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"cnn newsroom" starts right now. for more than two weeks we heard almost every grim detail how george floyd died, a death at the hands of police which was both cavalier and cruel. on tuesday at a memorial service in houston, texas we got to know more about george floyd's life. he was larger-than-life in many ways and now in death he's a symbol of racial injustice embraced by so many around the world. ♪ after an emotional celebration filled with music and tributes he was laid to rest. his body taken by horse drawn carriage to a final resting place. crowds chanting say his name and we will breathe. it wasn't just family members. many prominence figures also calling for action. >> you call your cab he net in

trying to figure out how it will affect your vote rather than it will affect our lives. . you're screaming how you can spin the story rather than you can achieve justice wickedness in high places. you take rubber bullets and tear gas to clear out peaceful protesters and then take a bible and walk in front of a church and use a church as a prop. wickedness in high places. you ain't been walking across that street when the church had been boarded up. you weren't holding no bible when aurorea borealis aurorea borealis was killed in brunswick. when taylor was killed in

louisville. wickedness in high places. >> this funeral for george floyd saw friends and family grieving. loss of a father and a brother. at times a political rally demanding change in the justice system, change in the white house amid tears and laugh the terrify. many talked about this being a moment, a turning point in the u.s. long painful history of race relations. ♪ >> reporter: a fourth and final farewell for george floyd, a man whose death has sparked new life into a movement. his family members breaking down in front of his casket just before his body was sealed inside forever. >> let justice run down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. >> i love you. and i thank god for giving me my own personal superman.

>> no more hate crimes, please. so i said make america great again but what has america ever been great? >> we must micommit to this am, all family that until these people pay for what they did we will be with them because lives like george will not matter until somebody pays the cost for taking their lives. . >> unlike most, we must grieve in person and it's a burden. a burden that's now your purpose to change the world for the better and then george floyd. >> reporter: among the 500 family and friends inside the church the black american families who know their pain all too well. their children killed by police

too. the families of ferguson's michael brown. new york's eric gardner. attended the services offering their support. protests around the country pushing cities around the nation to consider police reform after two weeks of nationwide demonstrations. the houston police chief himself demanding reform from the inside out. >> the community recognizes bad policing when they see it and there's still too many instance where bad policing is tolerated. we need to just say no. >> reporter: the houston mayor going further announcing at floyd's funeral a ban on chokeholds. >> we'll ban chokeholds in this city. we will require de-escalation. >> reporter: in minneapolis a judge approved a restraining order to stop police there from using neck restraints and

chokeholds. in new york a promise by the mayor to cut some police funds and move them to outayouth and social services. back in texas a procession following floyd's casket to its final resting place. his body to be laid to rest next to his mother whom he cried out for in his final moments. the floyd family has been on a three city so jump and held their heads up high in four memorials. they are finally able to say a final good-bye as george floyd's body is buried next to his mother, the last mile he was taken in a horse drawn carriage so that the public could also say their final good by. sara sidner, houston. >> the u.s. president is expected to unveil plans for national police reform after two weeks of protest over george floyd's death but you wouldn't know that if you look at his

tweet feed. the president has been spreading a conspiracy theory about a 75-year-old man who was knocked down by police saying the protester could have been an antifa. >> the officers involved have been suspended and charged with assault. his attorney responded, we're at a loss why the president would make an untrue accusation. longtime friend of that protest lashing out the at the president's marks. he's bothered by mr. trump's tweet and says his friend has now become a victim twice over. >> victim of police brutality on

that video. that was painful. this morning he was the victim of presidential brutality and that was very surreal. i want people to know this is not, you know, an anonymous person. this is someone i have known for 13 years. this is a man who is 75 years old. not in very good health. a very kind man. a very funny man. he's not an agent of the deep state. i promise you he does not know how to turn his cell phone into some kind of, you know, hi-tech james bond device. >> republicans are struggling to respond to public anger and demands for police reform as well. lawmakers tried to talk about the president's respiratory theory and some ignored it. >> the president said he could be an antia provocateur.

