♪ as many americans gather outside to celebrate memorial day weekend, officials warn that being too lax could lead to a spike in coronavirus infections. police firing tear gas at protestors as crowds gather in hong kong to protest a controversial new plan from beijing. we're live on the scene for you. and anger over a possible breach of lockdown rules from the man who helped write them. how the british prime minister's top aide his found himself in hot water. live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, welcome to our viewers here in the

united states and all around the world. i'm michael holmes. "cnn newsroom" starts right now. ♪ the u.s. death toll from covid-19 rapidly approaching a hundr hundred thousand people. it's emblazoned on the front page of the "new york times," the entire page, along with the names of about 1,000 victims and who they were. the first black woman to graduate from harvard law and a man who saved 56 families from the gestapo. some places of worship are expected to resume their sunday

services after president trump, of course, demanded the governors allow them to reopen. globally johns hopkins university has confirmed 5.3 million cases, more than 340,000 deaths. brazil now has the second highest number of infected people in the world behind the u.s. and all across america, americans marking the memorial day holiday to honor the country's war dead. for many it's a time to head to the beach but precautions were not always observed on saturday. natasha chen has our report from the georgia coast. >> reporter: as memorial day weekend is in full swing, we've seen thousands of people come to this beach here. you can tell that the groups are doing what they're told as far as social distancing from the group next to them. but they're supposed to keep their groups to under ten people and sometimes we're not seeing that. we're seeing groups larger than that. i talked to the mayor of the

island about the fact that she saw some georgia department of natural resources officers enforcing that and trying to break up the larger groups on the north end of the beach. you can tell that no one around us on the beach is wearing a mask. there are some people wearing them out in the town, but when i talked to the mayor and we both wore masks because we were in close range with each other, here's what she said to me about that. >> i was on the north end earlier. i did see the rangers breaking down groups and i think that they're just -- just oversaturated with people and i don't know that it's -- you know, it's a difficult task. >> no one is really wearing a mask out besides yourself of course and your crew. people are going to take precautions however they want and it's their decision. >> jesus is a lot larger than any virus that hits this earth. if it's my turn to go, i'm

ready. >> reporter: i spoke to residents who said they're dependent on these tourists for the town to make money. they are eager to see the income this weekend, but they're frustrated when they see people not abiding by cdc guidelines. a couple of residents told me they saw a group of 100, 150 kids last weekend that required police to break them up. the local residents are concerned because the local population tends to be around 60 years old and some of them are in that vulnerable group. as they're appreciative of the income, they are also understanding that comes at a risk. natasha chen, cnn, georgia. on the u.s. west coast, santa monica, california, very popular beaches there. but people seem to be observing the rules, which is a good thing. we'll get more now.

>> reporter: here in santa monica, we're seeing social distancing and pays attention to the rules. you can see this bicyclist with his mask on. that is something they decided to do this weekend, open up the bikeway. it's alleviated some of the pressure on the sand. they did not want people to gather here in large groups, put down tents, try to start cookouts, whatever there may be. they wanted social distancing here and so far, for this little corner of santa monica, it seems to have worked. and for the small city of 90,000, a lot of pressure. this is tourism, this is tourism at its best where people come here from all over the world to gather and they have lost a lot of their tax revenue, both hotel tax and sales tax. >> it's been about ten weeks since i had a good night's sleep or a good day off. i'm not saying that for pity, but it's the reality for running a local government in these

circumstances. we've had recessions before, but never anything that happened this suddenly or deeply that took that much money out of the city coffers that quickly. trying to figure out how to run a city on 40% less money is a challenge. we have tourism and restaurants that provide a great deal of our city budget. with the restaurants closed and the hotels, the very few that are open, 5 or 10% occupancy, the revenue is not going to come back overnight. >> reporter: the mayor telling us that the city of santa monica has lost over $40 million in the last few months in tax revenue. when you look over here, the ferris wheel is not spinning and that means the economic engines of santa monica are not spinning. they're hoping we'll get to a point where social distancing will allow much of this small city to reopen. for now, the beach is a little bit more open and things are calm.

reporting from santa monica, back to you. in the southern u.s., the state of arkansas reporting a cluster of new coronavirus cases. the governor says it's all linked to a high school swim party. >> a high school swim party, that i'm sure everybody thought was harmless, they're young, they're swimming, they're just having activity and positive cases resulted from that. and so it's just an encouragement for us to be disciplined in our activities and during this memorial day weekend, we want to be out, we want to enjoy ourselves, we want to remember this holiday and those that have served our country and given their lives and service to our country. but let's be safe and let's be disciplined at the same time. >> health officials on saturday reported more than 160 new cases in the state and more than 5,600 cases in total.

