♪ the u.s. approves emergency use of an experimental drug which may help some coronavirus patients get better faster. this, as the debate over how and when to reopen the economy with protesters venting their frustrations across the united states on friday. and after much speculation about his health and whereabouts, kim jong-un appears to have resurfaced. live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm natalie allen, this is "cnn newsroom."

>> 5:00 a.m. here on the east coast. we appreciate you joining us. our top story, infectious experts warn the coronavirus pandemic is going to be with us for 18 months or longer. hoping to shorten that time line, the u.s. government has given emergency approval for the antiviral drug remdesivir which has shown some promise in clinical trials for treating severely ill patients. so far, johns hopkins university has tracked 1.1 million cases among americans and more than 65,000 deaths in this country. yet, even as numbers soar, a huge portion of the country is relaxing stay-at-home restrictions and reopening some

businesses. experts fear, though, it is much too early. the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention have spent the last couple of months trying to pin down exactly how the coronavirus got a foothold in the united states. and now they know. here's cnn's nick watt. >> reporter: limited testing but continued influx of infected travelers from overseas hot spots and cruise ships and large events like a conference in boston, a funeral in georgia, martz mardi gras in new orleans, all fuel for the deadly spread of the virus here in the u.s., all of this from the cdc principal deputy director. apparently, the flu season also made it hard to detect early clusters of the early detection of this virus into nursing homes, meat packing plants and dense urban areas like new york

city accelerated transmission. this virus might circulate among us for another two years is another new study until 60% to 70% of us are infected. >> this is going to continue to be a rolling situation throughout the world. expect many more new yorks to occur. it's very likely they will. >> reporter: the u.s. doubled in the past few weeks and one newly updated study from new york now suggests 100,000 people in this country will die by midsummer. this morning in katy, texas, mall, movie theaters can open in a quarter capacity. >> beginning to see guests on the ocean and on the beach. >> reporter: but in l.a., 180 new cases, the biggest single day spike since all of this began. >> we're reopening today and it

feels like a bit of a gamble. >> reporter: partial reopening at least now in 32 states but it doesn't appear any of them meet white house guidelineses that states have a downward trajectory of documented cases within a 14-day period. >> there are some state, some cities, what have you, who are looking at that and kind of leapfrogged over the first checkpoint. i mean, obviously, cow get away with that but you're make a significant risk. >> reporter: meanwhile with ongoing outbreaks at meat processing plants, some commissaries now limiting how much meat they buy. in florida, they'll start reopening monday. but the state's three largest county, excluded. >> i don't know that we're able to open up our beaches really before june. >> reporter: meanwhile, in michigan, the governor in the shadow of armed protesters at the capital extended her state's stay-at-home order through may 28th.

>> yesterday's scene at the capitol was disturbing to be quite honest, swastikas, confederate flags don't represent who we are as michiganders. >> reporter: the governor is now saying we are days not weeks away from him lifting some of those restrictions. among the first businesses he's going to allow open are retail and hospitality, but he says, with some serious modifications that they're work on right now. nick watt, cnn, los angeles. more now on that drug remdesivir. doctors in the u.s. say it could be a reliable treatment, but they stress it is not a cure. you remember, during the first days. u.s. outbreak, washington state was at the center of the story. well, our sara sidner was there then and now she's back as doctors try to break new ground

on treating this deadly disease. >> reporter: doctors and scientists certainly do not want to give the public false hope when it comes to a drug that might be able to treat coronavirus. however, this drug is giving them some real hope. >> it was now everybody that was potentially at risk. >> reporter: this doctor is an infectious disease specialist on the front line of the coronavirus. from the first confirmed death, he and everyone at the kirkland, washington, are at the forefront of finding treatment. they're taking part in a clinical trial of remdesivir. >> this is a medication given for ten days. >> reporter: after it was administered to the sixest ten patients, dr. reado says it shows real promise. when you go into the second phase of the trial what does that mean? >> well, the second phase is going to use this as the back

bone. every patient will receive remdesivir, because the first trial, act one, showed benefits, shortened the course of illness and significantly showed a decrease in mortality. >> reporter: in phase two, some patients will get a companion drug used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, but every covid-19 in the trial will now be treated with remdesivir. why is that a big deal? >> it's huge. this is the first scientifically proven beneficial drug in terms of the treatment of covid-19. >> reporter: trials have taken at more than 68 sites. the result, patients recovered 31% more quickly with remdesivir, that translated to four fewer days of suffering in a hospital. >> although a 31% improvement doesn't seem like a knockout

