or not kids spread it and the rate and then to teachers and then ohs thers in households. you get it from going to work, bars, gyms or going to school. when you have this much virus already out there how you do that, it is beyond me. john? >> giant challenge. miguel marquez, appreciate the live report. top of the hour now. hello to the viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. possible progress in the vaccine race watching staggering coronavirus numbers globally and here in the united states. the preliminary results of two vaccines, one by the university of oxford, one by casino biologics are encouraging. that vaccine is safe and does

induce an immune response and the other with antibodies a month after vaccination. they caution more study is needed, not yet clear if either candidate protects people for an extended period. the count in the united states about to hit 3.8 million infections. death toll 140,000 americans. all hands on deck moment, that the language of a coronavirus task force official describing the challenge at this moment. the president last hour says he will resume the daily coronavirus briefings starting tomorrow following a weekend interview the president said a fair amount of the virus but most of the words disconnected from the reality of this summer surge. president, for example, said misleading things about testing and the death toll. in voicing the opposition to a national mask mandate, the president said everyone knows masks cause problems, too. no, they don't. they slow the spread of the

virus. just ask the surgeon general. >> if you have a mandate, i think those work best at the local and state levels and pleading with the viewers, begging you, we are not trying to take away freedoms saying wear a face covering, the ability to go out saying keep restaurant capacity under 50%. if we do these things we can actually open and stay open. >> some states are asking requirements and not georgia and florida. it reported new numbers last hour, 10,347 new confirmed infections on sunday in florida. it puts florida on the leading edge of this summer surge. if you look at 50 states, 50 reopening plans and many problems at the moment. 31 states, orange and deeper red, going up. we get into ates, beige or yellow at home. five trending down, arizona had

a tough couple of weeks and hope that continues. five down, 31 up. a closer look at positivity. the president said more testing is where we get more cases. you want the positivity rate to go down meaning you're stopping the spread. it went down early june to middle of june and now back up around 8% nationally. not what you want meaning you have more of a spread of the virus and florida the hottest of the hotspots, this traces the reopening. 50% capacity. bars forced to shut down here a month ago and you see the positivity rate when it was closed and then the very early reopening was low. above 15% some days above 20% in florida positivity so you have big spread of the virus. one more new thing in florida here. just new cases. seven-day moving average, go back here.

reopening begins on may 1st. when florida was pretty much shut down, takes a while. this is what people don't want to acknowledge. the lag time. flat for a while and then as people get out, the bars forced to shut down, kept climbing. lags to go up. it lags to go down. will it start to go down now? let's get straight to cnn's randi kaye in west palm beach, florida. the state had a couple horrible weeks. can it turn for the better or keep in the bad place? >> reporter: let's hope so. just before coming on air, i looked at where we were july 1st to now, last 19 days we jumped about 191,000 cases. certainly not what the state of florida needs and now topping more than 5,000 deaths with those new cases coming on today. 5,072 deaths statewide. the hospitalizations more than 9,400 hospitalized in the state. in miami-dade county, more than

2,000 people hospitalized, that is certainly the hardest hit county here in the state of florida and broward here in south florida. in terms of the icu beds, john, i just checked and 50 hospitals statewide that have 0 icu beds left. they hit capacity. i tried to get the numbers from miami-dade county which as i said hardest hit and yusually release on the dashboard, they're no longer releasing that. the dashboard is down and told that maybe this is available this afternoon because the state and the county are meeting to try to figure out how to collect and report the data together. we didn't get the state hospitalizations until just a couple weeks ago but the statewide positivity rate, 18.7%, that is up from yesterday which was just 18.2%. civil fines are being issued throughout miami-dade county for people who just aren't wearing

the masks, not social distancing. 115 total foines and individual $100 and businesses $500. back to you. >> we'll see if that works. if the enforcement works and forces better behavior. appreciate the update. those numbers are still sobering from florida. the icu numbers in florida, more than 80% capacity meaning very little room left as cases and numbers in the hospitalization numbers in florida at the moment continue to rise. dr. niklas maya in miami. thank you for your time. watching this throughout last week and the new week, the question was does florida keep doing 10,000, 12,000 or a point where whether it's the masks or something else you force this down? are you seeing a stall or still climbing? >> i'm not seeing any stall. every day we look and we see

