department of public health and medical officials and local mayors and town councils to make all of the openings as safe as possible. >> it is -- talk about a challenge on your hands. it is pretty remarkable. thank you for coming in. good luck. >> thank you. our coverage continues right now. it is the top of the hour right now. thank you so much for being with us today. we continue to talk about is a troubling rise in cases of coronavirus. it is as if i'm reading you the news from march or april. but no. it is june 29th. yes, this is a very scary reality facing much of the country right now. you can see the numbers there on the screen as we show you all the time. more than 10 million cases globally, more than 2.5 million cases in the united states and more than 125,000 deaths. 31 states are trending in the

wrong direction. after aggressive reopening efforts in many places. now some states like florida and texas are backtracking closing down bars and beaches now once again as they try to get their spike under control. but dr. fauci is warning that even states that have a handle on cases are still in danger because of a lack of personal responsibility. >> even in states that are telling their citizens to do it correctly they're doing that, there are crowds, not physical distancing and not wearing masks. that's a recipe for disaster. >> florida is a state seeing its cases spike. ran randi kaye is there for us in palm beach county. what is happening there? what's behind it? what they're trying to do about it. >> reporter: it depends on who you ask. we see a spike in cases.

more than 5,200 new cases today and saturday more than 9,500 cases so the state is breathing a bit of a sigh of relief and we are seeing spikes here and a big reason why the local officials in some counties have decided to close the beaches in the state of florida for the july fourth weekend. you can see it's still pretty crowded and folks social distancing but they don't want to see a spike on top of a spike as they put it and those in palm beach county where i am, miami-dade and broward county closing the beaches. we heard from some county officials earlier to lay out the reasoning as to why. listen to this. >> the community spread that would go with that type of a -- that amount of people on the beach, we are not in a position to handle that from any metric. >> i was afraid of a surge of people for the fourth of july weekend and our inability, possible inability to control that. the problem is young people. people 18 to 34, 35 to 44 are

basically disregarding the rules that we put in place. >> reporter: so the 25 to 34-year-olds according to the governor have a 20% positivity rate, not numbers that are very good. the governor, you asked why this is happening? said there's graduation parties and writing this off to more testing. the state of florida doubled the testing to 45,000 a day. but he still hasn't closed the beaches statewide for the fourth of july weekend norman dated that everyone around the state wear masks so that's also a problem and some counties are deciding like they're closing the beaches to mandate masks outdoors and can't safely social distance, wear a mask and indoors. one county is miami-dade which has seen an increase in hospitalizations for the last 15 days consecutively, certainly very concerning. >> absolutely. again, you watch that lag,

right? the actions you take today, two weeks, a week, two, three weeks to see the result and people need to just get at it and hope for the best. great to see you. thank you. arizona is seeing a spike in cases as well with more than 3,800 new cases added just yesterday, the single highest daily increase in cases according to arizona's department of health. the number of cases tripled this month along with the surge in cases hospitals, desperately running out of space. state's reporting nearly 90% of the icu beds are already full. cnn's stephanie elam joining me from phoenix with this state's story. stephanie, how's the state handling this? >> reporter: yeah, this is not exactly what anybody wants to see here, kate. taking a look at the fact of icu beds almost 90% full here, the hospitals are moving to surge capacity figuring out where to

get more space. we know that one health system here, banner health, contracting to get 200 registered nurses to come in and help, some have worked in new york during their difficult period. now coming here to arizona. we also reached out to banner health to verify information they put in covid space inside of children's hospital saying that they're going to use three unoccupied floors that's expanded for adult bed capacity. think about what that means, they need more space to treat the people here. what's also interesting is that governor doug doucy said that people should wear masks. there's seens on the highway to masking up az. see that throughout the area and left it up to the counties and the cities to make this call about whether or not they're going to require masks so maricopa county where phoenix is you see that people are required to wear a mask and not universal

