CORONA SUNBELT

the spread of coronavirus is worsening across much of the county

To his state...will bring *back* the virus.

:00 :50 from coast-to-coast... nearly every state is seeing a rise in coronavirus cases.

Sot / gov.

Andy beshear, kentucky "we are in a war against this virus."

The sunbelt..

Now hit especially hard.

Sot: (pence in oval office) "the outbreaks across the sun belt are serious."

Cars lined up at this new dallas testing site...before it even opened.

Sot / cassandra wallace, dallas office of emergency management "you can't have too much testing."

California...with nearly 400,000 cases..

Is on pace to become the country's biggest hotspot.

Florida has seen more than 10-thousand new cases *a day*..

For nearly a week straight.

Sot / miami mos "we should have stayed quarantined longer honestly."

The state deploying its first mobile hospital in response to the pandemic..

As i-c-u's fill up some residents..

Now fleeing the state.

((gfx in)) back in april..

New york state saw more than 800 covid deaths a day.

Now that number is eight.

((gfx out)) sot: (gabe) "why are you heading down to georgia today?"

Sot: (gov.

Andrew cuomo/(d) new york) (on plane) "georgia has a real problem.

A lot of states do.

We spoke on-on-one with new york governor andrew cuomo....on his trip down to savannah.

Sot: (gov.

Andrew cuomo/(d) new york) it's only a matter of time, in my book, until you see the new york infection rate go up because people from the other states are coming to new york and they are now bringing the infection rate.

Months ago..

Thousands of volunteers rushed to new york to help fight the virus.

Now..

The state has sent personal protective equipment to georgia..

Test kits to texas..

And medication to florida.

Sot: (gov.

Andrew cuomo/(d) new york) ac: i never thought it would be this bad.

Increasing in 40 states.

New york state did a quarantine.

We have a quarantine against 20 states gg: "is that quarantine possible to enforce?"

Ac: it is imperfect // gg: president trump has doubled down on his opinion, his assertion that the reason we're seeing these skyrocketing numbers across the country is because of increased testing.

To that you say what?

// ac: then why are we seeing increases in hospitalizations?

That has nothing to do with testing.

More people are going into hospitals.

// other countries are now