10,000, 12,000, 14,000, 10,000. until we see sustained lower numbers i don't think we are seeing a stall and not doing anything differently and no reason to expect they would be any different. >> i just want to put up hospitalizations in florida. back to the reopening debate, we were told we got this. right? and we had to -- can't keep the semishut down and the point is some people get infected but we are not stressing and straining the hospital system. you see florida hospitalizations going up. there's a lag time. take twos to three weeks on this one and no question at the moment you are under stress. how bad is that stress? can you handle it? >> yeah. i think we can handle it. what i think the administration is doing is just trying to stay one step ahead of it. not ten steps ahead of it because all the steps ahead put great demands on personnel,

resources. so we are always on the cusp where there's a patient who needs a bed and we are making a bed. thaesz whe that's where we are. there's one person waiting for a bed and then you move things around and make the one bed and need 20 more. where will we do it? they're trying to stay -- keep pace with the disease or be one step ahead. >> let's hope you can stay at least one step ahead and one would hope that the united states of america with the premier health systems in the world to do a better job than one step ahead. i want your expertise on this. this is the positivity rate, a national number here. the positivity rate which is taking the test and seeing what percentage are positive is more people tested. you see that dip in early to mid-june. nationally 8% but florida in the ballpark of 18% telling you you have a big problem and you have

beyond a church or one big bar event cluster. you have community spread. >> correct. if there weren't spread the positivity rate would go down and not stay the same because if the reality were that we are doing more tests and that's why there are more positives, well, no. the number should go down because the extra people testing are people maybe who are being tested for an exposure or they're nervous so we should be testing a lot more people who are negative so that percentage should come down so with it being so high that's a very serious load of virus out in the community. >> and i think you heard the reporter saying they're starting to enforce the mask mandate in the miami-dade area. the president of the united states said he doesn't believe in a national mask mandate. listen. >> no. i want people to have a certain freedom and i don't believe in

that. no. i don't agree with the statement that if everybody wore a mask everything disappears. everybody has to wear a mask and masks cause problems, too. with that being said i think masks are good. >> again, i try to the degree i can to keep the doctors out of the politics. there's a big debate. let's leave it to others to debate that out but to the point of the president, i don't agree with if everybody wears a mask the virus goes away and masks cause problems. do masks cause problems? >> no. i have spent my life in a mask. masks do not cause problems. especially the lightweight masks that we're asking the community to wear. really impose no difficulty in breathing or any risk of infection. i suppose there's some extreme case that the far end who's

really no breath left in the life who may have trouble with it but for essentially all normal people it doesn't pose any kind of a problem. for sure wearing a mask will halt the spread of disease. it is a respiratory disease. if you can't breathe it out and in it is going to help. >> doctor, in the middle of it in florida, appreciate your time and the work you're doing every day. thank you very much, sir. >> thank you. and now deeper on word of early promise of two major vaccine candidates. jaclyn howard joins us now. what have we learned? >> reporter: yeah. so it is really -- this data just came in so this is really new, preliminary data and i can start with the oxford trial. so that study was done on more than 1,000 participants, 18 to 55, healthy adults and the study did show that the vaccine candidate in this case was able

to elicit an immune response, specifically it says that the vaccine candidate able to elicit an antibody response in 28 days and t-cell response within 14 days and apt body response and the response of t-cells shows that the candidate did elicit an immune response. it did what we would want it to do. what we still have to determine is whether this is enough to help curb the pandemic. we really need to do more trials to see whether this vaccine candidate and the response that we saw here in future trials if it will show to work against the pandemic that we're facing today and then also, again, the study done in healthy ages 18 to 55. we really need to see how this vaccine would work in older adults and people with underlying health conditions and the two high risk groups for

covid, older duadults and those with underlying conditions. >> that's the challenge. balance the let's have a little optimism and progress with needing to wait as these move into a bigger phased trial. appreciate the reporting. up next for us, law and order. a federal judge's family targeted overnight. the latest on the fbi manhunt next. it's the faster way to clean as you go just spray, wipe and rinse it cleans grease five times faster dawn powerwash. spray, wipe, rinse.