in the state and concerned that the state opened up too quickly in some areas, officials says too many people got together in the large groups and may be community spread and telling people and the businesses to stay the distance apart as necessary and also to make sure people are social distant or otherwise they come after the bad actors but relying on a sense of community to do the right thing to say socially distant an ento wear masks. kate? >> elizabeth cohen pointed out in the last hour there's concerning data out about the status of contact tracers. in arizona and other hotspots. >> reporter: and this is such a huge part of it and you've seen it in very large states where california's ramping up to be able to call people saying, hey, listen, you were in contact with somebody that tested positive. we want to make sure that you have the resources and quarantining. based on the new information

coming out to us, arizona has five contact tracers per 100,000 people and based on the research saying they should have about 30 people dedicated to that so well below those numbers here. that means that potentially someone could test positive but the people around them are not getting that call to alert them to the fact that they could in fact be also positive and that they need to get tested. and that is a huge part of the concern of this community spread if people aren't getting word of that and if they're asymptomatic taking the virus further out into society. >> contact tracing and the mitigation factors is key and not seeing it happen yet. thank you. so let's go to texas now where the cases is also surging. you can see in the last two weeks how the average number of cases increased dramatically. in dallas county, the second most populous in the state, they soared past the record number of daily infections, 570 new cases just yesterday. joining me right now is dallas

county judge clay jenkins. thank you very much for being here. i was looking at the way people were describing what the state's looking at this weekend. it was another record high of coronavirus hospitalizations which is extremely troubling. 16th day in a row for the state. yesterday in your county another daily record of infections. what is behind the rise of new cases in dallas county? >> essentially it is the governor's reopening of texas in ways that were different than what the cdc and the texas doctors recommended. and then the messaging behind that where he stopped a local government from having a requirements that we had created with business and health care locally that had made the spread somewhat controlled in march and april when we were leading the country in deaths per capita and in spread and now as you pointed

out we are going in the wrong direction so i asked the doctors to come up with a list of what the governor needs to do to correct this and then i sent that to him two days ago and that includes statewide testing. >> that's what i wanted to get at. because of what you are seeing you wrote this letter to the governor because he has paused the state's reopening. he's closed down bars, he's made some adjustments but from what i see that you wrote in your letter what the doctors are telling you and what you are seeing, that's not enough. he needs to go well beyond that is what you seem to suggest in the letter. what are you seeing that you think the governor is not? >> we should be seeing the same things and that is what the doctors are telling us. what they're telling us is that hospitalizations here in dallas have doubled for covid just this month and also in our region. we are at the tipping point down

in harris county where houston is and so the doctors are asking as we return to safer at home on people for business, for us to have universal masking, for businesses that cannot be 100% masked like a cigar bar or exercise area, arcade, bowling alleys, none are closed and those businesses that do remain open, remain open at a 50% occupancy with everyone that can telecommute telecommuting. the governor removed the regulations from daycare. we need to put the cdc regulations in place and restrict daycare to essential workers. it is all found in that letter. >> i know you have seen this video happening in dallas when the vice president mike pence visited just yesterday. he was in dallas for an event. he was wearing a mask, a large

part of the crowd, this event held in a local church, of course, not wearing masks and then the performance by a choir of about 100 people singing obviously as you can see not wearing masks and did when they sat down. you have seen this. with everything that we just discussed and what you are asking and warning the governor about here, what did you think when you saw that? >> well, i worry for the people that are in the crowd there because when we're singing, we are expending a lot more of volume than when we're just sitting and so that was very dangerous and very unfortunate but it sends a mixed message. the governor said everything is great, going well, get the economy open and even if people choose not to go to bars or not to go to an amusement park, that sort of messaging relaxes their standards, you know? and their daily life and so when

we see the vice president going to a performance where 100 people are breathing on him, it sends a very bad message. we need to speak with one voice and that voice needs to be to follow the advice of the doctors ian specialists that prepared their entire adult life to advise us in this moment and that's epidemiology and public health. the governor needs to act decisively and listen to those voices and take their advice. we do that, we got a chance to pull out of this tail spin. >> how close do you think your county, the state is to being overwhelmed by cases? how worried are you? >> i think you pointed it out earlier and dr. fauci does all the time. whatever you see today in the numbers about two weeks behind what is actually happening on the ground and the things you do today will have an affect in no sooner than two weeks so the time to act is now. i am very concerned because the

