arizona has hospital capacity. but let's refocus our efforts on washing our hands, social distancing, covering our face when we can't social distance. and if you are sick, please stay home and if you have the opportunity this weekend, especially if you've been out and about quite a bit, go and get a test. that information, the data will help us informed decisions going into the future. thank you, everyone. thank you everyone. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> have won a mask in public and i will wear a mask in public when i'm not socially distanced. [inaudible] >> thanks [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> today senator mark warner and gerald connolly called a virtual town hall discussion with voters to talk about police reform and covid-19. live coverage starts at 1 p.m. eastern here on c-span2. coming up tonight, essential workers testified before a house committee about issues they are facing to give hospitals, transportation and food production g

it is not only in arizona. ofhave aired on the side trying to help people who have been displaced and are in need. by and large, those 1.5 million people are good, hard-working arizonans that have never asked for anything from the government and all of a sudden found themselves with no income. group,hers, a very small is taking advantage of that by frogging the system, -- defrauding the system and they will be prosecuted. renters, we are about a month away from that. believe me, we spent so much time talking about public health today and in the last several weeks, appropriately so, protections are in place. we are looking at this in totality of where we are as a state or what's happening with the federal and state packages. we do not want to seem anyone -- see anyone fall through the social safety net. our actions to date should be evidence on how we want to protect arizonans. we are getting better, and hopefully, although des will be much improved through the stresses and investments that beenn put into it --

arizona has hospital capacity. but let's refocus our efforts on washing our hands, social distancing, covering our face when we can't social distance. and if you are sick, please stay home and if you have the opportunity this weekend, especially if you've been out and about quite a bit, go and get a test. that information, the data will help us informed decisions going into the future. thank you, everyone. >> [inaudible] i will wear when in public when i am not a social distancing. thank you, everyone. federal chs were also at the conversation. this is an hour and a half.

arizona has hospital capacity. but let's refocus our efforts on washing our hands, social distancing, covering our face when we can't social distance. and if you are sick, please stay home and if you have the opportunity this weekend, especially if you've been out and about quite a bit, go and get a test. that information, the data will help us informed decisions going into the future. thank you, everyone. >> [inaudible] i will wear when in public when i am not a social distancing. thank you, everyone. >> .. test. >> the senate is about to gavel into work on the maintenance backlog of national parks and public lands we will hear more debate before they advancing the vote on legislation at 1:00 a.m. eastern. the presiding officer: the senate will come to order. the chaplain will lead the senate in prayer. the chaplain: let us pray. o god, who has been our light throughout life's seasons. keep our lawmakers. within the circle. of your divine will. lord, give them hearts. that seek yourdo

arizona's health department as the president arrived in arizona today, arizona's health department announced a record number of new coronavirus cases for the state today. and a record number of new hospitalizations for the state today. and a record number of icu beds in use for the state today. and a record number of patients on ventilators in the state today. all in one day they hit those records. the day that president trump came to town and staged that event with 3,000 people inside. i mean, arizona right now is not in a holding pattern, they're taking off. two weeks ago arizona started to hit 1,000 new cases a day. six days ago they shifted gears up to 2,000 new cases a day. now in three of the last five days they're up over 3,000 new cases a day, including more than 3,500 new cases just specifically today. and this is coming at a time when people in arizona are waiting five, six, 10, 12, 13 hours to get a test. even people with symptoms. because the state is so consistently terrible. they're 40th in the nation in terms of access to testing. and still, with that little testing available

arizona's health department, as the president arrived in arizona today, arizona's health department announced a record number of new coronavirus cases for the state today and a record number of new hospitalizations for the state today and a record number of icu beds in use for the state today and a record number of patients on ventilators in the state today. all in one day they hit those records the day that president trump came to town and staged that event with 3,000 people inside. i mean arizona right now is not in a holding pattern. they're taking off. two weeks ago arizona started to hit 1,000 new cases a day. six days ago, they shifted gears up to 2,000 new cases a day. now in three of the last five days they're up over 3,000 new cases a day including more than 3,500 new cases just specifically today. and this is coming at a time when people in arizona are waiting five, six, ten, 12, 13 hours to get a test. even people with symptoms because the state is so consistently terrible. they're 40th in the nation in terms of access to testing. and still with that little testing available in ari

what are your thoughts on the situation in arizona. we are seeing the state is acting and sending bars notices they're not social distancing enough. are these steps in the right direction? >> in the right direction, but it's all too little too late. we have weeks of infections we have to get to now. there are icu beds fully occu occupied, hospitals are using hallways as places to put patients. this is what should have happened weeks ago. instead he took power away from local mayors that were trying to keep their population healthy, instead of coming down on businesses and making them social distance, he allowed them to party it up as if there wasn't a pandemic. he basically abdicated his power and responsibility to keep citizens safe to make sure that we had an almighty economy going. instead now what we have is a pandemic that is going to potentially kill thousands of arizona e arizonans, and there will be a slowdown in the economy because nobody trusts now when the economy should reopen. >> we have a lot to talk to you about. i want