manhunt now under way after a man opened fire at the home of a new jersey federal judge killing her son and wounding her husband. law enforcement officials say the motive is unknown. with me is bryn gingras following this case. a knock at the door, the son answers, gunman opened fire. brazen case. >> reporter: it's horrific, john, and so many questions still with a massive investigation still going on. the motive for one who was this gunman for another and who was

targeted inside this house here behind me? you can see the crime scene tape is still up and the question that is investigators are trying to work through right now to try to get some answers as to what went down and as far as we know from a preliminary investigation sources telling cnn there was a knock on the door and that the gunman wearing a fedex uniform. it is unclear if he worked for fedex or in disguise but once the door opened by this federal judge esther salas' son killing daniel and injuring the honor's husband who is now in the hospital and just spoke to esther salas' brother who essentially said that her husband mark who's a criminal defense attorney himself, he had surgery yesterday, abdominal surgery and going back for another surgery today but he's doing okay. he's very much aware of what happened at his home and to his son which is just gut wrenching as you can imagine.

we also are learning that she's doing okay. she was in the home although she was not harmed during what happened but like you said, john, she covers a lot of high-profile cases. look at the resume and some include the sentencing of real housewives joe and theresa, just a couple years ago involved in the sentencing of a notorious gang member from newark and even more recently took on the civil suit that has to do with deutsche bank and part of the suit how they handled the high risk clients including jeffrey epstein. i mentioned her husband is a criminal defense attorney and bet investigators are looking through this trying to get some answers to what happened here. just horrific and the neighborhood who says closer since covid because everybody's outside and gotten to know each other and horrified especially to hear their only son was killed in this. >> it is horrific. bryn gingras on the ground for

us. thank you so much for the reporting. more now with the mayor where the judge lives, francis womack. i assume the mayor to get looped in if investigators making progress. have you learned anything new about motive or suspect in this day? >> i have not. in the last little while, we have heard media reports but i have heard anything official from the agencies involved. >> and so, you knew the husband at least. did you know the judge, as well? take us inside what you know of the family. >> well, the important thing for me to relate is what an important part of our community mark and esther salas, judge salas, were. she is such an important person and so proud to have her living in our community. but they're the kind of people you would pass walking the dog in the community park.

since covid, you could find them beside you at an outdoor dining facility that's open safely distanced, wonderful people. and they're part of the our community and it's just -- that makes it all the more a tragic loss locally for us. >> absolutely tragic and this 20-year-old young man at the beginning of his life opening the door and having a gunman open fire. when you heard the details, you are the mayor and your community, you hear a knock on the door. knob in a fedex neighborhood. fedex has no idea if it's an employee or part of a dupe if you will. a knock at the door. the son opens, the father behind. a gunman opens fire. brazen and bizarre but it has to stun you in your community. >> it's a stomach punch. not just for me but for everybody who lives in this town. it is a horrible and terrible thing and it could not have happened to a nicer group of --

to a nicer family. >> mayor francis womack in new jersey, sir, best of luck as the investigation plays out at a time of covid and other challenges, as well. good luck. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. congress is back and already at an impasse over a next round of coronavirus relief. senate republicans want more money for testing and tracing. the president says, no. - [narrator] did you just reward yourself for spending a perfectly reasonable amount of time on the couch with tacos from grubhub? grubhub's gonna reward you for that with a $5 off perk. (doorbell rings) - [crowd] grubhub! (fireworks exploding)