and that has the governor worried. >> it's clear and evident to me that we have one peak and then we've had a deep deep and then we're having a second peak right now. and they're really about 30 days apart. >> unlike most other states, arkansas has not been under a stay-at-home order to limit the spread of covid-19. now, earlier, i spoke with a doctor at the university of oxford in england and asked him if he thought americans were behaving as if the coronavirus threat was over. here's what he had to say. >> we're about to hit 100,000 deaths in the united states and everyone is tired, obviously, after several months of lockdown and it's understandable that people want to get out and begin to enjoy their summer and there are ways to do some outdoor activities safely. but we have to remember that we are not at the end of this

thing. we're really still in the very early stages of this pandemic. >> the cdc in the u.s., it was interesting, they were saying that about a third of infected people have no symptoms. 40% of transmission happens before an infected person feels sick, asymptomatic which we've heard. what's the lesson there, especially, as countries reopen. it speaks to the need for contact tracing. >> exactly right. i feel perfectly healthy today. i still could be infectious to others. it's about my responsibility to protect others and i think that's really important to keep in mind. the other thing is that after all of these months of sacrifice that people have made for the lockdown, we really needed to use this time for preparation, increasing our capacity for testing and contact tracing. those are the only ways to break chains of transmission and

prevent another wave of infections if we want to start to get back to normal. >> and the things that cause other waves, it's remarkable, on the church issue in the u.s., what did you make of the president saying religious gatherings even in the middle of a pandemic are essential services, basically saying he would override governors who didn't want them to open. there's been a number of hot spots after religious gatherings. would you recommend going to religious gatherings on sunday? >> i'm very concerned about that, actually. of course i recognize the importance of religious services for so many of us. one of the things that we learned is that the importance of superspreading type events is greater with this pandemic than maybe we thought earlier. we've seen a number of examples where outbreaks really started in a single church service. it has all the makings of a superspreading-type event. you have large numbers of people

from different households coming into close proximity for a long period of time in an enclosed space. these are very high-risk events. they can be done with safety measures in place. i think there should be considerations for outdoor services when possible, certainly limiting numbers and mask wearing. but i have grave concerns about rushing back into houses of worship. >> yeah. that would seem good advice. do you think we are hearing enough from the scientists as opposed to the politicians who on both sides have agendas, often? we've heard from cdc officials in the last week or two, they've felt muzzled, advice has been withheld from the public. are you worried that politics trumps science at least some of the time and what's the impact of that? >> i think what we need is science-based communication. it can come from scientists or politicians.

we've seen examples elts whesewn the world where politicians are the ones who are communicating on a daily basis with their populations but that means being immersed in the science, presenting the facts in a clear, calm and transparent way. what we've seen is that obviously when that's not happening and when misinformation is being presented by politicians that that's where things get difficult. >> protests have been flaring in hong kong over controversial legislation proposed by beijing. thousands of demonstrators were met by police in riot gear. there have been arrests. we don't know how many at the moment. tear gas and pepper spray have been deployed along with water cannon and armored vehicles. the proposed national security measures threaten hong kong's

autonomy. anna coren joins us live. what have you been seeing in the last hour since we've spoke? >> reporter: look, more arrests have been made, michael. just up here, police have taped off the area so we can't get in, but they had a man pinned to the ground. there was a scuffle. police pushed this away. this is one of dozens of arrests that have been taking place throughout the day. there was supposed to be a match which never got going. police made sure that i didn't start moving. and we have seen multiple rounds -- there's the person who's been arrested. multiple rounds of tear gas. we can ask him. we're seeing prodemocracy politicians carted away earlier today as well. he was just there with a loud speaker and was chanting

slogans -- prodemocracy slogans. it does feel like things are picking up, michael. >> and just fill people in on what this is about -- >> reporter: they're playing more of a game of cat and mouse. they will arrive and set up roadblocks and disperse. but the protestors this year are not wearing their uniform of black. it could be anybody, dressed in civilian clothing. they claim they're off shopping and they start chanting. and we've heard a lot of the independent slogans calling for independence here in hong kong. people are furious about this national security legislation, michael that beijing says must be enacted as soon as possible. those were the words from the

