the new world epicenter of the coronavirus, the u.s. state of florida. cases surging so quickly they're running out of icu beds. president trump under fire. new information surfacing about

how the white house's early steps in the pandemic led to a deeper crisis. and a look at the legacy left by civil rights icon, congressman john lewis. coming to you live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, hello everyone, welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. i'm natalie allen. "cnn newsroom" starts right now. we begin with a record surge in the coronavirus pandemic as it rapidly spreads throughout world. the world health organization said saturday nearly 260,000 new infections were reported over a 24-hour period. it is the biggest spike in a single day so far. according to johns hopkins, the total number of cases is now

beyond 14 million, with more than 600,000 people dead. one quarter of the cases are in the united states. new infections are on the rise in most states, including florida. a local official says the virus is out of control and needs a koord naited response. >> right now we do not have a handle on this at all. it has a handle on us, really. when we talk about opening things shall the governor and the president are all for it. they send us mandates about opening up schools, but when it comes to closing things, which is the tough medicine we're asking people to follow and making sacrifices by wearing masks, it's like their voices are nonexistent. >> on saturday, health officials in florida reported more than 10,000 new infections, and keep in mind that's just the total for one day. cnn's rosa flores has more from the current epicenter, miami. >> reporter: the state of

florida reporting more than 10,000 new cases on saturday here in miami dade county where i am. this is the epicenter of the crisis in this state, accounting for about 24% of the now nearly 340,000 cases. icu capacity right now in miami dade county is at 122%. this is according to county data. the goal is not to exceed 70%. well, for the past few days, the county's exceeded 100%. here are the numbers for saturday. there are 484 covid-19 patients and 396 beds. now the good news is that the county said that they have more than 400 beds that they can convert into icu beds when it comes to ventilator use in the past two weeks, it has increased by 64%. now i wish i could give you a full report on the positivity rate in this county, but today when we went to go look for the data, it was not presented by

the county. we asked the county about this, and they sent us this statement saying county officials are meeting with state doh or department of health statisticians to go over discrepancies in the way data is reported and collected. once all agree on parameter, miami dade county will be updating the daily dashboard to ensure as much of an accurate measure as is statistically possible. now the state of florida has had some issues with transparency, and now apparently also with the quality of the data that is being presented here. what i can tell you about the positivity rate here in miami dade county is that yesterday it was at 27%. and the goal for the county is not to exceed 10%. for the past 14 days they have been exceeding 22%. with all that said, governor ron desantis had a press conference on saturday. and if you would have listened

to the entire press conference you would have walked away thinking florida has it all under control. rosa flores, cnn, miami. the mayor of los angeles is making testing a priority. sending mobile teams to the city to test. this comes as record highs emerge in the county. paul vercammen is there. >> reporter: a way to stop the tide of bad covid-19 numbers is through testing and then contact tracing and finding out just who does or doesn't have covid-19. testing here at the crenshaw christiansen ter christian center, in this neighborhood, predominantly black and latino, they would be in fave or of more shutdowns in los angeles and los angeles county to get after this

problem. he also said he wants to see more leadership out of the white house. >> now this is not a time where government shrinks. this is when government rises. this is when government does what the people hired us to do. take care of them, make sure they're safe. >> reporter: weston is also critical of california's governor. he said part of the problem now is he believes governor newsom reopened california way too soon. reporting from los angeles, paul vercammen. back to you. president trump has started to hold telerallies instead of appearing in person. >> he spoke by phone to an audience in wisconsin friday. the trump campaign says they're not ruling out in-person rallies, but the decision to go remote comes weeks after a ral any oklahoma led to disappointing crowds and a surn in virus cases. and we're learning more

about how the white house's early steps in the pandemic led to a deeper crisis. here's jeremy diamond. >> reporter: amid this rise in coronavirus cases across the united states we are learning more about some of the decisions made right here at the white house that led to where we are today. and that is specifically the decision in mid april for the white house to begin focussing on reopening the economy and shifting responsibility for the future of this pandemic over to the states. and what we're learning according to this new "new york times" report that goes really in depth into some of this decision making is that dr. deborah birx, the task force coordinator was central to some of those decisions being made. in particular because it appears she was overly optimistic about some of these models that were showing that the united states was getting the coronavirus pandemic under control back in mid april. of course the reality proved to be that the united states was not like italy, for example, as dr. birx thought the united

