joining me now the mayor of sarasota jen ahearn-koch. you mandated masks in sarasota this week.our citizens abiding by this. >> yes. actually our meeting was on monday. it was an emergency special meeting that i called and our city operates maybe a little differently than other cities and we actually had to have a supermajority, to four out of five commissioners had to vote for this which means you're having a stronger support from the community. we have a vast majority of the community and our businesses ask for this and so far so good. >> the governor, ron desantis, has not mandated masks statewide and won't reclose businesses that have reopened. do you agree with his position on this? >> well, i like to look at it in the way that the governor has not preempted us from acting locally because that could happen too. so in this case the governor has encouraged the local municipalities and counties to act accordingly and with that we did, we took the ball and we ran with it. and, you know, we're just trying to do everything we can protect the health and safety and welfare of our c

cnn's boris sanchez is in sarasota, florida. boris, what are you seeing right there in florida? >> reporter: kate, we're just getting the latest numbers from the state of florida and they are unsettling to say the least. the state breaking a single-day record for new coronavirus cases, more than so,100 new cases for the state just on -- within the last 24 hours. that's an uptick of 4,000 cases from what we saw in the last day alone after a very difficult weekend where we saw a large spike and a large surge in the number of covid cases. just to give you some idea the state of florida saw a rise in 100,000 new cases in the last month alone. here in sarasota, the first two days of june saw only a total of nine new covid cases and in the last 24 hours they have seen a rise of 220 which is part of the reason why there's a new face mask ruling in the public. wear one or face up to a $500 fine. say that to people who want to educate the public. they want people to take this seriously. governor ron desantis has effectively said he does not see reinstalling the statewide stay-at-home ord

sarasota is reporting 5.2% of tests positive. yesterday was 9.5%.nd i think i think some of the folks here will attest we may be seeing some seeing decline in this part of the tampa bay area. some of the other areas, north, down in places like pascoe, you may be seeing more positivity. this is something we are looking very seriously. we will get test results. complete a week we will be over 400,000 tests easily the week, so that is a huge amount tests and a lot of it is positivity rate. you know there is obviously going to be some prevalence, in the single digits, that is something that is much more manageable. we increased from the end of june into july. it has been plateaued the last two weeks which is a good sign. we would rather be plateaued at 4%, but we did not want to see it continue to just go up and up. we have tested 2.4 million people. that is one for every nine people in the state of florida. it will be interesting to see what other things have been tested at this level in our country, in modern times but this is something that something

let's go to sarasota, florida. caller: good morning. it is a sad morning indeed. theuld like to address what byy prior to me -- serendipity i just finished john lewis's memoir, walking with the wind. it's like a history lesson that you can put down. one of the things john lewis recognized is that we have made progress, but we have a lot more to go. i think that's an important message. i'm an 87-year-old white person. john is one of my heroes, but please, everyone, read his memoir. 1996 and talk in about deja vu. we are experiencing those going on in his lifetime. but like he said, don't give up. don't give in. never lose hope. god bless him. if anyone is in heaven, it is he . thank you. host: we are bringing reaction from around the nation and here in washington, d.c. with the passing of representative john lewis. we have a tweet from kelly o'donnell, the flags have been lowered at the u.s. capitol and we got this tweet in. a short time ago, the flag at the white house was lowered. we will begin -- continue to bring you comments from john inis's colleagues here wa

i make a sarasota, florida. >> thank you. appreciate you correcting that.new york times" reports that internal cdc documents warned that full reopening of schools is "the heightest risk" for coronavirus spread and yet in florida we heard ordered schools to reopen for in-person classes in the fall. you will to make a decision today, if you did, would you return to the classroom? >> i would not. i'm 61 years old. so i'm at the older age group. i'm very physically fit, but so is my colleague, who's the exact same age, who is presently fighting for his life, in a local hospital. so that kind of was what really was the deciding factor for me. >> i'm so sorry to hear that, and our very best wishes to your colleague. i want you to hear what education secretary betsy devos had to say this morning when asked about the lack of school reopening guidelines comes from her department. >> for a short period of time. >> you're the second of education and asking students to go back. so why do you not have guidance on what a school should do just weeks before you want those

