hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. you are watching "cnn newsroom" and i'm rosemary church. just ahead, a top trump administration official says the window is closing for the u.s. to get a handle on the spread of the coronavirus. a few states are recording their highest ever case numbers. the u.s. president denies being briefed about russian bounties on u.s. troops amid reports the attacks may have led to the deaths of service members. and more big name companies are pulling their ads from facebook to push the social network company to crack down on

hate speech. and we begin with a staggering and somber milestone in the global coronavirus pandemic as the death toll reaches 500,000 according to johns hopkins university, and around the world more than 10 million cases have now been recorded with some countries saying huge daily jumps in just the past week. the u.s. continues to lead the world in the number of infections and deaths from covid-19. only two states are seeing a decline in cases compared to last week. 36 states have reported a rise and with that jump comes growing calls for increased mask usage and greater social distancing.

the country's health secretary put it this way to cnn. >> this is a very, very serious situation and the window is closing for us to take action and get this under control. if we don't social distance, if we don't use face coverings in settings where we can't social distance, if we don't practice appropriate personal hygiene, we're going to see spread of disease. >> and there's new concern over an increase in cases involving younger people. america's top infectious disease expert has this warning. >> they don't realize that by their getting infected, it is likely they're going to infect someone else who will infect someone else who ultimately will infect a vulnerable person and then you have home hospitalizations and deaths. so like it or not, by getting infected yourself, you're not in a vacuum. you're part of the propagation of the dynamics of a pandemic.

so you have your own individual responsibility to protect yourself but you really do have a societal responsibility to be not part of the problem but to be part of the solution. >> and one state that's seen a recent surge of coronavirus cases is florida where total infections now top 140,000. officials reported more than 8500 new cases sunday, one day after the state saw its highest single day increase since the start of the pandemic. the governor explained what could be behind the jump. >> that positivity increase is really being driven by a big increase over the last three weeks in individuals testing positive throughout the state of florida in younger groups, particularly 18 to 44. if you look at the 25 to 34 age

group, that is now by far the leading age group for positive tests in the state of florida. >> natasha chen has more details now from pensacola beach. >> reporter: with the rising number of covid-19 cases across the state of florida, many jurisdictions are taking matters into their own hands. some are creating mandates for people to wear masks in public. employees and patrons who go inside stores. other places are shutting down beaches before the july 4th holiday weekend, places like broward county, miami-dade, palm beach county. not everyone took kindly to the announcement. >> you should stay at home, celebrate with your families, be grateful for the wonderful america that we have. we're all in this together now and we will get through it if everyone cooperates and continues to social distance. wear a mask.

wash your hands. and make sure we care for one another. >> governor ron desantis visited pensacola sunday afternoon describing the rising number of cases and the fact that out of all tests done now in florida, about 12% are positive, he says in large part because of young people going out and not being vigilant with social distancing and in some cases not even knowing that they have the virus. natasha chen, cnn, pensacola, florida. texas has become a coronavirus hot spot in recent weeks forcing the state's governor, greg abbott, to set new revised orders. on sunday the republican appeared to make a significant shift calling on texans to wear masks. >> it does require all texans to go back to those strategies that we mastered, wearing a facemask, sanitizing your hands, keeping a safe distance and remembering this, and that is, if you don't

need to get out, there's no reason to go out at this particular time. if you can keep your distance from others, that's a very good, safe place to be. >> texas had been at the forefront of states pealieling y restrictions allowing bars to open as early as may. it has since witnessed some of the biggest spikes in new cases reporting more than 5700 on saturday. vice president mike pence was in texas on sunday attending an event in dallas where a choir of more than 100 people performed all singing without masks. a bit of mixed messaging coming from mr. pence given the health advice he offered. >> wash your hands, avoid touching your face and wear a mask wherever it's indicated or wherever you're not able to practice the kind of social

distancing that would prevent the spread of the coronavirus. >> the vice president went on condemning governor abbott for his leadership. sarah westwood breaks down the latest from texas for us. >> reporter: vice president pence offered his most forceful endorsement of mask wearing yet speaking in texas on sunday. he repeatedly urged people to wear face coverings when they go out in public, and notably the vice president was also personally wearing a mask most of the times that he was on camera during his trip to dallas. that is a shift we have not really seen that from the vice president, certainly not from president trump, him personally wearing masks. not everyone was adhering to the guidelines. in fact, in the church where the vice president spoke before the press conference, there was a choir of 100 people singing at full volume in an indoor venue not wearing masks. we heard a big shift from the

