hello and welcome to viewers in the united states and all around the world, i'm michael holmes, we are of course following that breaking news this hour, out of the u.s. state of minnesota, a minneapolis police precinct on fire,

extraordinary scenes, this is as thousands of protesters took to the streets demanding justice for george floyd. a black man who died in police custody. the police department says the staff of the precinct, they were evacuated earlier. the mayor declaring a local emergency. now, nearby, in saint paul, protesters clashing with police there, as well. well into the night. fires breaking out. there's stores that are being looted. police have responded to protesters with tear gas and rubber bullets. the national guard is now being deployed. more than 500 soldiers will be sent to st. paul, minneapolis, and surrounding communities, to try to help keep the peace. cnn's josh campbell is in minneapolis for us. he joins us now on the line. first, the obvious, what are you seeing right now? i mean the idea of a police station on fire like this is just extraordinary. the local target on fire.

what caused things to get so out of hand? >> reporter: michael, wherever you are in the world right now, what you think about a police station, when you think about a police station, a police department, that conjures images of a fortress, that is impenetrable, that is not the case now in minneapolis. there were a number of protesters that gathered outside this precinct. the precinct three is the name, just not far from where the death of george floyd occurred, which we know was the african-american man who, that dramatic video that we showed before, showed him on the ground, with the police officer, with his knee on his neck, he later died. that's obviously been the subject of a robust investigation by local officials as well as the fbi. but it is that incident that has now sparked such outrage here in this community. leading to a number of protesters gathering outside this police station, and what started as peaceful, then turned into very confrontational situation, where you had

protesters outside who were throwing rocks at the police station. we did see a number of police officers on the roof, who were returning fire, not with a lethal weapon, but with tear gas, and we ourselves were gassed at one point, and had to move back, but they were trying to push people back from this police station, and that continued to escalate through the night as night fell here in minneapolis, to the scene that you saw on your tv there, with flames ravaging this building outside and protesters clearly unhappy with the police, clearly taking their frustration and outrage out on the police department. i think it's important to note, also, that as we've been covering this and been there on the ground there appear to be different camps. you have people who are clearly focused on this criminal activity, trying to burn down this government building, but we've also seen protesters out there who are nonviolent, that have been expressing their outrage at the death of this black man at the hands of the police, here in minneapolis.

and it is that dichotomy that we've seen, that is so, such a powder keg here. we have people that are so unhappy. when you think about the police, michael and what we've seen on the screen with a police department now being torched, the police department has clearly lost this part of the city. we've seen these images in so many locations around the united states tonight. people protesting and police deciding they are not not going to go in and enforce what is taking place, they're not going to push the crowd back, they're not going to conduct arrest, they are apparently going to let this building burn to the ground, their calculation likely being that their mere presence will likely inflame the situation even more and when your presence is going to cause even more outrage, you clearly lost this part of the city. michael. >> and speak to that a little more, because you reported this earlier, too, that you were surprised and you certainly know that police at least where you were, were not out in force. do you think that was a tactical

decision? >> when you think about policing, and obviously, there are more residents than there are police officers, we were there, my colleague sara sidner and i were there outside the police precinct surrounded by thousands of people, thousands of protesters, rioters, looters, and obviously people that were conducting the criminal activity that we saw on the screen, by breaching this building, there is no way that law enforcement officers are going to come in full force, in that type of volatile situation, and you know, our estimation is they probably decided that again, coming in and trying to arrest people, or trying to move the crowd back, would probably lead to even more violence and possibly deaths. now again, if you're a police official, your job is to enforce the peace, to calm society, and that's not what we saw taking place. again, this is going to continue throughout tonight. this protest continues. we've seen it in a number of shootings around the country. still yet to be seen how long this takes place. we did get news not long ago that the national guard here in

the state of minnesota has been called up, some 500 soldiers around the world, and fold by local state officials, they are usually are involved in disaster response and they provide troops to foreign wars as well but when that type of action is taking place where you have now the state officials calling up the national guard, to try to protect these facilities, it has clearly moved into a very different and a very dangerous phase. >> thank you, josh campbell in minneapolis. appreciate it. now, i wanted to take you to the moment when this anger all boiled over at the police precinct that you heard josh just talking about. cnn sara sidner was there when the fire began. take look. >> reporter: those are fireworks being fired off by the fireworks. we're watching them being fired off directly in front, all of the sparkling lights overhead,

