in texas. "want to know why there is an uncontrolled covid outbreak in texas? because dan patrick leads a death cult that abbott, cornyn and company are too scared to stand up to." dan patrick is the lieutenant governor of texas who had this to say on tuesday after dr. anthony fauci testified to a senate committee. >> locking down doesn't work. if it did, those two states would be doing better than texas. fauci said today he's concerned about states like texas that skipped over certain things. he doesn't know what he's talking about. we haven't skipped over anything. the only thing i'm skipping over is listening to him. he has been wrong every time on every issue. i don't need his advice anymore. >> today, the republican governor of texas, greg abbott, reversed himself once again by ordering the use of masks in texas. the order requires texans living in counties with 20 or more positive covid-19 cases which is most counties, to wear a face covering while inside public spaces or whenever social

in texas city after texas city, the state of texas is failing when it comes to testing. in remote parts of west texas, people are waiting in line for four hours for testing in the heat. in lubbock, a testing site was just shut down because the lab it works with is, quote, critically low on supplies. again, in san antonio, one man told the local paper, he called the public health hotline more than 50 times to try to get an appointment because the line kept dropping. so, no, mr. vice president, not everybody who wants a test can get one. maybe you should have checked on that before you publicly praised texas specifically for its testing. they are not doing a good job when it comes to testing in texas. and, unfortunately, for the residents of that state it looks like texas is going to need help or at least radically upscale what they're doing to respond to this. not just is in one part of the state that is being hard hit, but all over that great state. joining us now is dr. peter hotez. he's dean of the national tropic school of medicine at baylor college. dr. hotez, thank

because the way we did it in texas was wrong. so if we were going to close again for whatever reason, we need to make sure that we have an additional component that is attached to that. that means, you know, television ads, constant information, and more importantly, we need to make sure that whatever we're telling people, we will enforce it, so that we will make it mandatory for people to wear their mask, whether they like it or not. >> dr. varon, we just had a report from florida and our reporter, rosa flores, reports a substantial increase in the number of children admitted to the hospital over the last week. that's something i had not seen before. and i am wondering if that's something you're seeing in texas or what the age makeup is of the people in your hospital? >> you see, in my hospital, we deal mostly with adults, but we have seen young people, as young as 18 years of age. that's the youngest we've had. but the hospitals in the houston metropolitan area that care for kids, they do see kids and they've had kids that are

i will never let texas down. your governor and you lieutenant governor and your senators, they know that very well. thank you very much. great job. god bless you and the great state of texas. god bless you. god bless you. [cheers and applause] so on behalf of every american energy worker, i will now sign these very important permits that your governor and your senators have been after me for a long time to sign. and they have been after a lot of other presidents to sign them, but they were never able to get it done. but we got it done. and we got it done for a great state, texas. thank you very much, everybody.

peter out of houston texas and texas medical center. but i want you to listen to this, daily the texas medical center was reporting their icu bed capacity. it was at 96% then 97% and then they get a call from governor abbott saying i don't like the headlines that you're running out of hospital beds so stop publishing the information. and you know what, they do. so he was able to force an end to the transparency of public health reporting. and information all of us can use to make real-world decisions, like wearing masks, staying home, understanding how bad this crisis is. so individually those nursings and doctors on the front line staff including the custodians are my all-time heroes because their litterally risking their lives to save the lives of others. i'm disappointed by some of the hospital ceo's not sharing the truth with the rest of us in texas. >> thank you very much for joining us and explaining what is happening in your state. i'm very sorry for the situation in texas. we really appreciate your insight on this. >> grateful t