doctors are very concerned and, kate, i made my peace early on i'm not a doctor and i listen to them and act decisively. the governor has taken the control from the local government, you know. i was the first person to go to safer at home in texas and many other local governments quickly followed and we have things on the good trajectory until the governor around may 1st said stop doing what you are doing and took it over himself and then went on talk radio and criticized republican local officials that followed our lead so it's difficult now for anyone to get us out of this other than the person that got us into it so we need the governor to act decisively now and do what the doctors are asking. >> judge, thank you. thanks for following the science. >> thank you. coming up for us, supreme court rules on a controversial louisiana abortion law putting all eyes once again on the chief

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as was pointed out earlier, this is the first time the chief justice voted against abortion regulations. >> reporter: as you said the chief justice here siding with four liberals to strike down the louisiana abortion law, it was 5-4. this was a law that required doctors to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. clinics and doctors said it was medically unnecessary, a veiled attempt to restrict aboirgs whereas louisiana said, look, it is a public safety measure. it is necessary for public safety. context here, keep in mind, four years ago that the court struck down a texas law and in that case chief justice john roberts on the other side and today he said in this opinion he wrote separately so the four liberals wrote the main opinion and he wrote separately to give them their vote saying this. the louisiana law imposes a burden on access to abortion just as severe as that imposed

by the texas law for the same reasons. therefore, louisiana's law cannot stand under our precedents. so there he is, he is providing the fifth vote but here's what's really interesting. in his opinion he also suggested that similar laws might be able to stand in the states so today this is a win for the clinics but they see more challenges ahead and they see that this is all playing out in the heat of the election. >> you cannot forget that. for sure. thank you. coming up for us, more than 80 cases of coronavirus thought to be linked now to 1 bar in michigan. what happened there? what's happening now? that's next. special fortieth anniversary presentation of a capitol fourth! with your hosts john stamos and vanessa williams and performances from coast to coast. featuring: patti labelle, john fogerty, the temptations, andy grammer

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an alarming story out of michigan. likely now a cautionary tale for everyone. at least 80 people have tested positive for coronavirus after visiting a bar in east lansing, michigan. earlier this month. that's even with the restaurant, the pub, the bar following social distancing guidelines for table spacing and capacity. health officials ask anyone that visited the harper's restaurant

and brew pub to self quarantine and it is closed until they can make changes to make sure that the bar is safe. with me is the mayor of east lansing, ruth buyer. thank you for coming on. at least 80 people -- >> thank you for having me. >> thank you. getting this virus. that's just the cases that we're aware of, of course. "the free press" reporting that infections connected to this were found like 100 miles away. do you have your arms around how big this outbreak might be yet? >> well, the science tells us that we don't yet. what we know today will change and for about the next ten days probably there will be new cases cropping up. the county health department has done a great job of contact tracing and working with other counties to make sure everybody exposed knows and everybody they

have had contact with is aware. >> everything that i'm seeing is that the county health department says that the bar was following the rules when it came to guidelines for employees and capacity and table spacing. so that leaves -- i mean, i'm still sitting here wondering what happened here? are the guidelines wrong or are people not following them? >> so as you know, governor whitmer closed much earlier than other states and opened much later and has some very strict guidelines and the bar did meet the guidelines for capacity. and for keeping masks on their employees. the employees were happy to wear a mask. the problem is that they did not require masks for entry and they did not enforce wearing masks inside so to say they met the requirements of the governor's executive order is not quite correct. they met two out of the three

big ones and that being said it may be that it wouldn't have mattered that much because trying to keep masks on young people in a dance bar is probably a folly and might be that this particular bar harper's will have to change the model for a while so that patrons sit rather than mingle. the whole bar is about dancing and mingling and having a good time close to each other and probably we can't do in covid. >> mayor, i have read that you said that you don't want bars and restaurants to open until there's a vaccine which of course could be -- we don't know when. next year sometime. we don't know. why do you think that's necessary at this point? what are you seeing? >> what i was talking about is bars like harper's. michigan has a great job of keeping restaurants and small bars safe.

it is the big ones -- harper's with a capacity of 950. in the not large building so they're designed to be close to each other. my concern, when i said that, my reaction was to the elephant in the room that nobody's talking about which is we are in a pandemic. and therefore you can't go places safely. you just can't. a lot of people can choose like me, i can choose not to go to the bar. the young people could have chosen not to go or wear masks and i would hope they would but there's an entire class of people that nobody's talking about and they tend to be people of color and they're the people that have to go to work and they have to be exposed. the essential workers, all the service workers in the country, are being exposed to covid because that's the way the economic system works and that's a problem that needs to be addressed. it is a public health crisis for the low-income and people of color.