we've had eyes on arizona for a couple weeks here on this show. you see this national coverage on how bad things are there, it's more than warranted. maricopa county is recording as many as 2,000 cases a day, quote, eclipsing the new york city boroughs even on their worst days. and that eclipsing part of the quote is actually "the post" quoting from the very well regarded disease trackers at the children's hospital of philadelphia. their work on arizona including this terrifying projection of the rise in cases in maricopa county. you see that dotted line just shooting straight up. that's the projection for the next couple weeks in maricopa county. that's not indefinitely into the future. that's a two-week projection. the disease trackers write, quote, it is fair to say that the state of arizona has lost control of the epidemic. this is from "the post" reporting. physicians, public health experts say the crisis was predictable in arizona where local ordinances requiring masks were forbidden until republican governor doug ducey reversed course last

pnc bank. >>> in the next hour, president trump will depart for phoenix, arizona, the state of arizona just reported more than 2,000 new coronavirus cases for the fifth straight day. look at the hospitalizations there. they just hit their highest level of the pandemic with 84% of the intensive care beds now full. joining me now is will humbling, the executive director of the arizona public health association. let's start with the president. we haven't talked about that yet. he's going to be visiting arizona, holding an event indoors there. you're concerned not specifically about that room per se, but about the wider implications. why? >> yeah. so this is going to be a 3,000 person event. they have got ambiguous mitigation measures in place. there are a few mitigation measures from what i understand. but my bigger concern when you have a president and a governor attending with 3,000 persons, you know, in a state that's still in phase one and arguably we don't even meet those criteria to be honest, it sends a message to other organizations, whether that be a business organization, faith-

and i don't why is set trunk changing to catch arizona. well he is going down to the border wall he's landed in yuma which is very close to the border there if you remember that throughout the campaign he said he was going to build a big beautiful border wall 'd from course to course well the border wall is no 320 kilometers long 200 miles they hit that milestone and donald trump is going down to check it now he would obviously at this stage i'd like to have built a lot more wall but the problem is he doesn't really have control of the posturings that is in the hands of congress and house democrats simply won't give them the billions of dollars he says is needed to build a wall or wall that he told his voters that makes a call would pay for he's also going to hold students for trump event in phoenix in arizona the capital city of this state that's interesting that he's picked out his own a because that could well be a key state if there is a close presidential election there are 11 electoral college votes up for grabs there donald trump on

trump won arizona by just over three points in 2016. but in 2018 the state elected a democratic senator who benefitted from strong support in suburban phoenix, part of a national trend we have seen in the trump era. after advising against the democratic -- the democratic, quote, anyone attending the event particularly any elected official should set an example to residents by wearing a mask. this includes the president. needless to say trump is not wearing a mask tonight. and i'm joined now by vaughn hilliard, yamiche alcindor, and jacob soboroff. thank you all for being with us. well, vaughn, let me start with you right behind you or around you trying to figure out where in relation you are to that facility. the president is speaking right now, so this another major indoor public event for the president a couple of days after that rally in tulsa. i think one of the questions raised coming out of tulsa is what would the level of interest be, and as we saw a lot of sechlty seats there a lot of apprehension on the part of the folks of ari

actualmente arizona tiene 29,852 casos, aunque todos los dÍas van en aumento, tan ... [audio confuso] los latinos estÁn en los más afectados, ellos estuvieron contagiados y ahora toman todas las precauciones para no volver a caer. >> todo lo que yo pueda tomar precauciones para mÍ y las demÁs personas. patricia: las cifras actualizadas de contagios indican que estados unidos sobrepasÓ los 2 millones de casos de coronavirus, de acuerdo a la agencia de noticias hay en el paÍs 2,002,000 casos confirmados y las muertes suman un poco mÁs de 113,000. >> muchas personas se han quejado que simplemente no llega el cheque enviado por el gobierno para alegar el impacto en su bolsillo de la pandemia, se estima que son 35 millones de las personas que siguen esperando esta asistencia, lourdes explica que puede deberse la demora y que pueden hacer para saber dÓnde estÁ su dignidad. >> realmente uno la necesita para pagar cosas que uno tiene pendiente que todavÍa no se han podido pagar. >> se calcula que la tarjeta de dÉbito como también se distribuye la ayuda a una le lle