at a time we knew covid already existed in the state of texas, the texas division of emergency management was working with those behind us right now as well as with local officials to be sure we were prepared in the event a hurricane did arise and preparation months in advance is paying off today and in the coming days. we will take a few questions. reporter: [inaudible] >> county tests will each team capable of delivering? we will be using the curative test, which is the oral swab test. we have been seeing turnaround times to be between 20 and 24 hours. to get in and test within those facilities. the other thing that they are capable of doing is surveying people to see who is sick and not sick so we can segregate as much as possible. we will see them come into do the testing and get those results back. if we need to open additional space for people to quarantine, we will be using hotel rooms. we don't want to set up anymore congregate settings and we have to. reporter: [inaudible] >> shelters, normally when you come in, you check into a shelter. the folks running those shelters should ha

biden campaign starting to put some money, some resources into texas. so let's see if you get a winner here in this primary. eventually you will. let's see if that develops into a race, but right now certainly cornyn, the republican incumbent, been there since 2002, looks like the favorite. brian. >> hey, steve, 30 seconds remaining. ronny jackson, former physician to the president, was in a primary tonight in texas. what happened? >> yes. i don't have the screen here, but in really the most conservative district in texas, maybe the most conservative district in the country, dr. ronny jackson appears to have won the republican nomination for the house of representatives. again, the district is so

texas. >> governor of texas, greg abbott, he knows what he's doing. >> governor greg abbott, we can learn a lot from you and governor desantis but also from governor cuomo and murphy what not to do because they did the opposite of what you guys did. >> texas, florida gave us clues, take the success clues. >> the successes of florida and texas, the furiously of new york, new jersey. >> we've got to get the whole country open like tennessee and texas and florida. >> he's got it in great shape, texas. florida is doing very well. >> how did you do it? because we need to learn as rereopen. >> keep up the great job. >> you did a great job. >> you saved a lot of lives and there's a lot to learn from your success. >> trevor: yeah, maybe not a great idea to take a victory lap in the middle of a pandemic. and i know there's a lot of politics tied up for who's rooting for which policies and states to succeed, but, people, we need to understand coronavirus has no politics. it doesn't give after shit wha

texas is dealing with a problem. hospitals in texas are filling up. >> i don't think i've seen anything like this ever. we aren't overrun yet but it's overwhelming. >> that's san antonio. in austin -- >> one thing we may have to go to is go back to stay at home. >> to ease the pain. >> would they do it if they knew it was for 35 days. >> in arizona, the biggest testing site in the state struggling to cope. that's now a nationwide view. >> we're seeing steady and significant increases in demand for testing. we're concerned that that demand is going to exceed current capacity. >> california, they say 1 in 140 angelinos are infected. >> as early as next week, as many as 1 in 100 or 1 in 70. >> california one of 23 states now pausing or rolling back reopening. but florida is pushing forward despite more than 10,000 new cases today, a record. >> i think kind of some of the just easy things you can do i think fell down by the wayside a little bit. now people understand this thing doesn't just go away. >> maybe not everyone

i will never let texas down. your governor and you lieutenant governor and your senators, they know that very well. thank you very much. great job. god bless you and the great state of texas. god bless you. god bless you. [cheers and applause] so on behalf of every american energy worker, i will now sign these very important permits that your governor and your senators have been after me for a long time to sign. and they have been after a lot of other presidents to sign them, but they were never able to get it done. but we got it done. and we got it done for a great state, texas. thank you very much, everybody. >> neil: all right, listening as the president of the united states is in texas talking about energy there an approval for pipelines and infrastructure along the southern border which had been stymied in the past on her past administrations. this is something that the president is saying is near and dear to his heart. he wanted to remind texas in his 16th appearance that the president of the united states

the gentleman from texas is mrs. lowey: i yield one minute the the gentleman from california california. mr. carbajal: this includes a provision that i co-authored with representative pen etta to send a message to this message th lands are not for sale. we will not put the interest of big oil o people and sit by as the trump administration seeks to open up the national monument and other public lands in my district for oil and gas development. i urge my colleagues to vote yes. i yield back. the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentlewoman from new york is recognized. mrs. lowey: i yield back. the speaker pro te pursuant to house resolution 1060, the question is on the amendments en bloc. those in favor say aye. . those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayt. the en bloc amendments -- ms. granger: i ask for the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to section 3 965. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, on this question are postponed. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does th

