how are arizonans, vaughn, reacting to these numbers that are setting new records? is it same, old thing? or are they reacting in a different way? >> i mean, these numbers are increasingly disarming, richard. and when you go around, there is a complete acknowledgment, for the most part, of these numbers rising. at the same time, as that turned into concrete action taken by most folks in whether it be my life or neighbor's lives, or the folks out in tempe. i don't think we have seen enough change, frankly. the governor, on thursday, here, made it very clear. urging folks to stay at home. but what you are seeing on these roadways on this saturday is the traffic like it was june of 2019. or hopefully, like it will be in june 2021. but, on this saturday, here, in june of 2020, you saw a record number of cases. single-day cases. more than 3,500. you also saw the news that there were 44 more arizonans who passed away. a record number of hospitalizations. a record number of icu beds in use. and a record number of ventilators. i'm going to do this and count how many days i

vaughn said none of that is happening. so what point do we say it is mandatory, and if you don't do it, we have enforcement mechanism, like you can stop people smoking in a bar or restaurant. you're going to get kicked out if you don't wear a mask. we're at that point. we're left with no other options here because obviously people are protesting. we know from data from germany that carnival goers recently, that went to a carnival saw a 2.5 times increase in transmission of covid-19. and that's despite best practices. so we have to give ourselves the best shot possible. people are not going to follow the rules, we have to compel them to follow the rules. simple as that. >> we're still seeing protests happening. you can see this in a little box on the televisions. they're happening in new york city, they have been happening all around the country. more than two weeks now of protests. if there was going to be a spike, would we be seeing it now? >> so a few things. i think we're about to start seeing it. so it is going to take

vaughn, what is the situation right there? >> reporter: in order to get a test at this location where folks are just now beginning to pull up, you have to have an appointment. there is frankly not enough capacity for tests to meet deet mand in this state. why you saw the long lines over the weekend. the state said they tried to expand their number of testing locations, but unless you're lucky enough to get one of those appointments, you're out of luck. in the turn around time to get test results here is still most often more than a week, just take into account, ayman, what we've seen in the last two weeks, in just the last two weeks the number of hospitalizations in the state of arizona have increased by 84%. and the number of new cases just yesterday in the state, more than 3800. the state this weekend also broke records for the number of hospitalizations, the number of ventilators in use, the number of icu beds in use. and frankly this state doesn't have the resources or the policies in place to stop the burgeoning of the wi

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my colleague vaughn hillyard standing by in phoenix. a city that's now mandating face masks in public. vaughn, we mentioned that covid cases have been going up there. when covid cases were going up in new york, you knew it. you felt it. it was clear when you walked down the street. is that the case in phoenix? >> look down this way, stephanie. you have thousands of folks here expected over the course of today to see the president here at dream city church in the heart of phoenix here. and you said it. there is a masking policy now here in the city of phoenix. the mayor's office released a statement saying they intend to enforce that ordinance. they do not want to issue tickets but they intend to issue that ordinance. the cases in arizona have exploded, and there is that masking ordinance, but you continue to see around this area folks not adhering to it. can i just ask why not wear masks to you guys? >> holding the breath. >> it's part of that, the minister, the pastor of this church released yesterday quite a striking video suggesting

nbc's vaughn hillyard is in phoenix. he's outside the church where the president is going to be speaking later today. again, vaughn, i apologize in advance if i have to cut you off. when dr. fauci starts, we're going to make sure we're listening. walk us through the president's agenda. for the love of god, man, how hottest here? >> reporter: high will be 109 degrees today, craig. on a very serious note, what dr. fauci is confronting here is a president of the united states who is flying into arizona, into the heart of phoenix after two weeks in which the cases here in the state of arizona have doubled. if the president was looking for a covid hot spot to come to, he picked it. it's phoenix, arizona. right now we're still seven hours away from the president addressing a crowd of what is expected to be several thousand clustered inside a church. i'm just going to let our photographer show you what the scene is here. the reality is this is the moment that the president of the united states is coming in, welcoming his suppor