100%, it's a very important proof of concept because what it has proven is that a drug can block this virus. >> reporter: remdesivir was originally treated as a potential drug to treat ebola. dr. riedo was also on the front lines of that battle, traveling to africa. he hopes it works the second time around. but before the second trial was done, the president alongside gilead who makes the drug announced remdesivir. >> we'll be working with the government to determine how best to distribute that within the united states. >> reporter: the fda acting unusually quickly. for now, the drug is being used only in hospitals on the sickest covid-19 operators. it is not a coor. some of the patients treated with the drug still died but others felt better faster. so this could be one major tool in the fight against the

coronavirus? >> correct. >> reporter: wow. >> but it all has to be proven. >> reporter: we should be very clear this is only being given to the sickest of patients in the hospital and done intravenously. this is not available to the wider public. but by wul of the trials going on, all of the testing go on, there is a possibility that in the future they can figure out how to use this drug for much milder cases of covid-19. sara sidner, cnn, seattle, washington. >> well, let's talk about this development by peter drobac, he's an infectious disease doctor. >> hi, natalie. >> how impressive is that speeding up recovery from some very ill patients? >> well, we should be cautious that it's not a miracle drug. but this is a really exciting development. as your story pointed out this

is the first approved treatment for the treatment of covid-19. that's tremendously important. we haven't seen whether it saves lives, but it does seem to shorten the illness endurance of these patients and it might be effective earlier in the disease before all of the immune effects come into play where people do get sicker. >> all right. well, we'll continue to watch and see how the trials go with it because as you say, there's really nothing else out there, is there? >> a lot of development, but this is obviously one of the first important tools in our toolkit and it's very exciting. >> a new report says the covid pandemic is likely for last as long as two years and won't be control until two-thirds of the world's population is immune. how dire is that report, as far as this being with us this long,

pete pete peter? >> it's sobering, but it's realistic and what's important about this report, like any good model, it does give us a range of any potential scenario so we can plan for it. so what they did, is say look this virus is beginning to look like a lot of pandemics so let's use that information if we move on through time without a vaccine to halt this pandemic. there are a number of different scenarios, but in all cases, the indication is that it will take 18 to 24 months until a number of people become exposed to the virus to be herd immunity. what that means we should plan to live with this for the next couple of years and evening that's important as we look ahead. >> and couple that with what we know how that some 30-plus states in the u.s. are slowly reopening. and we know that fall and winter, we'll likely see a

second wave. how dangerous is this, without widespread testing, in the united states, peter, to go ahead and let people out? we certainly understand the pressers. we understand the economic strain of these businesses, but it seems like each governor is just kind of saying, okay, enough, let's go back out. >> yeah, there are a range of different things being tried. i think some states are better prepared than others. look, there's two ways to slow the spread of a virus like this, right? the first are the social distancing measures including the shelter in place orders that we've all been living with. and then the other are the testing, tracing, isolation and quarantine measures to interrupt those chains of transmission. both of those things can work. if we ease up on the social distancing and start getting back to normal life without ramping up the testing and isolation, the number of cases are going to go up. that's just math. that's one of the risks that we face in places where we haven't

been able to ramp up that infrastructure. the one maybe silver lining to all of this is that by a lot of different states going their own way, so to speak, we're going to learn a lot about what works and doesn't work because there's not really a playbook for how to open back up. >> all right. we need a playbook for sure. peter grdrobac, we always appreciate your insight, thank you. >> thank you. america's most prominent expert on the pandemic, dr. anthony fauci is to testify on the committee in the republican-led senate may 12th. that's what an aide is telling cnn. but earlier, we learned that the white house is blocking fauci testifying next week to a committee in the democrat-controlled house. u.s. lawmakers are gearing up for an oversight battle, and fauci is a key figure. he has repeatedly distanced himself from how the trump administration has been framing the response to this pandemic.