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to the house of representatives now. momentarily a moment of silence in honor of john lewis, right now a tribute. let's listen. >> our colleague, our brother, our friend received and answered his final summons from god almighty and transitioned from laborer to reward. the world is a better place because john lewis spent his life pursuing freedom, justice, opportunity, love and peace for all of humanity. while he is an icon in the history of america for his courage and his sacrifice in making good trouble, his enduring humility reflected the

true timber of his character. he inspired us as the conscience of the congress and we have all been truly blessed to know, love and share the life and legacy of this extraordinary human being. i ask that you join my wife vivian and me along with the members of the georgia delegation in extending our deepest condolences to john's family, friends, staff including his faithful and devoted chief of staff michael collins and all those around the world who mourn his loss. john, rest in peace. and lie down with pleasant dreams knowing that this current generation will continue the fight for the ultimate

realization of your beloved community. madame speaker, i now yield to my colleague from georgia, mr. graves. >> thank you, mr. bishop. i first met john lewis just a few feet from where we are right now in the well of the house. i was a special elect, member to be. and it was john who welcomed me down in the well. i'll never forget that day. it was his thunderous voice that filled the chamber as he welcomed me and introduced me to each of you. he honored me that day. afterwards he embraced me and then he stood by me as i put my hand up and took the oath of the office. it is truly a privilege for me

to be able to stand before you and to honor him. not far from where he honored me as we remember the life and the legacy of who is known as a gentle, gentle giant. a man whose courage and strength in the face of injustice and violence will forever be remembered, a man whose kindness and humility was apparent to anyone who has the opportunity to meet him. our nation has indeed lost a giant. and it's time like these that we must be reminded of the shoulders that we stand on. the shoulders of united nationses -- of giants like john. i'm better off because of john lewis. our nation is so much better because of john lewis. so in the days to come we shall

all strive to be a little bit more like john, humble, grateful and thankful for the opportunity to leave this nation in better shape for the next generation. may god bless john lewis. and bring peace to his family in the days to come. yield back. >> madame speaker, i ask that all members rise for a moment of silence in remembrance of the honorable john robert lewis. >> the chair asks that those -- all those present in the chamber as well as members and staff throughout the capital and all who loved john lewis wherever you are rise in a moment of silence in remembrance of the conscience of the congress, the

honorable john lewis. for what purpose does the

gentleman from georgia seek further -- [ applause ] for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek further recognition? >> madame speaker, i offer a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. >> the clerk will report the resolution. >> house resolution 1054 resolved that the house has heard with profound sorrow --

the death of the honorable john lewis -- >> listening to the clerk of the house choking up reading a resolution honoring john lewis, a legend who passed friday night. a member of congress for more than 30 years. the speaker of the house nancy pelosi choking up at the loss of her friend. two of our correspondents who encountered john lewis frequently, dana, i want to start with you. you see the speaker choking up, the clerk starting to read it and choking up there. that is john lewis in a way that everybody knew him. he touched everybody. he was unflailingly kind. those words from vice president pence. good words. in a statement yesterday. a sad part here, america's lost an icon and mentor and example who will not get the sendoff he deserves because he died in the

middle of a pandemic. >> that's right. still waiting to hear what the plans are. they're going to wait until ct vivian who also died on the same day, a civil rights icon, until his funeral passes but that moment got me listening to the clerk who anybody who is watching the house floor during battle after battle with, you know, practically food fights flying over her, she is focused and stoic and she felt the emotion of the moment says so much about the power and the impact that john lewis had, not just from the civil rights days that we have talked so much about as the young leader who fought for voting rights, you see me there. i was so honored, really that was one of the most wonderful experiences of my life and walking across that bridge in selma, alabama, the sight of bloody sunday where he was beaten almost to death but the

idea of what we just saw in the house of representatives on the floor is also a reminder and manu probably does this, too. whenever there was a big debate, whether it was impeachment or another big sort of moral discussion, i would always run to the chamber if i knew that john lewis was speaking to witness it because i knew it would be powerful an enthat people would be listening on the both sides of the aisle despite that he was a partisan democrat and he didn't -- he earned the term conscience of the house. >> manu, sometimes we throw the words around too much. icon, hero, special, extraordinary. you are renowned yourself for running around the halls and cornering lawmakers and sometimes they don't want to be. always struck me around congressman lewis is he would seek you out, want to say hello.