that's nbc's vaughn hillyard in seattle.hat conversation will continue there and we'll talk more about the future of what these zones are going to look like as our hour goes on. >>> the boarded up store fronts in some places like the autonomous zone and in some cities are not only places where important discussions are happening, like what we just saw in seattle, some of them are also becoming canvass for public art. some artists in san francisco have made murals of a few boards in the castro district. in new york, micro soft plan do the same thing outside its store on fifth avenue. the tech giant and ad agency are taking heat over how they went about proposing that mural. an email from the ad agency to artist shantell martin. they wanted the mural completed while the protests are still relevant. unquote. martin posted that letter on instagram, calling it, quote, an example of what it's like to be, a, reminded of my blackness and b, how black pain and oppression is kmodfied with performtive alliship. unquote. shantell martin

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nbc's vaughn hilliard is on duty once again for us in phoenix. vaughn, dr. deborah birx of the aforementioned white house task force meeting with governor ducey today. vice president now planning to visit tomorrow, we understand. walk us through the situation there in arizona, as the federal government seems to be taking more of an interest in that state's response to this crisis. >> reporter: exactly, craig. what dr. birx and vice president mike pence tomorrow are walking into is a state that the reality is exactly counter to what the vice president set up last friday at the coronavirus briefing with the press, in which he suggested there was a flattening of the curve across the country, and states were safely reopening. well, that runs counter to the exact measures that governor doug ducey here of arizona took just last night. he signed executive orders, pushing the start of the school year back to august 17th. also an executive order that shuts down bars, that shuts down swimming pool operations, that essentially limits ghattatherinf no more than 50. shut

vaughn, this is such a sad story.an example of what people are facing there. >> reporter: andrea, just this morning, more than 1,800 new cases reported by the state of arizona. a record-shattering week of more than 11,000 cases this week alone. you mentioned arlena washington. i want to introduce you to her. she was a college class might of myself. as this virus spreads, everybody knows somebody that it's impacted. she's coming back to town, she's a sportscaster in sacramento, she's coming to town this weekend, andrea, to put her father robert washington to rest. she grew up in steubenville, ohio, went to notre dame to play football. moved out here. on may 15, arizona governor doug ducey allowed the state's stay-at-home order to expire. the casino he worked at reopened. he was 68 years old, a diabetic. he needed funds to pay his rent and health care. i want to let you hear directly from alina talking about her father. >> to not be able to see him, to not be able to advocate for him as a black man in this moment, at al

vaughn, set the scene for us. what's going on?shua, i think it's posh to take into context. this is day seven of the six blocks being occupied by protesters. it was the police, it was the city that decided to vacate this pine street area. it what we've seen over the course of the week are thousands and thousands of folks from the seattle area descend on this area. when we last talked there was push back to the idea that this area was become like a street festival. you saw among hundreds of thousands of pokes people wanting to be here and show support. but what we've seen was the last two nights this really becoming an organized effort. here is the east precinct. the police precinct that was abandoned by police earlier this week. now our photog is going to pan over to the left and show us where a crowd has congregated. this is one of two different areas where large groups of folks have been present. there's programming now the last two nights. i should say i think this is about the most diverse six blocks in america right now. you'

>> vaughn, thank you >>> weeks after relaxing lockdown restrictions over a dozen states here in the u.s. are seeing a surge in coronavirus cases. the rise is once again overwhelming some hospitals. and now some health care experts fear the protests, reopenings, and the president's upcoming rally could spark more outbreaks. here's nbc's miguel almaguer >> reporter: as more americans return to restaurants, malls and gyms, a troubling rise in coronavirus cases. at least 16 states are now seeing a new spike in infections in florida, where beaches are now open in miami, it's not just the surf that's up, but also the number of covid cases. as night life resumes in arizona, the state is recording its highest number of infections so far the governor blaming the surge on increased testing but doctors say hospitalizations are up, too. >> for those patients in icu that are covid positive or covid suspected that are ventilators, we have seen a quadrupling of those numbers over the last couple of weeks. >> reporter: with millions anxious to lift the lockdown, scenes like these in new york's east vil