that is fireworks but we are definitely masking a fully armed fire, third precinct here, that is clearly what is happening there, their there have been boards that have been put up outside of the third precinct, and those boards are on fire. but it looks like the fire has gotten even bigger at this point in time. and you can see protesters so close to the fire, that they are getting hit with sparks from the fire coming off of that building. so that is what is going on right now. it is official that the building is on fire. the third precinct is on fire. we do not know where the police are. we see the minnehaha place on fire on the other side of the street and a fire behind the precinct and protesters are throwing fireworks at the precinct, and the fire alarm is going off inside of the precinct. this is a scene that completely changed earlier today when

things were peaceful, and people cheering and more fireworks going off as literally the police precinct is burning. >> and sara sidner joins us now on the line. you can almost hear the disbelief in your voice here as you realize oh, my god the police station is on fire. speak to what was going through your mind there and not just the police station, it feels like half that area was on fire. >> reporter: yes, i think what has really changed here, something i have actually never witnessed, and i have covered dozens upon dozens of protests, the thing that i have never seen is a situation where police have completely left the area and literally, usually you at least see a bigger unit of police pull back and all of a sudden you will have police coming from all parts of the city. in this case, it is clearly a

calculated move, from the police. they moved back to the precinct. we walked back yesterday night. and today, they never left the precinct. and then as night fell, and the fire grew, and then they finally, you know, set the building on fire, the officers were gone. we have not seen them for hours. what we have seen is fire now burning in other places. so now, just across the street, there is a huge parking lot, and people are firing off fireworks, you are seeing the target engulfed in flames. you are seeing across the street from the police department the liquor store engulfed, and it is burning hot and it is burning large. and you are seeing other businesses start to catch fire, because these fires are burning so hot. but i have never seen a situation, i have never seen a

situation where a precinct, police department precinct, is on fire, and there is absolutely no authority out there to try to control the situation. so now, it is literally just the protesters who are out in the streets, and they are, some of them are standing and watching, others are cheering, many times you will see lots of fireworks that are going off overhead. you hear cheering. people are actually trying to break into the precinct. but it's on fire. so there's a great danger there as well. and now, we can smell gas. as we were leaving the scene. and now we're hearing from the city that they believe a gas line has been ruptured. that is excruciatingly extremely danger because if fire gets near that, we will have an explosion, so there are a lot of people who could be in imminent danger and

not even realize it. >> the city is putting out a warning for people to get out of the area because if this is indeed a gas leak, there could be an explosion. >> you have been there all day. where this all began, this began as a protest with purpose. it was about george floyd. the man who was killed with a policeman's knee on his throat. that's where this began. and it began, there were local people there, policing the protesters, if you like, and what happened? >> so nightfall is always, things tend to change, and i know you know that, you've been out to these protests, when nightfall begins to happen, there are people who, you know, left, some of the community activists were out, there all day long, for ten hours or more, because it was starting a lot earlier than yesterday. they have families. they are trying to organize to help the neighborhood which they have been looking after, to try to make sure people have what

they need to live in that neighborhood, because now there are no grocery stores. people are trying to make sure that they organize things for the neighborhood. and what you saw, is just a very different scenario when night fell. you saw a change. there was no more music. there was nobody on the mic telling people that you've got to channel your energy. you got to put it towards something that is constructive, not destructive. we heard it over and over. we understand your anger. we're angry, too. but let's channel this. let's use it to, in a different way. so that your community isn't destroyed. so that we don't have to deal with they don't struction for many months to come. now there are so many fires, this is going to be something the community deals with for months, if not longer. >> yes, and as you pointed out with the target on fire, the local police station, i mean this is the community who will suffer from this damage for

months to come. sara sidner, amazing reporting this evening. thank you. now, protesters expressing their outrage in cities right across the u.s. it is not just in minneapolis. they're outraged not just over the death of george floyd, but for others till killed by police, and from the first protest in louisville kentucky, turning heated and what police say began as a peaceful demonstration as turned into things of violence and property damage, or even reports of shots fired there. local news says the crowd gathered to protest the death of brionna taylor, a woman shot after police officers forced their way into her home, back in march. turn our attention to memphis, tennessee. we have police in riot gear faced off with protesters marching, channing hands up don't shoot.