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>> reporter: well, natalie, well, obviously we can't 100% confirm the images themselves. there were banners and there were also signs within the footage which did say may 1st. so we don't have any reason to disbelieve it's fact that it happened on the day that it did. but what it would suggest and show it's been almost three weeks since we have seen kim jong-un in public. of course, we're seeing him walking, we're seeing him laughing with officials, we're seeing him on stage with the vips to assist kim jong-un to assist to open in the ribbon cutting. this video will be gone over by experts to see if there's any indication he was in ill health. from what i'm seeing, he's not walking with a limp. when he disappeared back with an illness then, he came back with

a walking cane and he came back from some foot surgery. that doesn't seem to be anything and it raises the question what did happen in the past three weeks, why was he not in the public eye. and most specifically, why didn't he pay his respects april 15th on the birthday of his father and in the country being leader. there's a good chance, natalie, we will never know why he didn't go and pay his respects at that point. but certainly what we're seeing from north korean state media is that kim jong-un is back. >> as you say, not unusual for him to disappear but no one knows where he's been, really. thank you, paula. paula hancocks there in seoul for us. well, their shared interest in north korea is just one example of how the u.s. and china need to work together. but right now, finger-pointing over covid-19 is making that hard with the u.s. president trump blaming china for the outbreak and threatening some form of punishment.

david culver looking at how beijing is responding. >> reporter: china's state-run medial now ramping up its propaganda against the united states, taking direct aim at secretary of state mike pompeo. this week, a daily cctv commentary peaks pompeo for china's mishandling of the coronavirus one saying he's turning himself on humankind. thursday, they ran an editorial saying pompeo's rhetoric makes the u.s. that it's dealing with a colossal deficit. and then a mocking of u.s. blaming china, portraying it as hypocritical. >> are you listening to yourself? >> reporter: in the shadow of the coronavirus outbreak, the war of words is creating a deepening rift between u.s. and china. >> china is a very sophisticated

country and they could have contained it. they either were unable to and they chose not to. and the world has suffered greatly. >> reporter: it is a change from donald trump's more sympathetic tone expressed repeatedly over the last few months. >> look, i know that president xi loves people of china, he loves his country, and he's doing a good job with a very, very tough situation. >> reporter: while still not directly criticizing president xi jinping, president trump is crediticizing china for the deay spread. echoing secretary of state pompeo's words. >> we know it started in china. it continues to pose a threat to the world. this is classic communist disinformation. this is what communists do. >> reporter: the white house further pushing the origin theory that the virus start in a

wuhan laboratory. last week, cnn returned to wuhan post-lockdown. we travelled to the lab in question, the wuhan institute of virology. chinese officials dismiss allegations that it started here. and a statement thursday from the u.s. office of the acting director of u.s. intelligence said it concluded that the coronavirus was not man-made or genetically modified. but noted it was still evaluating theories linking the outbreak to the lab. cnn's early reporting of this revealed china's covering up and silencing of whistle-blowers. the report also put in number the official number of china cases which is widely believed to be vastly underreported. however, china believes that the u.s. and the trump administration in particular is trying to deflect for its lack of preparedness for battling the virus within the united states. so you've got this heated

rhetoric, this increased blame, and the world's two largest economies no longer looking at international collaboration, but rather, in the midst of this animosity-filled face-off. david culver, cnn, shanghai. orange county, california, saw a huge spike in virus cases friday. and also a huge protest demanding officials reopen the beaches. we'll show you the scene in huntington beach. also, the uk says it's met its testing goal. and now it wants to lay out a plan for reopening. when we return, a live report on why the actual numbers might not be so cut and dried. look like we♪ morning ♪won't wait♪ ♪we're taking everything we wanted♪ ♪we can do it ♪all strength, no sweat

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welcome back to viewers in the u.s. and around the world, i'm natalie allen. you're watching "cnn newsroom." thousands of people came out to protest beach closures in orange county, california, friday, with the coronavirus outbreak there is far from over. also, friday, health authorities announced the county's biggest increase in new cases so far. here's josh campbell. he's there. >> reporter: we're here in huntington beach in orange county, california, and this beach behind me, essentially closed following an officer from california governor gavin newsom closing all beaches in the orange county area. now, that followed the images of just over a week ago that depicted thousands of people flocking to the beaches. it was that combination of people that was concerning to the governor that then caused him to close all of the beaches issuing what he's calling a hard hold on a temporary basis.