let's go to vaughn hilliard in the area known as chaz. what's going on, vaughn? >> reporter: alex, after several days of protests and clashes with the demonstrators, the police backed off. since the streets remained largely peaceful. the economy question is what ha next? protesters in seattle are holding several city blocks after the police vacated the area earlier in the week. called chaz. the capitol hill autonomous zone. >> it is a different way of thinking. >> reporter: protesters turning the neighborhood in a community space. a block party atmosphere. music and hot dog stand. gardening. rather than a corridor for violence and mayhem. >> this is not just take and have fun with graffiti. turn it into a community center. get a black bank here. fresh grocery store. >> reporter: the police abandoning one of the stations in an effort to deescalate tensions after more than a week of violent clashes. now donald trump inserting himself. tweeting the terrorists burn and pi pillage our cities. threatening to use the insurrection act to send troops into the city. >> we

. >> joining me, vaughn hillyard, ashley parker and kristen welker. kristen, let's talk about the president lashing out about the protest and his campaign, including the pandemic. >> reporter: that's right. the president is digging in, andrea, not on on his law and order messaging, but essentially the desire to turn the page, to restart campaigning. he is going to be in tulsa next friday. he was pressed there by fox news about the decision to hold it on juneteenth, this day that means so much not only the african-american community but within the united states history. you heard the president there say think of it as a celebration. now, it's our understanding he is going to address the significance of juneteenth, of course marking the day that slaves were freed in this country. it will be interesting to see what specifically he has to say. typically trump rallies are predominantly not minority communities and so what will his message there be? we'll have to see. but this is a president who is not afraid to engage in the culture wars, andrea, and he's

jackie: hillary vaughn, thank you so much.sident as well, listen. >> there are not going to be any disbanding of our police. our police have been letting us live in peace and we want to make sure we don't have any bad actors in there and sometimes you will see some horrible things like we witnessed recently but, 99, i say 99.9%, let's go with 99% of them are great, great people. connell: those comments from the president just moments ago at the law enforcement event of the white house. no disbanding police he says. we're joined by former nypd detective pat brosnan. hillary vaughn summarized it in her report, pat, there is talk of some sort of funds moving around whatever you call it from police departments to other areas this week in many cities. what do you make of what you've been hearing? >> it's madness. it's madness on a biblical level really. i can't even, it is hard to dignify it with a response. what i would like to start with are the facts. facts are stubborn little definitely voice. we had 94% increase of murders of

nbc news reporter vaughn hillyard joins us from phoenix, arizona. vaughn, how is arizona coping with what is now a 40% spike in cases there? >> reporter: andrea, just this hour, the state released new numbers that more than 1,500 arizonans have reportedly tested positive for covid in just the last 24 hours. 25 more new deaths recorded today as well. over just the last six days, andrea, 7,000, more than 7,000 new cases. banner health, which is the major health system here, says they have quadrupled the number of ventilators in use over the last three weeks. i was talking with the chief medical officer of this valley wise health facility here. he says that's alleviated some of the pressure from the icu occupancy rates at other hospitals around the valley. he was telling me his concern is that the hospital network here across the state could reach capacity within weeks and be overwhelmed. and why is that? look back to three weeks ago. it was may 15, i was talking with the head of the hospital and health association here. she was saying it was at that t