>> that risk, the responsibility of community has not changed and this is a stark example of that. we'll check back in, mayor. as you said you will see more cases pop up due to just this kind of one situation at one bar. thank you for coming in. i really appreciate it. >> yep. thank you. coming up, strong denials from the white house of reports of a russian spy operation to target and kill u.s. and coalition troops in afghanistan. our latest reporting next. balanced nutrition for strength and energy. whoo-hoo! great tasting ensure with 9 grams of protein, 27 vitamins and minerals, and nutrients to support immune health. little things can become your big moment. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently.

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the white house says members

of congress will now be briefed on the reporting that russian intelligence officers offered bounties to taliban fighters to kill u.s. and british troops in afghanistan. the president had declared that the intelligence wasn't viable. and he also denies that he was ever briefed on it. tweeting overnight that it's possibly a fabricated russian hoax and went there already on this. sources tell cnn that the u.s. shared intelligence with the uk about the bounties though as recently as last week. cnn kylie atwood at the white house. "the washington post" is reporting that the bounties are believed to be tied to the deaths of multiple u.s. troops. what are you hearing? >> reporter: that's right, kate. "the washington post" is saying that need bounties as you said money that the russians offered the taliban to kill u.s. and british soldiers in afghanistan. they are saying that those bounties believed to be connected to the death of

several u.s. service somebodies. our reporting is that the u.s. is reviewing the casualties of u.s. service members in afghanistan to make that determination, to determine if these bounties were connected to those secret service members' deaths. it is important to note that the president, the white house, director of national intelligence have come out and said that president trump was not briefed on this intelligence and the president is bracing, saying in a tweet today that he wasn't briefed because these intelligence reports were not credible. but there are many questions particularly from members of congress on both sides of the aisle today coming out and questioning why the president wouldn't have been briefed even on this intelligence matter, even if it wasn't a final determination calling for briefings for all members of congress. i want to read this from a republican congressman today.

that's congressman thornberry saying i don't know the credibility of the information because i have not been briefed but anything with a hint of credibility that would endanger the service members much less put a bounty on their lives to me should have been briefed immediately to the commander in chief. now the white house press secretary is saying that congress is going to be briefed are reporters saying that that briefing will happen today. we don't know which members of congress will be briefed on this matter but, kate, i'm reporting that as recently as last week the u.s. briefed the uk, the britts, on this intelligence and it's important to note that the uk national security adviser also here in washington last week meeting with top trump administration officials including secretary of state mike pompeo, national security adviser robert o'brian and so it's really important to kind of get to the fundamentals of who

knew this intelligence and when and that is what we are efforting now. kate? >> yeah. hugely important. it is really remarkable actually. kylie, great reporting. thank you. meantime, let's bring in a former cia officer who's conducting presidential daily briefings himself and author of "the president's book of secrets." good to see you again. >> good to see you. >> i think congressman thornberry hit the nail on the head there if there's a hint or whiff of a danger to u.s. soldiers in something like this that it should have been taken immediately to the president of the united states. does this make sense to you that the -- as the president tweeted that the intelligence community just reported to trump that they don't find the intelligence credible so they didn't bring it to him? >> as kylie said, there are some unanswered questions here and

some information might help fill the gaps but the way it looks it does not make sense. that is, if it is being briefed to allies such as our british partners in afghanistan and to xhoo commanders it is credible enough to maybe take action on the ground to counter the threat and then this involves high politics, the relationship with russia in a case they might be trying to foster the killing of u.s. soldiers, that is the thing normally briefed to the president if it has the grave consequences. now it is possible it was briefed to the president and they're playing semantics games, that is, president trump receives perhaps two to three oral intelligence briefings a week, gets a printed copy of the daily brief and not clear if he reads it. some reporting suggests he does not and then it's possible something was put into the president's daily brief which some reporting suggests did