about the lies in texas. talking lives crushed, talking lives that are gone. i just spoke with a doctor who is just south of your district. >> hidalgo, yes. >> they are dealing with incredible numbers. >> absolutely. >> death rates, as you know. >> right. >> this isn't just about -- isn't just how you reopen when people are dieing. >> i get it. look, talk about the emergency rooms, icus in austin, texas. 28 people in the main hospital there. the people in icus, 25 are hispanic. why is that? because the hispanic population is continuing to work in service jobs so that the people who around austin, texas, drinking lattes and getting on pelotons and stopping by starbucks and whole foods, the service industry is still serving them and they're getting sick. people think they can have their cake and eat it, too. dallas getting slammed. wide open boreds because nancy pelosi refuses to secure the border and people come back and forth and people are infecting each other and it's a bad hot spot. >> i don't think nancy

in texas. texas one of those interesting states, inttraditionally republican, trump carried it by nine points. recent polling shows justice as joe biden has taken a big lead nationally with that, he made texas competitive in the presidential race. if texas remains competitive in the presidential race, if democrats put a big effort into that state, could it affect that u.s. senate race? that's the question too. we'll see today or sometime soon who becomes john cornyn's opponent there in texas. >> steve, it is garrett in texas. i want to ask you a follow-up question about the texas senate race. you mentioned the polling that shows biden competitive here. everything i've seen shows hager and west trailing cornyn by considerable margins. do you think they can close that gap or are democrats in texas wishing they had gotten one of the castro brothers or beto o'rourke or bigger national name to have jumped into that race? >> yeah, i mean, we'll see. one thing you might hear from democrats on there is

-- and texas -- in his column. i can't figure a path for him back to re-election. >> no, he can't do it. that's interesting, by the way. joe biden needs none of those -- needs none of those states you just mentioned. donald trump needs, in all likelihood, every single one of them. >> yes, without a doubt. i also think just as arlette was saying, the contrast, right? i mean, look at joe biden wearing a mask and saying "stay safe and wear a mask," after all those weeks of donald trump refusing to do so until this weekend when he went to walter reed. reasserting to the american people about washing your hands and maintaining social distance. what i think you see here that the campaign is trying to do is sort of like a public service announcement, right? this isn't a traditional campaign ad. it's like a psa because they want to present biden as president, what a president biden would be doing during this pandemic and how he would be communicating with the american public versus what people see from donald trump every d

texas, alabama, we're hearing about arkansas today. it is just clear there are some simple health care guidance and science that we all ought to be following across the legal spectrum. >> what is the legal basis for fighting masks? i can see the legal basis for insisting on masks and mayor gertz says no, no masks here we're about freedom and then the governor sues and says too bad you are endangering public health but how do you legally justify the reverse? what is the liberty argument? >> i don't believe there is any legal justification. i think it is strictly political. i have some measure of sympathy for governor kemp and people across the political spectrum who are leaders in this day and time when everybody has to figure out how to respond to every tweet and every bizarre utterance out of the white house. it is like a strange game of political twister. it makes everybody's life difficult. i'd move my family into a cardboard box on the street for national and statewide leadership right now. in lieu of that mayors are acting as i ha

but it's all over texas. i mean it's not only texas, but just look at texas. in austin, texas, the capital, the mayor in austin says it's ten days to two weeks before the austin hospitals are overwhelmed. in san antonio, the express news says it's a week or two before the hospitals are overrun there. there are right now more covid patients in hospital rooms in san antonio than there are covid patients in hospital rooms in new york city. san antonio, texas. in fort worth, the fort worth "star-telegram" is reporting they may have three weeks maybe there before the tarrant county hospitals are overrun. laredo, texas, announced on thursday that their hospitals there are full. corpus christi, texas, announced late last week that they were down to nine total icu beds for a 12-county region with a population of more than 600,000 people. nine beds. and of course in houston, in harris county where we are starting to get in this frontline footage from the covid wards and the icus, in harris county, houston, texas, we are already seeing it. houston's the fourth largest c