thank you, vaughn hillyard. district there. the city's police chief and mayor expressed different comfort levels with the idea of that empty precinct. >> the decision to board up the precinct, our precinct, our home, the first precinct i worked in was something i have been holding off. you should know leaving the precinct was into the my decision. >> i think it was the right decision. i think it is clear that the removing the barriers was critical to removing the flash point. and if there were the safety concerns for people in the building or the equipment, but that is not the equivalent of abandoning the station. >> well, joining me now is chief carmen best, head of the police department. welcome. can you help clarify for us, first of all, how the decision was made to leave that police precinct and then the impact of not even having an operational precinct at that specific location. >> first, good morning, alex. thanks for having me on your show. i'm happy to answer both of those questions for you. it was never

hillary vaughn in washington, d.c. hillary, i guess we have some breaking news on combat troops that are on standby? reporter: liz, that's correct. in fact, what you're seeing right now is an unprecedented show of force essentially, a human barrier of members of law enforcement standing shoulder to shoulder with members of the military outside the white house kind of providing what is essentially a human barrier between the white house grounds and protesters here but also over my left shoulder, i want to point out something else that's happening in the middle of the protest, there is a prayer vigil with different members of the religious community gathering right now. but there is a wide variety of forces out here of protection. we are seeing everything from correctional officers that were pulled out of federal prisons that are now protecting the nation's capital, tsa agents that served at airports are now on duty in the district. this is all part of the president's show of force. national guardsmen here from ten state

hillary vaughn is in washington. we kick it off with blake. reporter: we continue to keep our eye on the event going on at the white house, with president trump sitting down with the governors of oklahoma and nebraska. it has been going on half an hour. the focus is on the recovery and rebound going forward and the pp small business program that helped out so many small business owners like you see the one on your screen. you can't help but notice, rather, that the president is meeting with the governor of oklahoma just about 48 hours before he also set to head to oklahoma to hold his first campaign rally since the covid-19 outbreak. there are many questions as to whether now is the appropriate time to do such a thing. here is president trump talking about that event sitting next to oklahoma's governor. >> and we're going to be in oklahoma and it's a crowd like i guess nobody's seen before. we have tremendous, tremendous requests for tickets like probably never happened politically before and one of the reince we chose your state, kevin, that

nbc's vaughn hillyard is live in scottsdale. vaughn, tell me about the current state of the coronavirus in arizona. >> reporter: here in arizona, it's really hard to tell you what the current state is quite frankly, alicia, because of the lack of access to appropriate testing here in the state and contact tracing. you just said there are more than 3,500 new cases reported today alone. when you look at hospitalizations, today also marks the most hospitalizations in the state to date, the most ventilators in use, the most icu beds in use. but, again, we have been around from the west valley to the heart of phoenix. we're now here over in the scottsdale area tracking testing. in each of these testing locations around the state, they're at capacity. folks are trying to get an understanding of the extent to which this spread has hit their own community, their own families, their own workplaces. i want to introduce to you dr. natasha buyon. you yourself are testing folks here today. you're also assistant professor of the university of

vaughn, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, peter. after days of clashes between demonstrators and the police here, both sides backed off. so far this situation remains peaceful and here the questions are about what lies ahead. this morning, protesters in seattle are holding several city blocks after the seattle police vacated the area earlier in the week calls chaz, the capitol hill ataun us in zone. they turned it into a community space, a block party type atmosphere, music, a hot dog stand, gardening, rather than a corridor for violence and mayhem. >> we'll build from there. we're not going to take it, draw graffiti and have fun. we're going to turn into that a community center, get a black bank here, a grocery store. it can be a cool zone, a safe zone. >> reporter: police abandoning one of its stations in an effort to de-escalate tensions after a week of violent clashes. but now president trump inserting himself tweeting terrorists that burn and pillage our cities. must end the seattle takeover now and threatening to use the insur

