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facility in missouri and maya moore was there in a mask helping him get the conviction overturned. new evidence was found in the case. irons is free after serving 22 years behind bars and moore called the moment worshipful and sitting out again this season to continue fighting for social justice and in the wake of george floyd's death athletes are choosing to not return to games just yet but instead to focus on creating chaung in the country. >> really impressive. coy, thank you. it is the top of the hour. i'm kate bolduan. for the first time the united states is crossing the 50,000 mark for new cases in a single day. spikes in several states, at least fooi states now setting their own new records. for new infections. 37 states are heading in the
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wrong direction. and i don't hear anyone saying other than the president that this is going to change for the better any time soon. states are responding. some like california and arizona and texas including are tightening restrictions to try to keep people more socially distanced but are the moves enough to turn the tide? we'll ask the experts but amid all of this uncertainty one thing is certain. the data if he is looking at it is not changing the president's mind. >> the crisis is being handled. some areas that were very hard hit are now doing very well. some were doing well and we thought they might be gone and flare up and we are putting out the fires. >> one of the fires right now in florida. vice president mike pence is traveling there today and as the country hits a record new number of infections, florida is, too. more than 10,000 new cases in the last 24 hours.
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you brought us that news at the top of the last hour, boris. i wonder how and if that changes the mind of the govern nonon what should be done there. >> reporter: it's startling, a startling number. more than 10,000 cases in 24 hours. that is a surge from what we saw in just previous days. the entire month of june terrible for the state of florida with new coronavirus cases. more than 100,000 and yet governor desantis insisted he is not planning to reinstate the statewide stay-at-home order. he is leaving it up to local authorities to instate restrictions in the municipalities. that is a difficult thing to do. one example, the city of jacksonville, their beaches open this weekend. the city's mayor had a warning for the public.
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>> i think if we take a step back and look at what the circumstances were that created the current peak we have, it was actually the opening of the bars, not the opening of the beach. if you show up at the beach, you have children, there's no place to go. i would go home. >> reporter: so the beaches in jacksonville will remain open this holiday fourth of july weekend. south in miami-dade, broward and palm beach county closed. a strict curfew on bars and expanding the face mask mandate. obviously that's happening across the state and happening here in the city of sarasota. in the first two days of unithey had nine new coronavirus cases. in the last 48 hours, 220. there is a surge of cases across this state. local officials doing the best to respond. we'll see what the governor says after meeting with mike pence this afternoon. >> the man in charge of testing
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across the nation, admiral giroir, he said today the cases are not just because you're doing more testing as we have heard from the governor of florida. there are increasing infection rates. good to see you. in california, the trends are so concerning that one major university, the university of southern california, is reversing course on its plans for the fall. let's get the latest from the state. kyung law is joining me. what is the plan there? >> reporter: essentially the idea is to move people out of the indoor spaces where the spread in the state of california is worse. that's about three quarters of the state, 19 counties where the governor says indoor dining, that has got to shut down temporarily. he's admitting california is in the middle of the surge and that the virus cannot be underestimated. to understand why california is losing the battle against
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covid-19, meet manhattan beach. at restaurants, partitions are up. tables sit empty for social distancing. talk to the residents -- >> i mean, i don't want to swear too loudly but i want to go to the beach. it sucks. this is not the same situation to deal with where people all over the world party on a beach in miami. >> i don't agree with being told we can't do anything on a holiday that this country is supposed to be celebrating independence. >> reporter: call it covid exhaustion and it's showing up in the numbers. after early signs of success controlling the outbreak california is now bending the wrong way. with little sign of slowing. >> i suspect there will be plenty of people not socially distancing themselves, not wearing the masks. we see it quite a bit. >> reporter: los angeles county more than 100,000 covid-19 cases. that's higher than all of the states in the u.s. with the exception of the top seven.