covid cases seem to be plateauing in some of texas' largest cities but in one small south texas border county, patients may be sent home to die if a hospital ethics and triage committee deems them too sick to recover. their hospital is at capacity. that's a common struggle for health facilities in florida which saw a nearly 84% increase in covid hospitalizations since july the 4th. as statistics hit record-breaking highs in the south and west, parts of the northeast are experiencing lows not seen since march. on friday, new york recorded its lowest number of hospitalizations in nearly four months. and with the approaching school year just weeks away, parents and teachers facing uncertainty about when or if in-person classes will resume amid a push to open schools. kids ought to have the option to learn in person and virtually. i believe they ought to have choices. if teachers have vulnerable immune systems, they ought to have options as well. but we have to get our kids back into a school in a safe way. >> if you are going to bring the children back -- >> reporter: dr. anthony fauci ur

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and if democrats win texas, it's all over. senator ted cruz is here next. ♪ this year, the alzheimer's association walk to end alzheimer's is everywhere. on every sidewalk, track, and trail across this country. all of us are raising funds for one goal: a world without alzheimer's and all other dementia. because this disease isn't waiting, neither are you. take the first step on your walk right now. go to alz dot org slash walk. ♪ >> harris: senator ted cruz of the great state of texas has issued a new warning to his fellow republicans just this week that the 2020 race israel and the lone star state. watch. >> in texas, the stakes are especially high. texas is the single biggest target for the left in 2020 politically speaking. the 38 electoral votes at at stake. a u.s. senate seat at stake, and texas is the key for national democrat philip mack power to come. if the democrats win texas, it's all over. to be on the last time texas went for a democrat was jimmy carter back in 1976. however, a growing number of polls show tru

, the southern side of texas nbc affiliate in north texas has reported another shocking story, and that is that the number of covid cases in babies is being underreported across texas nbc 5 found that more than 433 babies had tested positive for the virus in the four largest counties in north texas, even though the texas department of state health services is currently only reporting 125 cases in children ages 1 and younger. what's your take on this and why do you think that's happening? >> sure sounds familiar to me, much like the president's directive to have the data on who's being hospitalized, who's infected, and who's dying bypass the normal institutions and controls so that there's transparency, so that he can hide or play with the numbers. you've seen this throughout the pandemic's course in texas, where we had one of the lowest rates of testing in the united states and remember trump's advice -- the more you test, the more people are going to show up as positive, as though testing or lack thereof could stop transmission of covid-19 that's the only thing i can look to to explain

all at texas a&m university. edwin's professional experience also included specialist in wildlife conservation at the texas agricultural extension service, assistant to president earl rutter, director of civilian student activities, assistant to president jack k. williams, director of admissions, dean of admissions and records, director office of school relations and coordinator of special projects educational information services, all at texas a&m university. he's the author of four books, including one entitled 40 years at aggieland published in 2013, which detailed his career at texas a&m. upon his retirement, edwin and his wife moved to camp creek lake in robertson county, where he continued to enjoy fishing, hunting and spending time outdoors with his family and friends. edwin's civic involvement including vice president of the bryan college station j.c.'s, president of the a&m club, councilman of the texas a&m former students, and board of directors of the aggie band association. mr. cooper has served as a

