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viewers here in the united states and all around the world, i'm natalie allen and this is "cnn newsroom." thank you for joining us. once again, the u.s. sets a record for new coronavirus infections in a single day. according to johns hopkins university, more than 63,000 new cases were reported thursday. the u.s. has hit record highs a half a dozen times in just over two weeks. new cases are surging across 2/3 of the country, california, texas and florida all set new records for single day deaths thursday. dr. anthony fauci did not mince words when discussing the country's performance. >> as a country, when you

compare us to other countries, i don't think you can say we're doing great. we're just not. you'd have to make the assumption that if there wasn't such deviivisiveness that we wo have a more coordinated approach. >> u.s. states and governments are staggering under the rates of this pandemic. cnn's martin savage has that and more coronavirus headlines around the kun 2ri. >> reporter: three states set new grim records in number of deaths in a 24 hour period due to coronavirus. california, 149, texas, 105, and florida with 120. also in florida, the department of health reporting today an additional 8,935 new cases as well as their highest positivity rate for coronavirus testing in weeks. >> i know we've had higher blips

and now we're higher than may and the beginning of june. >> reporter: the almost daily record setting surging setting long lines and causing officials to challenge the plans to open schools. >> at a time when quite frankly restaurants have been emptied out, shuttered, it is counter intuitive to mandate students to return to school at full capacity. >> despite such concerns, disney world opened today for pass holders. the president plans to visit florida, not to talk corona concerns but to travel to dural to talk about drug concerns. states are in danger with being overwhelmed with personal protective equipment again in short supply. 10,000 people are hospitalized in texas with the state's republican governor calling it a massive spike. >> when you look at the number

of people who have been hospitalized over the past couple of weeks, you can see that there may be more fatalities coming. >> reporter: arizona is reporting a record high spiking coronavirus emergency room admissions on top of a shortage of i beds. all three states are in trouble. president trump plans to hold a rally in new hampshire triggering fears that the state could end up like oklahoma where health experts are reporting a recent jump in coronavirus cases following the president's rally in tulsa last month where supporters ignored advice to wear masks and socially distance. getting back to the state of florida, the governor seems to be backing off somewhat on his hard-charging effort to have brick and mortar schools reopen. he did say if parents were concerned and wanted to keep their students home and study online, that should be an option

for them. he seemed to support the republican national convention that will be in florida at jacksonville, that they might hold it at an outdoor venue such as a football stadium. martin savidge, cnn, atlanta. health experts have warned from early in this pandemic that some people infected show no symptoms but can still infect others. here's cnn's brian todd. >> i've had oxygen coming in up my nose coming out of the wall. >> reporter: before he was hospitalized, jason hartelius believes he had it in his system for a weechblgt a danger he warned about as he was recovering. >> you may say you're fine. you may say you're low risk. you might get it, go back to work, never have any symptoms. you could give it to people you work with who gets very sick and

die. >> reporter: that danger is coming into greater focus. a new study published by the national academy of sciences says people who are so called silent spreaders could be responsible for about half of all coronavirus cases. >> this makes control of covid-19 particularly challenging. with covid-19, people are infectious before any symptoms so most people who are transmitting the virus are doing so inadvertently without even realizing they are sick. >> reporter: allison galvani says that means the silent spreaders are going through life before it shows themselves. she says younger, seemingly healthy people are disproportionately responsible for psy loent transmissions, a key question now given this new study, how do we combat silent spreading. experts say it means doubling down on things. >> distance. if you do have to go out, try to

physically separate yourself from others and try to avoid the crowded indoor spaces and wear a mask to reduce the fact that you could transmit the virus to others. >> reporter: this new information on psy loent transmission does not mean we should panic or think that everyone we see is a silent spreader of coronavirus. >> we still think this is spread by close, prolonged contact. we shouldn't take from this if you're in the streets, grocery store, you're maintaining distance this puts you at greater risk. >> still, tracking silent spreaders of coronavirus is going to be a huge challenge in the months and years ahead. this new study says more than 1/3 of silent infections would need to be identified and isolated to suppress any future outbreaks. the author says we are not there yet pointing out there's not enough contact tracing available

