Aaron, thanks. Good evening, everyone. Today has been a series, or we have seen a series

of unsettle reminders that the administration's repeated pronouncements that we are, quote,

transitioning into greatness in their words, and that this country has met the moment

to end, quote, prevailed, unquote, on testing obscures evidence that the virus is not under

control from the end of this pandemic, sadly, and that a reversal of the progress we have

made is still possible if we don't listen to what our health officials and our scientists

are telling us. Now, the first reminder today, a capital hill, capital hill hearing,

unlike any other, where how witnesses and lawmakers communicated was almost as important as what

they communicated. And we'll get to all of that in a moment tonight. The other developments

happen shortly after that hearing ended. We want an update to a University of Washington

model that the White House has previously cited plotting the course of this virus. It's

new numbers, once again, projected an even higher death count. 147,000 people projected to

die in the US through August 4th. That's an increase of 10,000 from their previous projection.

The institute that publishes the model pointed to reasons, including a loosening of social

distancing policies and greater mobility for people. The director of the institute

sold CNN that if people are not cautious, if they don't wear masks, and if the nation

does not have the capacities to test, to do the contact tracing and to isolate people

who are infected, then quote, I think we'll see the numbers go up.

Today, Johns Hopkins reports there are 82,246 people who have died in the United States.

1,564 have died today alone. The other reminders, we are far from the end tonight, come out

of California. The first California State University with 23 campuses, and close to half

a million students, they say that for the most part, they will not have in-person classes

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