ireland agreed the west indian patriot, benjamin vaughn who retired in maine, ireland agreed benjamin vaughn had started on the right path, but young disciples of freedom do not understand the whole of freedom's doctrine. ouch. in correspondence, americans were quick to congratulate them on their newfound independence, they're very polite. they're careful not to let the irish know this is what they're thinking, but they're clear when they talk to themselves, that they would rather continue the war than accept, quote, the same kind of independency for themselves. irish independence, not interested. when washington wrote these words, there were quite a few politicians in britain whose views were closer to henry graten than his own. who oversee peace negotiations with the americans after becoming prime minister in july. he goes from ireland to america. for shellborn, the independence that was granted to ireland seemed like a perfectly acceptable form of independence for the united states. one of his first acts as colonial secretary was to instruct carlton, chief of britain's military for

vaughn, let me begin with you. walk us through what's closing arizona, and do we know why the governor stopped short of mandating a full stay-at-home policy? >> ayman, there frankly had to be a reckoning at some point here in this state from the executive tower of the governor here. behind us. and that happened yesterday. it was may 15th when the state let its stay-at-home order expire and restaurants and retail, those waterparks opened. it was even planned that schools would begin opening just two weeks from now in july but finally, after record hospitalizations, record icu beds in use, finally it got to the point where the state was so close to being overwhelmed that the governor had to take action. and that's what he did yesterday afternoon. by signing those executive orders of pushing the school year back into august, closing down these various establishments. but i had the chance to ask the governor the question, you know, why not go for essentially a shut down of this state like it was back in march. why not

vaughn hillyard in arizona, thank you very much. white house is ending mandatory temperature checks for some staff and visitors entering the white house. staff who come in direct contact with the president will still get checked. but it is another indication that the trump administration is ready to move on from the pandemic even though the pandemic is not ready to move on from us. so joining us now from the white house is nbc news reporter monica alba. so the new rules surrounding who's getting checked, why are they going into place now, and what does it have to do with what the president said on saturday, which is that he wanted less testing because less testing meant less cases? >> well, katy, it really appears to be the white house and the president wanting to put the worst of the pandemic behind them. and you see that here, just in this significant new change to procedures for months, anybody who entered this white house complex was screened for a temperature check and other health questions before being allowed to enter. that

joining us now from phoenix is nbc news reporter vaughn hillya hillyard.ases keep rising, the hospital bed capacity keeps lowering. what are you hearing out there today? >> katy, there's frankly nothing that gives me hope here that the trajectory is going to change in the state, not next week, not the week after that, or the week after that. there are also a record number of hospitalizations in the state. a record number of ventilators in use, a record number of icu beds in use. the governor here, doug ducey, haze not implemented any new restrictions in the state. this weekend looked like any normal weekend, whether it be june 2019 or june 2018. he's urging folks to stay home. at the same time, there is no stay-at-home order implements. the bars are still open, the restaurants are still open. the water parks are still open, casinos are still open. this is a state that is in a state of, i would say, frankly, denial. part of what gives me such little hope as to the tide turning is the way the state is operating its testing. right now, katy, the demand for te

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coverage for you now, jackie deangelis is in the newsroom and blake burman at the white house, hillary vaughn in washington, but kick it off with jackie. >> good afternoon, a tough day for the markets as you can see the dow down 730 points, the spiking coronavirus cases definitely driving that, the market has been worried all week that we will see these bikes and companies will start closing things again like we seen with apple and it will delay the economic recovery in this country. as you mentioned in texas, phase three on pause closing the bars today, restaurant occupancy going down from 75% to 50%, florida is in phase two and the governor is saying i don't know when we will go to phase three, we have to get phase two working. he said there will be no alcohol service in the bars, food only. the coronavirus task force briefing is very interesting, they stress hospitalization and the rates going up but hospitalization only 5% of cases whereas it was 15% in the beginning. the market for the week, the nasdaq wiped out the gains because of today's selloff, you can see where we stand there, the

elizabeth: thank you, hillary vaughn in washington.ack to the push by 20 cities to defund police budgets and shift money towards community-based services and community-based policing. chicago, recently suffered the deadliest day in 60 years. 18 murders in 24 hours. also this, seven shot in brooklyn in three shootings overnight. that happened just ten minutes apart. the twin cities in minnesota face hundreds of millions of dollars in property damage. we have 18 people now dead, including eight african-americans. this just in, now 19 people have been killed during the rioting. also this. leading police organizations across the country aggressive denounce calls to defund the country's 18,000 police departments. they insist doing that will lead to more crime against poor and minority communities and shut down many businesses about. watch criminal justice reformed a very cat alice marie johnson. she was released from federal prison after her life sentence was commuted by president trump. she spoke out yesterday against defunding the police.

