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The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 29 June 2020
⏱️ 75 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is CNN breaking news. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper and we begin today with our health lead, the surge of new coronavirus cases so high in the United States, at least 12 states have |
| 0:16.0 | by now paused or rolled back their efforts to reopen. |
| 0:20.5 | More than half the country, 31 states, have their lines trending up, lines of new cases, Florida, California, Texas, Arizona, all reporting the highest number of new daily cases that they've ever had. |
| 0:35.0 | Only four states are seeing a decrease. |
| 0:38.3 | One month ago on Memorial Day, 18 states had rising cases compared to the 31 who have them today. |
| 0:44.4 | 10 states were seeing a decline. |
| 0:46.4 | Again, only four of them today. |
| 0:48.9 | This is what a failure to contain a virus looks like, as opposed to this chart from the European Union, |
| 0:56.5 | which shows at least as of now a successful effort to contain the virus. |
| 1:00.8 | What does that mean? |
| 1:02.0 | That means European lives will be saved and American |
| 1:06.1 | lives will be lost. Now, Health Secretary Alex Azar is warning Americans that the quote |
| 1:11.9 | window is closing to get the pandemic |
| 1:14.2 | under control in the US and in a new interview with CNN Dr Anthony Fauchy the |
| 1:19.0 | nation's top infectious diseases experts said fueling the surge are Americans not wearing masks, not |
| 1:26.3 | practicing social or physical distancing, causing a quote, recipe for disaster. |
| 1:32.1 | CNN's Randy Kay is live for us in Palm Beach County, Florida. |
| 1:35.0 | That's the state leading the nation in new cases. |
| 1:38.0 | And Randy, things have gotten so bad in Florida. |
| 1:41.0 | Mayors are even shutting down beaches for the 4th of July weekend? |
| 1:45.0 | Yeah and that's not good news Jake for lots of folks here of course for a lot of reasons |
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