ANNOUNCER: This is CNN breaking news.</s>TAPPER: And welcome back to THE LEAD. I'm Jake Tapper in Washington and we begin this hour with breaking news our health Lead, an urgent plea and a dire prediction from America's top officials on Capitol Hill today. Dr. Anthony Fauci warning that he can envision the U.S. hitting 100,000 new coronavirus cases everyday if things don't turn around. The U.S. is at 40,000 new cases a day. The head of the CDC, Dr. Robert Redfield, imploring all Americans to unite and take the necessary personal steps to defeat the deadly pandemic including wearing masks in public. This as the virus continues to spread out of control throughout the nation, at least 36 states are right now seeing a spike in the number of new infections, 12 are holding steady, only two states are seeing declining numbers. Hospitalizations are up in nearly a one quarter of the nation, despite the White House insisting that curve has been flattened. The curve has not been flattened, just take a look at the graph showing that the curve dropping precipitously in the European Union, that's the number in pink. And then remaining flat in South Korea, those are the numbers in yellow.
Top Health Officials Push All Americans to Wear Masks in Public.