here where i am in sarasota they installed a broad mask mandate. you could face a $500 fine. other places, miami-dade county, for example, expanding the mask mandate closing beaches for the weekend and a curfew expanded keeping people out of the bars and restaurants late into the night. president trump said that hospitals have everything they need. jacksonville memorial health systems a largest in the state with a statement overnight making clear they're running out of remdesivir that critical anti-viral drug, the only one authorized to treat coronavirus. they're hoping the public hears this and heeds the warning going into the weekend. >> great note and speaking of clos closed beaches, talking to the mayor of fot. lauderdale on how to enforce that. thank you. >>> turning to texas where doctors sound the alarm as cases continue to surge. texas does not have a statewide mask requirement and recorded the single day increase in more than 8,000 cases: in who is t. n in houston, there's concern of hospital capacity. lucy cavanaugh, do they have enough beds for patients? >> reporte

you live in sarasota. >> i do. >> jimmy: and you got transferred to new york city to help out there atavits center. they set up a temporary facility there. how much time when you get the call from the navy, how much time do you get, to get your things together and go? >> normally you have a quite decent amount of time. but this time we actually had two days. so i got a call on tuesday. i was at my job. and they said hey, you got to be on a flight on thursday. you got to get ready to go. so i looked at my boss, i got to go, i got things i got to do. off i went, it was crunch course. i had to pack my bags real quick, talk to the family a little bit, and i was literally in new york on thursday. >> jimmy: you got a wife and two kids. how old are your daughters? >> one eight year old, ray lynn, and a two month old back then, now she's almost four months, but she's camilla. >> jimmy: things were pretty dicey, i assume things have calmed down. where are you right now? >> right now i'm in jacksonville. we just got sent back here. it's a two-week quarantine zone when you have been in a hot spot

going to work it's because they're being social vice president mike pence was supposed to visit sarasota thursday but was rerouted to tampa to meet with governor rhonda santos at u.s.s. health centers for advanced medical learning but going into the holiday weekend the message is the same for all states experience and up to stay home social distance where i'm asked and the beach is closed for our team and fair and friends that. i'm trinity chávez reporting in new york today the u.s. reaching another grim milestone amid the coronavirus pandemic officials reporting another 50000 new cold in 1000 cases the 5th single day case record in 8 days while the virus outbreak is hitting and evenly across the country with poor minority communities and nursing homes bearing the brunt of the disease prisons nationwide are getting hit the hardest no way to social distance you've shared a port a potty a cell the size of a porta potty what another person. with no windows by so is no air dust that's able to circulate through the air i mean these places is like breeding grounds for viruses and diseases san

time with his family the next few months and improving youth baseball programs in his hometown of sarasotaorida. >> ian is extremely thoughtful in what he does. he's thoughtful in how he prepares as a professional athlete. he's thoughtful as a husband and a father. we fully support him and his family and the decision they've made. it's the right decision for them and for him. >> reporter: all right. today is the deadline for mlb teams to finalize their rosters and traveling parties before heading to orlando to restart the season. but as cases of coronavirus spike across the country with florida among the worst hit states, commissioner silver is defending the plan to play in an isolated bubble. >> you cannot run from this virus. i'm absolutely convinced it will be safer on this campus than off this campus because there aren't many other situations i'm aware of where there's mass testing of asymptomatic employees. in some ways this is a model for how other industries can ultimately open. >> reporter: it is a model. many would argue many industries could not follow. containing employees to a

have family on the coast on the gulf side near sarasota. there putting up plywood and shutters.ppear this will go more on the manic side. >> absolutely. i have a friend in saint pete, tampa he's not where he. it could change course. the path takes it parallel to the atlantic side. it will impact the bahamas in the next 24-36 hours. no doubt with heavy rain. it is making a good move to the north, northwest. category 1. wind debt 75. hurricane is 74. expected to increase in intensity and go along the case. i know people who have lived there and they still do. they get worried when it is a category 3 but a 1 they don't care too much. we will see if it continues for the weekend. it looks like it goes on in the atlantic side. for us file. a friend said if it warms up the better happen fast. i said you read my mind. morning fog, sunny and warmer for some. the models are missing the big. there trying to warm the temperatures and it's not happening. san francisco had a cool week the warmest in july was 72 on the ninth. low clouds all the way out to cordelia. breaks in clouds. miss locat