foreign minister who gave a press conference a short time ago. it must be done very quickly. we know that the national people's congress is meeting in beijing later this week. and we're expecting that law to be put in place as soon as possible, michael. >> and one presumes when that happens, there will be none of this protesting going forward. what is it the protestors want from the world? this is a sea change in terms of hong kong's autonomy? >> reporter: sorry, michael, i lost you. but as far as what this means for hong kong's autonomy, no one knows. carrie lam came out saying this is not going to affect the freedoms or free speech that hong kong has enjoyed and this also separates hong kong from mainland china. it's operated under the system since 1997 when britain handed

hong kong back to china. this national security legislation which will ban subversion, season, international interference, it also means, michael, that china can set up branches of police military here in hong kong. so perhaps we might be seeing hong kong police on the streets. maybe we'll be seeing chinese police and that would be a total game changer here in hong kong, michael, that has enjoyed semi autonomy for the last 23 years. >> that would be an extraordinary sight. anna, thank you so much. appreciate that. anna coren in hong kong. we'll take a quick break. when we come back, brazil's coronavirus cases on the rise. its president on a rant against rivals of his policies.

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least. that's the official number. by cnn's calculations, these new cases push the country's numbers ahead of russia. brazil also recorded more than 960 new coronavirus deaths in the last 24 hours. the death toll in total, over 22,000. now, amid this worsening crisis, the country's supreme court released a video this week in which a furious president sweared repeatedly. nick paton walsh is in brazil with more. >> the latest numbers for brazil, again, making it the second most infected country on the planet and bearing the brunt of latin america which is the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak. 347,000, about, cases reported in brazil, according to the last

count. just eclipsing russia's latest numbers. and adding, though, to that sense of concern here in brazil and outside of brazil for brazil is a recording that's been released by brazil's supreme court as part of an ongoing investigation into brazilian president's bal president's cabinet meeting. it contains a number of things which the president has played down as not significant and not incriminating toward him and denied interference in police investigations. the key bit, though, in reference to the coronavirus outbreak relates to comments he makes about the governors of sao paulo a paulo. he calls them manure and is rude

about the mayor of a town which is heavily infected by coronavirus and digging large numbers of graves to cope with the outbreak there. he's similarly offensive towards that man as well. now, also, his environment minister goes onto talk about possibly how this outbreak might enable further environmental regulations to be peeled back. he's defended his comments. but while this video leak -- release, i should say, from the supreme court appears to be more about brazil's internal political strife, it carries a clear message to those doubting the president about what he and his inner circle seem to be saying to each other about those who try and do what they can to prevent coronavirus from spreading. the peak here in sao paulo, a week to two weeks away, deep concerns here. the preparations are being done simply haven't been enough so far. nick paton walsh, cnn, brazil.

anger erupting in the uk after reports that a senior adviser to the prime minister potentially violated the nationwide lockdown not once, twice. dominic cummings denies breaking the lockdown rules by traveling 400 kilo meters from london. the opposition party calling for an investigation and calling on him to resign. with downing street support behind him, he told reporters he's not considering stepping down. >> obviously not. >> not going to -- the public is very angry. >> don't think so. you guys support that as you are about brexit. >> he's not going willingly, a lot of pressure on the prime minister. this is a man who apparently broke the rules he helped design

for others. >> reporter: the pressure seems to be mounting by the hour today and this all stems from this report that we first saw on friday that dominic cummings, who is probably one of the most visible senior aides in 10 downing street drove 250 miles with his wife and young child while he and his wife were suffering from symptoms of coronavirus. they said that they want up there to make sure they could be closer to family to take care of the child. this is while the government advice was telling everybody to not travel and not leave your home for at least seven days after your symptoms had subsided. the criticism is raining in from the opposition party calling for an investigation and now we're seeing not only the very negative press, front pages here all covering this story into detail exactly where he went and when, but also very interestingly, we're starting to see members of the conservative

party, boris johnson's own party starting to break. i've counted four so far who tweeted dominic cummings has to go. >> it's interesting that the chief scientific adviser did something similar and did not survive this. what's the public reaction? they've been told to abide by rules that the pm's adviser didn't. >> exactly. not along ago, a scientific adviser resigned after it was revealed he visited a girlfriend while on lockdown and that was just within the same city. and we are seeing criticism not only as we noted from other politicians, but from members of the public saying, hey, i got sick, i have young children, but i didn't drive to get closer to family. i didn't have family come to me because that's how we understood the government advice to be. and there's debate whether the advice is changing and whether

this perception issue for the government, that the perception is that while everybody was being told one thing or interpreting the advice in one way, a senior adviser was interpreting it a different way and breaking rules. >> appreciate it. thank you. now a former european prime minister slamming u.s. leadership, or lack thereof during the pandemic. part of my interview, while he says the post american world is on full display. the "new york times" asks what if the city of 100,000 people suddenly vanished? we'll tell you how they're remembering the victims of the pandemic. special delivery ♪