we begin with hillary vaughn in washington d.c. hillary. >> reporter: good evening, liz.ahoma supreme court at the last minute shot down a last ditch legal challenge to try to force everyone that attends this tulsa rally to socially distance and also wear mask. the president also says he talked with the mayor of tulsa this afternoon who assured him there will be no curfew tonight and no curfew tomorrow night. this happening after a lawsuit was filed trying to stop the arena from hosting the rally saying it presented a, quote, deadly risk to the community. but despite criticism from some, the rally is on, and the campaign says they are talk thing the necessary safety precautions -- taking the necessary precautions providing masks and also hand sanitizer. >> for folks who volunteer to come to this rally and sign up, they can make the choice to stay outside, possibly go inside, possibly wear a mask, possibly not. it's american freedom. they've got the choice. >> reporter: the president will not be wearing a mask, and unlike his political opponent, joe biden, who says wearing

hillary vaughn has the details from washington. hillary? reporter: u.s.ppeals court ordering the judge overseeing the michael flynn case against trump's former national security advisor needs to drop it this escalated in the appeals court in the first place because u.s. district judge emmett sullivan refused to drop the case even when the doj called off the prosecution against flynn. the court of appeals said sullivan overstepped his role. flynn's attorney speaking exclusively with lou dobbs, this former note by fbi agent peter struck shows former vice president biden and president obama showed that the leaked memos show fbi investigators told whether or not they go get flynn to lie to investigators about his communication with former russian ambassador. the president saying this today, is james comey and his ban of dirty cops going to apologize to michael flynn and many others what they have done to ruin is life. what about robert mueller and his angry democrat cronies, are they going to say, so sorry? what about obama and biden. flynn broke out years lo

right now hillary vaughn is live a few minutes before 5 p.m. nation's capital with the very latest. hillary in. >> reporter: hi, connell. no sign of things dying down right now. we are just about less than two hours before curfew tax effect, but i want to point out what's happening behind me. it's an extremely ramped-up police presence right here in lafayette park which is the park outside of the white house. a new police barrier has been set up. now you're seeing u.s. park police but also national guard standing shoulder to shoulder for several rows back, protecting the white house from the protesters here. you're also seeing a black chain-link fence. this fence is new. it was not here yesterday. that has been used to completely block off off the entire front f this street essentially on the border of this park. earlier we did see a protester grab this chain-link fence and try to pull himself up, another protester pulled him off the fence and pushed him back into the crowd. there was clearly an effort by that one protester to climb the fence t

elizabeth: hillary vaughn, thank you very much for your reporting.ow this, 5600 people have been arrested so far in the protests. nine people now dead since the rioting began. last night seven police officers were shot at, four in st. louis missouri, one in las vegas, two in richmond, virginia. also a retired police officer in st. louis killed after being shot in the head. in new york city and buffalo, new york police officers were hit with vehicles. reports coming in, all of the officers are in stable condition. now this, even new york city fdny fire trucks getting attacked by rioters. welcome the host of the david webb show. he is david webb. david, great to have you on. thanks so much for joining us. david, amid the chaotic scenes convulsing the nation, there are displays of hope, cops in north carolina, kneeling before protesters, surprising them. there are gestures of goodwill. what is it going to take to stop the violence? will it take the president calling in black lives matter for a sit-down at the white house? how do you stop the violence? >