it's looking like a little more south of corpus christi, texas. folks in those areas have been taking precautions for the past few days. they've been doing traditional things like filling sandbags because flooding is the primary concern. voluntary evacuations were ordered in lower-lying areas of clyburn county, texas. galveston is 250 miles to the north of corpus chris tim while it's not expected to take a direct hit from hanna, tides are four feet higher than normal there. emergency shelters have opened across the region, a part of the state hit especially hard with covid-19. health officials say if you have to evacuate, bring along things like your own bedding, hand sanitizer and masks. >> if you must go to a community or group shelter, remember to follow the latest guidelines from the center of disease control and prevention for protecting yourself and your families. >> reporter: the tropics are really active right now. this is radar of hurricane douglas, which is out in the pacific. we understand we don't have that to show you at the moment bu

texas is incredibly important. that was one of the very first places to try to reopen as quickly as possible. now they are seeing the consequences of that. greg abbot is making a sharp course correction that is a signal to president trump he should not view what is happening on the ground as some kind of an effort to hurt him politically. these are real people that are being hospitalized and many younger and younger by the day. and the result of this mean that the country will have to close back up again in order to save lives. >> john harwood, herman cain who attended the president's rally a few weeks ago, the former presidential candidate is now hospitalized with coronavirus. is the trump campaign acknowledging the danger of the events? we heard earlier they did contact tracing but we are hearing that he hasn't been -- >> they are plainly acknowledging the dangerer and they did that by acquiring people that attended the rally by signing a waiver of liability in case they got sick. the people of tulsa stayed away

let's talk first about texas. yesterday more than 8,000 new cases, that of course a record in this state. and in dallas, more than 1,100 in one day. just for some perspective on that, joshua, it took dallas 116 days when the pandemic began to get to 1,100 illnesses. they did that in one day yesterday. this weekend, they have done more than 2,100 new infections in the dallas area. it is, as you talk about, filling up hospitals. county hospitals here, parkland where we were reporting from yesterday, adding a fourth unit now to deal with the number of covid patients they are seeing. and then you've got hospitals in the houston area that are at capacity, especially when it comes to icu beds. and down in the rio grande valley, in the southern tip of texas, they are saying point blank, we have zero hospitals rooms left, please, they are urging residents there, stay inside, ride this thing out. >> yeah, you had one of the i think most legendary live shots i've ever seen when you were driving down the road showing the lin

but, it's all over texas. i mean, it's not only texas, look at texas. in austin, texas, capitol, the mayor in austin said it's ten days to two weeks before the austin hospitals are overwhelmed. in san antonio, the express news said it's a week or two before the hospitals are overrun there. there's right now, morocco individu -- more covid patients in hospital rooms in their area, than in new york city. in forth worth, it's reported that they may have three weeks maybe there before the tarrant hospitals are overrun. and laredo reporting their hospitals are full. corpus christi is down to 12icu beds for a population of 600,000 people. nine beds. and in houston, in harris county where we are starting to get in the front line footage from the covid wards and the ers and the icus and harris county, houston, texas, we are already seeing it. houston'ses the fourth largest city in america. this is where we are. and this is what we are going to keep barrelling further and further in to without a change in course. let's talk about that change in course. next. i d

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that's what texas is to us. it was great to be back home. >> it's from press reports, you've been very active in the library, in the institute in getting it started. but what about when you're invited to speak or contribute to a political cause? what's your -- >> i do speak. i speak all over the country. i had a speech in germany last summer, but that was to the lion's club international with a lot of americans. but people from all parts of the world as well. and i choose the groups to speak to that i -- you know, know are doing a really great job. i speak to a lot of foundations of various types. this week, i spoke in ft. worth to a group -- alliance for children that does work for abused and neglected children that work with cps and other law enforcement to help children who have been removed from their homes. i speak to all different types of groups. i haven't really entered the political fray at all out of personal choice, really. i hosted a launchen for ann romney at our house, but that was private. it was