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governor newsom ordered indoor restaurants, theaters and museums closed in 19 counties and warned all residents to not gather in large groups on the fourth of july. >> you have 14 million people in the state of california and 40 million people turn their back on the guidelines and common sense, that is not something we can enforce. >> i'm pretty gloomy and a little bit angry and sad. >> reporter: despite how dr. robert wachter feels watching california slide backwards he credits governor newsom for shutting the state down early. most seeing a resurgence of covid cases are republicans. california is an exception. and that's the public health lesson here says the doctor. >> the problem is less about governance and more about human nature and if enough of them say the rules are beginning to loosen up and i am just going to get together with friends and i'm going to stay a couple feet apart then it doesn't matter what the rules are. the virus says i see an
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opportunity and going to pounce. >> reporter: another big test this weekend as a fourth of july looms in the golden state. there is local enforcement that we are seeing stepped up especially here in southern california. in west hollywood, the mayor there says that he is going to cite people a $300 ticket if he sees people without any sort of masks on. and mayor of los angeles say that is a tougher hand on enforcement to follow. the reason why saying that is that in los angeles right now the estimate on infections is about 1 in 140. the mayor of los angeles does believe that by early next week it could be 1 out of 100 if not 1 out of 70. kate? >> oh my gosh. all right. kyung, thank you. so what does this all mean for the direction that the country's heading now? it seems an obvious question and continues to be a stark disconnect between what the science and the data are
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showing. and what the president seems to see. he down plays the virus and also blames the rise in cases on increased testing but moments ago the administration official in charge of testing said this. >> there is no question that the more testing you get the more you will uncover but we do believe this is a real increase in cases because of the percent positivities are going up so this is real increases in cases. >> a real increase in cases despite the messaging from the white house that this virus and the president says is just on its way out. joining me is andy slavik. andy, it is good to see you again. when the white house is describing this current moment that the country is going through as small embers, small embers burning and the president saying that the virus is just eventually going to die out, how
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far off is that from reality right now? >> it's very far off. find me another world leader who's saying the same thing. we have leaders around the world who when they see even small increases in cases, they react instantly and the country shuts it down. we are seeing 50,000 a day and the president is declaring to go away and victory. i think that the challenge that we have, it is not just him but also political leaders and many of us, this notion that if we have to take a little short-term pain in order to get long-term gain the rest of the world was able to do that. and i know people want do go out for the fourth of july but we have to tell ourselves there are more fourth of july, more sports seasons. if we want to open schools we have to be part of that solution and i think too many starting with the president going to many
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of the governors just aren't willing to ask americans to sacrifice anything until it becomes an absolute tragic crisis. >> it is really quite scary. as one icu nurse told miguel marquez and he said if you want to make it to august i think it was essentially to make it to august fourth you need to stay in on july fourth and even though that is honestly a similar message to what you and i talked about in the worst of it, the first worst of it in the middle of april it doesn't seem that people remember it. >> yeah. i'm not sure what it takes. certainly it's easy to understand why people are impatient, easy to understand why people who live in communities that hasn't quite hit yet doesn't get it. i wonder what would happen if we had tv cameras inside the hospitals in houston right now
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and that were running constantly and people were seeing the toll. i talked to governor gretchen whgretchen whitmer and has lost three family members to covid-19 and i tell people this. the experience of losing someone to covid-19 is they check into the hospital and you never see them again. you can't visit them. you can't identify the body. there's not a funeral. that's it. she said it is the loneliest and strangest experience and said i wish, i wish i could communicate this to people in the other parts of the country that didn't experience it yet. >> yeah. that is tough and true and it needs to be talked about more. quite honestly. i talked a doctor last hour who also has been doing some really impressive modeling, a county by county basis with the policy lab and for a while now. what he is basically saying, i think we need to pay more attention to it, he think that
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is the signs and the trends in the country right now are pointing to the country is entering a second wave right now. well before what has been feared which is a second wave in the fall and winter. do you think that we are staring at a second wave, andy? >> i actually think the first wave is ripping through the country. it just hasn't gotten to all the places yet and viruses find places that they haven't been before. the concept we haven't mastered here is lag time. you know? president trump will look out the windower and no cases in april saying we are doing a great job and look out the window in june and early july with cases but before people are dying in great numbers saying we have cases but no deaths and he has to remember we are looking at the scene that we painted three to four weeks ago, not the scene of today because that's how long it takes for these things to happen. so it's a bit of a cognitive
