hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. you're watching "cnn newsroom" and i'm rosemary church. a top infectious disease doctor in the u.s. warn coronavirus case could double as more states pull back from re-opening. u.s. rule makers are set to learn more in the coming hours about alleged russian bounties on u.s. troops as the white house ramps up its defense of president trump. and protests break out in hong kong as police make dozens of arrests as a controversial new security law takes effect.

good to have you with us. as more u.s. states pause their re-opening plans and we see a sharp rise in coronavirus cases, the country's top infectious disease expert made a startling prediction about the infection rate. >> we're now having 40 pl,000 p cases a day i wouldn't be surprised if we go up to 100,000 if this doesn't turn around so i'm very concerned. i'm not satisfied with what's going on because we're going in the wrong direction. if you look at the curves of the new cases, so we really got to do something about that and we need to do it quickly. short answer to tough question is that clearly we're not in

total control right now. >> cases are going up in at least 36 states and now 19 states have rolled back or pushed the pause button on re-opening. more than a month after the country started easing restrictions. while california governor gavsa he would tight enrestrictions it's a different story for florida. >> reporter: arizona's average daily death toll about doubled during the month of june. >> our expectation is that next week our numbers will be worse. >> reporter: in texas the number of covid-19 patients in hospitals more than tripled during the month of june. >> by memorial day we had 104 patients, now we have 480. we're looking at the fourth of july coming up in a couple of days and it scares me. >> reporter: average daily cases in florida up six fold in june.

beaches south of the state of closing again before the fourth of july weekend. >> so we're not going back closing things. i don't think that really is what's driving it. >> reporter: today is 162 days since the first confirmed case here in the u.s. but one senior cdc official says this is really the beginning. >> in the united states daily cases are increasing. after an extended decline. >> reporter: and the death rate. >> it will be very disturbing, i'll guarantee you that. >> reporter: but it might not be too late. >> it is critical that we all take the personal responsibility to slow the transmission of covid-19 and embrace the universal use of face coverings. >> reporter: but in at least 10 of 15 states right now suffering record numbers of new cases there is no statewide mask mandate but you should still

wear one. >> specifically i'm addressing the younger members of our society the millennials and generation z. >> reporter: economic pain of all this is obvious and crippling. people camping overnight outside an unemployment office iran oklahoma. dr. fauci said states must not open too fast and we all must stop doing this. >> congregation at a bar, inside, is bad news. we really got to stop that. >> nick watt reporting there. joe biden blasted mr. trump's handling of the pandemic saying he has failed the american people. >> seems like our war time president surrendered. waved the white flag and left the battlefield. >> so let's bring in a professor

of biology specializing in immuneology. thank you for having me. >> 15 states are now seeing record numbers of cases and those cases are trending up in 36 states and now dr. anthony fauci warns the u.s. could see 100,000 new cases per day if this doesn't turn around. so how do we turn this around and stop the spread of this? >> people need to take this seriously and take it like the threat that it actually is. so we need to get back to the fundamentals of what we were taught, what we were told to do back in march which was appropriate physical distancing, limit the number of contacts you have, wash your hand, stop

touching your face and wear a mask. >> dr. fauci and robert redfield are calling on everyone to wear a mask and let's just listen to the plea from the surgeon general. >> please, please, please wear a face covering when you go out in public. it is not an inconvenience. it is not a suppression of your freedom. it actually is a vehicle to achieve our goals. >> and professor now many republicans now also calling on americans to wear a mask including the vice president and even fox anchor and trump supporter sean hannity but still the president refuses. if the president wore a mask and inspired others to do the same could that change the trajectory of this and help slow contagion and death? >> it's a study that came out

today that said if americans would wear havings, get it to above 80% preferably at 90% usage it would avoid another lockdown. that could be enough to get us back to a normal way of life by just adding those simple things that i mentioned before with a mask. if people don't buy into this and participate as part of the larger community, we're going to find ourselves in a progressively worse situation. masks are a part of the solution. they block transmission. they block the virus from getting into the air and give us a longer period of time in the he company of other people. and that's a little bit safer. >> we can show some data on that. let's just the take a look at this chart and we see that when a person coughs, the droplets have the potential to travel eight feet, but if we wear a mask it contains the spread of those droplets and particularly