>> what we said is what we think is the appropriate response to the last few weeks. >> i didn't see it. i'm sure that i'll get a copy of it. >> what do you make of the president's tweet the this morning? >> i saw that he's fallen and so -- >> i just saw the tweet. i know nothing of the episode. >> it shouldn't be surprising in general because he tweets a lot. >> i just read the tweet. i don't know the reference point. >> it doesn't shock me it comes out often. >> as i said, we're discussing in the senate republican conference what response we think is appropriate to the events of the last two weeks. now since these protests again two weeks ago mr. trump has not said a lot about police reform other than ordering the national guard to withdraw from washington after it was called in to push protesters back while

the president staged one of the most awkward photo ops in front of a local church. the attorney general said the president couldn't stand idly by. extreme voting delays in the state of georgia primary election led to an investigation why georgia's secretary of state and state house speaker. fulton county home with a large number of voters kept polls open until 9:00 p.m. another 10:00 p.m., three hours. the primary was delayed twice because of the pandemic. some prospective voters left early. one precinct was reported to have only two working voting machines. the long lines and few volunteer workers are as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. the reality we're seeing in georgia today is a function of

the covid situation in large part. we did lose many polling places because it's summer time, cools are closed, clurch churches op. in fulton county, they lost 40 precincts. we said this is not a good idea. you need to find other alternative locations. those kind of polling closures and things you're discussing are county decisions. they are made at the county level and state has zero ability to tell them not to do this. this secretary of state introduced a bill if there are lines over an hour, over 2,000 people registered at a polling place you need to split that polling place or supply more machines. we saw today too was as an example in fulton county, my home county at a library there were 15 machines that were sent there but what the rules of covid spacing only allowed four voters at a time in those place. trying to get poll workers trained because we lost the majority of our poll workers,

the average age is 70. we recruited new poll workers that they had to train during covid. very difficult to do, hand on training with equipment when you can get more than ten people in a room. >> georgia's secretary of state says the investigation will try to resolve all of these issues before november's presidential election. you're watching "cnn newsroom". still to come george floyd's death sparked a global movement against racial injustice. coming up we'll speak to an expert about the roots of racism here in the united states. robinhood believes now is the time to do money.

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come out and march in the streets the at the risk of our health, you would have took your knee off his neck because you thought his neck didn't mean nothing. all sharpton there delivering an emotional eulogy at george floyd's funeral service in texas on tuesday. the world didn't hear about george floyd 15 days but now he's a symbol of global injustice. it's breathing new life into black lives matter movement. tuesday was a final farewell to floyd. >> this guy that you've known for so long, and you want to celebrate him in almost a private moment, but yet you have to share him with the world. and so just seeing the energy and emotions that were out there, it was almost good for me to celebrate and bid a farewell

to my friend. >> i know at some point the last minutes of his life ahmaud arbery thought of me himself. ahmaud, i knew he cried out for me as well. i stand with all other mothers who lost their sons to these types of events we do demand change. we can't lose another life to such tragedy. something has to change. >> i appreciate today that the focus was on george and. that george was just a normal person. he was an every day person. he wasn't a celebrity. he wasn't a politician. he was just another guy and. it struck -- we throw this term around but there's a genocide in our community. >> joining us from new york is staff writer with the "new york

times" magazine and creator of the 1619 project which re-examines the legacy of slavery in the united states. thank you for being with us. >> thank you for having me. >> right now centuries statues confederate leaders are coming down. this is a symbolic gesture. is it too soon to call that watershed moment in the united states? >> i never want to predict how we'll view things that are occurring right now but it certainly feels like a watershed moment. this will be a moment no matter what ultimately comes from this that's remembered in history. we're seeing the longest stretch of protests probably since the 1960s, protests in every state in the country, the multiracial nature of the protests and, yes, i think of the picture of the

two black balance lerinas standt the robert e. lee statue in richmond, the statue of the racist mayor of philadelphia that is being taken down and quo be having a watershed moment. it's a symbolic reckoning. that's important. that's why we erect monuments to people but i hope it goes further than symbolism. >> al sharpton talked about america's racist history. it's the name of the man who owned his grandfather. here he is. >> that's how deep race is that every time i write my name i'm writing american history of what happened to my people. i can't talk about what my