now, despite the governor's orders, we did see a number of people out here. we saw a surfer and families. we talked to one man who said -- >> you just start getting on everybody's nerves. everything starts to aggravate you. we've been going for walks on the beach, to pick up trash. >> reporter: we saw a number of police vehicles patrolling the beach but no citations issued. certainly no arrests, we talked to one officer on the beach who walked us through his thinking when it comes down to his thought on the order. we saw no arrests, no citation, why is that? >> so, the decision to close the beach came late last after a council meeting. our council had an emergency meeting last night. and the beach was closed late last night under the municipal

code. we'll be asking for voluntary compliance, after that, we'll be removing people from the beach. >> reporter: what's your message to the people as they try to weather the closures? >> we understand the frustration. we all do, we're all at home as well when we're not working. our families are at home. our kids are home. people working from home. kids doing school from home, there's a ton of frustration. and i understand that. really, health is the top priority. we have to listen to the experts. we have to understand this is a global pandemic like never before and we have to keep our people safe. >> reporter: i should first point out there was a large protest on huntington beach on friday, folks gathering shoulder to shoulder, not only the beach order but the shelter at home. 2500 to 3000 people, we saw people waving american flags, a lot of trump 2020 signs and a

lot of people not happy with the stay-at-home orders. even though it's peaceful, these images are running counter to what we saw from experts. you saw people so densely congregating. people not wearing face coverings. we continue to hear from the public health safety experts who say those are the guidelines necessary to stop the spread of this deadly virus. josh campbell, cnn, orange county, california. on other front, smithfield and tyson foods each say they will reopen one of their meat processing plants with limited production. this comes as president trump this week ordered plants to remain open to prevent a meat supply shortage. the plants are also protected if employees get the virus at work and decide to file a lawsuit. a top official at the cdc says meat processing facilities are a lingering concern as they try to keep the disease from spreading. nearly 5,000 workers in more

than 100 plants nationwide have been diagnosed with covid-19. cnn's miguel marquez spoke with people worried that reopening the plant too soon could mean more infections. >> reporter: dakota city, nebraska, just across the state line from sioux city, iowa, tyson's meat processing plant. massive. one of the country's largest. 4300 employees, the person i'm speaking to, he's one of them. when you hear the number of people getting sick every day, they say, you just wait your turn. out of fear for losing their job, we are not identifying this person who says it is was clear something was wrong at the plant for weeks. how many have gone missing in the last several weeks? three, four or 500, they say. tyson has now tested everyone at the plant. but this person says the company could have done more earlier. they only started giving you

masks a couple weeks ago. only masks, yes, no other protective gear? no gloves, no face shields, no gowns, they say. well into the crisis over covid-19, this is the only protection offered to employees at the plant in dakota city. it is something we also heard from officials in another tyson plant in waterloo. >> we walked out of that plant knowing we have an enormous problem. >> reporter: black hawk county sheriff tony thompson and waterloo staff inspected the staff. >> about half of the staff had masks. they were dangling around their necks. >> reporter: and now it's on a full-out crisis. black hawk county has more than covid-19 cases than any other county in the state. >> our front line defense has fallen back to the e.r. front

doors to the long-term facility front door, to my jail front door. >> reporter: and now concerns about reopening the state to regular business, and forcing meat packing plants back to work too hastily. >> president trump does this defense protection act telling the tyson plant they've got to open back up. i don't know what that's supposed to say to the citizens here that have contracted the disease. or the citizens here that are at twice the risk of catching the virus than anywhere else. >> reporter: and that tyson employee in nebraska also has a message for the president. i just want him to know, they say, we are human, and they have families that care about us, and we care about them too. a spokesperson for tyson said the company did have trouble sourcing masks and protective gear earlier on. even chartering a plane at one point to fly overseas to pick up protective gear.

the company does have 135,000 employees. with regard to the president reopening the plant, a spokesperson says employee safety will always be first. and to that point, we did speak to a union representative and a health department official in waterloo, iowa, who says they believe tyson now understands what's at stake here and what needs to be done. and that the company will do everything it can to avoid further infection. back to you. britain is shifting its focus to ramping up virus testing if downing street promising to reveal a plan to ease lockdown measures in the country. the government said it met its goal to test 100,000 people a day on friday. but it later clarified that, more than 120,000 tests had been distributed, not that all of the test has necessarily been completed. let's get more about it from cnn's hadas gold. she's in london for us.