and not enough tests for people who have symptoms let alone people who are asymptomatic. brian todd, cnn. janine anyez has become the third latin american head of state to test positive after the presidents of brazil and honduras. she announced it on thursday on twitter saying she feels strong and will self-quarantine for 14 days. brazil's president bolsonaro on the left was diagnosed earlier this jeek brazil is reporting tens of thousands of new covid-19 cases over the past 24 hours bringing its total infections to 1.7 million and the death toll to almost 70,000. brazil has the soaked highest number in the world behind the u.s. cnn's bill weir has more for from us brazil.

>> reporter: it has been another grim week here in brazil and another day brought another at least 40,000 covid-19 confirmed cases and another 1100 or so confirmed fatalities as that number reaches close to 70,000 now. and president bolsonaro, the most famous covid-19 patient in brazil, continues with his self-prescribed remedy, that is hydroxy clor row kin, anti-malarials and other vitamins. he encourages his other country men and women to get back to work telling them their chances of a severe result are close to zero, quote, unquote. the congress behind me, they're working remotely but would protect the residuals. president bolsonaro vetoed most

of the efforts. facebook and instagram took down several accounts spreading false information. many were tied back to bolsonaro supporters and his two sons. yet another similar shade of the politics between brazil and the united states in the middle of this pandemic. bill weir, cnn, brazil. hong kong is tightening coronavirus restrictions as it deals with what may be a third wave of infections and it's closing all city schools as of monday. health officials reported at least 42 new cases on thursday. the overwhelming majority are locally transmitted. krchb's will ripley has more from hong kong. >> reporter: during this pandemic hong kong has really felt almost like a safe zone. they took action very early on to close the poirders, test

everyone coming into the city for covid-19 so they pretty much have effectively been able to prevent the virus from coming in from the outside. but what they have not been able to get a handle on is local daily cases. the numbers are going up every day. 7 million people live here. only 7 deaths, 1400 people with it. if this goes up and people are walking around and don't know they have it, health experts know those numbers could shoot up exponentially and that could be very bad for hong kong. they have been able to identify three clusters, in restaurants and bars, in taxies and senior care centers. in each of those areas they're testing more people, imposing

more difficult rules. at bars and nightclubs, only four people can silt together. people are supposed to wear masks at all times if not eating or drinking. they're trying to trace who have ridden in taxis. a lot of people pay cash, don't get a receipt. at senior centers, they need to test more people. they need to test more workers to figure out who has the virus and get them isolated as quickly as possible. will ripley, cnn, hong kong. japan is reporting a spike in new cases with 357 just on thursday and tokyo had 243 cases on friday. the capital's largest single day

increase in infections since this outbreak began. tokyo's governor blamed the spike on increasing tested and he expects the trend to continue. japan has 21,000 cases and almost 1,000 deaths. the australian state of queensland started blocking visitors from entering a few hours ago. the northeastern state and the neighboring state of victoria are trying to stamp out coronavirus by isolating the southeastern state of victoria where clays are flaring up. millions of people are in lockdown again for the next six weeks. california broke a daily record for coronavirus cases. we go inside one hospital coming up here to see how desperate things can get.

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damage, and potentially fatal brain inflammation. some patients experience what's described as temporary brain dysfunction, but the virus does not appear to draektly affect the brain. doctor, thank you for coming on and good morning. >> good morning, natalie. this is a very troubling development. what can you tell us? how much is known about it? >> so we knew there was a potential for the coronavirus to cause brain damage from sars in 2003 and mers in 2012, but the numbers were small. and then when the first papers came out from wuhan in early january, they suggested about 56

patients in their group but no symptoms. what's not clear is whether it was due to low oxygen levels, very sick with sepsis or was there actual brain damage in the patients? our study found that some patients presented with inflammation of the brian. this may be due to over stimulation of the nervous system. we have seen this before particularly in children after virus infections. a larger number of strokes than expected and although some are elderly, a number had no real risk factors. it seems in covid-19 patients the block is much thicker and stickier than you would expect