and let's discussion further cedric alexander a former public safety director in dekalb county, georgia. thanks so much for being with us. just thinking about the size of a police station, a significant building there, on fire, and that comes after a number of other buildings were also vandalized and torched. speak to what you thought of those scenes and how easily these things can get out of contro control. >> well, first of all, let me say this. i think it is very, it is very hard to watch a city, an american city, and in this particular case, minneapolis, and st. paul that is having this horrible experience, as it relates to what many people in that community feel. it has been a totally unjust system, where officers who were involved in the mishandling of

an incident that led to death and what we see unfortunately is rage and anger and we're seeing people across the country in a number of cities across this country ignite, who are absolutely outraged. this is not a way this should be handled. no question about that. this is wrong. this is criminal but at the same time, the bigger question becomes, for me, as a public safety director, and i think the bigger question for a former public safety director and i also think too, for the rest of this country, we got to look back, even in the last four, five, six years, during michael brown's case, what are the things that we certainly have not done to make sure that what we see going on here tonight

never happens again. we are in a very, very uncomfortable and horrible place in this country tonight, when we watch these images of an american city, of an american city that is burning. >> i've got to ask you, it's interesting, and you're right, a powder keg does not come from nowhere. it reminds of when there is a mass shooting and we have these conversations, what needs to happen, this has got to stop, let's not let this happen again, it is the same thing with these sorts of cases, like george floyd. this goes back years and years and years. we've seen riots in the street over black men being taken down by police, the feeling of alienation and brutality among african-americans in the u.s. and we have these same conversations. things have to change. there has to be more respect.

but we keep having the conversation. what will change? what has to change now? >> well, you know, part of the issue is nothing has changed. there has been a lot of work done over recent years in an attempt, across this country, to build relationships, closer relationships between police and community. and i happen to be part of, several years ago, under president obama, a 21s century task force that created a document, a road map, if you will, that would have allowed for communities to work very well together and find ways and create new ways of working together that has proven to be some advantage. but something has happened along the way. it is now, it feels to me, when i looked at that image there,

and the death of mr. floyd, it's almost as if it has put us back 100 years, because clearly, that was not a trained procedure. clearly we saw a man's knee on a man's neck, who cried for help. who went into an infantile state and begged for his mother, and nothing, nothing happened. no one helped him. the officers that were there instead of help him, they hurt him and they hurt him bad and they hurt him on public television that we could all see the footage and people are outraged, they're horribly, horribly outraged because we keep seeing these images, we keep seeing these experiences, you go to brionna taylor there in louisville, you go to the situation in south georgia, and it appears that these things

continue to happen. and they seem totally inexplicable to people. and people go to a point where they just cannot take anymore. so now, we've got to pick up, attempt to pick up, and start over again, because people are tired of us talking about doing something different but it isn't happening. >> the conversation keeps on happening. when will things change. cedric alexander, out of time. got to leave it there. i appreciate you joining us. we're going to take a quick break. more on the breaking news when we come back. just love hitting e open road and telling people that liberty mutual customizes your insurance, so you only pay for what you need! [squawks] only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪

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now died from covid-19. at least. and the is centers for disease control and prevention predicts more than 20,000 additional deaths by mid june. only a couple of weeks away. experts say a vaccine, well, it's at least months a i way, possibly longer, but in the meantime, they are urging people to wear masks, which can cap the spread of the virus by 50% and they also say socializing should be done outdoor, people staying at least six feet apart. internationally, brazil reporting a record 26,000 new cases, of the virus, in just the past day. more than a thousand people have died there, in each of the past three days. back in the u.s., new infections still on the rise in 16 states, most of them in the southeast. >> reporter: just as california has begun moving forward with reopening. comes word the state is now

reporting the largest single day increase of confirmed coronavirus cases since the beginning of the pandemic. the california health department now reporting 2,617 new cases in the past 24 hours. meanwhile, in new york city, the epicenter of the pandemic, scores of ambulance crews came to new york to help during the height of the crisis, returning home, with fanfare. this, as new york city's mayor reaffirms that the city is just weeks away from reopening. >> we are getting to the point, very, very soon, where we can take the first step to restart in phase one. >> when that happens, 400,000 people will head back to work. >> you have earned it. >> new york is one of two dozen states seeing a decrease in new cases but there are 16 states mostly in the southeast, with an uptick. arkansas, the worst among them. regarding a 46% increase in cases among children.

