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joining us here in the united states. i'm rosemary church in atlanta. u.s. president donald trump signed an executive order on policing tuesday. his first concrete steps to address a growing national outcry over police brutality. but the proposals fall short of what many were calling for. and his initially unifying remarks turned combative and defensive. jim acosta reports from the

white house. >> reporter: offering up little more than new guidelines aimed at ending police brutality president trump let loose on protesters who marched in the streets across the u.s. since the brutal killing of george floyd. >> i strongly oppose the radical measures to dismantle our police department. americans demand law and order. they may not say it, may not talking about it but that's what they want. >> reporter: the president down played police misconduct insisting only a small amount of rogue officers are to blame. >> they are very tiny. i use the word tiny. a small percentage. >> reporter: the executive order urges police department to improve their practices. on the controversial use of police chokeholds the executive order recommends that the state or local law enforcement agencies use-of-force policies prohibit the use of chokeholds. except in those situation where the use of deadly force is

allowed bylaw. despite the fact that his own administration violently cleared lafayette square earlier this month, the president argued the country should be more unified. >> what's needed now is not more stoking fear and division, we need to bring law enforcement and communities closer together not to drive them apart. >> reporter: civil rights activists were disappointed. >> i didn't have a chance to take a look, but based on what i heard i'm disappointed. i think it is a slap in the face of everyone who has been out protesting around the world for the past several weeks. >> reporter: president used the speech to tout the latest numbers on wall street. >> the stock market went through the roof. we're getting close to the level we were before the pandemic, and before all of the things that you have seen happen happened. >> reporter: mr. trump said former president obama did not

attempt to reform police practices but that's not true. obama released his own proposals more than five years ago. >> obama and biden never even tried to fix this during their eight year period. the reason they didn't try is because they had no idea how to do it. and it is a complex situation. >> reporter: president's event was notable for another reason as few officials wore masks despite the current pandemic. traveling in iowa vice president mike pence also decided to forego a mask as he sat down for lunch inside a restaurant and toured on a factory. >> i would encourage you all as we talk about these things make sure to continue to explain to your citizens the magnitude of increasing testing in most of

the case as where we are seeing some marginal rising number that's more as a result of the extraordinary work you are doing in testing. >> if we stop testing we would have few case physician any. >> reporter: vice president pence posted an op-ed saying there won't be a conwave of the coronavirus even though public health experts are warning that it will happen. president trump will have a rally on saturday but oklahoma wants the president and attendees to take some precautions. i spoke with a former police chief about mr. trump's new reforms just a short time ago. he's also the former president of the police foundation. so, president trump responded to calls from across the nation for police reforms by signing this executive order tuesday.

what was your reaction to those proposals? >> well, i think they were pretty modest as your reporter had said. they were symbolic and that's important. most people don't really understand how little power the president has over local policing in the united states or even congress has over the united states. there are a couple of important parts of what he did today, that if, in fact, they come to fruition, then i think those will be important and those being accreditation and database. >> critics say the reforms don't go far enough and won't satisfy calls from across the nation for meaningful change and accountability when it comes to police brutality that targets people of color. what do you say to that? >> i think there's some truth to that. i don't think this was intended to do that. again, what he's proposing are

modest reforms. many of the things that are included in that executive order have been spoken about before and de-escalation training, use-of-force training is not new in american policing. again, when i said about the databases for accreditation process i think is very important especially when you talk about the inability of police chiefs and sheriffs across the united states to easily check whether an officer can be an officer from another state had problems and this idea of accrediting police departments nationwide with one similar accreditation tool makes a lot of sense. that's the national coherence on policing is lacking. >> as a result of the horrific images of the killing of george floyd and the fatal shooting of rayshard brooks at the hands of police we're now hearing calls to defund the police, which would mean, of course, reallocating some of those funds

to community organizations. would that be a smarter way to deal with some of these situations? >> well, i think we're getting a little hung up on this term defunding, and taking money from the police to fund some alternative approach to this. what i think is important here is we need to narrow the mission of the police. the police have never wanted to be the first responders of mental illness, drug addiction or homelessness. in the united states that's just who we have given that to. state legislatures abdicated their responsibility on this. whether we're moving money from the police and that may or may not be problematic depending on how you do that is not the issue. what is the issue is somebody other than the police need be the first responders to those kinds of situations so that you remove the opportunity for a tragic outcome to occur. >> right. presumably by moving those funds you would actually change those