here's a man who changed america with his blood and with his resilience, with his determination. but he was just always so kind and gracious. >> reporter: yeah. no question. come up to you, shake your hand. how are you doing, brother? not someone to act like the person, like so many of the people around here carrying with them giant egos who run to the cameras. that's not what john lewis did. he put his head down, he was a workhorse. often on capitol hill say they workhorses and show horses. he was not someone that tried to seek out recognition for all the things that he has done over his career. people came up to him to thank him for his service. people from both sides of the aisle. when he -- a lot of freshman members first sworn into office, republicans and democrats, one of the first things they do is seek out john lewis, thank him for what he's done.

very common thing. you hear from both sides. that moment, too, just now on the floor, this is one of the most bitterly partisan times that all of us have covered in the house and such -- for a very long time and to see them come together, give a round of applause, that remotional moment of silence. republicans and democrats speak out about the impact that john lewis had on them, on this country, just shows what a transformative figure he was and how members on both sides recognize the impact that he had regardless of his politics, john. >> excellent word, transformative figure. manu, dana, we appreciate it as we watch this touching moment on the floor of the house. the arrangements on hold because another civil rights icon died the same day, pastor ct vivian. we'll bring it to you. thank you for your reporting.

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on that breaking news, back in nrch nnlg and tew jersey, cn gingras with the breaking news for us. what do we know? >> reporter: yeah, john. learning from two law enforcement sources that the suspect has been found dead from what appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound and

you can imagine now investigators are trying to identify this person, work on this person's history, try to figure out the link to this person and this household here behind me because as of now we don't know why this person may have targeted this particular home, this particular family where a 20-year-old son of a federal judge was killed, her husband seriously wounded. as i talked to you before we spoke to judge esther salas' brother who said that her husband is going through another surgery today after surgery yesterday but he is going to be all right. but of course, this is a family broken apart but this is big news that this suspect again according to two law enforcement sources found dead what appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. john? >> the why part still needs to be investigated but very important development. really appreciate the breaking news for us from new jersey. up next, a big gamble by the

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weekend interview president trump gave misleading facts on the realities of the pandemic. for months now he let the scientists and other officials be the face of the u.s. response but this morning the president said that that is again going to change and leading daily coronavirus briefings. >> we had very successful briefings. i was doing them and we had a lot of people watching, record numbers watching. there's never been anything like it. what we are going to do is i'll get involved and we'll start doing briefings, whether it is this afternoon or tomorrow,

probably tomorrow. >> and a national reporter for politico joins us. this is a risk for the president given this moment. do you approve or disapprove of the president's handling of the coronavirus? 38% approve. 68% disapprove. do your trust what president trump says on the coronavirus? about a third, 35% say they trust it a great deal or good amount and almost two thirds of americans 63% say not so much or not at all. one of the reasons, apologies for the long wind-up but the briefings ended in may after the president suggested using something like this against the coronavirus. let's listen. >> i see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. one minute. is there a way we can do something like that? by injection inside or -- or almost a cleaning because you see it gets in the lungs and it

does a tremendous number so it would be interesting to check that so you will have to use medical doctors but it sounds -- it sounds interesting to me. >> it sounded ludicrous at the time and the question now, laura, can they get the president to be disciplined? he, yes, has a problem on the coronavirus. yes, a potential displened briefings could help him but the word discipline and this president are not found in the same sentence very often. >> that's right, john. there's no indication even as the briefings stopped and president trump continued to have interviews or tweet out statements about the virus he continued to say that the coronavirus would just simply disappear and that testing is  the reason that cases are going up and that if the country tested less there wouldn't be as many cases. i have spoken to health directors who say that one of the biggestdy tremts to them getting a handle on this virus in counties in texas and in

