hello and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm anna coren in hong kong. this is "cnn newsroom." the united states has the most reported coronavirus infections and deaths around the world. and now citizens, health experts and politicians are all watching nervously as some states ease

rules designed to keep people safe. well, georgia has the most aggressive approach so far. the governor allowed businesses like tattoo parlors, salons, and gyms and bowling alleys to reopen on friday. monday restaurants will be able to seat customers, with restrictions. health experts and president trump warned that it's too soon. and savannah's mayor said there isn't enough testing in the state to safely reopen. dr. anthony fauci from the u.s. coronavirus task force says the u.s. needs to double-team amount of tests it's doing now. >> we don't want to get fixated. right now we're doing about 1.5 million per week. we probably should get up to twice that as we get into the next several weeks, and i think we will. testing is an important part of what we're doing but is not the only part. >> the number of virus-related deaths in the u.s. is approaching 54,000.

according to johns hopkins university. with more than 938,000 confirmed cases. well, the trump administration is considering some major staffing shake-ups. namely in the country's top health office. jeremy diamond explains. >> reporter: well, there are discussions under way at the white house about potentially replacing alex azar. he's the secretary of health and human services. now, a senior administration official tells me that at this point nothing is imminent but there are discussions among white house officials about replacing azar. now, these discussions are coming following a spate of news stories that have been really quite critical of alex azar's role in managing this coronavirus response of the trump administration, particularly in the early days of the response. you'll recall that alex azar was actually in charge of the white house's coronavirus task force in the early days and it was him and his departments who really handled the response. in january and in february.

to coronavirus. even as the president was publicly downplaying the seriousness of this threat, alex azar was working with other officials inside the department of health and human services. the cdc. to really manage this response. now, the white house's deputy press secretary, judd deere, he has a response, and it is the department of health and human services under the leadership of secretary azar continues to lead on a number of the president's priorities. any speculation about personnel is irresponsible and a distraction from our whole of government response to covid-19. again, just to stress, this is not something that's happening imminently but the fact there are these discussions inside the white house certainly is notable and particularly because we know that the president has really been trying to blame others for the slow response here. he has looked toward the world health organization. he has looked toward china. and so it is possible that alex azar could become the next scapegoat as the president moves

forward. jeremy diamond, cnn, washington. ron brownstein is a senior cnn political analyst and senior editor of "the atlantic." he joins us from los angeles. great to have you with us. i want to start with your reaction to reports that the white house is looking to replace health and human services secretary alex azar. what's your take? >> first the amount of turnover in the cabinet and the white house of the trump presidency is unprecedented. you know, his view is that really anyone whose last name is not the same as his is disposable in this administration. what's striking about this is how much of the reporting on the slow response of the trump administration to the coronavirus outbreak has focused on a few anecdotes in which the secretary of hhs repeatedly tried to reach the president and convince him that this was a big wave that was rolling toward the country and his own political

prospects and the president responded that he was overreacting and he was, you know, being kind of alarmist. you do wonder if he pushes him out how much more of that kind of reporting may follow. >> yeah, absolutely. he's obviously being made a scapegoat, if this is true, to counter the criticism that the white house is for this crisis. >> there are two strains in public opinion about the way the president has responded to this. in most polls he is pretty close to 50-50. slightly under 50-50 when people are asked how he is handling it now. but consistently, 2/3 or more of the country, and it's over 70% in some polls, say he did not take it seriously enough at the beginning, he did not react quickly enough, he did not prepare the country for what is to come. and you know, i think many political strategists are asking the same question, which one of those verdicts is going to

matter most at end? it is likely that this week we will pass the number -- the number of americans who will have died this spring from the coronavirus will exceed the total deaths of americans in the vietnam war. and there's no sign of this slowing down. very high level of 30,000 new cases and 2,000 deaths a day. this is going to continue to get worse. and you do wonder how much that question of whether it needed to be -- whether it would have been that bad if the administration had reacted more quickly, how much that is going overshadow the election in the fall. >> ron, i'm very interested to get your take on what the president suggested on thursday. that is, injecting disinfectant could cure the coronavirus. is this donald trump self-destructing before our very eyes? >> you know, it's interesting. yes is the short answer, yes. i think that is going to be a moment that is going to be very hard for him to live down. what's interesting about this is