vice president shifting, for example, from praising the reopenings of states across the country, something he was doing as recently as late last week, to praising the fact that some states are pumping the brakes on those reopenings. in texas, for example, where he was speaking, bars are ceasing in door service and elective surgeries have been stopped. the white house and president trump in particular has been looking to move on from what trump had characterized as the war time phase of the pandemic response. he was looking to turn his focus more to his re-election battle, but now the covid cases as they spike in states across this country has become more of a focus for this white house. even so, pence and other administration officials have sought to blame those spikes in cases not on the reopenings themselves but on the behavior of people who have been starting to venture from homes.

they're not following social distancing guidelines, not wearing face coverings, not washing hands enough. for the trump administration, they're focusing on those behaviors and not the states that opened too early because that came at the urging of the white house. sarah westwood, cnn, washington. dr. ann ramoyne is a professor of epidemiology at ucla and she joins me now from los angeles. always good to have you with us. >> it's nice to be here. >> so white house coronavirus task force coordinator dr. deborah birx said sunday that scientific evidence shows that wearing a mask protects both yourself and others, but many americans are not wearing masks so with cases skyrocketing, is it time to mandate their use? >> rosemary, everybody should be wearing a mask. there is no reason not to wear a mask. we've now seen with data to back

up the fact that wearing a mask works, and not only is it important to wear a mask because it protects other people from you but it does provide some level of protection as well to the wearer. all of these masks do. you know, i think the thing here is that when politics gets inside of these issues, all of a sudden science gets thrown out the door. what we really need to be focusing on is the science. we're asking people to wear masks because this is the way we can open the country faster than anything else. we need to be able to reduce the spread of the virus and wearing a mask is a key part of this. >> the u.s. hit an all-time single day record for coronavirus cases. the numbers are just astounding. and icus are filling up. this country is failing to control the pandemic. health and human services

secretary alex azar says the window is closing to combat the virus. that's not what the president's saying, so what needs to be done right now to turn this around or is it getting to the point where it's too late? >> rosemary, it's never going to be absolutely too late to do something, and so what i would say is we are reaching the point of no return where it is going to be -- going from an unmitigated disaster to an uncontrolled disaster. so we are really at a key point here. we need people to be doing everything they can, everybody doing their part, wearing a mask, social distancing, hand hygiene, avoided crowded places. you know, our ability to control this virus rests on all of us doing the right thing and to do the right thing is, as i said, wear a mask, social distance, hand hygiene. the same three things we keep hitting upon over and over

again. until we have a vaccine or good therapeutics that make it less likely to have poor outcomes, you know, we're really completely dependent on these blunt social -- these blunt public health measures that will reduce the spread of the virus. >> and, doctor, you mention a vaccine. dr. anthony fauci says that a covid-19 vaccine may only be 75% effective and because many americans say they won't get a vaccine, that could leave the u.s. without herd immunity. why does dr. fauci think a vaccine will only be 75% effective? explain all of that to us. >> absolutely. it's very rare to have a vaccine that is so effective that you're going to be reducing the -- that you will be preventing 90 to 100% of the disease. the only vaccine that we have

that comes close to that is measles vaccine, 97 to 98% effective at preventing the spread of the disease. the deal is this. if this vaccine is only 70 to 75% effective and we have only 2/3 of the population getting this virus, we won't reach this threshold of herd immunity which is 60, 70, maybe 80% of the population and so that is going to be an issue of how we're going to be able to completely arrest of the spread of this virus. it's my guess this vaccine will probably be something that's more like a flu vaccine which is somewhere between 40 and 60% effective at preventing disease, and that would be a big win. you know, anything we can do to stop spread of the virus will be important, but let me be clear, the vaccine is not going to be a magic bullet. the vaccine will be important in