good morning, hadas. these numbers are encouraging, at least they're trying to do more testing? >> reporter: natalie, that's right, at the beginning of the april, the uk set this very ambitious goal, 100,000 coronavirus tests per day. as of a week ago, they seemed pretty far off that goal, on friday they now said they reached, they said they 122,000 tests. however there's a bit of a caveat, only 80,000 tests had actually been completed. the rest were sent out to places or these new home kits sent to test at home. those may have been dispatched. they haven't necessary with been sent back or completed. whatever you say about the actual numbers just of the fact that they have 80,000 tests complete said a huge jump because just a week ago there was also 20,000, to 25,000 tests being done per day. as we know a lot of the part of an effort to come out of a lockdown involves testing and it also involves, of course, tracing. that is something another the uk

government plans to ramp up. they want to hire 18,000 contact tracer within the next few weeks. they will call anybody who has tested positive and try to trace who they've been in contact with to try to prevent an infection from spreading even further. all of these will be part of any sort of measures that will be able to lift the lockdown in any sense. and as we're in our eighth weekend of lockdown in the united kingdom, all eyes are on prime minister boris johnson himself only recently out of the hospital from coronavirus. on thursday, he's expected to address the nation and give some sort of time line, some sort of plan, to let people know how the uk will come out of this lockdown. but, natalie, recent polling of the british government says even if the measures are lifted even if the gift startovernment star thing, even if the government says you can go, a lot of people are still worried about contracting the virus and about

going back to life as normal. natalie. >> whatever normal is right now, hadas gold in london. thank you, hadas. russia's health care system is pushed to the prinbrink. it just reported 9700 cases. matthew chance has more about it. >> reporter: for weeks, russia insisted the pandemic there was under control. but these startling images from a hospital in the part of the country shows how overstretched the health service has come. this was a laundry storage cupboard, now it's a makeshift ward for five with social distancing here. these aren't even the hospital patients, they're medical staff, they've said, who have fallen

ill with symptoms of the virus and with nowhere else to be treated. we can't confirm they have covid-19, but a local government official said the women were made to move to a fully equipped ward where several hospital employees were disciplined. so, it's a grim picture that the toll this coronavirus is taking on russia health workers. this russian doctor says she believes a large preportion of medical workers are already sick. and in current working conditions, they said, more infections are just a matter of time. across russia, the plight of essential medical staff has become a major concern. moscow's main coronavirus hospital is reported to have suffered mass resignation of key workers. like this woman, who complains on social media of excessively long shifts, lasting days on end, lacking equipment, as well as food and salary. the hospital denies its lacking

staff but now even the kremlin is now acknowledging shortage of personal protective equipment or ppe despite the production. >> translator: in march, 3,000 suits for doctors were made, by mid-may, over 150,000. yes, in comparison to what it was recently, it is a lot. but until comparison to what is needed now, it is still not enough. >> reporter: it's been just a few weeks since russia was supporting overseas where russian doctors shown working side by side with the european camaraderie. and the biggest city saying they're waiting up to ten hours outside just to deliver a single patient. numbers it seems are already overwhelming, and russia's peak according to the kremlin is yet to come. matthew chance, cnn. u.s. democratic presidential

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u.s. democratic presidential candidate joe biden is addressing sexual assault claims for the first time made by a former staffer. biden unequivocally says the incident never happened. and he's asking that information related to his accuser be released from the national archives. u.s. politics correspondent mj lee has the story. >> no, it is not true. i'm saying unequivocally, it never, never happened. and it didn't. >> reporter: for the first time, joe biden personally addressing a sexual assault allegation dating back to 1993. >> this never, ever happened. i don't know what is motivating her. i don't know what -- i don't

know what's behind any of it. but it's irrelevant. it never happened. it never happened. period. i'm not going to start questioning her -- her motive, i'm not going to start, i'm not go go after teara reade for saying these things. it's simple, what are the facts? through any of the things do they add up. >> reporter: the presumptive nominee for president denying pun give cable, that tara reade an aide in the office in early 1990s. reade telling cnn in 1993, she was ordered to take a duffel bag to her boss. in a corridor somewhere in capitol hill, reade said biden spread her up against a wall and put his fingers inside of her. she said publicly last year she