states might be, meaning a surge, a peak in cases and bringing them down. instead, the united states remains at a pretty high plateau. and now we are seeing this renurns once again. it was in june when white house officials according to the "new york times" report became aware that their predictions were wrong, that the coronavirus wasn't working as effectively. that they had underestimated the extent to which president trump's comments about reopening rather than focussing on the mitigation efforts, extent that had. as recently as this past week we have still heard the president continue to down play the threat of coronavirus and continue to be at odds with the science. on saturday, the president was talking in an interview with fox news about the fact that he disagrees with what the cdc director is saying about mask wearing. that still, as we're seeing

these surging coronavirus cases in more than half the states across the country. jeremy diamond, cnn, the white house. let's talk more about what's going on with dr. raj calsy in illinois. thank you for coming on, doctor. >> thank you. >> first step, i want to talk about that interview in the report. the president's still down playing the pandemic and pushing back on mask wearing. is his stance affecting where we on this as a country? >> maybe. i think about that, too. and i'm starting to see in the emergency departments that i work at, i worked tonight a long shift where i had to fight with some patient family members to let them know you can't come in the hospital without a mask, that's just the policy. and i hear them talking about conspiracies and that covid isn't real and that sort of

thing. it's lost on me, natalie. i think we pay attention to the people in science and people in local governance who seem to know what they're doing for the betterment of our community. >> yeah, absolutely. that has been a conflict, of course, in many states across the country. there in illinois for the most part where numbers have leveled off, you locked down early, there was clear and consistent information from the state, and for the most part, peep ople in illinois i've read have worn masks. the positivity rate in illinois, 2.9%. and let's look at florida where it's been 18% or more. what lessons can be learned from your state that florida perhaps could use right now? >> well, simply what you said, perhaps florida needs to dial back. to see the droves of people out there without masks and so comfortable that they can foray out into the community and not worry about this, or it's an older person's disease, or it's

a disease of other people that have medical problems or co-morbidities is unfortunate in terms of a way of thinking, because this is still such an important thing that you can control for your neighbor, for your community if you convey this virus to somebody else. and they can learn that from illinois, how we did mask and we did lockdown early, and we did follow the guide lines. and to this day it seems like we're doing okay. >> well, the white house we've learned is objecting to senate republicans pushing for more money for the cdc for testing and tracing. and hard-hit states right now, it is taking days to get test results back. does that complicate trying to reduce the spread? >> absolutely. this has been the biggest thing that we talk about. boots on the ground as doctors. we all need access to rapid tests where we get a result in 20 to 30 minutes. i have that in one of my biggest

institutions, but i doesnn't ha it in six other ers that i work at. that's unacceptable. when somebody comes to get a covid test, everything is predicated on that result. how long are they quarantined? can they quarantine with other people in the house? can they go back to work? can they pay their bills because they can go back to work? what about seeing grandma and grandpa. here we are still begging for rapid results. when we go back to school with these kids and they come back home with fevers, they're not going to get rapid results. >> right, i was going to ask you about that. there is such a quagmire over schools and teachers, families, trying to figure out what to do. you have to feel for people that are trying to make these decisions that run schools. what are the risks as they try and figure out how they perhaps can do this safely? >> you know, it's a wonderful question. it's "the" question. i sit on a board as a doctor, advising a local community

district. and one of the things i've been trying to convince them to understand is that in the first two to three weeks of any school year, kids are going to get viruses. we're not talking about covid, we're talking about simple viruses like cold viruses, fevers from strep throat, things that happen when kids get to the, share their fwerms and come home at 2:00 or 3:00 in the afternoon or earlier because they have a fever. and i just don't think that the schools have the checks and balances in place to be able to screen children that are coming in and have a great way to social distance them once they do register as flagging for a covid symptom. and how long are we going to keep all these kids quarantined? ultimately, the in-person component of schools will all be shutdown and we'll go back to remote. >> absolutely. everyone wants their kids back in school. i know you have kids as well, but it's like, how do you do it. we always appreciate your expertise and your time. you're so very busy, thank you