if it's a two layered stitched faye mask. you see the various masks there what advantages they offer. if you look at this animation from florida atlantic university the difference between an uncovered cough and one with a mask. so, professor, is this the very information that could help explain to people why they need to wear a mask and should the president be laboring this point out and put out public messages like other countries do because the message is not getting through. >> it's not. unfortunately masks have become a political statement when they are not a political statement. they are a part of an effective control solution, and if we could have unified messaging from the top all the way through our public health officials, epidemiologists, saying how important this is we would get more buy in and better effect of

lowering the transmission in our community. it needs to start with the top with an example and permeate through the rest of society. we need everyone to buy into this. >> you mention from the top because florida's governor said he won't be closing any shops or businesses despite the surging cases in his state. the governor of south dakota is organizing a fireworks event this weekend where she said masks are optional and social distancing is not required and the president and first lady will be in attendance. what would you say to those governors and despite all the medical information we're seeing governors ignore the medical advice here? >> i'm at a loss for words with a lot of this. the countries that have done well in the control of this virus had unified response from both the federal and state level. they put all their effort into messaging and doing their jobs of testing, tracing, isolating

and the message got across, it was clear messaging and it worked and got contained in new zealand, south korea. right throughout those countries that have good messaging and good plans. when we have 50 states and we have a president that is saying one thing and we have a surgeon general saying another thing it becomes political, it becomes partisan. we just don't know what to believe and it makes it very difficult. and then you have attending a function where they are not wearing masks, and they are not doing the physical distancing, just amplifies the fact that they don't believe in what their own public health officials are saying and it just confuses the public. that forces other people that are concerned about their health to take even more extreme response, and we just keep getting pushed further and further apart. it's just insane.

>> it's a problem this country needs to confront and need to do it soon. thank you so much for talking with us. >> you're more than welcome. the white house now says the president has been fully briefed on the intelligence about a possible russian plot to offer money to the taliban to kill u.s. troops. remember mr. trump denied knowing anything about it just two days ago. cnn previously reported the intelligence warning was put into the president's daily briefing earlier this year. his administration argues the evidence is not conclusive and that's why the president was not informed about it before. the white house press secretary defended the president's briefing habits on tuesday and attacked the intelligence community. take a listen. >> the president does read and he also consumes intelligence verbally. this president, i'll tell you, is the most informed person on planet earth when it comes to

the threats we face. these are rogue he intelligence officers who are imperilling our troops lives. >> going after trump? >> very possibly could be. if that's the case it's despicable. >> democrats and some republicans are demanding more answers in the coming hours a bipartisan group of lawmakers known as the gang of eight is expected to get briefed on the intelligence. house speaker nancy pelosi says it's a matter of national security. >> what we do know is if he were not briefed he should have been and if he were not why wasn't he because all roads lead to putin with him. what does he have on the president that they would withhold that information from him. >> and for more on this let's bring in amy pope, an associate fellow at chatham house joining us now from london. thank you so much for being with

us. >> good morning. >> so now we learn the white house is telling us that president trump has been fully briefed on the intelligence associated with the russian plot with the taliban but they didn't explain why mr. trump failed to read the daily briefing that he received earlier this year. so what is going on here and does this amount to a dereliction of duty? >> it's very, very strange. i know from my own experience working with national security council that the daily brief is really just a collection of the most important intelligence that the intelligence community has decided that the president needs to see. it's not, you know, dozens and dozens of pages. it tends to be fairly straightforward, very succinct. during the time of president obama he would have a briefer come in and walk him through specific articles are that were important. that's just to make sure that the president gets the information that he needs to protect the country.