a spike also in mississippi, but that's not stopping the governor from lifting the stay-at-home order on monday. >> there will still be health and safety guidelines for people to follow, but we cannot have an endless shutdown. >> reporter: with cases in alabama, also on the rise, concerns remain over the number of icu beds. >> we had two this morning. the last update i have. so we're not doing better. we're actually doing worse, unfortunately. we are in a place that we consider a crisis at this moment. >> reporter: the centers for disease control, now highlighting a new forecast, predicting an increase in hospitalizations across the country next month. and as more businesses reopen, or are poised to reopen, the cdc issued new guidelines for employers, to help keep their workers safe, including increasing outdoor air circ lace, and installing barriers to separate people with social distancing, when social

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welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and all around the word. i'm michael holmes. you're watching cnn newsroom. the top story of course, anger boiling over at this hour, in the u.s. state of minnesota. and indeed across the country. protesters torching a minneapolis police precinct, while thousands took to the streets demanding justice for george floyd, a 46-year-old black man who died in police custody. the national guard now deploying more than 500 soldiers, to several cities. now, social media has become a powerful tool for protest

movements. let's bring in cnn's chief media correspondent brian stelton to talk about his role in the minneapolis story but before we do that, the president's tweet, i think we need to deal with it, he tweeted a short time ago and i want to read the whole thing. i can't stand back and watch this to happen to a great american city, minneapolis, and a total lack of leadership. either the very weak radical left mayor jacob frey, get the city under control or i will order the national guard in to get the job done right. and the national guard is already there. and not by the president. these thugs are dishonoring the members of george floyd and i won't let that happen. just spoke to the governor. tim walz, and told him that the military is with him. and when the looting starts, the shooting starts.

the president of the i.n.said. your thoughts. >> this is what the miami police chief says in 1968, at an rnc convention, when the looting start, the shooting starts. that was a statement back then a statement about getting tough back in 1968. and it is a vial threat tonight. let us hope that cooler heads prevail, that the president's aides intervene, and that he's just acting tough on twitter, like he oftentimes does, and nothing more will come of it. but if you wonder what the president was going to do in this case, if you wondered if he would show leadership in a volatile moment like this, i think we now have the answer, michael. we're going to see the president was in his typical techniques of sowing this kind of chaos and division, as you mentioned, using the word thugs, calling out these protesters and by the way, the president has been late on this situation all week long. late to react to the video of what happened in minneapolis. late to react to the protests and the unrest.

and you know, we are far past the point where the president should be weighing in for the first time on these matters. clearly the situation is out of control in parts of minneapolis of the city of minneapolis is doing a very bad job communicating with its own residents right now. of course, under the cover of darkness, we don't know everything that is happening but it is clear there are fires and looted stores and broken windows and other disturbances in multiple neighborhoods in minneapolis right now. we will have to wait until sunrise to get the full picture. amid all of this, you have to wonder, if you live in smans right now, do you feel any better seeing the president of the united states talk the way he is talking on twitter? i'm going to wager no, michael. let's see what the residents of minneapolis say in the morning. >> we will assume control, i'm not sure how the federal government assumes control of something like this. i wanted to ask you about the issue of social media. cell phone use as well. all of this, george floyd's death, was on camera, and filmed by people who were eyewitnesses

to this. and it is not like george floyd's didn't happen before. they have happened before. they are now just getting filmed. and speak to the role of the cell phone in this. but also the role of the cell phone in the protest. >> his death was filmed from multiple angles. this is not the only altercation with police. just this week in the united states it has been caught on camera and caused a lot of concern in local communities. we are seeing protests as you mentioned in other cities that is a result of what happened in minneapolis. but it is also the result of other videos in other cities on other days. this kind of cacophony that is created when you have access to these images on social media. it is also notable that in this age, both the social distance and social media, people are able to move more quickly toward these protests. so you can see it kind of, by rally, happen, not just online but in person. when people for example in saint