that right from the beginning of his presidency, even during the campaign in 2016, you know, only around 40% of the country have consistently said they believe he is honest and trustworthy. he was not -- that he was someone who would kind of tell the truth. the consequences of that dishonesty until now were not that severe for most americans. i mean, he lied about his crowd size at his inaugural. he's lied about what he's done on a variety of policy issues such as climate change. but here is a case where the president's, you know, willingness to say things that simply aren't true, whether it's promoting the malarial drug as a response to this or this kind of utterly bizarre suggestion, i think what's happening is there's been a long-standing vulnerability that's becoming more concrete and tangible. in polling in nbc and the "wall street journal" this week only 36% of the country said they believe they can trust what the president is saying about this. and that may be one reason why he has pulled the plug on these briefings, at least for the time being. >> i mean, this is spreading

false and dangerous information. >> yeah. >> how does the president walk back from this? >> i don't think he can. i mean, i think this is an indelible moment. obviously, the president has an incredibly sturdy and reliable political base that has stuck with him through many travails that you said previously would have sunk a president. but he does, as i say, face a broad sense among particularly a lot of comfortable white-collar people who are doing pretty well in this economy and had doubts about his personal fitness to be president on a lot of fronts, his values, his volatility, his honesty. and i do think this is a moment for many of those voters when they can kind of look at this and say okay, is this just more than i bargained for in the beginning? can i accept this level of just sheer unpredictability and irrationality from a president? and i do think it crystallizes a lot of the questions that we were talking about before, this idea that the president would not grapple with the magnitude

of this for weeks, won even really deal with the evidence of it for most of february. and as a result the country is facing just enormous really unimaginable thompson quen unimaginable consequences. 26 million people oupt of work. moat, past the number of deaths in vietnam. and no signs of slowing down after that. >> obviously he has gotten a great deal of criticism because of what he said in that press conference. >> yes. >> and then he didn't hold a press briefing the following day. and then obviously overnight he tweeted that "what is the purpose of having white house press conferences when the lamestream media asks nothing but hostile questions and then refuse to report the truth or facts accurately." so is this a president we may not see now take part in those press briefings or not? do you think he might be -- >> first of all -- >> the limelight. >> yeah. well, first of all, donald trump is very good at making a retreat

sound like an advance. right? basically, there are a number of republicans, i think a broad sense among republicans and pretty unequivocal evidence in the polling that the level exposure he was creating every day and -- kind of putting himself in front of the mike -- behind the microphone and under the microscope day after day was hurting him politically. so he decided he had to at least temporarily back off that and try to kind of clock it in an attack on the press, which is one of the ways in which he talks to his core supporters. i doubt that we're going to keep the president away from a microphone between now and november. but for the time being i think he has reluctantly concluded along with much of the republican party that he was doing more harm than good. his numbers have been declining pretty steadily on his handling of this. that's in part because of the horrific consequences we're dealing with. but i think it's also because of his display at the white house. one quick point on that. if you look at polling in the u.s., to the extent he has support for the way he has dealt with this, it is heavily concentrated in the places that have been the least affected,

kind of the outer suburbs and rural areas that are his political base. the question, as it begins to spread more widely in those areas, is will that support hold up? that's a critical question for november. >> yeah. very, very good question. ron, fascinating discussion. wonderful to get your insight. many thanks. ron brownstein joining us. >> thank you. well, as we mentioned, georgia is one of the first u.s. states to ease stay-at-home restrictions. some businesses are choosing to wait a bit longer before opening their doors. others are cautiously welcoming customers. cnn's martin savidge has more from atlanta. >> reporter: the governor of georgia allowed the businesses to open. but he also understood that the final decision rested with the business owners. and by the end of the first day there were mixed results. for instance at the shopping center where we are now there were about four businesses that could have opened but in reality only one of them did, the hair salon. and it was definitely not business at usual. in fact, it was business