great-grandparents did. they were enslaved. and we're still being treated less than others. and until america comes to terms with what it has done and with what it did, we will not be able to hear because you're not recognizing the wound. >> that particular chapter of american history some white people may be aware of it but not confronted by it multiple times a day. al sharpton until there's a recognize of the past can this country address the problems of racism and the troubles of the present? >> no. this has been long-standing issue in america. this sense of denial how foundational slavery and anti-black racism is to the united states. one of the thing we hear all the time black people in this country, slavery was a longtime ago but get over it. but it's clear this country hasn't got over it. our modern policing is fears of

black men that is used to justify these killings was born out of slavery in trying to control a population that wanted to be free. we have never dealt with the sin of slavery or the 100 years of legal apartheid and racial terrorism that fold and because of that we're in the circumstance that we are in the united states today. >> what's interest field goal you look at these past moments with martin luther king, these days vast americans talk about him pride. fbi honored martin luther king. same fbi which described king like this back in 1963, we must mark him now if we have not done so before as the most dangerous negro of the future in this nation from the standpoint of communism the negro and national

security. so at this moment we're currently living in becomes a major point in history would you expect some degree of whitewashing like they did with dr. king's past and doesn't that indicate some kind of problem is still there. >> if history holds true we'll find after a while, after tolerance runs out there will be an effort to suppress the movement and then co-opt the movement. we've seen that again and again. most white americans probably have never read the entire "i have a dream" speech nor read most of dr. king's speeches. by 1967 he was writing speeches about the fundamentally racist nature of this country, arguing that most white americans were actually very content to keep the racial hierarchy in place. he was the the most hated man in america and the majority of white americans opposed dr. king. of course, he was ultimately assassinated.

so, yes, this is, i think, what a lot of people fear is we have these kind of revolutionary periods where enough white americans believe that we have, you know, gone too far and we need to actually work toward our founding ideas and equality but that attention is very fleeting then we tend to see followed by a period of retrenchment and backlash. a majority of americans believe the fight for equalate necessary fight. this is not something that can change overnight or can to be done overnight, it's taken us literally centuries to get to this point and if we're going to actually become a country that we present to the world, we're going to have to learn to treat the most marginalized people in our society as full citizens and we haven't done that yet. >> thank you so much. we appreciate you being with us. >> thank you. up next, recommending a

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comment about how the virus actually spread. it now says it's possible for people without symptoms to transmit the virus after saying on monday that such cases were very rare. >> it still appears to be rare that an asymptomatic individual transmits onward. what we really want to be focused on is following the symptomatic case. if we follow the symptomatic cases because this is a respiratory pathogen. >> some people can transmit the virus on. what we need to better understand is how many of the people in a population don't have symptoms and separately how many of those individuals go on to transmit to others. and so what i was referring to yesterday in the press conference were a very few studies. >> now for more on the

coronavirus is an emergency medicine physician that's with us from napperville, illinois. good to see you. let's start off with dr. fauci, leading expert on infectious diseases. he has a grim outlook for the fpd and a warning we'-- preside from end. >> we have something that turned out the be my worst nightmare, something that's highly transmissible in a period if you just think about it, in a period of four months it has devastated the world. it isn't over yet. >> he went on, it was a fairly stark warning and what we're looking at in the united states vast majority of people are ignoring what he's saying. >> it's interesting. i make the analog to doctors every where and dr. fauci the responsibility and the burden we bear when we're making

recommendations to a patient or to many patients in general is that we have to always paint what could be the gravest picture, that is the burden we have, that's our responsibility. i look at dr. fauci as kind of the general of all doctors right now even though he's infectious disease this is the primary medical problem in the world. he's doing what i would do. he's painting the most grim picture and he's starkly warning people who are not subscribing to social distancing and protective masks and that sort of thing and i'm telling you this could be the worse case scenario. make your own decision with that understanding in mind. and so long as i think he knows that people have the most facts, i think he feels he's doing his job correctly. >> fauci was optimistic about a vaccine. he said billions of doses of a vaccine will be produced enough

for the whole world he said fairly soon too. we've been in the group of this pandemic for a few months. this country can produce enough toilet paper. a vaccine will be more complicated. so that's something i find hard to believe at this point. >> it's interesting, this whole thing with the vaccines and how american industry works, it's lost on all of us. you can produce 20,000 the teslas a day but we cannot produce enough toilet paper or n-95 masks for myself and my colleagues. i just don't know. we're too low on the totem pole to know how those decisions are made. with the vaccine it's a bit the