>> we had a health care crisis in texas before the pandemic. nearly 1 out of 5 didn't have access to health care insurance. but john cornyn is the affordable care act repeal's top salesman. and now we have 1 out of every 3 people who are under 65 don't have access to insurance. so we have an economic crisis and a health care crisis in texas that was here before the pandemic, that will be here after the pandemic if we still have leadership insistent on ripping out health care coverage away from texans to help their buddies in the insurance industry. >> and there's another number that is a problem for donald trump. it says do you approve or disapprove of the way donald trump is handling the reopening of schools? in texas, 52% disapprove of the way donald trump is talking about the reopening of schools. how big a factor do you expect donald trump to be in the senate campaign? >> i think it will be a factor, but texans are not lemmings. we don't want to follow people blindly. that's what you see with somebody like john cornyn. even people that may

texas a&m was opened on october the 4th, 1876. unfortunately, they did not have the student population to start classes. on october 6, 1876, 2 days later, it opened its doors to 40 students. from that point to today where we are not only the largest university in the state of texas, but we started as the largest university in the united states. we have approximately 60,000 students on campus of which 2300 of those were members of the corps of cadets. from 1876 for the next 24 years, a&m had to struggle in order to maintain. it was not until a former governor of the state of texas came here in 1890 that the university took off. at that point, his reputation allowed the mothers and fathers of the state of texas to want to actually send their sons here to the university. because it was established under the morrill act of 1862, a&m was an all male military institution. the first thing it did was provide public lands to fund higher education. part of the act required that universities provide not only for the arts and sciences but the

. >> well midland, texas is west texas. it is boom and bust oil country, you know, it is the kind of place that you can see it from miles away, you know, it's kind of shimmers like oz from 30 miles away on the horizon because it's very wide and very flat and very much big sky. and her father was a builder and her mother was a homemaker. but her mother came from texas strong female stock, you know, her mother had managed a dairy farm when her grandfather, you know, when her, was away. and i think that it was very much a place of who she was, you know, and gave her a sense of strength about the land and the prairie and doing for yourself. i can remember when i went there the first time, people always talking about crying, women who were always saying they cried, a friend of barbara bush had said when she moved from western pennsylvania having been educated at smith and her husband came back and said we're going to move out there to make our fortune in oil. and she said what's it like? and he said well let me say there's a tow

johnson won texas for us? >> when approached during campaigning about the catholic issue, how did mrs. johnson reply? >> i'm not sure i ever heard her reply to that question. >> i don't think it was a question that would have been addressed to her. you know, it was much more directed to the kennedys. >> next call to don. >> caller: good evening. how are y'all? >> good, thank you. >> caller: good. i appreciate c-span having the "first ladies" series. how was mrs. johnson treated on the lady bird express. i believe congressman bob, her with congressman mendel rivers who was a powerful congressman in the state. he went out on a limb to do all he could for her. she was treat pretty bad here in charleston. how was she treated to the south and what was their relationship with the river's and the johnson's? >> thanks so much. a little bit later we'll have a clip from the the lady bird express. campaign tile and the approach to the south we're talking about. >> 1964 we were in a whole different place because the presi

you know, down here in texas, i have brought not only the studies from cambridge but fortunately texas a&m i think issued one of the most recent studies. texas a&m again said like so many other studies that masking is critical important. the study said it's the most important thing that we can be doing. the fact that when i walk around in my city i don't see it is as much as we should is a real problem. you know, we -- back in march and april we mandated masking. more and more people started to do it. you start to see more people around you and that encouraged you to do it too. we then lost the ability -- we were preempted and we lost the ability to be able to mandate and enforce masking. when we did that, people stopped doing it and then when you go out so many people -- if they see everyone around them not wearing masks they won't put on masks. i mean, it is absolutely contrary to science. >> peer pressure works on. that i think people follow each other's examples and it's not that hard to do. just wear a mask, not that hard. mayor stephen adler, we wish you the best of luck as austi

with many of them coming from texas, florida, and arizona.