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♪ welcome back to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. i'm michael holmes. you're watching "cnn newsroom." the coronavirus isn't stopping president donald trump from enjoying two of his favorite things, twitter feuds and golf. cnn's jeremy diamond with more from the white house. >> reporter: president trump on saturday hitting the links, heading to one of his golf courses in virginia for the first time in more than two months. this comes as president trump is pushing for a return to normal, encouraging americans to go back to their daily lives, to begin reopening their businesses. president trump has been tweeting about a return to greatness and this certainly is part and parcel of that. just like when we saw president trump days ago touring a

manufacturing facility in the state of michigan, refusing to wear a mask in public because it would give that appearance of an ongoing crisis, an ongoing pandemic that would cut against his narrative of wanting to reopen the country. it's not just the president. we heard from the white house's coronavirus coordinator on friday, dr. deborah birx, encouraging americans to go out and practice social distancing. president trump must have missed the last part of that because he was not practicing social distancing, didn't appear to be within more than six feet apart from his golf partners as you can see in this video right now. and the president also not wearing a mask which of course has been his strategy and his refusal to wear a mask out in public. beyond that, we do know that the president is lashing out at his former attorney general jeff sessions. the two men of course have been in a feud since attorney general jeff sessions recused himself from the russia investigation

early in president trump's presidency. now the former attorney general is running for senate in the state of alabama where he used to be a senator and he's facing a runoff election against the other republican that president trump has endorsed. and after president trump told alabamians not to trust the former attorney general, jeff sessions fired back. you never told me of a problem and ran for the hills. you had no courage and ruined many lives. the dirty cops and others got caught by better and stronger people than you. hopefully the slime will pay a big price. you should drop out of the race and pray that doug jones loses that race. that latest tweet from the president, continuing that feud between him and his former attorney general. still remarkable, of course, to see the president not only opposing a former cabinet member in a republican primary in a senate race where jeff sessions

used to hold that seat for decades and decades, but of course that is indeed where we stand. jeremy diamond, cnn, the white house. in a recent "washington post" op-ed, the former swedish prime minister carl bildt criticizes the trump administration for a lack of leadership during the coronavirus crisis. he says the u.s. has, quote, left behind any function as a global inspiration. he joined me earlier to talk about u.s. leadership. >> go back and history for 50, 60, 70 years, whatever you want, there hasn't been any global crisis where there hasn't been an aspiration for the white house to exercise leadership. good, bad, successful, unsuccessful, but it's always been there. this is the first global crisis in living memory where the white house doesn't even have the ambition to exercise any sort of leadership. and that was abundantly in display at the world health

assembly last week where it was china stepping forward, the europeans doing well, and the u.s. just not adding itself. it spends a lot of time criticizing china, but it sounds like the fight against china is more important than the fight against the virus. >> you also said that the u.s. tone and the speech by health and human services secretary alex azar was markedly different from other speech and is fueled that impression that the u.s. was far more interested in fighting china than fighting the virus. why do you think that is? >> and that was even more the case when we looked at what happened in parallel. all of the leaders of the world were at the world health assembly. but in parallel to that, you had a statement by secretary pompeo and a letter by president trump that was spending all of their time attacking the world health organization. i'm certain, there will be

lessons to learn for the world health organization as for everyone else after this crisis. but the ambition should be to fight the crisis and fight the virus and unite the world. we can't have a world where the only thing that is globalized is the virus. that's what i mean by the complete abandonment of the u.s. ambitions of leadership which is highly regrettable. >> there was another memorable line, and we'll put it up for people to read, because i would like to highlight it. you said, quote, this was the post american world on display. china assertive and confident, europe trying to save what can be saved of global cooperation and the trump administration mostly outside firing its heavy artillery in all directions but with limited results. going forward, what concerns you about that and can it be retrieved, that american position of leadership?

