelines from the cdc on how schools should conduct testing if you have this kind of community this is what you do we are now looking at the granular level the experts told senators treatments and vaccines will also give americans more confidence to return to the classroom, they still predict multiple treatments by the fall with a vaccine in the spring. >>senat

joined by the top doctors on the white house coronavirus task force including the cdc director robert redfield who laid into american airlines for its decision along with some other airlines to begin filling planes to capacity >> i can tell you that when they announced that the other day obviously there was substantial disappointment >> reporter: american responding it still has multiple layers of protection in place including face coverings, enhanced cleaning procedures, and a preflight covid-19 symptom checklist. today masks, social distancing, and increased testing were repeatedly touted as vital to controlling the spread, while the pace of testing has doubled since may, experts at harvard's global health institute say it is not enough, pointing out the u.s. is now testing approximately 500,000 people each day. they say that number should be a million or more the study says only 17 states in d.c. are doing enough testing to keep outbreaks from getting out of control. >> we keep hearing from our political leaders that we're doing enough testing, doing too much testing. not a single public he

robert redfield saying if we all wore masks well i'd likely be telling a very different story than the one we're sadly leading with tonight and that is covid spreading at its fastest pace yet, the nightmare of hospitals overrun is coming true let's start with miguel almaguer. >> reporter: tonight inside hospitals in the nation's biggest city. >> i, myself, am preparing for every shift like it's war. >> reporter: and in some of our country's smallest communities health care providers are overrun by a record surge in covid patients the coronavirus now spreading faster than at any time in the pandemic florida surpassing 300,000 cases, a benchmark already eclipsed by california. >> the sad thing is, it could be avoided. if people wore masks -- >> reporter: now cities like montgomery, alabama are being crushed by a tidal wave of patients also taking a toll on doctors. >> it's tough. i get pretty emotional about this >> reporter: with 22 states setting daily records for new cases this month, tonight there's a push to mandate face masks in public, despite resistance or outright defiance. >> i

robert redfield. >> i think if we can get everybody to wear a mask right now i really do think that within the next four to six, eight weeks we could bring this epidemic under control. >> reporter: advice the president flatly rejected in an interview with fox news sunday. >> i don't agree with the statement that if everyone wears a mask everything disappears. >> reporter: 28 states require masks, another 15 states set partial mask rules. >> we know they work and that is universal wearing of masks >> reporter: top health officials like dr. anthony fauci say uncontrolled spread makes mask wearing a civic responsibility. >> put everything else aside, and uniformly do the right thing >> reporter: but again the president used his influence to undercut mask acceptance by highlights outdated guidance. >> reporter: dr. fauci said don't wear a mask our surgeon general, terrific guy, said don't wear a mask. now all the sudden everybody's got to wear a mask. masks cause problems too. >> reporter: to counter his own criticism he adds these words. >> with that being said i'm a believer in masks, i thin

anthony fauci, cdc director robert redfield, and hhs assistant secretary theral brett, testify on national strategy against covid-19. that gets underway at 9:00 a.m. eastern in front of the house select subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis. at 10:40 5 a.m. eastern, house speaker nancy pelosi talks with reporters at her weekly news conference. >> president trump and members of the white house coronavirus task force are encouraging people who have recovered from covid-19 to donate plasma to help health officials find an effective treatment for patients who are critically ill from the virus. this roundtable discussion fr

robert redfield echoed that concern with jama saying a combination of coronavirus and the flu could cause huge problems later this year. >> i do think that the fall and the winter of 2020 and 201 will probably be one of the most difficult times in public health. >> those warnings comes as the trump administration continues its war against the very scientists working to contain the pandemic. "the new york times" first reported that instead of sending data to cdc hospitals have been ordered to bypass the cdc and send all patient information to a new database at the health and human services department in washington. according to that times report, the database that will receive that information is not open to the public that affect the work of officials to make projects and crucial decisions. peter navarro attacked dr. anthony, the nation's top infectious disease expert in a published usa today op-ed. dr. navarro writes this, has a good bedside manner with the public but he's been wrong with everything i have interacted with him on. here's what president trump told reporters about it a shor