very much, dr. raj calsy. police in portland, oregon have deployed tear gas as protesters continue to gather. demonstrators have been calling out racial inequality and police brutality for more than 50 days now. officials put up reinforced steel fencing around the federal building that has been repeatedly vandalized. that fence has now been dismantled. josh campbell is in portland for us. he's been watching the developments tonight, what is the very latest, josh. >> reporter: let me show you what that fencing looks like now. you see the pieces here on the ground. earlier, this whole area was surrounded by this metal fencing, and that was brought in because you see a lot of the graffiti and defacing of federal property on the other side. that is something that authorities tried to stop by

erecting this barrier out here. it took some of these protesters about 20 minutes to defeat that fence and get it down. now we can see them in and around this area. we have seen protesters who have continued to build, the numbers that have been coming out, as you mentioned, police did come out of this building. we're kind of on high alert. it could happen at any time, inside this federal building are several heavily armed federal agents. fwhee they're ready to come out and use disbursants. they were using dispersants. they're trying to push people back. one thing it did do in the short it term, they achieved their goal in getting everyone away from this bidding, but it aluily agitated this group. they're very angry. as you mentioned, this has been going on for over 50 days. people who are here demanding racial justice, demanding that in their view excessive use of force by police stop. and there continues to be this

showdown between federal agents. president trump has ordered a number of officers here. agents from the department of home land security. president trump says that they are staying. as long as there's this type of vandalism that we see, they're going to have federal agent here. it's a cycle where the more officers from the federal side are here the more protesters are angry and these protests continue night after night. >> all right, it's a shame that there can't be any dialog, something to defuse this other than what you're seeing and people are experiencing there. thank you so much, josh campbell, bringing us the latest on that situation. we know you'll continue to follow it. the united states continues to mourn the loss of a towering figure in the fight for racial equality. john lewis was the last surviving member of the big six leaders of the civil rights era. next we look back at his life and legacy. robinhood believes now is the time to do money. without the commission fees. so, you can start

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always said, don't get in trouble, don't get in the way. but i was inspired to get in the way. i was inspired to get in trouble, good trouble, necessary trouble. >> john lewis right there in 2016, talking about what drove him early on to get involved in the civil rights movement. the long-time congressman and social justice icon died friday after battling pancreatic cancer. he was 80 years old. for much of his life, lewis worked to make sure every american enjoyed the rights and freedoms promised in the constitution. fellow civil rights champion and former u.s. ambassador to the u.n., andrew young spoke with cnn about lewis' humble character. >> john's strength was his humility. he had almost no ego. no sense of his own self-importance. but he had a sense of his

spiritual power. and he also had a very charming personality where even when you disagreed with him you couldn't get mad with him. and i think, and he didn't, he learned to disagree without being disagreeable. and that's and for other reasons, one reason we all lived so long is we had no anger in our movement. we understood the complications racism and we saw it as a sickness, not something that people were, you know, you don't get angry with anybody having polio. and you don't get angry with people if they were born in a situation that deprived them of the love and understanding of different races, agendas that

made them prejudiced. >> another icon right there, andrew young. congressman lewis influenced and inspired many of his political colleagues. cnn's wolf blitzer spoke with senator cory booker about john lewis' legacy. >> since he was a teenager, he was on the front lines of the fight for justice in america. the youngest person to speak on the march in washington, leading a major protest from freedom rides to pivotal marches like we saw on "bloody sunday" on the edmund pettus bridge. but even in his senior years, he was in the well of the house of representatives, fighting for just about every major issue, from immigration reform to the rights of lgbtq americans. he's got an extraordinary career, and he did it in a way nan and in a society that can often be too materialistic. he showed you that in this

country you have true power that comes from your capacity to love, your dignity, your grace and your unrelenting commitment to make true the virtues of this country put down on our founding documents but yet to be achieved in a reality for all. >> he was truly an amazing person. i had the honor and pleasure of interviewing him on many occasions, and he was always, always wonderful. you told the atlantic, senator, earlier today, and i'm quoting you now, there are lots of ways to honor him, and i will be very frustrated if we stop it with words and not with real legislative action. so how do you want to see him honored? >> well, you know, i've scrolled through instagram and twitter today and seen lots of people post niceties to him, and we all should, i have. but the reality is, john was insistent on so much more. and i don't think he wants his legacy to be the words people