joining us now is will humble, former director of the arizona health services, now director of the arizona health association. you were here earlier talking about things seeming to go off the rails in arizona. what you said at the time was right. but i have to ask you, if you knew that it was going get this bad this fast, or if you are among those as surprised adds just how out of control things got in arizona. >> let me think about that. i knew things were going to get bad. you asked me how soon. i thought it would probably be some time in july. but i'm now confident that we'll be in crisis standards of care within the next few days, if not by the end of the weekend. it's gotten so bad so fast. and the reason is because the public policy that we developed and that was used at the end of the stay-at-home order really set in an honor system. and an honor system isn't adequate to direct the kind of human behavior that we need to slow down the spread of this virus. so that's really what happened. this is directly related to policy decisions that have been made. this is not bad luck. this isn'

we've had eyes on arizona for a couple weeks here on this show. the national coverage of how bad things are there, it's more than warranted. maricopa county is recording as many as 2,000 cases a day, quote, eclipsing the new york city boroughs even on their worst days. and that eclipsing part of the quote is actually "the post" quoting from the very well regarded disease trackers at the children's hospital of philadelph philadelphia. their work on arizona including this terrifying projection of the rise in cases in maricopa koif county. you see that dotted line shooting straight up. that's the projection for the next couple weeks in maricopa county. that's a two-week projection. the disease trackers write, quote, it is fair to say that the state of arizona has lost control of the epidemic. this is from "the post" reporting. physicians, public health experts say the crisis was predictable in arizona where local ordinances requiring masks were forbidden until republican governor doug ducey reversed course last week. quote, state leaders did not take

arizona is one of 23 states. that is nearly half the country that is seeing cases of the virus going up in the last few weeks. we're not just seeing more people test positive. we're seeing more people get really, really sick. we know this because hospitalizations are also hitting record levels. it is happening in states like texas, florida, california, and arizona. and i want to go straight to the white house where my colleague monica alba is standing by. what's the plan for today? >> you can hear marine one just behind me, stephanie, as the president is set to depart here shortly for a multistop trip to a battleground state. he'll visit a portion of the border wall. this is something the president has wanted to do several times over the course of the administration but hasn't done it since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. this is really a first trip that's more political in nature without highlighting what the administration has done on the health crisis. even as you see cases rise there in arizona. fr

that's arizona, georgia and texas. and arizona, particularly of the three of those arizona i think at this point you'd have to start to say at this point in arizona that joe biden is favored to win there at this point. would you say that? >> i don't see how you could reach a different conclusion at this point, frankly. the president has been weak in the arizona polling from the start. he didn't get 50% of the vote in 2016. the democratic numbers on party registration have been steadily closing there, and we know the president has struggled with republicans there. so at the moment it would take a pretty significant shift in the race for them even to be considered a 50-50 proposition. >> birthplace of the modern conservative movement, arsz. pretty head spinning. nate cohn, thank you so much for making time tonight. >> happy to come. >> that is all in for this evening. the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. we start tonight

san luis in the exact area in arizona. the president was asking whether he was joking on saturday night in tulsa, oklahoma when he told his advisors when he said slow down covid-19 testing. watch. >> i don't kid. let me just tell you, let me make it clear. we have got the greatest testing program anywhere in the world. here is what i say. testing is a double-edged sword. in one way it tells you have cases. in another way you find out where the cases are, and you do a good job. reporter: dr. anthony fauci among several members of the coronavirus task force that testified on capitol hill today. they were asked, those members, have they ever been told to slow down covid-19 testing, and they said, no. back to you, connell, melissa. melissa: they asked them about five or 10 or 25 times every way they could think of and the answer was still no. blake, thank you. go to jackie deangelis on the market rally today. reporter: good afternoon, guys, green on the board continuing that positive trend. the nasdaq was the big story hitting

does anybody in arizona. does anybody in arizona say they just arizona. does anybody in arizona say theyjust don't ca re arizona say theyjust don't care about the virus, they can get along without worrying about it? i think there is that sentiment, to a degree, though i think it has lessened as there has been more and more evidence in arizona and obviously in the united states and around the world but this virus is really pretty bad, and that a lot of people are going to hospitals and having severe outcomes. so i think that sentiment has lessened, but i think particularly among younger people there is a sense that they cannot get sick or they will not get very sick or they will not get very sick or they don't need to worry as much. if you see someone without a mask in public, can you automatically tell who they vote for, what their views might be on other issues?” think you can't, you know, some people don't wear masks because they have an underlying health condition that makes it really difficult for them to wear a mask, or they have some other reason.