happen but he simply didn't read it and it was not brought to his attention. that raises even more questions about why the national security adviser, the secretary of defense and others chose not to tell the commander in chief about such a grave threat. >> could i just ask you, because you are -- you are an expert on these all-important presidential daily briefings. presidents have been receiving them for decades. how should this have been presented? something that if this is as "the washington post" reporting and if the reporting is accurate these bounties linked to u.s. deaths. if that is true how should this have been presented to the president? >> yeah. this is exactly the kind of thing that the president's daily brief was created for, to make sure that the president had the most up to date analysis and assessment of what is almost always uncertain intelligence.

your don't put things in the president's daily brief only when they oar completely corroborated and verified because then it's fact. you normally put things in with some degree of uncertainty and the assessment will describe the level and why it matters for the conclusion but this is the kind of thing that is designed to go to the president of the united states. now, past presidents read the pdb in most cases religiously, some also took oral briefings. this is the first president persons since nixon documented that he just doesn't seem to read it and it falls upon advisers around the president to make sure that one way or another he gets this information. the white house situation room gets intelligence. the national security council staff gets intelligence. these are people to go to the president saying, mr. president, i know you might not have read this grave development but let me walk you through it and

explain what's happening and maybe we can create some options about what the u.s. government is going to do about it. as of now, the best picture we have is that those discussions did not take place, the thing we don't know is whether they didn't do that because they didn't think it wasn't worth the president's attention which is alarming or if they didn't do it because they were afraid of what the president might or might not do with that information which is also alarming. >> absolutely alarming. just when you take it broadly and you look at the president's reaction to this, publicly, he's called it possibly another russian hoax. what does that -- just your reaction, just from your background, everything you know, the presidents you have briefed, the seriousness of this reporting. >> yeah. yeah. i have to say i go back to my intelligence roots and almost anything is possible. could it be a russian hoax?

of course it could be. it would be a very bizarre russian hoax but disturbing is the fact that the president jumps to the fact it must be a russian hoax to pretend russia's trying to attack u.s. soldiers rather than saying if this is true we need to be on top of it. i need to fine out why i wasn't advised and perhaps fire some of them but if it is true we need to protect u.s. personnel abroad. we need to protect the soldiers and ohs overseas because that's my job in commander in chief. that's what i would have expected to hear from any president about this threat and then the lashing out of hoaxes or fake news i'm not sure how seriously he's still taking it now regardless of whether every element of the reporting is corroborated or not.

>> let's hope that members of congress will take it seriously. david, good to see you. >> thank you. >> thank you. coming up, a historic moment in mississippi as a republican governor preparing to remove the confederate emblem from the state's flag. wayfair has everything outdoor

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a historic moment in mississippi this weekend. >> by a vote of 36-14 the motion passes. >> after weeks of debate it is official, lawmakers there voting to remove the confederate emblem from the state flag. the governor says he will sign the bill. he will make it law. residents are expected to be voting on a new design come november. the change comes amid ongoing protests, of course, against racial injustice in the country including mississippi. joining me is mississippi state senator democratic minority leader, derrick simmons. thank you for your time. this is a historic moment for the state, for the country. what does it mean for you? >> thank you so much, kate, for having me. this is one of the proudest moments of my career. being a senator in mississippi for eight years, this was the

singlemost piece of legislation that was basically life changing not only for me but also many mississippians to fought the fight before i got here. >> long overdue i have heard many people say. how big of a step is this move though in the fight for racial justice, in the fight against systemic racism? >> it's so important. it's no secret, kate, that mississippi has many painful dark and chapters in her book and what we did over the last three days is basically going against that symbol of hate, oppression and decisiveness. and we are trying to now move into a new chapter in mississippi, a chapter where it would be bright, a chapter where it would be inclusive and a chapter where we progress and so to do that the same bipartisanship we exhibited over

the last three days in taking down the flag, it is time to raise up those real issues of racial inequalities in mississippi and so we need to work in the same way to address those things whether it's education, whether it's criminal justice reform, with mississippi being the second largest state with the second largest incarceration rate in the country, whether it is broadband and internet access, whether it's the fact that we spend billions of dollars a year and we only spend less than 1% with black businesses of public dollars so those are the real racial inequalities that exist in mississippi and the flag was just a start of something new here in mississippi that we need to address. >> you have a son. have you thought about what this means that he doesn't have to grow up anymore with a state flag glorifying the confederate battle emblem? >> i have. i have a 1-year-old and a