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trick to play with your head to really understand what's happening. so we have very little immunity still across the country, maybe 5, 6, 7, 8% but if you believe scott gottlieb and the cdc the actual number of cases per day more like 300,000, 400,000 than 50,000 per day and all happening without our knowledge, because we are not able to test for it, but we'll certainly see it show up later on as the weeks progress. >> because it goes infection and then the positivity test and then comes the hospitalization rate and lagging after that is the death toll spike, as well. andy, thank you. coming up for us, texas hit a record breaking number of new cases this week. next, the drastic measure that one mayor is considering to try to stop the surge. and also, 4.8 million jobs created in june, the
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texas is one of the states close to entering apocalyptic territory in term of coronavirus cases. not only has the increase in new cases just reached yet another single day high there but importantly hospitalizations are also reaching record numbers. with some hospitals nearing maximum capacity. that has the mayor of the state's capital considering a 35-day stay-at-home order. that's austin mayor adler. thank you very much for being here. with the data just getting worse how close are you to making a decision about what you put on the table, this 35-day shutdown?
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>> kate, thank you for the invite. we're putting it on the table right now. this is something that the community has to consider. these are tough choices. this virus does not give us choices between good options. you pick the least bad one and what we asked the modelers and scientists to tell us is what do we do right now? we could easily be maxed out in the hospitals and icus within two weeks having to open up field hospitals in the city. what do we do to go to school in the fall? what do we do to sustain an open economy? i'm told one thing to go to is to go back to a stay-at-home. we know that that works. we did it in march and april and indefinite then. what would the community do it and they don't want to go back there, but would they do it for 35 days? if we knew when we started to
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count down the number of days and had that 35 days to count down and get prepared for how it is that you actually open up an economy? learn from what's happened to us here in texas during may and june and recognize that when we open up on the backside of that 35 days we have to open up differently than we lived. back in january and february. how does a restaurant with masking? how do we get people to actually mask at far greater numbers than we were able to achieve in may and june? >> mayor, those a lot would say -- those are very key questions that should have been considered and i know you wanted it to be considered before the first round of opening up and this gets to this issue to see across the country, mayor. local officials wanting to take steps to protect the community but not that the governors don't
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want to protect the community but a disconnect in what you want to do and allowed to do. how can you enforce a 35-day stay-at-home without the governor's buy-in? >> there are -- the first choice is hopefully the governor looks at the science and the data and concur. in the absence of that, there are two options. one is that we go to the community and we say regardless of what the governor is saying to do or not do, we get to decide by our individual actions what to do. can we rally a city to protect one another? our neighbors. we potentially have to try to make that kind of an appeal and then beyond that we're going to have to do whatever it is that we might be able to try. we have to keep our community safe. >> look. there is a scary example of how dangerous this virus still is, happening in your area right now. i was reading about a party of
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up to 300 teenagers about 2 weeks ago, a number of them testing positive after the party. a neighboring town to austin and seeing the austin health department is in charge of investigating. what's happening there? >> it's disturbing and part of that is the mixed messaging that everybody in my community is hearing. they're hearing mixed messaging from washington and the president, from the lieutenant governor. my governor is encouraging everybody to wear masks, a most important thing to do and won't let us enforce it and sends a mixed message so you have parties, gatherings and people that just are not convinced this is serious at this point or taking the steps effective, that mixed messaging is killing us. >> and the governor has closed bars and cut restaurant capacity to 50% again but i was just seeing that one business in austin planning to hosting a concert this weekend with
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vanilla ice performing in austin. the restaurant said that it's selling 2,500 tickets. are you okay with this? >> no. it is happening just outside of our city. so we're working with the county right now to see what it is that they can do to tamp that down. those kind of events put the entire region at risk and we're going to have to figure out what we need to do to stop that activity. it is dangerous. >> doesn't it also show a pretty glaring loophole in the restrictions that the governor's been putting in place if they can pull this off? >> no question. it is a glaring loophole if they can pull this off. we are taking a look at the tools that we do have and they're limited by did governor to see if the county can craft something. we certainly offered our support for it. but if they can do that there ultimately they can do it in the city in the future so we have to
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find that answer. we are imploring our governor to give us the kind of local control that would enable us to craft our own rules. that's what the governor gave us in april and march and we were able to tamp this down. our hope is that he gives it back to us again. >> are you confident that he is though? >> i'm hopeful. >> hope springs eternal, mayor. thank you very much. up next, no smoking, no drinking, no eating. new rules. looking live at atlantic city where casinos are opening but what do gamblers think about the new rules? just because of an accident. cut! is that good? no you were talking about allstate and... i just... when i... accident forgiveness from allstate. click or call for a quote today. gimme two minutes. eligible for medicare. accident forgiveness from allstate.