i'm going to arizona. it's a great place, great state. >> reporter: in his swing throughout southwest, the president hoping to firm up support in the increasingly purple grand canyon state. first making a stop at the u.s.-mexico border, and just miles from where the president was, overwhelmed hospitals calling for every available nurse in the region and for volunteers from out of state. how short of nurses are you right now? >> we are having a situation where we don't have enough nursing staff. >> reporter: from descending on arizona. >> we are here. >> reporter: deploying for duty on the state's front lines. >> hospitals are starting to get filled up to capacity. >> reporter: houston based icu nurse shannon roberts flew to phoenix for a six-week contract. >> i just go with no expectations. i just go in knowing that i'm going to have sick patients and knowing that i'm going to be there to take care of them. >> reporter: gina mitchell drove cross country from oklahoma to arizona in her rv. >> arizona! >> re

president trump is in arizona this afternoon. he is going to speak at a students for trump rally hosted by turning point usa in phoenix. we will have live coverage beginning at 6:40 p.m. eastern on c-span, online at c-span.org, or listen live on the free c-span radio app. as he was leaving the white house earlier to head to arizona, president trump stopped to talk to reporters. pres. trump: hello, everybody. we're going to arizona. we are celebrating. we have over 200 miles of wall built. it has been incredible. our numbers on the border, as you know, are just about at a record-breaking low. people are not being able to cross the border. the wall is helping us. we have about 212 miles up of wall. that is good. we are going to be doing a number of other things. we are going to be making a speech to young people in arizona. and we will be meeting with some of the arizona officials to talk about their border and how strong it has become. attackght, we stopped an on a great monument, the monument of andrew jackson in lafayette park.

how is it there in arizona? >> you know, i think the part that we all need to note as part of this is this conversation has been taking place in arizona, richard, since early may. it was back on may 4th when the governor here, doug ducey announced that retail and restaurants would begin to reopen and that he would intend to allow the state's stay-at-home order on may 15th to expire. at that point, we were already talking about record numbers of deaths and cases. and ever since there, we've seen that number steadily rise. over the last two weeks, you've seen the numbers spike. that's what leads us to today. the arizona department of health services announced a record more than 3500 new cases today. 44 arizonans have now pass. but there are records. record number of hospitalizations, record number of ventilators in use, record number of icu beds being used. this has led us to this moment here in arizona where there are serious question marks about where do we go from here. across the state i see bed capacity, rich

i spoke to alison steinbach, a reporter with the arizona republic newspaper. i asked her how people had been reacting there. yeah, i think it has been pretty concerning, i would say, for the past month. so pretty much june. the trends have really been going in the wrong direction, on pretty much every metric. be it cases, deaths, tests, percentage of tests coming back positive, and obviously hospitalisations. so i think there is an increasing sense of concern and worry that trends are not really abating and continuing to kind of go in the wrong direction. there has been more mask wearing, there was little to begin with, but people have been increasing that. but i think it is a little troubling what we are seeing at this point in arizona. does anybody in arizona say they just don't care about the virus, they can get along without worrying about it? i think there is that sentiment, to a degree, though i think it has lessened as there has been more and more evidence in arizona and obviously in the united states and around the world but this virus is really pretty

here's the surge in arizona. the state reported as the president arrives, a single day record of over 3,500 new cases. as well as 42 more deaths. the state total surpasses the 58,000 cases in over 1,300 death that's we have been chart go. the city's mayor saying trump's event won't adhere to cdc guidelines the way it is being xe executed. meanwhile, the waiver to be signed, several governors including in hot spot states like texas and florida, breaking with trump to sound the alarm as they deal with what they call spreading an unacceptable rate, and the acceleration of people testing positive. this is all reality. we begin on the grounds with von h hilliard. von, take it away. >> reporter: i think today can be marked june 23rd, as the day of defiance by president trump. what dr. fauci was testifying on capitol hill today, but also the scary reality of the health statistics here. more than 3,500 new cases today alone. that's a record today of any day in arizona. but also marks the most hospitalizations, the most i

new cases in arizona are up. the state's top health officials are telling hospitals to prepare for crisis for more let's welcome in dr. chad it's good to have you welcome. >> thank you good to be here. >> can you disentangle why this case count is increasing is it because the increase in testing or a genuine increase in people getting sick because it sounds like there's been an up tick in people filling hospitals. >> yes it's definitely more than just testing because of a number of i understand caters. the increase in the percent of positive test results over a month ago, was around 5% and now in the last week it's been between 11 to 13% depending on which one of the models you're looking at in terms of the case counts how many tests come back positive as you mentioned, the hospitalization rate has gone up by 49% all of these trends come together to point to it being more than just testing and because of extensive community sfr spread >> you think it's related to the openings arizona did have some version of a sh