experienced physical interactions with biden that made mher feel uncomfortable. none of these women, including reade at the time accused him assault. biden says such a complaint does not exist. >> i'm confident there's nothing. no one ever brought it to my attention to me, 27 years ago, no assertion at all. no one aware of in my campaign -- excuse me, my senate office at the time, is aware of any such request. and over any such complaint. >> reporter: but three people close to reade telling cnn they did hear about the alleged sexual assault. reade's former neighboring telling reade told her about if in the 1990s saying somebody putting their hand up your

skirt, that's something you don't forget. reade saying on the record that reade confided in her. and then a segment on "larry king live" years ago. >> yes, hello, i'm wondering what a staffer would do besides to go to the press in washington. my daughter has just left there after working for a prominent senator and could not get through with her problems at all. the only thing she could have done is go to the press and she chose not to do it out of respect for him. >> reporter: the anonymous caller not naming biden or explaining in any details problems that her daughter confronted. she told her about the alleged assault the night it happened. cnn has interviewed half a dozen former biden aides who worked in the senate office in the early 1990s. all of them said they were not

aware of any sexual harassment or assault allegations. biden saying reade story should be fully examined. >> from the very beginning, i've said, believing women means taking a woman's claim seriously when she steps forward. and then vet it. look into it. that's true in this case as well. women have a right to be heard. and rigorously investigate the claims they make. in the end, the truth is what matters. in this case, the truth is the allegation, false. >> reporter: the allegations come as biden prepares to take on president trump in the decade. more than a woman with charges begins trump, trump has denied those allegations. >> i've been falsely charged numerous times and there is such a thing. >> reporter: now, a lot of

questions have been raised about what kind of documentation if any might exist that tara reade complained, because, remember, tara reade she verbally told a number of colleagues at the time about the alleged sexual harassment. and that she also filed a complaint with the personnel office on capitol hill. and what the biden campaign is saying all of the records would be at the national archives. he would like the national archives to do a search and release anything that might be related to complaints. back to you. >> and we'll be right back. still fresh... ♪ unstopables in-wash scent booster ♪

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a lot of dog owners would likely say that man's best friend is the one thing keeping them sane during this self-isolation. i mean, a pet does help break up the mon notony of social distancing. jeanne moos takes a look. >> reporter: it used to be dogs feel it left alone. but these days humans are one feeling separation anxiety. maintain six-feet social

distance? tell that to a dog. there's nothing like a cuddly pet to make the couch each less loney. even billie eilish had an armful of pups. >> they're very tiny. >> reporter: as she crooned -- no wonder adoptions went from 200 last april to well over 300 this april at the helen woodward center in north san diego. >> i really could use a buddy. >> reporter: anna fairman adopted archie in mid-march as the stay-at-home order went into effect. he's since gained ten pounds and now -- >> archie is 100% my best friend. a huge lifesaver during quarantine. >> reporter: he's one of the most basic quarantine tricks that we caught rolling over for brutus, the pet tortoise. dog owners are paying tribute to their pets spoiling them with chicken pot pie.

and livening lockdown by throwing a scones and cream brunch for the good boy. talking dog peoples are making rounds. >> fed up. bored. i've had enough. [ bleep ] coronavirus. >> reporter: a colorado woman trained her golden retrieve sonny to deliver groceries to a next door neighbor in self-isolation. >> just a wonderful thing. just a sweet thing. >> reporter: pet owners ask pets should i pet wear face masks in public? the short answer, no. someone forgot to tell priscilla. pity the dog. >> you heard of punxsutawney phil? this is quarantine tiny tim. >> reporter: predicting, he says, a couple more weeks' quarantine. instead of burying your hand in the sand, let a puppy bury its head in your lap and levitate

your wizard of a dog. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> dogs, they can heal anything. all right. take a look at britain's princess charlotte celebrating her birthday by bringing other gifts. the daughter of prince william and kate middleton delivered packages to people around the area. the pictures were thrown on the official facebook page to mark charlotte's 5th birthday on saturday. what a cutie. thanks so much for watching "cnn newsroom." i'll see you back here tomorrow. "new day" is just ahead. take care.

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