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as governors across the country shut down restaurants and bars and pleading with people to avoid large gatherings, atlantic city, new jersey, opening up for business. one of few states currently holding steady and currently is key here in terms of new infections because that is only right now. and that can change and is that going to change though in terms -- as they open up? cnn's bryn gingras is in atlantic city joining me right now. what are you seeing there? >> reporter: kate, the hope is
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that that doesn't change and a success because i can tell you that people are excited to be back here gambling, a part of the atmosphere and people excited to be back to work and taking so many precautions to make sure they stop any spread of the coronavirus as they reopen. we are at the hard rock casino and hotel and i want to show you the first step. when you walk through the door you go through a thermal image scan to see what your body temperature is. if you don't pass the test they make you drink some water, give you ten minutes and then they'll rescan you to make sure that the temperature is okay to continue into the casino. it is a 25% capacity. they actually are sold out for the holiday weekend but that doesn't mean every room is filled. they're not trying to fill every room because it's 25% capacity. and another rule is we saw from new jersey governor this week reversing course about that indoor dining, not allowing it,
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because of the rest of the country and some cases here in new jersey. there is no eating inside this casino. there's no drinking, no smoking and mandatory masks. in fact, no reason to not wear a mask because of the reasons you cannot eat, drink and smoke. hear from the ceo what he talked about in regard to maskings specifically. >> our word is caution. wear your mask. you know? keep six, eight feet minimum. don't become involved in large groups where you potentially increase your risk. wearing a mask reduces the chances by 60%. i know they're uncomfortable but the reality is it's the right thing to do not just for yourself but for others. >> reporter: social distancing is a big deal. people already at the slot machines trying to win some money and they're only having certain slot machines on and just to keep the distancing. going to the card games there
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are barriers up. you get a spritz of hand sanitizer before you start gambling. keep in mind, kate, for atlantic city, this was a devastated area by the coronavirus. people out of the work. now so many people to get back to work because they're reopened. kate. >> totally understand and really interesting to see where you show how many measures they're putting in place to try to make it possible to reopen and as i watch, bryn, it is like it looks like it could be the new normal. what this casino is putting in place. good stuff. thank you. really appreciate it. next, a county official in new york state issuing subpoenas to get people to cooperate with a contact tracing effort linked to why party. why they said they're lied to
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in new york a county health commissioner is trying to contain a cluser of coronavirus cases linked to a large house party. the get together happened last month in rockland county where the host was having symptoms and held the party anyway and then there's this twist. so contact tracers are trying to do their job and track people down and inform them and slow the spread. they're being met with major resistance. some people refusing the calls or lying to them so this county health commissioner is going to
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extreme lengths here. dr. patricia rupert is the county's health commissioner joining me right now. thank you for being here. you are doing or trying to do what all of the health experts are saying local communities to do. you identify an infected person and trying to make sure everyone they came in contact with is isolated, informed, one, isolated and tested so it doesn't spread. >> right. >> what have you come up against in trying to do this? >> so for most people do cooperate with us but for the smaller number that do not they have hung up on us. given us very small amount of information and then refused to give anything further. have told us they do not want to or need to provide information. so we got to the point where since the information is essential i needed to send eight subpoenas yesterday to obtain
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the required information for the investigations. >> have you gotten any responses? >> eight. >> have it worked? >> it worked. >> right away. because it was threatening. $2,000 fine for every day that they didn't respond? >> up to $2,000 per day. >> it's pretty amazing to go to these lengths. why do you think people were so resistant to helping? >> i think that it's a combination of things. there are those in the community who have been home for a number of months and tired of it, fed up and want to be out and not have to answer to government, any health officials. some people just don't maybe understand the importance of this which, of course, with education we're trying to explain and have people understand the reason we need to find out who their contacts are, where they have been, when that was so that we can continue to