arizona republic. first just give us a snapshot from where you stand of what the discussion is in the state right now about what is happening with the virus in arizona. >> well, i think, first of all, my colleagues and i first started noticing a spike a couple of weeks ago, and we have been trying to get the state to say that there is an increased community spread. we have been able to get some experts to say that. so far the arizona department of health services has not actually said that. they have been telling people not to panic but to practice social distancing and other measures. however, the state's largest health system has started to take a lead in this role. they held a press conference on friday and said these numbers are really concerning and people need to wear masks and do not get complacent about social distancing. >> you are talking about the public health apparatus of the state of arizona and then a private hospital system, right, or a health care providing system. >> yeah. >> and it's

going to be critical in our ability to address those surgeons that we're seeing in florida in texas in arizona and. america's top infectious diseases expert warns of disturbing surges in several states as president trump heads to arizona to visit his border wall and an address they use a vent. on our intelligence is al jazeera live from london also coming up. a brazilian judge orders president bush sonora to wear a face mask in public. germany imposes a 2nd localized lockdown after a coronavirus outbreak linked to a meat processing plant. and never took which becomes the latest tennis player to test positive for coated 19 after 20 minutes he organized in the balkans. america's top infectious diseases expert has warned of a disturbing surge in coronavirus infections as the u.s. death toll climbs past 120000 testifying before congress actually found she singled out the states of texas florida and arizona where u.s. president donald trump has addressed conservative activists how she wore a mask during his testimony a safety measure that's been mostly ignored by his boss and also brazil's presiden

geoff, what can we expect from the president's visit in arizona today? >> look, president trump returns to arizona, where he's going to return to a familiar issue that he thinks helped fuel his rise and win in 20 16. that is border security. he's going to go to yuma, arizona, where jacob is, to tout the progress made in his long promised southern border wall an then heads to phoenix where he'll talk to a crowd of thousands of young supporters, many of them students who will be packed into a phoenix megachurch there one reason he's going to arizona. this will be the third trip in the last five months, is that as you mentioned, arizona is an important battleground state. it used to be a reliable republican stronghold, but no more. in fact, national polling averages show president trump trailing joe biden by about four or five points at the moment. the president in last hour left the white house to make his way to arizona. he addressed the controversy from his last rally in tulsa where the president talked about the coronavirus crisis, and he said the more

. >>> president trump in arizona as the state breaks its single day recohis second indoor event in just four days his response to whether his statement about slowing down testing was really just a joke. >>> the surprise twist in the fbi investigation into a noose found in nascar star's bubba wallace's garage stall why no charges will be filed. >>> the clash near the white house. police driving out protesters trying to topple a statue. what the president is now threatening to do. >>> the family of rayshard brooks dressed in white for a final farewell m.l.k.'s daughter with a powerful message to his children the world's top tennis player testing positive for covid-19 after a tournament what it means for other sports as they eye their returns. >>> nearly 100 workers infected at a single amazon warehouse >>> and the primaries in a pandemic. will we see some election upsets tonight? >> this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening i'm savannah guthrie in for lester. tonight the stark warning from the nation's top infectious disease doctor coming before congress dr. anthony fa

arizona being one of them. you know, the key is, like we just discussed a second ago, the key operating assumption when you're out in the community is you've got to be -- you've got to assume that the folks you meet could be positive. >> here's another viewer question here. this one just coming in. some victims of covid-19 -- this is from mark -- some victims remain weeks and months after initial onset of symptoms. are these longhaulers -- not sure it's the medical term -- but are they still infectious when they again become symptomatic, such as when they get a fever or sore throat? doctor? >> most covid courses are around two to three weeks of symptoms, sometimes longer. it is a good idea to contact your doctor if symptoms are persisting beyond that usual course. i would say if your symptoms resol and then come back, it could be a different infection all together. it is important to monitor this and follow up with your health care professional on this. in general, if you have ongoing sympt symptoms, assume you

. >>> and all of this is happening as the president is in arizona today. and keep in mind arizona is a state reporting a record number of new covid cases. nearly 4,000 in the last 24 hours. and this hour the president will tour part of the border wall along the u.s./mexico border and will deliver a speech at a phoenix church. but before he left the white house, the president addressed this new back and forth around testing and whether or not he really was joking when he said he ordered officials to slow the testing down. after several white house aides said it was an obvious joke, this was the president earlier today. >> i don't kid. let me just tell you. let me make it clear. we have got the greatest testing program anywhere in the world. we test better than anybody in the world. our test is the best in the world and we have the most of them. the reason we have more cases than other countries is because our testing is so much. >> only his top advisers say that is not what they were told. >> has president trump ever directed you to slow down testing for co