responsibilities of the police, right? so how much time is spent teaching police to diffuse situations rather than inflame them and would that be a better way to train police going forward? >> well, i think you have to train police. regardless of who is going to be first responder to those kind of situations you have to train police in that and it varies from state to state. we have 50 different policing models in the united states, at least, just based on the state laws in each different state. in most of those states if not all of them de-escalation is already taught. this is not new in the field of policing. this has been going on for quite a while. so, even if we have de-escalation training, even if the officers are trying to de-escalate a situation, removing them from that situation in the first place is probably as if not more effective than simply training them to do these things. because they don't have full

control of the situations. the people they are dealing with have some control over that based on their own behavior and how they react to officers. >> there has been considerable resistance to police reform in the united states. but many people watching what's happening now on the streets believe that it's different this time around. they believe there is a move in the right direction, even if it is slow. do you think there will be changes, there will be accountability on the part of police, and there will be reform that is meaningful eventual? >> i believe there will be more accountability and more reform, absolutely. i'm very concerned despite all the things we're talking about and i'm supportive of almost all of these reform suggestions we're working around the margins of this problem. at some point this country has got to say the cessation of

killings by the police whether justified or not need to be a national imperative just lying in the '60s when president kennedy said by the end of the decade we're going to go the moon and we did, somebody at our national level has got to say by the end of this decade we will stop all police killings. by stopping all of them we will stop the ones that are, even if they are justified are still bad and tragic. all police killings are tragic on some level. we have to find a way to stop them and. think differently and not incrementally. >> thank you so much for talking with us. appreciate it. we'll take a short break. people in the u.s. are in vacation mode with many heading to beaches and flouting coronavirus guidelines. we'll have details how this is affecting the count of new case. cnn spends a day inside

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in the united states, vice president mike pence is down playing the current risk of the coronavirus, even as at least 18 states are now seeing an increase in cases. and as states relax covid-19 restrictions there's new concern the numbers will continue to climb. cnn's nic watt has the details. >> we're not shutting down. we're going to go forward. we'll continue to protect. >> reporter: florida's governor defiant in the face of climbing case counts. wnba and nba hope to play all their seasons games in the sunshine state. the republican national committee will hold its convention in jacksonville. >> he at the beginning of march the median age of every positive case was 65.5. last week you had a lot of cases, the median age was 37. >> reporter: today texas reported its highest daily case count, its governor says some counties also seeing more younger people testing positive.

>> hard to tell exactly where those people contracted covid. they could be memorial day celebrations. >> reporter: arkansas just upped the number of people allowed inside bars and restaurants even though the average daily case count has doubled in just two weeks. >> certainly states that did not strictly follow the guidelines that we put out. >> reporter: meanwhile cheap and plentiful steroid reduced the death by one-third in covid-19 patients on ventilators during a study in england. >> this is huge news. we do need to validate these results and also people need to keep in mind this is for very ill patients. >> reporter: masks are and will continue to be key. some airlines say they will ban passengers who won't near one. nancy pelosi might make it mandatory at house committee meetings. masks aren't mandatory for those close to the president.

or at saturday's maga rally in tulsa where they are looking to add an overflow venue. >> in the state of oklahoma we've seen a tremendous amount of progress. >> reporter: cases now climbing sharply in oklahoma and despite a similar worrying trend in arkansas -- >> the response is not passing a mandate. they need to wear a mask but we're asking for individual social responsibility and to do the right thing. that's what arkansas is about. >> reporter: the message as they re-open, we're going to re-open, but you will all need to try to keep safe. the governor of kentucky said they will open swimming pools at the end of the month and everybody needs to remember covid-19 is still out there, it spreads aggressively and can be deadly. nic watt, cnn, los gatos.

>> for more i'm joined by the director of the harvard global health institute. thank you, doctor, for talking with us. >> thank you. >> so, preliminarily finding from researchers in the uk suggest the steroid drug, dexamethasone, may help treat the sickest covid-19 patients who require ventilation or oxygen but you have cautioned against getting too excited about this. why? >> yes. so on one hand this is an exciting finding but all we have right now is a press release. we really don't have the data. now the researchers are excellent and i have a lot of faith, but faith is not the same thing as evidence and so we do need to see the actual paper, the manuscript, the peer review. assuming it all pans out we should be enthusiastic because dexamethasone may be the first drug that truly reduces the death rate of covid-19 and that would being a great, indeed.