strange with me. i'll the tell you why. if this novel coronavirus that produces covid-19 if it's like the four milder coronavirus we've seen for years it will come back and a vaccine may be pertinent. if it turns out to be something like sars 1 or mers, then a vaccine won't be important at all, and really retrospectively we'll be able to make that determination in 2021 when we look back and see if it reared its head ever again. >> maybe it will eventual kill itself. but looking the at the latest research, how to and how not to live a lockdown, apparently, taking the band aid off approach runs a big surge in infections. the ultimate strategy is to release half of the population two to four weeks after infection peak, keep as much

social distancing as possible then wait another three to four months to state second peak pass before releasing the second group. researchers added the need for widespread testing to modern infection rates. at the end of the day here in the u.s. that's all over and done with. are we getting ready for the next lock down? >> you're right. look at the protests. the protests are a singular piece of evidence and just everything that flies in the face of that strategy. america cannot be harnessed. it cannot be harbor he inned. it cannot be tamed. this untimely event for mr. floyd has really pushed the envelope for any kind of distancing. this is a merger and intersection of quarantine fatigue and people just tired of breaking away from their normal day-to-day and what america stands for and how social we are. in addition to the outrage over these, over these senseless

deaths. under the hands of authorities. i think that this absolutely flies in the face of those recommendations and then finally if we did follow those recommendations, would we really surge. that's a whole point of social contention. >> yeah. it is a difficult question and one which this country has not dealt with well at all. thank you so much. good to see you. >> thank you. a non-essential retail sector in england five days away from opening in business. pubs and restaurants could open as early as next month. here's the secretary of state for business. >> i know there's been a lot of speculation about when we might be able to re-open the pubs, the economy. i completely under why we're so keen to get them back up and running and i absolutely share the enthusiasm. we continue to follow the road map which sets out our ambition to open these sectors at the 4th

of july at the jerusalearliest. in the meantime we'll support businesses so they are ready to bounce back and play their part in the economic recovery. >> cnn is live in london. scott we're looking at the restriction of easing, we have england, scotland, wales and northern ireland doing their own thing. what are we looking at? >> reporter: this latest easing of restrictions applies to england as you mentioned earlier. ireland, scotland, wales are on different timeline. the uk recorded 1400 new coronavirus cases and 300 new deaths in the last 24 hours. as you mentioned it has also announced these eases of restrictions. non-essential retail outlets, clothing stores or electronic

shops can re-open on moan provided they follow social distancing guidelines and sanitation requirements as well. also zoos, outdoor attractions, drive-in theaters, things like that will be allowed to re-open with restrictions. as you heard from the business secretary, the goal here is to make sure that's not a second spike in infections which is why barbershops, pub, restaurants won't be opening until next month he at the earliest. the reality is the urk has taken a much different approach to these eases of restrictions than other similarly hard-hit countries especially in europe. take spain, for example. when it was at a similar stage when it had similar number of deaths and infections about a month ago it was much more cautiously re-opening. it was only starting to re-open little by little in some remote islands which had very few cases. similarly italy when it was at a similar stage the end of april beginning of may, it was also much more cautious even requiring people to wear masks

in public space. in the uk here they are only requiring masks starting on monday on public transportation. the enforcement of this has been lax in comparison. case in point starting on monday a few days ago they started requiring incoming travel stories quarantine for 14 days but the enforcement mechanism of that was not an in person spot check, will not be an in person spot check unless they have evidence there's a violation. generally it will only be a phone call to make sure people are complying with that mandatory quarantine. >> interesting times there in england and london. zoos and safari parks are opening up. scott, thank you. the virus is still aggressively spreading through latin america. mexico cases are continuing to spike as well. however the w.h.o. is now saying that country is nearing its

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military preparedness, making what some u.s. military experts perceive to be power moves on multiple front. >> american military in the pacific is approaching this as a very significant, growing security throat our interests in the region. wasn't good reason. >> reporter: a chinese military expert is even warning that the direct conflict is possible between china and the u.s. >> the two sides -- such confrontation might lead to spiraling tension. >> reporter: china is flexing its military muscle, trying its new aircraft carrier at sea a few weeks ago and last year parading its latest missile technology through beijing. president xi jinping addressed china's national people's congress last month. saying china should