were going to be making a speech to young people and arizona and we'll be meeting with some of the arizona officials to talk about their border and how strong it has become. >> this is the third time president trump has visited the state of arizona over the past five months. only this time there is a major situation going on with corona infections. the governor here, there were calls for him to stop this event from happening. obviously that's not happening. the governor saying it's the people's right to assemble, especially during an election year. >> jon: thank you very much. the president won a mac arizona by fewer than four points in 20. once reliably read, analysts call that a battleground now. let's bring in karl rove. carl, i want to start with the latest fox news poll taken between may 30th and june 2nd. it shows joe biden ahead of president trump 46-42 in arizona. those are numbers that the president's campaign can't turn around, but they certainly have to be worrisome at this point. >> the real clear politics average shows them down, so there is confirming data there. 133 days, bu

he talked about this before he left for arizona. take a listen. >> you have to understand history and the culture. so many other aspects of our country. people can study that and they can hate it, and let's all hate it, but you can't take down george washington's statue. half of our country is named after washington. >> dana: how do you think about this? >> i have a couple of different thoughts. i'm not huge on monuments. i mean, i don't know where to draw the line. if you only have monuments to perfect people, then we are going to have monuments with my wife. and i understand and they are people who want to take down monuments and of jesus. if you don't want a monument, go through the process to take it down, but to deface public property is a crime. your options are go through the process of taking the monument on legally or if you want to do it unlawfully, at least accept the consequences if you work from a noble act. it is a crime to deface and tear down public property. >> dana: do you think the president needs to do this execu

if you recall in arizona, kelly ward or as some people in the state of arizona called her kemp trail kelly. >> right. >> she lost her race partly because of her emphasis on the particular aspects of trumpism that actually don't play well for voters at large. people that vote are different from the wider electorate who would be choosing between a republican, a democrat or a member of another party. and so i think that what you will see are these continued bosses. that's why the republican party is concerned. not necessarily because her views are out of step because of what people in trump think, but her views represent an albatross around the neck of the republican party. >> right. but then i keep thinking back to the roy moore test, right, which to me is here is a person even before incredible accusations that he had prayed upon, molested underage girls, even before that who had no business, no business near public office, none whatsoever. when he won the primary, everyone sort of got in line. it seems like we're going to give another test here of that same thing. >> right. i think t

in arizona, texas, my peers, e.r. doctors, are going through the worst of the surge when they had the warning from us in new york what they're going to see. we see their icus going up, ventilators running out, nurses traumatized from the deaths of patients they're taking care of. we hear their stories, they're so reminiscent of what we went through in new york city and it feels so unfortunate. and honestly, really very unnecessary. >> and what we understand also is that the federal government is not going to extend its money for testing to communities beyond june 30. there was a protest from senator cornyn and others in texas, so they did extend it to june 30, but now the pandemic is still here and this money is going to have to be raised locally, taking money away from ppe and other critical supply issues. >> right. i mean, this has always been an example led by federal leadership to say we're not going to help you, we're not going to help you with testing sites, we're not going to help you procure ppe, you're going

president is now in arizona. he has been inspecting an area where they have built dozens of miles of new fencing during the coronavirus outbreak. of 3.5w an increase 3500.nd -- let's get more from los angeles. the border wall was a big thing that trump wanted to create. how much has he actually built so far? about 200 to 300 miles of new wall. this is a taller wall that replaces existing border terms of aut in brand-new wall, covering a place where there had never been any barrier before now, there are only about three miles worth. of the initial inategy when he campaigned 26 teen was, he said he would build the most beautiful wall and mexico would pay for it. mexico is not paying for it. the president had to take money out of the military budget to do this. area where he is now in the state of arizona, it is mostly on public land, a native american reservation and running along the edge of a biosphere reserve. it has not made environmentalists very happy. the president went to the wall with a number of local off

, how dire, how dire is the situation in arizona right now? doctor: well, firstoff, thank you for having me. we are in the first wave as the governor said. the case numbers are rising, we are definitely seeing a spike in cases. everyone is concerned. eric: hospital bed is at about 88%, icu facilities at 88% and fears that the state could run out of icu beds by next month. what do you see happening, is that possible, how bad can it get, are there steps that can be taken to alleviate that? >> first off, you have to realize, people can covid-19 are in bed more time than usual. the numbers are going up. as the rate of hospitalizations we have number of bed and number of staff to take care of people. every hospital has surge plan. we are ready to use it but, again, there's so much we can do with the amount of beds and staff available so really we are keeping a close eye on thing and being as flexible as possible but doesn't mean that we have infinite supply ready and we need everyone else to help spread the virus in arizona. eric: what happens if y

arizona has the worst outbreak in the country right now. right now, when you take the state's population out of the equation, arizona's growth is twice as fast as the next highest state and new cases up nearly 50% since last week. this chart shows the dramatic increase in coronavirus hospitalizations in the state. for weeks now, every day is more of the previous, up and up and up. in the midst of all this, arizona is a place that low and behold the president chose to visit today. not to offer aid or support, but to visit his wall, and then hold a rally indoors, inside a mega church. i'm sure it does not help the eu decision makers when they look at scenes like this from outside the president's mega church rally, people packed in close proximity and a fan blowing mist on people about to go into an indoor facility. it was just over the weekend when the president visited tulsa, oklahoma, with an entourage of six people that tested positive for the virus, and yesterday, we learned two additional staffers tested positive. two days later, he goes