so all of this just doesn't add up. something has gone wrong in the process. whether it's the president not understanding what's in the brief or his briefer is not providing the information. who knows? but something very unusual is happening. >> while that's happening what would u.s. allies be making of all this and how might this country's adversaries take advantage of this information and understanding that the president of this country doesn't read? >> deeply troubling. on every single level it suggests the president is not getting fundamental, basic information that he need to keep the country safe. and even if, for example, his national security adviser is the one that read the daily brief in full and then comes in to speak to the president, this is the kind of information you expect him to get right away. this is an attack on american soldiers or marines by foreign adversary and look even if the

information wasn't 100% verified, you want it serious enough you want to get it into the president's hand as soon as possible so he can weigh his option. >> intelligence isn't 100% verified. i did want to talk to you about carl bernstein's reporter who broke watergate. he wrote this what president trump said to u.s. allies and i just want to read this out. notably about women and i'm quoting here directly his most vicious attacks said the sources were aimed at women heads of state. in conversations with both may and america america the president demeaned and denigrated them in di didiatrib

described as near-sadistic by one of the sources and confirmed by others. some of the things he said to america america are just unbelievable. >> what's your response to the report? >> you know, it's so troubling on so many levels. just setting aside the gender question for one second, look at the countries we're talking about. it's the uk and germany, some of our closest allies when it comes to sharing intelligence, protect each other's country, working together with regard to our troops on a huge range of issues both from the military point of view, to financial point of view, to even when we look at covid. these are the kind of relationships that we really need to foster and protect and the fact that he would denigrate any leader of these countries in particular is so deeply troubling. then you add in the gender

question and it's hard to believe this is actually the president of the united states who is squandering some of united states best relationships because of -- it's not really clear what. but the issue here is that he's damaging relationships that are key to protecting your democracy, key to protect our citizens, and frankly protecting the way americans expect to live and that's so troubling. >> yeah, it is quite shock. amy pope, thank you so much for joining us. we do appreciate it. >> thank you. just ahead vladimir putin could get life in the russian presidency. why critics point to another power grab. back with that in just a moment. it's kind of my quiet, alone time. audible is a routine for me. it's like a fun night school for adults. i could easily be seduced into locking myself into a place where i do nothing but listen to books. i never was interested in historical fiction before,

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. welcome back, everyone. hong kong police have made at least 30 arrests. some of them for national security offenses under the controversial new law imposed by china. a man holding a flag reading hong kong independence was the first person arrested earlier and this picture shows a nearly elm. at the victoria park what was supposed to be a gathering place

for protesters earlier today. this is the same park last year full of protesters. the new law has had a chilling effect on the people of hong kong who remain unsure of how it will be enforced. cnn's will ripley joins us now live from hong kong with more on all of this. so, will, what is the latest on these arrests under the new national security law? >> reporter: we know at least two of the arrests are tied to the national security law and pardon me as i'm turning my back away from you. i want to show the full extent of the resources the hong kong police have out here. even though there has not been any large or organized protests that we've seen just kind of little pop ups here and there, police have closed off this entire road adjacent to victoria park. that white vehicle we're behind the water canon that we know police have deployed in certain areas around hong kong relatively near where we are.

we're here at victoria park the heart of the july 1st hand over demonstration last year that was so packed with people you could not move. you couldn't get a cell phone call out. then they marched through the city, some protesters, hundreds of them, a handful by comparison of the huge crowd we saw last year broke into the legislative council building, vandalized the building, spraying anti-communist slogans. we're away from the police but showing you this is a different strategy from what i remember seeing for months on end last year. the protests were kind of pop up. organized and the protesters seemed like they were outsmarting the police. this time the police are actually in place before the protests can even organize. so you have a huge amount of officers there and of course they have their full arsenal,

pepper spray, tear gas, flags to warn people they are about to deploy those assets and doing a loud speaker announcement now warning everybody to kind of keep their distance and to disperse. not only can you be arrested and prosecuted under the national security law but there's arrests for a whole host of offenses whether it's for a weapon or interfering with police. so this is, obviously, the big guns they rolled out here. the water canon we know they used it. what's keeping the crowds smaller this year is this national security law and the potential for life imprisonment if you're arrested even possession of a banner that says hong kong or taiwan independence. of course hong kong government making the argument that they are protecting the safety of the vast majority of citizens and people who are out here demonstrating might be terrorists and whatnot. of course you have to ask the position if you're in possession of a sign does that make you