texas is home to 30 million americans, and texas just set three new records just today as "the 11th hour" is just getting under way on this tuesday night. >>> welcome back. nbc news has obtained a copy of this new tell-all book from the president's niece, a book the trump family attempted to stop in court. the book by mary trump called "too much and never enough: how my family created the world's most dangerous man" paints a scathing picture of the president and is full of unflattering anecdotes as the title might indicate. mary trump, who is a ph.d. clinical psychologist, calls her uncle a narcissist for starters, adding, quote, the fact is donald's pathologies are so complex and his behavior so often inexplicable that coming up with an accurate and comprehensive diagnosis would require a full battery of psychological and neuropsychological tests that he'll never sit for. the president's niece also describes him as a liar who cheated to get ahead, starting with her explosive allegation that the white house denies that trump paid someone to take his s.a.t.s after he had set his sights on

texas. you can see texas is in a similar situation with their blue line. we're watching this closely across texas. next slide. i think all of you know there's a series of major metros in texas with significant increase in cases from houston to dallas and san antonio and mcclelland area. finally, california, where you can see -- next slide, thank you -- again, a long time of stability but then this increase in the number of tests positives and rapid increase in cases. next slide. and you can see the majority of the issue is in the los angeles area, although we see this through riverside, imperial, sacramento, and now san francisco with increased number of cases. so i want to finish with where the vice president startedrific people because in that recommendations are very clear recommendations that when you have a county with these types of cases, we are recommending everyone using a face covering. and i think the studies now that have been done showing that cotton face coverings work. that does open up the ability for us all to have advised face coverings a

so, chris, this is the picture in texas. we've heard this from the governor especially from the beginning. texas does have frankly enormous hospital capacity. they have some of the best hospitals in the country. they're prepared in that sense for a surge. but now here it comes. it didn't come in april, it didn't come in may, it's coming in the late summer. you're seeing that with the spike both in obviously the positive cases and those hospitalization numbers which continue to be the dramatic and i think the numbers that bear the most close attention being paid to them. >> yeah, a couple of weeks ago i asked a doctor in new york what advice would you give to doctors in texas and arizona, and it sounds like they're doing the things that he recommended, but he also said, you know, there's nothing that can actually prepare you for what it's going to be. so garrett, thank you so much for that great interview and we'll check back with you in just a bit. >>> we want to go florida now where almost, listen to this number, almost one

she's texas strong. there's a strength that imnaemas from her and we benefitted from having her in the white house during that period. >> that tech connection is where we're going next as we learn more about her life. both bushs say that to know them, you must know midland, texas. so where was laura welch born and tell us about her early childhood. >> it's west texas. it is boom and bust oil country. it is the kind of place that you can see it from miles away. shimmers like oz from 30 miles away. her father was a builder. and her mother was a homemaker. her mother came from texas strong female stock. her mother had managed a dairy farm when her grandfather was away and i think it is very much a place of who she was. and gave her a sense of strength about the land and the prairie and doing for yourself. i can remember when i went there the first time, people were talking about crying. they say they cried, a friend said when she moved from western pennsylvania having been educated at smith and her husband

he was 23 years old when he moved to texas. and one of the things, along with his wife barbara, and his son george w. bush. as it turns out they shared a duplex with a sex worker, and her child, she wrote in her book graphically it was fine but they shared a bathroom. it was a big deal because it is the jack in jail bathroom. when you leave you and look. they think more their customers in many ways he grew up in texas. even though they grew up in washington, texas is where they always went home to. people were surprised by how deeply he felt about texas. i can't tell the story in maine, i hope nobody in maine watches this on c-span. president bush loved the coast of maine. it was his summer home. it was a big part of his life. he talked very eloquently about the ocean, it gave him peace. the atlantic ocean is where he went to find his center, he would say. >> texas was home. he decide in december, 2018. we're in may. early october. we know that the end is year near, we are nervous about moving him to texas. number one, not sure