>> absolutely. of course we are seeing a lot of these press releases coming out without the data and the methodology. why are we seeing so much of that? is that because we're in the midst of a pandemic and people want answers and want them quickly? >> yeah. that's right. and i'm very sympathic to getting information out quickly. the problem is that it wouldn't take that much more time, probably a couple more days to just put together the tables and figures and the basic data and basic methodology so that researchers and experts could evaluate the data. i've just been disappointed that in study after study it's been a one page press release that we're all left to puzzle over and try to sort out whether, you know, whether the press releases adequate enough to really change practice or not. >> understood. doctor as covid-19 cases continue to rise in about 18 states, prediction from closely

watched model of the university of washington suggests the u.s. could see more than 200,000 deaths from the coronavirus by the beginning of october. of course, you also predicted that same outcome. how bad could this get and how inevitable is a second wave despite vice president pence insisting there will be no second wave, even trying to declare an to end the coronavirus. >> you know, i appreciate vice president's desire to put the pandemic behind us and while many americans want to believe that we are done with the pandemic, the problem is the pandemic is not done with us. unfortunately, it's still in the early days. and i'm expecting 20 to 30,000 deaths a month in the united states moving forward. 200,000 deaths probably by september or early october and then even then we won to be d e done. we'll have a long way to go.

what i've been saying to my fellow americans and policymakers if we don't want to end up with hundreds of thousands of deaths across the country by the time this whole thing is over, we've got change course and really move towards suppressing this virus. >> and, doctor, with that being said i do want to bring out some images of president trump signing his executive order on police reform measures tuesday and he, of course, we see no effort at all to socially distance or to wear masks. we saw the same images from vice president pence not wearing a mask and suggesting as we just said that the spike in cases was due to better testing, even going so far as to falsely delayer the coronavirus over. so that's the message the trump administration is trying to send. how dangerous could this be? >> yeah. i think this is very risky. first of all, the way the president and vice president behaved is models for how other people who follow the president

and vice president will also behave. we know that we want to get this virus under control, social distancing, mask wearinger and then testing and tracing and isolation are really the main strategies we have to the extent that the leadership of our government downplays those strategies, we're really creating the environment for more spikes in cases, and ultimately and i worry about this, having to go to another shut down which no one wants but if we don't be responsible that's where we'll find ourselves. >> you're saying for us to lead a normal life while we're waiting for the elusive vaccine, wear a mask. >> absolutely. this is really puzzling to me there's a lot of people who say masks infringe on my freedom. i think no, no. masks give you freedom. if you wear masks, if you social distance, if there's adequate

testing in your community that gives you the freedom to go about your daily business, to go to work, to go to school, to do the things that matter to you. it's striking so many americans decided the line of freedom they want to focus on is wearing the mask or not as opposed to all the things that matter in our lives. it's puzzling and i'm pretty clear, the evidence is clear people should be wearing masks and social distancing. >> such an easy fix. thank you so much for joining us. >> thanks so much. and coming up, more heated rhetoric between north and south korea. a day after pyongyang blew up a jointly son office. we'll have a live report next. get a 4-week trial plus postage and a digital scale go to stamps.com/tv and never go to the post office again.

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welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and across all around the world. i'm rosemary church live from cnn center iran atlanta. south korea is pushing back against north korea's military threats after the north blew up a jointly son offi-- joint liai office used for talks. pyongyang said it plans to redeploy troops near the border and just in the past few hours south korea's unification minister has offered to resign saying he bears responsibility of worsening relations. kristie lu stout is covering the story for us from hong kong. she joins us now live. what do you make of this new development from south korea's unification minister to resign and take the blame for all of this. what might it signal?

>> reporter: it's a gesture but we'll see if that resignation is accepted. tension has spiked between north and south korea after the demolition of the liaison building. we've been following a flury of announcements from the north korean state agency. the north korean military plans to re-enter north korean enters in the dmz. north korea rejected the offer by south korea to send an envoy to diffuse tensions and this interesting long lengthy statement by the sister of kim jo jong-un. not only are the north's

recent words and actions no help to the north themselves but they will result in the north taking sole responsibility for all consequences derived from such actions. we especially hope the north keeps basic manners in the future. >> reporter: that's south korea attempting to match the harsh rhetoric we've been hearing the last week from north korea. look, all this tension is a slap in the face for the administration of the south korean government, a government that has really advocated engagement with north korea. it was just two years ago in 2018 where the world saw the incredible lineage of kim jong-un with moon. >> i want to take another look at that new footage from north korea of the destruction of the liaison office. i mean it is extraordinary, isn't it? what more can you tell us about this. >> reporter: it is extraordinary