hillary vaughn, thank you so much.he president heading to arizona and wisconsin for more rallies this week. this after the news about 6200 people attended the president's comeback rally in tulsa on saturday night. according to the tulsa fire department. trump campaign says 12,000 got in, blaming covid virus and protesters. that is blamed on things like tiktok and k pop. these are viral trends on social media. let's welcome former trump 2016 campaign manager. he is corey lewandoski. great to have you back on, corey. corey, take this on first. you were on i think a new hampshire radio show, what, don't overpromise that was a mistake for this rally. let's deal with this first. your reaction? >> yeah. my reaction is this, this was the largest audience that fox news has ever had between the hours of 8:00 and 10 p.m. on a weekend night. 1 [inaudible]. we can't overexamine every individual who may have not rsvped for the rally. the president had his opportunity to get hiss message out in tulsa directly to the american people

elizabeth: thank you so much, hillary vaughn, from washington d.c. to the other big, major story of the day. former deputy attorney general rod rosenstein getting a grilling before senate judiciary. this is the first in a series of hearings taking aim at the problem, the validity, the credibility of the fbi probe into the trump campaign and mueller's trump-russia probe. was there a basis for it? turns out looks like rod rosenstein is admitting no. two years ago he had lectured and pushed back when asked whether republicans might have legitimate reason to suspect the factual underpinnings of these probes. but it was a different rod rosenstein today. >> nobody's ever been prosecuted for working with the russians. the point is the whole concept that the campaign was colluding with the russians, there was no "there" there in august 2017. do you agree with that general statement or not? >> i agree with that general statement. >> you signed a warrant application in june of, i think, 2017? to get the carter page warrant renewed, is that correct? >> yes. >>

to hillary vaughn live with the details.we're here and what used to be 16th street, and now it has been renamed black lives matter plaza. i want to point out senator kamala harris right here visiting this walkway. you can see the black letters here, that spells out black lives matter in the streets leading up to the white house. i'm going to is can her a question, but i think she's going live on instagram right now. i do want to point out this just happened this morning. this is a decision that the d.c. mayor made to rename this street black lives matter plaza and also put this mural on the streets leading up to the white house. but while that was happening this morning, the mayor also had to push back against reports that she actually evicted some national guard troops from the marriott markey here in -- march key, saying she just stopped footing the bill for the rooms saying that d.c. taxpayers should not have paid the price for out of state national guardsmen that her district did not ask for. i asked the mayor what her m

hillary vaughn. the 11:00 p.m. curfew is the case right now and washington.w york, they have not pushed it back until 8:00 p.m. curfew in new york as it will be right through sunday. let's go out to the west coast right now, west hollywood, california. we find our jonathan hunt. donovan. >> neil, good afternoon to you. we are in the middle of what is a very large los angeles rally. this one in the west hollywood neighborhood. several thousand people have gathered here to make their anguish and pain known regarding the case of george floyd. this is following a pattern that we have seen over the last couple of days here, neil. at that is that it is a very peaceful protest. that the police are giving the protesters time and space to make their anger are known. what we have seen over the past 48 hours is that the l.a.p.d. and in this case it will also be the west hollywood sheriff's department are trying trying to let the protesters have the time that they want and saying to them in effect, okay, if you respect their curfew, we will respect your right it to be in

hillary vaughn in washington with the details. hillary? reporter: some people on unemployment are making more money laid off of work than they would be on the job because right now under the cares act people collecting unemployment get an extra $600 a week on top of the what the state already pays out to them. that extra cash though expires at the end of july. democrats want to extend it but republicans want to end it because they see it as a loophole that disincentivizes people going back to work. >> i'm all about return to work bonus. i want to also give credit to some of our senate republican colleagues like senator portman who knew this would be an issue on the front end and we couldn't get our democrat friends joining us to fix it before it became a problem. reporter: that proposal from senator rob portman would give people back to work bonus, letting them keep $450 per week of the $600 through the end of july, as long as they go to work. that is getting support in the white house. democrats want more. senator michael bennet would pha