unusual. it was a strange vibe to the day. for instance, many of the hairstylists there were dressed up looking more like people in the medical profession. there are extreme safety and sanitary measures that they have to follow. social distancing makes the whole situation feel strange as many of the customers have to wait outside and wait to be called in. and there were a lot of businesses that didn't open because their owners said they were afraid, they didn't think it was the right time, th they were worried for themselves. then there were the problems of finding the right protection equipment that's still in short supply. in some cases the businesses had to reconfigure the entire workspace to make it work with the whole social distancing idea. it was hard for businesses not to open and is it was hard for them to open because many of them still fear for their safety but they're also worried about their finances. here's what one salon owner told

us. about that kound ruconundrum. >> it's not out of greed. it's out of necessity. we're trying to keep our business alive and keep my staff able to survive. so those were the reasons that we decided to go ahead and implement these changes so we could get back to work. it's a bit of a challenge but it's going to be something we have to get used to. this is going to be the new normal for some time. >> reporter: the governor has never called it an experiment but nm ways that's exactly what it felt like. and the next phase of that experiment will come on monday, when restaurants, which have been allowed to offer carryout service, will for the first time in weeks be allowed to let customers dine in. but it will be a whole different world. martin savidge, cnn, atlanta. well, now to north korea. and new questions surrounding the whereabouts of dictator kim jong un. he was last seen in public on april 11th and missed an important event on april 15th.

now satellite photos are raising suspicions that something serious may be unfolding. here's cnn's will ripley. >> reporter: it is abundantly clear right now that something major is happening inside north korea. ever since cnn's jim sciutto broke the story that the u.s. is monitoring intelligence that north korean leader kim jong un's health may be in grave danger after a surgical procedure, state media inside north korea has been radio silent. business as usual. they have not confirmed. they have not denied. they haven't said anything. so we have to look at clues, including these new satellite images released by u.s. think tank 38 north. they show what appears to be kim jong un's train at his compound in the north korean coastal city of wonsan. it is a beachside luxurious compound where kim jong un spent his summers as a child. it's a place he loves to be. he's also conducted a number of missile tests from that location. but the significance of the train being there now is that it lends credibility to reports that kim jong un is there.

reports in south korea and other places. but the presence of the train neither proves nor disproved kim jong un's health condition. what i do know is usually when kim jong un goes there he prefers to fly. he often flies his own plane. it's faster, more convenient for him. if kim jong un is currently unable to fly behaves surgical procedure or another reason, the train could be a way for him to get back more comfortably to a place like the north korean capital pyongyang. we know that com jong uh also chooses to travel by train during very formal or serious events such as his summit in beijing with chinese president xi jinping or summit in hanoi with u.s. president donald trump. we also know that kim jong un's father, the late north korean leader kim jong il, reportedly died on his train and was taken back to the capital in a very formal way. we don't know why kim jong un's train is at his compound or where it may be going if it decides to leave the station. but given that there is so much secrecy right now and so much confusion about the health status of kim jong un, every

clue that we see from satellites and from intelligence is significant. will ripley, cnn, tokyo. dozens of coronavirus antibody tests are apparently on the u.s. market without fda approval. and some of them don't even work. a shocking cnn report is next. (slow music plays) ♪ (laughter) ♪

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welcome back to "cnn newsroom." boris johnson is supposed to be back at work in a few days. now that he has recovered from covid-19. his absence has left a hole in the british government's leadership as the country deals with the pandemic. cnn's bianca nobler explains. >> reporter: british prime minister boris johnson will be returning to work at downing street on monday. this is almost an almost month-long battle with coronavirus. the prime minister tested positive about a month ago. then kept working from downing street and was admitted into hospital when his condition worsened and finally into the intensive care unit where he said later it could have gone either way for him. he's since been con va lessoning at chequers but it's highly

unlikely the prime minister will come out of this near death experience at one point unchanged. there's been a vacuum of leadership at the heart of the british government as the foreign secretary and first secretary of state dominic raab has been a man to step into boris johnson's shoes. he's said all along he was implementing what the prime minister had said he wanted. and the cabinet were taking decisions collectively. now with britain reaching the wrenching milestone of over 20,000 deaths confirmed in hospital and potentially on track to have one of the highest death tolls in the world when you take into account deaths in the community and in care homes, the prime minister will have many questions to answer and a lot of the focus will now shift to how the country is going to be able to come out of this lockdown. and when. bianca nobilo, cnn, london. as frontline medical workers continue to need personal protective equipment like masks,