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allege china harassed foreign vessels. what's happened out there in recent months is most alarming to the u.s., its allies and other asian countries. they he see it as china using this moment when other countries are distracted with their own coronavirus outbreaks to being increasingly aggressive. to counter chinese claims the u.s. navy has conducted multiple freedom of navigation exercises in the sea in recent months as well as sailing through the taiwan strait. those exercises show it is the u.s. provoking china. he suggests while china has no desire for concollect the chinese will protect its sovereignty at all costs. >> thank you very much. >> reporter: especially as president donald trump tries to win re-election.

>> hine has unlawfully claimed territory in the pacific ocean, threatening freedom of navigation and international trade. >> reporter: experts are now calling for a channel for new yorkers to ease the tensions between the two sides. but that seems increasingly unlikely. >> the u.s.-china relationship is without question the most critical, the most important bilateral relationship that we have in the world and right now it's broken. >> reporter: a complete sensiti could set the two world powers in confrontation at sea. >> when we come back, growing up black. young african-americans are speaking out. your heart loves megared omega-3s but did you know your eyes, brain, and joints love them too? megared 4in1

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been great? >> in the past two weeks as ever which state in the u.s. saw protests and outrage over the killing of george floyd the only comment from president trump was to call his death a great tragedy. he was notably absent from tuesday's funeral service and made no comment about it on tuesday. the president said little about uniting the nation or providing calm. all of that has toledo a lot of criticism of the president and his apparent silence. >> i don't expect this guy in the white house to say anything to heal the nation. he's incapable of doing this. i don't know why we're wasting time expecting him to do something that's not in his heart, that's not in his spirit. and there's a very short phrase, deeds not words. you talk all you want, but what

your deeds show who you are. and i don't know why we're having a discussion about what type of person this guy is. >> he's just a divider. he's not even came out and said what they did to mr. floyd was wrong. that's all he had to do. he goes off on these tangents about antifa and the protesters and the rioters. he's never come out with human decency and said hey we can't have a man killed on national television right before our eyes. >> i always want to connect the police power and police crimes with the wall street power and the wall street crimes. we live in a culture where people feel they can do and say anything without no answerability, no responsibility. we saw on wall street in terms with that insider trading and

fraudulent activity. how many went to jail? zero. trump, say anything, do anything, they can get away with it. >> african-americans have been sharing their own experiences with cnn when it comes to racism. here's how they describe what it's like growing up black in america. >> growing up black in america is painful and oppressive. every day i feel as though things just are not changing. i constantly see people who look like me being murdered solely for the fact that they have dark is in. >> i wish my black life mattered. i'mhausted i'm constantly proving my worth. >> i'm scared. not only do i have to worry about a global pandemic. i have to worry if i can return home from a job. you know. at first it was gangs.

and that kind of died down. but now the biggest gang is the police. >> i have this constant fear that one day my name will be added to that list. >> growing up black in america is to be exhausted, outraged and constantly defending my identity and my purpose. >> it means having to explain unfortunately experiences of my people in my predominantly white school. >> i'm grateful to live through this history because i know that things can only go up from here. >> i realize that my hair and my skin complexion make me who i am. that's what makes me beautiful. i refuse to let anybody define who i am. being black in america is empowering yourself. you have to be brave because you

have to know we have a commune standing behind you. >> growing up black in america is being aware that even in our times of bewilderment and adversity that we dig deep down and find our strength and resiliency for those things are rooted in the pain, the cries and the prayers of our ancestors. >> thank you for watching "cnn newsroom". i'm john vause. "early start" with roms roms and laura jarrett is up next after a short break. these folks don't have time to go to the post office

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no strings attached. just say "peacock" into your voice remote to start watching today. demand for racial reform. most republicans are silent after a trump tweet that even by the president's standards was hideous. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. the this is "early start". i'm christine romans. >> i'm laura jarrett. it's 5:00 a.m. in new york. the real test of whether george floyd's killing can change the world begins today. protests sparked by his death are now in their third week. the movement for police reform will be seen