let's go to boris sanchez, he's in sarasota, florida. is it changing the response of the state leaders there? >> not exactly, jim. in june, the state of florida saw more than 100,000 new coronavirus cases. the deaths are here up to more than 3,500. governor ron desantis yesterday effectively saying he does not think that the state of florida is going to reimpose that statewide stay at home order that effectively shut down the state a few months ago. he's essentially leaving that chain of decisions to local officials to impose their own restrictions and we're seeing some areas do that. miami-dade for example, they have shut down beaches for the 4th of july holiday weekend and they have expanded the mask mandate, so if you're out in public you have to be wearing a mask in public areas. further, they have imposed a curfew now on bars and restaurants. notably though, one of the biggest health hospital systems in the state, jackson health system, based in miami, they're very close to running out of remdesivir, that critical antiviral drug, th

obviously that's happening across the state and happening here in the city of sarasota. in the first two days of unithey had nine new coronavirus cases. in the last 48 hours, 220. there is a surge of cases across this state. local officials doing the best to respond. we'll see what the governor says after meeting with mike pence this afternoon. >> the man in charge of testing across the nation, admiral giroir, he said today the cases are not just because you're doing more testing as we have heard from the governor of florida. there are increasing infection rates. good to see you. >>> in california, the trends are so concerning that one major university, the university of southern california, is reversing course on its plans for the fall. let's get the latest from the state. kyung law is joining me. what is the plan there? >> reporter: essentially the idea is to move people out of the indoor spaces where the spread in the state of california is worse. that's about three quarters of the state, 19 counties where the governor says indoor dining, that has got to shut down tem

officials to impose mandates within their own municipalities and we're seeing that, for example, here in sarasota they installed a face mask mandate countywide. miami-dade county has expanded their face mask mandate. they have also shut down beaches for the holiday fourth of july weekend and further they are also imposing a curfew on bars and restaurants. the situation here is dire and it could soon get worse. jackson health systems, the miami-based miami health system, one of the biggest in it the state announcing overnight that they are running out of remdesivir, that key antiviral drug, the only one that's been approved by the fda to treat coronavirus. they are putting out warnings to the public specifically about the holiday weekend. the likelihood that people will congregate at parties and barbecues. they want the public to heed their warning so that the situation does not worsen, jim. >> boris sanchez in florida, thanks very much. let's go to evan mcmorris, in another hard-hit state. requiring federal hope as the state runs are out of intensive care beds and this is a big deal, right, evan,

james furica, chief medical officer at sarasota memorial hospital in florida.nk you for being here. dr. kizer, texas reporting a third straight day with more than 7,000 new cases and your county is seeing a big upward trend of infections. we're showing a graph right now for people to see. how concerned are you by the situation that's playing out in your county? >> i'm very worried. i'll be very honest about that. we have seen the number of cases simply go up, up and up. you know, two weeks ago, we broke a hundred new cases for the first time. now we're getting over 200 cases a day on a daily basis. on a per capita basis, we actually have more cases than they do in harris county, which is our neighbor to the north where houston is or 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 ca

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siesta key off the castoff sarasota is number one and trailing is st. pete's beach. in third place is a beach in hawaii. california's state beach in pacific grove also landed a spot on the list. ranking number 22. >>> swimming pool contractors have been working overtime during the pandemic. >> they are scrambling to keep up with the demand. nationwide pool purchases are up 160% over last summer according to the better business bureau. the spike is happening as families look for more things to do when stuck at home. the contractor in the sacramento area says it's a challenge with cement in short supply. >> some of the manufacturers, they stopped production. so the materials and the equipment is not here for us to get. we can only do so much there's only so much work we can do. so many pools we can build. >> well, families that put in orders for pools before the pandemic are ahead of the game. >>> it is 6:25. and new report shows we're in the worst u.s. economy sin world war ii. and right now, we're bracing for the stock market's reaction. in our next half hour we'll b

sarasota county, close by, you know, they've had 100 corona-related fatalities, 65 of them were related to residents of long-term care facilities. so, again, 65% so this is really, really a significant part of this fight. social distancing, we have a much better idea now than in march about, you know, what the virus likes and doesn't like and, you know, closed spaces and i think you're seeing a lot of this activity and throughout the entire sun belt and some people said it's because when it's hot, people would rather be inside and enclosed air-conditioning spaces and the point is that if you're in an area where you have a crowd of people indoors, you know, in a party or something like that and the air-conditioning, it is going to be a better vector for transmission. there's just no doubt about it. people's homes. obviously most people get infected from family members or friends. and in the air-conditioning that's going to be secret that will be a good vector, the outdoor transmission is not as significant. the sunshine, heat and humidity are generally your friend when it comes to this v