6-year-old, and i have to be educated in public schools that flew that oppressive symbol. i had to frequent businesses that flew that oppressive symbol. and certainly coming to this capitol for eight years i had to leave out of my car, look up at the top of the capitol and see that hateful symbol and coming inside of the capitol we were actually praying and then we would do a pledge and behind us was the american flag and unfortunately it was also that confederate flag so what it means to me is that my sons would not have to experience what i experienced growing up. >> you know, this vote was held on the very same day that the president tweeted a video out of a supporter shouting white power. he later deleted the video. the white house said he did not hear that being said in the video. it just can't be lost that these

two things happened on the same day. i wanted to get your reaction. >> my reaction is that the type of symbol flying in mississippi and with mississippi being the last state in the union to fly that symbol, i mean, it was representative of what the rhetoric that we hear and have heard from the white house in the last 40 years. and so, it's telling. it's telling. all of the protests that we are seeing across this country and those protests made themselves, made their way to mississippi. and so, it's just important that we continue to express how important it is that we do the right thing going into november and if we really want to just have a bright future not only in mississippi but in america we need to change the occupants of the white house. >> very big day in mississippi. largely in part to you and what

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>> here in china, a new strict lockdown 90 miles from us here in beijing with 400,000 residents essentially shut off from their neighbors, the lockdown is reminiscent of wuhan's. though it's a more rural community impacted here. officials have ordered allvil villages, communities closed off. a family member allowed to leave each day for necessities but the county reported less than 20 coronavirus cases but you have to remember this follows a cluster outbreak from a wholesale food market and that led to come partmentalized welcomeds here in the capital. some communities are sealed off two weeks after that cluster outbreak. officials say it is under control though they have stepped up mass testing which has of now covered according to officials some 7.5 million people here in beijing. part of the extreme response in

the latest lockdown shows the fear over potential second wave here in china and how quickly life can go from near normal again back to lockdown mode. david culver, cnn, beijing. here in mexico, we are without question in the worst days of this outbreak so far. consider since june 1st we have seen of the number of cases in this country more than double and the overall death toll has gone up more than 150% but despite that the government is moving forward with plans to reopen parts of the economy including here in mexico city which has been the hardest hit region of mexico so far. of course, there is risk there that you take an outbreak that's already very severe and make it that much worse but the economy here has also taken a massive hit, millions of people according to the government have lost their jobs during this outbreak due to the government

shutdown and the international monetary fund predicting that mexico's gdp to fall by 10.5% in 2020. matt rivers, cnn, mexico city. here in abu dhabi, people look anxiously north towards iran where it's clear according to the authorities they're suffering a second wave of infections and the death tolls will show it. in the last 48 hours have been 144 and then 162 people dead each day over the last week the numbers over 100. those figures had not been seen for several weeks after it appeared that iran which is one of the earliest to suffer in the pandemic was beginning to get to grips with the spread of the virus but now the iranian president said that various hot spots, cities around the country to reimpose lockdown and they're demanding that people wear masks in those locations and wear masks elsewhere coming of course

as iran continues to struggle with the economy being crippled by u.s. imposed sanctions. sam kylie, cnn in abu dhabi. thank you all. i'm kate bolduan. we'll see you back here tomorrow. hi there, i'm brook baldwin. thank you for being with me. i welcome the viewers. the pandemic quote is not even close to being over. that is the warning today from the director of the world health organization. as 31 states report an increase in new coronavirus cases. reporting record numbers of new infections. only four states seeing a drop in new cases and at least 12 governors are pausing or scaling back the