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Traveling to Arizona, Trump dismisses new death projections

As the U.S. coronavirus death toll passed 70,000, President Trump departed the White House for his first cross-country trip since the pandemic’s eruption, visiting an Arizona Honeywell plant that makes N95 masks. Despite a projection that daily deaths in the U.S. will continue to rise for weeks, states continue to weigh how and when to reopen their economies. John Yang reports.