sarasota is reporting 5.2% of the tests positive. yesterday was 9.5%. some of the folks here will attest that, you know, we may be seeing some decline in this part of the tampa bay area. some of the other areas, particularly north, in places like pasco, you may be seeing more positivity. but this is something that we're looking at very seriously. so, we're going to get the test results to complete the week. we'll be over 400,000 tests easily for the week. so that's a huge, huge amount of tests. and a lot of it is positivity rate. there's obviously going to be some prevalence, but if it gets into the single digits, that's something that's much more manageable. so we increased from the end of june into july, but then have kind of -- it's been plateaued for the last two weeks, which is a good sign. we would rather be plateaued at 4%, but we didn't want to see it continue to just go up and up. we tested 2.4 million people. that is one for every nine people in the state of florida. it will be interesting to see what other things have been tested at this leve

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sarasota county close by, you kn know, they've had 100 corona-related fatalities. 65 of them were related to residents of long-term care facilities. so, again, 65%. so, this is really, really a significant part of this fight. social distancing, we have a much better idea now than in march about, you know, what the virus likes and doesn't like and, you know, close spaces. i think you're seeing a lot of this activity throughout the entire sun belt. some people have said because when it's hot, people would rather be inside, in enclosed, air conditioned spaces. the point is that if you're in an area where you have a crowd of people indoors, you know, in a party or something like that, in the air conditioning, it is going to be a better vector for transmission, no doubt about it. people's homes. obviously, most people get infected from family members or friends. and it's actually in the air conditioning. that's going to be something that will be a good vector. the outdoor transmission has not been as significant. the sunshine, the heat and humidity are generally your friend when it comes to th

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let's go to sarasota, florida. caller: good morning. it is a sad morning indeed.d like to address what byy prior to me -- serendipity i just finished john lewis's memoir, walking with the wind. it's like a history lesson that you can put down. one of the things john lewis recognized is that we have made progress, but we have a lot more to go. i think that's an important message. i'm an 87-year-old white person. john is one of my heroes, but please, everyone, read his memoir. 1996 and talk in about deja vu. we are experiencing those going on in his lifetime. but like he said, don't give up. don't give in. never lose hope. god bless him. if anyone is in heaven, it is he . thank you. host: we are bringing reaction from around the nation and here in washington, d.c. with the passing of representative john lewis. we have a tweet from kelly o'donnell, the flags have been lowered at the u.s. capitol and we got this tweet in. a short time ago, the flag at the white house was lowered. we will begin -- continue to bring you comments from john inis's colleagues here washingt

reporter: robert shackleford died wednesday from coronavirus after spending four weeks at a hospital in sarasotaorida. his mother told us he was a huge green bay packers fan, a father and helped to care for his autistic brother steven. >> i'm devastated. i'm sad. i can't believe that that happened. he was such a good son. >> reporter: health officials say cases are surging across the sunbelt. alabama set a new record thursday with nearly 2400 new cases. louisiana topped 100,000 yesterday. >> we're certainly not where we want to be in louisiana. >> reporter: there are signs of progress in at least one recent covid hot spot. the state of arizona is now seeing its numbers of new cases drop. just over three weeks after the governor closed bars and gyms again. here's the governor doug ducey. >> there's no victory lap today. there's no celebration. okay? we cannot let up. >> reporter: florida set a single day record for the number of deaths yesterday. and so did california. the cdc is now saying that over the next four weeks, the states with the greatest likelihood for a large number of deaths are the

sarasota is reporting today 5.2% of the tests positive. yesterday was 9.5%.nd i think some of the folks here will attest that you know, we may be seeing some decline in this part of the tampa bay area. some of the other areas, particularly north places like pasco, you know, you may be seeing more positivity, but this is something that we're looking at very seriously, so we're going to get the test results to complete the week. we're going to be over 400,000 tests easily for the week. so that's a huge, huge amount of tests and a lot of it is this positivity rate. you know, there's obviously going to be some prevalence, but as it gets into the single digits, that's something that's much more manageable. so we increased from the end of june into july, but then, it kind of-- it's been plateaued for the last two weeks, which is, it's a good sign. we'd rather be plateaued at 4%, but we didn't want to see it continue to go up and up. tested 2.4 million people and that's one for every nine people in the state of florida. so, it will be interesting to see what other t