image. it is video that is very dramatic, but, again, this incident, the demolition of an interkorean liaison office happened yesterday. we need to reiterate this was an empty office building. in the video we may see a four story concrete and glass structure topple to the ground with cloud of debris flying but no one was inside. no lives were taken. nevertheless this incident is highly symbolic. it symbolizes the deteriorating relationship between north and south. >> it certainly does. kristie lu stout joining us from hong kong. many thank to you. hundred of thousands of workers have been stuck at sea because of the coronavirus. sea farers who completed their contracts are unable to return home until they are replaced with another crew. cnn's ivan watson has more from off the waters of hong kong. >> reporter: this is the port of hong kong. it's one of the busiest shipping

terminals in the world. we're looking at enormous container ships that move in and out of here every day carrying thousands of containers full of cargo. you can compare this to the arteries of the global economy. but they've been under strain as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. and now that strain is likely to get even worse because one of the world's largest transport workers federations has now called on the people who work on these ships to stop working. at any given time there are hundreds of thousands of professional mariners known as sea farers out on the world's ocean operating cargo vessels like this. but when the coronavirus pandemic struck it virtually stopped the sea farers abilities to go home at the end of their months long work contract

because of travel restrictions and cancelled flights and nuvi is a regulations. now the international transport workers federation is calling on its members to stop extending their contracts and calling on its members to engaging work stoppage, to now demand to be sent home. executives in the shipping industry i've spoken with said they've never heard a work stoppage order like this in their entire careers. and it remains to be seen what kind of an impact this new motion could have on the world's global supply chains. ivan watson, cnn, off the coast of hong kong. >> professional sports leagues are finding their voice on racial injustice but some of the top athletes say it's too little too late. we will take a look at sports pivotal role in society.

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the trump administration is suing to stop the publication of a new book by former national security adviser john bolton. it's due out next week details bolton's tenure in the white house and its billed as an insiders rebuke of president trump's foreign policy. the lawsuit claims bolton breached nondisclosure agreements and that the book is rife with classified information. bolt bolton's attorney said the white house want to block the release purely for political reasons. professional sports in the u.s. have been on hold due to the coronavirus for ingenuous, and they are planning their return, but with racial and social justice the at the

forefront in america, many players say there are far bigger and more important issues to discuss before games resume. cnn's brian todd takes a look at sports pivotal role in our society. >> reporter: in a stunning reversal nfl commissioner roger goodell is now telling espn he supports the idea of an nfl team signing quarterback colin kaepernick. he's been black balled from the league since becoming the face of the league for taking a knee more than three years ago. >> i welcome the lub club to ma that decision. if his efforts is not on the field but continue to work in this space we welcome to that table. riot it comes on the heels of goodell admitting the league has been on the wrong side of racial issues for years. >> we at the national football league believe that black lives matter. >> reporter: nfl player and activist michael bennet called that statement almost like a slap in the face saying the

commissioner's shift on racial injustice and kaepernick are attempts at being politically correct. >> if he made the stance a couple of years ago, could we have stopped police violence, less death on american streets? at this point we're playing catch up. >> reporter: a prominent sports agent who does not represent colin kaepernick tells cnn kaepernick still good enough to play in the nfl. several teams need a player like him. roger goodell's word alone won't bring kaepernick back in the league. >> the commission certificate doing the right thing but the teams and owner have to follow his lead. >> reporter: but that's by no means a certainty. the nba now planning to resume its season in late july due to the covid pandemic is also split over how to handle the issues of racial injustice. dwight howard is with a faction of players who aren't ready to play yet. >> i just feel our people, we need attention. i really feel our world is

hurting right now. so much stuff going on in our world i just feel like, you know, we don't need to get distracted by anything. >> reporter: other players like austin rivers feels the league needs to resume. rivers saying on instagram the forum for which playing would provide and money they earn would allow players to give their time and energy to the blm movement. can these athletes bring about genuine change at this critical moment? >> jackie robinson, a hero. >> dr. martin luther king called jackie robinson a sit in before a sit in before sit ins and a freedom rider before freedom rider. muhammad ali was against the war before the country join him. athletes have played a tremendous role in pushing public consciousness forward. >> reporter: but the top sports leagues like the nfl have to get their own houses in order as well. he says we'll know they mean

business when we see things like colin kaepernick signed by a team which still hasn't happened and see more black head coaches in the nfl. at the moment there are only three out of 32 teams in a league where 70% of the players are african-american. brian todd, cnn, washington. a u.s. air force staff sergeant who is suspected in the killings of two officers in california, has links to an anti-government extremist group called the boogaloo movement. he's facing a murder charge in the may 29th drive by shooting of a federal protective services officer in oakland. he's also a suspect in the june 6th death of a santa cruz sheriff's deputy. investigators uncovered evidence tying him to the extremist group. >> there was a patch. the patch could be described as follows.