danger to national security. >> the aim is to intimidate. that's what they are doing. will ripley joining us from streets of hong kong. many thanks. controversial reforms, a national vote and power of vladimir putin. voters across russia are deciding on constitutional changes that could keep the russian president in power for another 16 years. mr. putin could also gain more control over local and municipal authorities. critics calling the ballot a constitutional coup. cnn's matthew chance has spent years reporting from moscow. today he joins us live from london. good to see you, matthew. talk to us about what all is at stake here. >> reporter: well, i mean if you listen to authorities, and the advertising campaigns and election campaigns that they have been launching online and television you think it were all about the small amendments that's included in this constitutional reform. things like providing better

protection for workers in russia. providing better compensation for people with families, ft. myers compensation for them. family support. and things like that. there's even a clause which is in the russian constitution that wedlock should only be between a man and a woman. called that as homophobic wrangling but speaks to conservative values, some say prejudice values of much of the electorate inside russia. these are all like part and parcel of the raft of constitutional amendments being put forward today. what no one in russia is talking about outside of opposition circles is that the main issue with this constitutional amendment is they basically qualify vladimir putin to have two additional six year presidential terms. that's 12 extra years potentially in the presidency. his current presidential term comes to an end in 2024.

that means he could be president of russia until 2036. he would be 83 years old. so, you know, for much of us, many of us observing this from around the world that's what the russians are voting on today. do they want putin forever or do they want something different? >> all right. we'll see what happens. matthew chance bringing us the very latest there from streets of london. appreciate it. as coronavirus cases spike and more states push the pause button on re-opening the chairman of the u.s. federal reserve has a new warning. that's next. t everything clean. i tell them, it may be your detergent... that's why more dishwasher brands recommend cascade platinum... ...with the soaking, scrubbing and rinsing built right in. for sparkling-clean dishes, the first time. cascade platinum.

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chairman of the federal reserve has a warning for u.s. lawmakers. jerome powell says the economic recovery will depend largely on how well the u.s. can contain the coronavirus and whether americans believe it's safe to resume their former lives. >> economy has entered an important new phase and done so sooner than expected. while this bounce back in economic activity is welcomed it also presents new challenges, needing to keep the virus in check. >> while many americans may still be wary, investors are feeling optimistic. u.s. stocks recorded their best quarter in decades rebounding from historic losses in the first three months of the year due to the pandemic. the u.s. senate has extended a lifeline for small businesses as it was about to expire. tuesday's unanimous vote keeps the $660 billion lending plan

known as the paycheck protection program operating through august 8th. the house must also approve the extension. it's part of an effort to help cash-strapped companies make rent and keep workers employed. airbus is cutting thousands of jobs over the next year as it deals with the fallout from the pandemic. after the company's announcement the french finance ministry called the cuts excessive. anna stewart has our report. >> reporter: airbus will shrink its workforce by 10% and do so by next summer. majority of the 15,000 job cuts will be felt in france and germany. the restructure was certainly expected. as early as april the ceo warned the company was burning through cash. it burnt through $9 billion justin first quarter and thousands of staff have been on furlough in recent months. those furloughs can't run forever. today what we're seeing is a

recognition from airbus it's not an issue of cash but an issue of outlook for the whole industry. here's what the ceo had to say. >> this is, of course, a matter of deep regret and something that as a management team we would have preferred to avoid. however, it's our duty to face reality as it stands. we do not take this step lightly. but we have come to the conclusion we must act now to protect the future. >> reporter: airbus doesn't expect air traffic to recover until at least 2023 and possibly not until the end of 2025. so very grim outlook for the industry. it's provided strong reactions from unions and french government. the french government pledged $17 billion to support the air

industry. the french finance ministry has told cnn these job cuts are excessive and says the company must minimize forced departures. in a statement, airbus said it would focus as much as it can on voluntary departures on retirement schemes and long term partial employment programs. this comes as a shock to thousands of workers at airbus across europe. the european union will re-open its borders to a list of countries today but the u.s. is not one of them. diplomats spent days wrangling over who could be let in based on criteria like infection rates and social distancing measures. several countries made the cut like china where the virus originated. rising case numbers and deaths as a result of coronavirus has