i'm in sarasota, florida. we have one of the most senior communities in the country. many of these are critical life-saving drugs so i'd like to get your thoughts how do we minimize that and get back or make some sense where we can produce ourselves in america. i know for a lot of years a lot of things were produced down in puerto rico but seemed like it's moved offshore so i guess the question is, is it your understanding as much as 70%, 80% of a lot of the critical drugs being produced, manufactured or managed out of china? and then if so what can we do about it? >> there's controversy over the kay da but the data i've seen indicates we're not that dependent on china for for basic products nor the manufacture final drugs. we're much more dependent, if you will, on ireland or germany or switzerland for advanced pharmaceuticals. we produce 70% of the pharmaceutical products that we need. i think tax policy is key to returning production to the united states, as your committee and your colleagues -- to make it more advantageous to produce in the united states. i also t

. >> host: roger in sarasota florida, go ahead, please. >> caller: your recent mention of term limits is a possible way of breaking the cycle of the predominant role of our political lives with federal legislators and devoting the majority of time to raising money for the reelection of >> host: i apologize you are cutting in and out, though i think that we got the gist of the term limits of the comments that he wanted to make. >> guest: to me that question is what would be the solution. what you end up with if you have term limits in congress is a very permanent staff bureaucracy, the people who builbuilt up the knowledge and experience over time. i think that is worse than the situation of those that are there for the long term are also the people answerable to the public. i can certainly see the case for term limits in the sense that some problems we have a rise oue of the kind of corruption that can follow from people being in these chumps for too long. the problem is simply begging for term limits would create a worse problem, much worse problem and in some ways worse than the pro

host: sarasota, florida, good morning. thatr: it's interesting this woman said that.hese paranoid ideas that circulate, my idea is that trump wants to get rid of everybody who isn't like him. who is dying in this thing? blacks are dying. hispanics are dying. children with disabilities are dying. adults with disabilities are dying. host: you are saying the president wants this to happen? yeah, no, i'm saying he doesn't care about who is dying. he has looked at this from the beginning and realized -- who are the people that died? my enemies are dying, so let them die. so let them die. that's how paranoid it is. than some oflistic this other paranoid crap you here. douglas, independent line, good morning. caller: sir, how are you? host: doing well. caller: dr. fauci, i think he has tried real hard, but everybody is puzzled by this virus. can't take 10, 20, 30 years to find a cure for this. it's time for the president to step up, get some backbone. he's not no medical doctor. the president needs to step out, get rid of ouchi, get someone in there who can do the job and ge

sarasota, florida. good morning. caller: good morning. i am 70.hink the only people that really need to shelter in place, where masks, you know, practice all of the precautions are people that are high risk, people my age, people with medical conditions that predispose them to die from the covid virus. i think the younger people and the healthy people and the children need to be in school, and i think everybody needs to stop being distracted about masks and statues and all of these other things that have no importance. it is the older people and the people at risk would shelter in place, than the rest of the country could get on with it, get back to work, get our children back in school. i just think there are too many distractions and divisions going on. i don't care whether the president wears a mask. he is tested. everyone that comes in contact with him is tested. the older people and the at risk people are the ones that should be at home sheltering in place, not the young people. host: all right. florida.n in president trump yesterday holding

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as you go down into the gulf, 2020 to date, warmest year on record for new orleans, orlando, sarasotalm beach and miami. and we've got more heat to talk about today. 64 million people, we're almost talking coast to coast, from florida, new england, all the way to the southwest and southern california, we're talking about heat advisories, heat warnings and we've got high humidity. so the dew points make it feel even warmer. these areas in orange, it's going to feel miserable today. much of the country looking at humid or uncomfortable conditions as well. for today, it's going to feel like 99 in pittsburgh. the heat index 100 in louisville, 105 in dallas, alexandra 106 degrees. tomorrow the heat index is still up into the 90s, flirting with triple digits. it cools down just a tad and a little less humidity as we get into the weekend for boston, rochester, st. louis down to asheville. temperatures still warm but not as hot as they have been over >>> good morning. i'm meteorologist kari hall. we had a lot of hot weather here in the bay area, too. as we look at san francisco, this is where