. >>> meantime, california sure praszing 200,000 cases, in arizona doctors warning one county's cases are eclipsing new york city burroughs at the height of the crisis there. the state fairgrounds a massive testing site. >>> the first coronavirus task force briefing in 60 days, despite record spikes. vice president pence saying the flattening the curve which what he said about masks and president trump'llies. >>> outrage over this video, police restraining an unarmed man in his final moments pleading i can't breathe. >>> a surveillance footage of elijah mcclain. the officers involved. what has now happened. >>> alarming news if you're working from home, why you may be a target of russian hackers. >> the major u.s. alierns announcing they'll be booking full flights without social distancing. >>> the 5-year-old going the extra mile and the 100-year-old who inspired him >> announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. >>> good evening, i'm kristen welker in tonight for lester, we begin with the troubling surge to have covid-19 cases, more than half of states now seeing increases.

one of them arizona. since memorial day, the number of coronavirus hospitalizations there has gone up in arizona. that's a key number. right now the state has 31,000 cased and 100 people have already died. with the rise in cases the mayor of phoenix says it might have opened too soon. >> we have hit so many of the records you don't want to be hitting for covid-19. from my perspective we opened too much too early, and so our hospitals are really struggling. >> joining me now is dr. joe jerald, an associate professor and director of public health policy at the university of arizona. doctor, good to have you. >> thank you. >> you look at figures here that are important here because they get to the seriousness of infections, but 77% of icu beds taken in arizona. you heard the mayor there say the state reopened too soon. do you agree? >> i think that's certainly a reasonable conclusion. when we look at when the transition occurred where we're seeing faster spread of the virus, it backtracks to early may when t

if you recall in arizona, kelly ward, or as some people in the state of arizona call her chemical trachem trail kelly -- >> right. >> she lost her race because on the particular aspects of trumpism that actually don't play that well to wroevoters wr large. people who vote in democratic and republican primaries are different than the wider electorate choosing between the republican, democrat or a member of another party. and so i think that what you will see are these continued losses and that's why i think in my view the republican party is concerned. not necessarily because her views are that out of step with how many people in trump's base think, but because her views represent -- >> no. >> an albatross around the neck of the republican party. >> right. but then i keep thinking back to the roy moore test, which, to me, was a person even before credible accusations he had preyed upon, molested underage girls, right? even before that, who had no business -- no business near public office. none whatsoever. when he won the primary, like, everyone sort of got in line. it seems like we're goi

arizona republic. first just give us a snapshot from where you stand of what the discussion is in the state right now about what is happening with the virus in arizona. >> well, i think, first of all, my colleagues and i first started noticing a spike a couple of weeks ago, and we have been trying to get the state to say that there is an increased community spread. we have been able to get some experts to say that. so far the arizona department of health services has not actually said that. they have been telling people not to panic but to practice social distancing and other measures. however, the state's largest health system has started to take a lead in this role. they held a press conference on friday and said these numbers are really concerning and people need to wear masks and do not get complacent about social distancing. >> that's interesting. you're talking about there's the public health apparatus of the state of arizona and then a private hospital system, right, or a health care providing s

thank you to speaking for us arizona. opened government has what it says will be the world's largest coronavirus treatment center. the country recorded its largest spike in daily infections for the third day in a row on friday. the country has nearly 500,000 cases. the pressure to get businesses back open remains strong. elizabeth has more. reporter: the chefs at this restaurant used to cook for up to 1200 people a day. that was before the lockdowns began. but despite restaurants being allowed to open, it is among the 80% of eateries that have chosen to keep their doors closed to diners or only do deliveries. >> we don't see people walking around, so we were doing deliveries since the lockdown. we have recently started self pickups and takeaways. experts say 30% of all restaurants and hotels could shut down permanently because of the lack of customers as the number of coronavirus cases rise. as restaurants keep their doors closed, hotels and train carriages are being converted to covid-19 treatment centers. delhi's govern