and it may be that the virus actually affects the lining of blood vessels so there's a double whammy risk of causing strokes. then these patients with delirium, which means confusion or disorientation and in these patients scans are normal and what it is is software malfunctions to the brain due to low oxygen level, sepsis or a combination of all of these things including the immune system. the final group was the patients with giuillen berry syndrome, weakness in the legs and arms. the numbers were small and this was a small group of patients we were following. >> it sounds so terribly disturbing, but these cases that you're seeing, is it in the very

sick who have coronavirus? >> no. so some of the very sick ones on intensive care units had these, but we had a number of patients where the respiratory infection was relatively benign or mild so i think the message is that in any patients presenting with these neurological syndromes, one must think about covid-19 as being a potential risk factor and one must check the patients for these. >> yes, because i'm going to ask you, how does this complicate the care that doctors and hospitals provide? what will they necessarily have to look out for now determining any brain issues? >> yeah, no, i mean, i think obviously apart from keeping aware of these neurological complications, the other problems are practical ones. if you have somebody in an intensive care unit on a ventilato

ventilator, getting a scan will be difficult. then you have the problem of cross infection. there are practical difficulties. i think if doctors and physicians are aware, they can look out for these complications which makes looking out for the patients very difficult. you need more research and studies looking out for the underlying symptoms so you can have rationale for the complications. >> because it's only been around for a few months, how long could it take to determine the long-term damage that this may cause with brain function? >> yeah, no. this has been explosive. i was a junior doctor when the aids epidemic started in the early '80s which came on gradually. this has been explosive.

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welcome back to our viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. i'm natalie allen. this is "cnn newsroom." the u.s. set a new record thursday. more than 63,000 in just one day. that according to johns hopkins university. new u.s. case numbers have reached highs many times in recent days. new highs also thursday. three states set new records for coronavirus deaths in a single day. california, texas, and florida. nevertheless, president trump is headed to florida in the coming hours. he has several events scheduled including a private fund-raiser. we're going to take a closer look at the situation in california. cnn's kim la has a look inside a hospital bordering mexico exploding beyond its walls for cases. >> she can't even get out of

bed. >> when folks say it's a war zone, a war zone of what? a war zone of us trying to combat the covid-19. >> reporter: the front line in this battlefield. >> craziness. >> reporter: medical center. >> this is intense. >> reporter: ceo adolph edward is a former air force officer and iraq war event. >> i have seen this when we were in iraq. >> reporter: now he's built them on american soil to handle a crush of covid cases his hospital no longer has room for. air conditioned tents in the triple digit desert heat. elten throw is getting people in. 85% is latino. 1 in 4 live in poverty. per capita it has three times

that of los angeles and the death rate is three times higher than los angeles. >> is it crazy to be working in a tent in america? >> yeah. it's crazy. we'll make it through. >> reporter: inside the hospital -- >> it is exhausting. >> we visit the sickest patients in the icu. >> severe cases. >> reporter: every single patient in this 12 bed icu have covid, 11 of them survive with ventilators. >> can you explain what you're wearing? >> it's a device that helps keep everything, you know, kind of close so we're not exposed to anything. >> it's what nurse amber morris needs to wear to stay safe while helping her 40-year-old patient? >> how sick is he? >> he's really sick and really young.

we're trying to do everything we can before we intubate him. >> what's that suggesting to you as a nurse, that the age is dropping? >> i think a lot of people aren't honoring the stay at home. a lot of people aren't doing the social distancing. >> that's what the elcentral fire department sees on the street. >> elcentral fire department. >> a ba tallian chief says in this town of 50,000 people every single hour it is this. >> there's a possible covid patient on scene so at this point our personnel are gearing up for a covid patient. >> in a full hazmat suit they revive an unconscious patient. it's a stifling 110 degrees. >> you have to put on all of the uniforms. >> you're dripping. >> yes, ma'am. everybody's really tired. you can see it in my face. i'm frustrated. >> that patient he saved arrives at elcentral's emergency room. >> we've hit capacity.