terms of reducing spread of the virus, but it is not the only thing that we're going to need to do. it's going to be layered on top of the same blunt public health measures like social distancing, wearing a mask, hand hygiene to have able to have a good, effective opportunity to stop the spread of the disease. >> dr. ann rimoine, always good to have you on the show, thank you so much. >> my pleasure. in the white house the u.s. president is once again accused of fueling racial tensions and on his favorite social media platform twitter. jeremy diamond has details on that and the white house response. >> reporter: president trump on sunday amplifying a video in which one of his supporters can be heard saying white power, white power. the president posting a retweet of that video and also adding this comment saying thank you to the great people of the villages. that is a location in florida

where this video was reportedly shot. now the president did delete that tweet after it was online for more than three hours and the white house says the president simply did not hear that message before he posted that tweet. the white house's deputy press secretary saying in a statement, president trump is a big fan of the villages. he did not hear the one statement made on the video. what he did see was tremendous enthusiasm from his many supporters. this of course is not an isolated incident. it is the latest in a string of examples where we've seen president trump amplifying hateful or racist measures. we've seen the president after the rally in charlottesville say there were many fine people in that rally. >> very fine people on both sid sides. >> reporter: we've seen the president retweet anti-muslim videos and others as well. particularly this is striking because president trump has really struggled to address

issues of systemic racism and racism broadly in america amid these protests since the death of george floyd. he has not in a comprehensive manner addressed that. instead what we have seen is him fanning the flames. this is the latest example. while the president did delete that tweet ultimately after more than three hours, what he didn't do is apologize for posting it in the first place nor did he condemn the trump supporter who said white power. jeremy dimon, cnn, the white house. we are seeing some of the biggest companies pulling their plug on their advertising budget on facebook accusing the social media giant of profiting from hate speech on the site. we'll have the details for you just ahead. plus, president donald trump said he didn't know about explosive allegations that russia offered the taliban money to kill u.s. troops. we'll have a live report on that next.

at least five people have been killed after gunmen attacked a pakistan stock exchange in karachi.

four attackers wearing what looked like police uniforms stormed the compound using guns and grenades. he says they were all killed and the situation is now under control. the attack happened in a highly secured area. the u.s. president is denying he knew anything about an alleged russian program paying afghans to kill u.s. troops. president trump insisted neither he nor the vice president were briefed about the intel because it wasn't credible. the washington post reports u.s. troops are believed to have been killed through that alleged russian program. the story was first reported by "the new york times." the "times" story says the trump administration was briefed on the intel in march. so let's get perspective now

from cnn's nick peyton walsh who has reported from afghanistan. he joins us live from london. what all are you learning from this. >> reporter: we know from a european intelligence specialist i spoke to two days ago there was a russian military intelligence scheme to incentive advise with cash taliban militants to kill u.s. socialers. they believe it did result in coalition casualties. that's being confirmed by u.s. officials talking to my colleagues in washington, but they were slightly more cautious and skeptical about how verified that particular intelligence and reporting had been saying it initially emerged in the early months of this year sort of raising in february or march. the washington post has gone a little further in its reporting to say, in fact, that the casualties we reported about on saturday were, in fact, u.s. fatalities. now there haven't been many,

frankly. you can count them probably on both hands in the past 18 months or so. in recent months, too, u.s. troops have been confined to base because of the coronavirus pan 2ke78 mick but increasing details dripping out here. remarkably, rosemary, the white house has managed to turn the story about russian plots to kill american soldiers into a story about its own process. now donald trump questioning himself the voracity of the intelligence, whether it was worth him being confirmed about, and his press secretary quite fast after the stories emerged saying not necessarily disputing the intelligence itself but disputing the fact it got to the point where president donald trump had been briefed about it or vice president mike pence. so a bit of a washington confusion element to this where they're trying to play down the intelligence. extremely grave as the reports are, who was briefed when and

where. for the taliban's part, they say they had nothing to done with it. and they have issued a stark denial as well. all of this occurring during renewed effort to get peace talks off the ground that have stalled between the u.s. and the taliban because of a prisoner exchange not going through. a very precarious time for america's longest war in afghanistan. >> nick peyton walsh, bringing us the very latest on that from london. many thanks. you are watching "cnn newsroom." troops and history, criticism from an historian. who says england needs to get with the program if it wants to wipe out racial injustice? we will explain just ahead. can my side be firm?

