It's Thursday June 11th. I'm Gideon Resnick.

And I'm Josie Defi Rice, filling in for a Kula Hughes.

And this is what a day where we can finally get super into NASCAR now that they've banned Confederate flags.

Yay, I'm looking forward to becoming insanely well-versed in lap times and engine specs.

Yeah, and I'll know exactly which Longer Detergent brand is on every single car.

It's always tied.

Always.

On today's show, we're going to talk to journalists and lawyer Josie Defi Rice about how to reimagine policing and then some headlines.

But first, the latest.

The coronavirus pandemic is still ongoing in the United States and confirmed cases have now surpassed 2 million.

Crazy. Formerly hard hit places like New York and New Jersey are continuing to see their number steadily decline, which is good news.

But there's new concern about emerging trouble spots elsewhere in the country.

So Gideon, give us a sense of where things stand.

Yes, there's a few different ways to look at this and it's kind of a moving picture that people are trying to capture.

But if you look at where the cases are just growing, more than a third of states are seeing increases in the last week, which is obviously scary sign.

Very.

And if you look at hospitalizations, they've gone up in at least nine states since Memorial Day.

That's according to the Washington Post that is tracking this.

So it's difficult to get a complete and current picture because of the incubation period of the virus.

And also that for hospitalizations, at least different states report figures differently.

And in some cases, incompletely too.

But that being said, what we can say is that the states that have come up in cases include Texas, Florida,

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