say about him in his death, but how we choose to live like him while we have our remaining years here, so there is unfinished business. i can't imagine the sting that he must have felt to literally believe the southern soil red for voting rights to see those rights eroded with the shelby decision and state law after state law as one federal judge said that they were now designing laws with surgical-like precision to disenfranchise african-americans, so there's a lot more work to be done. and i think the beauty and the power of congressman lewis was that he held a sense of redemption, redemptive opportunity to the bull connors, to the man who fractured his skull, but what he was often challenging was those of us that are comfortable, biystanders.

he chaled us to go out there and get in trouble and make things happen. >> lawmakers have tried pay tribute and missed the mark. one of them, marco rubio. he tweeted this photo of himself not with john lewis but elijah cummings who died last year. rubio has since updated his page with a photo of lewis. but he wasn't alone. dan sullivan from alaska had the same mistake on his facebook page. a spokesman blamed his staff. a virus hot spot in the southern u.s. erupts into a political battle between the republican governor and democratic mayor of the state's largest city. that would be right here in atlanta. and frustrated business owners aren't sure whom to

listen to. we'll have the story coming up next here.

welcome back to our viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. i'm natalie allen. you're watching "cnn newsroom." well, for all the bad news we're hearing, there may be a positive development in the battle against coronavirus. for the first time, u.s. regulators are giving the green light to pool test. samples from four people could be used at the same time to speed up the process. meanwhile, the centers for disease control and prevention have issued new guidance.

people without symptoms only have to isolate for ten days or fewer if back to back tests 24 hours apart came back testing negative. the virus has infected upwards of 14 million people worldwide and killed more than 600,000. an unpublished report identified georgia as one of 18 u.s. states in a virus red zone where reopening should be rolled back, but, when the mayor of atlanta tried to do just that, the governor sued. the high-profile dispute has created a lot of confusion for business owners. here's natasha chen here in atlanta. >> reporter: tensions have been growing between atlanta mayor keisha lance bottoms and governor brian kemp who sued

officials over the week over the roll back of phase one. that's the recommendations that calls for restaurants and other businesses to go back to curbside or delivery only. no local jurisdiction can make rules more or less revicktive than what he's made for then tire state. the city mayor has said this is a political move. taxpayer dollars are better spent expanding testing and conta contact tracing. the business owners we've spoken to in atlanta say it is confusing. >> we're not getting the answers. so it's like, we're having to make decisions on our own on how to do this. i call it a political pickle that we're in that we don't want to be in. i don't want people to see us as choosing sides. >> reporter: in georgia, the trend of new cases has been climbing steadily upward, especially in the first half of july since the pandemic began. more than 3,000 georgians have

died of covid-19 and more than 100,000 have tested positive, including the mayor herself. natasha chen, cnn, atlanta. we heard the frustration from that business owner there. many americans are deeply split over how to fight covid-19. one group wants everyone to wear masks in public. the other feels being forced to do so infringes on their freedom. now some influential companies have made their choice. here's cnn's tom foreman. >> [ bleep ]. there's no pandemic! >> reporter: in the fury over face masks, the confrontations are growing fast, even as the business community is rocked by declining sales, layoffs and angry investors. some big names are saying enough. walmart is requiring everyone to wear masks in its more than 5,000 stores in the u.s. and puerto rico. target is doing the same, and walgreens, too. home depot and lowe's mask rules roll out next week, so are apple, best buy, costco, cvs and

starbucks is saying, if you want that latte, you must mask up. >> it's just evident it's going to help us all rreduce the spre covid. >> reporter: the movement is intriguing because president trump has cited concerns about business time and again as he is pushed to reopen the economy and shoved away the idea of any government requirement for masks. some of his closest allies are embracing the science in front of them now. >> i'm here to tell you, put it on. >> reporter: but others are still vigorously resisting. >> i refuse to sit back as disastrous policies threaten the lives and livelihoods of our citizens. >> reporter: georgia won't order a statewide mask rule and preventing towns from doing their own. he's suing you the mayor of atlanta for allegedly violating his order by requiring masks in the city. she tested positive for covid