we've transferred out two or three times the normal amount of patients we're sending out. we've sent out 500 patients. >> reporter: some to nearby hospitals and others as far away as northern california. this helicopter is here to pick up another patient. >> get it started here for him. >> reporter: ed doctors intubate under this blue drape. stable liedsed, the patient heads out. >> why is it happening so bad here? >> there are a lot of u.s. nationals that live in mexico and they had a really bad outbreak there. there's a lot of people that cross the border for work that live in mexicali and live here. >> reporter: they send produce across the country. even in a pandemic legally to

provide the labor. no work, no money for food says hacinto moreno. four have died of covid. >> we cannot win a war on covid in the emergency room. look at the big picture. we need to fight the war on covid where it's breeding, that's in our communities. social determinants, putting food on the table, working in dangerous conditions, like not having masks. we are the poster of those inequities and why we can't control covid. >> reporter: the hospital is bracing for what's yet to come. this empty tent is the future covid ward. >> is this the sign the pandemic is here to stay? >> yes. i keep telling people it's a pandemic, eventually it will be an endemic. is this how we want to take care

of our communities? the answer is no. >> that's why a hospital administrator asked for more help. they need many supplies by next week. >> truly surreal what so many hospitals are dealing with in this country. the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention now says it will not revise its guidelines for reopening schools. this comes despite president trump's strong insistence that they are too tough. the director spoke about the debate with sanjay gupta. >> do you believe that the

guidelines that are up there and in some cases too uks pensive and impractical. >> i think that's -- >> that's what the president said. >> well, i'm saying the guidance are there and the guidance are there with a series of different strategies which then each local jurisdiction can decide how they want to use those strategies. >> it's a mischaracterization by the president of the united states that the guidelines are too tough? >> no. not by the president. >> by me? >> i do think there are individuals that may say this needs to be done, this needs to be done, this needs to be done. in reality what we're saying is these are guidances, these are not requirements o. >> with fall coming soon and coronavirus cases surging, there are a lot of concerns about how students and teachers will stay safe if they do return to school. here's sanjay with a closer

look. >> i have three girls going into tenth grade, eighth grade, sixth grade. what's going to happen this fall is topic number one in our household. the american academy of pa pediatrics say school is an issue. how likely are they to contribute to the spread? we know for sure schools have to do everything they can to try and keep kids safe. it's going to look a lot different when you get to school this year. if there's anything we know about the virus, it doesn't like masks or distance. the desks and teachers' area all six feet apart.

aware a lot of school districts can't do this. all of the desks faces the same direction. there's this idea of cohorting. less spread, less mixing. someone that does get sick, it's easier to contact trace. another thing schools are going to have to think about is trying to reduce areas where children will congregate. staggered start times, for example, rotating classrooms, one-way hallways and possibly getting rid of common locker areas. another thing schools might start doing is having outdoor classrooms or opening the windows to improve the ventilation in indoor classrooms. at the end of the day every family has to look at risks and rewards of sending kids back to school. pay attention, is the virus increasing or decreasing. finally, use the rest of the

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donald trump is lashing out at the supreme court for what he called a political prosecution after it ruled even a u.s. president is not above the law when it comes to finances. in a 7-2 vote the court cleared the way for new york prosecutors to subpoena trump's tax returns and personal financial records. however, in a separate ruling they blocked congress from obtaining many of the same documents, at least for now.