not helped the u.s. but the be a he sense of american tourists will hit some european countries hard. what's the latest on that? >> reporter: you're right. it will hit a lot of european countries very hard. we were looking into this yesterday. american tourists in cities like paris, rome and lisbon, there's millions of them and they bring in billions of dollars every year. it's something that does hurt the european union a great deal. at the same time the european union and its member states have been saying the only thing that would hurt it more is a second wave of coronavirus infections and another lockdown. that's something they want to avoid. at this point in lime they believe allowing american tourists, american visitors back here on to the continent is something that would be a public health risk that they don't want to take. if we look at that list, you mentioned some countries like china, that's quite interesting. also interesting if the european union clearly seems to believe and see that countries like, for

instance, rwanda, serbia and algeria have done a more efficient job of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic than the trump administration has done so far. essentially the european union is saying look none of this has anything to do with politics, they are saying all they are doing is looking at the numbers and they want to see a significant decrease in no very well coronavirus infections in countries where people are coming from. if we put up our graphic that we have, we can see that the trajectory of new coronavirus infections in the european union and in the united states is clearly going in very different directions and that certainly also is something that the european union did have to take into account, and there is actually a very good article on our website by our digital folks outlining that graphic and how that means that the european union really couldn't have come to a different decision and final thing the earliest the european union could take a look at this and make a new decision is about two weeks from now.

>> it's a wake up call for the u.s. government to do something about the pandemic in this country. any new coronavirus vaccine will have to work at least 50% better than the placebo in preventing infection in people. that's according to the u.s. food and drug administration. but where do we stand on the search for a vaccine. ? elizabeth cohen brings us up to that. >> reporter: half a year into the coronavirus outbreak and the best bet to stop it a vaccine. 17 teams around the world now testing covid-19 vaccines in humans according to the world health organization. three supported with u.s. funding. yet there's no published data on how well these three vaccines are working in human studies so far. dr. anthony fauci said data is coming out any day now. >> what i've seen thus far looks good. >> reporter: final trials are expected to start this summer with the goal to deliver 300

million dose by january but the army general in charge of the government's vaccine effort offering no assurances. >> those numbers of doses are a possibility and a hope, but you can't make any promises or commitments as to the number or when they will be actually available? >> i'm working on the goal to achieve as you articulated but i can't promise its end date. >> reporter: there's a potential problem. dr. fauci tells cnn it's possible that a covid-19 vaccine will only be 70% to 75% effective. that might not be enough to stop the outbreak given that a cnn poll shows about a third of americans don't intend to get a covid-19 vaccine. >> there's a general anti-science, anti-authority, anti-vaccine feeling among some people in this country. a large percentage relatively speak. >> reporter: six months into the

outbreak we do have new treatments. there's remdesivir, it cuts down on hospital stays by four days. supply has been limited and the u.s. government plans to continue managing shipments of the drug to hospitals. the company making remdesivir is making a version that can be used outside of hospital. steroids showing success with a study showing they reduce the risk of death by a third for the sickest patients. >> we have promising therapeutics that's benefiting tens of thousands of patients and saved thousands of lives. >> reporter: doctors are studying several other treatments. blood transfusions, antibody cocktails, a drug for heart born, another for gout. elizabeth cohen, cnn reporting. and you're watching "cnn newsroom". it was a video seen around the world. a couple pulling weapons on protesters outside their home. now the man you see here is

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he didn't deserve to die. i shouldn't have to live in fear while waiting for a man who killed my husband to be tried in court. >> that tearful plea coming from the widow of rayshard brooks, asking a judge to deny bail to the man who killed her husband. but a judge did grant former atlanta police officer garrett rolfe release on $500,000 bond, and he has been released from jail. garrett rolfe is facing murder charges in the death of brooks who was fatally shot in atlanta last month. the judge said the former officer is not a flight risk, and has ordered garrett rolfe to wear an ankle bracelet, surrender his passport and not

carry a weapon. rayshard brooks died just two weeks after george floyd was killed and his death fueled more protests in. atlanta. a homeowner said his life has been ruined since a video of him and his wife pointing guns at protesters went viral. this video captures the moment the couple brandished weapons and yelled profanities at a crowd walking outside of their home. the protesters were on a private street and were allegedly heading to demonstrate outside of the mayor's house. my colleague chris cuomo spoke to the man you see and his attorney. >> they did not go up your steps, they didn't go to your house, they are didn't touch you, they try to enter your home or do anything to your kid but you say you were assaulted. you're using the civil definition of that which is that you had the apprehension that something bad was going to happen to you. but nothing did. but to call it terrorism when