gloves, and downs and the federal stockpile continues to dwindle, the u.s. government is forming partnerships with private companies to fill the void. here's cnn's layla santiago with more. >> reporter: you're looking at the federal government's answer to solve part of the national crisis. inside these boxes protective medical gear, face masks, millions of them from china. the essential products that states, hospitals and businesses are fiercely competing to get their hands on. >> we need tests. we need personal protection equipment. we need resources. >> we have been fighting. every day for ppe. >> reporter: with the federal stockpile depleted and demand outstripping supply, trump administration set up a partnership with private u.s. companies to bring in supplies with the global market. >> fema's working with these companies to launch project air bridge to expedite the movement of critical supplies. >> reporter: according to fema,

project air bridge has brought in millions of masks, gowns, and gloves to the u.s. it's coming from countries like china and honduras. fema says it's going to prioritize hot spots. despite a repeated request for specifics on the final destination of these overseas supplies, fema has not released those daelts. fema is paying $750,000 on average to charter a flight of the supplied secured by u.s. companies into the u.s. and then -- >> our agreement with the federal government stipulates that half of the supplies, at least half of the supplies that are brought in through project air bridge, need to go to fema-designated hot spots. >> reporter: but it's the six companies including medline working with the government that decide which of their clients' health systems get the other half of the desperately needed supplies. >> whatever a customer typically orders they'll get a percentage of that based on the inventory

we have available. so by doing that it ensures that one of our larger customers is able to get product but also some of our smaller customers as well. >> medline says that project air bridge has accelerated delivery to areas in illinois, new york, michigan, louisiana, massachusetts, and florida, all on the list of prioritized hot spots established by fema and hhs. >> it's a dynamic list. it's growing. it's changing. >> reporter: senate democrats are now raising concerns demanding to ensure that the companies are not sending supplies according to the highest bidder. instead of greatest need. >> are you profiting because of this partnership? >> i think one of the misconceptions out there is that a company like ours is somehow going gangbusters at the expense of this virus. and that couldn't be further from the truth. prices have gone up. we're not passing any of those

costs on to our customers. >> reporter: but states, governors in crisis, aren't necessarily applauding the federal government or project air bridge across the board. >> so what they're taking credit for, the white house is, is that the distributors have customers in illinois, that they're sending goods to because those customers ordered those items of ppe. so that's a far cry from delivering to the states so that we can distribute. >> reporter: and we should mention the federal government, president trump and vice president pence have now said that they have sent notification to every single state with county by county listing of what project air bridge has delivered. we asked for a copy of that notification, have not received it. back to you. >> leila santiago reporting there. going against the doctors' advice. why some businesses in the u.s. are happening the open signs and are someone. breathe freely fast, with vicks sinex. my congestion's gone.

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welcome back to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm anna coren. you're watching "cnn newsroom." let's check the headlines this hour. the key epidemiologist of the white house coronavirus task force says the u.s. should double its diagnostic testing over the next several weeks. dr. anthony fauci said saturday he thinks that will be possible. fauci estimates the u.s. is now doing between 1 1/2 and 2 million tests per week. well, that comes as the u.s. closes in on the 1 million reported cases of coronavirus. the number, now just shy of

940,000. almost 54,000 people in the u.s. have been killed. that's 1/4 of the death toll worldwide. a downing street spokesperson says british prime minister boris johnson will be back at work on monday. he's been recovering from covid-19 at chequers, the prime minister's countryside retreat. he left hospital on easter sunday. the state of texas is joining the risky experiment of reopening its economy. some shop owners say it's important for them to try to save their businesses even as they worry about a second wave of infections. ed lavandera has this report. >> reporter: retail businesses across the state of texas can now open for what's been described as retail to go, essentially customers can come here curbside and pick up items. this is what the governor has described as a fades approach of reopening the texas economy. but businesses akrcross the sta are kind of scrambling trying to