paul minnesota, heard that the third precinct was on fire, they got in their cars and drove over to minneapolis. so it is in effect of making it bigger and escalating more quickly than happened in the cell phones and infant technology and there are positives and negatives to that as well. we have bit way the front page of friday morning's minneapolis star tribune, reacting to this in realtime, calling this a state of agony. and that's really important. as much as we're talking about anger and an overwhelming amount of anger in the streets, it is also about grief and agony. we're talking about a population that has been mostly indoors and stuck at home for months and now seeing the people that they trust to protect them, fail them. and that kind of situation causes anger, but it also causes agony. to have this in the midst of the pandemic, to have people posting fires with a quarantine logo, it is a strange and frightening

situation, michael. great to have you on, cnn chief media correspondent brian stalter, we will check in with you next hour as well. thanks for that. a new cnn special to tell you about. this examines race relations and police brew dautality in the u. called "i can't breathe, black men living and dieing in america" broadcast sunday, 8:00 p.m. new york time, and monday, that's 8:00 a.m. in hong kong. it will be aired here on cnn of course. we will take a quick break. you're watching cnn newsroom with me, michael holmes. we'll be right back.

let's get you up to date on our top story this hour. more than 500 national guard soldiers are on their way to minneapolis and st. paul, minnesota, to help deal with violent protests. demonstrators have set fire to a police precinct, and several

other buildings. minneapolis officials warning protesters to move away from the area, because there might be a severed gas line. the protesters are angry over the death of an african-american man in police custody on monday. four officers have been fired but prosecutors say they're not ready to bring charges. not yet. let's turn now to the coronavirus pandemic. when the u.s. hits a staggering number of 100,000 deaths on wednesday, it was an opportunity for president trump to be what many critics say he has not been through this crisis, and that is presidential. but instead of marking the bleak occasion with a heart felt statement or a show of presidential empathy, silence. not a word. didn't mention that number being reached. until a single tweet the next day. cnn's jim acosta reports. >> reporter: it took more than 12 hours after the u.s. crossed a gut-wrenching milestone of 100,000 deaths from the

coronavirus for the president to reflect on the lives lost. mr. trump tweeted, we have just reached a very sad milestone with the coronavirus pandemic deaths reaching 100,000. while the families and friends of those who have passed, i want to extent my heart felt sympathy and love for these great people stood for and represent. god be with you. what took the president so long, white house officials said mr. trump marked the milestone before it was reached. >> the president recognized that landmark before we even hit. it the president, ha was after all, it was the impetus to him lowering the flag to half-staff, he did that for several days. >> joe biden posted his own video hours before mr. trump. >> i think i know what you're feeling. you feel like you're being sucked in a black hole in the middle of your chest and suffocating. >> and the president sent along what ended up being false estimates of the death toll in the u.s. from 60,000 -- >> we're talking about maybe

60,000 or so. that's a lot of people. but 100,000 was the minimum we thought that we will get to and we will be lower to that number. >> to close to zero. >> and again, when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that's a pretty good job we've done. >> the president is making time to stir up debate over the use of masks in public. retweeting a post from a conservative web site claiming that masks aren't about public health but about social control. undermining his own surgeon general. >> as the country begins to reopen, don't forget to where a cloth face covering when in public. >> and deny entry to customers who don't wear them in stores says governor cuomo. >> we have the store owners the right it say if you're not wearing a mask, you can't come in. that store owner has a right to protect himself. that store owner has a right to protect the other patrons in that store. >> as the u.s. hits 100,000 death, the white house has sidelined its own coronavirus

task force, sharply reducing the number of meetings and news conferences for health experts like dr. anthony fauci who has contradicted the president on his race to reopen the country. >> one of the things that i think people out there frol inning into realize, that when you do that, and you see no negative effect in, one week, please don't be overconfident because the effect of spreading is not going to be seen for two, three, and maybe even more weeks. >> the president is trying to change the subject, threatening to take action against social media companies after twitter added a fact check label to a tweet on voter fraud. >> i guess it will be challenged in court. >> the white house saying that is not necessary as the press always tries to tell the truth despite a long history of false and misleading the president. >> are you skaying he doesn't lie to the public. >> i'm around the president. his intent is to give truthful information to the american people. >> the unrest in minneapolis,

