Texas Governor Issues Executive Order Requiring Masks in Public.
TAPPER: And welcome back. In our health lead, five states are driving more than half of the new cases of coronavirus across the country. Those states are Texas, California, Florida, Arizona, and Georgia. Four of those states were also among the first in the nation to reopen their economies, now all five are battling rising hospitalization rates. CNN's Lucy Kafanov joins us now live from Houston, Texas. Lucy, yesterday, Texas saw a record number of hospitalizations. And some hospitals are nearing maximum capacity. And you have some breaking news now from the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott. What is it?</s>LUCY KAFANOV, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I do, Jake. Just a few minutes ago, the governor issued an executive order requiring a statewide mask mandate. This applies to any county that has 20 coronavirus cases, positive cases or more. This affects nearly 70 percent of counties across the state, including Harris County, home to Houston where we are right now. As you point out, these numbers have been going up day by day, 7 -- pardon me, nearly 8,000, more than 8,000 new cases yesterday. Nearly 7,000 people across the state hospitalized. In about 30 minutes, we'll get the new numbers for today.