figure out how to make this work in a safe way. here at good records vinyl records store we met chris penn who has owned this store for about 20 years. he is apprehensive about opening up. he's got two o'ply yoez besides himself. he's not letting them work. he's doing it all because he's worried about his employees getting infected with coronavirus. he's worried about bringing the infection home. you can see he's wearing a mask, a hat, a body suit, and gloves as he brings out items to his customers. but he says he needed to open. he says that opening the vinyl store is not the highway to becoming rich and every day he can be open is vital to him but he hopes he's doing this in a safe way. >> i want us to take care of our citizens first and foremost. you snow, the economy we can figure out later. but i just don't want to e. are open everything back up fully and then we're shut down in another month or two and it's -- and we've lost a lot more lives. but if they are smart and listen to science and roll things out slowly, then it can work.

but we may remain closed to the public until i feel good about it. >> reporter: chris penn also told us that he's applied for that small business stimulus money but so far none of that has come through for him. his application hasn't been approved. governor greg abbott here in texas is also saying that on monday he will announce even more openings for many different types of businesses on monday. very similar to what we've seen the governor of oklahoma already doing where he's opened up hair salons and barbershops and that sort of thing. and by early may these governors are talking about movie theaters, bowling alleys, tattoo parlors, those types of businesses could also be open in the next week and a half or so. so dramatic changes here unfolding in texas and in oklahoma where many people are concerned that opening up the economy is still too quick and they're worried that this could cause a resurgence of the coronavirus in states like texas and oklahoma. ed lavandera, cnn, dallas.

the u.s. state of oklahoma is now in a phased reopening. some businesses were allowed to reopen friday, including hair and nail salons and pet grooming services. on may 1st churches, gyms, theaters, and restaurants can open. clay clark is co-founder and ceo of the elephant in the room salon in tulsa, oklahoma and he joins us now. clay, great to have you with us. you are a supporter of your state reopening. is that right? >> that is correct. >> tell me why. what is the urgency? >> well, initially, when neil ferguson, the director of the abdul latif jameel institute predicted 2.2 million american deaths, that was a very scary number. and then dr. deborah birx then reported that 88,000 predicted deaths were to occur, which is still not a good number but less. or about the same as the number of deaths from the flu in

2017-2018. and although every life matters i don't believe fundamentally in hiding from the virus until every american business is killed from the coronavirus. >> so clay, you're a business owner? is that correct? >> yes. sints a since the age of 16. this is my 23rd year. yeah. >> so you have employees. how do your employees feel about going back to work? >> i would say about 85% of them walk with a full faith and excitement about the opportunity to serve our customers, and i would say objectively about 15% of them are very afraid of the coronavirus and do not want to return to work. >> okay. so i mean, it's obviously not out of greed that these people want to go back to work but out of necessity. people need a paycheck. people need to pay their rent. they need to pay their mortgages. they need to pay for their food bills. but what happens if small business owners like yourself, what happens if your employees, what happens if they get sick?

>> well, right now if you look at the data coming out of the cdc as relates to italy and new york, somewhere between 94 and 99.2% of all the deaths related to the coronavirus involve elderly people with an already compromised immune system. so we have a younger employee base. people in their 20s, 30s, and 40s. and our customers fit that same demographic. so i think if we have elderly people with compromised immune systems i would encourage them not to come in and get a haircut. i'd encourage our employees and customers to not go to the nursing home after getting a haircut to fellowship with people who have dprocompromised immune systems and who are elderly. but i really don't think -- people getting a haircut's going to affect bottom line the demographic of people being most at risk of this pandemic. >> well, clay, it is not just the elderly with pre-existing conditions who are getting sick. it is also younger people who are getting sick. so we hope that your employees, that they -- >> i believe statistically --