people are there protesting how the community is treated by the police is a little bit of reverse psychology? >> no. you're wrong. the reason why they did not get up my steps is my wife and i were there with weapons to keep them off our steps. >> how do you know? >> because they were coming at us until i displayed the weapon and that topped them. i came out -- >> i'm sure a house like that has cameras. do you have video of them coming up the steps and being in your house? >> i'm not going discuss the level of my private security on national television. >> do you have proof of them approaching your house. >> chris, this is not a black lives matter movement issue. this is a matter of not just one discussion that we have to have. we shouldn't have to have this discussion. we do. and every challenge by an old man like me is to listen and hear the message.

the message of black lives matter. what the second part of this discussion is and it's not mutually exclusive is the rights, constitutional rights of each and every citizen in this land that can't be compromised without recognizing that the message of black lives matter is to have any meaning at all. >> st. louis police tells cnn they are investigating. mississippi's republican governor signed a bill on tuesday to remove the confederate emblem from the state flag. mississippi's flag was the last to feature that emblem. calls for racial justice forced the removal of a number of controversial sim bombs across the country. so why are confederate statues still up on capitol hill? here's that report.

>> reporter: with symbols of the nation's painful past coming down across the country "under the dome" of one of the most revered buildings in the nation still sit nearly two dozen tributes to confederate soldiers, officials, and known racists. throughout the capitol complex of statues sent by states, 12% glorify the confederacy honoring the likes of lee and davis. the belt buckle of this general marked with csa for confederate states of america his statue stands next to the office of jim clyburn. it's not only the statues. two rooms on capitol hill are named in honor of former senators thurmond and byrd both information he is grsegregation.

in the old senate chamber there's a bust of chief just robert brook tanny who wrote the opinion in the dred scott case. there have been efforts to address these questionable relics before. some have been re-arranged, moved to less prominent places on capitol hill. >> i could move things around, i couldn't take them out. that requires something else. >> reporter: there's a renewed focus in the wake of the national uprising against systemic racism pushing to get them out all together. >> we can't separate the confederate statue from this history and legacy of white supremacy in this country. >> reporter: speaker pelosi this month had paintings of four former speakers in the house who served in the confederacy taken down. when it comes to removing statueser hands are tied. it's up to the states to choose

which two statutes they want to send to capitol hill. >> can you imagine jefferson davis, alexander stevens, treason, committed treason against the united states of america and their statues are here because their states put them here. >> reporter: several states have been making plans to swap out their statues before this moment like arkansas swapping out their statues for johnny dash and daisy bates, replacing the rest of the statues and other questionable displays would take a hefty legislation effort. but with many republicans choosing to look the other way -- >> what i do think is clearly a bridge too far. is this nonsense that we need to air brush the capital. and scrub out everybody from years ago who had any connection to slavery. >> reporter: there's little chance these relics could be a

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reiner died monday at the age of 98. the emmy winning actor, director was the creator of "the dick van dyke show." >> reporter: at the image of 98 a guy who likes to make a joke about obits is now being remembered in them. >> i dhoek scheck to see if i'm. >> reporter: his son rob reiner, wrote my heart is hurting. he was my guiding light. guided in vintage routines. like the 2,000-year-old man asking mel brooks to explain the origin of cheese.

>> he sniffed it and went cheese. >> reporter: he starred in a sitcom flop. dick van dyke became the star but reiner ran the show while playing a smaller role. 100 administers pure mench is now dick van dyke remembered him. >> inspiration to jerks every where. >> reporter: martin tweeted good-bye to my greatest mentor. >> he was like a father to me. although i wouldn't let him bathe me like he wanted to. >> reporter: he ran off with the mark twain prize for humor. >> die the same thing that i did when i was 17 years on my first stage appearance pi checked my fly. >> reporter: when he wasn't being funny he was political taking a knee, donning a black

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