texas has done this, right? greg abbott reversed course, some say too late but he did it, but not in arizona. i know that cities have their hands untied now. they can say that you have to wear them in phoenix, for example, but what would a statewide mask mandate mean for arizona in terms of being able to turn the page here. >> well, i -- it would be very helpful, because as we know in order for a mask-wearing or face-covering mandate to work. you need 87% to 90% of people to comply with it so to get to that threshold you need a statewide mandate and in order to do that you've got to, have you know, some skin in the game. there's got to be jurisdictions out there like prescott and other places in the state to step up and do the right thing, but right now, as you've mentioned, it's not statewide. it's spotty. >> you've got the u.s. military spending 50 medical personnel to help in some parts of texas because some of their hospitals are just overrun. do you foresee that need in arizona? >> well, in fact the vice pr

jon: texas governor greg abbott there with a warning as tropical storm hanna wreaks havoc on south texas. the region already reeling from a surge in coronavirus cases with at least 390,000 reported cases in the state and 4900 deaths. joining us now texas congressman michael burgess, a republican leader of the house energy and commerce subcommittee on health. thanks, congressman, for being here. you are pushing to reopen schools in texas, despite the fact that the case -- the state is seeing something of a resurgence in coronavirus. why? >> well, opening schools is important, but do bear in mind, texas is a big state, and there are different parts of the state where the answer may look a little bit different. now, in south texas before the hurricane, there was significant community spread, and perhaps there the opening of the schools was going to look different from what it might look in my area, more in the northern part of the state where the numbers have not been nearly as high, doesn't mean that the problem is over, doesn't mean that the virus has been beat. the virus will be beaten,

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a very different opening day for the texas rangers. coming up here this hour. >>> welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm natalie allen. this is cnn newsroom. the coronavirus is proving to be a greater threat to the world's population than ever before. the world health organization on friday, reported the highest number of infections in a single day. one-quarter of the cases are here in the united states. more than 74,000 americans tested positive for covid-19 in just 24 hours. california, texas and florida are hard-hit. >> what we have right now, are three new yorks with three, major states. we're having to respond as an american people. that's why you call hear us cal for masks and increased social distancing. >> kids over covid. >> the u.s. state of georgia logged 4,800 new cases on friday, when one of its largest school districts said that students would not be returning to the classroom after all, hundreds of parents protested. but the nation's top infectious disease expert warns there's more

week statewide in texas. but i'm going to stick a flag here and do what i can to try to bring as much national attention as i can to what's going on in south texas. i think it really ought to be bigger national news right now that the situation in the rio grande valley in texas right now is well and truly dire. and over the last few days this week, we have reported on hidalgo county specifically. hidalgo county is the home of mcallen, texas. according to the top elected official, there is now a two-week waiting list to get a body into a crematorium in hidalgo county. that means the bodies are piling up. the county is now using five refrigerated trucks to store bodies and each of those trucks hold 50 bodies. we had the judge here the other day talking about all their hospitalizations being full and the projections those numbers are going to double and they do not know where to put people. but 3wr5 the next county over from hidalgo, the next county west from them is star county, texas. and star county, texas, t

the governor of texas, staying if north carolina can't step up to the plate, texas has shown it can. president trump ultimately went with florida, where his buddy, governor ron desantis, saying his state had not been hit hard shoving it in the face of the elites. since then, things in florida have gotten very, very bad. the state has seen a dramatic increase in cases. 15,000 on sunday alone, shattering records previously held by california and new york. in one day, florida alone saw more cases than all of europe. yes, you heard that right, all of europe. doctors in florida are warning that intensive care units could reach capacity within days. the state hit a new single day record for coronavirus deaths. and even governor desantis is now admitting that, yes, testing is falling short. he's also been reportedly quietly hindering fund-raising for, yes, the convention. which has not been going well. meanwhile, the republican mayor of jacksonville has issued a mandatory mask order. good for him. and by the way, he just had to self-quarantine after exposure to the coronavirus. as for his c