>> well, what concerns me is obviously that we have a continuation of this. can it be retrieved? i hope it can. i think it's important for europe to try to step up. but there are limits to what you can do. it's important that we have our disagreements with china to put it very mildly, hong kong, whatever, but at the same time we need to engage with china on quite a number of other issues. we need america on these issues as well. as i point out in the op-ed, the united states hasn't disappeared. it's a significant nation. in order to address the challenges that we have globally, it could be health, climate, trade, whatever, we need the united states to be part of this exercising leadership, at least be part of it, not america first and everyone else alone. >> that full interview is on my twitter if you want to see it. now some encouraging news from new york, it reports fewer than 100 people died from the coronavirus on saturday. that is a milestone the governor

says he feels good to reach. andrew cuomo says the number of new cases, deaths, hospitalizations and intubations from the virus are all going down in the state, a sign he says that what they're doing is working. the governor says some areas could begin reopening as soon as this week if people keep following social distancing efforts. the u.s. has 97,000 covid-19 deaths, far more than any other country. and sunday's "new york times" front page showing the impact of that in a heart-breaking away. many obituaries of over 1,000 american victims that takes up the entire front page. obituaries like the 92-year-old woman who was never afraid to sing and dance and the man who's true calling was driving a school bus. >> reporter: the "new york times" has not printed a front page like this for at least 40

years. this is a front page that shows the human toll of covid-19 in the united states. the editors and reporters of "the times" went through hundreds of other newspapers across america looking for obituaries of covid-19 victims and in these snapshots, these names and short summaries of people's lives, "the times" has presented a nationwide look at just how devastating this pandemic has been. of course, other newspapers outside the united states have looked for other ways to pay tribute to victims. this i think is going to really turn heads when it's on the newsstand on sunday morning, when people see it on their doorstep. it is an attempt by editors of "the times" to address some of the fatigue that has started to set in in america with regards to this ongoing crisis. we talk about all the numbers from this pandemic, they're on

the corner of the screen a lot of time, the death toll around the world, the number of cases. as the united states approaches 100,000 confirmed cases, the editors of "the times" wanted to make a statement about just how gutting this death toll has been and how unusual it has been as well. we are far past the point of the u.s. combat fatality death toll from vietnam, for example. most of the metrics we have to past events in american history are out the window at this point because covid-19 has been so deadly across the united states. so this attempt by the "new york times" to refocus attention on this memorial day weekend is getting a lot of attention on social media already and i think it will get the attention of readers as well. as dan berry of the "new york times" says in an essay that accompanies this front page, imagine if an american city of

hundred hundred thousand people was just wiped off the map one day, because that's essentially what has happened in the past two months. brian stelter, cnn, new york. israel's prime minister is about to face a criminal trial. the case against benjamin netanyahu, a live report from oren liebermann in jerusalem when we come back. still fresh... ♪ unstopables in-wash scent booster ♪ downy unstopables managingaudrey's on it.s? eating right... ... and staying active? on it! audrey thinks she's doing all she can to manage her type 2 diabetes and heart disease,

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right? >> reporter: it is very much the start and most of what will happen in court today will be technical matters. it's to make sure that benjamin netanyahu understands the charges against him. he doesn't have to enter a plea today and he probably doesn't have to speak. it's still unprecedented, the state of israel versus benjamin netanyahu. the rest of the day will be talking about scheduling and evidence and what's confidential and not confidential. the actual trial itself still months away, perhaps even occurring next year. this is a big day in the history of the state of israel. one week after benjamin netanyahu's swearing in for a fifth term as prime minister, he's facing a very different panel, three judges presiding over his criminal trial. the 70-year-old leader has been fighting this day for more than

three years ever since the investigations were made public. he's maintained his innocence, calling the probes an attempted coup. >> this evening we are witnessing a governmental coup attempt against a prime minister by false libel. >> reporter: he faces prosecution in three cases, prosecutors say netanyahu advanced regulatory benefits for his friend. those benefits were worth hundreds of millions of dollars. in exchange, prosecutors say netanyahu received favorable news coverage by that businessman. he faces the charge of bribery and the charge of fraud and breach of trust. prosecutors say netanyahu was working on an arrangement with the owner of one of israel's largest papers. he sought better news coverage in exchange for limiting the circulation of the paper's