the president had this to say. >> from a certain point i'm satisfied. from another point i'm not satisfied. this is a political witch hunt. >> we learned more about it from cnn's jessica snider. >> reporter: the bottom line from the supreme court, the president is not absolutely immune from criminal subpoenas while in office and congress also has the right to subpoena the president for financial documents. that was the bottom line, but the supreme court says there are limits and there is a heightened standard, meaning that these cases will go back to the lower courts and no documents and no tax returns will be released likely before the election less than four months away. two separate cases coming out of manhattan trying to subpoena eight years of the president's personal and business tax

returns for a criminal investigation. the court is saying that the president is not absolutely immune but the president does have some recourse and that the lower court should determine whether or not the subpoena from the manhattan prosecutor should move forward. then on the congressional side. they have subpoenaed his banks and accounting firm for financial records for a broad swipe of investigations. the court is saying congress needs to tailor the requests and that the lower courts need to look at four different factors to determine whether or not those subpoenas can move forward. the chief justice writing in both opinions in a 7-2 decision joined by some conservatives, and in the congressional case the chief justice putting it this way saying, but burdens imposed by a congressional

subpoena should be carefully scrutinized for they stem from a rival branch that has an ongoing relationship and has incentives to use it, they have been in an adversarial position against the trump white house. all of this remains to be seen. will congress? will the prosecutors in new york see the tax returns and financial documents? that is something the lower courts will determine. the supreme court saying they can but they have to meet heightened standards here. jessica snider, cnn, washington. meantime, the president's former lawyer, michael cohen, who as we mentioned made the hush money payment is back in federal custody. the bureau of prisons says cohen

refused the conditions of his release. one of them prevented him from speaking to the media and publishing a tell-all book cohen is working to release. president trump's democratic opponent joe biden has unveiled a build back better agenda. it is a plan to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to rebuild and reset the world's largest economy, which we know is struggling now in this pandemic. cnn's john deftarios joins us with the details of it. hello to you, john. yes, biden has kept what some would say is a low profile. is this industrial policy he launched centrist in its approach? >> reporter: that's a good way to put it. it's difficult to straddle the middle of the road.

nothing radical, not in the ilk of say elizabeth warren and bernie sanders. he's focused on three key areas here in the rebuild of america. one is energy. he's moving away from coal, which is highly polluting, and into clean energy like solar and wind. infrastructure. road, rail, brings. they have been under invested in for the past three decades. health care. a combination to make it more affordable. because of the coronavirus, he's saying, look, we have to do better on research and development. finally he's framing himself as a man of the people from a swing state originally born in pennsylvania but living in delaware, of course, saying i'm a man of the middle class and the working class people, not donald trump, who was a developer billionaire that has

now engaged with main street, if you will. and he also believes that you can actually please main street and wall street at the same time. it was something clinton and obama was able to do. this is where he's positioned himself for the election. >> let's talk about an unrelated business story, and that is disney, which will be opening disney world in florida this weekend. john, is this a big risk for the company with a spike in cases in that state? >> reporter: it is a big risk, natalie, but something i've been hearing more and more lately by ceos even to a place like dubai, a calculated risk. bob jacobs says they're not going to rush to fly open the doors here of disney world in florida, but something that's

very measured. they have to take a very clayes clayesed risk of the business pieces. something that stands out for me, how much it 3450e7bs to the disney empire. they have their own sports teams, cartoons and the rest, movies. disney world represents better than $11 billion. they have to get it right. more difficult for us in florida because of the spike up in cases you're talking about. well over 200,000. >> something to watch closely. thanks, john. still to come here, a well-known symbol next to high end real estate. find out where this black lives matter mural is going up and what the u.s. president thinks about it. en caused by bad bacteria in food?

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more americans, period, on the men's side but more black men. >> reporter: why else do you think tennis hasn't progressed that way in the men's game? >> if you have tens of millions of young men playing football and basketball and then you have, you know, maybe hundreds of thousands or maybe a million young men playing tennis, well, where is it going to excel? young black boy who's 5 years old, 10 years old, he can turn on any saturday or sunday during the college football or pro football season he can see a lot of players that look like him. guess what, that's his guy and that's who he wants to be. that's not necessarily the case at all with tennis. there are times, you know, growing up, you'd play a junior

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grim new numbers this morning on coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and deaths. will u.s. states be forced to pause their reopening or even shut down again? welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, this is "early start." i'm christine romans. >> i'm laura jarrett. friday, 5 a.m. here in new york. this morning, the struggle contain coronavirus here has some public health experts talking about reimposing lockdowns instead. dr.