following the killing of george floyd in police custody, vowing the administration will seek justice. >> that was a very bad thing that i saw. i saw it last night and i didn't like it. >> do you think the police officers should be prosecuted? >> i am not going to make any comment and what i saw was not good, very bad. >> as for the mixed signals on the virus, drug hydroxychloroquine was touted as a treatment for koefb, one day after dor anthony fauci said it is not an effective treatment for the virus. and president trump said he would shut down the legal platform if key do so legally. obviously, he can't. jim acosta, cnn, the newsroom. >> we will take a short break. we'll be right back. [female narrator] a message for children:

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u.s. president donald trump says he is holding a news conference on china in the coming hours. not only is he blaming beijing for the coronavirus pandemic, his top diplomat is telling congress that hong kong no longer enjoys a high degree of autonomy from beijing. china's parliament has now approved a highly contentious national security law in hong kong. critics say it undermines the one country, two systems, framework. a british diplomat says u.n. security council will also meet privately in the coming hours. cnn's christy lou stout is standing by for us in hong kong. let's begin with that reaction. you got u.s., uk, carrie lam now spe speaking out on foreign interference. what are you hearing? >> after the passage of the national security legislation during the national people's conference, pressure is building and the pressure point is hong kong. all eyes now on the united states.

ther in particular, u.s. president donald trump and what will be his next move after his secretary of state mike pompeo made that declaration to congress, saying that hong kong is no longer autonomous. more than just words. that opens up the door to significant potential u.s. action, including the united states possibly revoking the special trade status of hong kong, which would jeopardize billions of dollars worth of trade between china and the u.s. all eyes, also, on the uk. british government right now is considering a citizenship path for 300,000 hong kong residents, unless china scraps that controversial national security law. now, this citizenship path would only be available to those hong kong residents who have the bno pass port or a british national overseas passport, which is something they would have registered for at the time of the handover in 1997. earlier today, carrie lam, the

top leader of hong kong, issued this. it was published in virtually every single newspaper, with the exception of the apple daily, which is of course owned by the pro-democracy media mogul. and in it, she is urging hong kongers to accept the national security legislation but she also condemns external forces. there is a line in there. she says external forces have intensified their interference in hong kong's internal affairs. beijing, at the moment, is hashing at the details of this just-passed, controversial legislation. we know it will allow the minister of state security to enforce this law, which many critics feel will heavily curtail freedoms here. back to you. >> i was going to ask you what the chances would be of beijing budging. i imagine the answer is zero. but what is going to be the reaction or the likely reaction of the protest movement, which is fought literally so hard over the last year. >> they have. and they fought so hard and, at this moment, their options are very limited. so their only option right now

is relying on international pressure. and appealing to international leaders, lawmakers, in the uk, the u.s. appealing to donald trump to intensify their pressure on beijing. we heard from jimmy lye earlier in the week who has called for donald trump to, quote, stand with hong kong. earlier today, joshua took to twitter again saying this. he said, quote, all eyes on the u.s. president tomorrow. let's see what happens. it seems international pressure and donald trump's next move. that's, basically, the only leverage, the main leverage, that the hong kong protest movement has right now. back to you. >> china. the mainland, obviously, seems emboldened that they can do this without much blowback. it's going to be interesting how that unfolds. christy lou stout in hong kong. we will check in with you later. thanks so much and thank you for watching cnn "newsroom." i'm michael holmes. i will be back with more news, though. don't go away.

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this is cnn breaking news. >> and welcome to our viewers joining us from all around the world. i am michael holmes and right now we are following breaking news out of the united states, anger boiling over in minnesota. dozens of other buildings as well. thousands of demonstrators flooding the streets, demanding justice for george floyd. a black man, who died in police custody. the mayor has declared a local emergency unsurprisingly. now, in nearby st. paul, fires have broken out as stores are being looted. police have responded to protestors with teargas and