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nbc's vaughn hilliard is covering protests in seattle's capitol hill neighborhood. vaughn, protests there seem to be changing from what to what? what are you seeing now? >> reporter: craig, it was a week ago that the city of seattle chose to pull back their police force from the six-block area, inclouding abandoning the east precinct here. what you saw over the course of a week, where thousands of seattle residents converged on to the streets. i'm making the argument that these are the most diverse six blocks in america over the course of these last weeks. i want to introduce you to jay, who has been one of those genuine organizers. that was not planned. this was not some one group overtaking the streets. jay, give me a sense of what you saw these last two weeks and how this developed over the weekend. >> i think what you have been seeing is individuals making their way out, excepting they'd have immunity based on privilege. so we saw tear gas, rubber bullets, flash grenades deployed, the same way you would if it was just a black experience. i think for white commun

that vaughn was standing in front of. nobody, very few people, almost no one, wearing a mask and very close together in a state where cases are dramatically on the rise. it's incredible. >> i had the acting dhs secretary on the show sunday and he kept talking about how much they continue to push social distancing and mask wearing. except the president of the united states. he is setting an example. there's one person that's created the illusion that there's a -- that the illusion that wearing a mask is somehow a political symbol. and it's the president. no one else has done this. he has sort of willed this into a political divide that i don't think was there at the beginning. speaking of virus, we'll stay out west. california is also seeing a steady rise. governor newsom announced nearly 36% of the state's cases have been confirmed in the last 14 days alone. california was on the very early end of this. now think about how bad this recent spike is. this state is also seeing a spike in hospitalizations and icu patients. me

hillary vaughn with more. hillary.eporter: liz, mayors around america are weighing a decision to slash funding for their own city's police department, president making it clear he does not support defunding or disbanding any police departments around the country. >> there won't be defunding. there won't be dismantling of our police and, they're not going to be any disbanding of our police. our police have been letting us live in peace. we want to make sure we don't have any bad actors in there and sometimes you will see some horrible things like we witnessed recently, but 99, i say 99.9 but let's go with 99% of them are great, great people. reporter: attorney general bill barr told fox news that it is dangerous to demonize the police and holding every police department accountable for actions of a few officers is wrong. there is friction between what democrats in d.c. want and what some of their constituents want from their local leaders. the mayor of minneapolis was booed out of a protest this weekend after he rejecte

i want to go live to phoenix where vaughn hillyard is standing by outside the state's largest testinge is facing a testing backlog. how big are these backlogs and how long does it take for people to get their results? >> exactly. the demand is outweighing the capacity at this point for testing. that's why you saw over the course of this weekend thousands of folks trying to get a test. enough are getting tests to break the daily record of cases. more than 3,800 new cases were reported just yesterday. there are still thousands of folks that are trying to get tested. it's also a backlog which is now creating a delay in results returning. most folks are not getting results for oftentimes more than a week. and that is why you see the control or spread out of control here. you have a situation now where there's a record number of hospitalizations this weekend. a record number of ventilators in use and beds in use. the governor doug ducey has refused calls to reimplement things here. >> vaughn, thank you. >>> joining us now, dr. jean who works with several hospitals in the phoenix area. how

hillary vaughn joins us with what is happening at this very moment. hillary?rles, i want to point out what you're seeing right now this is definitely a ramped up military presence here between the protesters and the white house. you can see they moved in two big trucks right here. those were not there moments ago. they also added a larger presence, about 30 more, some national guard, some other military officers move in. they were double stacked at one point, when there was about hundreds of protesters in this area. right now they're doing a big lap around d.c., but we're getting new information what the doj is looking into, the type of presence that they're seeing as part of these protests. they're looking to any ties to extremest groups that may be involved including antifa. they're looking into supply drop-offs. there are reports and sightings of big boxes of bricks and other things that protesters have then used to throw at police officers and military officers here that are protecting the district and protecting the president. also protecting our national