rival. he faces a charge of fraud in this case. and in case 1,000, netanyahu received gifts from overseas businessmen, gifts a public servant shouldn't have received. netanyahu faces a charge of fraud and breach of trust. none of that has phased netanyahu. >> translator: i intend to lead you and the country as prime minister for many years to come. don't believe all the spin. >> reporter: netanyahu's best defense is his former political rival benny gantz who broke his campaign promise not to serve under an indicted prime minister. it protects netanyahu's position for the next 18 months during which netanyahu can pursue annexation, all the while his corruption cases will proceed in the background slowly. it took more than three years to get to this point. the trial with 333 witnesses

isn't expected to move much faster. at this point, prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been trying to show a business as usual perspective. a week after the new government's swearing in, today is the first cabinet meeting where netanyahu didn't mention the trial at all. he talked about coronavirus and the budget and said now the country has to work together moving forward. it was netanyahu's closest allies in the government, some of the minister's closest to him who have condolentinued to attae judicial system and the attorney general and the investigate process in general. the new justice minister who was from blue and white has said he would defend the justices, but that defense is being drowned out by all of the attacks that will play out today. >> benjamin netanyahu has fought this day for a long time. oren liebermann in jerusalem. appreciate it. thanks very much. we're going to take a quick

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manning and tom brady. the match, it's called and it's going to raise $10 million for charities. patrick snell joins me now with details. this is going to be a fun day. people are craving live sports. i'm craving the trash talking, what you and i could call sledging. and there's some pretty good sledges in this group. >> sledging is just the perfect word, mike. you're right. it's going to be a fun day, no question about that. there's a powerful cause to it later on down in south florida. this is the rematch, if you would like as far as woods and mickelson are concerned because the original match taking place in 2018, on that occasion it was mickelson who was the winner as if tiger needed reminding. take a listen. >> tiger is familiar with this. when you were putting the jacket

on, it fit perfect, thank you. and this is the trophy for the match. i don't know if you know what this looks like. you might have caught a glimpse. that's what the torophy looks like, had you have won. >> i'm a little bit chilly. let me put this green jacket on here. >> a terrific come back from tiger woods. what did he do the following year, as only tiger woods can, he went out and won the masters for a 15th career major. that's an example of what we can expect later on, the sledging, the good-natured banter overall. with those two nfl superstars, it's going to hit home as well. maybe a little sensitivities on the edge there. we'll see. >> we know that tiger and lefty, we know them well in their golf game. tom brady, peyton manning,

they'll pretty handy on the course too, aren't they? >> as amateur players, they're impressive indeed. the subplot to this, they have their own fascinating and intense rivalry, shall we say, in the nfl. brady still current player with the buccaneers now, but peyton manning announced his retirement in 2016 is a dedicated golfer. looking at the handicap for both players, brady at 8.1 and manning at 6.4. just a little bit lower. but the key thing there, michael, is they're both single-digit handicap players, but it's going to be a real test for both of them out there on that course. it's a challenging trek, i can tell you, and they're going to be tested to the full. not a good omen for tom brady, because he once shot 106 on that

course, reportedly. that's not a good omen if you're tom brady. >> how is the match going to work for us novices? how is it going to work, real quick? >> it's basically match play format. on the backside, you've got the alternate stroke play. it's set up to be really, really exciting. will it go down to the 18? it could. who knows? last time in the original match it went to four extra holes before mickelson won. this is a power sport. it's a temporary relief from the devastating worldwide effects from the global pandemic. the best part about it all, they're hoping to raise $10 million. that would be cool all in benefit of covid-19 relief. that would be fantastic to see that done. >> i'll be watching. i know you will too. patrick, good to chat with you

my friend. looking forward to seeing you back in here. don't miss the match, champions for charity airing right here on sunday. historic first opportunity for cnn international viewers to watch live support on this channel. if you're watching in the u.s., you can catch it on tnt, 3:00 in the afternoon in the u.s. and 8:00 in the evening in london. that will do it for this hour of "cnn newsroom." thanks for spending part of your day with me. i'm michael holmes. "new day" is just ahead. i'll see you tomorrow. - [spokeswoman] meet the ninja foodi grill. get the perfectly grilled flavors

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the first summer holiday since the start of the covid outbreak, and americans are flocking to beaches from coast to coast. >> we've been quarantining for a while. >> we haven't gone to coffee. we cut everything off. and this is the first time we've come out. >> we've seen, unfortunately, you know, throughout the country, we just have opened a tremendous amount of irresponsible behavior. >> well, americans may not be paying their respects in person, but this memorial day weekend will not go by without americans in various ways honoring those who made the ultimate sacrifice. it wasn't a question of are we going to do something or aren't we going to do some