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call or go online today. from the united states to brazil to india, we are seeing huge daily jumps in the number of new coronavirus cases, and now the global count tracked by johns hopkins university has passed 10 million. in just the past few hours we've learned india recorded its highest one day jump in cases for the eighth straight day. the country has seen more than 100,000 new infections and in china a small increase in cases has prompted officials to put some 400,000 people near beijing under lockdown.

let's go to the capitol of beijing now with cnn's steven jiang now. what more are you learning about this? >> reporter: rosemary, this is a deja vu here in terms of draconian lockdowns being put into place. we haven't seen this in a while of sealing off 280 squier miles. now this is catching a lot of attention because people obviously comparing this to what's happening in beijing. remember, local officials in the chinese capital have been emphasizing the measures. they are sealing off neighborhoods. we're talking about a few city blocks or residential areas.

this echos what the chinese leadership has been saying, local authorities need to strike a balance between rigorous containment measures and economic recovery efforts. it's not being fully explained why this county decided to impose this county wide lockdown, but i think if you ask analysts, they are not surprised. given the tremendous political pressure they are for having zero cases. that's why many of them would like to err on the side of over caution. >> steven jiang, many thanks. a who's who of some of the world's biggest and best known companies are pulling the plug on spending their cash on facebook protesting what they see as the site's failure to stop hate speech. starbucks has stopped its

advertising on the side along with all social media joining a list of other big names as you can see there. so let's hear from facebook now. one of its top executives joined us on cnn sunday. >> i'm not going to pretend that we're going to get rid of everything that people react negatively to, not least as you very well know politically. there are folks on the right who think we take down too much. folk on 9 left who think we don't take down too much. we will continue to have clear rules, bear down on hate speech and remove it from our platform where we identify which we do quicker than any other company. we will continue to demonstrate our sin cert with the responsibility that we clearly

do bear. >> let's bring in cnn's john defterios. good to see you, john. what's often overlooked is the speed at which this advertising boycott of facebook is moving. has it now gone mainstream? >> reporter: i think that's a fair comment, rosemary. talk about a snowball effect. we cannot forget that this is a week-long campaign. this has moved into the household names without a doubt and all of them are big advertisers. starbucks is joining the ranks of companies the scale of unilever, which is one of the biggest advertisers in the world that makes household products, mainly detergents for the home. levi strauss, honda, hershey, coca-cola, you name it. they are the dominant players, not only as household brands but in the marketing and communications business as well. i think facebook is learning the hard way, if you will, rosemary, that if you tiptoe around issues like this, where it comes to

issues of hate and campaigns like black lives matter, you're going to pay for it. even the answer by nick clegg, we can't wipe it out entirely, we'll do our best, that's counter to jack dorsey who's seen as taking an aggressive stance particularly against the white house, particularly when we label content from donald trump. that's not how facebook is perceived right now. because it is so large, 2.6 billion monthly users, many are thinking it's kind of too big to fail. is that the attitude within the company and why advertisers are saying, you know, this started with outdoor apparel companies. bep and jerry's ice cream. very progressive companies. now that it's gone mainstream, it's like there's a wake-up call in particularly to facebook. >> good point. john, even though facebook is a $70 billion company in terms of revenues, how exposed is it to a boycott like this?

>> well, we don't know the dollar amount yet because the advertisers are not saying i'm pulling x out in the month of july, but we're learning some very interesting things. number one, starbucks spent over $95 million in 2019 on facebook alone. we have to remember facebook has purchased better than 80 companies over the last decade. it also owns instagram. so we're seeing some of the advertisers saying i'm pausing for july. some saying it will carry on longer. some are extending it throughout the social media channel. it raises the question about the scale of facebook and its over reliance on advertising. the $70 billion, rosemary, better than 90% comes from advertising. anything that eats away at that base of revenue for the company has to be taken very seriously. the other thing i would flag at this stage, it's very hard to do so, but television and new hampshire h-- newspaper has regulatory authority. this industry has grown so fast,