it had an american style flag with stripes like an american flag. but with some notable differences. one difference was that in the area where stars appear on an american flag there was instead the picture of an igloo. in addition, carillo used his own blood to write phrases on one of the cars he carjacked. the complaint alleges the patch and the phrases written by carillo are associated with this so-called bogaloo movement. >> investigators believe carillo used ghost gun which is a home made ar-15 type rifle. now to seattle, washington where the police chief is denying claims that officers have been instructed to avoid 911 calls in the city's capitol hill neighborhood also known as chaz or chop.

the area has been occupy since last week and all police were pulled out after tensions with protesters reached a boiling point. cnn spent a day in the neighborhood for an up close view of what's really going on. [ screaming ] >> we have a right to speak and speak what we want. >> our job is to share the space. >> the idea this is what society could be like without police. >> it's not as organized it to be. we want to show that people can police themselves. people can take care of themselves. >> reporter: this is the capitol hill autonomous zone, also known

as the chop or the chaz. a six block area being controlled by protesters after seattle police abandoned their east precinct. now police don't dare enter. and are under orders not to enter any cause in that zone unless there's a mass casualty. >> wow we're finally safe. we don't have to worry about police brutality. >> reporter: it wasn't always like this. chaz was born after violent clashes with police. >> i was about to get on my knees. we're unarmed. why do they feel threatened against us? >> reporter: the spd said this incident is under investigation. their policies say if law violations have occurred they

will take steps to address it. >> we don't want any police at all. >> everybody is peaceful man. >> reporter: how do you create the rules for chaz? >> there's leadership out here. we communicate the best we possibly can, right? it's human decency. is it always going to work? absolutely not. statistically, if you look at the amount of people here and the amount of viles that's occurring, so minimal that it reflects very positively on this experience. wi . this is as a result of elected officials that are failing to enforce the rule of law. if i go 50 yards to my west i wouldn't be allowed in there. i would be concerned about my safety. >> reporter: they say it's

peaceful and it's like a party in there. >> the report we have are people inside. i would love for you to stick around until 2:00 or 3:00 a.m. and see your footage and maybe you can see the unreasonable activism that's going on. >> reporter: okay. it's 2:30. what's the scene. >> people are going to camp out for the winding down. >> reporter: still a few burst of confusion and anger when a suspicious person comes through. still trying to figure out how to make their own law and order in a cop free world. >> the tragedy is to stay here and protest and be a demonstration. if the p.d. wants their precinct back, if they are keen to return and. not suppress our right to

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and it's, you know, it's hard. it's not like when i was working, if i don't have anything i just go the supermarket and right now, no. i don't have it. i come here to get the help in need. >> reporter: food banks are overwhelmed feeding 60% more people than they did last year including four in ten people who have never been to a food bank before the pandemic hit. the capital area food bank in washington, d.c. has seen a 400% increase, according to ceo. >> it's a whole new group of individuals who have been affected by this. people have lost their jobs within a matter of a week or two. >> reporter: this food bank could be facing a potential crisis moment of its own due to the enormity of the demand. >> you can see the empty shelves and racks we have. it's food coming in and then go out almost immediately.

so our inventory is at the lowest level that it has been in, gosh, decades. >> reporter: 75% of the food donations from retailers have stopped. that amounts to about 60% of its food now gone. they've had to purchase hundreds of truck loads of food themselves. >> in april alone we purchased about three times what we purchased the entire last year to be able to provide to individuals in our region. >> reporter: the coronavirus relief bill passed by congress in march set aside $850 million specifically to help food banks, but so far the usda says only $377 million of that has been given out. a usda spokesperson admits to cnn the roll out of funds has been slower than expected, in part because vendors have been low on supplies. but additional food is expected to start arriving at food banks this month.

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new signs that the coronavirus pandemic is far from over. florida, texas and arizona just set daily records for new cases. we could learn in a matter of hours about possible charges against the information atlanta police officer who killed rayshard brooks. welcome to you're viewers in the united states and around the world. this is "early start". i'm christine romans. >> i'm laura jarrett. it's wednesday, june 17th, 2020, 5:00 a.m. here