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decrease the number of cases in new york. >> doctor, how do respond when people say they don't want to respond to government and don't see the need to help? >> we try to be understanding. we try to realize where they're coming from, part of the educational process and then it comes to the point where we have to do what is needed to do for public health. >> which is they have to help. or else it's just going to continue to spread. it is quite as simple as that. i find this important and i'm thankful that you came on because this hits on this broader challenge with contact tracing. because it only works if people cooperate. what do you want people across the country to take from what you have had to deal with in trying to stop the spread in your county? >> i'd like people to understand is that the timeliness of case
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identification is paramount. we need to know who the cases are, we need to know where they've been, who has been around them, who lives with them is essential because most of the cases from close contacts and especially prolonged periods of time. we need to quarantine the contacts because many of them who become infected do not show symptoms or early enough that it's identified and they can transmit 48 hours before they show symptoms and essential to keep those quarantined home on quarantine and that we're not looking to be punitive in any regard. we are looking to protect everyone's health, especially those who have chronic disease, older. we say it's your parents, grandparents, younger siblings who could succumb to the
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multi-system inflammatory disease we have seen and it will help them and their family members and it would help the public, as well. >> hopefully you won't have to go to the lengths again but, doctor, you may want to keep the subpoenas handy. they seem to work. thank you very much. >> they worked with measles last time and they worked again so thank you. >> thank you, ma'am. next, today's new jobs report showing millions of americans are getting back to work but with the country facing record highs of new coronavirus cases how long can the good news last? so you only pay for what you need? i should get a quote. do it. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪
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new jobs numbers out this morning providing encouraging signs for the economy. the june report showing 4.8 million jobs added last month with states and businesses reopening. unemployment rate fell to 11.1%, this is news to celebrate but how long will it last? cnn business anchor julia chatterley joining me now. what do you see in this report? >> i see a number to be celebrated as you said but as long as we represent and understand that this is not the reflection of where we are today in america. this snapshot that this data point took was on the second week of june and right before we saw this dramatic ramp-up in
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covid cases in arizona, texas, california, florida. and obviously that changes the picture because we have seen this suspension of reopenings. now look at the unemployment rate, 11.1%. if i add in all the people in this report said, hey, i want a job and can't get it or people saying i'm out of the workforce rather than unemployed that rate looks like 16.5%. then look at the demographics. the president pointed out that the black unemployment rate is coming down. on average, all rates are coming down but the white unemployment rate again coming down much quicker. the gap between white and black unemployment at a five-year wide. african-americans are again not seeing jobs recovering to the same rate that others are. that ties to the jobs they're doing. look at the sector break down. they are 50% of the jobs added
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back in the number and most vulnerable when we see suspension of reopenings, even a pullback on the conditions to see in over half of america is doing this. to sum up, we are seeing jobs added but the price is rising covid cases and risks slowing the recovery or reversing the recovery in jobs going forward. >> absolutely. what about the sobering number of people filing for benefits for the first time? >> yeah. this is key. we have still got more than 2 million people in total if you add in gig economy workers, contract workers. we have also got more than 19 million people continuing to collect benefits. this should be coming down and it just isn't and this is a number to watch going forward because of the slow down in reopenings and if people stay out of the workforce this is