$2 billion in 2010 for facebook to 70 billion today. who regulates it? can it be self-regulated going forward? what are the implications if that's the case? can anybody wrap their arms around facebook? very similar to google as well. >> john defterios bringing us the very latest on that. appreciate it. the last u.s. state featuring the flag with the confederate emblem is now one step closer to removing it. mississippi's house of representatives and senate passed a bill on sunday that would get rid of the controversial symbol and the governor says he will sign it. the legislation will establish a commission to establish a new design without the emblem which you see in the corner of the 126-year-old flag. mississippi voters would vote on the new design in november. the former minneapolis

police officers chanrged in george floyd's case are expected in court monday. they will appear via video degree link. he is charged with second degree murder. the other three officers accused of aiding and abetting will appear in person. the hearing comes more than a month after george floyd was killed while in police custody. the incident, which was caught on video, sparked weeks of protests against racial injustice in the u.s. and around the world. activists in the u.k. fighting against racial injustice have a message for england schools. it's time to make black history mandatory in the classroom. cnn's nina dos santos has the story. >> reporter: black lives matters protestors say this continues to

be an invasive problem in the u.k. to be lasting, change must come in the classroom. by making the black community's history a compulsory part of england's national curriculum. >> they know it has omissions and the omissions of their stories and they're angry about it. everybody needs to learn this history. it's not just about black people and for black people, it explains why our society looks the way it does today. >> reporter: although many schools observe black history month once be a year, there is no actual obligation to teach the topic leaving some brittains feeling under represented and others under informed. >> the curriculum doesn't center on black history at all. what that does is disempower all students from learning about british history in a more rounded view. we need to offer narratives that are more rounded. >> reporter: she created her

stance 2019 to provide training for teachers on the subject. now she's lobbying the government to make black history mandatory for all 8 to 16-year-olds. >> do you think that there is now broader recognition that black history is british history and part of british history is black? >> absolutely. i think the two are synonymous. ultimately we are a multi-cultural society. >> reporter: despite the calls to make black history teaching mandatory, the department for education said the national curriculum is already, quote, diverse and offers them black history topics. they told cnn racism in all forms is abhorrent and schools play a role.

they' a recent cnn poll shows the extent of brittain's racial divide. black brittains say there is discrimination in british policing and media. they're three times as likely to think the country has done far too little to address historic racial injustice and significantly more likely to find statues of slave traders offensive. >> if you can teach them this alphabet where the cotton is produced by 1.8 million americans, you are omitting critical facts. we tell half histories and sometimes we tell half truths. what i suspect is happening is that a generation who learned black history taught it themselves not standing for

things my generation stood for. this is history in action. >> history which one day may well be taught across all schools in england. nina dos santos, cnn, london. and coming up, there may be bad news for americans who want to travel to europe as the e.u. debates who it will and won't allow in when it reopens international borders. we'll get the latest next. our business we were paying an arm and a leg for postage. i remember setting up shipstation. one or two clicks and everything was up and running. i was printing out labels and saving money. shipstation saves us so much time. it makes it really easy and seamless. pick an order, print everything you need, slap the label onto the box, and it's ready to go. our costs for shipping were cut in half. just like that. shipstation. the #1 choice of online sellers. go to shipstation.com/tv and get 2 months free.

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welcome back, everyone. eu ambassadors meeting to discuss plans to reopen their borders to international travel and crucially which countries they will and won't allow in. the united states is expected to be among those excluded and here is why. its coronavirus numbers continue to surge well above e.u. levels.

the european commission is advising ambassadors only to consider countries that are comparable or better than the e.u. average. so let's go to london with selma abdel aziz. good to see you. this is looking pretty inevitable, isn't it, that u.s. travelers will be blocked from re-entry and when might that be reassessed? what are you hearing on that? >> reporter: well, rosemary, we're hearing that right now as we speak e.u. leaders are meeting in brussels to finalize the list of criteria and the banned list of countries. these discussions started weeks ago. over the weekend e.u. ambassadors took these draft lifts to their respective countries. one country has made their findings public, france, and just to give you an example, france only had 14 countries on its list of countries that are

allowed to go in. it's a pretty exclusive list to be in this group of countries that will be allowed into the european union. this is a hard won battle for the european union to get a grip on coronavirus. tens of thousands of lives have been lost across these countries. people have been in lockdown for months unable to lead normal lives. millions of dollars lost. this is about protecting the gains made during this pandemic making a decision based on the health priority of the e.u. community rather than a political one. this will be very embarrassing for the white house to receive this news. it's a very humbling message that essentially comes down to we are doing better than you. the rates of infection in the united states are six to seven times higher than that of the e.u.'s, rosemary. they can't take the risk. >> thank you so much bringing us up to date from london. right now cnn is monitoring