north carolina is the inconsistent messaging from the federal government and the inconsistent planning around and messaging around face masks and social distancing and any help of the federal government is hindering their response efforts right now. >> the president said he can't answer the question yet as to whether he would respect the results of the election come november. listen to the house speaker nancy pelosi this morning on that subject. >> whether he knows it yet or not he will be leaving. just because he might not want to move out of the white house doesn't mean we won't have an inauguration ceremony to education a duly elected president of the united states. there is a process. it has nothing to do with certain occupant of the white house. doesn't feel like moving and has to be fumigated out of there. >> the speaker of the house talking about fumigating the

republican president out of the white house. wow. >> it is another example of the point of the american politics which is toxic. trump in the comments he made to fox and repeatedly whether about mail-in voting, and sbsentee vo, he tried to discredit the use of mail ballots which he himself has even used, voted absentee a number of his advisers and people within his administration have used this. many democrats see it as a way to undermine the upcoming election. >> just remarkable time, toxic moment in our politics. next, continuing the conversation with fareed zakaria with an investigation of president trump's eagerness to embrace conspiracy theories. ♪go straight till the morning look like we♪ ♪won't wait♪ ♪we're taking everything we wanted♪

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in a new special report airing tonight cnn's fareed zakaria shows how conspiracy theories moved to the mainstream with the help of the current resident of the white house. remember eric jones? he is a leading conspiracy theorist, far right radio host and one of the many people president trump has embraced. >> to have a conspirist move into the white house and then

welcome it, amplify it, utterly unprecedented. >> donald, thank you for joining us. >> thank you, alex. >> donald trump first aligned himself with jones in 2015. >> the reputation's amazing. i will not let you down. >> donald trump basically said to alex jones, i love your work. it's totally nuts. >> democrats that are kkk. >> so nuts it begs the question, how did we get here? >> you have a job? >> to what some call the info war president. >> alex jones, a nice guy, actually. >> getting our guns. >> you may remember alex jones for spreading the most grotesque lie imaginable. >> sandy hook is a synthetic, completely fake with actors in my view manufactured. >> i have no words for somebody that low and that despicable. >> fareed joins us live now. it is numbing that we have to

have this conversation. it is the president of the united states and fringe liars but they have found a comfortable friend in the white house. >> yeah. that's exactly right. it is the first conspiracy theorist in chief if you will, the first person at the head of the federal government who believes that there's a conspiracy in the country but also within the federal government that he runs. and this is the most dangerous part. what he is now prom you wiulgat encouraging is this movement that i talk about in the documentary which argues that there is in vast conspiracy out to get trump and part of the conspiracy and this is the part i'm most worried about, john, that part of that -- this conspiracy is that he is going to be deprived of his legitimate victory in 2020. in other words, the most important conspiracy being promulgated now and it is a

seeds sown if and when donald trump loses the presidency he didn't actually lose it. it was part of a deep state conspiracy and therefore that election is illegitimate. he should stay in the white house. >> and you mentioned the seeds are planted. the president mocking mail-in balloting saying it could be rigged and not committing to honor the results going back to the election even after he won he was tweeting he won the electoral college in a landslide and won the popular vote if you deduct the millions that voted illegally. he's been at this since day one. >> that shows you how the web works because you rightly bring up that, john. initially he never said anything like that. it was clear he lost by 3 million votes in the popular vote. some far right conspiracy theorists decided to propose that idea. and then trump picked it up and then it turned into a new

conspiracy theory and this is how this kind of thing works. each person eggs the other on and here's the terrible part. you have sometimes 30%, 40% of the american public believing this. that's the real danger. >> everyone should watch tonight 9:00 eastern and pacific here on cnn. fareed, grateful for that and for joining us here. brianna keilar picks up the coverage right now. hello, i'm brianna keilar and welcoming the viewers in the united states and around the world. hospitalizations and case numbers are breaking records across many states, deaths also on the rise. but there's been one constant during the u.s. pandemic and that is no coordinated national plan to control the virus and now president trump is digging in. denying facts and actually getting in the way blocking some