and is flabbergasted. >> this is not a political stance. this is about the lives of people. and the people in my city are dying. >> reporter: for government, the issue remains complicated to be sure. in utah, a county meeting about trying to send kids back to school erupted when unmasked people packed the room. >> i'm going to suspend the rules and make a motion to continue this entire meeting to another date. >> reporter: but for businesses, the way forward suddenly seems much clearer. indeed, many ceos from some huge companies are pushing governors coast-to-coast to enforce mask mandates, in other words, to take the role the businessman president and his pals have so far refused to embrace. tom foreman, cnn, washington. coronavirus numbers climbed higher in brazile with more than

900 deaths reported saturday. total cases there have topped 2 million. the numbers are partly driven by a rise in the country's south and interior. there are lockdowns in several regions, and one state reports 90% of all icu beds are occupied. only the united states has been hit harder. brazilian president bolsonaro greeted people outside for the first time since be tested positive. he said unemployment, hunger and misery kill more than the virus does. some advanced vaccine studies are under way in brazil, partly because of its coronavirus troubles, but also because of its research centers and experience distributing vaccines. for more about it, shasta darlington reports from sao

paulo. >> reporter: brazilian doctor campos lives his life helping others, providing care to help people deal with illness. but now he's taken that mission one step further. campos is taking part in phase three clinical trials of an experimental coronavirus vaccine. developed by uk pharmaceutical giant astrazeneca and oxford university. >> translator: i was motivated to help. i know the importance of having a well-designed clinical study. of having participants so it's a well-done clinical study. i'm not scared. it's likely a safe vaccine. >> reporter: campos is one of several thousand volunteers, mostly health workers from sao p paulo. half of the volunteers are receiving the experimental vaccine while the others receive a meningitis vaccine. they are then closely monitored by the vaccine team.

>> translator: i have to fill out a virtual questionnaire that i received in my e-mail. it asks if i have any symptoms. if i have a fever. in the first few days it was more specific. now it's more about symptoms and fever. it asked if i had any injuries, any wound at the site of the vaccine. >> reporter: the astrazeneca trial is one of two phase three studies under way in brazil and only one of three in the world to have reached this advanced stage. the chinese biotech firm sin vac is testing. 9,000 volunteers will participate. several factors combine to make brazil an attractive market. one reason, its internationally renowned research centers. but it's also because of the country's rapid covid-19 transmission rate. in the last few days, brazil

achieved an unenviable milestone, registering more than 2 million cases of infections, second only to the united states. it also has the second highest number of confirmed death. scenes like these are common across the country. some here see these ongoing vaccine trials as a positive step in battling this deadly disease and the chance to gain access to vaccines if they're approved. >> the agreement provides for the purchase of lots of vaccine and technology transfer. the mishtive therefore not only guarantees that the product is available but will give autonomy in production. >> reporter: preliminary results of the trials are expected by the end of the year, shasta darlington, cnn, sao paw loulo. a new study found that a baby had been infected by coronavirus while still in the womb. we'll tell you how doctors say it happened and why they're encouraged by some of what they're learning. that's next.

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israel's government is reimposing strict limitations on the public as coronavirus cases surge in a second wave. starting this weekend most places where people can gather have been closed, like mall, museums and zoos. beaches will close next weekend. it's the country's attempt to limit the spread of coronavirus as israel nears a second total lockdown. oren liebermann is in jerusalem for us live. you have to wonder what happened. israel was looking good. and then this happened. and now they're back to square one, sort of. >> reporter: in mid may, you're absolutely right, israel looked like it was leading the world in terms of containing the coronavirus and getting back to reopening with new cases. and only 25 new cases a day sor