reports suggesting the u.k. is gearing up to lift its ban on nonessential travel establishing air bridges of its own. let's go now to anna stewart. she is at london's heathrow airport. good to see you, anna. what's the latest on this? >> reporter: good morning, rosemary. from a very blustery heathrow airport. i was here three weeks ago telling you the u.k. had opposed a blanket, 14 day quarantine for anyone arriving in the u.k. people said it was too late in the pandemic to be effective. it's hugely damaging for the travel and tourism industry. the government promised a three-week review. it's a more targeted right. number one, that the rates of transmission of the virus in that country is the same or lower than the u.k. and, two,

there is a track and trace system or test and trace system that is in the same place as the same standard as the u.k. the country's expected to be on this list that helpful fill this criteria will be france, germany, italy, spain, greece, possibly not portugal one of our european neighbors which has had a large outbreak in lisbon. expecting it to be announced sometime this week. it will be hugely good news for the travel and tourism sector who have been campaigning for these averaging in the last few weeks. it may come too late. for many of them, july is just around the corner. many brittains will have decided to forego the holidays or have staycation. it will be good for those who want to see u.k. tourism coming to the shores. it comes quite late. we'll see how many countries are on that initial list.

rosemary? >> we'll keep a look out for that. anna stewart joining us live from heathrow. many thanks. india has opened one of the world's largest hospitals to fight the coronavirus. it has 10,000 beds, all of which will be available starting wednesday. the country has also converted this spiritual center into a quarantine facility as cases continue to soar. india reported its largely daily rise in new cases sunday. overall the country's new total is 529,000 infections and more than this. a reining grand slam champion speaks to cnn about how she's preparing for this year's u.s. open.

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fully returned. he was the first nba player to test positive for covid-19. he faced a backlash after jokingly touching every microphone at a press conference. days later he tested positive for the virus. gobert plans to be with his team when the nba season returns on july 30th. well, the u.s. open tennis tournament is scheduled to return in about two months time and already the reining women's champion is preparing to defend her title. like the rest of the pros, she has been out of action because of the pandemic but she told cnn's christina mcfarland, she has high hopes for the open. ♪ ♪ >> i actually didn't think tennis would come back so soon just because it's such an

international sport. honestly i'm super happy to go back there and hopefully defend my title and just step back on the court and start competing again. >> we can take from that that you definitely want to play if you can. >> 100%. i know everyone involved is going to do their best to keep everyone as safe as possible, but just looking at all the other sports, i think it's time for tennis to come back. i'm sure it's going to be done in a restricted as much as they can manner then i think everything should be fine. >> given the experience of last year, do you think you would prefer to play someone like serena williams again under these circumstances with no crowds there given what it was like? >> i don't know. playing in front of a crowd is just -- just brings the hype into everything. i would say i perform really good under pressure so i felt like the crowd kind of gave me a

push. i told myself, i was like, i'm going to try to win every point right now until the crowd calmed down a little bit. to be honest, i think the closer they can make the atmosphere of having fans, i think the better. i'm sure if they add collapse here and there will definitely put people more in a competitive environment. all we know is there definitely will be people watching at home. i think that will be good to keep in the back of our mind. so many people not having watched tennis before will start watching now because sports hasn't been on for the longest time. just like ufc, like i never was really into ufc but i got into it now because it was kind of the only sport going on. i actually like it. >> intense. >> i like it.

>> it was huge for you. you started the year ranked 178th, you finished it ranked number 5. you competed in your first gland slam and wovn it in your first attempt. you've only now just turned 20. what comes next for you? >> reach the number one spot and continue to break records and win as many grand slams as i can. >> yup, nothing bigger than that. >> no. i want to surpass serena for wins. i think that will be something, but honestly if i continue what i'm doing right now, i know i can win a couple more. maybe surpass the greatest. i like to dream big. it gives me more motivation. >> impressive. thanks for your company. i'm rosemary church. "early start" is up next. have yourselves a great day.

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