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where we see the numbers hit. >> thank you. >> thank you. president trump has been out touting today's jobs numbers. joe biden he just spoke out responding adding his take. joining me now cnn's arlette signs. what did joe biden say? >> joe biden said right now is not the time to celebrate a victory as millions of americans are unemployed and coronavirus cases are spiking and death is also going up. biden did acknowledge that the jobs report is positive news and said that the reason that reasons of millions of americans are unemployed because what plump bungled the coronavirus response. >> trump wants to declare his health crisis over and unemployment solved. unfortunately he's deadly wrong on both fronts claiming victory with almost 15 million americans
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still out of work. quit ignoring the reality of the pandemic. act, lead, lead. get out of the way so others can, mr. president. >> reporter: now biden also called out president trump for not acknowledging that record number of new coronavirus cases that came out relating to yesterday. this is something, an argument that biden repeatedly tried to make over the past few months that the public health issues and the economic situation are deeply tied together and that the president must address both hand in hand and acknowledge both of the crisis and heed -- biden says that president trump failed to acknowledge the facts. kate? >> arlette, thank you. a major arrest in the case that began with jeffrey epstein. what investigators believe the former girlfriend knows.
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former girlfriend of accused sex trafficker jeffrey epstein is arrested. federal prosecutors in new york charging ghislaine maxwell with six counts part of the investigation of epstein's accomplices. the charges include enticement for minors to engage in sex acts, conspiracy to transport minors with intent to engage in
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criminal sexual activity and two counts of perjury. epstein died by suicide awaiting trial last year. cnn's cara scanel is following this. prosecutors announced this. tell us what they said. >> yeah, kate. today's a big day in this investigation that's been ongoing for a year: prosecutors announced that they have filed 16 charges against ghislaine maxwell, epstein's girlfriend and long-time alleged accomplice charged with enticing children to engage in illegal sex acts, six counts including perjury and today the charges date back nearly 26 years, that's how long prosecutors allege this operation had been ongoing for, from 1994 to 1997. prosecutors allege that maxwell helped groom, recruit and ultimately abuse the victims some of whom were as young as 14
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years old. here's what acting u.s. attorney audrey strauss said describing maxwell's role in the indictment. >> mention well enticed minor girls, got themselves to trust her and delivered them into the trap that she and epstein had set for them. she pretended to be a woman they could trust all the while she was setting them up to be sexually abused by epstein and then in some cases by maxwell herself. >> strauss also said they will be seeking to detain maxwell when she is presented before a judge later today. they also asked victims to still come forward saying that they wanted to hear from victims of epstein and maxwell saying that the fbi acting chief here in new york had said that the victims are the most important people here so, kate, this is a huge development. the victims' attorneys saying they're happy that they're
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hopeful it continues and more people held accountable. kate? >> the indictment names specific locations. is there something significant about that part of the charges? >> this is the -- what we have heard before with epstein and this time now there's a new location. right? epstein accused of trafficking women here in new york, to palm beach, florida, a ranch in new mexico and said some abuse took place in london at the home of maxwell. that is a new development and reached out to buckingham palace for prince andrew, a long-time friend of maxwell and they said they welcome his cooperation so this is a new wrinkle in the case that some abuse back 26 years did occur in london. kate? >> thank you very much. and this also just in. an update of the supreme court. the supreme court blocking house democrats from getting grand
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jury material from the robert mueller investigation likely until after the november presidential election. the court agreeing with the request of the trump administration to hear the case in the next term. the federal appeals court ruled but the administration appealed the ruling to the supreme court. thank you so much for joining me. brooke baldwin picks up the coverage from here. we'll take it, i'm brooke baldwin. hi there. you are watching cnn. the coronavirus pandemic is being handled and the u.s. is getting it under control. that's according to president trump who took this victory lap today on the latest jobs number and touting the administration's approach to a virus that has killed more than 127,000 americans and infected more than 2 million people. >> we have implemented an
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