did a megachurch in yuna, arizona. we have reporting now that members of his secret service have been quarantined. there is advanced staff that tested positive and members of secret service in quarantine. what kind of message does that send to the nation when you're trying to get a unanimity, a consensus about public health measures? >> yeah, i mean, it's so important that people understand the risk of a mask -- of a mass gathering. pulling people together from all over the country into one place, even with masks -- you know, i worry, chris, that people put too much faith into a mask. that you can wear a mask and do anything. that's not true. it adds a little protection. >> right. >> but you still need to have social distancing and handwashing. you stilled into to be keeping six feet away. you need to make sure -- you know, the pieces that really worry me is that for so many people in america who are tested positive and their contacts, they don't have the ability to isolate safely at home. >> right. >> and we're not su

again today the president is heading into a hotspot, arizona. we see, you know, breakouts in phoenix and even in yuma at the wall, we'lli inbe hearing from jacob soboroff, two people have tested positive there, workers at the wall. how do we get around this, somehow public health has become so politicized. >> you've hit at the heart of it, andrea, president trump and vice president pence are eager to turn the page and put the focus on the campaign. they're arguing the economy is coming back as the country slowly reopens. we saw that dichotomy on display in tulsa when you had thousands of people packed into that arena, a number of them not wearing masks. the trump campaign says they handed out masks but didn't mandate that people wore them. of course on saturday we learned that six advance staff tested positive for covid-19, and then yesterday nbc news was first to report, andrea, that two more advance staff members tested positive. so you have eight people who have tested positive, which really looms large, i think, over all of it and makes the

arizona's growth is twice as fast as the next-highest state. it's also the top of the list for percent increase in new cases. up nearly 50% since last week. this chart shows the dramatic increase in coronavirus hospitalizations in the state. for weeks now, every day is more than the previous. up and up and up. in the midst of all this, arizona's a place that, low and behold, the president chose to visit today. not to offer aid or support. but to visit his wall. and then, hold a rally, indoors, inside a mega church. i'm sure it does not help the eu decision makers, when they look at scenes like this from outside the president's mega church rally. people packed in close proximity and a fan blowing mist onto people about to go into an indoor facility. just over the weekend when the president visited tulsa, oklahoma, with an entourage that included six people that tested positive for the virus. and yesterday, we learned that an additional two staffers tested positive. three days later, he goes into the epicenter of the american outbreak right now,

we're looking at live pictures of yuma, arizona. the president will appear any moment now, but earlier today at the hearing, dr. fauci said when it comes to a vaccine, it's a matter of when, not if. he felt very optimistic, or at least cautiously optimistic that we'll have one. when it comes to the safety of it, he emphasized that the risk involved is the risk to the companies that are trying to develop it financially, that they're going forward and taking a financial risk. he tried to emphasize that the risk would not be in the safety of the vaccine. what did you make of that comment? and how hopeful are you that we're going to have a vaccine? >> katy, there's been a concern about whether there will be political pressure to release a vaccine. we have seen everything politicized in this pandemic, particularly by this administration. will we see -- i was really heartened to hear dr. fauci said that safety will be forefront, because the last thing we want to do is potential release the vaccine in an age where we have seen a lot of, yo

a lot of people don't think arizona has mountains. we have got mountains 12,000 feet high, filled with scouts so they can track our border patrol agents, load up humans and rolled them to san diego, roll them to phoenix. we went to the dea office, a room filled with drugs, opioids they had recently taken, thousands of fentanyl pills, 50 caliber machine gun, they had a table of highly-qualified arsenal to be used against our border patrol. and you don't want to give them necessary equipment? i'm shocked by that. it is astonishing. mr. gaetz's amendment is a positive amendment. it will help secure our border. we have crime coming through. with that i support his , amendment. i yield back. chair nadler: for what purpose does the gentle lady texas seek recognition? >> i move to strike the last word. thank you, mr. chairman. i would like to state for the record and does a reminder to my colleagues, i'm the only member of this committee who lives on the u.s. mexico border. in fact, i'm a third-generation woman who lives on the u.s.-mexico b

going to be critical in all ability to address those surgeons that we're seeing in florida texas and arizona america's top infectious diseases expert warns of disturbing surges in several states as president trump heads to arizona to visit his border wall and address a use of it. a brazilian judge orders president both tomorrow to wear a face mask in public. and germany imposes a 2nd localized lockdown after a coronavirus outbreak linked to a meat processing plant. in sports not a joke which says sorry for organizing a controversial series of tennis events the world number one and 3 of the players involved have now tested positive for corona virus. america's top infectious diseases expert has warned of a disturbing surge in corona virus infections as the u.s. death toll climbs past 120000 testifying before congress anthony found she singled out the states of texas florida and arizona where the u.s. president is due to address students for trump event later that she wore a mask during his testimony a safety measure his boss to has mostly ignored as has brazil's president diable so narrow it h