so, and then a surge. 1,900 cases in a day, far more than the 25 or so we saw a couple months ago, and that record broke other records set earlier in the week. now it's a question of how can this be contained, and we see this reimposition of lockdown measures. not a complete closure. prime minister benjamin netanyahu is trying to avoid that with unemployment more than 21%. but it is essentially a full weekend closure when beaches close next week and more limitations on public gathering during the week itself. the question, is this enough or a second closure on the horizon for the country? meanwhile, the public's approval of the government's handling of the coronavirus crisis is plummeting. there were large protests in jerusalem and tel aviv, and it used to be they had a focus, either anti-corruption, anti-netanyahu, but now they

have combined and they're growing off of each other as the protests, the frustration, the anger spreads. >> yeah, that doesn't look good for the prime minister. and meantime, he has his bribery trial to deal with. what's the latest on that, oren? >> reporter: so today is the official second day of the trial on charges of breach of trust and bribery. today's largely a procedural day. netanyahu doesn't even have to be there. what we have learned is the trial itself. the part where we hear evidence will begin in january where there will be he hearings a week where we hear evidence, we hear from witnesses, and that will certainly add more pressure to netanyahu as he tries to remain prime minister here in what's essentially supposed to be a rotation government. >> all right. oren lieberman, we appreciate you. thanks so much. a doctor in france says a woman who contracted covid-19 toward the end of her pregnancy

passed it to the infant in her womb. newly-published research indicates the virus was transmitted through the placenta. it is a disturbing development, burr the study also holds reasons for hope. our cyril vanier has the story from paris. >> reporter: dr. danielle de luca specialized in critical care for newborns outside of paris. at this height of the pandemic in march, dozens of pregnant mothers presenting severe coronavirus symptoms were admitted here. in a research paper recently published in "nature", it's now confirmed that one of the mothers transmitted the virus to her unborn child. >> the virus can pass through the placenta to the baby. in the beginning we were told, this is never going to happen, that's not true. this is reality, and that's badness. >> reporter: the doctor says the virus was present in the mother's blood, which was rare,

and was transmitted through the placenta. when the baby boy was delivered he tested positive for the virus. there were already strong suspicions of neo-natal transmission, but this confirms it. they did tests of the placenta, the cord, amniotic fluid within an hour of the birth confirming that the baby was indeed infected before he came into this world. within 24 hours, the newborn presented severe neurological comply cations. cerebral inflammation and irregular muscle movements. >> i cannot deny in the beginning we were very worried. so we were worried. and then's toad yld you, they improved pretty steadily. >> reporter: the virus left no lasting damage and the baby was discharged from the hospital less than three weeks later.

>> whether in it happens, well,u see, the baby is most likely going to recover pretty soon alone. >> reporter: there is growing evidence that newborns are resistant to covid-19. and the best news of all, neo-natal transmission of the virus remains extremely rare. cyril vanier, cnn, paris. next here on cnn, sumo is back in japan, so are the fans, despite rising coronavirus numbers. we'll get the latest on this from tokyo.

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sumo tournament. our journalist has this one. >> reporter: even some sumo fans are surprised they're being let in to watch a match so soon. it was a last-minute decision before this 15-day grand sumo tournament, and it comes at a time when new coronavirus cases are climbing in tokyo at record levels. >> translator: it is good for japan so long as we take every precaution. i just think the timing is a little bad. >> reporter: baseball opened up to spectators last week, but that's outdoors. sumo is indoors, and sumo is the only sport no japan to have one of its athletes die from covid back in may. it might be a template for sports like judo and boxing. organizers are being extra cautious. 2500 people are going in, that's 25% of capacity. no shouting, just clapping, please.

these are the spectator guidelines that are becoming the standard across all sporting events here in japan. masks and temperature checks are so common nowadays that it doesn't feel unusual anymore. but the virus has wiped out many of the rituals that go with the ancient sport of sumo. the pre-match ritual of power water, wrestlers taking a sip from a shared ladle, not today. one that did happen was one to pray for safety. salt and rice, traditional offerings were buried in the ring. the yokozuna are the highest-ranked wrestlers, but it will be disorienting to wrestle in front of a 25% full arena. enough to make this one of the most unpredictable sue my tournaments in years. cnn, tokyo. the pandemic could not stop a royal wedding. britain's princess beatrice was supposed to marry the italian

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