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japan's health care system is overwhelmed. there is concern over a lack of protective equipment for frontline workers. hospitals are rejecting patients in record numbers. and many japanese are ignoring social distancing guidelines. cnn spoke with a doctor who says 90% of these requests for covid-19 tests have been

declined. will ripley has more. >> reporter: loudspeakers are blaring across tokyo, warning people to stay home. some are listening. many are not. supermarkets, parks and playgrounds, even pa chinko gambling parlors. doctors warn without social distancing hundreds of thousands could die from coronavirus. getting tested remains incredibly difficult. this woman's 4-year-old daughter had a 100 degree fever, 40 degrees celsius, for four days. "my wife and i were very nervous," he says, "desperately asking for a test. but they kept saying no. they even hung up on me." within days his entire family was sick. they tried to get tested for two agonizing weeks. "it was scary," he says. "our first daughter also had a fever. then a seizure.

we took her to the hospital, but it was too late." ichika was just 16 months old when she died of flu-related meningitis five years ago. his wife and children were never tested for coronavirus. dr. furawa says the same thing is happening to a lot of his patients. "only 10% of my requests are accepted," he says. 90% of your requests denied? on average this month tokyo is testing less than 300 people a day. japan's health ministry has repeatedly told cnn widespread testing would be a waste of resources. just this week some areas did begin offering drive-thru and walk-through testing. but it's not widely available. undertesting is not the only problem. hospitals are turning away ambulances at a rate four times higher than last april. so your patient is laying there for up to nine hours getting no treatment whatsoever. and hospitals kept turning him

away? "we've never experienced being turned away by so many hospitals before the coronavirus outbreak," he says. japan's health ministry warns the public health system is on the brifrk of collapse, running low on icu beds, ventilators and personal protective equipment. "we only get one mask per week," says hiromi. cnn agreed ton use her full name or identify her hospital. how is one mask a week possibly enough to keep you safe from the virus? "it's scary," she says, showing me the cloth mask she uses. experts warn cloth masks don't protect nurses from coronavirus. several japanese hospitals have already become clusters of infection. "i'm worried about how long this will continue," she says. "i'm afraid there's no end in sight." with case numbers skyrocketing in japan this may be just the beginning. will ripley, cnn, tokyo.

the u.s. is facing a dire shortage of personal protective equipment as the number of coronavirus cases continues to grow. but in this new shelter in place reality everyday heroes are making the best of their situation by lending a helping hand. cnn's fredricka whitfield explains. >> reporter: normally on a tuesday 12-year-old vince would be in gym class. now these are far from normal tuesdays. so vince is working his makeshift assembly line in the family kitchen, using a 3-d printer he got when he was 9 and another one donated by the library where his mom works. vince is making ppe face masks for those fighting the pandemic. >> so this is the thing you that take off the 3-d printer. >> reporter: the sixth-grader got motivated after a neighbor, who's a nurse, put out a plea for ppe. >> i put a post on facebook saying if you have a 3-d printer

or if you can sew we could use the mask, these eye shields. >> i watch her dog when she goes on vacations. and like i thought it would just be another thing to help and like the least thing i could do during this pandemic. >> reporter: for nearly three weeks now the printers have buzzed along. at first it was fataking nearly three hours to print each frame. >> me and my dad were like no, that takes way too long. >> reporter: a few tweaks to the program and production time was cut down to about an hour apiece. >> how are the materials on those ones? >> reporter: all over the country people are stepping up to help fill a critical need for ppe. phillip shammer and eric race are high school engineering teachers in illinois district 214. along with several colleagues they took home the school's 3-d printers and got to work making head bands for face masks. >> itch four printers and they're running constantly, 24/7.

>> it was an opportunity and a moral imperative to help save lives in our community. >> reporter: the district partnered with the local community college that has idle laser cutters, good for making masks. >> the fact that we have these tools here available to support producing 5,000 ppes and beyond i think is a calling that we must answer. >> reporter: john kerman would normally be teaching welding class, but now he is manning the face mask cutting assembly line. >> it's getting to the point where we're just trying to produce as many as we can as quickly as we can. >> hi, jeff, how are you? >> reporter: last week they delivered their first shipment to the buffalo grove, illinois fire department. >> some have gone to the icu unit at elk grove hospital. some have gone as far as nashville, tennessee, dearborn, michigan and san marcos, california. >> reporter: and one place very

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were open on saturday. now usually with nice weather and soaring temperatures, it would be a crowded day in the waves. but throw in a pandemic, and it's a bit of a different story. cnn's paul vekerman has more. >> reporter: so, with this first case of extreme weather, since the covid-19 outbreak, it was a testing of the waters of sorts. all up and down the southern california coast. we had some instances where beaches were open, such as this one in newport beach, and then we had closures. that put pressure on the beaches in ventura and orange county where they were open and people came in from out of town. we did observe people were maintaining the rules of social distancing. nonetheless, surfers can be territorial. they seemed a little bit stressed out about these out of town people coming to their beach. >> i don't like how people are coming out of the county, like stay at home, stay safe.

>> do your best to stay away from people. but you're always going to be too close. they say six feet, maybe are six feet. i don't know, it's here and there, but it's probably better than being at a grocery store. >> everybody got upset about the beaches being open in florida, but when i came down here and i saw they were kind of separated from each other, i think it's pretty safe. >> reporter: we did observe people staying away from each other. we did not see the big crowds, organized sports such as volleyball with ten or more people playing, that kind of thing. but the lifeguards and police said they were remarkably impressed with how well people behaved. they said they were under threat. they'd often walk up to somebody if they seemed to be getting closer together and said you want to keep this beach open, and the answer seemed to be a resounding yes. san diego will open up its beaches on monday. this is just one of those steps in california where they are

easing social distancing restrictions. horizontaling from newport beach, california, i'm paul vercammen, back to you. one of the thing driving people to the beaches this weekend is summer hadden li-lik temperatures. temperatures reached into the 70s and 80s. derrick, good to see you. the beaches, some reopening, some still closed. >> yeah, that's the confusion here, too. and anna, good to see you as well. i think this is a sentiment felt across the world, as we approach the summer months, especially in the northern hemisphere, where do you go to cool off as we get into these warmer stretches of weather. and according to the l.a. county mayor, well, you stay home, because the beaches are closed. but here's the confusion. if we look at a map of southern california, we're focussing in on this region because of paul's package that he just introduced to us just a moment ago.

los angeles county, where beaches, trails, parks and recreation, where we would normally go to cool off are closed at the moment. but that's sandwiched between two counties, orange and have tour ventura counties where they were hope. that's where they were concerned about out-of-towners. when we talk about over ten record highs broken across that region, daytime temperatures soared to the 80s and 90s, that is warm, and we know it will only get warmer as we approach june, july and august, the summer months. the good news is, as we round off the weekend it will still be hot in southern california, but the heat is going to shift away from the coastline, taking off a little pressure from those coastal communities, but now we need to focus on places like las vegas and the coachella valley. palm springs will reach triple

digits. we're talking about major heat there. this is an area used to eheat. we are far surpassing the average temperature. where do you go? what happens if you don't have air conditioning? some of the local mayors have set up cooling centers for their communities, but not every is able to take advantage of that with the social distancing taking place. these tips to beat the heat are of course for any one watching across the world, not just los angeles county. one thing you want to do is plan your errands. exercise early or late in the day to avoid excessive heat and avoid working out with your mask on that many of us are required to wear. one good note, we are seeing a lot of clear air across los angeles at the home, clearing up those skies for us. back to you. >> i've seen people running here in hong kong with masks on. i can't do that. i struggle to breathe walking in

a mask. but it is essential. many thanks. lisbon is recognizing the efforts of city workers while encouraging them to dress up as super heroes. flash, thor and spiderman. they wanted to show appreciation to the jobs that are often overlooked that have kept the city going, and the workers say it's a bit of fun. >> translator: this is another motivation for us to come to work. and i think the president had a great initiative, and we all accepted it with great pleasure. >> well, darth vader was even on hand to deliver groceries as only he can, with princess leia helping out with the bagging, making sure the force is with us all. i'm anna coren here in hong kong. the lovely michael holmes will be up next for another hour of "cnn newsroom."

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welcome to a very special evening on cnn. i'm don lemon in new york. >> and i'm van jones in los angeles many we're here to confront the color of covid. the virus doesn't discriminate, but you'll see how the virus is tearing through america's minority groups. >> as of tonight, the nation has lost more than 38,000 people to coronavirus. and there are now more than 734,000 cases in the united states. every victim and their families need our support, but these are the